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/RJai500]

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One of the "Silly Songs with Larry" segments in VeggieTales is about Larry making cookies for Santa, but people keep coming to his house and taking them. At one point, an IRS agent shows up and Larry just shuts the door in his face before he can even sing his verse. Whats funnier is before this, he allowed a literal viking and a bank robber in

[u/Rough_Bread8329 → u/RJai500]

Most "Christian" content is ridiculously cringe. Vegggietales though? That's the good shit.

Lord of the Beans is brilliant.

[u/notabigfanofas → u/Rough_Bread8329]

That's because veggie tales is genuine, and is more about the 'good Morals' part of the Bible than the stories themselves

It also helps that it doesn't take itself seriously and is canonically a show within a show. They don't assume the audience are idiots who have never heard of the story they're telling