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Adults Dressed as Children
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Fictional grownups have been known to disguise themselves as some pretty silly things. Bushes and trees, two-person horses that don't look anything remotely like horses, oh—and did we mention children? That's right. From time to time, TV adults like to try and fool everyone by masquerading as gigantic children. Oh, and occasionally teenagers as well. In an attempt to blend in with their supposed age group, Totally Radical speech patterns will nearly always be employed and the character will always end up looking like an idiot. At least to us, the viewers, that is. The other characters might not see through this odd-looking, strangely out-of-date-sounding kid's "clever" disguise. However, they usually do. |
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In the German comedy show Switch! (1997) Bernhard Hoëcker and Petra Nadolny do this regularly. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had a rather serious case, with a teenage girl who two boys literally fought to the death over... only it turned out she was in her late 20s, and had been passing as a high-schooler for years in an effort to reclaim the childhood she'd been denied. Then again, that meant she had to deal with a lot of statutory rape charges... | |
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In the pilot episode of Clone High, Principal Scudworth and Mr. Butlertron try to sneak into JFK's party — dressed as completely outdated teenagers. Surprisingly, they fool no one. | |
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In Rockin' with Judy Jetson, George got arrested for doing this while looking for Judy. | |
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Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon: In "Tasting the Bitter With The Sweet!", Team Rocket dresses up and acts like kindergartners (with Wobbuffet and Meowth dressed as a mother and her baby) to try and win over Drampa, a Pokemon known for protecting children. Drampa isn't fooled, and after a moment of awkward silence it tries to fly away. | |
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Tumbleweeds, a comical Western strip, featured outlaw Snake Eye and his little brother Snookie - ostensibly twelve, he looks like a malicious hulking grown man with stubble and a moustache, wearing the classic Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit. | |
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CSI: NY had a darker version of this. It turns out that a teenage high school student who was accused of raping a fellow student was really in his 30s and his "father" was his similarly aged accomplice. They both gang-raped said girl and murdered a teacher in whom she confided. Unfortunately for them, their victim was the daughter of a minor character... | |
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PEN15's gimmick is that the show's thirtyish creators play their 13-year-old semiautobiographical characters themselves. | |
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Psych had an episode with one of these guys as the perp. | |
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Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wears a propeller beanie and carries an oversized lollipop (made of cheese and colored with marker) for his and Dennis's "Daddy and the Boy" stripper routine. It's as disturbing as it sounds. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One", Mr. Burns tries to convince the elementary school to sign over the rights to the recently discovered oil deposit beneath the school, by dressing as the teenage Jimbo and using what he thought was modern slang. Since nothing Burns does is ever modern, it's a wonder he even got the outfit right. Principal Skinner wasn't fooled. | |
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In V for Vendetta Evey dresses as a child prostitute to fool the minister as part of V's plan. It was made to be quite creepy. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS has Mimi Atachi, a 37-year-old woman who's dressed as a kindergarten student. Justified in her case because she's actually going undercover as one - on the clock at her real job, she dresses appropriately. (She still looks like a kindergarten student, but that can't be helped.) | |
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Also in an episode of King of the Hill where Dale attempts to apply for a job as paperboy for the Arlen Bystander (because he's always wanted a gig as a paperboy), but they're only hiring child applicants. He unbuttons his work shirt, turns his cap backwards, wears cargo shorts, shows up on a scooter, and uses Totally Radical slang such as "jizzob" in place of the boring old "job." No one is fooled and Bobby instantly recognizes him. | |
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Done in Lilo & Stitch: The Series in the episode "Sinker". Lilo, Jumba, Stitch, and Pleakly manage to stow away in a cruise liner to find the boat sinking experiment, Experiment #602, by dressing up as a family (with portly Mad Scientist alien Jumba dressing up as a child, complete with complete with propeller beanie, sailor suit, and giant lollipops, and 10-year old Lilo disguised as the adult). | |
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Cry-Baby and the rest of its universe portray its protagonist and all "children" characters as adults in exaggerated period clothing. K12 extends this to a boarding school atmosphere. | |
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Early into The Mysterious Benedict Society Rhonda wore a green wig and a puffy white dress in order to pretend to be a preteen. She needed to a Secret Test of Character on the kids pretending to be another child. Her looks were meant to draw attention away from her age and distract the test takers in general. | |
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''The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants has Benjamin Krupp doing this in "The Dastardly Deed of The Devious Diddlysaurus. Unfortunately George, Harold, and Diddly already know it's him. | |
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The premise of 21 Jump Street (based on a TV series) is young-looking police officers infiltrating a high school to find teenage drug dealers. | |
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In GTO: The Early Years, Eikichi and Ryuji, two teenagers pretending to be college students, meet Mariko and Ayumi, who are pretending to be college-aged girls but actually turn out to be their teachers at their new school. Neither of them sees the hypocrisy in being mad at the others for lying about their age. | |
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There was also an old MAD parody of The Lone Ranger comic strip, where Tonto disguised himself using the classic sailor suit/lollipop combination. | |
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American Dad!: In "Faking Bad", Stan dresses as a teenage girl while tracking down the person selling fake I.D.s to teenagers. He looks like a 1950s drag queen. Somehow, this ends up fooling a teenage boy, who Stan starts dating for intel. Hayley does this in "Kloger" because she has pink eye and no health insurance, so she infiltrates Steve's high school to get medical care from the school nurse. She's only 19, so it's not implausible that she can pass as a high school student, but it's hard to believe that she wasn't recognized since she likely went to the same school just a year or so prior (the nurse did have suspicions, but she was distracted before she could put any more thought into it). Hayley's outfit isn't too over the top, but it still stands out among what the other students are wearing and she does try too hard with the slang. In "Smooshed: A Love Story", Steve develops a crush on a student known only as "Milk Girl", due to her obsession with milk. Steve asks her out and she says yes, only to find out that Milk Girl is actually Reese Witherspoon posing as a teenager in order to convince her producers to make a sequel to Election. |
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In a rare example of adults not successfully "passing" as teenagers, the two homunculi from the Buso Renkin manga, Tai and Chi, attempt to pass themselves off as high-schoolers and fail miserably in their attempt. Not only are they obviously too old, but they end up looking completely ridiculous and deformed-looking (and one of them is trying to pass himself off as a girl, too). | |
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In Trick 'r Treat, the guy Danielle has lined up to be Laurie's 'first' is an overweight guy dressed as a giant baby. | |
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In the Clarence episode "Freedom Cactus", school principal Mr. Reese attempts to dress up as a new student to give Clarence some advice for his predicament. He uses very ill-fitting clothes that show off his hairy legs and stomach, a backwards cap and a smile drawn on a post-it to cover up his moustache. Of course, Clarence being Clarence, the disguise works perfectly. | |
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Not exactly a disguise, but one episode of Gilligan's Island had the Skipper regress back to childhood under hypnosis and he saw the other castaways as his old childhood playmates, dressed in old fashioned kiddie costumes. | |
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An episode of The Odd Couple that spoofed A Christmas Carol had Oscar Madison dream about himself in the role of Scrooge. In the "Ghost of Christmas Past" scene, Oscar is at an old fashioned school desk wearing a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume while writing a complaint letter to Santa. | |
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There was a Ren & Stimpy comic where an escaped zoo gorilla tried (and failed miserably, as Ren ended up Hanging A Lampshade on the whole thing by pointing out that "kids don't wear beanies") to blend into society by dressing up as a little kid. The tell-tale propeller beanie was indeed involved in the gorilla's disguise (the rest was simply shorts and a t-shirt, but it's the beanie that was the important part). | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look featured a sketch detailing the origins of the Ku Klux Klan's uniform. In it, a tailor offers them the choice of looking scary by dressing up as pointy-headed ghosts or as little girls, because; "What could be scarier than a massive little girl?" | |
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In the Wacky Races episode "Scout Scatter", the Ant Hill Mob fooled the sheriff by disguising themselves as Boy Scouts. | |
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21 Jump Street, an 80's police drama, was about a group of young-looking narcotics officers assigned undercover in high school, led by none other than Johnny Depp. It was a vehicle for and one of the earliest examples of Dawson Casting. The Movie Lampshades the ridiculousness of the premise. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: "Turnabout Day" sees the Madison High School faculty dress as a youngster. Miss Brooks dresses in the then current style for teenage girls. However, Mr. Conklin wears a propeller beanie and a Mickey Mouse shirt. | |
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The Goodies did this when they were asked by the organizers of military-style camp for children to find children for the camp. When they can't get any kids, they end up doing this. Also, in The New Office, they wanted to get the estate agent's sympathy, so Graeme dressed as an old worker, with Tim as his wife and Bill, with footed pajamas and oversized teddy bear, as his child. |
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In "Bullied" from Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection, this happens in the final panel as Kuriko succumbs to madness and decides to begin bullying her son in the same way she bullied his father when they were kids. | |
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Private Snafu: In "Spies", one of the Japanese spies is disguised as a baby in a pram. Snafu, to nobody's surprise, fails to notice. | |
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The kids in El Chavo del ocho are all interpreted by adults. | |
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Bugs Bunny's done this a few times. Sometimes all the way back, as it were. | |
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30 Rock: Steve Buscemi shows up as a private detective hired as a strike buster. A flashback shows his attempt to infiltrate a high school as one of the students. His ludicrous appearance has gone memetic. | |
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The original Law & Order had a similar case where a woman was changing her name and resetting her age to 16, bringing statutory rape charges to block her attempted murder charge. the Investigation eventually revealed she had done thing at least four times and was actually at least 29! | |
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Spoofed in Not Another Teen Movie with an 80-year-old in her place. No one notices. | |
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An episode of Goof Troop has Goofy going to school with Max in order to spend more time with him. He dresses in the typical sailor suit and everybody except Max and P.J. were fooled. | |
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An episode of Recess had a government inspector masquerading as a kid, who was later found out when TJ overhears a buzzing noise in the school toilets and discovers him shaving. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series An episode of called "The Laughing Fish" featured two of Joker's henchmen dressed as 1950s-era children (one with a beanie, one with Girlish Pigtails) for Joker's commercial for "Joker Fish" - and they did not enjoy it. Harley played their mom. This is essentially the entire schtick of villain Baby Doll, who is a grown woman with the body of a young child due to a medical condition in a '50s-style sitcom (although, going by the episode's time frame, it would have been made in the '70s--the DCAU seems to have a generally different cultural and technical history from ours). Whenever she shows up in her childish clothing, it generally means she's up to no good. |
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In Sym-Bionic Titan, One of General Steel's soldiers, Stevens, sneaks into Sherman High undercover, pretending to be a student. The fact that he's Older Than He Looks helps, but he still tries using outdated slang including quoting the "Wassssssssupp?!" commercial. | |
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One episode of The Drew Carey Show had both Mimi and Drew's then-girlfriend applying for a job in the cosmetics department, giving makeovers. One of Mimi's would-be clients was a petite, middle-aged woman who had been dressing in clothes from the children's department since childhood. Mimi lost it on her, and of course she didn't get the job. | |
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" has TV's Frank dress up in a frilly Victorian child's outfit and play hopscotch while holding balloons. This is so Dr. Forester can demonstrate his new invention; a device that pops the balloons of bratty children from a safe distance. He calls it the Dream Buster. | |
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The magazine editor Val in Daria, though this was more because she ran her own magazine supposedly appealing to teens - and never stopped trying to act like one despite clearly being at least thirty. Most people weren't fooled, though they tended to suck up to her anyway. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: In the Golden Age one of the ritual hazing type experiences the pledges to Etta Candy's "Beeta Lamda" sorority at Holliday College involved spending an entire day on campus dressed as a baby and carrying a baby bottle. In this case the young women weren't looking to pass as infants and it was intended to be embarrassing but harmless. | |
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This is also done in the 1987 movie Hiding Out. A stockbroker is testifying against a mob boss who was into some insider trading. There are death threats, so until the trial the stockbroker shaves off his beard, gives himself highlights and goes to high school. Once again, everyone is fooled, including his own family members. | |
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Law & Order had two cases that were both inspired by the one of Treva Throneberry. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had a rather serious case, with a teenage girl who two boys literally fought to the death over... only it turned out she was in her late 20s, and had been passing as a high-schooler for years in an effort to reclaim the childhood she'd been denied. Then again, that meant she had to deal with a lot of statutory rape charges... The original Law & Order had a similar case where a woman was changing her name and resetting her age to 16, bringing statutory rape charges to block her attempted murder charge. the Investigation eventually revealed she had done thing at least four times and was actually at least 29! |
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One Regular Show episode has our protagonists going to a Suck E. Cheese's-type establishment to get Pops' birthday present, only to be told they're not allowed in without a child. So, they take Rigby (already the shortest and most immature member of the group), dress him up in trendy clothes (a hoodie, a fanny pack, and a backwards cap), and have him speak in Leet Lingo. It works. | |
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A sight gag in the Futurama episode "A Flight to Remember" had an extreme closeup of the Professor's face as he says that luckily there are enough lifeboats on the Titanic (yes, it was a spoof of the movie) so no one would have to dress as women and children, with a Reveal Shot zooming out so we see that he's wearing a propeller beanie and holding a lollipop. | |
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In a less serious context, Weda (and Ashio) in Haré+Guu definitely does not pass as "Wendy, 17 years old". Probably because everybody in the class immediately recognizes her as a mother of their classmate Haré. | |
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In Strangers with Candy, a cop in his thirties tries to infiltrate the school drug trade, mostly by wearing a t-shirt and a backpack and badgering the students about weed. No one is taken in, although for some reason they never pass comment on the main character, a high school student in her forties who never even attempts to dress like a teenager. | |
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In the Saturday Night Live "Gilly" sketches, the title character's outfit flirts with this (the others are more modern). Vinny Vedecci's young son dresses as a sailor. |
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Another musical example of this is AC/DC's Angus Young who wears a boy's school uniform. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In a Parody Commercial in "The Patrick Show Cashes In", Patrick's parents play the role of the kids being introduced to a cereal. Cecil is dressed as a stereotypical skateboarder kid and Bunny wears a pink flower bonnet and overalls. Patrick outright refers to them as adults dressed as children because they couldn't afford more child actors. | |
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In Disco Elysium, you learn that your Asian and Nerdy detective partner Kim Kitsuragi spent 15 years working undercover in the Juvenile Crimes unit as his youthful appearance allowed him to blend in effortlessly. The experience was humiliating for him, and he doesn't like being around teenagers in the present day because of it. | |
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The Monkees take turns disguised as 11-13 year-olds in "Monkee vs. Machine", ultimately to throw a Spanner in the Works and disrupt a toy company's product testing session. | |
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On the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Pre-Hibernation Week", Sandy snowboards so fast she blows away some skiers' clothes, revealing that one of them is wearing overall shorts, holding an oversized lollipop, and riding a tricycle. His companion casts a confused glance in his direction. | |
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Part of Derek Zoolander's brainwashing in Zoolander involves a video of immoral fashion designer Mugatu in 19th century children's attire as "Lil' Cleetus" telling Derek he has to murder the Prime Minister of Malaysia so the world's top fashion designers can keep exploiting Malaysian child labor. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Friendship University", Rarity and Twilight (who are both old enough to be teachers) go undercover at a friendship university. Rarity wears an over-the-top 80s-style outfit with a backwards baseball cap, while Twilight just wears an eyepatch and a Post-It over her Cutie Mark. The Paper Thin Disguises actually work. Discord does this as a 30 Rock Shout-Out in "A Matter of Principals". He appears at the university dressed in a hoodie, low pants, and a backwards cap. He even holds a skateboard and says "Greetings, fellow creatures!" |
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In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Dr. Shark jumps both age and species barriers by trying to dress as a human teenager. | |
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In the Camp Camp episode "Cameron Campbell the Camp Campbell Camper", Campbell disguises himself as a child wearing an ascot, overall shorts, and a propeller cap, and pretends to be the "new kid" at the summer camp he founded. Nearly everyone sees through this immediately, but they decide to play along. | |
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: In a brief gag, a "little kid" (of the sailor suit variety to go with the show's nautical theme) asks to play a "bathroom game" with Flapjack. After Flapjack tells him, "You need to grow up," the "kid" then replies in a raspy voice, "Grow up? I'm 38 years old!" followed by a Gross-Up Close-Up of the middle aged man's face. The whole plot of another episode revolved around K'nuckles and Flapjack switching places to see whose life was harder. Throughout the episode, everyone mistook K'nuckles in his Flapjack costume for the real Flapjack and vice versa. |
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In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Non-Giving-Up School Guy Director Clavell dons a Paper-Thin Disguise of a school uniform and a giant pompadour wig to investigate the local delinquents calling themselves Team Star. Surprisingly, it actually works on everyone but the Player Character. | |
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The whole premise of the movie Never Been Kissed, in which, amazingly everyone is fooled and believes that Drew Barrymore is in fact a teenager. Probably because the other teenagers were Dawson Cast as well. Spoofed in Not Another Teen Movie with an 80-year-old in her place. No one notices. |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email, Strong Bad tries to pass himself off as old enough to get into a triple-R rated movie by having Bubs and Coach Z pose as his "grown sons, home from college". Bubs is just wearing a gray hoodie from "Disco Tech", while Coach Z wears a white-and-red backwards ball-cap, a backpack, and a fake soul patch. | |
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The Three Stooges short All the World's a Stooge. As part of a weird plot by a rich guy to get his wife to stop with her goofy philanthropic projects, the Stooges are adopted by the couple as refugee children. Moe and Curly get the sailor-suit treatment— and Larry is done up as a little girl with a big hair bow and pinafore. | |
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Perpetual loser Oskar Kokoshka of Hey Arnold! used this sort of disguise, complete with a huge lollipop, in an attempt to infiltrate an audition for Yahoo Soda. It didn't work. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop", where Peter goes undercover in Meg's school as teenager Lando Griffin, and not only fools everyone but becomes the most popular kid in school. And then later inverted in a different episode, when Stewie, the 1-year-old baby of the Griffin family, does pretty much the exact same thing as Peter. |
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Appears in an episode of How I Met Your Mother when Lily and Robin attempt to infiltrate a high school prom in order to see a band perform. Despite Barney's advice on how to pass as "today's kids" (i.e. dress as sluttily as possible), they don't fool anyone. | |
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In I Love Lucy a pregnant Lucy is appalled at the thought of their child picking up Ricky's broken English. She declares that she will only allow perfect English to be spoken around her baby, and hires a tutor for both the Ricardos and the Mertzes. Fred Mertz takes this as "back to school" and comes to the first lesson dressed in an exaggeratedly childish outfit. Lampshaded by the tutor who notices Fred and Ethel both using the same hackneyed patterns and saying to Ethel, "You've corrupted your son here." | |
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In The Mask, a Running Gag involves the titular character briefly "transforming" into a cartoonish stereotypical kid, wearing a sailor suit and holding a giant lollipop, to mock his enemies. While he changes his body type, his face remains the same when he "transforms", so it would still count as a use of this trope. A very peculiar one, though. | |
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In one episode of Friends Joey attempts to get an acting job playing a 19-year-old. He wears his underpants pulled high up over his jeans and a backwards cap, and tells Chandler, "Sup with the whack PlayStation SUP". Unsurprisingly, he does not fool anyone. | |
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In Only Fools and Horses, Rodney Trotter has to pretend to be 14 years old to enjoy a Spanish holiday in "The Unlucky Winner Is...". | |
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An Action Comics story from The Golden Age of Comic Books, titled "Fairlyland Isle", featured Lois Lane disguising herself as a little girl, wearing a sailor suit, Girlish Pigtails, and glasses. Details here. | |
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NTSF:SD:SUV::: There's an episode where Trent and Piper go undercover in a high school to uncover a plot to blow up the school. Their disguise as teenagers is laughably unconvincing and hamfisted. At one point Trent runs into two other teenagers who are really an undercover magazine reporter and a guy from the future who is trying to ensure that his parents will conceive him. | |
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This was revealed to be the part of the MO of the killer in the "It Takes A Village" episode of Cold Case. The man's petite stature and childlike voice, coupled with wearing baggy jeans and sweatshirts enabled him to pass for a teenager, thus easily luring his victims away. | |
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Night Court had Dan's boss, the district attorney, try this to fool a suicidal children's show hero. Bonus points in that said DA has dwarfism. It still fails, although the costume's used as a joke later in the show. | |
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