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Trouble Entendre
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Two people have a conversation in a public area. People overhearing the conversation find nothing of interest in it; it seems to just be idle chat. Even the reader notices nothing unusual about it. For the two talking, however, it has a more sinister meaning. Frequently, one is blackmailing or otherwise threatening the other in a sort of "code" they both understand. May involve a Deadly Euphemism. See Shame If Something Happened. Subtrope to Double Meaning and Public Secret Message. Obviously a pun on "Double Entendre." Contrast Talking through Technique, Ominous Mundanity, Spy Speak, Code Emergency, and Implied Death Threat. Examples |
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Everything or Nothing has this exchange in "Mardi Gras Mayhem": | |
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A children's book (one of the Horrible Histories spinoff series, Dead Famous) about Al Capone notes that you should not ask him to take care of your cat for the weekend. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In one episode, Benson gets involved with a home invasion, after making a welfare call at the request of her son's baby-sitter. After her team sends a text asking her where she is, she's allowed to send a text out, asking her team to pick up her son from daycare. Only instead of her son's name, she sneaks in the name of a vicious criminal she had a nasty history with (asking them to pick up "William" because he has a playdate with "Lewis"). Her team figures out it's a Covert Distress Code and goes to investigate. | |
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Dimension 20: Mentopolis features a character named The Fix, who represents hyperfixation in the titular city-in-the-mind, and fills the role of a Hitman with a Heart. And he does his job by casually dropping random facts in a threatening manner until they literally disappear or injure themselves to get away from him. | |
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Inverted for comedic value in a series of Sluggy Freelance strips, in which Mr. Middleman hires Riff and Torg to help someone take a dirt nap (a vampire who needs to regenerate in his native soil) or fit someone else for concrete shoes (the exercise of walking in them should slim her legs). | |
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Though technically, they're talking about someone else, The Break-Up has the lead male and his local bartender engaged in one of these conversations; unfortunately, they have exactly the opposite ideas as to where they want it to lead. | |
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Apocalypse Now: Referenced in Star Craft Brood War, when Lieutenant Duran is sent to bring in Vice-Admiral Stukov. When he arrives he announces that he is there to "terminate [Stukov's] command". Stukov retorts, "we both know what it is you're here to terminate". |
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In Callan, the titular assassin definitely did not appreciate this kind of talk: | |
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Parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, when Legs misunderstands a remark from Fat Tony and shoots his Palm Pilot. A similar dialogue as in the Futurama-example above happens in The Simpsons S 22 E 19 The Real Housewives Of Fat Tony when Fat Tony's henchmen Legs and Loui have to "take care of" a doctor. From the episode "Das Bus", when Bill Gates offers to "buy you out" (a.k.a. trash your business with nerd thugs). In the Treehouse of Horror segment "Dial M for Murder or Press # To Return to the Main Menu", Bart and Lisa meet on a train and agree to "ding-dong-ditch" each other's teachers. Lisa takes this literally, pulls the old doorbell prank on Mrs. Krabappel, and goes to tell Bart she's upheld her end of the bargain. She's horrified to discover that Bart was using a Deadly Euphemism and assumed Lisa understood what he really meant for her to do... and he has upheld his end of the bargain. |
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Problem Sleuth: Due to an in-universe glitch causing some items to double as weapons, attacking with the violent form will cause the narration to assume the more innocuous form is used, and vice versa. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: A boss at a HYDRA-run company asks a new hire, in a somewhat judgmental tone: We later find out that the Incentives Program involves HYDRA holding someone's family member hostage in order to force their cooperation. |
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Michael Clayton has Tilda Swinton character contract "Professional Cleaners" to kill Arthur, and the cleaner's dialogue absolutely swims with this. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Multiple: Hawkeye, who is being watched by Pride, manages to reveal his secret identity in a conversation with Mustang. She uses the first letters of every name she says. Another time Mustang exasperates his whole office tying up military lines chatting with a lady friend the one day Hawkeye is off duty. His phone friend is ultimately revealed to be Hawkeye, the "flower shop" she refers to her stakeout, the "girls" working with her other members of Mustang's group (they all get girl names as cover, save Breda, who the omakes reveal would have been "Bredette"), and the "customers" she deals with her targets. |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: From "A Fitting Punishment": Subverted intentionally, using the vagueness of "I got rid of them,", and lampshaded after, by noting precisely what happened: | |
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Discworld: Lord Vetinari is quite good at these. "Don't let me detain you" is used simultaneously as a warning, a dismissal, and a threat. | |
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Horrible Bosses has the trio of protagonists attempting to hire a hitman. Dale says that assassins can't advertise what they do so they communicate their services in code phrases. Leads to a hilarious misunderstanding with the 'Wetwork Man' who thinks they want to hire him to urinate on them. | |
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In one Relativity story, the Mafia threatens various politicians by leaving messages in graffiti. The police realize it's a code, but can't crack it. It turns out that they're targeting family members of their victims by inserting numbers and names which would be significant only to them. For example, the street name the victim's daughter lives on, plus her telephone prefix. The victim makes the connection instantly, but everyone else just sees a nonsense combination of names and numbers. | |
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In an episode of Not Going Out, a "Fawlty Towers" Plot rendered the main characters unable to say their true meanings in order not to reveal the fact that they weren't disabled, leading to this sort of talk, which everyone else remains clueless too, even when one of them explicitly says "blackmail". | |
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Subverted in The Order of the Stick 597 when Vaarsuvius tries to threaten Elan this way, but fails due to both Elan's low intelligence and V's Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. | |
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In The Godfather, after a Corleone soldier who helped set up the assassination attempt on Don Vito was dispatched: | |
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James Bond On Her Majesty's Secret Service. After M rejects his idea of a strike on Piz Gloria to kill Blofeld and rescue Tracey, Bond places a phone call to Draco Construction, knowing that Tracey's father Draco will be of a different mind. Licence to Kill: Killifer and Sanchez's exchange turns out to be a negotiation on Rewatch Bonus: |
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Mr Croup is rather fond of these. "Some of us are so sharp, we could just cut ourselves." Mr. Croup scratched his head of orange hair, theatrically. "Talking of the marquis, I wonder where he is. He's a bit late, isn't he, Mister Vandemar?" "Very late indeed, Mister Croup. As late as he possibly could be." Mr. Croup coughed sententiously and delivered his punch line. "Then from now on, we'll have to call him the late marquis de Carabas." |
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ProZD: Parodied in the skit "replaying a game and knowing all the plot twists" as the player grows increasingly angry on his second playthrough when he notices all the hints one party member gives about being evil and how he'll kill another character. | |
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Wiseguy: Undercover cop Vinnie Terranova is told to "get rid of" someone who'd just tried to shoot town kingpin Mark Volchek. After putting him into protective custody Vinnie returns with a jar full of ashes (ostensibly the dead victim), only to be told by a shocked Volchek that it wasn't what he meant. Volchek congratulates Vinnie on his "initiative", but to prevent future "misunderstandings" decides to use a codeword for such occasions. Vinnie's stepfather, Don Rudy Aiuppo, asks Vinnie to follow another mob boss who plans to murder Aiuppo, to find out who the assassins will be. Vinnie reports this to Frank McPike. |
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Parodied on a That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch, in which a Dragon expresses irritation with his Diabolical Mastermind boss's habit of doing this, since it leads to unnecessary ambiguity when the henchmen take him too literally. His statement 'let's hope Professor Ritson meets with a little accident' leads the henchmen to wait around to see if he meets with an accident until they realize that it's an accident they were supposed to make happen. | |
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In Pulp Fiction, Vince tells Jules that Marcellus wants Vince to take care of Mrs. Wallace over the weekend. Jules pauses a moment before making a gun with his fingers and asking, "Take care of her?" | |
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Hotline Miami: Unlike Jacket, who follows his assignments with little to no hesitation, the Biker's recorded phone-messages become increasingly agitated as he continues to ignore them. The final call that he receives is from a supposed "funeral home" which announces that the Biker's tombstone is engraved and ready to be delivered to his home. | |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service. After M rejects his idea of a strike on Piz Gloria to kill Blofeld and rescue Tracey, Bond places a phone call to Draco Construction, knowing that Tracey's father Draco will be of a different mind. | |
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The Three Coffins aka The Hollow Man, a Dr. Gideon Fell novel by John Dickson Carr. | |
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Death on the Nile: An attempt at blackmail is made through coded language addressed to the murderer while in the presence of Poirot. | |
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Schindler's List: Oskar Schindler is trying to console Itzhak, the brains behind his successful business and also the man who initially protected the Jewish employees from the Nazis, when he learns that Itzhak is going to be sent away to one of the camps. Oskar explains that he has arranged with the SS commandant for "special treatment," and Itzhak explains that he has heard the term "special treatment" many times and he hopes they are not talking about the same thing. Oskar amends it to preferential treatment. | |
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Licence to Kill: Killifer and Sanchez's exchange turns out to be a negotiation on Rewatch Bonus: | |
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In the World of Assassination Trilogy,note Hitman (2016), Hitman 2 and Hitman 3 when under disguise, Agent 47 is really fond of veiled threats consisting of doublespeak and innuendo that come off as completely mundane towards whomever he's talking to (generally his target). | |
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Harley Quinn, in The New Batman Adventures episode "Joker's Millions," invokes this trope before exacting revenge against The Joker by beating him with her nightstick. | |
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Parodied in Futurama: And then from the third movie, after Bender messes around with the Donbot's wife: |
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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 this to order his assassination. The CIA director pretends not to know what the President is talking about. | |
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In an episode of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, they perform a comedic version of Macbeth. The murderers and Macbeth discuss the situation in very vague terms, with the murderers often answering incomplete sentences: "So you're the..." "Precisely." "And he'll..." "Quite." At the end of the scene, Macbeth leaves; One murderer then says to another, "So what are we supposed to do?" To which the other replies "I have absolutely no idea." | |
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Two and a Half Men: When Charlie almost dies, he has a vision of his dead father urging him to take care of his mother. Everyone is confused by this revelation, as Evelyn is a horrid woman who arguably drove Charlie's father to death. Charlie still does his best to help his mother out as much as possible, and she predictably takes advantage, to his dismay. Then, when they're watching a mafia movie together, two mobsters discuss "taking care" of an enemy, and Charlie slowly smiles. | |
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Lampshaded nearly to the point of subversion in Baccano!: Placido Russo, the head of a prominent crime family, tells his notoriously Ax-Crazy nephew Ladd to go "have a word with" some business associates. Ladd insists on making absolutely sure that his uncle means what he thinks he means, despite Placido's best efforts to keep it implied. | |
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In Wild Wild West, West and Loveless exchange barbs disguised as pleasantries (about West's ethnicity and Loveless' handicap). | |
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Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: This is how Yuyuko clues Yukari in on Megas's return to Gensokyo, alluding to Coop's love of wrestling and the confusion surrounding the mech's name by claiming he got past the Barrier thanks to a "shining wizard". | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV, the incarcerated Gerald McReary uses this during Niko's conjugal visits to tell him how to handle the kidnapping of Gracie Ancelotti, so that the prison guards don't catch on to what he's actually saying. When Gracie's father starts sending people to look for her, Gerald tells Niko that "[his girl's] old boyfriend wants her back" and that he should take her "out on a glamorous date in Algonquin". After Mr. Ancelotti concedes to pay the ransom for his daughter, Gerald says that the ex-boyfriend is about to "agree to the divorce terms". | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Warren tries to tell Andrew that the third member of their Nerd Trio has outlived his usefulness by talking about milk that's passed its expiry date. Andrew keeps Comically Missing the Point until Warren spells it out. | |
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In Bells Are Ringing, the management of Titanic Records is shocked to find that its orders for Beethoven's Tenth Symphony have been switched to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. They don't care that Beethoven only wrote nine symphonies, as the coded "orders" placed with Titanic Records have less to do with classical music than with horse-racing. (To translate the code for this particular case, bets placed on the tenth horse at Belmont Park were changed to the wrong horse.) So the Corvello gang sends a pair of goons to approach Sandor, president of the operation, in a café. He explains them to Sue as "musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra," but is horrified to learn that Titanic Records might want him to attend a "recording session" across the East River of "Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March." | |
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In Conspiracy (2001), the conference members discuss plans for The Holocaust using terms such as "deportations" and "evacuation", just as official documents at the time did. In short order, some of the participants tire of this double-speak, particularly since they're in private, and the pretense is dropped. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Parodied. When the Ginyu Force decide who's going to fight the heroes, Captain Ginyu tells his underlings to treat them with "tender loving care." Cue Jeice saying, "Yeah, and when he says 'treat them with tender loving care', he don't mean patting you on the head and givin' you flowers; he means we're gonna kill you!", triggering a scolding from Captain Ginyu. | |
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In That Epic Plan Light and Beyond strike up a bargain while pretending to be talking about a game of cards. | |
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Subverted in The 51st State where a villain tells his henchman to "take care" of someone and the henchman kills them. It seems the villain just wanted them to be treated well. | |
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BlazBlue: Classy villain that he is, Hazama engages in this from time to time. For example, regarding Makoto Nanaya, who has silently wised up to his latest scheme: | |
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Used quite often on The Sopranos where they use a lot of euphemisms and code that seems made up on the spot to dance around distasteful topics—not because they find them distasteful, but because they never know when there might be a bug. An example from the first season: after they've killed a Hispanic drug dealer and stolen his money stash and found a lot more cash than they expected, Paulie calls Tony: | |
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