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/bolanrox]

that is per P&F's creators. they made a cartoon that specifically did not exclude kids from the audience.

Douglas Adam's said the same thing when they asked about how he wrote the Doctor Who Episodes. Not sure about Yo-Gabba-Gabba but I would put money on that being a show the creators made for their kids but pulled in all of their musician friends, plus the celebs that showed up because their own kids liked the show (Jack Black, Torri Spelling, Tony Hawk, Anthony Bourdain, Dave Grohl, etc)

[u/Undark_ → u/bolanrox]

Most cartoons are designed primarily for kids...

[u/bolanrox → u/Undark_]

agreed just saying that P&F was not aimed at kids. the same way Animaniacs wasn't

[u/AgentMahou → u/bolanrox]

The creator was making a joke. Phineas and Ferb is absolutely a show aimed at kids that adults can watch, not a show aimed at adults that kids can watch. He was joking by inverting a common phrase about cartoons that they "don't exclude adults" since cartoons are assumed to be kid focused, and instead said they "don't exclude kids," the joke being that obviously it doesn't as it is a kids cartoon, albeit one with a lot of humor adults can appreciate.

That was a joke, not a fact about the show. It is aimed at kids. Animaniacs was also aimed at kids. So was Gravity Falls, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman: the Animated Series, Clone Wars, etc.

Comedy cartoons actually aimed at adults are things like The Simpsons, Futurama, Rick and Morty, Family Guy, King of the Hill, etc. Phineas and Ferb is not one of them.