History WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Whoopee, an animated ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' series! That means it's got to be just as cartoonishly cute and silly as the original game, right? But as this show reminds you, DarkerAndEdgier ''this is NOT the case.'' Despite the show stemming from a teen-rated IP, the series itself is rated 16+ (TV-14 in the US) for [[DarkerAndEdgier violence, some strong language (with characters, especially Vi, using "fuck"), and some particularly brutal sequences]].

** WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids/SuperheroSeries
** WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids/FoxCartoonsAndFX
** WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids/AdultSwim

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' is a cartoon from the same man who brought us ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. While the latter may have had a good number of sexual innuendos, disturbing violence, and mild swearing (as it was intended for Creator/AdultSwim initially), it was still ostensibly a kids' show; ''Close Enough'', being an upfront adult series, has more blatant depictions of drug use, drinking, and a fair amount of cursing and sex jokes, though it doesn't go as overboard as you'd think.

* ''WesternAnimation/BromwellHigh''. Despite being barely well-known, it is probably the most triumphant example of this trope. You can never go through an episode WITHOUT major uses of the F and S words, and it features a ''lot'' of sexual references yet it got a DVD release by the FAMILY division kaBOOM! Entertainment and airs on the Australian children's network Creator/ABCMe. Naturally, the DVD release got a CHVRS rating of 18A (the equivalent of a US R rating).

* ''WesternAnimation/BromwellHigh''. Despite being barely well-known, it is probably the most triumphant example of this trope. It airs on the Canadian kids network Teletoon, so that means it automatically is for kids, right? '''Wrong'''. You can never go through an episode WITHOUT major uses of the F and S words, and it features a ''lot'' of sexual references (and in Latin America, it also aired on [adult swim] ''for a reason'') yet it got a DVD release by the FAMILY division kaBOOM! Entertainment and airs on the Australian children's network Creator/ABCMe. Naturally, the DVD release got a CHVRS rating of 18A (the equivalent of a US R rating).

* ''WesternAnimation/FishPolice'' was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about anthropomorphic fish, with colorful backgrounds, many fish-themed puns and a {{Disneyesque}} animation style, ''very'' loosely based on the [[ComicBook/FishPolice comic book series]] and aired as an early competitor to ''The Simpsons'' (back during its GoldenAge when it was seen as the greatest American television show, and not a lesson on why most TV shows should just quit if they start to run out of steam). It was also filled with content that went beyond what can acceptably be considered ParentalBonus in a "kids'" cartoon -- including an episode that had an underwater version of a red light district[[note]]a part of an urban neighborhood filled with legal and illegal sex businesses, such as sex toy stores, X-rated book and video stores, strip clubs, porno theaters, underground sex clubs, illicit massage parlors, and, of course, pimps and whores on the street[[/note]]. What's worse is that in some countries, it aired on daytime Creator/CartoonNetwork back-to-back with children's shows (though there may have been edits done to the international versions to make it more kid-friendly).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' is a BlackComedy WorkCom that Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly thick-witted, PointyHairedBoss; kids probably wouldn't understand this anyways. Despite this, it aired on '''FOX KIDS''' on Argentina.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' cartoons start off TV-Y, but then becomes TV-14 or TV-MA near the end, due to the gory nature.

* One of the best-known cases of this trope (in the days before ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and Creator/SethMacFarlane's shows, but right around the time that ''The Simpsons'' was considered popular/controversial) is when ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' (a pair of idiotic teenagers who do dangerous things and try to get laid) caught heat for driving younger, more impressionable viewers into imitating their dangerous stunts ([[DontTryThisAtHome mostly setting things on fire, putting dogs in laundry machines, and dropping bowling balls from bridges]]). When news of a boy burning down his trailer and killing his sister cropped up, the boy's mother protested the show's content (even though the family didn't have cable at the time of the incident). As a result, Beavis could no longer display pyromaniac tendencies or grunt "Fire! Fire!" (though the movie and the revived series brought those back), and most of the older episodes had to be edited to remove anything considered imitable.

* ''WesternAnimation/Dilbert'' is a BlackComedy WorkCom that Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly thick-witted, PointyHairedBoss; kids probably wouldn't understand this anyways. Despite this, it aired on '''FOX KIDS''' on Argentina.

* ''WesternAnimation/Dilbert'' is a BlackComedy WorkCom that Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly thick-witted, PointyHairedBoss; kids probably wouldn't understand this anyways. Despite this, it aired on '''FOX KIDS''' on Spain.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/Dilbert'' is probably a big example.

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* Despite the fact that Creator/CartoonNetwork's nocturnal block is called '''Creator/{{Adult|Swim}}''' [[Creator/AdultSwim Swim]] for a reason, kids are still prone to tune in to the programs shown. A lot of them tend to be fans of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', and ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. It helps that the network itself is kid-friendly [[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} (more or less)]] during the day.
** ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' seems like an innocent children's show at first, being about a young boy and his adventures with his MadScientist grandpa. However, '''''it isn't'''''. It contains plenty of violence, gore, threat, and peril that's better off in teen and adult entertainment. It also has several sex jokes, a good deal of cursing [[note]] The syndicated and streaming versions are TV-14 and bleep the f-bombs, but the Blu-Ray/DVD releases don't, and thus carry a TV-MA rating.[[/note]] and adult themes, up to including a disturbing AttemptedRape at the main character, and the aforementioned scientist is an uncaring sociopath and raging alcoholic who always puts his family and grandson in danger due to his bizarre experiments. Despite the "super-scientist on an adventure through the universe" plot, it's ''definitely'' not ''Series/DoctorWho''. It doesn't help that there is an innocent spinoff {{mon}}s parody game called ''VideoGame/PocketMortys'', that is only rated E10+, or that that it occasionally starts the [adult swim] block after Cartoon Network ends. Both season sets also appear in the children's section of Overstock.com, even though other Adult Swim shows have managed to avoid this, and have also appeared as sponsored items on Amazon listings of [=DVDs=] aimed at kids such as ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' and ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''.
*** At an official Comic Con panel in 2017 for the show, a nine-year-old boy said that ''Rick and Morty'' was the best show ever. Everyone at the panel, including the people speaking at the panel, responded in shock and asked him "Why are you watching Adult Swim?".
** While the first four seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' ''are'' intended for kids, the fifth revival season on Creator/AdultSwim certainly is ''not''. While it retains the same visual style and humour, it also gained a TV-14 rating, which allowed it to be far DarkerAndEdgier than previous seasons. The title character contemplates and later attempts suicide, there's a lot of onscreen blood and graphic onscreen death (for example, in the second episode, a character gets their throat slit), some mild language (such as a certain "[[MemeticMutation penis]]"), and adult themes such as Jack having to convince himself that it's justifiable to kill people in self-defence.
** Teletoon, the Canadian version of Cartoon Network, specifically airs warnings before and during each show from 9pm on (the "Teletoon at Night" block) that the shows are not intended for children. They actually build in a margin for error in that they start with an hour of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and then come the shows like ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''. By the time the later shows roll around, the warnings include comments like "...meant for 14 years of age and older. And if you aren't 14, what are you doing up this late?"
** Even with airing in a midnight slot when kids wouldn't exactly normally be up, ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' has also received criticism and ire from parental groups and media reviewers for its excessive violence and sexual references. When it briefly aired in Canada on G4, an episode was rated "PG" by mistake, which caused [[http://www.cbsc.ca/g4-tech-tv-re-superjail/ much backlash and complaints from the decidedly MORE than "PG" content]].
** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfTheWonderTwins'' shorts are often mistaken for being kid friendly. They were created by Creator/AdultSwim for people who were kids when ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' was on, which would make them over twenty when the shorts came out. They're mercilessly full of BlackComedy and CringeComedy making fun of the MemeticLoser perception of the ComicBook/WonderTwins.
** Delta Airlines classifies ''Rick and Morty'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheJellies'' as part of their Sky Kids TV service alongside such kids' fare as ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.
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* The Creator/SethMacFarlane cartoon franchise, which boasts such shows as ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' and the always-polarizing ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', is one of the most frequent targets of the claim in the 2000s and 2010s. Critics, including the Parents Television Council -- in harshly criticizing the frequent very adult plots, extreme violence, crude language and lewd sexual situations -- cite the fact that the show is animated, has child-friendly businesses (such as Burger King) as frequent advertisers, has merchandise marketed to children, and is aired during early evening hours when children are potentially in the audience (and it '''''really''''' doesn't help that they occasionally start the [[Creator/AdultSwim adult swim]] block at 8). Those defending the show often point out that the show's intended audience is not children and that some won't allow their children to see it, but those claims have often been denied by the PTC and others. Even more so if one buys the DVD release. Some adult cartoons, like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', are written to comply with broadcast standards, so what you see on television is what you'll get on the DVD[[note]]with few exceptions: the DVD versions of "Marge Gets a Job," "New Kids on the Blecch," "Viva Ned Flanders," and "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" altered Mrs. Krabappel's line about Bart feigning Tourette Syndrome, Mr. Burns calling Smithers a "Chinaman" was changed to Smithers being "Chinese", Homer figuring out that Barney's birthday is on the same day as Hitler's was changed to being on the same day as the original collie who played Lassie, and a sexy Superbowl commercial about the Catholic Church had "Catholic" removed from the line "The Catholic Church: We've Made a Few...Changes". While most of these were for offensive content, the Hitler line was censored due to [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} a tragedy that occurred]] [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents on that date]][[/note]]. The [=MacFarlane=] cartoons, however, are written first and then censored for broadcast, so the DVD versions are often more explicit.
** When the first few seasons or so of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' were released on DVD in UsefulNotes/{{Norway}}, it was rated 7. Later seasons, however, got rated 15.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (the animated series that made modern TV animation what it is today, for better and worse) has dealt with adult subjects like animal abuse, child abuse, politics, alcoholism, sex, religion, class inequality, and juvenile delinquency, but back when it first aired, a lot of people didn't accept it as an adult cartoon because of how simplistic the animation and art was, and trashed it for corrupting the younger generation due to the subject matter and having Bart Simpson (who, back then, was written as a more destructive, 1990s spin on Dennis the Menace) as the main focus of the stories. It also didn't help that ''Simpsons'' merchandise back then were sold as children's toys.
** ''The Simpsons'' was even, in 1991, declared by Channel 4 to be the Greatest Kids' TV Show ever, despite not actually being a kids' show.
** WordOfGod says it was never meant to be a kids' show and the bright color scheme was meant as an attention-grabber for FOX executives and viewers who just happened to be channel surfing.
** Even actual children's shows referenced ''The Simpsons'' as if they were in the same category. When ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' aired ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'', they parodied ''The Simpsons'' in a way only viewers would recognize...only some of it was cleaned up, like changing Flanders from a Christian to a bearded hippie and making the Barney Gumble {{expy}} a gross, belching slob instead of a drunk, though he does go inside a place called "Mike's" (a parody of "Moe's Tavern") when he gets hit with radioactive slime and becomes a superhero[[note]]this may have been a ParentalBonus[[/note]].
** Before this, the characters made a cameo appearance in the celebrity version of the ''Series/SesameStreet'' segment "Monster In The Mirror".
** At one point, ''The Simpsons'' even aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}. No, not Creator/AdultSwim, '''daytime''' Cartoon Network.
** This was done in-universe in the very first ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'', even though the subjects mentioned weren't actually for children.
--->'''Homer''': Oh, no, Marge! Come on, please!\\
'''Marge''': Homer, I'm not sleeping with the lights on. They're just children's stories. They can't hurt you.
** Not helping is that Simpsons shorts were playing before ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}''.
** Even Wiki/ThisVeryWiki has made this mistake, as at one point, the ParentalBonus page contained examples from ''The Simpsons''.
* In 1998, ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' was nominated for a [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Kids' Choice Award]], despite being an adult show that deals with similar subjects touched on both ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, worker incompetence, spousal abuse, suicide, mental illness, infidelity, marital strife, death, sexual harassment[[note]]and not just man on woman; the episode "That's What She Said" depicted male on male harassment with a character making lewd jokes that does offend some of the men who work at Strickland Propane, and "Jon Vitti Presents: Return to La Grunta" had Hank humped by a dolphin, with the hotel staff not taking him seriously[[/note]], drug abuse[[note]]mostly tobacco and marijuana smoking and alcohol consumption[[/note]], and indecency in the media. As mentioned on the AnimationAgeGhetto page, many children and teens stayed away from this show because they found it boring (which is what a lot of detractors of the show have said about ''King of the Hill'' in comparison to ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'', the latter of which is more chaotic and raunchy). Its general cleanliness, despite being a show aimed at older audiences, is specifically the reason Cartoon Network often airs it at the start of its nighttime "adult" block back when they used to hold the syndication rights to the show. It acts as a middle-ground between normal kid-aimed Cartoon Network and Adult Swim by being adult-aimed but not "too mature" that parents will get mad if their kid catches an episode.
* If you turn to the search menu for your DVR and search for ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', you will find it labeled as children's programming, despite the excessive bloody violence, copious female nudity, and sexist/racist/overall politically incorrect humor.
* In the mid 2000's, there were passionate child fans of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' who were in the 7-12 range. Even though it may look like a cool animated sitcom about outer space, at times it can be DarkerAndEdgier than Creator/MattGroening's other animated sitcom, ''The Simpsons''.
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* One of the biggest is ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; despite airing at a time when kids should be in bed, some kids watch it anyway. Despite the animation using a paper cut-out doll style, and the main characters being children, it is ''full'' of swearing, violent death, gore (especially in the later seasons), uncensored cartoon nudity, implied and explicit sexual abuse (including scenes of rape), and child abuse both implied and confirmed. People with various prejudices aren't always directly punished, and childish innocence is rarely a good thing, which might confuse children. It also makes fun of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and features a manipulative, sociopathic, anti-Semitic little boy (Cartman) as one of the show's most popular characters. It also doesn't help that from seasons one to six, the theme song was more cheerful and unassuming, which lured a lot of people into thinking it wasn't that bad ([[ContentWarnings despite the TV-MA rating and that warning that says all the celebrities are impersonated and the show's content is so vulgar that nobody should watch it]]).\\
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Now that the show had 20+ years of notoriety, this doesn't happen much anymore. That said, when it had a short-lived syndicated run on free-to-air TV, the FCC received complaints of kids overhearing the show or trying to stay up late to see it, and it was put on halt until the 18th season in Fall 2014 (which is why ''King of the Hill'' and ''Futurama'' now rerun in syndication and why Creator/ComedyCentral airs the syndicated episodes on their channel).
* Creator/{{Netflix}} has several animated series, some of which are fine for family viewing, others, such as ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'' and ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth''... not so much. ''Especially'' the latter. It's about puberty, but it's aimed at adults to look back upon that age period.

* ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome'' (considered the great-grandfather of adult animated sitcoms, particularly the ones FOX airs that center around dysfunctional or semi-functional families trying to make it in a dysfunctional world[[note]]''The Simpsons'', ''King of the Hill'', all three of Creator/SethMacFarlane's animated shows, and even some of the newer cartoons, like ''Bob's Burgers'', ''Bless the Harts'', and ''Duncanville''[[/note]]) was a Creator/HannaBarbera production from the early 1970s and often aired on ''Creator/CartoonNetwork'' and ''Creator/{{Boomerang}}'' (usually during primetime with late-night reruns) so people get the impression it's for children. However, it's more like a watered-down ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' mixed in with a 1970s version of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', containing issues that would be too complex or inappropriate for children[[note]]the premiere episode centered on Harry being accused of having an extramarital affair with a beautiful blonde client who wanted some help moving into a new place and the episode after that was about Irma and Harry worrying about sex and nudity being too pervasive in the media after finding out Alice is going to wear a see-through dress with no bra to Harry's award dinner ceremony[[/note]].
* One of the best-known cases of this trope (in the days before ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and Creator/SethMacFarlane's shows, but right around the time that ''The Simpsons'' was considered popular/controversial) is when ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' (a pair of idiotic teenagers who do dangerous things and try to get laid) caught heat for driving younger, more impressionable viewers into imitating their dangerous stunts ([[DontTryThisAtHome mostly setting things on fire, putting dogs in laundry machines, and dropping bowling balls from bridges]]). When news of a boy burning down his trailer and killing his sister cropped up, the boy's mother protested the show's content (even though the family didn't have cable at the time of the incident). As a result, Beavis could no longer display pyromaniac tendencies or grunt "Fire! Fire!" (though the movie and the revived series brought those back), and most of the older episodes had to be edited to remove anything considered imitable.
** Billboard [[https://books.google.com/books?id=pA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=Bananas+In+Pajamas+%26+The+Crayon+Box&source=bl&ots=dAJ-rPDQmB&sig=m7cvECO08jrxjSEdjGm0KthF5jM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwq6ih6azVAhXLMj4KHd_BCNYQ6AEIXTAL#v=onepage&q=beavis%20butt-head&f=false classified the VHS tapes of the show]] as kids' VHS tapes.

* If you turn to the search menu for your DVR and search for ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', you will find it labeled as children's programming, despite the excessive bloody violence, copious female nudity, and sexist/racist/overall politically incorrect humor.

* In the mid 2000's, there were passionate child fans of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' who were in the 7-12 range. Even though it may look like a cool animated sitcom about outer space, at times it can be DarkerAndEdgier than Creator/MattGroening's other animated sitcom, ''The Simpsons''.

* The Creator/SethMacFarlane cartoon franchise, which boasts such shows as ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' and the always-polarizing ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', is one of the most frequent targets of the claim in recent years. Critics, including the Parents Television Council -- in harshly criticizing the frequent very adult plots, extreme violence, crude language and lewd sexual situations -- cite the fact that the show is animated, has child-friendly businesses (such as Burger King) as frequent advertisers, has merchandise marketed to children, and is aired during early evening hours when children are potentially in the audience (and it '''''really''''' doesn't help that they occasionally start the [[Creator/AdultSwim adult swim]] block at 8). Those defending the show often point out that the show's intended audience is not children and that some won't allow their children to see it, but those claims have often been denied by the PTC and others. Even more so if one buys the DVD release. Some adult cartoons, like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', are written to comply with broadcast standards, so what you see on television is what you'll get on the DVD[[note]]with few exceptions: the DVD versions of "Marge Gets a Job," "New Kids on the Blecch," "Viva Ned Flanders," and "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" altered Mrs. Krabappel's line about Bart feigning Tourette Syndrome, Mr. Burns calling Smithers a "Chinaman" was changed to Smithers being "Chinese", Homer figuring out that Barney's birthday is on the same day as Hitler's was changed to being on the same day as the original collie who played Lassie, and a sexy Superbowl commercial about the Catholic Church had "Catholic" removed from the line "The Catholic Church: We've Made a Few...Changes". While most of these were for offensive content, the Hitler line was censored due to [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} a tragedy that occurred]] [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents on that date]][[/note]]. The [=MacFarlane=] cartoons, however, are written first and then censored for broadcast, so the DVD versions are often more explicit.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' (the original shorts from 1930 to 1969) were, according to its directors and how it was distributed back then, meant for general audiences (i.e. kids and adults, though most of the humor in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons would either be too risqué; for kids or [[ParentalBonus wouldn't be readily understood by kids]][[note]]the latter of which would be things like jokes about popular celebrities or events at the time. The original ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons were pretty much what ''The Simpsons'', ''South Park'', and ''Family Guy'' would be like if they were made in the days when animated shorts, live-action shorts, and B-movies were part of the movie-going experience[[/note]]). When the cartoons were syndicated for TV, a lot of the cartoons had to be edited or banned outright so they would appeal to kids (and a new generation of adults who would see some of the outdated jokes and scenes as [[ValuesDissonance racist, sexist, or un-PC]]). The DVD releases of the cartoons have the shorts uncut and even include a warning in the beginning, stating that the cartoons are products of a different era and should be seen from a historical perspective.

** Even ThisVeryWiki has made this mistake, as at one point, the ParentalBonus page contained examples from ''The Simpsons''.

** Dish Network program guides sometimes used to label some Creator/AdultSwim shows and anime, such as the anime adaptation of ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'', as "Family/Children".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfTheWonderTwins'' shorts are often mistaken for being kid friendly. They were created by Creator/AdultSwim for people who were kids when ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' was on, which would make them over twenty when the shorts came out. They're mercilessly full of BlackComedy and CringeComedy making fun of the MemeticLoser perception of the ComicBook/WonderTwins.

** Delta Airlines classifies ''Rick and Morty'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheJellies'' as part of their Sky Kids TV service alongside such kids' fare as ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' (the original shorts from 1930 to 1969) were, according to its directors and how it was distributed back then, meant for general audiences (i.e. kids and adults, though most of the humor in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons would either be too risqué; for kids or [[ParentalBonus wouldn't be readily understood by kids]][[note]]the latter of which would be things like jokes about popular celebrities or events at the time. The original Looney Tunes cartoons were pretty much what ''The Simpsons'', ''South Park'', and ''Family Guy'' would be like if they were made in the days when animated shorts, live-action shorts, and B-movies were part of the movie-going experience[[/note]]). When the cartoons were syndicated for TV, a lot of the cartoons had to be edited or banned outright so they would appeal to kids (and a new generation of adults who would see some of the outdated jokes and scenes as [[ValuesDissonance racist, sexist, or un-PC]]). The DVD releases of the cartoons have the shorts uncut and even include a warning in the beginning, stating that the cartoons are products of a different era and should be seen from a historical perspective.

Parents, just because it is a cartoon doesn't always mean its for kids, as many of these examples contain sex, violence and tons of F-bombs. [softreturn]

** ''WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts'': Often brings up adult themes in the interviews, as well as most of it's humor going over younger viewers' heads.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' is a cartoon from the same man who brought us ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. While the latter may have had a good number of sexual innuendoes, disturbing violence, and mild swearing (as it was intended for Creator/AdultSwim initially), this show ''definitely'' makes ''Regular Show'' look G-rated in comparison. ''Close Enough'' is an adult cartoon that blatantly shows drug use, drinking, and has the characters swearing into a storm.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' (the original shorts from 1930 to 1969) were, according to its directors and how it was distributed back then, meant for general audiences (i.e. kids and adults, though most of the humor in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons would either be too risqué; for kids or [[ParentalBonus wouldn't be readily understood by kids]][[note]]the latter of which would be things like jokes about popular celebrities or events at the time. The original Looney Tunes cartoons were pretty much what ''The Simpsons'', ''South Park'', and ''Family Guy'' would be like if they were made in the days when animated shorts, live-action shorts, and B-movies were part of the movie-going experience[[/note]]). When the cartoons were syndicated for TV, a lot of the cartoons had to be edited or banned outright so they would appeal to kids (and a new generation of adults who would see some of the outdated jokes and scenes as racist, sexist, or un-PC). The DVD releases of the cartoons have the shorts uncut and even include a warning in the beginning, stating that the cartoons are products of a different era and should be seen from a historical perspective.

** WesternAnimation/PibAndPog: A Main/SubvertedKidsShow filled with over the top violence.
** WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts: Often brings up adult themes in the interviews, as well as most of it's humor going over younger viewers' heads.