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Largely a [[Discredited Trope]] in works set in the modern world, it still appears from time to time thanks to its former [[Truth in Television]] status, particularly in period pieces and medieval-style fantasy settings.
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* In one of his standup specials, Chris Rock summed up the consequences for a child raised in the ''your mom is your sister'' solution.▼
{{quote|If a kid calls his Grandmama Mommy and his Momma Pam, he's going to jail.}}▼
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{{quote|"The Dolls have not lost their sense of the absurd, however, and the blacker-than-black-humor on ''Mandy Goes To Med School'' finds Palmer imagining a scenario in which she and drummer/cohort Viglione play a lighthearted and childish game of let's-pretend-we're-back-alley-abortionists."}}
* Bruce Hornsby And The Range's, "Valley Road", about a hired farmhand who gets the daughter of the plantation owner pregnant. "Somebody said she's gone to her sister's / Everybody knew what they were talking about."
== Recorded and Stand-up Comedy ==
▲* In one of his standup specials, Chris Rock summed up the consequences for a child raised in the ''your mom is your sister'' solution.
▲{{quote|If a kid calls his Grandmama Mommy and his Momma Pam, he's going to jail.}}
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Real Life ==
* This happened to [[Jack Nicholson]] - his "older sister" was really his mother, and his "mother" was really his grandmother. He didn't learn about the switcheroo until a [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] reporter told him.
* And Ted Bundy.
* Not long after she was announced as the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2008 U.S Presidential elections, rumours began to circulate that Gov. Sarah Palin's youngest child was actually her grandchild, by one of her teenage daughters. Although the rumors were unsubstantiated, it did eventually lead to Palin's family announcing that one of her teenage daughters was pregnant out of wedlock, although the family was quick to stress that she intended to marry the father. Bristol, her oldest daughter, could not have physically conceived both her own son and Trig.<ref>not to mention that Trig has Down Syndrome, which is far more likely to occur in children born to an older mother than a teenager</ref> Palin's next oldest daughter, Willow, would have had to have been about 13 when Trig was conceived, and Piper, her next daughter, is still far too young to physically be capable of conceiving.
* Somewhat related to this trope: Nowadays, if a baby is labeled premature, they probably are actually early. However, in the olden days, a premature baby often meant that Mummy and Daddy's wedding was late. And possibly that there was [[Shotgun Wedding|a shotgun involved]].
** Leading to the joke: An eager new bride can do in 6 months what takes everyone else 9.
* Singer and actor [[Bobby Darin]] learned when he was 33 that his mother was in fact his grandmother, and that his big sister was, you guessed it...
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