However, those adaptations only scratch the surface. Many beloved animated television shows have gone on to release big-screen adaptations, such as The Simpsons, which brought adult-geared animation to the height of its popularity, along with obscene Comedy Central darling South Park and MTV classic Beavis and Butt-Head. Since Fritz the Cat’s debut fifty years ago, studios have fully embraced adult animated farces, which have proven that they can be just as profitable with grown-up audiences as with children. Updated September 11, 2022: If you love raunchy animated films, you'll be pleased to know we've updated this article with additional content and entries. The genre and style of storytelling gives adults the best of both worlds: the nostalgic feeling that comes with watching a cartoon paired with outrageous and downright dirty humor. Some of cinema’s most famous (and infamous) flicks just so happen to be animated pictures aimed at a more mature audience. Over the years, film studios have gotten more brazen and open-minded with the content they release. From that point on, animated flicks in the mainstream weren’t just a children’s medium. One of the first and undeniably filthiest animated films of all time was Fritz the Cat, a 1972 adult black comedy that became a pioneer for future animated works for adults. Who says that animated movies are solely for kids? Going back to the 1929 cartoon Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure and through the years of sex-symbol Betty Boop and gross-out Howard the Duck, animation has attempted to appeal to adults in different ways over the years, though without much mainstream success until the '70s and '80s.

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