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Comment by GJim

3 hours ago

> look at children's programming over the past 30 years. SpongeBob characters, under the ocean, jumping off a diving board into a pool, again, under the ocean. It isn't violent, but it is crazy.

A frog in love with a pig?

> I think that children's authors primarily amuse themselves knowing that it will pass right over the heads of their target audience.

I take it Sir is familiar with the British tradition of pantomime? (Where no entendre will be left undoubled).