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* Actor/comedian Creator/DonaldGlover's twitter account used to be donglover ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901oFNbaAPM mentioned here]]).

* In ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', VillainProtagonist Humbert Humbert comments on this is in respect to "therapist"/"the rapist". [[WickedCultured He would]] [[WouldHurtAChild know]].

* ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' is inconsistent with abbreviating or not in [=URL=]s ([[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] is "aj" but WebVideo/DiamandaHagan is fully spelled out). One is a deliberate aversion of this trope, as WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows goes by "tis" instead. (And hilariously[=/=]appropriately, Creator/BradJones is "bj".)

* Michael Sporn was an independent animator with a decades-spanning filmography of various projects, from ''WesternAnimation/HBOStorybookMusicals'' to an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''... but linking to his company's website has lead to apprehensive reactions, owing to the URL "michaelspornanimation.com" making it sound far less innocent.

* Michael Sporn Animation was an independent animation company that worked on several projects for decades, from ''WesternAnimation/HBOStorybookMusicals'' to an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''... but linking to its website has lead to apprehensive reactions, owing to the URL "michaelspornanimation.com" making it sound far less innocent.

* ''ComicBook/MollyTheModel'': The potential for issues with the word 'FLICK' mentioned aboved is the reason why Molly's photographer boyfriend having is nickname changed from 'Flicker' to 'Clicker' early in the feature's run.

* http://fuckyeahmenswear.tumblr.com is about menswear, not an enthusiastic affirmation that [[RatedMForManly men swear]]. To confuse matters, http://realmenswear.tumblr.com/ posts photos of stylish men with profanity-laced captions.

* ''The Casefiles of Mr J G Reeder'' is a reprint of three Edgar Wallace books. It appears to be based on the Project Gutenberg text, which in turn contains a number of OCR errors. Most notably, the software seemed to have some difficulty telling the difference between "burn" and "bum".
* The protagonist of the Creator/IainBanks novel ''Espedair Street'' was one Daniel Weir; listed in the school register by surname followed by first initial.

* One game store had the habit of placing price stickers on the top right corner of game boxes, and then they came across [[VideoGame/DrillDozer]] with [[https://i.imgur.com/5jdw5Lh.png expected results]].

* In one ''WebVideo/{{SMOSH}}'' "If Apps were real" skit, they use Siri to direct them to a pen store called Pen Island, they end up in a place called Penisland. Relatedly, the People Eliminating Nefariousness club has only 15 members. That's right, "I <heart> PEN 15"! Wait...
-->Ian: FFFUUU-

* ''ComicBook/MollyTheModel'': The potential for issues with the word 'FLICK' mentioned aboved is the reason my Molly's photographer boyfriend having is nickname changed from 'Flicker' to 'Clicker' early in the feature's run.

* Also in Britain, a run-of-the-mill bog-standard women's magazine was called ''Closer'' by its publishers. On at least one occasion, the capital "C" of "Closer" has been obscured by elements of the cover design or lead picture, so that name might have been a mistake. Or perhaps not. Like its sister magazines and imitators, ''Closer'' is targeted at women in the lower social demographics--the low price, editing, and advertising within the pages makes this clear. So the front-page error that obscures the "C" might well be perceived as [[TakeThatAudience rubbing it in]], or as a [[BitingTheHandHumor snide joke perpetuated by the designers at the expense of the targeted audience]]...

* Music/SusanBoyle celebrated the release of one of her albums with the Website/{{Twitter}} hashtag #susanalbumparty.
* Italian punk rock band Prozac+ released an album named "Miodio", which can be read alternately as "Mi odio" (''I hate myself'') or "Mio dio" (''My god'').
* The band name Music/{{Alexisonfire}} can be read in about ten different ways, depending on punctuation or spacing between letters.

* [[Creator/ValveSoftware Gabe Newell's]] email is 'gaben@valvesoftware.com'. While not very conspicuous in text, it provides [[MemeticMutation a fun soundbite]] when Gabe himself reads it in-game. Apparently, he is not too fond of this, opting for the letter-by-letter approach in later commentaries. This just made it worse.
* Like the "Flicker" example everywhere, ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore 4'' and for Answer features a part called 09-FLICKER, which is a flashbang in rocket form. Pretty appropriate in both forms, as getting hit removes your ability to lock on to enemies for a certain time, and with mechs typically moving at blinding speeds, as well as the NPC enemies who do equip them are known to be ThatOneBoss, you are seriously boned.
* A popular fan-made van paintjob in ''VideoGame/AllPointsBulletin'' could be read differently whether the side door was open or closed: it said "'''I'''ce '''Cream''' For '''Myself''' And '''Over'''achieving '''Children'''"
* ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn''. Go ahead and count how many people first saw this as ''Kirby's Epic '''Yam''''', made possible due to general knowledge that Kirby likes to eat things, and the fact that most sites render text in Arial which makes "r n" look like "m" (technically the same problem as the AOL entry under New Media, above). Unsurprisingly, most of the people who got the title wrong originally misread the title at forums or gaming news sites who use proportional sans-serif fonts like Arial.
* The box art for the games in the ''VideoGame/AkibasTrip'' series write the name in all caps and with no space between the S and the T, deliberately making it readable as "Akiba Strip". And it actually is a game about taking people's clothes off. ([[ItMakesSenseInContext Because they're vampires who disintegrate in sunlight, you see...]])

* The final form of the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' is named [=DethI=] (with an uppercase "I" at the end and pronounced "Death Eye"), but since an uppercase "I" looks identical to a lowercase "L" in many fonts, its name is often mistaken for "DETHL." Even the encyclopedia on the official Zelda website made this mistake.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has a similar and very prevalent example. There is a giant tree which serves as the source of the Mist that covers the world, as well as being a story dungeon. The tree's name is Iifa (pronounced "ee-fa"), which is clearly displayed on-screen as you enter the dungeon. However, the game text uses sans-serif fonts, and the tree is referred to as the Tree of Life many times. As a result, many players misread the name as "Lifa" (as in "life-a" - the font used for normal dialogue makes "Iifa" and "lifa" look identical), and a lot of the walkthroughs on [=GameFAQs=] also refer to it by that name.

* Overlapping with BlindIdiotTranslation is the infamous scene in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' where the [[WarmUpBoss guard scorpion is way harder then it should be]] due to the game giving you confusing information, namely, at one point it says "attack while its tail is up! It will counterattack with its laser". While not ungrammatical, the formatting (the text saying "attack while its tail is up!" appeared in a different box from "it'll counterattack with its laser!", which made it sound like the first sentence was an imperative rather than part of a warning ''not'' to attack") made a lot of player do the exact opposite of what they were trying to say. (Why they didn't just add the word "and" to the beginning of the second sentence to disambiguate it is a mystery.)
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' has more than a few players literally call their island Pen to purposely invoke this trope.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** When ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' got its name updated to ''Pokémon Masters EX'', it trended on Twitter. Unfortunately, the hashtag didn't have any spaces or capitalization, making it look like #pokemonmastersex.
** [[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} The Trading Card Game]], at two points in its history, released cards known as "Pokémon ex," whose names are that of the Pokémon with "ex" or "EX" added to the end. This resulted in cards named "Gyarados ex," "Aurorus EX," and "Ninetales EX."
* The visual novel [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/11399/ Therapist: Mind Manager]] exploits the double entendre between "Therapist" and "The Rapist". The game's protagonist is an intern psychologist, while his most important patient (from a story standpoint) is a manipulative and self-confessed sex offender, hence the title can refer to both.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Rose's Chumhandle is "tentacleTherapist". While it has not led to an actual confusion, it's most certainly a nod to this.

* The comic book "flick" scenario (see above) is deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in ''Webcomic/JetDream''. [[http://tgcaps.com/caps/modcomics/suedenim/jetdream/jetdream02/jetdream2_06.jpg.php At the end of one story]], Harmony (frustrated as the only [[GenderBender T-Girl]] yet to pass her [[TrainingFromHell "Feminine Biology" training course]]) goes to the movies on a date. Afterwards, she says seeing the movie helped resolve her problem. Her date remarks "I knew you only needed one good flick!"
* ''Webcomic/DarkLegacyComics'' has an InUniverse example [[http://www.darklegacycomics.com/402.html here]] when Keydar decides to create a new alt character, going with Missturdarse. (It's supposed to be Misstur Darse).
* ''Webcomic/DocRat'' has [=IRateCustomers.com=].

* The [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/ r/keming]] and [[http://fuckyeahkeming.com/ this website]] chronicle failures of ''kerning'', or spacing between letters.
* There is a person on Website/YouTube with the account name Micioonthet, who once had to make a video explaining that his name is supposed to be read as "Micio on the T" and not "Micioon Thet".
* ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' is inconsistent with abbreviating or not in [=URL=]s ([[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] is "aj" but WebVideo/DiamandaHagan is fully spelled out). One is a deliberate aversion of this trope, as WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows goes by "tis" instead. (And hilariously[=/=]appropriately, Creator/BradJones is "bj".)
* While on Brad Jones, sometimes the Webvideo/MidnightScreenings will lead to funny pictures with truncated signs, such as ''[[http://reallybradjones.tumblr.com/image/151121591134 Deepwater Ho]]rizon'', ''The [[https://twitter.com/thecinemasnob/status/778750534639464448 Disappointme]]nts'', and ''[[https://twitter.com/thecinemasnob/status/847227000276135937 Going In Sty]]le''.
* In one ''WebVideo/{{SMOSH}}'' "If Apps were real" skit, they use Siri to direct them to a pen store called Pen Island, they end up in a place called Penisland. Relatedly, the People Eliminating Nefariousness club has only 15 members. That's right, "I <heart> PEN 15"! Wait...
-->Ian: FFFUUU-

* On Website/ThisVeryWiki, a past version of the Laconic page for this trope (circa 2011) consisted of "...is that The Problem With Pen isLand is a valid link to the exact same page."

* A WebVideo/DrewGooden video discusses this as an inside joke between Drew and his wife Amanda. They once saw an ad for ''Film/ITonya'' on Instagram, with the username being itonyamovie. Amanda read this as "it ony a movie," as if the account was downplaying how important the movie was. Drew later says "It ony a movie" to shrug off the bad Christmas movie he's watching.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'', the character, "[[AwesomeMcCoolName Bazarack [=KillDieDeath=]]]", starts up a website and calls it, "www.[=BazarackKillDieDeath=].com" but when he tries to register it, he discovers the domain name is already taken by [[Series/TheGoldenGirls three old ladies]], named Kiki ("KK" as a nickname), Illdi, and Edeath, who made their website a Bazaar (which KK mispells as "Bazar") for arts and crafts, (abbreviated to "AC"), thus giving them ownership of the domain name, "www.[=BazarACKKIldiEdeath=].com".

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* A variation appears in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.
** Kuwabara, Hiei, Botan and Kurama are facing Kaito, who can make it so that if anyone, even himself, says a specific word- "Hot" at the moment- their soul will be sucked out of their body. When Botan goes for a drink, Kuwabara asks if they can share it with "eac'''h''' '''ot'''her" and loses his soul even though he didn't specifically say "Hot" (in the manga, he asks for "two s'''hot'''s" of orange juice). Kaito points out that he has no control over how his powers are applied, and simply saying the syllables for "hot" is enough regardless of context.
** In the Latin American dub of the anime, since Hot translates into ''caliente'', Kuwabara loses his soul when he jokingly asks Botan to look for sunglasses due to how the room's heat makes it look like the Sun was inside ("bus'''ca lentes''' de sol").[[note]]Yes, the I is missing, but the dialogue line was the closest the dub team had in mind back then to replicate the scene in Spanish[[/note]]
** In the Brazilian dub, the forbidden word is "Quente" (Portuguese for "Hot"). When Botan gets the drinks, Kuwabara comments "'''Quem te''' viu, '''quem te''' vê" (a slang used when someone does something they don't do usually). This is notable because he manages to break the rule '''twice''' before Kaito's power kicks in.

* In ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'', Darui fights opponents with a weapon that seals the speaker when they state their most commonly used word, or if they go too long without saying anything. Though he figures out not to say the word ("darui" itself in Japanese, translated to "dull" or "drab" in English), his saying the phonemes in order ("an'''d I'll'''" or "timi'''d rab'''bit") cause him to get sucked in anyway. [[spoiler: His dying apologies for not catching this and failing cause the word "sorry" to become his new most commonly stated word, saving his soul.]]
* A weather girl in ''{{Manga/Gintama}}'' is named Ketsuno Ana -- the Japanese phrase "ketsu no ana" means asshole.

* Played with in ''ComicBook/{{Condorito}}'', with the character Ungenio, who is all the opposite to "un genio" (a genius).

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* Similarly, the protagonist of the Creator/IainBanks novel ''Espedair Street'' was one Daniel Weir; listed in the school register by surname followed by first initial.
* In ''Literature/{{Hellspark}}'' by Creator/JanetKagan, the eponymous planet was named based on this principle as a statement on the mutability of language. The natives purposefully alternate between pronouncing their planet "Hell spark" and "Hell's park".
* In Stephenson's ''[[Literature/TheBaroqueCycle Quicksilver]]'', King Charles II ennobled Knott Bolstrood when naming him Secretary of State. He was granted the title "Count of Penistone" [[note]]rhymes with Pennisten[[/note]] mostly because that would force him to write "penis" whenever he signed his name. (In case you're wondering, the word is supposed to be Pen/Is/Tone.)
* A book entitled "A Steroid Hit the Earth" about misprints includes several examples like this. One highlight is a story from the filming of an episode of ''Series/ZCars'', in which the opening line of the script read "Inspector Lynch is sitting at his desk, his penis in his hand."

* OlderThanPrint - One of the medieval exempla speaks about a bishop who practices nigromancy and -- being encroached by his enemies -- consults the devil about what course of action he should take: Should he seek escape? The demon responds: Non, sta secure; venient inimici tui suaviter et subdentur tibi (No, rest secure; your enemies will come humbly and subdue unto you). The bishop follows the advice, and in effect his castle gets captured and he himself gets burnt at stake. Before he dies, the devil -- in response to the bishop's cries of being deceived -- interprets his previous advice thusly: Non sta secure; venient inimici tui sua vi ter et subdent ur tibi (Don't rest secure; your enemies will come in thrice their strength and will set fire unto you). [[note]]It isn't stated explicitly, but the first communication must have had written form, probably as an effect of some divinatory procedure.[[/note]]
* "The Casefiles of Mr J G Reeder" is a reprint of three Edgar Wallace books. It appears to be based on the Project Gutenberg text, which in turn contains a number of OCR errors. Most notably, the software seemed to have some difficulty telling the difference between "burn" and "bum".
* In ''Literature/{{Jago}}'', Susan works for a paranormal research organization called IΨT, pronounced like "Eyesight", but on typewriters or word processors where the psi symbol is unavailable it's rendered as IPSIT, which results in a scene where a character pronounces it "Ip-Sit".
* In one of the ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'' books, Ramona tries to get her dad to kick his smoking habit, so she draws a NO SMOKING sign to put on the front window. But she tries to fit both words on one line, runs out of space, and has to put the line break in the middle of "SMOKING". When Dad gets home, he sees the sign and wonders who "Nosmo King" is.

* Played with multiple times on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches:
** At least [[OncePerEpisode once per sketch]], Creator/SeanConnery (played by Creator/DarrellHammond) misreads a category, usually to make it more sexual. It's strongly implied that he's [[ForTheLulz doing it deliberately]] just to annoy Creator/AlexTrebek (Creator/WillFerrell). Examples include: "An Album Cover", which Connery reads as "Anal Bum Cover"; "The Pen Is Mightier", which becomes "The Penis Mightier" ("Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really [[BiggerIsBetterInBed mighty my penis]], man?"); "S Words", becomes "[[SwordTropes Swords]]" (this one counts as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as that one stems more from Connery's apparent inexperience with the game, being it was the first sketch); "Catch These Men", which becomes "Catch The Semen"; "Japan-US Relations", which becomes "Jap Anus Relations"; "Who Reads", which becomes "Whore Ads"; "Let It Snow", which becomes "Le Tits, Now"; "Famous Titles", which becomes "Famous Titties"; and of course "Therapists" becoming "The Rapists". Alex Trebek attempts to correct Connery ([[TheComicallySerious "That's 'Therapists', not 'The Rapists'."]]), growing increasingly exasperated each time it happens.
** Creator/BurtReynolds (Creator/NormMacDonald) got in on the act once, mispronouncing "a petit déjeuner" as "ape tit".
** In one sketch, [[StealthPun they imply the hell out of Connery's misreading instead]] because it involved a word [[SevenDirtyWords you can't say on American broadcast TV]]. Trebek decides to just pick a clue from the category "Foreign Flicks", but before he can even read the answer, Connery buzzes in and responds with "Ursula Andress". After being asked for clarification, he responds, "Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice." At which point Trebek emphasizes that it's "FOREIGN ''FLICKS''." [[note]]Not "FOREIGN FUCKS", Connery's evident misreading. It seems the L and I were too close together.[[/note]] To further drive the point home, Connery remarks later in the sketch that he had "thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged."
** In one case, Connery simply opted to tape a piece of paper reading "Things Trebek Sucks" over the real category sign.
** In a later sketch, Trebek announces that they've checked and double-checked all the categories to ensure there's no possible way for Sean Connery to make a sex pun out of them. Connery makes it happen anyway by crossing out letters with a marker while Trebek is distracted, transforming "I HAVE A CHARDONNAY" into "I HAVE A [[RagingStiffie HARDON]]".
* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' itself once [[AscendedMeme did a session of categories inspired by SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketches]]--which included a category for "Therapists".
* There is a ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' sketch where Creator/BennyHill is a sign painter and he's painting a door for a therapist, and he paints "JOHN SMITH, THE RAPIST" instead of "JOHN SMITH, THERAPIST".
* In a similar RedSkelton sketch, Red was supposed to be arranging letters on a movie marquee to read "IMA JACK AS SINBAD." A beautiful girl came by, [[DistractedByTheSexy Red stopped watching what he was doing]], and it ended up as "IM A JACKASS."

* ''Series/{{QI}}'' presented four of the websites -- whorepresents, expertsexchange, powergenitalia, therapistfinder and penisland -- and the panellists had to work out what they were really meant to be.
** Discussed when comic book fan Jonathan Ross spoke about the [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code Authority]]: "Comics were investigated after a certain Doctor Fredric Wertham brought out a book called ''Seduction of the Innocent'' in 1954, calling for the introduction of a self-regulating body known as the Comic Code Authority, that had such ridiculous rules as, you could not use the word 'flick' in a comic for fear that the 'L' would run into the 'I' and Spider-Man would be saying, 'Look, he's got a fuck knife!'" The only problem with this statement is that the Code didn't have such a rule - while it certainly didn't condone vulgarity, it didn't regulate word usage to that demanding a degree.
* Creator/MontyPython deliberately invoked the trope with the title of their ''MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK'', which looks like "Monty Python's Crap Book."
* In one ''Series/ThreesCompany'', Janet thinks Jack's girlfriend is a prostitute, but she's actually a psychologist. The confusion culminates in Janet reading the woman's business card as "The rapist!"
* Used in the title of the series ''Series/{{Ideal}}'' which is about, you guessed it, a drug dealer.
* Used to great effect in the short-lived TV show, ''Series/{{Miracles}}'', where a message is repeatedly found scrawled near the site of unexplained events reading "GODISNOWHERE", leading to an in-universe conflict of interpretations.
* Used on ''Series/{{Lowdown}}'' with a subeditor asking Alex if Brad Pitt has actually been convicted of rape when an unfortunate line break changes "Brad Pitt's therapist" to "Brad Pitt's the rapist".

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Raines}}'', the eponymous character claims he read [[TheShrink Dr. Kohl's]] card as "The Rapist" instead of "Therapist".

* ''Series/TopGear'':
** Done with writing logos on car doors in such a way that they look like something else when the door is opened. Namely "L'''arse'''n's '''Biscuits'''", "'''Penis'''ton Oils", "A'''merde'''a '''du fromage''', ("Merde du fromage" is roughly French for "shit of cheese", but the idiomatic meaning is closer to "bloody cheese"), "C'est '''les bien''' c'''hat'''!", "So'''phart'''el '''Industrie'''", Restaur'''ant''' pe'''tit''' en'''tree'''", '''Coq''' joli '''yaourt''' aux fruits" ("Happy Rooster fruit yoghurt" which becomes "cock yoghurt"), "S'''norks'''an", "Buy B'''utter''' S'''turd'''y", "'''Poo'''le" and "Ask your '''doctor''' about a tet'''anus''' booster".
** The Hover Van was designed at a facility in Penistone whose sign was mounted on a gate in such a fashion that it had to be split in the middle. It was the "'''Top''' Gear '''Penis'''tone '''Engine'''ering '''Works'''hop".
** The Ambulance Challenge features the rather makeshift "'''Top''' Gear '''Poo'''rly People '''Ass'''istance '''Head'''quarters".
** In the India Special, they place large signs on the sides of the train (which later separated upon arriving on a train station) which read: "'''The United Kingdom promotes''' Briti'''sh I.T. for your company'''" and "'''Eat English muff'''ins".
** There was a ''Top Gear Live Event'' with car soccer played with white [[TheAllegedCar Reliant Robins]]. The names of the two teams were written on the sides, of course in such a way that something else came out when a door was opened: '''When''' Sa'''turd'''ay '''Comes''' and '''The Tit'''ans.
* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' Frank Reynolds names his club after his girlfriend Shadynasty (pronounced Shuh-Dynasty). A patron looks at the sign and wonders what "Shady Nasty" is.
* In ''Series/NotGoingOut'', Lee is incensed about a notice he found at the career's section of the library saying "Are you looking for a job, innit?", finding it TotallyRadical to an insulting degree. His roommate looks at the letter and explains that it says "Are you looking for a job in IT?".
* In ''Series/{{Review}}'', Forrest receives a request via twitter from the user "@bubblebaths" to review "there all is aching." This nonsensical request ultimately drives Forrest to the point of insanity and institutionalization. Ultimately it is revealed that [[spoiler: the question was mangled due to a computer error, and in fact the request was from twitter user "@[=TheRealLisaChing=]," asking Forrest to review bubble baths]].

* The Australian show ''The Con Test'' uses this trope in its title. (The Contest)
* The Creator/PrimeVideo menu card for ''Series/TheGrandTour'' has, [[SelfDeprecation presumably intentionally]], the EngineeredHashtag #amazonshitcarshow.
** That's still Clarkson, Hammond and May all right. Their choice of garments in one episode was a sweater labeled, "[=McLaren=] '''P'''1", a sweater labeled "'''E''' Type Jaguar" and a jacket labeled "'''NIS'''SAN", respectively.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', when a murderer writes a message on a wall and the word "psychotherapist" is too long to fit. [[TheGadfly Castle]] reads it literally "psycho the rapist".

* A book entitled "A Steroid Hit the Earth" about misprints includes several examples like this. One highlight is a story from the filming of an episode of ''Series/ZCars'', in which the opening line of the script read "Inspector Lynch is sitting at his desk, [[ADateWithRosiePalms his penis in his hand]]."

* This appears to be a RunningGag with Quackity's appearances on various Minecraft servers. His faction on WebVideo/SMPEarth directly employed this trope, being named Pen Island, and most of the characters he plays in ''Tales From the SMP'', a spin-off of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', have names based around lewd puns, including and not limited to a LowerClassLout named Drew P. Wiener and a bandit named [[ADateWithRosiePalms Jack Kanoff]].

* The final form of the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' is named [=DethI=] (with an uppercase "I" at the end and pronounced "Death Eye"), but since a uppercase "I" looks identical to a lowercase "L" in many fonts, its name is often mistaken for "DETHL." Even the encyclopedia on the official Zelda website made this mistake.

* ''Film/GodOfLove'': When the [[CupidsArrow magic love darts]] fail to work on Kelly, a despondent Ray winds up jabbing a bunch of women (and one man!), acquiring a whole harem following him around. Somehow he winds up at a Scrabble tournament. The woman he's playing takes three tiles off her row and shows Ray the remaining four, which spell "DOME". When a confused Ray says "Dome?", the woman hurriedly separates her tiles so they read "DO ME".

** In one sketch, [[StealthPun they imply the hell out of Connery's misreading instead]] because it involved a word [[SevenDirtyWords you can't say on American broadcast TV]]. Trebek decides to just pick a clue from the category "Foreign Flicks", but before he can read the question, Connery buzzes in and responds with "Ursula Andress". After being asked for clarification, he responds, "Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice." At which point Trebek emphasizes that it's "FOREIGN ''FLICKS''." [[note]]Not "FOREIGN FUCKS", Connery's evident misreading. It seems the L and I were too close together.[[/note]] To further drive the point home, Connery remarks later in the sketch that he had "thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged."

** In a later sketch, Trebek announces that they've checked and double-checked all the categories to ensure there's no possible way for Sean Connery to make a sex pun out of them. Connery makes it happen anyway by crossing out letters with a marker while Trebek is distracted, transforming "I Have a Chardonnay" into "I Have a [[RagingStiffie hardon]]".

** In one sketch, they couldn't ''say'' Connery's misreading on US prime-time TV, so [[StealthPun they imply the hell out of it instead]]. Trebek decides to just pick a clue from the category "Foreign Flicks", but before he can read the question, Connery buzzes in and responds with "Ursula Andress". After being asked for clarification, he responds, "Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice." At which point Trebek emphasizes that it's "FOREIGN ''FLICKS''." [[note]]Not "FOREIGN FUCKS", Connery's evident misreading. It seems the L and I were too close together.[[/note]] To further drive the point home, Connery remarks later in the sketch that he had "thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged."

** When ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' got its name updated to ''Pokémon Masters EX'', it trended on Twitter. Unfortunately, it didn't have any spaces or capitalization, making it look like #pokemonmastersex.

** At least [[OncePerEpisode once per sketch]], Creator/SeanConnery (played by Creator/DarrellHammond) misreads a category, usually to make it more sexual. It's strongly implied that he's [[ForTheLulz doing it deliberately]] just to annoy Creator/AlexTrebek (Creator/WillFerrell). Examples include: "An Album Cover", which Connery reads as "Anal Bum Cover"; "The Pen Is Mightier", which becomes "The Penis Mightier" ("Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really [[BiggerIsBetterInBed mighty my penis]], man?"); "S Words", becomes "[[SwordTropes Swords]]"; "Catch These Men", which becomes "Catch The Semen"; "Japan-US Relations", which becomes "Jap Anus Relations"; "Who Reads", which becomes "Whore Ads"; "Let It Snow", which becomes "Le Tits, Now"; "Famous Titles", which becomes "Famous Titties"; and of course "Therapists" becoming "The Rapists". Alex Trebek attempts to correct Connery ([[TheComicallySerious "That's 'Therapists', not 'The Rapists'."]]), growing increasingly exasperated each time it happens.

* [[AluminumChristmasTrees Yes, Pen Island]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_Island is real]]. There are actually two Pen islands: East and West Pen Island. They are part of several uninhabited Arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada. West Pen Island is actually a spit, rather than an island. East Pen Island is situated off the shore of Ontario, a few kilometers southeast of Manitoba, and no, [[{{Pun}} it's not a swallow.]]

** The Trading Card Game, at two points in its history, released cards known as "Pokémon ex," whose names are that of the Pokémon with "ex" or "EX" added to the end. This resulted in cards named "Gyarados ex," "Aurorus EX," and "Ninetales EX."

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** At least [[OncePerEpisode once per sketch]] Creator/SeanConnery (played by Darrell Hammond) misreads a category, usually to make it more sexual. It's strongly implied that he's [[ForTheLulz doing it deliberately]] just to annoy Alex Trebek (Will Ferrell). Examples include: "An Album Cover", which Connery reads as "Anal Bum Cover"; "The Pen Is Mightier", which becomes "The Penis Mightier" ("Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really [[BiggerIsBetterInBed mighty my penis]], man?"); "S Words", becomes "[[SwordTropes Swords]]"; Catch These Men", which becomes "Catch The Semen"; "Japan-US Relations", which becomes "Jap Anus Relations"; "Who Reads", which becomes "Whore Ads"; "Let It Snow", which becomes "Le Tits, Now"; "Famous Titles", which becomes "Famous Titties"; and of course "Therapists" becoming "The Rapists". Alex Trebek attempts to correct Connery ([[TheComicallySerious "That's 'Therapists', not 'The Rapists'."]]), growing increasingly exasperated each time it happens.
** Burt Reynolds (Creator/NormMacDonald) got in on the act once, mispronouncing "a petit déjeuner" as "ape tit".