Too Smart for Strangers: Difference between revisions

* A book about sex marketed to young people titled ''It's Perfectly Normal'' took a light and humorous approach to almost everything about sex using non threatening cartoons to illustrate masturbation, homosexuality, conception etc. The chapter on child molestation gets a bit more serious. No cartoons other than the two animal mascots admitting that this is a difficult subject to discuss. Still, at least it's not a [[Clueless Aesop]].

* Referenced near the end of the book ''The Year My Parents Ruined My Life''. Katie decides to run away from her new home and attempts to fly back to California by herself. She decides to hitchhike to the airport, and is already sitting in a car with a man and wearing her seat-belt by the time she realizes it may not have been a good idea to take a ride with a stranger. Her fears are only amplified when she notices he's taking a different route and hears him say "I may need to zigzag." He quickly realizes that Katie's afraid of him and thinks it's the funniest thing ever.

"You're welcome, and don't you hitchhike anymore, okay?" ''(muttering)'' "Oh, my wife is going to ''laugh...''" }}

 

** And don't forget that episode where the bike store owner [[Family Guy|wants the kids to scream real loud at his ass]].

* Australia has for a while had the Safety House Program, where applicants stick the symbol on the letterbox only if they actually ''are'' safety houses. An education campaign back in the 80s had to remind kids to look specifically on the letterbox (not the door. And not on any cars). It came complete with a character, Clebo the Clown, and also a song that seems to have faded into obscurity, were it not for a few old memories of the lyrics:

The [[wikipedia:Safety House Program|friendly face inside the triangle]]<br />

If strangers talk to you, here's what you should do<br />

* ''[[South Park]]''

** Parodied, of course, with a counselor who asks if Father Maxi had stuck anything up the kids' butts. The counselor avoids the word "penis" though, asking if he had stuck anything "of his" up there, which just confuses them.

'''Butters:''' You mean, like, a goldfish? }}

** There are at least two other episodes of ''South Park'' that [[Incredibly Lame Pun|touch on]] the subject, but the closest to this trope is probably "Child Abduction Is Not Funny". Tweek is nearly abducted by a man who dresses up as the Spirit of Human Kindness and tries to convince him that these sorts of morals are just paranoia. ([[Fridge Brilliance|And they partly are...]]) Later, the town's parents kick the children out of town for their own safety(!?) -- after hearing on the news that parents are most likely to abduct their own children.