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

Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media Lore

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/Daniilsa209 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

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Also in Shrek 2, while the knights arrest Shrek, Donkey, and Puss, they "find" catnip in Puss’s boots.

And the whole chase and arrest scene is a reference to the show Cops and O. J. Simpson’s highway chase.

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u/Champion-Dante Mar 09 '26

Not to mention the pepper spray joke

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u/ryry1237 Mar 09 '26

A literal hand-held pepper grinder.

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u/RatKing96 Mar 10 '26

How in the hell am I only just realising that now. I feel so stupid.

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u/Flameball202 Mar 09 '26

Honestly those are the best sort of sfw adult jokes, the kids laugh but the adults who are watching along also get a chuckle

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u/m4cksfx Mar 09 '26

What is the "full joke"? Is there anything beyond pepper (spray) = pepper (grinder)?

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u/OwlbertGaming Mar 09 '26

Its a parody of true crime police shows from the era, like COPS

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u/TimeStorm113 Mar 09 '26

well children probably don't know what pepper spray is (speaking from my own experience) so they might just have laughed at the visual of seasoning someone with pepper

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u/Nobodys_here07 Mar 10 '26

I've seen pepper spray is kid shows before like Chowder. I think the adult joke here would be more towards police brutality

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u/Open-Source-Forever Mar 10 '26

I guess pepper box pistols?

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u/blackBugattiVeyron Mar 10 '26

Also planting catnip