History Main / ParentalHypocrisy

* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'':
** In the Big Chapter Book "And the Dress Code", there's a mild version involving a school dress code. The kids adopt obnoxious new fashions, and due to an escalating power struggle between the acting principal who keeps making new rules and the kids using LoopholeAbuse, it looks like the school will be going to uniforms... until Grandma Bear defuses the situation by hauling out photos of Papa and Mama Bear in their [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim ludicrous Seventies attire]].
** Another example occurs in ''Get the Gimmies''. Papa Bear despairs over the increasingly bratty behavior of Brother and Sister, who keep wanting all manner of toys and trinkets; his own parents gently remind him that he was much the same way when he was a cub.

* The David Kitchen poem "Dress Sense" is a monologue by a father scolding his daughter at some length for the immodest dress she wants to go out wearing, finally demanding to know where she got it and being thrown for a loop by the answer:

* The Music/BeastieBoys' [[Music/LicensedToIll "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)"]] has this line:

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'': In Kiryu's backstory, it is shown how he and his [[BloodBrothers sworn brother]] Nishiki got seven shades of crap beaten out of them when they explained to [[ParentalSubstitute Kazama]] that they wanted to join the yakuza... In spite of the fact that they only wanted to be yakuza to ''emulate him''. EvilParentsWantGoodKids was definitely in play here.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', Marty's mother scoffs at Marty for his behavior with Jennifer. "In my day, we never parked and made out." It's quite the shock to Marty when he travels back in time to find his mother willing to "park for a while" (not to mention drinking and smoking). Of course, this probably wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't trying to do it with ''[[ParentalIncest him]]''.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Hawkins Fuller ''lies all the time'', yet he rebukes his son Jackson for being dishonest. Jackson is aware that his father keeps secrets from the family.

'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' While this trope is indeed TruthInTelevision, it would be filed with [[NoRealLife/TooControversial natter and complaining]] about celebrity parents who engage in hypocrisy.

* In ''Film/TheNotebook'', Allie's mother scoffs at Allie falling in love with a day-laborer in the first act. In the third act, however, she shows Allie that she once loved a day-laborer as well, but instead married Allie's father. She still has feelings for the working man as well.

* Minor example occurs in ''Film/AChristmasStory''. When the protagonist uses a cuss word, and his mother demands to know where he heard it, the voice-over narrator (which is the protagonist as an adult) claims that he had heard his father say it a lot. (And to be honest, [[TruthInTelevision that's often the case with kids and bad language.]]) Still, he doesn't have the nerve to tell his mother that, and says that she wouldn't believe him, despite presumably hearing the word out of her husband's mouth numerous times.
* In ''Film/MatchstickMen'', Roy the ConMan is strongly opposed to teaching Angela his tricks of the trade, and makes her return the takings of her first scam.
-->'''Roy:''' I told you I'd teach you a con. I didn't say I'd let you get away with it.
* Odin in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', he accuses Loki of bringing war, ruin, and death wherever the latter goes. As revealed in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', [[spoiler:this is exactly what Odin himself was doing in the past when he conquered the Nine Realms with Hela at his side.]]