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Double Entendre
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One of the fundamental types of verbal gag in comedy television, especially the Sitcom, and also comedy films. A Double Entendre is a word or phrase which was meant to be taken in two different ways. Archetypically, one meaning is obvious, literal, and innocent. The other has a usually taboo or sexual subtext. If it is sexual, then it overlaps with Sexual Euphemism. If it is phrased as a question with an answer, it is usually a Riddle. The Double Entendre's popularity in comedy stems from the fact that if you don't get it, you won't realize something dirty just happened. As a result, clever use of a Double Entendre can keep a show "family-friendly" by allowing children to appreciate the joke on one (non-sexual) level while adults enjoy it on another level. On the other hand, if the Double Entendre fails to be funny on the obvious level, it can result in a show which is "safe" for broadcast in family time slots, but which younger viewers do not enjoy. In other words, the joke has to work well in both ways. British comedy is especially fond of the device, especially when the joke "works" on both levels. The Double Entendre predates television, of course. William Shakespeare was very fond of this device as well. "Do you think I meant Country Matters? What, shall I lie my head upon your lap?" When the viewer is specifically led toward the sexual meaning until The Reveal, this is an Innocent Innuendo. When the non-sexual meaning is perfectly clear, but the innuendos continue, it's Does This Remind You of Anything?. When the non-sexual meaning doesn't make any sense, this can constitute an Unusual Euphemism. When the sexual meaning has been lost due to language change, it's Get Thee to a Nunnery. If someone makes a Double Entendre, but the recipient fails to see it as anything other than a literal statement, it becomes Entendre Failure. When it's a person's name, then it's a Euphemistic Name. If someone makes a perfectly innocent statement that others interpret as a Double Entendre anyway, it becomes an Imagined Innuendo. Extreme cases of double-entendre interpretation in-story are Freud Was Right. Sometimes lampshaded with a wink, a nudge, and/or "if you know what I mean". See also Getting Crap Past the Radar and Something Else Also Rises. May lead to someone saying "Heh heh, you said [x]..." or "That's What She Said". Of course, as is obvious from many of the examples below, certain ... frustrations will lead some viewers to interpret anything as a double entendre. Subtrope of Double Meaning. Supertrope of "Balls" Gag. No Real Life Examples, Please! |
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Zarbon practically lives off homosexual double entendres which is why it was a shock to find out he's Camp Straight with a girlfriend. HFIL reveals it's Innocent Innuendo, and he's trying to stop himself from doing it. It's not going well. | |
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It's a Memetic Mutation, but Settlers of Catan has resources officially called "lumber" and "wool". But just try and find anyone who doesn't ask if you have wood for sheep. | |
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Older Than Feudalism: This trope was a favorite tactic of ancient Greek comedians. Aristophanes' plays are full of them. | |
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Every now and then, porn websites will have regular videos uploaded with this sort of title - i.e. bad political decision with "Old man fucks entire nation", or blowout defeats with "Brazilians get fucked by an entire German team." | |
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"Look at these hunks of burnin' love that I'm workin' with!" | |
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Apparently, the play The Socket Wench of Prague is pretty brutal in this regard. | |
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Star Wars The fic A Not-So-Little Naked Obi Sequel has a few of these. It's a sequel to another fic where a little girl initiate saw four year old Obi naked by the shower and was interested in his, um, anatomy. This time, he's an adult chained to a wall naked. Siri, the girl from the first fic, is the one to rescue him, much to his dismay. Naturally, her first concern is to make sure he wasn't hurt in any way, but after he assures her he's fine, she takes a few moments to enjoy the gaze before letting him free. She tells him "You've gotten much larger than the last time I saw you". And from where her gaze is described to be at, it's obvious she doesn't just mean his height. Then there's the requisite lightsaber joke. |
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Lampshaded just moments later when Janice says "I have no words... except that we're going to be on Youtube in a few minutes." | |
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The famous "china" scene from the Restoration Comedy The Country Wife. The title The Country Wife is a triple entendre. | |
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Playing with a Trope | |
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A classic double subversion can be found here. | |
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She also said that she had 300 dates and was going to do all of them in one weekend. | |
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"Simmons, I am having a blast going in and out of your hole!" | |
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Shameless otaku Daru from Steins;Gate has a talent for instantly noticing whenever something a female character says can be misconstrued out of context and asking them to repeat it for him. Prime examples include "Put the banana in", and "Maybe that hole is too tight!" | |
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In a few strips Alice has a compulsion to grab "things that are not right". Sure, it's innocent enough when she grabs the boss' hair, but when she takes hold of Dilbert's necktie, he tells her that "in an hour I may have to ask you to stop doing that." It gets even worse when you consider that Scott Adams had suggested that Dilbert is "just happy to see you" as a possible explanation for his tie. | |
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"When You're Good to Mama" has the ambiguously lesbian warden of the women's jail delivering double entendres at every other line. Perhaps even triple — they succeed in being Unusual Euphemisms for both sex and money. | |
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Roy's sister is True Neutral: she goes both ways. Tsukiko also does both... arcane and divine magic. | |
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A Running Gag in Vow of the King is that the author almost always makes the next chapter previews sound incredibly dirty, such as "Isane sticks something long and hard into Toshiro's hole"note Isane stuck her shikai, which is filled with healing kido, into Toshiro's sword wound to heal him. | |
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On Fox News, Megyn Kelly asks Janice Dean if they'll be sleeping together again in this clip. Lampshaded just moments later when Janice says "I have no words... except that we're going to be on Youtube in a few minutes." |
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