Innocent Innuendo: Difference between revisions

This is related to [[Three Is Company]], and the polar opposite of both [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] and [[Accidental Innuendo]]. See also [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] and [[That Came Out Wrong]]. Sometimes prompts someone to say "[[Is That What They're Calling It Now?]]" Compare [[Accidental Pun]], where a non-sexual remark is misinterpreted as, well, a pun; and [[Orgasmic Combat]], when fighting sounds like...something else.

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** Another time Miyami Yuuna asked Kazuki to "make [her] a woman". The camera then showed Kazuki taking her hand and directing it toward his pants... where Kazuki was holding an eel that Yuuna was trying to work up the courage to touch.

* Ignoring the imaginations of the [[Yaoi Fangirl|yaoi fangirls]] listening in, [[media:genshiken_manga_misheard_conversation.png|this page]] from a fan comic the illustrator of ''[[Genshiken (Manga)|Genshiken]]''. And [[media:rsz_2e379jn_5069.jpg|the reality]].

{{quote| '''Naru:''' ''Math is '''not''' an orgasmic experience!''}}

* In ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico (Anime)|Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', resident otaku Hikaru Amano is suspected to be having a relationship with the much older Seiya Uribatake. Akito and Yurika track them down behind a large crate in the hangar bay, overhearing Uribatake advising Hikaru on how to hold certain tools and several other innuendos before Akito is forced to intervene. They then discover it was simply the pair of them making robot models.

* Kyousuke hears Monica and Kai engage in this after Kai's defeat at Monica's hands in the [[Tournament Arc|Monaco Cup arc]] of ''[[Yakitate!! Japan (Manga)|Yakitate!! Japan]]''. Turns out they were just baking bread. Of course, it helps when your ''tenue de travail'' is an American flag bikini or a loincloth.

** Another example occurs earlier in the series, when Kinoshita overhears what he interprets as Azuma sexually assaulting Tsukino. Turns out she was just upset by him soaking his dough. And that's not a euphemism.

** Actually, no: they were playing Old Maid, and Ukyou's insistence that he make up his mind and pick one resonated too deeply with Akane's paranoia that Ranma would choose his cute fiancee over her.

* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'''s [[Hot Springs Episode|bath house manga arc]], the boys listen in on Suzuna and Mamori's conversation on the women's side of bath house. Only after Monta erupts with a tremendous [[Nosebleed]] do we discover that Suzuna was referring to Mamori's ''bath towel''.

* One of the main characters in ''[[Kanpai]]'' is a werewolf who ate a girl and was later transformed into human form. When he says that young girls taste the best, the schoolgirls interpret it as something else entirely.

* ''[[To Love Ru (Manga)|To Love Ru]]'' has [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/to_love_ru/v17/c143/4.html one of these] when Rito gets his hand stuck to Lala's tail, and Mikan overhears their attempts to remove it. Of course, this may not be entirely innocent, given that Lala's tail is [[Fantastic Arousal|rather sensitive]].

* Several episodes of ''[[Gakuen Heaven (Visual Novel)|Gakuen Heaven]]'' begin with some rather suggestive dialog between two of the guys. Sadly for fangirls, this is always revealed to be something completely innocent.

* In ''[[Sora no Manimani (Manga)|Sora no Manimani]]'', Mihoshi casually walks into Saku's classroom and mentions how the two of them stayed up all night, were exhausted afterward, and she can't wait to do it again. As she skips off singing about stargazing with Saku, his classmates are getting other ideas.

* In the ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Manga)|Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' episode where [[Gunboat Diplomacy|Commodore Perry]] shows up for some reason and starts disturbing everything, one thing he does is interfere for the character Kiri Komoroi who typically hides herself in various rooms throughout the school. Her [[Catch Phrase]] is "Don't open it!", so when he disturbs her, she makes a comment that "Only [[Hot for Teacher|Sensei]] has opened me before." Itoshki-sensei comments that she shouldn't say things like that which give others the wrong impression.

* Happens in ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'': We see headshots of Hattori and Kazuha sweating and panting, mumbling things like "Shift to the right a bit," "No, a little higher," and "OW! That ''hurt!''" Then they pan out and we realize they're tied together, having been kidnapped, and were trying to loosen the bonds. Naturally.

* In the ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' "White Day" arc, Hayate runs into Hinagiku and ends up having to admit to her that he gave the cookies he was intending to give to Ayumu, to Maria instead. Her response 'You'll repay me with your body'. After Hayate's stuttering, she reveals that she was just talking about introducing him to a cafe-shop owner where he could make more. Why she used that [[That Came Out Wrong|specific phrasing]] is still confusing though.

** Nagi also falls for this trope often, and the other characters usually lampshade how she's misreading conversations to be innuendos when they aren't. In these cases, the audience was often watching the original scene, and then laughs at Nagi's misinterpretations. Sometimes the other girls fall into this as well, even though they know full well that Hayate is a [[Chaste Hero]].

* During the training camp set after the Prefectural finals in ''[[Saki (Manga)|Saki]]'', Fujita Pro invited Yumi to have a match with her and Hisa. This eventually led bit of dialogue in chapter 62 when Hisa was inviting the best players of the other schools to her room for some games so she can train herself.

{{quote| '''[[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Yumi]]:''' Hisa <br />

'''Yumi:''' We got along well last night. <br />

'''Momo:''' Last night!? Got along well...!? <br />

''"Pen is stuck in drive"'' <br />

''Only the 'pen' and 'is' were written too close together. L now had a 'penis stuck in drive' post-it stuck on his laptop screen. He was considering framing it.'' }}

** {{spoiler|It turns out the "activity" Twilight is about to perform is going to the dentist. Rainbow Dash, in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|perfect finish]], then subverts this trope by hitting us with this beauty: "Now all we need to do is get you laid."}}

* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7959357/1/YOU_CANT_TEST_THIRTEEN YOU CAN’T TEST THIRTEEN]'' while [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk|interrogating]] [[Death Note (Manga)|Light]] [[Hilarity Ensues|L is misled in this way]] when Light begins describing how awesome being Kira is.

'''Lois''': (snuggling up beside him) Just relax. You'll do fine.<br />

Turns out he was trying to cook a souffle with his heat vision. }}

* In ''Police Story'', [[Jackie Chan]]'s star witness finds out he set her up to accept his protection by staging a hit for him to save her from. She gets back at him by setting his tape player to record over their interview, then manipulating events so it'll sound like their actions (such as Jackie spilling juice on her, and her sitting on a cactus) sound like they're about to have sex. Particularly cool here is that there are two English dubs of the movie plus the directly translated DVD subtitles, giving us three different versions that all work perfectly.

* ''[[Look Whos Talking]]'' does this with trying to get a splinter out.

{{quote| '''Mollie''': Ooh! I've never had one that big in me!}}

* The opening scene of ''[[Van Wilder]]'' shows the titular character apparently receiving a blowjob from an elderly asian woman. Turns out she's a tailor measuring him for new trousers. (While enjoying a lollipop).

* In ''Her Alibi'' Tom Selleck is accidentally shot in the ass with an arrow while talking on the phone to his editor. The following scene (as Selleck tries not to let on what's happened) gives the editor the idea that sex is occurring. While his girlfriend is trying to help him he shouts "Don't touch the shaft!"

* In ''[[Disturbia (Film)|Disturbia]]'' there was a sequence showing how the protagonist dealt with his being stuck alone at home due to house arrest. One scene starts with the camera panning across the room. Before it reaches the protagonist, a rhythmic noise made by furniture can be heard, along with moans and grunts of pleasure from the character. As the camera focuses on him it is revealed that he was trying to scratch the itch on his leg which was covered by the GPS bracelet put on him for his arrest, when all the time the audience were led to believe he was satisfying a different kind of itch.

* An example from ''[[American Psycho]]'': what seems to be a sex scene turns out to be Patrick Bateman exercising while a slasher movie is playing on video.

** In another, Mary the paralegal's description of her day falls into this territory as Ted (and the viewer) believes that she's a prostitute.

** Before she was a Canadian pop star, Robyn was on a kids show called Space Teens. It contained truckloads of [[Innocent Innuendo]]. It included such bits as the 'Beaver Song' and two teenage girls solving math problems while controlling a very long joystick to the encouraging words of Alan Thicke. The cameraman had shaky hands so all the footage is extra 'bouncy'. Barney even lampshades this by describing Robyn's TV career as one would describe that of a porn actress.

* An [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kclq2zGQy4w entire episode] of the British children's series ''[[Rainbow (TV)|Rainbow]]'' was comprised of a series of sexual innuendos, including a comment about, "Playing with our friends' (toy) balls," and "plucking our twangers (a musical instrument)". It was made by the cast and crew for their own edification, and with absolutely no intent of broadcast. Appropriately, it's even more over-the-top than most examples on this page.

* [[Benny Hill (Creator)|Benny Hill]] used this gag and many others of the same stripe on ''[[The Benny Hill Show (TV)|The Benny Hill Show]]''.

* The episode of ''[[Skins]]'' "Jal" has Sid helping Jal into her dress in a fitting room. We cut to outside in the shop where them struggling with the zipper sounds like them struggling with "other things". When Sid leaves the fitting room he is told by a woman that he is a pervert, much to his confusion.

'''Turk:''' Whoa, whoa, I just took out his appendix. }}

* Inverted on ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'', when a movie star's aide asks whether his boss wants French or Italian that night. It sounds as if they're talking about food, until the actor spots a pair of Asian knockouts across the casino floor and replies: "How about Chinese?"

* Used several times in the [[Show Within a Show]] ''When the Whistle Blows'' in ''[[Extras]]'', Andy Millman's character overhears increasingly innuendo-laden language in storms in on the other characters demanding to know what is going on. (Example: "Put it in your mouth", "Don't suck, blow" — one of the characters is trying to teach the other how to play the recorder.)

* Subverted on ''[[Dexter]]''. We hear Lila talking to Dexter in a way that leads the viewer to think they're having sex, then we assume that she's probably just teaching him how to paint. Then the camera reveals that they are actually...having sex.

** Also the entire intro. It strongly implies violence, blood, gore, and death, but is actually just images from his morning routine.

* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' episode "A Fine Friendship",an in-universe version of this happens. Maxwell ends up seeing Fran in a bra and tells her to put a shirt on. The shirt gets stuck and this happens:

{{quote| '''Fran:''' (''with the dress over her head'') Oh, Mr. Sheffield, I'm so hot!<br />

'''Maxwell:''' Don't worry, Miss Fine, we'll get it on! I can't do this: get on the bed! (''He tosses her on the bed and takes the dress off and then sees Niles in the door way grinning'')<br />

'''Niles:''' If you let me tell Ms. Babcock about this, I'll work free for a year. }}

* In an episode of ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (TV)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'', one of Tristan's nurse-friends went to sleep in his room while Tristan himself slept on the sofa downstairs. Siegfried woke her up in the night, thinking she was Tristan. Mrs Hall overhears only half of the resulting conversation... guess which half.

{{quote| '''Daphne:''' Oh, your brother was ''wonderful''... and a perfect gentleman. He can teach you a thing or two, Tristan Farnon! [...] Oh, he certainly knows how to make a woman feel like a woman... if you know what I mean. [...] You notice men in my job. [...] You know, get to know things. I suppose you could call it, hm, sort of intimate.}}

** Though the first example is subverted when Haley adds "V says Elan has been running around naked, so I'm off to see what his 18 Charisma is worth under the hood.' "

** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0269.html "Slipping the wood" to some dryad hussy] might count as a [[Double Subversion]], as the incident in question is treated as being just as bad as if it ''had'' been in that way.

** Then there's the installment where Red Mage [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/06/13/episode-1140-where-the-sun-dont-shine/ hides the team from Sarda in his A-hole.] It is also entirely accurate to say that they are in his [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/06/16/episode-1141-how-deep-does-the-a-hole-go/ B-hole.]

** As well as a fairly good percentage of the things Red Mage says. "There is no problem that can't be solved by creative and vigorous use of animal husbandry!"

* Subverted rather brutally in ''[[Sandra and Woo (Webcomic)|Sandra and Woo]]''. A comic shows a tree which Woo and Lily are in, and [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/09/05/0305-cuddling/ the dialogue makes it sound like he's having "difficulties".] {{spoiler|They're really playing billiards. Woo's so bad at it, Lily suggests something he's "infinitely better" at: mating.}}

* ''[[Nerf Now]]'' with Luigi [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/442 hearing] how [[Super Mario Bros|Mario and Peach]] loudly have fun in the room above.

** [[Leeroy Jenkins]] in the Sci-fi arc after reuniting with [[Childhood Friends|Sal]]. Depending on how you interpret his [[Luminescent Blush]], either he [[That Came Out Wrong|just realized]] he did this, or was [[Love Makes You Dumb|trying]] to flirt.

* ''[[Dumbing of Age]]'' gives us this [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/holes-2/ little bit of dialogue.]

* In an episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life (Animation)|Rocko's Modern Life]]'' Heffer is talking to a female cat at a gym he's shaking nervously and turns around sweating, shaking, and grunting heavily implying that he's masturbating but the camera turns around to reveal that he's trying to eat a burrito with chopsticks.

* During an episode of ''[[The Backyardigans (Animation)|The Backyardigans]]'', "Le Master of Disguise", once Austin gets in the train, Uniqua tells him to show her his "ticket". Once he hears this, he gets an embarrassed look on his face.

* There is the hilarious ''[[Duckman]]'' "titmouse" moment, a brilliant six-line conversation between the titular character and his sidekick in which the usual over-the-top sexual tone of the show is taken down a notch and the two of them discuss if "squeezing the titmouse" is an acceptable activity, before rounding off the conversation with a nice lampshade, asking when the V-chip will be installed and their (somewhat innocuous, given the rest of the show) conversation would be bleeped.

* The infamous "I had sex with all these fish" bit from ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]''.