I'm just shocked that I didn't understand that Drake and Josh's parents were getting freaky while watching the Animal Channel.
I've got news for everyone: No matter how mature or smart we thought we were while growing up, our sweet and innocent childhood minds missed SO MANY JOKES.
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So here's a big welcome to adulthood because these are those jokes that went right over our heads:
1. When Lightning McQueen literally got flashed in Cars:

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Movie: Cars
Explanation (for our kid brains): The twins are the lovable groupies of Lightning McQueen and they flashed him in both senses of the word. Also, I just realized that Mia and Tia are named after the model car they both are: the Miata!
2. When the mom and dad from Drake & Josh were way freakier than I remember:
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Show: Drake & Josh
Explanation (for our kid brains): This one is so blatant but definitely went over my head as a kid!!! But yeah, seems like they're definitely getting turned on by watching animals have sex.
3. When The Cat in The Cat in the Hat was way more interested in the mom than the safety of those kids:
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Movie: The Cat in the Hat
Explanation (for our kid brains): The really messed up thing that this joke establishes is that, um, if you look at the difference in the Cat's hat before and after he's seen the photo, he definitely has gotten a little...excited.
4. In Zootopia, when Officer Judy Hopps puts Nick in his place with a line that even the adults in the audience had to think twice about:
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Movie: Zootopia
Explanation (for our kid brains): Um, rabbits are really good at mating and multiplying.
5. When The Simpson's introduced Sneed's Feed & Seed (formerly Chuck's) and it went over some people's heads...especially mine:
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Show: The Simpsons
Explanation (for our kid brains): All three of the words end in "eed," implying that the same pattern would apply when the store was named "Chuck's." So, if the first letters stay the same, it'd be "Chuck's Fuck & Suck." While it's impossible to know how many people got the joke when it aired (the sign is only briefly visible), it took a year after the episode's premiere for anyone to mention it online.
6. When Dewey Finn chose his words extremely poorly in School of Rock:
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Movie: School of Rock
Explanation (for our kid brains): I watched this movie a lot as a kid and never got why all the parents in the room freak out. After all, Dewey really did have a positive impact on those kids. How innocent and dumb I was, because now I would never let a kid near a fake teacher who said that, even if it was Jack Black.
7. When Kronk pitched a tent in The Emperor's New Groove:
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Movie: The Emperor's New Groove
Explanation (for our kid brains): This is one of the best types of dirty jokes in innocent movies, because I still thought it was funny when I didn't know that "pitching a tent" was slang for an erection. The idea that he packed a little tent just for his legs while Yzma got a lavish setup was already funny to me!
8. When Monsieur Hood was one frisky Frenchman in Shrek:
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Movie: Shrek
Explanation (for our kid brains): This guy pops in and out of Shrek faster than you can say "Donkey!" But he's got a great, toe-tapping song and he definitely was singing about getting laid.
9. When Buzz Lightyear had a really hard time hiding when he was excited:
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Movie: Toy Story 2
Explanation (for our kid brains): I guess Buzz Lightyear's wings and the Cat in the Hat's hat have a lot in common!
10. When Chowder got his female anatomy wrong in Monster House:
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Movie: Monster House
Explanation (for our kid brains): I think Chowder gets points for even getting close with this one, because I certainly didn't know the word "vulva" when I was his age, which would've been around the time I was watching Monster House and pretending to understand this joke.
11. When the French Tickler from SpongeBob SquarePants was definitely a reference to a sex toy:
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Show: SpongeBob SquarePants
Explanation (for our kid brains): We all know you want to Google it, so I'll just tell you: It's a special type of condom with ribbed protrusions.
12. When Susan wanted to sleep over at Josh's in Big, but they aren't on the same page about what "being on top" means:
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Movie: Big
Explanation (for our kid brains): If you haven't seen the movie, Tom Hanks's character Josh (a boy living in a man's body) has bunk beds. So wholesome... except for the fact that Susan was technically hitting on a 12-year-old.
13. When Toy Story turned a toy into a "hooker":
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Movie: Toy Story
Explanation (for our kid brains): The term may be outdated, but in 1995 it's what slipped its way in. And, also, this has already been pointed out elsewhere, but Sid was not the villain in Toy Story. Just look at how creative he was! Sentient toys may call him a monster, but I call him the next great assemblage artist.
14. When the Fairly OddParents snuck this joke in:
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Show: Fairly OddParents
Explanation (for our kid brains): I mean, as adults now, I'm sure we all get what our tiny brains couldn't.
15. When Beast Boy wasn't satisfied with the anatomy of his doll in Teen Titans:
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Show: Teen Titans
Explanation (for our kid brains): Peep the character pulling on the toy's pants.
16. In The Simpsons, when Krusty alluded to an old dirty joke about a 12-inch pianist that he can't say around kids.
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Show: The Simpsons
Explanation (for our kid brains): All you need to know is that the actual joke involves a Genie wish gone wrong.
17. Whenn Anna made a foot size joke in Frozen:
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Movie: Frozen
Explanation (for our kid brains): Nothing like a classic foot size joke in a Disney movie.
18. In Dexter's Laboratory when Dexter literally tried to get his assistant to dance for him:
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Show: Dexter's Laboratory
Explanation (for our kid brains): Good for Candi considering how weird Dexter is for even asking. What a show Dexter's Laboratory was.