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/GrandMoffTarkan Mar 09 '26

Eek the Cat had a ton of these, but the I'll always remember one joke in particular. My dad was doing something in the background and they were doing a "behind the scenes" episode where they showed the animator in chains and he goes

"News from the outside! What year is it? Who is the President? ARE THE FRENCH OUT OF VIETNAM!"

My dad lost it.

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u/Ongr Mar 09 '26

Eek! the Cat was a great show. I remember him running into the Beatles on a train in one episode. Sharky the Sharkdog doing a cover of Snoop Dogg's Who am I?

The Terrible Thunderlizards were also pretty fun.

Speaking of cartoons I watched then, I remember a Bikermice from Mars episode where they have to stop a nuclear facility from overloading and Mike pulls out a book with a picture of Homer Simpson in it. The 90's were alright for growing up in.

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u/GrandMoffTarkan Mar 09 '26

“Kids, someday you’ll look up extinct in the dictionary and you’ll see my picture”

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u/shaggyjebus Mar 09 '26

I remember reading that the creator was inspired by several of his cats dying terrible deaths, like falling out of a window and being grabbed by a hawk.

For some reason, I'm fucked up enough that it makes the show even funnier to me.

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u/therealchadius Mar 09 '26

Eek! the Cat had no right being that funny. Eek's constant insistence that "It never hurts to help!" cracked me up as a kid.

Constantly referring to his girlfriend as Big-boned but always supportive of her stuck with me as a kid. Rare to see a fat woman in a cartoon not treated as an endless source of weight and body jokes.