Alright, so this has happened to me many times. Last year, I was coming home from the Deer Park Tanger Outlets Christmas Tree event, and I saw a ten year old watching The Backyardigans in his car…with his younger sister! At school, the kids in my Spanish class like watching Garf

ield and Friends (mostly from the U.S. Acres segments), My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, SpongeBob SquarePants, Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time, Animaniacs, Camp Lazlo and Wreck It Ralph. They often recite quotes from these shows, with the most common one being a play on a l

ine from the U.S. Acres segment “Wade, You’re Afraid”. The line in question is “If he lays an egg, I’m outta here!, and they replace “he” with someone’s name. Once, they put my name into the joke, because I often try to make U.S. Acres jokes to see if they get them (since it’s my

current obsession), and they recognized them only 5 times. Once, I yelled “The bunny rabbits is coming!” and one kid said “That’s from U.S. Acres!”. Another time, I said “This got so out of hand that I’ve decided to punish you!”, and another kid said “That’s from U.S. Acres!” ye

t again. Then, I said “The bunny rabbits is coming!” again and the kid who sits next to a boy who likes me said “There are no bunny rabbits, Wade!”. When my sister tried to sing the U.S. Acres song “Banana Nose”, she sang “Yo…” and a kid started singing the rest of the song. And

finally, when ducks flew by our classroom, a kid made a fart noise and asked if birds can fart. I asked him “Have you ever watched Happy Garfield Day?” and he said “No, I haven’t!”, which is strange for a kid who has seen Temp Trouble and says demerit jokes. Also, one kid in thi

s class has the nickname “Orse”, which Roy uses as a nickname for Orson in some episodes. They also like singing that song from “Wanted: Wade” about following the rules, and a kid here got injured imitating the rake scene. As for the Animaniacs joke, one kid mentioned “Potty Emer

gency” and another recited a line from “The Kid In The Lid”, which was “All we could do was watch, watch, watch, ’till I spilled lots of soda, all over my crotch”. For SpongeBob, similar to the “Orson” and “Lazlo” nicknames, people will call the kids names of SpongeBob characters

. For example, after someone got a correct answer when going over a worksheet, one kid said “Good job, Squidward!”, or they act like the 5-year olds who want items with SpongeBob on them. For Phineas and Ferb, they used the phrase “Ferbflip”, which I’ve never heard used in the sh

ow, as I’ve only seen a few episodes, even though I think it’s good, due to not having enough time on my hands. For Camp Lazlo, a kid in my class named Larry is nicknamed “Lazlo”. For Wreck It Ralph, they often mention Hero’s Duty, and for Adventure Time and My Little Pony: Frien

dship is Magic, a few kids wear the T-shirts of those shows to class, and once, a kid told someone to not act like Fluttershy. Once in class, we did a worksheet on how to make sentences tell what people have to do by using the possessive verb and “que”. One sentence had the name

“Dora” in it. If you guessed that the kids made Dora The Explorer jokes next, you’re correct. And another time, a kid named James noticed my Smile Pretty Cure pencil case and called me “Yayoi” due to that, because of a news article on Crunchyroll about Pretty Cure being popular o

n Twitter due to that character, and possibly because he might watch either Naruto, Gintama or One Piece on that website. Besides that, they also watch Teletoon Retro (even though I live in the USA, and we have Shaw Direct and Bell TV here, which I found out about looking up TV l

istings for Crash and Bernstien to see upcoming episodes. Once, in algebra class, my friend John wore a Doctor Whooves shirt. A girl named Caroline asked “Isn’t that from My Little Pony? You’re a pervert!”, and John asked her “Haven’t you heard of bronies?” multiple times, leadin

g her to make jokes that went “Remember (name here)? He/she’s a pervert!” One of these jokes mentioned Herbert The Pervert from Family Guy. Also, Wreck It Ralph is often mentioned by the kids in the hallway at my high school. My mom doesn’t do this with shows I watch themselves (

except for Popples, which I stopped watching once I got re-addicted into Garfield and Friends, since that show is babyish), but she does have a problem with merchandise from those shows. It all started when I was on Hobby Link Japan, looking for the Cure Module from Suite Pretty

Cure, and I saw that it was sold out. I found a Tamagotchi Melody Charm on there due to that, and my mom allowed me to buy it because it was similar. Well, what a mistake that was. On my birthday weekend, I was trying to make it play the Lovelitchi character song “Ever Lovely”, a

nd it starts playing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, and my mom says “What nice baby music you’re playing!” and boy was I embarrassed! She’s been strict ever since that incident, but rarely does she allow me to buy magical girl stuff. My last one would be a Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Dr

eam Torch, since she wants me to grow up. On New Year’s Eve one year when I was in sixth grade, I was bored and was trying to find something interesting on TV. South Park was the only thing on. The episode I saw was about one of the kids (I think Kyle) going into heaven after bei

ng addicted to a video game. I also once watched an episode of The Simpsons at the same age about a show about a princess, and it had Krusty the Clown in it (but my brother was watching it). I don’t remember much from the last two, anyway. One time, my cousin wanted to watch Tota

l Drama Island and one of my cousins said “We’re going to call your parents if you watch Total Drama Island!”, and then what does he watch instead? Nickelodeon. Also, my mom has come into the room and saw me watching cartoons. One time, I was watching the U.S. Acres segment “Temp

Trouble” and my mom came in to put clothes away during the scene where Roy Rooster and Wade Duck sing under a tree. Well, the volume on the computer was at 50% (but headphones were in the computer), making her able to hear the whole scene about Aloysius Pig’s mom (in case anyone

doesn’t know that scene, it’s the one where she punishes Aloysius by having him clean his room). My mom left at the end of the episode when Wade points at Orson’s luggage and gives him demerits for putting funny stickers on it. A couple of times, my dad has walked into the room

when we watch Crash and Bernstien (even though it’s a live action show, I put it there because it’s about a puppet). A couple of times, while waiting for Liberty’s Kids or Horseland to start, my parents have walked into the room and asked what we were watching. One time (recently

), I said “Garfield and Friends”, because me and my sister were watching the U.S. Acres segment “A Little Time Off”, during the scene where they are on a spaceship and the characters tell about how they feel about the voyage. We shut off the TV playing CBS, thinking to turn it ba

ck on during Liberty’s Kids (but I forgot about it!). One time, my brother (who was 14 at the time of this incident) walked into the room during an episode of qubo on NBC’s “3-2-1 Penguins and LarryBoy Stories” during the episode “The Good, The Bad, And The Eggly”, just as the sc

ene where flying robotic pigs cover the town in eggs. Cue my brother leaving disgusted. Also as a kid, in fourth grade I watched a ton of little kids shows like PBS Kids stuff, Noggin, Peep and the Big Wide World (because it looked like Tamagotchi), SeeMore’s Playhouse… the list

goes on and on. Also, I watched Maryoku Yummy without realizing it was a little kids show just because they sold the merchandise of it at Justice (I have every single one of the plush dolls they sold there), a store for pre-teens. Even though I didn’t cry at the sad Pixar movies

like Toy Story 3 and Up, there was a moment at one of those films that was a mix of this trope and What Do You Mean, It’s Not For Kids?. When I went to see Brave, the whole theater (except for us) was made up of families with toddlers. When the mother turns into a bear and is on

the rampage at the castle, everyone except me and my sister left the theater because it was too scary! It reminded me of the Forbidden Broadway Song “You Gotta Get A Puppet” and the “Uncle F***er” scene in “South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut”, where it said or showed that peopl

e left because of disturbing things. Also, when I went to a showing of The Smurfs at a local Clearview Cinemas theater, a preschool summer camp group left the theater and didn’t return due to a scene where Gargamel was put in jail, which I didn’t find scary. Or maybe there was a

long line for the bathroom due to some other movie showing at the same time. Who knows? Also, when I went to see Big Miracle, a kid kept yelling “Eew!” during the whole trailer for Paranorman, starting with the visual of the dancing toilet (or at least that’s what I had seen it a

s). Speaking of which, I thought Paranorman and Frankenweenie (which some people say are scary for kids) were tame. Once, my class watched “Casper” and the teacher had to stop the tape because one of the three evil brothers in the movie said a swear word. I also watched the Komik

et episode of Lucky Star when I was eight. In my 8th grade Home and Careers class, when I told my cooking group I liked Pretty Cure, one of the boys said that they watch that show, possibly the Futari Wa series. At school on December 5, 2012, as I was getting out my binders for m

y morning classes, a girl told a story about how she wanted an American Dad action figure for Christmas this year, and her parents said no. The reason? “Cartoons and toys are for kids!”. Then she told who she was telling the story to that she explained to them that it was an adul

t show, possibly because they might have thought that American Dad was Family Guy for kids without even watching the show! The same kid also was a fan of Garfield and Friends, as they acted out “Kiddie Korner” in the hallway. On December 7, 2012, a boy listened to a rock remix of

the SpongeBob SquarePants theme out loud on his iPod. This wasn’t helped by the fact that he was autistic. I also watch Danger Rangers, and it’s good because it doesn’t talk down to little kids. When my sister said she wanted to see the Friendship is Magic Equestria Girls film,

my mom said “My Little Pony? Aren’t you too old for that?”. My parents also HATE it when Jack Hanna’s Wild Countdown, Poppy Cat or The Chicka Show comes on in the middle of a newscast for the sole purpose of “entertaining the kiddies”. I’m sure that shows like Disney’s Dog With A

Blog, Nickelodeon’s Sanjay and Craig, and the Inspector Gadget and The Country Mouse And City Mouse Adventures repeats on ThisTV get higher ratings than these shows! But on June 1, 2013, the situation was different-my mom turned on the TV and what did she see? STUPID SPONGEBOB R

E-RUNS ON NICKELODEON! This was during an ad break showing some sneaker commercial. I don’t watch Nick, so my guess is that maybe my dad watched it late last night for Everybody Loves Raymond. And finally, my dad saw a 5-year old with her dad watching Clannad on the train, becaus

e that person thought that All Rated PG Shows And Movies Are For Kids.