History Main / MenAreChildish

!Examples:

--> '''Husband''': I'm gonna miss it.
--> '''Wife''': I married a 14 year old.

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* From ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'', after seeing a video of her husband [[ComicSutra frolicking with underdressed young women while dressed as a train engineer]]:
--> '''[[TheVamp Marylin Rexroth]]''': I though he'd outgrown trains.
--> '''[[PrivateDetective Gus Petch]]''': They never grow up, they just get tubby.

* In one of the "Hobbes and Bacon" strips from ''Pants are Overrated'', [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] takes some time out from work to indulge his daughter's [[MrImagination vivid imagination]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Lois once said that being married to Peter is like being married to a child. After the ensuing CutawayGag, Peter tells her to watch what she says, because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint if he were actually a child, that'd make her a paedophile]].

---> '''Woman 1''': Do you think the men will be mortified if we don't cheer them on at their silly game?
---> '''Woman 2''': I daresay they will. It's almost a reason for not doing it. But for the sake of harmony, we indulge little boys.
* This trope is basically the point of Series/TopGear.

-->'''Dad''': Well, it's a lot like being a kid...except you're more attached to your toys.

* In the musical of ''Literature/{{Pendragon}}'', the following occurs:
--> '''King Arthur''': "I command you..."
--> '''Queen Guinevere''': "A petulant little boy!"

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* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Lois once said that being married to Peter is like being married to a child. After the ensuing CutawayGag, Peter tells her to watch what she says, because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint if he were actually a child, that'd make her a paedophile]].

* Long-running comedy ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'' embodies this trope - the three central characters, and the cast of occasional characters around them, are all men in their sixties and seventies regressing to adolescence, fourteen year old minds in senior bodies. Freed from the need to work, the cast of retirees get into scrapes more appropriate to teenage boys. Compo is the worst, especially in his unquenchable pursuit of battleaxe Norah Batty. who, along with the women of the town, treats the men as a childish nuisance.

* Long-running comedy ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'' embodies this trope - the three central characters, and the cast of occasional characters around them, are all men in their sixties and seventies regressing to adolescence, fourteen year old minds in senior bodies. Freed from the need to work, the cast of retirees get into scrapes more appropriate to teenage boys. Compo is the worst, especially in his unquenchable pursuit of battleaxe Norah Batty. who, along with the women of the town, treats the men as a childish nuisance.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Time Warrior", Sarah is told by a cynical medieval scullery overseer that "men are like children, fond of noise and roaring".

* Played with in ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' in the dynamic between Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago. Jake is quite obviously a bit of a ManChild, earning him plenty of eye-rolling from Santiago... except that Santiago is pretty childish herself, except more in a "constantly running for high school valedictorian" sense, and in some ways they're as bad as each other.
* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': At the end of the pilot, in a deleted scene, Henry asks Jo as they get into her police car if they can turn on the sirens. She gives him an amused/indulgent/exasperated look and asks [[TheAgeless Henry]] how old he is, but she does turn the lights and sirens on. Henry grins like a little boy.
* ''Series/{{House}}'' is often seen playing with toys and games when Cuddy's telling him he should be working.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has Shawn, who likes watching ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', playing video games, and is as hyperactive as an actual child. In one episode, Juliet even describes working with him as "babysitting".
** Downplayed by Gus. While he has a job and is generally more mature and cautious than Shawn, he too is NotSoAboveItAll. There is a reason why he and Shawn are best friends...

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An example of a gender-related DoubleStandard, as the reverse occurs less frequently (and/or is difficult to pull off effectively due to UsefulNotes/{{feminism}} shining a brighter spotlight on [[UnfortunateImplications problematic]] treatment of women in fiction).