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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Calendar Girl spends the whole episode obsessing about how no-one can see her face, leading us to think that it's some hideous botched plastic surgery she got after being forced out of modeling. Instead she looks perfectly normal, but can only see the tiny flaws from her aging.
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Calendar Girl spends the whole episode obsessing about how no-one can see her face, leading us to think that it's some hideous botched plastic surgery she got after being forced out of modeling. Instead modeling.
-->'''Batgirl''': She's beautiful...\\
'''Batman''': She can't see that anymore. All shelooks perfectly normal, but can only see sees are the tiny flaws from her aging.flaws.
-->'''Batgirl''': She's beautiful...\\
'''Batman''': She can't see that anymore. All she
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* HollywoodHomely / HollywoodOld: Used InUniverse, and very deliberately, with Calendar Girl. She used to be a glamorous, gorgeous supermodel, but was eventually rejected by the industry (for the heinous crime of ''getting older''), and now refuses to be seen without her mask. When it eventually gets removed at the end of the episode, she screams at people not to look at her... except she's still every bit as beautiful as she was in the flashbacks. It's just that the unrealistic, unfair, and downright insane standards set by the industry broke her to the point that she now sees herself as hideously ugly.
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* DontLookAtMe: Calendar Girl covered her face with a WhiteMaskOfDoom at all times, at the risk of her BerserkButton. When she's unmasked at the end, a confused Batgirl whispers that "She's beautiful," but Batman coolly replies that all she can see are the flaws.
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* DontLookAtMe: Calendar Girl covered her face with a WhiteMaskOfDoom at all times, at the risk of her BerserkButton. When she's unmasked at the end, a confused Batgirl whispers that "She's beautiful," but Batman coolly solemnly replies that all she can see are the flaws.
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* ActorAllusion: Sela Ward[[note]]who was [[ActorSharedBackground passed over for a Bond girl role]] because she was supposedly "too old"[[/note]] played Page Monroe, a.k.a. "Calendar Girl" -- a former model who turned to a life of crime after being passed over in favor of younger faces and tried to exact revenge on the ones who ended her career.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: In the fashion industry, turning thirty will get you practically blacklisted.
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* NotSoDifferent: Barbara snarks that Paige was the same age as Bruce when she did a show that he remembered. Barbara herself is also entering her thirties, but no one comments on that.
* PetTheDog: Subverted; when a model begs for her life and says she's too young to die, Calendar Girl snarks that "You're never too thin and you're never too young."
* PetTheDog: Subverted; when a model begs for her life and says she's too young to die, Calendar Girl snarks that "You're never too thin and you're never too young."
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When Donna Day and Barkley James offer to bribe a henchman to let them go, and they certainly have the funds for it, he gives them a BigShutUp so that the boss can think.
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* ActorAllusion: Sela Ward[[note]]who was passed over for a Bond girl role because she was supposedly "too old"[[/note]] played Page Monroe, a.k.a. "Calendar Girl" -- a former model who turned to a life of crime after being passed over in favor of younger faces and tried to exact revenge on the ones who ended her career.
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Calendar Girl spends the whole episode obsessing about how no-one can see her face, leading us to think that it's some hideous botched plastic surgery she got after being forced out of modeling. Instead she looks perfectly normal, but can only see the tiny flaws from her aging.
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** While Calendar Girl has [[WhiteDwarfStarlet additional gimmicks]], she is obviously a GenderFlip (and YoungerAndHipper) stand-in for Calendar Man.
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* FashionModel: Calendar Girl used to be one.
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* PrettyInMink: A good number of the ladies at the fashion show wear fur wraps.
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* WhiteMaskOfDoomWhiteMaskOfDoom: Calendar Girl wears one to cover up her hideous, as in no longer meeting impossible standards of beauty, face.
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* DontLookAtMe: Calendar Girl covered her face with a mask at all times, at the risk of her BerserkButton. When she's unmasked at the end, Batgirl whispers that "She's beautiful," but Batman coolly replies that to the woman herself, all she can see are the flaws.
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* DontLookAtMe: Calendar Girl covered her face with a mask WhiteMaskOfDoom at all times, at the risk of her BerserkButton. When she's unmasked at the end, a confused Batgirl whispers that "She's beautiful," but Batman coolly replies that to the woman herself, all she can see are the flaws.
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* ReluctantRetiree: A [[PlotParallel subplot]] dealt with Bruce Wayne having to force this on an otherwise competent but elderly manager at Wayne Corp. After the episode's plot make him reconsider the value of experience and his own aging, he [[ForgotICouldChangeTheRules lifts the "mandatory" aspect of the company's retirement policy]]. When he tells the manager of this change, the man is visibly excited that he can keep working until he is ready to make the choice to retire on his own. He toss his wig high up in joy.
* TotallyRadical: Parodied in a scene showing a group of network bigwigs pilots:
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* ReluctantRetiree: A [[PlotParallel subplot]] dealt with Bruce Wayne having to force this on an otherwise competent but elderly manager at Wayne Corp. After the episode's plot make makes him reconsider the value of experience and his own aging, he [[ForgotICouldChangeTheRules lifts the "mandatory" aspect of the company's retirement policy]]. When he tells the manager of this change, the man is visibly quite excited that he can keep working until he is ready to make the choice to retire on his own. He toss literally "flips his wig high up wig", tossing his toupee in joy.
* TotallyRadical: Parodied in a sceneshowing with a group of network bigwigs pilots:viewing pitches for new shows:
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Batman an Batgirl fight Calendar Girl, an ex-model seeking revenge.
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: Sela Ward[[note]]who was passed over for a Bond girl role because she was supposedly "too old"[[/note]] played Page Monroe, a.k.a. "Calendar Girl" -- a former model who turned to a life of crime after being passed over in favor of younger faces and tried to exact revenge on the ones who ended her career.
* AmusingInjury: Batman throws a henchman into a car with the front open. The door slams shut and he screams.
* BadVibrations: A glass of water vibrates to indicate a rampaging robot ''T. rex''.
* BandagedFace
* BeautifulAllAlong: Unfortunately she's not sane enough to see it.
* BeautyToBeast
* BoundAndGagged: Three fashion executives are tied up for judgement from Calendar Girl.
* CanonForeigner: Calendar Girl
* ChippendalesDancers: Calendar Girl's {{Mook}}s are dressed up in similar costumes, providing a gender-flipped version of BodyguardBabes.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the beginning, a fat rich lady wishes to buy one of the clothes the fashion models on the catwalk were wearing. One guy asked who she's buying it for, and she hits him with her purse. He doesn't know why she was angry at him.
* DontLookAtMe: Calendar Girl covered her face with a mask at all times, at the risk of her BerserkButton. When she's unmasked at the end, Batgirl whispers that "She's beautiful," but Batman coolly replies that to the woman herself, all she can see are the flaws.
* {{Expy}}:
** While Calendar Girl has [[WhiteDwarfStarlet additional gimmicks]], she is obviously a GenderFlip (and YoungerAndHipper) stand-in for Calendar Man.
** The GWB network, which even has a WB-style water tower
** Doris Day looks like Hollywood costume designer Edith Head.
* FashionShow: The first crime is committed at one.
* MatchCut: A dissolve from Batman in the field to Bruce Wayne in his office.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Calendar Girl views herself as a hideous and deformed person whose dreadful appearance has only been exacerbated by countless rounds of plastic surgery. Beneath her mask, however, she is a beautiful woman whose self-image was destroyed [[HollywoodHomely when she was kicked out of the modeling community in favor of younger women]].
* NoIndoorVoice:
-->'''Henchman:''' You know what I want from you two?\\
'''Donna Day and Barkley James:''' ''(eagerly)'' What?\\
'''Henchman:''' '''''QUIET!''''' [[MoodWhiplash The boss is thinking.]]
* PrettyInMink: A good number of the ladies at the fashion show wear fur wraps.
* ReluctantRetiree: A [[PlotParallel subplot]] dealt with Bruce Wayne having to force this on an otherwise competent but elderly manager at Wayne Corp. After the episode's plot make him reconsider the value of experience and his own aging, he [[ForgotICouldChangeTheRules lifts the "mandatory" aspect of the company's retirement policy]]. When he tells the manager of this change, the man is visibly excited that he can keep working until he is ready to make the choice to retire on his own. He toss his wig high up in joy.
* TotallyRadical: Parodied in a scene showing a group of network bigwigs pilots:
-->(''kid with backwards baseball cap and shades skateboards up to the camera, pulls out a police badge'')\\
'''Kid:''' You're busted!\\
'''Announcer:''' Teen Cop: inner-city street drama with a fresh attitude.\\
'''Kid:''' Education RULES!
* YoungerAndHipper: Deconstructed with Calendar Girl. She was a former model who was "past her prime" (that is, she had turned 30) and wanted revenge against the fashion industry that abandoned her. There was a scene where a company was pitching TV ideas such as something about a "teen cop" and "girls at a modelling college", etc., to drive the point home. In the end, it was revealed that Calendar Girl was still quite beautiful, but all she could see were the "flaws" that came with age. The irony? Calendar Girl herself is a younger-and-hipper update of Calendar Man, a somewhat lame CListFodder bat-rogue.
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: Sela Ward[[note]]who was passed over for a Bond girl role because she was supposedly "too old"[[/note]] played Page Monroe, a.k.a. "Calendar Girl" -- a former model who turned to a life of crime after being passed over in favor of younger faces and tried to exact revenge on the ones who ended her career.
* AmusingInjury: Batman throws a henchman into a car with the front open. The door slams shut and he screams.
* BadVibrations: A glass of water vibrates to indicate a rampaging robot ''T. rex''.
* BandagedFace
* BeautifulAllAlong: Unfortunately she's not sane enough to see it.
* BeautyToBeast
* BoundAndGagged: Three fashion executives are tied up for judgement from Calendar Girl.
* CanonForeigner: Calendar Girl
* ChippendalesDancers: Calendar Girl's {{Mook}}s are dressed up in similar costumes, providing a gender-flipped version of BodyguardBabes.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the beginning, a fat rich lady wishes to buy one of the clothes the fashion models on the catwalk were wearing. One guy asked who she's buying it for, and she hits him with her purse. He doesn't know why she was angry at him.
* DontLookAtMe: Calendar Girl covered her face with a mask at all times, at the risk of her BerserkButton. When she's unmasked at the end, Batgirl whispers that "She's beautiful," but Batman coolly replies that to the woman herself, all she can see are the flaws.
* {{Expy}}:
** While Calendar Girl has [[WhiteDwarfStarlet additional gimmicks]], she is obviously a GenderFlip (and YoungerAndHipper) stand-in for Calendar Man.
** The GWB network, which even has a WB-style water tower
** Doris Day looks like Hollywood costume designer Edith Head.
* FashionShow: The first crime is committed at one.
* MatchCut: A dissolve from Batman in the field to Bruce Wayne in his office.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Calendar Girl views herself as a hideous and deformed person whose dreadful appearance has only been exacerbated by countless rounds of plastic surgery. Beneath her mask, however, she is a beautiful woman whose self-image was destroyed [[HollywoodHomely when she was kicked out of the modeling community in favor of younger women]].
* NoIndoorVoice:
-->'''Henchman:''' You know what I want from you two?\\
'''Donna Day and Barkley James:''' ''(eagerly)'' What?\\
'''Henchman:''' '''''QUIET!''''' [[MoodWhiplash The boss is thinking.]]
* PrettyInMink: A good number of the ladies at the fashion show wear fur wraps.
* ReluctantRetiree: A [[PlotParallel subplot]] dealt with Bruce Wayne having to force this on an otherwise competent but elderly manager at Wayne Corp. After the episode's plot make him reconsider the value of experience and his own aging, he [[ForgotICouldChangeTheRules lifts the "mandatory" aspect of the company's retirement policy]]. When he tells the manager of this change, the man is visibly excited that he can keep working until he is ready to make the choice to retire on his own. He toss his wig high up in joy.
* TotallyRadical: Parodied in a scene showing a group of network bigwigs pilots:
-->(''kid with backwards baseball cap and shades skateboards up to the camera, pulls out a police badge'')\\
'''Kid:''' You're busted!\\
'''Announcer:''' Teen Cop: inner-city street drama with a fresh attitude.\\
'''Kid:''' Education RULES!
* YoungerAndHipper: Deconstructed with Calendar Girl. She was a former model who was "past her prime" (that is, she had turned 30) and wanted revenge against the fashion industry that abandoned her. There was a scene where a company was pitching TV ideas such as something about a "teen cop" and "girls at a modelling college", etc., to drive the point home. In the end, it was revealed that Calendar Girl was still quite beautiful, but all she could see were the "flaws" that came with age. The irony? Calendar Girl herself is a younger-and-hipper update of Calendar Man, a somewhat lame CListFodder bat-rogue.
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