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When there is a group of friends all the same age, generally there is the couple in the group who act as the adults, sorta the parents of the group. Together they are like the superego of the gang and are actually recognized as the "[[Team Mom|Mom]]" and "[[Team Dad|Dad]]" of their friends.
Compare [[Promotion to Parent]] and the girl and boy in [[A Boy, a Girl,
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* '''Eric and Donna''' from ''[[That 70s Show]]'' were noted in an episode where the gang were dining and ditching a restaurant to be the parents of the group.
** After they broke up there was an episode where they fight over their friends' attention with clear overtones of divorcés working out a custody dispute.
* '''Franky and Robin''' from ''[[
* '''Joe and Sora''' from [[Digimon Adventure]]
* '''Piper and Leo''' from ''[[
* '''Ross and Monica''', though brother and sister, act as the grownups on ''[[Friends]]'' in earlier seasons. Later, Ross becomes [[Flanderization|more childlike,]] Chandler and Monica get married, and they become the [[Designated Parents|adults]] of the group.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', '''Fai''' accurately identifies himself and '''Kurogane''' as the "[[Team Mom|mommy]]" and "[[Team Dad|daddy]]" of the group.
* '''Tamaki''' from [[Ouran High School Host Club]] constantly refers himself as the club's "[[Team Dad|dad]]" and calls '''Kyoya''' the "[[Team Mom]]". Their actual roles are the reverse, though.
* An interesting example: On [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] when Buffy was dead, '''Willow and Tara''' became sorta the [[Team Mom|surrogate mothers]] while '''Xander and Spike''' became somewhat of the [[Team Dad|substitute fathers]] for Dawn. Buffybot became the public face of Buffy for Dawn at school before [[Makes Sense in Context|Buffy was brought back from the dead.]]
* On some episodes of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', '''Leonard and Penny''' assume the role of parents to Sheldon, especially Penny. Not so much with Howard and Rajesh, since they don't live at the appartment.
* '''Senator Lance and Valerie Prevert''' on [[You Can't Do That
* In ''[[
* In the Season Four premiere of Angel, "Deep Down," most of the Fang Gang of Angel Investigations have gone their separate ways, with Angel, Cordelia, Lorne, and Wesley all enmeshed in some situation that keeps them from seeing the group. Subtracting these characters from the group left us with Gunn, Fred, and Connor: i.e., a romantically involved adult couple and a teenage boy. Gunn and Fred were clearly growing into the role of acting as Connor's parents, worrying about his tendencies toward destructive rebellion in the way that his own parents might worry about it.
* Nate and Sophie on ''[[Leverage]]'' act as the [[Team Dad]] and [[Team Mom]] respectively, with Eliot as the older brother, and Hardison and Parker as the younger siblings.
* Carlisle and Esme Cullen of [[Twilight (
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