Double Entendre: Difference between revisions

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]].

 

 

Of course, as is obvious from many of the examples below, certain ...frustrations will lead some viewers to interpret anything as a double entendre.

* 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]].

** 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.

* 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".

 

 

* 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.'

** "So, did you and Ginny do it?"

* The female cop in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' speaks almost entirely in these, quite intentionally.