I would like to take a moment to acknowledge Lindsay Bluth Fünke.

I love Arrested Development. I LOVE it. I love the storylines, the recurring jokes, the foreshadowing, the music, and especially the characters. The show has three female main characters, one Bluth woman of each generation, and they are all conniving and manipulative in their own way. I'd like to focus on Lindsay in particular (one of the middle Bluth children and the only female) because I could spend entire, separate blog posts on her mother, Lucille, and daughter, Maeby. In thinking about Lindsay, it's come to my attention that she somehow manages to embody every single negative stereotype about women.
She's lazy, spoiled, selfish, and entitled. She constantly asks her brother or mother for money, and any job that she has is extraordinarily short-lived and usually acquired accidentally. She always puts her own needs above her daughter's, and when she does spend time with her daughter Maeby, she usually uses Maeby as a pawn to get something she wants. Even though her once-rich family is in deep financial trouble, she still maintains a sense of superiority and is constantly seeking clothing, jewelry, and cars that she can't afford.
However, the trait that's perhaps the most in line with our readings is the emphasis that she places on her looks. As per the 1995 Ward reading, the female sexual role on television tends to be rooted in appearance. Similarly, as found in Kim et. al's discussion of courtship strategies, women tend to place their value in physical appearance. Lindsay follows this exactly. She becomes discouraged in her looks because her husband Tobias, the aspiring actor whom she only married to anger her father, appears to not be sexually attracted to her. Her way of remedying this is to still seek attention from other men through her clothing while still remaining married to Tobias- for convenience's sake.
In one episode in particular, Lindsay goes to visit her father in prison and is secretly excited at the prospect of all of the inmates giving her attention because of her looks. When no one says anything to her, she becomes disappointed and continues coming back to visit her father, wearing progressively more makeup and more revealing outfits in order to gain more attention from the men. When that doesn't happen, she becomes increasingly frustrated until her father tells her that he's going broke by paying off the inmates to not hit on her. At this point, Lindsay is appeased and flattered, saying that all she ever wanted was for her father to spend money on her.
Lindsay is certainly a caricature of a woman who's nearly a headache in every way, and her satirizing of negative female stereotypes makes them more funny because they are so over the top. However, while it's unlikely that a woman would actually wear the above outfit to a prison, so many do place their personal value in how they look. While many TV shows and movies do very little to dissuade that idea, I think that characters like Lindsay Bluth actually help put the looks-based mentality in perspective by making the shallowness of her character so ridiculous and exaggerated.