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Contrast [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. When the creators or the narrative are the ones lying to the viewers about the real age of the characters in order to show them having sex, it's [[Totally Eighteen]].
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== Comic Books ==
* Happens with a porn actress in the ''[[Ms. Tree]]'' storyline "Runaway II" (which was probably inspired by the Traci Lords scandal that was unfolding at the time. See [[Real Life]] examples below).
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* ''[[Whip It]]'': The protagonist says she's 22 in order to be allowed to join the Roller Derby League. She's 17.
* In ''[[Old School]]'', the main character sleeps with a random girl at a party, and later learns that she is his boss' seventeen year old daughter.
* In ''[[Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's
* One of the major subplots in ''[[Superbad]]'' involves the characters trying to pass as 21 (when they're still in high school) in order to buy alcohol. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', Nicholas throws a bunch of underage drinkers out of the bar, who lied about their real age to get in.
* ''[[Liar Liar]]'': Fletcher discovers that {{spoiler|Mrs. Cole lied about her age when she got married, rendering the prenuptial and the original marriage contract void, but leaving her still entitled to half her (ex-)husband's wealth, as they had lived together long enough to be considered common-law married anyways}}.
* In ''[[The Matrix
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* [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Vorkosigan]], in his "Admiral Naismith" persona, is reputed to look seventeen because of advanced rejuvenation techniques. He is, in fact, seventeen.
* In the ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' trilogy, when Sam starts flirting with Lirael, she discourages him by telling him that she's thirty-five years old (he's seventeen). When he expresses incredulity at this because she looks too young, she explains that she looks like she's only nineteen because she uses really effective youth-enhancing creams. He believes her. In fact, she looks nineteen because she ''is'' nineteen.
* In the ''[[Time Scout]]'' series, Margo Smith shows up on Time Terminal 86 claiming to be eighteen and determined to be the first female time scout. About halfway through the book, she reveals that she's just celebrated her seventeenth birthday. After a passionate rendezvous with a man twice her age.
* In ''[[Tortall Universe|Wild Magic]] ''(the first book of the ''Immortals'' quartet), thirteen-year-old Daine claims to be fifteen. The person she's lying to sees through it, though.
== Live
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Maeby gets a job as a producer where she constantly has to hide the fact that she's still in high school. She deflects any comments about her age by acting flattered and saying "marry me!". At one point, someone from the family asks about her job, she reflexively tries the same deflection technique but only gets a confused response.
* On ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Malcolm beats up a bully, then gets in trouble when the bully turns out to be much younger than he looked. Hal then gets a visit from what appears to be the boy's father, and after he starts behaving abusively, Hal beats him up too. Turns out the "father" was actually a minor.
* Ron Howard played a kid who lied to get into the army on ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
{{quote|'''Kid:''' I'll hate you for the rest of my life!
'''Hawkeye:''' [[For Your Own Good|Let's hope it's a long and happy hate]]. }}
* In the first season of ''[[American Idol]]'' there was a guy who was a few years older than the maximum allowed; when they found out he was booted from the competition.
** In the first season of ''Idol'' in Norway, a 15-year
* A wannabe wrestler did this on ''[[Tough Enough]]'' (the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Reality TV show), when they found out he was kicked off the show but got hired by [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] anyway, becoming The Boogyman.
** An inversion, he was dropped for actually being older than the cut-off.
* On ''[[Cold Case]]'', one subplot involved a witness who was an army recruit who lied about his age and was almost discharged (for other reasons).
* Occasionally pops up in the ''[[Law
* When Laura married Petrie in the ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', she lied about her age. She told her fiance that she was nineteen when she was really seventeen and hence too young to get married.
* One of the major [[Story Arc|story arcs]] in ''[[Californication]]'' involves middle-aged Hank Moody being seduced by a girl who neglected to tell him she was only sixteen until the next day.
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== New Media ==
* Olivia did this to join an army as a non-combatant cook in ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]''.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* The [[
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* ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' has a storyline where the main character meets a girl in a bar who turns out to be a minor.
* ''[[Something*Positive]]'': Helen (a crossover character from ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'') tries to get a job at Nerdrotica despite being underage. Nancy catches her out because of her crappy fake ID.
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== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Grampa Simpson says that he fought in [[World War I]] -- "of course, I had to lie about my age to get in." In the ensuing [[Flash Back]], he's five.
* ''[[King of the Hill
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* [[Laurence Fishburne]] lied to the producers of ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' to get a role in the movie. He said he was 18 when he was really 14. Coincidentally, his character was seventeen years old.
** [[Troubled Production|And the film took so long to complete]] that by the end of the shooting he actually was 17.
* [[Traci Lords]] became a porn star at the age of 16, using a fake ID. Authorities discovered this two years later, and almost all of her films were removed from distribution. To this day her early films are illegal to even look at (much less distribute), because they became retroactively classed as child porn.
** Her lie resulted in several hoodwinked men being sent to prison and shook the industry to its core. The result of the Lords scandal is that the porn industry is now ''extremely'' thorough in their background checks (they make
* [[Mila Kunis]] was 14 when she auditioned for the role of Jackie on ''[[That '70s Show]]''. She told the casting directors she'd be 18 on her birthday, but [[You Didn't Ask|didn't say which one]]. This made her the actor on the show [[Dawson Casting|closest to her character's age]].
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]] married his 13-year-old [[Kissing Cousins|cousin]], [[Ill Girl|Virginia Clemm]]. To get around the age issue to get the marriage license, they had some papers forged that gave her age as 21.
* The [[
* [[Gillian Anderson]] was twenty-four when she auditioned for ''[[The X-Files]]'', but she knew Scully was a doctor so she said she was twenty-seven.
* Inverted by ''[[Kikuko Inoue]]'' as her [[Running Gag]]. She's already a married woman, way above 17 years old, but she still constantly refer herself as "17 years old".
* Similarly, [[Jack Benny]] pegged his age at 39 as a [[Running Gag]] that he kept up all the way to the end of his life.
* Zahia Dehar, a French prostitute who slept with several high profile [[The Beautiful Game|footballers]] (among others), have done so under the age of 18. Her clients deny that they were ever informed, which she has confirmed several times.
* [[Audie Murphy]], in a literal example. He was seventeen when he joined the US Army after his sister altered his birth certificate. His tombstone in Arlington National Cemetary states his false date of birth, however.
* A repeat of the Traci Lords scandal occurred with the [[Full Motion Video]] adult quiz game ''The Guy Game'', four months after the game's release. One of the models filed suit against Topheavy Studios, [[Take Two Interactive|Gathering of Developers]], [[Sony]] and [[Microsoft]], explaining that she was not informed that the footage would be used for the game, and that she was seventeen years old, thus giving ''The Guy Game'' the dubious distinction of being the one of the few (if not the only) works of underage pornography to be licensed for a home console.
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