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->''"Over these houses, over these streets, hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city."''\\
''"Yes -- gangs of old ladies attacking defenseless, fit young men."''
-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''

A lot of comedy comes from switching around expectations. This trope is about a specific kind, where the roles in an interaction or relationship between X and Y are reversed. But unlike FreakyFridayFlip, PrinceAndPauper, and SwappedRoles, no explanation or justification is given, and the context remains identical as though said roles were never reversed at all. The comedy is more about the absurdity that arises from this type of situation than what happens to the characters.

Let's say hypothetically, a princess, wearing in full [[RequisiteRoyalRegalia regalia]] (PimpedOutDress, [[CoolCrown tiara]] and [[PrettyInMink ermine-lined]] [[PimpedOutCape cape]]) walks down a hallway one way, while her servant, in a FrenchMaidOutfit, walks the other way, carrying some food. The princess bumps into the maid, causing the food to fall on the maid, but the ''princess'' begs for forgiveness and tries to wipe off the maid's dress, while the maid hysterically snaps at the princess for being clumsy, and complains about how much her dress cost.

Occasionally this trope is used for drama and/or {{Satire}}, where the situation is meant to be thought-provoking instead of funny.

A SuperTrope of GenderFlip and FantasticFantasyIsMundane. Often overlaps with FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither. Compare HourglassPlot, OppositeDay, PersecutionFlip, StereotypeFlip, BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad, and RussianReversal.

See also InvertedTrope.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSSRhsdOuNs A 1970 Smokey Bear PSA]] involves a family of bears having a picnic in front of a human family's suburban home, taking apart their fence for firewood and letting the campfire burn when they leave.
-->'''Announcer:''' You wouldn't want bears to be careless with fire in your home. [[TheGoldenRule So don't be careless in theirs.]]
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[[folder:Comedy]]
* Creator/FoilArmsAndHog's "An Irish Intervention" sketch, in which a family of drinkers hold an intervention for the son being a non-drinker.
* Creator/StewartLee "Later on I'll be explaining how my tragic and ultimately fatal heroin addiction helped me overcome my previous dependence on Born-Again Christianity."
* Towards the end of his one-man show, ''Creator/NormanRockwell Is Bleeding'', Creator/ChristopherTitus imagines what would've happened if his mother's mental institution had had an open mike night:
-->'''Christopher Titus:''' Things could've been different for mom. She'd have her own TV show and you'd read about me in the paper as her heroin-addicted son. Well, a man can dream, can't he?
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
** Recurring character Max Normal, one of Dredd's informants, is a young man who is always impeccably dressed in a pinstripe suit -- which marks him out as a rebel in a time when [[TheApunkalypse Apunkalypse]] fashions are the norm. Dredd has been known to express a wish that Max would grow his hair out and get a real job.
** A story centered around an athlete who garnered massive controversy and criticism by doing well despite no pharmaceutical or bionic enhancements.
* ''ComicBook/{{Normalman}}'' is the only non-superpowered human on the planet [[SdrawkcabName Levram.]]
* In ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'', one VillainOfTheWeek is a "wuzwolf" ([[{{Pun}} he wuz a wolf, now he's not]]), a wolf who turns into a legendary monstrous creature know as a "human".
* Any [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story set in Bizarro-World is all over this trope.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Spain'', a spectator at Hispania's GladiatorGames describes the event in very similar terms to a bullfighting fan -- except he's saying you can't be sentimental about the ''people'' being killed by the ''animals''.
* One reality visited by ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'' during "The Cross-Time Caper" showed Britain as the Wild West, with Native Britons in [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins Braids, Beads, Buckskins]] and [[DashinglyDapperDerby Bowlers]], defending their territory from the American settlers.
* Peter [[FunnyAnimal Porker]] the ''ComicBook/SpiderHam'' was originally a spider bitten by a radioactive pig, mutating him into one, rather than the other way around that you'd usually expect knowing Spider-Man's origin.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': Roquefort the mouse runs after Scat Cat and his fellow stray cats as he leads them to help save Duchess and the kittens. A man drinking wine at a café who sees the mouse chasing a bunch of cats [[NoMoreForMe pours out the rest of his bottle]] in response.
* ''Anime/Interstella5555'' starts with the premise that humans from Earth are kidnapping aliens.
* This is the premise of ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'': An alien lands on 1950s suburban America, whose appearance spreads panic among the paranoid populace and attracts the attention of the military... except the "alien" is a human astronaut, and the "humans" are [[LittleGreenMen stereotypical, green-skinned humanoid aliens]].
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/LittleManTate'' contrasts the titular Tate, a very mature child, with his childlike, immature mother.
* The film ''Film/TheWrongGuy'' had a subplot of a greedy, ruthless farmer threatening the meek, struggling-to-get-by banker with closing his business down.
* ''Film/TheJerk'' starts with the character explaining he was born "a poor black child," only to discover his white roots when he first hears swing music on the radio.
-->'''Navin:''' "This music ''speaks'' to me!"
* ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' has a scene where Chevy Chase's character is trying to blend in with the banditos as their leader reminisces about the good times they have had. He offers a few suggestions such as the time they "raped the horses and rode off on the women."
* As part of the gradual narrative breakdown of ''Film/TooManyCooks,'' animated name and title cards re-enact the sitcom credits sequence. As the camera pans over each one, the human the cards represent briefly appear overlayed on top of them, [[AndIMustScream screaming in confusion]] before fading back to wherever they go.
* ''Film/TopSecret'' has the FunnyBackgroundEvent of three humans descending from the sky [[BirdPoopGag to relieve themselves on a statue of a pigeon]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** One scene in ''Literature/MovingPictures'' parodies ''Film/KingKong1933''; a {{giant woman}}[[note]]actually a [[spoiler:Dungeon Dimensions creature in disguise]][[/note]] holds a normal-sized ape (the Librarian) in one hand while [[KingKongClimb climbing a tall building]]. Earlier in the same book, the Librarian has an idea for a click about [[Franchise/{{Tarzan}} an ape who grows up in the city, and learns to speak the language of humans]].
** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Corporal Nobbs recounts a story about how his uncle was a sailor who was press-ganged after a plague. A bunch of farmers got him drunk and he woke up the next morning tied to a plough.
** In ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', amongst the bizarre occurrences that happen in strange corners of the multiverse as a result of quintillions of atoms moving to another universe, that universe trying to pretend they were there all along, and them then moving back again, we're told that "[i]n the cometary halo around the fabled Ice System of Zeret [[CometOfDoom a noble comet died as a prince flamed across the sky]]."
** In ''Literature/FeetOfClay'' and subsequent books, conservative dwarfs, who think all dwarfs should hide their gender, which means [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial looking male by human standards]], are horrified by an "openly female" dwarf who wears a skirt. The result reads as a riff on conservative views of gender nonconformity, but with the dwarfs outraged by (from a human perspective) gender ''conformity''.
* "Disobedience", by Creator/AAMilne, is about a three-year-old boy whose mother wanders away from his supervision and gets lost. Possibly better known as a Creator/ChadMitchellTrio song usually called "James James Morrison Morrison" after the first line of both the song and the poem.
* In ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'', there is a poem about five Golgafrincham princes who, amongst other things, "[[DragonsPreferPrincesses rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses]]".
* In ''Literature/BreakfastOfChampions'', one of Kilgore Trout's science-fiction stories, titled "Gilgongo!", is set on a planet where rare species of animals and plants are multiplying so prodigiously that the people are celebrating their extinction rather than their conservation.
* In ''Early Riser'', being fat is considered a survival boost during the deadly winters, so characters partake in "gain weight quick" diets and exercise is perceived to be selfish and lazy.
* Creator/KimNewman's "The Pale Spirit People" is about a group of nomadic tribesmen AfterTheEnd who are cursed because they situated their [[IndianBurialGround burial grounds]] on the remains of a suburban development.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' is the TropeNamer; such sketches would often involve children being rewarded for bad behavior and punished for good, or put the kids in a position of power over the adults.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did this a lot:
** The sketch "Northern Playwright" flips the BillyElliotPlot on its head, featuring a father behaving like a stereotypical worker, his no less stereotypical {{yuppie}} son, and the predictable tension between them. Except it turns out that the father is a famous playwright and the son is a coal miner. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q1ojy Just watch it here.]]
** There was another sketch where a woman let an encyclopedia salesman into her home because he said that he was a burglar. Could have also been a TakeThat toward door-to-door salesmen: "I'd rather be robbed than suffer through your spiel!"
** As well as one sketch about a world where ''everyone'' is Franchise/{{Superman}}, but one of them is secretly... ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE BICYCLE REPAIRMAN!]]''
** The "Hell's Grannies" sketch, about a gang of old ladies terrorising innocent youths.
*** Later in the same sketch, we see "The Baby Snatchers" -- gangs of men dressed up as babies who kidnap adults.
---->'''Woman:''' I just left my husband out here while I went in to do some shopping and I came back and he was gone. He was only 47!
** "Scotsman on a Horse", where the Scotsman [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace crashes a wedding]] and absconds with the groom.
* The point of ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'', where the daughter is the one telling the adults to turn the boom box down and to stop drinking so much. The show grew out of a sketch on ''French & Saunders'' called "Modern Mother and Daughter", which presented this as being somewhat TruthInTelevision.
* In an episode of ''Series/GraceUnderFire'', a middle-aged dad was staying at his son's house, they have a fight, and the dad storms into his room and starts blasting swing music. The son pounds on the door and tells him to turn it down.
* The weekly murder mystery ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' has the mystery-writer main character (played by Nathan Fillion) dealing with his party-girl cougar of a mother and his sage, sensible teenaged daughter, who also acts as his [[TheWatson Watson]]. When the daughter jumps a turnstile at a subway one night because she's out of cash, she not only goes back the next day to pay, but she also demands that her father ground her. He's perfectly willing to let it slide, but she's insistent.
* ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'':
-->'''Presenter:''' Hello. Are people difficult bastards or not? To clear this up, I have with me in the studio one really difficult bastard...\\
'''Difficult Bastard:''' Hello, good evening.\\
'''Presenter:''' ... And the bishop of Summerset.\\
'''Bishop:''' Get lost.\\
'''Presenter:''' Can I turn to you first, bishop?\\
'''Bishop:''' Shut up.
* A sketch from ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' where a husband and wife are arguing because he's just returned from a business trip and she [[FindingABraInYourCar finds a bra in his suitcase]]. She asks, mildly annoyed, if he's cheating on her, which he cops to absentmindedly. The fight escalates as she brings in other "minor" issues such as her desire to have a baby and secret gambling addiction, all of which are attended to in the same bored-but-mildly-tetchy fashion until she suddenly bursts into tears and he figures out what this is ''really'' about, and passionately tries to beg forgiveness for... that time he left the fridge door open and a whole quiche and some milk went bad.
* Done as a TakeThat on ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'', when Laurie's character walks into a convenience store and requests EIGHT PACKETS OF [[TrojanGauntlet CONDOMS]], PLEASE, loudly specifying brands and styles, [[CoverupPurchase and furtively asking for Jason Donovan's latest single in between]].
* An episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had [[GenderBlenderName Elliot's]] boyfriend Keith upset with her because he wanted a committed stable relationship, and Elliot just wanted him for sex. Dr. Kelso treats their argument like an entertaining TV program: "It's like he's the chick and you're the dude!"
* An episode of ''Series/BostonLegal'' opens with a shopkeeper nervously eyeing a couple of tough-looking teenagers, fingering the silent alarm button as they step up to the register. One of them reaches into his jacket...and pulls out some cash. They turn to go, revealing Creator/BettyWhite standing directly behind them. ''She'' pulls a gun.
* ''Series/YoureSkittingMe'' has a series of sketches where a pair of teenagers treat their parents like they were teenagers.
* ''Radio/GoodnessGraciousMe'':
** The famous "Having an English" sketch: A bunch of Indians in Mumbai always end up in an English restaurant after a hard night of drinking, where it is considered good form to order "the blandest thing on the menu". This satirizes the stereotypical behavior of English patrons in Indian restaurants.
** The one white guy in the drama department of the Indian Broadcasting Corporation tries to get white people portrayed as something other than stereotyped tourists and diplomats. "[[AsianStoreOwner Why not a white shopkeeper]]?"
** An Indian family bemoans their son saying he wants to be a doctor instead of a pop star, made even worse when they're coincidentally accurate about him being [[spoiler:a ''heterosexual'']].
* Two ''Series/WillAndGrace'' examples:
** When Grace and her boyfriend Nathan get a little too affectionate while sitting near Jack, he protests and says that he feels uncomfortable. Nathan smiles in amusement and tells him, "We're straight, we date, get used to it."
** Will and Jack want to move out to a nice suburban neighborhood but decide against staying in a particular house. The locals are actually thrilled about the idea of having gays live there, as they bring a lot of art and nice coffee shops and the like with them, and when Will and Jack say they want to leave they break the window with a loaf of banana bread with a note that reads, ‘Gays, don’t go home!’ Later on, they come over with a marching band playing ‘We Are Family’ as Will and Jack run off.
* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe's [[CitizenshipMarriage Canadian husband]] has to "come out" as straight. He's an ice dancer who'd been passing as gay to blend in with his AlwaysCamp friends.
-->'''Phoebe:''' Have you told your parents yet?
-->'''Duncan:''' No, not yet. I think they're going to be cool with it, though. My brother's straight, so...
* The premise of the sitcom ''Series/FamilyTies'' was built around such an inversion of a classic age stereotype, that of the younger radical and the older conservative. Here, the parents Steven and Elyse Keaton were [[FormerTeenRebel former hippies]] who grew up into staunch liberals, while their teenage son Alex is an equally staunch [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] Republican who dreams of working on Wall Street when he grows up.
* A brief gag in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' episode "Love is a Battlefield", when an argument between divorced villains Amunet Black and Goldface turns to their vinyl collection. It turns out the African-American Goldface is into Music/{{Radiohead}}, who the extremely English Amunet considers "overrated"; conversely, she claims he didn't even know who Music/{{NWA}} ''were'' before they met.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E15FirstContact First Contact]]" (not to be confused with [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact the movie]]) has Riker on a reconnaissance mission to an industrial pre-warp world that goes wrong. The twist is, it's largely told from the perspective of the planet's natives, creating an alien-on-Earth storyline, only not on Earth and with an Earth human as the alien.
* A recurring sketch from ''Series/TheCatherineTateShow'' features a young, working-class Irishman named John who is gay. His mother is not only understanding and fiercely protective of him; she also is constantly outing him to the neighbors. At first they look as if they're offended or even about to break into violence, but instead they wind up being supportive and asking him for advice on stereotypically gay things (interior decorating, fashion tips). John, on the other hand, enjoys football and other "masculine" pursuits and just wants to lead a quiet life.
* In ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', the host of an interior design show is hiding his sexual orientation from the public, which is to say that he is a straight man who has cultivated a gay persona that has become integral to the show.
* The Australian sketch show ''Full Frontal'' (the follow-up to ''Series/FastForward'') had a sketch in which a man desperately tries to convince his wife he's been having sex with prostitutes and not, in fact, playing for [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball the Sydney Swans]]. He's able to talk her around until she tosses him an object from a short distance and he [[TakeThat fumbles it]].
* ''Series/GetKrackin'' has a Weather with [=BekJut=] segment that ends with the Kates objectifying the very masculine [=BekJut=] with the exact same lines that typically lead to sexual harassment lawsuits. For extra clarity, they don't even switch up the pronouns.
-->'''Kate [=McCartney=]:''' And [=BekJut=] you look absolutely stunning this morning. Who had the pleasure of dressing you?\\
'''[=BekJut=]:''' Champion Outlet. Smith Street. Half off.\\
'''Kate [=McCartney=]:''' I'd like to see her take half off!\\
(''Both Kates laugh'')\\
'''Kate [=McClennan=]:''' Oh, I don't know about that! (''laughs'') I'd like to see it too! (''laughs'') No, you're a good guy. You've got a daughter.\\
'''Kate [=McCartney=]:''' [[SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX I've got a daughter]].
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* Music/AgainstMe's video for "Thrash Unreal" features a group of well-dressed, respectable looking adults going to a party... which immediately devolves into a mosh pit when they get hammered off the wine.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* The Jean-Pierre Rampal episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has a skit based on ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''. Following protests from Rizzo, in this version Hamelin is a town of rats which pays Rampal to lure away a ravenous horde of human children.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* In ''Radio/AcropolisNow'', set in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece, homosexuality is the norm and sex with girls is something only done for reproductive purposes. Straight characters are seen [[PersecutionFlip as a bit weird]].
* Used on the ''Radio/MartinMolloy'' radio show. After a news story about two pensioners who were arrested after an argument over a poker machine turned into a violent punch up, Mick Molloy launched into a spiel about how old people today had no respect for authority and how teenagers were sitting at home at night, too scared to go out because of the gangs of old people roaming the streets, and how what old people needed was another dose of national service.
* A recurring character in the 2020 radio version of ''The Creator/LennyHenry Show'' is a black man who keeps calling the police because he's seen a group of white people and immediately assumed they must be criminals. There is also a one off sketch where Henry plays an office worker who keeps asking a bewildered white collegue "Yes, but where are you from ''really''?"
* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'':
** A heavily lampshaded example in one episode, as Patsy Straightwoman discovers the special caff for lorry drivers on a ferry is a witty cocktail party.
--->'''Patsy:''' A group of people one might stereotypically assume would display one set of attributes, had in fact displayed the stereotypical attributes of another group of people entirely!
** Often done for a quick surreal gag in the Storyteller sketches, for instance saying that as a child he wanted a cat, but his parents told him they had too much space, so got him a horse instead.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* One of the big conflicts among the Imperial Inquisition of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is between "puritan" inquisitors, who uphold the strict, dogmatic, xenophobic credo of the Inquisition to the letter, and "radical" inquisitors who play fast and loose with the rules, often believe that the ends justify the means and have a tendency to question authority and orthodoxy in all matters. A puritan, for example, upon uncovering the activities of a Chaos cult, would launch a straightforward purge and burn them all at the stake, no questions asked. A radical might very well try to infiltrate the cult, learn what they're doing and subvert their activities -- possibly even taking their daemon-cursed artefacts to turn against their creators. So far so good -- and in line with modern cultural expectations we might expect that the inflexible puritans would tend to be the old-fashioned fuddy-duddies, while the radicals are the dynamic fresh blood who can see beyond the stifling hidebound dogma. But thanks to the nature of the job it very much tends to be the young, freshly-appointed inquisitors who are the puritans and the older, grizzled, seen-it-all-before veterans who are the radicals. They hit the galaxy as fiery dogmatics (the general default state for Imperial citizens), but decades or centuries of seeing how complicated and clandestine the Imperium and its enemies are tends to give them a more nuanced, less black-and-white outlook. The Gregor Eisenhorn trilogy of tie-in novels takes this transition as its major premise -- following the career of the young, puritanical Eisenhorn as his experiences gradually turn him into the most radical of radicals.
* A sidebar in the ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRolePlayingGame'' chapter "Going Shopping" says that some players see shopping as an essential part of the adventure "more fun than fighting princesses or rescuing monsters". It goes on to say that if this becomes a problem, the GM should remind them that the princesses aren't going to fight themselves, and maybe even have shopkeepers refuse to serve them until they've saved that poor monster everyone in the town loves.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Two minor [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' are a father and son. The player first meets the father, who complains that he lost his son and his son told him that he should always stay in one place if they get separated, while the son is nearby complaining about his father getting lost. When father and son meet up, the son chastises the father for not staying in one place as he was told. Considering the tiny number of [=NPCs=] and otherwise standard NPC dialogue in the game it's rather odd that they would bother to add this bit of characterization in an area where many gamers will miss it (one must explicitly intentionally backtrack to hear the final conversation between father and son).
* The manual for ''VideoGame/KingdomOMagic'' mentions that "The Good, Old-fashioned Quest" is about how you have to rescue the dragon, steal the princess, and slay the treasure. (It is in fact a lie -- there is no princess, and you deal with the dragon and the treasure in the traditional way, insofar as calling a mob hit on the dragon counts as "traditional".)
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Pintsize once created {{hentai}} about [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles schoolgirls raping the tentacle monsters]]. [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1524 At least 18 volumes.]]
* Similarly, the starting strips of ''Webcomic/GhastlysGhastlyComic'' are about a Japanese woman with a strong tentacle fetish trying to [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe entice a tentacle monster into raping her]], while the latter would very much prefer cuddling.
* ''Everyday Comics'': Typically, The SevenDeadlySins are portrayed as embodiment of their vices, save for Lust, who's drawn as a hot woman to invoke that vice in the observer. In [[http://everydaycomics.tumblr.com/post/103265547240/the-face-of-true-lust-has-evolved-and-is this strip,]] the sins are portrayed as hot women to invoke desire of their vices (desire for food, desire for anger, etc.), while Lust is instead portrayed as the type of mousy, nerdy person who'd embody it.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'', the protagonist Tiffany observes her current predicament and concludes that she's a brave damsel about to save the beautiful dragon from the firebreathing knights. She then wonders exactly when the universe turned inside-out.
* [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/09/20/0201-eating-out/ This]] ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' strip has Cloud and Yuna be embarrassed by their parents acting immature in a restaurant.
* A RunningGag in early ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' was Sweetheart the UpliftedAnimal spitz and Unity the zero-attention-span human-looking zombie having a relationship not unlike a human and a dog, only with Sweetheart as the human, trying to train Unity and giving her validation when she was a good bio-weapon. This included [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/an-exit-tip/ a pastiche]] of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'''s "What you say/What your pet hears" strips.
* In [[http://somethinghappens.keenspot.com/d/20071024.html this]] ''Webcomic/SomethingHappens'' strip, a CorruptCorporateExecutive unexpectedly enters a MagicalLand where the elven locals pay ''their employers'' an hourly wage to make ''them'' (the payers) work, which is "a rare 'n' pricey privilege". He takes advantage of this off-camera, as in the last panel, three elves are seen working at a [[HaveYouTriedRebooting tech support call center]].
** In [[http://somethinghappens.keenspot.com/d/20071031.html another]], the first four panels depict a commercial featuring scantily-clad women posing with cars and even name-drops the SexSells trope. [[spoiler:The commercial is actually for poseable female mannequins, as it takes place in a world where cars are sentient]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Website/TheOnion has done this a few times:
** [[http://www.theonion.com/video/aa-destroying-the-social-lives-of-thousands-of-onc,18349/ This]] video from ''Website/TheOnion News Network'' portrays AA as a life-destroying addiction which can only be countered by consumption of alcohol.
** The article "[[http://www.theonion.com/article/gay-teen-worried-he-might-be-christian-2888 Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian]]"
** In 2004, US politician James [=McGreevey=] came out as gay and stepped down from his elected position. This was reported by The Onion as [[https://www.theonion.com/homosexual-tearfully-admits-to-being-governor-of-new-je-1819587630 "Homosexual Tearfully Admits to Being Governor of New Jersey"]].
* A number of Website/{{Twitter}} feeds satirise unconscious and institutional bias by reversing it, for instance [[https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall Man Who Has It All]], which assures men that they ''can'' have a family ''and'' a career; [[https://twitter.com/JewWhoHasItAll Jew Who Has It All]], explaining the Christian minority to a Judeonormative America; [[https://twitter.com/SNeurotypicals Neurotypical Research Inc]], which pathologises and categorises neurotypicality (although she's dropped that gimmick now); and [[https://twitter.com/gathara/status/1351038226581118986 a lengthy thread]] by the Kenyan writer gathara, reporting on "Sub-Scandinavian Europe" and "Far Western America" in the same way Western media looks at Africa.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQnIJ-ljctk these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECbmNnT7cs two]] ''Website/CollegeHumor'' sketches, a male gamer is bullied and sexually harassed by {{Gamer Chick}}s. (Warning, audio is NotSafeForWork.)
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F.", Numbuh Three turns her house's thermostat up so high [[MundaneMadeAwesome her house turns into a volcano]]. This drives her father Kani out of their home and into Sector V's Treehouse, and Numbuh Four/Wally is left in charge. As a joke, Kani starts acting like a shiftless, lazy kid, which results in Wally acting like an overbearing father.
* The plot of the ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' episode "The Fast and the Furriest" revolves around Splinter stealing the Turtle Van for a joyride and getting punished by the turtles for it, as an inversion of the typical 'rebel teenage kids steals the parents’ car for a joyride' plot.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E10CloseRickCountersOfTheRickKind Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind]]", the duo escape into various bizarre dimensions with the Council of Ricks hot on their tracks, three of them being similar ones with the same situation playing out: [[AnthropomorphicFood Anthropomorphic pizzas]] ordering people over the phone while sitting on chairs, phones ordering chairs over the person while sitting on pizzas, and chairs ordering phones over the pizza while sitting on people.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-g4FWpxjYI pair of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3mE8RvQVOU sketches]] about a [[TheGreys grey alien]] getting [[AlienAbduction randomly abducted]] and "[[BlackComedyRape anal]] [[AnalProbing probed]]" by a gang of [[HillbillyHorrors hillbillies]] in a (flying) pickup truck.
-->'''Hillbilly:''' This is in the name of [[ForScience science]], boy. We're gonna conduct an experiment up inside [[UranusIsShowing Uranus]]. [[Film/{{Deliverance}} Now]] ''[[Film/{{Deliverance}} squeeeeel]]'' [[Film/{{Deliverance}} like a pig!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2RadioactiveMan Radioactive Man]]" sees a Hollywood production team shooting in Springfield, getting exploited by local politicians for made up taxes, and being driven back to Hollywood where they can rely on others to get them through hard times.
--->'''Creator/MickeyRooney:''' [[ShamingTheMob Well, I hope you're all satisfied.]] You bankrupted a bunch of naive movie folks, folks from a [[HorribleHollywood Hollywood]] where values are... different. They weren't thinking about the money. They just wanted to tell a story: a story about a radioactive man, and you slick small-towners took 'em for all they were worth.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E13TheOldManAndTheKey The Old Man and the Key]]", Grandpa is staying at the Simpsons' place and borrowing their car for dates, annoying Homer to the point that he grounds Grandpa, who storms up to his room and starts blasting big band music. Complete with LampshadeHanging:
--->'''Homer:''' He has to learn! Just like ''my'' father taught me!\\
'''Marge:''' He ''is'' your father!\\
'''Homer:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' Cosmic.
::: The trope is [[PlayingWithATrope utterly screwed with]] when Homer says[=:=]
--->'''Homer:''' Oh sure, when he's in trouble he's ''my'' father!
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E17Gnomes Gnomes]]": The family-owned small business manipulates children into giving them unpaid work. Meanwhile, the megacorp has one guy working by himself without breaching any ethics.
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E1RainforestSchmainforest Rainforest Schmainforest]]": The environmental activist demonstrates her ignorance of the rainforest when she takes a group of children into unspoiled territory. The loggers on the other hand care about the children's safety and are well aware that the rainforest isn't there for humanity's leisure.
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E11TheEntity The Entity]]": Kyle's naive cousin comes from the city to the country.
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E14TheDeathCampOfTolerance The Death Camp Of Tolerance]]": The titular camp forces its prisoners to ''not'' show prejudice towards any group that have been persecuted by Nazis.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E7RedMansGreed Red Man's Greed]]", the Native Americans are {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who invade South Park and set up casinos, with the intent to bleed them dry. They give the white people SARS via contaminated blankets and [[MagicalNativeAmerican the traditional white trash panaceas (Dayquil, Campbell's chicken noodle soup and Sprite) cures it]]. Stan goes to an old man in a trailer park, who sends him on a vision quest by huffing paint thinner in a paper bag.
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E13ButtOut Butt Out]]": The cigarette companies are an innocent business staffed by healthy people while the anti-smoking lobbies are heartless capitalists run by a junk-food addict. Played to the hilt when the anti-smoking lobby knowingly resorts to murdering a child for personal gain.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E2SmugAlert Smug Alert]]" it's the ''hybrid'' cars (or rather, the vanity from people who drive hybrid cars) that create emissions so intense they cause a climate catastrophe.
** From "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E11HellOnEarth2006 Hell on Earth 2006]]":
--->'''Satan:''' Oh God, what's happened to me? I've never been this terrible before. By trying to have a party like those spoiled rich teenage girls on MTV, I've ''become'' like one of them.\\
'''Minion:''' Satan, don't be so hard on yourself. You're not as bad as they are.
** The "Go God Go" duology features a future where not only has noted atheist Richard Dawkins has become a prophet, but his followers have split into factions and waged war over which side is the better follower.
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E13ElementarySchoolMusical Elementary School Musical]]" has a reverse GenderNormativeParentPlot in which a kid wants to play basketball, which his flamboyant singer father disapproves of.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E14ThePoorKid The Poor Kid]]", Kenny is shipped off to a foster home run by abusive [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]]. Except they're not Christian fundamentalists. They're ''agnostic'' fundamentalists.
--->'''Man:''' IS THERE A GOD!?!\\
'''Child:''' No! No!\\
'''Man:''' YOU HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING ONE WAY OR THE OTHER! ''[[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment proceeds to drench]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext child in Dr. Pepper]]]''
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E2InformativeMurderPorn Informative Murder Porn]]" has the children acting like MoralGuardians who blame cable TV (specifically the I.D. channel) for corrupting their parents. ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' was brought in as an attempted distraction (namely, the channel block has a Minecraft-centered question, which the parents figured out when a kid taught them Minecraft). This is very hilarious when one recalls the Season 1 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]", in which the parents target Terrance and Philip.
--->'''Randy:''' You're a lousy kid! I wish Jaden Smith was my son!\\
'''Randy:''' Jaden Smith lets his parents do whatever they want. You know what? The guys at work, they took a bet on who would win in a fight, you or Jaden Smith, and they all said Jaden Smith could kick your ass! He does movies and he can sing, and he's totally cool to his parents!\\
'''Stan:''' Well then maybe you should go live with Jaden Smith, Dad.\\
'''Randy:''' I wish I could! I wish I could live with Jaden Smith so I could be rich and I wouldn't have to live in a boring sexless marriage where all your mom and I do piss each other off!
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS19E1StunningAndBrave Stunning and Brave]]", we have MoralGuardians being lampooned by having them portrayed as violent, drunken frat boys.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E08IExcretus "I, Excretus"]], the crew of the ''Cerritos'' undergo a series of holographic evaluations based on [[InternalHomage situations encountered by previous Starfleet crews]]. Tendi's evaluation is to handle the ethics of [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics a paraplegic Klingon's wish for an assisted suicide]]. The program, it turns out, expects Tendi to grant his request. Where this trope comes into play is after she hesitates and the patient falls out of his biobed trying to take the ritual dagger back from her. Two other surgeons rush over and demand to know why he isn't dead.
-->'''Surgeon 1:''' We have to give this warrior an honorable death, stat! Get me 300ccs of any type of poison!\\
'''Klingon:''' I have to die!\\
'''Surgeon 1:''' They have giant hearts... so many backup organs.\\
'''Surgeon 2:''' Sir, it's done. There's nothing else we can do. [Holds up his tricorder showing stable vitals.]\\
'''Surgeon 1:''' Damn it! Call it.\\
'''Surgeon 2:''' Time of life, 0900.\\
'''Klingon:''' [[BigNo Noooooooooo!]]
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