Euphemism Buster

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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 Lampshaded Double Entendre, Don't Explain the Joke.

Examples of Euphemism Buster include:

Live Action TV

• Scrubs

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. Carla: Is that because it looks so much like a vagina? Elliot: Carla, there's people!

• Myth Busters

Narrator: And in the pouch will be... let's call it 'genetic legacy' Jamie: Genetic Legacy? It's sperm. Every kid in grade school knows that. Helps make babies, you know?

• Dollhouse

Topher: He seemed to be having a kind of...man-reaction. Dr. Saunders: A what? Topher: A, you know, reaction that a man -- person might have in the...you know, the...naked part. Shower. Victor. Dr. Saunders: Victor had an erection? Topher: I prefer 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? Michael: What are you trying to spell, man, "bodies"? Walt: B-O-D-I-E-S.

• On Chappelle's Show, a parody of a PBS Frontline documentary has the narrator (a white man) warn viewers:

Warning Narrator: For viewers sensitive to issues of race, be advised that the following piece contains gratuitous use of the "N" word. [[[Beat]]] Narrator: And by the "N" word, I mean Nigger. [[[Beat]]] Narrator: There, I said it.

• 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. Faith: Yeah, plus all the screwing.

Film

• From Mallrats:

Brandi: Second suitor: if we were making whoopee, what sounds would you make? Brodie: Wait, what's whoopee? Brandi: You know, being intimate. Brodie: What? Like fucking?

• 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? Scar: For the death of the king! Banzai: What, is he sick? Scar: No, you fool, we're going to kill him.

Web Original

• Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series:

Joey: "Shut up, Tristan! You just wanna get into [my sister]'s pants!" Tristan: "No I don't. I want to have sex with her!" Beat Tristan: "Oooooooh, that's what you meant...!"

Western Animation

• SpongeBob SquarePants

Spongebob: Squidward! He's... he's... pushing up daisies! Patrick: Oh, I thought he was dead.