I don't see it like this. You can't get this when you are young indeed. But the "absurdity" of these things that an adult will catch (or not!) and the spirit applied to this kind of humour make it really enjoyable when you're a kid. And if an older spectator laugh next to the kid you are at that time, it makes it even better.

Nice to rediscover these things also when you've grown up and you can catch the other side of the meanings. It's not like a lot of products that you can only consume once. So when you say these series were a prophecy of the untempered consumerism, there were also justly what they didn't mean to be.