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Capping a pen with one eye closed: harder than it looks?
Gene: Fire once and you'll be woozy. Fire twice, and you'll be half dead. Hadul: So no multiple discharges, huh? Gene: Yes! Just like... well, you know. — Outlaw Star (on the Caster Gun's Deadly Upgrade)
Any situation which is made, for comic effect, to look like another situation — not in the sense that it is mistaken for that other situation by any of the characters, just in the sense that we the audience see the resemblance. The characters do not.
This sort of situation can lead to a Three Is Company plot if some other character hears it out of context.
Alternatively it can refer to an ersatz of something more familiar that the audience would immediately recognize in subtext in order to make it look less Anvilicious. Doesn't always succeed in fulfilling the latter.
See also Did They Or Didnt They, Fantastic Racism, G Rated Sex, Have You Tried Not Being A Monster, I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin, If You Know What I Mean, Double Entendre and Innocent Innuendo.
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Examples
Advertising
- Clairol "Herbal Essences" shampoo commercials showcase the woman using their product in the shower and screaming in delight. "An organic experience," huh? Riiiight...
- They also have one where the woman's male partner uses it, and gets to the point of his "organic experience" much faster than if the woman were washing her hair.
- May I direct your attention to this
 Sinfest strip?
- Arby's recently put out one were a guy in bed, obviously waiting for... something to happen, gets his wife dressed as an Arby's worker entering with a plateful of Arby's food. To sexy music. The Arby's symbol over his head springs up with a boing sound effect and he says "Meeee likey."
- This Quizno's commercial.
- This troper has seen ads for a local car dealership that have a transparent parody of George W Bush driving around, hooting and hollering like a Dukes Of Hazzard reject, and at one point declaring "I looove this job!" They later produced an ad where "George" gets into a limousine drag race with an equally transparent Bill Clinton parody.
- This Troper remembers fondly Canadian car ads where a Bill Clinton impersonator would step up to a podium decorated with an ersatz Great Seal of the United States as if he were beginning a press conference, then say earnestly that he had an important announcement to make: "cars cost less in Wetaskiwin." This Troper also remembers that the US government was incensed at this ad campaign, so much so that it became hugely popular and made millions for the dealerships who sponsored it.
- An advertisement in Malaysia asks if the consumer have not cut "it" off yet. Cutting "it" off will make "it" faster, smoother and more enjoyable. It's an ad for a wireless broadband service.
Anime & Manga
- This scene from Chocotto Sister.
- In Persona: Trinity Soul, every time "drawing out shadows" (you'd have to see the show to understand) is mentioned or shown it is used as an Anvilicious metaphor for sex. Oh, and it can feel good, but it can also be dangerous, so teenagers shouldn't do it with just everyone.
- In Outlaw Star, Gene's fear of space travel led to him being mocked as a "Space Cherry", with the usual implications for his manhood. (Ironically, even though Gene was a Handsome Lech, that was also treated as a sign of his immaturity.)
- Fullmetal Alchemist is set in Amestris, a place where the standard — or you might say, the preferred look is blonde hair and blue eyes, where the leader of the country is a dictator known as the Fuhrer, and who committed genocide shortly before the story begins, upon a racial group living within the borders, distinguishable by their facial features and monotheistic religion, which is believed to make them evil and/or dangerous.
- In Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, Linna attempts to explain why she wants to stay in Tokyo (actually to stay with the Knight Sabers, an incognito superteam, but she can't say that), but if you take the dialogue at face value, it sounds more like she's awkwardly trying to come out to her very traditional mother. Considering the amount of Ho Yay between herself and other lead character Priss, there's rather considerable debate on whether this is actually exactly what it sounds like.
- One Piece has this scene which is made even funnier with Luffy's naive comment.
- In Vandread, we have the three female pilots chasing after the one male pilot to "combine" throughout the entire first season.
- Played with very little subtlety in Princess Nine. They team is on a trademark training trip and their Bottle Fairy coach has decided to honor the occasion by going on the wagon. Of course, he's also doing it to try to get into the good graces of his star pitcher's (widowed) mother. Team delinquent Seira Morimura is having none of this. She strides over to his table the first night, pours him a beer and tempts/forces him to drink it (where'd a 15-year old get beer? She's a delinquent, don't ask). The dialog between coach and player makes it sound like she's tempting him with, well... other things. "It's going to be soo good." The subtext is real enough, Seira and the coach have a complicated history. She's looking for a father figure (possibly the George Michael kind) to make up for her (divorced) dad. She thought she was being hit on when he recruited her. Once the coach takes a drink, several of her teammates ask Seira what THAT was all about, and remark about the dangers of tempting older men.
- In Sakigake Otokojuku, Momo berates a woman for being fickle while pouring a glass of milk (which inexplicably appeared from nowhere) over her head, leaving her looking shocked with white liquid dripping from her face. Subtle it ain't.
- In the climax arc of the first season of Shakugan No Shana, the villain Hecate (cute girl with a Nice Hat) floats above (and parallel to) main character Yuji, "sychronizing" with him and absorbing his memories/energy, which apparently feels really good, judging from the noises she makes and the way she throws her head back. The dialogue can also be easily construed to a sexual encounter.
- Not to mention that the "energy" Hecate is absorbing from Yuji is white.
- The DVD omakes turn this into a running gag on Yuji's part—when parodying that scene, Yuji's previously chest-level flame has been moved to his crotch and Yuji moans in pleasure and begs for more while Hecate-tan glares at him and calls him a pervert.
- Evangelion, the anime that gives a whole new meaning to "Freudian *ahem* metaphors". Just an example: do you remember when the cigar-shaped Entry Plug is inserted diagonally into the Eva? Then immediately fills with an amniotic-like liquid?
- Also, absolutely anything to do with one Rei Ayanami. Her relationship with Gendo, her relationship with Shinji, her over 9000 nude scenes, her "encounter" with the sixteenth angel...
- Also by Gainax, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has "power drills" as proof of manliness and the sentence "yours is a drill that breaks through to the Heavens!"
- A Drill is a man's passion.
- Episode 12 has a particularly blatant-and hilarious-example; Gurren Lagann drills into a port on the bottom of the ship. Cut to the bridge, where the very, very Camp Gay Leeron rises a little bit in his seat and goes "Whoo!" Cut right back to the outside of the ship.
- After his defeat, Lord Genome states the reason he lost was because Simon's Spiral Energy was bigger than his. It doesn't get any less subtle than that.
- The scene in the last episode where the TTGL absorbs the power of a Big Bang in order to defeat the Anti-Spiral makes it look like the pilots are having an orgasm.
- And let us not forget that all through the series, the titular mecha uses its drill to become one with other robots.
- The second episode has a fairly blatant example of this as well — when Yoko leans over to admire the Core Drill Simon is holding, he looks up at her, blushes... and his drill suddenly starts glowing. Combine this with the fact that Spiral Energy is explicitly stated to be the power of evolution, and... yeah.
- "Our manly combining must be stylish!!"
- Episode 197 of Keroro Gunsou just decided to stop being subtle and created a virus that is spread by drilling unsuspecting victims in the butt. You have been warned.
- Christ. Well, at least they seem to, uh, enjoy themselves.
- And the fact that Giroro gets 2 drills when he gets infected instead of one...
- One volume of XXX Holic opens with Watanuki asking "Really... no problem?" with Yuuko seductively replying "None Watanuki. Come on. As hard as you like..." Cue the baseball pitch.
- Chachamaru from Mahou Sensei Negima has to be wound up, on occasion (she's a Robot Girl, after all), something which she states "feels good". When Negi winds her up, he puts waaaay too much magic into it, and she can hardly stop herself from screaming with pleasure.
- Additionally, when Pactio cards get brought up it will often be "Negi has already done it with seven girls!?" (Read: Anya finding out.) Chachamaru also danced the line between this and a Three Is Company when speaking about her martial arts training sessions with Negi ("I've been serving as Negi's partner every night and he appears to be very happy about it.") to Chisame.
- Chapter 253 takes this chapter to its logical conclusion. If you read it without knowing what a "pactio" is, it pretty much sounds like all of the girls are contemplating how to start up a romantic relationship with Negi (or, in one case, Kotar?).
- Chapter 263 has both return of the winding (with even more subtext then the first time), as well as more Pactio subtext in the form of "Two girls in 45 minutes!? Aren't you popular."
- The entire Pactio system seems to exist for two reasons: 1. An excuse to give "normal" girls magical powers. 2. This trope.
- The Winding is explicitly compared to the energy transfer from the Magister to his Ministra and it apparently has the same effect on all the girls.
- One of the two OVAs has a scene where Negi and Nodoka are in a sauna room, and their panting from the heat is rather played up, although it's rather obvious nothing's happening.
- An in-story example occurs when Negi and Setsuna arrive right after Asuna has been defeated by Fate (NSFW, BTW), assuming that the worst has occurred. And it did. Kind of. (Again, NSFW) The event itself (still NSFW) does bear quite a resemblance to a tentacle rape, though.
- TriGun has sentient plants that are experimented on, exploited, and killed in mind-boggingly dreadful ways and that can irradiate everyone if they go berserk as metaphors both for nuclear power and vivisection. And let's not forget that in the anime, Knives is portrayed more explicitly as a kind of psycho ecoterrorist who wants to prevent humans from destroying the environment of Gunsmoke as they did to the Earth. This is quite similar to the use of Mako energy in FinalFantasyVII.
- In El Hazard, Efurita/Ifurita is awakened when a man turns her "power key" into her...
- One episode of Gunslinger Girl features a character named Elsa, who describes her obsession for her handler Lauro, as the camera focuses on her polishing an assault rifle in a rather... suggestive... manner.
- Gunslinger Girl makes it very explicit that everyone who knows about the Social Welfare Agency considers the fratello relationships to be pedophilic. Some of the agents that work there even make crude jokes about it.
- In Gundam 00, Setsuna is fighting Ali Al-Saachez, the mercenary who used him as a child soldier. He pins Setsuna's Gundam Exia against a rock wall with his own mobile suit, and then begins to attempt to rip out Exia's cockpit in order to crush the pilot. The cockpit is situated exactly where its name suggests it would be. "Don't touch me!" indeed.
- Boy meets girl. Boy and girl are mutually attracted and spend a lot of time together. Girl has a very dangerous secret that the boy accidentally stumbles on. The boy has trouble dealing with the secret, and his fumbling reactions to it cause the girl great amounts of pain. Finally it's too much and they part ways. To the boy, it feels like the end of the world... But then the girl comes back to him. Their relationship will never be what it once was, but they have each other and a chance at something new. This is a description of a high school relationship. This is also the plot of Sai Kano.
- During the finale of Full Metal Panic!, Gauron grabs Sousuke's Humongous Mecha with his own and pins it to the floor. Sousuke's mecha struggles to get away while Gauron says things like "let's be friends" and "I'm so happy, you've stuck with me till the end." Sousuke is shown sweating and panting, and Gauron's broken down mecha starts leaking white liquid onto him. Of course, Gauron's ultimate intention is to detonate his mecha with 300 kilograms of explosives and kill both of them (which might very well be his idea of getting to fourth base with Sousuke), but it looks for all the world like giant robot sexual assault.
- The fact that Gauron keeps calling Sousuke "honey" does not improve things. Neither does the fact that his last words happen to be "I love you, Kashim!" (Kashim being one of Sousuke's aliases).
- And it probably doesn't help that in the novels, Gauron literally started moaning and crying out things like "RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT! FASTER! MORE! MORE!!" It would probably be safe to assume that, at least in the novels, he actually did get aroused and probably orgasmed from it.
- The following novels take this even further. In Sousuke's last encounter with Gauron, the latter admits to having fantasized about screwing Sousuke's dead body. And he says he always thought Sousuke has beautiful eyes... "like a saint of war". Kinda romantic, really...
- This is because Gauron is HoYay on XTC.
- The episode of Genesis of Aquarion in which Tsugumi discusses, and experience combining for the first time is just... damn. The entire episode.
- Every combination in Aquarion has the pilots experience "becoming one" in a similar manner.
- In Hellsing, Integra gets budding vampire Seras to drink blood from a live human for the first time by cutting her finger and ordering her to lick it clean. Cue Les Yay moment.
- In the first episode of Karin, Karin's vampiric attraction to her (female) best friend Maki is reminiscent of a lesbian attraction. She even leans in to bite Maki's neck, which looks very much like an attempted kiss.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena had an episode in which the seventh grade age Nanami woke up to find that she had laid an egg, and spent the following day wondering whether this was something that happened to many girls or not. It is generally assumed that this is a metaphor for menstruation, although it gets a bit confusing when another character almost cooks and eats the egg.
- In episode 5 of Black Cat, Train gets into a... rather compromising position on top of Creed, and Creed gets really excited and breathless. More alarming are Creed's following words (especially in the Japanese version), said very much in ecstasy, "Oh, Train, you are the best!" Hmmm, sure he's only referring to Train's nimble body and fighting skills...
- Axis Powers Hetalia is beginning to reach being the epitome of this trope. Of course, this is a series built and found on Ho Yay... the most common joke or Running Gag is about somebody invading somebody else's "vital regions". Since they are countries, it makes sense, buuut...
- Poor Tsubame has this◊ happen to her in an early chapter of Asu No Yoichi. To be fair, it's a direct result of holding a loaf of cream bread before having a bout of bad luck.
- In Bleach, Kariya force-feeding some purified spirit energy to a reluctant Mabashi — by shoving an engorged, bulbous object into his mouth and forcing him to swallow the fluid that comes out, complete with muffled choking, sputtering noises. Make what you will of Mabashi's subsequent attitude change.
- Also, The location of Mayuri Kurotsuchi's sword. There is a reason he's a Memetic Molester.
- Pessche keeps his sword in his loincloth. When he goes to pull it out, he severely Squicks Uryuu and Renji.
- During the Soul Society Arc, Ichigo is repeatedly referred to as "having a zanpakutou big as he is tall" and made fun of for having no control over his big, flashy powers. This is reinforced when Ichigo's dad dispatches of Grand Fisher by telling him that Captain-league shinigami have to consciously control their reiatsu, or they'd be running around with swords the size of skyscrapers. It's because of such statements that zanpakutou earned the Fan Nickname "Soul Penis".
- May your attention be directed to this page of the Inu Yasha manga? More specifically, the second panel. Although it makes sense if you've been following the story, there's something rather disturbing about having both Kagura and Naraku sweating, and Naraku asking "Do you want to return into my body again?" Just for added Squick, be sure to note that the sound effect reads "Slide forward".
- In the seventh episode of Yami No Matsuei, Muraki has a very... odd way of holding his wine glass. Let's just say he keeps moving his hand up and down while holding it (all the while leering at Tsuzuki and talking about how beautiful Tsuzuki's eyes are).
- The infamous corset scene in Kuroshitsuji, where it looked like Sebastian was having sex with Ciel from behind, complete with Ciel telling him he "can't take anymore," and Sebastian telling Ciel to "bear with it." Of course, they're referring to Sebastian helping Ciel put on a corset for crossdressing.
- Don't forget this page from Chapter 34 of the manga. (It's vomit.)
- Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo has this with Leopard's antimatter cannon. It requires two "Golden Orbs" to fire, does not function when said orbs are cold, results in a flurry of some white (ashlike) substance covering everything inside Leopard (including the female protagonist) when fired, and has a "relaxing", so to speak, effect on Leopard, while the effect on the female protagonist is a bit more exhaustive.
- Death Note's foot massage scene. Other than the biblical symbolism and context of it, there can be other implications. Of course, the entire thing isn't helped by how the anime made it seem like L had a foot fetish. Both Light and L are soaking wet, drying themselves off, and their dialogue and actions go something like this:
Light: What are you doing, Ryuuzaki?!
L: At least allow me to atone for this. I'm not all that bad at it, you know.
Light: (looking away) Do as you please.
(L presses Light's foot, and Light cries out)
L: Oi, you'll get used to it quickly.
Light: You're still wet.
L: Sorry...
- Sela "Platinum Hurricane" Miranda from Basquash is more-or-less made of this trope. Her reaction of "it feels good" after she spills her milkshakes on herself in the first episode and her masochistic pleasure over Iceman pummeling her during mecha-streetball games are her most prominent character traits.
- A tragic, non-Freudian eample: In episode 7 of Haibane Renmei, Rakka's reaction to Ku taking her Day of Flight feels very much like somebody reaction to suicide.
- Getter Robo: "If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!" He's talking about traveling through wormholes, we swear.
- Shugo Chara: The only children's anime where sharing an ice cream looks like having an orgasm and trying to open up a clover-shaped lock with a clover-shaped key like comes dangerously close to a sexual act.
- To be fair, until "party!", Shugo Chara seemed to push the boundary's of children's anime.
- In Naruto pretty much everything Orochimaru does or says in relation to Sasuke or any of his other young associates. It's most certainly intentional.
- In Claymore, during the first battle in Pieta, one of awakened beings looks like a giant turtle with a slightly phallic head. Jean doesn't help any when she states "One blow isn't enough, he's too hard".
- Lucky Star has a scene with Konata lying on her back and choking on Cherry Blossoms. It's all the more suggestive for the few seconds her face is off-screen.
- Just about everything with Hyatt in Excel Saga. Excel also has a memorable scene where's she's rolling on the floor with a Mannequin dressed up as Ilpalazzo while kicking her feet in the air and screaming his name.
- Ouran Highschool Host Club has an... interesting moment when the maids come in to wake Kaoru and Hikaru, and one of them has a... strategically placed elephant's head, which spouts confetti from its raised trunk. Extra bonus points for having no logical connection whatsoever to the scene in question.
Comics
Fan Works
- In Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series, there are several Lampshaded instances of this.
- During Yugi's duel with Weevil:
Tea: Wow, look at all the phalic imagery.
Joey: What are you talkin' about Tea? There ain't anything remotely suspect about this duel.
Yugi: Now quiver in fear as my knight's mighty lance penetrates your moist cocoon!
- During Yugi's duel with the Paradox Brothers:
Yugi: Leave it to Beaver Warrior!
(Beaver Warrior gets destroyed)
Joey: Let this be a lesson to you, Yug'. Never, under any circumstances, leave your beaver exposed.
Yugi: You're right Joey, my beaver was on full display. Next time I'll take better care of my beaver.
Films — Animation
- Unintentional in Disney's Aladdin, but (in)famously so with the song "A Whole New World."
I can open your eyes,
Take you wonder by wonder;
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride.
A whole new world!
A new, fantastic point of view.
No one to tell us no, or where to go,
Or say we're only dreaming.
...
Unbelievable sights!
Indescribable feeling!
...
A whole new world!
Don't you dare close your eyes.
A hundred thousand things to see.
Hold your breath — it gets better!
- Well at least the song has a happy ending...
- Kronk's New Groove features a scene where he and his love interest bake bread, which turns into an extended dance sequence. Which includes a shot of Kronk behind Miss Birdwell and ...um... helping her knead bread dough.
Films — Live Action
- In X-Men II: X-Men United, Bobby "comes out" with his mutant powers to his parents, who respond, "Have you tried ''not'' being a mutant?" Director Bryan Singer is gay, as is actor Ian McKellen, who was asked for assistance in writing this scene, basing it on a "coming out" conversation.
- The narrator of Fight Club repeating Tyler's explanation that he "fell down some stairs" is reminiscent of an abusive relationship.
- Bella also uses the "falling down the stairs" line at the end of Twilight.
- In Transformers, Frenzy spread-eagling himself over a computer terminal he'd plugged into, twitching and yelping, got a groan from the audience when this editor was in the theatre.
- In Down with Love, two characters are having a phone conversation at the same time as engaging in various activities. A split screen makes these activities simulate sex. For instance, when the man is on the top of the split screen, he is shown doing push-ups while the woman is on her back on the bottom of the split screen. They even simultaneously have a "post-coital" cigarette at the end of the scene.
- The scene in Independence Day where Jimmy Wilder (Harry Connick Jr.) bends down on his knee to grab a wedding ring that fell on the floor, accidentally dropped by Captain Hillier (Will Smith). A fellow pilot walks into the men's locker room to see Wilder on one knee, making it look like he's proposing to his best friend.
- In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker's problem with, ah, "shooting blanks".
- Considering how James Cameron's original screenplay tried to present Peter's growing powers as a metaphor for puberty (complete with him waking up in bed and covered in sticky white webbing!), this is actually quite mild.
- Depending on the audience, the following dialog might lead to snickers.
Peter: Picking up where we left off.
Mary Jane: Where was that? We never got on. You can't get off if you don't get on, Peter.
- How about it in the third Spider-Man movie?
Spider-Man: (pinning Venom down) You have to take off this suit!
Venom: You'd like that, wouldn't you?
- A classic example is from the late 80's comedy The Couch Trip (I think) where on a radio call-in show, John Burns (Dan Aykroyd) suggests to a man trying to overcome a problem with premature ejaculation, to imagine working on his car instead. His description of taking apart a transmission... well, if the caller had had the opposite problem, it would've helped.
- In Bad Boys 2, Mike (Will Smith) and Marcus (Martin Lawrence) have a frank discussion about the time (earlier in the movie) when Mike accidentally shot Marcus in the buttocks, and the subsequent problems. Unfortunately for them, the content of their talk makes it sound like the two are in a homosexual relationship... and the video camera just happens to be broadcasting their conversation to the entire store. Hilarity Ensues.
- Dr Strangelove, filled as it is with weird sexual innuendo, starts with a scene of two airplanes refueling in midair, but it's filmed in such a way as to make it look like they're having sex.
- In X-Men United, Mystique refuses to answer to Raven Darkholme (her given name) because "that's my slave name".
- The opening scene of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has Harry exuding a white light from the tip of his wand. Under his covers. With Harry hiding the evidence when Uncle Vernon comes into his room.
- Sir Ian McKellen's film version of Richard III. The setting is established right off as 30s Europe. Sure, why not? Then we come to Richard's coronation scene... and down come the long, red banners with his black-and-white emblem and fervent background chanting. Oh, right.
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a big, honkin' allegory about the end of the Cold War. It starts off with the horrible disaster
in Chernobyl on the Klingon moon Praxis, which forces the Soviet Union Klingon Empire to reach out to the West the Federation. Conservative hard-liners then attempt to kill kill Gorbachev Gorkon for his trouble. From there, it diverges a bit from actual history, but you get the picture.
- Don't Be a Menace features gangsta Loc Dog receiving a package of white powder from his friend, promising him that he'll get some when it's ready. Loc then measures, tests, and puts the powder in an apparatus on the stove. Of course at the end of the scene, it's shown that he's not processing heroin but rather baking a tasty cake instead.
- In one version of the Dracula movie, Jonathan cuts his finger while dining with the Count, who gets a little too... excited about this and wants to suck Jonathan's finger.
- Come of think of it, there's a fair bit of this in the original novel as well. Jonathan's little teeny tiny budding man-crush on his host (Wow, he'd make such a good lawyer! He's got such a big library! What a cool guy!) seems to disappear after the incident with the Brides — which comes across, for one not already expecting vampiric goings-on, to be the Count having a jealous fit about someone else getting to (ahem) kiss his guest.
- Also, the Count's attack on Mina (while she's in her bed, no less) is reminiscient of rape. Parallels are easier to see when, afte Lucy is bitten and her fiance tries to kiss her, she cries and tells him not to because she is "unclean". (Well, vampirism was a way to get away with writing sexual stories... So Yeah.)
- In Iron Man, Tony Stark is trying to unsuit himself...
Tony: Hey! Ow, ah, ah!
Jarvis: It is a tight fit, sir.
Tony: (pained grunting)
Jarvis: Sir, the more you struggle, the more this is going to hurt.
Tony: Be gentle. This is my first time.
- According to Entertainment Weekly's review of the new Jonas Brothers 3-D concert movie, there's one part where the brothers spray foam at the audience — out of a hose, if I remember the article correctly. The reviewer only hopes that the target audience doesn't see the symbolism in this. Being outside said target audience, I am unable to verify this.
- In Police Story, Jackie Chan's star witness finds out he set her up to accept his protection by staging a hit for him to save her from. She gets back at him by setting his tape player to record over their interview, then manipulating events so it'll sound like their actions (such as Jackie spilling juice on her, and her sitting on a cactus) sound like they're about to have sex. Particularly cool here is that there are two English dubs of the movie plus the directly translated DVD subtitles, giving us three different versions that all work perfectly.
- Confederate States of America, an Alternate History where the South won the Civil War, features several false propoganda films supposedly from the Fifties that portray those favoring the abolition of slavery as evil ("Watch out, because your neighbor could be an Abby!"). Later in the Mockumentary there's another propaganda piece that asks "Have you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual?" Both are intended to be similar to the Red Scare fear of communism.
- Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: The girl who aggressively hits on Sam gets squirted in the face... just not by Sam. Of course, Sam doesn't really help the scene by yelling, "Oh my God your face! Lemme get some wetnaps for your face!"
- Yeah, don't watch the Disney Channel high, or just with a dirty mind. You'll think you're a child molester. I swear they do it on purpose.
- Starship Troopers 3: Marauder has this happening to cute Holly Little. Sprawled awkwardly after getting a faceload of alien goo, a suddenly-appearing crack in the earth points directly up her skirt, then a penile-like claw bursts from the ground between her legs, whereupon she and Jolene Blalock are seized by a gigantic man-eating vagina with delusions of grandeur.
- Blazing Saddles had the Governor trying to put a pen back into its holder. Hedley Lamarr just tells him, "Think of your secretary," and he gets it right into the little... place it's designed to go.
- District 9, about aliens stranded in Johannesburg, never mentions The Apartheid Era. It doesn't need to, what with the repressed "Prawns" relegated to filthy, crime-ridden slums, barely allowed rights, and treated with institutional prejudice.
- The short film that District 9 is based on did mention that the government of Johannesburg used the existing apartheid laws of South Africa in order to segregate the alien population.
- In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, there's a scene where Austin and Felicity are packing and unpacking inside of a tent, but to the horrified soldiers watching outside, it looks a lot different...
- The opening scene of 1941 where a skinnydipping woman finds herself clutching the upthrusting periscope of a surfacing Japanese submarine (also serves as a hilarious Jaws take-off).
Close Films — Live Action
Literature
Live Action TV
- Scottish TV show The High Life had a wonderful example where Steve is showing Sebastian (played by Alan Cumming) the engagement ring he has bought for Shona. Their clinically insane captain Hilary Duff (no, not THAT one) comes in, sees them with the ring and congratulates them on their engagement. This Troper notes that after this episode, though there is no "official" mention of this incident, they are referred to as "fishwives" by their crew.
- After many of his jokes on The Late Late Show, Craig Feguson will say "Remind you of anyone?"
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer does this a lot. Some examples:
- After Spike finds himself incapable of biting Willow due to the recently implanted chip in his head, there follows a very funny conversation between the two which could almost word-for-word be about impotence. Until right at the end, when Willow mentions that they could "wait half an hour and try again," does a take that needs no words to express, "What the hell did I just say?", and brains him with a lamp.
- Joyce reacts to Buffy's revelation that she's the Slayer in the same way a parent might react to a child's coming out of the closet ("Have you tried ''not'' being a Slayer?")
- and just moments earlier "Honey are you sure you are a Vampire Slayer?" and moments later "It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?". You really can't get any more specific than this.
- When Buffy does a meditative ritual to try to find out what's wrong with Joyce, it looks very much like she's getting high (she won't let Dawn into her room, burns incense and tries to cover it up by sticking a towel under the door, and afterward we see through her eyes and her sight is wonky).
- When Dawn finds out that she's the Key, it's played as though she found out that she was adopted.
- Which is, of course, true after a fashion, since she was literally retconned into the family via magic.
- The whole "drive a stake into them" concept of vampire lore (by no means limited to Buffy) probably fits this trope.
- In the episode when Buffy discovers her post-Angel rebound guy Riley at the vamphouse, the scene opens with him and a female vampire kneeling before him, shot at an angle (and with sound effects) that makes it unclear just what she is sucking, but that there is definitely sucking going on. Then the camera pans around to show that it's just blood from his arm.
- Also done in the episode "Hush". With the characters unable to speak, Buffy mimes hand gestures that are supposed to represent staking the monster of the week, but that instead resemble masturbation. The rest of the Scoobies look at Buffy as though she's gone mad, and she hastily repeats the gesture with a stake actually in her hand.
- There was also this conversation between Willow and Tara, before they started their relationship:
Willow: I had so much fun the other night, with the spells...
Tara: Yeah, that was nice.
Willow: I hope you don't think I just come over for the spells and everything, I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Tara: I know that. But you wanna do a spell, right?
Willow: Yeah, but...
Tara: Oh, you don't have to explain. I've been thinking about that last spell we did all day.
- In another example of "magic as sex" for this relationship, Willow and Tara are seen doing a spell together, with Willow lying back against a pillow, panting and sweaty, with the shot showing her only from the waist up.
- Spoofed in Xander's dream in "Restless":
"Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell. And then I do a spell by myself."
- And in Dawn's diary / internal monologue in "Real Me":
Willow's the awesomest person. She's the only one I know who likes school as much as me. Even her friends are cool, like Tara. She and Willow are both witches. They do spells and stuff, which is so much cooler than Slaying. I told Mom one time I wish they'd teach me some of the things they do together, and then she got really quiet and made me go upstairs. I guess her generation isn't cool with witchcraft.
- When Angel bites Buffy in season 3, we see her crushing a helmet with one hand, as well as hearing her panting — another example of "biting as sex" within the Buffyverse.
- Another "biting as sex" example in the Buffyverse is during the Season 5 premiere, when Dracula shapeshifts himself into Buffy's room by turning into mist that floats in through her window (like a secret lover sneaking in), remarking on Buffy's scar from where Angel bit her, and then biting her on the other side, after which he tells her to take a taste of him. The next day, she really doesn't want anyone, especially Riley, to see her scar, like it's evidence of a shameful one-night stand.
- In the season six episode "Wrecked" Willow get addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination.
- Magic is also treated as sex in the same episode, with Willow writhing with her shirt open.
- And combining the awakening lesbianism = magic and drugs = magic metaphors makes for some Unfortunate Implications.
- Demonic possession stood in for drugs in a story from Giles' past as Rupert the Ripper. His friends would pass around the demon, and when it possessed them, they would get a kind of high.
- Willow to Buffy: "You could do that thing with your mouth, that guys like so much."
- In 4x12 Buffy and Riley discuss how many Deamons they have both slayed. Buffy ofcourse has a lot more than Riley and the whole conversation could really also be about previous sexual partners.
- When Buffy is let into the initiatives base for the first time it's first played as if Riley and she are going to have sex. Then when they are in, the conversation goes like this: Buffy: "You said it was big. You told me, but you never said it was huge." Riley: "I don't like to brag."
- Giles comment to Riley and Buffy having sex in a haunted house: "In the midst of all that do you really think they were keeping it up?" *Stares from all the Scoobies* "Oh, for a different phrasing".
- Angel 2x06: Angel: "Where you in Virginia?" Wesley: "That's besides the point."
- In Seinfeld:
- In one episode, Jerry's relationship with Keith Hernandez resembles a romantic relationship, in which helping him move is treated as "going all the way."
- In another episode, Jerry makes a snide remark about dentists which gets him labeled an "anti-dentite". ("Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools!" "They do have their own schools!")
- Later subverted in the same episode, When Jerry jokes with the Girl of the Week about dentists only to discover her non-metaphorical prejudice:
GotW: Hey, what do you call a doctor who fails out of med school?
Jerry: What?
GotW: A dentist. (they laugh)
Jerry: That's a good one. Dentists.
GotW: Yeah, who needs 'em? Not to mention the Blacks and the Jews.
- Jerry leaving his barber for his more talented relative is portrayed as an infidelity of operatic proportions, complete with several music cues from The Barber of Seville.
- Another episode had portrayed Kramer and Jerry as a married couple, when Kramer got a job, specifically portraying Kramer as the workaholic husband and Jerry as the neglected wife.
- In Just Shoot Me, Dennis replaces Ally as Jack's bridge partner; the plot is played out as an infidelity.
- An episode of Friends strangely did one where a man revealing to his wife that he was straight had almost the same dialogue as it would if he were revealing he was gay ("Have you told your parents?" "No, but they're pretty cool. My brother's straight"); it was a Citizenship Marriage and she had known him to be gay. Friends also did this a lot with Joey and Chandler acting like a married couple.
- And an episode where Rachel discovers Monica has been shopping with Ross's new girlfriend, and it's treated like infidelity.
- Let's not forget an episode fairly early on where Phoebe and her current boyfriend were infected with chicken pox. They couldn't resist scratching themselves, so they had oven mitts duct-taped on to their arms. Eventually, the itching became too severe for them to resist, Phoebe started saying how good it would feel to give in and her boyfriend was saying "We can't, we'd regret it!", and eventually he succumbed to temptation along with her in a clear parallel to a highly turned-on couple trying to resist the urge to...get it on.
- An episode of Lizzie McGuire has Gordo falling into the "forbidden world" of roleplaying games. Which are, as they often are, treated like drugs. (At least it's a step up from being portrayed as demonic or satanic.)
- Boston Legal has played with the relationship between Alan Shore (James Spader) and Denny Crane (William Shatner), making them seem like lovers even though both are heterosexual skirt-chasers. They end each episode on a balcony, discussing life. In one episode, Alan brought an old friend out to the balcony to hold a conversation, but when Denny saw them there, he left in a huff, and later accused Alan of infidelity; they even discussed the fact that fidelity isn't restricted to romantic relationships alone. Alan said he didn't want to lose Denny, and promised never to let anyone else get in the way of their friendship. And called Denny high-maintenance.
- They even have "sleepovers" on a regular basis.
- Not to mention the episode where Denny was experiencing erectile problems and had an alarm on his crotch whenever he would get an erection...and when Alan proposed one of these "sleepovers" said alarm went off.
- The finale has made the relationship canon. Seriously, they got married.
- Which really doesn't mean anything, since while they use gay marriage as arguement in support of they're own, they're not gay, they love each other in a platonic sense and Alan wants to make sure he can always be there for Denny.
- In Frasier, Roz becomes a caviar junkie.
- In the finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the normally reserved butler Geoffrey is retiring from his position as the Banks family butler, and he seems just a little too excited about his employer's announcement that he's "officially off duty." Am I the only one who is reminded of the freeing of a household slave?
- This may be a legitimate interpretation given that Geoffrey was always portrayed as resenting everything the family makes him put up with, and, more generally, American culture has always tended to feel that using a household servant comes uncomfortably close to using a slave.
- Also consider that Geoffrey is working for his citizenship, which Will and Carlton hid and denied him, the show alludes to not only slavery but indentured servants, who worked for the right to live.
- In the The Tick episode "Arthur, Interrupted", coming out as a superhero is described the same way as homosexuality, and later as a drug addiction. They even stage an intervention.
- In 3rd Rock from the Sun:
- One episode treated Dick's obsession with collecting a brand of plush animals curiously similar to Beanie Babies as a drinking addiction, culminating with an "intervention" from the other characters. Subverted at the end of the episode where Dick explains that he's given up on the collecting and taken up drinking instead.
- In another episode, Harry's insurance agent refuses to return his calls. Sally gives him some tips on how to "make a man call you". Eventually, he gets another agent, which plays out as Operation Jealousy.
- In another episode, Sally encourages Harry to join her in playing with the time-space portal, saying "c'mon, let's do it — you know you want to". They accidentally beam in another alien from the Home Planet and are forced to take care of him. Dick berates them, remarking "thirty seconds of pleasure and a whole lifetime of responsibility". The rest of this storyline involves Sally and Harry "parenting" the new alien, who quickly starts acting like a bratty child.
- Dharma and Greg had an episode where the title characters decided that they needed "couple friends", i.e. other married couples to hang out with. They then went to the bookstore and tried to "pick up" other couples. After befriending a couple, Dharma found that couple with another couple and accused them of "cheating" on her and Greg.
- A 30 Rock episode had Liz stressing out over a co-op board failing to call her. This is played out as though it's about a date ignoring her. Eventually, she tells them "You know what, I've moved on. I bought a whole bunch of apartments! I bought a black apartment."
- The opening of Dexter shows Dexter's morning routine. Or is it his murder routine? Wait, what are you planning on doing with that dental floss?
- It's his morning routine. The hysterical opening scene for the fourth season shows him do it while completely exhausted, and thus screwing it up, because he's a daddy now, and babies cause lack of sleep. The end of the second season also shows him doing his morning routine. I'd just like to know where he gets those terrifying oranges.
- They're blood oranges (naturally), and they're not terrifying, they're delicious.
- On Keeping Up Appearances, Daisy and Onslow recall their wedding night, when she finally told him she was a Liverpool supporter. It's set up as if she had revealed something far more scandalous: Onslow had to go for a walk to sort things out, and, he says, she's lucky he didn't divorce her.
- Nick Knight's vampiric dependency on blood is treated like alcoholism in Forever Knight. It's even said that he could even become human again like he wanted if he could just kick the habit.
- Ellen's relationship with her auditor in Slings And Arrows is deliberately reminiscent of a therapist-client relationship. Up to:
Ellen: I think we're making real progress here. Maybe we could move to an hour-and-a-half session?
- Later in the season, we see Anna on the phone with someone. "What do you mean you have to play with it? ... Well, when will you be able to get it up again? ... Is there anything I can do to help?" She's talking to tech support about the theatre festival's local area network.
- In Black Books, Bernard and Manny have a falling out, and Manny goes to work at the bookshop next door. This is treated by both parties as if it were the break-up of a romantic relationship, with Bernard in particular reacting as if Manny had been unfaithful to him ("Go to him! Go to your fancy man! I don't need you any more!"). Then again, Bernard has more than a little Ho Yay towards Manny.
- On a slightly more serious note, Farscape's treatment of wormholes, usable as both a rapid long-distance travel method... and a weapon of horrific destruction. The obvious allegory is probably made most blatant in the second half of season 3's two-part episode "Into The Lion's Den"/"Wolf In Sheep's Clothing".
Kokura: To stabilize a wormhole — to tame it, to tame its power — would have been the greatest scientific discovery anyone could imagine! Crichton: It is not! Just! Science''! It is never just science! It's a weapon ! It kills''!
- One episode of Malcolm in the Middle concerned Hal feeling out-of-place in a poker game because he was the only non-professional person there, and all the professional people were banding together and discriminating against him with their unique slang and culture. (They were also all black.)
- Two torture sessions with a water theme or metaphor. A tiny nation invaded by a vast empire for uncertain reasons fights back with suicide bombers. And oh yeah, a surprise attack on an unsuspecting country that changes their entire political and cultural outlook. Watch the new Battlestar Galactica long enough and it will remind you of something in contemporary American politics.
- The new HBO series True Blood contains so much subtext about vampire rights that some might find the not-so-subtle parallels a bit tiresome. "God Hates Fangs"? Even vampire puns are still bad puns. Besides, everyone knows that werewolves are actually gay, while our favorite bloodsuckers prefer beautiful women.
- This clip from The Daily Show, as if there wasn't enough Jon/Stephen Ho Yay already.
- Very much dramatic rather than comedic, but in season 3 of Heroes Sylar breaks into Claire's house and succeeds in stealing her power, but does it without killing her unlike his previous victims. The experience visibly shakes Claire and she describes Sylar as "taking something that was hers." She then wants to learn how to fight so she can "help people", but after her biological mother Meredith puts her through Training From Hell, Claire finally breaks and admits she doesn't want to fight so she can help people, but to find Sylar and "hurt him for hurting me!" The whole thing plays out as if Claire was a rape victim instead of somebody who had her superpower stolen (or copied, whatever).
- After a truly nightmarish chase through the house with doors slamming in her face by themselves, being immobilized on a table while a creepy guy sticks his fingers into squishy places is about as thinly-veiled as the metaphor can get without him doing his thing while on top of her. This Troper wonders why it took so long for people to pick up on it.
- In Volume 4 (the second half of Season 3), the Gitmo imagery strays close to the line between this and a Take That directed at the Bush administration.
- One episode of Scrubs has Jordan telling Dr. Cox they're not going to fight anymore now that they have a baby. Dr. Cox ends up going a little crazy because Jordan won't fight with him anymore and it plays like as if she won't have sex with him anymore. This especially shows when he tells Carla about it.
Carla: What's going on with you?
Dr. Cox: Let's see, Jordan and I aren't, uh... we're not fighting anymore.
Carla: Oh, no. How long has this been going on?
Dr. Cox: Since the baby came along we've been fighting less and less.
Carla: Why don't you get a hotel room? Pour some nice champagne, get in a tub, and rip each other new ones. You know, make it special.
- And then Dr Cox tries to pick a fight with Carla and she says "Hey, I'm getting married!"
- In The Mighty Boosh, Howard and Vince, who already posses huge amounts of Ho Yay (not helped by the fact everyone calls Vince "Howard's wife/girlfriend"), run into Vince's evil twin Lance Dior. Lance offers Howard the chance to become his... sidekick, and when Vince finds out he treats it as if Howard has been cheating on him.
- The Spirit of Jazz has huge amounts of this trope when talking about how he plans to possess Howard. Repeatedly growling about how he's going to "Get inside him" and "Wear him like a glove". Howard even lampshades it by telling him to stop using terms which are such huge innuendos. The Spirit of Jazz has no idea what he means, of course.
- One episode of The Big Bang Theory ends with a breakup between one of the main characters and a physicist he was falling in love with. They had already begun discussing having kids and everything, only it turns out that the breaking point was... one of them believes in string theory and the other in Loop Quantum Gravity, both different theories that attempt to solve the major modern problems in physics. To him, it doesn't seem like such a big deal, but to her, it was "How would we raise the children?!" The entire scene was played as of a strong religious disjoint between the couple that could not be reconciled. This parodies many real physicists' attitudes regarding String Theory — which makes absolutely no testable predictions and is so mathematically complex and diverse that it takes decades to be able to contribute — and any competitors.
- A later episode involves an "intervention", staged to convince Sheldon that he needs to learn to drive.
- In How I Met Your Mother, Barney refuses to support that his gay, black brother is going to marry a white guy. Not because of the gay marriage thing, but because it is a marriage. He tells everyone how it is going to destroy singles everywhere, and he ends up telling his nephew that "Just because you are being raised by married people doesn't mean that you got to choose that lifestyle."
- Since Ted's narrating the series to his kids in the future, he occasionally censors the more adult things, but leaves the context completely unchanged. Hence the main characters' experiments with "sandwiches" in college, and the upstairs neighbours who wouldn't stop "playing the bagpipes".
- In an episode of The King of Queens, Spence's wish to see The Film Of The Book of one of his favorite fantasy novels is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction or alcoholism or some other social vice, something to be avoided. Either that or Doug and Deacon are just really big Fan Haters.
- Yep, they're Fan Haters all right, because Men Are Uncultured. And let's not forget the number of argusations Spence and Danny had that made them sound like a married couple. It seemed like the writers were addicted to this idea.
- In an episode of Chuck, Chuck accidentally gets stuck trying to go through an air vent. During this part, his iPhone accidentally turns on... and speed dials his ex. To her, it sounds more like Chuck is doing... that. So Yeah.
- It doesn't help that Chuck and Sarah are undercover as a business man and a hooker getting it on in a hotel, so the first thing the ex hears is something along the lines of "So long do you think it'll take for us to have sex?" "I don't know, maybe an hour or so." Followed by a bunch of stuff like "Move your hips forword" and "Bend the other way" when he gets stuck in the vents.
- In a Season 1 episode of Supernatural, "Something Wicked", the Monster Of The Week — a shtriga, a witch from Albanian folklore that feeds off of human "life forces", especially those of children — is presented like a pedophile. The kids fall into comas and no one can explain why, and the shtriga is disguised as a male doctor that is supposed to be treating the children, which is similar to how many pedophiles try to position themselves so that the children's parents trust them. It should also be noted that the shtriga works its way through families, either from oldest child to youngest or vice versa.
- In a Season 3 episode, "Fresh Blood", a lonely male vampire who wants to build a new nest of vamps lurks around nightclubs and picks out pretty blondes and tries to interest them in a new (thick, red, liquid) recreational drug (in Supernatural either digestion or direct blood contact turns a person into a vampire). They wake up back in his basement lair and have no idea where they are or what happened to them, not unlike rape victims who were given "roofies" like rohypnol, which cause blackouts.
- The following conversation from the Season 1 episode "Shadow" is actually about Monster Hunting, but sound like they're about something very different outside of context:
Dean: You and me. I want us to be together again. To be a family again.
Sam: Dean, we are a family. I'd do anything for you... but things will never be the way they were before.
Dean: They could be.
Sam: I don't want them to be. I'm not going to live this life forever. Dean, when this is all over, you're going to have to let me go my own way.
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? features a man about to get married. His Heterosexual Life Partner then returns, feeling betrayed by his old friend, and very out-of-the-loop. His attitude towards his best friend's fiancée varies between amusement and outright resentment, and she also resents him, seeing him as a threat. The first series ends with the two men sleeping together on the wedding night.
- Seacht has had Pete and Decko describing a guitar in terms more suited for a beautiful woman.
- Doctor Who has had this over the years, but the most triumphant—and horrifying—example comes from "Turn Left", in which the UK government collapses and puts on the Reich. Including the internment of foreign nationals. When one of Donna's housemates and friends is interned, Donna is oblivious to the parallel. Wilfred isn't, and he's absolutely horrified by it. And it's enough to make the viewer cry.
- The last episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus has the Turkish Little Rude Plant.
- The X Files. Dana Scully getting a tattoo in "Never Again" is definitely played this way, from the expectant, hungry look of the man with her, to the gasps and expressions Scully makes. They then go back to his apartment and have sex for real.
- In Life on Mars, Gene and Sam are visiting a comatose girl in the hospital when they start a fight. They whale on each other for a bit, and then the camera cuts to them sprawled on the floor at the end of the bed, slightly the worse for wear, breathing heavily, and with Gene smoking a cigarette as they have a heart-to-heart conversation.
- Natalie walking on Sharona wiping Monk's face clean elicited the same lines from Monk as you'd expect him to say if he was having an affair.
- In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Menace", the team encounters an android in the form of a teenaged girl, who thinks she's human. When Daniel decides to explain to her that she's a robot, it ends up coming out very much like the cliched birds-and-the-bees conversation. ("You're not like me. On the inside, I mean.")
- "What now?" "I think we should descale the teapot." "You filthy bitch." "You love it."
Music
- Billy Joel's song "Christie Lee" is about a saxophone player who meets a woman at his gig, who is impressed by his skill and comes home with him so he can "perform" for her. In case it wasn't clear, we get this lyric: "He couldn't see that Christie Lee was a woman/who didn't need another lover; all she wanted was the sax!" Whether this song is a Does This Remind You of Anything or just plain innuendo is, being that this is a song, open to interpretation.
- AC/DC's "The Jack", (at least in it's original album form) is ostensibly about a poker game, but with lines like 'How was I to know that she'd been shuffled before... said she'd never had a royal flush' and 'She was holding a pair, but I had to try...' and 'She'd have the cards to bring me down, if she played them right' its clearly about something else.
- Queen's "I'm In Love With My Car" is either a sex euphemism (this is Queen after all) or it's a slightly worrying song that even Richard 'Oliver!' Hammond would find a bit worrying: 'Such a clean machine, With the pistons a pumpin' And the hub caps all gleam'.
- Get this: it was originally meant to be played straight. The song was written by Roger Taylor in honour of a roadie whose Triumph TR-4 was the centre of his life. Whether it's also a poke at guys who let their hobbies take over their lives is another question entirely, but given that the song was written by Roger Taylor it's probably not a terribly deep euphemism. The best part about the song is that Taylor locked himself into a cupboard until the rest of the band agreed to make the song the B-side to the "Bohemian Rhapsody" single. He did that because although singles were sold based on the A-side content, the writers of the A-side song and the B-side song shared the royalties earned on the single.
Tabletop Games
- Do not examine the biological principles behind Tyranid biomorphs too closely in Warhammer 40000. You will regret it.
- Absolutely anything to do with the Dark Eldar. Torturing people to death then eating their souls is essentially their version of sex, and it just gets worse from there. "My playthings break so easily".
- And on a related matter, absolutely anything to do with Slaanesh.
Theater
Video Games
- In Chibi-Robo, Jenny's stuffed toy bear has an addiction to nectar resembling one to cocaine — complete with withdrawals, hyperactivity, and mood swings.
- To make a point about perspective in Ever17, You (which is, incidentally, not a second-person pronoun, but a nickname for the character's incredibly long given name) has Kid try to put a pen back in its cap with one eye closed, leading to the above scene. This is made all the more amusing by the pair's UST, along with You being a good three years older.
- The infamous dowsing scene in Metal Gear Acid 2. Venus, to Snake's disgust, decides to try finding the opening to a sewer by dowsing for it, leading to the pair working their way further back through a large, dark building. While she starts off referring quite clearly to the act of dowsing, as she gets closer and closer to the goal she becomes more... passionate, gasping in surprise and pleasure and demanding Snake go in further, further, she can feel it, Snake's so near the spot, come on, more, go deeper in, deeper in, hurry, she's never felt it this strong, she's nearly there... By the time they actually reach the sewer entrance she's practically rolling around on the floor in orgasm. It's probably the only time a scene about dowsing actually raised anything's Media Classifications.
- A trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4 does it to add an emotional factor to an otherwise straightforwardly impressive fight scene. It shows Bishonen Raiden and Depraved Bisexual Vamp locked in an elaborate, showy combat. As it reaches its climax, Vamp slides around behind Raiden, who promptly jams his own sword through his lower stomach, piercing them both. The two of them writhe against each other, Vamp behind and Raiden in front, both grunting in exertion and pain - Vamp even reaches around to grip the sword hilt, and furiously rubs his hand up and down its length, trying to free it. It comes free in a spurt of the white cybernetic blood that Raiden is using. Vamp and Raiden lean in from opposite sides of the screen, and their lips nearly meet as Vamp speaks the final words of the trailer, smiling wickedly. While subtle, the connotations of homosexual sex give a weird, taboo, strangely tender feel to what would otherwise look like a pointlessly flashy fight scene.
- Similarly, in the first Metal Gear Solid, the zombie cyborg ninja Gray Fox, during his boss fight against his old best friend Solid Snake, starts crowing things like "that's good, Snake!" and "hurt me more! More! More!" As the player continues to attack him, he starts to have difficulty standing, and his cries increase in intensity and frequency, until his life bar is finally emptied, at which point he makes a sound halfway between a sigh and a scream and trembles on the floor, half-sobbing, half-laughing, violently discharging electricity. Ick.
- One possible adventure in the "South of the Border" area in Kingdom Of Loathing features your character walking into a drug store and encountering a doctor who gives them some Meleegra™ pills, which will allegedly increase the size of your weapon. While It Makes Sense In Context, the encounter plays out like someone hawking penis enlargement pills.
- In Persona 3, the main characters use things called "evokers" to summon spirits. These "evokers" are shaped and look just like handguns, imagery only made even more clear with the activation of such devices being done so by shooting one's self in the head, often wearing a big smile or look of confidence on their face.
- In Dead Rising, female zombies dressed in lingerie attack the protagonist by grabbing his waist, falling to their knees and moving their heads back and forth as they try to bite him.
- A death movie for survivors attacked by female zombies basically looks like a very canabalistic version of the 69 position (although it is slightly satisfying to see Ronald get it...)
- Final Fantasy VII features the miracle substance Mako. Generated from the essences of creatures long-since dead and pumped from the ground, it has allowed the company controlling it to control world politics, and its overuse creates serious consequences for the planet... similar to a certain black substance that the people of Earth have been using for several decades with similar results.
- This certain black substance is later treated as a viable alternative to mako in Advent Children. Also, mako is the literal soul and life-force of the Planet and everyone on it.
- Weird, this editor thought that Mako was an analogy to uranium or plutonium: that can power factories with ease with water (superheated). Mako radiation, poisoning, the presence of pipes in every power plant, and the glowing pools seemed to explain it well for me.
- You must have missed the bit in Shinra's headquarters where they have a set of advertisements for the line of cars that they make (represented during the opening FMV). The video clearly shows the engines of said cars using Mako in a way that is analogous to the use of the... distillates of the aforementioned black substance.
- The University expansion pack for the PC version of The Sims 2 introduced new objects such as a bubble blower and a juice keg. Although the bubble blower does make actual bubbles, the fact that it's shaped exactly like a hookah and that it literally makes your Sims float in the air when they use it makes it pretty obvious what the creators had in mind. As for the juice keg... that one speaks for itself.
- It's made more obvious by the fact that in the catalog, it's named the "White Rabbit Bubble Blower". Subtle, EAxis, subtle.
- Dante acquiring Lucifer in Devil May Cry 4. See for yourself.
- "Is it not your wish to become one with her?"
- Ar tonelico seems to take every opportunity to put some Innocent Innuendo into Diving, Installing, and pretty much anything involving the main character and one of the three love interests. Just take a look at this scene.
- Ar tonelico II takes this quite a bit further, with one love interest accusing another of taking the main character's 'virginity' and other such sequences. One in particular gave this troper the giggles. "She can't take a crystal that big!". Also, levelling up the party's Reyvateils requires them to bathe together.
- Conkers Bad Fur Day includes a few of these, but one standout example would be the Barn Boys chapter, where the player needs to help a down-on-his-luck bee meet up with a sunflower lady with enormous... stigmas... so that he can "pollinate" her. Then again, what'd you expect, she's a sunflower, he's a bee.
- The flicker of the Flickering Torch in Zork Grand Inquisitor is played as a mental ilness. He says he developed the flicker in response to his fear of the dark, that that's OK.
- Probably unintentional, but depending on how you look at it, Ristar's signature attack can look a little bit like a Kiss Of Death, or possibly even like something a bit more... intimate.
- In No More Heroes, Travis recharges his beam sword by, well, pumping it up and down in front of his crotch and breathing heavily.
- The faster you shake the wiimote, the faster you ... uh ... finish.
- Do we need to add the crescendo charge up sound the beam sword makes? Climaxing with a musical tone to indicate fully charged?
- In one of the trailers for NMH: Desperate Struggle, Travis gets his Beam Katana kissed, and it extends instantly.
- In the Super Smash Bros games where Mr. Game & Watch is a playable character his neutral A attack consists of him spraying his opponent with an insecticide sprayer. Unfortunately, said sprayer is shaped vaguely like a penis and he holds it a groin level. Even more unfortunately, when he attacks the sprayer is being pumped with great vigor and a cloud of "insecticide" is spurting from the tip.
- This is spoofed in this this scene. "Pumping" starts about 2 minutes into the movie.
- In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney a white powder that a washed up man keeps hidden in his office is supposed to improve someones mood, said man gets angry when his daughter touches it... fingerprinting powder, naturally.
- There's a scene in Snatcher where Gillian ends up looking shocked with fluid dripping down his face after seeing an underage girl naked.
- In Jedi Academy, one of the stock taunts from the Sith cultists is "The Sith will rise again!" This editor can't stop thinking of the episode of Friends where Joey gives his rendition of a slightly more famous line: "De South will rise again, mon!"
- Silent Hill. In a series where symbolism is everywhere and Freud was a genius, everything inevitably resembles something. Perhaps the most obvious is a scene near the end of the second game, in which Maria is strapped to a rack and Pyramid Head stabs her from behind with his enourmous, um, spear. Maria's expression is positively orgasmic.
- Pyramid Head is, quite literally, this trope incarnate, being a hulking man-monster that wears nothing but a long robe, carries around a BFS so huge he has to drag it behind him and alternates his time between raping incredibly feminine monsters to death and hunting a skittish, sexually insecure man with women issues. Not at all surprising that he has also become a legendary Memetic Molester.
- Zone of the Enders. Cockpits. That is all.
- Encyclopedia Obscura discusses the presence of this trope in various 16-bit games. Cho Aniki is mentioned, but it has its own page.
- The World Ends With You: When Joshua sees a hole, he knows how to fill it. The announcer was talking about Tin Pin Slammer. Really.
- In Prototype, during Mercer and Greene's second confrontation, they leap at each other, fall to the floor with one atop the other, and Mercer shoves a long needle into Greene's body. Said needle contains a mixture of both the genetic material created by Greene's virus and the same material from Mercer's body. Then, Greene gives birth to the Supreme Hunter. ...So Yeah.
- Resident Evil. Nemesis's ever so memorable preferred method of executing S.T.A.R.S. is holding them still and then... impaling them in the mouth. Mm-hm.
- Resident Evil 5. Excella trying to seduce Wesker, with her touching him and telling him that she "has her eyes set on something much... bigger." Her eyes look down a bit too low on his body, and she eventually starts moving her hands from his chest to his... lower area. Nope, no Double Entendres there.
- Another one from Resident Evil 5. The final battle between Wesker, Chris, and Sheva (though Wesker tends to ignore her). Wesker ends up shirtless, sweaty, and in tight black leather pants. He grows a bunch of tentacles, and constantly tries to grab ahold of Chris with them, in what looks way too much like tentacle rape.
Web Comics
- This strip of The Order of the Stick has so much no-so-Innocent Innuendo that Belkar had to give a Shout Out in response to not witnessing it.
- This El Goonish Shive comic seems to parallel Involuntary Shapeshifting to a certain stage in human sexual development (Bow Chicka Bow Wow).
- Look at the second panel of this Nerf Now comic. If you can't figure it out, just look at the photo notes on it.
- Penny Arcade does this in "Forbidden Fruit"
- The Non-adventures of Wonderella treats Hitlerella fighting another superhero (and kidnapping her sidekick) as infidelity in a romantic relationship. This only escalates their already enormous levels of foeyay.
- This strip of Girl Genius:
Agatha: I hardly know him! Castle Heterodyne: What's to know? His family is powerful, his spark burns strong, he's already taken with you... Agatha: But— Castle Heterodyne: And you cannot deny that he has a magnificent death ray. Agatha: ... That's... That's hardly a basis for a stable relationship.
- Lampshaded in this Dr.McNinja strip.
- In post-hiatus Fans!, due to a totally broken Masquerade and a well-respected polyamorous "triad," the hot-button issues seem to be polygamous and vampire marriage. Gay marriage hasn't been mentioned, although it's been implied gay rights have made impressive leaps over the Time Jump. A point of irony is that both vampires and polygamists seem to enjoy Mormon support.
- This installment of Sinfest is possibly the only thing in existence to blur the distinction between astronomy and sex.
- This Misfile strip:
Ash: I got it all set up for you. Just slip it in.
Emily: All right already. Just give me a second. It's the first time I've done something like this.
Ash: That's perfect.
Emily: I still don't know what I'm allowed to touch and what I can't. It's so gross and oily.
Ash: That's perfect. Now put in another one.
Emily: This is making my fingers all slippery.
Ash: You get used to it when you do this for a while.
Rumisiel: (listens in, drooling)
- In Amazoness, the Amazons' attitude to heterosexual relationships mirrors modern intolerance of homosexuality: teenagers find it hilarious and perverse, and parents are mortified at the thought of it.
- In Coming Up Violet a mini-sex scandel develops around the titular character when her boyfriend starts spreading lies about their first date, the boyfriend is on the lacross team. Many Americans will most likely remember something similar happening at a certain university in 2006.
- The whole "Comic in Crisis" mini-arc from Sluggy Freelance (beginning here) bares more than a few similarities to the Monica Lewinsky scandal that was going on at the time.
Web Original
- Gaia Online manages to pull this off in the Halloween 2008 event comics. A vampire caught "attacking" a human and his supposed victim are both blushing, sweaty, and quick to insist that "It's consensual! Yeah!"
- Broken Saints contains a number of very blatant sex jokes, but there is one linguistic pun that writer-director Brooke Burgess says nobody seems to catch: "Kingdoms are fickle things, old friend... like passion's emissary. Rising without word, collapsing without warning."
Western Animation
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Lisa's addiction to the Corey hotline is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction.
- In another episode of the same series, where Homer moves into the treehouse with a woman he married while inebriated in Las Vegas, Marge overhears that woman making a sandwich to Homer's specifications... which to the audience sounds surprisingly like a certain sexual act. Subverted when an appalled Marge exclaims, "Oh no! She's making him a sandwich!"
- In the episode "Love, Springfield Style", in Bart's version of the movie Sid and Nancy, Lisa and Nelson become chocoholics in a way that is portrayed like a drug addiction, right down to using razor blades to divide small piles of chocolate milk mix, using cigarette lighters to melt pieces of candy bars in spoons, and flushing various chocolate candies down the toilet whenever the cops show up.
- In the episode "Round Springfield", this classic exchange happens:
Bleeding Gums Murphy: I spent all my money on my $1,500 a day habit.
(start flashback)
Bleeding Gums Murphy: I'd like another Fabergé egg, please.
Salesman: Sir, don't you think you've had enough?
Bleeding Gums Murphy: I'll tell you when I've had enough!
(changes to a scene of Murphy lying broke and destitute in an alleyway, surrounded by Fabergé eggs)
- In the episode "Last Exit to Springfield", Mr. Burns tries to bribe Homer, who's a Union leader. Homer thinks Mr. Burns is hitting on him.
Burns: We don't have to be adversaries, Homer. We both want a fair union contract.
Homer: (thinking) Why is Mr. Burns being so nice to me?
Burns: And if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
Homer: (thinking) Wait a minute. Is he coming onto me?
Burns: I mean, if I should slip something into your pocket, what's the harm?
Homer: (thinking) My God! He is coming onto me!
Burns: After all, negotiations make strange bedfellows. (chuckle, wink)
Homer: (thinking) Aaaaaagh!
Homer: (aloud) Sorry, Mr. Burns, but I don't go in for these backdoor shenanigans. Sure, I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!
- "You were out gallivanting with that hussy of a Bigger Brother again, weren't you? Weren't you?"
- Not to mention this disturbing exchange...
Homer: Remember when I used to push you on the swing?
Bart: I was faking it.
Homer: (gasp) Liar!
Bart: Oh yeah? Remember this? "Higher Dad! Higher! Whee!"
- Yet another, in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": Bart becomes Nelson's "best friend", and it's played exactly like a relationship, with lines like "I've known him for ages, but we met at a party and hit it off right away" and jealousy over Bart 'flying kites' with another boy. Complete with a Brokeback Mountain homage at the end.
- South Park does this one a lot, for satirical purposes:
- "Here Comes The Neighborhood" was devoted to the town's reaction when Token Black, the only rich kid in town, convinces a number of other rich families (such as those of Will Smith and Oprah) to move to South Park. The locals get upset, and try progressively more extreme plots to drive the "richers" out of town: burning giant lowercase letter Ts on their lawns (short for "time to leave"), dressing as peak-headed ghosts (because rich people are scared of ghosts, naturally), etc. This was all a plan by Mister Garrison to take over their property and sell it to make the South Park residents rich, which fell through because the others hated rich folk... to which he replies, "Well, at least we got rid of those damn ni—" before being cut off by the closing credits.
- "Best Friends Forever" was a thinly veiled satire of the media hooplah over the Terri Schiavo case, with a battle against The Legions Of Hell thrown in for good measure.
- "Jared Has Aides", in which the mistaken phrase should be obvious.
- "Red Man's Greed", the history of American colonization and Native American displacement... with roles reversed.
- "Margaritaville", a Jew (Kyle) starts preaching and gathering followers. Check. Some adults start taking him as a threat. Check. He is betrayed by one of his followers (Cartman) who sold him out. Check. He does a (sorta) Heroic Sacrifice. Check. He is hailed as a savior. Subversion, Obama is the one.
Kyle: Awww! Come on!
- Rocko's Modern Life featured an entire episode with Ed Bighead having a closeted fascination with clowns, which is treated in the same way a more adult show might treat a sexual fetish. Another episode had Rocko develop a nail-biting habit that was treated like a drug addiction, complete with Rocko signing up for a twelve-step program (in this case, involving a group of cartoonish critters who called themselves "The Twelve Steps").
- Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, "Mac Daddy": When Bloo discovers that Mac created another imaginary friend in his sleep (or so they think), the conversation plays out like an uncovered affair:
Bloo: How did this happen?
Mac: I don't know! I don't remember anything; I just woke up and he was in my bed!
- The Powerpuff Girls played a candy addiction as a drug addiction (even going as far as hiring Mojo Jojo as their "fall guy" to commit some misdeeds to send him to jail so as to be rewarded with said candy).
- Futurama portrayed Bender brewing beer inside himself as awaiting a pregnancy, brought on by Bender realizing that there would be a living thing (yeast) inside him. He even goes so far as to sing lullabies and knit bottle covers. By the end, he's "giving birth" to the beer. Also notable for Fry declaring, "I hope it's a lager, so I can take it to a ballgame."
- In an earlier episode, Bender gets addicted to injecting himself with electricity. Leela finds him doing the same in the bathroom and asks, "Bender, are you jacking on in there?" This could be interpreted as either an allusion to drug addiction or masturbation, making it a double Double Entendre.
- And the opening of the first movie, Bender's Big Score, combines a particularly over-the-top example of this with a vicious Take That against Fox, comparing Planet Express closing and re-opening to the series' cancellation, sometimes bordering on Metaphorgotten.
- The episode "I Dated A Robot" has parodied the society's attitudes towards both interracial marriages and same-sex marriages. The episode also has the Subtext that file sharing is morally wrong.
- More than one episode had an odd example: robots need alcohol to function properly, so when Bender was feeling particularly bad about something, he went for a while without drinking... and as a result, behaved as if he were drunk. Thus, Bender's sobriety reminds one of a normal person's drinking!
- One of those episodes also has Bender's antenna treated like a certain part of male anatomy...
- The Boondocks episode "A Date With The Health Inspector" is a satire of the Iraq War. Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy represent George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfield, the X-Box killer which starts the whole episode is Osama Bin Laden, and the store clerk that Ed and Rummy rob for no reason is Saddam Hussein (in a No Celebrities Were Harmed). Several quotes are also made referencing the war, such as Rummy reciting Rumsfeld's "known unknowns and unknown unknowns" quote, and Wuncler telling the clerks to "Bring it, bitch" (a parallel to Bush's "Bring them on" speech).
- The Teen Titans episode "Troq" was obviously about racism. Another episode, Cyborg's dependency on a new Processor was treated like a drug addiction.
- The former episode invokes this trope hard when Starfire asks Cyborg (who is, mind you, black) if he's ever experienced prejudice himself, and he replies "Sure I do. I'm part robot." Thud!
- This troper got the impression Cyborg was just taking the easy out for explaining his experience to his alien friend, rather than getting into more complex issues that make humans look even worse, but the subtext may all have been imaginary.
- One word: Slade. Holy crap. His partnership with Terra has so many BDSM overtones she might as well have been wearing a gimp mask, his propositions to Robin to "join him" are equal parts "we can rule the world" and "I have candy in my van", and his Mind Rape of Raven so heavily resembles the other kind of rape that a short hentai movie (very NSFW) was able to be constructed from the scene without changing his dialogue at all.
- In fact, pretty much every children's cartoon since 1995 has done at least one really, really G Rated Drug and one thinly-veiled Coming Out Story.
- Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law had an episode with Peanut gaining his superpowers. The episode treated the "changes" a lot like puberty and Harvey (among others) were concerned about who he would have his first superhero battle with...
- An earlier episode has Apache Chief losing his superpowers due to spilling burning coffee in his lap (to grow tall) presented as if it were erectile disfunction. Made worst by the fact that he regains his superpower by being turned on.... Multiple superheroes go on to play the powers-as-sexuality thing.
Harvey: Mr. Vulcan, tell us about your superpower.
Black Vulcan: Pure electricity... in my pants.
Harvey: Tell us, what would life be like without your powers?
Black Vulcan: Well, you know when the power goes out in your house? It would be like that... but in your pants.
- And who could forget the episode where Harvey, who gets his powers from the sun, needs to stay in the shade for medical reasons, ending up with a powerful addiction to self-tanning lotion, with Peanut as his "dealer".
- In Drawn Together, Ling-Ling and his wife are having troubles: she never wants to battle him anymore, and when they do battle, she just lies there, unlike in the beginning of their marriage. Then, they decide to have sex instead. (Metaphorgotten!)
- In the Captain Planet episode "Frog Day Afternoon", Dr. Blight manages to shoot Wheeler and Linka with darts full of her latest experimental mutation serum that unexpectedly causes them to shrink to about an inch tall... only hours later, in their sleep. And their clothes didn't shrink along with them. One can only imagine what the other Planeteers concluded upon awakening to wonder, and I quote, "Where could they have gone?" "Without their clothes?"
- Phineas and Ferb features an episode in which Perry the Platypus discovers that Dr. Doofenschmirtz is having his evil plans foiled by another hero, which is set up like an affair.
- Complete with Perry walking in and Doof having a pawprint (re: lipstick) on his face, with Peter the Panda hiding in the nearby closet. Not What It Looks Like indeed ...
- The Spectacular Spider-Man has Harry's addiction to the Psycho Serum Globulin Green, which causes black outs and turns him into the Green Goblin... or did it?. This is handy for adapting his actual drug addiction in the comics on a child-friendly show.
- Pinky and the Brain has an interesting example. In the episode "Brinky", The Brain attempts to clone himself, which almost works until Pinky's DNA (from a clipped toenail) accidentally gets combined with Brain's, thus essentially making them parents of the resulting clone (and Pinky calling himself the clone's "mommy"). Most of the dialogue during the cloning process is scripted like an actual birth: for example, when the door on the cloning machine won't close (which is the reason Pinky's DNA is even in there), the Brain tells Pinky to help him "push", complete with Pinky doing Lamaze breathing.
- A similar situation happens in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, when, prompted by Robotnik's comment that a complete idiot could make a better robot than them, Scratch and Grounder decide to create a robot of their own. The whole thing is played a lot like they're having a child together; first, they hug and say "We're gonna be parents!" Then, they put spare robot parts into the "Robot-Making Machine", and Grounder asks Scratch wishut uplly, "Oh, Scratch, I wonder what it'll look like?" When the robot comes out, Scratch cries, "It's a boy! He has my chin, and my eyes!" And, when the robot kid runs away from home, the two robots end up placing an ad in the paper that says "Parents Seek Missing Robot". It's pretty blatant.
- In an episode of Disney's Lloyd in Space, Lloyd, a Martian, notices his antenna has been acting up a lot lately. As the episode is about puberty, it's all pretty obvious. It turns out that Martian boys will psychically project strange characters at the most inconvenient moments. The really strange thing, for a Saturday morning cartoon, is Lloyd's grandfather telling him that on Mars boys would get together to see who could project the weirdest character!
- In the Grand Finale of Transformers: Beast Wars, Dark Action Girl Blackarachnia borrows Rattrap's rather lengthy sword for a mechanical purpose and swiftly snaps its blade in half. Cue to her paramour Silverbolt shuddering in sympathy.
- A rather strange one of these appears in Code Lyoko, in which Jérémie is shown to have some computer magazines hidden under his mattress. Really. This may be an unintentional interpretation, though.
- Nope, the French version made it quite clear that Jim expected it to be a Porn Stash. The English version was tamer, of course.
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the scene at the end of "The Headband" where Aang and Katara have a big dance number that ends with them sweating and panting, looking at each with big smiles on their faces was something. Granted that is what normally happens when people dance, but still.
- Also in "The Headband", Aang goes to a Fire Nation school. On the second day there is a history lesson about how the Fire Nation beat the "Air Nation Army" as part of the "Great March of Civilization". The Air Nomads parallel the Tibetan Buddhists, so it makes sense that the Fire Nation is compared to (Maoist) China.
- In the lead-up for teaching Sokka about why sexism is wrong (and where he dresses in women's clothing), Aang quite happily says the line, "Where we're going, you won't need any pants!" It makes you wonder...
- And The scene in "Bitter Work", where Toph steals Aang's sack of nuts and then breaks a few with his staff and eats them. She even calls Aang a delicate instrument.
- This artist picked up on that.
- The giant drill the Fire Nation used to pierce the wall of Ba Sing Se in "The Drill; it's kind of hard not to associate the drill with something very, very nasty. It gets worse with the rock/water slurry, which appears to serve as a lubricant for the drill, and has the consistency of very slippery mud. Not only that, but when Aang delivers the crushing blow to the drill by smashing the weak spot, the slurry splatters everywhere, but particularly towards the front of the drill. It's no wonder Mai doesn't want to go anywhere near the stuff. Of course, even when you think about what the drill exploding could be a metaphor for, the imagery is still more funny than disgusting.
- One episode of Batman The Animated Series titled "The Ultimate Thrill" featured the character Roxy Rocket, a former stunwoman turned jewel thief who rides rockets as part of her robbery plans. It's mentioned a couple of times that she is in it more for the thrill of the crime than the actual spoils, and adding Batman chasing her into the mix just made it more exciting. The episode ends with Batman cornering Roxy straddling one of her rockets which is about to crash into the side of a cliff, and her getting really into it.
- The episode of Cow and Chicken entitled "Buffalo Gals" featured "a [female] biker group that randomly breaks into people's houses and chews on their carpet". For some reason, the episode was only broadcast once.
- Stimpy of The Ren and Stimpy Show has to overcome his TV addiction in one episode by quitting cold turkey. He eventually weans himself off... and goes into gambling.
- Showbiz from Achewood is addicted to, of all things, Rockford Fosgate automobile audio equipment. He does not have a car.
- In one episode of Pepper Ann, the title character agonizes over whether she is ready to have her first... kiss.
- In another, one character is caught sneaking into the school bathroom, and Pepper Ann is horrified to find out that she has taken up gum chewing.
- So, you're fighting your older brother over a gigantic acid spill with only a ridiculously small space to do so, eh? Megaman ends up in this very situation in the Ruby-Spears cartoon, and his first action is to wrap his legs around said older brother's (Protoman's) waist. While Protoman's lying on top of him. Nothing suspicious about that, no sir.
- Transformers Animated had the Scrapper and Mixmaster watching a luxury car being dismantled while hooting and swilling oil.
- Or how about when Meltdown was "experimenting" on Blackarachnia's body? She's pretty unsure, than the dude reveals his intentions to change her from technorganic to pure organic. The utter shock and terror at having her body violated beyond recognition, and her cries for him to stop. Thankfully Optimus saves her.
- Disney's Doug had an episode revolving around a product touted as a "relaxant" that is not legal to sell to anyone under 18, but whose manufacturers are secretly trying to get kids hooked on it. The product, Nic-Nacs, does not exist in real life, but it's suspiciously similar to one that does...
- ReBoot. Everything about Hexadecimal in Season 3 involved BDSM. Which was made even more disturbing when you realize the fact Megabyte is her brother...
- One episode of Aeon Flux manages to play Trevor preforming back surgery on a Breen women like sex. The women moans ecstatically throughout the operation, and upon finishing, Trevor tells he that she was amazing and asks her if it "was as as good for [her] as it was for [him]." While smoking a cigarette. And when Trevor's on-again-off-again lover Aeon learns of this, she reacts as though Trevor had cheated on her.
- Aeon Flux was pretty much made of this trope. I can think of another episode in which Trevor caught Aeon atop his high-atmosphere platform; both were wearing pressurized air suits, and Trevor plugged the air hose from his suit into Aeon's and forcibly inflated her suit, then drained the excess air back into his, and repeat, causing each one to swell up in turn. She grunts in shock each time she's "filled up". Riiiight.
- The Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Freaky Fred" features the eponymous barber, who has a compulsion to shave anyone and anything completely bald. However his creepy inner monologue, complete with delighted, drawn-out repetitions of "Naaaaauughty", and chorus of "La La La La"'s in the background (very similar to a certain song in A Nightmare on Elm Street) cause him to appear as something between a psychopathic murderer and serial child molester, making the series' least threatening villain into one of its most disturbing (which is quite a feat).
- There was also Kitty and Bunny... Two "friends".
- In an episode of Ed Edd N Eddy when Edd discovers a scientific magazine a page unfolds like a playboy centerfold and he reacts "oh my" and smiles. The camera then reveals that the picture is of a praying mantis.
- Hopefully unintentional, but The Brave Little Toaster gives us this:
Air Conditioner: I'm real scared there, Kirby. What're you gonna do, suck me to death?
- The Sword of Omens in Thundercats. It's a weapon that Lion-O was given when he reached puberty. When he waves it around, it grows longer and longer until, with a great shout of "Ho!", its eye opens and a white beam shoots out and... oh, I can't go on, I'm disgusting myself.
- In the Daria episode Jane's Addiction, Trent agrees to help Daria and Jane with a school project but flakes out on them. At the end of the episode he and Daria have a conversation about how "maye it wasn't such a good idea for [them] to get together...on this".
Real Life
- A mid-'90s George Carlin comedy routine points out all of the phallic and sexual innuendos of the first Gulf War. "Imagine an American President using the sexual slang of a thirteen-years-old to describe his foreign policy."
- From the New York Times dining section: "The Domaine de Chevalier 2007, still in oak barrels, trumpets its presence with an explosive burst of pure sauvignon blanc fruit and a beautifully opaque texture that invites repeated sips in an effort to penetrate the wine's mystery. The 2006, not yet bottled, is rounder and less flamboyant..." [1] Trumpets its presence with an explosive burst? Invites repeated sips in an effort to penetrate its mystery? Is this wine having an orgasm or something? Seems like a bit much... I'll take the rounder, yet less flamboyant, 2006, thanks...
- This◊. Full stop.
- Can you imagine the phone calls he got? "Holy shit... fifteen women for a whole day? Man, I gotta get me some of this!"
Was it as good for you as it was for me?
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