History ParentalBonus / WesternAnimation

''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the main characters meet up with some extraordinarily 60s Hippie-ish, guitar playing nomads with vocal characteristics of TheStoner. The leader is named Chong, a reference to legendary stoners Creator/CheechAndChong. While traversing the tunnels, he shouts "The tunnels, they are a-changing," a reference to folk musician Music/BobDylan. Both of those are much older than the show's core demographic.

** In reference to Mr Lint being forced to play [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Ophelia]] because "in Shakespeare's time all the women were played by men!":

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has entire episodes based on parental bonuses. Apart from parodies of such non-kiddie friendly fare as ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' (''Operation FUTURE''), ''Film/SoylentGreen'' (''Operation HOME''), ''Film/MinorityReport'' (''Operation CRIME''), ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' (Operation SNOWING), Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' (''Operation TRICYCLE'') and the ''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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' actually inverted this trope, twice. The Mystery Shack mug, pen, and notepad from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' that were sucked into the universe portal are briefly shown exiting one of the portals in the episode "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind". In another, "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", an image of a triangle with one eye and a top hat, safely assumed to be ''Gravity Falls''' main villain Bill Cipher, is displayed on a monitor.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' pilot movie, ''Return of the Roar'', Simba tells Kion that they need to talk (about Kion's use of the [[MakeMeWannaShout Roar of the Elders]] and what it means for him). Kion assumes he means TheTalk, which apparently they've already had. ("We already had the talk! "Can you feel the love tonight," remember?"). It's more or less confirmation that Simba and Nala had sex and conceived Kion's older sister Kiara during the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" scene in [[Franchise/TheLionKing1994 the original movie.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', as mentioned earlier, is a particular user of this trope, culminating in TheMovie ending with Spongebob defeating Plankton with ThePowerOfRock. The song? A parody of Music/TwistedSister's ''I Wanna Rock''.

*** Of course, though, the string [[spoiler:opens a secret compartment in the secret box that contains an EmbarrassingOldPhoto of Spongebob at a Christmas Party.]]

** When Squidward has [[ItMakesSenseInContext convinced Spongebob and Patrick to wait on his every whim,]] they move around his sun chair to various locations-- one is Too Hot, one is Too Wet, and the one with a background of cancan dancers is "Toulouse-Lautrec"

** Let's see, there's Ned and the Needlefish, an obvious reference to Hootie and the Blowfish, an episode titled "Krabby Road", like Music/TheBeatles' 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 ''Film/PrettyWoman'', and some episodes which feature court cases use the theme from ''Series/ThePeoplesCourt''.

** "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 acquire a taste for free-form jazz."

** Face it Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} loves these to death. [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants Se]][[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} ri]][[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom ou]][[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents sly]].

* The ''Westernanimation/{{Captain Planet}}'' episode "I Just Want to Be Your Teddy Bear" has the Planeteers attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans. At one point, Wheeler offers some beads to Linka, who is offended. After Wheeler then tries offering the beads to Gi, Gi simply takes the beads from him and states "Wheeler, you're incorrigible. But thanks for the souvenir. Children just see Wheeler offering the girls a present in the hope they might go on a date; adults will be aware that it's a Mardi Gras tradition for women to show their breasts in exchange for beads.
* In the ''Westernanimation/{{Alvin and the Chipmunks}}'' {{clip show}} "Alvin in Analysis", Alvin goes to see a mental health counsellor, Rutter Wisenheimer - who is a parody of real life sex therapist Ruth Westheimer. (Don't worry, Alvin wasn't there for ''that'' kind of issue)

** 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. [[Radar/{{Animaniacs}} "Boy, they were right! It didn't have a chance."]]

** Probably closer to GettingCrapPastTheRadar, but this exchange in the episode where Timmy wishes his parents were superheroes:

'''Timmy:''' But what's the machine for?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has loads of this. It's filled with numerous jokes that would go right over a kid's head (sometimes treading into [[BlackComedy Black Comedy]] territory) and has a bit of an 80's/90's cartoon vibe, despite being set in 2012. There's a reason the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Crap Past the Radar]] and [[ShoutOut Shout Out]] pages are so extensive.

** Most kids who don't live OopNorth will probably wonder why exactly Gromit is so enthusiastic about throwing that bomb in the direction of Yorkshire, too. (Wallace's frantic yell of, "there's a bomb in me trousers!" is... [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar probably a different trope]].)

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' seems to be an experiment to figure out exactly how much crap one can get past the radar in 11 minutes. There's a reason it has its own [[Radar/AdventureTime Radar]] page; there are also copious jokes/comments that would go over children's heads and aren't inappropriate enough to go on that page.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' pilot movie, ''Return of the Roar'', Simba tells Kion that they need to talk (about Kion's use of the [[MakeMeWannaShout Roar of the Elders]] and what it means for him). Kion assumes he means TheTalk, which apparently they've already had. ("We already had the talk! "Can you feel the love tonight," remember?"). Goes past GettingCrapPastTheRadar to this trope, because it's more or less confirmation that Simba and Nala had sex and conceived Kion's older sister Kiara during the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" scene in [[Franchise/TheLionKing1994 the original movie.]]

* The movie of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' contains two shout-outs to ''Theatre/HMSPinafore''. Whale's first line is "Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!", referencing one of the songs "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen" and Mumfie whistling "Nevermind the Why and Wherefore" when he meets the Secretary of Night. It also has Scarecrow mistaking "come inside" for something else, which was used again in "Pinkey's First Winter".

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' is another series that frequently employed this. Some examples include one episode where Scrooge is jailed in their version of TheAlcatraz, another episode has Scrooge holding a luxury blimp cruise that not only has a character based on [[Film/SunsetBoulevard Norma Desmond]] but also shoutouts to notable media figures, and another episode features Scrooge butting heads with a slimy rancher named [[Series/{{Dallas}} J.R.]]

* In the first episode of late-90s ABC cartoon ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', the titular character goes into Abe's Mall (with a big statue of Abe Lincoln out front) to buy some pimple cream. The names of various shops in the mall float behind her, including "John Wilkes Photo Booth," "Getty's Burgers," "Four Score and Seven Year Pets," and "Civil Wear."
* The BBC pre-school educational programme, ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberjacks}}'', had a rather British example when Number 4 and 6 both caught ''[[Radio/TheGoonShow The Dreaded Lurgi]]''.

''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the Gaang meets up with some extraordinarily 60s Hippie-ish, guitar playing nomads with vocal characteristics of TheStoner. The leader is named Chong, a reference to legendary stoners Creator/CheechAndChong. While traversing the tunnels, he shouts "The tunnels, they are a-changing," a reference to folk musician Music/BobDylan. Both of those are much older than the show's core demographic.

''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the Gaang meets up with some extraordinarily 60s {{Hippie}}-ish, guitar playing nomads with vocal characteristics of TheStoner. The leader is named Chong, a reference to legendary stoners Creator/CheechAndChong. While traversing the tunnels, he shouts "The tunnels, they are a-changing," a reference to folk musician Musuc/BobDylan. Both of those are much older than the show's core demographic.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Cave of Two Lovers," the Gaang meets up with some extraordinarily 60s Hippie-ish, guitar playing nomads with vocal characteristics of TheStoner. 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?
** Even better, the leader of the nomads was named Chong.
** What about Sokka waiting for Suki in a tent filled with flowers and candles, and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything not wearing any pants?]]
*** Also, the next morning, he's making a flower lei. [[IncrediblyLamePun Sokka got "lei'd".]]
** Also, in the episode "Sokka's Master," Piandao is voiced by Robert Patrick, who plays the T-1000. A ShoutOut to sword arms is involved.
** When choosing their vacation spots, Sokka tells Toph she hasn't worked with them long enough to choose her vacation.

** All of the violence is normally something a child would not understand.
*** Moreso than just violence, there's a fair amount of complex military strategy and reflections of the effect of wartime on nations that your average kid of the 6-11 demographic isn't going to get. It's one of the rare uses of Parental Bonus that's not really used for humorous, pop cultural, and/or sexual effect, where the Bonus to speak of is the increased complexity of the setting, which has actually converted a fair number of parents or older siblings to become a PeripheryDemographic.
*** Aside from all the inside jokes, the plot is so complex that adults are likely to catch on more then most kids.

** Another Hawkgirl example pops up when SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker accuses her of "sublimating [her] passions with that big honkin' mace."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' pilot movie, ''Return of the Roar'', Simba tells Kion that they need to talk (about Kion's use of the [[MakeMeWannaShout Roar of the Elders]] and what it means for him). Kion assumes he means TheTalk, which apparently they've already had. ("We already had the talk! "Can you feel the love tonight," remember?"). Goes past GettingCrapPastTheRadar to this trope, because it's more or less confirmation that Simba and Nala had sex and conceived Kion's older sister Kiara during the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" scene in [[Disney/TheLionKing the original movie.]]

** Likewise, the episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' titled "Los Dos Mojos" included its own ''Holy Grail'' reference:

** Another episode referred to ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', when Professor Utonium laments a rug that "really tied the room together".

** 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:

** 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:

'''Blossom:''' You're an accident!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' 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."

** 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, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre If you know what I mean]]..." Mac answers: "Not really." Bloo: "Yeah, me neither." And just a few minutes later, Mac gets into a pretty extreme form of the MushroomSamba. Sugar seems to contain ecstasy in the FHFIF-universe, at least for Mac. "High" doesn't even come close to describe sweet little Mac's behaviour for the rest of the episode.

** Jorgen von Strangle, the Schwarzenegger fairy (no, they didn't actually get ahold of the governator for the role).

--->'''Wanda (after Cosmo slightly alters her hair color in a fight):''' I'm not a summer; I'm a winter!

** Wanda's name itself was an example, considering that the usual form the fairies disguised themselves as was [[Film/AFishCalledWanda fish]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' was thickly saturated with these; the creators throttled things down considerably for ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. However, the latter's popularity put it on the MediaWatchdog radar and as a result, it was subject to more controversy.

*** Before that, he even asked what Filbert was planning to do for the night, such as asking/accusing [[Film/{{Alien}} "burst out of someone's chest?!"]]

*** Of course, though, the string [[spoiler:opens a secret compartment in the box that contains an EmbarrassingOldPhoto of Spongebob at a Christmas Party]]

** When Squidward has [[ItMakesSenseInContext convinced Spongebob and Patrick to wait on his every whim]], they move around his sun chair to various locations-- one is Too Sunny, one is Too Wet, and the one with a background of cancan dancers is "Toulouse-Lautrec"

** Let's see, there's Ned and the Needlefish, an obvious reference to Hootie and the Blowfish; an episode titled "Krabby Road", like Music/TheBeatles' 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 ''Film/PrettyWoman''; and some episodes which feature court cases use the theme from ''Series/ThePeoplesCourt''.

** "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."

** "[[WitchWithACapitalB 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.

** 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 ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', 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 [[HoYay 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 [[Music/TheBeachBoys the source material]] is slim.
** Seriously....lip shitz (the bullSHIT psychologist...is called...lipschitz...you know...as in shit comes out of his mouth.

** "Butt out, [[PrincessMononoke Princess Wannanoke]]!"

** Then there's the episode that was a {{homage}} to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

** The Halloween episode was a outright retelling of both ''Film/{{Christine}}'' and ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', both adult horror movies.