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* [[DarkChick Karin]] from ''{{Naruto}}'' is often [[DieForOurShip seen as such]] by many fans (especially the "whore" part) because she changes from tough and rude to outright lusty whenever she's alone with Sasuke. Not to mention her willingness to rape him while their team mates sleep.

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* TheBible: Ruth's ploy to get Boaz to marry her (making this OlderThanDirt)

** In same episode, Meg got one of these makeovers. Everybody was nicer to her and [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext she lost her virginity to Jimmy Fallon.]]]]

** In another episode, Meg got one of these makeovers. Everybody was nicer to her and [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext she lost her virginity to Jimmy Fallon.]]]]

* At one point in ''FamilyGuy'' Lois took Meg out shopping, and pushed shirts that had "Porn Star" and "Sperm Dumpster" written on them. This is a comment on several things, one is the characters of Lois and Meg, but the other is the fact that such shirts really are sold to girls.

* In ''QuestionableContent'', after the Faye-Dora-Marten [[TriangRelations Love-Triangle]] finally collapsed, with Dora and Marten winding up together, Faye heads home to visit her mother and unwind for a bit. After telling her mother the entire story, the old lady tells her that, back in the day, she'd been stuck in a similar love-triangle with Faye's late father - and, obviously, won. Resulting in the following conversation (paraphrased):
-->'''Faye''': So how'd you win?
-->'''[=FayeMom=]''': Oh, that's simple. I just put out first.
-->'''Faye''': ''MOM!''
-->'''[=FayeMom=]''': Well, I didn't say it was ''exactly'' the same situation...

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* Subverted in ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil. Hannah dresses up as a sexy rocker chick, complete with a short skirt and a low-cut shirt, in order to win the affections of the main character. She then climbs in through his bedroom window and makes some rather deliberate advances toward him. [[AvertedTrope Todd is weirded out]] by Hannah's behaviour and remains [[SingleTargetSexuality fixated]] on his love interest, Jenny. Later, she bemoans what she's turned herself into and switches back to her [[HotScientist science geek]] wardrobe.

** Wendy does it again in the episode Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society, getting a set of massive breast implants. However the guys have just gotten over their infatuation with boobs, so they just laugh at her.

You won't often see this trope in shows produced before the 60s or so, except in cases where the woman is already married to the man she wants to "catch". The common trope before the Sexual Revolution was that men would happily tumble into bed with women who said "yes" but would only marry the woman who said "no". This makes ''Grease'' somewhat anachronistic, as a real-life Sandy would have been seen in her time frame as doing ''exactly the wrong thing'' to catch Danny - unless she only wanted to catch him for the night.

* TropeCodifier, Sandy in ''{{Grease}}''. Though to be fair, it also shows Danny ''trying'' to become the Varsity Good Guy to be with Sandy -- still, he's extremely glad she made some changes too.
** It's worth noting that the first actress to be approached for the role actually turned it down ''because'' of the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.
** Even worse, since they had a relationship that apparently ''worked'' before he changed to fit in with his friends.
*** [[NostalgiaChick "Wasn't the point that he liked the way she was before?"]]

* In ''TheSmilingLieutenant'', Maurice Chevalier's old girlfriend teaches his new, prim wife, whom he was more-or-less forced to marry, how to vamp it up, and Chevalier falls in love with her. Since the movie dates from 1931, that means this is at least OlderThanTelevision

* ''[[NickAndNorahsInfinitePlaylist Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist]]'' has this.
** YourMileageMayVary. About the sluttiest thing Norah did was swap out a sports bra for a regular bra. She caught and held Nick's attention by being the DeadpanSnarker music geek she was naturally.

* ''BreakingTheWaves'' by Lars Von Trier: overlaps with BreakTheCutie.

* In ''{{Summer Of Sam}}'', Mira Sorvino can't please her husband, so she is forced to beg for sex tips from his ex-girlfriend to keep him from cheating.
* In ''[[HesJustNotThatIntoYou He's Just Not That Into You]]'', Jennifer Connelly, in an effort to win back her cheating husband, shows up at his office in the middle of the day to seduce him. We have been given the impression that this is completely out of character for her and that their sex life is virtually non-existent--in fact, she blames herself for his cheating because of this.

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* How those who hate [[HarryPotter Ginny]] think Harry began to notice her (not dressing like a whore, but ''being'' one).

-> "In ''{{Grease}}'', what did Sandy do to get Danny Zuko? She had to ditch the poodle skirt and slap on a catsuit. In short, she had to dress like a 'ho."

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* Lampshaded and averted in TheUntoldStory. The lone female cop dresses in a slutty fashion in order to impress the men in the precinct. They are impressed but the chief tells her she looks "like a whore". She replies with "But this is the way your girlfriends dress." He quickly responds with, "[[HypocriticalHumor But they are whores, my dear]]."

* Lampshaded and averted in TheUntoldStory. The lone female cop dresses in a slutty fashion in order to impress the men in the precinct. They are impressed but the chief tells her she looks "like a whore". She replies with "But this is the way your girlfriends dress." He quickly responds with [[HypocriticalHumor "But they '''are''' whores, my dear"]].

* Possible example: in ''Series/RobinHood'' Kate dresses up as a drunken and flirty tavern wench in order to provide a distraction for a man that the outlaws are trying to con. Granted, she's not doing it specifically to get Robin's attention, but it does seem a rather interesting coincidence that the two become a couple in the very next episode (and incidentally, acting slutty to get a target's attention is the only useful thing that Kate ever does on the show that couldn't have been achieved by a male outlaw).

* In ''The Smiling Lieutenant'', Maurice Chevalier's old girlfriend teaches his new, prim wife, whom he was more-or-less forced to marry, how to vamp it up, and Chevalier falls in love with her. Since the movie dates from 1931, that means this is at least OlderThanTelevision
* A complaint about ''The Ugly Truth''.
* "I should've beat her where she beat me, in the sack." TheWomen.

* ''Earth Girls Are Easy'' has an entire production number based on this trope, triggered when Julie Brown's character Candy suggests that heroine Geena Davis needs a makeover to recapture her distant [[spoiler:(and cheating, not that they know it)]] boyfriend's eye:

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* "[[http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/music&lyrics/enteringbootytown.htm Entering Bootytown]]" by Haley Bennett, from the film ''MusicAndLyrics''

* Inverted in ''{{Glee}}'': Kurt (knowing Finn won't like it) encourages Rachel to dress like a slut to attract him. When she recreates Sandy's black outfit from {{Grease}} Finn tells her she looks like a "sad clown hooker".

* The Nostalgia Chick did an episode on ''Grease'', discussing (and, in the Nella subplot, invoking) this trope.