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[[folder:Advertising]]
* The Kay Jewelers ad campaign, with the tagline, "Every kiss begins with Kay". Took me a long time to figure it out. Luckily, I was alone on the viewing on which I finally got it, unlike my poor sister, who about a month later figured it out when the whole family was together watching TV.
** This troper had never realized there was anything *to* get until just now. And now I get it. Wow.
** Ooooohhhhhhhh...I get it now. I was looking for something way more [[{{Squick}} squicky in there.]]
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Funnily enough for [[{{Nausicaa}} this troper]], it's ''{{Pokemon}}''. No, not for the subject matter, or the characters, or even the FetishFuel. She had a true Moment when she watched a few episodes of the English dub again recently and understood what some of the titles were alluding to -- i.e. pop-culture references. Seriously, how could she have ''missed'' something as blatantly obvious as ''Good 'Quil Hunting''?!
** [[MokieMorty This troper]] recently re-watched some of the old (really) old episodes out of nostalgia. Brock has a lot of... Interesting dialogue. ("She can violate my rights any time!")
** It took this troper FIVE YEARS to get what was so funny about the exchange "I didn't know there were any vikings still around." "They mostly live in Minnesota." from the first movie.
* The ''SamuraiPizzaCats'' had in its opening theme song "As soon as someone finds the script we might begin the show". Initially [[{{Peteman}} this troper]] thought it was just a throwaway line given the large amounts of fourth wall breaking... then he remembered ''the scripts to the original series were never sent over''. They made all the dialogue up.
** It took [[EddieCurrent me]] a few years of the occasional repeats YTV used to air to get what, exactly, the dub was implying with Bad Bird and Jerry. And I really had no excuse no to catch "Ginzu Sword"...
* In ''GhostHunt'', Mai's being psychic was NOT, in fact, a sudden occurrence as this troper originally thought. It was foreshadowed within the first few episodes, when she correctly guesses Naru's nickname. I can't believe it took me so long to get that.
* The fact that the title ''OutlawStar'' refers to Gene's star tattoo coupled by how he's an outlaw.
* Recently watching the FullMetalAlchemist dub over again for the first time in almost a year. In episode 12, a minor villain who has some fauxlosipher's stones appears to run out, and Ed and Al are surprised to find that he has more. He says, at this point: "Didn't think I had the stones?" Just now realized what he was punning.
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[[folder:BoardGames]]
* It took this troper over ten years to figure out the joke behind "Mr. Boddy" from ''{{Clue}}''. He burst out laughing in the middle of class, and when asked what was so funny, just said, "It's funny because his name is 'Boddy' and he's dead."
** Doesn't work in the original version, sadly, since the deceased's name was Dr Black before the game crossed the Atlantic...
** So Dr [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black died first]]...?
*** ... wow. That a swiss, or FridgeBrillance?
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[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* Pick an ''{{Asterix}}'' book, any ''Asterix'' book. Film parodies, political and social satire, sly tips-of-the-hat to rival cartoonists (especially Hergé, creator of ''{{Tintin}}''), lampoons of French regional stereotypes... Goscinny and Uderzo packed the Asterix books with references to ensure that while the kids were enjoying the slapstick comedy and superpowered fights, the grownups could congratulate themselves on getting all the references.
** And the ''names!''. Dear god, the names. If you haven't read Asterix since you were a kid, you will crack up just reading the cast list...
* ThisTroper used to know every ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strip by heart, yet he can still go back, read one of the books, and suddenly get a joke that he used to be too young to understand.
** I was a very sheltered child and didn't figure out what all those [[SymbolSwearing funny symbols]] were supposed to be for an embarrassingly long time.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' works on two levels: it mixes wacky cartoon antics (for the kids and kids-at-heart) with a traditional film noir storyline (for the grownups, and the kids when they grow up).
** Not to mention the sheer amount of dirty jokes/visual puns that would fly right over a kid's head. "Booby Trap" and The "Jessica in Eddie's Office" scene comes to mind immediately.
*** Or the references to Golden-Age cartoons and studios -- The Ink And Paint Club for example. ("Walt sent me.")
*** And then there was the subverted ParentalBonus: the photos of Jessica Rabbit "playing patty-cake" with the victim. The photos depict... Jessica Rabbit literally playing patty-cake with the victim.
*** The patty-cake scene also parodies a scene in ''Chinatown'' where a client is being shown pictures of his cheating wife.
* ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'' may suffer from AdaptationDecay, but a lot of its humor (particularly for a family film from 1971), such as the SeriousBusiness hunt for the Golden Tickets, is surprisingly sharp in a way that this troper didn't get until she was a preteen, and even more so as an adult. GeneWilder's performance in the lead could be seen as one giant Swiss Moment once a kid has learned to understand both sarcasm and the various literary quotes he uses (just funny non-sequiturs to this troper as a tot).
** Not to mention this GettingCrapPastTheRadar quote from early in the movie:
--->I am now telling this computer ''exactly'' what it can do with a lifetime's supply of chocolate!
** The password to the musical lock is the opening bit of the overture to ''TheMarriageOfFigaro''. Upon hearing it, Mrs. Teavee nods knowingly and says "Rachmaninoff". This joke took me ten years.
** This Troper was cast as Gwendolyn Fairfax in her high school's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest." Upon reading her script she realized that one of her lines, "The suspense is terrible! I hope it will last" was directly referenced in ''Willy Wonka.'' It was from then on known by cast and crew as "the Willy Wonka line."
* [[{{Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] just recently realized how freaking filthy RobinWilliams' dialog in ''MrsDoubtfire'' was.
** We are talking about Robin "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Get Shit Past The Radar]]" Williams.
**This troper remembers watching that movie years later with her mother and suddenly realizing that the two guys who help Robin's character make the costume were gay. She said this quite loudly and with an air of astonishment that put her mother in stitches.
*** You think that's bad? My uncle was married to a woman who went by "Jack," as in, short for "Jacqueline." So when Williams says that "Uncle Frank and Aunt Jack" made the costume, my sister and I wondered why everybody was laughing. After all, we ''had'' an Aunt Jack. We were kids, but still. It took a while to hit us.
*** This troper understands. He has an Uncle Jessie (named after the famous outlaw) and Aunt Jack (like above Jacqueline).
** "Oh I'm sorry, am I being a little graphic? I'm sorry. Well, I hope you're up for a little competition. She's got a power tool in the bedroom, dear. It's her own personal jackhammer. She could break sidewalk with that thing. She uses it and the lights dim, it's like a prison movie. Amazed she hasn't chipped her teeth." I could go on forever, but that one is my favorite.
* [[{{Clarabell}} This troper]] thought the mom in ''{{Pleasantville}}'' just ''really enjoyed the bath'' until he read a review/synopsis several years later ...
*This troper first watched ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' when she was a sophomore in high school. When she watched it, she thought it was one of the stupidest things she'd ever seen. The next day she was cracking up in the middle of class over how hilarious the movie was.
** This troper's MontyPython-related SwissMoment came the first time she ''watched'' the movie, because her parents (especially her dad) spent her entire childhood saying things like "We want...a SHRUBBERY!" and she would go "Dad, you're weird." Now, of course, she's the one quoting Python at every opportunity.
** [[{{Gizbit99}} This Troper]]'s parents had one of these upon said troper's first watching of the movie. They never understood why the ending was just solid black for a few minutes. They thought it was just them being weird. Cue this troper cracking up with laughter, as the black is because the credits people were fired during the opening of the movie.
* It took this troper four viewings of the ''IronMan'' movie before he finally got the joke when Tony is boarding his plane and says "I got caught doing a piece for ''Vanity Fair''." I kept thinking it was the ''car.''
* It took this troper ''10 years'' and many re-watchings of ''{{Speed}}'' to get the "Oh yeah, well I'm ''taller''" taunt at the end. The fact that Keanu Reeves is actually taller than Dennis Hopper (even with his head) was confusing.
* ''TheMuppetMovie'': [[{{Revolos55}} This Troper]] loved this movie as a kid and watched it countless times. It wasn't until rewatching it almost 15 years later that the running gag of "Can you help me? I've lost my way." / "Have you tried Hare Krishna?" made sense.
** [[{{Twitch}} This Troper]] just had a SwissMoment ''right now'', as Peter David slipped a reference to this into an issue early in his run on {{Comicbook/X-Factor}} -- Madrox is hunting a rogue duplicate in the Smithsonian, encounters Kermit The Frog and they exchange a similar bit of dialogue, although it's revealed that the Kermit puppet [[spoiler:is being operated by the rogue dupe, who took it from its display case and proceeds to punch his pursuer in the face with it.]]
** And while not being able to point out the specific SwissMoment, the fact that a fork in the road was an actual navigation term and not just something weird for the movie...
** Also the sheer number of cameos... Seriously, go look at [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079588/ the cast list]] and try to figure out how many of them you would recognize at six years old.
* This troper was fairly shocked when she finally discovered exactly how dirty most of ''{{Grease}}'' really is. Holy cow, how did I get away with singing this stuff as a kid? "Well she was good, you know what I mean"? "You know that I ain't braggin, she's a real..." well. You get the idea.
* Something that goes straight over most viewer's heads, from ''BlazingSaddles'': Cleavon Little, a black man, plays a character named Bart. In other words, he's Black Bart.
* This troper finally had her Swiss Moment regarding Bill Murray's character in ''{{Little Shop of Horrors}}''. That whole [[TooKinkyToTorture scenario]] went right over my head... for about eleven years.
* Upon re-watching ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' for the first time in many years, This Troper suddenly realized what the "Keymaster" and "Gatekeeper" bit [[FreudWasRight was all about]].
** You can hide behind the same excuse I do, in that the first few times it was the television edit I saw.
** It took me a while to work out what that ghost did to Ray in his dream as well...
* This Troper is ashamed to admit how long it took her to get the "Well you never know if it's going to run" joke ("A Little Priest") regarding politicians from the film/musical Sweeney Todd. She still facepalms thinking about that.
**Same thing for this Troper. She also missed the "sweep, if you want it cheap, and you like it ''dark''" until she started actually thinking about the lyrics she had been blindly singing along to.
* While in the car some five or six years after seeing the movie this troper with no prompting suddenly got the "cover of ''High Times''" joke at the end of ''[[SoBadItsHorrible Road Trip]]''.
* Don't ask how long it took to get the "red herring" pun from {{Clue}}. Just don't.
* The last scene of ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' shows Nick laughing as he finally makes the connection between artificial respiration and French class. I made the connection several years after seeing the film.
* Even though she watched it quite a bit when she was younger, it's only now that [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] is getting the more 'subtle' jokes in ''{{Robin Hood Men In Tights}}''. One of the more prominent being why the Merry Men gasped at Robin's '[[VisualInnuendo sword]]' in the 'Moonlight Serenade' scene.
*Some time in the late 1980s, this troper saw ''Young Frankenstein'' for the first time. Some time in May, 2009, this troper finally realized why the horses bray whenever Frau Blucher's name is mentioned.
** Most likely, that troper is wrong. Most of the commonly cited reasons are apocryphal. It really is because she's just that scary.
* This troper was recently discussing ''Cast Away'' with a friend, who in the middle of the conversation realized why the volleyball's name was Wilson.
** Wait, it's got a special meaning?
* This troper never understood that [[OrphanedPunchline final punchline]] to Marlin's sea cucumber joke at the end of FindingNemo. Months later it finally hit home: "With fronds like these, who needs anemones?" was an IncrediblyLamePun of that stock "with friends like these..." gag.
* This editor is almost embarrassed to admit how old he was when he realized that JohnBelushi falling off the side of the sorority house in ''AnimalHouse'' was a boner joke.
* Similarly, in ''{{Spaceballs}}'', when Barf says "[[ADateWithRosiePalms I'm my own best friend]]". This editor didn't figure that one out 'til his twenties.
** Referring to a dog as "man's best friend" has ''nothing to do with sex''.
*** You see, there's this thing called "DoubleEntendre"...
* Watching ''PulpFiction'' at the age f nearly 23 was a MAJOR SwissMoment for me. So many parodies, nods, references and homages over so many years, that I had never understood previously.
* [[MtOlivePickles This troper]] has watched ''AChristmasStory'' with her family for years, and growing up was confused about why Ralphie got the bar of soap in his mouth for saying "fudge". She even thought that in some contexts, fudge could be a bad word but wasn't sure when. Fast-forward to when she was seventeen and bought the movie on DVD as a present for her dad, and going over the scene again and realizing what exactly Ralphie got in trouble for saying. Cue laughter and plenty of "How did I not get that sooner?"
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Pick a {{Discworld}} book. Any Discworld book. The sheer amount to references to everything under the sun in the books has prompted the creation of [[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/ the reference file]]. Some of the early books became far more enjoyable once this troper was able to understand all the jokes.
** ''Witches Abroad'' is an overall satire on fairy tales and happy endings in general, but it was only some time after reading it that I spotted the significance of the main villain creating her artificial idea of the perfect fairy tale kingdom in the middle of a swamp. Hello, Disneyworld.
*** ...Oh my ''[[FridgeBrilliance God]]''. That one's not even in the file!
**** Probably because Disneyworld isn't in the middle of a swamp. It's in the middle of orange groves. The swampy parts of Florida are elsewhere.
***** It works if you go by the maps for sale there or at Disneyland[[HollywoodAtlas .]]
***** It's in the middle of orange groves ''now''....
******Yeah, and it was before. Go ahead and check construction videos. Part of the part was supposed to have orange trees, but Walt marked uin a different color ribbon than the others and the truck driver was colorblind.
*******Actually, that was the original Disneyland in California. Have a look at Walt Disney World on Google Earth sometime. It's completely surrounded by patchy wetlands.
*** This troper heard that Disney World was almost built in New Orleans, but was built in Florida when it turned out the local government was too corrupt. Sound familar?
** It took this troper until he saw the Animated version, to get the "Elvish" and other jokes in ''Soul Music'', though as soon as I Heard it, I held my head in shame. Though I don't think I had heard of the "Bigger than Jesus" thing the first time I read it. To be fair, I did suffer from a speech problem, so even today, I sometimes don't fully connect how words sound and how they are spelt.
*** Ditto with the SignifigantName of ''Imp Y Celin'', when this troper read it at age twelve (yeah, I had few friends), I never got the point of ''Bud (Y) of the Holly''.
*** The "Bigger than Cheeses" line isn't in the book, anyway. It's one of a few gags the scriptwriters added, and Pterry said he ''wished'' he'd thought of.
** I just realised, ''this morning'', that "knurd" is "drunk" spelled backwards. Only took me, what, twelve years?
** [[DaibhidC This troper]] only recently realised, after reading ''Wyrd Sisters'' countless times, that when the Duke protests that he's ''not'' the Fool's "nuncle", this is the same foreshadowing as Granny's "A man has to be a born fool to be a king".
* I found and read my father's copy of ''TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' when I was seven. I liked it overall, but it took me ''nine years'' to get the "it's unpleasantly like being drunk'' joke. I was sixteen and sitting on a bus thinking about nothing in particular when it suddenly dawned on me. (Actually, when I went back and re-read that book as an adult I realised how many other jokes I'd missed, so I guess pretty much all of it could fall under this trope.)
** This troper was actually thinking over the above moment and wondering what the joke was because he ''still'' didn't get it...before getting it. The full joke, for those who don't remember, is "It's unpleasantly like being drunk", "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?", "You ask a glass of water." This troper thought it was just riffing on drinking lots of water being a hangover cure -- [[spoiler:in fact, it's talking about being drunk like a glass of water is drunk.]]
***This troper literally woke up knowing the answer. She didn't get it for years until she figured it out ''in a dream'', woke up, and realized it wasn't normal dream nonsense, and that the explanation actually made sense.
***This troper was actually ashamed that it took her the better part of a decade to get the joke.
***This troper would like to thank you for explaining that joke, since he's only had the chance to read the translated (Finnish in this case) version of the book, and it made no sense there.
** Another example: ThisTroper remembers a story about a kid who watched a short film about pollution, after which the teach casually remarked that the car looked like an old Ford Prefect. The kid suddenly burst out laughing, as he finally realized where the ''Hitchhiker's'' character's name had come from.
*** Even funnier if you remember how Ford met Arthur. (Arthur saved him from getting hit by a car due to Ford thinking that cars were the dominant species on Earth.)
**** For bonus points, the car that nearly hits him in the movie is a Ford Prefect.
** It took ThisTroper several years of intermittent exposure to information on RichardNixon to realize that the name of the computer Deep Thought may be a pun on Deep Throat (Adams himself having identified it as an "incredibly obvious pun").
*** Perhaps ThatTroper isn't quite old enough to remember Linda Lovelace...
** About the third time I read the first book in the series, I finally understood how that mind control alien DrinkingGame had this [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean penalty that was "obscenely biological" and Ford Prefect played to lose]].
** It took [[QuantumToast this troper]] several months to get the "Stavro Mueller Beta" thing.
** [[FusionDragon This troper]] only recently got the joke behind the phrase "the scale of the problem is not widely understood".
** [[DaibhidC This troper]] only recently realised that the Guide's publisher, Megadodo Publications, isn't just a funny collection of syllables, but named after a "Mega-dodo" in the same way as "Mega-donkey" and "Mega-grasshopper". And, therefore, is probably a reference to a ''real'' publishing company named after a flightless bird...
* The first few times ThisTroper read ''ArtemisFowl,'' she completely failed to pay attention to the pen names the main character used when submitting articles to scientific journals. Then she noticed that Artemis had published an article on psychology under the name [[FreudianSlip Dr. F. Roy Dean Schlippe]].
* This Troper just got one -- during the introduction scene of ''[[StarWars Starfighters of Adumar]]'', Derek "Hobbie" Klivian tells the mission documentarian, "I'll get back with you on my last name. Lots of people misspell it." Indeed, [[MythologyGag his name goes back and forth between "Klivian" and "Klivan"]] depending on the source.
* Machiavelli's work, ''The Prince'' is filled with these. One good example: He describes Charles XII of France's troubles with invading Italy, one of them being that he could not deal with the Vatican, ultimately appeasing it, which was his ruin. The next chapter describes Alexander the Great's ease of conquering Darius's kingdom, which falls into a system much like the contemporary Turks, as opposed to the French. ''Sixteen'' chapters later, he compares the Vatican to the Turks, almost in an off-hand way. In essence, he's told the reader ''how to conquer the Catholic Church''. This is also a prime example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
* Peter David's ''SirAproposOfNothing'' series has [[HurricaneOfPuns so many injokes]] that sometimes it took three readings for this troper to get them all.
* Laden with historical in-jokes and literary shout-outs as it is, the ''Anno Dracula'' series by Kim Newman is just freaking made for Swiss moments. For example, in ''Bloody Red Baron'', the scene with the doctor and his assistant [[HPLovecraft West]] operating on vampires didn't really hit me until much later. Nor did the incident in which the Red Baron shoots a [[{{Peanuts}} small, annoying white dog...]]
* Norton Juster's ''The Phantom Tollbooth'' is a classic, and most kids find it funny, but it wasn't until I re-read it at the age of 19, on a whim, that I got all of the puns. The book definitely operates on two levels -- half of the jokes go over your head unless you're old enough to have heard the phrases they're punning on.
* [[{{Quillpaw}} This troper]] managed to ''invert'' this while reading BraveNewWorld. When they were talking about the children's "erotic play" she assumed she was being a perverted teenager and using the wrong meaning of the word...and then she realized yes, they really were talking about [[{{Squick}} little kids having sex]].
*This troper used to read [[Animorphs]] as a kid, and was also a pokemon fan. It was not until recently reading the Tropes page for the series that the joke "I have already made sure, Prince Jake. They think I am a "pokey man." I have told them I am an Andalite and am actually quite swift, but they insist they need to train me." refered to Pokemon.
*It took this troper an embarassingly long time to realize the puns behind the street names Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley in the ''HarryPotter'' books. (The names sound like the words 'diagonally' and 'nocturnally'.
** I only just got the Knockturn one now.
** Grim Old Place, anyone?
*[[DaibhidC This troper]] was an adult before it occured to him that when [[WinnieThePooh Eeyore]] loses his tail, and Christopher Robin fastens it back on with a nail, he's ''pinning the tail on the donkey''.
*The map at the beginning of TheToughGuideToFantasyland is a map of Europe turned upside-down. I have had that book for what, three years now?
*This troper knew that DavidWeber liked to use ''{{Safehold}}'s'' naming conventions play with names. One example he knew because of the wiki was [[{{Superman}} Kynt Clareyk]]. One he utterly failed to see, however, until it was emphasized for a separate reason, was [[{{Psycho}} Nahrmahn Baytz]].
* More of a fandom thing than actually to do with the LordOfTheRings books, but the Agent Smith/Elrond jokes were much funnier after I actually saw TheMatrix.
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' is the king of this. Nearly 200 episodes of that 90 minute long show exist, and each episode is piled high with layers of cultural reference humor, including metareferences, call-backs, and MemeticMutation (for example, their joke "I thought you were Dale" when a movie calls attention to someone's hand resulted from either a) the writers misremembering two different commercials as the same commercial or b) metareferencing the parody film Kentucky Fried Movie). Often, their references were very specific. An untold amount of space on the WWW and Usenet has been dedicated to discovering the origins of all their references, some of which were extremely specific or obscure. When asked about specific jokes in interviews, the writers themselves can't always identify the origin of a joke. Some of the jokes from the series, which ended almost ten years ago, are still mysteries. In addition, the show, while being very family friendly, was not above slipping in more risque ParentalBonus style Swiss Moments. This density is one of the major reasons individual episodes have such great rewatchability (see also: BetterOnDVD).
* When this troper was a child, she innocently watched an episode of ''SesameStreet'' featuring a special guest named "Polly Darton." Several years later after hearing some news tidbit about Dolly Parton, she finally understood what had been pegged as boring.
* Anyone who watched ''SesameStreet'' as a kid will probably have a bunch of "Oh, so that's what they were parodying" moments when they get older.
** For instance, this troper remembered a bit with an orange in a kitchen singing opera. Only upon embarking on a nostalgia binge did he realize that the orange was singing Carmen.
** Also, Placido Flamingo.
** "[[{{Columbo}} Colaaaaaambo]]" the PrivateDetective, too.
** Don't forget their extended [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vftf8TTve4s parody]] of ''TwinPeaks'', of all things.
** This troper can only imagine his kids' reaction when they figure out the MadMen sketch.
* This troper grew up watching ''{{Seinfeld}}'' with his parents. It wasn't until he watched all the episodes again on DVD that he realized how much of the show he didn't get the first time around.
* A scene from an episode of ''{{Friends}}'' has Rachel and Ross breaking up when he says he won't take full responsibility for their previous breakup. He leaves after the fight, at which point she shouts to him, "And hey, just so you know, it's ''not'' that common, it ''doesn't'' happen to every guy, and it ''is'' a big deal!" at which point Chandler shouts "I KNEW IT!" It took this troper ''five years'' to finally figure out that they weren't talking about the breakup itself.
** This Troper did the same thing with all the jokes about Joey having small feet. As well as countless other jokes. They were really too young to watch ''{{Friends}}''...
*This troper only figured out a week before ''Series/{{Heroes}}''' third series finale that "Elle" is so named because it's the first syllable of "electricity".
** [[SwissMoment Oh christ.]]
-->Recursive trope moment?
** Another layer is that "Elle" = "L," as in '''L'''ightning.
* ''TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' was surprisingly sophisticated for a kids' show, making cultural references no one in its intended audience could have possibly gotten. For one example, in the episode with Little Pete tunneling his way out of being grounded, he finds a wallet underground, looks in it, and says "Hoffa!" and pockets it. There was no kid in the early 1990s who knew about the disappearance of trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa.
* In ''DharmaAndGreg'', it's revealed that Larry and Abby nickname each other Major Tom and Ground Control. This becomes much funnier and more fitting when you find out what the song "Space Oddity" is actually about.
* ThisTroper had one of those moments involving ''TheGoonShow'', and specifically an interview with PeterSellers and Harry Secombe where Sellars was explaining that they sometimes [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got crap past the radar]]. His example was the character name Hugh Jympton, pronounced "Hugh Jampton", said it was rhyming slang for something else, and muttered the something else inaudibly to me, but to gales of laughter from the studio audience. Years later, I was leaving university for the day and, out of nowhere, thought "Hugh Jampton, Huge Hampton, Hampton Wick... oooh!", realising immediately that [[TheTwoRonnies another British comedy]] had for '''an entire season''' run a serialised sketch called "Hampton Wick"!
* This troper, a nanny in her twenties, took far too long to realize that London Tipton of ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' was a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed, [[{{Disneyfication}} Disneyfied]] version of Paris Hilton.
* This troper, not two days ago, got a joke from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' about "some girl named Molly Hatchet."
* This troper finally got this one joke from the SpinCity episode "The Rivals", in which the Mayor has accidentally caused former mayor Abe Garfield's death during an attempt to appease him, and blames himself for it. And this is in spite of having the [=DVDs=] for over three months and having watched it who knows how many times...
-->'''James:''' Morning, sir.
-->'''Mayor Winston:''' (somberly) Yes, I am, son. (hands on James's shoulders) The whole city is. (pats him on the shoulder, quietly) I'm sorry...
* This Californian troper was watching ''{{Rocky}}'', set it Philadelphia during very cold weather, and thought, "Hmm, I wonder why it's never that cold in ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. Ohh... right."
* It was far into adulthood that I got the joke behind "Fargo North, Decoder" in TheElectricCompany.
* This Troper's mother had quite a beautiful one regarding ''Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave'' that she has never since been allowed to forget. A sheep is put through a machine which washes him, then sheers him. Wallace then picks him up and says "We'll call him Shaun." The family all laughed, including my mother. Three years later, she suddenly cried out "Oh, ''that's'' why he was called Shaun the Sheep!" Yes mother. Yes, it was.
** This troper thought for the longest time that he was straight-up called Shorn...
* This troper's first watching of the Red Dwarf episode "Polymorph" was when she was about nine. Cue the scene of Kryten wearing his groinal attachment removing Lister's shrinking underpants and she giggled because it looked silly. It wasn't that funny. Many years later, an older and wiser troper watched the scene. And fell off the sofa laughing as she saw exactly what everyone else was seeing!
*When ThisTroper was a kid, my parents REFUSED to explain to me a joke in BlackAdder where BlackAdder, Baldric and Percy were all frameing the Baby-Eating Bishop of Canterburry by getting him drunk, and in the morning he wakes up in a bed with Percy in a very unusual costume.
* It took me several years to get the double meaning of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRIwuxqKyyk this]] Swedish Chef-skit.
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[[folder:Music]]
* This troper listened to TomLehrer songs from an early age; early enough to have had a moment when he realized what the "Old Dope Peddler" was selling.
** Try re-listening to the song ''Smut''
* This troper's parents listened to a lot of MeatLoaf when I was a child. I liked it but never understood it, until one day when I was about ten years old I turned to my father wide-eyed and asked, "Dad, is this song about sex?" The look on his face still makes me grin years later.
** The baseball sequence in the middle of "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" (I assume that's the above) took a while with [[{{Scifantasy}} me]], too, when I was younger. Apparently, they didn't tell Phil Rizzuto about it either -- he thought the script was improbably full of close calls, and didn't realize what he was actually "narrating" until he heard finished song.
* [[TheStray This Troper]] has a Swiss Moment when he found out a song called "Let's Go Crazy," which he'd only head as a kid on a Nintendo Piano lesson, was actually a song... done by Prince. ''That'' Prince. Though this may be more a case of CoveredUp, since I'd never actually heard the lyrics before...
* Since the middle 1980s, [[LooneyToons this troper]] has had (and frequently listened to) a copy of Tom Paxton's song "I Sold A Hammer To The Pentagon", written during the Reagan-era Pentagon procurement scandals in which the military paid outrageously high prices for everyday goods, like [[http://news.cnet.com/2009-1009_3-5404307.html $436 for a hammer]]. It was only in early 2008 that he figured out the punchline: the song comes in three verses, in the form "I sold X to the Pentagon, so you can sell Y, and we'll both be millionaires", where in the first two X and Y are related -- hammers/nails, coffee pots/coffee. In the third verse, he sold toilet seats and merely says "you know what you can sell to the... Pentagon". It took this troper over twenty years to figure out Paxton was coyly saying that you could sell literal shit to the Pentagon and get them to pay through the nose for it.
* How many people figure out on their own that ''[[TheBeatles Rubber Soul]]'' is a pun?
**Or even that the name The Beatles itself is one?
* [[YourObedientSerpent This Troper]] just had one ''right this very minute'', when a friend mentioned getting "BuFu'd" by a computer virus, and I ''finally'', after ''almost three decades'', realized what Moon Unit Zappa was calling her effeminate teacher when she dubbed him "Mr. BuFu" in the 1981 song, "Valley Girl".
*[[HeadacheJohn This Troper]] was doing a project in high school, and for reasons lost to the mists of time was transcribing the lyrics to the Dave Matthews Band song "Two Step." Halfway through, he shouted "[[FreudWasRight THIS IS ALL ABOUT SEX!]]" confusing his mother and passersby.
** This troper had the same reaction to "Crash Into Me".
* This troper listened to a lot of Sammy Hagar as a kid (This being my first exposure to heavy metal); my favorite song being ''There's Only One Way to Rock''. It wasn't until roughly 10 years later, that I finally figured out what some of the lyrics meant...and I wound up liking the song even more.
*When [[MikeK I]] first heard "Violin" by TheyMightBeGiants, I thought the bridge dividing George Washington's head into quarters was just an arbitrary bit of silliness, albeit one that fit in perfectly with the song's already [[WordSaladLyrics absurd lyrical bent]], as well as TMBG's odd fixation with severed heads in general. I then realized it kind of makes a surreal sort of sense to divide George Washington's head into quarters, since George Washington's head is ''on'' quarters. It also took me ridiculously long to realize the TMBG EP title ''Back To Skull'' was a pun on "Back to school".
* It took reading this site for [[AirshipCanon this troper]] to realize that The All American Reject's "Move Along" is about a guy trying to convince his girlfriend to not commit suicide. Namely, ''after'' he had made an AnimeMusicVideo using the song and, TalesOfSymphonia (and its then-upcoming OVA). Guess what the [[TheTwist big]] [[TheReveal event]] one third of the way into that game is? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly.]]
*[[{{Emiko}} This troper]] has a song called "GreenLantern: Hal Jordan," by J-Sin Starr, on her computer in [=MP3=] form. The track's album title is listed as "Three Million New Yorkers Died And You Weren't One Of Them." Over two years after having acquired the song, she read [[{{Watchmen}} her first Western comic.]] She laughed very, very hard when she realized that the album title was a reference to that comic.
* This troper's swiss moment came when, after not hearing it for six or so years, recalled this poem.
-->Mary had a little lamb/She also had a duck/She took it round the corner to teach it how to...
-->Fry some eggs for breakfast/Fry some eggs for tea/The more you eat the more drink the more you want to...
-->Peter had a boat, the boat began to rock/Up jumped jaws and bit off his....
-->Cocktails, gingerales, 40c a glass/If u dont like it, we'll shove 'em up your....
-->Ask no questions, tell no lies/I once saw a policeman doing up his....
-->Flies are bad, mosquitoes are worse/And that is the end of my silly little verse.
**...Now children, what rhymes with duck? This troper was singing this to someone trying to recollect it, but couldn't get past the first line as the penny dropped. It was the only line that needed a Swiss Moment however, as the rest was self explanatory to an eleven year old.
* One of [[RobinZimm this troper]]'s favorite songs from TheWho as a child was "Squeeze Box". Today, reading GettingCrapPastTheRadar ...
* WeirdAlYankovic is considered family-friendly, and [[FalconPain this troper]] started listening to him at a young age. Which meant it was between ten and fifteen years later that he understood the meaning of "I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps".
** This troper had the SAME DAMN thing happen to him. As a kid, he always thought that line was lame. And then...suddenly, it was funny.
*[[MikeK I] didn't fully get the joke of "Don't Pick It Up" by The Offspring until I started listening to more ska (well, specifically, I think it was when I first heard Operation Ivy's "Sound System" that I, er, picked it up): Ska songs often have musical breaks where the vocalist will shout "pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!", so The Offspring wrote a ska song about things one ''shouldn't'' pick up (such as dog feces, venereal disease, and gender benders).
*Listening to Julia Nunes' "Stairwell" [[MikeK this troper]] just now realized what was meant by "I'm lying here on the floor just like the man on the yellow cone": think of the fallen stick figure on the slippery floor signs.
*Once I found out the name of music magazine ''NME'' actually stands for "New Musical Express", the Gin Blossoms' album title ''New Miserable Experience'' seemed a lot more clever.
* This trooper had known the song "Girl at the Rock Show" by Blink-182 for years, but it wasn't until her senior year of highschool, that she stopped in her tracks while listing to the song and shouted "OH! Bon Jovi!" to the line "She took my hand / And I made it, I swear".
*[[MikeK I]] just figured out that the band name Days Of The New is sort of a reversal of "news of the day".
* I know I'm dating myself by admitting this, but back in the early Eighties when I was still a tween, there was a band named April Wine who came out with a song called "If You See Kay," which I loved. I heard it on the radio, sang it all the time and even taped it (and back in my day, we didn't have those fancy MP3 players. We recorded songs by holding a tape recorder in front of the radio, ''and we liked it!''). It wasn't until a few years later that I realized that the title of the song was actually the spelling of a certain word (sound it out).
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* The series ''TheFarSide'' was notorious for this; there's a story about a college professor who placed a number of the cartoons on the door of his classroom -- the more jokes his students got, the more they had learned.
* This troper and several of his friends find ''CalvinAndHobbes'' massively funnier now that they're older and wiser and thus understand much more of Bill Watterson's satire. This troper in particular has been known to cry ''and'' laugh at the same time while reading the books.
**Somewhat lampshaded when Calvin quotes Paul Gaugin, haughtily responds to the quote, waits a BeatPanel, then asks "Who the heck is Paul Gaugin?"
* There's a ''FoxTrot'' comic in which Peter has a DreamSequence with a pair of swimsuit models fighting over him. Then the models decide their suits are too pinchy and they should just take them off, at which point Peter is woken up by his alarm. ThisTroper first read that comic as an (apparently very naive) preteen, only realizing years later what the joke was.
** Several arcs became way, ''way'' funnier after I read ''TheLordOfTheRings''.
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* My parents have been fans of ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' since before my brother and I were born. Before our SwissMoment, they had to explain away about half of the jokes with, "Maybe someone pulled a funny face" -- that show was the ''embodiment'' of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
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* Since the ''{{Munchkin}}'' card list is basically a HurricaneOfPuns, there's bound to be ones you don't get until later. For example: failing to recognise the significance of "Fire Arms", not connecting the DnD creature known as the Rust Monster to the ''Munchkin'' Lust Monster, and so forth.
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* Anything by {{Shakespeare}} is likely going to evoke this. When you read ''{{Romeo and Juliet}}'' for the first time in Junior High, it probably seems densely written and pointless, unless you're a fan of random death. Come back when you've got enough literature experience to figure out what the hell's going on, and suddenly The Bard's work is beautifully written ''and'' wildly funny.
** Works the other way around, too, considering the sheer number of literature, movies and series that crib off Shakespeare plays, whether it's plots, names, quotes or [[ShoutOut homages]]. Reading them for the first time in college, [[ThisTroper This (French) Troper]] had a slew of "so '''''that's''''' what ''that'' was about" moments.
** Also, {{Shakespeare}} was a ''master'' at GettingCrapPastTheRadar. ThisTroper's favorite is the stuff Hamlet is saying when he's pretending to be mad. It was years before he realized that the stuff he says to Ophelia is downright ''raunchy''.
** This troper was actually amazed when freshman English class started reading Romeo and Juliet. "They're not old enough for the content," she thought to herself. "Freshmen are too immature to handle all these dirty puns." Then she realized that most of her class didn't get the puns at all, because they weren't quite as familiar with Elizabethan English as she was.
** Really, Shakespeare requires things to be spoken and performed to be understood properly by a modern audience. Even then, you're probably best off seeing it a couple of times, just to make sure you're picking up all the little details.
* This troper has been a ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'' fan since sixth grade... and ''just recently'' realized what exactly John Adams was referring to when he mentioned "his favorite lover's pillow" to his wife.
* An improv troupe this troper watched a while ago did a game in which two of the three actors could only say lines [[AudienceParticipation given to them by the audience.]] One audience suggestion was "I like pie." For some reason -- I don't even remember the rest of the skit -- this came up:
-->"What are you, a mathematician?!"
-->*shrug* [[IncrediblyLamePun "I like pie!"]]
** ...Five years later, in the middle of school, I suddenly burst out laughing. ''Damn'' it.
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* It took me until about a weak ago to realize the pun in the classic FinalFantasy enemies "Marlboro". Think for a moment. They're called "Marlboros" and their attack is "Bad Breath". If that's not a TakeThat I don't know what is. Also, headdesk-worthy.
* It took [[CentralAvenue this troper]] over a decade to realize that "{{PlayStation}}" was a play (heh) on "workstation."
** -blink- -blink- ... oh, you are ''kidding'' me. (Yeah, I ''still'' hadn't.)
** ...Ow...that one hurt my brain...and my ego.
* And it took [[TheomanZero this troper]] far longer than he'd care to admit to get [[SonicTheHedgehog "Miles Prower."]]
** ...Oh, great. Now I'm going to be spending all day trying to figure out what the pun is.
*** And now I get it and feel appropriately stupid.
** This trooper never got it until it was explicitly spelled out for her. You are not alone.
* Due to the sheer number of pop-culture references (some quite obscure), ''KingdomOfLoathing'' is likely to prompt some of these for most players at one time or another. ThisTroper had one recently when he introduced a ''{{Tron}}'' fan to the game and made a link, and another on noticing the names of the pets in the level 12 quest [[spoiler: the quest involves starting a war, and there are adventures for each side where you get accused of killing a pet, which is named Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination set off WWI]].
**This a double-example, as the fish is owned by a frat boy, who yells about you killing the fish named after his favorite band.
*** The KoL wiki gets into DontExplainTheJoke territory.
* Tracer Tong, in ''DeusEx''. Don't worry, if you're even ''vaguely'' familiar with some basic Windows command line commands to test network/internet status, you'll get it... ''eventually''. Let's just say that several people's responses have been to headdesk repeatedly.
* The ''GuitarHero'' series has quite a few references that will fly right over the heads of those unfamiliar to rock trivia. This editor thought one of GHIII's loading screen messages, "20 minute free form jazz odysseys are NOT okay", was just a TakeThat at another genre of music, but found out it's actually a reference to ''ThisIsSpinalTap''.
** As is "Eleven IS louder than ten" from the first GH.
*[[MrDeath This Troper]] ''just'' realized, in ''MegaManLegends'', in addition to the traditional MegaMan pun (Rock and Roll), Roll's grandfather is named "Barrell."
* [[{{Darkurai}} ThisTroper]] could never understand why the ground on the title screen for Super Mario Bros. 3 was checkered. Then he noticed that the title screen opened with a curtain rising, and that there were shadows on the supposed "sky" that was the backdrop. He then saw that the blocks in the levels were bolted to the "sky" and casting a shadow on the sky. In the higher up levels, the platforms were hanging from a ceiling of sorts, and the platforms moving on the black lines were moved by gears that were apparantly poking through the sky. Then it clicked. The entire game was ''just a stage show.'' A play. Mario was never in any danger. We were just an audience.
* In SuperMarioRPG, when Toad says "HeKnowsAboutTimedHits", he was talking to the Goomba. I thought he was talking to Mario (The Goomba knows about Timed Hits), and the Goomba just decided to wander away for no real reason.
* It took coming across the QuotesWiki for me to get this exchange from EnterTheMatrix. ''Now'' I know that Onanism ''isn't'' an obscure religious thing.
->"When are we going to find you a girlfriend?"
->"Like Augustine, I'm dedicated to a higher purpose."
->"What's that?"
->"Onanism."
->"Is that why so many saints are blind?"
->"Celibacy is a hands on job."
* It took this troper until the second playthrough of TheWorldEndsWithYou to realize the terrible pun in the "go to to √3" when you were supposed to go to route 3.
* [[AMereServantOfGod This troper]] literally ''just'' got the "pun" in PunchOut: if the main character were taller, he would be called [[JustForPun Big Mac.]]
* This editor always got a good laugh at the "[[MemeticMutation You turn 360 degrees and walk away]]" line, and never really bothered to wonder why they call it an X-Box 360. It's because [[spoiler: it's a complete revolution.]]
** Which, amusingly, might explain why they call it a Wii too.
*This troper just had one for a groan-worthy HotelMario line, of all things: ""Maybe dis'll keep dat ''lizard king'' from playing with ''The Doors''". Not even due to not being aware of Jim Morrison's FanNickname or anything.
* The Japanese console port of ''{{RayForce}}'' is called ''Layer Section''. Just now, this troper noticed a (maybe intentional) pun in "Layer Section": "[=RayForce=]" in katakana is レイフォース (reifoosu) and and "Layer Section" is レイヤセクション (reiyasekushon). ''They both start with "rei.";'' write "Layer Section" with the L's mixed up with R's and you get "'''Ray'''er Section."
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* While rewatching the animated ''IronMan'' series from the 90's, this particular comment struck me... (while doing a FantasticVoyage into Hawkeye's body) "Whatever you're doing is making him do the horizontal hula!" "Just tie him up like one of your old boyfriends!"
* The ''{{Aladdin}}'' movies become infinitely more enjoyable for older viewers who have the frame of reference to understand Robin Williams' madcap impersonations and references.
** TroperTales: The genie's impression of Peter Lorre was used by ThisTroper in helping to explain his fondness for ''{{Casablanca}}'' to a friend and [[DungeonMastersGirlfriend his girlfriend.]]
* Back when Toon Disney still ran it weekday mornings, this troper loved watching AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog; seeing the entire series in it's entirity from start to finish several times before it was removed from their schedule. A year later, when waiting impatently for the premiere of SonicX, that I finally understood why Tails lifted up his dress while he said "I just noticed; I'm a girl!" while in the book of fairy tales in the final episode of the series.
* Any and all LooneyTunes, especially the classics of the '30s and '40s, which were intended for an audience old enough to buy movie tickets.
** The spiritual revival ''{{Tiny Toon Adventures}}'', despite being aimed at the 6-12 range, pushed this to its limits, crossing into {{getting crap past the radar}} territory. The feature-length ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' includes a pun on bigamy, an extended ''Deliverance'' spoof, and a throwaway line about Esperanto of all things.
* Certainly applies to the long-running ''TheSimpsons''. If anyone claims that they can watch one of the older episodes after a gap of a few years and not find new things to laugh at, then they're goddamn liars.
**A major one for this troper was realizing that, in the episode where Santa's Little Helper gets lost and eventually is brainwashed to become one of Mr Burns' hounds, said brainwashing process is a blatant reference to the film version of ''AClockworkOrange.''
**Or the joke about conjugal visits when Marge goes to prison and tackles Homer. So that's what that was about...
**It took this (non native English speaker) troper about ten years to understand this joke:
--->'''Bart''': OK...steady, Bart. Taking ballet doesn't make you any less of a man. ''[opens the door; all the little girls point and laugh]''
--->'''Teacher''': All right, girls, today we learn the dance of the Faerie Queens. You can either be a [[HaveAGayOldTime faerie, or a queen]]. It's wide open.
--->'''Bart''': ''[groans]''
* This troper was watching South Park for ten years before realizing the connection between the name Tolkien and the fact that said character was black (the only black person in the town other than his parents).
** You might kick yourself even more when I tell you that his name is actually "Token" and his last name is "Black".
** Ironic because the character, Chef, was in the series from the begining.
* ''{{Shrek}}'' (in fact, this editor once heard ''Shrek'' described as "What ''Aladdin'' would be like if every character was The Genie.")
** The first ''Shrek'' had a million Disneyland refs, and a lot of shots at Michael Eisner that no kid is going to get. The second Shrek? [=IMDb.com=] has about a hundred movie and TV refs from ''Shrek 2'', and the target audience is going to get about 10 of them.
* ''{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' feature a touch of political humor that you probably won't understand until your mid-to-late teens.
** I mean fer cryin' out loud, the lead character in ''Pinky and the Brain'' was based on ''Orson Welles''! [[spoiler:No, not Pinky, the other lead.]]
*** ''Pinky and the Brain'' did an episode-long parody of ''The Third Man''. There aren't even enough American ''grownups'' who know ''The Third Man'' to parody it on American TV (which is a shame).
** Also, there were plenty of random pop-culture and animation-history references that went over the heads of even some of the ''high schoolers'' (or, at least, ThisTroper, who laughed for a good week solid upon finding the Cultural References Guide on the Web once he started college in 1995).
*** I remember ''{{Animaniacs}}'' {{lampshading}} it once: "We'll have to numb the pain with a little Anastasia!" (Tiny Russian Princess enters and smashes the villain with [[{{Hammerspace}} a mallet]]). Dot turns to the camera and says, "Obscure joke; ask your parents".
** And that's not even getting into the...inappropriate jokes...
*** One scene that comes to mind is where Yakko and Dot are detectives. Dot is told to go find prints, and comes out with Prince (the singer).
---> '''Yakko''': No. ''finger''prints
**** HOLY CRAP!
* The (sadly short-lived) Saturday morning cartoon series for ''SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' operated like this: sure, there's plenty of slapstick for the kids, but there's a whole treasure trove of old movie references in there too. One episode is a parody of ''The Thing''. Another is a parody of ''A Sound of Thunder''. And that's just two examples.
* Cartoons that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got a lot of crap past the radar]], such as ''RenAndStimpy'' and ''RockosModernLife,'' become a great deal funnier once the viewers are old enough to understand what exactly is being implied.
**ThisTroper, despite having a filthy FILTHY mind, ''did not get'' "Night of the Shaved Kittens" until he read the entry on GettingCrapPastTheRadar on this very Wiki. He also didn't get the episode "Closet Clown" until he was much older. The line that made him spit out his drink? "[[AmbiguouslyGay I like ...rainbows!!!]]" "You're SICK!"
** This troper recently figured out the pun of the mega-corporation "Conglom-O".
** A prime example: this editor didn't even realize the following exchange from ''RockyAndBullwinkle'' was supposed to be funny until nearly a decade after he first saw it.
--->'''Rocky:''' Bullwinkle, that's a team of girls! What kind of games can you play with girls?\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' Wow, this really is a kid's show.
**'''Bullwinkle:''' Spider, spider on the wall/ Have you got no brains at all?/ Don't you know the wall's been plastered?/ Get off the wall you little... spider.
** This troper heard about a student in a college class who laughed loudly when the professor mentioned Russian ruler Boris Godunov. He explained to the class that he had finally caught on to the joke behind the name Boris Badenov...
** For this troper, the ''Bullwinkle'' references that did this were the "Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam" (much funnier after studying a bit of Middle Eastern poetry in lit class) and the "Kirwood Derby" (much funnier after hearing of the comedian Durward Kirby).
* Just about anything made by Mainframe back in the day. ''{{ReBoot}}'' and ''Transformers: BeastWars'' were great shows if you're in the stated target audience. But not only are they ''just as good'' revisiting them ten or twenty years later owing to fantastic action and character development, but suddenly all the programming in-jokes in ''[=ReBoot=]'' and the mythology gags in ''Beast Wars'' come crashing down on your head as well.
* The animated version of ''TheTick'' has numerous instances of this.
* The musical number [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2uOa1-d0 "Worthless"]], from ''TheBraveLittleToaster,'' is only mild freaky (and catchy) when you're a kid. However, as an adult, you begin to realize what the song is ''actually'' about--aging and midlife crises. It goes from being simply slightly scary to utterly depressing.
*''TheGreatMouseDetective''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IctxaCPqw 'Let Me Be Good To You.']] This troper saw the movie for the first time when she was seventeen, and she could not believe Disney put that in a kids' movie. After much stunned blinking, she died lauging, because that was something she knew her little sister wouldn't get for a long time.
** This troper recently saw it again and was surprised at one of the lines, "I'll take off all my blues", less because of the line itself and more because she could swear she remembered it being "I'll take off all my clothes", and still not thinking anything of it until years later -- of course, the sexy girl mouse in question is wearing all blue, so it may just be a case of [[FetishFuel early association]]...
** That's one of the prime examples of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
*** Really? I always found that to be more like throwing crap in the radar's face.
*''TheFlintstones'' had a number of these:
** Man meets Barney and Fred, to hire them as private eyes: "Are you two married?" Barney: "No, just friends."
** Long build up on this one: Fred and Barney have been practicing to get Wilma to the hospital in time when she's about to give birth. So when she announces the labor pains have started, they rush her to the hospital. Barney is bringing her along, when they run her into the hospital so fast that spins the revolving door and Fred is ejected. He flies across the street, through the revolving door of a hotel, where, he quiet innocently says to the desk clerk (thinking it's the admissions clerk at the hospital), "I'm looking for my wife, she just came in here with my best friend."
* During its original broadcast run, the name Federico Fettuccine in ''GarfieldAndFriends'' was, to [[{{Nyperold}} this troper]], a fair random Italian name with a pasta reference. Years later, after learning some things about movies, and specifically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Fellini Federico ''Fellini'']]...
* ''TransformersAnimated'' does something similar, with titles like "A Fistful of Energon" (complete with the bounty hunter Lockdown wearing a poncho ''in space'') and "A Bridge Too Close", (which features [[spoiler: Bulkhead]] building a space bridge for the Decepticons). There's also the episode "Mission Accomplished", in which Ultra Magnus tries to force Optimus Prime to deny the existence of Decepticons on Earth, as it might "embolden the enemy". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished Remind you of anything?]]
* [[ShayGuy This troper]] first saw ''TheLionKing'' during its original theater run, and many times later on video, but didn't get one of Pumbaa's lines -- a line which he practically had ''memorized'' -- until he saw the musical more than a decade later: "I always thought they were giant balls of gas burning billions of miles away." And he'd already ''had'' the relevant knowledge for years, but never connected it.
** Similarly, this troper just never bothered to menally finish Pumbaa's line from ''Hakuna Matata'': "And oh, the shame/ Thought of changing my name/ When I got down-''hearted''/ Every time that I--". Took me ''years'' to realize it was a fart joke.
** [[LittleSerge This Troper]] downloaded ''Be Prepared'', mostly out of nostalgia. After watching the video on Youtube, he finally got all the PuttingOnTheReich references. Including the hyenas goose-stepping, based on ''Triumph of the Will''.
***You think that's bad. I didn't get the references until I watched it in German.
**It took ThisTroper a few years to think to herself "Wait, during Can You Feel The Love Tonight....Nala gave Simba an interesting expression...and a short time later there's a baby...OH MY GOD HOW DID THEY GET AWAY WITH THAT??!!"
*** Having seen what you said, I just realised how accurate you are! Huh, I've been watching that movie for fifteen years, and ''ten'' years ago, I was too young to remember much of the subtleties, the remaining ''five'' years, I've been so busy ogling the amazing backgrounds in that scene that I've never actually bothered to focus on the characters. How's that for a SwissMoment?
*** Oh my God I just now got that as well! Which is funny because for YEARS I kept thinking that, while beautiful, the scene was kind of lame since all Simba ever gets is one kiss. DAMN YOU DISNEY!
**** Watched ''LadyAndTheTramp'' lately?
* ''AllDogsGoToHeaven:'' The beginner-level SwissMoment is when the book Charlie uses to tell her the RobinHood story is WarAndPeace.
** If you want a ''reeeeeeeeeeaally'' tough SwissMoment, you'll need to work out where they got the name "The Grand Chawhee" from. [[spoiler: The head of parliament in Ireland at the time (where the film was animated) was named Charlie Haughey. TakeThat]]
** [[spoiler: And, like the character, Haughey was a scheming crook!]]
**[[{{PumpkinLore}} This troper]] had a Swiss moment for the sequel ([[{{Sequelitis}} it didn't hold up as well as I remembered]]). In the scene, Charlie asks [[{{LoveInterest}} Sasha]] what would her qualifications be for would-be Mr. Sasha. One of them is "breeding" which Charlie replies, [[{{GettingCrapPastTheRadar}} "Oooh, I'd be good at that!"]] When I was was younger, I thought it was a reference to Charlie's mixed heritage as mentioned in ''AllDogsGoToHeaven''. Now, this troper knows [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} Charlie had something else on his mind]].
* The first episode of ''{{Freakazoid}}'' features the title character operating the narrator like a marionette, then turning to the camera and exclaiming "Pull the string!" in a dramatic voice. Years later I finally get it. Seriously, how many ten year olds are familiar with the film ''Glen or Glenda'', and what must their therapy bills look like?
** Fully ''half'' of another episode is spent on an extended, scene-for-scene homage to the 50s Z-grade Forrest Tucker vehicle ''The Crawling Eye''.
*** And the opening of the cartoon "Hero Boy" parodies the opening of ''TheAbominableDrPhibes''.
* [[WallE Buy 'N' Large]]. By and large. Seriously, it took me like two weeks to realize that.
* In ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown!'', there's a part where Snoopy and Marcie get into a road rage incident with a French driver. When this troper was little, it was just a funny scene. Come high school and French class, however, jaws dropped as everyone suddenly realized just ''what'' Marcie's yelling and Snoopy's hand (paw?) gestures meant.
* It took [[{{Stinkoman87}} This Troper]] several years to figure out just why Buzz's wings popped up after talking to Jessie at the end of ''ToyStory 2''. He also didn't get the ''BasicInstinct'' reference in ''Hercules''.
** [[{{Ozzie}} This Troper]] had a singularly more humbling ''Futurama'' Swiss Moment, realizing that Kif's last name, Kroker, is a play on "croaker" since he's an amphibian. ''In the year 2009, well after the show was canceled.''
* This troper used to watch ''FrostyTheSnowman'' on TV every Christmas season, and figured that Frosty saying "happy birthday!" every time the hat was put on him was just meant to be a silly non sequitur. But then it dawned on him years after: Frosty is ''born'' every time the hat is put on him!
* Watching the ''{{Superjail}}!'' pilot, I always assumed that the Warden's insistence that all of the insanity going on was a part of his plan was just another way of showing just how crazy the Warden was. But upon the fifth viewing, I remembered that the Warden told Jared to "let [him] take care of the Twins" . The entire episode was the Warden's XanatosGambit against the Twins for screwing around in ''his'' jail; it really ''was'' his plan.
* In the ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode ''Jackie Khones and the Case of the Overdue Library Book'', Wilt has to has to assure another friend, Jackie, of not doing various things, including assassinate Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. The assassination of the archduke triggered World War One.
**The first attempt on the Archdukes life failed, but ran into to the Assassin again at a restaurant where he was eating a sandwich. Guess Jackie's favorite food.
* Several years after the last time I watched ''ChickenRun,'' this troper ''just'' got that Rocky's shout of "FREEEEEDOMMMMMMMM!" was a ''{{Braveheart}}'' reference.
** This is even better when you realize Rocky is voiced by Mel Gibson.
* This troper is not in the least mechanically inclined. Which was why it took ''years'' before they found out why the dragonfly from ''[[TheRescuers The Rescuers]]'' was called Evinrude.
* This troper refers to this trope as a "Blue String Pudding Moment" after one of the foods eaten by the Clangers. A friend recounted the tale of how she was nodding off to sleep one night and suddenly realised that "Blue String" was a pun on the dish cordon bleu (or "cord en bleu"), more than a decade after she'd watched the show as a kid.
* ThisTroper didn't realize that DarkwingDuck villain [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba Taurus Bulba]] was referencing ''anything'' until years later. At the time it just seemed like an apt name for an anthropomorphic bull.
* Current example for kids of the future: "Little Howard's Big Question". Runs on childrens BBC and is a televised extension of a supposedly kids-and-parents stand-up/stage show, using adult human characters vision mixed (or powerpointed on stage) with various mostly preteen cartoon characters in fine Looney Tunes-lite fashion. However anyone between the ages of about 20 and 40 will be paralytic with laughter -- and at the sheer number of in-jokes and references in it. How is a six year old supposed to get jokes to do with the X-Files, Harvey, or Dangermouse? (I guess these days they could just google for the info, but a large part of this trope ''is'' ''realizing'' there's a joke/reference there in the first place -- it's almost always played straight, with the child characters either not clocking anything or being confused).
** PS, I'm not sure whether to put this in Western Animation or Live Action TV, can it be both?
* Another current CBBC series -- ''Timmy Time'' (a sweet hearted little {{spinoff}}-squared of ''WallaceAndGrommit'', via Shaun the Sheep) -- seems to have the odd veiled reference/homage in it which the target audience may ''one'' day understand. For one major example, a toddler [[{{Sonic_the_Hedgehog}} hedgehog]] who curls into an invulnerable ball and rolls around at high speed when spooked, popping soccer balls and other fragile obstacles. Plus a [[{{Badger_Badger_Badger}} badger]] classmate who always walks around with arms and legs akimbo as if about to do a squat thrust, and a [[{{Huxley_Pig}} pig]] wearing what looks like a fisherman's pullover. Not to mention they all talk [[{{Pokemon}} in a certain onomatopaeic style]].
** In fact having sampled a lot of modern kids' TV in the last few months thanks to the iPlayer et al, I'll have to stop before I go too much further. Suffice to say that Oucho the cactus is a ''dirty, DIRTY'' mexican potted plant. And not just because of the compost.
* I didn't realize this until JUST now, but in the episode of Reboot called "Identity Crisis", that Binome with an afro has a [[spoiler: corrupted ID chip]], which gives away his status as [[spoiler: a traitor]].
* It wasn't until I rewatched an episode of {{Rugrats}} that I realized it was a blatant parody of the movie version of {{The Fugitive}}.
** On a similar note, I never understood Grandpa's joke about Borscht being able to "clean the grease spot off a driveway" until many years later when I tasted it for the first time. Didn't help that I had a mouthful when I started laughing.
* In the {{Futurama}} episode where Fry fights Zoidberg, the Anthem of Zoidberg's planet is the StarTrekTOS fight music.
* This troper only just got the joke in the title of ''Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century''.
* It took [[{{Ronnie}} this troper]] ten years to figure out that ''CatsDontDance'' was REALLY about how ''blacks'' were ''actually'' treated in 30's Hollywood.
* There's a scene in the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode ''Sokka's Master'' where Sokka, the designated "Funny Guy" returns to the group. They implore him to say something funny, and he goes, in a completely DeadpanSnarker sort of way, "Funny How?" and the rest of the Gaang cracks up, and I never knew why. One year later, [[{{Blayde}} This Troper]] sits down to watch the old classic ''TheGoodfellas''. DeVito has a scene where he goes "Funny How?" with the exact same inflection. One week from ''that'' and I finally get the reference.
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* Related to this very wiki, it took [[XenusOregard me]] several months to realize the significance behind the trope name StevenUlyssesPerhero.
** On the same note, this troper ''just'' realized the joke in the trope name SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion. She felt like a total idiot for not getting it sooner.
*** [[{{Dinru}} This Troper]] just figured out ZeroGSpot. In her defense, she didn't even know what a G-spot was until an accidental search on TheOtherWiki...
** [[JET73L this troper]] had been wondering for over half a year why the {{Pokemon}} episode ''I Feel Skitty'' was in GettingCrapPastTheRadar, since the potential HoYay innuendo was the furthest he'd seen the wiki reaching for GCPTR examples in a long time. He just realized: "feel" was taken as an ''active'' verb, not passive.
*** It can even be GettingCrapPastTheRadar when taken as a passive verb: just replace the 'k' in Skitty with an 'h'...
** Once again, [[SarcasmMode a stroke of brilliance hits]] {{Dinru}}. She just realized why there's a [[{{Lampshading}} lapmshade]] on the banner...
** [[JET73L This one]] again, on the clothing trope title "OfCorsetsSexy" (again, well over six months). It had to be some sort of literary reference or something, because otherwise, why would it bother stating the trope name, and [[FetishFuel result]], in such an antiquated way? [[OfCorsetsSexy Of]] ''[[OfCorsetsSexy course]]'' [[OfCorsetsSexy it's]]... *[[{{Facepalm}} facepalm]]*
* This Troper ''just'' got what that creepy alien icon that links to the "It just bugs me"-pages. It is a bug! ''duh!''
**This troper has never noticed those icons before.
* Ever since I found it on {{Fark}}, [[{{Vulpy}} I]] have used variations of the line "police in Sweden made two cocaine busts the other day. I ''don't get'' modern art..." as an ad hoc test of wittiness in my audience. It takes just about everyone a second or two, and some people never get it.
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Lesath This troper]] ''finally just understood'' why the hell there is a lampshade on the TVTropes logo. *facepalm*
* This Troper just noticed Buttercupistiny's user name is Buttercup. is. tiny. It may or may not be the purpose of her username but still how could I have not noticed?!
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* GirlGenius: ThisTroper only just realized why Agatha's last name is "Heterodyne" and why the elder Von Mekkahn's line [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070606 this comic]] is ''hilarious''.
** "Heterodyne" is a joke...? I don't get it. D:
** [[Main/GeniusBonus It's a technical term.]] ThatOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodyne explains it]]. If you multiply (mix) two sine waves together, the resulting waveform contains two distinct frequencies. One of them is equal to the sum of the frequencies of the original sine waves, and the other is equal to the difference. The two frequencies produced are called heterodynes, and the process of multiplying signals together to make these new frequencies is called heterodyning. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin theremin]] uses heterodyning to transform high-frequency electronic signals into pitches that the human ear can detect. (That's why there's music when Agatha goes to work.) Additionally, Agatha herself comes from the mixing of two different Spark bloodlines, [[SoYeah which implies...]]
* It was days later when [[RobinZimm This Troper]] realized that [[http://vashperado.deviantart.com/art/Lactose-Intolerance-91338578 homo is short for something else]].
* It took me about three months to get the joke of this [[http://www.cafepress.com/orderofthestick.336023567 this]] OrderOfTheStick shirt. And now I feel stupid.
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*This troper and a friend were once hanging out when she exclaimed, "Intense!". Her friend replied with, "You know what else is intense? *beat* Camping." This troper didn't get the joke until several ''weeks'' later in the middle of a class. For my fellow Swiss: [[color:white: intense= in tents]]
* "[[RobinZimm I wonder: how do you describe the flavor of sour cream?]]
* [[http://onesentence.org/stories/3100 "It wasn't till my 30s that I realized that "arbitrary" division symbol showed two dots DIVIDED by a line."]]
* This troper discovered a few weeks ago, on [[SugarWiki/TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife TV Tropes]], that "In America, you can always find a party"/"In Soviet Russia, party finds you!" meant that the ''ruling political party'' would find you through the secret police, as opposed to what ThisTroper thought it meant: [[CompletelyMissingThePoint actual partyers tracking down the person seeking the party]].
*This troper has been playing the cello since the third grade. When she got to the age where people started making G-string jokes, she just didn't get it. At least, not until she learned what a G-string actually was, which wasn't until, what, ''halfway through high school?'' Oh, and she also can't bring herself to laugh at the word "fingering."
** What if you were fingering a minor with a G-string?
* This troper was in the grocery store, about to pick what type of ''apples'' she loved. Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, ''Macintosh''... She had an epiphany loudly went "Ohhh, ''that's'' what the computers are named after!" and got several alarmed stares for her trouble.
*This troper's grammar teacher once asked the class, "How is a clause like an elf? [[IncrediblyLamePun Because it's sentence little helper]]." Most of the class giggled politely. A few minutes into the lecture, [[TheDitz one person]] began laughing hysterically.
* This troper first heard the "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side." joke in kindergarten, and, since the answer was so mundane, wondered what joke he was missing. Around 10th grade or so, he figured out that the joke was ''meta'', playing on the expectations of a clever answer or pun, and that the answer being mundane ''was'' the joke.
* This troper was watching A Few Good Men, and as soon as Tom Cruise got drunk, was looking at a map online of "Generic Names for Soft Drinks by County". As soon as the movie was over, he said "I finally figured out why they're called Soft Drinks" and his roommate started laughing hysterically. For anyone else with this problem, it's because alcohol is a "hard drink"
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