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when viewers think Lusty Their minds probably go to the cartoons they watched as children or that their children are watching. Lots of animated shows are definitely perfect for kids, eg paw patrol, And cocomelon, or for older children such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Gravity Falls, or Adventure time. Parents may not think that an animated show can be graphically violent and not suitable for their children to watch. However, there are plenty of animated TV series for adults on the air and on streaming platforms that their kids can easily find and watch.
While some series are clearly aimed at adults, others are not so easy to pick up. By all appearances, your child’s favorite show may seem completely harmless and safe. However, it can feature characters being killed or harmed in a violent manner, displaying sexual innuendo (or sexually explicit content), profanity, and dark humor. To help you out, here are 10 violent animated shows your child probably shouldn’t watch.
10 Happy tree friends
released in 2006, Happy tree friends is an adult animated television series based on the web series of the same name. For a while, this show was available to stream on Netflix and didn’t look like a violent animated series. The show features cute anthropomorphic cartoon forest animals with cute names like Flippy, Giggles, Lumpy, Nutty, and Sniffles.
in all appearances, Happy tree friends Seems like a good show for a young child to watch. However, each episode is about the characters experiencing accidental or intentional pain or mutilation. How many people have watched an episode before realizing that the show is, in fact, not for kids?
9 South Park
South Park is the obvious contender for this list. Created in ’99 by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the animated sitcom revolves around the adventures of four boys named Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick in the titular Colorado Town.
The series has become notorious for its profanity and dark humor satirizing various topics such as politics and religion. While early episodes were more oriented towards shock value, later episodes became more infused with social satire—covering political figures and celebrities, political correctness, abortion, war, and other topics.
8 Mr. Pickles
Animated horror comedy for adults Mr. Pickles It looks like a typical animated show that follows a family and their adventures. But of course, this is not the case. The show revolves around the Goodman family, i.e. their six-year-old son Tommy and the Border Collie family, Mr. Pickles.
In the small community of Old Town, Tommy and Mr. Pickles spend their days exploring. Unbeknownst to anyone but Tommy’s grandfather, Mr. Pickles secretly slips in to kill and mutilate countless victims whom he often reassembles and revives in an underground layer to do his bidding.
7 Robot chicken
Likes south park, Robot chicken It is clearly not a children’s show. The adult animated comedy series satirizes popular culture, often making references to toys, movies, television, popular fads, and games. One common motive is placing fictional characters in real-life situations where they often encounter death or violence of some kind. The show features graphic violence, extreme profanity, and sexual content your children shouldn’t be exposed to.
6 The Ren & Stimpy Show
The Ren & Stimpy Show It is actually the first on this list that is actually geared towards kids. The cartoon television series aired from 1991 to 1995 on Nickelodeon and follows the adventures of chihuahua Ren and Manx cat Stimpy. While Stimpy is well-intentioned and stupid, Ren is emotionally unstable and psychopathic.
The series won wide acclaim from critics and audiences and was one of the most popular cartoons of its time. However, it has also generated significant controversy for its dark and adult humor, sexual innuendo, violence, and shock value.
5 Trip Tank
Trip Tank It is an adult animated comedy that contains diverse graphics with multiple animation styles created by different animators. While there is no direct connection between the various stories, there is an ongoing theme of dark irony. Running from 2014 to 2016 on Adult Swim, the series is definitely not a kids’ show, but an animated series aimed at adults.
4 Family man
From 1999 to 2002, then from 2005 to the present, Family man is an animated sitcom that follows the misadventures of the Griffin family. Peter is the clumsy, alcoholic father, with Lois as a stay-at-home wife and mother. The three children are Meg, who is often bullied by everyone in the series, including her family, overweight and intelligent teenager Chris, and demonic and over-intelligent infant son Stewie with an ambiguous sexual orientation. With them is their prominent and sarcastic English-speaking anthropomorphic dog, Brian.
Among the family alone, there is enough questionable content – from the sexual desires of a child to the massive bullying, torture and neglect of the only daughter. Outside the family, there are several questionable recurring characters, such as the sex-obsessed neighbor Quagmire who sexually abuses several women and has sex with minors, and the elderly child molester Herbert who preys on Chris.
3 invader zim
Originally from 2001 to 2002, invader zim is an animated sci-fi dark comedy series that follows an extraterrestrial named Zim from the planet Irk on his mission to conquer Earth and enslave the human race. The series received positive reviews from critics and audiences, and would later gain a cult following. While the series is geared toward children, many episodes feature graphic violence, such as Zim gouging out a character’s eyes or Zim’s head being blown to a pulp.
2 Grandfather’s uncle
Likes invader zim And The Ren & Stimpy ShowAnd Grandfather’s uncle It is an animated television series aimed at children. runs from 2013 to 2017, Grandfather’s uncle It follows the titular character, a shape-shifting magical creature, who stops by the children’s homes daily to see how they do. Kids are running into problems that Uncle Grandpa tries to help them solve through a series of messy, chaotic adventures. For a children’s show, the series is surprisingly violent, with characters killed off, others ripping their bodies to pieces, and Uncle Grandpa’s head being blown off.
runs from 2006 to 2013, Metalocalypse is an adult animated television series that centers on the deathclock band. Widely regarded as a parody and imitation of heavy metal culture, the show’s content is often dark and apocalyptic, featuring themes such as death, violence, and the drawbacks of fame. Airing on Adult Swim, it looked like the show was going to be violent from the start, and it is.
