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* BoobBasedGag: One Welsh mother actually had hers done a year before her appearance on the show. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Cue Jenny singing Happy Birthday to the girl's chest]].



* GagBoobs: One Welsh mother who actually had hers done a year before her appearance on the show. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Cue Jenny singing Happy Birthday to the girl's chest]].
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* ShesGotLegs
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: A common ingredient for the subjects - bleached blonde hair coupled with a really dark fake tan.

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* GenkiGirl: Jenny Frost.

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* RapunzelHair: A lot of the girls strive for this but it's normally via extensions so POD tries to put a stop to it.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Though if someone does, POD doesn't like it.
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* ShoutOut: POD is very reminiscent of the computer from ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.

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* ShoutOut: POD is very reminiscent of HAL, the computer from ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.
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* CyberCyclops: POD herself is this, a rare non-evil example.

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* CyberCyclops: POD herself is this, POD; a rare non-evil example.
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* InsistentTerminology: POD insists that she is not a robot, although she technically is.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: A lot of girls go for lots of glittery make-up and outfits, which POD is not happy about. She actually gave in in one episode and gave a girl back some of her glittery eye shadow.

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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: A lot of girls go for lots of glittery make-up and outfits, which POD is not happy about. She actually gave in in during one episode and gave a girl back some of her glittery eye shadow.
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* AntiHero: POD can be considered this. While her goal is ultimately noble, the way she executes it can be considered morally questionable.
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* CyberCyclops: POD herself is this, a rare non-evil example.
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: POD always refers to Jenny Frost as "The Frost" when addressing her.
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* AccidentalAesop: You should of course strive to make complete strangers want to marry you from a first glance. Forget about getting to know someone and all that nonsense.
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* GagBoobs: One Welsh mother who actually had hers done a year before her appearance on the show. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Cue Jenny singing Happy Birthday to the girl's chest]].

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* GagBoobs: One Welsh mother who actually had hers done a year before her appearance on the show. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Cue Jenny singing Happy Birthday to the girl's chest]].
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* BritishAccents: Plenty of them.
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* DressedToPlunder: One of the male contestants on the show dressed as a pirate every day.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Some contestants get dragged in only for POD to decide they don't need a make-under and eject them.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Some contestants get dragged in only for POD to decide they don't need a make-under and eject them. Most of these are really "out of this world" types.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Though if someone does, POD doesn't like it.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Though if someone does, POD doesn't like it.it.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: One could argue that POD is trying to do this, albeit in a very snarky way. A few contestants on the show have proven this trope, clearly using their over-the-top makeup to compensate for a lack of self-esteem.
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* FanDisservice: You will see plenty of half-naked women and plenty of shots of them getting ready. Unfortunately it's normally with them caked in make-up and rubbing a lot of fake tan on themselves.
* FashionDissonance: A lot of the "after" outfits POD picks. '''Especially''' for the men.
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** {{Barbie}} gets a lot as well.

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** {{Barbie}} {{Franchise/Barbie}} gets a lot as well.
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* HotMom: A few of the girls actually.
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* AccidentalAesop: You should of course strive to make complete strangers want to marry you from a first glance. Forget about getting to know someone and all that nonsense.


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* BitchAlert: POD of course. Averted with Jenny and Ellie.


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* ImportantHaircut: POD attempts to invoke this in the makeovers. Sometimes it works and sometimes not.
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* BobHaircut: POD seems to love forcing a lot of girls to get these.

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* ArchRival: POD's is Jodie Marsh...which becomes hilarious when Marsh is a contestant on a season 2 episode.

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* ArchRival: ArchEnemy: POD's is Jodie Marsh...which becomes hilarious when Marsh is a contestant on a season 2 episode.



* CosmeticCatastrophe: And how!



* OfCorsetsSexy: Plenty of girls love to wear corsets. POD naturally puts a stop to it.



* ShesGotLegs



** {{Barbie}} gets a lot as well.
* UncannyValleyMakeup: Twin sisters from Wales who described themselves as "twin Barbie dolls". Their make-up literally made them look like they were made of plastic.



* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The three months later part where we find out if the subjects have kept their new look.

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The three months later part where we find out if the subjects have kept their new look.look.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Though if someone does, POD doesn't like it.

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* ArchRival: POD's is Jodie Marsh...which becomes hilarious when Marsh is a contestant on a season 2 episode.



* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: A lot of girls go for lots of glittery make-up and outfits, which POD is not happy about. She actually gave in in one episode and gave a girl back some of her glittery eye shadow.
* FemmeFatalons: One girl who had insanely long pink nails and her background data listed plenty of her uses for them. She wasn't even able to cut through them with scissors on the first attempt.



* GirlyBruiser: The female weight lifter who described herself as GI Barbie. She indeed wore a pink sparkly costume.



* RedBaron: A lot of girls give themselves titles such as "Chloe Mafia", "Lucy Roxy", "Gemma Levai"...you get the picture.

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* RedBaron: A lot of girls give themselves titles such as "Chloe Mafia", "Lucy Roxy", "Gemma Levai"...Levi"...you get the picture.picture.
* RuleOfThree: Three contestants per episode, usually three people asked the question in the polls.
* ShaggyDogStory: Some contestants get dragged in only for POD to decide they don't need a make-under and eject them.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: POD does like to make some of the girls look less like teenagers and more like grown women.


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* SpikyHair: Mark from the first episode who described his spikes as his crown. Even POD didn't want to go near them.


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* VanityIsFeminine: Majority of contestants are girls but this is portrayed as a negative thing. POD tries to stop girls from excessively taking care of their appearance.

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''Snog, Marry, Avoid?'' is a British TV beauty show presented by former Music/AtomicKitten Jenny Frost (Ellie Henderson from season 5 onwards). In each episode Jenny rounds up three guests, usually female but sometimes men will be chosen as well (sometimes celebrities as well). These guests are chosen for their addiction to "fakery" - i.e. excessive make-up, hair extensions, false tan - and their poor taste in going out clothes. The guests are put in front of POD - the Personal Overhaul Device. POD verbally tears each guest down and shows them a video poll of men on the street saying whether they would Snog, Marry or Avoid them (spoiler: they always say "Avoid"). After hearing that the public hates their look, the guest undergoes a "make-under" and are given a so-called 'natural beauty' look. They are then shown another poll where the public now says they would either Snog or Marry them. Jenny meets up with the guest three months later to see whether or not they've kept up their new look.

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''Snog, Marry, Avoid?'' is a British TV beauty show presented by former Music/AtomicKitten Jenny Frost (Ellie Henderson Taylor from season 5 onwards). In each episode Jenny rounds up three guests, usually female but sometimes men will be chosen as well (sometimes celebrities as well). These guests are chosen for their addiction to "fakery" - i.e. excessive make-up, hair extensions, false tan - and their poor taste in going out clothes. The guests are put in front of POD - the Personal Overhaul Device. POD verbally tears each guest down and shows them a video poll of men on the street saying whether they would Snog, Marry or Avoid them (spoiler: they always say "Avoid"). After hearing that the public hates their look, the guest undergoes a "make-under" and are given a so-called 'natural beauty' look. They are then shown another poll where the public now says they would either Snog or Marry them. Jenny meets up with the guest three months later to see whether or not they've kept up their new look.


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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: The female weight lifter on the show was indeed engaged to a fellow weight lifter who was more jacked than she was.


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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: A common ingredient for the subjects - bleached blonde hair coupled with a really dark fake tan.


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* GagBoobs: One Welsh mother who actually had hers done a year before her appearance on the show. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Cue Jenny singing Happy Birthday to the girl's chest]].


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* HotMom: A few of the girls actually.


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* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Naturally all the men wanted to avoid the female weightlifter before her make-under. Notable in her "after" outfit, the clothes covered her muscles.
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* AllMenArePerverts: According to the show, men only exist to ogle women and to judge whether or not they're marriage material.


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* BroughtDownToNormal


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* MakeoverMontage: Inverted. The "before" look is usually preceded by a montage of the subject getting ready (and showing how excessive it normally is) while the Make-Under is actually instantaneous.
* RapunzelHair: A lot of the girls strive for this but it's normally via extensions so POD tries to put a stop to it.
* RedBaron: A lot of girls give themselves titles such as "Chloe Mafia", "Lucy Roxy", "Gemma Levai"...you get the picture.
* ShoutOut: POD is very reminiscent of the computer from ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.


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* TakeAThirdOption: Some subjects keep their new look, some revert to their original look. Others keep elements of both that they liked.

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* TrappedByMountainLions: The little segments "Beauty Bytes" and "Frost's Fixes" which don't have anything to do with the contestants.
* UnnecessaryMakeover: While some contestants are caked in make-up and false tan and could do with toning things down, a lot of the time someone with original and unique taste is stripped off all originality for the sake of boring conformity.
** Some of the contestants have actually performed this trope on themselves, now in a state where they can't face the public without hours spent in preparation.
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''Snog, Marry, Avoid?'' is a British TV beauty show presented by former Music/AtomicKitten Jenny Frost (Ellie Henderson from season 5 onwards). In each episode Jenny rounds up three guests, usually female but sometimes men will be chosen as well (sometimes celebrities as well). These guests are chosen for their addiction to "fakery" - i.e. excessive make-up, hair extensions, false tan - and their poor taste in going out clothes. The guests are put in front of POD - the Personal Overhaul Device. POD verbally tears each guest down and shows them a video poll of men on the street saying whether they would Snog, Marry or Avoid them (spoiler: they always say "Avoid"). After hearing that the public hates their look, the guest undergoes a "make-under" and are given a so-called 'natural beauty' look. They are then shown another poll where the public now says they would either Snog or Marry them. Jenny meets up with the guest three months later to see whether or not they've kept up their new look.

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* ArcWords: "Natural Beauty".
* AttentionWhore: A lot of the girls dress that way in order to get attention from men.
* BeforeAndAfterPictures: Played with. The before pictures aren't altered in any way to make the subject less attractive and neither are the afters. However they have a "Before" and "After" poll where everyone in the Before always says "avoid" and the Afters always say "snog" or "marry".
* BobHaircut: POD seems to love forcing a lot of girls to get these.
* BrainyBrunette: Quite a lot of girls are made under from blonde to brunette in order to make them appear natural.
* BreakTheHaughty: Good lord POD loves doing this.
* BritishAccents: Plenty of them.
* ButNotTooWhite: Inverted. Fake tan is decried by POD.
* CostumePorn: Lady Desalina, a fashion designer, had such clothes on before her "make-under". It apparently took her three hours to get ready every day.
* DumbBlonde: Quite a common routine of the make-under. Take a girl with bleached blonde hair and give her brown hair to make the public like her more.
* GenkiGirl: Jenny Frost.
* GenreSavvy: Quite a few contestants cop on and guess that the public would avoid their before look.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: A lot of the contestants.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Arguably Jenny Frost probably wasn't the best choice to present a show condemning fakery. She even cited this as the reason she left the show, claiming she herself loves her make-up and fake tan.
* IAmVeryBritish: POD's voice.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: The show runs '''heavily''' on this. The before/avoid girls are all presented as Whores and POD tries to make them into Madonnas so the public will want to marry them. An accidental deconstruction occurs when the majority of contestants revert to their original look with a few modifications.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: This is what POD intends to stop.
* TakeThat: Jodie Marsh gets a lot of this from the show since so many girls model themselves after her.
* TrappedByMountainLions: The little segments "Beauty Bytes" and "Frost's Fixes" which don't have anything to do with the contestants.
* UnnecessaryMakeover: While some contestants are caked in make-up and false tan and could do with toning things down, a lot of the time someone with original and unique taste is stripped off all originality for the sake of boring conformity.
** Some of the contestants have actually performed this trope on themselves, now in a state where they can't face the public without hours spent in preparation.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The three months later part where we find out if the subjects have kept their new look.

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