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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"''|'''[[Benny Hill]], [[Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]], [[Mel Brooks]], [[John Cleese (Creator)|John Cleese]], [[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Black Mage]]''' and many others}}
 
One of the fundamental types of verbal gag in comedic television, especially the [[Sit ComSitcom]].
 
A [[Double Entendre]] is a word or phrase which was meant to be taken in two different ways. Archetypically, one meaning is obvious, literal, and innocent. The other has a usually taboo or sexual [[Subtext]].
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On the other hand, if the Double Entendre fails to be funny on the obvious level, it can result in a show which is "safe" for broadcast in family time slots but which younger viewers do not enjoy. [[Self-Demonstrating Article|In other words, the joke has to work well]] [[Bi the Way|both ways]].
 
British comedy is especially fond of the device, especially when the joke "works" on both levels. The [[Double Entendre]] predates television, of course. Shakespeare was very fond of [[Get Thee to Aa Nunnery|this device]] as well. "Hamlet: Do you think I meant [[Country Matters]]? What, shall I lie my head upon your lap?"
 
When the viewer is specifically led toward the sexual meaning until [[The Reveal]], this is an [[Innocent Innuendo]]. When the non-sexual meaning is perfectly clear but the innuendos continue, it's [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]. When the non-sexual meaning doesn't make any sense, this can constitute an [[Unusual Euphemism]]. When the sexual meaning has been lost due to language change, it's [[Get Thee to Aa Nunnery]].
 
If someone makes a [[Double Entendre]], but the recipient fails to see it as anything other than a literal statement, it becomes [[Entendre Failure]]. If someone makes a perfectly innocent statement that others interpret as a [[Double Entendre]] anyway, it becomes an [[Un Entendre]]. Extreme cases of double-entendre interpretation can lead to [[Freud Was Right]].
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== Advertising ==
* Nando's, a South African chicken restaurant franchise that has a penchant for putting out controversial ads, covered this recently by airing a commercial for a fake yet somewhat similar restaurant, only to add a disclaimer at the end that shows the logos of the restaurants, a rooster in both cases, side by side, so Nando's could argue that their cock was bigger than theirs.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCZhJwuN-o Take a look]. It's [[Stan Freberg (Creator)]]-level good.
* A UK energy conservation advert, paraphrased: "When cooking, use only enough water to cover your vegetables. The same applies when having a bath." "Meat and two veg" is a jocular British euphemism for, well, you can guess.
* Lucky Strike cigarettes had a slogan old comedies loved to quote: "So round, so firm, so fully packed."
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** Considering the hairs in question are called 'erogenous zones' ''outright'' in the manga? This scene takes on a whole new meaning.
** The time Prussia invaded Austria's vital regions
* Chapter 13 of ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'' is largely an exercise in double entendres and [[Hurricane of Puns|dirty Japanese wordplay]] when Maeda realizes how much of a thrill he gets out of hearing Kirino say dirty things in that husky voice of hers. In Chapter 40, when Kirino tries to compose an original song, Maeda tricks her into performing a song laden with yet more double entendres. Then he does it ''again'' in Chapters 55 and 56, when he convinces Kirino to sing in a punk rock band (then weasels his way into the band himself). And ''again'' in Chapter 92, when Kirino tries out for a role in a movie musical. You'd think he would have learned by now...
* In one chapter of the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga, Yugi is explaining to Jounouchi how to exchange information between their digital pets, so that they can grow stronger. In doing so, he uses the word "gattai", which means both "combination" and "copulation". Jounouchi answers saying that their pets must "kouhai", that means "cross-fertilize" or "mate". Next to them, Honda [[That Came Out Wrong|warns them that people might hear them and misunderstand]].
** The English version translated this as Jounouchi saying "Alright, Yugi! Let's you and I mate [our virtual pets] right away!" and Honda complaining "[[Brain Bleach|I didn't need to hear that...]]"
* Non-sexual example. The first words out of Luffy's mouth in the broadcast Funimation dub of ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' were "That was fun, but I don't think I wanna go back there." In the show, he was talking about a dimensional ship graveyard the crew had just encountered. But coming off the previous dub which was handled by 4Kids, it was absolutely hilarious to the long suffering English fans.
* At one point in the ''[[Zombie Powder]]'' manga, Gamma's opponent demands that he "pull out his piece". When Gamma draws his sword, he holds it upwards at a forty-five degree angle from his crotch.
* In ''[[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', a good 80% of Panty's dialogue is this.
* In a rare instance of a dub being noticeably funnier than a direct translation, the English dub of the first episode of ''[[Burn Up|Burn Up Excess]]'' features Maya preparing for a firefight, cooing, "Oh Hideo, you're so hard and long. Just a little while and I'll let you shoot your whole load, I promise." Who's Hideo? ''[[I Call It Vera|Her handgun]]''.
* Episode 3 of ''[[Afro Samurai (Anime)|Afro Samurai]]'' shows our protagonist relentlessly pursued by a robot. When it's about to drop dead, it unleashes all its remaining energy in one final laser cannon blast that is barely averted. There a lot of phallic connotation to it, from the shape of the cannon (both before and after it fires) to the sidekick's quip once it's finally down: "I think he blew his load." That last double entendre actually harks back to the historical origins of the term "blowing your load" (the complete and proper firing of guns).
* In the trailer for episode 2 of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Rosette goes on about how she's going to lose something precious, carrying on about it (without providing any actual description to the item being lost) to the point where one would think she's going to end up losing her virginity. In the episode itself, it turns out the precious something she loses is her ''gun''.
* ''[[Getter Robo]]'': "If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!" He's talking about traveling through wormholes, we swear.
* The anime version of ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'' has a scene with dialogue between the main hero and heroine: "Be gentle" and "It's my first time", complete with heavy breathing. In reality they are crash landing on a enemy occupied planet- it's her first time landing a spaceship, and the heavy breathing is due to G-forces.
* In ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]: Tokyo 2040'', Linna attempts to explain why she wants to stay in Tokyo (actually to stay with the Knight Sabers, an incognito superteam, but she can't say that), but if you take the dialogue at face value, it sounds more like she's awkwardly trying to [[Coming Out Story|come out]] to her very traditional mother. Considering the amount of [[Les Yay]] between herself and other lead character Priss, there's rather considerable debate on whether this is actually ''exactly'' [[Not What It Looks Like|what it sounds like]].
* One volume of ''[[XXX HolicXxxHolic]]'' opens with Watanuki asking "Really... no problem?" with Yuuko seductively replying "None, Watanuki. Come on. As hard as you like..." {{spoiler|Cue the baseball pitch.}}
** This [[media:XXXHolicWTH.jpg|part of a chapter]]. WHY IS DOUMEKI LOOKING AT WATANUKI AFTER SAYING THAT? The [[Double Entendre]] in this case ''couldn't'' have been unintentional.
*** Given that ''[[XXX HolicXxxHolic]]'' is one of [[CLAMP]]'s babies, this isn't [[Freud Was Right|hard to grasp]] for some [[Yaoi Fangirl|veteran readers]]. Considering all the times others have likened Watanuki to a cat, and based on [[CLAMP]]'s [[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|track]] [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle|record]] [[Legal Drug|thus]] [[X 1999|far]], I'd say it's hardly a leap to assume they're pulling the same [[Ship Tease]] with Doumeki and Watanuki.
* In ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', Sheryl once comments that "Implants are common on Galaxy", but she is "all Natural". What she means are brain implants, like built-in cameras etc. However it hears more like... "something else".
* It wasn't Al's intention, but in the [[Full Metal Panic|Second Raid]] OVA his commentary of the combat situation he's running for Souske applies perfectly to what the half-naked, drunk Tessa is doing.
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{{quote| '''Link:''' Now to ''mount Zelda'' and ''ride through the night''.}}
*** that time, it is ''definitely'' intentional.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', during Yugi's duel with the Paradox Brothers:
{{quote| '''Yugi:''' Leave it to Beaver Warrior!<br />
''(Beaver Warrior gets destroyed)''<br />
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== Films ==
* In ''[[Get Smart (Filmfilm)|Get Smart]]'', [[Da Chief|TheChief]] mentions that they need to employ a new agent, unknown of KAOS who's acquired a list of all CONTROL agents and is eliminating them.
{{quote| '''Larabee:''' Let me out there, sir, I have no problem exposing myself.<br />
'''Agent 99:''' Do you ever think before you speak?<br />
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* Groucho Marx: ''[[Animal Crackers]]'' gives him the line "We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed." and has him present Margaret Dumont with a large wooden box. While describing it as "a magnificent chest", he accidentally points at her torso.
** Both lines are topped by when Groucho introduced a musical performance by Chico: "Signor Ravelli's first selection will be "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping" with a male chorus.'
* Lampshaded in the [[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|film version]] of ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]'': when talking to Harry, Hermione says Viktor Krum doesn't talk much, as he's "more of a physical being". There is a pause, and she laughs, saying that she didn't mean it that way.
** "So, did you and Ginny do it?"
* The female cop in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' speaks almost entirely in these, quite intentionally.
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* In the proud and dirty tradition of British comedy, ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' has some well-hidden but very deliberate double entendres. In ''Curse of the Wererabbit'', the object of Wallace's affections steps behind two very large marrows and sighs as she bemoans, "Victor just doesn't appreciate my produce." In another scene, Wallace finds himself suddenly naked, and quickly dons a cardboard box which reads "May Contain Nuts."
** The 2009 christmas special ''A Matter Of Loaf And Death'' includes too many of these. Particularly before the climactic final scene.
* Three words: Bond. [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]].
** Bond should probably have a special page just to list a choice sampling of this trope. Here's a real gem from ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'':
{{quote| '''Tiger Tanaka:''' I have much curiosity, Bond-san. What is "Little Nellie"?<br />
'''James Bond:''' Oh, she's a wonderful girl. Very small, quite fast, can do anything. Just your type.<ref> He's referring to a small gyrocopter being assembled from a five-case kit during these lines.</ref> }}
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* The song "Let's Duet" from ''Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story'' turns several innocuous lines into double entendres by virtue of well-(or poorly-)timed pauses. Such as: "In my dreams, you're blowing me... some kisses." and "I just want to beat off... all my demons."
** Played for laughs when Dewey sings a sweet song about holding hands at his high school dance. It's an utterly banal, benign song, but it inspires all the kids to dance provocatively; the girls even rip their shirts open. The outraged preacher later insists that everyone knows what "hold your hand" ''really'' means; a befuddled Dewey insists it means exactly that.
* [[Christopher Walken]] uses his trademarked delivery to create one of these in ''[[Antz (Animation)|Antz]]'': "She's about yay tall, fairly easy... on the eyes", describing the missing princess.
* ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'': "She's rich, she's beautiful, she's got huuuuge... tracts of land."
** While he's discussing the size of said tracts, he's making a lifting and grabbing motion with his hands, which are situated in front of his chest...
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* ''[[Hairspray]]'' has a very neat little ''Triple'' Entendre. Corny Collins, amid a mist of hairspray, declares to one of the female dancers, "Looks like you need a stiff one!"
* Brush up on your classics, people: The classic [[Film Noir|noir]] ''To Have and Have Not'' has Lauren Bacall intone to Humphrey Bogart, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... ''blow''."
** The film noir parody/homage ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Film)|Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'' one-ups this somewhat, when Rachel Ward tells Steve Martin, "You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles."
*** For all the kids in the audience: this joke references an old device known as a "rotary phone", which became obsolete somewhere in the 1980s. [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|And now you know.]]
** ''Double'' entendre? Even ignoring the preceding dialog, with Bacall's delivery that line doesn't even qualify as a ''single'' entendre. It's, like, 3/4 of an entendre, tops.
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'''John:''' I never doubted it. }}
* In ''Hard to Kill'', the nurse asks a comatose Steven Segal if he wanted some pussy, then shows him a kitten.
* In ''[[Josie and Thethe Pussycats (Filmfilm)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'', Melody causes a car crash when she holds up a promotional sign that read "Honk if you love pussycats". The "cats" part was concealed by a bush.
* In ''The Ladies Man'', Leon Phelps can't resist making innuendo when a nun he was interviewing starts talking about her "missionary position" in Africa.
* When Scorpio meets [[Dirty Harry]] for the first time, he comments on how big Harry's gun was.
* In ''[[Double Indemnity]]'', Walter and Phyllis start exchanging these the moment Phyllis appears at the top of the staircase wearing nothing but a towel.
{{quote| '''Neff:''' The insurance ran out on the fifteenth. I'd hate to think of your getting a smashed fender or something while you're not -- uh -- fully covered.}}
* ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' are a little ambiguous about just ''how many'':
{{quote| '''Mr. Smith:''' I don't exactly keep count, but I would say... high fifties, low sixties. I've been around the block, but you know the important thing is--<br />
'''Mrs. Smith:''' Three hundred and twelve.<br />
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'''Mrs. Smith:''' Some were [[Squick|two at a time]]. }}
** Naturally, {{spoiler|they were discussing how many people they'd killed.}}
* Even Disney did this (albeit unintentionally) in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', when Laverne incorrectly overheard Quasimodo and Esmeralda on top of the bell tower. "Frollo's nose is long, and he wears a truss." According to the directors' commentary, even though this wasn't the effect they were going for, kids often misheard "truss" as "dress." So the adults laughed at the idea of Frollo wearing a truss, and the kids (and some of the adults) laughed at the idea of Frollo wearing a dress.
** [while Esmeralda is dancing] "Look at that disgusting display!" (with an eager smile on his face) "Yes sir!"
** "I was just thinking about putting a rope around that pretty neck of yours"
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'''Satine:''' Why don't you lie down over here?<br />
'''Christian:''' I prefer to do it standing." ''(cue a very flabbergasted look from Satine)'' "You see, it can be quite long... }}
* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' does this throughout the movie.
{{quote| '''Dark Helmet:''' I see your Schwartz is as big as mine! Let's see how you ''handle'' it.}}
** And:<br />'''Colonel Sandurz:''' It's Mega Maid! She's gone from suck to blow!
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** It's most likely [[Accidental Innuendo|unintentional]], but really? The main characters' names are ''Woody'' and ''Buzz''? The [[Parallel Porn Titles|Sex Toy Story]] parody writes ''itself''.
** There is also the line by Rex at the end of the first movie about how he would like for Andy to get a herbivore so he could play the "dominant predator".
* ''[[Nuns Onon the Run]]'' has a few, since the plot is British gangsters forced to hide as nuns.
* Most of the Olsen Twins movies are peppered with really [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJhfwbfMvU/ creepy] double entendres, as can be found [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4145060864/tt0270560/ here].
* In ''[[Charlie's Angels (TV)|Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle]]'' Alex's dad thinks his daughter is a prostitute. A [[Running Gag]] has her words fit that description.
{{quote| '''Alex:''' I'm so sorry Daddy, that I didn't tell you. I didn't think you'd approve and I didn't wanna disappoint you. I know how you wanted me to be a neurosurgeon. But I've discovered a whole new way to help people... that makes me feel so... alive.<br />
'''Mr. Munday:''' Whatever makes you happy.<br />
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* ''[[Dick]]'' has more than one off-color use of Richard Nixon's nickname.
* ''[[Mystery Team]]'' Charlie is completely incapable of understanding them
* This line from Erik in ''[[X -Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men: First Class]]'' was referring to their mutant powers but could easily have another meaning as he and Charles were [[It Makes Sense in Context|in a strip club talking to a stripper.]]
{{quote| '''Erik:''' We'll show you ours, if you show us yours.}}
* [[Cannibal! theThe Musical]] has a remarkably unique one (in that no one had done it before), which also handliy resolves an earlier [[It May Help You Onon Your Quest]] and neatly avoids becoming a [[Brick Joke]]: "Fudge, Packer?"
* In the Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie ''Lover Come Back'', Day's ad exec character gets the idea to come up with new packaging for Miller floor wax. She says' "The agency that gets this account is the agency that can show Mr. Miller a new can." Cut to a line of [[Expy|Bunny Club]] [[Playboy Bunny|Bunnies]], seen from [[Incredibly Lame Pun|behind]]
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''. Early in the movie Bart (played by the African-American actor Cleavon Little) is almost hanged. Later on a friend greets him with the line "They said you was hung!" and Bart says "And they was right!" (i.e. "well hung", well endowed).
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== Literature ==
* In [[Charles Dickens (Creator)|Charles Dickens]]' [[Oliver Twist]], Charlie Bates is referred to as Master Bates throughout most of the book.
* A non-sexual example: ''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]''. A story about a hunter who grows tired of hunting animals, so he kidnaps people and sets them loose in a jungle for the purpose of hunting them. The ''title'' in this case is the double entendre. One meaning is that the actual sport of hunting is the most dangerous game to play, but the other meaning is that humans are the most dangerous game to hunt.(And therefore the most challenging according to the hunter's logic.)
* Another non-sexual example is Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous poem, "Ozymandias" in which on a shattered ruins of a colossal statue, the inscription reads:
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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" }}
** The original meaning of "despair" was that nobody could hope to equal his achievements, but seeing the statue in ruins, the reader might "despair" to find that all beings are mortal.
* Nanny Ogg from the ''[[Discworld]]'' series by [[Terry Pratchett]] enjoys using these, although according to ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', hers are usually "single entendres, and proud of it". Then there's this gem:
{{quote| '''Nanny Ogg:''' 'S called the Vieux River.<br />
'''Granny Weatherwax:''' Yes?<br />
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** The witches aren't alone with this. Mustrum Ridcully calls the University organ "Our Mighty Organ". Much to the dismay of the rest of the wizards.
*** It's possible that one's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|purposefully done by Ridcully]].
** There's also a non-sexual double meaning in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', when Sybil is musing on Vimes' berserk rage: "There'd been the case with that little girl and those men over in Dolly Sisters, and when they broke in he'd found that one of them had stolen one of her shoes, and she'd heard Detritus say that if he hadn't been there only Sam would have walked out of the room alive." Vimes insists that he's never deliberately killed anyone, so probably the obvious meaning is the true one here, but one can imagine that Sybil is pretty damn worried over the phrasing.
*** Speaking of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', there's also a subplot concerning an industrialist who gets murdered in his own condom factory. There's as much [[Double Entendre]] as you'd expect; enough, indeed, that the word "condom" isn't mentioned once and doesn't need to be.
**** That's because in ''Discworld'' the handy little thing has been named after its inventor as a 'sonky'. One of those [[Inherently Funny Words]].
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]'', Vimes tells newspaper editor William de Worde that it looks as though the President of the Guild of Shoemakers and Leatherworkers will be the next Patrician, and names the man and gives the address of his shop. The guy doesn't sell shoes, but what he does sell comes under the heading of leatherwork, and there isn't a Guild of Makers of Little Jiggly Things for him to belong to instead.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Snuff|Snuff]]'', Vimes keeps trying to use these, but Sybil curtails him.
* ''[[Thursday Next]]'' villains have these in their names (Jack Schitt even gets lampshaded). As does Daphne Farquitt.
* One Robert Rankin novel featured a woman who communicated entirely in [[Double Entendre]], culminating in "that would be the blow job", referring to the job of blowing into a clogged nozzle to clear the blockage.
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* [[Kerry Greenwood]]'s ''[[Phryne Fisher]]'' novels have a song that goes, "My man Tom has a thing that is long" to which the response is "My maid Mary has a thing that is hairy" and it goes on about how Tom is going to put his thing that is long in Mary's thing that is hairy... and it's a broom handle and a broom head.
** The song in question is ''real'', and is attributed on [http://www.amazon.com/Art-Bawdy-Song-Henry-Aldrich/dp/B000001Q93 this album] to Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521).
* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' fans have found dozens of [[Have a Gay Old Time|unintentional]] (and some [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|intentional]]) innuendos:
{{quote| "What d'you mean, I'm not brave in bed?" said Harry, completely nonplussed.<br />
There was a groan of bedsprings, and Harry's mattress descended a few inches as George sat down near his feet. "So, got there yet?" said George eagerly.<br />
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* ''[[Daisy Miller]]'' is full of these, such as Daisy constantly remarking how "stiff" Winterbourne is in her presence, and Winterbourne's acquaintances using "studying at Geneva" as a code for something else entirely...
* The ''cantigas de amigo'' from medieval Galicia, ''amigo'' meaning in this case ''boyfriend'' and not ''friend''. Example: A girl comments to her mother that there was a deer playing in the river while she cleaned her clothes.
* [[Christopher Hitchens]] wrote a book highly critical of Mother Teresa, [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Characterizing her]] not as a saintly charitable worker, but as a [[The Sociopath|sociopathic]] [[Cult|cultist]] [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]] who used the poor for the aggrandizement of her order. The book was entitled "The Missionary Position". Another working title was "Sacred Cow", but Hitchens considered it in bad taste.
* The ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' novel ''Undertaker's Gift'', when Jack nearly shoots Ianto.
{{quote| Ianto: Don't shoot. I'll come quietly. Or loudly, whichever you prefer.}}
* An odd example appears in the audiobook - and possibly ONLY the audiobook, depending on how you read it - of Patricia C. Wrede's [[Enchanted Forest Chronicles|Dealing With Dragons]]. Cimorene's father, upon hearing that she doesn't want to marry Prince Therandil, responds with, "Well, it's not exactly a brilliant match, but I didn't think you'd care how big his kingdom is." The voice actor on the audiobook takes it one step further by including a significant pause between "his" and "kingdom."
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== Live-Action TV ==
* [[Skele -Bot 9000|Geoff Peterson]] on ''[[The Late Late Show]] with Craig Ferguson'' likes to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on double entendres with, "Is that ''code''?" Then again, he likes to make 'em as well.
* In ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]'' Lois is explaining to Clark how to wear cufflinks "make sure this part sticks up straight then it slides right in" judging by her face it seems that she only noticed the double entendre after she said it.
* A non-sexual example can be found in the title of the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[To Serve Man]]" (based on a short story by Damon Night). The title can mean either "to perform a service for humanity" or "to serve the meat of a human as food." Given the show, guess which one they're talking about here.
* ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'' lives and breathes double entendre, most notoriously those involving Mrs. Slocombe's pussy (cat). Then there's the mild one right in the title.
* ''[[ICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'': Despite being a kids show, the writers can be [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|mercilessly subtle]] with such dialogues.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''
** Tobia's homosexual tendencies are a running joke in the show; he makes frequent sexual double-entendres to which he seems completely oblivious.
{{quote| '''Tobias Funke:''' ... even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up.}}
** While talking to Michael after preparing to audition for the Blue Man Group with full makeup:
{{quote| '''Tobias Funke:''' I just blue myself!}}
* ''[[Pee Wees-wee's Playhouse]]'', which was ostensibly a children's show, thrived on subtle double entendres.
** One of the best ones:
{{quote| '''Cowboy Curtis:''' You know what they say about a man with big feet?<br />
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'''Oz:''' That's great, Larry. You've really mastered the single entendre. }}
*** Also, Larry is actually gay, so the above line works pretty well for a gay guy trying to hide his gayness.
** The end of Willow and Tara's song in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S6 E7 Once More With Feeling|Once More With Feeling]]" with lyrics like ''I can feel you inside'' and ''Lost in ecstasy, spread beneath my Willow tree''. Joss later admits in the commentary, "OK, this is porn."
{{quote| [[Calling Your Orgasms|"You make me com... plete! You make me com... plete! You make me com... plete!"]]}}
** "Once More With Feeling" is riddled with it. The song with Xander and Anya have a few: "You're the cutest of the scoobies with your lips as red as rubies and your firm yet supple.. [[Last-Second Word Swap|tight embrace]]"
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** Another non-comic version is in "Fool for Love" when Spike is sparring with Buffy outside the Bronze while relating how he killed her predecessors. Spike's talk of 'dancing' (fighting to the death) with Buffy [[Sex Is Violence|increasingly takes on sexual overtones]] until he's driven to make an actual pass at her. Buffy's disgusted rejection of the idea that Spike will be the one to kill her is played exactly like Buffy rejecting the idea that she will ever become his lover.
** The scene between Willow and Spike in season 4 (just after he's been made unable to hurt people) when he tries to bite her and can't. Just replace every instance of "bite" with...you know...
* ''[[Three's Company (TV)|Threes Company]]'' enjoyed a healthy dose. It was the premise of the show. In fact, almost every plot was an extended Innocent Innuendo.
* ''[[Queer Asas Folk]]'' to an occasionally ridiculous degree, but the famous 'I'm coming' is never featured.
* Almost every television series starring Rik Mayall (''[[The Young Ones]]'') featured a number of double entendres every episode; in fact, the original intent of calling one series ''[[Bottom]]'' was to force double entendre on the viewers: "I saw that 'Bottom' on telly the other night -- no, wait, that's not what I meant." The original title of the show, "Your Bottom", made the double entendre even worse: "I saw Your Bottom on TV yesterday."
** There a bit of this within-show, as well:''"Now can we just get our equipment out? I mean, get our '''tackle''' out... no, I mean, get our '''GEAR''' out! Oh my God, you can't say '''anything''' without some dreadful double entendre lurking round the corner!"''
*** Gleefully played with in one Bottom live show where characters, actors and audience all know of the (barely) double meanings. "For hours we clung to your ''sturdy organ'' as we were ''tossed'' about in the ''foamy''... ''brine''!"
** Surprisingly, ''[[The New Statesman]]'', for a Mayall series, is relatively free of double entendres, except for the lead character's name, Alan B'Stard. Maybe the rule regarding Mayall should be that he double-entendres himself to death in any role written by either himself or Ben Elton. His double-entendres as the various Lord Flashhearts on ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'' are barely single entendres, and are the exemplars of this trope. 'Send a car. General Melchett's driver should do. She's used to hanging around with the big nobs so will be fine with a chap like me. Woof!'
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Doctor Dances": Dancing is used as a euphemism for sex, showing off the Doctor's problems with intimacy and Captain Jack's flexibility, among other things. In a rare visual double entendre, the Doctor ''literally'' slips Jack a banana. This is reused in "The Girl in the Fireplace", when Reinette asks the Doctor to dance with her. Notably, this episode also features the Doctor utilizing a banana. (He visits a really wild party, gets very drunk and may have invented the banana daiquiri. {{spoiler|Except that he doesn't.}})
** Also, in "The Two Doctors", Jamie and the Second Doctor spot a spaceship via the scanner screen.
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** River Song asks the Doctor to sonic her radio to boost the frequency. Amy, on the other hand...
{{quote| "Ooh, Doctor, you ''sonicked'' her!"}}
* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' has quite a few by virtue of being... well. ''Torchwood''.
* ''[[Benny Hill]]'' built a career out of them.
* A particularly transparent example from ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'' involved a discussion between Chandler and a coworker about the inclusion of information from the "[[Fun Withwith Acronyms|Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistics]]" in the "[[Fun Withwith Acronyms|Annual Net Usage Statistics]]" -- that is, the insertion of the WENUS into the ANUS.
** Another example from ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'' when Monica is asked that why she sold her stock:
{{quote| '''Monica:''' Ya know, my motto is get out before they go down.<br />
'''Joey:''' This is so not my motto. }}
*** Joey apparently has a talent to make anything sound like innuendo. Take, for example, like "Grandma's chicken salad".
* ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' has these from time to time. For example, Sara saying, out of the blue "I've got crabs.", with Gil looking at her funny, then she points at a piece of evidence she's examining, which has... crabs. (That was one of the ickiest episodes of all of ''CSI'', which is famous for its levels of [[Squick]]. Also one of the few with no B or C Corpses.)
* In ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'', a character named Todd turns nearly everything said to him (or near him) into a double entendre. ("I'd like to double ''her'' entendre!")
{{quote| '''Patient:''' Doctor, I'm getting a little tired of the sexual innuendo.<br />
'''Todd:''' In-'''your'''-endo. }}
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** The "Professor Mayang Lee" segments are full of it. Let's just say that she is rather large in a certain area and it involves fruit.
** Also the "How hard is your thing?" segment. PLUS, as a bonus, on one of the 'NASA didn't try...' segments (the car one), at the end Vic states that Braniac will be responsible for, and I quote "The first pilot of a rocket car to blast off on Uranus."
* In one ''[[BeakmansBeakman's World]]'' segment explaining rotational inertia, Beakman breaks out the Beakman Rotational Aerodynamic Thingies. Commence thingy-twirling jokes, and compound that with the fact that the girl wins...
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':
** One sketch sees a [[Dirty Old Man]] go into a newsagents and interpret all of the adverts on the noticeboard as being adverts for prostitutes, eventually leading him to some truly ludicrous double entendres when he tries to get further details from the newsagent. ("I'd like a bit of pram, please!") Eventually, in frustration he demands the actual prostitute's advert, which is written in a fashion bluntly describing what is on offer (Sexy blonde prostitute, will perform all acts...) -- and doesn't understand a word of it.
** The Wink Wink Nudge Nudge guy, who turns everything said to him into a double entendre, no matter how forced it is, and then tries to force a double entendre into everything ''he'' says. In the end, the character admits it's because he's never had sex and wonders what that's like.
* The British children's TV show ''Rainbow'': ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0XcxrWc7M Holyshit]''. {{spoiler|No, the episode was never broadcast, it was just a joke among the staff.}}
* ''[[Mystery Science TheatreTheater 3000]]'' explored this trope when the 'bots asked Joel why the actors in the movies were talking the way they were. Joel explained that by controlling the inflection of your voice you can make ''anything'' sound sexual. He went on to demonstrate with such phrases as "The Factory is still open, but they are ''making different stuff''" or "Yep, My shoes are a ''little tight''."
** She came back from the store with a bag of apples... ''and a loaf of bread!''
* The entire premise of ''[[Jack of All Trades (TV series)|Jack of All Trades]]'' appears to be to string together as many puns and [[Double Entendre|double entendres]] as possible.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' includes some amusing examples. In the episode "War Stories", Jayne watches Inara kissing a female client -- and right after he proclaims he's [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|going to his bunk]], Zoe orders him to "grab your weapon" for a potentially dangerous mission.
** From Our Mrs. Reynolds: "Jayne. Go play with your rain stick."
* ''[[Seinfeld (TV)|Seinfeld]]'' had almost a ton of these. The contest episode in particular.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' (which has been packed with double entendres since 1975) has this in early ''Celebrity Jeopardy'' sketches, in which Sean Connery would turn the categories into these. For example...
{{quote| '''Connery:''' I'll take Jap-Anus Relations.<br />
'''Trebek:''' That's "Japan-US Relations".<br />
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''(...)''<br />
'''Connery:''' I've got to ask you about The Penis Mightier...<br />
'''Trebek:''' That's "[[The Problem Withwith Pen Island|The Pen Is Mightier]]".<br />
'''Connery:''' I don't care what you call it, I'm asking does it work?!<br />
''(...)''<br />
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** Also a series of [[Parody Commercial|parody campaign ads]] in which Pat Finger runs for city council of Butts, New York. ("In 1869, my great-grandfather, E. T. Finger fell in love with Butts and, well, there's been a whole mess of Fingers in Butts ever since.")
** [[Robert De Niro]] [http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2004/m_deniro-p1.php played] a CIA spokesman who read lists of suspected terrorists - "most of the calls have come from high school and college students nationwide". They include Hous Bin Pharteen ("a silent, but deadly killer"), I-Zheet M'Drurz ("when he was fleeing the scene of his last attack, he left skidmarks") and Apul Madeek ("who we believe will be targeting adult bookstores sometime in the near future")
* In ''[[The Office (TV)|The Office]]'' (UK version) Tim and Dawn amuse themselves with a perfectly innocent conversation about armed combat with Gareth.
{{quote| '''Tim:''' If a military man like you, a soldier, er, could you give a man a lethal blow?<br />
'''Gareth:''' If I was forced to, I could. If it was absolutely necessary, if he was attacking me.<br />
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* As with the movie examples above, Groucho Marx was known for his quick wit in his talk show, ''[[You Bet Your Life]]''. One interview with a woman with many children led him to ask why she had so many. She replied that she loved her husband. His reply: "Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!" Apparently everyone in the studio was in hysterics for some time. <ref> It's actually just an urban legend as no tape of the episode exists and Groucho vehemently denied ever saying it. However, it's still funny either way.</ref>
* I'd insert all the double entendres from ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' in here, but fun as it is I don't want to be doing this all day, and frankly it could be too long for the page to handle.
* The narrator and sometimes even the crew of ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]'' seems rather fond of double entendres. "It's time to play hide the sausage" from the Salami Rocket myth, for example.
** The less said about Adam riding the giant chicken cannon, the better.
* Mike Rowe from ''[[Dirty Jobs]]'' is fond of these as well.
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* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is not averse to these.
{{quote| '''Garibaldi:''' ''(faced with a pack of Drazi missionaries, early in the third season)'' Zack, do me a favour and explain the missionary, ah, position to these folk.}}
* Tyrone F. Horneigh, the recurring [[Dirty Old Man]] character in ''[[Rowan and MartinsMartin's Laugh -In]]''.
{{quote| '''Horneigh:''' Say, do you believe in the hereafter?<br />
'''Woman:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Horneigh:''' Well, now you know what I'm here after. }}
* Half the jokes in ''[[On the Buses]]'' revolve around Jack and Stan cracking double entendres.
* ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]''
** An episode is based around the male characters all trying to buy better cell-phones than each other. The following dialogue occurs between one of said men and an unsuspecting local.
{{quote| "Goddamit! I'm sure of it now." <br />
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* ''[[Rules of Engagement]]'' features more than a few, usually delivered by Russell. However, one of the funniest episodes features a woman who speaks in nothing but double entendres, seemingly without realising what she is doing, and this drives Russell nuts. Her best effort occurs when she is talking about the new nightclub she is starting:
{{quote| "You guys should totally check out my opening. It takes a while for things to warm up down there, so try not to come too early."}}
* Doctor Gregory [[House (TV series)|House]] is also fond of double entendres, though in season 4's "Whatever it Takes" he fails, saying: {{spoiler|"You know, I happen to have a position available on my penis... Wait a second, I think I screwed up that joke."}}
** An example played straight in season 4 from "Don't Ever Change": House asks Thirteen, "You do it both ways, right?" Earlier in the episode she is revealed to be bisexual. House claims he was referring to two ways of doing an ultrasound.
* It also qualifies as an instance of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], but one episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' (s2 ep6) features a female character squeezing by Dean in a tight space between walls of an apartment complex. Dean mutters "Should've cleaned the pipes." When he is asked what that meant, he quickly shines a flashlight over to the plumbing and stammers something out.
* [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/103262/september-24-2007/alpha-dog-of-the-week---honniball This] particular segment on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', about someone who was caught working in the nude.
* ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'' had one in an episode about Volcanoes. It showed a family of three sitting at a table, and the dad had made his mashed potatoes into a tall, semi-cone shaped blob. He then took a large spoonful of gravy and poured it onto the top and watched it drip down the sides. And then he talks to his wife while continuing to pour gravy on it:
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'''Mom:''' Oh, alright... If you insist... ''(suddenly very serious)'' It reminds me of a Strata Cone Volcano, which builds up in the Earth's crust to make it BIG.... and STRONG... ''(sexy hissing)''<br />
'''Son:''' ... Dad?... May I please be excused from the table? }}
* ''My Boys'' had one. The protagonist's old friend visits her, bringing her ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'' look-a-like friends. The one that acts like Samantha speaks in so much innuendo that no one understands her.
* ''[[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|Power Rangers RPM]]''. Ziggy has recently learned that [[Samus Is a Girl|Dr. K is a girl]]. Watch what happens:
{{quote| '''Ziggy:''' I would have layed odds that you were a dude.<br />
'''Dr K:'''... Sorry to disappoint you. }}
* ''[[Will and Grace]]'' is built on double entendre.
* The Brazillian show ''Casseta e Planeta: urgente'' was known to use a joke about a woodman that remove latex from wood. The joke was about him removing "milk" (the latex) from wood. Wood in portuguese means "pau", that is also an euphemism for cock. In context, it means he was having a handjob. It's was a little subverted because the woodman called the double entendre just moments before was said. It reached extreme levels when he interrupted a commercial about a satellite that could take pictures of all over the world (possibly the google earth) and complained about the overusing of the joke while LOOKING STRAIGHT to the satellite.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' had this exchange between Tony and Ziva whose whole relationship seem to based on. After a cat has run out the pet door and Tony jumps startled:
{{quote| '''Ziva:''' Tony, I never knew you were afraid of a little pussy... cat.}}
** Another such example was during another of Tony and Ziva's bantering sessions, where Ziva says, "Tony, I've told you, I like to have fun in more...adult ways." It turns out that she's talking about reading, but it's understandable why people might initially interpret it in a very different way.
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{{quote| '''Georgina:''' No thank you, the Lord cannot enter the body solely by alcohol.<br />
'''Chuck:''' That's good, because I prefer to be the one doing the entering. }}
* When Richard Woolsey on ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' discovers that a new (gorgeous female) team member is standing in the area of the city he uses to reflect on his thoughts:
{{quote| '''Woolsey:''' You poached my private spot!... Uh, what I meant to say is: you discovered my little personal area... Uh, this is where I ''come'' to be alone with my thoughts.<br />
'''Conrad:''' Do you mind sharing it?<br />
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'''Hammond:''' Yep.<br />
'''Clarkson:''' (bursts out laughing) }}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Dave from ''[[Titus (TV)|Titus]]'' thinks he hears these often. Or can make the audience make them. Papa Titus frequently makes them as well.
{{quote| '''Titus:''' Dad, you're not in love with her. It's a heart attack rebound thing. It's the angina talking!<br />
'''Dave:''' It TALKS?! }}
* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' straddles the line between this and [[Refuge in Audacity]] frequently. See attached: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BjDmEhbPLY
* There's a rather clever one in the Easter 2010 ''[[Jonathan Creek (TV)|Jonathan Creek]]'' special - while talking about carpentry, [[The Vicar]] states "if I have a vice, it's to be screwed on the edge of a bench." before adding "that's got me into trouble on more than one occasion."
* In the first episode of ''[[Castle (TV)|Castle]]'' there's the line "we could go to dinner, debrief each other"
** And from season 3:
{{quote| '''Castle:''' We should savor this moment and--<br />
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** Also in the last episode of Season 3 we get this one:
{{quote| Carter: I love it when you talk nerdy to me.}}
* ''[[Married... Withwith Children (TV)|Married With Children]]'' was quite generous with the double entendres, perhaps the funniest when Al and Jefferson are trying to assemble a work bench and Al is frustrated with trying to align two "L" brackets:
{{quote| '''Al:''' I can't find the hole! (''Peggy, nearby, flashes a shit-eating grin'')}}
* In one episode of ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'', the lads' apartment are encased in concrete with no connection to the outside world. Tim, off-hand, mentions "building a better world for our children". Cue Bill explaining to him that they're not going to have any children, are they, culminating in this:
{{quote| '''Bill:''' Let's face it, for the next three years, we three are doomed to be bachelors [[Have a Gay Old Time|gay]]. ''(puts his hand on Tim's shoulder, grinning)'' ''[[Ho Yay|That's]]'' [[Ho Yay|an idea, isn't it?]]}}
** Also, later on:
{{quote| '''Tim:''' ''(shocked)'' But a man isn't a man unless he exercises his right for fatherhood!<br />
'''Bill:''' You can exercise it all you want, mate, but it won't get you anywhere! }}
* Mulder of ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]'' loves to do this to his stoic, uptight partner, Scully, because she gets visibly flustered by it. At least for the first few seasons. Then she just starts rolling her eyes and tuning him out. From "Syzygy":
{{quote| '''Mulder:''' ''(about handling evidence)'' Go ahead.<br />
'''Scully:''' No, you go ahead.<br />
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{{quote| '''Mulder:''' I was merely extending a professional courtesy to her.<br />
'''Scully:''' Oh is ''that'' what you were extending? }}
* In ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 E12 Comparative Religion|Comparative Religion]] Jeff commends Pierce on not reacting to Shirley commenting on the Dean "shoving his [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|PC-ness]] down my throat." Turns out the only reason was that Pierce didn't get it until Jeff pointed it out.
* A 1974 telecast of ''[[Tattletales]]'' had the following question posited to the wives: "If I want something from my husband, to make sure I get 'yes' for an answer, I always approach him after he's had _______." (Gene Rayburn guest hosted that week as regular host Bert Convy was on the panel with ''his'' wife, so the question was posed a la [[Match Game]].) Harvey Korman predicted his wife Donna would say "a drink." Donna's response: "It's either pizza or sex..." As the audience roared with laughter, Harvey topped it: "With or without sausage?"
* In ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'', a lot of the "fake" answers were these.
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'''Jack:''' ''[Pause]'' It is kinda big.<br />
'''Rose Marie:''' I was wondering -- I know you're awfully busy -- but I thought you might come round to my flat one evening. ''[Laughs.]'' I know you'll think I'm silly, but I'd find it much less daunting there and we could really have a proper... talk. }}
* Many of ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun]]'''s episode titles are puns based on Dick Solomon's first name:
** "Dick, Smoker"
** "Assault With a Deadly Dick"
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* The 70s game show [[Match Game]] was notorious for these. And it got worse in the '90s remake.
* Pick a segment-title from ''[[The Daily Show]]''. Chances are pretty damn good that it's a [[Double Entendre]].
* In the ''[[That 70s Show (TV)|That 70s Show]]'' episode "Jackie's Cheese Squeeze", Jackie feels neglected by his boyfriend, Kelso, and ends up kissing her boss at the mall where she works as a cheese maiden. Eric catches them, and later tortures Jackie by making double entendres in Kelso's presence:
{{quote| '''Jackie:''' I just came to get Michael. Come on.<br />
'''Eric:''' Oh, no, stay! We're just gonna hang out and fool around. We all know how much you like to... fool around.<br />
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* "Squeeze Box" with [[The Who]]. [[Word of God|Pete Townsend]] says its just a song about a woman playing an accordion, deliberately written to invoke this effect.
* The [[Bowling for Soup]] song "My Wena" is one long innuendo. They even make it obvious in the original version of the video with a woman in a penis costume. In the end, it's revealed that the entire song is about a Dachshund named Wena.
* The [[ACDC (Music)|ACDC]] song "Big Balls" is one unbroken double entendre -- as evidenced by the song's name.
** Let's face it: Everything those guys have recorded since their first album has been some flavor of thinly veiled, squick-ily obvious sexual reference,
** The album notes for Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap refers to Big Balls as "Not subtle enough to be a double entendre. It's more like a single entendre."
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* By Big & Rich, the entire song of "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)". You read that right- the song is actually named Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).
** The lyrics (and these are ACTUAL lyrics) "I'm a thoroughbred, that's what she said".
* Bull Moose Jackson's "Big Ten Inch Record" (famously covered by [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]]) uses verse breaks to create double entendres:
{{quote| ''But I really get her going<br />
When I whip out my big 10 inch<br />
[[Beat|...]]<br />
record of a band that plays the blues...'' }}
* [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]]'s song "Love in an Elevator".
{{quote| ''Goooooooing Doooooown!''}}
** Look closely at the name of the album "Night in the Ruts".
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* The last line of Tenacious D's "Wonderboy" goes "There, that crevasse; fill it with your mighty juice." Hmm, wonder what that might be...
* ''[[Knorkator (Music)|Knorkators]]'' "Song of the horse" might be a completely innocent song about the deep friendship between the vocalist and his horse. But since there is no actual reference to a horse in the lyrics, it might also be entirely about sex.
* 50s song "Laundromat Blues" by 5 Royales:
{{quote| ''Throw in all your dirty clothes, all your dirty duds<br />
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* Les Sucettes, written by Serge Gainsbourg for France Gall, like many of Gainsbourg's songs, is full of this. It's special however, as the singer, who was 17(!) at the time, took a year to have a Swiss Moment to associate lollipops with oral sex. She was pissed.
* In a rare, non-sexual version, the cover for [[Rush]]'s ''Moving Pictures'' is a ''triple'' entendre. There are people moving pictures, people finding the pictures moving emotionally, and somebody making a moving picture of the scene.
* [[Cheer Up, Charlie Daniels (Music)|Cheer Up Charlie Daniels]] does this ''a lot''.
* Rodney Carrington's song "Fred" features a cowboy, his horse, and his lady love, all named Fred. The chorus is "Fred's a-ridin', Fred's a-ridin' Fred, Fred's ridin' Fred, Fred's ridin' Fred. Fred's ridin' Fred" and admits of any interpretation from the completely innocent to the unspeakably kinky.
* "The Stroke" by Billy Squier - thought to be about [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|masturbation]].
** An alternate interpretation suggests it's an indictment of the music industry.
* Kip Adotta's "Wet Dream" is a double entendre by title alone and is full of undersea puns and double entendres:
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* The Hungarian rapper ''Sub Bass Monster'''s song ''4 ütem'' (4 phases) has lyrics that are equally suitable at describing the workings of an internal combustion engine and being a [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|needlessly over-complicated description]] of smoking, to hilarious effect.
* [[Katy Perry (Music)|Katy Perry]]'s "Peacock" song, although it barely hides the meaning. Hint: if you don't get it right away, split the word into two words. Now what?......and, no, it's not about an [[Completely Missing the Point|exotic bird.]]
** "California Gurls" also has a phallic entendre: "Sun-kissed skin, so hot, we'll melt your popsicle".
* Lots of traditional British [[Folk Music|folk songs]]. The "Bonny Black Hare" starts off with the singer aiming his "gun" at a "black hare" that's hidden under a woman's skirt. During the second verse, it abandons this metaphor and is just them having sex. "The Cuckoo's Nest" (recorded by Steeleye Span as "Drink Down The Moon") is just as bad ("I'll give any lass a shilling and a bottle of the best/Just to rumple up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest"). For more of this sort of thing, see [[Bawdy Song]].
* [[Billy Joel]]'s song "Christie Lee" is about a saxophone player who meets a woman at his gig, who is impressed by his skill and comes home with him so he can "perform" for her. In case it wasn't clear, we get this lyric: "He couldn't see that Christie Lee was a woman/who didn't need another lover; all she wanted was the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|sax]]!"
* [[ACDC (Music)|ACDC]]'s "The Jack", (at least in it's original album form) is ostensibly about a poker game, but with lines like 'How was I to know that she'd been shuffled before... said she'd never had a royal flush' and 'She was holding a pair, but I had to try...' and 'She'd have the cards to bring me down, if she played them right' its clearly about [[Good People Have Good Sex|something else]].
** It's not about ''[[Good People Have Good Sex|that]]'', it's about ''[[wikipedia:Sexually transmitted disease|this]]''.
* [[Queen]]'s "I'm In Love With My Car" is either a sex euphemism (this is Queen after all) or it's a [[Car Song]] that even [[Top Gear|Richard 'Oliver!' Hammond]] would find a bit worrying: 'Such a clean machine, With the pistons a pumpin' And the hub caps all gleam'.
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* Similar to "Christie Lee" is "[[wikipedia:Bodhrán|Bodhráns]] on the Brain" by Black 47.
::"I told her to skin a goat/And take it back to my place ... we hammered away relentlessly until the dawn" indeed.
* The [[Bryan Adams (Music)|Bryan Adams]] song "Summer of 69" is ''not'' about the year 1969.
* One of the infamous deal-breakers that caused [[H Ea RTHeart]] to leave their first label, Mushroom Records, was an [[No Such Thing Asas Bad Publicity|deliberately controversial ad]] for ''Dreamboat Annie'' they published without consulting the Wilson sisters, with double entendres insinuating they were [[Incest Subtext|lesbian sister lovers]]. The headline read "It Was Our First Time". This embarrassment, and the heckling they endured not long after by chauvinistic male executives at a label showcase, were the inspiration being one of their toughest rockers, "Barracuda" (referring to the "barracuda" tour jackets the hecklers wore).
* Every single one of ''Blood On The Dance Floor'''s songs have these kinds of jokes. Every goddamn one of them. No exceptions. And none of them are at all subtle.
* ''Are You Experienced'' from [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]] is one where two meanings are sexual; "experienced" could be either a adjective or a verb.
* Brian Hyland's ''Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini'' sounds like it's about a bashful teenage girl in said outfit. It was actually about Brian's 2-year-old (at the time) daughter.
* "[http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/craig_campbell/fish.html Fish]" by Craig Campbell has a bunch, including "I had everything we needed in the bed of my truck / Turns out my baby loves to... / [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion|Fish, she wants to do it all the time]]", "And I love how she looks with that rod in her hand", "With her hooks and her sinkers and her pretty pink bobbers", etc.
* [[Warrant (Music)|Warrant]]'s "[[Intercourse Withwith You|Cherry Pie]]" has several of these:
{{quote| Swingin' in there 'cause<br />
She wanted me to feed her<br />
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== Radio ==
* Scoring girl Samantha from BBC Radio 4 show ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)|I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' owns this Trope, having had it for almost 40 years...
** ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)|In Search of Mornington Crescent]]'' features a spoof cricket commentry in which [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] versions of Johnston and Blofeld discuss a cricketer called Geoffrey Hiscock, including such lines as "It was a bold decision for Gardner to open the batting with Hiscock" and "Hiscock is out! And the umpire is pointing Hiscock towards the pavillion." And so on...
** Clue's spin-off, ''You'll Have Had Your Tea'', is another major offender. For instance, when Dougal's entered a "Macathalon":
{{quote| '''Hamish:''' Are you up for it?<br />
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'''Dougal:''' [[Bait and Switch|Yes]]. }}
** And the original show which ''Clue'' was spun off of, ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (Radio)|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'', also did it on occassion, using radio for full ambiguity. IIRC, from ''Black Cinderella 2 Goes East'':
{{quote| '''Princess Sally:''' Oh, you're not really Jewish. You're just saying you are.<br />
'''Prince Charming:''' But I am! Wait, I'll show you! Hang on while I get it out! ''(rustling sound)'' There! You can't get much more Jewish than that, can you?<br />
'''Princess Sally:''' ...That doesn't prove anything. Anyone can buy a skullcap. }}
* ''The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show'' has a rap song about [[William Shakespeare]]'s characters and their need to practice safe sex: "Rap Your Willy!"
* A staple of ''[[Round the Horne (Radio)|Round the Horne]]''. At one point, Horne and Williams break character so that Horne can express his concern that the audience may be seeing a second meaning in what they say; Williams replies "Second meaning? Them? They don't even see the ''first'' meaning -- they just laugh at anything that might be dirty."
* A staple of all BBC Radio comedy, ever. On programme featured a spoof letter from someone objecting to the amount of double entendre on the airwaves, saying "I don't wish sex to be forced down my throat. It leaves a nasty taste in my mouth, and I'm not swallowing it."
* In a spoof technothriller on ''Saturday Night Fry'', [[Stephen Fry]]'s character, Dr Fordyce, discovers a secret formula that transforms him into a woman (Jenny, played by [[Emma Thompson]]), but turns [[Hugh Laurie]]'s character into Barry Cryer ([[As Himself|played by himself]]). Amongst his strange Barry Cryer powers is the ability to turn anything into a [[Double Entendre]].
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'''Jenny:''' And you can keep this up indefinitely?<br />
'''Barry Cryer:''' Are you sure you want me to answer that? }}
* Often used on ''[[Hello Cheeky (Radio)|Hello Cheeky]]''. Frequently lampshaded.
{{quote| '''Barry:''' I'd like the rest of this programme to be of a totally pure and innocent nature...but, as that won't get any laughs, let's do a rude joke!<br />
'''Tim:''' Look at those tits! ...Oh, one of them's flown away. }}
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Bulletstorm (Video Game)|Bulletstorm]]'' is to [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] what ''[[Bayonetta]]'' is to third person beat-em-ups. Observe:
** One of the loading screen tips: "Reload often. No one likes getting down to business half-cocked."
** 80-90% of the skillshot names. Including "Boned" for reducing a mook to a skeleton with a PMC charged shot to the groin, making that one a triple entendre.
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* ''[[Devil May Cry|Devil May Cry 4]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pWvKx1x1pk "First, I whip it out!..."]
** And from ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' before that, the [[Monster Clown]] calls the Temen-ni-Gru tower a "thick shaft that causes women to shudder".
*** ''Devil May Cry 3'' also has what could be seen as a visual double entendre: in the cutscene before the Nevan battle, there's a part where Dante grabs the hem of his pants (which apparently confused people who'd played ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'') and then whips out Rebellion. Rebellion is a ''sword''. [[Freud Was Right|Hmm...]]
** Kyrie's "She yearns for your touch!" line to Nero in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'', considering how sweet and chaste she comes off.
* The ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' games feature their share of [[Double Entendres]]. In case 3 of ''Justice for All'', a heavy bust of defendant Maximillion Galactica is used as a piece of evidence, which leads to Phoenix using the phrase ''"Max Galactica's ample bust"'' in the courtroom.
** This conversation between Phoenix and Maya in one case. They're talking about his Attorney's badge.
{{quote| '''Maya:''' You really love to show that thing off, don't you? Who knows how many times you've shown it to me?<br />
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** ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' gives us Shepard's remark to Tali on welcoming her back to the Normandy if the two were involved in the second game.
{{quote| "If it's too quiet for you to sleep, I can find you someplace louder..."}}
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'', tattle a Hammer/Boomerang/Fire Bro and then try to explain that the localization team wasn't thinking something dirty.
* Joshua's intentional "You watch my behind, and I'll watch yours" line in ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]''.
*** There's also this exchange.
{{quote| '''[[Jerkass|Joshua]]:''' Step one is gathering info, starting with the client. Honestly, Neku. This is basic stuff.<br />
'''[[Ho Yay|Neku]]:''' ([[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|Yoshiya Kiryu]], private dick extraordinaire.) }}
* When ''[[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga: [[Endless Frontier]]'' was announced to have a US release, [[Atlus]]' promotional messages were FILLED with innuendos. The message goes like this:
{{quote| SUPER ROBOT TAISEN® OG SAGA: ENDLESS FRONTIER? '''SPILLS''' OUT ONTO NINTENDO DS? We like keeping you '''abreast''' of new developments in the world of Atlus, Faithful. That's why we're practically '''bursting''' at the seams to reveal Super Robot Taisen® OG Saga: Endless Frontier for [[Nintendo DS]]. As a continuation of the Atlus Spoils fan appreciation program, each and every launch copy of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier will be a premium boxed release, with a bonus soundtrack CD featuring music from the game included in the final retail package. My friends, this is one '''stacked''' action RPG. Contrasting the deep story and characterizations is the fast-paced, fighter-style combat engine. '''Juggling''' your opponent in the air, chaining together combos, using your entire party in concert... these may not be your typical RPG combat concepts, but with the quick, responsive battles in Endless Frontier, they're the name of the game. Behind the fighter mechanics are all of the nuanced RPG fixings genre fans have come to expect. We'd like to emphasize: this game is more than just the fights. This is a '''fully-developed, well-rounded''' adventure. Journey across a variety of worlds, ranging from an apocalyptic wasteland covered with the hulks of downed spaceships, to a fantastical place of fairy tales and dark magic. Join Haken Browning: gunslinger, professional bounty hunter, and amateur ladies' man-along with his motley crew of robots, were-beasts, secret agents, and '''busty princesses'''-as they delve deep into the mysteries of how their worlds came to be and face a threat that imperils the multiverse. There's so much game here, Faithful, you may just get '''lower back pain''' from the effort! With its unique combat and '''titillating''' story, this is one sci-fi action RPG sure to '''stick out''' this spring.}}
** The actual in-game dialogue has even more of them. Or, to be more precise -- about 3/4 of dialogue is innuendo, to the point when Haken has to explain that when he said "She uses bombs" he meant explosives.
** There's also [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Garnet]]. Everything she says in combat is a double-entendre of some sort.
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]] Big Willy Unleashed'' is one big double entendre. The plot involves Pox founding a hot dog stand named "Big Willy's", a parody of the real-life "Bob's Big Boy" franchise. Kolonel Kluckin, owner/proprietor of Kluckin's Kitchen, is trying to run Pox out of business, and hires a kidnapped and supposedly brainwashed rich heiress named "Patty Wurst". She attacks Pox's restaurant, to which Pox exclaims "She's hammering my Big Willy!" It goes on like this.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid]]'' has plenty of them; for instance Ocelot's "I love to reload during a battle. ''There's nothing like slamming a long silver bullet into a well-greased chamber''." from the first ''Metal Gear Solid'' is a rather obvious one.
** Just what else could [[Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)|Solid Snake]] mean? He spends the whole damn series around women that wear [[Absolute Cleavage|clothes that they can't do up properly]]. Oh, and he's an [[Dirty Old Man|old man]] by the fourth game.
*** Well, now we know why Liquid was always so pissed off...
** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater|MGS3]]'', if you don't {{spoiler|remove the transmitter from Snake's body before meeting EVA behind the waterfall}}, you will see a minute-long cutscene that consists almost entirely of this.
{{quote| '''EVA:''' I can't believe how small it is.<br />
'''Snake:''' Yeah, but it gets the job done. }}
* ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'': "Speedy thing comes in, speedy thing goes out", anyone?
** Non-Sexual one: Lunacy Achievement. {{spoiler|You both do something crazy, and something involving the moon.}}
* Double Entendres practically exploded in the video game fandom once Nintendo's new console was named "[[Wii]]". Most of the jokes have stopped.
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* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' the Reputation grind for the Sons of Hodir faction requires you to complete the following quests every day; Blowing Hodir's Horn, Polishing the Helm and Thrusting Hodir's Spear.
* The enemy in ''X3: Reunion'' is called the Kha'ak. And yes, it's pronounced like you think it is. Cue [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi8n6uN091E G4TV's hilarious review] laden with hard and blown Kha'ak.
* ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]]'' has quite a lot of them. Jan has a bunch of stories that are chock full (something about Golodon the Unmanned losing his rod?) Edwin occasionally interjects them into his dialogue and then there's the entire sidequest concerning the three pantaloons that give you the Big Metal Unit...
* In ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', an experiment performed by [[Mad Scientist|Professor]] [[Jerkass|Kokonoe]] on [[Genius Bruiser|Iron]] [[Mighty Glacier|Tager]] ended with this exchange:
{{quote| '''Kokonoe''': I've been thinking of putting [[Rocket Punch|it]] on your chest... or your '''[[Calling Your Attacks|GIGANTIC]] [[This Trope Is Bleep|TAGER!!!!]]'''<br />
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'''Kokonoe''': Ah, yes. Well, no reason not to tell you. First, I intended to take his '''INFERNO DIVIDER''' and put it in a '''CARNAGE SCISSORS''' with maybe a little '''GAUNTLET HADES''' too? Huh, my goodness, I can only imagine what his '''HELL'S FANG''' will '''DEAD SPIKE'''.<br />
'''Noel:''' Wh-wha- [[Big "What?"|WHAT!?]] }}
* Everything said by the Black Baron (stop staring) in ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]''. Especially when he refers to giving targets "head" when you're hitting heads into targets with a golf club.
* ''[[Uncharted]] 2'' gives us this exchange.
{{quote| '''Sully:''' Should be this way. Just follow the hose.<br />
'''Nate:''' You always "follow the hose". Just like in Montreal.<br />
'''Sully:''' [[Never Live It Down|Never gonna let me forget that, are you?]] }}
* The title of every single ''[[Ratchet and& Clank (Video Game)|Ratchet and Clank]]'' game after [[Ratchet and& Clank 2002 (Videovideo Gamegame)|the first]]. "[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando|Going Commando]]" referring to both nudity and actually being a commando, "[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal|Up Your]] ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal|Arse]]''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal|nal]]" referring to it having more weapons, and to top it off, the [[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time|latest game]]'s name was almost "Clock Blockers."
** Actually, only about half the Ratchet & Clank titles have done this- Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Size Matters, and Quest for Booty.
* In ''[[Gaia Online]]'', there is a clothing store named "Ruby's Rack", run by a single mother in a skimpy dress.
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{{quote| "Watch this! It's filling me up! That was... ''titillating''!"}}
* [[Duke Nukem]]'s Balls of Steel quote. He says it in front of a pinball machine but it's clear he also means he has balls of steel.
* Many lines from ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] 64'' can be interpreted this way, especially if you take it out of context or apply [[Sound Effect Bleep|unnecessary censorship]].
** Why don't you come down here, Falco?
** Jeez Leweez, what is ''that?!''
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** Also, another time they said "*town name*, we got trees! And people and houses and the birds and bees"! Now, we all know what "the birds and bees" mean...
* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' has a [[Dating Sim]]-esque sequence: After defeating your date in a Pokémon battle, you go with said date on a ferris wheel. Your date's dialogue is positively laced with double entendres, especially from one of Hilbert's dates, a burly [[Gay Option|Hiker]].
* The tutorial quest of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online (Video Game)|Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'' has the rogue catch up to your party and say to your female cleric leader, "Don't worry, Cellimas, I'm here to watch your behind now!"
* In ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]] III'', ''every single conversation'' between [[The Protagonist|Blair]] and potential [[Love Interest]] Rachel is chock full of these. Perhaps not coincidentally, Rachel is played by porn star Ginger Lynn, and porno dialogue is notorious for this trope.
* Shameless [[Otaku]] Daru from ''[[Steins ;Gate]]'' has a talent for instantly noticing whenever something a female character says can be misconstrued out of context and asking them to repeat it for him. Prime examples include "Put the banana in", and "Maybe that hole is too tight!"
* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', practically everything the prostitutes say is Double Entendre. See [http://reddead.wikia.com/wiki/Prostitute#Quotes here].
* In ''[[Starcraft II (Video Game)|Starcraft II]]'', the SCV pilot sometimes exclaims, "In the rear, with the gear!"
** Although in the military, that expression is routinely used to denote non-combat personnel who are removed from the front lines. Given the propensity of vulgar expressions and double entendres in the military lexicon, this example is usually played straight by comparison.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series (at least in ''[[Oblivion]]'' and ''[[Skyrim]]'') there's an in-game book by the name of ''The Lusty Argonian Maid''. You can read excerpts from this book, and they are full of double entendres (especially the second volume).
** In ''[[Morrowind]]'' , You meet the author of The Lusty Argonian Maid, Crassius Curio. Unsuprisingly, His unique dialogues contain quite a few sexual entendres.
* [[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Morrigan]] victory line in the ''[[Capcom Vs]]'' series are practically intended to come off as this.
 
 
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* ''[[The Optimist]]'' tries to swallow a hot load of double entendres [http://the-opt.com/?p=1200 in this strip].
* [[Monsterful]] has some from time to time, but this one deserves a [http://www.monsterful.com/chapter12page44.html special mention.]
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html The definitive example], courtesy of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' strip helpfully entitled "It's a Type of Boat". [[Lampshaded]] at the end courtesy of [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Belkar]] in his prison cell, [[Shout-Out|referencing]] a line from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** The discussion thread dedicated to that strip took the joke even further. Apparently, a horse isn't dead so long as you can beat it. *whistles innocently*
** Also, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0102.html Roy has "great cleavage".]
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* See ''[[Loserz]]'', especially if the... working place of the protagonists is involved. As [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/322 in this strip].
** [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/95 This one] is the best.
* ''[[Pokémon X (Webcomic)|Pokémon -X]]'' runs on this trope. It's funny because [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|the source material]] really does provide so much fuel for it...
* [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=131 This one] from ''[[VG Cats]]'' is a beaut.
** [http://www.vgcats.com/fan/guestcomic/renard.jpg This fan comic] is even better.
** And probably VG Cats' crowner, [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 this one] composed entirely of dialogue snippets from ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] 64''.
* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1600 This entire] ''[[Questionable Content]]'' strip. (In case you're wondering, they were dancing.)
** A classic [[Playing Withwith a Trope|double subversion]] can be found [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1727 here].
{{quote| '''Dora:''' It's ok, it's perfectly normal to have performance anxiety your first time.<br />
'''Marten:''' Yeah, like, the first time I ever played guitar in front of people? IMPOSSIBLE to maintain an erection. }}
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* [[Karate Bears]] [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/03/bands-match-belts.html carpet matches the drapes joke]
* [[Dominic Deegan]] practically lives on this trope, but Szark Sturtz has one of the [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-06 best examples.]
* ''[[Jet Dream (Webcomicwebcomic)|Jet Dream]]'' is presented in the [[Retraux]] style of a comic book that might theoretically have been approved by the [[Comics Code]] Authority circa 1970, if they could buy the basic [[Gender Bender]] premise. Thus, almost all references to sex are veiled ones.
 
 
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|The Gamers Alliance]]'', the amnesiac [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ronove]]'s ramblings are often taken the wrong way. On one occasion he asks if he can taste [[The Ladette|Ax's]] cherry pie. He actually wants to trade pie recipes with her and isn't thinking of anything sexual, but everyone around them misunderstands the conversation. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Sarah of ''[[Lonely Girl 15Lonelygirl15]]'' often uses these. An example is her "vote Salinas" routine in "Casting Couch": "Hey, there. I was wondering if you'd be interested in hearing about a man named Edward Salinas. He's the man with the plan and it's a big one. Oh, it surely is! He wants to build a stronger community. The strongest, firmest, ''hardest'' community..."
* The [[Rooster Teeth]] logo is a visual double entendre that you only pick up when your humor is in the gutter. [[Poke Freak|I]] can't be the only who is reminded of the endearing insult "cockbite" they commonly use in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', whenever they show a picture of a rooster and teeth.
{{quote| '''Tucker:''' Bow chicka bow wow.}}
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* [http://atlasobscura.com/places/haesindang-park This page.] The captions. 'Nuff said...
* ''[[The Secret Life of Dolls]]'' has ''lots'' of jokes about swords. Also:
{{quote| "I'm not supposed to but I've tasted your shortcake!" [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|The Littlest Edward]] blurted out (I immediately filed this away for future double entendre use).}}
* Rosa Fiametta of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' loves these.
{{quote| "I can run off an empty tank all day long,"<br />
"It'd be just great for you to help me by coming ... and lawyering." }}
* While reviewing [[Memetic Sex God|David Bowie's crotch]]... er, ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'', [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] is repeatedly interrupted by Nella, who offers her "dick", "meat and two veg" and "cock". All perfectly innocent food - the first one's spotted dick (a British dessert) and the last one's chicken.
* [http://kezzi-rose.deviantart.com/art/Pinata-Stamp-80423505 This deviant art stamp.] It's very clever.
* [[Todd in Thethe Shadows|I'd like to dip my fries in your...]] [[Unusual Euphemism|'''special sauce.''']]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umie6Rl3URk Balls, balls are so much fun! That's why I have two and not just one!]
* "[[EPICMEALTIME (Web Video)|Taco night is when we lay some beef in a pink taco...drip some guacamole...make her sour cream...]]"
* A lot of Alex's lines in ''[[Awkward]]'', although given how deep in the gutter (and Lester's pants) his mind is, it's hard to say how much is intentional.
{{quote| '''Alex:''' You know it's all about finding the right key. The one that fits... just right. The one that you insert deep into the ''back door''...}}
* In ''[[Cracked]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/funny-363-jennifer-love-hewitt/ article] on [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]], ''those'' are ''plentiful''.
* On [[That Guy With theThe Glasses]], Doug Walker, Spoony, Benzaie and Sad Panda all tried... well [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/32349-doug-spoony-benzaie-and-sadpanda-try-pussy see for yourself].
** Also in the Nostalgia Critic's "Nostalgic Commercials", during the "Wet Banana" ad.
 
== Western Animation ==
* Non-sexual example: when Terra reappears in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', her first line is "So... which team am I on?" She's referring to volleyball, but {{spoiler|she's the [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]].}}
* ''The [[Ambiguously Gay]] Duo'' from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' is based on these, from the episode titles (such as "A Hard One to Swallow" and "First Served, First Come") to the dialog to their car. And the plethora of Sight gags in each episode, lampshaded by "...what's everybody looking at?" "''Nothing''!"
* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' was infamous for this kind of humor, mostly courtesy of Yakko, who would frequently blow a kiss to the audience and go "[[Check, Please!|Goodnight, everybody!]]" whenever someone else made a [[Double Entendre]].
** In "Hercule Yakko", Yakko takes the role of detective on board a ship. Instructing his sister Dot to check for prints, she soon returns with the singer Prince in her arms. Yakko clarifies it as "fingerprints", wiggling his fingers. Dot merely glances at Prince, who leers at her, and remarks, "I don't think so."
* ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'':
{{quote| '''Bloo:''' *Turns to golf channel* Look, that guy's hitting a little white ball into a hole!}}
* ''[[South Park]]'': For a number of episodes, the main characters got a new teacher whose name was Ms. Choksondik (pronounced "Chokes-on-Dick"). Humorously, none of the otherwise dirty-minded main characters seem to have understood the joke, and have made fun of her by calling her things like "Ms. Choksonrocks" or "Ms. Makes-me-sick".
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** Also, in one episode, "Wet Behind the Rears", Butt-Head's quote [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|gets past the radar]]:
{{quote| '''Butt-Head:''' If I could turn into a bird, I'd turn into a cock.}}
* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' has one in the episode ''The Enchiridion'', where Princess Bubblegum tells everyone to turn around while she shows Finn her "secret place".
** There's also an episode featuring a talking heart named Ricardio who, when introduced, was giving Princess Lumpy a "special massage meant only for best friends" and assured everyone that it was "completely consensual".
** There are plenty more in the series. There's one case where, when trying to distract Jake, he tells him to play "fifteen minutes in heaven" with his girlfriend, and shoves them in a closet. To top it off, there's an episode where Jake is so attractive he's causing animals to rush to him-including snakes. Finn then says "These snakes are everywhere. There's even one in my underwear!" as he holds up a pair of underpants with a snake in them.
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* In the TV cartoon ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Wilma is pregnant, and needs to be taken to the hospital. Her husband Fred's best friend Barney follows along to help Fred get her into the hospital. Barney is, however, too aggressive moving her out of the car, and as a result, spins the revolving door so fast Fred is spun out, and across the street into a hotel. Arriving at the front desk, Fred, quite calmly states the truth, "I'm looking for my wife, she just came in here with my best friend." The clerk, nonplussed, simply says, "Look, we don't want any trouble here", to which Fred responds, "What kind of a hospital is this?" to which the clerk replies, "This is a hotel; the hospital is across the street."
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3B3w8Ux4I&feature=related What do I need three for?]
* Very useful in [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], as seen in this example from ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'', after Silverbolt has been [[Capulet Counterpart|spending time with Blackarachnia]]:
{{quote| '''Rattrap:''' So, where ya been, bird-dog?<br />
'''Silverbolt:''' Scout patrol.<br />
'''Rattrap:''' Oh, yeah, scouting the enemy. Find any new positions? }}
** Though that double entendre is acknowledged rather than something the writers tried to slip past, as Silverbolt punches Rattrap in response to that remark.
* ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]'': After Grievous mockingly offers Asajj Ventress some battle droids for the escort, she replies to the cyborg in a hyper-sexy voice:
{{quote| '''Ventress:''' My dear General, there is ''nothing'' you have that I could want.}}
* Also used in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' in a conversation between the speedster Nanosec and the time-slowing Slo-Mo as they exchange meaningful looks.
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** Explaining how she established project Batman Beyond:
{{quote| '''Amanda Waller:''' Bruce's DNA was easy enough to obtain: he left it all over town. (Terry reacts with an [[Eye Take]]). Not remotely what I meant.}}
* In the ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'' episode "Cult of the Cat", every other thing Catwoman says has sexual meaning.
** She's very similar in ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''. Although Batman gets in on it too.
* Most of whatever Roxy Rocket says is this in both ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'' and ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]'':
{{quote| '''Roxy Rocket:''' I was the best he ever had.}}
* ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]]'': The entire [[Captain Ethnic|Apache Chief]] episode.
{{quote| '''Harvey:''' So as we see from this tape your power was...<br />
'''Apache Chief:''' Growing large, at will... especially in the mornings. }}
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{{quote| '''Harvey:''' Every time this squirrel opened his coat, it was to pull out a ''critical tool''--<br />
'''Mentok:''' I'll say! }}
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' occasionally dabbles in this. Like in the episode "Run For Your Ed", where Rolf is seen carting away a giant sausage and boasting "Rolf's giant wiener will fetch a pretty penny at the market".
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' Speedy Gonzales shorts feature a few of these, when the mice need to get Speedy's help and someone knows how to contact him...
{{quote| '''Mouse 1:''' He knows my sister!<br />
'''Mouse 2:''' Speedy Gonzales knows ''eeeeeeeeverybody's'' sister... }}
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]'' uses these for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. For example, an approving Liz Allen admires Peter Parker and his [[For Halloween I Am Going Asas Myself|Halloween costume]] by saying:
{{quote| '''Liz Allen:''' You can web me up anytime, Petey.}}
** ''Everything'' Black Cat says. I distinctly remember a line about Spider-Man getting his goop in her hair.
** Possibly unintentional, but MJ says this to Peter and Gwen in the New Year's Eve episode:
{{quote| '''MJ:''' You [two] could go down to Times Square, watch the ball drop. ''(winks)''}}
* One interesting stretch of dialogue in ''[[Code Lyoko (Animation)|Code Lyoko]]'' takes place between Ulrich and Odd as they're getting out of the shower (common bathroom at a boarding school, in case you're wondering), with Odd talking about Heidi, the last girl in his class he hasn't dated:
{{quote| '''Odd:''' Hey, speaking of "hot chocolate", I finally got a date with Heidi.<br />
'''Ulrich:''' Eh, you gonna give her your ''croissant''? }}
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** ''(after Quagmire finally freaks out and runs to his dad)''
{{quote| "Glenn, you're ruining this ball. You know how much I love balls!"}}
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':
** "Fruit tart" is regarded as something of a secret code in Mai/Zuko circles, given the contexts in which they're mentioned.
** When a guard is ordered to protect Mai, she replies with, "I don't need any protection." To which Zuko chuckles and replies, "Believe me, she doesn't." Intentional or not, [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|you will never hear that line the same again]].
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** The "We Put the Spring in Springfield" song from "Bart After Dark" is a pretty clever one. It's the episode where Bart (and subsequently everyone else in town) finds out about that Burlesque house. So that "spring" could refer to other things...
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' has Timmy's Mom saying "He's so affectionate" with a nervous-looking smile when [[Adam Westing|Adam West/Catman]] hugs her legs. This causes Timmy's dad to become jealously angry.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Animationanimation)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' cartoon was remarkably full of [[Parental Bonus]] lines, although few of them were presented as double entendres. However, in the episode "A Hitch In the Works", Ganon offers a gem when he orders the abduction of Zelda. Making it even funnier is the fact that he's ordering his mooks to kidnap her so he can force her to marry him:
{{quote| '''Ganon:''' ''I want that princess!''}}
* In episode two of ''[[Static Shock]]'', Virgil is talking to his doctor, trying to figure out if the Bang Baby gas he breathed in will have any adverse affects aside from his superpowers. He does this while not telling the doctor that he inhaled Bang Baby gas. It sounds like he's talking to the doctor about puberty and being sexually active until Virgil realizes that's what it sounds like.
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'''Archer:''' Um, phrasing?<br />
'''Malory:''' Regale him with exciting tales of ISIS exploits! }}
* In ''[[Ka Blam!]]'':
{{quote| '''June:''' Henry, you really should try taking your relationship with Dawn to the next level.<br />
'''Henry:''' *stares at her*<br />
'''June:''' I meant ''talking'' to her. }}
* [[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Haha! Cody's got a tiny sausage!]]
** [[Ho Yay|I'd like to top his honor role!]]
** [[Makes Sense in Context|Ow! My wiener!]]
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'''Candace:''' Oh, pardon my reach. I'm just getting in the most convenient position to drive this stake into the ground. }}
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': When Peep, a salesman, is hitting on Heloise and showing off his merchandise at the same time, she yells "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|I'm not interested in your junk!]]"
* The animated ''[[Beetlejuice (Animationanimation)|Beetlejuice]]'': In "Mom's Best Friend", Beetlejuice changes into a dog and can't change back because of a restrictive collar around his neck. Sweet, innocent little Lydia delivers this as she takes out a pair of scissors:
{{quote| '''Lydia:''' I know how we'll fix it...we'll ''cut'' it off! (''Beetlejuice shrieks in panic; Lydia shakes her head long-suffering'')}}
* ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' features a song called "Birds of Prey" (from episode "The Masks of Matches Malone!") which isn't even subtle. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFP0IoMfsA Listen to it here].
{{quote| "[[Blue Beetle]]'s deeds are really swing, [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|but who will bring him out of his shell?]]"<br />
"[[Flash]]'s rogues finish last... Too bad sometimes [[Speed Sex|he's just too fast!]]"<br />
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* [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|Grim]] puts a powerful artifact in his mystic trunk and warns Billy to "Stay out of the junk in me trunk!"
* The sausage-stuffing challenge of ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' results in one of Noah's most famous lines: "Look. Cody has a tiny sausage."
* In the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "Revenge of the Mooninites", the Mooninites are watching porn stolen from Carl's secret stash, leading to this exchange:
{{quote| '''Meatwad:''' Ooh yeah, baby. That's a neat car she's washing. You think that's a straight six?<br />
'''Err:''' I think ''I'' have a [[Raging Stiffie|'straight six']].<br />