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HappyComputerist Wananana~ from Doublecross Since: Dec, 2012
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#1: Nov 15th 2011 at 5:56:43 PM

We all know about Getting Crap Past the Radar and ParentalBonus now, but there were many cartoons we watched when we were younger that were filled with hidden adult jokes that we didn't get until we were older. I'll start with a few examples.

The older episodes of Spongebob Squarepants were filled to the brim with these. More particularly, Gary Takes a Bath. When Spongebob got out two bars of soap and said "Doubloons! Don't drop 'em!", it wasn't until recently that I got that it referred to a dirty prison joke about being anally raped in prison showers.

Second example: Animaniacs. Pretty much more than half of the show was centered around this, enough said.

Third example: Another example from an old episode of Spongebob. When Spongebob and Patrick were walking with their clam which they were treating as their own child, two fish had a thought bubble that said "Sponge + Starfish = Clam?".

edited 19th Nov '11 2:59:05 AM by HappyComputerist

Un-frickin-touchable.
Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#2: Nov 15th 2011 at 6:38:18 PM

Animaniacs would lampshade it occasionally by having Yakko, right after someone made a double entendre, looking right at the camera and saying "Good Night, everybody!" Not quite the same thing but worthy of note is an episode of the short lived WB series Histeria in which the characters are discussing the invention of the flush toilet, which they attribute to John Crapper (I've heard that story, don't know if it's really true or not). Every time they said his name they'd giggle obscenely, and the censor showed up to take issue with them, prompting one character to say "What? It's his name!" Rather daring for the time, I thought.

qtjinla15 Since: Dec, 2010
#3: Nov 16th 2011 at 12:40:21 PM

The farrah fawcett joke from Johnny Bravo where she mentioned she couldn't remember the last time she was blind-folded, paused, and then giggled as she then remembered.

God bless hidden jokes! And Cheesecake!

TacoWiz title from location Since: Jul, 2009
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#4: Nov 16th 2011 at 8:52:34 PM

Earlier this week I JUST got "consider yourself lucky" in The Rugrats Movie.

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qtjinla15 Since: Dec, 2010
randomguy321 Since: Nov, 2011
#6: Nov 17th 2011 at 3:20:58 PM

Yeah, it's been about 4 years since I saw it so I don't get it either.

Also, [up][up][up] what kind of cheesecake are you rerferring to?

HiddenFacedMatt Avatars may be subject to change without notice. Since: Jul, 2011
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#7: Nov 17th 2011 at 5:39:50 PM

Even though I am college age, even though I have read a lot of discussions about marijuana on the Internet, the "always lit" line from Cars flew over my head until I saw it pointed out on the Pixar page for GCPTR.

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Surenity Since: Aug, 2009
#8: Nov 17th 2011 at 10:21:29 PM

TVTropes has brought a lot of these little in-jokes to my attention. Like basically anything on The Powerpuff Girls (especially the episode "Members Only").

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KShade Since: Apr, 2011
#9: Nov 19th 2011 at 4:50:02 PM

In one powepuff girls episode, the girls were telling their new friend about how the professor created them by accident and then their friend says "I was an accident too!"

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#10: Nov 19th 2011 at 5:01:41 PM

The Simpsons is not a kids show, and while I've liked it ever since I was a kid, as I grew up I started to get the adult humor, starting with this one joke when Mr. Burns and Smithers are talking about dogs, Smithers tells him "Everybody loves dogs, sir", and Mr.Burns says "Dogs are stupid Smithers, I mean, how would you feel if ran to you and I started sniffing your crotch and licking your face", and Smithers responds "Mmm... you sir?

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GazBevMoo Since: Dec, 1969
#11: Nov 19th 2011 at 6:17:07 PM

I also grew up with The Simpsons, when I was nine the episode came out where Lisa was a teacher for Cletus's kids. In one scene they meet Krusty The Klown(who had been canonically Jewish for years) and one of the kids says something along the lines of "Hey you're one of those funny people with a big nose!" and Krusty says "A clown?" and the kid says "No a J..." and Krusty stops him and says "A Joker! And I'm no beginning joker so I wasn't offended by that!" I honestly thought the only thing the kid could have possibly been starting to say was "jester" and didn't get the joke, I was more then confused when I read this quote on the Curse Cut Short page, it wasn't until less than a month ago that I finally got it, even though I've been well ruined by dirty stuff for a long time, it's only been recently that I've been learning about all these offensive stereotypes that make no sense to me whatsoever.

I guess in that same vein is black face gags in old cartoons, I had quite a few classic cartoon tapes, and watched Boomerang a lot, one tape had Old Macdonald Had A Farm, which contained one of these when three pop star looking young female lambs are singing Mary Had A Little Lamb, and a pig blowing a big horn blows coal all over them and they start singing in a jazzy style. The other one I remember being familiar with was on a tape with four Bugs Bunny cartoons, one of them was Fresh Hare, it wasn't until this fall that I found out this wasn't the fully uncut version, but it was fuller than the version on Boomerang, the full version has Bugs saying he wishes to be in Dixie while singing a song about it, then he, Elmer and the mounties all go into black face and sing Shell Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes. In the version on my tape they go into black face, but were still singing I Wish I Was In Dixie and are cut off after a couple seconds. When it aired on Boomerang the very end was cut out completely. I had no idea why. I also never understood black face jokes(which I also saw a couple times on Tom And Jerry which left them uncut from some cartoons), because it doesn't look remotely human especially when it was done on animal characters.

qtjinla15 Since: Dec, 2010
#12: Nov 20th 2011 at 12:22:42 PM

[up][up][up] Dude, I saw that episode some time ago. Man, did stuff ever go over our heads.

nabaduco Since: Oct, 2010
#13: Nov 20th 2011 at 2:29:48 PM

[up][up] f*ck, I just figured that out.

edited 20th Nov '11 2:30:00 PM by nabaduco

qtjinla15 Since: Dec, 2010
#14: Nov 22nd 2011 at 11:35:55 AM

[up]Lol. That was an oh my god moment when I watched the episode again some time ago. How did that get by?

nabaduco Since: Oct, 2010
#15: Nov 22nd 2011 at 4:11:47 PM

In our defense, it was a lame joke to begin with.

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