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[[File:jonstewart.png|link=The Daily Show|frame|We've all been touched by Jon. These kids should be happy they were exposed to him early.]]

 

{{quote|''"How would your son like to come with me to the Museum of Natural History after everyone else has left, just the two of us, and he can touch anything he wants... I just heard it as you must have heard it and that's not good. Let me start again. I'm a palaeontologist, you'll be there with us and the touching refers only to bones... fossils!"''|'''Ross''', ''[[Friends]]'', "The One Where Estelle Dies"}}

 

See also: [[Lolicon]], [[Shotacon]], [[Oops I Did It Again]], [[Mama Bear]], [[Digging Yourself Deeper]], [[Paedo Hunt]], [[That Came Out Wrong]].

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* The second commercial in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Keo97K9cs this video].

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Little Man]]'' - Thief with dwarfism is mistaken for a baby, and his partner in crime, for a kid-loving creep.

* ''[[Jingle All the Way]] ''- Arnold's trying to get This Year's Toy for his son, and tries to win one in a raffle which used little balls with numbers as tickets. But after some struggle to get one with the other customers, the raffle-ball gets out of their hands and gets lost in a ball-pool. When he jumps in to get it back, parents attack him, thinking he's after the kids...

* ''[[Blades of Glory]]'' - The evil skaters tie up one of the heroes in a restroom stall. His attempt to get the next person to enter, a young child, to free him, only end in the kid running away screaming, "Stranger Danger! STRANGER DANGER!"

* ''[[Rat Race]]'': Rowan Atkinson's character is showing a baby the key to a 2 million dollar prize when he accidentally drops it into the baby's diapers... which leads to him getting thrown off a moving train.

* Overzealous mass-hysteria regarding child abuse was criticized in the film ''[[The Man Without A Face]]'', complete with a [[Tear Jerker]] example of [[Entendre Failure]]. {{spoiler|Although there is some ambiguity as to whether something actually did happen. The book the film was based on was a good deal less ambiguous about it.}}

* In ''[[Daddy Day Care]]'' the protagonists are assumed to be child molesters just because they're men running a day care.

* This is apparently the reason that [[The Hangover|Alan]] from ''[[The Hangover]]'' is not allowed within 200 feet of elementary schools, parks, and Chuck E. Cheese's, though it's implied that this punishment was because he likes to pick fights with children, not molest them. It's also implied that he was mistakenly labeled a molester after some worried parents saw him play with their kids in the park.

* In ''[[God Bless America]]'', Roxy mistakes Frank for a pedophile when she first sees him spying on Chloe.

 

 

*** Tratchenberg developed a crush on [[Hugh Laurie]] during filming of that episode. At one point she wrote "I love you" on her inner thigh before a scene where he'd see it.

* ''[[Bones]]'' - Booth and Bones are investigating a children's beauty pageant, looking for a killer with uneven hips. Bones, being Bones, gets right to it and grabs the nearest person to check before Booth can stop her. Of course it's a little girl, who screams, "Molester!" Booth smooths things over with the security guard who sympathizes against the over-reaction in light of the murder investigation (he advises that they just WATCH the pageant in order to observe all the kids).

** For extra hilarity, the mooks were FBI agents, and when one of them reaches for his wallet & identification, both cops pin them to car and immediately cuff them, thinking they were reaching for a gun.

* ''[[The Daily Show]]'', as seen on the picture above. They later tried other variations like "Jon Stewart Looks at Children's Things" and "Uncle Jon Wants to Show You Something".

* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'': In "Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender", Dennis tries making neighborhood relations to distinguish himself from the ex-con (who was put in jail for molesting children) who moved in nearby. Dee suggests he show the children fitness exercises, and take off his shirt to demonstrate how they worked on himself. Ego stroked, Dennis is convinced to do just that, and Dee goes directly to the fathers to point out the half-naked sex offender hanging around their children.

* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' had "I don't want a girl, I just want a little boy!" and "Of all the women in New York you had to go out with an eight-year-old girl!"

* In one episode of ''[[First Wave]]'', a teenage boy who reads Crazy Eddie's website thinks his neighbor is an alien and gets Cade to come to his house. The kid's parents are quite worried when they find an adult man in their son's bedroom, become ''more'' worried when they find out they met on the internet, but luckily when Cade claims to be a reporter they buy it.

* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', April sends Andy to pick up her little sister at school. Andy shows up two hours late, so when he arrives in his van, April's sister calls the school security guard and says she doesn't know him. The guard asks him if he is trying to lure this girl into his unmarked white van, and Andy replies, "Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do! But she won't get in!" Andy [[Saying Too Much|then clarifies]] that it's not actually ''his'' van; he stole it from a friend, and he really shouldn't be driving because his license is ''waaaay'' expired. Cut to Andy on his knees being read his rights.

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

 

 

 

* [http://wondermark.com/d/346.html This strip] of ''[[Wondermark]]''.

* In ''[[Unsounded]]'', Sette calls Duane a pedophile in hilarious terms when he tells her she deserves spanking.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Doc Scratch (who, being a cueball-headed demigod {{spoiler|and a puppet}}, is asexual in every way) tells Rose (a 13-year-old girl) he likes her; naturally she construes it this way. Then he just [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005527 keeps] [[Digging Himself Deeper]].

* In ''[[Goblins]]'', Minmax humiliated his adventuring partner Forgath by yelling at a passing young (adult) woman "Hey! Thirteen and hot!" on a crowded street. The passersby didn't realise he was talking about her Charisma score, not her age.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** At one point, Stewie also attempts to blackmail Brian by putting nude pictures of himself on Brian's laptop and threatening to pass it to the FBI.

** An earlier episode has Peter in a job interview when this happens:

'''Peter:''' (''thinks'') Don't say "doing your wife," don't say "doing your wife"... (''aloud'') Doing your... ''(looks at family photo on desk)'' son? }}

* ''[[American Dad]]'' did it too (surprise surprise). Steve decided to take some self-shot pictures in his underwear to give to a classmate he had a crush on. Then the police found them and assumed Stan took them.

 

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