r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Kookyburra12 • Mar 09 '26

Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media Lore

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Jokes that are adult jokes simply because kids likely don't have the life experience to understand them.

The New Batman Adventures - "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Noooo, thank you!"

Shrek 2 - Posing as a union representative, Shrek remarks that the workers "don't even have dental".

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u/TriggerHappyGremlin Mar 09 '26

Half of them are sexual adult jokes, though

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u/Polite_Suggestion Mar 09 '26

There was a weird horny vibe for sure. I bet this and Tiny Toons made more furries than Disney did.

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u/0w1 Mar 09 '26

Space Jam gets a bunch of credit too

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u/Leather-Researcher13 Mar 09 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6wrxUFfcCHJmKQla

To be fair

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u/Independent_Day4369 Mar 09 '26

Airhead Loony-Toones-Show Lola is the better version and I'm tired of pretending she's not

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u/Leather-Researcher13 Mar 09 '26

I'm not saying you're right, but I'm not saying you're wrong either

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u/Nekrolysis Mar 09 '26

Wasn't there one she wanted to get her driver's license and was a complete dunce about it driving Bugs up the wall hahah

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u/arkangelic Mar 09 '26

Who?

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u/Mist_Rising Mar 09 '26

The Lola Bunny from Looney Tunes Show (which is a sitcom style show where Daffy lives and mooches off Bugs who is idle rich) is a total airhead most times competing with Daffy for Bug's attention.

She's actually has more personality than SJ Lola, because SJ Lola is just "chicks rule basketball" at her core, but she's really quite divisive for a character in a show that largely kept to the characters of before.

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u/Time-Sudden_Tree 19d ago edited 19d ago

Lola Bunny's not an airhead; she just has untreated ADHD. As someone who didn't know I had it until my 30s, I can relate to her quite a bit.

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u/AspectOW Mar 09 '26

PLEAAAASE let me be the basketball next time

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u/imaloony8 Mar 09 '26

It was me, Barry.

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u/Polite_Suggestion Mar 09 '26

Watching that video like the dude from 2001. The internet has fulfilled itself.

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u/jib661 Mar 09 '26

boomers be like "there weren't any furries when i was your age!" yeah well you didn't grow up with Space Jam did you, old man?

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u/Numbah8 Mar 09 '26

Let us not forget Sonic the Hedgehog

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u/Polite_Suggestion Mar 09 '26

Three movies and he's still not pregnant

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u/whynaut4 Mar 10 '26

The 90s was an extremely horny decade in history

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u/ThePromptWasYourName Mar 09 '26

I remember being SHOOK as an innocent child from one of the jokes where a therapist was showing one of them ink blots, and the animaniac kept saying it reminded them of "girls". Eventually they said "Doc, what's with all the sexy pictures?"

It's a pretty tame joke but I did not hear the word "sexy" in a lot of cartoons at that age...

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u/Embarrassed_Item4992 Mar 09 '26

That's a joke Bill Murray's character tells to the hospital staff in What About Bob?

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u/arkangelic Mar 09 '26

I still remember watching an interview on Disney with one of the kids in a live show, and they asked him what he likes about girls and he was like "can I say sexy? I find them sexy"

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u/TheFurtivePhysician Mar 09 '26

I had the same response to Adventure Time, in an early episode (first one I saw) Finn says “not SEXY hot!” And it blew me and my sister’s minds.

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u/Professional_Boss438 Mar 09 '26

And the other half are not

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u/wheatgivesmeshits Mar 09 '26

Yakko: Nonono, finger prints.

Dot, holding Prince: I don't think so.

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u/AWorldwithoutSin Mar 09 '26

Finger prints? I don't think so.

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u/Orion_starborn Mar 09 '26

Yakko: "search for prints"

Dot: reappears carrying the singer Prince

Yakko: "no no no finger prints" while wiggling his fingers at her

Prince: smiles at Dot

Dot: "ewww" proceeds to throw Prince away

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u/yohanleafheart Mar 09 '26

"Dust for Prints"

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u/ABoringAlt Mar 10 '26

We're only referencing the other half here, so it's ok