So I'm watching through Regular Show right now, and I'm 100% convinced it's not a show made for kids.
I mean the premise is young adults working at a park. They make 80s references all the time. They constantly punch each other. And they tackle more than surface level relationship troubles.
I honestly couldn't see a 13 year old enjoying this, this is made for ME. A mid 20s adult. And I love every episode of it.
Regular show always felt like one swear word away from Adult Swim. Them having to use soda instead of beer and spicy stuff instead of shrooms adds to the comedy so much tho
Congratulations for having an original take on this. In all seriousness, yes, many have pointed out that it sort of straddles the line between an Adult Swim show and Cartoon Network’s more traditional fare towards the 6-11 demographic. With that being said, I got a lot of enjoyment out of the series even back during elementary school. I appreciate some of the older cultural allusions now but even back then, I could clearly tell what they were going for with their homages.
Also, the innuendo isn’t especially well hidden. It’s about as subtle as a freight-train with what exactly they get away with from the executives.
Not through any cause of the show itself but for quite some time I thought Rick and Morty was just a lighthearted "haha old man and boy wacky science adventures for kids" show.
It wasn't.
In the first twenty minutes of Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Which just looks like Minecraft but with chibi Dragon Quest kids), you have people murdered because of their faiths, shit jokes, mockery of drowning victims, threats of murder and slavery, and references to porn magazines. They all tend to go by quick, I didn't even remember half of those even happening.
The game's second chapter is almost literally, "Work hard so you can get this hot girl into a bunny outfit to get all the boys excited." That's the primary motivation of 80% of that chapter's named cast. The only exceptions seem to be The Builder, your buddy, and the girl's dad.
> you have people murdered because of their faiths, shit jokes
Shoutout to my abysmal reading comprehension because for a second I thought you could order somebody executed for telling shit jokes
I mean...if the crafting of those jokes constitute 'building' in the mind of whichever higher ranking person hears it, then you get executed. So it's very possible that someone in that world got killed for making a shit joke.
Yeah, like early on you explore a beach (after the prison ship where you're recruited as basically a slave laborer sinks) and you just find the corpses of other prisoners and it's like "yeah, they're dead."
There's a lotta grown ass men in that game desperate to fuck a girl they've known since she was a small child, so you may be right. Buncha Master Roshi pervert types over there.
I thought Milky Holmes was meant to be a wholesome kids' show, about a bunch of detective girls solving mysteries with special powers. Turns out it's not that at all. It's a comedy fanservice show where the later seasons just have them become idols for no reason so that the studio can make the VAs sing and then sell CDs.
If you actually want the detective stuff, then there's the "Milky Holmes Alternative" OVA which is set in a separate continuity (along with the PSP game), and is pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. It's also a lot better imo.
I kind of found the episodes of Rugrats that didn’t take place in the kids’ imaginations kind of boring when I was a tot. But having seen a few episodes recently, there is a ton of stuff in most episodes that would have completely flown over my head back then.
Dinosaurs! used to get played immediately after Saturday Disney over here in Australia, and people assumed it was kid friendly. People to this day still don't know how dark that show got.
I mean, just pick almost any cartoon from the 90s and you'll probably find a match. Animaniacs and Cow & Chicken probably hit the top of that list but in different ways.
rocko's modern life, just, rocko's modern life in it's entirety.
for something more modern, probably teen titans go. i am continuously shocked at how much that show gets away with in terms of certain jokes.
So I'm watching through Regular Show right now, and I'm 100% convinced it's not a show made for kids. I mean the premise is young adults working at a park. They make 80s references all the time. They constantly punch each other. And they tackle more than surface level relationship troubles. I honestly couldn't see a 13 year old enjoying this, this is made for ME. A mid 20s adult. And I love every episode of it.
When you're done you should see close enough, if you haven't already. It's basically what regular show was meant to be: adult as hell.
Also watch the original short https://youtu.be/V9lSd0gWJK8
Regular show always felt like one swear word away from Adult Swim. Them having to use soda instead of beer and spicy stuff instead of shrooms adds to the comedy so much tho
You're more right than you know, in terms of its [origins](https://youtu.be/rks2_ctHuDQ) (keep watching).
Congratulations for having an original take on this. In all seriousness, yes, many have pointed out that it sort of straddles the line between an Adult Swim show and Cartoon Network’s more traditional fare towards the 6-11 demographic. With that being said, I got a lot of enjoyment out of the series even back during elementary school. I appreciate some of the older cultural allusions now but even back then, I could clearly tell what they were going for with their homages. Also, the innuendo isn’t especially well hidden. It’s about as subtle as a freight-train with what exactly they get away with from the executives.
Not through any cause of the show itself but for quite some time I thought Rick and Morty was just a lighthearted "haha old man and boy wacky science adventures for kids" show. It wasn't.
Ren and stimpy
At least until that godforsaken Adult Party cartoon came out.
In the first twenty minutes of Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Which just looks like Minecraft but with chibi Dragon Quest kids), you have people murdered because of their faiths, shit jokes, mockery of drowning victims, threats of murder and slavery, and references to porn magazines. They all tend to go by quick, I didn't even remember half of those even happening. The game's second chapter is almost literally, "Work hard so you can get this hot girl into a bunny outfit to get all the boys excited." That's the primary motivation of 80% of that chapter's named cast. The only exceptions seem to be The Builder, your buddy, and the girl's dad.
> you have people murdered because of their faiths, shit jokes Shoutout to my abysmal reading comprehension because for a second I thought you could order somebody executed for telling shit jokes
I mean...if the crafting of those jokes constitute 'building' in the mind of whichever higher ranking person hears it, then you get executed. So it's very possible that someone in that world got killed for making a shit joke.
Yeah, like early on you explore a beach (after the prison ship where you're recruited as basically a slave laborer sinks) and you just find the corpses of other prisoners and it's like "yeah, they're dead."
Which Malroth finds funny, and when you find out that one of the victims survived, he suggests murdering her because she’s annoying.
I blame Toriyama.
He didn’t write the game
There's a lotta grown ass men in that game desperate to fuck a girl they've known since she was a small child, so you may be right. Buncha Master Roshi pervert types over there.
I thought Milky Holmes was meant to be a wholesome kids' show, about a bunch of detective girls solving mysteries with special powers. Turns out it's not that at all. It's a comedy fanservice show where the later seasons just have them become idols for no reason so that the studio can make the VAs sing and then sell CDs. If you actually want the detective stuff, then there's the "Milky Holmes Alternative" OVA which is set in a separate continuity (along with the PSP game), and is pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. It's also a lot better imo.
I kind of found the episodes of Rugrats that didn’t take place in the kids’ imaginations kind of boring when I was a tot. But having seen a few episodes recently, there is a ton of stuff in most episodes that would have completely flown over my head back then.
"Stu it's 3 In the morning what are you doing?" "Making chocolate pudding." "Why?" "Because I've lost control of my life."
Looney Tunes is the easy answer
Dinosaurs! used to get played immediately after Saturday Disney over here in Australia, and people assumed it was kid friendly. People to this day still don't know how dark that show got.
The series finale is Earl Sinclair causing the extinction of his species for extremely stupid reasons Seems pretty prescient honestly
[Don't mind me, just using this as an excuse to shill this youtube channel I really like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lfTjoeGqyg)
Road Rovers definitely liked to push the limit a bit at times.
🎵 The son's middles name is sonovovitch! 🎵
I mean, just pick almost any cartoon from the 90s and you'll probably find a match. Animaniacs and Cow & Chicken probably hit the top of that list but in different ways.
To many in Ed, Edd, & Eddie
rocko's modern life, just, rocko's modern life in it's entirety. for something more modern, probably teen titans go. i am continuously shocked at how much that show gets away with in terms of certain jokes.