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Grandparental Obliviousness
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A kid gets away with audacious stuff because they've been left in the care of a grandparent who is too senile and addled to notice if, say, they disappear through a Portal Picture to a Magical Land for a few days (probably because they're a victim of the Senior Sleep-Cycle). Makes you wonder what in the world prompted their parents to leave them in said grandparent's care in the first place. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Compare Scatterbrained Senior for general senior senility traits. Examples: |
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Any time Abe Simpson is left to babysit on The Simpsons, usually by falling asleep. He's not much better with the cat and dog either, asking them which one of them was the mailman. In one episode, Flanders adopts Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. But he subverts it on one occasion when he uses subtle emotional blackmail to get Bart and Lisa to clear up all the mess they've made. |
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In an episode of iCarly, Carly can't stop Nevel from messing with her website because while his mom is on a cruise, the only person in charge of him is his grandmother, "and she's hopelessly confused." Subverted with Carly and Spencer's grandfather, who seems to be the sanest member of their family and actually shows up in one episode to take custody of Carly because of a perceived lack of responsibility from Spencer. | |
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In Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, Grandma is pretty savvy (at least until she gets Identity Amnesia), but Grandpa isn't quite all there. | |
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In Scrubs, Elliot mentions that, for a couple of years in high school, she lived with an elderly couple who were friends with her parents and didn't have many rules because "I'm pretty sure they thought I was a ghost." | |
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Grandpa in The Lost Boys turns the trope on its head; seeming clueless and, frankly, a bit weird, throughout the film, he eventually saves the day like he does it every day, handwaving the existence of vampires and completely stunning the other characters: | |
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On Everybody Loves Raymond, there's one Halloween night where Frank Barone, charged with dealing with trick-or-treaters, obligingly doles out Ray and Debra's novelty coloured contraceptives, thinking they're some sort of brightly coloured chew sweets. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998), we have a classmate of the girls, Mitch Mitchelson and his grandmother, who is perpetually seen sitting in front of a TV set that plays nothing but static. Her grandson, meanwhile, is a juvenile delinquent in the making. | |
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Mayumi Kinniku from Ultimate Muscle (less so in the original, where he's just Kinnikuman's dad) | |
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Humorously averted on Class of the Titans, where Herry's beloved Granny seems to be the only parental figure who knows what the kids are really doing. She even helps them take on Cronus in a couple of episodes. | |
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Vada's grandmother suffers badly from dementia in My Girl, so much so that it's Vada's job to babysit Grandma whenever a funeral is happening downstairs (Vada's father is the funeral director). It's a rare example of the obliviousness not being Played for Laughs, and in fact is a point of contention for Vada and her dad at one point when Grandma gets out of Vada's sight and starts singing "One More for the Road" into a rose in front of a roomful of mourners. | |
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Lou Pickles on Rugrats. Nine times out of ten, when put in charge of watching the titular babies, he'll end up falling asleep shortly after their parents leave. This was lampshaded in the movie after the babies got lost. | |
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Timmy's Pappy on The Fairly OddParents! subverts the trope. He cheerfully goes along when Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda drag him into an "old timey cartoon". Timmy gets through it safely thanks to Pappy and the fairies, but when Pappy describes it later, Mom and Dad decide he's senile and hallucinating. | |
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A variation on this trope existed in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends cartoon, in which college-aged Peter Parker's dear, sweet, clueless Aunt May rented rooms to Firestar and Iceman (of the X-Men). Not only did she have no idea that her tenants and nephew all had supernatural powers, but she never noticed that they tricked out the house in such a way that would convert the living room into a sort of above-ground Batcave when they pulled on a wall sconce. Even more amazing, they did all these technological renovations while she was napping one afternoon. | |
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The quest in Peter and the Wolf is done while Grandpa's asleep and oblivious to his grandson's disobedience. | |
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Big Fat Liar Kaylee agrees to go on an adventure to Hollywood with Jason even though she's supposed to be staying with her Grandma Pearl for the summer. How does she get away with that? By having big jock Brett visit Pearl in her stead. Even Kaylee is surprised it works. | |
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The grandmother from the Suzuki alien arc in Gantz — clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer. | |
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Lina's grandmother has dementia, leaving Lina with little supervision when she goes off to save The City of Ember. | |
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