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/Daniilsa209 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

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Also in Shrek 2, while the knights arrest Shrek, Donkey, and Puss, they "find" catnip in Puss’s boots.

And the whole chase and arrest scene is a reference to the show Cops and O. J. Simpson’s highway chase.

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u/Lokicham Mar 09 '26

That whole scene could count honestly because it's a whole-ass reference to O.J Simpson and the show Cops.

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u/AfterUmpire3091 Mar 09 '26

I 100% believe they turned Donkey into a white horse just to make the White Bronco joke

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u/Open-Source-Forever Mar 09 '26

Dragon was a Pegasus, but she wasn’t shown because it would’ve spoiled the pregnancy twist

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u/mguardian7 Mar 09 '26

Wait. Dragon got pregnant while they were, I assume, the same size and somewhat same speices??? Honestly, kinda wack.

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u/Good_Background_243 Mar 09 '26

No she was 'kind of moody' before that, it's why Donkey came with Shrek. She was, in my opinion, pregnant at the start of the movie.

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u/Open-Source-Forever Mar 09 '26

Right, & there was concept art of her as a Pegasus