innocent girls after discarding their wives like old tubes of toothpaste". The term died out again for much of the 20th century until it became popular again in the 1980s and 1990s, with political sex scandals. As bimbo began to be used increasingly for females, exclusively male variations of the word began to surface, like mimbo and himbo, a backformation of bimbo, which refers to an unintelligent, but attractive, man. In 2017, the term was reintroduced when self-proclaimed bimbos around the world joined forces and created the “bimbo movement” in order to end stigma about bimbos and to reclaim the word "bimbo" proving that hyper-femininity and female sexuality is power. The bimbo movement attempts to end stigma about bimbos, sex workers, and plastic surgery. By the early 2020s, the term re-entered usage by way of some members of Generation Z seeking to further reclaim the pejorative, such as the "BimboTok" community on the social media platform TikTok, where users engaged in stereotypical hyper-femininity to satirise consumerism, capitalism, and misogyny. TikTokers such as Chrissy Chlapecka and Griffin Maxwell Brooks have been noted as key figures in the BimboTok community. The term is sometimes associated with men or women who dye their hair blond, indicating that physical attractiveness is more important to them than other, non-physical traits and as an extension to "the dumb blonde" stereotype. Usage in popular culture Films In 1930, in an episode from the Dogville Comedies series of short films, entitled The Dogway Melody, one of the dogs portraying a sultan in a play, remarks on the "boatload of bimbos" he has for his harem. Also in 1930, the Max Fleischer cartoon character of Bimbo the dog was introduced, with his clumsy, unlucky nature loosely representing the word's early definition of an unintelligent man. The character of Betty Boop was initially created as Bimbo's love interest. In the 2002 film Two Weeks Notice, Lauren Wade (Francie Swift) accused Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) saying: "You're just another one of his stupid bimbos!" referring to her husband George Wade (Hugh Grant) Television In the Seinfeld episode "The Stall", Elaine's boyfriend is a male bimbo or "mimbo".How I Met Your Mother generally uses this term to describe all the women who slept with Barney Stinson. In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Storm", Gumball's line before he accidentally kisses Carmen is, "Gumball Watterson may be a lot of things, but