History Main / ImaginedInnuendo

** In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', when the witches hear Henry Slugg singing in the bath, and not he switches from Morporkian to Brindisian when someone enters with more hot water.

* In ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', Anaglypta Huggs is an upper middle-class Ankh-Morporkian who is interested in folk traditions, but determined to remove all coarseness and indelicacy from them, even if nobody can see it except her. Which is why her [[ChristmasCarolers Hogswatch Wassailers]] sing "The Red Rosy Hen Greets the Dawn of the Day".

What happens when, in-story, Alice starts interpreting statements by Bob to be a variant of DoubleEntendre. Most common if Alice has either been given misinformation by a third party, or if she's simply not intelligent enough to realize what it is that Bob is actually referring to. Almost always, HilarityEnsues.

* One of these kicks off ''Manga/HanamaruKindergarten''. In the first episode, one of the main characters, a 4-year-old girl, is standing alone along on the side of the street. Another main character, a male kindergarten teacher, comes by on his bike and asks the little girl, "Excuse me, Ojou-chan. What are you doing here?" "Ojou-chan" essentially means "Miss" or "Little lady". Not an unusual way to address a young girl whom one does not know. Anzu, the girl, has a very active imagination, however, and she jumps to the conclusion that he's ''hitting on her''. [[PreMeeting He turns out to be her teacher at kindergarten]] and the misunderstanding persists. HilarityEnsues.

->'''[[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers:]]''' What about you and Stark? How do I know you two haven't been... "fonduing?"\\
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* Exaggerated in one particularly [[MemeticMutation memetic]] ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' short comic by Bomber Grape, in which Remilia misinterprets completely innocuous actions by the girls around her as blatant sexual advances. HilarityEnsues.

* In the first [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin miniseries]] Tim gets a fright when Lady Shiva wakes him up at night for martial arts training, telling him that she'll bring him to a ''"whole new world"''. Tim responds with ''"Um... I don't think I'm ready for this"''. Lady Shiva then nonchalantly replied with a joke that they could do ''that'' later, after the training.

* Used quite famously in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''. Once Benedick has been tricked into believing that Beatrice is in love with him, he immediately interprets his next vicious encounter with her as being a form of SlapSlapKiss--ignoring the fact that this encounter is quite identical to every other encounter they've had where he saw no romantic subtext at all.

* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'': After Benedick has been [[BluffTheEavesdropper convinced]] that Beatrice is in love with him, he interprets everything she says as an innuendo when she is sent to bid him "come to dinner."

-->'''Girl:''' And then I need to rotate my tires.\\

** Sometimes, the entendres are implied to be about to occur, but then avoided entirely, see ''Film/RidingWithDeath'', Where a spinning number dial gets to 69:

--->'''Monica:''' (noticing the bag Joey’s carrying) Oh great! Did you get a movie?\\

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Rachel reads a female-empowering, jargon-laced book, “Be Your Own Windkeeper,” which inspires her to push back on Ross’ demand that they leave for movie on time, resulting in this exchange:
-->'''Rachel:''' How do you expect me to grow if you won’t let me blow?\\

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* [[LoveableSexManiac Miu Iruma]] from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is prone to reading too much into innocuous remarks and mistaking them for something sexual. To name some examples, in ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'', [[TheFakeCutie Hiyoko Saionji]] tells Miu to sew her mouth shut, but Miu believes that it is a kind of kink play. In ''Love Across the Universe'', she mistakes Shuichi's suggestion to "get their bodies moving" to mean that they go to the gym storage room and see what happens next.
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* Early in ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'', Josh responded to a ''ComicStrip/RexMorganMD'' strip in which June Morgan asks troubled teen Niki to paint the garage by [[https://joshreads.com/2006/12/dangerous-beaver/ wondering]] "[i]f 'painting the garage' is anything like 'cleaning the basement,' a euphemism thought up by Mrs C. and her filthy-minded college friends". Two months later, Niki was telling June [[https://joshreads.com/2007/02/coming-up-next-on-cinemax-erotic-foundlings-volume-8-purse-snatcher/ he was happy to clean her garage]], and ever since then, it's been something of a RunningGag whenever anyone in the comics wants their garage cleaned.

Not to be confused with the AccidentalInnuendo, where it's the ''audience'' who got the wrong impression. Compare and contrast InnocentInnuendo. See also CallingMeALogarithm.

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