History Main / MenAreChildish

See also ParentingTheHusband and ManChild.

--> '''[[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'', [[NewspaperComics/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] takes some time out from work to indulge his daughter's [[MrImagination vivid imagination]].

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* Vorzheva during her SlapSlapKiss relationship with Prince Josua in ''{{Memory Sorrow and Thorn}}''.

* In the ''Seris/DoctorWho'' serial "The Time Warrior", Sarah is told by a cynical medieval scullery overseer that "men are like children, fond of noise and roaring".

* In the ''Seris/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Time Warrior'', Sarah is told by a cynical medieval scullery overseer that "men are like children, fond of noise and roaring".

* Long-running comedy ''Last of the Summer Wine'' 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 Doctor Who serial ''The Time Warrior'', Sarah is told by a cynical medieval scullery overseer that "men are like children, fond of noise and roaring".
* This trope is basically the point of TopGear.

* In the musical of ''{{Pendragon}}'', the following occurs:

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---> '''Mrs Hudson''': No Mrs Whitney, I don�t wonder about it. I know it! And they always need us to kiss them better afterwards! In a manner of speaking of course.

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---> '''Mrs Hudson''': No Mrs Whitney, I don’t wonder about it. I know it! And they always need us to kiss them better afterwards! In a manner of speaking of course.

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* German author Erich Kästner (nowadays mostly known for his children's books like The Parent Trap or Emil Und Die Detektive, although he also did more serious stuff) stated: "Most people throw away their childhood like an old hat. They forget it like an invalid phone number. Only those who grow up and still stay children are humans."

-> "The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."

--> '''[[PrivateEye Gus Petch]]''': "They never grow up, they just get tubby."

* StephenFry. He once explained that "little girls grow up to be women, while little boys grow up to be [[OxymoronicBeing big little boys]]."

An example of a gender-related DoubleStandard, as the reverse occurs less frequently.

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).

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

An example of a gender-related double standard, as the reverse occurs less frequently (and/or is difficult to pull off effectively due to women's history as the non-dominant gender).

* 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 pedofile]].

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* In a commercial for McDonalds a man about to embark on a honeymoon with his new wife gets an important text: the McRib is back!

* From IntolerableCruelty, after seeing a video of her husband [[ComicSutra frolicking with underdressed young women while dressed as a train engineer]]:

* This occurs at least twice in Granada's production of ''{{Sherlock Holmes}}'' starring Jeremy Brett:

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

-> '''[[TheVamp Marylin Rexroth]]''': "I though he'd outgrown trains."
-> '''[[PrivateEye Gus Petch]]''': "They never grow up, they just get tubby."

-> Vorzheva: Men! You are all just little boys...

-> Calintane: And so it is, after yesterday's strange events, that we have a Pontifex and a Coronal and a Lady, and they are none of them the ones we had last month, and now you understand, beloved Silimoor, all that has befallen our world.
-> Silimoor: You are like small children, with your titles and your royal courts and your bonds of honor. Nevertheless I understand, I think, what you have experienced and how it has unsettled you.

-> Mrs Whitney: I sometimes wonder, if men really truly grow up; it seems they remain little boys forever. Do you wonder about that Mrs Hudson?
-> Mrs Hudson: No Mrs Whitney, I don’t wonder about it. I know it! And they always need us to kiss them better afterwards! In a manner of speaking of course.

-> 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.

-> King Arthur: "I command you..."
-> Queen Guinevere: "A petulant little boy!"

* From Robert Silverberg's ''Majipoor Chronicles'', the fourth story, "Calintane Explains", has the protagonist give a very lengthy explanation to his girlfriend about why he has not been seeing her - namely, that the Pontifex (king of the whole world), to whom he is a close attendant, has proclaimed himself female and made himself the Lady of the Isle. Her response is:

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