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Fan Casting Not Allowed to Grow Up in Sort by Tropes

Role added by connieblackwood on April 12, 2023

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An old (and in live-action, discredited) trope which was implicit in many early sitcoms that focused on the standard American Nuclear Family of father, mother, and either two or three children — the situation necessary for the comedy to exist was so rigidly defined that the children could not be allowed to grow up, lest the program dynamic change unrecognizably.

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