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Is That What They're Calling It Now?
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Snarky question used to imply that whatever the previous speaker was describing, the real subject matter at hand is sex: Alternate phrasings include "Is that what you kids are calling it these days?" and "Well, I've never heard it called that before." While not limited to either gender, it does seem to be applied to eager young females most often, usually by older women who may feel threatened by them. It is often mixed with Accidental Innuendo, with the original speaker literally describing a perfectly true, innocent situation, and the asker mistaking it for an innuendo because of how odd it is. This happens in many examples of Truth in Television as well: For example, when Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa admitted to having an extramarital affair with a Telemundo reporter who was the Mayor's Office Correspondent for the station, the number of different phrases that "it" could be called expanded into a Hurricane of Euphemisms. ("Covering the mayor's job," "reporting on his affairs," "staying on top of his agenda," "working the beat," etc.) Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This can extend to non-sexual subjects, if the subject of the remarker's disapproval is clear. (Kangaroo courts, for example — "We will, of course, be giving you a fair trial." "Oh, is that what you call it?") See also Have a Gay Old Time and Double Entendre, not to mention "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Wordnote I told you not to mention that. Sister Trope to That's What She Said. Contrast Accidental Innuendo, I Need to Go Iron My Dog. Compare Unusual Euphemism, where they actually are saying something dirty. |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Used by Olivia Benson to sweat a perp. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: In an episode, Will and Carlton went to a clinic to pick up some reference material for Ashley, who was slamming headfirst into puberty at the time. As the doctor goes to help them, Will and Carlton try to "cover" by loudly announcing that they were looking for material for a book report and checking the building for asbestos, respectively. The doctor later turns to Carlton and says: "Asbestos? Last time I heard, it was called Knockin' Boots!" Not to mention Will's assurance to Carlton that he "won't always be a... German." |
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In the High School D×D/Sword Art Online Crossover Highschool SAO, while Rias' Peerage is training for the rating game against Riser Phenex, Kirito tells Asuna they just need to grind (train) like they did against the bosses, and Akeno asks if that's what they do when they are alone. It takes them a while to understand what she means, and when they do it's Luminescent Blush for both of them. | |
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The Listener (right after Toby has been teasing Oz about how all he thinks about is his new girlfriend): | |
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In Spider-Man 2099, Miguel O'Hara, the future version of Spider-Man, is caught by his girlfriend with another woman. He explains "We just... clicked." to which she replies "You clicked? Is that what it's called now?" After further argument, her parting shot is "Click you!" | |
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JonTron responds to Cedric the Owl mentioning "some old leftover fairy dust I've been carrying around" as follows: | |
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When Richie claims in Bottom that 'my grandfather was a trawlerman you know?' Eddie's reply is 'Oh so that's what they called them in those days was it?'. | |
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A non-sexual example from Angel: | |
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In the Bones funeral episode: | |
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CSI: NY: In "Rush to Judgment", Flack discovers that a murder victim had been secretly taking dance lessons to surprise his wife for their anniversary. When Flack tells Mac what he was doing, Mac replies: | |
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Castle: When Beckett and Castle had hickey-like marks left on their necks by injectors, the following exchange occurred: In "The Late Shaft", actress Ellie Monroe calls Rick up after Bobby Mann is murdered. Rick tells Beckett that she thought he might like to get together for some "comforting". Beckett responds: |
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A variant is used in an episode of Eureka: Trevor tells Jack that he just went out on a date with Allison. Jack tells Trevor that he's merely "a distraction".. Trevor asks if that's what the kids are calling boyfriends these days. | |
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MythBusters: Used jokingly by Adam in the very first (non-pilot) episode, while making a bullet out of flash-frozen hamburger. | |
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In an episode of The Mysteries of Laura, she is visiting a racetrack to investigate a crime, and noticing a lot of what could be described as "dirty old men" accompanied by comely young ladies, whose companionship is ostensibly obtained via cash or credit cards: | |
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In Urinetown, Bobby tells Ms. Pennywise he was up all night thinking. Since an earlier scene mentioned taking "a late-night-behind-the-bushes-to-relieve-yourself-for-free kind of walk," she assumes that's what he really meant and admonishes him. | |
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Horrible Histories: In "Beastly Bodily Functions", two soldiers are standing outside a toilet (actually a secret communications room) while Winston Churchill is discussing D-Day plans with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Only able to hear Churchill's side of the conversation, and believing it is an actual toilet, the soldiers think Churchill is talking to his poo. | |
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Inversion from The Kids in the Hall | |
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Harrow: In "Aurum Potestas Est" ("Gold is Power"), Simon is telling Dass about a bet between him and Harrow about how could stand in the new freezer the longest naked: | |
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During the spectacular comedy of errors Lend Me a Tenor: | |
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Arrested Development: George Michael had been hiding his fugitive grandfather in the attic, but Michael suspected he was having sex with a girlfriend. So when George Michael confessed, we got this bit: Later on Ann refers to sex as Pop-Pop, completely independently. And so does Rita. And so does George Michael himself, following Michael's usage to describe George Sr. in the same sense George Michael had originally intended, subverting the running gag and bringing it full circle. |
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Scrubs: Kind of inverted. And played straight in this exchange: And again when Dr. Cox denies sleeping with his ex, saying that they went into an empty patient's room to "talk". Carla asks if that's what the kids are calling it now and informs him that the room really wasn't empty. Jordan kinda gave it away by saying he "Shouldn't talk so fast." and "Maybe I could finish a sentence." |
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On one episode of The Love Boat, Gopher and a woman are in a cabin, chasing after a spider and trying to squash it with their shoes. When Doc opens the door to see what all the ruckus is about, Gopher innocently comments, "We're killing spiders." As Doc leaves, he mutters, "I've heard it called a lot of things, but never that." | |
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Would I Lie to You?: During the "This Is My..." round, Daisy May Cooper claimed that the mystery guest was an ex-boyfriend she used to smuggle into the house when she was a teenager. She said they would lie on her bed and "read Goth poetry". | |
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In the Torchwood episode "From Out of the Rain": | |
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In body-swap comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing, Woody (Nell's personality in Woody's body, actually) comes downstairs after studying with Nell (Woody in disguise). His father asks him how things with Nell have been going to which he replies "we were studying." The father then merrily applies the trope: "so that's what you call it these days." | |
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The Order of the Stick: this is Tarquin's reaction when Elan and Haley leave to speak with Durkon in secret, and they use the excuse "give their pet orangutan a bath", which, according to Elan, is more believable than saying that they went back to their room to rest. Tarquin then starts using similar euphemisms (claiming that while he's "a silverback," he can still "bathe an ape,"), which only serves to confuse Elan. And then, having realized how this pretense is getting interpreted and that it's still considered an acceptable excuse, they feign dropping the pretense altogether: |
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In The Young Ones, Vyvyan lets out a highly articulate outburst with his raging hatred for The Good Life. Neil's father stands up for it, specifically star Felicity Kendall, adding "...and I want to protect her!" Vyvyan snorts "Well, it's the first time I've ever heard it called THAT!" | |
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In the Newsflesh novel Blackout, Georgia II uses this trope as a snappy comeback. | |
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The X-Files. When a New Old Flame of Fox Mulder's asks for his help with a case, this trope occurs: | |
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Top Gear (UK) had this gem. | |
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Interesting example in the Smallville Season 4 episode "Spell", when Jonathan finds a stray bra under the hay in the loft, and Clark blurts out that "it was magic", followed by a sarcastic "I'm sure it was" from Martha. While Lana, Chloe and Lois (under the control of three ancient French witches... and yes, it makes slightly more sense in context) did use sorcery to brainwash the guests at Chloe's birthday party, it was an underwear party, and there was at least one other couple Clark bumped into the next morning who had to bolt with clothes in hand. So the example is both played straight (it really was magic) and subverted (but there was probably lots of sex too, just not directly involving Clark). | |
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The Ganymede Takeover by Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson. Swesnegard is trying to tell his alien overlord that he planted a miniature Tracking Device in the hair of a journalist before she went to interview the Rebel Leader. | |
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Archer is sent to Miami to seduce a male Cuban spy, and gets coached how by a gay couple. After he's been at a cockfighting venue: | |
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Not so subtly used in a spinoff strip to Batman: The Animated Series. When Harley refers to her and Ivy playing, Batgirl initially, and correctly, thinks they're more than friends. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Subverted in the webcomic Elf Life: Filis was fond of referring to "frolicking" with Baughb, the main character When asked by another character why she was constantly using that euphemism, she angrily replies that she meant "frolicking" and if she meant to say "f*** ing" (censored in panel), she'd have said "f*** ing". | |
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Used, albeit not with the exact phrasing on The Goodies: | |
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Mr Mxyzptlk, discussing Batman and Robin with Bat-Mite: "Youthful ward? Is that what they're calling it these days?" | |
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In Girl Genius, a pair of background characters are said to be in the woods "hunting mushrooms" by a naive young guard, prompting this sort of response from his sergeant. | |
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30 Rock: | |
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In Incredible Hulks #627, when a mythology expert is briefing NATO on the Power Level of the recently stolen Pandora's Box, her usage of "Hercs" as a unit of measurement for the energy radiated by mythological objects and entities is inquired about, leading to the following exchange. As she mentions later to Banner, she really did date Hercules. | |
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The end of Lost season 2, with the whole "got caught in a net" thing: following weeks of UST between them, Jack and Kate go out on a mission and spend a night in a jungle, being caught in a net among other things. When Sawyer asks what they were doing out there, all he gets is "got caught in a net" reply and mistakes it for sex euphemism. For the several following episodes he sarcastically refers to sex as "caught in the net", until the "A-Team" goes on another mission, where he sees another net trap in a jungle and realizes there was no double meaning after all. | |
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NCIS: Excretion instead of sex: Gibbs encouraged Kate to "stay hydrated", specifically to use her as a distraction when she went to the head. Inverted in another episode, when Ziva doesn't understand what a suspect means when he says someone 'couldn't keep it in his pants.' Tony's explanation involves a tune and some suggestive gesturing. Ziva comes to the conclusion that they're talking about dancing. |
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Vera: In "The Blanket Mire", Vera discovers that one of her suspects as an alibi: | |
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On Dinosaurs, Charlene is dumped by her boyfriend, and this is Earl's reaction to the news. | |
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In the MST3K Spin-Off, Cinematic Titanic, in Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks: | |
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The Professionals. A deposed African head-of-state is reading in bed, believing that "If a man is not active, he should be gathering information". Later Doyle is talking to Bodie on the RT set as they stand guard. | |
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Not quite exact to the trope definition, but series 2 of Robin Hood does include a conversation among the outlaws about euphemisms for couples hooking up. | |
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The line is used in Family Matters when Karl's wife and sister-in-law catch him with a woman at a Love Hotel, and he claims they're working. He's telling the truth: the woman is a fellow police officer, and they're meeting some crooks at that hotel room as part of a sting operation. | |
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In Lady in the Dark, Charley insinuates that "color plates" might be the new "etchings": | |
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In The Raven's Plan, this is Myrcella's response when Jaime introduces Brienne as his "good friend", when she's just walked in on them in the middle of The Big Damn Kiss. | |
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain: Morgan the Goat claims Betty is "advising me on the refurbishment of my establishment". His girlfriend/mistress replies "Refurbishing your establishment? I've never heard it called that before." | |
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Used in an issue of Nova during the Annihilation: Conquest crossover: | |
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Up the Chastity Belt: | |
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Last Man Standing (1996): | |
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In Felidae, when Francis uses the term "fornication" to note the similarities between Sascha and Deep Purple's deaths, Bluebeard replies, "Back in my day, we used to call it screwing." | |
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A non-sexual version in Impure Blood: when Elnor blames her pounding head on the jostling from their journey, Roan asks if that's what they call the ale in the last town. | |
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Questionable Content: Tai and Marigold discuss fanfiction. When Marigold asks "Do you want to come back to my place, and, um, m-maybe I could show you some of MY fanfic?", Tai responds this way. (Marigold misses the point entirely.) Subverted in an earlier strip, when Marten first meets Hannelore. She invites him back to her place to play Scrabble. |
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In the Teen Titans fic One Thing Leads to Another, BB says: "Sure you 'talked'. Is that what the kids are calling it these days?" after Robin tells him he and Starfire "had a long talk last night" to resolve an argument that was really hurting the entire team. Of course, Beast Boy, due to his animal senses, is fully aware what this "talk" involved. | |
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In the 1970s in the UK, a female journalist who had been in a bedroom with a former Ugandan cabinet minister during a dinner party claimed they had been "discussing Uganda". The satirical magazine Private Eye used "discussing Uganda" or "Ugandan relations" as an Unusual Euphemism for years afterwards. | |
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In Uncharted 2: Among Thieves: | |
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In A Storm of Swords, Robb explains his offscreen (offpage?) marriage to Jeyne Westerling by telling his family that she "gave him comfort" after he found out his younger brothers had been murdered. Catelyn (the viewpoint character for the chapter) thinks to herself that she knows exactly what kind of "comfort" Robb is alluding to. | |
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Unshelved: "'Compared notes'?" "That's not what we called it my day." | |
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Game of Thrones: In "What Is Dead May Never Die", Renly tells Brienne that he will "pray alone" in his tent. In his next scene, Renly is making out with Loras, his "object of worship", so to speak. In "Kissed by Fire", Olyvar tells Loras, "I should like to see you spar with a proper partner, ser." They end up "sparring" in Loras' bed shortly afterwards. |
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Push: Nick does a non-sexual version of this when Cassie uses the term "second-generation mover" to describe Nick. He quips "Is that what they're calling it these days?" This is more because he's a smartass than anything else. | |
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Leverage, "The Double Blind Job": | |
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In The Incredible Hercules, Herc uses this line when Namora puts him in an "Atlantean crab hold" during a sparring match. Namora shoots back an Ironic Echo at the end of the same arc, when Hercules suggests using an Olympian eagle strike in combat. | |
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Vicki: | |
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Justice League. Bruce Wayne is trying to recruit superheroes for the Justice League, especially Wonder Woman. | |
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A variation occurs in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Something Smells". After getting bad breath, SpongeBob is led by Patrick to believe that he's ugly, and decides to admit it by shouting "I'm ugly and I'm proud!" repeatedly on the rooftop of his pineapple. | |
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In The Age of Innocence, when a character discusses the vices of Count Olenski, he states, "When he wasn't cavorting with women, he was... collecting china. And paying any price for either." A lot of literary analysts took the "china" comment as insinuation that Olenski's lovers included men as well as women — the movie drives it home even further by having the person glance around furtively before making the comment, clearly not wanting to be overheard. | |
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An episode of Blackadder had the following: | |
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Doctor Who: There's a running gag regarding the use of the word "dancing" in "The Doctor Dances". "The Day of the Doctor": The Eleventh Doctor appears through a time portal just as his earlier regeneration is trying to sort out which of two Elizabeth I's is an evil shapeshifting alien. It doesn't help that Eleven knows Ten married Queen Elizabeth I. "The Pyramid at the End of the World": A budding romance gets interrupted by the UN Secretary-General seeking the Twelfth Doctor to handle the latest end-of-the-world crisis. "World Enough and Time": Missy wants to know what the Doctor calls his companions: exposition, comic relief, pets, snacks? |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella — about being petrified by the Medusa: | |
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Blake's 7. At the end of "Sand", the crew rescue Tarrant from a Death World, only to find he was trapped down there with their arch-enemy Servalan (and it's strongly implied they had sex). Tarrant points out her affection was likely just a ploy to gain his sympathy in a dangerous situation. Avon responds sarcastically, "And she got it too, didn't she? Your sympathy, I mean?" | |
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One memorable non-sexual example from CSI is an exchange between Sara and Marjorie Wescott, a defense lawyer, after Sara is asked about a previous case where she had been seen touching someone in a "romantic gesture": Let it be known that, in the aforementioned episode, there was no chalk on his face. Really. |
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In The George Lopez Show, Carmen tells George that she did "half pipes" with her boyfriend. George assumes she is talking about drugs. She was talking about skateboarding. | |
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As the pic suggests, this line comes into play in Marvel Adventures: Avengers, where Janet has a crush on one of her dad's employees. | |
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Have You Been Paying Attention?: Following a Mitsubishi promo into which an an image of Tom holding a strategically placed towel had been inserted: | |
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Stand by Me: | |
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In Booksmart, Amy is having some trouble convincing her parents that she and Molly aren't a couple, and that their sleepover is not a euphemism for "marathon sex session" (it's actually a euphemism for "going to a party to see the girl she's actually into"). | |
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In The Diary of Anne Frank, after Anne goes to visit Peter in his room: | |
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Firefly had one of these, when Mal wakes up a naked, hibernating River in the first episode (played for drama instead of comedy, as a justifiably angry Mal thought Simon was involved in human trafficking): | |
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In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, when Auntie Entity's majordomo tells Max he's got nothing to trade, Max insists that he's got skills they can use. To this, he rather dryly replies "The brothels are full." | |
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Universe Falls: In a flashback in "We Need to Talk", Stan is confused by Greg's talk of wanting to "fuse" with Rose Quartz, and asks "Is this some kind of innuendo or something?" | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. Ensign Harry Kim asks Seven of Nine out for a Not a Date, but she cuts straight to the point and asks Do You Want to Copulate?, causing Harry to back off in confusion. Later when he's reporting to Commander Chakotay... | |
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Wild Boys: Emilia gets one when she discovers her boyfriend Conrad strolling back from the bush with a buxom Farmer's Daughter: | |
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How I Met Your Mother: An example arises not out of snarkery but a genuine misinterpretation/hopefulness on the part of Casanova Wannabe Barney. It was actually a Literal Metaphor (or rather, not any sort of metaphor at all). Another instance is "I'm going to this girl's house and we're going to make juice," to which the cab driver responds "Nice." Marshall even gets to hang a lampshade. |
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From Burn Notice, the hero's best friend is commenting on the wisdom of the hero's choosing his (admittedly very well-trained and well-armed) ex-girlfriend for backup. | |
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On Frasier, when Martin introduces his physical therapist Daphne to his sister-in-law Zora, this is her exact reaction. | |
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Friends A kind of... double inversion (as he's both younger than her, and the one trying to be euphemistic): In the episode "The One with All the Resolutions", when Monica and Chandler have a secret relationship: There was also the flashback episode to when Joey moves in with Chandler, time during which Monica had a crush on Joey. Monica invites him over to drink some lemonade, and while she's distracted serving it, Joey starts stripping: |
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In Transformers: Beast Wars, Silverbolt returns from a scouting run, in which he actually met with his still-evil lover Blackarachnia. Rattrap asks him, "Find any new positions?" | |
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In Spoony's Campaign, Angry Joe tried to outline a plan to repair the party's reputation with a kingdom that wrongly thought they'd assassinated the king. Said plan involved presenting the head of the actual assassin to the princess, but Joe kept making Innocent Innuendo, for which the others ribbed him mercilessly ("Just because I'm taking a dude up to my room, and showing him my head, doesn't mean..."). When Joe tried to clarify that he would give a severed head, Y: Ruler of Time remarked "Is that what they're calling it now? That's gotta be some sort of new BDSM practice." | |
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On Law & Order: UK, while interrogating a teacher about his relationship with their victim, a murdered high school student, the man claims he "was giving her driving lessons". The disbelieving DS Devlin scoffs, saying, "I've heard it called a lot of things, but not that". It turns out the man is telling the truth. What's more, he's gay and therefore had no sexual interest whatsoever in the girl. | |
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