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* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the Velocity drug is very addicting and Eliza Harmon becomes hooked on it, consistently desperate for another fix.
** Barry is tempted to use Velocity to go faster and it's portrayed as a hard-working athlete who is on the losing end against his competitors who use performance enhancing drugs.

* [[http://youtu.be/Vomy3vscMN0 This]] water gun fight from Nickelodeon's ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' is... iffy.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons "The Krotons"]], which was made in the swingingest end of TheSixties, is about square authority figures who oppress groovy teenagers by giving them a forced education designed to close off their minds. The Doctor teaches the kids how to make acid [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs to free themselves]]. Of course, it's the dissolving kind of acid, and the authority figures are [[TinCanRobot literally square]]...
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath "The Ambassadors of Death"]] has a scene of a probe docking to another probe, with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to an instrumental of [[TheImmodestOrgasm sexy song]] "Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)" playing in the background. (Notably, when the Doctor repeats the motion later in the story, he does it over radiophonic space ambiance.)
** Before Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords had a secret organization operating outside their own non-interventionist laws to pursue their political ends. It was named the ''[[FunWithAcronyms Celestial Intervention Agency]]''.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree "World War Three"]]: When the fake Prime Minister tries to persuade the UN to give him nuclear launch codes, he fibs about aliens poised to invade Earth, who have ''massive weapons of destruction'' capable of being launched within ''forty-five seconds''...
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]] has news media being manipulated to engage in fear-mongering, creating isolation and ignorance.
** The use of "dances" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] is strange because it's used literally ''and'' as an UnusualEuphemism, and sometimes both at the same time.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] has a scene where an English woman is excited that she's pronounced a place name correctly, while a Welsh woman rolls her eyes.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]]: Jack is [[ExtremeOmnisexual pansexual]], but it's his ''immortality'' that the Doctor has a problem with. Jack is quick to point out what it sounds like, and despite the Time Lord's instinctual rejection of temporal anomalies, the Doctor doesn't deny it.
** Nearly '''every''' single scene involving the Doctor and the Master in the new series has undertones, overtones, and sidetones of BDSM. From their conversations ("Use my name." "''Master''."), to the Master keeping the Doctor in a kennel for a year, to the Doctor intending to return the favor ("What, you're gonna just... keep me?"), to the confrontation in the junkyard that is right out of a HurtComfortFic, to the frakking ''bondage chair''... that Creator/RussellTDavies, the writer of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums the]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords se]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime episodes]] [[RunningTheAsylum openly ships them]] comes as no surprise to anyone.
*** The Doctor's jaw drops when he sees the Master with a wife. And later refers to her as [[TheBeard his beard]].
*** While far less blatant, the Master is no stranger to BDSM in the original series either. HADRON web, anyone?
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]: The scene where Donna's virtual kids disappear and she breaks down screaming and crying is strongly reminiscent of either a kidnapping or, worse, OutlivingOnesOffspring.
** One of the most obvious comes from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]], in which the UK government collapses and [[PuttingOnTheReich puts on the Reich]], including the internment of foreign nationals. When one of Donna's housemates and friends is interned, Donna is oblivious to the parallel. Wilfred isn't, and he's absolutely horrified by it.
** The sexual violence imagery in the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]] and throughout [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], used to squeak what is basically a RapeAndRevenge plot onto family television. Amy is kidnapped, her legs spread apart, and forced to give painful birth to a child she didn't even realise she was pregnant with. When she attempts to recuperate with her baby, it is revealed to be a ganger (an artificial body) when it explodes, leaving her sobbing in absolutely violated despair in night clothes with white goo on her hands and face.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]] slips in a reference to then-contemporary political issues by having the Serbian-born Tesla, dealing with protesters outside his lab in 1903, responding to a remark that he should "go home" by pointing out that he's an American citizen too.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': Murdoch quite frequently solves crimes by using the limited resources of his time to get at a primitive version of a contemporary technology that would be quite familiar to the audience. Other conversations address some of the unforeseen consequences of new technologies. There's even at least one plot that strongly recalls what for the audience is a series of historic events. Some examples include:
** Murdoch and Nikola Tesla collaborate on a portable audio broadcasting unit to record a criminal conversation (in essence, a wireless wiretap) in "Power". In one of their conversations, Tesla suggests moving images could also be sent over the air, and when Murdoch says such a thing would be a "telekinetiscope", Tesla replies that the word is too long and suggests "television" instead.
** Murdoch comes up with a number of portable light sources, including one that shines UV light (helpful for detecting blood evidence) and bicycle lamps powered by the cyclist's pedaling.
** Murdoch explains chemiluminescence to his boss Inspector Brackenreid and concocts an early version of luminol.
** Early efforts to obtain ballistics evidence involve firing guns into a full rain barrel and comparing bullets. Later in the series, Murdoch seems to have learned that the water could deform a bullet, so he fires weapons into soft materials (suspended sandbags backed by hay bales) to obtain bullets for comparison.
** After doing some reading on Mongol warriors and silk, Murdoch designs a bulletproof vest. He later sends Crabtree to his tailor to have one made to fit him, which the constable wears in "Big Murderer on Campus" and "Murdoch on the Corner".
** In one episode, the evidence is underwater in Lake Ontario, so Murdoch essentially invents a rudimentary version of sonar to find it.
** The episode "Murdoch.com" revolves around women being lured to their deaths by a sexual predator... on the telegraph lines.
** Crabtree's line: "Why, it's like a spiderweb!... It could even be world-wide!"
** There is a "digitized" and "faxed" photograph Murdoch and his Surete colleague obtain via telegraph in "Monsieur Murdoch".
** Among the inventions mentioned in the episode "Invention Convention" are an analytical engine (a precursor to modern computers), a machine specifically for sending email (they call it "i-mail"), and sound-activated switches. [[LampshadeHanging Crabtree even notes the ease of turning off lights by clapping his hands!]]
** In "Journey to the Center of Toronto", Murdoch builds and sets up a series of small seismographs to help the men of Station 4 track an underground boring machine used in a series of thefts.
** After some curious metal filings are found on a corpse and at a crime scene, Murdoch hits the books and fabricates a silencer in "The Black Hand". Crabtree [[LampshadeHanging hangs the lampshade by suggesting "muffler" and "silencer" as names for the item]].
** "Back and to the Left" starts with two government officials in an open-air vehicle when there's gunfire and one of them dies from a gunshot wound to the head. The entire event is photographed and filmed. It soon appears at least one shot came from an upstairs window of a nearby warehouse. A man is identified in the papers as the shooter and is shortly thereafter killed. Murdoch and Dr. Ogden go over the evidence and find the evidence of the bullet trajectory doesn't line up, the phrase "magic bullet" is used, and they conclude there was a second shooter. Sounds rather like the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, doesn't it?

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** Jerry's relationship with Keith Hernandez resembles a [[HoYay romantic relationship]], in which helping him move is treated as "going all the way."
** In another episode, Jerry makes a snide remark about dentists which gets him labeled an "anti-dentite". ("Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools!" "They ''do'' have their own schools!") However, its later subverted when Jerry jokes with the Girl of the Week about dentists only to discover her non-metaphorical prejudice:
--->'''[=GotW=]:''' Hey, what do you call a doctor who fails out of med school?\\
'''Jerry:''' What?\\
'''[=GotW=]:''' A dentist. ''(they laugh)''\\
'''Jerry:''' That's a good one. Dentists.\\
'''[=GotW=]:''' Yeah, who needs 'em? Not to mention the Blacks and the Jews.
** Jerry leaving his barber for his more talented relative is portrayed as an infidelity of operatic proportions, complete with several music cues from ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville''.
** Another episode had portrayed Kramer and Jerry as a married couple, when Kramer got a job, specifically portraying Kramer as the workaholic husband and Jerry as the neglected wife.
** Even in one of the first series, a scene in which Jerry tried to stop seeing an annoying friend is played like a relationship break-up, with Jerry resorting to saying 'it's not you, it's me'
** An episode where Kramer's shower breaks forces him to not bathe for days. His constant scratching and his desperate need for a new shower head makes him look and sound like a junkie. His dilemma makes Elaine's situation at work (she is mistaken for a drug addict) a lot worse.
** And, of course, the episode in which the facial/speech aftereffects of dental surgery result in Kramer being mistaken for a mentally-challenged person.
** One episode has Elaine dating a man she really likes, only to be disappointed when she finds out he has pro-life views. [[TwoLinesNoWaiting In the same episode]], Kramer teams up with Italian restaurant owner Poppy to open a pizzeria where customers make their pizza themselves, and the two have the following argument over pizza toppings:
--->'''Poppy:''' No no no, you can't-a put-a cucumbers on a pizza.\\
'''Kramer:''' Well, why not? I like cucumbers.\\
'''Poppy:''' That's-a not a pizza. It'll taste-a terrible.\\
'''Kramer:''' Yeah, but that's the idea. You make your own pie.\\
'''Poppy:''' Yes, but we cannot-a give-a the people the right to choose ''any'' topping they ''want''! Now, on this issue there can-a be ''no'' debate!\\
'''Kramer:''' What gives you the right to tell me how I would make my pie?!\\
'''Poppy:''' Because it's a ''pizza''!\\
'''Kramer:''' It's not a pizza until it comes out of the oven!\\
'''Poppy:''' It's a pizza the moment you put-a you' fists in the dough!\\
'''Kramer:''' No, it isn't!\\
'''Poppy:''' Yes it is!
** "The Masseuse" sees Jerry dating a masseuse who, to his disappointment, has no interest in giving him a massage. After his many dropped hints fail to land, he forces her hands on his neck in an action that's treated like a sexual assault (in an ironic twist, part of his frustration comes from the fact that she keeps initiating sex when he wants a massage instead). Elsewhere, Kramer, oblivious to the analogy, is confused by Jerry's jealous reaction to finding out that he got a massage from her and points out that he paid her, prompting Jerry to yell, "Don't you ever talk about her like that!"
--->'''Jerry:''' What do you mean, no?
--->'''Jodi:''' No means no!
--->'''Jerry:''' Look, who are you kidding? You come up to my apartment with your table and your little oils, and I'm not supposed to expect anything? You're a massage teaser!
--->'''Jodi:''' Listen. I massage who I want, ''when'' I want. I don't submit to forcible massage.
** "The Merv Griffin Show" has a similar non-consent metaphor [[CrossesTheLineTwice pushed even farther]] with Jerry dating a girl who has an extensive vintage toy collection and won't let him touch it, [[NotDistractedByTheSexy disappointing him by making out with him instead]]. After several unsuccessful attempts while she's distracted ("Jerry! Those hands! They never stop!"), he [[DateRape drugs her and plays with her toys while she's asleep]]. This notably includes a shot of her passed-out on the couch which slowly pans down to Jerry fooling around...[[{{Manchild}} with the toys on the nearby coffee table]]. Upon finding out that Jerry finally got to play with the toys, Kramer excitedly asks if wedding bells are on the horizon (before being horrified when he learns how it happened), while Newman is scandalized that they ''aren't'' already married.
** In "The Conversion," George decides to convert to the Latvian Orthodox Church (despite having no real interest in the faith) so that his girlfriend's parents won't force them apart. He has to hide this conversion from his AmbiguouslyJewish parents, and the scene of him reading religious texts in the bathroom and his parents being suspicious is played as though he is masturbating.
** In "The Pool Guy," George briefly treats Elaine like a male romantic rival after she befriends his fiancée [[OneOfTheBoys due to having no other female friends]]. ([[FridgeBrilliance Which wouldn't seem far off the mark considering that his fiancée has dated women in the past]], except that the focal point of the disagreement is instead on the fact that he wants to preserve the integrity of his friend group, which provides a welcome refuge from his [[AwfulWeddedLife Awful Engaged Life]].)
--->'''George:''' What, she's the only girl in the whole world? Why can't you find your own girl?!
--->'''Elaine:''' ''(furious)'' I ''like her!''
** In another episode, George avoids a girlfriend who's trying to have the breakup conversation because he needs her as his date to a high-end ball. She sends Kramer to break up with him for her and the resulting secondhand negotiation of the relationship over the rest of the episode plays out as if George and Kramer are the ones who broke up, as when they have an awkward encounter at Jerry's apartment:
--->'''George:''' ''(shy)'' ...[[BlatantLies It's funny running into you here]].
** "The Muffin Tops" has Jerry impulsively shaving his chest, then keeping it up for the benefit of a girlfriend who thinks he's naturally hairless. When he ends up stuck with her on a stalled bus tour as the hair is growing back, his desperation to run off and scratch is treated as if he's a werewolf on the brink of transformation (and, naturally, ends with him staggering into the woods, ripping his shirt open and letting out an open-mouthed howl of relief).
--->''([[{{Lunacy}} Full moon]] visible outside bus window, eerie music, dog barking in the distance.)''
--->'''Jerry:''' I can't sit on this bus anymore! [[INeedToGoIronMyDog I think I'll go play with that dog!]]
** "The Apology": Kramer solicits Jerry to teach him how to shower faster. Jerry attempts to demonstrate by standing in the shower but refuses to take a real shower, to Kramer's frustration.
--->'''Jerry:''' You're not gettin' any skin, Kramer! ''(walks out)'' \\
'''Kramer:''' ...Well, this has all been one big tease!
** "The Frogger" has an example good enough to fool the people involved, as the small CaperCrew George has organized to help him get an arcade cabinet home without erasing the high scores list (headed by rogue electrician "Slippery Pete") are very surprised to find that George legally purchased the machine and nothing about the job involves stealing.
** Jerry begins dating his maid in "The Maid", leading her to start slacking off at work. He's is very quick to protest when others point out that he's essentially paying her for sex, but the metaphor quickly takes off anyway when he meets her boss who acts like an aggressive pimp and demands that he still pay for her "services". At the end of the episode, the boss is last seen "recruiting" a lost and confused Kramer off the street in a very suspect manner.

* ''DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything/TheBoys2019''

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** The gang outs Barney's gay black brother as "monogamous" and rightly suspects that it will upset him. Barney then refuses to support that his brother is going to marry a white guy. Not because of the gay marriage thing, or inter-racial marriage thing, but because it is a ''marriage''. He tells everyone how it is going to destroy singles everywhere, and he ends up telling his nephew that "Just because you are being raised by married people doesn't mean that you got to choose that lifestyle."
** In "Murtaugh", Barney's argument with the owner of the laser tag arena is like him quitting the police force.
** In "Arrivederci, Fiero", the car breaks down and it is treated like it's dying. The car is even personified and referred to by personal pronouns, although there is a disagreement on the gender and whether Fiero is he or she.
** Lily and Robin spill Thai food in Marshall's car and have to clean it up. Marshall has a very strong rules about no food or drinks in the car, and it's portrayed like they're trying to erase evidence of a murder. The scene is a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction''.
** Robin's argument with Lily and Marshall sounds like a fight between a rebellious teenager and her parents. LampshadeHanging:
--->'''Robin''': Is there any version of this conversation where you guys don't sound like my parents?\\
'''Lily''': I don't know. Is there any version where you don't sound like a 16-year-old?
** In one episode, they find out Lily's fellow teacher Gillian is an AmbiguouslyJewish "Woo!" girl.
** When Marshall gets Barney to wear a night shirt. The way he tells Barney how great married life is is like a dad tucking in his son with a bedtime story.
** When Marshall and Lily find a new couple to hang out with after Barney and Robin dump them, it's played as if it was cheating or finding a new love interest way too quickly. Barney and Robin then proceed to do every "single person" cliche out there... as a couple. Eventually, they get back together.
--->'''Lily''': [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys What is it about a bad boy]], and girl?\\
'''Marshall''': [[LoveRedeems I think we can change them]].
** When Ted finds out that his girlfriend Stella hasn't had sex in five years, he freaks out and thinks that her expectations might be raised too high. He cooks her a meal for dinner and invokes the trope by describing the meal as something she might have enjoyed before, but she then stopped having it, and once she decides to eat it again, she might anticipate too much. Stella of course catches his meaning and laughs it off, genuinely amused.
** One episode had the gang finding out Robin's current boyfriend has a small penis. Marshall treats the guy like he has an incurable disease.
** Lily (with "pregnancy brain") seduces Marshall into buying a house in the suburbs.
--->'''Marshall''': [[TheImmodestOrgasm Yes! Yes! I'm coming!]]... to terms with this life-changing decision.
** When Ted's building plan is rejected:
--->'''Owner:''' You're great, and you've done a real special job here, and you're going to make some other restaurant very happy someday.
** In "Aldrin Justice", Barney refers to Marshall's law professor as a "cougar", a term that becomes increasingly literal. As he prepares to "hunt" her his way of scoping her out make him sound like he's a safari guide, and at the end of the episode he needs to "let her go" because "she belongs in the wild". The professor, meanwhile, treats his attempts to satisfy her in bed as if it's actual schoolwork. She even grades him.
--->'''Barney''': C-? What are you talking about? I pulled an all-nighter!\\
'''Professor Lewis''': You didn't budget your time well, you glossed over some of the most important points and your oral presentation was sloppy and inconclusive.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E7TheInitiative The Initiative]]", Spike preparing to bite Willow is played very much like a rape scene, with her threatening to scream (and then actually doing it) and him turning on the radio to drown out the noise while he pins her down on the bed. Then MoodWhiplash kicks in as Spike finds himself incapable of biting Willow due to the recently [[RestrainingBolt implanted chip]] in his head, and a very funny conversation between the two follows which could almost word-for-word be about impotence. Until right at the end, when Willow mentions that they could "wait half an hour and try again," does a take that needs no words to express, "What the ''hell'' did I just say?", and brains him with a lamp.
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2}} Becoming, Part 2]]", Joyce reacts to Buffy's revelation that she's the Slayer in the same way a parent might react to a [[ComingOutStory child's coming out of the closet]]: "[[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have you tried]] ''not'' being a Slayer?", "Honey, are you sure you are a Vampire Slayer?" and "It's because you didn't have a strong father figure, isn't it?". In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3FaithHopeAndTrick Faith, Hope and Trick]]", she mentions how supportive she's been about the supernatural side of Buffy's life, saying, "I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride parade."
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E5NoPlaceLikeHome No Place Like Home]]", when Buffy does a meditative ritual to try to find out what's wrong with Joyce, it looks very much like she's getting high (she won't let Dawn into her room, burns incense and tries to cover it up by sticking a towel under the door, and afterward we see through her eyes and her sight is wonky).
** When Dawn finds out that she's the Key in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E13BloodTies Blood Ties]]", it's played as though she found out that she was adopted. (Which is true after a fashion, since she was [[CosmicRetcon literally retconned]] into the family via magic.)
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", with the characters unable to speak, Buffy mimes hand gestures that are supposed to represent staking the monster of the week, but that instead resemble masturbation. The rest of the Scoobies look at Buffy as though she's gone mad, and she hastily repeats the gesture with a stake ''actually'' in her hand.
** "Magic = sex" is one of the longer running themes. Some examples:
*** There's this conversation between Willow and Tara in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E14GoodbyeIowa Goodbye, Iowa]]", before they started their relationship:
---->'''Willow:''' I had so much fun the other night, with the spells...\\
'''Tara:''' Yeah, that was nice.\\
'''Willow:''' I hope you don't think I just come over for the spells and everything, I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.\\
'''Tara:''' I know that. But you wanna do a spell, right?\\
'''Willow:''' Yeah, but...\\
'''Tara:''' Oh, you don't have to explain. I've been thinking about that last spell we did all day.
*** Willow and Tara are seen doing a spell together, with Willow lying back against a pillow, panting and sweaty, with the shot showing her only from the waist up. The spell is aptly called "the passage to the netherrealm".
*** THEIR WHOLE SONG in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling]]". "Spread beneath my willow tree", [[LastSecondWordSwap "You make me come---plete!"]] Yeah...
*** Appropriately mocked by Xander during Willow's dream in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E22Restless Restless]]":
---->"Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell. And then I do a spell by myself."
*** And in Dawn's diary/internal monologue in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E2RealMe Real Me]]":
---->"Willow's the awesomest person. She's the only one I know who likes school as much as me. Even her friends are cool! Like Tara. She and Willow are both witches. They do spells and stuff, which is so much cooler than slaying. I told Mom one time I wish they'd teach me some of the things they do together. ''(beat)'' A-and then she got really quiet and made me go upstairs. Huh. I guess her generation isn't cool with witchcraft."
*** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E6Family Family]]", Tara's father managed to convince Tara that [[HeteronormativeCrusader her witchcraft proved that she was really a demon.]]
*** Before doing a spell with Willow in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E3SameTimeSamePlace Same Time Same Place]]", Anya has to ask if it's "gonna get all sexy".
** Vampires biting people is often treated as sex. When Angel bites Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 Graduation Day Part 2]]", we see her crushing a helmet with one hand, as well as hearing her panting. Vampire attacks on women look a lot like rape. In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E1BuffyVsDracula Buffy vs. Dracula]]", Dracula shapeshifts himself into Buffy's room by turning into mist that floats in through her window (like a secret lover sneaking in), remarking on Buffy's scar from where Angel bit her, and then biting her on the other side, after which he tells her to take a taste of him. The next day, she ''really'' doesn't want anyone, especially Riley, to see her scar, like it's evidence of a shameful one-night stand.
** In the season six episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked}} Wrecked]]", Willow gets addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination. Combining the "awakening lesbianism = magic" and "drugs = magic" metaphors makes for some awkward implications, and it also got a lot of criticism for there being no subtlety to the analogy; it literally just comes off like a story about drugs with "magic" search-and-replaced onto it.
** DemonicPossession stands in for drugs in a story from Giles' past as Ripper. His friends would pass around the demon, and when it possessed them, they would get a kind of high.
** "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E5Reptile Boy}} Reptile Boy]]" dealt with a fraternity that was a front for a demon-worshipping cult, who lured naive girls to parties, got them drunk, tied them up in the basement and fed them to their god. Possibly unintentional, but it comes off as an allegory for college rape culture and campus sexual assults.
** Willow to Buffy: "You could do that thing with your mouth, that guys like so much." (She means smiling.)
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E12ANewMan}} A New Man]]" Buffy and Riley discuss how many Demons and Vampires they have both slain. Buffy of course has a lot more than Riley and the whole conversation could really also be about previous sexual partners.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E13TheIInTeam The "I" in Team]]", when Buffy is let into the Initiative's base for the first time it's first played as if Riley and she are going to have sex.
--->'''Buffy''': "You said it was big. You told me, but you never said it was huge." \\
'''Riley''': "I don't like to brag."
** Willow and Tara's break up is treated like a divorce with Dawn as their child. When Tara and Dawn go for a movie and shakes in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed Smashed]]", Tara assures Dawn that "I will always be there for you" and that her moving out had nothing to do with Dawn.
** Spike's EnemyMine alliance with Buffy is treated like infidelity. This became much more apparent later on in the series and Drusilla broke up with Spike because even she could see it.
--->'''Spike:''' I told her [Drusilla] it didn't mean anything, I was thinking of her the whole time, but she didn't care.
** After Buffy has sex with Angel, he changes (into his SuperPoweredEvilSide, Angelus), acting like a completely different person. It's treated like he's some {{Jerkass}} who stopped pretending to be nice to a girl once he used her for sex, and when her mother finds out about it, that's exactly what she believes happened.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]", when Buffy tells Lily her boyfriend Rickie is dead, she mentions that it seemed like something "sucked the life out of him", that it was probably something in his blood, and that something like that could happen to anyone, even "good" people. The scene right before this shows an HIV poster in the background.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E12Potential Potential]]", Dawn believing she's a Potential Slayer = pregnancy.
** Riley letting vampires feed on him is compared to prostitution/cheating. Or drugs, considering the dingy houses they're in, the rush, and that he was bit on the forearm.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless Selfless]]", D'Hoffryn was portrayed less as Anya's boss and more as her pimp.
** Season 8 has an InUniverse example: On the run Faith first hides in a bunker waiting for the end then escapes by train. Both are in Berlin, and she is disturbed at the implications.
** Glory looks like she's having an orgasm whenever she [[MindRape brain-sucks someone]].
** The First Slayer merging with the shadowy demon that turns her into the Slayer borders on rape.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** "The One With Phoebe's Husband" reveals that Phoebe married a supposedly-gay ice dancer so he could [[CitizenshipMarriage get a green card]]. He shows up asking for a divorce because he's realised he's straight and wants to marry another woman. The scene of him [[ComingStraightStory revealing this to Phoebe]] plays out exactly like a stereotypical ComingOutStory.
--->'''Phoebe:''' So, um, have you told your parents?\\
'''Duncan:''' No, but it'll be okay, they're cool. My brother's straight so...
** The show also did this a lot with Joey and Chandler acting like a married couple including arguments about Chandler's ex-roommate Kip and buying furniture together.
--->'''Joey:''' Well, let me ask you something: was Kip a better roommate than me?\\
'''Chandler:''' Aww, don't do that.
** And an episode where Rachel discovers Monica has been shopping with Ross's new girlfriend, and it's treated like infidelity.
** An episode where Phoebe and her current boyfriend were infected with chicken pox. They couldn't resist scratching themselves, so they had oven mitts duct-taped on to their arms. Eventually, the itching became too severe for them to resist, Phoebe started saying how good it would feel to give in and her boyfriend was saying "We can't, we'd regret it!", and eventually he succumbed to temptation along with her in a clear parallel to a highly turned-on couple trying to resist the urge to have sex. And when they finally do, they end up rubbing their backs against each other, complete with groaning, until Ross and Rachel walk in and gasp in horror, with Ross saying "I expected this from you Phoebe, but you're a military man!" to the boyfriend.
** An episode has Ross and Joey accidentally taking a nap together. It's treated like a night of drunken experimentation.
--->'''Joey:''' I wanna do it again!\\
'''Ross:''' We can't do it again!\\
'''Joey:''' Why not?!\\
'''Ross:''' Because it's '''weird'''!
** Monica redeveloping an addiction to [[GRatedDrug cookies.]]
** Rachel and Chandler stealing cheesecakes, played off as having to commit multiple cover up murders to cover up their original crime.
** Chandler and Joey arguing about the care of their new "baby" chick.
** Joey's kidney stones needing to [[ScreamingBirth be peed out]].
** In one episode Phoebe and Ross start dating, respectively, Kyle and Whitney who are currently in the process of divorcing each other. Phoebe and Ross start arguing over who is repsonsible for said divorce as if ''they'' were the ones whose relationship has broken down. After Phoebe storms out of one argument in Central Perk, Ross turns to some random strangers at the next table and apologizes to them the way a parent would if their child had seen them arguing ("I'm sorry you had to see that.")

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS07E11Lineage Lineage]]" can easily be read as a metaphor for colorism. B'Elanna, who has been insecure about her Klingon heritage her whole life, is distressed when she learns that her and Tom's daughter will inherit her features, particularly forehead ridges, as she had assumed that she would look human. With a few minor rewrites it would be a story about a biracial woman being upset that her 1/4 Black child has dark skin, particularly when B'Elanna considers genetically modifying her unborn baby to remove her Klingon DNA, which would not only remove her ridges but also change her hair from brunette to blonde, i.e. skin bleaching.

* ''Series/AlexRider'': When Tom finds out Alex has been recruited as a spy, he goes to the Friend estate to talk to him about it. The conversation sounds exactly like they're talking about an abusive relationship, complete with Tom asking about a recent injury and Alex insisting it was "just an accident!" Alex seems to notice the resemblance at this point, because he then admits it happened when he was kidnapped.

'''Teddy: It doesn't mean that he's a bad ''guy'', it jut means that he's a bad guy.

-->'''Teddy: Dan performs a variety of henching services for supervillains on a for-hire basis.\\

** In "Motor Skills" Roz got a puppy and Martin offered to give her some of Eddies old toys, and it took about forty seconds before the whole thing disintegrates into an extended metaphor of a mother and a daughter disagreeing on how to raise the grand-child.

%% *** Drusilla broke up with Spike because she could sense what he'd done in order to save her. Spike and Buffy came much, much later and doesn't make sense if you believe the clunky attempted RetCon. It was made very clear that seasons were planned little more than one ahead, so there was no plan in S2/3 to have Spike as a love interest for Buffy in S5/6.

** Season 5 shows a flashback to [[Mythology/ArthurianLegend King Arthur]] (England) invading and pillaging King Fergus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'s'' kingdom (Scotland).

Herman accidentally buys a stolen car and is jailed instead of the real thief. Think about it- an ethnic minority is profiled, wrongly imprisoned, and his family members who resemble him can't get justice, but the officer working in the building agrees to speed up the process once he sees Marilyn, the white-passing relative. The cops were so focused on the man who looked different that they almost let the true criminal get away with it. It's a very light depiction of a serious issue going on today with racial minorities in the West, particularly the USA.