Did you ever wonder as a kid, why your parents would laugh at the cartoons you were sometimes watching? Well, we might have just found the answer to that question. If you ever go back to watch the cartoons you watched as a kid, you’ll only discover an inappropriate moment or subtext you didn’t understand when you were just a few inches taller than a grasshopper. However, if you weren’t one of those children who “wondered,” get ready to have your mind blown!
Here are 10+ totally childhood ruining jokes that you didn’t understand as a kid:
1. “The Chipettes have a song which literally says, ‘Getting lucky, is really what it’s all about. It’s something I can’t do without.’ I assumed it meant scoring a kiss…now I know it’s about scoring something else.”
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
2. “There’s an episode of SpongeBob where Plankton is trying to get him to be more assertive and a fish sits on him. Spongebob then sticks his finger in the fish’s pocket and Plankton says something along the lines of, ‘No, no, no, assertive, NOT insertive!'” —sams44040a454
4. “Rocko and his friends playing the ‘Spank the Monkey’ board game.” —mmp6152001
Nickelodeon
5. “I never knew what they meant until I was recently watching it on Cartoon Network and they took that part out.” —liva46613d85a
Universal Pictures
6. “I remember one episode where they sang ‘heidi heidi heidi ho’ but changed it to ‘heidi heidi Heidi Fleiss.’ Heidi Fleiss was a madam at the center of a big controversy, since records of her services became public knowledge. Awkward that I went around singing it as a kid before my parents stopped me.” —Jena McLaurin
Warner Bros.
7. Six years old me would’ve never thought.
Cartoon Network
8. ……
Nickelodeon
9. “…In the episode ‘Information Stupor Highway’ I NEVER understood the joke about ‘THOSE kinds of websites’ until I went back and watched it as an adult. Now I know why my parents thought it was so funny!” —secretlymsmarvel
Nickelodeon
10. “The entire character of Dr. Lipschitz just went right over my head.” —broadwaybby
Nickelodeon
11. Banana Joe on The Amazing World of Gumball watching fruits being gaped.
Cartoon Network
12. “In the Powerpuff Girls episode ‘Knock It Off’ the bad guy is Professor Utonium’s old roomate, Dick Hardly. Half the episode consists of the girls subtly calling him a dick.” —Sterre Klaver
Cartoon Network
13. “I was a bit older when I saw this, but it still went over my teenage head. On Adventure Time, there is a bit in an episode where he has to get a key from some jello or gelatin…I watched it again recently and I was shook!” —brnnsosa
