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Those old Warner Bros. cartoons (the good ones with Bugs Bunny et al, not the crappy “cutesy” ones) are loaded with subtle cultural references from the time. The humor is often very adult.
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I agree, but I felt like it was the adult humor was additional to the children appeal, not the other way around. However, you may be completely right. I was younger when I first saw the Warner Brothers cartoons (and I am talking Bugs Bunny and the like), just like Justin Bailey when he first watched the Simpsons, so I may simply have thought they were meant primarily for kids, since they were on during normal expected children’s cartoon hours.