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{{quote|''"To prolong the run of the series, I was secretly given anti-growth hormones"''
|'''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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* Disney tried to enforce this on the ''[[Mickey Mouse Club]]'' via [[Suppressed Mammaries]]; The female Mouseketeers resorted to subversion (slicing the hated "foundation garments" with razor blades) when their protests proved ineffective.
* In a similarly drastic move, the producers of the show ''[[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes]]'' actually ''cancelled the show'' after their young cast underwent growth spurts.
* The entire cast of ''[[That '70s Show]]''. Eric turned 17 in the second episode (despite telling Red that he was 17 in the pilot). He then turns 18 in the third episode of season six.
* ''[[Round the Twist]]'' starts in 1989, and finishes in 2000. The three Twist kids more or less stay the same - the two twins manage to de-age from 14 to thirteen, and Bronson is still in the same primary school class. To be fair, this is because the series was rebooted twice - first in 1992 (for one season) then in 1999 (for two seasons).
* Averted with Mark on ''[[The Rifleman]]'', surprisingly for the day. He was 11 at the beginning of the series and 15 at the end, allowed to age naturally.
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