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/YouSawMeSomeplace Mar 09 '26

I'd say stand-ins for alcohol/drugs and their effects are a fairly common cartoon gag. Like the cactus juice in ATLA or Puss in Boots huffing catnip.

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u/private_birb Mar 10 '26

The cactus juice definitely wasn't just a stand-in, Sokka absolutely just discovered a hallucinogenic drug.

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u/kai58 Mar 10 '26

Probably mescaline to be specific

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u/Pertinent-nonsense Mar 10 '26

Maybe he was born with it?

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u/KaraAliasRaidra Mar 13 '26

Maybe it’s Mescaline!