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This girl walks into a bar and orders a Double Entendre. So the Bartender gives 'er one!
"If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
"I'd like to double her entendre!"
One of the fundamental types of verbal gag in comedic television, especially the Sit Com.
A Double Entendre is a word or phrase which can be taken at least two different ways. Archetypically, one meaning is obvious, literal, and innocent. The other is usually sexual.
The Double Entendre's popularity in comedy stems from the fact that if you don't get it, you won't realize something dirty just happened. As a result, clever use of a Double Entendre can keep a show "family-friendly" by allowing children to appreciate the joke on one (non-sexual) level while adults enjoy it on another level.
On the other hand, if the Double Entendre fails to be funny on the obvious level, it can result in a show which is "safe" for broadcast in family time slots but which younger viewers do not enjoy.
British comedy is especially fond of the device, especially when the joke "works" on both levels.
When the viewer is specifically led toward the sexual meaning until The Reveal, this is an Innocent Innuendo. When the non-sexual meaning is perfectly clear but the innuendos continue, it's Does This Remind You Of Anything. When the non-sexual meaning doesn't make any sense, this can constitute an Unusual Euphemism. When the sexual meaning has been lost due to language change, it's Get Thee To A Nunnery.
Sometimes coupled with a If You Know What I Mean. See also Getting Crap Past The Radar.
The Double Entendre predates television, of course. Shakespeare was very fond of this device as well. "Hamlet: Do you think I meant Country Matters? What, shall I lie my head upon your lap?"
If someone makes a Double Entendre, but the recipient fails to see it as anything other than a literal statement, it becomes Entendre Failure. If someone makes a perfectly innocent statement that others interpret as a Double Entendre anyway, it becomes an Un Entendre.
Examples
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Advertising
- Nando's, a South African chicken restaurant franchise that has a penchant for putting out controversial ads, covered this recently by airing a commercial for a fake yet somewhat similar restaurant, only to add a disclaimer at the end that shows the logos of the restaurants, a rooster in both cases, side by side, so Nando's could argue that their cock was bigger than theirs.
- A UK energy conservation advert, paraphrased: "When cooking, use only enough water to cover your vegetables. The same applies when having a bath." "Meat and two veg" is a jocular British euphemism for, well, you can guess.
- Lucky Strike cigarettes had a slogan old comedies loved to quote: "So round, so firm, so fully packed."
- Vince Offer does this in the SlapChop commercial (intentionally; he used to be a comedian). When demonstrating how to chop up almonds, etc., "You're gonna love my nuts."
- The Chup-a-Chups lollipop company had "The Joy of Sucking" before they replaced it with "Life Less Serious".
- This commercial.
- From the Internet, we have the epic Hentai-themed Tentacle Grape, which... well, I'll quote the About page here:
- Nutty's Bar in Sioux Falls' advertising jingle "Nuttys, where all the nuts hang out." *snicker*
Anime & Manga
- The English dub of Crayon Shin-Chan loves this trope.
Nanako: Oh, I'm getting so wet just standing here watching him... I should really go inside where it's not raining.
- Everything Maso says is full of unintentional gay innuendo. "Please don't put your fist in me!" and "I know all about men, and men don't bend over without a fight!" to name a few.
- Episode 4 of S-CRY-ed introduced George Tatsunami, an agent of HOLY who liked to brag about his Alter, a giant pink revolver called "Big Magnum", with almost every line about it an obvious Double Entendre: "It's big, it's thick, it's hard, and it's coming to get ya!"
- FLCL is loaded with Double Entendres of all kinds, both verbal and visual (mainly the latter). You start to wonder if Freud Was Right after a while.
- Lawrence and Horo tend to speak to each other in these when they're teasing. Or when they're trying to trick someone.
- This troper even once saw a Fansub where a translator's note appeared in the middle of a long exchange of these saying "Have sex already, goddamnit!"
- Judging by the character's expressions, it's almost as if it was completely intentional.
- It only got a little better when they weren't, even when they weren't even in the same scene they did so.
- Grenadier has a few, though they might have been played up a bit more in the fansub. One notable one would be in Episode 5, where Kurenai Touka, the madam of a pleasure palace who is defending it against a gang of gun-toting bandits, says the following:
Touka: If you want to do it, you'll be going against me, boys. Any time, any place, as many times as you want... but if we are going to do it, don't flash me with that tiny thing. Come back with something a bit more impressive.
- Rushuna kind of locks it into a single entendre, but the guard's statement can be taken two ways.
- Also, she always talks about removing her enemies' armor. Especially her partner's, Yajiro's, armor, which, considering their apparrent attraction, can be taken two ways, If You Know What I Mean.
- An episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion had a particular attachment to the physics term thermal expansion. Asuka was explaining to Shinji what it meant. In a bathing suit. While leaning right over him. Later in the episode, while in the hot springs Shinji hears some rather suggestive dialogue coming from the girls' side and while looking down mentions thermal expansion. To this day, this troper cannot hear that term without giggling.
- School Rumble: Eri asks Tenma if she's ever seen a man's body. Of course, Tenma being a Cloudcuckoolander and Eri not being specific results in some confusion. (Tenma later thinks they were talking about wrestling, and she replies with "yes" cries to "taking it in the mouth" and such.) Teehee. Also in the series, Mikoto is thinking of a plan to get her and Imadori back to the shore, and thinks of several plans, including Plan D, which involves using Imadori as a boat. She asks Imadori what plan he'll take, and he takes D gladly. Mikoto is at first surprised by this because it's the most dangerous, but then it turns out that he was just guessing Mikoto's breast size.
- Revy in Black Lagoon gives us this:
Revy: I make it a rule never ** *** assholes. Or pussies.
- Lupin III has given us this as well such this example from Fujiko in the English dub of the 2nd TV series. (While she was going undercover and noticing the type of carpet in the room.)
Fujiko: I just love a good shag.
- In one chapter, Mahou Sensei Negima has Ayaka Yukihiro invite Negi to her "paradise in the south"... This Troper wonders whether it was really unintentional on her part, or if her "big sister complex" has more to it than what meets the eye.
- Negima as a whole has a lot of these.
- Yakitate!! Japan's Tsukino subverts this. When Ken convinces Suwabara not to commit seppuku by telling him that Monica was pregnant, Ken says "when a man and a woman are living in the same house alone, there is nothing for them to do except—" She completes the sentence saying "play cards, right, Manager?"
- Momoko from Shangri-la speaks almost entirely in double entendres.
- Predictably, it happens in Bleach, when Nnoitra asks Ulquiorra how far he's gotten in ""taming" Orihime. Ulquiorra was not amused.
- How about Yoruichi, who is known as the "Goddess of Flash"? Not to mention she can actually Flash Step out of her clothes...
- Macross7's Basara Nekki's name can be read as "Hot blooded" or "Hot air". This is halerious.
- The fact that it's told that several nations do share the same bed in the anime version of Axis Powers Hetalia is enough to hint at something more... but a rather clear example of it occurs during a rather memorable over-the-phone conversation between the brothers Italy and Germany... which turned out to simply be their hair getting tangled up.
Italia Veneziano: Germany! Germany! Save me! I'm on my bed now and my brother is— OWW!! IT'S STUCK! OWOWOWOWOWOW!!
Italia Romano: N-Not there!! Put down the phone, you idiot!!
Italia Veneziano: Take it out! TAKE IT OUT!!
Italia Romano: Put it down!! *click* *dial tone*
Germany: *long pause*... His brother is... Stuck... "Oww"... Take it out...
- Considering the hairs in question are called 'eroginous zones' outright in the manga? This scene takes on a whole new meaning.
- And we can't forget the time Prussia invaded Austria's vital regions, can we?
Comics
- Somewhat disturbing example: in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume 2, when Mina Murray learns that Hyde has taken care of the Invisible Man, he is quick to assure her that "I attended to his end. Rest assured, it was... comfortable." Being a proper Victorian lady, Mina takes comfort in this assurance of a painless death, not twigging for a second that this actually means that Hyde brutally sodomized the Invisible Man before beating him to death.
- In The Sandman, a caption describes devil-turned-nightclub-owner Lucifer playing a medley of unreleased (fictional) Cole Porter songs that Porter only performed privately for friends, ending with "She Never Went Down on the Titanic." (Someone really needs to write the lyrics to that.)
- Though almost certainly unintentional, rereading some old comics can have readers in gales of uncontrollable laughter, due to the slang of the day.
- A storyline in Cable and Deadpool involved Deadpool's friend Weasel joining HYDRA under the very inspired name Penetrator (or, rather, Penetraitor). Predictably, this caused some choice dialogue.
Henchman 1: It seems... I don't know... provocative.
Henchman 2: In almost a... gratuitous fashion.
Penetrator: What? We're going to use the Penetrator to penetrate the warm, comfortable walls of mother Earth! This machine will ram home our agenda! All will know HYDRA has thrust themselves into the very womb of civilization! What's gratuitous about that...?
- Later:
Wolverine: ... so I can show the Penetrator here something long and hard — and cold and sharp!
Penetrator: Okay, I deserve the silly entendre, since I chose this name, but I really think you don't understand—
- And again:
Deadpool: The Penetrator is my friend... Okay, wait, lemme try that again... Weasel is my friend — and he happens to be sheathed in a protective coating that allows him to safely penetrate things... Okay, wait, lemme try that again—
Wolverine: Shut up!
- Earlier during the run, when Deadpool attacked the Great Lakes Champions, he made fun of Mr. Immortal for owning the X-Men card set, Mr. Immortal replying they were only for flipping.
Deadpool: Yeah, I'd like to flip Kitty Pryde.
Squirrel Girl: Shut your evil, evil pie hole!
- Not to mention Cable and Deadpool's "Bodyslide by two".
- "My name is Wilson. Wade Wilson. I'm a dick."
- A conversation during Deadpool's fight against Taskmaster:
Deadpool: Scared the pants out of me... Well, not literarly, 'cause then you'd be all distracted by my two bazookas. You know — on account of I got one real bazooka — and the other bazooka would be a metaphor for—
Taskmaster: Shut up! I get it. You think it was deep or something? Like your humour requires footnotes?
- Also, while fighting Rhino:
Deadpool: Me am horny. Okay, that was too obvious even for me.
- "Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres" is a strip in Viz in which the title character laughs at various Double Entendre-sounding phrases exchanged between his mother and his neighbour. It always culminates in him realising it's all perfectly innocent, only for the last Double Entendre to actually have the sexual meaning and the strip to end with his mother and the neighbour shagging.
- From Supergirl 4th series, #77.
Kara Zor-El: I'm looking through it. It's amazing. All the equipment I'm seeing. So many sizes and shapes...
Linda Danvers: All the ...? Kara! Just where are you looking?!
Kara: The equipment room, where they keep all the sporting stuff, why?
Linda: Oh, I thought you were peeping in at the guy's lock— Forget it. My own dirty mind.
- Shockingly enough, a fairly G-rated newspaper comic Pickles got a double entendre through once; the wife is tired of waiting for her husband to unclog the sink and the husband replies he'll get to it in a "sec". The wife grows furious and states "I spent half of my time waiting for secs! I don't want to hear any more about secs!" Her husband is then laughing very hard for obvious reasons and the wife is clueless as to why he is laughing. While her use of "secs" was something totally innocent, the husband saw that in an obviously different light.
- Ditto for Moon Mullins, in which Emmy Schmaltz keeps trying to get young Kayo to turn off the TV and get to work on his homework. Kayo (repeatedly): "Just a sec, Emmy!" — which results in an exasperated: "No, Kayo! No more 'secs!'" — much to the surprise of Lord Plushbottom (speaking of double entendres) in the next room.
- This was, to This Troper's chagrin, a mistake she made while speaking to her male fifth grade teacher. She immediately recognized it and was naturally very, very embarrassed.
- In Batman, this exchange takes place between Batman and Catwoman (it really does make sense in context).
Catwoman: Well? Or do I have to purr in your ear?
Batman: No... but maybe later you could scratch my back.
Catwoman: What's the matter? No itches in the front?
- The newspaper comic Cathy once featured the line than an off panel character was "in the restroom, giving the copier repairman a swirlie." The artist, Cathy Guisewite, was stunned that many readers thought that was a reference to oral sex, because she had always heard a "swirlie" was dunking someone's head in a toilet and flushing.
- In a JLA Classified storyline where the Supervillain Blackguard is moving in next door. His real name is Richard Hurtz. But he prefers to be called Dick.
Fan Works
Films
- In Get Smart, The Chief mentions that they need to employ a new agent, unknown of KAOS who's acquired a list of all CONTROL agents and is eliminating them.
Larabee: Let me out there, sir, I have no problem exposing myself.
Agent 99: Do you ever think before you speak?
Larabee: No, I just whip it out there. Seems to work best.
- Groucho Marx: Animal Crackers gives him the line "We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed." and has him present Margaret Dumont with a large wooden box. While describing it as "a magnificent chest", he accidentally points at her torso.
- Lampshaded in the film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: when talking to Harry, Hermione says Viktor Krum doesn't talk much, as he's "more of a physical being". There is a pause, and she laughs, saying that she didn't mean it that way.
- The look on Daniel Radcliffe's face when she says it is priceless!
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A The female cop in Hot Fuzz speaks almost entirely in these, quite intentionally.
- Shrek's line "Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?", upon seeing Lord Faarquad's towering castle, could both be interpreted as Faarquad compensating for his height or... something else. Of course, "Lord Faarquad" itself sounds like something else entirely...
- Well, Faarquad's face was modeled after then-CEO Michael Eisner, and his name sounds a lot like a popular nickname that Disney employees had for Eisner at the time... So Yeah.
- In the proud and dirty tradition of British comedy, Wallace And Gromit has some well-hidden but very deliberate double entendres. In Curse of the Wererabbit, the object of Wallace's affections steps behind two very large watermelons and sighs as she bemoans, "Victor just doesn't appreciate my produce." In another scene, Wallace finds himself suddenly naked, and quickly dons a cardboard box which reads "May Contain Nuts."
- Three words: Bond. James Bond.
- The song "Keep it Gay" from the musical remake of The Producers. Sung by the flamboyant director Roger De Bris and his equally flamboyant partner, who never explicitly mention homosexuality in the lyrics.
- The song "Let's Duet" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story turns several innocuous lines into double entendres by virtue of well-(or poorly-)timed pauses. Such as: "In my dreams, you're blowing me... some kisses." and "I just want to beat off... all my demons."
- Christopher Walken uses his trademarked delivery to create one of these in Antz: "She's about yay tall, fairly easy... on the eyes", describing the missing princess.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "She's rich, she's beautiful, she's got huuuuge... tracts of land."
- Let's not forget that while he's discussing the size of said tracts, he's making a lifting and grabbing motion with his hands, which are situated in front of his chest...
- Kate and Leopold: the man announcing the Brooklyn bridge; "And in the future I believe men will be judged by the size of their erections!"
- Pretty much the hook on which all the jokes in the Carry On! movies hang.
- As parodied in this That Mitchell And Webb Look sketch, in which a doctor working at a typical 'bawdy 1970s hospital' has a bit of trouble grasping the nature of Double Entendre, with unfortunate results ("Shall I rub them against my cock?").
- Doubling as a Parental Bonus, in Ratatouille, Linguini talks to Colette about his "Little Chef". While kids see it as Linguini trying to tell her about Remy (who Linguini calls Little Chef), adults can see an entirely different meaning in his words...
- Completely unintentional: Star Wars.
- "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid."
- "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"
- "I have... felt him, my master." (It gets worse. The Emperor's line in reply? "Strange that I have not.")
- "Luke, at that speed, will you be able to pull out in time?"
- "Lost Tiree, lost Dutch. They came... from... behind!"
- "Get in there, ya big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!"
- "Look at the size of that thing!"
- "Negative, negative... it didn't go in. Just impacted the surface."
- "Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash."
- "Put that thing away! You're gonna get us all killed!"
- "Size matters not! Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
- "Impressive! Most impressive!"
- "You're not gonna like this, kid, but it'll keep you warm till I can get the shelter up."
- "I thought they smelled bad on the outside."
- "Your thoughts dwell on your mother."
- "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
- "I can't. It's too big."
- "Back door, huh?"
- "My hands are dirty too, what are you afraid of?"
- Down Periscope has a series when introducing the lone female character:
Lt. Cmdr Dodge: Men, at ease. I'd like to introduce you to the newest member of our crew, Lt. Emily Lake. Emily is part of a pilot program to test the feasibility of women serving on submarines. She's going to be our diving officer.
Stepanek: Can she do a one-and-a-half inward back in the layout position?
Lt. Cmdr Dodge: All right, look, gentlemen! I know this is an unusual situation. Can't be easy for Lt. Lake here to be thrown into a jungle such as this, and I know it will make things hard on all of us...
Let me re-phrase that. It's going to make things difficult on all of us as well. But if we just work together as a team, I'm sure we can handle ourselves... Comport ourselves as professionals. That is all.
- The full designation of EDI, the AI controlling the UCAV in the film Stealth, stands for Extreme Deep Invader.
- Hairspray has a very neat little Triple Entendre. Corny Collins, amid a mist of hairspray, declares to one of the female dancers, "Looks like you need a stiff one!"
- Brush up on your classics, people: The classic noir To Have and Have Not has Lauren Bacall intone to Humphrey Bogart, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
- The film noir parody/homage Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid one-ups this somewhat, when Rachel Ward tells Steve Martin, "You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles."
- In Event Horizon, after everyone wakes up from cryo sleep, there's a hilarious scene where one of the crew (who's black) says to another, "You want something hot and black inside you?" She gives him the finger, and he goes, "Well, how about some coffee then?" and gives her the coffee.
- In To Catch a Thief, the dialogue between John (Cary Grant) and Francie (Grace Kelly) has many:
Francie: (sharing a chicken meal) Do you want a leg or a breast?
John: You make the choice.
(...)
Francie: (before watching the fireworks) I have a feeling that tonight, you're going to see one of the Riviera's most fascinating sights... I was talking about the fireworks.
John: I never doubted it.
- In Hard to Kill, the nurse asks a comatose Steven Segal if he wanted some pussy, then shows him a kitten.
- In the Josie and the Pussycats film, Melody causes a car crash when she holds up a promotional sign that read "Honk if you love pussycats". The "cats" part was concealed by a bush.
- Hehe, I think you just knocked one off yourself. Concealed by a bush indeed.
- In The Ladies Man, Leon Phelps can't resist making innuendo when a nun he was interviewing starts talking about her "missionary position" in Africa.
- When Scorpio meets Dirty Harry for the first time, he comments on how big Harry's gun was.
- In Double Indemnity, Walter and Phyllis start exchanging these the moment Phyllis appears at the top of the staircase wearing nothing but a towel.
Neff: The insurance ran out on the fifteenth. I'd hate to think of your getting a smashed fender or something while you're not — uh — fully covered.
- Mr and Mrs Smith are a little ambiguous about just how many:
Mr. Smith: I don't exactly keep count, but I would say... high fifties, low sixties. I've been around the block, but you know the important thing is— Mrs. Smith: Three hundred and twelve. Mr. Smith: Three hundred and twelve? How? Mrs. Smith: Some were two at a time.
- For those not in the know: they were discussing how many people they'd killed, not slept with. To be honest, the second meaning never entered my mind before reading this page.
- Now this troper feels dirty...The FIRST meaning never entered my mind before reading this page.
- Even Disney did this (albeit unintentionally) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when Laverne incorrectly overheard Quasimodo and Esmeralda on top of the bell tower. "Frollo's nose is long, and he wears a truss." According to the directors' commentary, even though this wasn't the effect they were going for, kids often misheard "truss" as "dress." So the kids laughed at the idea of Frollo wearing a dress, and the adults laughed at the idea of Frollo wearing a truss.
- Captain, I want you to watch this woman closely (with an eager smile on his face Yes sir!
- I was just thinking about putting a rope around that pretty neck of yours
- The Bard uses a string of these in Shakespeare In Love when describing his writer's block, claiming at one point that that "the proud tower of my genius has collapsed" and that coming up with ideas is like "trying to pick a lock with a wet herring." And yet he's surprised when his psychiatrist asks if he's been "humbled in the act of love"...
- "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Shaft!"
- The "poetry reading" scene in the elephant in Moulin Rouge.
"He's got a huge... talent!"
Literature
- Nanny Ogg from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett enjoys using these, although according to Carpe Jugulum, hers are usually "single entendres, and proud of it". Then there's this gem:
Nanny Ogg: 'S called the Vieux River. Granny Weatherwax: Yes? Nanny Ogg: Know what that means? Granny Weatherwax: No. Nanny Ogg: The Old (Masculine) River. Granny Weatherwax: Yes? Nanny Ogg: (hopefully) Words have sex in foreign parts."
- Nanny is so fond of these that it's a sign that things are really serious when she doesn't use them.
- And let's not forget the Watch bar The Bucket, which serves the Long Slow Double Entendre. The answer to all those drink names...
- There's also a non-sexual double meaning in The Fifth Elephant, when Sybil is musing on Vimes' berserk rage: "There'd been the case with that little girl and those men over in Dolly Sisters, and when they broke in he'd found that one of them had stolen one of her shoes, and she'd heard Detritus say that if he hadn't been there only Sam would have walked out of the room alive." Vimes insists that he's never deliberately killed anyone, so probably the obvious meaning is the true one here, but one can imagine that Sybil is pretty damn worried over the phrasing.
- Speaking of The Fifth Elephant, there's also a subplot concerning an industrialist who gets murdered in his own condom factory. There's as much Double Entendre as you'd expect; enough, indeed, that the word "condom" isn't mentioned once and doesn't need to be.
- That's because in Discworld the handy little thing has been named after its inventor as sonky. One of those Inherently Funny Words.
- In The Truth, Vimes tells newspaper editor William de Worde that it looks as though the President of the Guild of Shoemakers and Leatherworkers will be the next Patrician, and names the man and gives the address of his shop. The guy doesn't sell shoes, but what he does sell comes under the heading of leatherwork, and there isn't a Guild of Makers of Little Jiggly Things for him to belong to instead.
- Thursday Next villains have these in their names (Jack Schitt even gets lampshaded). As does Daphne Farquitt.
- One Robert Rankin novel featured a woman who communicated entirely in Double Entendre, culminating in "that would be the *** ***", referring to the job of blowing into a clogged nozzle to clear the blockage.
- She appears later during a town meeting. When the mayor asks if the meeting is really expected to swallow the Zany Scheme cooked up by the leads, she announces she'll "swallow it with pleasure." Pooley thinks, "Here we go again. Carry On Up The Council Chamber."
- Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher novels have a song that goes, "My man Tom has a thing that is long" to which the response is "My maid Mary has a thing that is hairy" and it goes on about how Tom is going to put his thing that is long in Mary's thing that is hairy... and it's a broom handle and a broom head.
- The song in question is real, and is attributed on this album to Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521).
- Harry Potter fans have found dozens of unintentional (and some intentional) innuendos:
"What d'you mean, I'm not brave in bed?" said Harry, completely nonplussed.
There was a groan of bedsprings, and Harry's mattress descended a few inches as George sat down near his feet. "So, got there yet?" said George eagerly.
"He's having a go at my mother!" Seamus yelled.
"I thought not," said Snape, watching him closely. "You let me get in too far. You lost control."
"Manners, Potter," said Snape dangerously. "Now, I want you to close your eyes." Harry threw him a filthy look before doing as he was told. He did not like the idea of standing there with his eyes shut while Snape faced him, carrying a wand.
He was on all fours again on Snape's office floor.
"Well, we'll soon find out, won't we?" said Snape smoothly. "Wand out, Potter."
Harry moved into his usual position...
He came quickly, as if a white flag had come out of his wand.
"She tasted disgusting, worse than Gurdyroots! Okay, Ron, come here so I can do you."
- After Hermione kisses Ron during the Battle of Hogwarts, ending a big WillTheyOrWontThey, Harry asks if they "could just—just hold it in" until they can find the diadem. He's talking mostly to Ron.
- Pride and Prejudice contains this gem: "Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give. The moment of her release from him was exstacy."
- Son Of The Beach, the title of which is a double entendre itself, is full of these, usually missed by the speaker, but noticed the character Kimberlee.
- Daisy Miller is full of these, such as Daisy constantly remarking how "stiff" Winterbourne is in her presence, and Winterbourne's acquaintances using "studying at Geneva" as a code for soemthing else entirely...
Live Action TV
- Are You Being Served featured repeated jokes about Mrs. Slocombe's pussy (cat). The show in fact included an overwhelming number of double entendres, including a mild one right in the title.
- Arrested Development
- Pee Wees Playhouse, which was ostensibly a children's show, thrived on subtle double entendres.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer featured a number of double entendres based around Kendra's pet name for her favorite stake, "Mr. Pointy".
- Also when Buffy talks to her Mother about Angel's true nature.
Buffy: He was my first! (Joyce is shocked) My Only!
- For a non-sexual example, in the final episode, Buffy has just ripped a man in half using an axe. When her ex boyfriend asks what happened to the man, she tells him that he had to split. This is followed by Buffy laughing.
- Threes Company enjoyed a healthy dose.
- Almost every television series starring Rik Mayall (The Young Ones) featured a number of double entendres every episode; in fact, the original intent of calling one series Bottom was to force double entendre on the viewers: "I saw that 'Bottom' on telly the other night — no, wait, that's not what I meant." The original title of the show, "Your Bottom", made the double entendre even worse: "I saw Your Bottom on TV yesterday."
- There a bit of this within-show, as well:"Now can we just get our equipment out? I mean, get our tackle out... no, I mean, get our GEAR out! Oh my God, you can't say anything without some dreadful double entendre lurking round the corner!"
- Gleefully played with in one Bottom live show where characters, actors and audience all know of the (barely) double meanings. "For hours we clung to your sturdy organ as we were tossed about in the foamy... brine!"
- Surprisingly, The New Statesman, for a Mayall series, is relatively free of double entendres, except for the lead character's name, Alan B'Stard. Maybe the rule regarding Mayall should be that he double-entendres himself to death in any role written by either himself or Ben Elton. His double-entendres as the various Lord Flashhearts on Black Adder are barely single entendres, and are the exemplars of this trope. 'Send a car. General Melchett's driver should do. She's used to hanging around with the big nobs so will be fine with a chap like me. Woof!'
- Doctor Who, "The Doctor Dances": Dancing is used as a euphemism for sex, showing off the Doctor's problems with intimacy and Captain Jack's flexibility, among other things. In a rare visual double entendre, the Doctor literally slips Jack a banana. This is reused in "The Girl in the Fireplace", when Reinette asks the Doctor to dance with her. Notably, this episode also features the Doctor utilizing a banana. (He visits a really wild party, gets very drunk and may have invented the banana daiquiri. Except that he doesn't.)
- Benny Hill built a career out of them.
- A particularly transparent example from Friends involved a discussion between Chandler and a coworker about the inclusion of information from the "Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistics" in the "Annual Net Usage Statistics" — that is, the insertion of the WENUS into the ANUS.
- Another example from Friends when Monica is asked that why she sold her stock:
Monica: Ya know, my motto is get out before they go down. Joey: This is so not my motto.
- Joey apparently has a talent to make anything sound like innuendo like "Gramma's chicken salad".
- CSI has these from time to time. For example, Sara saying, out of the blue "I've got crabs.", with Gil looking at her funny, then she points at a piece of evidence she's examining, which has... crabs. (That was one of the ickiest episodes of all of CSI, which is famous for its levels of squick. Also one of the few with no B or C Corpses.)
- In Scrubs, a character named Todd turns nearly everything said to him (or near him) into a double entendre. ("I'd like to double her entendre!")
Patient: Doctor, I'm getting a little tired of the sexual innuendo.
Todd: In-your-endo.
- This is nearly the Todd's raison d'ętre. In at least one episode he mentions that he actually seeks out these opportunities, commenting, "People think I just luck into these situations, but it's really a lot of hard work. You know what else is hard?"
- Spin City would occasionally spend an entire episode leading up to an extended double entendre. For example, in this one, Carter is making a speech on prostitutes; unfortunately, Mike told him it was about libraries...
Carter: You walk past them every day, and you never even notice them. I say use them. Take advantage of them.
Reporter: Uh, Mr. Heywood, are you saying you've... used one?
Carter: Why yes, I was in one just this morning. In fact, I was having such a good time I found it hard to keep quiet.
- Used completely unexpectedly in Brainiac, in an experiment to see which hat would hold up to the most punishment. After describing the hard hat, Vic Reeves turns to the camera and says, with a perfect poker-face, "If you've ever had a hard on, you'll know it can be rock solid."
- The "Professor Mayang Lee" segments are full of it. Let's just say that she is rather large in a certain area and it involves fruit.
- Also the "How hard is your thing?" segment. PLUS, as a bonus, on one of the 'NASA didn't try...' segments (the car one), at the end Vic states that Braniac will be responsible for, and I quote "The first pilot of a rocket car to blast off on Uranus."
- Many questions on Match Game use this trope.
- In one Beakmans World segment explaining rotational inertia, Beakman breaks out the Beakman Rotational Aerodynamic Thingies. Commence thingy-twirling jokes, and compound that with the fact that the girl wins...
- A Monty Python sketch sees a Dirty Old Man go into a newsagents and interpret all of the adverts on the noticeboard as being adverts for prostitutes, eventually leading him to some truly ludicrous double entendres when he tries to get further details from the newsagent. ("I'd like a bit of pram, please!") Eventually, in frustration he demands the actual prostitute's advert, which is written in a fashion bluntly describing what is on offer (Sexy blonde prostitute, will perform all acts...) — and doesn't understand a word of it.
- Monty Python again, with the Wink Wink Nudge Nudge guy, who turns literally everything said to him into a double entendre, no matter how forced it is, and then tries to force a double entendre into everything he says. In the end, the character admits it's because he's never had sex and wonders what that's like.
- The British children's TV show Rainbow: Holyshit. No, the episode was never broadcast, it was just a joke among the staff.
- Mystery Science Theatre 3000 explored this trope when the 'bots asked Joel why the actors in the movies were talking the way they were. Joel explained that by controlling the inflection of your voice you can make anything sound sexual. He went on to demonstrate with such phrases as "The Factory is still open, but they are making different stuff" or "Yep, My shoes are a little tight."
- She came back from the store with a bag of apples... and a loaf of bread!
- The entire premise of Jack Of All Trades appears to be to string together as many puns and double entendres as possible.
- Firefly includes some amusing examples. In the episode "War Stories," Jayne watches Inara kissing a female client — and right after he proclaims he's going to his bunk, Zoe orders him to "grab your weapon" for a potentially dangerous mission.
- From Our Mrs. Reynolds: "Jayne. Go play with your rain stick."
- Seinfeld had almost a ton of these. The contest episode in particular.
- Saturday Night Live (which has been packed with innuendo since 1975) has this in early Celebrity Jeopardy sketches, in which Sean Connery would turn the categories into these. For example...
Connery: I'll take the Penis Mightier for 400. Trebek: That's " The Pen Is Mightier". (...) Connery: I'll take Jap-Anus relations. Trebek: That's "Japan-US Relations". (...) Connery: I'll take The Rapists. Trebek: That's "Therapists". (...) Connery: I'll take Catch the Semen. Trebek: That's "Catch These Men".
- And then there's the "Delicious Dish" sketch in which Alec Baldwin's character, baker Pete Schweddy, introduces his dessert, "Schweddy Balls". Rapidly becomes an Overly Long Gag (not to mention an obvious one), although this troper enjoys it due to Schweddy's, and the hosts', perfectly deadpan delivery throughout while saying such lines as, "Wow. I can't wait to get my mouth around his Balls," and "Do whatever you want to, ladies. My Balls are here for your pleasure."
- Also a series of parody campaign ads in which Pat Finger runs for city council of Butts, New York. ("In 1869, my great-grandfather, E. T. Finger fell in love with Butts and, well, there's been a whole mess of Fingers in Butts ever since.")
- Robert De Niro played a CIA spokesman who read lists of suspected terrorists - "most of the calls have come from high school and college students nationwide". They include Hous Bin Pharteen ("a silent, but deadly killer"), I-Zheet M'Drurz ("when he was fleeing the scene of his last attack, he left skidmarks") and Apul Madeek ("who we believe will be targeting adult bookstores sometime in the near future")
- In The Office (UK version) Tim and Dawn amuse themselves with a perfectly innocent conversation about armed combat with Gareth.
Tim: If a military man like you, a soldier, er, could you give a man a lethal blow?
Gareth: If I was forced to, I could. If it was absolutely necessary, if he was attacking me.
Tim: If he was coming, really hard?
Gareth: Yeah, if my life was in danger, yeah.
Tim: And do you imagine always doing it face to face with a bloke, or could you take a man from behind?
Gareth: Either way's easy.
Tim: So you could take a man from behind?
Gareth: Yeah.
Tim: Lovely.
- The Thin Blue Line had what has to be one of the most egregious when Grim urges Fowler not to make any mistakes: "'cause you know what'll happen Raymond, don't you? It'll be your cock-up, my arse!"
- The series as a whole seems rather fond of this joke. Compare; "It's my arse on the line here, and I don't want a cock-up!", and "I'll show them when Grim of Gasforth puts his arse on the line, they can't just stick two fingers up!"
- It happens almost Once Per Episode. The different variations on the same theme are actually quite inventive. Possibly it counts as a Running Gag.
- As with the movie examples above, Groucho Marx was known for his quick wit in his talk show, You Bet Your Life. One interview with a woman with many children led him to ask why she had so many. She replied that she loved her husband. His reply: "Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!" Apparently everyone in the studio was in hysterics for some time.
- Doesn't that qualify as a triple entendre?
- I'd insert all the double entendres from Veronica Mars in here, but fun as it is I don't want to be doing this all day, and frankly it could be too long for the page to handle.
- The narrator and sometimes even the crew of Mythbusters seems rather fond of double entendres. This troper recalls "It's time to play hide the sausage" from the Salami Rocket myth as one of many examples.
- The less said about Adam riding the giant chicken cannon, the better.
- Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs is fond of these as well.
- Heck, even the title of the series itself can be a Double Entendre.
- Discovery Networks actually collected a bunch of them into a video here.
- Babylon 5 is not averse to these.
Garibaldi: (faced with a pack of Drazi missionaries, early in the third season) Zack, do me a favour and explain the missionary, ah, position to these folk.
- Tyrone F. Horneigh, the recurring Dirty Old Man character in Rowan And Martins Laugh-In.
Horneigh: Say, do you believe in the hereafter?
Woman: Yeah.
Horneigh: Well, now you know what I'm here after.
- Half the jokes in On The Buses revolve around Jack and Stan cracking double entendres.
- An entire episode of the Canadian comedy Corner Gas is based around the male characters all trying to buy better cell-phones than each other. The following dialogue occurs between one of said men and an unsuspecting local.
"Goddamit! I'm sure of it now."
"What?"
"His is smaller than mine! We were in the bathroom and he had it out and — not that I was looking or anything. Just noticed it out of the corner of my eye sort of thing."
"Okay..."
"But it's not really the size that matters is it? And mine's not big either. It's just bigger than his. You've seen mine haven't you? Here, I'll get it out."
"I gotta go."
- Not to mention the episode involving Davis, the Cosmo-reading somewhat Ambiguously Gay police officer, being locked in a jail cell with Hank, the village idiot. Davis ends up escaping, which leads to this exchange between Karen (Davis' partner) and Hank:
Karen: Davis is out?
Hank: Well, that's not for me to say, really...
- Rules of Engagement features more than a few, usually delivered by Russell. However, one of the funniest episodes features a woman who speaks in nothing but double entendres, seemingly without realising what she is doing, and this drives Russell nuts. Her best effort occurs when she is talking about the new nightclub she is starting:
"You guys should totally check out my opening. It takes a while for things to warm up down there, so try not to come too early."
- Doctor Gregory House is also fond of double entendres, though in season 4's "Whatever it Takes" he fails, saying: "You know, I happen to have a position available on my penis... Wait a second, I think I screwed up that joke."
- An example played straight in season 4 from "Don't Ever Change": House asks Thirteen, "You do it both ways, right?" Earlier in the episode she is revealed to be bisexual. House claims he was referring to two ways of doing an ultrasound.
- It also qualifies as an instance of Getting Crap Past The Radar, but one episode of Supernatural (s2 ep6) features a female character sqeezing by Dean in a tight space between walls of an apartment complex. Dean mutters "Should've cleaned the pipes." When he is asked what that meant, he quickly shines a a flashlight over to the plumbing and stammers something out.
- This particular segment on the Colbert Report, about someone who was caught working in the nude.
- Bill Nye The Science Guy had one in an episode about Volcanoes. It showed a family of three sitting at a table, and the dad had made his mashed potatoes into a tall, semi-cone shaped blob. He then took a large spoonful of gravy and poured it onto the top and watched it drip down the sides. And then he talks to his wife while continuing to pour gravy on it:
Dad: Honey... What does this remind you of? (eyebrowquirk)
Mom: (smirk) Oh honey, you KNOW what that reminds me of.
Dad: C'mon honey, I wanna hear you say it. What does this remind you of?
Mom: Honey! It's embarrassing!
Dad: (stares)
Mom: Oh, alright... If you insist... (suddenly very serious) It reminds me of a Strata Cone Volcano, which builds up in the Earth's crust to make it BIG.... and STRONG... (sexy hissing)
Son: ... Dad?... May I please be excused from the table?
- My Boys had one. The protagonist's old friend visits her, bringing her Sex And The City look-a-like friends. The one that acts like Samantha speaks in so much innuendo that no one understands her.
- Power Rangers RPM. Ziggy has recently learned that Dr. K is a girl. Watch what happens:
Ziggy: I would have layed odds that you were a dude.
Dr K:... Sorry to disapoint you.
- Will and Grace is built on double entendre.
- The Brazillian show Casseta e Planeta: urgente was known to use a joke about a woodman that remove latex from wood. The joke was about him removing "milk" (the latex) from wood. Wood in portuguese means "pau", that is also an euphemism for cock. In context, it means he was having a handjob. It's was a little subverted because the woodman called the double entrede just moments before was said. It reached extreme levels when he interrupted a commercial about a satellite that could take pictures of all over the world (possibly the google earth) and complained about the overusing of the joke while LOOKING STRAIGHT to the satellite.
- NCIS had this exchange between Tony and Ziva whose whole relationship seem to based on. After a cat has run out the pet door and Tony jumps startled:
Ziva: Tony, I never knew you were afraid of a little pussy... cat.
- Deadliest Warrior has this bit of smack talk in the Viking vs Samurai episode when they were about to test the Viking Shield:
Viking Expert: That's the biggest piece of wood your samurai has ever seen.
- At least 70% of Chuck Bass's dialogue on Gossip Girl consists of this. Example:
Georgina: No thank you, the Lord cannot enter the body solely by alcohol.
Chuck: That's good, because I prefer to be the one doing the entering.
- When Richard Woolsey on Stargate Atlantis discovers that a new (gorgeous female) team member is standing in the area of the city he uses to reflect on his thoughts:
Woolsey: You poached my private spot!... Uh, what I meant to say is: you discovered my little personal area... Uh, this is where I come to be alone with my thoughts.
Conrad: Do you mind sharing it?
Woolsey: Not at all.
- Made even worse when you find out he actually is talking to himself.
- Two And A Half Men is also fond of using this, sometimes excessively, which shows in this example of Charlie talking to Herb in the garden.
Charlie: You know, Herb, that is a fine, fine hat.
Herb: Gotta wear it. Otherwise I freckle like a banana.
Charlie: Well... I wouldn't want your banana to get freckled.
Alan: Let's go, Charlie.
Charlie: Hang on! Hang on. We're having a real interesting conversation here. Hey Herb, tell Alan what you told me about how you plant seeds.
Herb: Well, first I make sure the soil is moist.
Charlie: Uh-huh. And tell him how you do that.
Herb: Well, I just stick my finger in the old Mother Earth. If it comes up dry, I just whip out my hose and give it a good spritz.
Charlie: And then?
Herb: And then I carefully plant the seed in the soil.
Charlie: Carefully? Why carefully?
Herb: Because if you just fling that stuff around, half of it's wasted!
Charlie: You hear that, Alan? If you fling your seed around it gets wasted.
Alan: Fascinating. Let's just go.
Charlie: Now hold on, hold on... How do you feel about bushes, Herb?
Herb: Well, I like a full bush. The way God intended.
Charlie: I like 'em trimmed. What about you, Alan?
Alan: We're going! Bye Herb.
- Nice one (possibly unintentional, but who can tell?) from kid's show The Hoobs in the episode "Ba-Boom". When Iver finds out that that noise in his chest is actually his heart, the Hoobs all listen to each other's heartbeats. Groove sticks his 'ear' next to (female Hoob) Tula's chest and exclaims "Great ba-booms, Tula!"
- Done in Top Gear in the form of Innocent Innuendo (after seguing from a discussion about car firms putting their badges on any old merchandise)
Hammond: It does work, this sort of branding. This wizard's sleeve for instance. (holds up a literal sleeve from a wizard costume with a Ferrari logo on it)
May: This pork sword... (holds up a fencing foil with a load of sausages speared on it)
Clarkson: This cock... (holds up a stuffed chicken with an Audi logo on it)
Hammond: Has it got four rings on it?
Clarkson: Yes it has! Put this cock in your wizard's sleeve.
- Cloud Cuckoolander Dave from Titus thinks he hears these often. Or can make the audience make them. Papa Titus frequently makes them as well.
Titus: Dad, you're not in love with her. It's a heart attack rebound thing. It's the angina talking!
Dave: It TALKS?!
Music
- The AC/DC song "Big Balls" is one unbroken double entendre — as evidenced by the song's name.
- Let's face it: Everything those guys have recorded since their first album has been some flavor of thinly veiled, squick-ily obvious sexual reference,
- Bull Moose Jackson's "Big Ten Inch Record" (famously covered by Aerosmith) uses verse breaks to create double entendres:
But I really get her going
When I whip out my big 10 inch
...
record of a band that plays the blues...
- Aerosmith's song "Love in an Elevator".
Goooooooing Doooooown!
- Look closely at the name of the album "Night in the Ruts".
- Not to mention Big Ten Inch... Record
- "Things I'll Never Say" by Avril Lavigne kinda plays on this too:
If I could say what I want to say
I'd say I want to blow you—away
and...
If I could say what I want to see
I want to see you go down—on one knee
- The Queen song "Don't Stop Me Now" is just one big Double Entendre from start to finish.
I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go, go, go, there's no stopping me!
- Similar to the Dewey Cox example, Bob and Tom have a song that goes "blow me... a kiss as you're leaving".
- "Wanna B Ur Lovr" by Weird Al is made entirely of these, with a few just out there compliments thrown in. (Yugoslavian hands?)
- Just look at the lyrics to "Today's Lesson" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
- Songwriter Cole Porter was a master of the Double Entendre (as alluded to in one example above). His songs "Love For Sale" and "But In The Morning, No" were once banned from radio because of their heavy use of Double Entendre.
- Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive."
- The entire song "Polka Dot Undies" by Bowser and Blue.
And you probably already think I am full of
Vague innuendos and double-meanin' rhymes.
But I'll tell you that obscenity is all in your
Polka-dot undies!
- It might be intentional in the Isley Brother's song "Between the Sheet" besides the "I like the way you receive me" and "I love the way you relieve me" lines which you can only take that one way, several times he says
I'm coming... coming on strong
In between the sheets
- Those of us with more esoteric taste in music will know that many, many '20s and '30s blues songs contain double entendres, such as Blind Boy Fuller's "Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon", The Memphis Jug Band's "Memphis Yo Yo Blues", Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Black Snake Moan", and my personal favorite, Bessie Smith's "I Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl".
- Maroon 5's "This Love" had a double entendre buried so deep that it took the word's omission when the song was played on MTV for this troper to catch the sexual meaning.
- Was it "I tried my best to feed her appetite/Keep her coming every night/So hard to keep her satisfied" or " My pressure on her hips/Sinking my fingertips/Into every inch of you/ because I know its what you want me to do"?
- Jimmy Buffett has admitted that he specifically wrote his song "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw", which is about, well, getting drunk and screwing, because he was sick and tired of hearing double entendres in other people's songs.
- Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom".
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about a bum case, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom, drives me out of my mind
How can I leave this behind?
- Tim Cavanagh's novelty country ballad, "I Wanna Kiss Her".
I wanna kiss her but... she won't let me
I wanna whisper sweet nothings in herrrrr... ear
I wanna hold her behind... closed doors and more
- "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" by the Bloodhound Gang is made up entirely of double entendres, and ends with the line "put the you know what in the you know where". The video for the song is also ripe with Visual Innuendo. One of the images shown is Bam Margera driving a giant banana-shaped car into a tunnel.
- Heck, nearly all of their songs contain double entendres, seeing as nearly all of them are about sex. Other prominent examples are "Fire Water Burn" and "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss".
- The song and music video "Gay Bar" by Electric Six is rife with both this and Visual Innuendo.
- Half there songs are either blatently about sex ("I wanna make it last forever" said twelve times, getting higher and higher, before ending with "Ooh baby"), or more subtle innuendo. Broken Machine includes the lyrics:
It doesn't do anything, it just sits there, and looks at me.
- A certain song by Lords of Acid (whose title This Troper respectfully declines to quote) leaves it entirely up to the listener to decide whether they're singing about a cat or the female anatomy.
- Jason Mraz's "Geek in the Pink" has more than a few, the most prominent being:
I can save you from
Unoriginal dum-dums
Who wouldn't care if you come... plete them or not!
- Would you believe, Justin Timberlake's already explicit "Dick in a Box"? Aaaaaand... THERE. You just got it.
- Alice Cooper, among other songs, had I'm Your Gun. Even though you probably know what's coming, a brief example:
You be the target on the bed
I'll be shootin' hot lead
- Richard & Linda Thompson's song "Hokey Pokey" is ostensibly about ice cream, but features enough references to 'putting it your mouth' to make its meaning clear.
- Melanie's "Brand New Key".
- '40s novelty singer Benny Bell, in addition to his famous subverted-rhyme hit "Shaving Cream", composed ditties with such piquant titles as "My Grandpa Had a Long One", "Everybody Wants My Fanny", and "I'm Gonna Give My Girl a Goose for Thanksgiving".
- The Beatles had several: "Please Please Me", "Drive My Car", "Norwegian Wood", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun".
- The original title was "Happiness is a Warm Gun in your Hand".
- Also from The Beatles: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Peter, Paul & Mary's "Puff the Magic Dragon".
- "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry.
- 2pac's "Me & My Girlfriend".
- Poe's "Angry Johnny". Could be about homicide. Could be about something else:
I can do it on water, I can do it on dry land
I can do it with instruments, I can do it with my own two hands
But either way, either way you'll know where it stands
I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna blow you... away
- The last line of Tenacious D's "Wonderboy" goes "There, that crevasse; fill it with your mighty juice." Hmm, wonder what that might be...
- 50s song "Laundromat Blues" by 5 Royales:
Throw in all your dirty clothes, all your dirty duds
Don't worry about no soap, her machine is full of suds
She's got the best machine
The best washing machine in town (ooh-wee what a machine!)
Just relax and take it easy
As the machine goes round and round
- Lady Gaga has several, but probably the most obvious one is Love Game:
Let's have some fun, this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
- Britney Spears has a song called If You Seek Amy, which, if annunciated, gives a very interesting suggestion
- Long before that song was ever out, April Wine had "If You See Kay"
- "Ego" by Kanye West and Beyonce. Three guesses what his ego is.
I got a big ego, (hahaha)
I’m such a big ego, (hahaha)
I got a big, (hahaha), Ego,
She love my big, (hahaha), Ego,
So stroke my big, (hahaha), Ego
- XTC's "Pink Thing". According to its writer, Andy Partridge, it was written to express his love and pride for his newborn son. But the lyrics could just as easily be interpreted as a man's ode to his penis.
- Paul and Storm's "The Captain's Wife's Lament", about the complaints of a sea captain's wife after he lets his entire crew stay in their home.
She said there’s
Seamen all around the bed
And seamen on the floor
Seamen in the bathroom
And behind the closet door
- Steven Curtis Chapman's song "Remembering You", written about Narnia but could also be about Jesus
News
- When Swiss
soccer football team Young Boys Bern hosted an extravagant homecoming party to celebrate the opening of their new stadium, the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf ("Wankdorf" being the name of a suburb of Bern), the resulting ESPN Soccernet headline read Young Boys Wankdorf erection relief. In all fairness, wanking off would be a good way of relieving oneself of an unexpected and unwanted erection...but not for young boys, as their bodies would not yet have anything to come out and they'd just be making things more and more painful...Or So I Heard.
Radio
- Scoring girl Samantha from BBC Radio 4 show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue owns this Trope, having had it for almost 40 years...
- Clue's spin-off, You'll Have Had Your Tea, is another major offender.
- The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show has a rap song about William Shakespeare's characters and their need to practice safe sex: "Rap Your Willy!"
- A staple of Round The Horne. At one point, Horne and Williams break character so that Horne can express his concern that the audience may be seeing a second meaning in what they say; Williams replies "Second meaning? Them? They don't even see the first meaning — they just laugh at anything that might be dirty."
Theater
Video Games
- Devil May Cry 4: "First, I whip it out!..."
- And from Devil May Cry 3 before that, the Monster Clown calls the Temen-ni-Gru tower a "thick shaft that causes women to shudder".
- Devil May Cry 3 also has what could be seen as a visual double entendre: in the cutscene before the Nevan battle, there's a part where Dante grabs the hem of his pants (which apparently confused people who'd played God Of War) and then whips out Rebellion. Note that Rebellion is a sword. Hmm...
- Kyrie's "She yearns for your touch!" line to Nero in Devil May Cry 4, considering how sweet and chaste she comes off.
- The Ace Attorney games feature their share of Double Entendres. In case 3 of Justice for All, a heavy bust of defendant Maximillion Galactica is used as a piece of evidence, which leads to Phoenix using the phrase "Max Galactica's ample bust" in the courtroom.
- Ashe in Mega Man ZX Advent: "Now that your appetites are whet for booty..."
- This scene from Ar Tonelico.
- Pretty much EVERYTHING dealing with a Reyvateil is a double ententre.
- Pursuing Mass Effect's Romance Sidequest with Kaidan Alenko creates what is probably an unintentional Double Entendre; asking Kaidan for "personal input" after all new conversational options have been exhausted causes Kaidan to reply that "There'll be time for personal debriefings later," a comment that sounds innocent at first but collects more and more of a double meaning the more he and Shepard flirt with one another.
- If that's not enough, in the scene that culminates the romance with Kaidan, Shepard can turn something he said into a Double Entendre.
- In Super Paper Mario, tattle a Hammer/Boomerang/Fire Bro and then tell me that the localization team wasn't thinking something dirty.
- Joshua's intentional "You watch my behind, and I'll watch yours" line.
- This troper really wonders if this line from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, after Zelda sacrifices life force to save Midna, was an accident:
Midna: Zelda... I've taken all you had to give, though I did not want it.
- In Ocarina of Time, Nabooru tells an older Link, "If only I knew what a handsome man you would've become, I should have kept the promise I made back then..."
- This troper and her stepbrother were highly amused by this line from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World that the "angry" Emil delivered about the "normal" Emil when taken out of context:
Emil: I'm not giving myself to him anymore!
- A rare visual Double Entendre: in Rondo of Blood, Maria's idle animation looks like she's holding her hands out and bouncing up and down like a giddy schoolgirl (which, admittedly, she is). But look at her breast size in the cutscenes, and then tell me she's not doing something dirty.
- When Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier was announced to have a US release, Atlus' promotional messages were FILLED with innuendos. The message goes like this:
SUPER ROBOT TAISEN® OG SAGA: ENDLESS FRONTIER™ SPILLS OUT ONTO NINTENDO DS™ We like keeping you abreast of new developments in the world of Atlus, Faithful. That's why we're practically bursting at the seams to reveal Super Robot Taisen® OG Saga: Endless Frontier™ for Nintendo DS™. As a continuation of the Atlus Spoils fan appreciation program, each and every launch copy of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier will be a premium boxed release, with a bonus soundtrack CD featuring music from the game included in the final retail package. My friends, this is one stacked action RPG. Contrasting the deep story and characterizations is the fast-paced, fighter-style combat engine. Juggling your opponent in the air, chaining together combos, using your entire party in concert... these may not be your typical RPG combat concepts, but with the quick, responsive battles in Endless Frontier, they're the name of the game. Behind the fighter mechanics are all of the nuanced RPG fixings genre fans have come to expect. We'd like to emphasize: this game is more than just the fights. This is a fully-developed, well-rounded adventure. Journey across a variety of worlds, ranging from an apocalyptic wasteland covered with the hulks of downed spaceships, to a fantastical place of fairy tales and dark magic. Join Haken Browning: gunslinger, professional bounty hunter, and amateur ladies' man-along with his motley crew of robots, were-beasts, secret agents, and busty princesses-as they delve deep into the mysteries of how their worlds came to be and face a threat that imperils the multiverse. There's so much game here, Faithful, you may just get lower back pain from the effort! With its unique combat and titillating story, this is one sci-fi action RPG sure to stick out this spring. Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier busts out on April 28th with an MSRP of $34.99.
- The actual in-game dialogue has even more of them. Or, to be more percise — about 3/4 of dialogue is innuendo. To the point when Haken has to explain that when he said "She uses bombs" he literally meant explosives.
- Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed is basically one big double entendre. The plot involves Pox forming a hot dog stand named "Big Willy's", a parody of Big Boy. Kolonel Kluckin, owner/proprietor of Kluckin's Kitchen, is trying to run Pox out of business, and hires a kidnapped and supposedly brainwashed rich heiress named "Patty Wurst". She attacks Pox's restaurant, to which Pox exclaims "She's hammering my Big Willy!" Need this troper explain more?
- Metal Gear Solid has plenty of them; for instance Ocelot's "I love to reload during a battle. There's nothing like slamming a long silver bullet into a well-greased chamber." from the first Metal Gear Solid is a rather obvious one.
- Portal: "Speedy thing comes in, speedy thing goes out," anyone?
- Badly reaching for an example for your favorite game, anyone?
- Double Entendres practically exploded in the video game fandom once Nintendo's new console was named "Wii". Most of the jokes have stopped.
- Command And Conquer: Red Alert 3 had one in the Soviet campaign, where General Krukov will berate you with one hell of an entrende.
"While you were hiding behind the barricades in Leningrad, the enemy was thrusting deep into the motherland's tender nether regions!"
- Pay attention to Dasha's eyebrows when he says that, the bets off that you did the same thing.
- Worldof Warcraft: The Reputation grind for the Sons of Hodir faction requires you to complete the following quests every day; Blowing Hodir's Horn, Polishing the Helm and Thrusting Hodir's Spear.
- The enemy in X3: Reunion is called the Kha'ak. And yes, it's pronounced like you think it is. Cue G4TV's hillarious review laden with hard and blown Kha'ak.
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- The Ambiguously Gay Duo from Saturday Night Live is based on these, from the episode titles (such as "A Hard One to Swallow" and "First Served, First Come") to the dialog to their car.
- Animaniacs was infamous for this kind of humor, mostly courtesy of Yakko, who would frequently blow a kiss to the audience and go "Goodnight, everybody!" whenever someone else made a Double Entendre.
- South Park: For a number of episodes, the main characters got a new teacher whose name was Ms. Choksondik (pronounced "Chokes-on-Dick"). Humorously, none of the otherwise dirty-minded main characters seem to have understood the joke, and have made fun of her by calling her things like "Ms. Choksonrocks" or "Ms. Makes-me-sick".
- The Movie was also called South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. If you don't get the entendre there, think about it for a while.
- The title is also a Shout Out to 15-Minutes-of-Fame John Bobbit's porn movie.
- Also, Chef's songs and his chocolate salty balls.
- As long as we're talking about songs from South Park that have double entendres, how about the ones that aren't sung by Chef? Like the "Getting Gay with Kids" song from season three's "Rainforest Schmainforest" episode? Or that song Butters tapped to on season eight's "You Got F'ed in the A" [http://downloads.southparkstuff.com/sounds/epi805/805_myfrontpocket2.mp3]?
- Rockos Modern Life was famous for the sheer amount of (very thinly veiled) double entendres it has employed. Some examples include the Show Within A Show "All Scottish Show" (as an acrostic), a fast food restaurant called The Chokey Chicken, a board game the characters play called Spank the Monkey, an eye doctor cupping one of Rocko's eyes in his hand and asking him to "cough, please", a ride operator at a carnival reading a magazine called "Playslug", immigrants from a country called "Ballzakk", a toy for dogs called "the Doggy-Style rides", and a banjo-playing coon saying menacingly "We're gonna make you squeal, piggy!" (He then proceeds to pull a pig from behind his back and tickle it with a feather, making it, in fact, squeal). All this from a show intended for elementary school children.
- Danny Phantom is known for innocent lines of dialogue that could mean something... else. For example:
Danny: I couldn't sleep with my arch enemy in the guest room next to me.
Sam: My parents sleep in the bedroom next to me. It's not the same, but I can't sleep, either.
(and)
Sam: You'd scream, too, if you were stuck in a sleepover with [Paulina].
Danny: Actually, I kinda doubt that.
- Beavis and Butthead have a special talent for finding double entendres in the most innocuous of statements — even if they have to isolate specific syllables within a word in order to do so, and even if the double entendre makes absolutely no sense or has absolutely no relevance to what's going on at all. And yet they sometimes fail to understand plainly spoken or shown sexual references, when that works better.
Van Driessen: ... There's a wonderful world out there when we find we don't need TV to entertain us.
Butt-Head: Huh huh huh. He said "anus".
- In the TV cartoon The Flintstones, Wilma is pregnant, and needs to be taken to the hospital. Her husband Fred's neighbor Barney, follows along to help Fred get her into the hospital. Barney is, however, too aggressive moving her out of the car, and as a result, spins the revolving door so fast Fred is spun out, and across the street into a hotel. Arriving at the front desk, Fred, quite calmly states the truth, "I'm looking for my wife, she just came in here with my best friend." The clerk, nonplussed, simply says, "Look, we don't want any trouble here," to which Fred responds, "What kind of a hospital is this?" to which the clerk replies, "This is a hotel; the hospital is across the street."
- Very useful in Getting Crap Past The Radar, as seen in this example from Transformers: Beast Wars, after Silverbolt has been spending time with Blackarachnia:
Rattrap: So, where ya been, bird-dog?
Silverbolt: Scout patrol.
Rattrap: Oh, yeah, scouting the enemy. Find any new positions?
- Though that double entendre is acknowledged rather than something the writers tried to slip past, as Silverbolt punches Rattrap in response to that remark.
- Also used in Transformers Animated in a conversation between the speedster Nanosec and the time-slowing Slo-Mo as they exchange meaningful looks.
Slo-Mo: I like a man who does it fast.
Nanosec: And I like a woman who takes it slow.
- By that same token, on Justice League, Flash's constant bragging about being "the fastest man alive" eventually causes Hawkgirl to quip "Which may explain why you can't get a date."
- In thehe [[Batman: The Animated Series]] episode "Cult of the Cat," pretty much every other thing Catwoman says has sexual meaning.
- Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law: Ha ha HA! Phil Ken Sebben.
- Ha HA! Multiple Entendre!
- Ha HA! Danglyparts.
- Ha HA! Quadruple Entendre! ... At least it is in France.
- The entire Apache Chief episode.
Harvey: So as we see from this tape your power was...
Apache Chief: Growing large, at will... especially in the mornings.
- The scene usually cuts to Judge Mightor waving objects like a golf club or a pool noodle saying "Deedle leedle leedle leedle." whenever a phallic related double entendre is made.
- Secret Squirrel is convicted of flashing:
Mentok: Looks like the squirrel's been showing everyone where he keeps his nuts.
- Ed Edd N Eddy occasionally dabbles in this. Like in the episode "Run For Your Ed", where Rolf is seen carting away a giant sausage and boasting "Rolf's giant wiener will fetch a pretty penny at the market".
- The Looney Tunes Speedy Gonzales shorts feature a few of these, when the mice need to get Speedy's help and someone knows how to contact him...
Mouse 1: He knows my sister!
Mouse 2: Speedy Gonzales knows eeeeeeeeverybody's sister...
- The Spectacular Spider Man uses these for Getting Crap Past The Radar. For example, an approving Liz Allen admires Peter Parker and his Halloween costume by saying:
Liz Allen: You can web me up anytime, Petey.
- Not to mention everything Black Cat says. I distinctly remember a line about Spider-man getting his goop in her hair.
- Possibly unintentional, but MJ says this to Peter and Gwen in the New Year's Eve episode:
- One interesting stretch of dialogue in Code Lyoko takes place between Ulrich and Odd as they're getting out of the shower (common bathroom at a boarding school, in case you're wondering), with Odd talking about Heidi, the last girl in his class he hasn't dated:
Odd: Hey, speaking of "hot chocolate", I finally got a date with Heidi.
Ulrich: Eh, you gonna give her your croissant?
- The writers were playing with the "croissant" jokes throughout the episode, but there was absolutely no way the hidden meaning of the last one was that well hidden.
- Family Guy will usually do the old joke of a string of double entendres, followed by a plain-spoken line that makes it clearer than it ever had to be they weren't accidents. When they don't do this, the double entendres are borderline single anyway. In one episode, specifically about Peter's (heh heh) jealousy of Chris' enormous... Little Chris, he tries several stereotypical methods of compensating, most blatantly a red car with an unreasonably long and phallic hood. He then drives at an overpass saying, "Don't worry, baby, I'll be gentle", stops halfway through, reverses, goes forward again, and repeats. Then he's met headlong by another vehicle, making his car as short as a Volkswagon. Then a bus drives by full of beautiful women pointing and giggling. So Yeah.
- Also from Family Guy:
Brian: So, uh, where's your good buddy James Woods?
Peter: Eh, turns out he wasn't so good at catching stuff in his mouth. So where's your girlfriend?
Brian: Same problem.
Brian & Peter: Wooooaahh!!
- Subverted in one episode when Quagmire actually runs out of innuendo.
Quagmire: You know what I'm talking about right? (silence) Oh!
- Also:
Peter: I am gonna sue that bastard and make him pay out the ass. No ifs, ands or but(t)s. I'm gonna be real anal about this. ........... Sphincter!
- Avatar The Last Airbender: "Fruit tart" is regarded as something of a secret code, If You Know What I Mean, in Mai/Zuko circles, given the contexts in which they're mentioned.
- Also, when a guard is ordered to protect Mai, she replies with, "I don't need any protection." To which Zuko chuckles and replies, "Believe me she doesn't." Intentional or not, you will never hear that line the same again.
- We're forgetting The Drill, an entire episode about stopping a giant drill from penetrating the wall of Ba Sing Se and releasing soldiers to conquer the city. However, Katara and Toph manage to increase the pressure on the drill from behind, so that some sludge spews out◊ prematurely. Then Aang works the front and causes it to explode◊.
- Now you're just pushing it.
- I dare you to describe what happens and say it in an Entendre-free way.
- Along the same lines, in "Nightmares and Daydreams" Aang has a daydream about finally confessing his love to Katara, and when he snaps out of it she asks what he was dreaming about. He replies with:
- There's this show out there called I Got A Rocket! in which the protagonist, er, got a rocket for his birthday. No, seriously. And it won an Emmy, too. Seriously.
- Futurama made this into a brilliant running joke for the episode Spanish Fry, all about Fry's ''lower horn''... which is his penis.
Fry: (after escaping from Lrrr) Yes! I never thought I'd escape with my doodle, but I pulled it out!
Bender: Just like at the movie theater! Wooooo!
- The Simpsons has, of course, done this many multitudes of times over the years. However, there is one episode in particular that stands out... the episode where a sudden snowfall traps the kids in the school with Principal Skinner has lines like "Ach... that's the last time you'll slap your Willy around" (- Groundskeeper Willie)... "Good work, Nibbles. Now chew through my ball sack" (- Principal Skinner, trapped inside a duffel bag that held dodgeballs)... and a suspicious looking silo full of "salt" that explodes when it hits the ground.
Marge: You turned Springfield into America's trash hole!
Homer: Marge, Ix-nay on the asshole-tray."
- The Fairly Oddparents has Timmy's Mom saying "He's so affectionate" with a nervous-looking smile when Adam West/Catman hugs her legs. This causes Timmy's dad to become jealously angry.
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