JCC Adult jokes in children's cartoons

Yeah, I don't think The Simpsons qualifies as a children's cartoon.

 

You are correct. Stuff like Family Guy, Archer, South Park, and a good deal of the Adult Swim line-up is most certainly NOT FOR CHILDREN, and I would question any parent who would let their child watch that stuff all the time. If they gave me the "it's animated, so it must be okay for children" excuse, they would need to be slapped upside the head. It's morons like these is why we have TV ratings, and Adult Swim has viewer discretion warnings at the top of every hour, because they share airspace with Cartoon Network (though for ratings and advertising purposes, it's considered a separate network).

 

Aladdin: King of Thieves:



<the ground shakes> Genie says, "I thought the earth wasn't suppose to move until the honeymoon."

 

I think that one would've gone over my head even as an adult

 

It almost goes over my head now. I mean, I get that it's supposed to be a sexual reference, but it's not a very good one. I vaguely get what ground shaking has to do with honeymoons and sex, but it' just a really far out there innuendo.

 

I read the first post and thought "this has to be a jedioverlord thread". Was not wrong.

In a similar vein, I started blind watching Rick + Morty last week thinking it was just a good children's cartoon that everyone raved about. Then I hit that jellybean episode. I don't think I can put my horror of realization into words.

 

What's the nutshell for those of us who don't watch?

 

BTTF if Doc Brown were an alcoholic.

 

What Guy said. But it's really just a very clever consistently well written show that knows exactly how to cross lines in all the right ways.

 

(It's not a cartoon, but still for kids)

ICarly once featured a homage to The Wire

 

The best show ever made.

 

Speaking of Rick and Morty, this week's episode was funny, but ended in a real messed-up way you don't expect. Although you do kind of see it coming, because of the opening credits change, it's still messed up.

I think SLG put it best in her post about how it knows to cross the line the right way, and this episode is proof of that.

 

This is not true.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp

 

25+ posts, and not single mention of Rocko's Modern Life?















That was an adult show masquerading as children's programming.

 

probably because of the guardian story referenced in the snopes article?

 

It's one of Britain's most widely believed urban myths.

 

Yeah, any show airing on Nickelodeon in the '90s that references the "squeal like a pig" scene in Deliverance sure isn't aimed for Nick's target audience.

 

I remember the cabin boy was called Tom

 

I don't watch the show, but I love this clip.

 

lol wow

 

I think the fact that I immediately looked to the right and saw "Organ Exchange Program" and then "Member" below that, may say more about me than anything else...