Demographically Inappropriate Humour

Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny find a more interesting way to pass the time during Acme Loo's film festival.

There are certain expectations and rules, both written and unwritten, about what's "acceptable" in works aimed at children. Some works aim to push these boundaries for the sake of a joke, often as a way to gain notoriety or attract a Periphery Demographic. While what exactly counts as inappropriate can vary within different cultures, there are a few things that almost always count as Demographically Inappropriate Humor:

• Sexual References: Usually disguised. Visual Innuendo, G-Rated Sex, Sexual Euphemisms, Double Entendre, LOL, 69, and the like are used in humor to make sexual references that the Target Audience won't understand, but would make their parents chuckle. This can also include Parent Service, mild sexuality thrown in for adult audiences. Outright nudity is a bit of a tricky one: Child nudity is generally not considered an issue in Japan, nor is non-sexual nudity in general in Europe, but all of these would be considered inappropriate for children in an American work.
• Drugs and Alcohol: While drugs sometimes show up in Scare 'Em Straight works for younger audiences with a Drugs Are Bad message, suggesting that Stoners Are Funny is generally off limits, but some works manage to sneak in drug jokes, such as 420, Blaze It, anyway. This is generally achieved through I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! and its subtropes. Alcohol, like nudity, is culturally sensitive — some cultures censor it in kids' media (and even all media in some Islamic countries as alcohol is considered haram^note forbidden by Islamic dietary laws), while others are fine with it.

Some things may seem "naughty", but are routinely found in kids' media and do not count as Demographically Inappropriate Humor.

• Toilet Humour: It may be gross, but children love it and it's a staple of kids' media, especially those aimed at very young children who might be struggling with toilet training.
• Chaste Romance: Girls may have cooties, but childish crushes, gestures of affection between parents, or innocent romance between single adults is generally not considered objectionable for kids. Of course, what counts as "chaste" is culturally variable; references to gay people might be considered Demographically Inappropriate Humor in some contexts, and some cultures forbid kissing to be shown.
• Swearing: This is a tricky one. Expletives that are allowed to be said more than once in PG-media include swears like "damn", "hell", "crap", & "bitch" respectively, and the Swear Word Plot has been included several times in kids' media. But it's still possible for children's works to push the boundaries of what's accepted. Other swear words, however, are hardly ever used in children's works, and therefore count for this trope.
• References to mature media: These references are often perfectly acceptable in children's media, as long as the references themselves are in a way suitable for younger audiences. Discussion of that belongs in the similarly named Demographic-Dissonant Crossover.

Subtrope of Parental Bonus. May involve Getting Crap Past the Radar, but not necessarily — some censors can be lenient, and some media don't have a Radar.

Compare What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?.

Only intentional examples count for this trope. Do not add cases of Accidental Innuendo in the examples.

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Other examples:

Advertising

• Pop-Tarts: In "Yummy", Chocolately Strawberry and Cinnamon Roll think they hear Blue Raspberry having sex, when he's actually being eaten, while the dark-haired girl makes some rather suggestive moaning.

Anime & Manga

• The first episode of HeartCatch Pretty Cure! has a scene where Chypre & Coffret hides under Tsubomi's shirt to evade Sasorina's capture, with said villain revealing she suffers from A-Cup Angst. This is the only time the Pretty Cure franchise as a whole has ever done a Boob-Based Gag.
• For all of the Bowdlerization 4Kids Entertainment was infamous for, their dub of Pokémon: The Series was no stranger to inappropriate humor.
  • One of the earliest and most infamous examples was in "Mystery at the Lighthouse", where Team Rocket sees the giant Dragonite:
    James: So size does matter...
  • Brock's comment after seeing a photo of Giselle in "The School of Hard Knocks", which was cut completely on Kids' WB! and partially cut off on Netflix.
    Brock: She can violate my rights anytime!
  • Brock utters this line after meeting Suzy in "Pokémon Fashion Flash":
    Brock: My name is Brock and I want to breed like you! ...I mean, I want to be a breeder like you!
• The Vitello dub of Crayon Shin-chan, which aired on children's channels in Europe and Australia, contained a lot of this:
  • In "The Kahzu Kamakazes Hit The Pool", Shin reacts to a character being asked to take off their bikini with "Whoa! The X going X-rated!", a reference to adult-rated films.
  • In "I Can't Sleep", Mitsy tells Shin to stop reading a slutty magazine.
• The English dub of Yo-kai Watch barely did anything to censor the "The Sleepover" segment in Episode 6, which revolved around Nate and his friends staying up to watch an adult program, where girls in bikinis have fun at a water park (complete with Jibanyan outright mentioning scantily-clad ladies). In fact, the dub actually added a rather risqué line:
  Eddie: I wish I were a bubble right now...

Comics

• In Carl Barks' Back to the Klondike, Scrooge McDuck describes Glittering Goldie as "the only live one I ever knew." Given his reclusive, asocial attitude towards life, and disdain for everything except money up to that point, it's entirely possible (indeed, in context, there's no other logical interpretation) that he means this in the above-mentioned clinical sense of "know." When questioned by observant fans at the exact nature of Scrooge and Goldie's relationship, Barks tactfully insisted it wasn't something his publishers would want to get into.

Film - Animated

• Bee Movie has a scene of Barry (a bee) being asked if he's Vanessa's (a human) "little bed bug".
• Cars:
  • In one scene, two cars named Mia and Tia, who are stereotypical fangirls towards Lightning, flash their headlights at him as a pun on the term "flashing".
  • One scene has Mater mistaking the term "piston" for "pissed in".
• Finding Dory has a joke where Dory is told she will be teaching a class of children who are first grade age at the oldest about "mommies and daddies". She thinks that this refers to sex ed and notes that they seem too young.
• Hotel Transylvania:
  • Dracula and Jonathan get a few Accidental Pervert moments when trying to navigate the hotel, namely accidentally walking in on a skeleton who's showering, as well as stumbling into a room where two bed bugs have reserved a honeymoon suite in what looks similar to an Interrupted Intimacy joke.
  • Griffin is subject to many Naked People Are Funny jokes; during the scene at the pool, after Wayne pantses him, Griffin gets embarrassed and claims that the pool water was cold when he got in before he runs off.
  • Dracula mentions people going "bat-poop" if they find out about Jonathan, a reference to the term "batshit".
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs:
  • When the characters are nearly digested by a Man-Eating Plant, Manny expresses disgust at Diego saying he feels "tingly", and Diego clarifies "Not that kind of tingly", indicating Manny thought Diego was saying he was aroused.
  • In another scene, Sid tries to milk a sleeping yak, and grabs what at first seems to be a teat, prompting the yak to wake up. The scene cuts to Sid running from the angry yak, screaming that he thought the yak was female, indicating that Sid accidentally groped something else.
• Madagascar: One scene has Marty exclaim, "Sugar honey iced tea!", which is an acronym for "shit".
• Monster House has the scene where they enter the house and Jenny points out that the chandelier must be its uvula. Chowder, who mistakes "uvula" for "vulva", rationalizes that it must be a girl house. He's actually right, believe it or not— the house is possessed by the spirit of its owner's wife.
  Jenny: What? No. It stimulates the gag reflex. Everyone has a uvula.
  Chowder: Not me.
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman:
  • When Mr. Peabody is trying to prevent a Never the Selves Shall Meet cause, he says to Sherman, "I've got to get you out of here before you touch yourself!" — This gives Penny's parents and Ms. Grunion the wrong impression, and Ms. Grunion in particular starts quickly writing down notes.
  • Agamemnon mentions Oedipus has an awkward relationship with his family.
• Turning Red: This movie is definitely about as radar-defiant as Pixar has gotten in recent years, from bursts of mild profanity, to blatant references to menstruation, to references to "stripper music," to one character being both Mistaken for Pedophile and accused of "doing drugs all day" for uncomfortable laughs.
• Shrek:
  • Lord Farquaad's name is a Punny Name on "Fuckwad".
  • One song has a Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion for "ass" (in the sense of buttocks, not donkey).
    Keep off the grass, shine your shoes, wipe your... face.
  • Another song has a Bait-and-Switch gag where it seems like they will say, "He likes to get laid", but someone interrupts them with "paid" instead.
  • One scene implies that Farquaad has an erection.
• Shrek 2: When Shrek is turned into a muscular human man from a potion, some women act excited when Donkey suggests getting rid of his old clothes, indicating that they want to see him nude.
• Zootopia has the entirety of the scene where Judy and Nick enter a club for animal naturists (read: nudists). Also, Mr Big believes Judy's police uniform means she's "some kind of performer". There's also the Night Howler production process, which obviously homages Breaking Bad, to the point that the finished product is blue and packed by a pair of criminals named "Jesse" and "Woolter"

Film - Live-Action

• Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel has a stripping joke:
  Alvin: It's Aunt Jackie. She's making us a zesty five-course meal.
  Dave: Really? Well, can I talk to her?
  Theodore: She's practicing her pole dancing.
  (Alvin and Simon look at each other)
  Dave: Pole dancing? What happened to making dinner?
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) is mostly a family-friendly Disney film, but some parts are more adequate for the writers' previous work at The Lonely Island, starting with the tagline "Rescuing the world takes a pair". Right at the beginning Dale lampshades how "chippendale" is a term for male strippers, one scene has a cheese shop treated like a G-Rated crackhouse or opium den, and there is a joke about the cast of PAW Patrol (which mind you, is a show targeted at young children) having mauled the police (and the implication that it was a Groin Attack) when a false tip led to a raid on their studios.
• Enchanted:
  • One scene involves Giselle falling onto Robert, after taking a shower no less, causing Robert's girlfriend Nancy to think he was cheating on her, with the misunderstanding only increasing when Robert says that Giselle isn't married yet and mentions "grown-up girl bonding time" which actually refers to Nancy (a grown-up) bonding with his little daughter Morgan (a girl), but she took it for a euphemism for sex.
  • During the shopping scene, Morgan says that if Giselle wears too much makeup, "the boys" will get the wrong idea, because they're "only after one thing", but no one will tell her what the "one thing" (that's implied to be sex) is.
• The live-action adaptations of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Cat in the Hat both tossed in a fair bit of racy humor, but the latter took it far enough (one standout is a scene that takes place at a swingers' party, another is a scene where the Cat in the Hat refers to a gardening hoe as a “dirty hoe”, and there's the Super Hydraulic Instantaneous Transporter) that Dr. Seuss' widow put the kibosh on any future live-action films based on her husband's work. It doesn't help that the writers also wrote EuroTrip, an R-rated teen sex comedy.
• Osmosis Jones has the scene where Ozzy and Drix have to go to Frank's uvula. Drix tries to explain that it's the dangly thing in Frank's throat, but Ozzy cuts him off and says "boxer shorts!" before Drix corrects him, making it evident he thought Drix was talking about Frank's testicles or his penis.
• Peter Rabbit has a pun on the term "homewrecker" used after Peter literally wrecks a house.
• Scooby-Doo (2002): Given that the film was originally meant to be a lot more adult-oriented before being retooled to the more family-friendly PG, there are still some suggestive jokes in the final cut.
  • Shaggy mentions, "But you don't need to know what Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? means to love that song!" — in French, that phrase translates to "Do you want to sleep with me?"
  • Daphne heavily implies that the Luna Ghost kept trying to grope her.
  • In an early scene, Scooby and Shaggy are hanging out at a beach in their van, laughing, whilst smoke comes out of the van's roof. It turns out they're really just making eggplant burgers, but the burgers in question feature some rather unusual condiments including chocolate and hot sauce. To add to the stoner references, "Pass the Dutchie" is blaring in the background.
  • Fred explains to Velma that he is a man of substance and "dorky chicks like [Velma] turn [Fred] on".
  • When Mary Jane introduces herself, Shaggy says "Like, that's my favorite name!", referencing how Mary Jane is sometimes used as a nickname for marijuana.
  • Right before the gang kicks Scrappy out of the group, he outright tells Fred, "You don't have the scrote for this job, Pally!"
  • Velma got drunk after she had too much of a tiki drink while talking to Brad about Scrappy getting kicked out.
  • When Fred switches bodies with Daphne, he states "Hey... I can look at myself naked!", and immediately afterwards, he looks down the front of her dress and grins. Later, Fred-in-Daphne's-body can be seen in the background groping her own body, and Shaggy-in-Velma's body can be seen trying to look up her own skirt.
  • Fred's soul told Shaggy that someone spiked his root beer last night and wanted to be talked down.
  • In a scene from a trailer, Fred asks Scooby/actually Scrappy "Did somebody spike your dog bowl?"
• Spy Kids and its sequels had a Running Gag where Once an Episode Carmen Cortez would use variations on the phrase "oh shit...ake mushroom".

Literature

• Captain Underpants:
  • Book 9 had a scene where Young George takes two letters off of a gas station sign, making them read "Free Bra Inspection". The owner of the gas station shoos him away, only to get beaten up by several women offended by the sign.
  • Book 11 had a scene towards the end where Crackers's eggs hatch, revealing pterodactyl-hamster hybrids. Harold questions how a mammal could possibly have sex with a reptile, much to George's disgust.
• Gangsta Granny is a kids' novel, yet it manages to get away with Ben's mother mistakenly thinking he's reading a "naughty magazine".
• Exaggerated for the book Stuck in Poo, What to Do?. It's aimed at kids who are only learning to read, yet it manages to end in a Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion for "shit".
  The moral of this story is "Don't be a twit". Listen to directions, or you'll end up in the... poo.

Live-Action TV

• The Haunting Hour was mainly aimed at a family audience, but contained a few suggestive jokes.
  • In "Really You", Lily's older brother remarks that he wants his own life-sized rubber doll, but that he wants his doll to look like actress Meghan Fox.
  • In "Alien Candy", an older bully looks at the protagonist in the school locker room and remarks, "you really grew a pair!" - meant to refer to the protagonist being ballsy and brave in this case.
  • "The Walls":
    • Chuck mentions that when they found the old man's body, it was lying face down (and possibly naked) in a pile of sugar, which sounds like a polite way of saying that he was doing cocaine and OD'ed.
    • Jeffery's dad tells Jeffery that the Klemit (a sugar-addicted demon that lives in his bedroom wall) didn't kill the old man who lived in their house; it was the fact that the old man was 114 and had a 29-year-old girlfriend.
  • In "Creature Feature", John (who was turned into a tick-creature) is hit with an offscreen Groin Attack. While she and Nathan witness the injury, Lisa asks if John "still has any".
  • From "Nightmare Inn":
  Jill's Mom: "This is the first time your father and I-
  Jill: "TMI"
  Jill's Mom: "What? We had our first Sunday brunch here."
• An in-universe example in How I Met Your Mother: The gang discovers that Robin was on a children's educational show at the height of her pop star career. It's also discovered the show has a number of inappropriate moments. At one point, Robin and her co-host have to solve simple math problems to navigate an asteroid field while excitedly jiggling a large chromed joystick back and forth. The third problem is "twenty-three times three", but Barney shuts it off before we hear the answer.
• iCarly has quite a reputation for this kind of thing. Most of it is undeserved, since the jokes tend to be acceptable for the tweens and younger teenagers the show is aimed at. Still, a few questionable moments do manage to get in.
  • "iQuit iCarly" opens with Spencer watching The Boat Channel, but his commentary sounds more like a man watching porn.
  • In "iDo", after Freddie says "You two will make real purdy bridesmaids," Sam appears to subtly give Freddie the finger but it is quickly joined by her other fingers to her chin.
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch was aimed at a family audience but...
  • One of Sabrina's classmates becomes invisible, and she wonders where he would go. Gilligan Cut to the girls' locker room.
  • Mr Kraft's ex-wife Lucy gets a catty barb in on Zelda, looking her up and down and making a remark about something "loses the battle with gravity" - implying her breasts have started to sag.
  • Harvey at one point reveals his mother is pregnant. A disgusted Valerie comes to the Squicky conclusion that "your parents still..." and Sabrina cuts her off.
  • In "The Great Mistake", Zelda is throwing tennis balls around looking for her racket, and yelling out "balls balls balls!" - which prompts Hilda to come in an excitedly ask what's going on.
  • The college seasons contained many more of these, presumably in an attempt to make the show more mature. A man Hilda nearly marries when she loses her magic biological clock^note Which will stop her from ever having children if she doesn't conceive within 48 hours of losing it. says when Hilda gets the clock returned and breaks off the engagement...
    "This isn't the first time I've been left for a small appliance."^note A vibrator.
  • Hilda alludes to going to see Bride of Frankenstein at a drive-in, and "a lot of fog" showing up midway through the movie. Basically suggesting that her and her date started doing it in the car.
  • A beautiful example from Season 1, after Zelda and Mr. Poole hit it off at a parent-teacher conference and then realize they've already met online:
    Zelda: (gasps) You're biostud? I'm chemkitten!
    Mr. Poole: Didn't we meet in a chat room to discuss polyvinyl chloride? ^note a.k.a. PVC, the material used to make vinyl fetishwear.
    Zelda: Yes! (with a come-hither look) And you are VERY naughty.

Music

• Eminem's early work is definitely aimed at children - his fanbase was largely older kids and young teens, his transgressive shock humour is pretty childish, and multiple songs acknowledge his desire to protect kids and encourage them through his music. The content of the music, however, is extremely rough, sexual, violent, misogynistic, homophobic and full of references to illegal drugs. Eminem's argument has always been that, if this is the world kids see around them, it's only fair they have music that reflects their real world rather than a fake idea of innocence.
• "Miss Susie" is a Playground Song, yet some of the subverted rhymes are for profanity (for instance, "Behind the 'frigerator, there was a piece of glass. Miss Susie sat upon it, and broke her little... Ask me no more questions").

Newspaper Comics

• In one early Big Nate strip, Nate's dad Marty asks him why he has to put so much violence into his comics. Nate explains that he's "not old enough yet to be obsessed with sex."
  Marty: (unnerved, thinking) I think it was the "yet" that shook me up...
• Calvin and Hobbes:
  • One strip has Calvin asking his dad why he doesn't live with "scantily clad" female roommates.
  • Calvin once mentions having seen an ad that featured "goofy women in their underwear".
  • One strip has Calvin watching a TV show that features adultery.
  • When Calvin says that he wants a sibling to beat up, it ends on Calvin's mother talking to his father about getting an operation that's implied to be a vasectomy.
• Monica's Gang, despite being aimed at children, used to have loads of Innuendos and gallows comedy on its Newspaper Comics from the 60's to the 90's, but the ones that take the cake are the Bug-A-Boo comics, which features multiple jokes about death and suicide (specially since one of its recurring characters being Lady McDeath), and one particular exchange between Bob Boo and a random ghost really makes you wonder how Mauricio de Sousa got away with that one:
  Bob Boo: Shouldn't you have reincarnated already?
  Random Ghost: Yup!
  Bob Boo: Then why are you still here?
  Random Ghost: Because my future mom hasn't stopped taking the pill. ^note  She's either taking contraceptives or abortion pills
  

Puppet Shows

• The Donkey Hodie episode "Tater Buddies" features a joke alluding to cannibalism. Donkey Hodie tells her friend Purple Panda that she's preparing a snack for their Tater Buddy dolls (which are potatoes), and Panda agrees, but he says that he doesn't want potato chips, improvising an excuse that his Tater Buddy, Percival, is allergic.
• The Noddy Shop is a show aimed at preschoolers that had a promotional music video produced for an investor in the show called "Special". In it, Johnny Crawfish sings about Intercourse with You and also sings the line "You don't give me heaven and I'll give you hell!". However, it's downplayed in that it never appears in the actual show.

Video Games

• In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time there are many of these, too much to get in here, but they include costumes with names like "Pursona", "Mother Clucker" and "Big Horn Energy". Also, there's N. Trophy doing himself.
  Caddicarus: "Toys for Bob"? What "toys" do they have and what bob do they put them in!?
• King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!: While written for families, the fifth game has the infamous encounter with the Innkeeper. He will RUB YOU OUT and have Graham Bound and Gagged (but alive!) in his dungeon basement. But if one looks closely at the innkeeper, his pants are unzipped. Fail to escape, and, well... do the math.
• In the original German version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Cukemen may say in German "Give me your juice, I'll give you mine..." and "Never without a condom!". These lines were changed for the DX release.
• One of the first achivements you can get in Minecraft is called “Getting Wood”, a reference to getting an erection.
• Moshi Monsters is a kids' game, yet one mission is called "Kick Some Asteroid", which is a rather risqué pun.
• Pokémon is riddled with it.
  • A Running Gag throughout the franchise is that there is at least one female swimmer in each game who lampshades that there's only one place she could logically keep her Poké Balls.
  • Pokémon Red and Blue had a Dirty Old Man looking into the Celadon Gym, saying "This gym is great! It's full of women!"^note HeartGold and SoulSilver onwards censor this to "strong trainers", however
    • And one of said gym's trainers asks you if you're The Peeping Tom.
  • In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver one Young Couple infamously uses an Onix and a Cloyster, representing a penis and a vagina respectively.
  • Pokémon Black and White had a hiker that you could ride with on the ferris wheel in Nimbasa City during the summer if you're playing as Hilbert. Said hiker is very obviously in love with you, remarking that you're sweating a lot due to the humidity, and even asking if you've ever had a lover. The real kicker is that the player is a teenager and the hiker is middle-aged. Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, (set two years after Black and White) removes all ambiguity by having the same Hiker reappear if you're playing as Rosa; this time, he talks about a lost love from two years before.
  • Pokémon X and Y: In Lumiose City, there are two lovers holding hands and looking at the Prism Tower. If you pass by them, you overhear their conversation: "You know, my Emolga really wants to shock your Dedenne..." The other NPC's reaction is a confused, "...what?"
  • Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:
    • In Rustboro City's school, there's a man who insists that he's not a "weird man", but that he's the head of the school.
    • In the Spanish translation of Alpha Sapphire, a Team Aqua grunt in the Aqua Hideout's room full of beds will tell you, "Here everyone does whatever they feel like in their bed... That's why the odor of some beds speaks for itself..."
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon:
    • Immediately after obtaining the Rotom Dex, it tells you to be "gentle on the goods".
    • In Olivia's room, she has moving Stufful toys that are said to be very popular among single ladies.
  • Pokémon Sword and Shield:
    • There’s a Poké Kid in the Battle Tower who says “kneel down before me!” before the battle begins. When you defeat her, she reveals that her mom always says that to her dad.
    • Roggenrola's Sword Pokédex entry states that it is "hard as steel, but softened a bit by a long soak in water".
    • In the Isle of Armor DLC, Klara's normal League Card is photoshopped to make her breasts look bigger (judging by how her Slowbro is distorted in the background).
  • Spin-off Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity has a small portion of the story involving most of the cast having a party where they drink plenty of Berry Juice. The following times you encounter the Pokémon at Post Town, they are either dreaming or with a hangover.
• Splatoon 2: Marina’s reasoning for why she would choose invisibility over flight includes the line, "With invisibility, you could spy on people while they’re... inking their Splat Zone.". The whole thing is a reference to masturbation as a joke while the game is rated E10+.
• At the beginning of Stay Tooned!, one of the TV channels has an ad for "The XXX Files: The Naked Truth is out there."
• In the Japanese version of Super Mario RPG, rated as being for all ages by CERO, the thought of the Goombette (Mamekuribō) enemy that can be read with Mallow's Psychopath ability is "omame kurikuri... kuri! jowa~". This roughly translates to "Rub the bean, rub the bean, rub, rub… rub! Splosh~," mimicking female masturbation.
  • Another infamous one of the same game is a secret corner in the chimney of the princess' room, where Mario will pick up and unseen item called "Toadstool's ???", and immediately get scolded by either Grandma or Peach herself to return it. The object seems to be extremely private, not helped by the fact the Japanese version calls it "Peach's XXX".
• Terraria has a few instances.
  • There is a magic weapon you can get in Hardmode called the Golden Shower.
  • The Angler can give you Master Bait for completing quests.
  • A mini-boss from the Pumpkin Moon event is called the Mourning Wood.
• Wizard101: One sidequest in Grizzleheim was about a philosopher trying to find the answer to the question “Why do bears sit in the woods?”, a reference to the rhetorical question “do bears shit in the woods?”.
  • At one point in Empyrea, the player must run around a village populated by a race with a hippie-ish way of life, covering themselves with magic dust from urns that resemble bongs. Shortly after this, they fight some mushroom monsters.

Web Animation

• Food Chain: In "The Mating Game", Frogley teaches Mammal to use protection as he puts an armadillo shell on his head. He asks a frilled lizard to join his tree for a nightcap but she burned him, causing a "burning sensation".

Western Animation

• Adventure Time is full of these kinds of jokes, especially in earlier seasons, before the show developed its Myth Arc and became more serious.
  • "Blood Under the Skin" has several instances:
    • In one scene, Finn has to go through the Swamp of Embarrassment, which is filled with people taking showers that Finn accidentally sees.
      Showering Man: My most private parts peeped by boy!
    • The entire "Drop Ball" scene, which is about a ghost clenching a ball between his buttocks and dropping it. Repeatedly.
  • "Power Animal" has a scene where after Finn wakes up, the gnomes who kidnapped him force him to pole dance. They even called it "sexy-fun dancing"!
  • "What is Life?" has Ice King telling Neptr that when he was struck by his lightning, Neptr was infused with the Ice King's "private particles".
  • "Henchman" has several mentions of sacking a nut castle.
  • In “Incendium”, Jake sings a song to Flame Princess (in Finn’s place). Since Flame Princess is imprisoned in a bottle, Flame King has to listen to it too; he takes offense to the lyrics “a fire inside my body”, which he seems to interpret as Intercourse with You. This is especially apparent in his original line (which the censors objected to), where he says that the lyric is pornographic.
  • In "Marceline's Closet", Finn sneaks out of the closet and into the bathroom, only to catch Marceline taking her clothes off in preparation for a bath.
• In the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "Romancing Miss Stone", during the scene where Alvin and Dave are duelling over the hand of Alvin's teacher, Alvin yells out "Take that, you gigolo!" as he hurls a water balloon at Dave.
• Animaniacs made a fine art out of this, frequently lampshaded with Yakko blowing the audience a kiss and saying, "Goodnight, everybody!"
  • The bouncing car up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down at the Drive-In Theater in "Drive-Insane". There was even a woman with a child who had to drag him away so he wouldn't ask questions about what was (allegedly) going on inside the car.
  • In "Chalkboard Bungle", Miss Flamiel asks Yakko if he can conjugate. He clearly has a very adult misinterpretation of what that word means^note It actually means to list all the variations on a verb, but Yakko is under the impression it refers to a sexual act, possibly "consummate" or riffing on the concept of a "conjugal visit" or "conjugal rights" because he replies, "I've never even kissed a girl!".
  • In the "Monkey Song", when Hello Nurse says, "I don't know what to say—the monkeys won't do!", Yakko replies, "For a nickel, I'll give you a clue", which is a reference to prostitution.
  • In "Jokahontas", John Smith holds out his hand to shake with Dot, telling her that it’s how they say hello. And how does Dot respond?
    Dot (suggestively): You wanna see how we do it?
  • In "Hercule Yakko", Yakko tells Dot to look for prints; she brings back Prince. Hilariously, this was thrown in to give the censors something to cut, but it somehow squeaked through.
    Yakko: No, no, no! Fingerprints!
    (Prince smiles at Dot)
    Dot: (disgusted) I don't think so.
  • In "Method to Her Madness", Slappy is dragged to the New York Actor's Studio and spends a good chunk of the episode complaining about it. At one point, she asks someone to get Dr. Kevorkian on the line.
  • In "Roll Over, Beethoven," when Beethoven mentions that he's a pianist, Yakko reacts as if he said "penis" and washes his mouth out with soap.
  • Even the derived comic book indulged in it, most notably a story about the Warners pestering Noah titled "If the Ark's A'Rockin'..."
  • The reboot has its instances too. For instance, "Rome, Sweet Rome" has a Trumplica version of Nero getting mauled by tigers. As he's being attacked:
    Nero: SOMEBODY GRAB THESE PUSSY-
    Yakko: Goodnight, everybody!
    Nero: -CATS!
• The Ace Ventura cartoon series, based on a series of films not for children, had quite a few moments.
  • The opening scene of "The Bull Market" has this joke:
    Sam Fernando: Your jackass (referring to the donkey Ace rode on) must be tired.
    Ace: Since you mentioned it, I am a little saddle sore.
    Sam: Your burro. (points towards the donkey)
    Ace: (laughs) Whoa, got me.
  • "Panda-Monium" has Ace and Spike going to a strip club on their spiritual quest. Ace and Spike are shown going wild as they watch a stripper pole-dancing, with Ace even remarking "Best seat in the house!".
• Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom: ​In "Daisy and Poppy's Playgroup", there's a gag where Queen Thistle's panties (even explicitly being mentioned as such, at least twice) get left behind when she gets teleported to the land of the dinosaurs.
• Bluey does this oddly often, considering it's a preschool show:
  • "Daddy Putdown" has a gag of Bingo asking how babies get into women's bellies.
  • "The Sleepover" has Muffin behaving erratically due to sleep deprivation, and then the next morning not remembering what happened, which is a reference to a gag about drunkenness.
  • In "Verandah Santa", Stripe lies on the ground and moans, implying he's drunk.
  • In "Whale Watching", Bandit and Chilli are extremely sleepy. While it's deliberately played in a way that could be written off as Sleep Deprivation, there are several jokes that suggest that they're actually hungover, such as Chilli hesitating before Bandit describes them as "sleepy", and the fact that it was after a New Year's party.
  • In the original Australian version of "Perfect", Fido mentions that he got a quick surgery and then "got to keep them", to which Bandit replies that it sounds good but "Chilli wants to keep her options open", implying that Fido got a vasectomy. Foreign versions caught onto the joke and changed the dialouge to be about getting teeth removed.
  • In "Tradies", Bluey draws a beer mug when mentioning Chippy is no longer allowed to drive, implying that he got a DUI.
• ChalkZone:
  • In "Disarmed Rudy", when Jacko mentions how Rudy stole his bride, Queen Rapsheeba calls Rudy a "sly dog".
  • One of the memories Snap explores in "Calling Dr. Memory" is actually a dream where he is surrounded by a harem of Queen Rapsheeba clones. Snap's remark on how it can't hurt to stay in this memory implies that it is an Erotic Dream.
• Gravity Falls:
  • A blink-and-you'll-miss-it one: One of the men has a cat tattooed on his palm◊, and is smacking it with his other fist. He's pounding pussy.
  • During Willy Badger's performance, one of the children throws their overalls on stage.
  • Right before "Clay Day", Stan says, "Movies are great! You watch the movie, you scare the girl, the girl snuggles up next to you, next thing you know you gotta raise a kid, your life falls apart... Forget that last part." Alex Hirsch insists this has nothing to do with making illegitimate children.
  • In "The Last Mabelcorn", two of Dipper's thoughts shown on the screen are "Man! That red bathing suit!" and "Maybe if I cross my legs, no one will notice!".
  • In “Headhunters,” Mabel builds a wax figure of Stan. When she unveils it to the public, she says that it’s covered in her blood, sweat, tears, and other fluids. The audience is, understandably, disgusted.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • “Back to School” has Arnold telling Grandpa Phil that he still has plenty of brain cells, but he denies it.
    Grandpa Phil: No… not since Woodstock.
  • In "Helga's Parrot," one of the lines in Helga's poem about Arnold says that he makes her "girlhood tremble". Girlhood is a poetic term for the vagina.
• House of Mouse:
  • In the Pluto Gets The Paper short "Wet Cement"' Pluto ends up in wet cement and changes into several famous sculptures. When he turns into the Venus de Milo, he covers the breast part of the statue and gives an embarrassed whine.
  • "Donald's Double Date" is yet another short that is full of questionable content. Donald gives Daisy a coupon permitting her to tell him to do anything she wants. When Daisy asks "anything", Donald has an Imagine Spot of him and Daisy apparently naked in a hot tub.
• The Looney Tunes Show, being one of many TV-PG rated Cartoon Network shows from The New '10s, naturally has more than a few questionable jokes.
  • In "Working Duck," Daffy is closing browser tabs while trying to pull up his resume. At one point, Bugs and Daffy look on in shocked silence while a Sexophone sting plays. Daffy says that it was definitely not his resume, implying that he was watching porn instead of looking for a job.
  • The B-plot for "Off Duty Cop" revolves around Bugs getting addicted to an energy drink with side effects very similar to meth. He even goes to the supplier to get another fix.
  • In "Fish and Visitors," Yosemite Sam is telling Bugs and Daffy to wake him up at 4:30 every morning... unless there's a tie on the doorknob.
  • In "Jailbird and Jailbunny," Bugs (who is trying to go back to jail) points out to a police officer that he and Daffy are chained together at their ankles. What does the officer say in response?
    Officer: Your personal lives are your business.
• In an episode of The Mask, a beautiful woman (established to be an exotic dancer and Mayor's jilted ex-girlfriend) rips off her trenchcoat to reveal that she's wearing a bikini made of bombs and blow herself up because Mayor Tilton dumped her. The Mask rips the explosives away and disposes of them (by turning them into an alcoholic drink called "The Bikini Cocktail"), leaving the woman naked, which causes Doyle and Kellaway to faint.
• Milo Murphy's Law:
  • The cheerleader's cheer for the pep rally in "Rooting for the Enemy":
    We're the geckos, we got class!
    We're gonna climb right up your glass!
  • There is a sign in "Party of Peril" for B's Nuts prior to the Christmas trees being burnt.
• Olive, the Other Reindeer:
  • The penguin’s name is Martini.
  • Martini mentions trying to sell dirty magazines and trying to get away with tax evasion.
  • A critical scene takes place in a bar.
• Pepper Ann:
  • In the episode "Manly Milo", Pepper Ann is trying to help Milo get more guy friends, so she brings some "manly" items to help him develop more "masculine" traits. One of those items she brought was an issue of "Playdude" with a hunky man and the phrase "Pecs! Pecs! Pecs!" on the cover, before she sheepishly says "Oh, how'd that get in there?" and tosses it over her shoulder.
  • The episode "In Support Of" is a never-ending succession of bra and bosom jokes ("Pepper Ann, do you want breasts?"), culminating in P.A. flashing her class.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The song "Shooting Star Milkshake Bar" ends with a repeating verse of, "shake, shake, shake, shake your asteroids", a pun on "shake your ass".
  • "Lost in Danville" has a subplot where Peter the Panda's nemesis, Professor Mystery, captures Dr. Doofenshmirtz out of jealousy that Doof had been fighting Peter - a situation that, in an earlier episode as well as this one, is set up as a parallel to infidelity. Doofenshmirtz offends Professor Mystery when he brushes off his fight with Peter as a "thwarty call" - a pun on "booty call", slang for casual sex.
  • The time machine in the "It's About Time!" was built by a man named Xavier Onassis ("Save your own asses")
• In The Powerpuff Girls episode "Super Friends", when the girls explain that Professor Utonium made them in a lab accident, Robin casually says that she was an accident, too. The professor can't quite believe what she just said.
• The title of the Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja episode "Swampy Seconds" is an allusion to sloppy seconds, a sex act involving at least two men.
• The Real Ghostbusters:
  • At the end of one episode, Ray reads Slimer a cooking magazine, but the rest of the Ghostbusters react in disgust, believing it to be a, "girly magazine".
  • In "The Mean Green Teen Machine", Egon tests his dream-reading device on Peter, but then he, Ray, Winston, and Slimer react in disgust to the dream that involves Peter making suggestive comments, and Slimer calls it "mushy", indicating it's an Erotic Dream (especially since it's Peter, who's very flirty, having the dream).
• The Ren & Stimpy Show was one of the earliest examples of a children's cartoon that routinely got away with adult jokes:
  • "Nurse Stimpy" has a number of rather...interesting, interactions between Ren and Stimpy. Special mention goes to the spoon scene, which has lines like "Now swallow every little drop! Isn't it tasty?" and "This is some icky-tasting stuff!" The sponge bath scene is also a good example. Ren is reluctant at first, but comes to enjoy it, and then there's the number of people who see it, causing it to make the news, not unlike a sex tabloid.
  • There's an episode entitled "Wiener Barons". It's about Ren and Stimpy moving to Canada and getting into the sausage business, but seems to be an excuse for the writers to use the word, "wiener", as many times as possible.
  • The entirety of "Rubber Nipple Salesman". In this episode, they are door-to-door rubber nipple salesmen. No, it does not make any more sense in context; yes, it was done simply to fill an episode with nipple references.
• Rugrats may be about babies, but it still manages to appeal to adults with jokes like these:
  • In "Grandpa's Date", Grandpa Lou rents some movies: Reptar Come Home, Reptar Redux, "And my personal favourite... Lonely Space Vixens!" Grandpa then adds "... that's for after you go to bed."
  • In the episode "Special Delivery", Tommy reads a magazine called "American Baby" which has a Playboy-like centerfold. When he opens it up, he says "Baby!" with awe. Remember, this is a magazine about babies.
  • In "Sister Act", Angelica begs her dad to give her a younger brother or sister at a carnival. Betty responds with this gem:
    Betty: I guess you and Drew oughta check out the Tunnel of Love, eh Char? (laughs)
  • In the special, "Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts", Betty tries to set up Chaz with another one of her single friends and mentions that one of her qualities is that she had earned the nickname "The Spanker", all while suggestive music plays in the background.
  • In “Home Movies”, Grandpa Boris hates the home movie so much that he calls Dr. Kevorkian, who infamously performed assisted suicide.
  • "The Stork" opens on an awkward conversation starting with Angelica asking where babies come from. It's implied that Stu was about to tell the truth before chickening out, since he mentions babies coming from tiny eggs.
• In one episode of Sanjay and Craig, there is Bathroom Stall Graffiti in the background containing both a dickbutt (albeit edited to look more like a pickle) and a patched-up glory hole.
• Steven Universe:
  • The episode "Arcade Mania" involves Garnet getting addicted to a game called "Meat Beat Mania", and the game even has lines like “shake that meat!”.
  • In a similar vein to the above, Beach City Funland also has a concession stand called “Wiener in Hand”.
  • In "So Many Birthdays", when Steven magically grows up (without realizing the physical changes he's undergoing), he tries playing a game of Whackerman at the arcade, but soon moves on while saying "a boy on the cusp of manhood can't spend the whole day whackering". Later in the same episode, Steven asks Sadie to help him into the king costume he traditionally wears on his birthday - asking her to "help [him] into [his] birthday suit" results in him being angrily chased off.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • In "Mavis", an angry farmer tells Mavis "just what she could do with her train." Shove it up her ass.
  • In "Donald's Duck", Duck tells Donald to, "quack himself".
  • In "Buzz Buzz", after James' numerous unsuccessful attempts to shoo the bees off his boiler, his driver tells him that all they can do now is fetch another hive from the Vicarage Orchard. The narrator then says, "James' reply was drowned by the sound of buzzing."
  • In "Fiery Flynn", after Flynn soaks Sir Topham Hatt, Den says "Fiery Flynn fudges it!", "fudge", being a family-friendly version of a certain F-word....
  • In "No More Mr. Nice Engine", white stuff splatters all over Sir Topham Hatt, Edward, and Hiro..... thankfully, it's just milk.
  • Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell, the original series music composers, have confirmed that Daisy is meant to be reminiscent of a sleazy nightclub stripper. Her Leitmotif uses Sexophone and is based on "The Stripper" by David Rose. In fact, Daisy was supposed to have pink buffers that resembled boobs to emphasize her hooker motif. You read that right. A stripper in a show for toddlers. This persona is scrubbed away in the CGI series, though.
• Tiny Toon Adventures has a scene in which Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny are attending the Acme Loo film festival, and Daffy is looking at a Playduck magazine.
• In the Transformers: Animated episode "Transform and Roll Out!", Optimus Prime asks Sari how human reproduce. Sari whispers it in his audio receptor; Optimus is clearly shocked◊.
• 2 Stupid Dogs got away with a, lot, of racy content.
  • In "Door Jam," while looking for shoes, the dogs make a stop at a strip club. Although the stripper is only seen in silhouette, you can see her taking off her bra.
  • In "Family Values," a brother and sister are arguing over how the table should be set, and their mother tells them to kiss and make up. The two end up making out instead.
• We Baby Bears has this character, Squatter Otter, an adult otter who casually flashes himself at the titular babies and convincing them to squat in houses in his appearances, which undeniably causes him to be Mistaken for Pedophile to the viewers.

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• From the early Toy Story 3 script:
  • At one point, Buzz tells Jade "To infinity and be-yotch", which sounds similar to another B word.
  • Some of the recalled dolls are playing strip poker before Buzz's hand interrupts them.
  • Mr. Potato Head regrets not clearing his browser history or getting rid of incriminating pictures of "Mistress Potato Head", implying infidelity.

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