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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Gangs of old ladies attacking fit, defenseless young men."''
|''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''}}
A lot of comedy comes from switching around expectations. This trope is about a specific kind, where roles are reversed. But unlike [[Freaky Friday Flip]], [[Prince and Pauper]], and [[Swapped Roles]], no explanation or justification is given, and it's as though this situation was always this way. The comedy is more about the absurdity of it all, than what happens to the characters.
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[[Super-Trope]] of [[Gender Flip]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* A ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' story centred around an athlete who garnered massive controversy and criticism by doing well despite no pharmaceutical or bionic enhancements.
* ''[[Normalman]]'' is the only non-superpowered human on the planet Levram.
* In ''[[
* Pretty much any [[Silver Age]] ''[[Superman]]'' story set in Bizarro-World is all over this trope.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Little Man Tate]]'' contrasts the titular Tate, a very mature child, with his childlike, immature mother.
* The film ''
* The film ''[[The Wrong Man]]'' had a subplot of a greedy, ruthless farmer threatening the meek, struggling-to-get-by banker with closing his business down.
* ''[[The Jerk]]'' starts with the character explaining he was born "a poor black child," only to discover his white roots when he first hears swing music on the radio.
== [[Literature]] ==
* One scene in ''[[
* "Disobedience", by
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', there is a poem about five Golgafrincham princes who, amongst other things, 'rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses'.
== [[Live
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':
** The sketch 'Northern Playwright' featuring father behaving like a stereotypical worker and his no less stereotypical yuppie son. It turns out that father is in fact a famous playwright and the son is a ordinary coal miner. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSzPGrazPo&feature=channel_page Just watch it here.]
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* The weekly murder mystery ''[[Castle]]'' has the mystery-writer main character (played by Nathan Fillion) dealing with his party-girl cougar of a mother and his sage, sensible teenaged daughter, who also acts as his Watson.
* ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'':
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'''Difficult Bastard''': Hello, good evening.
'''Presenter''': ...And the bishop of Summerset.
'''Pope''': Get lost.
'''Presenter''': Can I turn to you first, bishop?
'''Pope''': Shut up. }}
* A sketch from ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' where a husband and wife are arguing because he's just returned from a business trip and she finds a bra in his suitcase. She asks, mildly annoyed, if she's cheating on him, which he cops to absentmindedly. The fight escalates as she brings in other "minor" issues such as her desire to have a baby and secret gambling addiction, until she suddenly bursts into tears and he figures out what this is ''really''
* Done as a [[Take That]] on ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'', when Laurie's character walks into a convenience store and requests EIGHT PACKETS OF CONDOMS, PLEASE, loudly specifying brands and styles, and furtively asking for Jason Donovan's latest single in between.
* An episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' had Elliot's boyfriend Keith upset with her because he wanted a committed stable relationship, and Elliot just wanted him for sex. Dr. Kelso treats their argument like an entertaining TV program: "It's like he's the chick and you're the dude!"
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== [[Music]] ==
* Against Me!'s video for "Thrash Unreal" features a group of well-dressed, respectable looking adults going to a party... which immediately devolves into a mosh pit when they get hammered off the wine.
* "James James Morrison Morrison" by the [[Chad Mitchell Trio]] tells the tale of a three-year-old boy whose mother comes to a bad end by ignoring his advice:
{{Quote|''James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree''
''Took great of his mother, though he was only three.''
''James James said to his mother: "Mother," he said, said he.''
''"Don't ever go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.''
''Don't ever go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me."''}}
:She does so anyway and disappears.
== [[Radio]] ==
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* Used on the ''[[Martin Molloy]]'' radio show. After a news story about two pensioners who were arrested after an argument over a poker machine turned into a violent punch up, Mick Molloy launched into a spiel about how old people today had no respect for authority and how teenagers were sitting at home at night, too scared to go out because of the gangs of old people roaming the streets, and how what old people needed was another dose of national service.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Stewart Lee]] "Later on I'll be explaining how my tragic and ultimately fatal heroin addiction helped me overcome my previous dependence on Born Again Christianity."
* Towards the end of his one-man show, ''[[Norman Rockwell]] Is Bleeding'', [[Christopher Titus]] imagines what would've happened if his mother's mental institution had had an open mike night:
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This occurs between two minor NPCs in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. The player first meets the father who complains that he lost his son and his son told him that he should always stay in one place if they get separated, while the son is nearby complaining about his father getting lost. When father and son meet up the son chastises the father for not staying in one place as he was told. Considering the tiny number of NPCs and otherwise standard NPC dialogue in the game it's rather odd that they would bother to add this bit of characterization in an area where many gamers will miss it (one must explicitly intentionally backtrack to hear the final conversation between father and son).
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Questionable Content]]'', Pintsize once created [[Hentai]] about [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|schoolgirls raping the tentacle monsters]]. [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1524 At least 18 volumes.]
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031012845/http://www.theonion.com/video/aa-destroying-the-social-lives-of-thousands-of-onc,18349/ This] video from ''[[The Onion]] News Network'' portrays AA as a life-destroying addiction which can only be countered by consumption of alcohol.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had an episode where Grandpa is staying at their place and borrowing their car for dates, annoying Homer to the point where he grounds Grandpa, who storms up to his room and starts blasting big band music. Complete with [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
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'''Marge:''' He ''is'' your father!
'''Homer:''' ''([[Beat]])'' Cosmic. }}
** The trope is [[Playing with a Trope|utterly screwed with]] when Homer says:
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* The ''[[High School Musical]]'' parody episode of ''[[South Park]]'', where the kid's dad was a rather flamboyant singer, and the kid wanted to play basketball.
** "Red Man's Greed" is this trope. The <s>Indians</s> "Native Americans" (''[[South Park]]'' insists on using that terminology.) are [[Corrupt Corporate Executive
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