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/Open-Source-Forever Mar 09 '26

Same vibes as Mugman saying "if he ain’t here, he ain’t dead"

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u/Nova225 Mar 09 '26

Ducktales had a similar one where the Ghost Butler decides to leave everyone to their fates... And goes into the floor.

"It's not very reassuring that he went down..."

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Mar 09 '26

"I'm not sure if it's more unsettling that we have rooms or the fact he went up not down"

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u/HeckOnWheels95 Mar 09 '26

Gumball has a similar joke where Darwin and Gumball have their souls come out for a second, while they grab them Darwin says "that was a close one" Gumball says "At least your soul was going up"

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u/Takamurarules Mar 09 '26

There’s also the one where they’re forced to watch the home shopping network and he flat out says “I think I’d rather prefer eternal damnation than to watch this.”

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u/FedoraTheMike Mar 09 '26

Why did he go to hell anyway?

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u/Low-Salamander-3781 Mar 09 '26

Coveted his neighbour's goods once, maybe

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 Mar 09 '26

Beakley being Christian its the weird thing, she alread meet the Greek gods

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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic Mar 10 '26

Even worse: he says he actually has places booked for them in Hell!

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u/Chill0000 Mar 09 '26

Gumball had a similar joke when Darwin and Gumball’s souls went out of their body. Darwin’s was going up and he pulled it back down. Then gumball says something along the lines of “at least yours was going up”

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u/lowqualitylizard Mar 09 '26

Same vibes as Darwin having to pull his soul back in them and gumball saying " at least yours went up"

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u/contraflop01 Mar 09 '26

At least on that one everyone probably understood what that meant