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{{quote|''"Look how long it's taken me to be six years old! [[Lampshade Hanging|Practically forever!]]"''|'''Calvin''', ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}
AKA "perpetual childhood." An old (and in live action, [[Discredited Trope|discredited]]) trope which was implicit in many early [[Sit Com|sitcoms]] that focused on the standard American [[Nuclear Family]] of father, mother and 2.4 children -- the Situation necessary for the Comedy to exist was so rigidly defined that the children could not be allowed to grow up, lest the program dynamic change unrecognizably.
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