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• Code Lyoko: In the penultimate episode, Jeremie's Cannot-Fail-Kill-XANA-Real-Dead program is visually represented by an army of sperm. You really have to wonder what goes on in that boy's head...
  • Probably how he's too young to marry Aelita and have babies with her for the time being.
  • Some of XANA's monsters fall into this category as well, such as the flying Manta rays that poop mines. And the Scipozoa, with its mighty Combat Tentacles. Suuuure...
    • After all, the Scipozoa's primary purpose is to Steal Aelita's Memories. And it does so by putting the tentacles around Aelita and "Levitating" her. Also, the only other character the Scipozoa attacked was another girl, Yumi.
    • Unless you count Wiliam.
• In Futurama, 31st century Washington D.C. has, right next to the phallic Washington monument, a similar but taller Clinton monument. One episode even had an alien spaceship cutting its tip off with a giant claw.
  • Space aliens with Yiddish accents, nonetheless.
• Roxy Rocket from Batman the Animated Series, a stunt-themed jewel thief whose gimmick is riding a rocket clutched between her legs like a broom... or, ah... anyway, she became so excited after Batman tackled her that the rocket starts going out of control.
• A literal example, Played For Laughs in Clone High. Right after Joan's completely incomprehensible Le Film Artistique has finished at the film festival, we see a shot of the auditorium, in complete silence. Until the boy sitting next to Joan -- a clone of Sigmund Freud himself -- starts singing "Joan loves Abe! Joan loves Abe!"
• Used in Bromwell High, when Keisha is making a speech about the school. She begins quoting Martin Luther King's speech, and then goes on to say "Latrina has a dream about a tunnel and a series of bigger and bigger trains! Let's make those dreams come true!"
• In Invader Zim, all Irkens are judged and placed in society based on on their height. So the largest guys are the unquestioned leaders, despite being incompetent, and the main character will never amount to anything because he's "very small...he's a tiny thing." Right.
• In the episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender where Aang has trouble standing his ground and being an earthbender, Toph steals a bag of nuts ^{[dead link]} from his satchel, and then uses his staff ^{[dead link]} to crack them ^{[dead link]}, finally commenting how Aang's staff "isn't the only delicate instrument around here".
  • "The Drill". For shame. Details of this episode can be found on the Double Entendre page.
  • There's also the matter of Zuko's eye, as this comic so eloquently pointed out to me: [1].
  • In ATLA, Freud was not right just about sex. Zuko's story, his relationship with his father, his mother, his sister and his substitutional father, AKA uncle. Really, Dr. Freud was on the board.
• In Phineas and Ferb, it appears that Dr. Doofenshmirtz was an excellent hand puppeteer, so much so that it impressed a girl. Said girl eventually left him for a guy who was a sucky puppeteer but had huge "fingers". Real subtle, Disney.
  • Uh, no. They didn't say the word "fingers" even one time. It was for his "hands" (stated many times) and is that really so sexual?
    • Yes. Yes it is. There's a saying if a guy has big hands (and big feet), well, then....
  • Another one of Doofenshmirtz's girlfriends left him for a whale.
  • Then there's the Backyard Aquarium episode with a battle between Perry and Doofenshmirtz involving long, cylindrical pieces of meat. It's meant as a reference to Yoda vs Dooku from Star Wars, but taken a complete other way... well, see for yourself here.
• The thousand-foot cliff in Total Drama Island. The cliff in TDA might be larger.
  • An episode of Total Drama Action is based off of fairy tales, and one part of the challenge involves the three males getting wooden swords. And Harold, the geek, gets one notably smaller than the rest.
  • There's also the... wooly beavers...
• In The Simpsons episode 'That 90's Show', Marge's college professor/boyfriend view on lighthouses.
  • In that same episode, he says "anything penis-shaped is evil."
  • In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", Homer sends the kids to the movies so he and Marge can have sex. What are they watching? The aforementioned train/tunnel scene in North by Northwest, a Rocket taking off, and a hot dog assembly line.

Lisa: What do you think Mom and Dad are doing? Bart: I dunno.

• Uncle Scrooge gives a whole new meaning to the term "Money Fetish". He has his giant money bin (penis shaped phallic symbol), which is hollow (womb symbol), filled with money (representative phallic symbol). Further, his greatest fears are the destruction of his money bin or the loss of his money (castration fear). His favorite pass time is to swim around in the money bin. His female Arch Enemy is obsessed with stealing his Number One Dime. He met his first (and presumably only) sexual partner after she stole his first gold nugget. Not to mention he has a rival who constantly competes with him over the "size of their wealth."
• In one Justice League episode, a pyromancer villain talks of a fellow bad guy's flamethrower-size symbolically. He insists that he makes up for size with skill, only to get quickly beaten and she pats his head sympathetically.
  • She immediately emerges from cover and burninates everything in sight. His flamethrower discharges as he declares, "I'm in looooove."
  • Don't forget the scene from "A Knight of Shadows", where a Hugh Hefner Expy gets transformed into a giant, grey worm. And then it starts going after Wonder Woman...
• Time Squad meets up with the actual Sigmund Freud, whom they have to convince that psychoanalysis works better than hypnotising people into acting like animals. While there's little sexual subtext, Freud notes that Buck and Larry act like a married couple with Otto as their son, who will be traumatized by their constant bickering later in life.
  • Time Squad has a lot of Freudian imagery (besides the obvious one of having Freud on the show -- twice, I might add). How much? Let's see:
    • The Larry 3000's phallic-shaped head paired with his skinny, hourglass-figured body.
    • A lot of the food they show is either phallic-shaped (French bread, sausages, carrots, Cheez Whiz from the can [which Tuddrussel shakes up and squirts into his mouth on "Day of the Larrys"], and the always-popular banana), treated as a vagina-like receptacle or is representative of a vagina (pies [none of which were cherry], a turkey which Larry pumped full of gravy on "Ex Marks the Spot" [even the gravy stains all over the walls, Larry, and Tuddrussel's hands looked suggestive and wrong], muffins [Tuddrussel ate one on "Sandwich By Any Other Name" and said, "My tongue feels like it's wrapped in a lace doily and headed off to the ballet!"]), testicular in appearance (grapes and nuts), or resembled ejaculate (whipped cream and gravy).
    • Tuddrussel's phasers (in "Kubla Khan't," Tuddrussel is reading a magazine that has a centerfold of a gun in much the same way as what you would see in a copy of Playboy; in "Hate and Let Hate," Larry gets a temporary, more macho change in personality after he handles one of Tuddrussel's phasers and it goes off in his hands)
    • Cigars were often seen (never smoked. Time Squad is still a kids' show, despite all the hidden innuendo), particularly in the mouths of Sigmund Freud and Al Capone (the latter of which seemed to shrink and grow due to animation errors -- or so the animators would like you to believe).
    • A Genius Bonus example on "Old Timers' Squad": Larry asks his future self for his favorite piece of binary code to prove that it's really him. The Old Larry replies: 0010110100111110. Translated from binary, it's an arrow (-->), which is phallic in shape.
    • In "Day of the Larrys," when Larry is arguing with one of his clones over who gets to play croquet, there is a very interesting foreground event where a croquet ball rolls over to one of the wooden posts, making it look like an erect penis and testicle. And this came after the Big Lipped Alligator Moment sequence at the gay robot disco (which had its share of questionable moments -- i.e., the butt-dancing Larrys, the Larry clone "riding" a mechanical bull, the Larry clone dressed as a shirtless cowboy and his nonverbal flirting with Tuddrussell -- all with Otto watching).
    • In A "Thrilla a at Atilla's"' the exercise moves he taught the Huns resembles the action of humping. The added effect is that Larry 'humps' a row of Huns from behind (while donning a purple leotard and pink leg warmers.)
    • Tuddrussel and Larry's penchant for getting in Head-Tiltingly Kinky positions as seen on "Cabin Fever" (when they were playing Twister), "Napoleon the Conquered" (after Josephine beats up Napoleon's army, Larry is bent over with Tuddrussell's foot on his crotch), and "Out With the In Crowd" (When J.T. Laser parks the Lance 9 Trillion, Otto lands first, then Tuddrussell lands in a different spot face down, and finally Larry lands in the same position, only he's on top of Tuddrussel)
    • Interestingly, in "Day of the Larrys", the body portrait painting of Larry in blue Renaissance-style is a Larry-fied replica of a famous painting, The Blue Boy. Even more interestingly, Blue Boy is also the name of a well-known naughty magazine targeted at homosexual men (as mentioned in the Cyndi Lauper song, "She Bop"). It also doesn't help that someone (possibly Tuddrussel) wrote the words, "Weenie Boy" on the picture.
      • It's no wonder too that Tuddrussel had those words written. There's some serious Freudan imagery going on there. That circle that Tuddrussel drew by the side of Larry's face is meant to be a testicle, essentially rendering Larry's head to resemble an erect penis. (Even more so).
    • And thus increases Time Squad's infamous Ho Yay count.
• Venture Brothers unveiled Jonas, Jr.'s "late 60's ultra death ray"... a gigantic and blatantly phallic engine of destruction. Every man in the room desperately wants to use it.

"If that thing were a woman, I'd marry it." "And I'd jeopardize our friendship by nailing your hot wife."

• • Following in the footsteps of his father's phallic rock ship, and the Drill Tank which Rusty calls "a monument to his repressed sexuality".
    • These are far from the only examples from The Venture Brothers; Dr. Venture's oedipal complex is perhaps the most obvious, but every major character has some serious issues.
  • Rusty once had a dream about his father, where his father's penis became his umbilical cord.
• 90% of the humor and 50% of the violence on The Powerpuff Girls is disturbingly Freudian. Just try to watch the episodes "Members Only" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" without wanting to take a cold shower. Seriously -- "Whenever their masculinity is threatened, they shrink in size." Apparently, this is what happens when an action series stars little girls.
• Family Guy's Peter Griffin used this to persuade the US Government that the FCC's censorship was unjustified, pointing out that WashingtonDC is full of Freudian landmarks (including the Lincoln Memorial, which depicts Lincoln sitting on a toilet).
• Teen Titans: Slade. His partnership with Terra has so many BDSM overtones she might as well have been wearing a gimp mask, his propositions to Robin to "join him" are equal parts "we can rule the world" and "I have candy in my van", and his Mind Rape of Raven so heavily resembles the other kind of rape that a short hentai movie (very NSFW) was able to be constructed from the scene without changing his dialogue at all.
• The Pincushion Man from the cult-classic 30's cartoon "Balloon Land". Here's a picture of him.
• Done in The Clone Wars when Anakin gives Padmé his, ahem, lightsaber.
• Teacher's Pet has been seen as a metaphor for transgenderism.
• On Danny Phantom given Vlad's obsession with Danny's mother and desire to make Danny his son, Freud would definitely have something Oedipal related to say about it. Not to mention all the Foe Yay between Danny and Vlad...
• Even My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic isn't immune to this. In the episode "Birdle gossip," the Mane Six fall under a set of curses which were actually side-effects of the plant poison joke. Twilight Sparkle, who's a unicorn, gets cursed with... a limp horn that wobbles around and is basically useless since it can't use magic. Do I really need to spell this one out here?