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== Film ==

* ''[[Little Man Tate]]'' contrasts the titular Tate, a very mature child, with his childlike, immature mother.

* 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 ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'' parodies ''[[King Kong]]''; a giant woman<ref>actually a {{spoiler|Dungeon Dimensions creature in disguise}}</ref> holds a normal-sized ape (the Librarian) in one hand while climbing a tall building.

* 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'.

 

* 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]]'':

'''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'' about -- that time he left the fridge door open and a whole quiche and some milk went bad.

* [[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:

 

== Video Games ==

== [[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]]:

'''Homer:''' ''([[Beat]])'' Cosmic. }}

** The trope is [[Playing with a Trope|utterly screwed with]] when Homer says:

* 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|Corrupt Corporate Executives]] who invade South Park and set up casinos. They give the white people SARS, and [[Magical Native American|the traditional white trash panacea, 7-Up, cures it]].