BTW, I love the shows self awareness. They make some meta jokes about things that are cheesy or make no sense, and they also address how unhinged some of the adults behaved in the movies.
But they do it while also selling it. No one is winking at the camera or anything. They'll sort of point out how absurd something is, and then just accept thhat's the way things are and let's just solve the next problem. It's brilliant.