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10	* The title song of ''Film/FortySecondStreet'' refers to girls from "the fifties" and "the eighties" -- as in the streets of Manhattan. By remarkable coincidence the former's description as "innocent and sweet" and the latter being "sexy" and "indiscreet" matches up too perfectly with stereotypes of TheFifties and TheEighties; the ScreenToStageAdaptation ran on Broadway throughout the latter decade.
11	* A movie poster for the 1956 film adaptation of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''1984'' rhetorically asked "Will ecstasy be a crime?" They obviously meant "happiness," but anyone who came of age in the 1990s or later is bound to think otherwise.
12	* The 1980s special ''Film/AceHitsTheBigTime'' contains a song with the lyrics "Last year we caught a bimbo who looked a lot like you. We used his head for pinball, the rest for barbecue". The term "bimbo" has since become near-exclusively used for ditzy women.
13	* In the 1993 film version of ''Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'' “make love” is used to mean “flirt”.
14	* The 1939 Fleischer cartoon ''Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp'' had ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} utter this immortal line to Olive Oyl: "I don't know what to say... I've never made love in Technicolor before!" Definitely ''not'' something you could say in a cartoon in ''this'' day and age... The term also comes up a few times in the original E.C. Segar strips.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' used this in "The Caucus-Race," where everybody feels "fancy-free and gay."
16	* ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'': Where the word "boner" simply means an [[FacePalm embarrassing]] and/or [[EpicFail major blunder]].
17	--> "We tried to hook you? What a boner!"
18	-->'If anyone ever pulled a boner, you did."
19	* Duchess sings "If you want to turn me on/Play your horn/Don't spare the tone/And blow a little soul into the tune" in the "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat" sequence of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''. Despite her tone and the tomcats gawking over her, the lyrics aren't meant to seem sexual.
20	* ''Film/AuntieMame'': "Pipe down, boy. The old man's hung." (meaning "hung over").
21	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9FXdLcrkss Let's Sing A Gay Little Spring Song]].
22	* ''Film/{{Black Sabbath\|1963}}'' features Creator/BorisKarloff delivering the line "Can't I fondle my own grandson?"
23	* A 1926 film about a dumb country yokel who runs afoul of dangerous bootleggers was titled ''Film/TheBoob''.
24	* In the 1953 Dean Martin-Creator/JerryLewis comedy ''The Caddy'', Jerry crashes a party where he identifies himself in song as "The Gay Continental". In the same movie he teases his boss by calling him a 'skinhead', a term that has taken on implications above and beyond just making fun of a person's baldness.
25	* The 1930s documentary short "Catching Trouble" features animal trapper Ross Allen, who narrator Ted Husing keeps referring to as "my boy-friend", to the amusement of Joel and the 'bots watching on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' (who have a low opinion of Ross).
26	* Martha's aunt refers to her single night theatrical performances as "one night stands" in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''.
27	* ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' contains a musical number by The Chipettes called "Get Lucky". It is likely about asking someone on a date instead of being an IntercourseWithYou song.
28	* Fairy Godmother in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' almost uses the trope name itself, encouraging Cinderella to "Have a good time! Dance! Be gay!" as she's riding off to the royal ball.
29	* A Southern Pacific Railroad 1937 documentary "Daylighting the Padres'" about its luxury passenger liner rolls around California, can be viewed [[https://youtu.be/91mkXjtYR7M here]] and has a part at 17:36 in the video where the announcer says, "Yes, all this is San Francisco, a gay metropolis of fashionable shops, fine hotels." I wonder how prescient the announcer was.
30	* The hilarious tagline for ''Film/DeathTakesAHoliday'': “No one can die - while he makes love!”
31	* In ''Film/DirtyHarry'', Harry wants to go after the Scorpio killer after he hijacks a bus full of children. The mayor reminds Harry that he gave his word that the killer wouldn't be "molested" in any way. Now of course, in this context he means "molest" in the context of "to bother", but...
32	* There is a Kung Fu movie called ''Dirty Ho''. Yeah.
33	* In ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' (1936), one European says "I'm making love to you" to Fran; another invites the Dodsworths to "a very gay restaurant".
34	* In ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931'', Muriel (Dr. Jekyll's fiancée) says that she does not believe Dr. Jekyll loves her seriously. He responds with "Oh, I love you better than that. I love you gayly!"
35	* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Giselle]] uses the "happy" definition of "gay" in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'s'' "Happy Working Song." It's a PG-rated Disney movie, and so the discrepancy with the current meaning is never referenced explicitly. This is interesting, because at another point in the movie a joke is made about a character being MistakenForGay. This trope is invoked deliberately in this case to show that Giselle is old fashioned and innocent, since the movie is an AffectionateParody of the old Creator/{{Disney}} movies.
36	* The film ''Film/Exodus1960'' refers to Zionist Jews as Palestinians. At the time this work takes place (1947-1948), this means residents of the Palestine Mandate, roughly the present-day Israel+Palestine without the Golan.
37	* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': Jeannie responds to an offer of drugs with "I'm straight." "Straight" is still sometimes used to mean drug-free, admittedly clean is a more common term. "Straight" is also used in some places to mean "okay", as in "I'm okay."
38	* In ''Film/FriendlyPersuasion'', a film set among Quakers in the 1860s, characters frequently tell each other how "pleasured" they are. Nowadays, the word "pleased" is used in that particular context. To be "pleasured" is something else altogether. The phrase "serve at one's pleasure" is still used formally in political and business contexts. Nowadays, though, it's nearly impossible to hear the term and not think of oral sex. In the UK the legal term of art "serving at Her Majesty's Pleasure" has no such connotation; that said, it's less likely to refer to the indeterminate tenure of some public officials and more likely to be used as a euphemism for saying that someone has been locked up for who knows how long.
39	* Franchise/{{Disney\|Animated Canon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'' with lines like Jiminy Cricket's "Life is a song - happy, gay" and the lyrics "What a very merry day/All the world is gay."
40	* ''Film/FunInBalloonLand'': The narrator during the 1965 Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade uses the word "gay" to mean happy, and apparently has no other synonyms for it because she uses it about 7 times in the 35 minute segment.
41	* ''Film/TheGayDivorcee'':
42	** While the film has a twist ending, it had nothing to do with homosexuality. UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode did object to the title of the play it was based on, ''The Gay Divorce,'' because they said a divorce should never be happy. The censors agreed to a compromise solution that it was possible for a divorcee to be happy. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Boy, the Hays office sure managed to avoid pulling a boner with that one!]] Interestingly, the masculine version of that word in French (which is hardly ever used in English) ''is'' spelled "divorce" if you leave off the accent mark.
43	** Also, it includes the song "Night and Day," which ends with these lines:
44	--> And my torment won't be through\
45	Till you let me spend the rest of my life making love to you\
46	Day and night, night and day!
47	* ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree'' is an animated film musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Creator/WarnerBros in 1962. It's about cats in Paris, ''not'' homosexuals in a blender.
48	* ''Film/{{Gilda}}:'' After Ballin demonstrates his SwordCane to Johnny, Johnny says "You must lead a gay life."
49	* ''Film/GrandHotel'': The Baron tells Kringelein that his creed is "a short life and a gay one", to which Kringelein responds: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ZKEYfZMJ0 A short life, Baron? And a gay one? That's very true in my case.]]".
50	* In the 1959 film ''The Hanging Tree'', a trio of amateur prospectors discover a huge deposit of gold beneath a tree stump, a sort of shallow mineral-rich trench or pit known as a...glory hole. Following which event we are treated to the scene of these people running back to town screaming "It's a glory hole!" over and over, and thousands of townsfolk swarming into the streets in a rapturous riot at the news.
51	* Ahme does this in ''Film/{{Help}}'' when she injects the syringe into Paul's knee, describing it as "a dreadful miscarriage."
52	* Try watching ''Film/HighSociety'' without knowing that up until the latter half of the twentieth century, 'making love' to someone could mean having an intimate conversation, such as flirtatious or seductive sweet talk, with no physical contact involved. You can't help but blush when Music/FrankSinatra sings ''You're Sensational'' to Creator/GraceKelly, and uses the line, "Making love is quite an art". And '''again''', after Sinatra and Kelly get drunk and leave the party early... during the dance scene by the pool, he sings, "Mind if I make love to you?"
53	* ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'':
54	** "Dyke's Auto Camp" might elicit a few snickers today.
55	** Near the end of the film, the leading lady tells her fiancé "I want our life to be full of excitement… never a dull moment… we'll get on a merry-go-round and never get off! ''Promise me you'll never let me get off!''" The sexual (or generic "having fun") sense of ''get off'' didn't exist at the time, but now it's a seeming self-contradiction. (Oddly appropriate, because she is saying that [[spoiler: to cover up for no longer loving him]].)
56	* "Making violent love" once referred to nothing more "violent" than an overly emotional courtship, and was often used to describe a man ardently proposing marriage. Hence the scene in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': "He's making violent love to me, Mother!"
57	* In ''Film/ItsAWonderfulWorld'', the main character is frustrated that he’s lost time running away from the police, and that there’s probably a lot of “dicks” on his tail now. Of course, dick/dicks being the old term for a detective or policeman.
58	* Tramp from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' ReallyGetsAround, but his name refers to his vagabond nature as a scruffy stray dog.
59	* In ''Film/TheLadyVanishes'', when Gilbert realizes Iris is not hallucinating, he says "there's something definitely queer here," obviously meaning something is rotten in Denmark. Well, in Bandrika.
60	* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'':
61	** UK audiences were amused by the line "I always knew you were a bender." In the UK, "bender" means "Male homosexual." Nicely pointed out by Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}: "Do you think she means 'bender' the way British people use it? Google it, folks!"
62	** The Italian version of the movie isn't better, as they translated 'bending' with 'dominio', resulting in a female bender being a 'dominatrice', or a ''dominatrix''.
63	* ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'': This is a rare case where the trope is '''{{inverted}}'''. The word ''gunsel'' was a 1920s homophobic slur for a younger, subservient sex partner to an older man. But ''The Maltese Falcon'' movie changed its meaning to 'Hired gun' for several decades afterward.
64	* In the film ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'', Sir Thomas More's daughter says "And you're very gay."
65	* In the bizarre 1934 film ''Film/{{Maniac\|1934}}'', a policeman interviews a neighbor of the titular Maniac. She makes a point of calling him a "queer" fellow (as in the word's original meaning of "odd" or "unusual"). She uses the word repeatedly to describe him and his doings and the people who come and go from his home. They're all so queer. They get queer in that house, and just keep doing queer things. The whole thing is just queer, really...
66	* In Charlie Chaplin's ''Modern Times'' (1936) Tramp's girlfriend writes on his sleeve the lyrics of a song he's supposed to sing and it starts as "A pretty girl and a gay old man flirted on the boulevard. He was a fat old thing but his diamond ring caught her eye".
67	* In ''Film/MouseHunt'', in trying to rid their house of the mouse in question, brothers Ernie and Lars go to a local animal shelter to get a cat, only to find, to their disappointment, that it only has kittens. They tell a worker there that they really wanted an older cat with experience as a mouser. Ernie adds that the cat they wanted should be "a ferocious feline, preferably one with a history of mental illness. I'm talkin' one mean pussy."
68	* It even turns up in ''Film/TheMummy1932''. When the archaeologists find that Imhotep went unwillingly to his death and speculate he may have been executed for treason, one of them says "Maybe he got too gay with the vestal virgins in the temple." Obviously he means flirty or licentious.
69	* In Creator/LaurelAndHardy's ''Film/TheMusicBox'', Stan kicks a nursemaid for [[ComedicSociopathy laughing at his and Ollie's misfortune]]. She tells a passing police officer that Stan "molested" her.
70	* One of the lyrics in the song "What's This?" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' has ''"In here, they've got a little tree! How queer!"''
71	* [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] example can be found in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', during the scene where Vandamm meets with Thornhill at the Mount Rushmore cafeteria:
72	-->'''Vandamm''': And now, what little drama are we here for today? I really don't for a moment believe that you've invited me to these gay surroundings to come to a business arrangement.
73	* In the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'' there is a song called "Who will buy" sporting the line "I'm so high, I swear I could fly." (He's just happy.)
74	* ''Film/OnTheBuses''' opening theme includes the lyrics "There's always gay life on the buses, make sure you leave your bird at home". Nothing out of the ordinary in 1971, unintentionally hilarious in the modern day.
75	* ''Film/OnlyAngelsHaveWings'': "I hate to pull a boner on you." ("I hate to burst your bubble.")
76	* In the Danish film ''Film/OperationLovebirds'', Frede calls the gun Schmidt gives him a "bøsse", a Danish term for gun that is today almost exclusively used in its other meaning, a gay man. Schmidt is very [[InsistentTerminology insistent]] that it is a "pistol", not a "bøsse".
77	* In [[Franchise/{{Disney\|Animated Canon}} Disney's]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', Honest John sings "Hi-diddley-day, an actor's life is gay!" This one is especially amusing once you know that the use of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual" originated in theatrical slang well before it migrated to the mainstream vernacular. This is retained in its [[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney live-action remake]].
78	* When the title character of ''Film/{{Sabrina\|1954}}'' learns how to make a souffle, the teacher tells her and the other students, "The souffle, it must be gay. Gay like.. two butterflies dancing the waltz in the summer breeze."
79	* ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' was described on the poster as Creator/WaltDisney's "gayest musical Technicolor feature".
80	* A borderline example in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', with Creator/MarilynMonroe's character exclaiming "That sounds cool!" Since the word "cool" had its dual meaning by the mid-1950s, and she's referring to a glass of fancy liquor, it's hard to say.
81	* In ''Film/ShallWeDance'' (1937), when [[Creator/GingerRogers Linda]] asks [[Creator/FredAstaire Peter]] what he will do after they go their separate ways, he answers, "I've got to get back to being a bachelor again. Sort of catch up with my usual gay life."
82	* In ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', Lina Lamont has trouble adjusting to sound films. She complains of having to speak toward a microphone hidden in the scenery. "Well, I can't make love to a bush!"
83	* The [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] film ''Film/SinTakesAHoliday'' has a character named Gaylord. Granted, it's an actual name, but no one would ever name their child that anymore.
84	* ''Film/SmartWoman:'' A film from 1931 about a woman winning her husband back from his mistress. The film's poster describes it as GAY! GOSSIPY! HILARIOUS!
85	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}}'', Doc, who's prone to {{Spoonerism}}s, asks "What are you and who are you doing?" It was meant to just be a nonsense phrase, but now it sounds like he's asking Snow White who she has sex with.
86	* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', the style of music played by the cantina band in ''A New Hope'' is known in-universe as "Jizz" (with performers known as "Jizz Wailers"), likely a play on jazz musicians. When "jizz" started becoming an increasingly common slang term for semen, Lucasfilm quietly changed the name to "Jatz".
87	* Being a silent film, ''Film/TessOfTheStormCountry'' (1914) uses FunetikAksent titles to render the dialogue of the uneducated poor folk characters. It leads to this bit from Tess's sister, who upbraids villain Ben Letts for not paying attention to their son.
88	--> "Yer ain't never kissed our baby since he cum."
89	* ''Film/TheTerrorOfTinyTown'': During her song, Diamond Dolly sings to a midget cowpoke that he is "going to make love to her".
90	* From Franchise/{{Disney\|Animated Canon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' (try hard not to think about this one in conjunction with WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck not wearing pants ... uh, oops): ''We're three caballeros, three gay caballeros. They say we are birds of a feather!"
91	* One Film/TheThreeStooges short is called ''Boobs In Arms''. No, they do not meet a woman with big boobs.
92	* In ''Film/ThreeWiseGirls'', Cassie's decision to RageQuit her modeling gig is explained thusly: "Yeah, she upchucked a good job."
93	* ''Film/ToKillAMockingbird'': At the end of the film, Scout narrates that this October, "[[spoiler:Boo Radley had finally came out.]]" Boo is known for being a shut-in, to the point that Scout and Jem aren't even sure if he's alive or not.
94	* The title of the lost Creator/OrsonWelles film ''Too Much Johnson'' might make a modern reader think of a GagPenis.
95	* Creator/ABCFamily cut the song "Give Your Heart a Try" from the Rankin/Bass animated version of '''WesternAnimation/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'' because of the use of the word "gay" in the lyrics.
96	* In the 1929 film ''The Valiant'', the character assumes the LineOfSightName James Dyke by looking at a calendar with an advertisement for Dyke Boilers.
97	* Midge's line in ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' about "the gay old Bohemian days of gay old San Francisco'' seems rather on-the-nose these days.
98	* ''Film/TheWeddingMarch'': "If you think you can touch me, forget it," says Ottokar to his son. No, they don't have some weird gay incest thing going. In those times "touch" or "put the touch on" was slang for asking to borrow money.
99	* In the 1961 version of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', the song "I Feel Pretty" has the line "I feel pretty and witty and gay". (This line was never in the stage version; the original lyric was "pretty and witty and ''bright''". The movie version altered it because the rhyming word for the original was "tonight", but with the song moved to an earlier scene, that line was changed to "today", requiring a different word to maintain the rhyme.) Naturally, the "today" version is used in ''Film/AngerManagement'' when the main character is forced to sing the song in public. His intonation makes it clear that he realizes the double meaning, and that it applies perfectly to how emasculated he feels. The same thing occurs in ''Film/AnalyzeThat'' (complete with mocking: "I've been singing ''West Side Story'' songs for three fuckin' days, I'm half a fag already! ") In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', this is used when Chandler and Monica visit Chandler's dad in "The One with Chandler's Dad". He headlines at a drag show and sings "I Feel Pretty", making the audience join him on the word "gay".
100	* In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', when Dorothy first sees the Scarecrow, she asks out loud (more herself than anyone else, as she didn't think anyone present could answer) which way to go. To which the Scarecrow answers: "Pardon me, this way is a very nice way. [points other way] It's pleasant down that way, too. [points both ways] Of course, some people do go both ways." The phrase "goes both ways" is now a term used to describe that someone is bisexual.
101	* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'':
102	** The film features a character named Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D. [[note]]Who?[[/note]]
103	** Also, in one scene, a police Constable calls out to a cat by the call of "Puss, puss... pussy, pussy... Here, pussy." Which may or may not be an actual example of this trope, since the term "pussy" already had risque connotations even then. (See ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', for example.)
104	* Line from the movie version of ''Theatre/YouCantTakeItWithYou'' (1938): "It's certainly going to be gay around here when you leave, Grandpa?"
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108	* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'':
109	** In a deleted scene from ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' (available on the [=DVD=]), Marty worries about hitting on his own mother:
110	--->'''Marty''': You know, this is the kind of thing that could screw me up permanently. What if I go back to the future and I end up bein'... gay?\
111	'''Doc''': Why ''shouldn't'' you be happy?
112	** Doc also thinks that "hitting on" means actual hitting.
113	** One of Biff's flunkies refers to Marty/Calvin as a "dork" in the first film. In TheFifties, "dork" was slang for a penis and was not used to refer to a goofy or silly character until much later.
114	** Viewers often don't get that in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Buford was actually insulting Marty by referring to him as "Dude". The rough equivalent today, in terms of perceived offensiveness, would be "hipster", as in someone obsessed with trendy, outlandish fashion. It isn't known whether Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis knew about this older meaning.
115	* The contrast between the traditional and modern meanings of "doing someone" is exploited as a plot point in ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'', in which the title characters are mistaken for hitmen and take up the job to "do" Muddy Grimes' wife because they think he wants them to have sex with her.
116	* In ''Film/Belle2013'', much is made of Elizabeth "coming out" and Dido ''not'' "coming out." It did not mean "to announce one's sexual orientation" as it does today: "coming out" meant that one was officially on the marriage market and was looking for suitors.
117	* In ''Film/BillyMadison'', Veronica Vaughn has to teach her 3rd grade class with a short story called "My Sister Fanny", and just lets them all giggle a bit and get it out of their system first. Billy doesn't get it, but then it turns out the story is on page 69 of their book, and he laughs by himself.
118	* In ''Film/BlastFromThePast'', Dave Foley's character tells Brendan Fraser's he's gay. [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Having been in a bunker for thirty-five years]], Brendan thinks he means happy.
119	* One might think this is what happens in ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', when [[ItMakesSenseInContext David ends up wearing Susan's nightgown]] and answers the door. "Why are you wearing those clothes?" "Because I just went ''gay'' all of a sudden!" It's actually one of the earliest uses of the modern definition on film (though mostly actors and other Hollywood types used it at that point).
120	* Almost certainly lampshaded in 1978 film ''Film/CaliforniaSuite''. Diana, who apparently has been in denial for a while, is finally figuring out that her husband Sidney is actually gay. She starts asking pointed questions. When she asks what he's doing in the afternoons when she's working (she's an actress) he says "I lead a gay life."
121	* ''Film/GhostbustersII'': Dana Barrett and Peter Venkman are enjoying a date out together when the remainder of the Ghostbusters team bursts into the restaurant rambling about ectoplasm in the city's underground and covered in a viscous, sticky substance (although, thank God, it's purple rather than white...) Venkman's response? "Boys! Boys! You're scaring [[{{Muggles}} the straights]]!" [[BlindIdiotTranslation In one country, this was straight-up subtitled as (translated back to English) "you're scaring the heterosexuals".]]
122	** This is actually a local New York dialect. It's short for "Straight-laced," i.e. someone who's such a plum-perfect that they take great care to keep their bootlaces perfectly straight.
123	* The use of "boob" to mean "fool" in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008'' feels almost like a DefiedTrope the way they repeatedly deliver it completely straight.
124	* {{Lampshaded}} in the Christmas special ''WesternAnimation/HowMurraySavedChristmas'' when Murray Weiner performs the final musical number:
125	-->'''Murray''' [glumly]: My life was empty and at an end, I could make a sandwich, but I couldn't make a friend,\
126	But thanks to this guy, I'm filled with glee, His best invention was a whole new me. [the song changes to a happy mood]\
127	'''Murray''': Now I'm happy and gay,\
128	'''Edison''': When?\
129	'''Murray''': On Christmas day, Yes, I'm ever so gay,\
130	'''Edison''': When?\
131	'''Murray''': On Christmas day; I'm incredibly gay, gay as the month of May, Gay, gay, gay, gay, I'm so gay!\
132	''[[{{Beat}} [The crowd looks at Murray with astonishment]]]''\
133	'''Murray''' [''nervously resumes his song'']: [[ThatCameOutWrong I don't mean in that way, that way is okay,]] What I'm trying to say— [[DontExplainTheJoke Oh forget it, oy vey!]]
134	* Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', when Manny is telling the kids a story about a young burro:
135	-->'''Elk Boy''': Burro is a demeaning name. Technically it's called a wild ass.
136	-->'''Manny''': Fine. The wild ass boy went home to his wild ass mother.
137	--> '''Children''': laughter
138	-->'''Manny''': See, that's why I called it a burro!
139	* Parodied in the TimeTravel romantic comedy ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' regarding the Brooklyn Bridge:
140	--> '''Leopold''': [of the Brooklyn Bridge] Good Lord, it still stands. The world has changed all around it, but Roebling's erection still stands! Ha, ha!
141	** A modern time traveler's amusement at the speech in which the Bridge is repeatedly called "an erection" is what causes Leopold to notice him in the first place.
142	** It's quite hard not to laugh at Roebling proclaiming proudly, "Behold, rising before you, the greatest erection on the continent... the greatest erection of the age... the greatest erection on the planet!" It doesn't get much better when he continually refers to it as "My great erection!"
143	* The Creator/MarxBrothers:
144	** ''Film/HorseFeathers'' -- the handsome young man is playing his ukulele and singing a love song to the lovely young girl; she looks up and says "Are you making love to me?"
145	** ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces1937'' has Groucho telling the female lead, "For you, I'd [[InterspeciesRomance make love to a crocodile]]." [[note]]At the time this movie was made (1937) ''make love'' was ''also'' being used in its modern, physical, sense — and Groucho was not shy about his language.[[/note]]
146	* From ''[[Film/NationalLampoon National Lampoon's Senior Trip]]'':
147	--> Miosky: I wanna do a Jap.\
148	Virus: Hey! How about Carla Morgan? I hear she's half Jewish!\
149	[Miosky slaps Virus across the face]\
150	Miosky: Not that kind of Jap. A real Jap from China. With silky soft skin, almond eyes and straight blonde hair.
151	--> Dags: A blonde Japanese. Hmmmm.
152	--> Miosky: They're a rare breed, but they're out there - and I'm gonna find one.
153	* Used in ''Film/TheNiceGuys'' to underscore Healy's view that kids know too much these days: a class of children watches a video that describes a towel as having 'gay colors' and they all burst out laughing.
154	* ''Film/ThePlayer'' uses both meanings in the exchange between June and Griffin: "Are you making love to me?" "Yes. I guess I am. I want to make love to you."
155	* Parodied in the 1980s western spoof ''Film/RustlersRhapsody'' in a scene where BigBad Colonel Ticonderoga tells an underling to "throw a faggot on the fire." The underling gets up timidly, asking for clarification, to which Ticonderoga tells him to throw some wood on the fire, the original definition of the term. The underling is noticeably relieved.
156	* Isaac Hayes deliberately plays with this in this theme for ''Film/{{Shaft}}'', describing him as a "black private dick [[BiggerIsBetterInBed who's a sex machine to all the chicks.]]"
157	* In ''Three Men and a Little Lady'', Fiona Shaw's character compliments Peter's "mighty erections" (meaning the buildings he architected).
158	* In ''Film/TopsyTurvy'', a frustrated Barker leaves the office saying, "I am going out for a little Italian hokey-pokey, and I care not who knows it." While this may sound scandalous, especially in a film that already had a scene at a brothel, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_pokey_(ice_cream) "hokey pokey" was a term for ice cream, often sold on the street by immigrants of Italian descent]].
159	* The meaning of "gay" became an OverlyLongGag in ''[[Film/TheBradyBunch A Very Brady Sequel]]''.
160	* ''Film/YourHighness'' invokes this deliberately after playing up a good bit of HoYay between brothers Fabious and Thadeous, when Fabious asks his brother to "Stay here and be gay with father and me!"
161	* Invoked deliberately for the 1981 comedy ''Film/ZorroTheGayBlade'', in every line of dialogue throughout the movie.
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