Mature themes

Although most of Hanna-Barbera's works are aimed at a general television audience, especially the children, mature subject matter does occur.
==Relationships and sex==
===Weddings and marriage===
* In the Wacky Races episode "Dash to Delaware", Dick Dastardly lures Penelope Pitstop and Peter Perfect into a bakery, where he and Muttley turn them into wedding cake toppers.
* In one episode of Speed Buggy, the eponymous four-wheeled character imagines himself marrying Mata Cari. Debbie is shown happily weeping at the wedding.
* In the Yogi's Gang episode "The Gossipy Witch", the titular villainess spreads a rumor around Jellystone Park that Yogi Bear is planning to marry Cindy Bear.
* In the television film The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, Huck proposes to Desert Flower and eventually marries her after defeating the Dalton Brothers.
* The Flintstones' telefilm I Yabba-Dabba Do! concerns the young adult Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as they get engaged and prepare for their wedding.
===Pregnancy and childbirth===
* An entire season of The Flintstones dealt with Wilma’s pregnancy, which led to the birth of Pebbles.
* The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo short "Scrappy's Birthday" flashes back to Scrappy-Doo's birth at a veterinary hospital.
* In the Flintstones' telefilm Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby, Pebbles Flintstone-Rubble gives birth to twins.
===Rumors of homosexuality===
* Some fans have speculated that Snagglepuss may be homosexual, even though in two cartoons he had a female love interest named Lila. This was made canon in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
* On The Little Rascals cartoon series, in the 30-second skit "Out on a Limb", Alfalfa was seen pushing Spanky on a swing hanging from a tree limb, which could be perceived as them being homosexual - until Darla suddenly appeared and invited Alfalfa on a date.
===Bestiality===
* On Hong Kong Phooey, Rosemary (human) is infatuated with the eponymous martial artist hero (dog), but she couldn't care less about his alter ego, Penrod Pooch.
* On The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby-Doo has been smitten practically at first sight with both Sandy Duncan and Jeannie.
* A running gag on Jabberjaw is the eponymous shark smooching Shelly at various times, much to her disgust.
===Kissing===
* In the Punkin Puss & Mushmouse short "Courtin' Disaster", Mushmouse gets some incentive kisses from his girlfriend Hunnybun multiple times in order to keep on confronting Punkin Puss.
* In the Jonny Quest episode "Double Danger," Korchek kisses Jade as part of his deception. Then, in "Terror Island," the real Race kisses Jade as a "down payment" after they escape from Dr. Chu Sing Li. Finally, in "The Dreadful Doll," Denise kisses both Jonny and Hadji, and then tells them to kiss her, which they refuse to do.
* In the holiday TV special Yogi's First Christmas, Cindy repeatedly attempts to kiss Yogi under her mistletoes.
* In three known episodes of The Little Rascals: "Rascals' Revenge", "Rock & Roll Rascals" and "Horse Sense", Darla was seen kissing Alfalfa on the cheek at some point. In "Porky-O and Julie-Et", Julie Jamm was seen kissing Porky on the cheek near the end of the segment, and in "The Zero Hero", midway through the episode, Maria kissed Alfalfa after saving her from injury.
* In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode "That's Monstertainment", Daphne Blake kisses Scooby-Doo while in character in the horror movie.
==Human nudity and lewd humor==
===Male nudity===
* In The Jetsons syndicated episode "Invisibly Yours, George", George becomes invisible while testing one of Mr. Spacely's inventions, but George's clothing is still visible. George's invisibility wears off while he's stark naked, but his genitalia are either hidden or outside camera range.
* In one short on Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter's mother sees him nude on the front sidewalk, with his hands over his crotch. She is concerned only with the absence of his glasses.
* In one Johnny Bravo short, Johnny leaves his bathtub with only a newspaper to cover him.
* Early in the "Space Race" episode of the Wacky Races reboot, Peter Perfect's uniform is ripped off his body, leaving him nude except for a star over his crotch.
* A crudely rendered Elroy Jetson appears nude in one (possibly both) of John K.'s Jetsons animated shorts.
===Female nudity===
* Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, being a prime-time sitcom, has several such episodes:
** In "Alice's Dress", Alice buys a see-through dress to wear to a party thrown by Harry's boss.
** In "The Beach Vacation", the Boyles rent a summer home. Alice frolics in a bikini and fraternizes with a group of nude sunbathers.
** In "Model Alice", Alice works as an artist's nude model, over Harry's objections. The finished artwork shows Alice behind a potted plant.
* In the Challenge of the Superfriends episode "Secret Origins of the Superfriends", a nude infant girl (who later becomes Wonder Woman) is shown from behind.
===Nudity of both sexes===
* The short-lived prime-time series Jokebook had several instances, notably the segment "Eve & Adam".
* In The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible episode "The Creation", both Adam and Eve are naked until they don fig leaves.
===Underwear exposure===
* In the Wacky Races episode "Beat the Clock to Yellow Rock", the Ant Hill Mob stop to swim in their underwear, enabling a group of bear cubs to steal their suits.
* In the "Carnival Calamity" episode of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Penelope grabs a loose thread on one of The Hooded Claw's pant cuffs. While it slows her descent, it also quickly exposes his boxer shorts.
* In the Pac-Man episode "Journey to the Center of Pacland", after Pac-Man's allies chomp Mezmaron's cloak to shreds, the villain's boxer shorts are exposed as he returns to his Lava Lair.
* In the Dexter's Laboratory short "The Big Sister", the giant Dee Dee strips Dexter to his briefs as if he were a doll.
* In the Richie Rich segment "The Day the Estate Stood Still", Professor Keenbean was seen in his underwear while hanging on a mechanical hand on his clothes changing machine.
** Also, in the Riches segment "Wiped Out!", Reggie Van Dough was seen in his underwear after he got busted for selling the Rich family's assets for a cheap price.
** Plus, in the Riches segment "Caveboy Richie", Richie is seen in his underwear after moths from one of Keenbean's older inventions have eaten up both Richie's and Keenbean's clothing.
* In The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour segment "Comic Book Caper", Shaggy and Scooby captured the culprit while disguised as a horse, revealing the culprit's underwear at a comic book convention.
* In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Larry P. Acme is unmasked in his underclothes.
===Dogs and fire hydrants===
* On Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, in the Magnificent Muttley short "Admiral Bird Dog", Dick Dastardly muses, "Whoever heard of a dog going to the North Pole? Now if it was the North Fire Hydrant, I could understand it!"
* The main title logo for 2 Stupid Dogs is shaped like a fire hydrant.
==Vice==
===Alcohol===
* Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble star in a 1967 animated trade film for Busch beer.
* In one of The All-New Superfriends Hour PSAs, Batman and Robin meet a girl whose boyfriend was injured in a drunken driving accident.
* In The Little Rascals episode "Yachtsa' Luck", there is a tavern called Smuggler's Cove, in which men are seen drinking beer.
===Tobacco===
* A now-infamous commercial for Winston cigarettes shows Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble idly smoking while Wilma and Betty do yard work.
* In The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Big Top Trap", Clyde asks his doppelgänger (who is the Hooded Claw in disguise) to light his cigar.
* In the Pink Panther and Sons episode "Anney's Invention", an executive was seen smoking a cigar.
* A Season 1 Richie Rich Gems segment featured Winslow, a friend of Richard Rich, Sr., smoking a cigar, and towards the end, the cigar dissolved rapidly as if Winslow was shocked about something.
* In the Season 1 opening to The Dukes, Boss Hogg is seen holding a cigar in his hand while driving.
===Drugs===
* In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "Scooby Dude", Al and Sandy Sneakers team up to smuggle drugs.
* The Smurfs episode "Lure of the Orb" has several Smurfs getting hooked on a magic orb and behaving like drug addicts.
* The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special addressed drug use directly, and even had first lady Nancy Reagan deliver a message about it at the end.
==Violence==
===Warfare===
* In the Wacky Races episode "The Speedy Arkansas Traveller", Dick Dastardly assumes the character of a U.S. Army officer. He and Muttley end up in the midst of a war game.
* Several episodes of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio had antiwar themes.
==Life and death==
===Paranormal===
* Most of the villains in the Scooby-Doo franchise and its derivatives appear at first to be ghosts, vampires, zombies, werewolves and other paranormal beings. They usually turn out to be disguised human criminals, except in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf and some of the direct-to-video animated movies.
===Taxes===
* At the end of the Huckleberry Hound short "The Unmasked Avenger", Huck promises to improve the peasants' way of life: better roads, free education and the like. His popularity wanes suddenly when he points out that all the improvements will require taxes.
===Religion===
* This is the point of the VHS series The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible.
===Politics===
* In the Pac-Man episode "Presidential Pac-Nappers", the president of Pacland lives in the Yellow House (an analog of the United States' White House) and is a caricature of Theodore Roosevelt.
* In The Little Rascals episode "Alfalfa for President", Alfalfa and Waldo run competing campaigns for class president at their school.
* The Yogi's Treasure Hunt episode "Yogi's Heroes" portrays Yogi Bear and Dick Dastardly as the rulers of two warring nations, Bearzil and Dicaragua.
===Death===
* In the Smurfs episode "Squeaky", in the wake of a fire, Papa Smurf informed Smurfette that the mouse she adopted had passed away. This scene was edited out when the episode was part of the syndicated rerun package.
* The beginning of the Pac-Man episode "Pacula" takes place in a cemetery.
* A 1983 episode of The Little Rascals, titled "Fright Night", involves Alfalfa and Spanky in a cemetery in search of ghosts.
* The opening sequence of Wildfire shows the untimely death of Queen Sarana, and several inhabitants of Dar-Shan, including Wildfire, mourning the loss. The episode "Wildfire: King of the Horses" shows the mare Vesta dying.
* The animated TV movie Jonny's Golden Quest reveals that Jonny's mother, Rachel Quest, was killed by Dr. Zin.
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