The topic at hand today is pretty straightforward – we will show and discuss various hidden messages found in children’s cartoons. This includes a great number of Illuminati references, adult jokes, and many more things that some viewers might find bizarre.
You’ve probably seen some of the cartoons and specific episodes we’ll talk about, but you were likely too young to understand or didn’t even notice the curious details. You can tell us if you caught any of these odd references yourself.
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls is among the best children’s cartoons of recent years and is thought of as the last great Disney Channel cartoon. You probably knew you were going to see it on this list due to the nature of the show that has Dippel, Mabel, and their great uncle Stan solving the mysteries of Gravity Falls.
The show is famous for including cryptograms, which is not something you see in every cartoon. For instance, the intro has a secret message decoded to “Stan is not what he seems”, along with three auditory clues, which when played backwards say “three letters back”, “switch A to Z”, and “26 letters” that help you decode other messages.
SpongeBob SquarePants
A pretty tame show that is loved by children and adults alike, but we suspect the youngest out there didn’t quite catch some of the grown-up humour.
For one, there’s a lot of cursing in the show, the most famous word being “barnacles”; some parental groups actually spoke out against it. We’re not talking about this though, but other adult-themed references.
There’s the popular theory that SpongeBob was watching p*rn (represented as a moving sea coral) in one episode, because he became very anxious when Garry came in and quickly changed the channel.
There’s also a “don’t drop the soap” joke in another episode with Garry, as well as another episode where SpongeBob is buried in sand where only his nose was visible to which Mr. Krabs says “I hope that’s your nose”. Yeaaah…
Apart from the sexually-charged humour, SpongeBob also made references to the Illuminati in the episode where Bob and Patrick join a cult that prominently features the All-Seeing Eye of Providence (Patrick even mentions it by name). There have also been pyramids with that eye hidden in the background in other episodes.
Other Illuminati References
Let’s get it out of the way and mention other Illuminati references in children’s cartoons now that we started.
Gravity Falls is a somewhat odd inclusion on this list, because the references it makes to the Illuminati are clear, after all one of the main villains of the show is Bill Cipher, a pyramid with one eye. However, you might not have noticed that this imagery is often hidden in plain sight throughout the show before we even meet Bill Cipher. This though could be an element of foreshadowing, rather than subliminal messaging.
Perhaps the most prominent reference, and in fact one of the oldest ones, can be found in Duck Tales. As Scrooge McDuck is getting his doctor checkup, one can see an eye chart saying “Ask About Illuminati”. In the next frames, the letters are the same, but they are scrambled.
Another Illuminati writing appears in the hit Disney Channel show The Suite Life of Zack and Cody where one can see the word written on the green board just behind Cody. These two examples are certainly a bit creepy, because they’re not played out for jokes, but instead they’re hidden.
A similar hidden reference can be found in The Simpsons where two women are shopping for toys and the viewer can see a few Malibu Stacy’s with a pyramid with the All-Seeing Eye on their heads. In fact, this type of “accessory” can be seen in many shows including the hit anime Yu-Gi-Oh where all parts of the Millennium puzzle prominently feature an eye, with Yugi’s necklace even being a pyramid.
Moving on, Tom & Jerry proved they did their conspiracy theory homework in the episode where the frenemies are pitching a show to a Hollywood producer.
At one point, a pyramid with the All-Seeing Eye on it begins buzzing prompting the producer and his assistant to put on pyramid-shaped hats to talk to the “President of Hollywood”, who turns out to be a shapeless demon with horns, thus tapping on the theory that Hollywood is controlled by the Illuminati and their demonic overlords.
9/11
This part of the article is grim and it relies on a great deal of conspiracy, so bear with us. Some people believe that multiple kids cartoon predicted the September 11th terrorist attacks where the Twin Towers were hit by two passenger planes.
In a 1994 episode of Fantastic Four, when the aliens attack Earth, they first hit the Twin Towers, which quickly fall down. The Tick also represented the two towers being struck in 1995. The Iron Man cartoon goes a step further and shows not only the destruction of the towers but also a place going through the Pentagon.
There are two other instances of 9/11 predictions that are a bit less explicit. The Simpsons showed a magazine titled “New York” that shows the New York skyline with the Twin Towers on the right and the price of the magazine being $9, which makes it look like it spells “9/11”.
The other example is even more eerie. It comes from an episode of Johnny Bravo which features a burning skyscraper (a movie poster) with the message “coming soon”. The episode aired only five months before September 11th.