@maverick159  
Yeah, indeed. In fact, it’s funny how there are some things you can do now in kid’s/family shows that weren’t allowed decades back, and some things allowed back then, (like guns, cigars, ect.) that aren’t allowed nowadays.

@Beau Skunky  
And i sure am glad that there are some shows that do that. But compared to the old days it’s like 20% of the shows today that do it. Also the fact that there are people that says everything is ofensive doesn’t help

@maverick159  
I dunno, you still see it crop up from time to time even today. The new TMNT show can get pretty dark at times.
 
Heck, MLP:FiM has it’s edgy moments too. It’s very reminiscent of a ’90s show. Even “Sonic Boom” (the TV series) has some jokes only longtime/older Sonic fans would get. “I hate leg-day.”

@Beau Skunky  
No wonder the world is so boring these days. I’m from 1994, and boy the things i watched on tv where hardcore compared to today’s cartoons

@maverick159  
Wasn’t just the ’90s actually, some ‘80s cartoons & animated movies were quite violent & dark too. (Just look at “Unico.” Adorable cutesy anime movie/s, yet with plenty of nightmare fuel-ish villains.)
 
Some old Disney movies even featured blood, and rather dark/creepy moments too. I think that stuff actually helps balance the cuteness in kid’s media too, and helps kids deal with “scarrier/darker” things better too.

@Beau Skunky  
Heh. That’s what i love about the 90’s. Everything was more ‘liberal’. You could make mature jokes and put blood there and everything would be fine. Man, how i miss the 90’s

@maverick159  
It’s actually kinda fun to look back at old cartoons you liked as a kid, and notice things they got away with. (It’s actually been done sense cartoons began, as originally “Looney Tunes,” and such were made partially for grown-ups too.)
 
Though, even as a kid I understood the phone joke, and the “Chokey Chicken” restaurant name in “Rocko’s Modern Life.”  
Surprisingly, even stuff like Sonic had some “getting crap past the radar” moments.
 
Even some childhood video games are like that. Nintendo’s “EarthBound” was rated “K-A: Kids to Adults” by the ESRB back in 1995. (The same equivalent of today’s “E for Everyone” rating, with just a descriptor of “Comic Mischief.”) Which is funny looking back, as despite the game’s cute Nintendo 2D graphics, it actually got away with alot. (Including use of the word “crap,” minor potty humor, and even BLOOD actually visable on some bosses like the Krakken’s teeth, or stained on Mondo Mole’s claws & mouth. Not to mention, the game’s famously creepy final boss,)  
But now after being rereleased on Nintendo’s Virtual Console/Eshop service, it had to be rerated “T for Teen.” (And descriptors mentioning the blood, and crude humor added.) So it actually got away with alot, and isn’t your typical Nintendo game.

@Joseph Raszagal  
I don’t think kids would understand this

@Background Pony #039C  
Aaaaaaaaaand that right there’s the part that I still can’t believe they got away with.

@Beau Skunky
 
True, but MLP took it a step further by tying her up xD

@Beau Skunky  
ah the “fingerprints” joke i remember.

@PinkieTheBard  
It’s amazing what you can get away with if you’re subtle enough, or if you plant a few censor decoys like “Animaniacs” did. (“I found Prince!”)

@Beau Skunky  
christ these shows can get away with murder.

@PinkieTheBard  
Yep. That was in the first episode I saw, I recall.

@Beau Skunky  
like the fact that rocko was a phone sex operator.

@PinkieTheBard  
When I was a kid i understood a few lewd jokes in “Rocko.” lol  
Like the restaurant named “Chokey Chicken,” and the phone gag.

cause kids are going to get that reference.

@Necroceine  
Somebody actually made one recently of Ghost of TCR/Radio Grafiti fame. Ghost had one of his biggest freak-outs in years.

@phallen1  
I saw an ad on youtube recently with two college kids and one mentions the other’s body pillow, which is then shown. Generic anime girl and all. It was one of the major computer companies, I just don’t remember which one. So yeah, it’s getting out there it seems.

Apparently, “We Bare Bears” actually beat MLP to this joke by a few months.
 
I must add, it’s a good show.

@phallen1  
on japan this is more than normal, still this thing was pretty controversial for a family show

@maverick159  
I think the concept of a body pillow is still obscure, at least to the older generation. Unless they’ve shown up on CSI or Big Bang Theory or some other mainstream show that makes light of niche geek stuff like this.

Personally I thought it was just halarious and that she looked like a caterpillar.
 
But then again I have “suggestive” and “question” spoilered and have completely hiddion “explicit” so that might give some indications of the standard workings of my brain.

@TheAntiCat  
it’s hard to belive let me tell ya, that or those “censors” are really naive for not knowing what a daki makura is

@Background Pony #82ED  
Go away.
 
@everyone  
Big Jim Miller (ya know, the guy in charge) said on Twitter he was surprised it got past the censors.