History Main / ParentalBonus

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*** They even parodied the very adult ''Series/GameOfThrones'' with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhWUFXvaZjo Game of Chairs]], turning the SuccessionCrisis into a game of musical chairs and making a lot of GallowsHumour. At one point the Robb Stark analogue asks if they can hurry this up, because [[BlackComedyBurst he's got a]] [[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E9TheRainsOfCastamere wedding]] [[BlackComedyBurst to get to.]]

-->'''Skipper''': France!? Forget it! Not with their tax laws!

---> '''Eddie''': I'm through with taking falls\\

'''Roger''': [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion ...nose!]]\\
'''Smartass''': Nose? That don't rhyme with 'walls'.\\
'''Eddie''': No, but ''this'' does! [[GroinAttack *kicks Smartass in the 'balls'* ]]

--->'''Morgan''': Remember, when you go out not to put too much makeup; otherwise, the boys will get the wrong idea and you know how they are...\\

'''Morgan''': They're only after one thing.\\
'''Giselle''': What's that?\\
'''Morgan''': I don't know. Nobody will tell me.

* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' had one that is very easy to miss out on:

---> '''Charlie:''' Whoa! You're flying!\\

* ''Film/{{Annie 2014}}'' has a clever way of referring to someone as a prostitute, which flies right over the heads of any kids in the audience.

* At the end of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', Mikey plays the song "Happy Together" for April, which is obviously yet another example of his crush on her. The band that performed the song: Music/TheTurtles.
** In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' when Casey is going nuts in the bar looking for Rocksteady and Bebop, the song on the Jukebox is by Music/VanillaIce.[[note]]Vanilla [[MythologyGag Ice wrote and performed "The Ninja Rap"]], the theme song from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze''[[/note]]
* A few examples dotted throughout ''Film/Paddington2014'', the most darkly notable of which is the origin of the flowers Mr. Curry presents to Millicent, [[spoiler:which are heavily implied to have come from an accident memorial, given he found them tied to a lamppost]].
* "Speed Me Up" from ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' has the line "do the dash like Tay K". While this will fly over the little ones, the bigger ones, who may know Tay K as a rapper convicted of murder, will be surprised.
* ''Film/{{Alvin and the Chipmunks}} 4: Road Chip'' has a scene involving Creator/JohnWaters' cameo, with Alvin namedropping ''Film/PinkFlamingos'', which he has apparently seen.

* General Pepper from the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series. Think about it. If you don't get it, here's another clue for you all: in the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'', Fara asks why Pepper didn't do something. His answer? "I was [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand only a sergeant then...]]"

-->'''Carmelita:''' FREEZE!

* The ''VideoGame/SegaSuperstars'' series is made to please gamers of all ages. The children play them for the ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall'' characters, while the teens and adults play them for the classic Sega characters like VideoGame/{{NiGHTS|IntoDreams}}, [[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Beat]], [[VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Ulala]], and [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} Ryo Hazuki]]. Most children will be asking their parents, "Daddy, who's the guy with the headphones and goggles? Who's the pink-haired girl? Who's the guy on the motorcycle?" And so on.

* The Series/{{ALF}} comic, published by [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's STAR comics imprint]] from 1988-1992, had a very different tone from the TV series it was based on; it had a much more notable sci-fi twist to it, and ''loved'' to pack in all sorts of references and parodies to everything from Franchise/XMen and Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles to Film/CitizenKane and Theatre/DeathOfASalesman.

* ''Film/SpaceJam'' had a little ''Film/PulpFiction'' reference in the end basketball game...
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' had many lines what would be funny to adults but not children.
-->'''Dorothy''': We've brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her.\\

** Speaking of druggie-references, in its sequel, ''The Santa Clause 2'', Santa Claus/Scott Calvin and Bernard, when learning about Charlie's addition to the Naughty List, gives this exchange:

** In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' when Casey is going nuts in the bar looking for Rocksteady and Bebop, the song on the Jukebox is by Music/VanillaIce.[[note]]Vanilla [[MythologyGag Ice wrote and performed "The Ninja Rap"]], the theme song from ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze]]''[[/note]]

Popularized by ''Series/SesameStreet'',[[note]]The first decade of the show, an actual mission of the show was 'Entertain the parents so much, they force the kids to watch!'[[/note]] with characters like [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Hemlock]] and [[Franchise/{{Dracula}} the Count]], and thus most common on educational shows. Surprisingly, the barely intelligible Cookie Monster seems to get the most Parental Bonus lines, at least in recent history: "Me undergo sea-change," etc.

* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', the Beatles references never end: the Runaway Five, a yellow submarine, a set of default names for Ness & co. (in the Japanese version), when Nessie takes Jeff across the lake, the musical score is very obviously the opening mellotron from Strawberry Fields Forever. Also, one of the NPC's in Onett will ask you to "Finish this famous Beatles song ---terday" with a yes or no prompt.

** The thing with ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' is that these are less likely to be intended as a Parental Bonus, so much as being thrown in because those involved (mainly Creator/ShigesatoItoi and the composers) really, ''really'' liked this stuff (the entire franchise is specifically named after a Beatles song).

* On ''[[Series/{{Degrassi}} Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'', almost ''any'' appearance by a character from [[Series/DegrassiHigh the original series]] counts as a Parental Bonus. Teenaged and younger viewers have no idea why this character is supposed to be interesting or important; only the viewers who were around in 1990 remember.