The Hot One Trope, Explained: Why She's Chosen | Friends & Beyond
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Friends' Rachel Green, Monica Geller, and Phoebe Buffay are all beautiful – but the show singled out only one as the "hot one". For a long time, there was a trend on screen where, within any group of female friends – regardless of what any of them looked like – one was always upheld as the hot friend (pretty much always because she was the main love object of the story.) But this trope split off from other ‘hot girl’ tropes for one key reason: her friendships. So where did the ‘hot one’ trope even come from, and how did Rachel (with the help of Monica and Phoebe) change it for the better? (And have we finally gotten rid of it altogether?) Let’s take a deeper look at the ‘hot one’ trope!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:37 Why stories choose the "hot" one
02:32 How the "hot friend" & general "hot girl" tropes differ
04:22 Thank you to Factor!
05:25 Friends' framing
06:16 Phoebe vs Ursula
07:32 Friends' 'hot one' switch up
08:15 The freedom of not being the hot one
09:06 Growth through friendship without competition
10:11 Everyone's hot now!
The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was written/narrated/edited by Jessica Babineaux
Films & shows featured in this video:
Friends
Riverdale
Gossip Girl
Skins
Dawson’s Creek
New Girl
Misfits
Grey’s Anatomy
Jennifer’s Body
Transformers
The Idol
Heathers
Pretty Woman
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
How to Marry a Millionaire
Gilmore Girls
High School Musical
Euphoria
Sex Lives of College Girls
Legally Blonde
Mean Girls
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
The Princess Diaries
Shrill
Bridgerton
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Booksmart
Friends' Rachel Green, Monica Geller, and Phoebe Buffay are all beautiful – but the show singled out only one as the "hot one". For a long time, there was a trend on screen where, within any group of female friends – regardless of what any of them looked like – one was always upheld as the hot friend (pretty much always because she was the main love object of the story.) But this trope split off from other ‘hot girl’ tropes for one key reason: her friendships. So where did the ‘hot one’ trope even come from, and how did Rachel (with the help of Monica and Phoebe) change it for the better? (And have we finally gotten rid of it altogether?) Let’s take a deeper look at the ‘hot one’ trope!
Join our Patreon to unlock the members-only series “Total Take," vote on what we cover next, and more: Patreon: thetake
Read articles on film, TV and culture: https://www.the-take.com
Follow our socials: https://linktr.ee/thisisthetake
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:37 Why stories choose the "hot" one
02:32 How the "hot friend" & general "hot girl" tropes differ
04:22 Thank you to Factor!
05:25 Friends' framing
06:16 Phoebe vs Ursula
07:32 Friends' 'hot one' switch up
08:15 The freedom of not being the hot one
09:06 Growth through friendship without competition
10:11 Everyone's hot now!
The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was written/narrated/edited by Jessica Babineaux
Films & shows featured in this video:
Friends
Riverdale
Gossip Girl
Skins
Dawson’s Creek
New Girl
Misfits
Grey’s Anatomy
Jennifer’s Body
Transformers
The Idol
Heathers
Pretty Woman
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
How to Marry a Millionaire
Gilmore Girls
High School Musical
Euphoria
Sex Lives of College Girls
Legally Blonde
Mean Girls
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
The Princess Diaries
Shrill
Bridgerton
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Booksmart
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