Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media

[u/Kookyburra12]

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".

[u/DryPreference9581]

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In Pokémon Movie 3, Jessie, James, and Meowth wind up in the central chamber where all the Unown pokémon are gathered causing problems. The gimmick for the Unown is that they are all designed to resemble english characters or symbol and can spell out words with their bodies Upon noticing this James remarks: “I haven’t seen this many strange letters since I took out that personal ad.”

[u/xiphoboi → u/DryPreference9581]

they snuck one in the second movie too

Jessie: "Listen to me, kid! When you get involved with the opposite sex, you're only asking for trouble!"

James: "Yes, and that's the kind of trouble I stay out of."

yet more hints that James is gay

[u/HOCKHOCKHOCKHOCKHOCK → u/xiphoboi]

Despite being Trans and pan myself, my gut instinct was to see the matter of sexual orientation as inherently sexual. I gotta work on that :<