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*** When Angel bites Buffy in season 3, we see her crushing a helmet with one hand, as well as hearing her panting -- anotherpanting—another example of "biting as sex" within the Buffyverse.

** In the season six episode "Wrecked" Willow get addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination.

* ''[[Angel]]'' 2x06: Angel: "Were you in Virginia?" Wesley: "That's besides the point."

** In 2x17, "Disharmony", Harmony tries to explain to Cordelia that she's a vampire. Instead it sounds like she's coming out as a lesbian and expressing a crush on Cordelia.

** In the episode "The Vision-Thing" Wesley mentions a Chinese herbal shop called Wang Ho Dong, getting a long look from Gunn.

** In "Spin the Bottle" amnesiac Fred thinks she may have been abducted by aliens, and rambles about how they must have done terrible things to her naked, helpless body. In response Wesley's wrist-blade pops out spontaneously.

'''Alex:''' Ow... Justin... ''[[Innocent Innuendo|You're hurting me]]''.<br />

* In ''[[The Tick (television)|The Tick]]'' episode "Arthur, Interrupted", coming out as a superhero is described the same way as homosexuality, and later as a drug addiction. They even stage an intervention.

** The same happens with Helen and Joe in ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]''.

** There was also a first season episode where Manny gets fed up with Bernard's abuse and moves out. Fran and Bernard react like parents to a child running away from home, each blaming the other--Bernardother—Bernard accusing Fran of spoiling him and Fran accusing Bernard of driving him away by being mean to him. Then they go to the police to report him missing, who assume he's their son--rightson—right up until they start describing his appearance and they mention his goatee:

'''Crichton:''' It is ''[[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|not! Just! Science!]]'' It is ''never'' just science! It's a ''weapon''! It ''kills''! }}

* Two torture sessions with a water theme or metaphor. A tiny nation invaded by a vast empire for uncertain reasons fights back with suicide bombers. And oh yeah, a surprise attack on an unsuspecting country that changes their entire political and cultural outlook. Watch ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' long enough and it will remind you of something in contemporary American politics.

** Not to mention every feeding being a very obvious allusion to sex, cluminating in one very particular episode. Both Bill and Eric were burned and needed healing. Follow, a frame of Sookie sitting between them, with a very meaningful expression on her face, while each vampire is sucking at a different wrist of hers. Fans had a lot to think about that night.

* Very much dramatic rather than comedic, but in season 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' {{spoiler|Sylar breaks into Claire's house and succeeds in stealing her [[Healing Factor|power]], but does it without killing her unlike his previous victims. The experience visibly shakes Claire and she describes Sylar as "taking something that was hers." She then wants to learn how to fight so she can "help people", but after her biological mother Meredith puts her through [[Training Fromfrom Hell]], Claire finally breaks and admits she doesn't want to fight so she can help people, but to find Sylar and "hurt him for hurting me!" The whole thing plays out as if Claire was a rape victim instead of somebody who had her superpower stolen (or copied, whatever).}}

*** Also Sylar's very creepy shapeshifting into his adoptive mother (aunt by marriage) and having conversations with her, having killed her in Volume 1, disturbingly resembles [[Psycho|Hitchcock's film about a mama's boy who impersonates his mother.]]

* One episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' ends with a breakup between one of the main characters and a physicist he was falling in love with. They had already begun discussing having kids and everything, only it turns out that the breaking point was... one of them believes in string theory and the other in Loop Quantum Gravity, both different theories that attempt to solve the major modern problems in physics. To him, it doesn't seem like such a big deal, but to her, it was "How would we raise the children?!" The entire scene was played as of a strong religious disjoint between the couple that could not be reconciled. This parodies many real physicists' attitudes regarding String Theory -- whichTheory—which makes absolutely no testable predictions and is so mathematically complex and diverse that it takes decades to be able to contribute -- andcontribute—and any competitors.

** In one episode Ted is with a date and after a series of events you get this.

* In an episode of ''[[The King of Queens]]'', Spence's wish to see [[The Film of the Book]] of one of his favorite fantasy novels is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction or alcoholism or some other social vice, something to be avoided. Either that or Doug and Deacon are just really big [[Fan Hater|Fan Haters]]s.

** Yep, they're [[Fan Hater|Fan Haters]]s all right, because [[Men Are Uncultured]]. And let's not forget the number of [[Crunchtastic|argusations]] Spence and Danny had that made them sound like a married couple. It seemed like the writers were addicted to this idea.

* In a Season 1 episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', "Something Wicked", the [[Monster of the Week]] -- a—a shtriga, a witch from Albanian folklore that feeds off of human "life forces", especially those of children -- ischildren—is presented like a pedophile. The kids fall into comas and no one can explain why, and the shtriga is disguised as a male doctor that is supposed to be treating the children, which is similar to how many pedophiles try to position themselves so that the children's parents trust them. It should also be noted that the shtriga works its way through families, either from oldest child to youngest or vice versa.

** Hell, pretty much all of Lucifer's dialogue with Sam in season 5 ''screams'' "rape."

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has had this over the years, but the best --andbest—and most horrifying-- examplehorrifying—example comes from "Turn Left", in which the UK government collapses and [[Putting on the Reich|puts on the Reich]]. Including the internment of foreign nationals. When one of Donna's housemates and friends is interned, Donna is oblivious to the parallel. Wilfred isn't, and he's absolutely horrified by it. And, coupled with Bernard Cribbins' emotive acting, it's enough to [[Tear Jerker|make the viewer cry]].

** Incidentally, [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] ''likes it'' when the Doctor [[Foe Yay|uses his name]].

** Try taking "dances" out of "The Doctor Dances."

* In ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', the knife scene between The Reaper and Hotch. It might actually have extended to out-and-out rape. Either way, the dialogue is highly sexualized. The Reaper strips off his shirt, goes up ''very'' close to Hotch on top of him, and slowly cuts him with a knife. Eventually, he tells Hotch that he's horribly wrong about how [[Serial Killer|Serial Killers]]s who use knives are impotent, and is going to change the way Hotch profiles. Cue The Reaper slowly moving his hand further down on Hotch's body, and Hotch moaning in pain. At the very least, it was pseudo-rape.

* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' has another less than comedic example, wherein {{spoiler|Tully}}'s interactions with {{spoiler|George}} near the end of {{spoiler|Series 1, Episode 2}} has the feel of a rape scene. The fact that {{spoiler|Tully}} had sexually assaulted {{spoiler|Annie}} earlier that episode did ''not'' help.

* The ''[[Star Trek: TOSThe Original Series]]'' episode "Metamorphosis" features Zefram Cochrane being looked after by a powerful energy being. When he realises that the energy being wants a physical relationship with him, he's repulsed, but Kirk, Spock and McCoy don't see what the problem is. Given Cochrane's actual words, the episode can be read as a metaphor against homophobia, or, given the time period, possibly against opposition to interracial relationships.

** ''Star Trek'' has a lot; ''Enterprise'' has one in particular that paints religious people as bigoted homophobic monsters.I

* This bit from ''[[NCIS]]'':

* On ''[[Smallville]]'', Clark and other Kryptonians emit fire beams from their eyes when aroused. He first discovered this in "Heat".

* During the Invasion storyline, Alliance member Torrie Wilson began dating WWF (and Japanese) wrestler Tajiri. Announcer Paul Heyman regularly mentioned how he didn't approve of such "interpromotional relationships".