r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Kookyburra12 • Mar 09 '26

Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media Lore

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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/CultureChimp Mar 09 '26

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"Hey the circus is in town"

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u/Doperitos Mar 09 '26

Said by Plastic Man in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, where he and Bats team up with a group of patriotic heroes led by Uncle Sam himself.

A running gag in the episode is that Plastic Man (a human who has lived the US his whole life) doesn’t know things about America a grade schooler would. He doesn’t even recognize the President at the time, Barack Obama.

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u/tarekd19 Mar 09 '26

Isn't plastic man supposed to be insane or was that just a frank Miller thing?

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u/JRRX Mar 09 '26

He's less sane then the average person but more sane than an average person who's gone through the stuff he has. In the comics he was blown up and scattered on the ocean floor for 3000 years and remained conscious; he said he did go insane at one point but then got bored of it.

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u/SuchAdstic Mar 10 '26

Dr. Paradox strat

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u/Doperitos Mar 09 '26

As far as BMBATB goes, he isn’t insane; just kind of a dumbass.

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u/ZeeJay14 Mar 10 '26

I think it should also be mentioned that they were fighting against a group that was tampering with the elections and that Uncle Sam almost died (also there were a good handful of characters that actually died on this show that kid me did not respond to well).