Submitted by BalsamicBasil t3_1243kqm in television

Pen15, WWDITS, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Big Mouth, all come to mind...what are your favorite child characters played by adult actors?

Pretty much all adult animated comedy series would fall under this umbrella, but now there are also a lot of live action series where adults are playing children in a kind of meta way, where the fact that they are adults playing children is part of the comedy.

I think my favorite is 10-year-old/teenage Colin Robinson of What We Do In The Shadows.

This is not a prompt about serious shows where child/teen characters are played by actors in their 20s...unless the age gap is so obvious that it's unintentionally funny (like the movie Dear Evan Hansen)

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PuzzleheadedTennis23 t1_jdxsr86 wrote

Pamela Adlon as bobby hill in king of the hill. Added layer of gender bending.

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dantemanjones t1_jdzqxnj wrote

Jerry Stiller in the Seinfeld episode when it flashes back to his time in the army. Not child exactly but 18-20ish character played by a 69 year old dude.

Dexter and his amazing wigs played by Michael C. Hall.

Caity Lotz played young Sarah in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow. All of the other characters with younger selves were played by different actors.

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BalsamicBasil OP t1_je1ylrm wrote

>18-20ish character played by a 69 year old dude.

Yeah in Wet Hot American Summer they are 40-something year olds playing older teens

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