Looking at the "what you have you booked for Xmas" thread, I noticed a lot of people were planning on taking their DC to the panto. Sometimes two pantos! But every time I've taken mine, it's struck me that their brand of humour is quite old-fashioned, and not in a good way.
Past audiences may have found it hilarious to see a man wearing ladies' clothes, but my DC thought nothing of it - it's something they see on the streets around town quite often nowadays. And the cartoonish/farcical elements didn't really appeal to them, because even cartoons are pretty sophisticated these days.
Interestingly, a lot of the topical jokes were about "family telly" like Bake Off, which the writers must have imagined the whole family would appreciate as a shared cultural touchpoint. But my DC went straight from CBeebies to streaming/YouTube. They watch the occasional DVD with us, but for them, prime time telly may as well not exist.
Maybe other people's DC get more out of the traditional panto? Happy to be proved wrong...