Needs Help: Parent Service

Kinda similar to the Mr. Fanservice/Ms. Fanservice tropes in that it really is a list of characters who are considered "sexy" within a kid-oriented or family-oriented medium. That "sexy" though is pretty ill-defined, anything vaguely sexy be that intentional or the perverse mind of a troper seeing what they want to see seems to count. The trope is a little bit too YMMV heavy as well because of the subject matter so throwing it out to the tropers at large, see what they think.

edited 26th Feb '14 7:26:53 AM by treelo

Ooch, and that page image is patent JAFAAC. No context of any sort and it feels shoehorned because the film is pretty clearly aimed for the adults (gritty noir parody, a lot of adult jokes), even if it was kept family-friendly.

I think the important thing isn't exactly how sexy a character is, or in what way, but if adults are watching a kids' show because they are attracted to one of the characters. It's on the objective side because you could — at least theoretically — extract this kind of information from polls (if the polls indicate that a show aimed at kids has a large number of adult fans, you could ask them for the reason).

It's probably a Periphery Demographic thing I agree but the examples are the things which sit uneasy, not the trope itself. It's real questionable for a lot of it because the bar isn't very high for some examples and a lot is random guesswork (or, as suggested, tropers picking out their own Mr. or Ms. Fanservice) making it far less objective so I don't know, cleanup or something stronger?

edited 27th Feb '14 6:16:22 AM by treelo

Clock is set.

Man some of these examples are pretty gross. I do not want to know what 14 year old character you were creepin on while watching cartoons with your kids :p

I have to agree, there is a disturbing amount of oggling young teens for something called 'Parent Service'.

At least pull the Jessica Rabbit image. The example for Roger Rabbit itself notes that the movie wasn't aimed at kids, so we have a page image that is forcing a bad example to be kept.

Both creepy and inherently subjective. Cut.

I'm inclined to merge the concept into Parental Bonus, if that page doesn't already cover the concept, and then cut this entirely.

Re-clocked for more discussion.

edited 30th Apr '14 10:23:48 AM by Willbyr

Frankly, all the "tropes" on this wiki that boil down to "this person is attractive" should be cut. Attractive people being attractive isn't a trope. If it's lampshaded in-universe, like Jack Lemmon ogling Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot, then fine, but otherwise, not a trope. This certainly isn't.

Actually, characters being attractive can very well be a trope as in "storytelling device". Either to attract an extra audience or to signal something about the character.

If you're talking about a Femme Fatale. Or a Hello Nurse. Or Buxom Is Better. Tropes like those are either objectively true, like Femme Fatale, or must be lampshaded in-universe, like Buxom Is Better. Attractive people being attractive is People Sit On Chairs. But I'm getting off topic, and that discussion is for another thread for another day—in this case, this is just Not A Trope, right? Right? Morgan Freeman was a handsome man in his youth, when he was teaching me to read on The Electric Company. Maybe that helped my mom enjoy the show a little bit more. But that's not a trope.

edited 30th Apr '14 12:38:39 PM by jamespolk

I can see it being a trope. I see however misuse problems and creepy examples problems.

Parental Bonus says "a joke" though, so I am not sure about how viable a merge is (although it probably gets non-joke examples already, and the restriction to jokes looks pointless to me - such parent-specific material can be stuff other than jokes).

Re-clocking again.

And clock is up with no progress. Locking.