20 Wildly Inappropriate Moments Buried In Children’s Films

19. Hercules Makes An Incest Joke

Here’s one for my mythology nerds! In Hercules, there’s a moment when the Greek hero says as a quick aside, “That Oedipus thing… man, I thought I had problems.” Fans of Greek mythology will recognize the name Oedipus as belonging to a mixed up fella who killed his father in a case of mistaken identities, then married his mother when he didn’t know who she was … it’s a long story. Needless to say, there’s incest involved.