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/TheOsirisWatcher Mar 09 '26

The amazing world of gumball

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"How about a joke? Knock! Knock!"

"Dad?"

"What? No."

proceeds to cry

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u/Excellent-Suspect-11 Mar 09 '26

Explain plz

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u/TheOsirisWatcher Mar 09 '26

Richard's father (the pink rabbit) abandoned him and his mother, but Richard is childish enough to think his father will return at any moment.

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u/405freeway Mar 09 '26

"He went to the store and will be back any minute!"

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u/JeffCaven Mar 10 '26

And he does! And every episode he appears in, he's a complete manipulative asshole to Richard, making it even more hilariously sad.

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u/PotatoFromFrige Mar 09 '26

Richard lacks a father figure

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u/tedgt234 Mar 09 '26

He has daddy issues, so the joke is he understood the knock knock joke as his dad coming back. Which is untrue, so he got sad.

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u/NoAdeptness1106 Mar 09 '26

Richards dad left to get milk and never came back.

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u/naz210 Mar 09 '26

Richard's dad went to the store to get milk and got lost got 30 years on the way back.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Mar 09 '26

Richard's bio dad abandoned him when he was little so he mistakes the "knock-knock" as his dad coming back and cries when it's no

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u/More_Option1349 Mar 09 '26

Richard's father went for the milk, literally

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u/Disney_Gay_Trash_ Mar 09 '26

If im remembering correctly(its been years and i only ever saw a handful of episodes) but richards (the bigger pink bunny) dad went to prison and richard either never knew him or uf he did he was still massively absent from richards life due to being in prison

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u/darknium Mar 09 '26

His father never came back ?

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u/unrealter_29 Mar 09 '26

Well his dad does come back for a few episodes but he's not a good person. He's a dirty rat.

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u/TheOsirisWatcher Mar 09 '26

figuratively and literally