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A character is very good at his profession but is completely unable or unwilling to use this ability to help himself or his own family. This is seen most often with therapists. It may be justified in the case of therapists because to analyze more effectively, a therapist has to be outside the problem. Think of it like a maze. Is it easier to see the path to the exit in the middle of the maze, or looking down from above? In fact, professional counseling and psychology organizations classify counseling those the therapist has an emotional attachment to as a "dual relationship." They are ethically questionable and always to be avoided in professional work. The same justification can be used for doctors (their emotional attachment can blind them to what's wrong with themselves or those they love, or make them unable to use a risky treatment), so many hospitals have policies that forbid doctors to practice on family members (the exception is when they're the only specialist available, e.g. a venom specialist whose family member just got bitten by a snake). For lawyers, it's not verboten, as it is a legal option, but custom and best practices advise against both self-representation (as in the expression, "A man who represents himself in court has A Fool for a Client") and representing family (by the same principle), except in emergency situations.note Typically, this is the situation where you call up your cousin and say, "Hi, Vince, I know you're a personal injury plaintiffs' lawyer, but I've been arrested in Jersey and need to convince the judge I'm not a flight risk. Can you make it from Long Island to help me out? I promise I'll come to your sister's wedding in June." note Note that it is very strongly discouraged for lawyers to represent those with whom they have had a sexual relationship, and outright forbidden if the sexual relationship began after the attorney-client one. In a more humorous light, this often gets thrown at guidance counselors or career advisors, along the lines of "why should I get advice on how to structure my career path from someone whose job is 'career advisor'?" If you happen to be wondering why emotional attachment would stop the cobbler from repairing his children's shoes, that's not the reason; he's just too busy with the paid work needed to feed everyone. What’s more, especially prior to the industrial revolution, it was often the case that materials were expensive while labor was cheap. As much as he’d like to make himself and his family some clothes, furniture, etc. as luxurious as what he’d sell to his customers, the artisan wouldn’t be making enough of a profit margin on his sales to buy quality materials for a personal project without a customer to foot the bill. Whatever he did make for his household would be much less fancy. Finally, the advent of industrial technology means that hardly any goods can be economically produced without a lot of expensive factories and equipment, and that means that the workers who produce stuff are generally employees rather than owners of the business. Just because somebody works in a factory that makes X doesn’t necessarily mean they're paid high enough wages to afford X, or that they get to take home free samples. Another name for this is "vocational irony", which is a form of situational irony. This is the supertrope of one type of Preacher's Kid, a.k.a. "The Minister's Children Have No Morals". Compare the No Self-Buffs, the magical equivalent. |
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Adventure Time: In a flashback in the episode "Helpers", Founders Island (the location of the last functioning human colony on Earth) was stricken by a deadly Synthetic Plague which wiped out nearly two-thirds of the population. However, the fatality rate of the Helper caste (the equivalent of caretakers or doctors) was one-hundred percent. Finn's mother Minerva was the only survivor, and only because she underwent last resort Brain Uploading. | |
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Watchmen: Dr. Malcolm Long. Even though he is a psychiatrist, his relationship with his wife is dysfunctional. Overlaps with Critical Psychoanalysis Failure. After Rorschach learns that the Comedian had been driven into despair in the days before his murder, he shares a joke he heard about a depressed man who's told to see Pagliacci, only to admit that he is Pagliacci. |
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In WWE, Isaac Yankem, D.D.S. (one of Glenn Jacobs' early gimmicks before he became Kane) was Jerry Lawler's personal Depraved Dentist; however, he didn't take very good care of his own teeth. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In "Wednesday's Child," Dr. Tom Moore is a world-famous pediatrician who won a humanitarian award for third-world neonatal care. He's not home to take care of his young adopted son Nicky who has severe mental issues, and his wife Lisa is driven to her breaking point trying to take care of him on her own. She ends up giving him to a shady adoption agency who places him with a married couple that turn out to be child pornographers. | |
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In The Orphanage Girls, the orphanage’s main trustee is like a mother to the orphans, showers them with attention, and is always eager to help them, but has an extremely strained relationship with her own daughter. | |
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The titular Heralds in the Heralds of Valdemar series are (among other things) the kingdom's judges and diplomats. They also usually have Psychic Powers (and if not, they have a Bond Creature who does). This doesn't stop them from having the same disagreements and miscommunications as any other group — up to and including Herald Talia, whose Gift is Empathy and whose job description is "most trusted advisor". | |
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In the Bojack Horseman episode "The Old Sugarman Place," Joseph Sugarman, Bo Jack's grandfather and a wealthy businessman in the sugar industry, expressly forbade his daughter Beatrice from eating sugary foods, especially ice cream. | |
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In Local Hero, the local Scot fishermen brag about the high-quality lobsters they catch, noting they'll be in the finest restaurants around the world. When asked if they eat lobster too, they chuckle no — it's too expensive. | |
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In Ragged Dick, the titular boot-black's shoes are always in terrible condition because he considers blacking too valuable to waste on himself. | |
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In The Empire Strikes Back, he compulsively quotes the (always low) odds of survival whenever the Rebels take a risky strategy, even after Han explicitly makes it clear that he doesn't want to hear it and doesn't care either way. In a different scene, when he walks in on Han and Leia passionately kissing, it doesn't occur to him that maybe his news about the reversed power coupling could wait a moment. | |
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Dishonored 2 reveals that the guy who makes the safes you find throughout the series is totally inept at securing his own property; he keeps forgetting the three-digit codes to his safe and when you break into his house, you'll find that the current combination is 123. And he has an extremely obvious painting giving away the code in the same room. | |
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Runaways: In Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), Karolina Dean is studying to become a social worker, or possibly even a therapist, but seems oblivious to all the dysfunction happening among her adopted family. Granted, her burgeoning relationship with Nico may be distracting her. | |
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Cheers: Frasier Crane is a highly capable psychiatrist when it comes to helping other people. After season 4, he's sitting on a mountain of psychopathic anger towards Diane for dumping him at the altar (even expressing regret for not killing her at one point), and from season 5 grief towards his mother's sudden death. In season 6, he manages to cure Carla of her fear of flying, at the cost of giving himself severe agoraphobia in the process. | |
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In Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i, James runs into the author of the fatherhood book that's helped him get back together with his estranged children (more or less), just in time to see him have a panic attack as his own son busts out of jail looking for him. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Bart's Girlfriend", Reverend Lovejoy's daughter Jessica is a bratty, manipulative hellion who steals from the church collection plate. Near the end of the episode, Jessica keeps mentioning things she did ("Remember the glee club brawl?!") in a baldly obvious attempt to win her father's attention, as he tries to ignore her by covering his ears and singing "Bringing In the Sheaves" loudly. Mrs. Lovejoy is characterized throughout the series as an excessive busybody and Moral Guardian who frequently justifies her pushiness and interfering in the affairs of others by protesting "Won't someone please Think of the Children!?"; while she seems excessively concerned with how other people are raising their children, she's apparently not that good at raising her own... In "Children of a Lesser Clod", Homer becomes a Friend to All Children after he spends a night watching over Flanders's kids and sets up his own daycare center as a result. He then proceeds to neglect his own kids, forces them out of their bedrooms, and makes them work long hours for the benefit of both him and his daycare. Bart and Lisa eventually retaliate by showing all the parents of Springfield just how unreliable and abusive he can really be. |
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In the pilot episode of Clarissa Explains It All, Clarissa mentions that her father is an architect who designs oddly shaped (albeit creative) buildings. She then noted how lucky her family was to not be able to afford to live in any of the buildings he creates. | |
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The Wedding Planner's eponymous character has a lonely and awkward love life. On another level, she's always dreamed of having a quiet, simple wedding; nothing like the elaborate, chaotic galas she supplies for clients. Of course, she knows firsthand how nerve-wracking the latter can be... | |
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Detective Kate Beckett in Castle is a brilliant and successful homicide detective who is, at the beginning of the series, nevertheless completely unable to make any headway in investigating her own mother's murder and locating the persons responsible, and it's been in large part due to the help she's received from Richard Castle in investigating it over the series that she's made any headway thus far. Justified both in that Beckett tends to suffer from tunnel vision and emotional compromise whenever her mother's case comes up, and it eventually comes to light that her mother's death was part of a larger conspiracy with a US senator at the top. | |
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The Broad City episode "St. Marks" has a 34-year-old thieving Basement-Dweller whose mother is a psychiatrist. | |
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Nove from Lyrical Nanoha acts as the coach for Team Nakajima (and later the Nakajima Gym), but she'll never be able to compete in tournaments herself because her cyborg upgrades give her an illegal advantage. | |
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Grey's Anatomy: Alex's younger brother requires surgery. He's unable to do anything and begs Bailey to perform a pro bono surgery, which she agrees to. Meredith and Lexie's father is an alcoholic who ruined his liver because of it. The problem was too bad to fix, so he needed a liver transplant. Because of his alcoholism, he wasn't allowed on the transplant list, so Lexie begged Meredith to donate part of hers. Meredith's stepmother dies from a disease that Meredith incorrectly diagnosed. Arizona chastises a friend for not going to see her when he first found out he had cancer. The guy gets treated too late and dies. Meredith's mother died as a result of Alzheimer's Dementia (early onset, which she got before Meredith became a doctor). Derek, a neurosurgeon, doesn't want the same thing to happen to Meredith so he arranges a clinical trial to research the disease, which has Dr. Webber's wife as a participant. Unfortunately, Meredith invalidates the trial by messing with the data, while Adele Webber gets progressively worse and eventually dies. |
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In Fire Emblem, healers (clerics, monks, sages, druids, bishops, etc.) couldn't use their staves to heal themselves. This was altered only in Radiant Dawn, where units equipped with a healing Staff automatically recovers hitpoints each turn. Later installments give some units the ability to restore HP to themselves when healing others. | |
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In Garden State, Andrew Largeman's therapist is his father. Another doctor lampshades the fact that his father becoming his therapist is a bad idea in general and highly unprofessional of him. This is strongly expressed by the fact that when Largeman was a child, he knocked over his mother in a brief moment of frustration over her depression, resulting in an accident which left her paraplegic, his father jumped to the conclusion that he had anger issues and he prescribed him lithium he didn't really need before eventually sending him to a boarding school. | |
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The trope is used as a metaphor in Harry Nilsson's "Mr. Tinker". Mr. Tinker is a tailor who is unable to "fix" his life. | |
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Canada's Worst Driver: Some of the candidates' relatives have professions pertaining to traffic and some have trouble Driving Stick despite owning or having driven manual-transmission cars. | |
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Used in Batman Begins where Detective Flass steals money from a street vendor. The man says he has kids to feed, and Flass merely responds, "What? They don't like falafels?" Flass gets jumped and worked over by Batman five seconds later. | |
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In Archipelago, Simon is the assistant to the Willium Drake, famous demon hunter, monster slayer, and protector of Coin Island. Right when we meet him, his own consciousness is completely overpowered by a demon, and Willium (an actual Consummate Professional) is too busy investigating some mysterious murders to even consider the possibility. And yes, the murders have everything to do with the demon possessing Simon. | |
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On Common Law, the main characters have to see a new couple's therapist but are not thrilled to discover that the guy is in the middle of an extremely nasty divorce. When they initially overhear him on the phone with his wife, they assume that he is one of the patients. | |
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Hugh Culber of Star Trek: Discovery is a medical doctor who becomes the ship's therapist in season 3, helping the crew deal with the trauma of shooting themselves into the 32nd century and finding that The Federation is now The Remnant of its former self. The problem is that he hasn't fully processed his own trauma of being murdered and resurrected, and he ends up in real danger of falling apart while trying to hold everyone else together. It takes a dose of Brutal Honesty from Dr. Kovich to help him realize that he needs downtime for himself and his husband Paul Stamets. | |
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RWBY: The Curious Cat is a magical therapist whose Semblance is the superpower to heal others' minds. Unfortunately, he was created as a prototype by his neglectful fathers, whose destructive hijinks eventually convinced their mother to exile the two - leaving him untreated and stuck with a feral serial killer as his only family. Unable to heal himself with his own powers, he went completely insane. | |
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Temps de chien: Kim reveals to Antoine that, two years prior, she almost broke up with him because he was spending too much time at work. She then tells him to not worry about it given that she fixed everything with her psychotherapist: | |
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In Footloose (the stage version at least) the main character lampshades this by quoting the phrase in reference to the behavior of the local pastor's daughter. | |
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Harry Potter: In the series, it is often commented on how the Weasley family have old and slightly threadbare clothing, due to them being somewhat poor. It is baffling, given the extent and complexity of the spells seen commonly used in this verse, that "tailoring" isn't simplicity itself. Arthur and Molly, in particular, are shown to be quite skilled at magic, though there are seven kids' worth of clothes to deal with (albeit two of them grown up and on their own by the beginning of the series). It's also hard to see why they can't magic up a bigger, better house. This is largely justified by the fact that magical tailoring is implied to be a specialist skill, given that every young witch and wizard goes to a magical tailor for school robes, and conjuration is a very difficult aspect of transfiguration - plus there's the small issues of plumbing, heating, etc. A minor case regarding Hermione. Her parents are Muggle dentists, yet she grew up with buck teeth that were fixed only magically during her fourth year. Her parents can be forgiven for not wanting her to magically do it herself if they did tell her so, but it's a bit baffling why they never bothered to apply their professional skill on her via Muggle means. Justified by the British Teeth trope. Cosmetic dental procedures are not popular in England, due to their perception as a sign of excess; they find perfectly straight, blindingly white teeth rather disturbing to look at. Unless her teeth were sufficiently misaligned to risk damage, her parents may have elected to leave them as is rather than risk replacing one social stigma (large teeth) with another (rich girl teeth). |
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Scrubs: Turk suffers from several unusual symptoms for a while but doesn't take it seriously until Molly Clock asks him how he would diagnose someone else with the exact same symptoms. Turk replies that it sounds a lot like the patient has developed diabetes. He goes to be examined and does have it. Also occurs with Dr. Cox and his infant daughter Jennifer, who is born with a serious medical condition that required prenatal surgery. When she requires a shot, Dr. Cox doesn't want to be the one to give it to her because he doesn't want her to associate him with pain and instead walks around for hours trying to find someone he trusts to do it. One episode has a pediatrician mention that parents of sick children have it worse if they're doctors, as the parent will always want to try to diagnose the child and will worry a lot more because they've "seen too much". They also have this with Ben, Cox's best friend/brother-in-law, who is diagnosed with leukemia but continues Walking the Earth for two years instead of seeing a doctor. It's because of this that he dies when he returns in season 3. |
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One Dilbert strip has Dilbert attending an economics class. The professor has already prepared a presentation explaining why he has to dress like a flood victim despite being an expert on money. The cartoonist, Scott Adams, has an economics degreenote As well as strange sartorial opinions; this may very well be Truth in Television. | |
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The Dresden Files: Molly Carpenter is an extremely sexually attractive young woman, with multiple piercings and a certain amount of emotional tumult, such that she spends a good portion of the first few books living away from home. Her dad is a devout Catholic, and Knight of the Cross, and takes orders from the archangel Michael. He is rather worried about the direction Molly is going in. She turns out to be a witch - which is not so much of a problem in his book, given that his best friend is a wizard. And a Black Magician. And, eventually, a murderer... | |
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The New Adventures of Old Christine: Matthew becomes a therapist during the show, but their family is extremely dysfunctional. He and his sister Christine are a bit too close, she is very self-centered, and they both have a screwed up relationship with their mother, among many other things. He lampshades this,note (just as Old Christine's ex-husband Richard is saying that New Christine, who he wants to get back together with, hating him is a good thing) saying that the amount of crazy in that house was too much for him to fix. | |
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Jake Peralta in Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a brilliant detective but he tends to miss key facts about his coworkers. For example, he completely failed to realize that Holt was gay, even though it was public knowledge and Holt even had a framed newspaper article about it hanging in his office. | |
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Sophia in Shortbus is a sex therapist/couples counselor who's never achieved orgasm and has a marriage riddled with issues. | |
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In As Told by Ginger, both of Macie's parents are therapists so naturally, she has to make appointments to see them, they forget her birthday and don't even know how old she is. The parents realize how neglectful they are and attempt to make it up to her. They're only in one episode, so we don't know how well that worked out. | |
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In Return of the Jedi, he refuses to violate his programming to impersonate a deity, even to save his friends from the Ewoks. When he learns that said friends are to be cooked and eaten at a feast in his honor, he is rather tickled, ignoring that not only will they all die, but this will doom the Rebel assault on the second Death Star and by extension the entire galaxy. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Leonard's mother Beverly Hofstadter is a brilliant and world-renowned psychologist and parenting expert who treats her family horribly. In one episode, Leonard confesses to Penny that he built a hugging machine when he was a child just so he could feel like somebody loved him. Her other children also suffered from the lack of affection and whenever one of their accomplishments, personal or professional, is brought up, she doesn't express any pride or joy because they aren't her accomplishments. Then there is her husband, who borrowed the aforementioned hugging machine. Beverly mentions that the only times in the marriage that they had sex was to consummate it and for reproduction. His having an affair would indicate that this arrangement was largely her choice, and then the likely lack of affection that plagued the rest of the family. It is all played for laughs, but all evidence indicates that she was/is EXTREMELY emotionally abusive and/or neglectful to her entire family despite being a world-renowned psychologist and parenting expert. As far as the latter, her parenting philosophy seems to revolve around justifying neglecting one's children, which likely makes her books popular among parents who are feeling overwhelmed. There are enough hints to suggest that Leonard is actually the subject of a long-running experiment, detailing the psychological impact of depriving a child of any and all maternal affection. She mentions having written several books on their relationship already, such as Needy Baby, Greedy Baby. Mind you, this would be extremely unethical behavior for a scientist. Either way is appalling in its own right. At one point, Beverly tries diagnosing Leonard, but wildly misses the mark, thinking he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which he clearly doesn't. She came to this conclusion talking about him behind his back with Sheldon, who displays every single sign in the DSM-5. Leonard's mother herself displays some symptoms, most obviously Lack of Empathy. |
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In Under Milk Wood Dai Bread, the village baker, neglects to bring bread home to feed his family. As one of his wives puts it, "Dai Bread forgot the bread". | |
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In Homestuck, Rose is constantly trying to psychoanalyze her friends and their family issues, yet dismisses her own mother's sincere-if-overblown gestures of affection and attempts to connect to her as spiteful and passive-aggressive. | |
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The Donald Duck cartoon "Fire Chief" provides the page image. Here he plays the chief of the local fire department, who berates his nephews for their incompetence, yet accidentally sets his own firehouse on fire and burns it to the ground when he hooks up the hose to the fire truck's gas tank. | |
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Dustin Tillman in Dan Chaon's Ill Will is a hypnotist and therapist whose patients include people trying to break addictive habits. He misses his son Aaron's descent into heroin addiction. | |
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In Korean romantic comedy Marriage Blue, Yi-ra is a wedding planner who organizes romantic, fancy weddings. She is so nervous and jittery about her own rapidly approaching Altar the Speed wedding (she got knocked up) that she breaks up with the baby's father. | |
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In Westworld, Theresa asks Lee how he can be in charge of writing dialogue for the hosts when he's so shit at small talk. | |
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Blue Bloods: One of the subplots of "Unbearable Loss" features the fallout over Jamie (non-fatally) shooting a man who was trying to rob him for drug money in a sting operation. As Eddie begins to read the man his Miranda rights, he interrupts her with this Wham Line: | |
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Is It My Fault That I Got Bullied?: Kyoko Nagumo is a renowned educator turned into an outspoken critic of the notion that School Bullying Is Harmless, calling for more severe penalties for bullies and other reforms. Ironically, her own daughter is a vicious Alpha Bitch who takes great glee in leading her Gang of Bullies. Kyoko initially has no idea, then denies any evidence of Ai's wrongdoings. Once her daughter's crimes become widely known, Kyoko's reputation is completely destroyed; nobody wants to hire an anti-bullying advocate who let their own child torment others. | |
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In developer commentary it's been noted that Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima suffers from 3D motion sickness and thus is unable to play many modern 3D games, particularly faster-paced or first-person games like First Person Shooters. | |
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In Persona 4, Sayoko Uehara develops past her "party nurse" side after a former patient of hers dies. Unfortunately, she develops into a Workaholic instead and doesn't manage to find a proper balance until after she's collapsed from overwork. One response you can give her is "Physician, heal thyself." | |
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Persona 5 Royal adds Dr. Takuto Maruki, a part-time counselor who is hired to work at Shujin Academy after Kamoshida's change of heart. However, later in the game, it's shown that he could probably do with some therapy himself. Specifically, his girlfriend Rumi had a mental breakdown after her parents' murder and there was nothing he could do for her until he awakened to his Persona's ability and wiped her memory, causing her to forget her trauma and him. | |
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In The John Larroquette Show, John gets a physical that reveals high cholesterol, but his doctor brushes it off as unimportant, insisting that "the whole cholesterol scare is a bunch of bull." This comforts John, until the next day when the doctor dies of a massive heart attack. | |
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In Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Tristan has powerful healing magic that doesn't work on congenital diseases like the one he has. It's implied this comes from a psychological block on his part; he won't be able to fix his condition until he looks at it objectively and realizes it's not the end of the world. | |
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Cruel Intentions begins with a psychologist who has written a book on the parenting of teenagers. Her daughter has been easily seduced and manipulated into posing for nude pictures, which are on the web in a parody of her mother's book cover. When she phones Mom in distress, she is put on hold, and when Mom picks up the phone and finds out what happened, the poor girl gets a very unkind and unhelpful response. | |
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House, M.D.: In a flashback showing how House's leg got messed up, House is engaging in many of the annoying patient behaviors he himself hates. Most glaringly, refusing the most effective treatment in favor of an extremely risky one that nearly kills him. Lampshaded when he uses his situation as a case study for medical students (none of them knowing he was the patient in question): | |
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Played seriously in Le Papillon Rising. As Mr. Noir, Gabriel Agreste takes a parental role to his younger partner Ladybug and wants to protect her from the supervillain le Papillon's advances. But in his civilian life, he neglects and distances himself from his traumatized son Adrien after the death of his wife Bridgette, which stemmed in Adrien becoming the supervillain le Papillon in the first place. | |
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Kaoru from I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying is a terrible cook despite having been raised by a professional chef. | |
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MAD once had an article of people you shouldn't trust, such as a financial advisor who wears out-of-date fashions and brown-bags his lunch, with the implication that if these people can't use their skills to help themselves, they aren't any good at their jobs. | |
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HuniePop: Aiko teaches college-level mathematics, and ought to have a more objective view of probability than most people. Despite this, her favorite hobby is gambling at the local casino, and one of the pictures she sends the player is of her playing the slot machines. She might recognize the irony on some level: one of her quips if you take her to the carnival is, "Let’s go lose some rigged games!" Beli is a Yoga instructor who strives for physical well-being and spiritual centeredness through the lifestyle she advocates, yet she struggles with the temptation of junk food and sometimes feels insecure about her body. |
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In Trauma Center it is repeatedly quoted that "doctors cannot operate themselves". However, in Trauma Team, Gabriel Cunningham has to examine his own son, Joshua Cunningham. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: In one episode, the killer turns out to be the daughter of a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Both are extremely narcissistic (to the point where they once abandoned the girl in a restaurant on her birthday) and borderline psychotic in the masochistic games they play with each other. She is driven to kill simply to attract their attention. One episode features Goren's mentor, a skilled if bizarre criminal profiler, coming to town to catch a killer he's been stalking for years. Turns out the murderer isn't the one he was looking for after all—it was his own daughter who had been warped into copying a serial killer after realizing they were the only people her father cared about (specifically, she does it because he believes there are no true female serial killers). In a much later episode, he kills nearly everyone Goren cares about (including himself) so that Goren can keep his mind on the job. Truly a paragon of sanity. |
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Doctor Who: Dying In The Sun'': Charles Wallis is captain of the LAPD and the adopted father of notorious drug dealer Robert Chate. Naturally, this is mentioned to be a great source of shame for him. Wallis himself is no saint — not only is he in the main villain's pocket, but he is the one who murdered Chate's biological parents. | |
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The Middleman: Similar to Willow's mom is Lacey's mom, Doctor Barbara Thornfeld, MD, Ph.D., a globe-hopping humanitarian who hobnobs with politicians and statesmen while trying to solve the world's problems. Consequently, she's simply unable to time with her daughter, and according to Lacey, only calls once a year "to rationalize forgetting about my birthday." | |
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness: Miyake, a reporter for a golf magazine, is out on a golf course with a business contact. Miyake takes a mighty swing at the ball on the tee and misses completely. He swings again, and the ball dribbles forward about six feet. When the businessman expresses disbelief that Miyake writes for a golf magazine, Miyake says the Japanese equivalent of this very phrase, translated in the subtitles as "A sandalmaker's children go barefoot." | |
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In the Batman Beyond episode "Payback," the high school counselor has little time for his own son, resulting in the son becoming the titular villain and targeting the stressors of his father's clients. | |
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DC One Million: Heartiac is a "12th-level compassionate". She defeats bad guys with sheer kindness. She gives lectures on forgiveness. Her species is just as devoted to love as their Coluan ancestors (EG Brainiac) were to intellect, and she's a bright star even in that firmament. And she can't tell Superman One Million that she's fallen for him, or notice that he seems to have more than a colleague's interest in her. | |
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In Fallout 4's prologue, the Vault-Tec Rep is rejected from Vault 111. | |
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In Something*Positive, Jason's father is another psychologist who can't relate to his own family. Or in this case, he apparently tried to relate to them by using his knowledge to manipulate them into acting the way he wanted, if Jason is to be believed. | |
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In Foxfire despite being the owner of a tea shop, Pao is pretty bad at actually making tea and is reliant on Mushi and Li to do so. In Pao's defense, he's a much better businessman. | |
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One of the contestants on a season of The Biggest Loser was a nutritionist. | |
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Ezri is introduced on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as an assistant therapist; however, in the wake of being joined with the Dax symbiont (which she never prepared for), she's the one who needs counseling. | |
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An episode of How Clean is Your House? featured a professional cleaner whose own house was the dirtiest Kim and Aggie had ever seen. | |
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Fuller House: DJ's assistant can't afford DJ's prices, so she has to go to another vet...and won't go to a "discount vet", when DJ offers her the employee discount. | |
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If team shrink Kelly Chambers survives the events of Mass Effect 2, she shows the most trauma of the NPC crew. In the third game, there's still too much emotional trauma to consider returning to the Normandy. A therapist with crippling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And if you botch your interactions with the character badly enough, they will be Driven to Suicide. | |
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Steven Universe: Steven Quartz Universe is very good at getting others to open up and helping them through whatever emotional problems are plaguing them. However, he frequently does this at the expense of dealing with his own personal issues until they overwhelm him. "What's Your Problem?" focuses on Amethyst's acknowledgement of the issue. She spends the episode trying to get Steven to have fun and open up about how he feels about a recent, very personal, still-fresh reveal, even as Steven himself is focused on finding and helping the runaway Ruby. When Steven tries to get Amethyst to talk, Amethyst makes it very clear that she has no intention of dumping "another thousand-year-old complex" onto him and making him feel responsible for something he's under no obligation to deal with. Steven Universe: Future focuses on Steven, no longer having anyone who needs his help following the end of the original series, slowly starting to buckle under the weight of all his unresolved issues and bottled up trauma. | |
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Psychonauts 2 has the Psychic Six, the original founding members of the Psychonauts organization. They specialize in studying the mind, and as such have deep knowledge of issues relating to mental health, yet they're also a Dysfunction Junction, with nearly every member of the group having some kind of mental illness. | |
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Mayor Lionheart in Zootopia is very proud of himself for starting his "Mammal Forward" program that helps small prey animals like Judy reach their full potential, but he treats his assistant mayor Bellweather (a small sheep) very poorly and it's implied he only hired her for publicity. (Bellweather herself notes she is a "glorified secretary".) | |
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The history of Mr. Riddles in Zatch Bell!, in the original Japanese, involves him as a surgeon trying to save his grandson but failing, sending him into a depression that is only lifted once Kido arrives. | |
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Batman: Batman: No Man's Land kicks off with an 8.3 earthquake that devastates Gotham. Fortunately for Bruce, he had always insisted that all of Wayne Enterprise's buildings needed to be built to withstand 9.0 earthquakes. Unfortunately for Bruce, he forgot about Wayne Manor and the Batcave. (He later admits to himself that he had meant to, but kept worrying that any workers he had hired would discover his identity, and had no personal skills in that area to speak of.) Harley Quinn getting a Ph.D. in psychology did not help her diagnose her own growing obsessions with the Joker. Though how she got said Ph.D. varies from writer to writer. In some versions, she slept with her professor to obtain it. |
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In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Madam M runs a hand massage parlor that specializes in relieving stress and tension and providing general relaxation. However, she herself is a heavy Mood-Swinger who blows up at the drop of a hat and screams and shouts in frustration the moment things don't go her way. | |
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Dr. Dibbs from Doc Martin is stunningly incompetent in treating herself, on a massive amount of self-prescribed medication, and having missed an almost fatal diagnosis. She's barely any better with her patients. Given that she spent over 20 years working as a nurse without any problem, it's heavily implied the only reason Dr. Dibbs is such a nervous wreck is that her husband pushed her to become a doctor and she cracked under the pressure. | |
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In Carolyn Mackler's The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Virginia's mother is a supposed "expert" on teen psychology. However, she has a tenuous relationship (at best) with her own teenage daughter, treating her like the Butt-Monkey of the family simply because she doesn't share her parents' or her older siblings' interests or goals. She also frequently verbally berates Virginia for her weight, among other things. In a particularly shameful move for a psychologist, both parents try to block Columbia University from prosecuting their son after he date-rapes another student. | |
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In Paper Towns, as psychologists, Q's parents are pretty good at reading people. Not so much at reading their son though. Q points this out at one point. | |
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In A New Hope, he somehow is oblivious to the fact that Owen Lars is annoyed and unimpressed by his flowery speech and simply wants answers direct and to the point, to the point that he finally tells the prattling droid to shut up. | |
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In Death Note, Soichiro Yagami is a good cop and always able to solve his cases without his judgment being impaired. But in the case of Kira, he finds it difficult to remain completely objective, especially since his son is the prime suspect again and again. | |
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The Chosen: Discussed regarding Little James, who suffers from some form of partial paralysis, and hasn't been healed despite watching Jesus heal countless others. James admits that he believes Jesus would heal him if he asked, but says he doesn't feel it's the right time to do so. It's a case of Real Life Writes the Plot as Little James' actor Jordan Walker Ross suffered from scoliosis as a child and has had multiple surgeries including spinal fusion. Jesus acknowledges that He doesn't perform miracles in His own hometown because others elsewhere have accepted their need for a redeemer, citing the cases of the widow of Zarephath and Naaman the Syrian soldier as examples where prophets had done the same thing in the past. This, along with his upfront claim of being the Messiah, offends the congregation so badly that they try to push Him off a cliff for blasphemy. |
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Emma from Glee is the extremely OCD high school guidance counselor... who can't come to terms with her own mental disorder. | |
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M*A*S*H: In "Dear Sigmund," psychiatrist Sidney Freeman visits the 4077th and its antics as an escape after a patient he was dealing with committed suicide, which caused Sidney to go into a massive funk. Frank hears the story and berates Sidney. | |
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Lost subverts this in a very odd way. Jack, a spinal surgeon, needs his appendix removed... on a desert island... with the bare minimum of equipment (they have chloroform and ether on hand for anesthesia, and they use sewing thread for stitches). He has a dentist and an OB/GYN to help him, who could do the surgery for him, but he fervently believes that he should be awake and do it himself. He ends up in so much pain that they knock him out and do it for him. | |
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Monk: Dr. Charles Kroger is great as a psychiatrist, but he's at a loss when it comes to being a father to his own son Troy. In the episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", it's revealed that Charles has taken three paternity tests at the "request" of his son. Troy also calls his parents by their first names, and it turns out that Lieutenant Disher has arrested Troy once before (Troy responds "no" when Randy asks him if he's stayed out of trouble). Similarly, Monk often does not understand things going on around him (like what a tie on a doorknob means, much to Natalie's amusement), but when it comes to The Summation, he's an expert. Closer to the gist of the trope, Monk is capable of solving some of the toughest homicide cases but is frustrated that he couldn't figure out who killed his wife. The finale revealed that Monk was unable to solve the murder due to a lack of evidence. And once he did solve the murder and get all the dangling threads of his life cleaned up, his OCD became less excruciating to bear. |
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In season 6 of Veep, Amy is both fiancée and campaign manager to Buddy Calhoun, who is running for Governor of Nebraska. Buddy is put off by Amy's foul language and graphic sexual imagery in the workplace where he deems it inappropriate but is disappointed that she's unable to conjure the same kind of language when he asks her to talk dirty during sex. | |
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Vivien Lowe, the titular character of The Obituary Writer, is renowned for her obituaries that celebrate the lives of the dead, which is helped by her ability to connect with strangers. But when the deceased is the daughter of her best friend, whom she bonded with and witnessed the birth of, it's decidedly more difficult for her. | |
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Persona: In Persona 4, Sayoko Uehara develops past her "party nurse" side after a former patient of hers dies. Unfortunately, she develops into a Workaholic instead and doesn't manage to find a proper balance until after she's collapsed from overwork. One response you can give her is "Physician, heal thyself." In addition, the one case Detective Ryotaro Dojima is unable to solve is the identity of the man who killed his wife in a hit-and-run accident. He feels wracked about it as the incident broke his daughter. Persona 5 Royal adds Dr. Takuto Maruki, a part-time counselor who is hired to work at Shujin Academy after Kamoshida's change of heart. However, later in the game, it's shown that he could probably do with some therapy himself. Specifically, his girlfriend Rumi had a mental breakdown after her parents' murder and there was nothing he could do for her until he awakened to his Persona's ability and wiped her memory, causing her to forget her trauma and him. |
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Orange Is the New Black: During Flaca's A Day in the Limelight backstory, we see that her mother took up sewing. She began dealing (fake) drugs to try and escape that life... only to end up doing the same thing in prison. | |
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Athena Cykes in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is an expert in analytic psychology, but she's severely hampered by her own emotional trauma. | |
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The protagonist in Machine Gun Preacher becomes a hero to children in Uganda when he goes there to build orphanages and ends up rescuing children kidnapped by Joseph Kony's forces, but his wife accuses him of being an absentee father to his daughter back home. | |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain Penny's mother is The Audit, a superhero renowned for her ability to analyze and predict what will happen. She fails entirely to work out the identity of The Inscrutable Machine, a supervillain team of three people her daughter's age that first appeared at the middle school she attends. It consists of a mad scientist called Bad Penny, a girl with the ability to cloud people's minds called E-Claire, and a masked boy in black who doesn't talk called Reviled, and is actually her burgeoning super-scientist daughter, her "super-cute" powered friend Claire, and her friend Ray Viles who wears black and has a very distinctive accent. Her mind appears to rebel against the notion, as she does notice the very obvious similarities but concludes that it's some sort of copycat/evil clone scenario. | |
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The Righteous Gemstones: Eli Gemstone is the family patriarch of evangelical ministers who preach about holiness and morality. Behind the scenes, his family is riddled with dysfunction. | |
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The eponymous character of The Picture of Dorian Gray falls in love with the actress Sybil Vane because of her ability to act out Shakespeare's romances. When Dorian invites Basil and Lord Henry to see her play Juliet her acting is terrible. Her only experience with romance was in the roles she played and they could never compare to actually being in love. | |
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Odd Squad: In "Oscar of All Trades", Oscar describes to Olive how, in an attempt to find a job at Odd Squad, he became a lifeguard for the Ball Room at Precinct 13579. The sole drawback to this job is that while Oscar is skilled at policing swimmers, he's unable to swim himself, so when he accidentally drops his whistle in the ball pit, he has to ask someone to get it for him. In the Cold Open of "New Jacket Required", Oona calls Precinct 13579 to report an odd problem that she has, and Olympia and Otis arrive to help her. When they ask her why she can't fix the problem herself, she explains that she doesn't have any gadgets on her because she has the day off. The episode "A Case of the Sillies" surrounds Dr. O getting the titular disease, and Ocean and Oona taking up the mantle in making a cure for her. Arctic Mr. O is an Odd Squad Director in the Management department, but he's incredibly ditzy and doesn't even bother putting his authority to good use, nor does he have the physical strength that other Directors have. When the Sticky Sisters attack him in "Odd Beginnings: Part 1", he doesn't even try to fight back. It's justified by the fact that he is very distant from society, working in the Arctic away from people aside from his own agents. |
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Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon: The chief of the Expedition Society has No Sense of Direction. He can reach the depths of any Mystery Dungeon fearlessly, but he can't navigate his way across a small town without constantly bumping into everything. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: when Napoleon's son Marcel attends Duel Academy, Napoleon purposely isolates himself from his son (even keeping it a secret that Marcel is his son) because showing favoritism towards a student is taboo for a teacher. (And it's the hardest thing he ever had to do, as he admits.) | |
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The Murder, She Wrote episode "One Good Bid Deserves a Murder" features a Hollywood psychiatrist with a full-blown persecution complex, who is convinced that Jessica is one of "them". | |
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In Dominoes, Shinichi's father Yuusaku is in charge of the Irregulars, a team of teenage superheroes whose secret identities are none other than all of Shinichi's friends. Shinichi himself is a powerful psychic with impressive investigational skills... yet Yuusaku not only refuses to train him, he does everything within his power to keep Shinichi Locked Out of the Loop and deny his dreams. This is because Yuusaku is a Control Freak who is trying to hide his son's potential. Those with superpowers are typically registered and monitored by the government; the Kudos are deliberately flouting the law by leaving Shinichi unregistered. | |
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Dog with a Blog: Played With with Bennett James. He's a child psychologist, though his youngest daughter Chloe is a Cloudcuckoolander even for a seven-year-old. He does use his experience to aid his family, such as getting step-siblings Avery and Tyler to get along by adopting a dog, which unknowingly works because Stan can talk and help the kids with their issues. Deconstructed in the It's a Wonderful Plot episode "Cat with a Blog", where Stan wishes he was a non-talking cat. Thanks to Avery snapping under academic pressures, Tyler becoming a punk and giving up on school, and Chloe getting lost in her imagination, Bennett's credibility as a child psychologist is ruined. He loses his job and becomes a basketball player that keeps getting bullied by the Harlem Globetrotters. |
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The Bible: The oft-quoted proverb from The Bible makes this trope Older Than Feudalism, possibly even Older Than Dirt since the Bible admits it isn't the first instance of said proverb. It's implied that the reasons why so many kings from King David's line were evil is because their God-fearing fathers (whose choice of wife was more often motivated by political expediency or lust than finding a Godly woman) failed to teach them the importance of serving God properly. |
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The psychiatrist's family in What About Bob? is highly dysfunctional, thanks to the therapist in question being a domestic tyrant. | |
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In The Force Awakens, he doesn't consider that Han and Leia, a married couple who have been separated for years, may need a moment of peace during their reunion. Instead, he butts in between them, cheerily greeting Han. He also assumes that Han doesn't recognize him because of his new arm, despite Han's facial expression making it clear that he knows exactly who he's talking to. | |
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Charles Schulz, who went on to create Peanuts, was said to have very bad haircuts as a kid, in spite of the fact that his father was a barber. The reason for this is said to be that he could only get a cut when the barbershop was empty, and when a customer came in he had to get out of the chair and wait before his dad could finish working on him. | |
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Brenda's mother and father in Six Feet Under, a psychologist and psychiatrist respectively; arguably half the family's problems are caused by the fact that they are constantly psychoanalyzing each other. (They're also never shown to be particularly competent therapists, albeit quite financially successful.) | |
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The premise behind Dan in Real Life. Dan's an advice columnist with a rather difficult home life. | |
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In The 3 Little Pigs: The Movie, Rublad the fox, a meat supplier, has next to nothing to eat. | |
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: Faux is a notorious graffiti writer that's never been caught, which puts him at odds with his father, a retired and respected cop that can't seem to keep his son out of trouble with the law. Played with in that he does try to help, but in ways that are just as criminal: he scrubs Faux's record clean by pinning his vandalism charges on other writers in the city, something that Faux resents and drives him to commit even worse crimes to supress this info from getting out. | |
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There was an episode of What I Like About You in which Val was trying to get a client for her PR firm, a woman who had written a parenting book. Inevitably, when Holly meets the woman's own teenage daughter, she has just bought a box of home pregnancy tests. | |
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Tokyo Vice: Polina is a professional hostess at a Japanese hostess bar who makes her living by bilking lonely men into buying her bottles of champagne. It turns out that her "boyfriend" is also a host who is actually just bilking her out of her money by getting her to buy him champagne where he works. | |
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In Zits, Jeremy Duncan's mother is a child therapist, but much of the strip's humor revolves around her inability to get her teenage son to communicate with her. It's possible her specialty is preadolescent patients, as she tends to come off like a Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher when trying to advise Jeremy. | |
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Hugh Darrow from Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the man known as the "The Father of Tomorrow", inventor of modern human augmentation, author of countless books about transhumanism, and one of the most powerful, influential and beloved people in the world... has to walk with crutches, as he of all people suffers of an extremely rare genetic condition that causes his body to violently reject augmentations. There is just something so tragic about seeing an old man forced to watch all of his dreams of a better humanity coming true and knowing that he would be the only one not to enjoy the paradise he has created. This is his true motive for modifying the Illuminati's control signal to turn Augmented people into psychotic berserkers; he's become so bitter and misanthropic that he wants to kill them all out of spite. | |
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Danny Phantom: The titular hero's parents are ghost hunters who spend the whole series oblivious to the fact that their own son is half-ghost, despite the fact that Danny's ghostly alter ego has the same freakin' first name as their son. Lampshaded in "The Ultimate Enemy" by Danny's evil future self when he taunts them for this. | |
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Anne of Green Gables: Defied in L. M. Montgomery's Anne's House of Dreams: Gilbert, being a doctor, is very solicitous about Anne's health, explicitly wishing to refute the proverb "Cobblers' wives go barefoot and doctors' wives die young." Played straight by Rainbow Valley's Reverend Meredith, a Good Shepherd who is too busy ministering to his flock to have the first clue about the needs of his own four children. He's eventually forced to take notice when his daughter Una goes without food to punish herself for some perceived misdeed and faints in church as a result. |
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In Epic Rap Battles of History, Elon Musk mocks Mark Zuckerberg for running the world's largest social network while being awkward and unsociable in real life. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The God-Emperor of Mankind has a bad case of this in regards to his superhuman sons, the Primarchs. The Emperor is extremely charismatic, to the point where he can convince extremely hostile enemy armies to surrender through words alone and command massive armies with ease. So when the time came that he actually had sons, he figured that he could treat them the same as any soldier under his command, albeit extremely strong ones, and they would fall in line. Unfortunately, these kids were forced to grow up without him and really needed some fatherly love to help sort out some of their various psychological issues. This became a major part of why several of his sons rebelled and betrayed him to The Ruinous Powers. | |
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The mother from Freaky Friday (2003) also is a therapist, but the relation with her daughter isn't the best either. The fun comes after their "Freaky Friday" Flip when it turns out her daughter is a better therapist when it comes to counseling parents, because of her subjective experience from the other side. | |
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Downplayed in Team Fortress 2, where The Medic cannot use his Medigun on himself, but has Gradual Regeneration to compensate. Averted by the Ubercharges, which do give the Medic the same effect as it gives the patient (although for the Kritzkrieg this is useless because it boosts attack power while the medigun is out and the medigun doesn't do damage; to compensate, the Kritzkrieg has an alternate use where the Medic can take a big huff from it in order to gain health). | |
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SMPLive: You'd think the server's resident master of traps would be able to detect them easily, but when Cooper is chasing Poke around the Spawn Tree trying to kill him, he manages to fall into one of his own pitfall traps. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "On Your Marks," the Cutie Mark Crusaders have finally achieved their goal of getting their cutie marks some time ago. The only problem is, they have to ask themselves "now what are we going to do?" While Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo take up new hobbies, Apple Bloom is left pondering the future, and how to go about their special skill of helping other ponies discover their true talents. Apple Bloom feels especially down when she realizes that, despite her talent being helping others with their unique abilities and passions, she can't seem to find one of her own. | |
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In Child of the Storm: Alison Carter is the former Deputy Director of SHIELD - and only missed out on the Directorship because of a mixture of politicking, HYDRA, and a very much justified desire for SHIELD and others not to pay too much attention to her family or they might figure out that they're all descended from Peggy and Steve. In general, she is incredibly on the ball and very insightful. She also completely fails to recognise that she's pushing her daughter away until it's too late, and while they do make up, it has generational consequences for her grandchildren. She later admits that she was a "far better spy than a mother", and is mostly grateful she's learned from her mistakes. The main tragedy of Doctor Strange is that thanks to his alterations by the Time Stone, he can fix almost everyone and everything, he can bend key events in time to his own ends, give everyone strong and happy family connections with which to endure all sorts of terrors... but he can't fix himself. He can't undo or fix Camlann. He could save everyone... except the people he loved. He is unsurprisingly phenomenally bitter under his cheerfully odd behaviour. Wanda, eventually, gets to at least act as a Parental Substitute to her godson, Harry, even if it is a decade or so late (thanks to It's Not You, It's My Enemies and Strange's warning). She can't do the same for her daughter - though in Hermione's case, she has a happy family, by Wanda's own contrivance, and Wanda wants a clean break/not to attach her baggage. Needless to say, it doesn't work out that way. |
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Dr. Gardevoir of Level 30 Psychiatry can't figure out how to cure her own split personae. | |
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There is also a week of strips of Sally trying to teach Sunday School, and constantly getting interrupted by one boy who thinks The Great Gatsby is in the Bible. When she gets home, Sally learns the boy is the minister's son. | |
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Emerson Cod, from Pushing Daisies is a very competent Private Investigator, even when he doesn't have a certain pie maker helping him. He still isn't able to find his missing daughter, though. In the series finale, the Narrator reveals that Cod's daughter comes to him, and it is suggested that she found him after reading his pop-up book, "Lil' Gumshoe", which he wrote for that specific reason. | |
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Used for a quick joke in The Country Bears; Tennessee's backstory includes a failed relationship with Trixie. So when the band broke up, he became a marriage counselor. Counter-intuitively, it's because he has a failed relationship that he's a surprisingly effective marriage counsellor. People with problems in their marriage see how miserable he is as a single person and they instantly feel better about their own situation. | |
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In Barefoot Gen, there is a literal example because Gen's family makes sandals, but Gen himself goes barefoot most of the time. This is likely because the sandals are meant for selling and/or as part of the war effort and thus they can't afford to keep any for their own family. | |
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Choose Me: Nancy is a psychologist, and a late-night radio talk show host, who spends her nights on the radio giving advice to the lovelorn about relationships. She is also scared of commitment and has never had a serious relationship of her own. Here's how Nancy describes herself to Mickey, who doesn't know that she's radio host "Dr. Nancy Love": | |
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Criminal Minds: The team has brilliant criminal profilers, but have massively messed-up personal lives. In fact, the two members of the team who are probably the least messed up? They're the two who aren't actually profilers. The team does have a tendency to profile each other, but while they're great at deconstructing other people's behavior, they miss the emotional signs of those around them. Hotch was unaware of his wife's growing displeasure with his absence from her and their son's life, though it was quite obvious. The killer in the episode "The Boogeyman" is revealed to be the son of the local school guidance counselor; apparently, he chose to murder other children because he resented the fact his father spent more time helping them than being a father to him. |
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In Jasper in Deadland, Agnes acts as Jasper's Living Emotional Crutch by being the one person in his life who is able to give him hope and help him to believe that life is worth living, but near the end of the show, she ends up needing help not to give up on life and stay in Deadland. | |
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The Hunger Games: Katniss assumes that Peeta, being a member of the merchant class and the son of a baker, hasn't known hunger the way she and her family has. She's surprised to find out that despite his family baking for a living, they rarely get to eat any of the bread themselves, only the stale loaves they can no longer sell. | |
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On Battlestar Galactica (2003) Doc Cottle is in charge of sickbay on the ship and is the physician Adama recommends to Laura Roslin for her cancer treatment. He is rarely seen without a cigarette in his hand. | |
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Nina Tanleven: Referenced in The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed when Nine's father, who restores old buildings for a living, decides that after years of being too busy, it's time for him to restore their own house, starting by stripping the old (and ugly) wallpaper from their stairwell and replacing it. | |
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On ER the treatment of Mark's father causes a temporary rift between himself and Elizabeth. Elizabeth does not think Mark should be treating his own father and Mark wants his father to live at home rather than go into a hospice. Mark's father doesn't want to stay either but has mixed feelings about palliative care anyway. In the end, Mark prevails and his father dies at home. | |
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In Rise of the Guardians, the Guardians have the opposite problem. They spend so much time protecting children, they're now too busy to actually spend time with them! | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has Kimmy's therapist Andrea. Andrea is a very capable counselor, but she's also a drunken wreck who's completely unable to deal with her own issues in a healthy way. If anything, her psychological training only makes her more able to rationalize her bad behavior. | |
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As is common for this trope, Dr. Lancaster of Find Us Alive is a psychiatrist who has a very hard time taking his own advice. In a slight Deconstruction, this is treated as an outright dangerous and hypocritical trait at the worst of times, even once resulting in him lashing out at Harley and nearly passing out from exhaustion. From the way Harley responds, it seems that it's unfortunately common for him to snap at his friends when he's stressed. It also severely undermines his credibility as he nags Harley about his drinking habits, seeing as he has a pretty nasty caffeine addiction himself. | |
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In A Knight's Tale, William’s dad is a thatcher or roof maker by trade. But he went blind and couldn’t fix his own roof. William does it for him and it sets up part of the film’s climax since Adhemar catches him at it and exposes him. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow's mom cites many statistics and social movements related to young people, but seems unable to view her own daughter as an individual unique from anyone else. From the Buffy wiki, Sheila Rosenberg "had also been involved in co-authoring material regarding problematic adolescent behavior." | |
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Batman: No Man's Land kicks off with an 8.3 earthquake that devastates Gotham. Fortunately for Bruce, he had always insisted that all of Wayne Enterprise's buildings needed to be built to withstand 9.0 earthquakes. Unfortunately for Bruce, he forgot about Wayne Manor and the Batcave. (He later admits to himself that he had meant to, but kept worrying that any workers he had hired would discover his identity, and had no personal skills in that area to speak of.) | |
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There was a contestant on The Chase who had apparently written a book about how to win game shows. He lost at the personal chase and didn't even manage to get more than a few questions right in the cash builder. Best not to think about what must have happened to the sales of said book afterwards. | |
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Midsomer Murders: one episode had a psychologist who was completely unaware her three teenage children were sociopathic murderers who'd started by making their father's death look like an accident. | |
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On Firefly, Inara is a "Companion" who has no problem sleeping with her clients, or with firmly refusing Mal's advances. But as soon as Mal gives up on her and spends a night with another prostitute insteadnote because they hit it off, not as a client, Inara finds a quiet dark corner so she can break down in tears. | |
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Ben in My Family has a recurring problem with treating his own family, as seen in this conversation with his assistant: | |
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Sherlock Holmes: In one story, he and Watson break into the house of blackmailer Milverton, which goes horribly wrong. After that, Holmes comments that for all years where he looked for criminals based on small clues they left, he still didn't manage to cover his own tracks. Watson opens "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" by noting that the medical practice that he had purchased had been declining for years due to the previous owner's poor health, noting that patients "[look] askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs." |
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How I Met Your Mother: From the episode "Columns". | |
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A tragic example occurs in Daddy's Little Girl. Ellie lampshades that despite being a decorated state trooper who saved many lives, her father couldn't prevent the murder of his own daughter, which just adds to his grief. | |
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Charmed (1998): Late in season four, Phoebe gets a job as an advice columnist with many of her askers seeking help with their love lives. Shortly after getting hired her marriage to Cole ends in tragedy, and she spends the rest of the series struggling to maintain any of her subsequent relationships. Her column remains incredibly popular, leaving the impression that she's not very good at taking her own advice. | |
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New Vegas Showtime: The Translator Microbes that allow Ryuji to speak English were the work of Doctor 8, who can't communicate with others (Think Tank colleagues aside) due to his voice box being busted. | |
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Doctor Bombei, the greatest Choujin physician in the Kinnikuman universe, succumbed to a malignant tumor because he spent so much time watching other Choujins' health he didn't pay attention to his own. | |
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The therapist on the HBO series In Treatment has his share of parental issues, as well as being recently divorced. | |
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Michael Westen from Burn Notice regularly insinuates himself into the life of the villain of the week, be it a crime boss, drug dealer, Government agent, contract killer, or anything else, and draws them into an elaborate web of deception. However, even the most benign attempt to fool his mother always falls flat. He also mentions being well-trained in firearms and combat... but still has no defense against mom crying into his chest. | |
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Dr Glaucomflecken: The Psychiatrist gets so absorbed in helping his patients (the other doctors and med students) that he neglects his own mental health; he eventually resorts to giving himself therapy by talking with himself in a mirror. | |
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Frasier: Given that he's a psychiatrist, one would figure that Frasier Crane would be able to deal with his curmudgeonly father and persnickety brother and to find a woman who would make him happy, but noooo... Eventually, Frasier actually does seek therapy from his Harvard professor/mentor, after the man demonstrated that Frasier couldn't help himself by having him roleplay calling in to his own show as himself. Played for laughs at the end of the episode, when Frasier and said mentor switch places so that Frasier may do the counseling. For bonus points, Frasier's brother is also a psychiatrist, who spends the first few seasons trapped in an abusive and loveless marriage, while pining for his father's physical therapist. Speaking of that loveless marriage, neither of them realizes that Niles' wife Maris is likely suffering from eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder, despite her numerous eccentricities — her bizarre eating habits, her terror of gaining weight, her obsession with plastic surgery — being a Running Gag. This one's somewhat debatable, however, as it's entirely possible that they have worked it out, but since Maris is otherwise so horrible and domineering they either can't manage to do anything about it or simply struggle to find the energy to care after a while. Also, Niles is apparently an excellent psychiatrist who also possesses an encyclopedia's worth of neuroses and phobias, as demonstrated in this little exchange in which Niles perhaps gets a bit too oblivious to his own germaphobia when dealing with a patient: |
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There is a logic puzzle (featured in a Professor Layton game, among other places) that depends on this: in a town with two barbers, half the townsfolk (including one of the barbers) have impeccable hairstyles, the other half (including the other barber) look like their hair was the lovechild of Chewbacca and Medusa. In some versions (which generally don't mention the haircuts of the general populace), the barber with the good hairstyle keeps a clean shop, while the scruffy barber's shop is very messy. The barber who gives good haircuts is the unkempt one. Since he can't cut his own hair, obviously he went to his colleague for a haircut, and vice-versa. In versions where the shops differ in cleanliness, it's because the unkempt barber, being better and more popular, doesn't have time to clean up between appointments, while the other barber is less popular and has plenty of time to clean up between haircuts. | |
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Tony Soprano's therapist on The Sopranos is divorced and goes to therapy with her ex-husband and college-age son. (This actually makes a lot of sense; dealing with other people's problems constantly must make you want to unburden yourself as well. Apparently, a lot of therapists do this.) | |
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Michel Duval from the Red Mars Trilogy is the First Hundred's therapist, and winds up having a mental breakdown. He was well aware he was in need of therapy, but his therapist was a significant time lag away and unable to help him, while he was unable to help himself. | |
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Braceface had an episode where Sharon wanted to get a tattoo and her mother, a family councellor, wouldn't let her. While her mother is running a seminar on trust between parents and children and how to use that bond to protect your kids from making bad decisions, she uses 'convincing' Sharon not to get a tattoo as an example. An assistant then comes in and informs her that her daughter was sent to the hospital after passing out in a seedy tattoo parlour. | |
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Animal Planet Heroes: More often than not, the investigators wind up having to deal with people whose professions directly involve animals. The best example would be the farrier who neglected his horses' hooves to dangerous levels, despite it being his job to take care of equine feet. | |
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When the medical officer on the spaceship Pegasus in Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets develops cancer, he refuses to undergo chemotherapy because he doesn't want the toxic byproducts excreted in his urine to contaminate the ship's water supply. | |
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