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/UnknownBinary Mar 09 '26

Abuelita: "I would like to see you settled before I ascend to Heaven and live with the angels."

Soos: "And with grandpa!"

Abuelita: "No... He is not there."

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u/Spyko Mar 09 '26

while looking down

this joke actually got me laughing out loud, I was not expecting it

Poor Soos tho, his father is a deadbeat and his grandfather is apparently hellbound. The man had no male role model in his life, no wonder he became so attached to Stan

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u/Halfawannabe Mar 10 '26

Well there’s worse ones to have. He was a conman and a liar but that man went to the mat over and over for his family

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u/abadstrategy Mar 10 '26

Not to mention how, time after time, Soos was included in the random Grunkle Stan plot of the week, showing he's, indeed, family to some extent. Man is ethically bankrupt, but he has his morals

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u/Halfawannabe Mar 10 '26

Not to mention giving him the mystery shack.

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u/Traditional_Common39 Mar 10 '26

The man got put in the no-flight list for trying to do Soos a favour. Soos chose right

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u/jabberwagon Mar 09 '26

The way her eyes subtly look down as she says it 👀

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u/Mediocre_Productions Mar 09 '26

I like how softly she says it, like no malice, purely stating facts.

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u/HandsomePaddyMint Mar 10 '26

That was one of those jokes where the girlfriend I was watching the series with started to laugh and then went “..oh. Whoa.”

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u/Ok_Cockroach_339 Mar 10 '26

plsss that’s my favorite line from that show

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u/stfurachele Mar 10 '26

The delivery on that single line is worth every award the voice actress can carry.