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[[File:StacysMom.jpg|frame|She's got it goin' on.]]
 
{{quote|''[[Trope Namer|Stacy's mom]] has got it goin' on<br />
 
''She's all I want and I've waited for so long<br />
{{quote|[[Trope Namer|Stacy's mom]] has got it goin' on<br />
''Stacy, can't you see you're just not the girl for me<br />
She's all I want and I've waited for so long<br />
''I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Stacy's mom.
Stacy, can't you see you're just not the girl for me<br />
I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Stacy's mom|[http://www.spike.com/video/stacys-mom-fountains/2474027 "Stacy's Mom"] by [[Fountains Of Wayne]]}}
 
{{quote|'''Ted''': Your mom's... hot.
'''Bill''': [[Running Gag|SHUT UP, Ted!!]]|''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]''}}
|''[[Bill and Ted (film)|Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]''}}
 
In media where the protagonists are somewhere between pre-teens and twenty-somethings, there's usually at least one character older than the other protagonists thrown in. This character is often the [[Team Mom]], [[The Obi-Wan]], etc. Due to [[Hollywood Homely]], they're often also a [[Hot Mom]] or [[Hot Dad]]. Sometimes, in addition to just being attractive and wise in general, an older character attracts the romantic attention of one or even most of the younger characters. Even the ones who don't have a crush will admit the character in question is one of the most attractive people that age they've seen.
 
Also known as a [[MILF]], or "Mom I'd Like to Fuck" or as a "cougar." However, men can also play the [['''Stacy's Mom]]''' role, as it is not unusual for adolescent girls to be attracted to older men. It's [[Double Standards|not as commonly portrayed in television]], though, because a relationship between a teenage girl and a man the same age as her father is seen as a bit creepy, and he could be construed as a [[Jail Bait|pedo]][[You Keep Using That Word|philepedophile]].
 
This is a character who meets the following requirements:
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* [[Perverse Sexual Lust|A fan of the series]]. It '''must''' be an '''[[In-Universe]]''' crush.
 
May overlap with [[Hot Dad]] / [[Hot Mom]], [[Even the Girls Want Her]] / [[Even the Guys Want Him]], [[Hollywood Homely]], or [[Mrs. Robinson]]. Contrast [[Christmas Cake]], where an older character struggles with relationships. Compare [[Likes Older Women]], where a character deliberately pursues an older [[Love Interest]]. Also compare [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]. May result in a [[May-December Romance]]. If the interest is mutual, it may result in [[I Banged Your Mom]].
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{{noreallife|this is All The Tropes, not Tropes After Dark.}}
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'', Kawamura's friends mistook him for someone who [[Likes Older Women]] when they saw him talking with {{spoiler|Akutsu's mother,}} Yuuki. Kawamura is 14 and Yuuki is 33 at the time.
* Misato Katsuragi in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' may apply.
** Definitely, considering she is Shinji and Asuka's legal guardian ''and'' how [[Those Two Guys|Kensuke and Touji]] react to the sight of her.
* Sanae from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' (just for Sunohara, [[Hot Shonen Mom|but...]][http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/4758-434175370.png just look])
* Kunio's mother in [[Great Teacher Onizuka]].
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Sunny has a Stacy's Sister in ''[[Monica's Gang]]''.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'' had a G-rated example in one storyline where Charlie Brown's attempt to introduce himself to the Little Red Haired Girl actually got him as far as her front door, only to be shocked when her grandmother answered; "Even her grandmother has red hair!" he exclaimed in his thoughts. He was only able to squeak out, "You're a cute grandmother!" before leaving with his face red in embarrassment.
* Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman of ''[[The Fantastic Four]]''. While always considered the [[Team Mom]] with two young children and (usually) a more modest dresser than most heroines, she has earned her share of ''waifu'' crushes among fans. One letter to the editor as early as 1966 read:
{{quote|'''Fan:''' You guys have some nerve making a doll like Sue invisible!}}
 
== [[FanficFan Works]] ==
* In "Cobalt,", a chapter of Christine Morgan's "''The Guardians"'' spinoff of her ''[[Gargoyles]]'' fanfics, original character Amber, daughter of Elisa and Goliath, time-travels to 60-something years before the night the Gargs were petrified...and ends up making googly eyes at Young!Hudson, whom she considers a grandfather in the present. She even catches herself and tries to stop...but then he flexes a bicep.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* Despite being great for a page quote, ''[[Bill and TedsTed (film)|Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' doesn't fit the age difference requirement: both Bill and Ted have trouble keeping their eyes off Bill's hot stepmother Missy, but she was a senior at San Dimas High School while they were both freshmen, and is only 3 years older than they are.
{{quote|'''Ted''': ''Hey, remember when I asked her to the prom?''
'''Bill''': ''Shut up, Ted!'' }}
*:* In ''Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey'', Missy has divorced Bill's dad and married Ted's, causing Ted the same problem. After remarking on this, the girls teasingly remark "Maybe she'll marry you" and Bill follows up with "Yeah, then [[My Own Grampa|you can be your own stepdad!]]"
**:* ThenIn the end credits, it's shown she then went for {{spoiler|De Nomolos. And then the Grim Reaper.}}.
*** {{spoiler|And the Grim Reaper.}}
* Stifler's Mom from ''[[American Pie]]''.
* Kevin Spacey in ''[[American Beauty]]'' from the perspective of Mena Suvari's character.
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* Hoshino's mother in ''[[All About Lily Chou-Chou]]''. When the teenage protagonists discuss her and the fact that she's old enough to be their friend's mother, their consensus is the immortal line, "Who cares, pretty is pretty."
* Dorothy from ''Summer of '42''.
* Subverted in ''[[17 Again]]'', as the main character is actually the husband of the [[Stacy's Mom]], and only looks like he's a teenager.
* The English teacher in ''[[Kick-Ass]]''.
** Then there's the [[Real Life]] subtext - [[Aaron Johnson]], then 19, iswas expectingengaged ato child(and withsubsequently hismarried) then-43-year-old fiancee (and former director) [[Sam Taylor Wood]]., whom he met when she cast him as a young John Lennon in ''[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3819474176/nm0939993[Nowhere picBoy]]''.
*** [[Stealth Pun|My hero.]]
* The 1980s film ''[[Perfect Lessions]]'' involved a relationship between a high school teenager and a 30-ish woman.
<!-- * [[Gender Flip]] in a movie called something along the lines of "''Thirteen''," which mostly describes the lives of 13 year old kids. The only girl there falls in love with an adult man, which casually rejects her as is "customary." The movie takes a level in creepy when the girl dresses up... erotically and prepares a candle-light dinner for him. While rejecting this too (and if not mistaken, ''getting caught in that situation by her mom, who casually attributes the scene to the girl's hormones''), the weirdness factor rises with the man's own peculiarities. -- MOD: This plot does not seem to match any film documented here or on Wikipedia which goes by a name like ''Thirteen''. If someone can identify what film this actually is, feel free to edit and uncomment this entry. -->
* ''[[Class]]'' is a 1983 romantic comedy about a prep school student who has an affair with his dorm mate's mother. Said mother is played by Jacqueline Bisset.
* [[wikipedia:Tadpole (film)|Tadpole]]{{context}}
* The 90's comedy ''[[Blank Check]]'' has a thirteen year old protagonist who is in love with a female, adult banker.<ref>Actually an undercover FBI Agent</ref>. He even sets up a romantic dinner with her. At the end of the movie, he asks her to wait for him until he's 16. She laughs it off as a crush but then the [[Squick]]-factor sets in when she negotiates that she will wait until he's 18... and [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Male|then she kisses him on the lips.]]
* In ''[[Superbad]]'', Seth is attracted to Evan's mother.
* ''[[The Graduate]]'' is easily a candidate for this one, given the memetic line that sprang forth from it.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Infinite Jest]]'', the attractiveness of Hal's mother and headmaster of the Enfield Tennis Academy, Avril Incandenza, is frequently mentioned, along with her truly enormous number of affairs. She even hooks up with one of the students, prompting the soon-widely-disseminated joke stating that their relationship "proves 17 can go into 56 more than 3.294 times."
* Biff spends a good amount of time making passes at Joshua's mom in ''[[Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff]]'' -- That—That would be ''[[The Bible|Mary, the mother of Christ]]'' to those not in the know.
* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], being [[Most Readers Are Male|what it is]], invokes this a lot:
** Kyp Durron is this in ''[[Young Jedi Knights]]''. And ''[[New Jedi Order]]''. In fact, Kyp in general is [[Mr. Fanservice]].
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** In ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'', Morrigan Cade is Cade's mom. Cade's friend, Jariah Syn, has a crush on her.
* [[Woody Allen]] wrote a story where the main character falls for his girlfriend's mother. (Ironically, his girlfriend had warned him about her sister, who he was indifferent to.) He ends up spending so much time with her that his girlfriend gets turned off, since he's almost [[Like Brother and Sister|like a brother]]. {{spoiler|When he gets married to her mom, though, [[Oedipus Complex|she finds him attractive again]] and jumps him at the ceremony.}}
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] book ''Father Time'', the Doctor's adopted daughter {{spoiler|(not actually adopted, but you'd probably guess that based on the repeated references to the fact she's basically a younger, blond, female copy of him)}} has a friend who [[Squick|squickssquick]]s her with constant comments about the Doctor being "gorgeous" and "hunky". The fact he's wealthy and brings them homemade lemonade probably doesn't hurt.
* Joe lusts after his friend Sammy's mother Lucy throughout his teenage years in ''[[The Book of Joe]]''. {{spoiler|They sleep together when he returns to town as a adult}}.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* Marissa and KaitlinsKaitlin's mom Julie Cooper in ''[[The OC]]''. It is mentioned that she was always considered the hottest mom, she has an affair with Luke (her daughters ex-boyfriend) and although Seth doesn't agree with Luke sleeping with his exes mother he understands because its Julie Cooper
* In ''[[Grounded for Life]]'' the daughter explicitly complained about the neighborhood teenage boys being more attracted to the mom than they were to her.
* Seems like the kind of thing that would have happened on ''[[My Two Dads]]'', but I really can't remember.
** It did, I can't remember it real well, but the daughter's best friend had a crush on one of the dads -- whodads—who, as I remember, was flattered... until she got a little too serious about it, at which point he became very [[Squick|squickedsquick]]ed by it.
* On ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', this happens to Nina. A Jewish boy tries to bed her during his ''bar mitzvah'' reception, and since [[Blatant Lies|she believes him to be dying]], she agrees to give him a kiss. He tries to take it too far, and they share their frustrations on their respective ages. After the boy leaves the room, several more boys stand in the opened door, [[Hilarity Ensues|asking if she's "the lady that kisses boys"]].
* Used as a throwaway gag in ''[[Big Wolf on Campus]].''
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'''Tommy''': The next word that comes out of your mouth had better be ''talented''. }}
* In an episode of ''[[The Wonder Years]]'', Paul Pfeiffer developed a crush on Kevin's mom. It was [[Status Quo Is God|resolved by the end of the episode and never mentioned again]].
* In a ''[[Law and& Order: SVUSpecial Victims Unit]]'' episode, there's a rather Squicky use of this trope (although, considering the show, no one should be surprised). A school-going boy has a stepmother who is considered extremely hot and is very popular with the local boys... Then his father is murdered, and both boy and stepmother are suspects. Their solution? {{spoiler|Stepmother and stepson get married so neither has to speak against the other in court. The detectives first figure it out when they interrupt the two of them ''while they're having sex on their honeymoon''.}}
** Which wouldn't work, incidentally, even though people have tried it on ''SVU'' more than once. Spousal priviledge applies only to communications during the marriage. It doesn't apply retroactively to communications between married people that took place before they were married. Whether the mistake is on the part of the characters, or the writers of ''SVU'' is never clear.
* On ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Kelso and Fez fell prostrate and worshipped Eric when they mistakenly believed he'd shagged Donna Pinciotti's mother Midge, a woman about whom the boys have fantasized, made lewd comments, and even spied on. Eric's mother Kitty has gotten her fair share of attention as well. There was also Jackie's mom, Pam, played by Brooke Shields.
* On ''[[The Inbetweeners]]'', it's a [[Running Gag]] in the series that Will's mum is a MILF, much to his chagrin.
* ''[[Cougar Town]]'', obviously. The protagonist ''is'' Courtney Cox, after all.
* In the ''[[Wayne's World]]'' sketches on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', Wayne was hot for Garth's mom, played by Candice Bergen. This creeped Garth out to no end.
* ''[[Glee]]'' provides several examples, the most obvious being Rachel's crush on Will Schuster. Judging from a recent interview with Jane Lynch {{spoiler|Puck and Sue may also qualify, although this would venture into [[Mrs. Robinson]] territory.}}
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'''Frederick:''' Please! I liked her when I was a little kid. I'm over it now. Plus, she's like a hundred.
'''Niles:''' She most certainly is ''not''. It just burns you up that ''I'' got her fi—
'''Frasier:''' NILES''Niles!'' }}
 
== [[Music]] ==
* ''"Stacy's Mom''" by [[Fountains Of Wayne]] is, of course, the [[Trope Namer]]. In the music video, as seen in the picture above, she was played by Rachel Hunter.
** And it should be noted that, according to the author of the song, the inspiration came from one of his childhood friends thinking his [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|grandmother]] was hot.
* Hedley's song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93LhP1CgQ6w Don't Talk To Strangers]" is all about this trope.
* ''Full on Kevin's Mom'' by Soundgarden in 1990 pre-dates Stay's Mom and is about someone who went beyond the fantasy. Chris Cornell said that the song was about "a friend of mine who slept with another friend of mine's mom. The guy who did it said to us, 'Yeah, full on Kevin's mom'.
* ''"What I Go To School For''" by [[Busted]] is about teenage boys lusting after a hot teacher called Miss McKenzie. The teacher is said to be 33 years old. The song was inspired by band member Matt Willis's dance teacher.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** Similarly, Dora's first reaction on seeing Marten's dad is to turn to Marten and tell him how ''incredibly'' hot he'll look when he gets gray hair.
* [http://xkcd.com/61/ This] ''[[Xkcd]]''.
* In ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'', Fox's mom's hotness leads to [https://web.archive.org/web/20150907211800/http://www.friendlyhostility.com/d/20051226.html this conversation] among the younger cast members. Even her ''daughter'' concedes that she's got it going on.
* From ''[[Homestuck]]'', in reference to Jane's dad. {{spoiler|Well, can you really blame a girl for still having the hots for her beta session love interest?}}:
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== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* All of Todd's friends have a crush on Agent K in ''[[The Replacements (animation)|The Replacements]]''.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Simpson Tide"
{{quote|'''Bart''': My ''mom'' wears earrings. Do you think ''she's'' cool?
'''Milhouse''': No, I think she's '''hot'''! ...Sorry, it just slipped out... }}
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** And then, of course, there's Cartman's mom, who is a [[Really Gets Around|dirty slut]]. And actually his dad, not his mom. Except {{spoiler|it turns out she's his mom after all}}. [[It Makes Sense in Context|But that is neither here nor there]].
* Used a bit disturbingly in a Valentine's Day episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' when every character makes advances on whoever they believe completes their [[One True Pairing]], and Carl goes after Jimmy's mom. Since the crushes never really wore off completely, it later becomes a [[Running Gag]], as Carl apparently thinks quite a bit about Judy...and Mrs. Fowl, on occasion.
* In ''[[Sixteen|6teen]]'', Jonesy is attracted for Yummy Mummy.
* Taken a step further on ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' Skwisgaar is known for his stable of GMILFs (Grand Mother I'd Like to Fuck).
* In ''[[Good Vibes]]'', Woodie has a crush on Babs (his best friend Mondo's [[Hot Mom]]).
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