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Euphemism Buster
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Someone uses a euphemism, Last-Second Word Swap, or something similar, and someone else blurts out exactly what the first person meant. It generally comes in two versions: Ditz and Intentional. The Ditz version is just the person figuring it out for themself without realizing that the speaker was trying to be discreet. The Intentional version occurs when a character simply doesn't care about the delicacy of the matter and prefers getting the point across with Brutal Honesty, or just deliberately disregards it to be obnoxious about it. If the person the speaker is talking to simply doesn't understand what they're trying to say, it may lead to the former having to bust their own euphemism just so the latter can get the message. The euphemism may or may not be unusual or deadly. Compare and contrast Lampshaded Double Entendre (in which the person who speaks Double Entendre actually means innocent things until someone mistakes it as something that isn't innocent), Don't Explain the Joke, Fee Fi Faux Pas. |
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Star Trek Online has this exchange between Proconsul D'Tan of the Romulan Republic and an uninvited visitor in his office. | |
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Clone High's JFK provides us with many such examples. JFK always feels the need to explain the joke flat out, even when completely obvious. His ego simply requires him to brag about his sexual exploits. "Some of us are trying to nail Catharine the Great. Or should I say 'Catharine the SO-SO!'" "Don't worry, Cleo. I can help you stay up all night long. Notice how I accentuated the words "up" and "long". Now let's bone up for the PXJT test. Guess what the P stands for? PENIS!" |
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In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Vivian's sister comes to visit with her new boyfriend, and the rest of the Bankses remark on how "tall" he is, until Will... | |
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On Chappelle's Show, a parody of a PBS Frontline documentary has the narrator (a white man) warn viewers: | |
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But I'm a Cheerleader: | |
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Bleak Expectations: When meeting with yet another Sternbeater, the man uses many flowery euphemisms to avoid saying he's a moneylender, but even Pip Bin can tell he's a moneylender (the fact he's wearing a coat made of money might be a dead giveaway, mind), chiming in after each euphemism that he clearly is until the man grumpily admits that yes, he is. | |
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One sketch in Burnistoun features a political debate that's nothing but the two candidates using elaborate euphemisms to hint that their opponent's wife is sexually promiscuous, then clarifying explicitly what they mean about the wife's sexual proclivities. | |
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Cheers: When Sam manages to buy back the bar in season 8, Carla cheerfully exclaims that it's like the good times, "before darkness fell over the Earth." Norm helpfully explains to Frasier that she means "before Diane showed up." Frasier darkly responds that he knows full well what Carla was talking about. | |
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The Simpsons: The episode "New Kid on the Block" has a double subversion: | |
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Cyanide and Happiness has this gem: | |
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One Day at a Time: Oh, I'll fix your sink, Ms. Romano. And by that I mean I'll have sex with you. And by have sex with you, I mean I'll fix your sink. And by "sink," I mean your reproductive organ. And by "reproductive organ," I mean the thing between your knees. And by "the thing between your knees," I... well, I guess that one's kind of self-explanatory. | |
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Scrubs | |
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Treasure Island: When Jim Hawkins first hears Long John Silver talk about how he and the others are "gentlemen of fortune", he thinks to himself in shock that it means nothing more nor less than garden variety piracy. | |
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King of the Hill: It once had a new employee at Strickland Propane who would say "That's What She Said" in response to anything that could even remotely be considered a Double Entendre. At first everybody but Hank found him hilarious, but eventually they all got sick of him and worked together with Hank to get rid of him. From another episode: |
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A variant from an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun: | |
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The Order of the Stick: Following Roy's death, Haley tries to break the news gently to his girlfriend Celia. Unfortunately, Celia takes Haley's metaphors literally, so Belkar has to be blunt and to the point in order to explain to her. Vaarsuvius' spouse Inkyrius soon sees through their attempts to describe their Deal with the Devil in flowery terms: |
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From Mallrats: | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: In "The Penny and Clyde Show": In "Pirate Shipping": |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "A Man Alone", Keiko O'Brien is trying to convince Rom to let his son go to the school she's opening. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Sound: One sketch taking a lot of potshots at David Starkey has one Channel 4 executive try to dance around the language he used to describe those of Afro-Caribbean descent and the role he felt they played in the London riots of 2012. Another, much ditzier executive cheerfully chimes in with "he called them 'the blacks'". | |
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Sam & Max Hit the Road: When you have Sam ask the cashier at Snuckey's for the bathroom keys. | |
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Ménage à 3: Thanks to Gary's intermittent lack of an indoor voice, when he busts Tracy's euphemism for the second job she does to pay the bills, he triggers an understandable Facepalm. | |
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Inverted in the Seinfeld episode "The Yada Yada". Elaine is describing an old date while explaining the usage of the Yada Yada. | |
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Star Trek: In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "I, Mudd", Harry Mudd describes how he wound up on the android planet after getting arrested for one of his scams: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "A Man Alone", Keiko O'Brien is trying to convince Rom to let his son go to the school she's opening. Star Trek: Voyager, "Meld": |
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A decidedly not humorous example in Green Lantern: The Animated Series: | |
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The names of the guards in The Kentucky Fried Movie are Long Wang, Hung Well, and Enormous Genitals. | |
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In Lost, this overlaps with Censorship by Spelling. Hurley doesn't want to talk about the dead in front of a kid (Walt), so he spells it out: | |
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Digger: Digger attempts to tell Grim Eyes about Murai's mental problems, but Grim Eyes can't make sense of her euphemism, so Murai cuts to the chase. | |
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The Lion King: Scar has to backtrack and Euphemism Bust himself thanks to his dumb hyena lackeys: | |
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Kim Possible: When Kim has to take her brothers with her on a mission in "The Twin Factor", she asks if anyone has to do any "business" before they leave the house. Ron doesn't understand it at first until Rufus whispers the true meaning in his ear. After hearing it, he immediately runs back into the house to use the bathroom. In "Ron the Man", Shego suggests hiring Jack Hench, an idea Drakken rejects as too expensive. Shego then proposes a way around that problem: |
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In Daria, when Helen gets a week off of work because her boss had to take a break, Daria and Quinn immediately know that their mother's boss is in drug rehab again. | |
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On The Boondocks, Huey cuts right to the heart of Granddad's request: | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "I, Mudd", Harry Mudd describes how he wound up on the android planet after getting arrested for one of his scams: | |
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In an episode of NewsRadio, Bill hastily informs Dave of Lisa's potential sexual endeavors using a euphemism. Dave, who was no longer dating Lisa, doesn't have a strong reaction to the news, which causes Bill and Mr. James to assume he didn't catch the euphemism: | |
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Quantum of Solace has M showing she knows a Bond One-Liner when she hears one: | |
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Wrong is Right. The US President has been told about a Ghaddafi-like figure who's just acquired a couple of suitcase nukes to destroy New York and Jerusalem, so he uses Trouble Entendre to order his assassination. The CIA director however is tired of the CIA taking the rap whenever the President wants Plausible Deniability, so insists that the President spell the order out. Which he does, literally. | |
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In The Bible, Jesus busts his own euphemism. When their friend Lazarus becomes sick and dies, Jesus tells His disciples that Lazarus is sleeping, and He intends to wake him up. Not realizing what He meant by "sleep", they ask that if he's sleeping, that means he'll get better, causing Jesus to just flat-out say, "Lazarus is dead." | |
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Portal 2: Wheatley in chapter 8 does a self-busting version. | |
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies: In "The Ghost of Bigfoot", the gang pick up the hitchhiking Laurel and Hardy after finding out they're heading the same place. Hardy tells them that their trip to the hotel is strictly business and that they hope to procure employment as baggage expediters. Laurel promptly clarifies that they're looking for work as bellhops. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants, "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost": | |
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In The Remnant from the Left Behind series, when Steve Plank as Pinkerton Stephens turns down taking the Mark of the Beast and accepts the alternative of death, the Global Community staff person working at the mark application site was just about to refer to the guillotine as the "loyalty enforcement facilitator" when Steve interrupts and refers to it as "the guillotine". | |
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins: | |
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In Blackadder II episode "Money", when Blackadder is trying to sell his home. Amusingly, this actually convinces the couple to buy the house — the wife can't stand "those dirty indoor things". | |
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Doctor Who: In "Journey's End", the Doctor notes that he and Rose have been locked up in a vault with Davros, and that if Davros is in a vault, he's not in charge of the Daleks this time around. Davros tries dancing around it, and the Doctor takes some serious glee in shooting his attempts down. Tellingly, Davros just changes tack rather than respond. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: | |
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The Grey Zone: Muhsfeldt tells the Sonderkommando of Crematorium IV that the guards are planning on "moving" them soon to give them a "reprieve". Everyone involved knows what that really means. Rosenthal says that they would much rather continue their work. Muhsfeldt says it's not up to him—the decision has already been made by the camp directorate. | |
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Person of Interest: When the Chief of Staff starts giving her flak, Control spells out exactly what her organisation has been doing behind the scenes to keep the United States safe. So far they've handled 853 threats to national security. "And by 'handled', you do know I mean killed, right?" | |
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Fist of Fun's "Four Horsemen waiting for the apocalypse" sketch has Pestilence working as a milkman. One of his customers tells the camera "Although he's a bit odd looking, I know lots of housewives around here would love to get their hands on his extra pinta, if you know what I mean. [Beat] I mean his cock." | |
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Digimon Adventure tri.: In the fifth film, Hackmon appears to Meiko's father and Daigo to tell them Homeostasis has ordered Meicoomon be "removed". Meiko's dad cuts in to state he means destroyed. | |
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From Bro Team Pill's playthrough of Guns of Icarus: | |
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Occasionally, when a Cutthroat Kitchen contestant is sabotaged too hard to make their dish properly, they'll try to go for a Less Embarrassing Term, such as "deconstructed omelet". This rarely fools the judges: | |
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A darker example in Conspiracy, a drama about the Wannsee Conference, which provides the page quote, during which the Security Police managed to get authorization for an anti-Jewish genocide (later termed "Operation Reinhard") which outshone the ones accomplished to that date by the Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, and Regional Security Chiefs. The term "evacuation" is frequently used to describe the Security Police's program. After about an hour of this, Lange, who works with the security forces in Reichskomissariat Ostland (and has been engaged in the usual "preventative security" operations to eliminate demographics targeted for ethnic cleansing by the Nazi regime), tires of his indirectness. | |
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Darth Maul. At the Auction of Evil, Maul claims to represent the Haddrex Consortium. | |
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Family Guy: Or for that matter.... Spoofed in one episode, where Peter is helping Death get a date. Peter remarks "You might even, you know..." and then proceeds to perform a series of seemingly random, nonsensical motions including breakdance moves. After he finishes, Death says "I don't follow" and Peter (still bent over from one of the dance moves), responds "Intercourse." One Day at a Time: Oh, I'll fix your sink, Ms. Romano. And by that I mean I'll have sex with you. And by have sex with you, I mean I'll fix your sink. And by "sink," I mean your reproductive organ. And by "reproductive organ," I mean the thing between your knees. And by "the thing between your knees," I... well, I guess that one's kind of self-explanatory. From the FCC Song |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: If brought along to the meeting with retired STG agent Saelen Varn, krogan teammate Nakmor Drack will respond to the man saying he "dealt with inconveniences" by telling him to just say he assassinated people. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: In one interview sketch, Patsy Straightwoman is talking to an actor who cheerfully describes "bumping off" many people in his career. Patsy repeatedly points out that while he is insistent that it's "bumping off" the more accurate term is murder. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager, "Meld": | |
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Legends of Tomorrow. Sara Lance and John Constantine end up having sex during a mission. Afterwards Sara thanks him for helping out with the demon they were up against, so Constantine makes a rather fumbling offer of help whenever Sara needs it. Sara then says casually, "And thanks for the shag, too. That was great." | |
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Frasier gives us this exchange: | |
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Friends: Chandler is hesitant to have sex with his new girlfriend, Kathy: It was a running gag that when Joey said something raunchy, he'd follow up with an explanation in case the others didn't catch his meaning, which they always did. Once he said, "If you know what I mean," to which Monica replied, "Joey? We always know what you mean." In an earlier episode, the Friends are comparing sex to a concert, comparing foreplay to a comedian, and penetration as the band. The women say that they should bring back the comedian for a second go a bit more often otherwise they might just end up listening to the album of the band instead. Joey responds with: "...We're still talking about sex, right?" |
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On Night Court, when Dan catches Bull in a hotel room with his little sister: | |
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