Innocent Innuendo / Live-Action TV

• On Fox News, Megyn Kelly says that she and Janice Dean have slept together.
• On News 4, Wendy Rieger makes it sound like she, meteorologist Doug Kammerer and another guy are having an mmf bisexual threesome while covering Hurricane Sandy when she says:
  Wendy Rieger: Doug called me an hour ago and said "Get ready!" And BAM! This thing is pounding us from behind!
• On Sunrise On 7, A.J. Roach of the Australian water polo team describes the sport to Edwina Barthowlmew:
  A.J. Roach: It's a great spectacle. Especially guys running around in their speedos, wrestling and pressing up against each other.
  Edwina Barthowlmew: That sounds like the Greek Olympics.
• 30 Rock: In "Gentleman's Intermission", Jack says that he demands from his mentees, "Drive, Intelligence, Humility and Chaos", which he refers to by the acronym DIHC, pronounced "dick". This leads to him saying things like, "I'm looking for DIHC, Avery, and I'm going to take it wherever I can find it." After a few more examples of this, he pauses and says, "I hear it, and I don't care."
• The Addams Family: It's not often you see "innocent" in the same sentence with Gomez and Morticia, but in one episode, Gomez says to Morticia "I've got a better idea...why don't we go to the playroom [the room in which they keep their torture devices, amongst other things] and play?" with a grin...cut to them playing a (rather unconventional, but innocent) game of hockey. Or at least a game loosely based on hockey, as most games they play seem to border on Calvinball.
• In an episode of All Creatures Great and Small (1978), one of Tristan's nurse-friends went to sleep in his room while Tristan himself slept on the sofa downstairs. Siegfried woke her up in the night, thinking she was Tristan. Mrs Hall overhears only half of the resulting conversation... guess which half.
  Daphne: Oh, your brother was wonderful... and a perfect gentleman. He can teach you a thing or two, Tristan Farnon! [...] Oh, he certainly knows how to make a woman feel like a woman... if you know what I mean. [...] You notice men in my job. [...] You know, get to know things. I suppose you could call it, hm, sort of intimate.
• In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., we get this great exchange after Yo Yo has lost her arms and is going to be fitted with prosthetics:
  Yo Yo: Mack, how you gonna feel about dating someone with robo-parts?
  Mack: Those aren't the parts that matter.
  Simmons: Ooh Mack!
  Mack: What? Oh! No, come on! That's not what I meant!
• Angel
  • "That Vison Thing", has this line from Fred
    Fred: I've been forking with Gunn.
  • In "Offspring", Fred goes downstairs to the sound of Cordelia saying some suggestive things, but it turns out Angel was positioning her for self-defense training.
    Cordy: Ow. That doesn't feel right.
    Angel: Just relax. You have to bend.
    Cordy: I don't bend there... Okay. Now that's downright unnatural.
  • In "Couplet", Cordelia can't have sex with the handsome Groo for magical reasons, so suggests they try something she used to do with her cousin. It turns out to be giving Groo a haircut.
  • "Double or Nothing"
    Fred: Don't forget your machete!
    Gunn: Yes dear.
    Groo: He is very fortunate to have such a woman looking after his weapon.
    [Fred tries not to giggle]
    Lorne: Not touching that one.
  • In "Power Play", Illyria tells Spike that she and Wesley "are no longer having intercourse", meaning he's stopped talking to her.
• Arrested Development
  • Tobias has a habit of making everything he says sound like a gay come-on. At one point Michael, not wanting to just point it out, recommends that he start recording himself, play it back at the end of the day, and see if he can figure out what he keeps doing wrong. At the end of the episode he does notice a pattern: "Oh, Tobias, you blowhard!"
  • In "The Immaculate Election", Michael overhears his son and Ann talk about the student body campaign but it sounds like they are about to make out so he storms the room.
  Ann: I want you to do it.
  George Michael: I don't think I'm ready.
  Ann: Of course you are.
  George Michael: I'm gonna lose it before I start.
  Michael: (opens the door shouting) Don't start!
• Arrow. In "Honor Thy Father", Oliver Queen shows up at Laurel Lance's apartment with a bag, and when she asks him what's in it, he tells her, "Every day I was on the island, there was something I thought about doing, and I told myself that if I ever got to do it again, I would do it with you." It seems like he's talking about sex, and the bag contains condoms. However, he then says, "Eat ice cream," and it's revealed that the bag has mint ice cream in it.
• Lester in Beakman's World has several instances of this. For instance, in one scene he's watering a plant, and from the camera angle, it looks like he's watering it, um, the natural way. In comes Beakman, who assumes what the viewer does, but when Lester turns to answer him, we see he's holding a watering can.
• In episode 5 of Better Call Saul, "Alpine Shepherd Boy", Roland Jaycox wants Jimmy to help him with a patent for his new invention, Tony the Toilet Buddy, a toilet outfitted with a little recorder that is supposed to spout phrases of encouragement to kids as they poop into it. This is what happens:
  Roland Jaycox: Do you have children?
  Jimmy McGill: No.
  Roland Jaycox: My wife and I have two boys... 4 and 6. And let me tell you – toilet-training them? Nightmare, both times. They just didn't want to use the commode. So I wired a motion sensor to a voice chip, and, well, no sense getting all technical, but it's all about positive reinforcement. Meet "Tony the Toilet Buddy". And when you sit down to do your business, this is how he works.
  [Roland drops a wooden block in the toilet bowl.]
  "Tony the Toilet Buddy": Ohhh, yeah! That's the way! [Roland drops another wooden block in the toilet bowl] Gosh, you're big! You're sooooooo big! My goodness, look at you! [Roland drops another wooden block in the toilet bowl] Fill me up, Chandler! Put it in me!
  Roland Jaycox: Chandler's my youngest — loves it.
  Jimmy McGill: Huh. [Roland drops another wooden block in the toilet bowl]
  "Tony the Toilet Buddy": Give it to me, Chandler! I want it all! Mmmmmmm. Aaaaahhhhhh.
  Roland Jaycox: Anyway, it goes on from there. You get the picture.
  Jimmy McGill: Yeah, I, uh... Yeah.
  Roland Jaycox: So, what do you think?
  Jimmy McGill: It's a little sexual, maybe?
  Roland Jaycox: [confused] Sexual? What — what does that...
  Jimmy McGill: Suggestive, maybe — maybe that's a better word. Heh. Look, I'm not — I'm not saying this thing won't make you rich. I mean, some of your wealthier Pacific Rim nations — they'll love this — the crazy bastards. Heh.
  Roland Jaycox: I created this for children... Children, understand?
  Jimmy McGill: Well, hey, Viagra was originally invented to treat hypertension. Look how that turned out.
  [Cuts to Jimmy leaving the house while an angry Roland follows him]
  Roland Jaycox: [angrily] You're completely disgusting, you know that?!
  Jimmy McGill: Hey, buddy, you're the one with the sex toilet.
  Roland Jaycox: [still angry] Get off my property!
  Jimmy McGill: Hey, you know what? I hope you do make a fortune, ’cause Chandler's gonna need it to help pay for his therapy!
• In the episode "The Recombination Hypothesis" of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon, Howard and Raj play Settlers of Catan. To best exploit this trope, Sheldon is the one who needs lumber.
  Sheldon: Who has wood for my sheep? [...] Come on, I just want wood! Why are you making it so hard?
  • When it reaches "the erection of my settlement", they start to wonder if he's doing it on purpose.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • In "The I in Team" Riley appears to be asking Buffy if she's OK with them having sex, but is actually taking her down to the Initiative's Elaborate Underground Base.
  • In "Lie to Me", Giles is unsure about a "surprise" date, but finally stammers, "Alright, I put myself in your hands."
    Jenny: That sounds like fun.
  • Buffy moped over Ford for months, and would sit in her room listening to "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls. She quickly shifts gears by saying she had no idea what the song was about.
  • Buffy glancing up from her career aptitude test to inquire, "Do I like shrubs?"
    Xander: That's between you and your God.
  • In "Killed by Death", Willow mentions that she and Xander used to like Playing Doctor (With medical textbooks and things). She's apparently still unaware of the real meaning of it, and is very confused when Xander says he didn't have the heart to tell her they were playing it wrong.
  • In "Earshot", Buffy, discussing her "Touch of the Demon", is obliged to mention that it was "A good touch. Not a bad touch."
  • In Season 4's "The Freshman", Willow's speech about her excitement with school, which when she notices the wide-eyed look from Buffy realizes how dirty it sounded.
  • And in "Hush", though this is nonverbal, when the Scoobies are trying to determine how to defeat the Gentlemen, Buffy makes a fist and mimicks stabbing....vertically....while seated....upon seeing the looks from the others, she reiterates this with a stake in hand.
  • As their UST cranks up in Season 6, Buffy keeps mistaking innocuous comments by Spike for sexual invitations. Though knowing Spike, it would be just like him to make such comments so he can enjoy Buffy's flustered reaction.
    Spike: [calling on phone] Thought you might be up for a little grunt-work.
    Buffy: What?!? No! (lowering her voice so the Scoobies can't hear) No grunting!
    Spike: [smirking] I was talking shop, love, but if you've got other ideas... You, me, a cozy little tomb with a view... [Buffy hangs up on him]
• Charmed (1998) In "She's A Man, Baby, A Man!", Piper expresses concern over the Succubus appearing at the club and scaring a band away:
  Manny: I'll just nail the Succubus before they get there.
• An episode of the Clueless Recycled: The Series had Cher's dad overhearing her male pal through her bedroom door saying "it should be stiff...no wrinkles." When dad enters, Cher's pal is merely showing how his dad showed him how to properly make a bed in the Marines.
• Inverted on CSI, when a movie star's aide asks whether his boss wants French or Italian that night. It sounds as if they're talking about food, until the actor spots a pair of Asian knockouts across the casino floor and replies: "How about Chinese?"
• Dexter:
  • The entire intro. It strongly implies violence, blood, gore, and death, but is actually just images from his morning routine.
  • Subverted at one point in season 2. We hear Lila talking to Dexter in a way that leads the viewer to think they're having sex, then we assume that she's probably just teaching him how to paint. Then the camera reveals that they are actually...having sex.
• Doctor Who:
  • "The Lazarus Experiment": When the Doctor meets Martha's mother Francine, he causes an awkward moment by saying that he and Martha haven't had much time to talk as they've been "busy" (time travelling). Fortunately, the conversation is interrupted before he can dig himself deeper.
  • "A Good Man Goes to War" has a lot of Ship Tease for the Doctor and Amy, strongly hinting that her baby would be his. (It's not, of course.) Creator Steven Moffat had a grand time trolling his fanbase with it, as usual.
• The Dollhouse episode "Gray Hour" opens with the sound of a woman moaning "Oh God!" in a beautiful mountain chalet. Rather than another 'romantic' assignment, it turns out that Echo is helping her give birth, having been programmed as a midwife.
• A non-sexual example in Elementary: A character says to Holmes that she sees he must be a "fellow addict". Holmes is slightly taken aback that his past of drug use would be so apparent to her, until it becomes clear she meant a Crossword Puzzle addict.
• Used several times in the Show Within a Show When the Whistle Blows in Extras, Andy Millman's character overhears increasingly innuendo-laden language in storms in on the other characters demanding to know what is going on. (Example: "Put it in your mouth", "Don't suck, blow" — one of the characters is trying to teach the other how to play the recorder.)
• Subverted in Fist of Fun where they would come up with something that sounded dirty, twist it to make it sound innocent, and then do a further twist to reveal that it was in fact as dirty as it sounded. (For example, "Do you like Big Cocks???? Then come along to the annual chicken rearing contest." Although it's called a chicken rearing contest, only Men's Big Cocks will be on show.)
• The Frasier episode "Matchmaker" subverts this by having Frasier discussing the same things he always does (music, clothing) with a man he doesn't know to be gay who assumes that he (Frasier) is hitting on him.
• In Ghosts (US), the episode "Viking Funeral," Hetty mentions that having the funeral might allow Thorfinn to complete his Earthly visit, she mentions that he might get "sucked off." Sam, who tries to correct her to "moving on," gets stopped by Trevor, who tell her "please don't, it's one of the only pleasures I still have."
• One episode of HEX opened with Leon moving up and down framed by the sky and Ella doing the same while framed by grass with their lower bodies out of shot. Both of them as gasping heavily. They're doing sit ups together.
• House did it in episode 4-12, "Don't Ever Change", when Roz needed an ultrasound. House asked Thirteen, "You do it both ways, don't you?", and after Thirteen took it the wrong way, he stated he was talking about two different ways to do the ultrasound.
  • Yeah, but he did that on purpose, knowing full well that she "goes both ways".
  • The whole "Blue the janitor" exchange. ("The janitor's name is Lou!" "Well, then I owe him an apology." Wilson sounds so traumatized.)
• How I Met Your Mother:
  • One episode has Marshall telling Lily (in a bar) that he wants to "give her the whole package", meaning provide a nice life for her. Lily insists that he already has a "huge package". The woman sitting next to them suddenly becomes very interested in Marshall.
  • In another, Mary the paralegal's description of her day falls into this territory as Ted believes that she's a prostitute.
  • Before she was a Canadian pop star, Robin was on a kids show called Space Teens. It contained truckloads of examples. It included such bits as the 'Beaver Song' and two teenage girls solving math problems while controlling a very long joystick to the encouraging words of Alan Thicke. The cameraman had shaky hands so all the footage is extra 'bouncy'. Barney even lampshades this by describing Robin's TV career as one would describe that of a porn actress.
  • In one episode, Barney is trying to keep his hookup with Robin secret, but Ted's dialogue makes him think he already knows and is congratulating him on it. Then Marshall and Lily talk about how they're going to "penetrate the barrier" that Ted and Barney have already...turning 30.
  Ted: So, tell us, what was it like?
  Barney: What?
  Ted: Penetrating that barrier. You and I are the first ones to hit it. Well, not the first ones, certainly, but the first ones at this table.
  Barney: I... I... I'm... I'm...
  Marshall: Although, I'm gonna be hitting it pretty soon.
  Robin: Yeah, you are.
  Marshall: Yeah, and when I hit it, I'm going to go nuts.
  Lily: It's gonna be all night, and I think I want a clown there. I'm a little bit scared of clowns, but for you, I'm there.
  Barney: What are you talking about?!
  Ted: The big three-oh. You know, my 30th birthday's this friday. Did you forget? What kind of friend is this guy?
  • Robin briefly dates Nick, a dim-witted TV chef who is trying to find a catchphrase, and often comes up with some unfortunate ideas such as "Who's Poppin' A Chub For Some Grub!"
  I offer my deepest apologies to anyone who was offended by my "Poppin' A Chub" remark. I can and will do better, won't happen again. And now, Who's Ready To Eat My Meat!? (gasps offscreen) Oh come on.
• Subversion: In the Red was a BBC miniseries about politics and publicity. One of the protagonists is the speech-writer for the leader of a minor political party — he mainly got the job because he has a degree in English, and fancies the leader's daughter, but is too nerdy to do anything about it. By the end of the final episode the leader is facing a vote of no confidence, and the speech-writer cannot come up with anything better than a frank and forthright apology for only doing his best in difficult circumstances. Immediately upon finishing recording this into his dictaphone, the daughter comes into his hotel room, and takes her top off. Cut to next morning, and an anonymous secretary quietly picks up the dictaphone from the bedroom floor, trying not to wake the sleeping couple. That afternoon, the leader gives his speech in a triumphal manner. After the words as dictated by the speech-writer, he carries on: "I want you to take me. I do. Yes. Oh yes. Oh yes!" It got a standing ovation from the party.
• iZombie has a scene where Liv is lying in bed, giving instructions to someone off-camera while moaning passionately. Then she apparently forgets the safe word. Don’t worry, her boyfriend is just giving her a foot rub.
• Jane the Virgin: Jane and Michael panting and discussing whether "it will fit." They're moving into their new house and putting boxes in the closet.
• Jonathan Creek:
  • In the episode "The Sinner and the Sandman", Jonathan has sprained his wrist trying to get tomato sauce on his breakfast, and explains to the vicar's wife that he was injured "whacking the ketchup bottle". Later, he refers to it as "banging the sauce out". She naturally assumes that this is an Unusual Euphemism for masturbation. Jonathan never does learn what she's so shocked about.
  • Happens in the episode "Gorgon's Wood", in which he gets a brain freeze from eating Carla's sorbet, only for her husband to call her at that precise moment. She shudders to think what Brendan must have thought the screams of agony in the background were.
• Kamen Rider Fourze: In one episode, Gentaro finds out that former Monster of the Week Miura has stopped attending school. He quickly declares "The best medicine for a hurt heart is friendship, so I'll make sure he gets his daily dose of me morning, noon, and night!" It gets worse when he meets Miura and says things like "Drink me up!" and "It may be bitter at first, but I'm sure I'll be good for you!" Judging by the reactions of those around him (including his best friend Yuki and Miura's girlfriend), Gentaro is the only one who doesn't realize what he's saying.
• The League of Gentlemen has one scene that starts by making it look as though Benjamin is being forced to perform oral sex on Harvey. It turns out he's just cleaning the toilet brush.
• An episode of Married... with Children has Bud, Kelly and the neighbors waiting downstairs for Al and Peg. They have no idea that Peg is just fixing Al's necktie when they overhear this:
  Al: Peg! Leave it alone! It happens to be mine.
  Peggy: But it just hangs lifelessly. Let me fiddle with it, I'll straighten it out.
  Al: For God's sake, Peg, you're gonna pull it off!... Now it's too long.
  Peggy: Most women like it that way.
  Al: I don't care what women like. I'm the one gotta lug it around.
• In Modern Family, Phil often says things that are intended to be innocent but seem sexual or homoerotic.
  • In one episode Phil is attempting to sell the house next to theirs, and find prospective buyers who are basically his and Claire's dream neighbours. They invite them over for dinner and try to convince them to buy the house, but Phil and Claire come on so strong that the other couple think the Dunphys want to swing with them and run off.
• My Family has too many examples to count. Here's a few big ones.
  • Done deliberately in "The Last Resort" to make the swingers next door jealous.
  • "Dutch Art & Dutch Courage" reveals that Alfie gives AMAZING massages.
  • "Canary Cage"
    Ben: I'M GOING TO HAVE TO GET A ROLLED-UP NEWSPAPER!!! THE BIGGER THE BETTER!!!
• In The Nanny episode "A Fine Friendship", an in-universe version of this happens. Maxwell ends up seeing Fran in a bra and tells her to put a shirt on. The shirt gets stuck and this happens:
  Fran: (with the dress over her head) Oh, Mr. Sheffield, I'm so hot!
  Maxwell: Don't worry, Miss Fine, we'll get it on! I can't do this: get on the bed! (He tosses her on the bed and takes the dress off and then sees Niles in the door way grinning)
  Niles: If you let me tell Ms. Babcock about this, I'll work free for a year.
• NCIS:
  • In "One Shot One Kill", a male character's inability to eat with chopsticks is made to sound like an inability to perform a sexual act upon a female coworker.
  • In "Silver War" some crack is made about Paris Hilton, both the heiress and the hotel — and the logical innocent innuendo follows... until Ziva smilingly comments that blondes aren't her type and walks away. (She does this sort of thing quite a bit in the earlier seasons, it's almost as if we're being led up to something...)
  • "In the Zone". When Tony and Jardine share quarters in Iraq, the camera gives a slow pan across their discarded clothes while we hear their ecstatic cries of "Yes! Yes!" We then see them in shorts and singlets due to the heat, overjoyed at finally establishing a videochat connection with their colleagues.
• The New Girl episode "Spiderhunt" has a lengthy exchange between Nick and Jess. Nick is talking about Cece wanting to get a popcorn machine for the bar they both work in, and his reservations about it. Jess thinks he's talking about his reluctance to get into a relationship with Cece :
  Nick: It's not happening!
  Jess: Well... why not?
  Nick: Because I'm not interested! And I know it's not cool to say it, but, I don't like the way it would look.
  Jess: People are gonna say what they're gonna say. They're not reasons not to go through with it.
  Nick: Fine. You want to know my biggest concern? My biggest concern is the SMELL.
  Jess: ...The smell?
  Nick: The smell of it. Yeah, and it's not Cece's fault. I mean they ALL smell. I've told her that.
  Jess: You... told Cece... You think all women-
  Nick: Don't make this a feminist-
  Jess: I'm not making it a feminist thing!
  Nick: How?! They smell terrible! It's common knowledge!
  Jess: I thought the biggest concern would be how it affected the people around you!
  Nick: I'm pretty sure a bunch of old drunks will grab at it, but-
  Jess: But if your biggest concern is the smell, I'm sure that's highly manageable.
  Nick: Yeah, I guess, there's like special solvents and soaps. I... I haven't read up on it that much. You know, but you really gotta get in there and scrub it out! It's disgusting! You know, because of the daily wear and tear... and OIL, and grease, just... COOKING in there. It's enough to make a man barf! ...thinking about it. I mean, they get really hot!
  Jess: I KNOW WHAT TEMPERATURE IT GETS!
• New Tricks:
  • In "Ducking and Diving", Brian develops an interest in deep-sea diving, and wants to share it with his wife, Esther. As he tells her he thought they could do with a bit more excitement and bought rubber suits after seeing a video at work, she looks extremely uncertain.
  • There's also the time Brian was trying to find out from Sandra whether he was paid the same or more than Gerry and Jack; in retrospect, he earned the strange look she gave him when he asked her "Are you fully cognizant of the size of my packet? Is it a large one or a bit...(makes a 'teeny' gesture with his fingers}?"
• The Night Of: When a man in John Stone's support group says that he's "holding his own" in his dating life, Stone points out that it's an unfortunate choice of words.
• Subverted in an episode of The Orville. LaMarr and Talla are working together in the engine room behind a pylon which hides them from view of the crew on the floor. Talla notices that LaMarr has a pain in his back and gives him a super-strength massage, which causes him to groan in pleasure. The camera cuts to the engineering crew giving each other uncomfortable looks at the sound, then cuts back to the pair and shows that they have actually started having sex.
• Philomena Cunk, upon learning that an orchestra isn't an instrument. asks an unsuspecting expert whether "you need both hands and your mouth to play an orchestra", before finally conceding tat "you couldn't blow a whole orchestra."
• An entire episode of the British children's series Rainbow was comprised of a series of sexual innuendos, including comments about "Playing with our friends' (toy) balls," and "plucking our twangers (musical instruments)". It was made by the cast and crew for their own edification, and with absolutely no intent of broadcast. Appropriately, it's even more over-the-top than most examples on this page.
• Red Dwarf:
  • In "Polymorph", Rimmer encounters the robot Kryten, complete with vacuum cleaner hose attached to his groinal socket, struggling to remove Lister's shrunken polymorphic boxers.
  • In "Bodyswap", Rimmer promises to workout Lister's body. After first hearing potentially orgasmic grunting, the camera pans to the door to the Gym. However, we then discover Rimmer was only in the jaccuzi reading a "photography" magazine.
  • In "Nanarchy", when Kryten explains to Cat and Kochanski that Lister wouldn't be able to use one of Kryten's spare arms as a prosthetic because it would be so heavy that, "with the strain and extra weight, it would be impossible for Mr. Lister even to get it up". Cat remarks, 'He could always take it off if he was going on a date'.
• In the pilot episode of the RoboCop: The Series, two minor villains are shown horizontally, facing each other, bouncing up and down, and panting. Then the camera rotates 90 degrees and zooms out to show that they're working out on treadmills that are oriented in opposite directions.
• In one of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories, Claude Erskine-Browne overhears conversations between young secretary Dot Clapton and one of the judges that causes him to believe she is being sexually harassed. He tries to comfort her, and ends up accidentally harassing her himself. It is later revealed that she and the judge are both members of a theatre guild, and that they were rehearsing a scene.
• Saturday Night Live:
  • Invoked by the recurring sketch "Delicious Dish", which features a boring, cooking-related radio show. In the most infamous instance, the "Schweddy Balls" sketch, the audience can see that the two radio hosts are actually eating Pete Schweddy's chocolate malt balls, but the unseen radio listeners would be getting all the unconscious innuendo.
  • Further pointed out in their sequel sketch about Pete Schweddy's new product: hot dogs (called wieners constantly). A breathless phone pervert actually calls the show to ask about Pete's wiener. Obviously, Pete cluelessly plays along.
  • In the Betty White episode, they do another one of these where they talk to an old lady who owns a bakery and came on the show to talk about muffins of various kinds.
• In the Musical Episode of Scrubs, "Guy Love", we get an example of this:
  J.D.: [to Turk] You are the only man who's ever been inside of me!
  Turk: Whoa, whoa, I just took out his appendix.
• Skins:
  • The episode "Jal" has Sid helping Jal into her dress in a fitting room. We cut to outside in the shop where them struggling with the zipper sounds like them struggling with "other things". When Sid leaves the fitting room he is told by a woman that he is a pervert, much to his confusion.
  • Pandora consists of this trope.
    Pandora: Come on! We can do brownies then lick our bowls out.
    Katie: Do you think she knows how filthy she sounds half the time?
    Effy: Sometimes I wonder.
  • In a later instance she notes that boyfriends "just want to get into her box".
• Smallville: Lois teaches Clark how to use cuff links in "Bride".
  Lois: You just have to make sure this part sticks up straight and then it slides right in.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Galaxy's Child", Dr. Leah Brahms discovers her holographic incarnation from the earlier episode "Booby Trap", who repeats that episode's last lines "Every time you look at this engine, you're looking at me. Every time you touch it, it's me.", and is led to think that Geordi had intentionally used her image to generate a Brahms love toy.
• Star Trek: Voyager: At the beginning of "Coda", Captain Janeway and Neelix are speaking in ambiguous terms about some sort of group event Neelix organized the previous night. With lines like "You were really good last night" and "It's been a long time for me" going back and forth between them, it seems like they're talking about an orgy. It's not until the next scene that it's revealed they were talking about a talent show.
• The Thin Blue Line:
  • The conservative and idealistic Inspector Fowler had a tendency to make statements containing innuendo that everyone except him could see.
    "Ah, Christmas — when Father brings home a plump bird for dinner and tells Mother to stuff it..."
    "Have I said something amusing, Constable Habib?"
  • And Inspector Grim when his job depended on an important operation.
    Remember, it's your cockup, my arse!
  • Grim is quite fond of these:
    It's my arse on the line and if you stuff it, I will be very red in the face!
• Three's Company was notorious for this.
  • Jack and Chrissy are hiding in the bathroom, eavesdropping on Janet and her date, who, unbeknownst to them, are talking about some ferns Janet has in the apartment. They overhear Janet's friend remark, "Those are two beauties!" and Hilarity Ensues with the following further remarks: "If you want them to grow, you've got to put them in the window." "They feel a little dry. When was the last time you steamed them?" "They're so delicate!" "I've never seen such gorgeous exaltatus!" (Jack to Chrissy: "I've never heard them called that before!")
  • Mr. Furley, the landlord, overhears Jack and Chrissy in the bathroom together: "Let me get into the tub with you." "I can't get it up!" "Here, I'll help you." When they come out, Furley is surprised to see them fully clothed, and they explain that they were hanging a shower curtain.
• The West Wing: This exchange from the second season episode "The Midterms".
  Charlie: Zoey and I are going out. I'll be on my pager.
  Leo: Charlie, you're taking extra protection, right?
  Charlie: [taken aback] Hey, Leo-
  Leo: Secret Service protection, Charlie! But thanks for loading me up with that image.
• Wizards of Waverly Place has a non-sexual, but hardly innocent example:
  Harper: What are you looking at?
  Zombie: I wanna have you for dinner!
  Harper: I have a date, jerk!
• Xena: Warrior Princess:
  • "Altared States" uses a particularly unsubtle bit of Subtext in a scene where we see Xena and Gabrielle's clothes strewn on the bushes and hear comments such as, "How was that?" and "Very nice!" It turns out that Xena is showing Gabrielle how to catch fish by hand while they're Skinny Dipping.
  • An even better example comes from "A Comedy of Eros", in which Xena and Draco's clothes are thrown around, and they make grunting noises as the camera pans toward them. They were wrestling. Similarily, Gabrielle and Joxer's clothes are scattered, and Gabrielle asks to "go again". Joxer abliges. They were singing his theme song.
• The X-Files does this a few times with Agent Mulder shown watching what sounds like a porn video, only to be revealed as either a legitimate FBI surveillance tape or "World's Worst Swarms" about someone being attacked by bees.
• Young Sheldon: In "A Therapist, a Comic Book, and a Breakfast Sausage", when Sheldon gets to school and tells everyone that he choked on a sausage, they all find that hilarious. One of the students asks how big it was, Sheldon gives an honest response, and everyone finds his response funny. Sheldon has no idea why everyone was laughing.

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