Innocent Innuendo / Webcomics

• 8-Bit Theater:
  • In this episode, Black Mage hears sounds coming from next door, where White Mage and Black belt are sleeping. It sounds like some "action" is going on, however Black Belt is only practicing kung-fu moves while jumping on the bed.
  • Then there's the installment where Red Mage hides the team from Sarda in his A-hole. It is also entirely accurate to say that they are in his B-hole.
  • As well as a fairly good percentage of the things Red Mage says. "There is no problem that can't be solved by creative and vigorous use of animal husbandry!"
• Toyed with in Alfie (2010); when one Ms. Tolman receives an invitation by the Voch'Khari caravan guard Ozge to her home for viewing of an interesting "artefact collection" the former prepares with painted lips, flattering bodice, & firm attempts to convince herself that this would just be a mutually enjoyable romp with a new friend. It turns out that, while Ozge is attracted to women in general and Alfie in particular, she is also a shy virginal romantic and they spend most of the afternoon examining things from beyond the Red Wood she traded for or salvaged.
• Parodied in Bigger Than Cheeses (NWS link) and PVP: when a character overhears a conversation that sounds like two people having sex, the eavesdropper displays awareness of this trope and avoids leaping to conclusions, only for it to be revealed that the overheard characters genuinely were having sex.
  • PvP had about a week straight of these types of gags, including Skull thinking it meant Brent was actually a Super Hero, and culminating in Cole saying he knew they were just moving a desk around...except that time Brent and Jade actually were having sex in the office.
• Bittersweet Candy Bowl has this periodically. Cloud Cuckoolander David at one point asks a female character to "C'mon, BE A HOOKER WITH ME!! It'll be so exciting!!" (he actually wanted to skip school, i.e. play hookey). At another point, two characters fighting sounds like they're having sex to their friends. The next morning, things only get worse.
• College Roomies from Hell!!!:In this strip, when Marsha suspects that Mike is pretending to be gay in order to break up with her.

• Dubious Company:
  • In the Festival of Veils arc, Raque is trying to frame Mary and Sue, by trapping them in the Queen's chambers. She then asks the Queen to follow her to the room because "I believe you will wish to view the twins". The Queen is flattered but uninterested.
  • Leeroy in the Sci-fi arc after reuniting with Sal. Depending on how you interpret his Luminescent Blush, either he just realized he did this, or was trying to flirt.
• Dumbing of Age gives us this little bit of dialogue.
• Eerie Cuties
  • Nina is too innocent for her own good.
    Nina: D'you kiss the snake too?
  • Also:
    Nina: My sister's busy with her kitty...
• In El Goonish Shive, Tedd develops a new theory about the nature of magic and uryoum projections, and comes up with a way of using Elliot's spells to test this. What he tells his dad is that he's experimenting with Elliot in the basement. Edward, who has noticed the near constant Ship Tease just like everyone else except Tedd and Elliot themselves, is bemused.
  Tedd: He's going home soon, so we were about to do it!
  Edward: And you ... want me to see this experiment?
• In Elf Life, Filis is gushing to Airek about how she and Baughb spent the previous day "frolicking". When Airek mentions that she didn't need to use euphemisms around him, she explodes:
  Filis: When I said we frolicked, that's what we did! If we'd @#$%ed, I'd have said we @#$%ed!

• Forestdale: after stealing a magazine from his older brother, Jake and Kyle start drooling over the pictures inside with the former of the two even complimenting the chest in one of the images...which just so happens to be an action figure of a fighting robot with no lewd connotations.
• Girl Genius:
  • Maxim flirts with the granddaughter of Old Man Death and offers her a "ride", nearly getting thrown out the door by her grandfather for it. He insists he meant, "On my horze! Iz a nize horze!"
  • And then there's the Heterodyne castle (well, part of it) pointing out the things Gil has to offer:
    Agatha: I hardly know him!
    Castle: What's to know? His family is powerful, his spark burns strong, he's already taken with you, and you can't deny that he has a magnificent Death Ray.
    Agatha: [looking thoughtful] ... That's... That's hardly a basis for a stable relationship.
    Castle: Hehe. All the Wulfenbach sparks are known for their oversized machinery, you know.
    Agatha: [prim] I'm sure I hadn't noticed.
• Girly offers Captain Fist.
• Classic scene in The Heroes Of Middlecenter where Dark and Kiki are chatting in one part of the baths, but they don't know that Wolf and Thatch are bathing in the other side, and can hear every word they're saying.
  Kiki: [indicating a small bird] What's that?
  Dark: It's a booby. You act like you've never seen one before.
  Kiki: Can I touch it?

From there, it gets more and more suggestive until Thatch and Wolf decide to look over the wall to see what's going on, and Kiki gets pissed off and uses water magic on them, draining the bath.

• This Home On The Strange strip has two women discussing the unusually large size of a man's... book collection.
• Used in this House MD cartoon to spoof a scene in House where Dr. House does walk in on Cameron and Chase having sex (or starting to, anyway) in a closet.)
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! once had Princess Voluptua moaning in despair when it appeared a villain was about to conquer the Earth. Bob's girlfriend Jean heard the moaning coming from Bob's bedroom window.
• Kill Six Billion Demons features Ship Tease between Allison and Cio, until in "King of Swords", they're seen doing something (too much of a closeup to see what) while staying close together and sweating and saying vaguely suggestive things like "Squeeze tighter." Turns out Cio is teaching Allison how to use magic.
  
  Then they have sex after that.
• In Life (2012), Felicia (an Internet neophyte) walks in at the end of Madison's story about being banned for using bots in an MMO.
  Madison: I was never able to pull off the 25-man ... and I never got my money back for any of them.
  Felicia [thinking]: W-what did I just walk into?
• Inverted in Looking for Group when someone thinks they overhear a murder.
• In Ménage à 3: "Dillon! What have you done to my giant-size Man-Thing?! It's... it's all STICKY!!!" Yes, this sentence can have an innocent meaning. Look here, and the following strips.

• Namir Deiter: Having already established "Cookies and pudding" as an Unusual Euphemism, Tipper offers some to her sulking fiancee, Charles. Cue Jacinda walking in on... a fully-clothed Tipper feeding fully-clothed Charles cookies dipped in pudding.
• Nerf NOW!! with Luigi hearing how Mario and Peach loudly have fun in the room above. They're hopping in a Goomba's Shoe.
• In Oceanfalls, this happens twice in the same conversation courtesy of Aria and Mei. When the party heads to bed for the night...
  Aria: We've all had a long day, yeah.
  Meimona: It was fun, don't talk like that!
  Aria: Maybe in some part, but... There were too many death scares during a single day for my liking, really. At least I can finally rest for real, though! And I can't believe I'm sleeping with other humans!!
  Nino: Uhh...! Aria, that's... uhhmm...!
  Reed: ...A very poor choice of words.
  Aria: What? Did I say something wrong?
  Nino: ...Augh... no, nevermind.
  Aria: Whew, well, I'm so glad to be here right now!
  Meimona: Guys, the closet has pajamas by the way!!! Also, I call dibs on the left bed! Shoo, Reed! This is my spot!
  Reed: How come you get to choose.
  Meimona: It's first come first serve, slowpoke! So you can just take uhh... wait. Aren't four beds not enough? Obviously, MY boyfriend sleeps with ME, so that leaves, umm...^Context  "Boyfriend" is the name of her pet cat.
  Nino: You guys... phrasing... please.
  Reed: (Why don't you just get your head outta the gutter.)
  Nino: (Don't give me that, hypocrite.)
• Shows up from time to time in The Order of the Stick
  • In strip #28, "Just Like on Three's Company", Elan is Streaking (thinking he's an Invisible Streaker) and Roy is worried about Haley seeing him. When he finds her, she makes a lot of suggestive remarks... on Elan's new rapier ("I mean, sure, it's awfully skinny, but he uses it so masterfully..."). Subverted at the end when Haley adds "V says Elan has been running around naked, so I'm off to see what his 18 Charisma is worth under the hood."
  • In strip #123: "Double Your Entendre, Double Your Fun", where the overheard conversation is about a pair of gemstones ("So round and flawless...") that Haley just happens to keep stashed away with her possessions. Inside a chest that's apparently a bit hard to open. ("Hey, V... can you help me take this top off?"). Lampshade Hanging occurs when the (known) guys fall over themselves trying to listen in, and Haley remarks the noise is "just the boys eavesdropping and misinterpreting our conversation".
  • The discussion of Hinjo's "junk" in strip #418, which is helpfully titled "It's a Type of Boat".
    Belkar: I sense a great disturbance... as though a thousand double entendres cried out, and were suddenly silenced.
  • "Slipping the wood" to some dryad hussy might count as a Double Subversion, as the incident in question is treated as being just as bad as if it had been in that way.
• One of the last comics of Queen of Wands used shadows to give Aeire's readers' chains just one more little yank.
• Ozy and Millie: Ozy who doesn't wear pants lost all his fur, and Millie notes "You can tell his religion just by looking at him." She was actually referring to the fact that his lack of hair makes him look like a Buddha statue.
  Millie: What did you think I meant?
• Questionable Content: Poor Hannelore here accidentally makes some very risque (for her) innuendo. In the commentary, Jeph says "They've gone too far now. Hanners ever realizes the innuendo she's been tossing around her head is likely to explode." For those that don't know, Hanners was watching Marigold play World of Warcraft.
• Used in an RPG World comic, turning out to be one of the characters struggling to put on a shirt that's too small for him with the help of one of the other party members, accompanied by an almost apologetic note from the author.
• Subverted in Sandra and Woo. A comic shows a tree which Woo and Lily are in, and the dialogue makes it sound like he's having "difficulties". They're really playing billiards. Woo's so bad at it, Lily suggests something he's "infinitely better" at: mating.
• Sandra on the Rocks: Online multi-player games offer wonderful new opportunities for the trope to kick in, as Alex and Marie demonstrate here.
• Subverted in this strip from Scenes From a Multiverse, and obvious parody of Doctor Who. It looks like an example, but as the series progresses, it becomes entirely plausible that it was deliberate.
• School Bites features the main character using the power of innuendo to manipulate a crushing Cat Girl: Have you tasted my cherry muffin?
• Sexy Losers is sufficiently fond of this trope that it has even had innocent but initially suspicious Visual Innuendo a few times, as when a character who appeared to have semen on her face turned out to have just eaten a vanilla popsicle. (Yes, this strip is NSFW.)
• Slightly Damned
  • Buwaro has his moments. "Yay! We get to sleep together again, Snowy!"
  • Possibly the best one yet.
• Done over the course of two strips in Sluggy Freelance.
• Thinking Too Much to Think Positively: In "Car Trouble Entendre", Xan notes that American car repair places tend to have oddly homoerotic names, citing "Pep Boys" and "Jiffy Lube". Then a sign for "Crankshaft Grinders" comes up.
• Tsunami Channel has done this on multiple occasions.
  • Pulled off well in this two-strip installment of Experimental Comic Kotone.
  • Done rather clumsily in this strip of Magical Mina.
  • Immediately after the aforementioned incident in ExCoKo, Konstantin thinks this way again despite actually being able to see what's going on.
• Twice Blessed: Cade Masters ruins Melchior's chances with a very attractive barmaid when he innocently mentions Melchior's troubles with his Rod of Wonder.
  "THAT'S NOT A EUPHEMISM!"
• VG Cats
  • Played half-straight in this strip, where we know whats's happening, but it's a little different for Aeris.
  • Also inverted in this strip, where it takes perfectly innocent dialogue from Star Fox 64 and...well...
• The "Innuendo" arc of It's Walky! has about a week of innocent innuendo used to mess with the mind of another character.

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