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'''Girl #1:''' What?|'''''[http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/005814.html Overheard Quote]'''''}}

Person A makes a comment, [[Viewers Are Geniuses|expecting people]] to know the [[Double Entendre|real meaning of it.]] Person B takes the comment [[Literal Minded|literally]], and is often unaware that there's more than one meaning to what's being said. [[Hilarity Ensues]]... [[Played for Drama|or maybe not.]]

Person A makes a comment, [[Viewers Are Geniuses|expecting people]] to know the [[Double Entendre|real meaning of it.]] Person B takes the comment [[Literal-Minded|literally]], and is often unaware that there's more than one meaning to what's being said. [[Hilarity Ensues]]... [[Played for Drama|or maybe not.]]

This trope is the [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] of the [[Un Entendre]].

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'''Larry:''' Well, she does do pilates and plays tennis sometimes.

'''Dave:''' Why do I even bother with you? }}

* Pretty much all of the earlier episodes of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' had jokes about Jake not getting the adults sexual innuendos and [[Literal Minded|taking things literally]].

* Pretty much all of the earlier episodes of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' had jokes about Jake not getting the adults sexual innuendos and [[Literal-Minded|taking things literally]].

* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', in a pregnancy scare episode, had a scene something like this:

{{quote|Shawn: "Cory, how would you feel if these two waffles got together and made a little waffle?"