History Recap / TheNewBatmanAdventuresE13MeanSeasons

* BeautifulAllAlong: PlayedForDrama. The episode built up Calendar Girl's appearance as something monstrously deformed and repulsive to the human eye. She also goes into detail about what she went through to maintain her looks (ranging from plastic surgery, brutal exercise routines, to outright starvation) and she believed that the modelling industry must pay for what they made her go through. When she's defeated by Batman, she's unmasked by Bullock and... she's beautiful, but Monroe screams in horror because she doesn't want anyone to look at her. A confused Batgirl says that she's beautiful and while Batman agrees, he tells her that Calendar Girl can't see her own beauty because she's only had the flaws pointed out to her.

* BeautifulAllAlong: PlayedForDrama. The episode built up Calendar Girl's appearance as something monstrously deformed and repulsive to the human eye. She also goes into detail about what she went through to maintain her looks (ranging from plastic surgery, brutal exercise routines, to outright starvation) and she believed that the modelling industry must pay for what they made her go through. When she's defeated by Batman, she's unmasked by Bullock and... she's beautiful but Monroe screams in horror because she doesn't want anyone to look at her. A confused Batgirl says that she's beautiful and while Batman agrees, he tells her that Calendar Girl can't see her own beauty because she's only had the flaws pointed out to her.

* 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.

* MaskingTheDeformity: The VillainOfTheWeek is Calendar Girl, a former model who was dropped by the fashion industry for "[[HollywoodOld getting too old]]". She tried to maintain her beauty through multiple cosmetic surgeries but now wears a WhiteMaskOfDoom to cover up her supposedly deformed face. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in the end. After she's arrested, the cops take her mask off, revealing that [[BeautifulAllAlong she's actually still quite beautiful]]. However, the treatment she received from the fashion industry has her completely incapable of seeing that, so she freaks out and [[DontLookAtMe demands nobody look at her]]. It's even pointed out by Batman and Batgirl.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Batgirl:''' She's beautiful.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Batman:''' She can't see that anymore. [[TearJerker All she sees are the flaws]].]]

* StylisticSuck: The three pilot shows shown in the GWB sequence are this in spades, that have the exact feel of the sort of corporate mandated garbage that could only come from the 1990s: A Teen Girl show about girls at a modeling school, an inner city cop drama for kids about a young teen helping the police, and a show that can only be called a cross between ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' and an animal medical drama. Your Mileage May Very though. Teen Cop is basically the elevator pitch for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' with some workshopping done.

* CastingCouch: When Batman and Batgirl visit Page's old agent, he's in his office with an aspiring actress. He's clearly trying to pressure her into having sex, but Batman and Batgirl interrupt before he can do anything.

* StylisticSuck: The three pilot shows shown in the GWB sequence are this in spades, that have the exact feel of the sort of corporate mandated garbage that could only come from the 1990s: A Teen Girl show about girls at a modeling school, an inner city cop drama for kids about a young teen helping the police, and a show that can only be called a cross between {{Series/Baywatch}} and an animal medical drama. Your Mileage May Very though. Teen Cop is basically the elevator pitch for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' with some workshopping done.

* StylisticSuck: The three pilot shows shown in the GWB sequence are this in spades, that have the exact feel of the sort of corporate mandated garbage that could only come from the 1990s: A Teen Girl show about girls at a modeling school, an inner city cop drama for kids about a young teen helping the police, and a show that can only be called a cross between {{Series/Baywatch}} and an animal medical drama. Your Mileage May Very though. Teen Cop is basically the elevator pitch for WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}} with some workshopping done.

* StylisticSuck: The three pilot shows shown in the GWB sequence are this in spades, that have the exact feel of the sort of corporate mandated garbage that could only come from the 1990s: A Teen Girl show about girls at a modeling school, an inner city cop drama for kids about a young teen helping the police, and a show that can only be called a cross between {{Series/Baywatch}} and an animal medical drama. Your Mileage May Very though. Teen Cop is basically the elevator pitch for WesternAnimation/Fillmore with some workshopping done.

* BareYourMidriff: The aspiring actress that Irv Kleinmen is trying to pressure into sex wears a crop top that bares her stomach.

-->'''Batgirl''': She's beautiful...\\
'''Batman''': She can't see that anymore. All she sees are the flaws.
* BadVibrations: A glass of water vibrates to indicate a rampaging robot ''T. rex'' (an obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/JurassicPark'').

** The GWB network, which even has a WB-style water tower

--->[[spoiler:'''Batgirl:''' She's beautiful.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Batman:''' But she can't see it anymore. [[TearJerker All she sees are the flaws]].]]

'''Donna Day and Barkley James:''' ''(eagerly)'' What?\\

-->(''kid with a backwards baseball cap and shades skateboards up to the camera, pulls out a police badge'')\\

* FashionModel: Calendar Girl used to be one.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Barbara snarks that Paige was the same age as Bruce when she did a show that he remembered.