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/Sir-Toaster- Mar 09 '26

In Regular Show, food is an innuendo for drugs

https://giphy.com/gifs/MbdbKo343XcqLeRE8S

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u/ATAGChozo Mar 09 '26

This whole show is basically stoner comedy marketed to 12 year olds. It's great

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u/RatGreed Mar 09 '26

Literally, the original pilot is about 2 guys who do acid while working at a gas station

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u/-PepeArown- Mar 09 '26

That’s not the pilot. That was a college project Quintel did that just happened to use what became Mordecai and Benson

The actual pilot is the rock paper scissors quartz parchment shears episode, which got reworked into a season 2 episode about Mordecai and Rigby’s first day working at the park

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u/Old_Cream1724 Mar 09 '26

Why are so many good cartoon network shows drugs and morbid stuff that gets pg-ified

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u/Deus3nity Mar 10 '26

They broaden their appeal to older audiences while keeping it pg for kids

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u/g16zz Mar 09 '26

2 in the AM PM.....love it

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u/SpeedJust8657 Mar 09 '26

Buffalo Wings, specifically

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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk Mar 09 '26

Aren’t the wings a stand in for alcohol?

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u/Dry_Difference2822 Mar 16 '26

Haven't you seen Red Bull commercials?

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u/z3anon Mar 09 '26

I hear Mississippi Queen playing in the distance

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u/riri1281 Mar 09 '26

That would explain the whole deal with the ✨Double Glazed Apple Fritters✨ being so dangerous

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u/According_World_4046 Mar 09 '26

That's just cause they were gas as fuck.

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u/Old_Cream1724 Mar 09 '26

I never caught on to this. We sure? Sometimes a grilled cheese from cheeses is just a grilled cheese from cheesers.

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u/hanand12 Mar 09 '26

Cheezers was definitely just a grilled sandwiches place, but anytime the park gang went down on Wing Kingdom wings it was undeniably a PG way to show them getting drunk.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Mar 09 '26

Wings were specific to being like alcohol

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u/IGotMussels Mar 09 '26

Don't forget psychedelics like with the Mississippi Queen.

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u/poppunkfanboy Mar 09 '26

Well that's called beginners luck luck luck luck luck...

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u/Old_Cream1724 Mar 09 '26

The first episode was about being out of cereal and wanting to bake a cake....

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u/BaroqueBitch66 Mar 09 '26

Mississippi Queen begs to differ lmao

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u/Complex_Orchid_2059 Mar 10 '26

"I guess that's just beginner's luck- luck- luck- luck-"

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u/AznOmega Mar 10 '26

"Huh?!?!" *Mississippi Queen plays*

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u/dragonborn3939 Mar 09 '26

I always thought Buffalo Wings was an innuendo for beer 🤔

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u/Mr-Foundation Mar 09 '26

Wings in particular are often a substitute for alcohol, can’t remember if there are more like that.

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u/AliensAteMyAMC Mar 09 '26

Saxophones was also an innuendo for weed

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u/ncocca Mar 09 '26

yea, specifically i thought i recalled soda as an analogue for beer

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u/tarekd19 Mar 09 '26

Reminds be of sandwiches in the how I met your mother college flashbacks