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** In "Bart on the Road", Bart tries to exploit this by claiming that Marge is a homemaker, so he gets to lounge around the house all day. It works until Marge discovers a disclaimer in the school's fill-in form saying they don't consider homemaking a real job, so Lisa suggests to Marge that he stay with his aunts Patty and Selma, who work at the DMV. Bart is very bored until he gets the idea to get a drivers' license for himself. In the episode's subplot, Lisa enjoys working with Homer at the power plant. Meanwhile, for one-off jokes, Milhouse visits his father at the unusually thrilling cracker factory and Martin blows his stock-broker father's money on soy stocks.

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** In "Bart on the Road", Principal Skinner finds that his flight to Hong Kong is scheduled on the last school day before Spring Break rather than during it, so he makes up "[[InvertedTrope Go to work with your parents day]]" as an excuse for the children to not have to go to school in his absence. Bart tries to exploit this by claiming that Marge is a homemaker, so he gets to lounge around the house all day. It works until Marge discovers a disclaimer in the school's fill-in form saying they don't consider homemaking a real job, so Lisa suggests to Marge that he stay with his aunts Patty and Selma, who work at the DMV. Bart is very bored until he gets the idea to get a drivers' license for himself. In the episode's subplot, Lisa enjoys working with Homer at the power plant. Meanwhile, for one-off jokes, Milhouse visits his father at the unusually thrilling cracker factory and Martin blows his stock-broker father's money on soy stocks.
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* {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Sully and Mike try to return Boo to the human world by disguising her as a monster and sneaking her into the company headquarters. When Waternoose wonders who the cute kid is, Sully says she's actually his "cousin's sister's daughter", and then claims today is Bring An Obscure Relative To Work Day. Amazingly, it works. Waternoose just dismisses his confusion by muttering "I must have missed the memo."

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* {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'': Sully and Mike try to return Boo to the human world by disguising her as a monster and sneaking her into the company headquarters. When Waternoose wonders who the cute kid is, Sully says she's actually his "cousin's sister's daughter", and then claims today is Bring An Obscure Relative To Work Day. Amazingly, it works. Waternoose just dismisses his confusion by muttering "I must have missed the memo."

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-->'''Boss Baby:''' People take children to a place of business? Why?
-->'''Tim:''' Because it's awesome!
-->'''Boss Baby:''' It's ''disgusting''!

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-->'''Boss Baby:''' People take children to a place of business? Why?
-->'''Tim:'''
Why?\\
'''Tim:'''
Because it's awesome!
-->'''Boss
awesome!\\
'''Boss
Baby:''' It's ''disgusting''!


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* The ''WesternAnimation/MonstersAtWork'' episode "Little Monsters" is about Tylor, who just ran out of chances to be promoted to Jokester, volunteering to look after Ms. Flint's daughter Thalia, who is notorious in being difficult to amuse. After dealing with Tylor's failed attempts to make her laugh, Thalia eventually decides to just go tell her mother about how unfunny he is. Tylor's attempts to stop her leads to him making a pratfall into a pastry stand, which manages to get a laugh out of not just Thalia, but everyone else who witnessed it. Thailia telling her mother about this incident sets up the season finale, in which Tylor is finally promoted.
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* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' episode "My Father's Office" is about Jack Arnold taking his son Kevin to his job at Norcom. What he sees there helps him learn the sort of stress his father is under on a weekly basis, earning his newfound respect.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Inverted in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS14E5MomageddonPetTheRock Momageddon]]", when the Krusty Krab has "Bring Your Mom to Work Day", and [=SpongeBob's=] mother takes his place in the kitchen while Squidward's and Krabs's mothers nag them about how they do their jobs.
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May overlap with AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity. Can be played for comedy, especially if a villanous organization does it.

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May overlap with AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity. Can be played for comedy, especially if a villanous villainous organization does it.

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