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* Forced on the producers of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' because of the expected length of the show's run compared to the [[Framing Device]] that it's all being told to the narrator's children in a ''much'' shorter period of time. The production team solved the dilemma by using [[Stock Footage]] of the children -- usually the same second-season shot, but also filming a [[Reaction Shot]] during season two for use when the Mother was finally encountered.
* Terminally averted with Sophia in ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]''. She is lost in season 2, and {{spoiler|is found to have turned into a zombie and killed}} at the midseason finale. You can tell the actress, who is in her early teens, had grown considerably in the hiatus between the two seasons and would probably have been progressing faster than the scant weeks which were supposed to be passing could account for.
* ''[[The Patty Duke Show]]'':
== [[Music]] ==
* Invoked in "New Kid" by [[Barenaked Ladies]], a song about a member of a manufactured [[Boy Band]]:
{{quote|''Now I'm a new kid on the block''
''Well, I'm twenty-three and they won't let me grow up''}}
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* Film studios had a particular aversion to child stars growing up to a large extent — how to manage a smooth upshift from "adorable child star" to "hawt teen star" wasn't really figured out until [[The Seventies]]. The most famous example was [[Judy Garland]], who in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' had her breasts strapped down so Dorothy Gale would be more childlike. Since most people [[Adaptation Displacement|haven't read the book(s)]], most modern viewers think Dorothy's ''supposed'' to be a teenager.
** To put it in perspective, the initial casting for Dorothy was [[Shirley Temple]], who fits the book description much better than [[Judy Garland]] did. It worked out better.
* Speaking of [[Shirley Temple]], she was cast as an eight-year-old until she was well into her teens. In fact, it was only once she ''got married'' (at [[Values Dissonance|age seventeen]], to a man who turned out to be a violently abusive [[Gold Digger]]) that Louis B. Mayer allowed her to appear in adult roles. She left show business completely after divorcing the [[Gold Digger]] and escaping Mayer's slimy clutches. Her last job
* [[Gary Coleman]] and [[Emmanuel Lewis]] were also cast because they were ''incapable'' of "growing up", due to their medical conditions. The former didn't have a happy ending.
* [[June Havoc]] got this treatment from her mother, as seen in ''[[Gypsy (theatre)|Gypsy]]''.
* Averted, to the surprise of many, by [[Disney]] with [[Annette Funicello]], on the original ''[[Mickey Mouse Club]]''.
** Reluctantly. Before they broke down and accepted it, they pulled many stunts to cover her chest. One method was positioning shorter Mousketeers in front of her, while another involved body doubles and tight closeups on her face. They probably would have canned her if it wasn't for her popularity.
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