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|'''Lisa Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "Behind The Laughter"}}
AKA "perpetual childhood," '''
In most cases, this was relatively benign — the lifespan of the programs and the aging of their younger stars rarely impacted each other. (And in shows where [[Dawson Casting]] was already in play, it only meant that characters who had started out looking too old for their alleged ages just got even older.) But when actual children of the appropriate ages were cast in a show that became a [[Long Runner]], the best-case result would be a disturbing cognitive dissonance when a child character acted substantially younger than he or she appeared.
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