Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
How awesome is it when animated movies that are theoretically “for kids” include jokes and references made for adults? Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is packed with adult jokes and we rounded up some of our favorites.
The Shrek movies are known for being more crass and skewing older than their squeaky-clean Disney counterparts, but at the end of the day, they are still movies meant for families to enjoy together. The adult moments go by quickly, and anything inappropriate probably goes right over kids’s heads. Even the references to Shrek might be too old for these kids since those movies started coming out over 20 years ago!
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish makes great use of the “bleep,” and some creative moments of censorship to imply some foul language without risking a PG-13 rating. The adorable new character Perrito and Salma Hayek’s beloved Kitty Softpaws both reveal themselves to have pretty dirty vocabularies.
Sometimes the adult moments aren’t technically inappropriate, but they’re just thematically more mature. Puss is dealing with an existential crisis, questioning his doctor’s bedside manner, experiencing the horrors of a poorly run retirement facility and being told he needed therapy by his ex-girlfriend. These are all pretty adult experiences that younger audiences won’t have the context for.
The movie also contains some movie and TV references that kids would never pick up on. We don’t think most kids are familiar with Terminator 2, The Wicker Man, The Wire or the works of actor Jimmy Stewart - but they all get referenced in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Perrito's Dirty Mouth
1:05 Bull -shhh
1:45 Milk Drunk
2:24 "Low Rent Cinderella"
2:54 Existential Crises
3:38 The Value of Therapy
4:03 Retirement Homes
4:25 Bedside Manner
4:52 Strong Glutes
5:18 Shrek References
5:49 Terminator 2
6:18 The Wire Whistle
6:38 Wicker Man Reference
7:02 The Ethical Bug
7:40 Outro
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Written by: Molly Cahen
Narrated by: @blakelylindsey
Edited by: Joe Morfín
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How awesome is it when animated movies that are theoretically “for kids” include jokes and references made for adults? Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is packed with adult jokes and we rounded up some of our favorites.
The Shrek movies are known for being more crass and skewing older than their squeaky-clean Disney counterparts, but at the end of the day, they are still movies meant for families to enjoy together. The adult moments go by quickly, and anything inappropriate probably goes right over kids’s heads. Even the references to Shrek might be too old for these kids since those movies started coming out over 20 years ago!
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish makes great use of the “bleep,” and some creative moments of censorship to imply some foul language without risking a PG-13 rating. The adorable new character Perrito and Salma Hayek’s beloved Kitty Softpaws both reveal themselves to have pretty dirty vocabularies.
Sometimes the adult moments aren’t technically inappropriate, but they’re just thematically more mature. Puss is dealing with an existential crisis, questioning his doctor’s bedside manner, experiencing the horrors of a poorly run retirement facility and being told he needed therapy by his ex-girlfriend. These are all pretty adult experiences that younger audiences won’t have the context for.
The movie also contains some movie and TV references that kids would never pick up on. We don’t think most kids are familiar with Terminator 2, The Wicker Man, The Wire or the works of actor Jimmy Stewart - but they all get referenced in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
For more jokes, references, cameos and easter eggs in your favorite animated films and tv shows - make sure to subscribe to our channel!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Perrito's Dirty Mouth
1:05 Bull -shhh
1:45 Milk Drunk
2:24 "Low Rent Cinderella"
2:54 Existential Crises
3:38 The Value of Therapy
4:03 Retirement Homes
4:25 Bedside Manner
4:52 Strong Glutes
5:18 Shrek References
5:49 Terminator 2
6:18 The Wire Whistle
6:38 Wicker Man Reference
7:02 The Ethical Bug
7:40 Outro
Our Social Media:
Facebook: facebook.com/TheThingscom
Instagram: instagram.com/thethingsofficial_
For more videos and articles visit:
thethings.com
Written by: Molly Cahen
Narrated by: @blakelylindsey
Edited by: Joe Morfín
For copyright matters please contact us at: legal@valnetinc.com
