Hidden "Inappropriate" Content in Cartoons

[Rho]

Well, I've heard of F-bombs and whatnot being hidden in "Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?" but I never noticed it myself.

Also, I was watching a Code Lyoko episode, and was curious about what was in this image:

http://img.codelyoko.fr/galeries/48_esprit_frappeur/Esprit_frappeur_007.jpg
So, I googled it. I thought it was a French word... But apparently, it's a slang term for marijuana.


It could be coincidental, I don't know.

[ThePRPD]

Anamaniacs had a whole bunch.

[Anyone00]

Well, I've heard of F-bombs and whatnot being hidden in "Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?" but I never noticed it myself.

Also, I was watching a Code Lyoko episode, and was curious about what was in this image:
[snip]
So, I googled it. I thought it was a French word... But apparently, it's a slang term for marijuana.


It could be coincidental, I don't know.

It could have just meant the paper had an anti-drug ad on the back (I don't know but they could be common in French papers).

[CartoonCrazy]

Just go watch a Bob Clampett cartoon. You'll find plenty.

[AJ1]

I remember 2 instances in He-Man's original cartoon that made me say, "WTF". I was watching it with a friend a few years ago over some chinese food and there was a scene where the guy with the interchangable eyes had He-Man in a full nelson headlock and both men were grunting loudly and it sounded erotic, then He-Man said........."It's time for me to GET YOU OFF!" and they were swaying in a motion that looked......questionable, if you know what I mean. Then in another episode of He-Man the crew of bad guys who were led by Skeletor were trying to get into Greyskull but were met at the gates by He-Man and company, when Skeletor complained about being caught He-Man went ahead and said, "Next time why don't you slip into my BACK DOOR Skeletor!". I spit out my drink to say the least......

[Hobbes829]

apparently there was an old looney toons episode where the grandmother from the sylvester and tweety segments was putting on hats and becoming different historical figures in front of a mirror. She'd become Lincoln and say something like "4 score and 7 years ago..." then she puts on a washington hat and go "i can not tell a lie" and then she put on a napoleon bonaparte (sp?) and said "not tonight dear" because apparently he was impotent.

[Fool's Gil]

:D Rewatching Beast Wars, I found Black Arachnia to be veeeeeeeery inappropriate.

Examples include
Her flirting sequence with the Waspinator possessed Star Scream, and allowing his advances.
Taking a unreasonable long time to tell Tarantulas to get off the top of her when they were blown back by an explosion. I think she said something along the lines of "Fun's over."

And don't forget Airazor when she was kneeling at Optimus' feet, rubbing his inner thigh...A very memorable scene. :D

[Dr.Pepper]

In the Dexter's Lab episode where he and Dee Dee had decoder rings, Dee Dee said something like "Your club is of K-D-I-C's" (anagram for "dick").

Also in that episode where she was going to get a tatoo, there was a had flipping the bird on the wall. Go look up "Getting Crap Past the Radar" on TV Tropes. I think there was a picture. The censors must of caught it because I have a recording of that episode from 2005 and its not there.

[zimbach]

Another Beast Wars example:

Upon his return from a patrol with Blackarachnia, Silverbolt is questioned by Rattrap:
"Find any new positions?"


or words to that effect


But seriously, anyone who is trying hard enough to dig up questionable content will find it in anything. What they find often says more about the one doing the looking than what they're looking at.

[TheVileOne]

There's a particularly colorful reference by Black Cat in her appearance on Spectacular Spider-man.

[DonkeyKongSong]

In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs:

- Sid tries to milk a yak, then the yak makes a face, and is then seen chasing Sid, who is saying "I thought you were a female!"
- Diego and Manny are being pressed up against each other, when Diego says, "I feel all tingly!" Manny says, "Don't say that when you're pressed up against me!" "Not that kind of tingly!"
- Buck says (referring to a rainbow-colored butterfly) "I knew him when he was a caterpillar, before he 'came out'!"
- He also mentioned the time he turned a T-Rex into a T-Rachel.
- When a baby is born, Sid says, "It's a boy!" to which Diego replies "That's a tail!"

[Kryten]

Power Puff Girls: The girls have one of those loud, incomprehensible arguments about the gender of a squirrel. All we can understand is the last line:

Bubbles: Squirrels EAT nuts, stupid!

[Cartoonzrule]

Power Puff Girls: The girls have one of those loud, incomprehensible arguments about the gender of a squirrel. All we can understand is the last line:

Bubbles: Squirrels EAT nuts, stupid!

Let's also not forget all the "prison rape" jokes with Mojo Jojo. For example: when Mojo went to jail on the "Cooties" episode, his (male) cellmate gave him "the look" as the narrator says "Love is in the air..." :ack::eek:

[Chazooma]

In Billy & Mandy:
Grim: Don't make me go medieval on your--
Irwin: AS I was saying...

Spongebob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs going on a panty raid.
In the house of Mr. Krabs' mother.

In KND, a scene of the team's reactions when Numbuh 5 tells them where babies come from.
Numbuh 5 is just nodding while everyone else is busy freaking out.

In Teen Titans:
Beast Boy was trying to cheer up Cyborg by juggling a cookie while turning into different animals, and then made it show up in his mouth after sucking it in with an elephant's trunk.
BB: "Ta-da!"
-thrown into the opposite side of the room by Cyborg-
"What do I have to do, make it come out of my--"

more recently (idk if this would count actually), but in Flapjack,
K'nuckles ate a whole bunch of hotdogs to get fat so he could fit into these pants,
and then exploded at the Candy Barrel.
The screen turned red, and there was liquid filling the room with hot dogs flying everywhere.
And all that was left were his eyes and nose.

What do you think flooded the Candy Barrel?

[nakak]

In a Chowder episode "Endive's Dirty Secret", in a scene where Endive chases after Mung and co. over a picture, on the backgrounds you can see a sign saying "Madame B.S. Fortune Telling Service".

[Dr.Pepper]

In KND, a scene of the team's reactions when Numbuh 5 tells them where babies come from.
Numbuh 5 is just nodding while everyone else is busy freaking out.
She told him that they came from New Jersey IIRC. Also that reminds me of another thing that came from KND. In Operation H.O.L.I.D.A.Y., when Lizzie asks Numbuhs 2 and 3 about who Numbuh 10 was, Numbuh 2 said "She can pilot my ship any time". Umm, yeah...

[Daxdiv]

In a Chowder episode "Endive's Dirty Secret", in a scene where Endive chases after Mung and co. over a picture, on the backgrounds you can see a sign saying "Madame B.S. Fortune Telling Service".

There's another one. The one where Schnitzel and Chowder make a delivery to that guy that lives on top of a giant. While they're scaling the Giant, and they're near his waist line, they both notice crabs, Chowder asks where they come from, while Schnitzel said "You don't want to know" in his Radda Radda talk. I kind of laughed at that instance.

[Rolling Cloud]

In KND, a scene of the team's reactions when Numbuh 5 tells them where babies come from.
Numbuh 5 is just nodding while everyone else is busy freaking out.

I always took that as her just understanding it better than them since her dad's a doctor and all.

[Michael24]

In one of the last episodes of the 1987 Ninja Turtles mini-series, Bebop and Rocksteady are trapped in a zoo cage, and one of them calls April "You little bimbo!" I never noticed it until watching it at a friend's house a few years ago, and we both started laughing. We had to rewind the tape to make sure we'd heard it right. Haha!!


Anamaniacs had a whole bunch.
The one I always remember the most is where they sing a song about a particular lake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Titicaca) on the border of Peru and Bolivia. I saw that with a friend at his apartment one day after school, and when his older sister heard it she was like, "Are they singing what I think they're singing?" :D I think it was obvious the only reason they did that song was because they could get away with it, being that it was the lake's real name after all. LOL!!!

[PC!]

The entire Powerpuff Girl's episode featuring Dick Hardly.

Though I suppose the inappropriate content in that episode wasn't exactly hidden. I mean GEEZ, how did ANY of that stuff fly past the censors?

[The Cartoon]

I can't think of any quotes off the top of my head but Fairly OddParents has a lot, the Total Drama series as well. And then there is Spongebob.

Chocolate With Nuts

Spongebob: (Reading Billboard) Eat Barnacle Chips, They're Delicious!
Spongebob: They are most certainly not delicious!
Patrick: Not the way I use them.

Spongebob: Patrick, we need a new approach. A new tactic.
Patrick: I've got it, let's get naked!
Spongebob: No, let's save that for when we're selling real estate.

Sailor Mouth

Spongebob: Hey Patrick! How the *Dolphin Noise* are ya?
Patrick: Pretty *Dolphin Noise* good Spongebob!

Your Shoe's Untied

(Spongebob is watching a show with some sort of weird dancing plant and Gary comes in the room)
Spongebob: (Changes Channel) GARY! I was uh, just trying to find the Sports Channel Gary.

I'm sure I'll think of some more later.

[Dantheman]

In an episode of Spongebob, where he's trying to give Gary a bath, he disguises the bathtub as a treasure chest, and says the bars of soap are pieces of eight, following that up by saying not to drop them :eek:.

[The Cartoon]

In an episode of Spongebob, where he's trying to give Gary a bath, he disguises the bathtub as a treasure chest, and says the bars of soap are pieces of eight, following that up by saying not to drop them :eek:.
:lol: I never even noticed that!

Not sure if it was intended in that way, but still.

[Raguoc]

In the Dexter's Lab episode where he and Dee Dee had decoder rings, Dee Dee said something like "Your club is of K-D-I-C's" (anagram for "dick").

Also in that episode where she was going to get a tatoo, there was a had flipping the bird on the wall. Go look up "Getting Crap Past the Radar" on TV Tropes. I think there was a picture. The censors must of caught it because I have a recording of that episode from 2005 and its not there.
Here is a link to that very index: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radar/WesternAnimation



There's tons in there from Foster's to FOP to Rugrats and everything inbetween. Some shows even have their own pages.

[chalmers]

I always liked this one from the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Texas":

Spongebob: "Patrick, your genius is showing!"

Patrick(in shock, covering his "area"): "Where?!?"

[PC!]

Speaking of Rugrats, remember the episode where all the babies get naked? They look at each other, then Tommy says to Lil, the only female of the group, "Hey Lil, can I ask you a question?"

[xmendude]

I think I've heard two innapropiate moments in "X-Men Evolution". One was the background song in "Fun and Games" and the other was when these two girs said something bad to Rogue in "The Stuff of Villains". But I might need to see those episodes again to prove it.

[Kryten]

In Billy & Mandy:
Grim: Don't make me go medieval on your--
Irwin: AS I was saying...

Spongebob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs going on a panty raid.
In the house of Mr. Krabs' mother.

In KND, a scene of the team's reactions when Numbuh 5 tells them where babies come from.
Numbuh 5 is just nodding while everyone else is busy freaking out.

In Teen Titans:
Beast Boy was trying to cheer up Cyborg by juggling a cookie while turning into different animals, and then made it show up in his mouth after sucking it in with an elephant's trunk.
BB: "Ta-da!"
-thrown into the opposite side of the room by Cyborg-
"What do I have to do, make it come out of my--"

more recently (idk if this would count actually), but in Flapjack,
K'nuckles ate a whole bunch of hotdogs to get fat so he could fit into these pants,
and then exploded at the Candy Barrel.
The screen turned red, and there was liquid filling the room with hot dogs flying everywhere.
And all that was left were his eyes and nose.

What do you think flooded the Candy Barrel?

You think that's bad? According to the storyboarder's blog, K'nuckles was originally supposed to get fat by drinking lemonade and eating chocolate-covered hot dogs.

So, originally, the Candy Barrel filled up with yellow liquid and floating log-shaped brown things.

...so... yeah.

[SpongeJosh]

Seeing as how the innuendos from SB's good ol' days are being mentioned I have to bring up this one from "Mermaidman & Barnacleboy V".

MM: Sure, power's all in the costume. Why else would we run around in colored undies?
Squidward: I can think of 3 good reasons.

[Mistah K88]

Rocko's Modern Life

Rocko *looking up job*: Specialy Phone operator, I could do that
Rocko *on phone*: Oh baby oh baby oh baby...
Mrs Bighead *on the other line* ROCKO?!
Rocko: Mrs Bighead?!
*both hang up*

Animaniacs:

Dot: I found Prince! *holding Prince (the singer/artist)
Yakko: No no no, fingerprints (sounds like finger Prince)
*Prince smiles at Dot*
Dot: I don't think so...

[Dub C]

But seriously, anyone who is trying hard enough to dig up questionable content will find it in anything. What they find often says more about the one doing the looking than what they're looking at.

Agreed. I read the tvtropes link provided a couple posts back and a handful of the entries felt like they were really reaching.

[Ishtar]

Rocko's Modern Life

Rocko *looking up job*: Specialy Phone operator, I could do that
Rocko *on phone*: Oh baby oh baby oh baby...
Mrs Bighead *on the other line* ROCKO?!
Rocko: Mrs Bighead?!
*both hang up*

Speaking of Rocko, I'm surprised one particular thing hasn't been brought up yet. The name of the fast food restaurant was called "The Chokey Chicken." Nick did eventually notice the joke behind the name, and later episodes changed the name to "The Chewey Chicken."

Like others have mentioned, Animaniacs also had a few such as:

Teacher: "Yakko, can you conjugate?"
Yakko: "What? I've never even kissed a girl!"

Beethoven: "I am a pianist!"
Yakko: "Looks like someone needs their mouth washed with soup!"

Judge: "The Penal Code! The Penal Code!"
Wakko: "Watch your potty language!"

There's also this gem from the Spongebob episode "Rock-A-Bye Bivale", where after the baby scallop flies away, Patrick says "Let's have another!"

[Daxdiv]

Agreed. I read the tvtropes link provided a couple posts back and a handful of the entries felt like they were really reaching.

That's one of the reasons as to why I'm not fond of TVTropes. They kind of kill the enjoyment out of these shows by over analyzing them.

[Dr.Pepper]

Speaking of Rocko, I'm surprised one particular thing hasn't been brought up yet. The name of the fast food restaurant was called "The Chokey Chicken." Nick did eventually notice the joke behind the name, and later episodes changed the name to "The Chewey Chicken."
A similar thing happened on Billy & Mandy with a guy that juggled chickens named Uncle Chokey.


Beethoven: "I am a pianist!"
Yakko: "Looks like someone needs their mouth washed with soup!"
I remember seeing that when I was like six or seven and thinking it was a good thing my parents didn't see it or they probably wouldn't let me watch Animaniacs anymore.:sweat:

[Hobbes829]

To this day, i'm still surprised they got away with saying "jawbone of an ass" on pinky and the brain. Of course, Ass is another word for Donkey, but everyone knows it was just to get away with saying it on a kid's show.

[evildevil97]

One of my favourites is from The Animaniacs, in a musical short, "A Quake! A Quake!":

"Mr Richter can't predict her kicking our asphault."

[D.Shaffer]

Power Puff Girls: The girls have one of those loud, incomprehensible arguments about the gender of a squirrel.I was always amused by the bits that get by the censors ONCE and then get cut to never be seen again.

Since you mentioned PPGs, there's the infamous 'You'll need one of these' scene where Bubbles slips something into the Professor's pocket when he's going on a date. Cut from every other showing of the ep.

Slightly older, on Road Rovers, they did the Russian Naming Song...basically an excuse to get 'Sonyonovitch' on the air. Again, cut after one airing.

[Mister Donut]

Someone once brought me to noticing a scene in an early episode of Rocky & Bullwinkle, where a book on a shelf had the title written on the spine that said "Sex on Planet X", and this was a cartoon from 1959 (those guys were so ballsy).

[EJLD4Ever]

She told him that they came from New Jersey IIRC. Also that reminds me of another thing that came from KND. In Operation H.O.L.I.D.A.Y., when Lizzie asks Numbuhs 2 and 3 about who Numbuh 10 was, Numbuh 2 said "She can pilot my ship any time". Umm, yeah...

Let's not forget the hidden "Are you gonna do it?" line out of Numbuh's 2 and 4 in Lizzie's debut episode!

[Brandon Pierce]

From the Catillac Cats episode, "Cleo Moves In".

Riff Raff: "It sure would be nice having her here. I wouldn't have to go chasing her down for.... intelligent conversation."

[Michael JJ]

From the old educational show Histeria!, we have this little gem:

Announcer: Catherine the Great ruled Russia...
Horse: I'll say!

I guess the joke had such limited range on who would get it that it managed to slip by.

Heck, Histeria! usually had sketches where they could get away with something because it was historically accuratre.

[SpaceCowboy]

I remember Saban's dub of Samurai Pizza Cats had a sexual-harrassment joke in one of the episodes that aired in the US. It involved Polly thinking Guido had inappropriately touched her. One of the other male Pizza Cats (or the Rescue Team?) gets accused by Guido, then exclaims "It wasn't me! I'm married!"

[GregX]

"Spectacular Spider-Man" is full of them.

"It's Randy right?"
"Very."
- Mary Jane asking Rand Robertson to dance with her.

"You better not get your goop in my hair."
- Black Cat

"Mmm, my kitty sense is purring."
- Black Cat

Black Cat also kept on calling Spidey "swinger."

"Well, you are the expert on premature gloatalation."
- Spidey to Mysterio.

"You two going to go to Times Square to watch the ball drop?"
- Mary Jane with a wink to Peter and Gwen.

And those are just the ones off the top of my head.

[Starbro]

From the Justice League episode "Hereafter", when Lobo crashes the Watchtower and announces that he's joining the team to replace Superman after Superman's apparent death:

Wonder Woman: You're no Superman!
Lobo: The ladies say different.

Earlier someone mentioned Rocko's Modern Life. Of course, the amount of "inappropriate" stuff that they've managed to slip past the censors could fill an entire thread by itself, but one short sticks out in my mind: "Closet Clown". I'm surprised Joe Murray managed to get that story on the air; it wasn't until I got older that I noticed how overtly they were using being a clown as a mirror metaphor for homosexuality.

From the beginning, with Ed Bighead's initial prejudice against clowns ("We don't like your kind here, with your big floppy feet, and..."), then his secret desire to be a clown himself, then when his boss Mr. Dupette finds out and reveals that he himself is also a clown ("Don't tell me you haven't gone public yet?....If this is part of you, Bighead, you're going to have to accept it sometime; it might as well be now!"), then finally to the end of the short, when everyone else begins confessing secrets about themselves, Rocko confides that he's always liked rainbows*, and everyone else is shocked and outraged and chase him out the trailer park with pitchforks.


*Rainbows of course being the unofficial symbol for homosexuality.

[CaptainHero]

Earlier someone mentioned Rocko's Modern Life. Of course, the amount of "inappropriate" stuff that they've managed to slip past the censors could fill an entire thread by itself, but one short sticks out in my mind: "Closet Clown". I'm surprised Joe Murray managed to get that story on the air; it wasn't until I got older that I noticed how overtly they were using being a clown as a mirror metaphor for homosexuality.

From the beginning, with Ed Bighead's initial prejudice against clowns ("We don't like your kind here, with your big floppy feet, and..."), then his secret desire to be a clown himself, then when his boss Mr. Dupette finds out and reveals that he himself is also a clown ("Don't tell me you haven't gone public yet?....If this is part of you, Bighead, you're going to have to accept it sometime; it might as well be now!"), then finally to the end of the short, when everyone else begins confessing secrets about themselves, Rocko confides that he's always liked rainbows*, and everyone else is shocked and outraged and chase him out the trailer park with pitchforks.


*Rainbows of course being the unofficial symbol for homosexuality.

The amount of content they got away with on Rocko's Modern Life was astounding and I still ponder to this day how they were allowed to, all I can think is that back in the mid 90's, Nickelodeon was a lot more laid back in terms of content, especially considering they were too busy making sure Ren & Stimpy was clean enough since that series was a lot more in your face with their adult content and where as Rocko was a more about hidden/double entendres.
It's strange to see how uptight Nick has gotten ever since the 2000's about this kind of sly adult humor. Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, and The Angry Beavers were all full of the kind of humor that kids would never bat an eye at but adults would revel in.

And Rocky & Bullwinkle was one of the most groundbreaking animated series in history, showing that adults could genuinely enjoy a cartoon long before The Flintstones or The Simpsons came out.

[PC!]

Earlier someone mentioned Rocko's Modern Life. Of course, the amount of "inappropriate" stuff that they've managed to slip past the censors could fill an entire thread by itself, but one short sticks out in my mind: "Closet Clown". I'm surprised Joe Murray managed to get that story on the air; it wasn't until I got older that I noticed how overtly they were using being a clown as a mirror metaphor for homosexuality.

From the beginning, with Ed Bighead's initial prejudice against clowns ("We don't like your kind here, with your big floppy feet, and..."), then his secret desire to be a clown himself, then when his boss Mr. Dupette finds out and reveals that he himself is also a clown ("Don't tell me you haven't gone public yet?....If this is part of you, Bighead, you're going to have to accept it sometime; it might as well be now!"), then finally to the end of the short, when everyone else begins confessing secrets about themselves, Rocko confides that he's always liked rainbows*, and everyone else is shocked and outraged and chase him out the trailer park with pitchforks.


*Rainbows of course being the unofficial symbol for homosexuality.

Whoa, I never picked up on that.

[zimbach]

To this day, i'm still surprised they got away with saying "jawbone of an ass" on pinky and the brain. Of course, Ass is another word for Donkey, but everyone knows it was just to get away with saying it on a kid's show.

Also, since it's an adaptation of a Bible story, there wasn't a lot the usual groups of protesters could protest about.

[Bubblegum Girl]

I can recall a short animated clip from Cartoon Network which had Aquaman and Wonder Woman held captive by the Legion of Doom and the Powerpuff Girls comes in and save them.

Wonder Woman - "You're developing into quite the superheroes."
Bubbles - "Someday we'll be developed as you!"

It took me awhile to figure out what that meant.

[Chazooma]

I always took that as her just understanding it better than them since her dad's a doctor and all.
Well yeah, she was nodding because she obviously knew about it before,
otherwise she wouldn't have been able to tell the rest of the team.


You think that's bad? According to the storyboarder's blog, K'nuckles was originally supposed to get fat by drinking lemonade and eating chocolate-covered hot dogs.

So, originally, the Candy Barrel filled up with yellow liquid and floating log-shaped brown things.

...so... yeah.
I heard about that, lol.
I would have been more amazed if that had gotten past the censors than the guts and blood.

[Dub C]

Jumping back into this thread reminded me of one instance in Justice League. It was the episode where John lost his ability to operate his Green Lantern ring after a fight with Despero & Katma suggests is retraining him to use it. He disagrees at first and then Katma says something to the effect of:

Katma: It's either that, you can spend the rest of you life living with your emerald impotence.
(Flash Darts on screen)
Flash: Impotence?
(Green Lantern gives him a long cold stare, Flash excuses himself soon after)

[rattis1]

Dot: I found Prince! *holding Prince (the singer/artist)
Yakko: No no no, fingerprints (sounds like finger Prince)
*Prince smiles at Dot*
Dot: I don't think so...

That one is pure gold, because it's not only a "getting crap past the radar" moment, but it's also a genuenly clever joke. A lot of the other jokes that people point out in this thread might be funny, but they are often only funny because of the "oh my God, did they actually put that one into a childrens show?"-aspect of it. Like, imagine if the jokes mentioned in this thread had come from an adult cartoon like South Park or Family Guy, in other words shows that are completely allowed and expected to have stuff like that in them. Many of the jokes don't seem as funny then, do they?

[chalmers]

And Rocky & Bullwinkle was one of the most groundbreaking animated series in history, showing that adults could genuinely enjoy a cartoon long before The Flintstones or The Simpsons came out.

Uh, The Flintstones started airing in 1960, only one year after Rocky And Bullwinkle, so it really wasn't that long between the two shows.

[podznvines]

Green Lantern says "Kiss my ax" in a Justice League episode (can't remember the name). Then again, it aimed for an older demographic.

In the Powerpuff Girls episode "Super Friends", Robin tells Professor Utonium that she was an accident, too (Professor's face...)

A Rugrats episode featured Angelica's love of cookies as an addiction. It ends with her eating several cookies that have fallen into a soapy bowl of water.

In Animaniacs:
Hello Nurse: Give me the bird!
Dot: We can't. (I know that's not the full line, but that's all I remember)

Like others have said, Rocko's Modern Life has enough to be its own thread. I never understood what the whole deal with Closet Clown (especially the ending) was until high school.

[suss2it]

Basically the entire episode "Ultimate Thrill" of Batman: The Animated series.

[Blackstar]

In Animaniacs:
Hello Nurse: Give me the bird!
Dot: We can't. (I know that's not the full line, but that's all I remember)

You were probably watching A! on Nicktoons TV, where the line was always cut. Here's the uncensored version:

"This Pun for Hire" - a parody of The Maltese Falcon about a Maltese Pigeon that looks like Squit from The Goodfeathers.

Hello Nurse: Give me the bird!
Dot: We can't, this is a kids' show.

Interestingly, this gag was used earlier in one of the FOX episodes, "Turkey Jerky":

Miles Standish: (who is hunting the Warners' pet turkey) Giveth me the bird!
Yakko: We'd like to, really, but the FOX censors wouldn't allow it!

[mowub]

You were probably watching A! on Nicktoons TV, where the line was always cut. Here's the uncensored version:

"This Pun for Hire" - a parody of The Maltese Falcon about a Maltese Pigeon that looks like Squit from The Goodfeathers.

Hello Nurse: Give me the bird!
Dot: We can't, this is a kids' show.

Interestingly, this gag was used earlier in one of the FOX episodes, "Turkey Jerky":

Miles Standish: (who is hunting the Warners' pet turkey) Giveth me the bird!
Yakko: We'd like to, really, but the FOX censors wouldn't allow it!

This gag is older than you think. I remember being it used in the 1942 Bob Clampett cartoon A Tale of Two Kitties, where two Abbott and Costello-esque cats are trying to catch Tweety.
Babbit: Give me the bird!
Catstello: (to camera) If da Hays Office would only let me... I'd give him 'da boid' all right"

[Blackstar]

This gag is older than you think. I remember being it used in the 1942 Bob Clampett cartoon A Tale of Two Kitties, where two Abbott and Costello-esque cats are trying to catch Tweety.
Babbit: Give me the bird!
Catstello: (to camera) If da Hays Office would only let me... I'd give him 'da boid' all right"


I remember "A Tale of Two Kitties" with Babbit and Catsello, and you're right, that gag has been around for a long time. I guess comedians have been fighting with the censors for decades. ;)

[blazecat]

From Dragonball Z (Dub)

Frieza (after Captain Ginyu gives him the Dragonballs): Having these balls makes me feel something that resembles joy, I think. I want to caress them.

That sounds so wrong.

[King]

From Dragonball Z (Dub)

Frieza (after Captain Ginyu gives him the Dragonballs): Having these balls makes me feel something that resembles joy, I think. I want to caress them.

That sounds so wrong.


Thank god FUNi improve a lot after the Frieza saga. :sweat:

Man, for the first 2 season of DBZ FUNi Dub, man. That was bad.

[DeanBurrito25]

The SpongeBob episode "Hooked" was one huge innuendo, and it took me until now to realize it. Think about it..

-"Hooked" is a slang term for "addiction", as in drugs.
- Spongebob and Patrick got "high" ---in the air, that is, when riding on the hooks.
-Patrick kept pressuring Spongebob to play "hooky"
-Mr Krabs didn't want Spongebob and Patrick to go on the hooks and fired Spongebob when he did get hooked.


When I realized all of those undertones, I smacked myself on the forehead. :p

[SpongeJosh]

I always thought that the joke was that hooky means ditching, but the episode actually used hooks. I guess I'm just not that deep.

[JD08]

One Animaniacs episode
Yakko: I got the beans
Wakko: I got the franks
Dot: I got the buns!

Teacher: I'll conjugate with you
Yakko: Goodnight everybody

The Batman
Batman: Joker just needed a an opportunity to get to somebody in her position (Talking about Harley after getting fired from her talk show)
Batgirl: Next batman discovers the fruedian implication's of Penguin's umbrella.

and one Rugrat's episode
Phil: A kid should be out with his friends not in the house boppin his boppo

[Kitschensyngk]

Like others have said, Rocko's Modern Life has enough to be its own thread. I never understood what the whole deal with Closet Clown (especially the ending) was until high school.

It took me a long while to figure out the meaning behind the name "Chokey Chicken"--and why it was changed to "Chewy Chicken" in its fourth season.

[fanboy]

In The Powerpuff Girls, when the Professor is going on a date, the girls are putting on his tie, flower, cologne, and so on. Then, Buttercup puts something in his pocket, but you don't see what it is. She describes it as "And some of these!". Would that be condoms?

[Kitschensyngk]

In the I Am Weasel episode "A Tree Story", all the trees are having a meeting to discuss the abuse they've suffered at the hands of people.

Leader: The chair recognizes the birch.
Birch: Well, actually, my son wanted to say something.
Leader: All right, the chair recognizes the son of a birch.

Its sister series Cow and Chicken had a lot of gender confusion humor as well.
One episode had Cow and Chicken's dad at the mall shopping for their mom...from buying new dresses to getting a pedicure.
Another episode had the Red Guy at the supermarket buying several packs of pantyhose...which it turned out were to filter his coffee.

[Shawn Hopkins]

One I just saw on, of all places, the What's New Scooby Doo? Halloween Special. A blonde girl is making time with and hitting on Fred the whole episode and at one point she tells him it's her birthday.

"I'm 18. Old enough to legally (pause) vote."

[Kitschensyngk]

Another running gag in Cow and Chicken involves Cow's favorite dolls - Piles the Beaver, Crabs the Warthog and Manure the Bear.

Every so often one of the characters mentions one of her dolls, briefly pausing after saying the first word of its name.

For example, in "The King and Queen of Cheese":

Chicken: COW! WAIT! I'VE GOT CRABS...THE WARTHOG!!

And again in Night of the Ed, featuring the new family pet, Ed the runaway rabid jackal:

Cow: It's upstairs! HE COULD BE EATING MY MANURE!
Chicken: The Bear doll!

[Deadman]

i remember an animaniacs episode where they met beethoven. he told them he was a pianist, but lets just say they thought he said something else.