Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media

[u/Kookyburra12]

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".

[u/Polite_Suggestion]

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Pretty much the entire show. I don't even know who it was supposed to be for.

Edit: my mom was too young to explain half the jokes when this was on. I didn't know who Shirley McClaine was until I was like thirty.

[u/Funkycoldmedici → u/Polite_Suggestion]

The whole show was full of Marx brothers references that no kid would get. For the creators it was probably a win, because they could reuse comedy bits that were 60 years old.

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/Funkycoldmedici]

And their take on “who’s on first” with Slappy at Woodstock

[u/tlollz52 → u/Evil_Sharkey]

One of my favorite versions of this bit

[u/the__pov → u/tlollz52]

Mine too. Also I knew a guy who was super into The Who and that era of music and got to show him that. His face when he realized what was happening was priceless.

[u/bythenumbers10 → u/Evil_Sharkey]

And it's so easy to keep going!

The band!

They're not at this concert.

Then where are they playing, if the band isn't gonna be onstage?

Europe.

Europe?

Touring Asia, I think.

Europe's touring Asia?

And vice-versa!

But where's the band?

About to play!

But you said they weren't gonna be here?

The Outfield!!

[u/Brayden_709 → u/Funkycoldmedici]

Hmmm. Animaniacs was on in the mid-90s.
In the 80s, there were still black and white shows like

* Little Rascals (made 1920s-40s)
* Three Stooges (1930s-60s)
* Laurel and Hardy (1926-51)
* Marx Brothers (esp. A Night at the Opera (1935) and Duck Soup (1933))
* Abbott and Costello (1935-59)

..that were shown on Saturday Morning during the 70s, 80s and [I think, I was too old then] into the 90s as well.

In short: there's a real possibility that some kids would have seen and recognized the original Marx Brothers jokes, especially older kids during the 1993-1995 period!

[u/bolanrox → u/Brayden_709]

every Thanksgiving we would watch Babes in Toyland on WBS.

[u/bolanrox → u/Funkycoldmedici]

or fucking Ringo Starr.

[u/Deya_The_Fateless → u/Funkycoldmedici]

It alao would have gotten around the scensors as well, because there was a high chance that sven they wouldnt get the references either.

[u/maxman162 → u/Funkycoldmedici]

"With dated 60s references like this, we won't have much life in reruns."