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Sexual innuendos/adult jokes in childrens cartoons. How u feel about it?

damn, I already repeated it a bunch of times that I dont think its corrupting kids or nothing. i just dont feel like its necessary, real talk.

I guess its just a part of the bigger picture of that everything gotta have sex in it these days, u kno? its just our culture the way everything gotta be entertaining, fun, sexy, all the time, always. people aint satisfied without constant stimulation and the way this stuff kinda leaked into kids shows is prolly just a symptom of how american culture is in general. I dont really like none of it, it aint just the kids shows.


Futurepig, I did say that the shit didnt go over my head as a kid so I dont think i am givin too much credit to kids. I noticed it and definately paid attention to it. I mighta not completely understood the entire thing, you know, like when you are real young and you hear a word for a sexual term, and you aint sure the EXACT way it works, but you know that its a word for somebody doin SOMETHIN related to sex--that kind of thing. When i say i didnt quite "get" it, i dont mean that I didnt understand it or wasnt aware just that i didnt always know the specifics. but i definately knew it was a sexual reference that i caught that was "supposed" to go over my head. and it would piss me off that it was in there becuz i knew it wasnt there for me and that bothered me, i felt like hey this is my show, why they tryna put all this other stuff in it too that they put in the grownup shows i just want to watch my cartoons. I guess most kids aint like that but I was. it was distracting from the show and annoyed me. im sure most kids dont feel that way but Im jus sayin. I know that for me at least i did pick up on this stuff so it aint like i am just imagining kids bein more perceptive than they are or givin too much credit becuz im usin my own experience u feel me.
 
lacey k said:
I know that for me at least i did pick up on this stuff so it aint like i am just imagining kids bein more perceptive than they are or givin too much credit becuz im usin my own experience u feel me.
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you see, i'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. i don't think i ever caught on to the adult humor until i was an adult. even now, some of the jokes are over my head. i just don't think that way; i would've never, ever guessed the ice cream cone thing you posted was a sexual reference. :\ *shrug*

i also don't feel that the writers of childrens' cartoons are peppering them with adult humor for the purpose of corrupting children as much as they're trying to bridge an age gap and make it humorous for the entire family. again, there is "clean" programming out there for little kiddos.

this is one of those issues that is really subjective and easily solved by determining what shows are appropriate for your own children. you aren't wrong for thinking this way and no one is saying, "zomg! loosen up Lacey!" our individual parenting methods may differ slightly and some of us aren't going to boycott these cartoons because of a little innuendo, but that doesn't make either person wrong or uptight. :)
 
heh, a lot of this stuff still goes over my head. :o

Correct me if I'm wrong Lacey, but I think you just want to know WTF is going through a writer's / animator's head when he or she is adding these innuendos to the programs?
 
lacey k said:
For example, in some crazyass show called chowder the main character guy wtfever he is, is hangin out with some tomato creature called Mr. Fugu. Who is gonna eat a ice cream cone that chowder bought. But instead of just eatin it normal, instead he has to suck on the tip of the cone until the melted ice cream oozes out the tip. :| Not only that, but for some strange reason the scoops of ice cream are side by side instead of one on top of the other one. And when the tomato guy eats it, he goes to fuckin town....slurpin the shit out of it, like if you replaced the ice cream with a dick, it would be straight up cartoon porn--he licks the ice cream like he is givin it a blowjob. Heres the description from the link i posted:

"Chowder buys a giant, stupendously phallic-looking ice cream cone...The cone, inexplicably encouraging his own demise, tells Chowder to poke a hole in him and suck the cream out of the bottom. When Chowder agrees that this is a perfect idea, the ice cream cone quips, "Tell that to my wife..." implying that not only do ice cream cones get married, but that this particular marriage is being shattered by a drought of oral sex."
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i just want to add that i watched this Chowder episode (link, see 5:25 mark) and it wasn't quite what the description suggests. Chowder says to the cone, "I like the way you think!" to which the cone replies, "tell that to my wife; she's always ragging (i believe he's saying ragging) on me!" implying his wife doesn't like the way he thinks. at least that's how i interpreted it.

as far as Mr. Fugo licking the cone, he voraciously licks the ground as well - again still pretty innocent (ice cream is delicious!). the only thing i thought could be alluding to a sexual reference was Chowder saying Thrice Cream was the "life giver" and Mr. Fugo creepily repeating it; but again, not something i think a kid would pick up. further, apparently in this series of cartoons,
Thrice Cream is the most delicious dessert around in Marzipan City. This great dessert is sold by a minor character with an Italian accent. Chowder (which we all know) loves it more than anything. All he thinks about is Thrice Cream when Mung Daal talks to him. This was seen in the episode Thrice Cream Man. Chowder lasts several days eating it non-stop which is longer than anyone can possibly ever eat any type of thrice cream. Finally Chowder cracks under the stomach pressure by eating so much of it. Thrice Cream is available in different flavors. A Thrice Cream sundae was used by Gumbo to lure him into the Deadly Maze. Mung also uses the Ultimate Thrice Cream Cone to bribe Chowder to win the Apprentice Games.
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Thrice Cream

i thought the passing gas at the end of the scene was more raunchy than anything else. :\
 
FuturePig said:
poWerPuff girls!!! :!
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lol i know how you feel. i should really know better than to make that common mistake. i was once a huge fan and still own a few dvds. oh shit i so deserve a booting for that one. sorry! :)
 
i give adult-jokes and sexual innuendo in cartoons a double thumbs up :)

a lot of cartoons turned me on when i was a kid, because they were generally somewhat sadistic. most political references went over my head, but i remember my dad watching with us sometimes and laughing at different things than what we thought were the funny parts. i don't think you can fault the writers and animators for having a broad horizon; they're artists and i know i'd be trying to get away with as much shit as possible if it was me.

the stuff i could tolerate watching with my kids had to have *something* appealing to me in order to keep it a family event. hell, even when they were pre-school age, i'd look forward to watching Blues Clues cuz i had the hots for Steve. but if you strip all the adult appeal away, you were left with fucking Barney and Teletubbies and lemme tell you, that shit blows.
 
Damien said:
heh, a lot of this stuff still goes over my head. :o

Correct me if I'm wrong Lacey, but I think you just want to know WTF is going through a writer's / animator's head when he or she is adding these innuendos to the programs?
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haha, yea damien that is right....All the other shit i mentioned all does kinda come back to that. for me its just a WTF so I guess i wonder how some of the stuff gets past censors, etc and when these writers put the shit in there exactly the shit goin thru their mind.....I really just think in the end its weird that there is a need to do that, cuz like i said i kinda feel like a kids cartoon aint suppose to be funny to adults, not that it SHOULDNT be, but just that if adults aint laughin at it big deal its for kids. the idea of 'hey let entertain the parents with this crazy shit" is the idea that i am curious about, im glad u saw that I know its kind of hard and gets lost in the longer posts i make. :)
 
i lol'd at the
RUN DRUGS ON A BICYCLE post
they put them in so that THEY (the writers) think that their stuff is actually funny?
is my guess
 
i suppose there is a distiction to be made between children's shows and family shows. by definition, a family show ought to entertain everyone.
 
^ Ah, some clarity! :)

but if you strip all the adult appeal away, you were left with fucking Barney and Teletubbies and lemme tell you, that shit blows.
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Maybe it's because I only have about 18 months under my belt but I love these shows for the reactions they elicit from my daughter. :)
 
If children are too young to notice these 'sexual innuendos' and even some adults also then I see no problem with it.
 
personally im not against the sexual inuendo in childrens progams as long as it is inuendo and not outright sexuality. im not a prude, but i believe those jokes should be left to adults/older children. this whole discussion made me think of this optical illusion... there are two things you could see...
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im gunna assume you saw the naked couple embracing, where as children can only see 7 dolphins because they have no idea about sexuality. go figure....
 
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um, i think that should probably put behind some NSFW tags 'cause dolphins aren't the image that's really popping out at me. :D
 
This whole thread just reminded me of something I've always thought about.... They used to show that cartoon called "Ren and Stimpy" on NICKELODEON all the time. I used to watch it all the time! I remember my mom saying she "didn't get it" and that she never liked to watch it. Today its upgraded to being rated TV-MA and shown late night on certain cable networks... WTF? "Mature" material on good old nick with the Rugrats and shit? 8o

I remember it as a really weird, yet often funny show, but watching it today I'm like "who's maniacal, twisted mind wrote this, and of all networks put it on a children/early teen network?" Or maybe I'm making too big of a deal out of something that never really caused any negative consequences to me (that I know of) in the first place?

Maybe I'll watch a few episodes again...

The '90s were a strange, strange time to experience childhood...
 
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