Basic Trope: Strict or overprotective parents lead to the kids becoming better at hiding things, keeping secrets, and getting up to rebellious behaviors.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are highly against their daughter Claire dating Danny. As a result, Claire gets a lot better at hiding her relationship with Danny behind her parents' back and frequently sneaking out at night.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob interfere with everything Claire does, so she becomes an expert at telling lies.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob don't really mind Danny, but find some of his behaviors questionable. Claire gets good at covering these up.
- Justified: Truth in Television.
- Inverted:
- Having strict parents makes Claire a Bad Liar.
- Alice and Bob are Pushover Parents and Claire becomes an expert at telling lies.
- Alice and Bob are neglectful toward Claire, and she is an expert at telling lies.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob start suspicious of the things that Claire does, and Claire gets caught by them when she dates Danny.
- Double Subverted: Claire claims that Danny is her platonic female friend who dresses up as a guy for the school project, so Alice and Bob leave.
- Parodied: Claire tells her parents that Danny is her new plush toy, they believe her.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Claire's parents are fairly open-minded and don't mind that she's in love with Danny, so she doesn't need to lie to them.
- Claire's parents are strict, but unfortunately, Claire just isn't smart or fast enough to pull off any acts of stealth.
- Enforced: The writers want to show why helicopter parenting is a bad strategy.
- Lampshaded: "My parents are really strict, but I've just found that it makes me good at hiding things from them."
- Invoked: Alice and Bob want Claire to be the master of liars, so they try to suspicious everything that she does to make her good at hiding things.
- Exploited: The liar expert status makes Claire become the Alpha Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
- Defied: Claire's parents get suspicious of their daughter and tell them that they will find out what she's up to.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Claire attempts this but gets caught by her parents, so they severely punish her for the things that she did. Then she really does a good thing that parents would be proud of, but they don't believe her.
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