You were probably too traumatized by its more horrifying moments, but the 80s classic The Brave Little Toaster had a seamy underbelly. I mean, just look at this recorder.
If each part of the player represents a part of her body (her arms are the cords), that makes it pretty clear that the tape spools themselves are her boobs. Hell, if we assume that the center of the spools are her nipples, the way the tape spins makes it kind of look like she's spinning tassles on them. I probably didn't have to spell all that out for you, but I'm going to take any chance I get to dissect the physical anatomy of sexy home appliances.
There aren't quite as many humans in the movie as there are living radios and lamps, but the TV set does represent itself as a man on the screen. A man who apparently has nudie pictures of human ladies in his filing cabinet.
The most brazen example has to come from the 1997 sequel The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue. When an electrical jolt zaps a computer, he starts feeling all... tingly inside.
As his files are searched and "stroked," the computer continues to gush: "There's something happening inside of me and I can't keep it to myself any longer!" It is at this moment of heightened ecstasy that an attached machine produces a white discharge.
Bet you didn't know that freshly-printed documents are essentially computer jizz, did you? Well, now you can never un-learn it.
There are probably plenty of people out there who think that most of these entries aren't a big deal. Some parents trust their kids to accept and process graphic sex and extreme violence in a mature and healthy way, even if little Bobby still has a booger collection building on the side of his bunk bed.
Drugs, on the other hand, are kind of a different story. Unless it's in the form of a bizarre PSA like the one pictured above, there are decidedly less moms and dads out there that are okay exposing their kids to illicit substances in cartoons. But that hasn't stopped shows like Dexter's Laboratory from skirting the line.
Remove the label from that bag of "flour" and pretty much anyone would tell you this scene centers on a cocaine deal in a shady warehouse. But since that stamp is present, it's perfectly fine. To be fair, kids watching this probably wouldn't understand the reference, so it's more or less a harmless "parental bonus" -- albeit a particularly sneaky one.
A little stranger is the case of Mighty Mouse.
In his 1980s revival series, Mighty Mouse briefly snorts a crushed flower that looks a lot like coke mixed with strawberry Kool-Aid. Though it's just an offhand sight gag in a mile-a-minute cartoon, the Professionally Offended caught wind and the show was shut down amidst the controversy.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars was at least smart enough to wait until it jumped to Netflix to finally show its space drug on-screen.
"Spice" is the drug of choice in the Star Wars universe, and is probably legally distinct from the "Spice" in the Dune franchise in one way or another. And where there's spice, there are spice dealers, like Lom Pyke.
Note the rusty residue around Pyke's mouth and hand -- those markings have been officially confirmed as spice stains. The entire Pyke Syndicate has similar stains, all presumably getting high on their own supply. To say that it's bold for a cartoon to feature a minor character walking around with drugs on his face like some intergalactice Scarface would be one way of putting it.
Then there was the time they just showed Pyke toking up in full view of the audience.
It's strange that there seem to be so many cocaine references in popular cartoons when you know the animators are probably more into pot. That would at least explain the 4:20 reference in an episode of "Regular Show."
At the very end of "Do Me a Solid," the main characters have a conversation in front of a VCR. What's funny is that the clock seems to change -- one second it's 4:20 wooo high fives all around brah, and then the next it's 9:25. You might think that someone caught the suspect time and pasted over it, but the exact opposite appears to be true.
Check out this part in the same scene, where Rigby's arm seems to go under the VCR clock:
It's almost as though the animators slapped another layer over the VCR to make sure the clock read 4:20, even if it meant a wonky animation error. I don't want to say they were high as balls when they made this, but someone should else should say that.