Basic Trope: Two characters do something innocuous that is a metaphor for having sex.
- Straight: Alice and Bob get into the shower and literally sing together.
- Exaggerated: While they do so, Censor Steam comes up and it really looks like a Sexy Discretion Shot except for the singing.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob are shown preparing to go to bed, and it always cuts to the next day, leaving plenty of room for things to happen between those periods.
- Justified:
- Alice and Bob are Starfish Aliens, and singing is how they have sex.
- Alice and/or Bob is part of a religion that has a rule about no sex until marriage, but they're still deeply attracted to each other, so they go as sexual as possible without actually having sex.
- Inverted:
- Sex is a metaphor for something innocent.
- Just Like Making Love
- Subverted:
- Alice appears to be having a duet with Bob, but it turns out that she is actually alone in the shower, singing and "Bob's" lines are just her doing an impression.
- Alice and Bob start singing, but end up doing something completely different.
- Double Subverted:
- But then Bob comes in and sings along with her, before opening the door and producing Censor Steam.
- But then Alice appears to pull a microphone out of her crotch and resumes her Solo Duet.
- Turns out, sex in the shower is a pain in the butt to pull off, so they settle for just singing.
- Parodied:
- The neighbors have a traumatized look on their faces.
- Fairies have singing fulfilling their role of sex for pleasure and reproduction. They are appalled by humans singing in public, on the radio, and are seriously disturbed by children's choirs. Meanwhile, they see nothing dirty about nudity or coitus.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob sing in the shower, then they appear to be having actual sex, but it turns out they're just dancing, but then Alice tries to initiate sex, but they fall over because they're in the shower. However, them falling on top of one another only encourages them further.
- Averted:
- Alice and Bob actually have sex.
- Alice and Bob's relationship is not of a sexual or romantic nature, so nothing they do together is even remotely suggestive.
- Enforced:
- "We want Alice and Bob to "express their love," buuut... this is a kids' show, so we need them to have sex in a way that isn't really sexual."
- The Hays Code or some other similar rules/laws governing what is/is not too morally objectionable for network TV/movies/literature/games in a particular place.
- It's a video game where you can breed creatures to create new ones, and the developers had to keep it as chaste as possible (either because of the game's age rating, or just for simplicity's sake).
- Lampshaded: "So what did you and Bob do last night, Alice?" "Well... we made beautiful music together... Literally! There's no euphemism there, really!"
- Invoked: Bob sees Alice naked and singing in the shower and he just realized that he made an Innocent Innuendo or two in the scene before, so being the troublemaker he is, he decides to get in there to horrify the guests.
- Exploited: Mallory uses footage she captured from this scene, with the sound of herself eating macaroni dubbed over to really sell it, as Black Mail.
- Defied: Alice and Bob steal all of the fourth wall camera's "sexy time" special effects and only give them back when real sex occurs.
- Discussed: "I live with this couple who never have sex but always make their day-to-day activities seem so sexual."
- Conversed: "Were they hinting at sex there?"
- Implied: Does This Remind You of Anything?
- Played for Laughs: Alice and Bob's song is full of innuendo.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob sings a duet with someone else, and it affects his relationship with Alice.
- Carol forces someone to sing with her and it's used as an allegory for rape.
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