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** And then it turns out that the guy is Al Gore. No, really.
*** It gets better. The woman he's doing it with? Tipper Gore. ''And neither of them knew at first.''
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'''Born2Bone:''' Umm, listen, what I meant was...
'''HunniBunni:''' This is ''you'', isn't it, Al? ''ISN'T IT''?? YOU ''BASTARD''!!! YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE ATTENDING A STATE FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON!!!
'''Born2Bone:''' ''Tipper''?
'''HunniBunni:''' Whoops. }}
* The sex scenes in Greg Egan's novels are so frighteningly banal and usually misjudged from the characters' perspective that he's clearly subverting the whole idea of the things. Yes, people bump naughty bits together from time to time. They also urinate, get cramps, digest food, and flake off skin; there's no tradition of putting scenes specifically depicting ''those'' activities into novels.
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* ''[[The Shield]]'' invokes this, intentionally, in an ongoing subversion of [[Hollywood Sex]].
* Episode 6 of ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'' opens with a piece of hilariously bad [[IKEA Erotica]]. Later, Dean Learner gets to go on an epic rant about the standards of modern erotica writing, which ends up veering straight into [[Purple Prose]].
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'''Marenghi:''' Where's "he glided in liquid smooth"? Where's "her wispy mound"? }}
* ''[[Night Court]]'' parodied this once. Mac was discussing assembling a train set, saying "Insert tab A into slot B. Who can't do that?" and Dan (the in-house pervert) just gave him a look and said "You'd be surprised."
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** This song is that rare and wonderful thing, a successful attempt at deliberately creating something [[So Bad It's Good]].
* In [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]]'s review of ''The New Guardians #1'':
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* [http://askikeapony.tumblr.com/post/15996463518/granted-i-wore-my-tail-a-little-differently-back Literal IKEA Erotica].
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** "He rubbed her shoulder sensually." That's not sexy! You can't do someone in the shoulder!
* This gem from [[South Park]] (which also sounds like it might be a schoolground rhyme):
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** Another South Park example showing both the sheer terrifying wonder of Butter's twisted crazy upbringing, and perhaps a little [[Truth in Television]]:
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