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{{quote|''What's this? Attack of the old people? [[Lampshade Hanging|Oh, that's ridiculous]].''|'''The Dream Lord''', ''[[
An elderly person attacks someone or something, from a teenager to a monster, with an object like a [[Cane Fu|cane]] or a [[Handbag of Hurt|purse]]. Effectiveness of attack varies from annoying and harmless to actually taking down the target.
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* ''[[Mad Men]]'' provides a disturbing example when Layne Pryce's father Richard, who {{spoiler|hits his grown son upside the head with a cane and threatens to break his fingers--all because Layne doesn't want to go back to England and has started dating a black woman.}} The [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|attitudes are right for the generation]], but even then, it comes off as pretty harsh. It's enough to make it somewhat surprising that Pryce turned out as as stable and sympathetic as he did given his upbringing, instead of totally screwed up, given the series' norms (on the other hand, [[Stiff Upper Lip|perhaps not]]...).
* The 'Nanageddon' episode of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'', unsurprisingly. Although little old ladies are considerably more dangerous with knitting needles when said little old ladies have been summoned from the pits of Hell.
* The example that provides the page quote in 'Amy's Choice' of ''[[
** Turns out in the end that {{spoiler|its all a dream created by the Doctor's evil side}}. He choose 'alien-possessed old people' as something the Doctor and his companions would believe, which probably tells you something about the common [[Monster of the Week]] tropes this show uses.
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 E18 Basic Genealogy|Basic Genealogy]], Troy's grandmother attacks one of his classmates with a switch.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Tellah does this to Edward in a scripted ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' battle, hitting him with his cane and calling him a [[Spoony Bard]]. It barely even hurts him, and this is [[Spoony Bard|Edward]] we are talking about.
* [[Paper Mario (Video Game)|ELDER]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|POWER ACTIVATE]]!! {{spoiler|The Puni Elder's [[Crack! Oh, My Back!|back acts up]] before it can even do anything}}
* One of the [[Weirdness Magnet|Wild Wasteland]] encounters of ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' has The Courier being ambushed by a trio of old biddies armed with rolling pins and knives, as a [[Shout
* In ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'', the playable race the Forsaken, are fairly clearly modeled on the elderly. ''[[Undead]]'' elderly.
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