The 10 Hottest TV Wives With Ugly Husbands
Over the years, there has been a familiar television trope: the hot wife with the ugly husband. A tale as old as TV itself, the trend was ushered in by watershed hot wife/ugly husband shows like The Honeymooners, The Flintstones and The Bob Newhart Show. The recurring hot wife/ugly husband motif has become an important piece of our collective unconscious. Some of television’s best shows (The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm) have used this device.
Maybe the hot wife/ugly husband trope is so effective because it’s so relatable. The thing is, more couples probably identify more with Homer and Marge than they do with Sam and Diane. The use of the hot wife/ugly husband trope has usually been to shine a big, hulking stage light on average America. The stories told in this format tend to be familial and upbeat (with a few outliers, of course), they are in some ways a projection of the idea of “The American Dream.” The hot wife/ugly husband television device is thematically very interwoven with American values. It is a way to give voice to “Joe Six-Pack” and to give viewers something to relate to amid the typical storm of star-studded faces, professionally hot (and professionally airbrushed) advert models and luxurious six-speed four-cylinder quad cab dual exhaust sports sedans that typically occupies the airwaves.
The hot wife/ugly husband trope is inherently American, with it’s underwritten themes, and it remains culturally rich and important to this day. Here are the 10 hottest TV wives with ugly husbands.
10. Arrested Development
Tobias Funke and Lindsay Bluth are one of television’s all-time oddest couples. The characters, portrayed byDavid Cross (a stand-up and sketch comedian most notably known for his work with Bob Odenkirk on the influential 90s HBO sketch show Mr. Show) and Portia De Rossi (an incredibly young actress who you may know as Ellen Degeneres‘ wife) respectively, couldn’t be more different and are clearly bound for disaster.
Tobias is a creepy, bald never-nude (look it up) who at one point was actively trying to join the Blue Man Group. Lindsay, his inordinately hot wife, is the heir to an empire whose matriarch has recently fallen on hard times
