![]() ![]() Though we don't have any definitive statements from any children's TV creators explaining exactly why so many kids' TV shows and movies are packed with dirty jokes - I imagine their silence has something to do with the parental outrage that flares every time people discover one of these hidden jokes, like the scandal around the alleged Jessica Rabbit vagina shot in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - we can guess that it's simply to entertain themselves and any possibly-stoned teenaged babysitters watching along with their charges. Of course, all these jokes went right over your head at the time, and they were designed to. And yet, we didn't have an Internet culture to catch on and freak out every time a cuddly children's cartoon character made an ambiguous hand job joke. But the '90s were also a real boom time for dirty humor on kids TV shows - as the decade dawned, we suddenly had hundreds of TV channels, and thus thousands of hours of airtime to fill each week. ![]() Seriously - there was a penis joke on The Flintstones in the 1960s, and the classic cartoon series Looney Tunes contains some sex jokes that would make a frat brother blush. As long as there have been children's TV shows, there have been people obsessed with hiding dirty jokes in children's TV shows. ![]()
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