History HaveAGayOldTime / LiveActionTV

--->''It starts out like an A words, as anyone can see''\\

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' had Oscar The Grouch singing "I Love Trash", where he lists off prized items in his garbage collection, including "a rusty trombone". Since that phrase is now a term for a sex act, that lyric can cause an immature giggle or two. It may or may not help that he holds up the musical instrument in question (though the prop is actually a trumpet) when that line comes up.

* Used deliberately in the Season 6 live episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'': "I'm Dr. Leo [[ItisPronouncedTroPAY Spaceman]]. I'm known in the industry as the gay doctor because I always have a smile on my face - [[SubvertedTrope because I have so many homosexual lovers]]."

* In ''Series/TheNanny'' episode "Pishke Business", Fran Fine has to pretend she's [[RichBitch C.C. Babcock]], Maxwell Sheffield's business partner, to win over a potential investor, and to prepare Fran, C.C. gives her a big binder with biographical info:

** In the ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats Beast of Yucca Flats]]'' episode, Crow names his film destroying group "Film Anti-Preservation Society", or "F.A.P.S." a few years before "[[ADateWithRosiePalms fapping]]" was coined.

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Wesley uses "dicks" to describe the members of Angel Investigations while riding in Angel's car. Gunn finds this offensive, and {{lampshade|Hanging}}s [[ExecutiveMeddling television production standards]] by warning Wesley not to say the word again.
** Another example: Illyria states in one episode that she and Wesley are "no longer having intercourse." She then clarifies a moment later that he has stopped speaking to her (intercourse meaning "conversation").

** In the 1966 story "The Smugglers", the Doctor describes Captain Avery as 'a man who prefers the company of gentlemen', and even claims it's because of the way he dresses and talks. From context it's more likely he means that the Captain is a ManOfWealthAndTaste who prefers to hang around with other classy blokes, rather than meaning that he fancies men, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but it may have been an intentional double-entendre]] (after all, we're dealing with a sailor).

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' once featured a 1950s short film called "Out of This World," in which an angel and a devil fight over a bread deliveryman's soul. The devil was named Red, and the angel was named... '''Whitey.''' And yes, Crow promptly greeted her with "Hey, WHITEY!!!"

* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' manages to get away with making Chuck use 'queer' to mean 'strange'. The narrator uses 'gay to mean 'happy' at one point, too, and that time, it is somewhat giggle-inducing. (The show is set in a [[TheFifties Fifties]] RetroUniverse.)
** And the narrator, for extra defiance, uses the word in its modern conception in "The Legend of Merle [=McQuoddy=]".

* Scottish comedian duo Hale&Pace bring you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjnhI7302Ic The Nun's Song]]. Remember, rubber is simply an eraser...(and so on)

* Fanny Craddock was a famous television chef in Britain during the fifties and sixties. In one programme she taught viewers how to make ring doughnuts. After the programme, the announcer spoke a line [[MemeticMutation still played on clip-shows to this day]]: "I hope all your doughnuts come out like Fanny's."

* Not surprisingly, ''Series/ThreesCompany'' played with this, given the role Jack was playing with the landlords. A most memorable time was, when asked directly in a court case, "Are you gay?" Jack replies, "Well, sometimes, but I can be sad sometimes too."

** David Baddiel did a routine about ''Grace and Favour'' (the short-lived 1990s ''AYBS'' revival), and how younger people, who only think that "pussy" means "vagina", wouldn't understand the innuendo, and would think that the show was "incredibly rude".; (ringing up the BBC to complain); "Excuse me, but Molly Sugden has just appeared on my TV and said that her gash is dripping!"

* Megan from ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' calls her brothers "boobs" at least OnceAnEpisode.

* The ethnic term "Polack", as used in ''AllInTheFamily'', which was one of Archie Bunker's derisive nicknames for Mike Stivic, his Polish-American son-in-law, was formerly used in Shakespeare's time as a relatively inoffensive term for an inhabitant of Poland, as compared to its now archaic, outdated usage in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'':

->'''Bill Lord:''' You were here and in the motorcade as it left Love Field. Can you describe to us what happened?
->'''Bob Clark:''' Yes, I believe we have some more film coming up of the start of the motorcade from the airport. The rather long journey down into downtown Dallas. This was a gay scene... throughout the entire distance.