Basic Trope: A perverted old woman who's attracted to those younger than her.
- Straight: Ethel is a horny woman in her 60's who's attracted to men far younger than she is.
- Exaggerated:
- Ethel is over 100 years old, and lusts for men, and women, in their mid 20's.
- All elderly women are obsessed with sex.
- Downplayed: Ethel is in her late-50's with needs, and prefers men in their 30's.
- Justified: There aren't a lot of men Ethel's age, so she sees younger men as the next best thing.
- Inverted: A lot of young perverts lust after Ethel.
- Gender Inverted: Dirty Old Man
- Subverted:
- Ethel appears to be hitting on a young man, but actually has her eyes on his grandfather.
- Ethel is a sixty-five-year-old Troperian. Given their lifespan, that makes her equivalent to a thirty-one-year-old human.
- Double Subverted:
- And then suggests they all participate in a 3-way.
- Unfortunately, the math isn't that simple… A.) Troperians reach adulthood at age 15, B.) They peak at age 19 and some other stuff that's too complicated to get into right now.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Ethel is neither perverted, nor desires any romantic companion more than 5 years younger than her.
- Enforced: By a strange statistical fluke, the test audiences consisted mostly of people with a taste for older women, so the network feels obligated to appeal to those people with plenty of horny old ladies, even though the writers had no plans to include such characters.
- Lampshaded: "Gee, Ethel, cool down the libido, you're, like, eighty."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Ethel is disgusted and offended at the very notion of her lusting after men who are decades younger than she is.
- Discussed: "Ethel reminds me of some characters in television." "Yeah, always ogling young men."
- Conversed: "You ever noticed how ridiculously thirsty old women on TV are?"
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