History Main / HiredForTheirLooks

* In the cartoon [[WesternAnimation/BettyBoop "Betty Boop's]] Big Boss", an Office Boss puts out a job offer that says 'Girl Wanted--Top Floor--[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Female Preferred]]" and with [[MsFanservice Betty]] trying out for the job, none of the other women stood a chance. Betty even sings how she can't type right or take dictation and still gets the job.

Compare {{Nepotism}} for characters hired only because of family ties, BunnyEarsLawyer for oddballs who are hired anyway because they're ''just that good'' at the job, and CastingCouch, SleepingTheirWayToTheTop, or SleepingWithTheBoss for cases of outright sexual favors. See also HollywoodBeautyStandards for a related casting trope.

* Also inverted on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', when George is preparing to hire a new secretary. Jerry assumes he's going to play this trope straight, but George tells him that he doesn't want to be distracted. Sure enough, he's seen turning down several very qualified applicants because "If I hire you, it's only a matter of time before you file a sexual harassment complaint."

* One episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has Cory and the Boys decide to recruit a female to be their singer, and picks the most attractive girl. However, she turned out to have a ''terrible'' singing voice, which Cory didn't notice until his friends play a recording of her singing. [[spoiler:They end up having his mother do the singing for the girl in a public performance, at the girl's request, no less]].

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* In ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', it appears that the new executive assistant, Jordan Garfield, will be this. This is certainly what some people (Pam and Dwight, for instance) think in-universe. Given the speed with which she was {{Brother Chuck}}ed we'll never know for sure.

* Another EvilLawyerJoke: A law firm is told they need to hire more women and make one partner. So, they hire three women and devise a test to decide who makes partner. On their next paychecks, all of the women get overpaid by $5,000. The first takes the money and says nothing. The second returns the money immediately. The third takes the money but comes back later with a check for $7,500, claiming she got a good stock tip and wanted to split the difference with the firm. So who made partner? [[BaitAndSwitch The one]] [[BuxomIsBetter with the biggest tits]].

* Hello Nurse in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' first it seems like she's been hired just for being a buxom blonde, but character development showed her not only to be quite competent but also very multi-talented... which made her even more attractive to her employers.

* ''Film/{{Tar}}'': It's an OpenSecret that Lydia Tár hires and promotes women she's attracted to. While Olga is undoubtedly a deeply gifted cellist and hard worker, it's also pretty clear that Tár was motivated at least partially by her beauty when scoring her audition. The already-shaky morality of this gets much worse when it's revealed that many women who Tár had power over in the past have come forward to accuse her of grooming, SexualExtorition, and abuse. Tár also spitefully ruined the career of Krista, one of her former "paramours," [[spoiler:leading to the poor young woman being DrivenToSuicide]].

* Hello Nurse in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' first it seems like she's been hired just for being a buxom blonde, but character development showed her not only to be quite competent but also very multi-talented... which made her even more attractive to her employers.
* In the cartoon [[WesternAnimation/BettyBoop "Betty Boop's]] Big Boss", an Office Boss puts out a job offer that says 'Girl Wanted--Top Floor--[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Female Preferred]]" and with [[MsFanservice Betty]] trying out for the job, none of the other women stood a chance. Betty even sings how she can't type right or take dictation and still gets the job.
* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'': Implied to have been the case for Hector in the episode "Won't Stick to Most Dental Work!" where Henry [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere gets fed up with June's mockery and quits the show]]. June quickly realizes that he's too dim-witted to properly host the show with her, and has him removed at the end of the episode ([[JerkassRealization along with realizing that she does need Henry with her]]).

* Sloan Sabbith from ''Series/TheNewsroom''. She is hired because she's an economist who "doesn't look like [[Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw George Bernard Shaw]]". Mac seems to hope that [[SexSells people will actually pay attention to her when she talks about economics]].

* In ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', it appears that the new executive assistant, Jordan Garfield, will be this. This is certainly what some people (Pam and Dwight, for instance) think in-universe. It remains to be seen if that will prove to be the case.

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* In a ''ComicStrip/MyCage'' CrossOver [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2015/05/11 storyline,]] Max hires Cassandra Cat from ''Comicstrip/SlylockFox'' for this reason.

* In a ''ComicStrip/MyCage'' CrossOver [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2015/05/11 storyline]], Max hires Cassandra Cat from ''Comicstrip/SlylockFox'' for this reason.

** A large number of the WWE Divas, who are too often models, dancers or aspiring actresses looking for their big break (see Wrestling/{{Sable}}, /StacyKeibler or Wrestling/EvaMarie). Some of them do successfully make the transition to wrestler (like Wrestling/TrishStratus) but too many of them don't. Fandom is divided over whether this is a good thing or not. This trend has died down somewhat from TheNewTens onward, with WWE hiring more actual female wrestlers and requiring newcomers to actually learn to wrestle, but the prettier ones still tend to get the strongest pushes even if there are others who can do better in the ring and on the mic (Wrestling/AlexaBliss and the Wrestling/BellaTwins for example.)

** A large number of the WWE Divas, who are too often models, dancers or aspiring actresses looking for their big break (see Wrestling/StacyKeibler or Wrestling/EvaMarie). Some of them do successfully make the transition to wrestler (like Wrestling/TrishStratus) but too many of them don't. Fandom is divided over whether this is a good thing or not. This trend has died down somewhat from TheNewTens onward, with WWE hiring more actual female wrestlers and requiring newcomers to actually learn to wrestle, but the prettier ones still tend to get the strongest pushes even if there are others who can do better in the ring and on the mic (Wrestling/AlexaBliss and the Wrestling/BellaTwins for example.)

** Wrestling/VinceMcMahon has a well known preference for men with large and/or muscular frames, and signed or pushed several men in this mold over the decades. Sometimes this pays off and he strikes wrestling gold (Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/BrockLesnar), sometimes it backfires on the promotion's quality because said big men can't deliver in the ring or the mic ([[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Viscera]], Wrestling/TheGreatKali, Wrestling/LexLuger).

** A large number of the WWE Divas, who are too often models, dancers or aspiring actresses looking for their big break (see Wrestling/StacyKeibler or Wrestling/EvaMarie). Some of them do successfully make the transition to wrestler (like Wrestling/TrishStratus) but too many of them don't. Fandom is divided over whether this is a good thing or not.
** Wrestling/VinceMcMahon has a well known preference for men with large and/or muscular frames, and signed or pushed several men in this mold over the decades. Sometimes this pays off and he strikes wrestling gold (Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/BrockLesnar), sometimes it backfires on the promotion's quality because said big men can't deliver in the ring or the mic ([[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Viscera]], The Great Kali, Wrestling/LexLuger).