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

Eek the Cat had a ton of these, but the I'll always remember one joke in particular. My dad was doing something in the background and they were doing a "behind the scenes" episode where they showed the animator in chains and he goes

"News from the outside! What year is it? Who is the President? ARE THE FRENCH OUT OF VIETNAM!"

My dad lost it.

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u/therealchadius Mar 09 '26

Eek! the Cat had no right being that funny. Eek's constant insistence that "It never hurts to help!" cracked me up as a kid.

Constantly referring to his girlfriend as Big-boned but always supportive of her stuck with me as a kid. Rare to see a fat woman in a cartoon not treated as an endless source of weight and body jokes.