Beauty Contest
One or more characters participate in a beauty contest. Sometimes another character enters them without their knowledge.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Appearances
- The Patty Duke Show: Season 1, episode 27, "The Wedding Anniversary Caper" (1964). Ross enters Patty in a beauty contest in an attempt to win a prize for his parents' anniversary gift.
- Gilligan's Island: Season 2, episode 2, "Beauty is as Beauty Does" (1965). A conversation about the aesthetic qualities of the three women on the island leads to a makeshift beauty contest to determine who will be crowned "Miss Castaway."
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 3, episode 6, "Rhoda the Beautiful" (1972). Rhoda is a finalist in a beauty contest at the department store where she works.
- Buffalo Bill: Season 2, episode 7, "Miss WBFL" (1984). The station is holding a beauty pageant with Bill emceeing, and Bill doesn't think any of the contestants are pretty enough, so he convinces Wendy to enter, but Wendy has second thoughts when Jojo asks her to sign a petition against the pageant. Meanwhile, when one of the other contestants drops out, Bill's daughter, Melanie, takes her place.
- ALF: Season 2, episode 7, "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1987). Alf enters Lynn in a beauty pageant to boost her self-esteem.
- The Golden Girls: Season 5, episode 18, "An Illegitimate Concern" (1990). Sophia talks Dorothy into entering the Shady Pines Mother/Daughter Beauty Pageant with her.
- The Golden Girls: Season 7, episode 7, "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Blanche enters her granddaughter in a kids' beauty pageant, but she doesn't want to compete.
- The Nanny: Season 1, episode 22, "I Don't Remember Mama" (1994). To celebrate Mother's Day, the Sheffield family's new country club is holding a mother-daughter beauty pageant, and Fran decides to enter her and Gracie in the competition.