Originally Posted by andrej_NDC

From HIMYM:

Barney:
?The cheerleader effect is when a group of women seems hot, but only as a group. It?s like with cheerleaders. They seem hot, but take each one individually: sled dogs. And that, my friends, is the cheerleader effect, also known as the brides maids paradox, and, for a brief period in the nineties, the Spice girls syndrome. Scary Spice indeed.?