Rocky: Bullwinkle, that's a team of girls! What kind of games can you play with girls?
Bullwinkle: Wow, this really is a kid's show. Parcheesi, of course!
Bullwinkle: Wow, this really is a kid's show. Parcheesi, of course!
"No, I don't know why kiddie movies keep referencing Taxi Driver, either."
— The Agony Booth, recap
of Quest for Camelot
of Quest for CamelotRobin: My name is Richard Grayson, but all the kids at the orphanage call me Dick.
Bruce Wayne: Well, children can be cruel.
Bruce Wayne: Well, children can be cruel.
Andre, Robbie, Jade, Cat, Beck and Trina: WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Tori: Okay, kids won't get that reference!
Tori: Okay, kids won't get that reference!
— Victorious, "April Fools Blank"
"Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to pleasantly remind adults of what they were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes find themselves engaged in."
"Let me paw near your breasts, briefly exciting any dads in the audience."
—Bill Corbett as Gabriella in the RiffTrax commentary of High School Musical
Mabel: And just one more year until high school. High school, Dipper! Where girls become women, and they teach us stuff about you-know-what.
Dipper: Trigonometry?
Mabel: Oh yeah, baby!
Dipper: Trigonometry?
Mabel: Oh yeah, baby!
— Gravity Falls, "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future"
"One of the things that always comes up in every article ever written about Sesame Street is the fact that it’s great at entertaining kids and their parents at the same time. In fact, typing those words just now felt like typing "the sky is blue"‚ or "water is wet" or "phenylketonurics contains phenylalanine." It’s just one of those things everyone knows."
— ToughPigs' review of the Sesame Street Spoofs DVD
of the Sesame Street Spoofs DVDI'll have you know that Ducktective has a big mystery element! And a lot of humor that goes over kids' heads!
—Stan Pines, lampshading the nature of Gravity Falls
Fran: Earl, that's for kids!
Earl: Yeah, you'd think that because they're puppets, so the show seems to have a children's aesthetic. Yet the dialogue is unquestionably sharp-edged, witty, and thematically skewed to adults.
Earl: Yeah, you'd think that because they're puppets, so the show seems to have a children's aesthetic. Yet the dialogue is unquestionably sharp-edged, witty, and thematically skewed to adults.
—Dinosaurs, Earl and Frank discuss a puppet show.
"This is a Sopranos reference, right? Why would I have watched The Sopranos and know what that show is? I'm seven, Arthur. I'm seven!"
"It's like that Spongebob shit where like... it-... it is appropriate... but if you're old enough, it's not."
"Without doing a recap of every episode, the next two arcs are about Matrix coming to terms with the violent edge he's developed while in the games, including an extended reference to a 1960s British TV show that all the Canadian youths in the 90s totally picked up on."
— Foxcade's ReBoot retrospective
