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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has plenty of examples of this over [[LongRunners the decades]]. One of the most obvious comes from "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.

** An episode strangely did one where a man revealing to his wife [[spoiler:Phoebe]] that he was straight had almost the same dialogue as it would if he were revealing he was gay ("Have you told your parents?" "No, but they're pretty cool. My brother's straight"); it was a CitizenshipMarriage and she had known him to be gay. ''Friends'' also did this a lot with Joey and Chandler acting like a married couple.

** It's his morning routine. The [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] opening scene for the fourth season shows him do it while completely exhausted, and thus screwing it up, because [[spoiler: he's a daddy now, and babies cause lack of sleep]]. The end of the second season also shows him doing his morning routine. I'd just like to know where he gets those terrifying oranges.
*** They're blood oranges (naturally), and they're not terrifying, they're delicious.

** 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?")
*** and just moments earlier "Honey are you sure you are a Vampire Slayer?" and moments later "It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?". You really can't get any more specific than this.
*** And in a later episode, 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."

** The whole "drive a stake into them" concept of vampire lore (by no means limited to ''Buffy'') probably fits this trope.

** When Angel bites Buffy in season 3, we see her crushing a helmet with one hand, as well as hearing her panting. Only one of the more obvious examples of "biting as sex" within the Buffyverse.
*** During the Season 5 premiere, 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.

** DemonicPossession stood in for drugs in a story from Giles' past as Rupert the Ripper. His friends would pass around the demon, and when it possessed them, they would get a kind of high.

** 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. Then when they are in, the conversation goes like this: Buffy: "You said it was big. You told me, but you never said it was huge." Riley: "I don't like to brag."
** Willow & Tara's break up is treated like a divorce with [[HasTwoMommies Dawn as their child]]. When Tara and Dawn go for a movie and shakes an episode or two later, Tara assures Dawn that "I will always be there for you" and that her moving out had nothing to do with Dawn.
** Vampire attacks on women look a lot like rape.

** Vegetarianism = dealing with drugs or having a homosexual in the family.

* Wendy Rieger's method of measuring snowfall reminds us of [[BiggerIsBetterInBed something else]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEP9aU-ynm0 this newscast]].

* In the ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode "Menace", the team encounters an android in the form of a teenaged girl, who thinks she's human. When Daniel decides to explain to her that she's a robot, it ends up coming out very much like the cliched birds-and-the-bees conversation. ("You're not like me. On the inside, I mean.")
** The long-running subplot of Earth businessmen pulling the strings of rogue NID operatives appears to be an allegory for the military-industrial complex.

---> '''Joey:''' We have to talk about this!
---> '''Ross:''' We can't!

** 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''." and "I like it when you use my name."), to the Master keeping the Doctor in a kennel for a year, to the Doctor intending to return the favour ("What, you're gonna just... keep me?"), to the frakking ''bondage chair''... that [[Creator/RussellTDavies the writer of these 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 was no stranger to BDSM in the original series either. TOMTIT, anyone?

* [[http://youtu.be/Vomy3vscMN0 This]] water gun fight from Nickelodeon's "Victorious" reminds me of something else entirely.

* ''Series/{{The X-Files}}''. Dana Scully getting a tattoo in "Never Again" is definitely played this way, from the expectant, hungry look of the man with her, to the gasps and expressions Scully makes. They then go back to his apartment and have sex for real.

** Since Ted's narrating the series to his kids in the future, he occasionally censors the more adult things, but leaves the context completely unchanged. Hence the main characters' experiments with "sandwiches" in college, and the upstairs neighbours who wouldn't stop "playing the bagpipes" and Ted calling Lily a "[[CountryMatters grinch]]"
** In one episode Ted is with a date and after a series of events you get this.
--> Barney: Kiss him! Kiss him! Kiss him!
--> Ted (Narrating): Yeah, he's not saying kiss.
--> And then a security guard comes to take Barney out of the theatre.

* ''{{Star Trek Deep Space Nine}}'': The Cardassian occupation of Bajor, complete with labor camps and racially-charged rhetoric, is reminiscent of the [[{{A Nazi By Any Other Name}} Nazi regime]].

** The Section 31 virus which afflicts the Changeling race is reminiscent of the HIV epidemic. First, the virus is spread by the physically intimate act of linking, the closest Changeling analog to sex. Like HIV, the virus is lethal, at least until a cure is discovered in season 7. Finally, the virus is deliberately developed by Section 31, a shadow organization under the Federation government, as a means of bringing about a Changeling genocide. This strategy is reminiscent of early [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discredited_AIDS_origins_theories conspiracy theories]] surrounding the origins of HIV.

** When Carly stopped dating the guy in "iQ" Sam gives Carly the huge fork which she took from the Shays at the beginning of the episode. When Carly asks Sam why is she giving up her beloved fork, Sam pulls out a huge fork. Carly replies " That is comically big." Which reminds some of us of what one woman might give her now-lonely girl friend to compensate for not having a boyfriend any more. If you know what I mean? Probably the closest a kid show ever came to making a masturbation joke. And its with females at that.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' does this a ''lot''. Some examples:

** 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?")]]

** When Dawn finds out that she's the Key, it's played as though she found out that she was adopted.
*** Which is, of course, true after a fashion, since she was literally retconned into the family via magic.
** The whole "drive a stake into them" concept of vampire lore (by no means limited to ''{{Buffy}}'') probably fits this trope.
** Also done in the episode "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.
** There was also this conversation between Willow and Tara, before they started their relationship:

*** In another example of "magic as sex" for this relationship, 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 "Spread beneath my willow tree. . ."
**** [[LastSecondWordSwap "You make me come---plete!"]]
*** Spoofed in Xander's dream in "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 "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."
*** When Angel bites Buffy in season 3, we see her crushing a helmet with one hand, as well as hearing her panting -- another example of "biting as sex" within the Buffyverse.
*** Another "biting as sex" example in the Buffyverse is during the Season 5 premiere, when 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 "Wrecked" Willow get 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.
*** Magic is also treated as sex in the same episode, with Willow writhing with her shirt open.
*** And combining the awakening lesbianism = magic and drugs = magic metaphors makes for some UnfortunateImplications.
** Demonic possession stood in for drugs in a story from Giles' past as Rupert the Ripper. His friends would pass around the demon, and when it possessed them, they would get a kind of high.

** When Buffy is let into the initiatives base for the first time it's first played as if Riley and she are going to have sex. Then when they are in, the conversation goes like this: Buffy: "You said it was big. You told me, but you never said it was huge." Riley: "I don't like to brag."
** Giles comment to Riley and Buffy having sex in a haunted house: "In the midst of all that do you really think they were keeping it up?" *Stares from all the Scoobies* "Oh, for a different phrasing".

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' 2x06: Angel: "Were you in Virginia?" Wesley: "That's besides the point."

** In "Spin the Bottle" amnesiac Fred thinks she may have been abducted by aliens, and rambles about how they must have done terrible things to her naked, helpless body. In response Wesley's wrist-blade pops out spontaneously.

**** Dexter's serial killing has also been compared to cheating on his girlfriend, drug addiction and being a closeted gay man, the last one is HilariousInHindsight if you've seen SixFeetUnder.

* Aaaand on a more humorous note, in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' we have the large amount of torture, leather and sex... where you get lines like this:
--> '''Bad Guy for the week (season 4)''': I like interrogations... long, ''hard'' interrogations
** Or pretty much any scene with Scorpius when he's being tortured. The torturer ''always'' looks like they're having ''way'' too much fun, and Scorpius is continuously pleading with them to keep doing it. [[SarcasmMode Yes, I'm sure that doesn't mean anything at all.]]
** Or that episode in season 3 where Talyn is... er... let's just say 'leaking' an leviathan adrenaline-filled gas, which enhances certain aspects of humanoid physiology. In essence, Crais starts threatening to shoot people if they don't give him a gun (and he doesn't seem to understand what's wrong with that request), Stark goes... more crazy (if that were even possible), and John and Aeryn get very turned on by the mist:

* Very much dramatic rather than comedic, but in season 3 of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' [[spoiler:Sylar breaks into Claire's house and succeeds in stealing her [[HealingFactor power]], but does it without killing her unlike his previous victims. The experience visibly shakes Claire and she describes Sylar as "taking something that was hers." She then wants to learn how to fight so she can "help people", but after her biological mother Meredith puts her through TrainingFromHell, Claire finally breaks and admits she doesn't want to fight so she can help people, but to find Sylar and "hurt him for hurting me!" The whole thing plays out as if Claire was a rape victim instead of somebody who had her superpower stolen (or copied, whatever).]]
** After a truly [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] chase through the house with doors slamming in her face by themselves, being [[spoiler: immobilized on a table while a creepy guy sticks his fingers into squishy places is about as thinly-veiled as the metaphor can get without him doing his thing while on top of her.]]
*** "Stealing a woman's power" took on a whole new meaning.

*** Also Sylar's very creepy shapeshifting into his adoptive mother (aunt by marriage) and having conversations with her, having killed her in Volume 1, disturbingly resembles [[Film/{{Psycho}} Hitchcock's film about a mama's boy who impersonates his mother.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has had this over the years, but the best --and most horrifying-- example comes from "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. And, coupled with Bernard Cribbins' emotive acting, it's enough to [[TearJerker make the viewer cry]].
** Incidentally, TheMaster ''likes it'' when the Doctor [[FoeYay uses his name]].
*** And the Doctor's jaw drops when he sees the Master with a wife. And later refers to her as [[TheBeard his beard.]]
** Try taking "dances" out of "The Doctor Dances."
** 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 ''Celestial Intervention Agency''.
** Similarly, 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''...

** In 4x12 Buffy and Riley discuss how many Demons 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 2x17, "Disharmony", Harmony tries to explain to Cordelia that she's a vampire. Instead it sounds like she's coming out as a lesbian and expressing a crush on Cordelia.

* [[http://youtu.be/Vomy3vscMN0 This]] water gun fight from Nickelodeon's "Victorious" reminds me of something else entirely.

* The HBO series ''TrueBlood'' contains so much subtext about vampire rights that some might find the not-so-subtle parallels a bit tiresome. "God Hates Fangs"? Even vampire puns are still [[AWorldWidePunomenon bad puns]]. Besides, everyone knows that [[Literature/HarryPotter werewolves]] [[{{Fanon}} are actually gay]], while our favorite bloodsuckers prefer beautiful women.
** Not to mention every feeding being a very obvious allusion to sex, cluminating in one very particular episode. Both Bill and Eric were burned and needed healing. Follow, a frame of Sookie sitting between them, with a very meaningful expression on her face, while each vampire is sucking at a different wrist of hers. Fans had a lot to think about that night.

* [[http://youtu.be/Vomy3vscMN0 This]] water gun fight from Nickelodeon's "Victorious" definitely looks like something else.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'''s "The Return," Sidney - the former editor of Storybrooke's newspaper ''The Storybrooke Daily Mirror'' - is exposed as a liar and as the one who wiretapped Emma's office. Two words: [[BritishNewspapers Piers. Morgan.]]

* "The Tale Of The Renegade Virus" on ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' features a virus with a serial port connector for a hand that tries to plug it into Simon's serial port in his hand. He's laughing all the while and Simons is screaming BigNo. The scene is uncomfortably reminiscent of AttemptedRape.

** A similar thing happened in ''HowIMetYourMother'' when Marshall and Lily found a new couple to hang out with after Barney and Robin dumped them. It even has a RedemptionInTheRain scene.

* In ''HowIMetYourMother'', Barney refuses to support that his gay, black brother is going to marry a white guy. Not because of the gay 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."

* Natalie walking on Sharona wiping {{Monk}}'s face clean elicited the same lines from Monk as you'd expect him to say if he was having an affair.

** Star Trek has a lot; Enterprise has one in particular that paints religious people as bigoted homophobic monsters.I

* The ''StarTrekTOS'' episode "Metamorphosis" features Zefram Cochrane being looked after by a powerful energy being. When he realises that the energy being wants a physical relationship with him, he's repulsed, but Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] don't see what the problem is. Given Cochrane's actual words, the episode can be read as a metaphor against homophobia, or, given the time period and a strange handwave about it being a ''female'' energy being, possibly against opposition to interracial relationships.

'''Crichton:''' It is ''[[ThisIsSparta not! Just! Science!]]'' It is ''never'' just science! It's a ''weapon''! It ''kills''!

* The ''StarTrekTOS'' episode "Metamorphosis" features Zefram Cochrane being looked after by a powerful energy being. When he realises that the energy being wants a physical relationship with him, he's repulsed, but Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] don't see what the problem is. Given Cochrane's actual words, the episode can be read as a metaphor against homophobia, or, given the time period, possibly against opposition to interracial relationships.

** In the season six episode "Wrecked" Willow get 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.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' 2x06: Angel: "Were you in Virginia?" Wesley: "That's besides the point."
** In 2x17, "Disharmony", Harmony tries to explain to Cordelia that she's a vampire. Instead it sounds like she's coming out as a lesbian and expressing a crush on Cordelia.
** In the episode "The Vision-Thing" Wesley mentions a Chinese herbal shop called Wang Ho Dong, getting a long look from Gunn.
** In "Spin the Bottle" amnesiac Fred thinks she may have been abducted by aliens, and rambles about how they must have done terrible things to her naked, helpless body. In response Wesley's wrist-blade pops out spontaneously.

** Jerry leaving his barber for his more talented relative is portrayed as an infidelity of operatic proportions, complete with several music cues from ''{{The Barber of Seville}}''.

* An episode of ''{{Lizzie McGuire}}'' has Gordo falling into the "forbidden world" of [[TabletopRPG roleplaying games]]. Which are, as they often are, treated like drugs. (At least it's a step up from being portrayed as demonic or satanic.)

---> ''Damn it Martin! Just because I am not raising him your way doesn't mean that I am raising him the wrong way.''
* In the finale of ''{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'', the normally reserved butler Geoffrey is retiring from his position as the Banks family butler, and he seems just a little too excited about his employer's announcement that he's "officially off duty." Am I the only one who is reminded of the freeing of a household slave?

* ''{{Dharma and Greg}}'' had an episode where the title characters decided that they needed "couple friends", i.e. other married couples to hang out with. They then went to the bookstore and tried to "pick up" other couples. After befriending a couple, Dharma found that couple with ''another'' couple and accused them of "cheating" on her and Greg.

** The same happens with Helen and Joe in ''Series/{{Wings}}''.

* Ellen's relationship with her auditor in the 3rd season of ''{{Slings and Arrows}}'' is deliberately reminiscent of a therapist-client relationship. Up to:

--> '''John''': ''Naughty'' mist...
* One episode of ''{{Malcolm in the Middle}}'' concerned Hal feeling out-of-place in a poker game because he was the only ''non-professional'' person there, and all the ''professional'' people were banding together and discriminating against him with their unique slang and culture. (They were also all [[spoiler:black]].)

** Not to mention every feeding being a very obvious allusion to sex, cluminating in one very particular episode. Both Bill and Eric were burned and needed healing. Follow, a frame of Sookie sitting between them, with a very meaningful expression on her face, while each vampire is sucking at a different wrist of hers. Fans had a lot to think about that night.

*** Also Sylar's very creepy shapeshifting into his adoptive mother (aunt by marriage) and having conversations with her, having killed her in Volume 1, disturbingly resembles [[{{Psycho}} Hitchcock's film about a mama's boy who impersonates his mother.]]

* One episode of ''TheBigBangTheory'' ends with a breakup between one of the main characters and a physicist he was falling in love with. They had already begun discussing having kids and everything, only it turns out that the breaking point was... one of them believes in string theory and the other in Loop Quantum Gravity, both different theories that attempt to solve the major modern problems in physics. To him, it doesn't seem like such a big deal, but to her, it was "How would we raise the children?!" The entire scene was played as of a strong religious disjoint between the couple that could not be reconciled. This parodies many real physicists' attitudes regarding String Theory -- which makes absolutely no testable predictions and is so mathematically complex and diverse that it takes decades to be able to contribute -- and any competitors.

** In one episode Ted is with a date and after a series of events you get this.

* In an episode of ''{{The King of Queens}}'', Spence's wish to see TheFilmOfTheBook of one of his favorite fantasy novels is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction or alcoholism or some other social vice, something to be avoided. Either that or Doug and Deacon are just really big {{Fan Hater}}s.

** Hell, pretty much all of Lucifer's dialogue with Sam in season 5 ''screams'' "rape."

* ''{{Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads}}?'' features a man about to get married. His {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}} then returns, feeling betrayed by his old friend, and very out-of-the-loop. His attitude towards his best friend's fiancée varies between amusement and outright resentment, and she also resents him, seeing him as a threat. The first series ends with the two men sleeping together on the wedding night.

** Incidentally, TheMaster ''likes it'' when the Doctor [[FoeYay uses his name]].

** Try taking "dances" out of "The Doctor Dances."

* ''Series/BeingHuman'' has another less than comedic example, wherein [[spoiler: Tully]]'s interactions with [[spoiler: George]] near the end of [[spoiler: Series 1, Episode 2]] has the feel of a rape scene. The fact that [[spoiler: Tully]] had sexually assaulted [[spoiler: Annie]] earlier that episode did ''not'' help.

* The ''StarTrekTOS'' episode "Metamorphosis" features Zefram Cochrane being looked after by a powerful energy being. When he realises that the energy being wants a physical relationship with him, he's repulsed, but Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] don't see what the problem is. Given Cochrane's actual words, the episode can be read as a metaphor against homophobia, or, given the time period, possibly against opposition to interracial relationships.

* This bit from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':

* On ''{{Smallville}}'', Clark and other Kryptonians emit fire beams from their eyes when aroused. He first discovered this in "Heat".
* During the Invasion storyline, Alliance member Torrie Wilson began dating WWF (and Japanese) wrestler Tajiri. Announcer Paul Heyman regularly mentioned how he didn't approve of such "interpromotional relationships".

* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'', the knife scene between The Reaper and Hotch. [[YourMileageMayVary Depending on interpretation]], it might actually have extended to out-and-out rape. Either way, the dialogue is highly sexualized. The Reaper strips off his shirt, goes up ''very'' close to Hotch on top of him, and slowly cuts him with a knife. Eventually, he tells Hotch that he's horribly wrong about how {{Serial Killer}}s who use knives are impotent, and is going to change the way Hotch profiles. Cue The Reaper slowly moving his hand further down on Hotch's body, and Hotch moaning in pain. At the very least, it was pseudo-rape.