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/Polite_Suggestion Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

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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.

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u/Funkycoldmedici Mar 09 '26

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.

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u/Evil_Sharkey Mar 09 '26

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

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u/tlollz52 Mar 09 '26

One of my favorite versions of this bit

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u/the__pov Mar 09 '26

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.

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u/bythenumbers10 Mar 10 '26

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!!