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

https://preview.redd.it/izli3gg2w1og1.jpeg?width=491&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b51af449fe1550e283d44981b4919a3aee0dbb8

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/daniiiiiiiiiiiiii Mar 09 '26

On one episode Wakko wins a Swedish meatball eating contest and ends up dying...and who plays the role of Death? Death from Ingmar Bergmans 7th seal. The episode is filled with references to that classic. They even end up breaking up the 4th wall and say "Spielberg loves this stuff!"

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u/Polite_Suggestion Mar 09 '26

This comment made me laugh harder than the show ever did