Why are children's cartoons littered with sexual symbols?

Melisandre121

Hey Arnold's grandpa's face shape, Peppa Pig and her entire family's face shapes, Tommy squirting his "milk bottle" at the screen at the end of The Rugrats theme.. and I just know there's more.

Why do they do this?!

MadsL

Because they can? You should see the stuff Disney animators got up to in their free time.

sammyjo90

Sure why not!?
when I was painting sets in school for one of our plays, I painted a penis shaped bull rush into the background, all because I could!

fro9etb8j5qsl2

I thinks it's some sort of semi subliminal hook to keep the adults watching. Like all of the double entendre jokes in spongebob only more subtle.

Senna

Peppa pigs face???
I'm sure you could find a sexual symbol in everything if you looked hard enough, but maybe it says more about your state of mind?

Niemoj

Subtilty, it's all about the subtilty.

RaRaRasputin

Ah Bambi you tease...

Melisandre121

Senna wrote: »

Peppa pigs face???
I'm sure you could find a sexual symbol in everything if you looked hard enough, but maybe it says more about your state of mind?

There is no denying that Peppa Pig's dad is a giant ball sack.

Dravokivich

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Hey Arnold's grandpa's face shape, Peppa Pig and her entire family's face shapes, Tommy squirting his "milk bottle" at the screen at the end of The Rugrats theme.. and I just knoiw there's more.

Why do they do this?!

You never saw a baby play with a bottle like that? My lad does it all the time. You strike me as being shocked for the sake of it to be honest.

Gooners

Kids don't see it like adults do and believe it or not kid's cartoons were made for kids.

Ruu

Cadbury's Caramel bunny!

"Mickey" Mouse.

Fr_Dougal

Bosco's being fisted yet nobody complained about that.

Buzz Meeks

What exactly was Papa Smurf and the lads getting up to there with Smurfette. Are we supposed to believe they were all friends who happened to live together in a forest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908

Anesthetize

Buzz Meeks wrote: »

What exactly was Papa Smurf and the lads getting up to there with Smurfette. Are we supposed to believe they were all friends who happened to live together in a forest?

Smurfette fucks all the other smurfs. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her? Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny.

What about Papa Smurf? He must get in on the action. Yeah, what he does, he films the gang-bang. Later on, he beats off to the tape.

Cinquelimoni

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Hey Arnold's grandpa's face shape, Peppa Pig and her entire family's face shapes, Tommy squirting his "milk bottle" at the screen at the end of The Rugrats theme.. and I just know there's more.

Why do they do this?!

Did you consider the fact that maybe you just have sex on the brain and interpret these things sexually.

Melisandre121

Cinquelimoni wrote: »

Did you consider the fact that maybe you just have sex on the brain and interpret these things sexually.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmmHCBDIUAA2sBo.png

NachoBusiness

Penelope Pitstop groomed me.

vicwatson

Orville with a full arm up there y'know

NachoBusiness

Remember Playschool and the woman standing at the white wall asking if you wanna see what's threw the "round window"?

Glory hole.

Jayop

I almost fell off the couch laughing at the CUN-T reference in Spongebob when I first saw it.

Massimo Cassagrande

Because sadly, kids expect adults to sit and endure watching cartoons with them..and they need something to keep them vaguely entertained too..

myshirt

Op, what the hell are you doing watching kids cartoons?

Are you one of these guys who presents oneself as the brave new visionary theatre needs, when the reality is that it is pure wrong to try and add a lesbian shower scene to the annual Christmas kids nativity play.

Wth?

Gone Drinking

You think its bad now? I give you "Mickey" Mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGioaSl3VVY

kylith

Anesthetize wrote: »

Smurfette fucks all the other smurfs. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her? Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny.

What about Papa Smurf? He must get in on the action. Yeah, what he does, he films the gang-bang. Later on, he beats off to the tape.

Papa Smurf didn't make her, Gargamel did. Papa Smurf made her blonde.

Samaris

You can find innuendo in nearly anything. I suspect most of it is down to being bored and watching a kid's cartoon.

Tommy's milk bottle is really not a metaphor for anything.

biko

It's so pervs can enjoy kids shows too.

Ave Sodalis

When I was a child, cartoons were littered with innuendos. Animaniacs was my favourite cartoon! Do you think I noticed? Nope. They've gotten rid of them now for the most part due to "won't someone please think of the children" rubbish. Has anyone seen Mickey Mouse lately?

Chain Smoker

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Tommy squirting his "milk bottle" at the screen at the end of The Rugrats theme

I'd say that one was accidental but once you see it that way you can't shake it off at all. Remember how after a while they changed that part of the opening credits so that the screen got covered with all these 3D animated Nickelodeon symbols? At the time I hadn't a clue why they done that, just assumed Nickelodeon were extremely proud of the show or something.

In general*, it's just the animators amusing themselves by seeing what they can manage to slip in, nothing more. Certainly not a conscious attempt by the production company to amuse parents.
There's definitely plenty of cases where people really desperately try to find sexual connotations to kids shows too though, which seems like a stupid thing to waste your energy on but whatever.


EDIT: Just to counter the "oh kids shows aren't what they used to be" nonsense I see popping up, shows like Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall and Gravity Falls are ridiculously good, far more inventive, original and fun than the vast majority of post-Simpsons snark filled stuff I had.

Jayop

sup_dude wrote: »

When I was a child, cartoons were littered with innuendos. Animaniacs was my favourite cartoon! Do you think I noticed? Nope. They've gotten rid of them now for the most part due to "won't someone please think of the children" rubbish. Has anyone seen Mickey Mouse lately?

It's all that Mickey Mouse club house ****e that's on now.

Ave Sodalis

Jayop wrote:

It's all that Mickey Mouse club house ****e that's on now.

They don't even have a baddie anymore. It's all "let's help this butterfly find its flower!" and "oh no! Daisy spilled a bucket of water. Let's help her clean it up!". Everyone is all horribly happy and they're all best friends. It's nearly sickening to watch...

Gatling

Just watch a few episodes of spongebob and watch the not so subtle ineuendo

andyman

I was watching Animaniacs a few months back just because, and I finally know why one of them used to kiss his hand and say 'Goodnight everybody'

It was done after a sexual innuendo. Needless to say when I discovered this I roared out laughing and continued to watch more

Gooners

sup_dude wrote: »

They don't even have a baddie anymore. It's all "let's help this butterfly find its flower!" and "oh no! Daisy spilled a bucket of water. Let's help her clean it up!". Everyone is all horribly happy and they're all best friends. It's nearly sickening to watch...

Because people think it should be "educational" so they must get positive behaviour modelled to teach young kids how to behave.
Spoilsports


Probably hard to decide who can be the baddie now? The baddie can't appear to label a certain sex, race, age-range, job, weight.....pc brigade would be jumping with placards straight away.

Skerries

good list of them here

but it is missing this one

http://i.imgur.com/HKGyW60.gif

Depraved

Nothing beats Rainbow and the banana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc

KungPao

Melisandre121 wrote: »

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Danke.

I hate OPs that say something wacky without some evidence. Like I have any idea what these ****in characters look like...