Basic Trope: Excessive safety precautions are taken, to the point where it's not fun or practical.
- Straight: Billy's parents, Alice and Charlie, are way too worried about his safety — they'll often do things like wrap him in bubble wrap to prevent him from getting injured.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Charlie are so worried about Billy getting sick/injured that they don't even let him leave the house.
- Downplayed: Alice and Charlie tend to watch over Billy excessively when he's playing.
- Justified:
- Billy really did get seriously injured/ill once, or something similar, and Alice and Charlie don't want it happening again.
- It's a case of A Lesson Learned Too Well; Alice and Charlie learned that it's important to take care of their child, and took things to extremes.
- A robbery or another traumatic event recently happened to the family, and they're scared that it could happen again.
- Alice and Charlie are Helicopter Parents who don't want anything to happen to Billy.
- Alice and Charlie are Safety Freaks.
- Alice and Charlie are actually Properly Paranoid, as Billy has some sort of condition that makes it easier for him to become seriously injured/ill from even minor ailments.
- Inverted: Alice and Charlie don't bother with any kind of safety precautions at all, even in situations where they'd be important.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice and Charlie take appropriate amounts of safety precautions with Billy.
- Enforced:
- The creators are trying to show that Alice and Charlie care about Billy, but don't always understand boundaries.
- It's a Right Way, Wrong Way, Excessive Way Public Service Announcement.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Dana gives an Anti-Smother Love Talk to Alice and Charlie, telling them that they don't need to be so cautious regarding Billy.
- Discussed: "Why do Alice and Charlie make their kid wear bubble wrap when he's playing on the playground? He can't possibly get that hurt out here."
- Conversed: "I feel pretty bad for Billy in that one show. His parents won't let him do anything fun because they're too worried that he could get hurt."
- Deconstructed:
- Billy becomes a case of Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids when he grows up, and completely disregards any form of safety — which unfortunately gets him seriously injured or killed.
- Ironically, in spite of the sheer amount of safeties put on Billy, it's the safeties themselves that actually hurt him.
- Reconstructed: Instead of completely disregarding all safety rules, Billy learns that there are some rules that are designed to genuinely keep people safe, and that they're usually nowhere near as strict as his parents' safety rules.
You can't go back to Safety Worst! It's too dangerous!
