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  • Beast Wars: Rattrap makes frequent double entendres, including saying he wants to take his mates to Cybertron's equivalent of a topless bar or strip club. Silverbolt's uncomfortable reaction says it all.
  • Pepper Ann:
    • In the first episode, the titular character goes into Abe's Mall (with a big statue of Abraham Lincoln out front) to buy some pimple cream. The names of various shops in the mall float behind her, including "John Wilkes Photo Booth," "Getty's Burgers," "Four Score and Seven Year Pets," and "Civil Wear".
    • In the episode "You Oughta Be in Musicals!," a police officer is seen releasing a woman in tacky clothes. While it can be argued that she might just be some overdressed fashion victim who committed a petty crime, the officer's line, "Go free, you little vixen," suggests that she could be a hooker.
  • The BBC pre-school educational programme, Numberjacks, had a rather British example when Number 4 and 6 both caught The Dreaded Lurgi.
  • The Sam and Max episode "Christmas Bloody Christmas" featured Sam and Max entering a prison shower room. Max sees a bar of soap on the ground, and bends over to pick it up, with a sign saying "Do not open until Xmas" over his rear-end.
    Sam: The prison showers. If these walls could talk, eh Max?
    Max: I think it's better if they keep their mouth shut, Sam.
  • Recess:
    • The episode "The Library Kid" featured the gang cornering said Library Kid in the Philosophy section, with Gretchen calling out "Head her towards the existentialists; there's no exit over there," a reference to Sartre's play. The actual opening looks like an elementary school version of Hogan's Heroes.
    • More than half the humor in Recess requires a high-school level of education to notice, much less understand.
    • The episode "Schoolworld" is a homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
    • The titles of some episodes like "Kids in the Mist".
    • Recess: School's Out has lots of references to various things. Among them, Ms. Finster yelling, "Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!", and the song "Green Tambourine" (sung by Robert Goulet, no less) playing over the end credits while the kids danced in front of a psychedelic background.
    • Ms. Grotke was reading Beowulf out loud. And just happened to be reading the part where Beowulf rips Grendel's arm off and begins beating him with it.
    • "Terrifying Tales of Recess" was a outright retelling of both Christine and Maximum Overdrive, both adult horror movies.
  • Kappa Mikey contained references to and parodies of anime most children would not be familiar with, such as Chobits, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Ranma ½. ...Of course, this was during the early 2000's anime bubble so more than a few kids in the target audience did recognize them. ... Even though they really usually shouldn't.
  • The VeggieTales videos are chock full of the homage type of Parental Bonus:
    • For instance, "Josh and the Big Wall" features peas with French accents taunting Joshua from atop the walls of Jericho, and Jonah has the Ninevites constantly slapping each other with fish. References to Madame Bovary ("I think I've seen that one. Doesn't it have Jerry Lewis in it?"), Gilligan's Island, and The Grapes of Wrath ("Once upon a time, there were some very cranky grapes...") are just as likely to go over the heads of younger viewers...
    • In reference to Mr. Lunt being forced to play Ophelia because "in Shakespeare's time all the women were played by men!":
      I think we're gonna get letters about this.
    • In one of his silly songs, Larry the cucumber allows both a bank robber and a viking into his house and gives them each a cookie ("Because it's Christmas!"). He slams the door in the face of the guy from the IRS, complete with a Smug Smile.
  • The Powerpuff Girls:
    • The episode "Los Dos Mojos" included its own Holy Grail reference:
      Mojo Jojo: That's all just well enough, because in reality there is only room enough in this world for one Mojo Jojo. One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, and the number of Mojo Jojos in the world shall be one. Two Mojo Jojos is too many, and three is right out!
    • "Bought and Scold" referred to The Big Lebowski, when Professor Utonium laments a rug that "really tied the room together".
    • PPG did an entire episode of Beatles references, "Meet the Beat Alls", which got an Emmy nomination.
      • At the end of that episode, Blossom tries out a quote of her own, fails, and dismisses it with "Oh, who cares? It's by some dumb old band anyway."
    • And in the movie, references to naughty words were stuck in, including an elongated sigh of 'Fffff...'
    • In the episode "Superfriends" the girls invite their new neighbor, a girl their age named Robin, over to their house, and they introduce her to Professor Utonium:
      Bubbles: He made us in his laboratory by accident!
      Professor: Well, what can I say?
      Robin: Don't worry, Professor. I was an accident, too!
      [Cue surprised look on the Professor's face]
    • A similar joke occurred in the episode, "Gettin Twiggy With It," when Mitch Mitchelson, who lived in a trailer park with his grandma, takes the class hamster, Twiggy home and starts playing with her violently. When the girls catch him in the act:
      Mitch: But it was an accident!
      Blossom: You're an accident!
    • Many sexual innuendo jokes relating to Ms. Bellum occur. One was when Ms. Bellum (actually Sedusa in disguise) came into the Mayor's office while he was writing something. She leaned on his desk revealing a lot of her cleavage. He looks up and breaks his pencil, and exclaims "Pencil go snap!"
    • Series creator Craig McCracken was fond of classic rock references in general. Two examples: an episode entitled "Mr. Mojo's Rising", and in another Ace of The Gangrene Gang shouts "Billy! Don't be a hero!"
      • This same joke was used in Dexter's Laboratory by Major Glory, the "Billy" in this case was a billy goat.
    • Perhaps the most explicit example is Ms. Bellum's address: 69 Yodelinda Valley Lane. It's prominently displayed on her mailbox in several episodes.
    • Someday we'll be as developed as you!
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy did an entire episode parodying God-Emperor of Dune, the fourth book in Frank Herbert's Dune series, with Mandy as the God Emperor, Grim as Moneo Atreides, and Billy as the frequently-cloned-and-replaced Duncan Idaho. Another episode featured a nod to the classic black-and-white Classic Disney Short, The Skeleton Dance. Yet a third parodies the musical Little Shop of Horrors: Billy plays Seymour, bringing victims to the singing, brain-eating alien who stands in for Audrey Two. They also had a geriatric Dracula, who was quite obviously supposed to be Blacula.note  They also had an episode entitled "The Prank Call of Cthulhu."
    • Another episode obviously references the Hellraiser movies with "Pinhead" who has bowling pins sticking out of his head and a rubik's cube look-a-like summoning him.
    • "Butt out, Princess Wannanoke!"
    • The episode with the Beauty Pageant had "gom jabbar" among the Pageant contests.
      Mindy: It burns! It burns!
      • When Mindy pulled her hand from the pain box, the judges said something along the lines of "that will cost her." Funny, because in the book removing your hand from the pain box while it works leads to instant death by the Gom Jabbar (a poisoned needle).
    • The show's full of them. Here's one where Billy reads an ad off of a cave wall.
      Billy: For a good time, call —
      Someone else: Stop reading that!
    • Valentine's Day. In general. For one, the end of Mandy's episode was apparently a Grease parody, and let's not forget Grim's.
      Malaria: What do you mean, you can tell when someone fakes?
    • Hurter Monkey: Billy and Mandy get a helper monkey who sounds like Kevin Spacey and even paraphrases the "simple life" speech from Se7en.
    • There is also the occasional visit from Hoss Delgado, a parody of both Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York) and Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead).
    • In the opening to the episode "Duck!," Grim dreams about being in his dream house with his dream wife. He suddenly realizes, and exclaims, that "this is not my beautiful house," and "you are not my beautiful wife!," and then wakes up to Billy saying "same as it ever was," repeatedly. This is a reference to the song "Once In a Lifetime" by Talking Heads, which had the lines as lyrics.
      • And the theme song that plays at the beginning of his dream is similar to that of The Munsters.
    • The whole show was a huge parental bonus. Heck, it's doubtful that kids would realize what happens when Grim takes people away.
    • In one episode, character's were being made horribly ugly and paper bags were offered to the victims to place over their heads. The character offering the bags commented that he only had paper bags left because the plastic bags were in greater demand.
    • In the episode "Wishbones", Billy wishes to be on a Jonny Quest parody. It even has the show's music playing at one point!
    • Then there was the time Billy quoted Frank Booth. Yes, that Frank Booth. Former page quote originator for Cluster F-Bomb.
    • One episode sees Billy get Eris to let him ride her like a mechanical bull, as part of a deal where she lets him have all kinds of requests. It starts predictably silly, with Billy going nuts on top of Eris' back, while she looks ready to rip his head off from all his wild movements. But then at one point it cuts to a close up of Eris that's nowhere near as wildly animated, with her sporting a much more pained grimace, and Billy can be seen not moving much either very closer behind her pulling her hair, looking very much like he's "riding" her in a totally different sense.
  • Chowder.
    • When Chowder learns how to write, they use a montage of pictures of him interacting with various letters. "R" is depicted as looming over him in a dark back alley, getting ready to do something that rhymes with "grape".
    • Truffles' snarky remarks towards her nearly dead relationship with her husband, Mung. During Panini for President, when the two were watching her on stage:
      Mung: Fireworks...she used fireworks.
      Truffles: Oh, I've completely forgotten fireworks existed.. (Different voice) ...in our marriage... (Normal voice, shocked) Who said that?!

      This gag is repeated throughout the series, seen here in episode 103
      Mung: Truffles, mind the shop. We need more spice!
      Truffles: Well, I'm glad one of us finally acknowledged it.
    • Another one occurred at the end of an episode where Mung and Truffles rekindle their romance.
      Mung (to Truffles, in a suggestive voice): Let's get cooking.
      (Mung and Truffles head offscreen)
      Chowder: Mung! Where are you going? The kitchen's that way!
  • Both Animaniacs and Eek! The Cat have done parodies of Apocalypse Now. In the Animaniacs one, the Colonel Kurtz character was an out-of-control director, portrayed in No Celebrities Were Harmed style as Jerry Lewis. The episode also memorably concludes with the main characters casually running over a caterwauling Jim Morrison.
    • Animaniacs also had an episode where the Warners were out to buy their psychiatrist, Dr. Scratchensnif, a birthday present. One asks about buying something from a store called Oedipus Rex, and another remarks, "Nah, his mother wouldn't like it."
      • A different store sold 'Freudian Slips'. "No, he makes his own."
    • Animaniacs was also famous for hiding vulgar jokes. At the beginning of the song Wakko's America, the Warner Siblings are playing a Jeopardy-style game show, wherein Wakko is asked how much he wants to wager on the daily double. He responds, "I'll blow the wad," eliciting surprised looks from Yakko and Dot.
    • A running gag was Yakko lampshading a Double Entendre by implying it was enough to get the show cancelled.
      Teacher: Yakko, do you know how to conjugate?
      Yakko: Who, me? I've never even kissed a girl!
      Teacher: No, no, it's easy. Here, I'll conjugate with you.
      Yakko: (to camera) Goodnight, everybody!
    • The Warners open up a bust of Freud like a Pez dispenser.
      Dr. Scratchensniff: Stop playing with my bust!
      Yakko: ...Goodnight, everybody!
    • The best Yakko lampshading has to be during "Baloney And Kids" where Yakko expresses a preference for chasing after the just-exited "cute girls" (the "Princess of Props".)
      Baloney: What "cute girls"? Yakko, I don't know what you mean!
      Yakko: (to camera) There's a shocker!
    • And let's not forget how The Brain spoke exactly like Orson Welles.
      • "Yes, always."
      • A writer described that cartoon as "a $900,000 inside joke."
      • Not so much a parental bonus, but Maurice LaMarche (The Brain's voice actor) sent up the same famous Frozen Peas recording session in an episode of The Critic, throwing in fish stick advertisements into a videotaped living will. "They're even better when you're DEAD!"
    • Also, there was a THX-1138 reference in the intro chalkboard scene.
    • One episode of Pinky and the Brain was done entirely as a parody of The Third Man.
    • Another episode was done as a parody of The Prisoner.
    • There was actually a lot of No Celebrities Were Harmed - style casting in the show, ranging from the obvious (The Goodfeathers) to the easy-to-miss (Katie Kaboom's dad spoke like Jimmy Stewart).
    • The Warners parodied a World War 2 "good citizenship" film, where ladies donated their nylon pantyhose to be made into parachutes. Who came to pick up the huge barrel of nylons? J. Edgar Hoover.
    • One that surprisingly slipped past the censors:
      Yakko: (dressed as a detective) Dot, look for prints.
      Dot: (now carrying the musician Prince) I found Prince!
      Yakko: No, no, no. Fingerprints.
      (Prince puts on a wide grin)
      Dot: (Beat) I don't think so. (throws Prince out the window)
    • When Yakko becomes king of Anvilania, he tends to be more (not-so-subtly) interested in his gorgeous female Prime Minister than running the country, even when the threat of war hangs over them.
      Prime Minister: (impatiently) Sire!
      Yakko: (suggestively) Wait 'til we're alone.
    • Then there was the time the Warners met Beethoven:
      Beethoven: I am Ludwig von Beethoven! Vorld famous composer und pianist!
      Yakko: (startled) You're a WHAT?
      Beethoven: A PIANIST!
      Yakko: * smooch* ...Good night everybody!
      Beethoven: (confused) But zat is vat I am! A pianist!
      Yakko: I think we heard enough out of you.
      [Yakko literally washes Beethoven's mouth with soap]
    • "My bottom's all sore from romping."
    • Animaniacs also had the "Rita & Runt" sketches, which often parodied Broadway musicals (but of course; Rita was played by Bernadette Peters!). These are all far funnier after having seen the musicals being parodied.
    • And then there's the Thanksgiving themed episode with a hunter and a turkey:
      Hunter: Give me the bird!
      Yakko: We'd love to, really, but the Fox censors wouldn't allow it.
      • Repeated during an extended The Maltese Falcon parody:
        Minerva Mink: All right. Give me the bird!
        Dot: We can't. This is a children's show.
      • This one predates the Animaniacs by several decades, first appearing (probably) in a Babbit and Catstello cartoon from the late 40s. "If the Hays Office would only let me, I'd give him the bird all right."
    • Not to mention the episode devoted to a pastiche of Gilbert and Sullivan, of all things.
    • There's also the episode where the trio ends up in Czarist Russia? They meet Rasputin, who has a toothache, and needs dental work. Yakko remarks, "looks like he needs a little anesthesia!" ... and the Czar's daughter comes out and hits Rasputin on the head with a mallet. Dot even says afterwards, "Obscure joke, ask your parents."
      • Of course, after Anastasia, this pun isn't so obscure anymore.
    • The episode "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled," where the Warners ended up in Hell (but obviously they couldn't say that). When they meet the Devil and realize where they are, Wakko dashes for a spiral staircase, comes out on Earth, gathers up a snowball, and runs back down the stairs, only to watch it melt rapidly upon setting it down on the ground. "Boy, they were right! It didn't have a chance."
    • Another episode featured several references to the Swedish film The Seventh Seal, which was a bizarre enough film to insure that even if a kid tried to watch it they wouldn't understand it.
      • Hey Arnold! used the phrase "Snowball's chance" repeatedly in the episode "Stinky Goes Hollywood".
    • By all accounts, children shouldn't see Raging Bull or Goodfellas yet one of the recurring segments was called Goodfeathers and usually homaged those types of movies.
    • One skit with the Squirrels featured a Who's On First send off referencing The Who.
    • Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are themselves a parental bonus since they are basically animated versions of the Marx Brothers. Yakko especially is a homage to Groucho Marx.
      • A point accentuated by the episode "King Yakko", which leans heavily on the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup.
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle did this constantly, as did Jay Ward's other animated series, Hoppity Hooper and George of the Jungle, and Ken Snyder's Roger Ramjet. At times it seems like more of the jokes are for the parents than for the kids.
    • One definitely for the parents: Boris, wearing a metal mouse costume in his role as the Big Cheese, details his plan to take over whole U.S. of A. He holds up a book. The title? "Mice Kampf."
    • Bullwinkle would sometimes have entire plots that were parental bonuses. An entire episode could be spent spoofing college football or modern art. Bonus points for the jokes being nowadays both mature and dated. How many modern kids are gonna get a joke about the payola scandal?
  • Rugrats (1991)'s popularity peak can be traced to its frequent use of the Parental Bonus.
    • The creepy doctor that Chuckie visits in named Dr. Lector.
    • In another episode, while the children are looking for one of the children's favourite toy, they open up a drawer full of favourite things, and start pulling things out. On the screen can be seen a photograph of a woman.
    • At the beginning of the home movies episode, when Stu starts showing an incredibly boring home movie, Didi's father picks up the phone and says "Hello, Dr. Kevorkian?"
    • From the episode in which Dr. Lipschitz visits:
      Didi: Stu! You'll never guess who's coming for dinner!
      Stu: Sidney Poitier?
    • In another episode, the babies are chased through a Multicultural Fair. Chuckie gets temporarily separated, and nearly trampled by Jewish dancers. When the others ask him what happened, all he can say is "The Hora! The Hora!". They finally make a stand with the help of some Scottish babies, who taunt the pursuers by lifting their kilts to show that they aren't wearing diapers.
    • In the episode "Give and Take", Chuckie cannot stop playing with Tommy's new inflatable toy, called "Boppo". Phil says: "A kid his age should be playing with his friends, not sittin' in his room Boppin' his Boppo!"
    • And the movies Grampa brought home one night, 'Reptar Come Home', 'Reptar Redux', and ... 'Lonely Space Vixens.'
      Grandpa: Heh, that's for after you go to bed.
    • In one episode, Tommy goes through a naked phase, where he refuses to wear his clothes. After talking the twins into following suit, he looks down at Lil and says "Lil, can I ask you a question?"
    • In the sequel series All Grown Up!, the episode titles were frequently references to pop-culture that was probably above the target-audience's head, but nearly all were easily relatable to the episode, anyway. The exception would be the episode "Wouldn't It Be Nice", an episode where several characters (including Susie and Angelica) pretend to be married, which only makes sense if you know the song. The odds on the target audience being familiar with the source material is slim.
    • Seriously....lip schitz (the bullSHIT psychologist...is called...lipschitz...you know...as in shit comes out of his mouth.
    • Another Lipschitz example: In "Naked Tommy," Didi cites him to Betty, and she snaps back with, "Don't start with that hippie Lipschitz, Didi! ... The 60's are over, and WE LOST!!!"
    • Rugrats also had a scene (which might be more of a Grandparent Bonus or one for classic film lovers) that had Grandpa shout out Horsefeathers! while throwing down a handful of Animal Crackers, a reference to the titles of two Marx Brothers films.
    • Episode of Angelica the Magnificent among the various magic words Angelica shouts is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
    • There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in the episode "Turtle Recall" where Chaz is looking at an enormous department store directory, and you see half a word cut off by the screen, "vibra-". Take a wild guess as to what it could've been.
    • In the episode "Tommy and the Secret Club", Angelica name-drops one of the most feared world leaders (at the time). While it's mispronounced, it's obvious who she meant.
      Angelica: If you don't remember to ask for the password, anybody could just waltz right into the club. Count Draculator, Sadman Husseini or even Chuckie.
    • In Mommy's Little Assets Charlotte's assistant Jonathan thinks a "sweetie" directed towards Angelica is meant for him. Charlotte quickly corrects him, saying she'd never call one of her employees "sweetie," especially "after the Clarence Thomas hearings."
      • Also, Charlotte mentions to get the Mapplethorpe painting off the wall. Robert Mapplethorpe is known for painting nude men, so...
    • Didi liked to take dubious parenting guidance from Doctor Lipschitz. Read that again...
      • One of Dr. Lipschitz's degrees is D.B.S. which can either stand for Doctor of Biblical Studies or Doctor of Bullshit.
      • Also in "A Visit from Lipschitz," Lipschitz claims that Stu was neglected during his Oedipal stage.
    • In "Twins Pique" near the end the babies break into Phil and Lil's dad's office desk to get his "quackulator" (calculator) among the objects they toss out include a magazine with a woman on the cover in a Playboy Bunny outfit.
  • In the Time Travel episode of The Fairly OddParents!, after Fairies In Black erased everyone's memories of events, the main characters were requested not to interfere in "the re-election of President McGovern". The show as a whole was saturated with an ever-increasing amount of Parental Bonus. The very first occasion would have to be way back when it was still on Oh Yeah! Cartoons:
    Timmy: Oh, Magic 9-ball, when will my parents get back from the movies? "Titanic: Director's cut?!" They'll be there all night!
    • One that sticks out is Dad's obsession with eggnog in every Christmas episode.
    • There's an episode where Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands at the beach. In searching for them they find, among other things, Elvis and the Holy Grail.
    • This exchange in the episode where Timmy wishes his parents were superheroes:
      Timmy's Dad: (Pushing Timmy out the door) And that's everything you need to know about where babies come from!
      Timmy: But what's the machine for?
      Timmy's Dad: We'll tell you when you're older, son.
    • The intersections in Fairy World almost always are the names of famous magicians (like the intersection of "David" and "Copperfield")
    • Adam West voices Adam West as Catman, who is obsessed with the role he played on a 60's live-action show; his attacks are punctuated with large on-screen sound effect bubbles.
    • Jay Leno portrays the comic book superhero "The Crimson Chin".
      Cleft (Timmy): Thanks, CC! You saved me!
      Chin: No, Timmy. You saved me— from myself! Boy, that was schmaltzy. Who did you say writes my comic books?
      Cleft: Some 40-year-old guy who lives with his mom.
      Chin: Any money in it?
      Cleft: (points to his caption balloon) Lives with his mom.
    • Jorgen von Strangle, the Schwarzenegger fairy (no, they didn't actually get ahold of the Governator for the role).
    • Ben Stein plays a race of bland, boring, industrious pixies.
    • And just general grown-up friendly silliness:
      Wanda (after Cosmo slightly alters her hair color in a fight): I'm not a summer, I'm a winter!
    • And...
      Cosmo: I don't get it. If you're not married to her, why is she trying to kill you?
    • And...
      Timmy Turner: I'm huge, I hurt people, and I'm misunderstood!
      Cosmo: Just like the IRS!
    • And don't forget:
      Wanda: Oh no, now he's evil AND a genius!
      Cosmo: Just like Dr. Phil!
    • Then there was the first Wishology episode, where Timmy's dad popped open his case full of "goodies".
    • And in an early episode with Mr. Crocker, as he ponders a trap that will either reveal once and for all that Timmy has fairy godparents to save him, or leave them dead...
      Crocker: If they survive, THEY'RE FAIRIES! If they don't, I HAVE TENURE!
    • The second episode with Anti-Cosmo has a Silence of the Lambs reference.
      Anti-Cosmo (sitting behind a glassed-in cell): Hello, Clarise!
      Wanda: Who's Clarise?
      Anti-Cosmo: So sorry, can't see a thing without my monocle.
    • Wanda's name itself was an example, considering that the usual form the fairies disguised themselves as was fish.
    • When Tootie becomes a secret source to Timmy's parents to expose Vicky as evil, her cover name is Deep Toot.
  • Rocko's Modern Life was thickly saturated with these. The creators throttled things down considerably for SpongeBob SquarePants. However, the latter's popularity put it on the Media Watchdog radar and as a result, it was subject to more controversy.
    • The most famous example is a restaurant called "Chokey Chicken". This one was caught, and later episodes changed the name to "Chewy Chicken".
    • When Rocko and Heffer suspect Filburt of being an alien, they decide to interrogate him at Chewy Chicken (where all the aliens are supposed to meet). Heffer tries to expose Filburt's identity by saying Klaatu Barada Nikto. He explains to Rocko, "It's alien language, I heard it from a sci-fi movie." As he leaves the restaurant, he shouts, "Chewy Chicken is people! Chewy Chicken is people!"
  • In addition to practically being an entire show's worth of homage to Transformers: Generation 1, Transformers: Animated has a number of parental bonus moments.
    • The Autobot science team is composed of Wheeljack, whose face greatly resembles a roboticized version of a certain walrus-faced MythBuster, and Perceptor, whose computerized voice resembles that of physicist Stephan Hawking.
    • Sentinel in "Predacons Rising" - "Don't just stand there with your pistons in your servos." Really now?
  • Any episode of The Tick. The show doesn't quite make sense when you watch it as a kid, but things such as the "Ottoman Empire" (a bunch of goons obsessed with furniture) work out for older audiences.

  • Kim Possible was fond of this, too:
  • Yin Yang Yo! has several, not the least of which is Yang saying "Ah, pellets!" in place of stronger language.
    • Paraphrased:
      Yin: Yang, where do you think Carl the Evil Cockroach has gone?
      Yang: The Booby Trap factory, which is safe for you because you don't have bo-
      Yin: Hold that insensitive remark!
  • Dylan the rabbit from The Magic Roundabout was (at least in the UK Gag Dub) portrayed as an Erudite Stoner, and often said things that might have been about drugs. This gets a lot more blatant in The Movie.
  • Justice League is full of these.
    Flash: Yep. Fastest man alive.
    Hawkgirl: Which might explain why you can't get a date.
    Flash: Yeah... hey, what's THAT supposed to mean?
    • Or Hawkman's remark after Hawkgirl attacks a villain with a whip.
      Hawkman: You always were good with that thing!
    • Interestingly, Hawkgirl seems to me involved in a lot of these:
      (While joking about Flash probably not having a chance with Fire): I hear she's, y'know... (Insert significant glance toward Fire, who is chatting with Ice.) ...Brazilian.
    • Another Hawkgirl example pops up when The Joker accuses her of "sublimating [her] passions with that big honkin' mace."
    • Yet another Hawkgirl example is in the episode "Shadow of the Hawk"
      [Carter Hall is staring at Hawkgirl's backside]
      Hawkgirl: What?
      Carter Hall: I missed the dress.
      Hawkgirl:[seductive voice] You didn't miss it last night.
    • Possibly the most blatant example occurs in the episode where Flash and Luthor switch bodies. Tala, who had been trying to seduce Lex for a while, leads him (actually Flash) into the bedroom to "rest". Shortly after the door closes, we hear him happily chirp "Hey, that's not restful."
    • How about in the episode "Epilogue"? That was a pretty impressive one.
      Amanda Waller: Bruce's DNA was easy enough to obtain. He left it all over town.
      Terry McGinnis: [raises eyebrow]
      Amanda Waller: Not remotely what I meant!
    • A pretty infamous one:
      Princess Audrey of Kasnia: I'm a world class party girl. I intend to go out with a bang. Several, if it can be arranged.
    • And there's the episode where Flash and Wonder Woman rescue a magazine proprietor who looks a lot like Hugh Hefner (and letches on Diana). The exact nature of the magazines he publishes are unrevealed, but Wally insists he only buys them for the articles.
    • Katma Tui asking John Stewart if he still snores in his sleep...
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers had a Cargo Cult episode with a tribe of kiwi birds. The tribe's chief, for no apparent reason whatsoever, spoke in nothing but Ed Sullivan mannerisms.
    • And don't forget the episode featuring a scientist named "Dr. Piltdown". Piltdown Man was, of course, one of the most well-known frauds in archaeological history.
    • In the episode "Double O'Chipmunk" Dale, after his devices wreck the Ranger HQ, in shown wearing only a bowtie, like a Chippendales dancer. This same visual pun was repeated on House of Mouse on ladies' night.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot was full of various pop culture references, such as a group of villains named the Lonely Hearts Club Band... with a leader named Pepper. There was also this exchange, which goes past Parental Bonus into Viewers Are Geniuses territory:
    Professor Wakeman: You need new eyes like Oppenheimer needed gunpowder!
  • Histeria! sometimes had jokes that only the viewer's grandparents could get, such as a sketch of Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence done as an episode of The Jack Benny Program.
    • Or saying of Greek Poet Sappho, "She didn't play well with boys."
    • Histeria was full of this stuff. Look at some of the songs. How many kids in their demographic would actually get songs based on "Ghostbusters" or "Theme from Shaft"?
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the main characters meet up with some extraordinarily 60s Hippie-ish, guitar playing nomads with vocal characteristics of The Stoner. The leader is named Chong, a reference to legendary stoners Cheech & Chong. While traversing the tunnels, he shouts "The tunnels, they are a-changing," a reference to folk musician Bob Dylan. Both of those are much older than the show's core demographic.
  • Danny Phantom has its moments - Desiree and Vlad are both walking Parent Service, specifically. The eighties and college references help as well. It also has it's share of Double Entendre.
  • George Shrinks has the titular character, at one point, tell a bee to go pollinate itself.
  • One episode of Cow and Chicken had a gang of butch female bikers (Cow even calls one of them "sir") who crashed into people's homes and literally munched on their carpets. The episode was never aired again because the censors caught onto this.
  • In the first episode of Doug, Doug is tricked by Roger into searching for fictional creatures called "neematoads". While searching in the marshland, he spots Roger laughing at him and realized he's been fooled. Doug's dog who became covered in mud approached Roger, convincing Roger that it was a neematoad. The episode ends with Roger searching in the marshland for neematoads. There is no such thing as neematoads, though there is such a thing as nematodes. And considering that both Doug and Roger were barefoot while searching, they definitely found some...
  • Much of Fillmore! parodies 70s cop shows specifically, and relies heavily on Mundane Made Awesome.
    • And how many kids were they expecting to get all of The Silence of the Lambs references in the episode "To Mar a Stall"?
  • One episode of Arthur featured the characters all writing stories for a TV show's story contest (the stories themselves written by kids, or so it says at the end), which were then played out using the Arthur characters in the animation style of other cartoons... including South Park, Beavis And Butthead, and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
    • In the episode when Buster is diagnosed with asthma, Arthur accidentally induces an asthma attack when he's reading an old, dusty joke book with Buster. The following exchange with his father ensues:
      Arthur: This is all my fault!
      Mr. Read: How could it be your fault?
      Arthur: It's because I showed him those dirty books! That's what made him sick. I just know it!
      (Confused look on Mr. Read's face)
    • In one episode there was a band called "Binky" that looked and sounded suspiciously like ABBA. They had the same amount of popularity and were even from Europe.
    • In another episode, when The Brain and Sue Ellen are going to do a science project, Brain imagines himself explaining that he managed to resurrect a dinosaur at a science seminar. Said dinosaur turns out to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the audience is understandably scared. Brain then tells them to stay a bit. The Tyrannosaur is then given a microphone and then recites a Groucho Marx joke ("So one day, I woke up in the morning and I found an elephant in my pajamas. How the elephant got in my pajamas, I'll never know.").
    • In the Opera episode Muffy is reading an Opera guide called The Barber of the Valkyries
    • Arthur has had a lot of these, and a number of very subtle ones. In one episode where Sue Ellen and D.W. stumble upon Muffy's old nursery playroom, there's a sled in the background with Rosebud on it.
  • Derek Blunt, in the Darkwing Duck episode "In Like Blunt" is a parody of Derek Flint (who is, in turn, a parody of James Bond). The episode title is a parody of the second Flint film In Like Flint (which is, in turn, a parody of the phrase "In Like Flynn"). It's unlikely kids would get any of these references except Bond.
    • Darkwing did this all the time. Take the episode "Twin Beaks": the alien cows claim to be from the planet Larson, on "The far side of the galaxy." The Far Side was created by Gary Larson, who made more comedic use of milk cows than Earthworm Jim.
      • Far Side references were used in other episodes as well. The very first episode in fact has Bushroot being harassed by two fellow scientists, "Dr. Gary" and "Dr. Larsen."
    • "Trading Faces" gives us this little gem.
      J. Gander Hooter: But FOWL High Command must surely realize that one hundred trillion dollars is difficult to come by!
      Steelbeak: Hey, read my beak; tell them to raise some taxes. Eh heh heh, like they need an excuse, right?
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. For example...
    • In the episode "Store Wars", the group passes by the window display of a store for women's underwear. Bloo walks right past it, but 8 year old Mac takes a glimpse while smiling in a pretty strange way. Adult woman Frankie and female imaginary friend Coco look at it interested and coward Eduardo covers his eyes in horror.
    • In "Partying is Such a Sweet Soiree", Bloo tells Mac what they got for their party: "...and on the 6th floor, Ring around the Rosey, If you know what I mean..." Mac answers: "Not really." Bloo: "Yeah, me neither." And just a few minutes later, Mac gets into a pretty extreme form of the Mushroom Samba. Sugar seems to contain ecstasy in the FHFIF-universe, at least for Mac. "High" doesn't even come close to describing sweet little Mac's behaviour for the rest of the episode.
    • That show had a Blues Brothers reference of all things in "Bye Bye Nerdy". And not just any Blues Brothers reference, they almost quoted verbatim the most famous line of the movie:
      Bloo: It's a hundred and six blocks to Mac. I've got a full bladder, half an idea where I'm going, it's Tuesday and I'm wearing sunglasses.
      Frankie: Hit it.
    • In "Affair Weather Friends", Mac was frustrated because Bloo left him (clearly behaving more like a husband whose wife just left him than a little boy whose BFF just left him). To make it even better, Mac goes to an ice cream parlor right afterward.... and everybody who watches the show knows that he reacts to sugar like others react to drugs. The following scene looks... ripped out of a relationship-drama movie.
    • A random character with Morrisey-esque hair talked entirely in altered Smith's lyrics.
      • On a similar note, in the episode "Nightmare on Wilson Way", after Eduardo becomes a zombie, Bloo mutters "Well, Ed is dead." "Ed is Dead" is the name of a Pixies song.
    • They also parodied the Death Star trench run. No, not Luke's, Red Leader's. And in an episode that Bloo gets fantastically rich in "Cookie Dough", he sails around inside the house on a tiny steamboat. It's name: The Bloosatania. And then there was Arthur Dent trying to Hitchhike to Magrathea...
      • As well as two nerds named Douglas and Adam, one of which wears white shirt with a large '42' printed on it.
    • Mac waking up next to Cheese and trying to 'explain' to Bloo in "Mac Daddy".
  • ReBoot is full of these, with constant references to pop culture (both American and British) and computer terms. Whole episodes would do this, notably the homage to The Prisoner, "Number 7". To the hordes of little kids who didn't know The Prisoner existed, the plot was a terrifying mindfuck full of creepiness. The end of Series 2 even had references to the Blitz of London; as a result of a war in the sky, the Binomes shelter in Tube stations, and Binomes resembling the Women's Auxillary Air Force are working as spotters in the War Room.
    • Don't forget the cabin from Evil Dead!
    • Also don't forget the season 3 recap at the end, performed by the Mainframe Players in the style of Modern Major General.
    • There was also the season 2 episode Bad Bob, to say nothing of season 3's masterful lampoon of Star Trek.
  • Although Wonder Pets! is usually rather light on Parental Bonus, the episode "The Wonder Pets Save the Beetles" is filled with non-stop references to a certain rock band...
    • The Beetles were voiced by two of the performers of Broadway's "Beatlemania."
    • To say nothing of "The Wonder Pets save the Fiddler Crab on the roof."
    • And "The Wonder Pets Save the Rat Pack. Not only are the guest characters based on Sinatra, Davis, and Martin (with dead-on voice acting), but Elvis Presley and Raoul Duke can be spotted in a crowd. They also make reference to songs like "Come Fly With Me" and "My Way". The music is also styled after them.
    • The more recent episodes of Wonder Pets are chock full of Parental Bonus - Save the Vixen, a noir style episode guest starring Lauren Bacall, and full of nods to the films, Save the Skunk Rocker, full of references to classic punk and Save the Rock Lobster, a B52s inspired episode, in particular.
  • Donkey Kong Country had a scene where Diddy utters the phrase "the only thing worse than a bruised banana is a bruised butt." Yeah.
  • The Playhouse Disney show Special Agent Oso has episode titles like "Gold Flower" and "A View To A Kitten".
  • The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack in the episode "Whale Times." Bubbie meets a whale named Harvey, and they like each other. Bubbie isn't that kind of whale though. Also with that comes an innocent-Flapjack comment after they realize Harvey kidnaps people from other giant creatures, "Harvey sure does get around."
  • Ruby Gloom makes a rather obscure Beatles reference in the episode "Beat Goes On", when Frank cries out "I got blisters on my fingers!". Frank is quoting Ringo Starr, who says exactly the same thing (in the same tone of voice) at the end of the song "Helter Skelter".
  • Codename: Kids Next Door has entire episodes based on parental bonuses. Apart from parodies of such non-kiddie friendly fare as Terminator (Operation FUTURE), Soylent Green (Operation HOME), Minority Report (Operation CRIME), Stephen King's Christine (Operation TRICYCLE) and the Alien franchise (Operation LICE), there are e.g. Operation POINT where the kids try to find out what teenage couples do to "become adults" up at "The Point" on Saturday night They roller skate together. What did you think they did? and Operation SUPPORT where Nigel and Hoagie decide that bras must be secret weapons ("Battle Ready Armor!!") and sneak into Abby's sister's bedroom to steal some for themselves. They're right.
    • Then there's an episode based on Isaac Asimov's book Fantastic Voyage, in which 4 ate a brussels sprout and the rest of the team got shrunk to retrieve it (Operation SPROUT).
    • And then there's Operation RECRUIT, which is more or less a direct parody of The Matrix
      • And Operation ARCHIVE, which is a direct parody of the Animatrix segment "The Second Renaissance".
    • Numbuh One dresses up as a Borg in the Halloween episode and even says "You will be joinified."
      • Actually, Numbuh One himself is kind of a parody of Captain Picard. I mean, bald Brit who's in charge and says "Numbuh One" a lot...who does that remind you of?
    • And there's Operation DUCKY that was a parody of Moby-Dick in a ginormous bathtub with a giant rubber ducky and a Captain Ahab Expy who talked like William Shatner.
    • Operation COUCH- most of it, especially Emperor Dave.
  • Thomas & Friends has an episode titled "Escape", where Oliver is saved from scrap. The music that plays while he's being spirited away from the diesel area is clearly based on the famous tune from The Great Escape.
  • As quoted above, Phineas and Ferb. Very little of what makes the show good can be properly understood by the target demographic.
    • The Phineas and Ferb special "Summer Belongs to You" had the gang stop in Paris. While in it, Phineas gawks at the Moulin Rouge. What is the Moulin Rouge?
    • Also, in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" when Candace's time travel causes Doofenshmirtz to take over the world, he sings a song called, "It's a Charmed Life". One of the lyrics is "Everyone else is the proletariat and baby I'm the bourgeoisie! Look it up Joe!" Most kids, in fact quite a few adults, do not know those words.
    • In one episode, when Perry tapped on Doofensmirtz's window and then disappeared offscreen, Doofenshmirtz opened up the window and made a rather fantastic literary reference...
      Who's that tap-tap-tapping on my window? Is it that pesky raven again? Stupid raven....
    • Not to mention that the entire "Harbor Day" episode was a giant parody of a certain story concerning a crazy captain and a whale...
    • From the episode "Finding Mary MacGuffin":
      An adult: Aren't you a little young to know about all these old detective shows?
      Phineas: Yes. Yes we...
      * puts on sunglasses*
      Phineas: are.
      YEAHHHHHH!!!!!
    • The most audacious example was probably in "Night of the Living Pharmacists", which had a cameo appearance from Shaun and Ed. No, not a reference to Shaun of the Dead, an appearance by the actual characters. And they even got Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to reprise the roles!
  • Gravity Falls has loads of this. It's filled with numerous jokes that would go right over a kid's head (sometimes treading into Black Comedy territory) and has a bit of an 80's/90's cartoon vibe, despite being set in 2012. One specific example is "Soos and the Real Girl", a parody of Lars and the Real Girl.
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius had a good number, being another Nick show. Anyone recall that episode where Cindy and her friends were having a garage sale, and Sheen finds a bra and proclaims it to be an Ultra Lord Double Barrel Slingshot?
    • "I don't know, Sheen, if that's the case, then my mom has a lot of Ultra Lord Double Barrel Slingshots..."
    • In one episode, Hugh Neutron tells Jimmy and his mom that he sat on a banana when he was 7, claiming the experience was life-changing.
  • From The Magic School Bus:
    • At one point, the bus turns into the Enterprise.
    • Not to mention the Friz herself. As many a disgruntled cosplayer has noted, Ms Frizzle is stacked.
    • In the episode where they go to space, they are going past Uranus. Arnold jumps into his cousin's lap, to which she says, "Uranus doesn't do a thing for me, so please get off!" Arnold replies, "Sorry, Janet, but I have to stay on top of the situation."
    • In "Gets Ready, Set, Dough", while the class is stuck in an oven, Phoebe says, "At my old school, we never got baked."
    • When Ms. Frizzle is put on trial for taking Keesha's cucumber ("In A Pickle"), her prisoner number is 24601.
  • On an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton go on a treasure hunt. They find it buried under trees shaped like an X, and later, as they're fighting over the treasure, Plucky gets caught in a tree. As his treasure pours out of his bag into Hamton's, Hamton notes "The trickle-down theory", which would require quite a bit of knowledge of economics.
  • Wallace & Gromit: Gromit has been seen reading the following books: "Electronics for Dogs", "Pluto's Republic", and (while in prison) "Crime and Punishment" by Fido Dogstoyevski. Gromit was also enrolled in Dogwarts University, but that hardly counts as Parental Bonus.
    • There's also the scene in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit where Wallace's contraptions go wrong and he ends up naked except for a box around his waist. The box reads, "Caution: may contain nuts." Come to think of it, the whole film is basically a Whole-Plot Reference to every cheesy low-budget British horror film trope ever, until the climax where they end up doing an extended King Kong parody.
    • Most kids who don't live Oop North will probably wonder why exactly Gromit is so enthusiastic about throwing that bomb in the direction of Yorkshire, too.
    • The climax of A Close Shave may or may not be an intentional homage to Terminator.
  • Not really a funny one, but in one episode of Batman Beyond, Barbara Gordon comments that people finding out about her past may jeopardize her husband's run for re-election. Younger children would probably not understand that (why would anyone hate Batgirl?)
  • In one episode of Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, there were a number of jokes inserted into the episode that were throwbacks to old video games. The only one the children got was "MARIO!" and the only one the adults cared about was FINAL FANTASY VII. Sucks to be you, Link and Kirby.
  • Atomic Betty: In Season 2, Episode 17 "Extreme Makeover" (featuring the villain Bombshelle), Betty's mom is trying her old dancing clothes and Noah walks in. She asks him to watch her performance for a while and dances. After she finishes, there's a shot with a dumbfounded Noah at the door, looking at Betty's mom raised leg on the foreground. Noah, being a little kid, has a different reaction (he almost throws up - of course, Betty's mom choice of bright pink gym clothes might have something to do with it).
  • The sketch show MAD loves this trope, having references to many things the target audience probably wouldn't know, such as CSI or The Bourne Identity, the references are usually mixed with something the target audience has seen, such as iCarly and Bob the Builder.
    • There's an episode with a green Pedobear. Pedobear in a cartoon. And it's during a parody of anime and Grey's Anatomy.
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold has a song from the trio of Black Canary, Huntress, and Catwoman that's not so much Parental Bonus as "Get the kids out of the room now. The song starts by listing the sexual issues of the male heroes through very poorly disguised lyrics: Green Lantern's "ring" is small but pretty strong; Blue Beetle is cute but is an inexperienced virgin; The Flash, of course, is "sometimes way too fast"; Green Arrow is a switch-hitter; Aquaman's "little fish" is unimpressive; and Plastic Man has, obviously, all sorts of interesting possibilities. And then to wind it up, they're inviting Batman to join them for a foursome.
  • DuckTales (1987) is another series that frequently employed this. Some examples include one episode where Scrooge is jailed in their version of The Alcatraz, another episode has Scrooge holding a luxury blimp cruise that not only has a character based on Norma Desmond but also shoutouts to notable media figures, and another episode features Scrooge butting heads with a slimy rancher named J.R.
  • Adventures of the Gummi Bears had one episode that was one giant Affectionate Parody to the R-rated Dollars Trilogy.
  • Adventure Time seems to be an experiment to figure out exactly how much crap one can get past the radar in 11 minutes.
  • Teen Titans (2003) has the creepy Slade, whose behavior toward Robin, Terra, and Raven is vaguely pedophilic.
  • Transformers: Rescue Bots has its share of movie references which the target audience (preschoolers) wouldn't or shouldn't be familiar with. The episode The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock for instance references Men in Black, Alien, Predator, The Blob (1958), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Fly (1958), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
  • Hip-Hip and Hurra does this all the time, throwing in plenty of jokes that only an adult will appreciate, yet remains 100% child friendly and enjoyable to toddlers.
  • The Monster High webisode "Witch Trials" has a blatant Shout-Out to Ringu.
  • The beginning of the music video for the Trollz theme song is a shout-out to the opening of the song "Baby Got Back".
  • The movie of Magic Adventures of Mumfie contains two shout-outs to H.M.S. Pinafore. Whale's first line is "Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!", referencing one of the songs "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen" and Mumfie whistling "Nevermind the Why and Wherefore" when he meets the Secretary of Night. It also has Scarecrow mistaking "come inside" for something else, which was used again in "Pinkey's First Winter".
    • The TV series' episode "Bristle's Blues" has Bristle's rule book containing rules referencing "Dancing In The Dark", "Singin' in the Rain" and "Shaking The Blues Away", all three of which are classic songs.
    • In another episode, Mumfie gets a book called "The Guide To Elegant Dancing" by Fred Astaire.
  • A 2014 episode of Ben 10: Omniverse "Galactic Monsters" references a lesser-known scene from the 1931 Frankenstein movie, in which the creature throws a little girl into a lake. For comparison, the average Ben 10 viewer's great-grandparents probably weren't around when that film originally came out.
  • Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom: In the episode Daisy and Poppy go to the Museum, when the characters see a display about Vikings, Nanny Plum says that she knows that Vikings only ever ate Spam.
  • When Devin discovers that his girlfriend is in a relationship with her tennis instructor in one episode of Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race, Don has this to say:
    "The tennis instructor? That neeever happens."
  • Rick and Morty actually inverted this trope, twice. The Mystery Shack mug, pen, and notepad from Gravity Falls that were sucked into the universe portal are briefly shown exiting one of the portals in the episode "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind". In another, "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", an image of a triangle with one eye and a top hat, safely assumed to be Gravity Falls' main villain Bill Cipher, is displayed on a monitor. The "inversion" is that Rick and Morty is not a kids' show.
  • In The Lion Guard pilot movie, Return of the Roar, Simba tells Kion that they need to talk (about Kion's use of the Roar of the Elders and what it means for him). Kion assumes he means The Talk, which apparently they've already had. ("We already had the talk! "Can you feel the love tonight," remember?"). It's more or less confirmation that Simba and Nala had sex and conceived Kion's older sister Kiara during the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" scene in the original movie.
  • Julius Jr. has these in spades. One example is how Julius' Halloween costume resembles Doc Ock's suit. Also, in the season 2 episode "Great Inventini", it turns out that the Great Inventini is actually a tiny slug creature in a humanoid-sized suit- a shoutout to Men in Black where small aliens control a similar mecha to blend into our world.
  • Kaeloo is famous for Parental Bonuses.
    • In the episode "Let's Play House", the characters play a game of "house" with Kaeloo as their mother and Mr. Cat as their father. When the kids leave the house, Mr. Cat turns out the lights, lies on top of Kaeloo, and asks her if they can perform their "conjugal duties" together. Not too many children would be familiar with what a "conjugal duty" is.
    • In one episode, Kaeloo lists off all the flaws she can think of that Mr. Cat has: he's "dishonest, hypocritical, egoistic, greedy, lazy, sly, and libidinous". That last word would fly over many kids' heads, but the parents would likely notice that Kaeloo is essentially complaining that Mr. Cat is too horny.
  • G.I. Joe: Renegades: The episode "Brothers of Light," centers around a cult. When Tunnel Rat is captured he compares them to the Children of the Corn (1984). Not too many kids would be familiar with an 80s horror film.
  • Teen Titans Go!: The series is very heavy on 1980s references, especially with The Golden Girls. These references are so old that they would have counted as parental bonuses with the original 2003 cartoon, never mind Go which came out a decade later.
    • The final part of the episode "Where Exactly on the Globe is Carl Sanpedro" takes place in Croatia. Where Game of Thrones is filmed. A bunch of jokes about it is made. It might even top the Phineas and Ferb example with Shaun of the Dead above.
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series:
    • In "Purred It Through The Grape Vine", Swamp Rat tries to sell a Magazine called "Eratica", with an image of a rat model. It is a play on the term; "erotica", which is another name for a pornographic magazine.
    • In "Cupid Pups", Cruella refers to some one as a; "Silicone Squeak Toy"...Which is another term for a breast job.
  • The Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode "I Just Want to Be Your Teddy Bear" has the Planeteers attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans. At one point, Wheeler offers some beads to Linka, who is offended. After Wheeler then tries offering the beads to Gi, Gi simply takes the beads from him and states "Wheeler, you're incorrigible. But thanks for the souvenir." Children just see Wheeler offering the girls a present in the hope they might go on a date; adults will be aware that it's a Mardi Gras tradition for women to show their breasts in exchange for beads.
    • A similar joke was made in the first episode of The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, which took place in New Orleans. In one scene, Granny shows Tweety beads and says "You wouldn't believe what I had to do to get these!".
  • In the Alvin and the Chipmunks Clip Show "Alvin in Analysis", Alvin goes to see a mental health counsellor, Rutter Wisenheimer - who is a parody of real life sex therapist Ruth Westheimer. (Don't worry, Alvin wasn't there for that kind of issue)
  • The ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks episode "Knights" involved a group and song called the Knights of Boogie. A lot of "Boogie Knights" were mentioned.
  • The Danger Mouse reboot episode that reintroduces Count Duckula is titled "From Duck to Dawn", in reference to a movie about vampire strippers.
  • Ready Jet Go!:
    • In "Mindy's Mystery", when the kids are interviewing Carrot about the mystery smell, it comes off as if they are investigating for possession of illegal substances. Complete with the funny looks they give him as they leave, and the fact that Carrot was apparently cooking up a "sweet sauce".
    • In "Mindy's Meteorite Stand", Jet tells the others to "walk this way". Then, music plays that sounds similar to the Aerosmith song, but at a lower pitch. Not many kids would get that reference.
  • The second season of Netflix's adaptation of Green Eggs and Ham (2019) pays homage to the James Bond films, and even has a reference to Game of Thrones in its last episode.
  • A Running Gag in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is XR reading a magazine called Victoria's Circuits.
  • The ChalkZone episode "Skrawl's Brain": "This is your brainwave on chalk, Skrawl!" while holding up some frying pans.
  • Two examples in Milo Murphy's Law: The title of the episode "Some Like it Yacht" is a reference to 'Some Like It Hot'', and the school sign says "I like big boats and I cannot lie."
  • Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja:
    • There's a Sir Mix-A-Lot reference in "Got Stank?": Howard's speedo reads "Mac Daddy." Randy's says "Daddy Mac."
    • Randy's ninja tripping-balls are balls he uses to make people trip, and also a slang term for getting high on illegal drugs.
    • When Randy challenges Jacques in parkour, the latter calls it a "flip-off".
    • Jacques reading a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey in "Shoob Tube"
    • "Let Them Eat Cake Fries" has a scene where the French language teacher uncrosses her legs in front of Randy and Howard, imitating the famous scene from Basic Instinct.
  • Dinosaur Train:
  • Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: An Imagine Spot in "There's Time For Daniel and Baby Too" has Daniel's family dress like The Partridge Family while playing music.

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