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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has an episode like this with Lisa Kudrow as the voice for the new, hip, fashion-savvy girl at Springfield Elementary. Lisa learned to be comfortable with her self image (again) and New Girl learned that you don't have to grow up so fast, and can appreciate fun for what it is.

* Fry in ''[[Futurama]]'' unwittingly acts as one of these, when his twentieth-century outlook persuades Leela and Bender to abandon their thirtieth-century ruts and follow him.

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is practically built around this trope. Jimmy is a textbook [[The Pollyanna|pollyanna]] in [[A Hell of a Time|Miseryville]], where he constantly tries to cheer people up despite the fact that [[Satan|Lucius]] wants everyone miserable.

* ''[[Santa Claus is Comin' to Town]]'' reveals that Santa Claus was this as a teenager. He avoided growing up in [[Crapsack World|Sombertown]] when he was adopted by toy-making elves who lived up the nearby mountain. When he finally made the climb down the mountain to hand out toys to Sombertown's citizens, he was stunned to find out that toys were illegal and instantly became a toy-delivering outlaw, [[Origin Story|explaining his habit of going down chimneys and hiding gifts in stockings]].