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{{quote|'''Gunn''': Couple of weeks ago he was wearing diapers. [[Plot -Relevant Age -Up|Now he's a teenager?]] <br />
'''Cordelia''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Tell me]] we don't live in a soap opera.|''[[Angel]]'', "A New World"}}
 
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On daytime soaps, pregnancy is a staple storyline. However, the resulting child is rarely seen after his paternity and/or baby switch has been resolved. When a few years have passed, he returns as a teenager old enough to have a summer romance.
 
Different from [[Plot -Relevant Age -Up]] in that the latter is at least explained via magic/[[Applied Phlebotinum]]/[[Bizarre Alien Biology]], or the transformation is actually shown on-screen. [[I Thought It Meant|Do not confuse the two]] when adding examples.
 
Stephen King referred to this as the "Kid Trick" in ''Danse Macabre'', his text on American horror media in the 20th century.
 
Not to be confused with a certain character from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''<ref> (although there ''has'' been an instance of [[Kingdom Hearts 3D|multiple Soras appearing at once]] recently)</ref>, nor with certain characters from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' or ''[[Naruto]]''. Contrast with [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]] and [[Comic Book Time]].
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** Molly O'Brien is less drastic, going from infancy to four-ish between seasons.
*** Note that this is actually how she aged in real time; she was born on-screen in 1991 and was four years old in 1995, and thus was not a victim of SORAS.
** The ones that ''were'' [[Plot -Relevant Age -Up]] situations were less "someone becomes older as a plot point" and more "Textbook SORAS with a one-line [[Hand Wave]]." For completeness sake... Alexander's [[The Other Darrin]]-ing in TNG, and Naomi from Voyager's sudden skipping of a few years. Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki, even refers to Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome by name in both these cases. It's especially glaring when aliens who live twice as long as humans grow up in one-third the time.
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel Air]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|called attention to this]] when it replaced the newborn Nicky Banks with a six-year-old actor (Ross Bagley): Nicky walked in the room while Jazz was talking to Will, prompting the latter to ask who he was. Will says "That's baby Nicky!" while mugging to the camera and making a "growing" gesture with his hands. A frustrated Jazz shouts "Man, I'm going back to the streets where things make sense!"
* ''[[Step By Step]]'' featured the young baby of the family aging from an infant in one season, to a speaking toddler of pre-school age in the next.
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