14 Sneaky Insults That Sailed Right Over People's Heads
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Among the most appealing aspects of the English language is just the degree of ambiguity that particular words or phrases can have. Someone may say something completely pleasant, such as "bless your heart," but intend something nasty, such as "you're an idiot."
To appeal to children, cartoons are frequently humorous and light hearted, but some animated series love to sneak in goodies for adults to enjoy as well. This has resulted in some really messed-up themes and analogies on occasion. It also offered us some very devastating comebacks at other moments.
The fact is, some insults are blatant, such as remarks about a rival's mother or general body odor. Other insults, on the other hand, can go utterly ignored and unnoticed. As much as people say you shouldn't explain jokes, the following ones do require explanations; otherwise, you just might miss them. So scroll on down and PAY ATTENTION so you don't miss the following 14 incredibly sneaky jibes, barbs and straight up burns.
![The Democratic symbol is an insult weixoogi. IWAHAT TAN BANKT MECRANIS WrEXT ITANKDE lddror Cartoonists used to portray Andrew Jackson as a jackass, calling him stubborn and stupid. Then they shifted TO using the symbol for the whole party, who learned to embrace it. The Republican elephant also began](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/769436.jpg)
For details, read 5 Famous Symbols that Were Created to Be Horrible Insults
![Goldfinger was a real guy lan Fleming based Bond villain Auric Goldfinger on a modernist architect he disliked. The architect wanted to cover everything in concrete, so Fleming wrote a villain who wanted to cover everything in gold. Incredibly, Goldfinger was the actual name of the despised architect.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/769439.jpg)
For details, read 6 Famous Works of Art You Didn't Know Were Vicious Insults
![Schrodinger's Cat is ridiculous CRACKEDOON People reference it anytime something's uncertain. But the cat isn't just indeterminately dead or alive. It is simultaneously dead AND alive. Which makes no sense, but neither does quantum mechanics (said Schrodinger), which is why he invented the absurd thought experiment.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/769437.jpg)
For details, read 5 Scientific Explanations That Get Misused Constantly
![Coyote and Road Runner was satire ORACKEDCON Chuck Jones took the concept of Tom and Jerry and mocked it with the most over-the-top chases possible, with speedy animals constantly breaking the laws of reality. It came off as funny, not critical, and other cartoons (including Tom and Jerry) soon copied](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/769433.jpg)
For details, read 6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke
![Homeland's set design mocks the show 99900 wl# ow h Suox The show contracted artists to design some Arabic street art. The artists made several messages that the producers didn't bother checking before airing, including Homeland is a watermelon (an insult that loses something in translation) and the above Homeland](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/769438.jpg)
For details, read 6 Iconic Works Of Art With Brutal Insults Hidden In Them
![Yankee Doodle mocks Americans CRACKED The song talks about an uppity American shoddily making his own clothes and wrongly thinking he's as good as the British. Later verses openly mock George Washington. It's impressive that America somehow turned this into a patriotic anthem.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/769441.jpg)
For details, read 5 Famous Symbols that Were Created to Be Horrible Insults
![Poe wrote a revenge fantasy CRACKEDCO The Cask of Amontillado is a famous story but is very strange. NO reason is given for why the narrator walls up his enemy and kills him. Turns out the victim is based on rival author Thomas Dunn English, who had previously written a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/769432.jpg)
For details, read 6 Iconic Works Of Art With Brutal Insults Hidden In Them
![Anything can look like deep poetry to Commscmorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley A couple Australian poets figured the industry was a joke. so they took some non-poetic texts Clike a mosquito breeding grounds report), inserted line breaks, and submitted them as poems. one journal devoted a whole issue](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/769446.jpg)
For details, read 6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke
![Biff Tannen was a studio exec parody CRACKED.co When Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale pitched an earlier movie, a studio exec named Ned Tanen behaved aggressively toward them. So they named Biff for him, then humiliated the villainous character. Or course, in the sequel, he was also based on a certain real-world real estate developer...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/3/783563.jpg)
For details, read 6 Secret F-Yous Lurking In Famous Pop Culture
![Hitchcock made a producer villain a CRACKED CON Alfred Hitchcock also had a bad experience with a movie mogul, David o. Selznick. After a seven-year rocky relationship, he made Rear Window, and he cast a bad guy who looked a lot like Selznick-and found glasses similar to Selznick's, to make the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/769440.jpg)
For details, read 6 Famous Works of Art You Didn't Know Were Vicious Insults
![People took Valley Girl seriously CRACKEDcO For this '80s song, Frank Zappa had his daughter Moon improvise a bunch of nonsense words to make fun of the sort of way Valley girls talk. But people who heard the song, and perhaps hadn't even heard of Valley girls before, thought it](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/7/769447.jpg)
For details, read 6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke
![Joke political party turned real A satirist in Poland figured that revolution wasn't realistic and so created the polish Beer-Lovers' Party. Its platform: more beer, less vodka. The party won 16 seats in parliament. Then it split into a couple different parties, one of which renamed itself to the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/8/769448.jpg)
For details, read 6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke
![Dirty Harry killed film a critic The New Yorker's Pauline Kael criticized the violence in Dirty Harry. So for the final movie in the film series, they created a film critic character who looked like Kael, and had a murderer stab her to death. With her final words, the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/769435.jpg)
For details, read Annoying Ways Movies Break The Fourth Wall
![A fake romance became bestseller a Naked Came The Stranger by Penelope Ashe CRAGKEDCON Naked Came The Stranger was supposed to parody bad romance. Collaborators didn't even read each other's work before slapping the drafts together to make a novel. It wasn't a funny parody, just a hoax. But it](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/769442.jpg)
For details, read 6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke