Entendre Failure: Difference between revisions

See also: [[Comically Missing the Point]]. Compare to [[Innuendo Backfire]], where Person B thinks Person A's solicitation is an offer for assistance. Can be used for [[Double Entendre]]s.

 

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== Advertising ==

* A commercial shows a man introducing his son to his boss. After a moment the kid looks at the father and says "Daddy, his nose isn't brown."

 

== Anime and Manga ==

*** it's [[Filler]], so Naruto is obligated to not understand.

* Belldandy in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' frequently misses the actual meaning of people's comments, in one scene in the anime a construction worker speaking to Keiichi remarks that Keiichi probably doesn't get much sleep living with Belldandy, to which Belldandy asks both of them how living with her would keep Keiichi from sleeping.

 

== Film ==

'''Leslie''': Polish the pewter? Why, Jonah does that for me. }}

** He gets it a minute later, and is affronted.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Shining]]'', Danny, who has telepathic powers, catches a female hotel guest checking out a bellhop and thinking, "I'd like to get into his pants." Danny, who is five years old and clueless about things sexual, takes it to mean that the lady wanted the guy's pants and is thoroughly confused. He has to talk to Dick Halloran about it before he's informed that this wasn't what she wanted (though Danny being five, he just tells him that she has a dirty mind).

 

* This is the entire joke of that ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch. You know, ''that'' one. Know what I mean? Know What I mean? Nudge nudge wink wink say no more, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5Ieh eh], [[wikipedia:Nudge Nudge|eh]]?

** Inverted in another sketch, which has the same man walk into a shop and start reading the advertisements on the door. After he finds out that neither "small white pussy cat," "chest of drawers," "pram," "babysitter," nor "be a blood donor" are what he's looking for, the shopkeeper hands him a card, which he reads: "Blond prostitute will indulge in any sexual activity for four quid a week. What does that mean?"

'''John:''' Tim, a callgirl is someone you...call! When you're lonely!

'''Tim:''' Oh...when I'm lonely, I call mummy. Does that mean she's a callgirl? }}

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]] has a conversation between Junpei and June in which she's scared of the possibility of drowning and he thinks she's scared of being alone in an elevator with a boy. And then she says "I might get wet down there." [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

* From ''[[Coach Random]]'', [http://coachrandom.zzl.org/Chronological/comic-327.xml Dorkboy licks a shaved beaver.]{{Dead link}}

* [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-823/ This] [[Girls with Slingshots]] strip.

** There's also a running gag of the difference between a "dancer" and a dancer.

** [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws135/ This comic has a two for one special]

 

== Web Animation ==

* Harry Partridges [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXsvVQe34k8&feature=channel Hal the Misinterpretive Porn Star] is all about this, and subverts it nicely in the third sketch to boot.

 

== Web Original ==

'''Jonas:''' Uh... A boombox? }}

* A recent episode of [[Red vs. Blue]] has Caboose pulling an Entendre Failure on ''himself'', with Tucker's help. When Tucker mentions him and his alien son Junior (long story) being somewhere "in between" human and alien, Caboose replies with "In between two alien... and human... '''ladies?''' and later repeatedly wonders aloud "what Tucker's doing in between the two ladies."

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Martin:''' Care to make it a trio, Bart? You can brush and I can blow.

'''Bart:''' Well, I agree you blow.

'''Bart:''' When you look up "blow" in the dictionary--

'''Lisa:''' Bart, he's not gonna get it.

** Later on in the episode, when Bart buries a bone for Martin to find...

{{quote|'''Martin:''' *gasp* Maybe it's one of the major homos!

'''Bart:''' You're one of the--

 

== Real Life ==

* Tony Attwood tells the story of a child with Asperger syndrome who was asked by a psychiatrist, "Do you hear voices?" The child very naturally said yes. Much consternation and wrong diagnoses ensued.

 

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