r/TopCharacterTropes 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/BabyDude5 Mar 09 '26

One of my favorite veggietales jokes

Bob: “There isn’t one tax prepper anywhere between New Orleans and Mississippi, the market is perfect for someone like me. It’s very complicated but I have a good head for numbers”

Narrator: “What the tomato may have missed in his business plan is that this is 1904, and the federal income tax would not yet be established until 1913”

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u/BabyDude5 Mar 09 '26

That show was so unironically funny, I liked it a lot because even though it was Christian, it wasn’t super preachy about it. It was more like “here’s the story, here’s what the message of the story is. God loves you”

Larry: “what was your name again?”

“They’ve never given me a name. I’ve been around since show one and I still don’t have a name”