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[[File:55 1973.jpg|link=The Three Stooges|frame|[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Totally not The Three Stooges in disguise.]]]]
Fictional grownups have been known to disguise themselves as some pretty silly things. Bushes and trees, two-person horses that don't look anything remotely like horses, oh—and did I mention children? That's right. From time to time, TV adults like to try and fool everyone by masquerading as gigantic children. Oh, and occasionally teenagers as well.
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Not to be confused with [[Dawson Casting]] (actors portraying teenagers, typically with some level of [[Suspension of Disbelief]] on the part of the audience).
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== Dressed as Modern Children ==
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* Perpetual loser Oskar Kokoshka of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'' used this sort of disguise, complete with a huge lollipop, in an attempt to infiltrate an audition for Yahoo Soda. It didn't work.
* An episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' called "The Laughing Fish" featured two of Joker's henchmen dressed as 1950s-era children (one with a beanie, one with [[Girlish Pigtails]]) for Joker's commercial for "Joker Fish" - and they did ''not'' enjoy it. Harley played their mom.
** This is also essentially the entire schtick of villain Baby Doll, who is a grown woman
* In a brief gag on ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'', a "little kid" (of the sailor suit variety to go with the show's nautical theme) asks to play a "bathroom game" with Flapjack. After Flapjack tells him, "You need to grow up," the "kid" then replies in a raspy voice, "Grow up? I'm 38 years old!" followed by a closeup of the middle aged man's face.
** The whole plot of another episode revolved around K'nuckles and Flapjack switching places to see whose life was harder. Throughout the episode, everyone mistook K'nuckles in his Flapjack costume for the real Flapjack and vice versa.
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