Grown-Up Jokes in Kids StuffRound-ups of the clever jokes, wordplay, and visual gags that keep children's films and TV shows tolerable - nay, enjoyable - for adult audiences.
Vote up the times the most diabolical animated villains made you laugh.
Nearly all cartoon villains are funny. Why? Cartoons are usually made for children, and most children can't handle irredeemable villains. You can't have Hannibal Lecter in a children's show, but you can have a villain with nebulous plans of world domination and slapstick ways of achieving that goal, all the while cracking jokes to remind young viewers that they're not entirely bad. You're supposed to laugh at them rather than hate them.
In that spirit, laugh at 14 times when evil cartoon villains were undeniably funny.
Chastising a peasant for becoming a peasant (as if they had any choice) and shaming them for not having food (as if they don't surrender most of it to the empire) is so evil that it is pure parody.
Fittingly, Yzma is a hilarious parody of an evil empress.
For a loyal sidekick, Shego is pretty cheeky to her mentor.
Case in point: this scene where Dr. Drakken expresses his wish to join a club for smart people, only for Shego to point out all of the words he mispronounces.
After finally luring his archenemy into his crosshairs and making a big scene about his sun-powered laser, Megamind is forced to wait as the laser warms up, which gives him ample time for lots of comedic complaints.
Townsville is an intentionally ridiculous name, and in the episode "Simian Says," Mojo Jojo (playing the narrator) breaks the fourth wall by calling out the city/town/village:
The city of Townsville. A city that, while being a city, is for some inexplicable reason called "Town." And not only is it called a "Town," but also a "Ville," thus making it a city, town, and village, which seems to me to be redundant and repetitive, which can be quite annoying if you ask me, which you have no choice but to do, for now I, Mojo Jojo, am in charge of... the city of Townsville!
