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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"The whole secret to the success of a cartoon like ''[[Animaniacs]]'' is to appeal both to the kiddies who like animated slapstick, and to the college kids who like the quick inside jokes clearly intended to sail over the toddlers' heads. [[Crosses the Line Twice|Then, sometimes, they'll throw in a reference to fingering a man's anus.]]''"|'''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]''', [http://www.cracked.com/article_18672_the-6-creepiest-things-ever-slipped-into-childrens-cartoons.html?wa_user1{{=}}4&wa_user2{{=}}Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3{{=}}article&wa_user4{{=}}moreon The 6 Creepiest Things Ever Slipped Into Children's Cartoons]}}
A joke on a children's TV show that children of the appropriate age would likely never get, but which their parents would. Serves as a way to keep the adults and older kids entertained and usually takes the form of an [[Homage]] to a movie or TV show that children would not normally be familiar with. This is the master trope to other "subliminal" tropes like a [[Double Entendre]], [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]], or [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. It could also count as a [[Genius Bonus]], since most children would have to be educated above their general age level to understand these.
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Of course, a badly done Parental Bonus will entertain neither the kids nor the adults, and may terrify the latter that the former actually will "get" it...
[[Golden Age]] animated shorts, especially those from [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischer Studios]] and [[Warner Bros]], often had material which would be considered
These jokes also give the shows rerun value years later when the original viewers are old enough to get the jokes that once went over their heads: see [[Late to
Contrary to the title, children of a certain age ''can'' get Parental Bonuses, most of them just don't watch shows that use them. (With the exception of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.)
A [[Super-Trope]] to [[Parent Service]].
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== Anime ==
* An early example, ''[[Maicching Machiko-sensei|Maicchingu Machiko Sensei]]'' (Humiliated Professor Machiko) was infamous for having the titular teacher end up naked in ''every single episode,'' often as a direct cause of her students groping her or otherwise destroying her clothing. ''Maicchingu Machiko Sensei'' was a kids show, and her students were 6 years old. It was so prevalent that she even turns up naked in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEvNZdYtXCA episode openings]. Twice.
* Lots of these are present in ''[[Kirby:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In one issue of Gold Key's Pink Panther, the titular feline finds a laundry bag filled with money. "I've heard of filthy lucre, but I never knew it needed to be laundered!"
* [[Marvel Comics]]' All-Ages title ''[[Marvel Adventures]]'' loves referencing older comics, concepts, and complex storylines that the target audience is generally completely ignorant of.
** [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/432350.html Marvel Adventures: Avengers 24] sneaks in a Simpsons ref, a "reverse-Napoleon complex", Spidey "[[One More Day|needs]] [[You Need to Get Laid|a wife]]", Wolverine quoting [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]], and a surprising hint of [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]. In ''one'' comic.
* [[Tiny Titans]], a non-canonical comics series for kids featuring many of the younger superheroes/sidekicks from the DC Universe as young children, is obviously aimed at young kids. However, the many, many references to either storylines from the "grown-up" books (such as the Battle for the Cowl, when they fight a cow that stole Batman's cape and cowl, or when Darkseid is their substitute teacher and gives them a surprise exam, which they pronounce a [[Final Crisis|finals crisis]]!) and other media aimed at adults (such as the first two rules of Pet Club being "you do not talk about Pet Club" and "you do ''not'' talk about Pet Club") prove they were intended to be entertaining for parents as well. And they certainly are.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' is full of this. Since Calvin has an unusually large vocabulary for a six-year-old and tends to discuss complex philosophy, reading the strip as a child and as an adult are completely different experiences.
* [[Tintin]] features typical slapstick gags and exciting adventures children will appreciate. Adults can enjoy it for the satire on 20th century politics, exquisite story structures and beautiful art.
* [[Asterix]] has a lot of general slapstick, running gags and situation comedy that both parents and children can enjoy. But it is as much a comic for adults as it is for children, with many puns, double entendres,satirical gags, cameos and references to classic literature, the Ancient Greek, Roman and Gaulish time period, francophone culture and 20th century society.
* [[Nero]] shares both jokes that children can enjoy as references to national and international politics and that were current when the stories were published in the newspapers.
* [[Suske en Wiske]] is a children's comic that originally made a lot of jokes about Flemish-Belgian politics that only adults would get. Later most of them were removed from the later reprints, though occasionely some of them are still present.
== Film ==
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** There are many references to University of Notre Dame in the movie as a handful of the people that produced the movie were "Domers" (Notre Dame graduates). The biggest example being the shape of the castle, which is exactly like that of the Hesburgh Library. Another reference is the town of "[[Du Lac]]"; the University's name is University of Notre Dame du Lac, which refers to Mary, Our Lady of the Lake. The student guide/disciplinary manual is also called [[Du Lac]]. A third reference is Lord Farquaad. There are many quads on the ND campus, and there is a dorm that is in the middle of nowhere, i.e. on a "far quad". You can also see the outline of the famous golden dome of the university on the back of Shrek's vest.
** "Farquaad" was also used as a way of getting as close as possible to fuckwad.
** More relevantly, ''Shrek 2'' has literally dozens of movie and TV refs, only a handful of which are going to be known to the kids. (The "Knights" show was a parody of ''[[
*** ''Shrek 2'' also had a bevy of modern pop culture references that would go over kids' heads: the best is the people running away from the Gingerbread Man who run out of one <s>Starbucks</s> Farbucks and into another Farbucks across the street.
**** And of course, the chase involving Donkey being referred to as a "White Bronco".
** Please keep off of the grass. Shine your shoes. Wipe your....[[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion|face]].
*** Robin Hood's song "I like an honest fight and a saucy little maid / What he's basically saying is he likes to get <s>laid</s> -paid!
** Blink and you'll miss it, but as the Fairy Godmother rattles off her list of fairy tales, she slips ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' in there.
* Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', thanks largely to the comedic genius of [[Robin Williams]], works on every level humanly imaginable. Specific example: as the Genie is being tricked into getting Aladdin out of the cave, he gets very angry at Aladdin. Kids laugh because of his sarcastic tone and the ruse working; parents laugh because the speech is almost directly lifted from ''[[Taxi Driver]]''. Kids are also unlikely to recognize the Genie's imitations of William F. Buckley, [[Peter Lorre]], Carol Channing, [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]]...
** Aladdin's introduction scene also had what might have been a ''Les Miserables'' reference.
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** There's also a specific comment by Genie during ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves'' during the beginning of the scene where the infamous 40 Thieves rob the palace. When the stampeding elephants come towards the wedding which causes the ground to shake, Genie jokingly comments "I thought the [[Did the Earth Move For You|earth shaking]] didn't start until the Honeymoon" you can guess what that means.
*** The line is even worse in the Finnish dub, which changes "honeymoon" to "marriage bed".
** Genie makes a ton of references from old movies: ''[[Poltergeist (film series)||Poltergeist]]'', ''Alice in Wonderland'' (obvious), ''[[RoboCop]]''... anyone else recognize the big blue robot as the ED-209?
** He even references The Tale of One Thousand and One Nights with the first line in his intro song; "Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales". What's funny (and rather sad) is that most kids - or even adults - wouldn't register that both Aladdin and Ali Baba are stories that Scheherezade told during those one thousand and one nights.
** "Arabian nights, like Arabian days, more often than not, hot, hotter than hot, in a lot of good ways."
* In ''[[Hercules (
** Also a ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' reference. Megara talks about having weak ankles, uncrosses and recrosses her legs, and says, "Do you have a problem with this?... weak ankles, I mean."
** Although this joke wasn't sexual, when Pain and Panic (disguised as children) are "trapped" underneath the giant rock, one of them yells, "Someone call IXII!"
** And then there was the sundial salesman...
** And Herc making sure to get a good look at Nessus' (a centaur's) body before calling him a 'sir'...
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*** "Dabbling in watercolors, Eddie?"
** ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is one of the ''kings'' of this trope.
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'''Roger''': [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion|...nose!]]
'''Smartass''': Nose? That don't rhyme with 'walls'.
'''Eddie''': [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|No, but]] ''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|this]]'' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|does!]] [[Groin Attack|* kicks him in the groin*
** "Nice booby trap."
*** The weasel's screaming in that scene allegedly [[Bilingual Bonus|translates as "Shit, my fucking hand!"]]
** Not to mention Jessica's breasts making boinging sounds twice when she visits Eddie's office.
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* ''[[Enchanted]]'' has quite a bit of this as well.
* ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'' movie attempted this, with questionable results. Apparently, the writers' idea of Parental Bonuses are almost PG-13 level double entendres; see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXLvn2sd6I here.]
* In the [[Jim Carrey]] version of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', the Grinch as a young boy looks in at a Christmas party where people are dropping keys into a fishbowl; indicating this was a ''swingers'' party.
** Seconds before the keys are dropped into the fishbowl, a pair of Whos walk across the window, a man giving a woman a * ahem* "Reverse Piggy Backride".
** In another scene, babies fall from the sky in baskets with umbrellas, a variant upon the Stork myth. A man sees a baby outside his own house, and joyously shouts to his wife that the baby is here, only to realize "He looks just like your boss..."
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** Plus a ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' reference right before the characters are shipped off to Africa.
** Not to mention a ''[[Cast Away]]'' joke. "Shut up, Spalding!"
** The sequel has a great one near the end: [[Animal House|"Ramming speed!!"
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has a character say to his horse "Achilles. Heel." Think about that for a second.
* ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' ([[Live Action Adaptation]]): Roger tells Cruella that Anita is pregnant...
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'''Roger:''' We're having puppies, too.
'''Cruella:''' (''gasps'') Puppies! You ''have'' been a busy boy! }}
** To say nothing about this little exchange in the cartoon, after Pongo and Perdita return with the 99 puppies...
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'''Roger:''' Oh, Pongo-boy, you old ''rascal''! }}
* Come to think of it, every [[Pixar]] film has plenty of these.
** In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'':
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''' Peaches ''': Sh! Here he comes! }}
** At the end of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2,'' Buzz is having a hard time talking to Jesse. She does a skateboard stunt using a Hot Wheels car and track, and [[Something Else Also Rises|his fold-out wings pop out]]. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?
*** This certainly gives a new meaning to the "This Space For Rent" joke during the outtakes.
** And in the original movie, there's the line about Woody having "laser [[Freud Was Right|envy]]".
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*** Bo Peep throws out a few; in the first, she suggests to Woody that she get "someone else to watch the sheep tonight", and in the second she gives Buzz a kiss, telling him to give it to Woody when they find him. Buzz says he doesn't think it'll have quite the same significance to Woody coming from him instead of Bo.
** ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' gets two for the price of one. The Abominable Snowman is clearly a riff on the "Bumble" from the [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'' special, and also scores an extra for this exchange between himself and Mike:
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''' Mike ''' : Eccchh!
''' Snowman ''': Oh, don't worry. It's lemon. }}
*** Combined with an [[Actor Allusion]], when the character voiced by [[Steve Buscemi]] threatens to put another character [[Fargo|through the shredder]].
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*** Also, "Stay The Course"
** ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'', in the carnival scene...
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** If you pay attention to the very beginning of ''[[Cars]]'', you'll notice the two red Miatas flashing their headlights at Lightning McQueen.
*** Lightning McQueen's name, in and of itself, qualifies. The target demographic of the film won't know who [[Steve McQueen]] is, much less have seen ''[[Bullitt]]''.
*** At the end of the first race mcqueen is talking to the rusteez representative explaining why he doesn't have head lights. Mcqueen: Well, you know, race cars don't need headlights, because the track is always lit. Dusty Rust-eze: Well, so is my brother, but he still needs headlights!
*** Lightning's rival Strip "The King" Weathers is an even bigger one: The car is a near replica of Richard Petty's racecar, he shares the same nickname and number of championships as Petty, and the spinning crash in the final race is a Shout Out to the one Petty suffered in the 1988 Daytona 500. Oh yeah, and Petty actually provided the voice.
*** [[The Cameo]] from the hosts of the radio show "Car Talk".
*** Towards the end McQueen has a wonderful exchange with his agent in one of the most fascinating [[Actor Allusion]] and Parental Bonus ever. If you still don't get or remember why it is absolutely ''hilarious'' take a look at this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXeClFPNfA&feature=related clip] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150212063501/http://www.hark.com/collections/tgnjxssrgr-harv this sound clip] from Cars (sorry couldn't find the video).
** What about the scene in ''[[The Incredibles]]'' where Syndrome has everybody then realizes that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl are together. It culminates with him looking at the kids and adding "and got ''busy!''"
* In ''[[Flushed Away]]'' a fridge is lifted at one point to reveal a cockroach casually reading. And what is he reading? Why, [[Franz Kafka]]'s ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'' of course!
** Aardman in general loves
* In ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory]]'', as Willy Wonka searches for the button on the Three-Course-Dinner Gum machine, he offhandedly asks [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button,_Who%27s_Got_the_Button%3F "Button, button, who's got the button?"]
** ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' pulls a similar joke when Dee Dee is, of course, left standing next to a button unattended.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: Dead Man's Chest'' has a deliciously subtle one when Tia Dalma finds the Black Spot (an omen of death) in Jack Sparrow's palm:
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''' Ragetti ''': The Black Spot!
''' Pintel ''': Black Spot!
''' Jack Sparrow ''': My eyesight's as good as ever, just so you know. }}
** Which is a very roundabout way of making a connection between palm sores, masturbation, and the myth that it causes blindness.
*** It's also an indicator of syphilis (which [[Johnny Depp]] has more or less confirmed Sparrow as having, probably a contributor to his eccentric nature), which can damage eyesight.
**** There's a very subtle one in the same movie. The sailors going on the Flying Dutchmen chant "Pull out your eyes, Apologize, Apologize". Any [[James Joyce]] reader will recognize this from Dante's introduction in ''[[A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man]]''
* The ''[[Scooby
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'''Shaggy''': Mary-Jane? That's my favorite name! }}
** For those who don't get it, Mary-Jane was an old-timey slang term for marijuana.
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** In ''Homeward Bound: Lost in San Francisco'':, Sassy wakes up and finds herself laying next to that runt dog with fleas. Sassy recoils in disgust and says, "Yuck!" The dog responds, "That's not what you said last night!"
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation|Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation]]'':
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'''Big Daddy Boo''': No, that's big 'a ''me''!
** Which is itself a direct lift of an old [[Marx Brothers]] joke (from ''[[Animal Crackers]]'', specifically). }}
* Non-joke example: In ''[[The Monster Squad]]'', after the kids have been to Scary German Guy's place and he turns out to be quite the good guy despite his scary exterior, the leader of the titular group mentions that he "sure knows a lot about monsters." Scary German Guy's response: "Now that you mention it...I suppose I do." And as the kids leave, we're shown a reveal on Scary German Guy's arm of a numbered tattoo that the adults of the audience will recognize as a [[World War II|concentration camp identification tattoo]], signifying that this guy indeed knows a [[Nazi Germany|great deal]] about [[Complete Monster|monsters]].
* In ''[[Fred Claus]]'', Santa demonstrates the power of the [[Sinister Surveillance|snow globe]] to his brother, Fred, who's visiting some part-time work. Fred then asks if he could use it to check on the Swedish Women's Swimming Team, to check if they were doing anything "naughty".
* From ''[[G-Force]]'': [[Die Hard|"Yippe-ki-yay, coffeemaker!"]]
** Plus:
*** [[Indiana Jones|Dogs! Why did it have to be dogs!]]
* One of the reasons ''[[Shark Tale]]'' failed with critics was because it was so overloaded with references to adult gangster films that they couldn't see how it would appeal to children.However, the chances of an adult understanding all the references is still slight.
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* ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' has Goofy mentioning mambo king Xavier Cugat, a relatively obscure reference for such a movie.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' had many lines what would be funny to adults but not children.
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'''Wizard''': You liquidated her, eh? }}
** The line spouted by the Scarecrow when he received the Th.D. degree, which was a hashed up version of the Pythagorean Theorem:
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** The wizard awarding the Lion a medal called the Triple Cross.
** The Scarecrow and the Wizard:
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'''Wizard:''' Well, you can't. }}
** The Scarecrow to Dorothy
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* ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'' has quite a few of these. One example is when Scott picks up Santa's bag and he's lifted into the air:
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'''Scott:''' It's okay, I'm used to it. I lived through the 60's. }}
** Speaking of druggie-references, in its sequel, ''The Santa Clause 2'', Santa Claus/Scott Calvin and Bernard, when learning about Charlie's addition to the Naughty List, gives this exchange:
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'''Scott:''' [[Charlie Sheen|Sheen]]? I thought he straightened out. }}
*** It also goes into [[Harsher in Hindsight]], considering the kinds of stuff he's doing by 2011.
* ''[[Rango]]'', among several other references, has a short scene in the beginning of the movie where the protagonist lizard Rango (voiced by Johnny Depp) crashes into the windshield of a red sportscar with in it two characters that are unmistakably Raoul Duke (also Johnny Depp) and his attorney from ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''.
* The productions of [[Despicable Me|Illumination]] [[The Lorax (film)|Entertainment]] seems to love referencing the outgoing global economic crisis, as the former references Lehman Brothers while the latter mentions the book (and eventual movie) ''Too Big To Fail''.
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** Mr. Poe had two sons named Edgar and Albert. Just guess that one.
** Similarly, the two Quagmire triplets that the Baudelaires meet first are named Isadora and Duncan.
*** Not to mention the Baudelaires, two of whom are named [https://web.archive.org/web/20130521124520/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/bulow/1.html Sunny and Klaus]
** In ''The Reptile Room'', the Baudelaires are told not to let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.
** The whole plot of ''The End'' is one big Bible reference/commentary.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Speaking of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', try to think of a [[The Muppets|Muppet]] production that doesn't include these. We'll wait.
** In particular, ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' almost always did [[Actor Allusion
*** And then there's the episode in which Miss Piggy sings an old music hall song about a woman left at the altar by her fiance, dressed for the occasion in a wedding dress ''with a large pillow shoved up the front''. The significance of the abandoned bride's expanded waistline is left for the viewer to fill in.
*** [[Jim Henson]] would have said that [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|the Muppet Show wasn't aimed at kids in the first place.]]
** Most of the sketches in ''[[Sesame Street]]'' had slapstick and word-play for the kids, with parody as the
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** ''Sesame Street'' once did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksL_7WrhWOc a parody of] ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. After a while, the tree walked out [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|because it was too confusing]].
** Another ''Sesame Street'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzeBXARiA0I parody] had a couple's car break down, forcing them to run through the rain to the door of a castle. The couple? Count von Count...and [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Susan Sarandon]].
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** They did one teaching about the letter M...via a ''Law and Order: SVU'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM parody].
** [[Dinosaurs]], another show from the [[Jim Henson]] Company, also does this. And is even Lampshaded in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiwXVrjYHc this scene.] Complete with [[Aside Glance]].
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* The ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'' episode "Am I Blue?" was an homage to ''[[Star Trek]]'' fandom. Another episode had flashback scenes that resembled 1930s film noir.
* The absolute king of this trope was ''[[Square One TV]]'', which had an average of a
** Mathnet has a large enough [[Peripheral Demographic]] that it was shown as a stand-along program during primetime.
** Not to mention the music video that started with some teenage girls noticing that their friend's relationship must've gotten serious as they saw a "diagram" in her purse... That one might actually qualify as [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* ''[[The Electric Company]]'' was full of these, most notably "Easy Reader" and "Fargo North: Decoder".
** The 2009 remake is full of these too, at seen in the pilot episode running on PBS. There was a character named Rebus wearing a shirt with "RE + " and a picture of a bus (does that count as a meta-rebus?), a sketch involving a dog known as [[24|Jack Bowser]], and several references to the original series.
** Some of the songs were done by [[Tom Lehrer]], who thankfully refrained from some of his better known works like Wernher von Braun, The Old Dope Peddler and I Hold Your Hand in Mine (which he has had requests from adults not to perform). There were still a few
* ''[[Beakman's World|Beakmans World]]'' delights in old-school Parental Bonus references, which most frequently pop up in the Beakmania introduction, where every dance referenced by Beakman is an actual dance.
* One episode of ''[[Zoobilee Zoo]]'' was a direct parody of ''[[My Fair Lady]]''.
* In ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', the father (played by Billy Ray Cyrus) is often heard saying things like, "Oh, my achy-breaky back!" He and other characters also frequently mock his former mullet hairstyle.
** Also notable is the episode in which Miley pretends to be a Hannah Montana impersonator, where Billy's character Robbie Ray Stewart dons a mullet wig and introduces himself to a nosy reporter, saying "hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus".
* In the end video of the ''[[
** In the iStart a Fan War episode, [[Jack Black]]'s character recites the Charm of Making from ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''.
* In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode "Revenge of The Slitheen" Maria's divorced mother asks her ex-husband if she can have the double bed size duvet as he won't need it having a single bed. Her mannerisms and delivery of this line is enough to make older viewers think she's making fun of his sex life.
** [[Continuity Nod
** "Love and Monsters". A man and an animated concrete slab containing a talking head have a "bit of a love life". Figure that out for yourself.
** As RTD put it, it was "good old-fashioned British smut".
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** The show's original run was so popular with adults that a few episodes were broadcast during primetime.
* This is referenced within ''[[The Office]]''. Michael brings in a tape from a kids show he was on. There's an interview segment with a cat puppet called Edward R. Meow. While most of the staff laughs and notes that it's clever, Michael still doesn't get it.
* ''Rainbow'' once [[Played for Laughs|played this trope for laughs]]: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5157433404610777048\]{{Dead link}} . Sadly, this was a gag episode that was never intended to be viewed by children, but it's still hilarious.
* In an episode of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|Suite Life On Deck]]'', Woody sees London's rich friend and says "She's hot. Does she have any interest in "woodworking"?
* ''[[LazyTown]]''. Just ''[[LazyTown]]''.
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* ''[[Horrible Histories (TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' has plenty of these. How many kids are going to realise that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KbXyALq7uA the Dick Turpin song] is one big pastiche of Adam and the Ants [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2a6l6wM2k&ob=av2e Stand and Deliver]?
** In fact, there was enough Parental Bonus that it made the leap from CBBC to prime-time BBC One (with ''[[Stephen Fry]]'' as presenter).
* Referenced in "How I met your mother" in an episode where we see the children's TV Robin starred in as a teenager. It's wall to wall sex jokes, including the song "Two beavers are better than one.".
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** Not to mention they have a song called "The Clap."
*** Sadly, the Wiggles did not actually sing "The Clap." It's a spoof of the Wiggles by a group calling themselves "The Giggles."
* The Bedrock song. Oh, the Bedrock song. [[Michael Jackson]], [[Stevie Wonder]], and (of course) [[The Flintstones]], for parental bonuses in rap songs, this takes the cake. In this case it's not really intended for kids, but teens,
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== Video Games ==
* General Pepper from the ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
* Did anyone mention ''[[
** A couple more: when Nessie takes Jeff across the lake, the musical score is very obviously the opening mellotron from Strawberry Fields Forever. Also, one of the NPC's in Onett will ask you to "Finish this famous Beatles song ---terday" with a yes or no prompt.
** On the topic on the Runaway Five, not only is the design of the lead singers reminiscent of the Blues Brothers, but a certain hotel newspaper (as reported by the bellboy) claims that band member Lucky (modeled after Jake Blues, played by John Belushi) was seen in congress, an elaborate reference to John Belushi's role as John "Bluto" Blutarsky in ''National Lampoon's [[Animal House]]'', in which the aforementioned character goes on to become a senator.
** Oh, and the New Age Retro Hippie's theme [[The Jimmy Hart Version|sounds a lot like]] [[Chuck Berry]]'s "Johnny B. Goode." As does Rockin' K.K. from ''[[Animal Crossing]]''.
** No one can forget Peaceful Rest Valley- or should I say, Grateful Dead Valley. Home to a strange cult in a familiar outfit, with a strange obsession with the power of a certain color....
** The Happy Happy Cult can be taken two ways: either as a reference to [[The Beatles (band)|Blue]] [[Yellow Submarine|Meanies]], or the KKK. Or both.
** One of the enemies is called [[David Bowie|Diamond Dog]].
** The Dungeon Man's theme, after he joins your party, is based on 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'.
** The music that plays when Jeff rides in the Sky Runner is taken from a song by [[The Who]].
** The thing with ''[[
* ''[[Paper Mario:
** Including a ''nude scene'' for Princess Peach. {{spoiler|[[Invisible Streaker|She was invisible at the time]]}}.
** Goombella was a walking
** Then there's Fahr Outpost, a snowy region populated by bombs who wear bearskin hats. Their mayor speaks broken English peppered with 'da's and vehemently denies the existence of a superweapon on the base.
*** The official Nintendo Player's Guide actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this: "Considering most of the Bob-ombs speak with Russian accents, those of you who grew up in the '60s may feel a bit nervous when you see the enormous weapon rise from a silo. [[Crosses the Line Twice|Resist the urge to hide under a desk and tuck your head between your legs]]."
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** M17s, KA-74s, Humbugs, etc. in unit descriptions. Most of the Frontier units with names are references to a real-world American military vehicle of some kind.
** Some of the mission names, like "Bridges over the River Styx", or [[Hogan's Heroes|Herman's Heroes]].
* ''[[Ape Escape]]''. The third installment had movie-and-TV making as its conceit, so this involved parodic [[Homage Shot
** The European website for the games is called Ape Club. Its logo is a [[Fight Club|bar of pink soap]]. One of the minigames on it explicitly asks you to 'Spank the monkey', although that might be [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* ''Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure'' was a [[Mission Pack Sequel]] to [[THPS 4]]. Here's a few of Zerg's moves, word for word:
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* [[Humongous Entertainment]]. Oh boy, where to start? [[Pajama Sam]]'s superhero references, ''[[Spy Fox]]'''s [[James Bond]] references, ''[[Backyard Sports]]'''s 80s references (most pros were kids then)...all more likely to grab parents than kids.
** Some background animations in ''Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside'' in the hallway filled with windows looking out into space. One of the windows, when clicked, shows a cheese floating by and [[2001: A Space Odyssey|a monotone voice says "I'm afraid I can't eat that cheese, Sam."]], as well as the chair in the lab who spoke in lines that sounded like solutions from Clue.
** Tell me [[The Smart Guy|Dmitri Petrovich]] doesn't look like [[Elton John]].
* One of the dragons in ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' informs him of his "density . . . I mean, destiny", an homage to George McFly's pathetic attempts to pitch woo in ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]''.
** A minor character from the second game [[Army of Darkness|messes up an attempt to say]] '[[Klaatu Barada Nikto]] [[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||Barada Nikto]]'.
*** Mysterio also says this in ''[[Spider Man 2 Enter Electro]]''.
** There's also a child-friendly homage to ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'' in the third game.
* The ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series tends to aim its [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] at older players. Apart from the fact that getting all the name jokes requires a GCSE-level understanding of everything from Victorian literature to thermodynamics, level titles in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped|Warped]]'' include '[[Tomb Raider|Tomb Wader]]', '[[Roswell That Ends Well|Area 51]]', and '[[Oedipus the King|Eggipus Rex]]'.
* [[Stephen Fry]]'s narrations in ''[[
* ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' has little jokes and pickup lines tossed in that have steadily built the series' adult fanbase. Here's an example:
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'''Sly:''' [[Dating Catwoman|How can I freeze when my heart warms at the sight of you?]] }}
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Golden Age of Adventurers]]'' filler has a ''rollercoaster'' with a [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20100725.html bonus scare for adults].
== Western Animation ==
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** The guy responsible for that show he did the same thing for ''[[Sesame Street]]'' with such numbers as "It's Hip to Be a Square."
* The ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (animation)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' episode "Christmas Bloody Christmas" featured Sam and Max entering a prison shower room. Max sees a bar of soap on the ground, and bends over to pick it up, with a sign saying "Do not open until Xmas" over his rear-end.
** Heck, the ''Sam and Max'' animated series practically flipped the normal ratio of
* The ''[[Recess]]'' episode "The Library Kid" featured the gang cornering said Library Kid in the Philosophy section, with Gretchen calling out "Head her towards the existentialists; there's ''no exit'' over there," a reference to Sartre's play. The actual opening looks like an elementary school version of ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''.
** More than half the humor in ''Recess'' requires a high-school level of education to notice, much less understand.
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** ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' has lots of references to various things. Among them, Ms. Finster yelling, "Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!", and the song "Green Tambourine" (sung by Robert Goulet, no less) playing over the end credits while the kids danced in front of a psychedelic background.
** Ms. Grotke was reading ''[[Beowulf]]'' out loud. And just happened to be reading the part where Beowulf rips Grendel's arm off and begins beating him with it.
* The ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' videos are chock full of the [[Homage]] type of
** Actually, given the religious theme of ''Veggie Tales'', [[The Grapes of Wrath]] bit is fairly likely to be a reference to the song ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic'', which is the origin of that phrase. The phrase is used in the song to call to mind the themes of the first part of Isaiah 63 and several other places in the Bible that use similar imagery.
** It's also a reference to the book, given that the episode features a family of bumpkin grapes as [[Expy Expies]] of the Joad family.
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** In one of his silly songs, Larry the cucumber allows both a bank robber and a viking into his house and gives them each a cookie ("Because it's Christmas!"). He slams the door in the face of the guy from the IRS, complete with a [[Smug Smiler|Smug Smile]].
* Likewise, the episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' titled "Los Dos Mojos" included its own ''Holy Grail'' reference:
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** Another episode referred to ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'', when Professor Utonium laments a rug that "really tied the room together".
*** Hell, they once had The Mayor recite the "Strong Men Also Cry" speech, but replaced Bunny with Bellum.
*** And The Dude, Walter, and Donny were in the background shot of an episode of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''. [[Craig McCracken]] is a ''huge'' fan of the movie.
*** His wife, [[Lauren Faust]], apparently gets in on it too; ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has equine versions of The Dude, Walter, Donny, ''and Jesus Quintana'' show up in the background at the local bowling alley.
** ''PPG'' did an entire episode of Beatles references, "Meet the Beat Alls", which got an Emmy nomination.
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** And in the movie, references to naughty words were stuck in, including an elongated sigh of 'Fffff...'
** In the episode "Super Friends" the girls invite their new neighbor, a girl their age named Robin, over to their house, and they introduce her to Professor Utonium:
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'''Professor:''' Well, what can I say?
'''Robin:''' Don't worry, Professor. I was an accident, too!
''[Cue surprised look on the Professor's face]'' }}
** A similar joke occurred in the episode, "Gettin Twiggy With It" when Mitch Mitchelson, who lived in a trailer park with his grandma, takes the class hamster, Twiggy home and starts playing with her violently. When Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup catch him in the act:
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'''Blossom:''' You're an accident! }}
** Many sexual innuendo jokes relating to Ms. Bellum occur. One was when Ms. Bellum came into the Mayor's office while he was writing something. She leaned on his desk revealing a lot of her cleavage. He looks up and breaks his pencil, and exclaims "Pencil go snap!"
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** Perhaps the most explicit example is Ms. Bellum's address: 69 Yodelinda Valley Lane. It's prominently displayed on her mailbox in several episodes.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9ZxPHjBdU Someday we'll be as developed as you!]
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** Another episode obviously references the ''[[Hellraiser]]'' movies with "Pinhead" who has bowling pins sticking out of his head and a rubik's cube look-a-like summoning him.
** The episode with the Beauty Pageant had [[Dune|"gom jabbar"]] among the Pageant contests.
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** When Mindy pulled her hand from the pain box, the judges said something along the lines of "that will cost her." Funny, because in the book {{spoiler|removing your hand from the pain box while it works leads to instant death by the Gom Jabbar (a poisoned needle).}} }}
** The show's full of them. Here's one where Billy reads an ad off of a cave wall.
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'''Someone else''': Stop reading that! }}
** Valentine's Day. In general. For one, the end of Mandy's episode was apparently a ''[[Grease]]'' parody, and let's not forget Grim's.
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** Hurter Monkey: Billy and Mandy get a helper monkey who sounds like [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Kevin Spacey]] and even paraphrases the "simple life" speech from ''[[Se7en]]''.
** There is also the occasional visit from Hoss Delgado, a parody of both Snake Plissken played by [[Kurt Russell]] in ''[[Escape from New York]]'' and Ash Williams played by [[Bruce Campbell]] in ''[[Evil Dead]]''.
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*** And the theme song that plays at the beginning of his dream is similar to that of ''[[The Munsters]]''.
** The whole show was a huge parental bonus, heck I doubt kids would realize what happens when Grim takes people away.
** In one episode, character's were being made horribly ugly and paper bags were offered to the victims to place over their heads. The character offering the bags commented that he only had paper bags left because the plastic bags were in greater demand.
* ''[[Chowder]]''. For an example, in one episode, Endive wears mood fruit, fruit that changes color to reflect the wearers mood. I'm not sure, but I think the fact that most of the time, every part of it is a different colour means something...but I AM sure that when it changed to brown, which was acknowledged, HAS to mean something.
** When Chowder learns how to write, they use a montage of pictures of him interacting with various letters. "R" is depicted as looming over him in a dark back alley, getting ready to do something that rhymes with "grape".
** Truffles' snarky remarks towards her nearly dead relationship with her husband, Mung. During Panini for President, when the two were watching her on stage:
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'''Truffles:''' Oh, I've completely forgotten fireworks existed.. ''(Different voice)'' ...in our marriage... ''(Normal voice, shocked)'' '''Who said that?!'''
**
This gag is repeated throughout the series, seen here in episode 103
{{quote|'''Mung:''' Truffles, mind the shop. We need more spice!
'''Truffles:''' Well, I'm glad one of us finally acknowledged it. }}
** Another one occurred at the end of an episode where Mung and Truffles rekindle their romance.
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''(Mung and Truffles head offscreen)''
'''Chowder:''' Mung! Where are you going? The kitchen's ''that'' way! }}
* Both ''[[Animaniacs]]'' and ''[[Eek!
** ''Animaniacs'' also had an episode where the Warners were out to buy their psychiatrist, Dr. Scratchensnif, a birthday present. One asks about buying something from store called Oedipus Rex, and another remarks, "Nah, his mother wouldn't like it."
*** A different store sold 'Freudian Slips'. "No, he makes his own."
** ''Animaniacs'' was also famous for hiding vulgar jokes. At the beginning of the song ''Wakko's America,'' the Warner Siblings are playing a Jeopardy-style game show, wherein Wakko is asked how much he wants to wager on the daily double. He responds, "I'll blow the wad," eliciting surprised looks from Yakko and Dot.
** A running gag was Yakko lampshading a [[Double Entendre]] by implying it was enough to get the show cancelled.
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'''Yakko''': Who, me? I've never even kissed a girl!
'''Teacher''': No, no, it's easy. Here, I'll conjugate with you.
'''Yakko''': (to camera) Goodnight, everybody! }}
**
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'''Dr. Scratchensniff''': Stop playing with my bust!
'''Yakko''': ...Goodnight, everybody! }}
** The best Yakko lampshading has to be during "Baloney And Friends" where Yakko expresses a preference for chasing after the just-exited "cute girls" (the "Princess of Props".)
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'''Yakko''': (to camera) There's a shocker! }}
** And let's not forget how The Brain spoke exactly like Orson Welles.
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** The Warners parodied a [[Wartime Cartoon|World War 2 "good citizenship" film]], where ladies donated their nylon pantyhose to be made into parachutes. Who came to pick up the huge barrel of nylons? J. Edgar Hoover.
** One that surprisingly slipped past the censors:
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'''Dot''': (now carrying the musician Prince) I found Prince!
'''Yakko''': No, no, no. ''Fingerprints''.
(Prince puts on a wide grin)
'''Dot''': ([[Beat]]) I don't think so. (Throws Prince out the window) }}
** Then there was the time the Warners met [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]]:
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'''Yakko''': ''(startled)'' You're a WHAT?
'''Beethoven''': A PIANIST!
'''Yakko''': * smooch* ...Good night everybody!
'''Beethoven''': ''(confused)'' But that is vat I am! A pianist!
'''Yakko''': I think we heard enough out of you.
''[Yakko literally washes Beethoven's mouth with soap]'' }}
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEnFmdXDCwc "My bottom's all sore from romping."]
** ''Animaniacs'' also had the "Rita & Runt" sketches, which often parodied Broadway musicals (but of course; Rita was played by Bernadette Peters!). These are all far funnier after having seen the musicals being parodied.
*** Other characters got into the Broadway parody act. The Goodfeathers did [[Whole-Plot Reference|Whole Plot References]] of ''[[West Side Story]]'' and ''[[Fiddler
** And then there's the Thanksgiving themed episode with a hunter and a turkey:
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'''Yakko''': We'd love to, really, but the Fox censors wouldn't allow it. }}
*** Repeated during an extended ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' parody:
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'''Dot''': We can't. This is a children's show. }}
** This one predates the Animaniacs by several decades, first appearing (probably) in a Babbit and Catstello cartoon from the late 40s. "If the [[
** Not to mention the episode devoted to a pastiche of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]], of all things.
** There's also the episode where the trio ends up in Czarist Russia? They meet Rasputin, who has a toothache, and needs dental work. Yakko remarks, "looks like he needs a little anesthesia!" ... and the Czar's daughter comes out and hits Rasputin on the head with a mallet. Dot even says afterwards, "Obscure joke, ask your parents."
*** Of course, after ''[[Anastasia]]'', this pun isn't so obscure anymore.
** The episode "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled," where the Warners ended up in Hell (but obviously they couldn't say that). When they meet the Devil and realize where they are, Wakko dashes for a spiral staircase, comes out on Earth, gathers up a snowball, and runs back down the stairs, only to watch it melt rapidly upon setting it down on the ground. [[Animaniacs/Radar|"Boy, they were right! It didn't have a chance."]]
*** ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' used the phrase "Snowball's chance" repeatedly in the episode "Stinky Goes Hollywood".
** By all accounts, children shouldn't see ''[[Raging Bull]]'' or ''[[Goodfellas]]'' yet one of the recurring segments was called Goodfeathers and usually homaged those types of movies.
** Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are themselves a parental bonus since they are basically animated versions of the Marx Brothers. Yakko especially is an homage to Groucho Marx.
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** One definitely for the parents: Boris, wearing a metal mouse costume in his role as the Big Cheese, details his plan to take over whole U.S. of A. He holds up a book. The title? "Mice Kampf."
** Bullwinkle would sometimes have entire plots that were parental bonuses. An entire episode could be spent spoofing college football or modern art. Bonus points for the jokes being nowadays both mature and dated. How many modern kids are gonna get a joke about the payola scandal?
* ''[[Rugrats]]''' popularity peak can be traced to its frequent use of the
** The creepy doctor that Chuckie visits in named [[The Silence of the Lambs|Dr. Lector.]]
** In another episode, while the children are looking for one of the children's favourite toy, they open up a drawer full of favourite things, and start pulling things out. On the screen can be seen a photograph of a woman.
** At the beginning of the home movies episode, when Stu starts showing an incredibly boring home movie, Didi's father picks up the phone and says "Hello, Dr. Kevorkian?"
** One of my favorites comes from the episode in which Dr. Lipschitz visits:
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'''Stu:''' [[Sidney Poitier]]? }}
** In another episode, the babies are chased through a Multicultural Fair. Chuckie gets temporarily separated, and nearly trampled by Jewish dancers. When the others ask him what happened, all he can say is [[Apocalypse Now|"The Hora! The Hora!"]]. They finally make a stand with the help of some Scottish babies, who taunt the pursuers by [[Braveheart|lifting their kilts to show that they aren't wearing diapers]].
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** And the movies Grampa brought home one night, 'Reptar Come Home', 'Reptar Redux', and ... 'Lonely Space Vixens'
** In one episode, Tommy goes through a naked phase, where he refuses to wear his clothes. After talking the twins into following suit, he looks down at Lil and says "Lil. Can I ask you a question?"
** In the series ''[[All Grown Up!]]'', the episode titles were frequently references to pop-culture that was probably above the target-audience's head, but nearly all were easily relatable to the episode, anyway. The exception would be the episode "Wouldn't It Be Nice", an episode where several characters (including [[Ho Yay|Susie and Angelica]]) pretend to be married, which only makes sense if you know the song. The odds on the target audience being familiar with [[The Beach Boys|the source material]] is slim.
** Seriously....lip shitz (the bullSHIT psychologist...is called...lipschitz...you know...as in shit comes out of his mouth.
* In the [[Time Travel]] episode of ''[[The Fairly
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** One that sticks out is 'Dads' obsession with Eggnog in every christmas episode.
*** There's an episode where Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands at the beach. In searching for them they find, among other things, Elvis and the Holy Grail.
** Probably closer to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], but this exchange in the episode where Timmy wishes his parents were superheroes:
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'''Timmy''': But what's the machine for?
'''Timmy's Dad''': We'll tell you when you're older, son. }}
** The intersections in Fairy World almost always are the names of famous magicians (like the intersection of "David" and "Copperfield")
** [[Adam West]] voices Catman (I can't remember the character's "real" name), who is obsessed with the role he played on a 60's live-action show; his attacks are punctuated with large on-screen sound effect bubbles. The character's name is [[Adam Westing]]
** Jay Leno portrays the comic book superhero "The Crimson Chin"
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'''Chin''': No, Timmy. You saved me-- from myself! Boy, that was schmultzy. Who did you say writes my comic books?
'''Cleft''': Some 40 year old guy who lives with his mom.
'''Chin''': Any money in it?
'''Cleft''': (points to his caption balloon) ''Lives with his mom''. }}
** Jorgen von Strangle, the Schwarzenegger fairy (no, they didn't actually get ahold of the governator for the role).
** Ben Stein plays a race of bland, boring, industrious pixies.
** And just general grown-up friendly silliness
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** And...
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** And...
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'''Cosmo''': Just like the IRS! }}
** And don't forget:
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'''Cosmo''': Just like Dr. Phil! }}
** Then there was the first Wishology episode. The minute that Timmy's dad popped open his case full of "goodies", I was on the floor.
** And in an early episode with Mr. Crocker, as he ponders a trap that will either reveal once and for all that Timmy has fairy godparents to save him, or leave him dead...
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** The second episode with Anti-Cosmo has a ''Silence of the Lambs'' reference.
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'''Wanda''': Clarise?
'''Anti-Cosmo''': So sorry, can't see a thing without my monocle. }}
** Wishology trilogy, anyone? ''Matrix'' references like there is no tomorrow, along with ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]] Salvation'', Back to the Future, ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Cast Away]]''....
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** The most famous example is a restaurant called "[[A Date with Rosie Palms|Chokey Chicken]]". This one ''was'' caught, and later episodes changed the name to "Chewy Chicken".
* In addition to practically being an entire show's worth of homage to ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'', ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has a number of parental bonus moments.
** The Autobot science team is composed of Wheeljack, whose face greatly resembles a roboticized version of a certain walrus-faced [[
*** Wheeljack wasn't intended to look like a Mythbuster. But how about [[Con Air|Decepticon Air]] or [[George W. Bush|Mission Accomplished]]?
** Sentinel in "Predacons Rising" - "Don't just stand there with your pistons in your servos." Really now?
* Any episode of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]''. The show doesn't quite make sense when you watch it as a kid, but things such as the "Ottoman Empire" (a bunch of goons obsessed with furniture) work out for older audiences.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', as mentioned earlier, is a particular user of this trope, culminating in [[The Movie]] ending with Spongebob defeating Plankton with [[The Power of Rock]]. The song? A parody of [[Twisted Sister]]'s ''I Wanna Rock''.
** The sequence includes a closeup of shapely legs in fishnets{{spoiler|--Patrick's.}}
** The surprise appearance of [[Nosferatu]], "[[Dune|wormsign]]", the titular character's trousers discarding akin to an o-ring separation before his legs erupt into rocket exhaust plumes, etc.
** Watch "Karate Island" and just try and find more than three jokes that ''[[Periphery Demographic|aren't]]''
** Another referenced [[George Carlin]]'s "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" routine.
** Don't forget the episode "The Secret Box", where the secret that turned out to be in the box was a string. Come on, a string in a box in a Bikini Bottom?
*** Of course, though, the string {{spoiler|opens a secret compartment in the box that contains an [[Embarrassing Old Photo]] of Spongebob at a Christmas Party}}
** And then there's Plankton and his reviewing of "foreign exercise videos" for his cousin.
** When Squidward has [[It Makes Sense in Context|convinced Spongebob and Patrick to wait on his every whim]], they move around his sun chair to various
** The episode that begins with SpongeBob watching a dancing live-action sea anemone on his TV, with a goofy entranced look on his face, leaning toward the screen. When Gary comes in and meows at him, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he immediately turns off the TV]] and comes up with a hasty excuse for what he was ''really'' watching.
** The episode with the squeaky boots is a parody of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story ''The Telltale Heart''.
** Let's see, there's Ned and the Needlefish, an obvious reference to Hootie and the Blowfish; an episode titled "Krabby Road", like [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' album ''Abbey Road''; the episode "Lost Mattress", where, at the end of the mattress shopping montage, Spongebob goes to reach for a switch in the dealer's hand, who closes it sharply and makes Spongebob laugh, a reference to ''[[Pretty Woman]]''; and some episodes which feature court cases use the theme from ''[[The People's Court|The Peoples Court]]''.
** A musical bonus: In the episode where Patrick becomes smart when he switches his brain with brain coral, he mentions a clarinet piece by "Cornelius Bumpfish". Someone on the writing team must like Steely Dan, whose clarinetist was a man named Cornelius Bumpus.
** In one episode, Patrick dressed in drag and Squidward called 'her' "his [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubenesque]] beauty".
** "You're a man, Spongebob, and it's about time you acted like one. First, puff up your chest. Then, say 'tax exemption'. Now you must adopt a taste for free-form jazz."
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' was fond of this, too. In one episode, Ron announces "the first rule of chess club is: you do not talk about chess club."
** What's the second rule of chess club?
*** You do '''NOT''' talk about chess club.
** In another...
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'''Kim Possible''': Shut your mouth!
'''Dr. Drakken''': I'm just talking about Nana.
Sadly, Kim did not answer "I can dig it." }}
*** The exchange was, however, played out in full in a ''Shaft'' parody episode of ''Dexter's Laboratory'' between Dee Dee and a friend.
** And in yet another:
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** Okay kiddies, how many of you have seen ''[[Psycho]]''? How about played ''[[Resident Evil]]'' or ''[[Splinter Cell]]''? Because homage is payed to all of these in one episode or another.
** And then there was this:
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** "[[Witch with a Capital B|Careful Bonnie, you know what they do to witches in this town.]]" Given how she quickly hops away with a frightened look Bonnie guessed she was being a bitch.
** How many people in Kim Possible's target demographic would recognize the character Ron is channeling in this screenshot? [http://caps.kpfanworld.com/images/graduation1/0207.jpg\]{{Dead link}}
** Not to mention in the episode where they had to have mentors and Ron's happens to be a secret agent, Ron starts using a Scottish accent as a reference to [[Sean Connery]] as [[James Bond]]. This was exceptionally cool for older folks who always see [[Sean Connery]] as Bond rather than the more recent actors like [[Pierce Brosnan]] and Daniel Craig.
* ''[[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]'' has several, not the least of which is Yang saying "Ah, pellets!" in place of stronger language.
** Paraphrased:
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'''Yang:''' The Booby Trap factory, which is safe for you because you don't have bo-
'''Yin:''' Hold that insensitive remark! }}
* Dylan the rabbit from ''[[The Magic Roundabout]]'' was (at least in the UK [[Gag Dub]]) portrayed as an [[Erudite Stoner]], and often said things that ''might'' have been about drugs. This gets a lot more blatant in [[The Movie]].
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' is full of these.
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'''Hawkgirl:''' Which might explain why you can't get a date.
'''Flash:''' Yeah... hey, what's THAT supposed to mean? }}
** Or Hawkman's remark after Hawkgirl attacks a villain with a whip.
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** Interestingly, Hawkgirl seems to me involved in a lot of these:
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** Another Hawkgirl example pops up when [[The Joker]] accuses her of "sublimating [her] passions with [[Freud Was Right|that big honkin' mace."]]
** Possibly the most blatant example occurs in the episode where Flash and Luthor switch bodies. Tala, who had been trying to seduce Lex for a while, leads him (actually Flash) into the bedroom to "rest". Shortly after the door closes, we hear him happily chirp "Hey, that's not restful."
** How about in the episode "Epilogue"? That was a pretty impressive one.
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'''Terry McGinnis:''' [raises eyebrow]
'''Amanda Waller:''' Not remotely what I meant! }}
** A pretty infamous one:
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** And there's the episode where Flash and Wonder Woman rescue a magazine proprietor who looks a lot like Hugh Hefner (and letches on Diana). The exact nature of the magazines he publishes are unrevealed, but Wally insists [[I Read It for the Articles|he only buys them for the articles]].
** Katma Tui asking John Stewart if he still snores in his sleep...
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' had a [[Cargo Cult]] episode with a tribe of kiwi birds. The tribe's chief, for no apparent reason whatsoever, spoke in nothing but [[Ed Sullivan
** And don't forget the episode featuring a scientist named "Dr. Piltdown". Piltdown Man was, of course, one of the most well-known frauds in archaeological history.
* ''[[The Lion King]]''{{'}}s ''[[Triumph of the Will]]''-inspired imagery goes (one hopes) right over the kiddies' heads.
** Of all the rides in Disneyland proper, "It's A Small World" is the safest for small children, and its [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] [[Ear Worm]] is nothing short of notorious. So it was a
* ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' was full of various pop culture references, such as a group of villains named [[The Beatles (band)|the Lonely Hearts Club Band]]... with a leader named [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Pepper]]. There was also this exchange, which goes past
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** One of the titular character's "sisters" sounded just like [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Marvin the Paranoid Android]]. One episode she asks to be given dreams featured the line "Pfft, [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?|what do androids dream of, electric sheep]]?"
* ''[[Histeria
** Or saying of Greek Poet Sappho, "She didn't play well [[Les Yay|with boys]]."
** Histeria was full of this stuff. Look at some of the songs. How many kids in their demographic would actually get songs based on ''"[[Ghostbusters]]"'' or "Theme from ''[[Shaft]]''"?
** Hell, the show had ''Grand''parental Bonuses. Jack Benny as [[Thomas Jefferson]], Bob Hope as [[George Washington]], Frank Sinatra as [[Gaius Julius Caesar|Caesar]].
* In the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "The Cave of Two Lovers," the Gaang meets up with some extraordinarily 60s Hippie-ish, guitar playing nomads with vocal characteristics of [[The Stoner]]. When the cave group is traveling, their leader shouts "The tunnels, they are a-changing!" How many kids in the target demographic got that reference?
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** All of the violence is normally something a child would not understand.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has its moments - Desiree and Vlad are both walking [[Parent Service]], specifically. The eighties and college references help as well. It also has it's share of [[Double Entendre]].
** Face it [[Nickelodeon]] loves these to death. [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Se]][[Rugrats|ri]][[Danny Phantom|ou]][[The Fairly
* ''George Shrinks'' has the titular character, at one point, tell a bee to go pollinate itself.
* One episode of ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' had a gang of butch female bikers (Cow even calls one of them "sir") who crashed into people's homes and literally munched on [[Ho Yay|their carpets]].
* In the first episode of ''[[Doug]]'', Doug is tricked by Roger into searching for fictional creatures called "neematoads". While searching in the marshland, he spots Roger laughing at him and realized he's been fooled. Doug's dog who became covered in mud approached Roger, convincing Roger that it was a neematoad. The episode ends with Roger searching in the marshland for neematoads. There is no such thing as neematoads, though there is a such thing as [[wikipedia:Nematode|nematodes.]] And considering that both Doug and Roger were ''barefoot'' while searching, they definitely found some...
* Much of ''[[Fillmore!]]'' parodies 70s cop shows specifically, and relies heavily on [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]].
** And how many kids were they expecting to get all of ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' references in the episode "To Mar a Stall"?
* One episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' featured the characters all writing stories for a TV show's story contest (the stories themselves written by kids, or so it says at the end), which were then played out using the ''Arthur'' characters in the animation style of other cartoons... including ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', and ''[[Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist]]''.
** In the episode when Buster is diagnosed with asthma, Arthur accidentally induces an asthma attack when he's reading an old, dusty joke book with Buster. The following exchange with his father ensues:
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'''Mr. Read''': How could it be your fault?
'''Arthur''': It's because I showed him those dirty books! That's what made him sick. I just know it!
''(Confused look on Mr. Read's face)'' }}
** In one Arthur episode there was a band called "Binky" that looked and sounded suspiciously like ABBA. They had the same amount of popularity and were even from Europe.
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** Darkwing did this all the time. Take the episode "Twin Beaks": the alien cows claim to be from the planet Larson, on "The far side of the galaxy." ''[[The Far Side]]'' was created by Gary Larson, who made more comedic use of milk cows than Earthworm Jim.
** "Trading Faces" gives us this little gem.
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'''Steelbeak''': Hey, read my beak; tell them to raise some taxes. Eh heh heh, [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|like they need an excuse, right]]? }}
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''. For example...
** In one episodes, Mac was frustrated because Bloo ''left him'' (clearly behaving more like a husband whose wife just left him than a little boy whose BFF just left him). To make it even better, Mac goes to an ice cream parlor right afterward.... and everybody who watches the show knows that he reacts to sugar like others react to drugs. The following scene looks... ripped out of a relationship-drama movie.
** In ''Partying is Such a Sweet Soiree'', Bloo tells Mac what they got for their party: "...and on the 6th floor, Ring around the Rosey, [[
** In the episode ''Store Wars'', the group passes by the window display of a store for women's underwear. Bloo walks right past it, but 8 year old Mac takes a glimpse while smiling in a pretty strange way. Adult woman Frankie and female imaginary friend Coco look at it interested and coward Eduardo covers his eyes in horror.
** That show had a Blues Brothers reference of all things. And not just any Blues Brothers reference, they almost quoted verbatim the most famous line of the movie:
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'''Frankie''': Hit it. }}
** A random character with Morrisey-esque hair talked entirely in altered Smith's lyrics.
*** On a similar note, in the episode "Nightmare on Wilson Way", after Eduardo becomes a zombie, Bloo mutters "Well, Ed is dead." "Ed is Dead" is the name of a Pixies song.
** They also parodied the Death Star trench run. No, not Luke's, ''Red Leader's''. And in an episode that Blu gets fantastically rich, he sails around inside the house on a tiny steamboat. It's name: The Bloosatania. And then there was Arthur Dent trying to Hitchhike to Magrathea...
*** As well as two nerds named Douglas and Adam, one of which wears white shirt with a large '42' printed on it.
** [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Mac waking up next to]] [[Creator's Pet|Cheese]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|and trying to 'explain' to Bloo.]]
* ''[[
** Don't forget the cabin from ''[[Evil Dead]]''!
** Also don't forget the season 3 recap at the end, performed by the Mainframe Players
** There was also the season 2 episode [[Mad Max|Bad Bob]], to say nothing of season 3's masterful lampoon of [[Star Trek: The Original Series]] (written by D.C. Fontana).
* Although ''[[Wonder Pets]]'' is usually rather light on Parental Bonus, the episode "The Wonder Pets Save [[The Beatles (band)|the Beetles]]" is filled with non-stop references to a certain rock band...
** The Beetles were voiced by two of the performers of Broadway's "Beatlemania."
** To say nothing of "The Wonder Pets save the [[Fiddler
** And "The Wonder Pets Save the [[Frank Sinatra|Rat Pack]]. Not only are the guest characters based on Sinatra, Davis, and Martin (with ''dead-on'' voice acting), but [[Elvis Presley]] and [[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|Raoul Duke]] can be spotted in a crowd.
** The more recent episodes of Wonder Pets are chock full of Parental Bonus - Save the Vixen, a noir style episode guest starring Lauren Bacall, and full of nods to the films, Save the Skunk Rocker, full of references to classic punk and Save the Rock Lobster, a B52s inspired episode, in particular.
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* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' in the episode "Whale Times." Bubbie meets a whale names Harvey, and they like each other. Bubbie isn't that kind of whale though. Also with that comes an innocent-Flapjack comment after they realize Harvey kidnaps people from other giant creatures, "Harvey sure does get around."
* ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' makes a rather obscure [[The Beatles|Beatles]] reference in the episode "Beat Goes On", when Frank cries out "''I got blisters on my fingers!''". Frank is quoting [[Ringo Starr]], who says exactly the same thing (in the same tone of voice) at the end of the song "Helter Skelter".
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has entire episodes based on parental bonuses. Apart from parodies of such non-kiddie friendly films as ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' (''Operation FUTURE''), ''[[Soylent Green]]'' (''Operation HOME''), ''[[Minority Report]]'' (''Operation CRIME''), ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' (Operation SNOWING), and the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' franchise (''Operation LICE''), there are e.g. ''Operation POINT'' where the kids try to find out what teenage couples do to "become adults" up at "The Point" on Saturday night {{spoiler|They roller skate together. What did you think they did?}} and ''Operation SUPPORT'' where Nigel and Hoagie decide that bras must be secret weapons ("Battle Ready Armor!!") and sneak into Abby's sister's bedroom to steal some for themselves. {{spoiler|They're right}}.
** Then there's an episode based on [[Isaac Asimov]]'s book ''[[Fantastic Voyage (film)|Fantastic Voyage]]'', in which 4 ate a brussels sprout and the rest of the team got shrunk to retrieve it (''Operation SPROUT'').
** And then there's ''Operation RECRUIT'', which is more or less a direct parody of ''[[The Matrix]]''
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** Also, in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" when Candace's time travel causes Doofenshmirtz to take over the world, he sings a song called, "It's a Charmed Life". One of the lyrics is "Everyone else is the proletariat and baby I'm the bourgeoisie! Look it up Joe!" Most kids, in fact quite a few adults, do not know those words.
** In one episode, when Perry tapped on Doofensmirtz's window and then disappeared offscreen, Doofenshmirtz opened up the window and made a rather fantastic literary reference...
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** Not to mention that the ''entire'' "Harbor Day" episode was a giant parody of [[Moby Dick|a certain story concerning a crazy captain and a whale...]]
** From the episode "Finding Mary [[MacGuffin]]":
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'''Phineas''': [[Catch Phrase|Yes. Yes we...]]
*puts on sunglasses*
'''Phineas''': ''are.''
'''[[CSI: Miami|YEAHHHHHH!!!!!]]''' }}
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' had a good number, being another Nick show. Anyone recall that episode where Cindy and her friends were having a garage sale, and Sheen finds a bra and proclaims it to be an Ultra Lord Double Barrel Slingshot?
** "I don't know, Sheen, if that's the case, then my mom has a lot of Ultra Lord Double Barrel Slingshots..."
* From ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'':
** At one point, the bus turns into the [[Star Trek|Enterprise]].
** Not to mention the Friz herself. As many a disgruntled cosplayer has noted, Ms Frizzle is stacked.
** In the episode where they go to space, they are going past Uranus. Arnold jumps into his cousin's lap, to which she says, "[[Uranus Is Showing]] doesn't do a thing for me, so please get off!" Arnold replies, "Sorry, Janet, but I have to stay on top of the situation."
** In "Gets Ready, Set, Dough", while the class is stuck in an oven, Phoebe says, "At my old school, we never got baked."
** When Ms. Frizzle is put on trial for taking Keesha's cucumber ("In A Pickle"), her prisoner number is [[Les Misérables (novel)|24601]].
* On an episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton go on a treasure hunt. They find it buried [[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World|under trees shaped like an X]], and later, as they're fighting over the treasure, Plucky gets caught in a tree. As his treasure pours out of his bag into Hamton's, Hamton notes "The trickle-down theory", which would require quite a bit of knowledge of economics.
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* In one episode of ''[[Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island]]'', there were a number of jokes inserted into the episode that were throwbacks to old video games. The only one the children got was [[Super Mario Bros.|"MARIO!"]] and the only one the adults cared about was [[Final Fantasy VII|"FINAL FANTASY VII!"]] Sucks to be you, [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]] and [[Kirby]].
* ''[[Atomic Betty]]'': On Season 2, Episode 17 "Extreme Makeover" (featuring the villain Bombshelle). Betty's mom is trying her old dancing clothes and Noah walks in. She asks him to watch her performance for a while and dances. After she finishes, there's a shot with a dumbfounded Noah at the door, looking at Betty's mom [[The Graduate|raised leg on the foreground]]. Noah, being a little kid, has a different reaction (he almost throws up - of course, Betty's mom choice of [[Outdated Outfit|bright pink gym clothes]] might have something to do with it).
* The sketch show ''[[MAD]]'' loves this trope, having references to many things the target audience probably wouldn't know, such as ''[[CSI]]'' or ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Identity]]'', the references are usually mixed with something the target audience has seen, such as [[
* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' has a song from the trio of [[Black Canary]], [[Huntress]], and [[Catwoman (
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is packed with these. Some examples involve [[Benny Hill]] homages, obscure and cult movie shout outs, Viagra-like potions for a rooster who can't "sing" anymore, and of course, the famous ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' ponies from the pony bowling alley. See trope page for examples.
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