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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#1: Oct 2nd 2022 at 8:45:57 PM

So, a while back, I posted about a dubious example on Accidental Innuendo and consensus was to remove it for being too hard to understand. I've found two more.

The first one is from Ghostbusters (1984):

And the second one is from Sesame Street:

  • A Very Special Episode that aired just after September 11th, 2001, featured a trip to the local fire station after Elmo was frightened by a grease fire in a diner. When Elmo and Maria got to the firefighters' pole, Elmo rode it down, but Maria chickened out at the last moment. It wasn't the first time a woman was ever repelled by a giant pole... ...Is this some reference to stripper poles I don't get?

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#2: Oct 2nd 2022 at 8:59:49 PM

The first one is probably talking about "crossing streams" referring to streams of pee; that's what comes up for the phrase on Urban Dictionary.

No idea what the second one could be referring to.

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#3: Oct 2nd 2022 at 9:16:40 PM

My first guess at the second one would be some kind of pole=penis association. But I feel fairly confident no one would ever come up with that if it wasn't already on the page.

This kind of thing is why I'm pretty strongly opposed to the existence of Accidental Innuendo. I believe we have a cleanup thread - and it's worth raising these "examples" there - but it feels kind of like bailing out the Titanic with a thimble given the very fundamental issue of "immature tropers will take any ludicrously convoluted route they can to find innuendo" that led to the drastic misuse of Getting Crap Past The Radar, which was bad enough that that trope wound up getting drastically reworked.

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#4: Oct 2nd 2022 at 9:25:09 PM

Yeah, the second one is definitely a dick joke.

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#5: Oct 2nd 2022 at 11:06:02 PM

"Crossing the streams" specifically refers to two people with penises trying to urinate into each other's urinal. I first saw it on The Law of the Playground back when that site existed, so UD didn't invent it. However, the term was coined in reference to Ghostbusters, so I really don't think it counts as an example.

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#6: Oct 4th 2022 at 1:14:10 AM

Once I saw someone say that Accidental Innuendo was a Just for Fun page in all but name.

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#7: Oct 4th 2022 at 2:11:14 AM

A lot of Accidental Innuendo examples are incredibly stretched (no pun intended) and have schizophrenic reach of "but if you really think about it, it can be mispronounced as a swear in Southern Asian language", one troper outing themselves with Freud Was Right, or just normal words that have other meaning on certain websites. The trope at large may need a wick check.

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