>>16760249If that's what you're looking for, then there's not going to be a distinction that's satisfactory to your question. The person that said there was one was wrong.
See, originally, MLP was written for children, but, because they anticipated that parents would have to watch it with them, there are hints at things that their parents would understand and that the kids wouldn't, usually in close proximity to one another, so they could laugh at the same time, and the kids would assume that the parents were laughing at the same thing as them.
Basically, they were using a kids' show to slip shit past the radar, so the parents could watch it with them without being bored. It's marketed to kids, because the toys are marketed to kids, but includes just enough stuff that the parents don't mind watching it with them, or even, in some cases, without them.
Same thing with pokémon; Nintendo takes that, "E for Everyone," rating seriously and hides things in the games that kids would gloss over, or miss entirely, but that older players will get and understand. For example, younger players get that Cyrus(head of team galactic from gen 4) is a dick, because the game tells them he is, but older players are mature enough to understand the reasoning behind why.
