Euphemism Buster
Someone uses a euphemism, Last-Second Word Swap or something similar, and someone else blurts out exactly what the first person meant.
It generally comes in two versions: Ditz and Intentional. Ditz version is just the person figuring it out for himself. Intentional being the euphemism is too insulting/obvious or the character simply doesn't care, and so busts the euphemism.
The euphemism may or may not be unusual. Compare and contrast If You Know What I Mean, Don't Explain the Joke.
Live Action TV
Elliot: Those gyno girls are really putting the pressure on. Who wants to look at a hundred women's bajingos today? Bajingo, bajingo, bajingo. I mean, I can't even look at my own bajingo. |
Narrator: And in the pouch will be... let's call it 'genetic legacy' |
Topher: He seemed to be having a kind of...man-reaction. |
- In Lost this overlaps with Censorship by Spelling. Hurley doesn't want to talk about the dead in front of a kid (Walt), so he spells it out:
Hurley: But what about the B-O-D-Y-S? |
- On Chappelle's Show, a parody of a PBS Frontline documentary has the narrator (a white man) warn viewers:
Warning |
- A variant from an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun:
Sally: He said he wanted to sleep with me. I wanted sex, but seeing as he was tired I decided to just go home. |
- An un-lampshaded version in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Mayor: No slayer of mine is going to live in a fleabag motel. That place has a very unsavory reputation. There are immoral liaisons going on there. |
Film
- From Mallrats:
Brandi: Second suitor: if we were making whoopee, what sounds would you make? |
- Scar has to backtrack and Euphemism Bust himself in The Lion King thanks to dumb hyenas:
Shenzi: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared! For what? |
Web Original
Joey: "Shut up, Tristan! You just wanna get into [my sister]'s pants!" |
Western Animation
Spongebob: Squidward! He's... he's... pushing up daisies! |