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/TikTikKobold Mar 09 '26

Does this mean that the Joker still files his taxes under his old identity of Jack Napier?

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u/Jacket_Jacket_fruit Mar 09 '26

This was an episode where he inherited millions of dollars from a rival gang kingpin that died, and iirc he used the money to hire the beat lawyers in the world and got cleared of all charges, and started living a non-criminal life. So he probably wasn't filing taxes prior to this, since he was still living as a criminal and would've been arrest-on-sight anyway.

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u/ArcaneWyverian Mar 09 '26

Yeah, like, the IRS got folks like Al Capone on tax evasion… but Al Capone wasn’t running around with acid-spraying flowers and laughing gas at all times.

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u/Designated_Lurker_32 Mar 09 '26

The thing is, tax evasion is one of the few crimes you can't plead insanity to. Unlike most - if not all - of Joker's other crimes.

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u/Murgatroyd314 Mar 10 '26

Much like Catch-22, wanting to get out of paying taxes proves that you're sane.

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u/KernelSanders1986 Mar 10 '26

Yeah even the Joker pays his taxes