"During a 45 minute makeover scene Vivian walks into a Rodeo Drive boutique all pouty-mouthed and gangly. Give her some expensive clothes, some flattery, and overt groveling from the service caste, and she walks out of there like the honest-to-God Queen of Sheba."
— Cracked.com on Pretty Woman, 7 Popular 'Chick Flicks' That Secretly Hate Women
Trader Harris: Johnny, I can't get over it, she's beautiful.
Johnny Lingo: I have loved her ever since we were children, she was always beautiful.
Johnny Lingo: I have loved her ever since we were children, she was always beautiful.
Ianthe: Harry, have you never read a trashy novel in which the hero gets a life-affirming change of clothes and some makeup, and then goes to the party and everyone says things like, "By the Emperor's bones! But you're beautiful," or, "This is the first time I have ever truly seen you," and if the hero's a necromancer it'll be described like, "His frailty made his unearthly handsomeness all the more ephemeral," et cetera, et cetera, the word mewled fifteen pages later, the word nipple one page after that?
Harrow: No.
Ianthe: Then we have no shared point of reference. Thankfully, however, this is not that part. Not even one of the Emperor's fists and gestures could give Harrowhark Nonagesimus a sexy makeover. Sometimes I think you look like a twig's funeral.
Harrow: No.
Ianthe: Then we have no shared point of reference. Thankfully, however, this is not that part. Not even one of the Emperor's fists and gestures could give Harrowhark Nonagesimus a sexy makeover. Sometimes I think you look like a twig's funeral.
