Basic Trope: Characters in a work are aware of its age rating, and disallow others to say/do inappropriate things for that reason.
- Straight: In an episode of the children's show "Alice and Bob", Alice is about to say a swear word, but Bob stops her by pointing out that they're in a show for kids.
- Exaggerated: Alice is about to release a Cluster F-Bomb while doing drugs and committing a gory massacre in the nude. Bob tells her not to do that because it's a children's show.
- Downplayed: Alice is about to make a joke that goes slightly above PG. Bob tells her not to, because the show is G-rated.
- Justified:
- The characters are aware of the age rating.
- They have in-universe reasons to not say/do inappropriate things, such as being around Charlie, who is a kid.
- Inverted: "Alice and Bob" is a show for adults. Alice specifically makes sure to swear in order to comply with the age rating.
- Subverted: It seems like Bob is stopping Alice from swearing because he's aware that the work is for kids, but it's really just because the young and impressionable Charlie is around.
- Double Subverted: And then he looks at the camera and says, "Oh, and them, too!"
- Parodied: The work is for adults, but the characters still pretend to censor themselves due to the "children" in the audience watching anyway.
- Zig-Zagged: The reasons for stopping other characters for doing inappropriate things vary.
- Averted: There are no references to doing inappropriate things in "Alice and Bob".
- Enforced: A way of Getting Crap Past the Radar, or to sneak in some Parental Bonus and/or Demographically Inappropriate Humor.
- Lampshaded: "What kids? Who are you looking at?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: A character blows up the headquarters of the national censorship bureau in response, leaving charred bodies in the aftermath and then says "What censors?"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob stops Alice from swearing by saying "Not in front of the kids". Since they're in a children's show, and Alice and Bob actually were around some children at the time, it's unclear which kids he's referring to.
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