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"I don't like loud noises. And people making a fuss. And I especially don't like people celebrating because they know a piece of private information about me. Plus the whole thing is a scam - birthdays were invented by Hallmark to sell cards."
Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation

This character hates their birthday. And there's usually always a reason for it. Whether something traumatic happened on that day, it's overshadowed by another holiday or they just don't like getting older, they see no reason to celebrate. Or maybe the person Never Had a Birthday Party or Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday, making them resentful about the concept.

Sometimes Truth in Television when a person's birthday falls on a holiday (e.g. Valentine's Day) or the day when something traumatic occurred. And some people simply don't like the feeling of getting old, especially if their life is not on the right track.

For extra drama, this character is likely to be the recipient of a Surprise Party from their well-intentioned friends, leading to awkward explanations. Or maybe to a change of heart.

Compare Milestone Birthday Angst (when a character is dreading a specific birthday in particular), Crappy Holidays (which includes people who hate holidays) and The Grinch (for characters who specifically hate Christmas). See also The Eeyore for characters who are in a bad mood when everyone else is celebrating. See also Birthday Party Goes Wrong.


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    Anime and Manga 
  • Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler. His tenth birthday was the day his house burned down with both parents inside. And he was kidnapped, and taken off to be a slave to a cult. By his thirteenth birthday, he doesn't even acknowledge them unless made to.
  • Misfortunes happen to Kankichi Ryotsu in Kochikame. His birthday is on March 3 which is Girls' Day in Japan.
  • Yuuto from Omamori Himari hates his birthday, because that's also the day both of his parents died.
  • Meia Gisborn from Vandread. Episode 21 is entirely devoted to the rest of the crew's efforts to lure her into attending the birthday party they throw for her, which she skillfully evades (like in all her previous years on Nirvana). Needless to say, said episode gives her a great deal of characterization beside that.
  • Mukuro from YuYu Hakusho because of her tragic backstory and an abusive parent. Revealed to be so because her adopted father made a special note to molest her on all of her birthdays.
  • Misaki from Action Heroine Cheer Fruits dislikes her birthday because it falls on an unlucky day, which only furthers her perception that she's Born Unlucky and that she jinxes everyone she cares about.

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    Fan Works 

    Films 
  • Mr. Snake in The Bad Guys (2022) is a noted hater of birthdays, and pouts his way through an entire surprise birthday party during one of their heists. In the third act, he reveals why: since he had no one to celebrate it with and many people look at him with fear and disdain, birthdays just became reminders that he was an unlovable monster.
  • The Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried reveals that title character Henry Ross has a low-key example of this; his mother always threw very elaborate birthday parties for him until she died when he was a teenager. Since then Henry asked his father to avoid attempting to repeat his mother's efforts as it would be too painful, and he ultimately got into the habit of not bothering to celebrate his birthday until his new girlfriend Maggie Price asks him about the reason for his issues.
  • Star Trek:
    • In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Kirk isn't too enthusiastic about his birthday, as it's just a reminder to him that he's no longer the young and vital captain that he used to be.
      Bones: Dammit, Jim, what the hell's the matter with you? Other people have birthdays; why are we treating yours like a funeral?
    • Captain Kirk in the reboot continuity doesn't like to celebrate his birthday, because his dad died on the same day, just minutes after his birth. By the time Star Trek Beyond rolls around, his birthday issues are even worse because now he's thirty years old, a year older than his dad got to be.
  • Tree in Happy Death Day feels this way because she and her late mother shared a birthday, and Tree doesn't like being reminded of losing her mom. It doesn't help that she's also being subjected to a "Groundhog Day" Loop on her birthday that restarts when she is killed. She does get a bit better over the course of the movie once she confronts the issue.

    Literature 
  • Bella from The Twilight Saga. She just hates the attention and how it reminds her that she still ages while Edward doesn't.
  • The main character of It's My Fucking Birthday by Merill Markoe. A high school art teacher with narcissistic parents is trying to track her life's progress. It takes place over seven years — seven birthdays she doesn't like.
  • It's revealed in the second book of the A World of Wonder series that Gabriel prefers to ignore his birthday because it's on the equivalent to New Year's day on the Wonderland Alternative Calendar, and everyone is usually too tired from partying the night before to do anything special for him.
  • To Ma in Room, her twenty-sixth birthday is a painful reminder of how many years she has been imprisoned by Old Nick.
  • Lord Ivan Vorpatril of the Vorkosigan Saga was born a few hours after his father was killed in a skirmish during Vordarian's Pretendership. As a result of this, his mother made the central event of his birthday celebration if he was anywhere near the capital on that date going to to the spot where Lord Padma Vorpatril was shot so they could hold a memorial service for the father Ivan never met. This tradition only came to an end when Ivan was thirty-five.
  • Morrigan from the Nevermoor series isn't very fond of her birthday, mostly because she's been cursed to drop dead at midnight when she turns eleven. While it turns out the curse isn't real, the opening to the second book shows that she's still not big on celebrating and would prefer not to acknowledge the day at all. Jupiter won't have any of that, and arranges a surprise party for her twelfth — which she enjoys, despite herself.
  • In Chronicles of a Strange Kingdom king Shellar III — otherwise a nice man, if a bit strange — celebrates his birthday and coronation day with mourning. His reasoning: the former was his mother's Death by Childbirth and the latter was the massacre of his extended family, leaving two heirs out of a dozen. His friends believe the king just dislikes wasteful expensive parties, since budget troubles is a Running Gag in the series.
  • In the Sesame Street book, Oscar’s Rotten Birthday, Oscar the Grouch is upset when he learns that everyone is planning a birthday party for him since not only does he hates birthdays, but singing, cake, games, and presents as well. Little does he count on the fact that everyone alters the usual traditions to better fit what he likes, and he ends up enjoying himself as a result.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Jim from According to Jim hates his birthday as a result of having been Caught with Your Pants Down on his 13th birthday.
  • Ally McBeal: Ally was unable to appreciate her friends' plans for her birthday parties and couldn't civilly accept their birthday wishes. She hated getting older without a husband in sight, feeling that her biological clock is ticking. However, her friends could have been handling the issue differently. Why inflict parties on her when she hates them? When she dated her big love Larry, he seemed to forget about her special day, which unsurprisingly upset her even more.
  • Gary from A Million Little Things doesn't hate all birthdays, just his own, due to too many bad experiences. He once claimed that on his seventh birthday, his parents spent the whole party in their bedroom arguing, which was so loud that all of the party guests could hear them.
  • The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon has some mental scars from past birthdays relating to his general aversion to socialization. His twin sister’s friends making fun of him didn’t help.
  • Detective Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn Nine-Nine really detests birthdays, and threatens violence on anyone who wishes her a happy birthday.
    Diaz: It's my birthday. I hate birthdays. If you wish me a happy birthday, I will punch you.
    Scully: You're a funny little bird, Diaz. Happy birthday! (Diaz punches him.)
  • Judging Amy: Maxine Gray informs Amy that she doesn't want a birthday party and skips the party that her daughter throws for her. In a subversion of the normal aesop, it's Amy who is chastised for throwing the unwanted party and told that she is selfish, not Maxine.
  • In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the titular character never outright said that she hated her birthday, but when they featured such events as her boyfriend Angel losing his soul because of Buffy (17th), Buffy forced to face a vampire without her powers as part of a test by the Watcher's Council (18th), her Watcher Giles being turned into a demon (19th), her sister Dawn learning that she technically didn't exist until a few months ago (20th), and everyone being trapped in her house by a wish from a demon (21st), it's easy to see how fans developed the idea that she doesn't enjoy the event.
  • In the Charmed episode "Dead Man Dating", a man gets annoyed by his mother throwing him a birthday party and walks out on it, only to get murdered. After his death is avenged and his ghost is ready to go to the afterlife, he admits how foolish he was, and tells Prue to always cherish her birthday, because each one might be her last.
  • In one episode of Community, the quintessential cool guy Jeff Winger gets depressed because of his age (about which he had been lying to his friends) and celebrates his birthday by not telling anyone, drinking scotch and taking anti-aging pills he got from a shady Asian business.
  • Criminal Minds: In the episode "Profiling 202", it is revealed that David Rossi hates his birthday, and the reason why is a perfect example of this trope Played for Horror: the Whole Episode Flashback ends with a Serial Killer with a body count of at least one hundred dead women (none of them found yet) deciding, after being arrested, that he will only reveal one dead body per year exactly on Rossi's birthday and only to Rossi. He even goes through the whole macabre glee of writing down the name and location in a gift card and singing "Happy Birthday".
  • Emily Owens, M.D.: Emily's torturer Cassandra blabs (on purpose) that she and Emily both celebrate their birthday on the same day. Cassandra loves all the attention, but Emily honestly keeps repeating she's not a birthday type. She's insecure and dislikes being in the focus.
  • Episode "The One where They All Turn Thirty" from Friends shows the entire gang having a hard time dealing with their thirtieth birthdays, which is mostly shown in flashbacks. Chandler is only one who actually seems okay with his birthday, but Joey ruins the party with his wailing about his friend getting old too. The episode takes place on Rachel's birthday who is the youngest.
    • Rachel feels old and gets depressed mostly because she feels she's "behind" regarding her life plan. It gets worse when Chandler's birthday card says "grandma" and she realizes she would like to get married and have a baby pretty soon.
    • Monica comes home completely wasted because she felt nervous about turning thirty. Chandler is throwing her a formal party with her parents. Monica overreacts and makes a huge scene.
    • Joey freaks out at his birthday, pleading with God that they had a deal to not let him get old.
    • Ross bought a red sports car, claiming he's a sports car enthusiast, despite the fact he didn't know what the horse power is which clearly points to it being a Mid-Life Crisis Car. Ross's car gets locked in by two cars. He spends his birthday trying to get out. His joy is completely spoilt when an unattractive old man in the very same red car greets him and Ross gets dejected.
    • Phoebe was pretty ok with turning thirty. That is until her twin sister Ursula tells her they are in fact thirty-one. Suddenly Phoebe's plan of stuff she wanted to accomplish falls apart and she feels particularly bad.
  • Blanche on The Golden Girls hates her birthday because she hates being old (and tries very hard to keep her real age unknown to the public). In one episode, the girls throw her a surprise party, and she only comes around when they learn they invited all of Blanche's gentlemen callers.
  • H₂O: Just Add Water: Cleo makes it pretty clear that she doesn't want her birthday celebrated. Emma, who had a good time at the last of Cleo's birthday parties she attended, is bewildered, but Lewis has attended all of them and knows she has good reason. When Emma and Rikki arrive to the surprise party Cleo's father set up, they find that nothing has changed in the ten years since— Cleo's Sweet Sixteenth is a party more suited for children half her age. Cleo is mortified when she arrives, chews out her dad for never noticing she's grown up since then. Her friends then organize a party more suited for a teenager, and she has a good time there.
  • An episode of Hey Dad..! revolves around Betty refusing to reveal her birthday, even going so far as to claim that she doesn't have a birthday. It eventually turns out that she once knew a dying child who wasn't going to live to see his next birthday, so she gave him hers.
  • iCarly (2021): "iM Cursed" shows that Carly doesn't like celebrating her birthday. This is because of her dreaded "birthday curse" that causes bad things to happen. Examples include the incident with the goat on her fifteenth birthday, her room catching fire on her sixteenth birthday (both referencing "iGot a Hot Room" from the original show), chipping her tooth on a banana on her nineteenth birthday, and getting mugged for her Tamagotchi named Kuchipatchi on her twenty-fourth birthday. Freddie was served both of his divorce papers on July 24th, which is Carly's birthday. And when thrown a surprise party on her twenty-seventh birthday, a man dies at her party and Freddie injures his neck.
  • Kamen Rider Drive: Shinnosuke, the titular Rider, dislikes his birthday because it falls on Christmas Eve, which meant he's spent his whole life getting combined Christmas-birthday parties and presents. During the birthday depicted in the series, his Fair Cop partner Kiriko invites him out to dinner; he's happy at the prospect of a date, but is much less pleased when all their co-workers jump out and shout "Happy Birthday!"...and even less so when Da Chief announces that this party will also serve as the office Christmas party.
  • The Orville: It's somewhat unclear but seems Bortus doesn't look forward to his birthday
  • Mad About You: Paul always has terrible birthdays. The following dialog occurs while they get ready for his birthday dinner.
    Paul: Ouch.
    Jamie: What happened?
    Paul: No, no, no, I'm just practicing.
    Jamie: Fine. You're gonna fall in a well. Are you happy now?
    Paul: You know, I fell in a well.
    Jamie: You did not.
    Paul: Birthday, 15. Amish country.
    Jamie: You fell in a well?
    Paul: While making a wish.
    Jamie: Okay? My God.
    Paul: No, no, no, this is the beauty—this is the beauty of the thing. See, I know it's gonna suck. I know there's some disaster coming and still I continue to have birthdays.
    Jamie: Maybe this one will be better.
    Paul: Oh, no, no, it will suck. It's just that I just don't know what form the disaster will take and therein lies the fascination.
  • On Malcolm in the Middle, one episode shows that the cadets of Francis's military school have a tradition of forcibly shaving the birthday boy's hair—a tradition that will surely make a Birthday Hater out of any of its victims. Francis's antics of that week center around trying to keep his mates from finding out that it is his birthday, and running into obstacles in keeping this secret.
  • Snow White/Mary Margaret in Once Upon a Time. What was supposed to be her most special birthday of all, when she would be given the crown that marked her as the future queen at a ball held in her honor, instead ended up being the funeral for her mother, who had been poisoned by Cora.
  • Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation hates birthdays so much that he has gone to great lengths to keep anyone from finding out, including having it redacted from all government documents.
    "I don't like loud noises. And people making a fuss. And I especially don't like people celebrating because they know a piece of private information about me. Plus the whole thing is a scam - birthdays were invented by Hallmark to sell cards."
    • Subverted at the end of the episode, when Leslie manages to actually give Ron a birthday present to his liking, which is having a nice, quiet evening to himself while eating meat, drinking Scotch, and watching his favorite movies (The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Dirty Dozen).
    • Subverted in a later episode where he confesses to Leslie that she managed to find a birthday activity he would actually like A long and twisting mystery scavenger hunt inspired by the one she made for Ben for their anniversary.
  • Riverdale has an episode where Betty is told by several people that her boyfriend, Jughead, doesn't like his birthday and doesn't like parties. Naturally, she throws him a birthday party and is legitimately hurt when he isn't happy about it.
  • Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street hates birthdays even more than he hates holidays in general, so much that he tries to discourage a Surprise Party by putting a sign labeled Today is Not My Birthday! on his trashcan the day it is; the rest of the cast throw him one anyway - and manage to cheer him up with the type of party grouches find appealing. (As in, with broken presents, bad singing, and a mud cake, which fortunately, is the type of cake nobody wants him to share.)
  • In season 4 episode of Sex and the City, Carrie tries to get people together for Charlotte's "thirty-faux" birthday. Charlotte doesn't want to turn 36 because she feels she's getting old. She feels especially insecure because she longs for a healthy relationship and a child and she's not even close.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Parallels", Worf doesn't look forward to his birthday as he doesn't like to be surprised, and knows that his shipmates always want to throw him a surprise party.
  • That '70s Show: Hyde isn’t very fond of his birthday, to the point when Kitty throws him a party he refuses to attend.
  • On Criminal Minds, agent Rossi doesn't celebrate his birthday. The day has been spoiled for him by a Serial Killer he captured, Tommy Yates, who made a deal with the FBI to reveal one of his victims' locations each year on a specific day— purposely picking Rossi's birthday. Naturally, that leaves him in no mood to celebrate.
  • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Hercules was always too humble for parties in his honor, but he lost all interest in celebrating his birthday after Hera killed his wife and children. Season 3's "Surprise" has Alcmene arrange a Surprise Party attended by Iolaus, Jason, Iphicles, and Falafel, but the newly resurrected Callisto crashes the party on Hera's behalf and poisons the guests before Hercules can arrive. In the end, after the day is saved, Hercules admits this experience has taught him more than ever to appreciate the family he still has.
  • On The Odd Couple, Oscar doesn't hate his birthday, just birthday parties. In particular, he hates "a surprise birthday party, with a theme", which, of course, is what Felix has planned. He's coaxed into it when Felix points out the party really isn't just for him, it's something for is friends to celebrate and have a good time together.
  • An episode of Will & Grace plays with this trope. Will, Grace, and Jack discover that Karen has a super-elaborate and expensive birthday party for herself every year, and none of them have ever been invited. They naturally get upset, but when they finally confront Karen about it, she confesses that she actually hates her birthday and doesn't want to have the parties in the first place, but does so because of social obligation. So why doesn't she invite the trio? Because she fears that if she did, they would stop taking her out to a cheap, lousy restaurant every year to celebrate...and that's the only thing she likes about her special day.
    • Played straight with Will, who in an early episode reveals that he doesn't like his birthday because his childhood parties were never any fun. He always ended up doing things that he didn't want to do, but was too shy and self-sacrificing to speak up. Grace promises to make his next birthday great by arranging dinner at his favourite restaurant but then Jack gets them tickets to the ice capades for the same day. Once again, Will ends up miserable doing something he hates and eventually goes home in a huff. Just when it looks like the whole day is a wash Grace reveals that she got him the cowboy-themed birthday cake that he wanted, but didn't get, as a kid.
  • The titular character on Monk hates his birthday because he had a bad party as a kid. He explains that while his friends all came and his parents even hired a cowboy to perform tricks, they all left afterward and made him feel abandoned. His caretaker Natalie manages to throw him an amazing surprise bash that changes his mind—and the same cowboy from his childhood party even shows up to help catch the murderer of the week!
  • In the Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea (I am Betty the Ugly), Betty Pinzon (the titular "ugly Betty"), is not looking forward to her upcoming birthday. When her boss, a handsome man whom she's having an affair with (as way for him to use her financial know how to scam his way to the top of his parents' company), ask why she dreads the date, she tells him that because of her appearance she didn't have many friends, and her birthdays were just between her, her parents, and Nicolas Mora, her friend since childhood. As Betty's fifteenth birthday approached, her parents planned a qinceañera party as per tradition, despite Betty asking them not because she knew it was going to turn out badly. Betty eventually agreed to the party, but it turned out she was right, the boys from school and the neighborhood danced with the other, "prettier," girls in attendance, and the only time she danced was during the father daughter dance and with Nicolas who asked her out of pity. The episode in question averts it since the party is a success, attended by Nicolas, Betty's boss, and her friends from work.

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    Newspaper Comics 
  • Garfield hates birthdays, mainly because they remind him of how old he is. (Considering the strip has been around for two or three regular cat lifespans, he may have a point.) When the actual party comes, however, he usually softens up.
  • Pearls Before Swine: Larry the Crocodile is revealed to really hate his birthday. He tries some strange tricks like hiding from his birthday cake, and covering his ears and saying "Me can't hear you!" more than once when his name is called in the "Happy Birthday" song. He does these things because he thinks he won't grow a year older if he does them. He wants to think of himself as 26 years old, when he's apparently twice that age!

    Video Games 
  • in Katawa Shoujo, Hanako Ikezawa completely breaks down every year around her birthday. Its implied that this is because her birthday was when the fire that disfigured her body and killed her family happened, but the truth is, well, not quite so simple:
    Hanako: Every birthday was the same. Everyone doing their best to pretend that I mattered. Everyone pretending everything was alright... for one day of the year. I didn't want to exist, but they wouldn't let me.
  • Peter of Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, a depressed resident of the asylum, hates his birthday. It reminds him of getting older and that his life is empty and meaningless.
  • Veronica from Story of Seasons (2014) is this. Like all the other residents of Oak Tree Town, you can present her with a gift on her birthday each year; if you do, it causes her to grow depressed for a moment as she realizes she's getting older. Then she suddenly reverts to her usual cheerful demeanor, assures you she meant nothing by it, and thanks you for your thoughtfulness.

    Webcomics 
  • In El Goonish Shive, Susan's birthday is on New Year's Day, and she reasons that celebration of her birth is pointless since her friends would be celebrating with or without her anyway.
  • Port Sherry: The boy having a birthday party in "Two fun birds with one happy stone" hates his birthday because it falls on Halloween, and his family just has one party to save time.

    Web Original 
  • The only holiday The Nostalgia Critic enjoys is Christmas. He would rather not pay any attention to his birthday.
  • Dream Machine: Leah, with her fear of aging and age-related unattractiveness. “Sheet cake is not worth the reminder of creeping decay!”

    Western Animation 
  • Kid Pickles from The Adventures of Puss in Boots isn't thrilled about birthdays. As an orphan, they aren't that great for him to begin with, but he also doesn't like any of the presents he gets and cake has no appeal to him because the only thing he likes is pickles.
  • By the time of Batman Beyond, the elderly Bruce Wayne hates birthdays because it reminds him of how he's well past his prime.
  • Bob's Burgers: In "Eat, Spray, Linda", Linda feels she's at that age when your birthday isn't fun anymore. It doesn't help that everything seems to go wrong for her on that particular day, including locking herself out of the car during a trip to the grocery store, ripping her pants, taking the wrong bus trying to get home, and getting sprayed by a skunk while trying to take a shortcut through a meadow.
  • In the Captain N: The Game Master episode "Happy Birthday, Megaman", Mega Man hates his "birthday" (the anniversary of when he was first turned on) since it reminds him that he's different from his friends.
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: Monterrey Jack normally hates birthdays, but in one episode, he was artificially aged into near-decrepitude by a villain and still manages to help his fellow Rangers defeat him. At that, the artificial ageing is reversed and Monterrey Jack notes that he considers the whole experience a terrific birthday, after all, "It's the only one where I got younger!"
  • Scrooge McDuck is a Downplayed example in DuckTales (2017). He doesn't hate his birthday, but he doesn't like celebrating the fact that he's older than everyone he knows. His preferred birthday celebration is having everybody leave him alone so he can a quiet and relaxing day to himself.
  • The Flintstones: In "The Birthday Party", Fred pretends to despise birthdays as childish foolishness. However, he's upset when he thinks everybody's forgotten.
  • Mac from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is a strange subversion: he hates his birthday party because his best friend Bloo always makes it a Surprise Party where Mac is horribly humiliated. However, to make it more surprising, Bloo doesn't even throw these parties on Mac's actual birthday (except one time when he did), so the actual date doesn't matter.
  • In Futurama, Mom hates "Mother's Day" (a day when all the robots her company built show their affection), since her true love, Professor Farnsworth, left her after an argument. It's not technically her birthday, but it serves the same purpose (being a celebration centered around her).
  • Gravity Falls: In "Blendin's Game", Dipper and Mabel see Soos' ID and are surprised to see that it's his birthday that day, a fact which he hadn't mentioned to anyone; their attempt at a birthday party only makes him act depressed, and they're informed that Soos gets like this whenever somebody mentions his birthday. Time Travel reveals that his Disappeared Dad would always promise to show up for his birthday, only to blow it off for some sort of pleasure trip. Soos eventually moves past this when he learns to focus on his Family of Choice rather than his disappointing parental situation.
  • Grandpa Phil from Hey Arnold! is shown to be cranky that his 81st birthday is coming up. Unlike other examples, he wasn't upset on any of the prior birthdays. Rather, he's convinced that there's a family curse that will end his life the moment he turns 81, just like his father and grandfather before him. It turns out that he doesn't die, and that the family curse is actually 91.
  • Jackie Chan Adventures: Uncle starts out this way in "The Dog And Piggy Show". He refuses to celebrate and when asked about it, he retorts "When I am another year younger, then I will celebrate.".
  • An episode of Mike, Lu & Og has Og tell his mom that he doesn't want a birthday because his dad is always trying to take him hunting.
  • The Mr. Men Show: Mr Grumpy doesn't like celebrating his birthday, he even sings about it.
  • Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb hates his birthday because his parents never showed up for his birth. When he was five he tried to throw his own surprise party, but no one came.
  • In the Recess episode Bonky Fever, Mikey dreads his tenth birthday because he's afraid of growing up and having to do things without his mother's help. As the day approaches, he becomes obsessed with Bonky the Dragon and regresses to a kindergarten-like state. A heart-to-heart talk with his mother finally snaps him out of it, though.


 
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