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As kids grow up, they need to learn the ways of the world, and many works are designed to teach them basic things they'll need to know in life, such as how to use the bathroom or how to cross the street. Only trouble is, these things tend to be rather banal, especially compared to things the kids actually find interesting. So how does one make the kids want to do the thing being taught (without scaring them, that is)? Simple — assign a label to the people who do what you want the kids to do (for example, declaring that everyone who uses the toilet correctly is a "Bathroom Prince or Princess" or everyone who crosses the road safely is a "Street-Crossing Champion.") Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The reasoning behind using this tactic boils down to a few things. Firstly, a lot of little kids are followers so if all or most of their friends has a label, they might want one too. On the other hand, some kids might feel like they're one-upping their friends for having a snappy title that their friends don't have yet. Even kids who are not followers and do not want to one-up anybody might like the sound of earning a nickname if it contains a word that implies they're special (e.g. "Prince," "Princess," "Champ"), or sounds cool/exciting (e.g. "Fighter," "Superhero," "Ninja"). A common way of enforcing this trope is to introduce a group of characters who go by the nickname and are usually made up to look cool (they might have powers, be aliens/robots/fantasy creatures, have clothes and mannerisms that suggest they're something cool like pirates or superheroes, or a combination), then have one member of the team Break The Fourth Wall and say something along the lines of "And you can be a(n) [title] too! All you have to do is [list of instructions for something mundane but important here]!" They might also have one or more jazzed-up characters who go by this moniker teaching a child character meant to be like the viewer basic skills, earning them the moniker, and ending with a fourth-wall break saying, "And you can be an X too!" Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Stories with the above plots often don't answer the question: If all it takes to be a(n) [insert nickname here] is to follow these basic steps, and all the [insert nickname here]s in this work have flashy clothes/powers/etc, why don't normal people have the clothes/powers/etc?note Sometimes, kids are given a small thing related to the title, like a girl being declared an "X Princess" is given a crown, but they hardly ever, if at all, bling the kid up as much as the characters This is probably because the writers figure the kids are too young and easily-distracted to care. The labels are usually random but vaguely cool-sounding, although there is one theme among them in that labels associated with stopping or preventing something often have "Fighter" or "Buster" in them. Sub-trope of Mundane Made Awesome. If a girl is excited to get the label princess, she might be going through a Princess Phase. If the thing being taught is described as a superpower in this process, it's related to What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?, and if pirates are involved, expect them to Talk Like a Pirate and be Dressed to Plunder. Whether or not it involves actual pirates, it might also cross over with The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything because characters like this whose titles imply a job (e.g. pirate, ninja...) aren't usually seen doing their alleged job. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) Examples |
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Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō uses the term "Pantsman" to refer to anyone who uses the toilet in their toilet-training episodes. | |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers tells viewers in its theme song that they too can become a Planeteer if they help the environment. | |
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Another adult example in The Dilbert Principle: | |
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The Sesame Street episode "Elmo's Potty Time" features an in-universe example: Baby Bear claims that he's a "potty animal" because he's potty trained and says that soon, his sister Curly Bear will be a "potty animal" too, however, there is no mention of this label applying to the audience. | |
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The parody returns in Don't Wet Your Pants, where the title awarded for completing all possible outcomes is "master of urination". | |
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This is parodied in Don't Shit Your Pants, where your character will become the "shit king" upon completing all possible outcomes, and even gain a crown (acquired from the local fast food joint) to prove it. The parody returns in Don't Wet Your Pants, where the title awarded for completing all possible outcomes is "master of urination". |
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Crawford's Corner: In the episode "Crawford is a Sneezer Pleaser", sneezer pleasers are anyone who washes their hands often when they have a cold, covers their mouths and nose when they cough or sneeze, and disposes of tissues when they have colds. In "Crawford is a Good Nighter", the term "good nighter" refers to one who has a proper bedtime routine. |
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The Bear in the Big Blue House episode "When You've Got to Go" describes everyone who "uses, or is going to use, the potty" as "Toileteers". This is actually described as an organization created by Pip and Pop called the "Mystic Order of the Toileteers," which is clearly intended to riff on the idea of a Secret Circle of Secrets, except that for the fact that as the song states, basically anyone can join the club. | |
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One of the shorts featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 was called "Posture Pals." It was a black and white educational film in which four children were designated as the posture king, queen, prince, and princess because they worked hard to have correct posture. You too can be the posture king or queen. | |
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An in-universe example occurs in Peg + Cat in the episode "The Potty Problem". To try and potty-train an alien called Big Mouth who grew up on a planet without toilets, Peg talks about how once he's potty trained, he'll be "the King of the Potty", a "potty-making machine", "a potty superstar", and "the Bathroom Champ". | |
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