Top 11 Adult moments in 90?s cartoons

Ah the 90s.. good times, good times. Sure they were sometimes full of disturbing realism and less than subtle innuendos, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
 
This isn't a very good list. It seems very one-sided and just about every show that's listed besides Rocko is a superhero/comic book series. Not saying they shouldn't be on there but the 90's comedy cartoons were full of much more adult innuendo than Batman or Gargoyles ever was. Think about it, you had Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, early Rugrats had some innuendo in it. Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Angry Beavers. The list goes on and on.
 
Well, I guess a lot of action series were edgier after Batman: The Animated Series came along and the list proves it quite well. But yeah, definitely agree that comedy series of the 90's should be better represented here.
 
can't believe that Gargoyle's one wasn't #1, maybe it was because Elisia didn't die.

As for the comedy moments, most of those presented were "adult" moments, with only one inuendo ranked. I guess they went for hardcore stuff only.
 
I don't know if I would call a Dinobot self destructing itself a mature adult moment, nor would I be quick to call a Captain Planet episode revolving around drugs 'adult'. Cheesy comes to mind for those two examples. It was obviously written by someone who was more a fan of action-oriented series, which is a shame because the 90's comedy series were full of much more adult situations.
 
Agreed. And the Rocko moment that made the list isn't even the worst. (or most disturbing.) I think we can all agree that the Motel scene makes that list...
 
This website doesn't even seem like a legitimate site. It looks like someone's blog or something. I'm not saying action shows shouldn't be on the list but a lot of the ones listed weren't even that 'adult'. It seemed like they were really stretching it just to appease some fanboy's taste.
 
Comedy series are probably not included as readily because most comedies don't maintain a permeable story built on causality.

I mean as far as comedy stuff goes, the only things that come to mind as having a lasting effect on the series is Maud Flanders dying, Joe being introduced on Family Guy and perhaps one might include Kenny REALLY dying in South Park (which was reversed later).

Generally speaking, when a comedy ends, whatever happened in that episode is magically reset. The audience knows this and as such are more likely to laugh then cry over it. It would be like expressing sorrow over Tom dying in Tom and Jerry when you know he's gonna be back next episode.
 
Yeah, but this article lists things about a Captain Planet drug episode, where I'm assuming by the next episode the character was off drugs or a X-Men episodes that featured cheesy innuendo. In all, 90's comedies pushed far more boundaries than the action series did, which is why it's so bizarre to a Top list of adult moments that feature no comedy moments. It's like having a list of the richest people in America but excluding Bill Gates.
 
Topless Robot is kind of complicated I guess. It's sort of a blog sort of a website. There are multiple contributors by people who are fairly well known in their corner of geekdom so each article kind of appeals to a different sort of fanboy I guess

Either way I thought the list could have been better but it wasn't bad.
 
... And what difference does that make exactly on how adult a comedy cartoon may be from an action one? Regardless of its permeable effect canon-wise is different from the effect it may have on the viewer altogether.
 
I think you're missing the idea of what makes something adult. Kenny can die in every episode of South Park. But while that may be violent, it isn't really adult. Now take some episodes of Ren and Stimpy for example. Someone might look at "Stimpy's Invention" and see no problem with it. But when you really look at it, it's the story about Ren painfull losing his free will and being forced to humiliate himself against his will for Stimpy, who thinks what he is doing is helping his friend to be happy. It's obvious Ren isn't happy, even when he's wearing the Happy Helmet and being forced to do things he'd otherwise never do.

It's not like the recent Spongebob episode where Squidward shocked himself and suddenly became genuinely nice. In "Stimpy's Invention" Ren, despite the smile on his face, is hating every second of what Stimpy is doing to him. He's being tortured by a simpleton who doesn't know better. Yes, the episode is very funny. But it's also very dark and it's very disturbing when you look at it carefully. That makes it much more adult than anything that's violent or derogatory for the sake of it. There's a reason Nick was a afraid of this one and for a while were dead set against airing it.
 
Really, Nick was afraid of that episode? That's funny, because that episode spawned one of the most famous aspects of the series, the "Happy Happy Joy Joy Song."
 
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