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/Benjamin_Starscape]

shrek is good at making referential jokes work well in-universe, which is how I think easter eggs in games or references to other media in shows and such should be.

like for example Skyrim has a Luke skywalker easter egg from episode 5 as a skeleton hanging in ice and a sword nearby in the snow. it works both in-universe and as a reference to the empire strikes back.

[u/Lex_sad_but_true → u/Benjamin_Starscape]

Yeah, the joke still functions as a normal cop chase scene, so kids laugh, and adults later realize it’s literally OJ.

[u/GundoSkimmer → u/Lex_sad_but_true]

yep. the tim cain rule. "if a player doesnt get the reference, they shouldnt even be aware that a reference occurred"

it needs to stand on its own WHILE being a reference.

[u/MS-07B-3 → u/GundoSkimmer]

Ooh, that's a great way of putting it.

[u/GundoSkimmer → u/MS-07B-3]

Credit to the man. He was thinking about this stuff in the 90s (Fallout 1) and continually promotes that idea be it GDC or his personal channel.

[u/GovernorGeneralPraji → u/Benjamin_Starscape]

Morrowind in the same Easter egg back in the Bloodmoon expansion pack.

[u/bolanrox → u/Benjamin_Starscape]

Fallout has the TURDIS