History Main / EntendreFailure

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0212.html This]] ''OrderOfTheStick'' strip. ("The proper term is 'Smite Evil,' not 'Bump Uglies.'") Subverted in hindsight; Miko knows full well what the various [[DoubleEntendre Double Entendres]] mean and is deliberately ignoring them until Roy grows up a bit.

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0212.html This]] ''OrderOfTheStick'' strip. ("The proper term is 'Smite Evil,' not 'Bump Uglies.'")

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* [[http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/005814.html This Overheard quote.]]
* Tony Attwood tells the story of a child with Asperger syndrome who was asked by a psychiatrist, "Do you hear voices?" The child very naturally said yes. Much consternation and wrong diagnoses ensued.
** ... And I was thinking my psychologist was an idiot for thinking I heard voices because she did not notice that I explained my thoughts with anthropomorphication as a kid. For bonus points, I'm autistic too.
*** This troper remembers a story he read about a psychologist who asked an autistic kid "Do your parents touch you?", the kid said yes, and his parents were wrongfully convicted for child sexual abuse.
* From {{Overheard}}: [[http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/archives/003313.html "Our bras are 15% off today..."]]
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** My favorite bit was when CJ gave the hippy a long speech full of colloquialisms like that, including casually calling him a 'motherfucker', and the hippy interprets ''everything'' literally.

* "Two and a half men", Pretty much all of the earlier episodes had jokes about Jake not getting the adults sexual innuendo's and taking things -->literally

** Inverted in another sketch, which has a DirtyOldMan walk into a shop and start reading the advertisements on the door. After he finds out that neither "small white pussy cat," "chest of drawers," "pram," "babysitter," nor "be a blood donor" are what he's looking for, the shopkeeper hands him a card, which he reads: "Blond prostitute will indulge in any sexual activity for four quid a week. What does that mean?"

* In the first ''Naruto Shipuuden'' movie, the plot involves rescuing a hereditary BarrierMaiden (and in the end getting her to accept her role and the need for the position) the movie ends with said girl talking to the protagonist and mentioning that, basically "I'm going to need help fixing someone to succeed my position, mind helping me out with that?". Cue Naruto going "Sure!" and everyone else facepalming...
** [[TimeSkip All that time, spent with the most perverted character in the series, wasted.]]

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0212.html This]] ''OrderOfTheStick'' strip.

* ThatMitchellAndWebbLook features a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT2wE0fLdWg sketch]] with a new doctor starting work in a [[AwfulBritishSexComedy Bawdy 1970's Hospital]]. He is soon fired after it becomes apparent he's incapable of making double entendres.

Person A makes a comment, [[ViewersAreGeniuses expecting people]] to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean know]] the [[DoubleEntendre real meaning of it.]] Person B takes the comment literally, and is often unaware that there's more than one meaning to what's being said. HilarityEnsues... [[PlayedForDrama or maybe not.]]

* "Two and a half men", Pretty much all of the earlier episodes had jokes about Jake not getting the adults sexaul innuendo's and taking things -->literally

Person A makes a comment, [[ViewersAreGeniuses expecting people]] to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean know]] the [[DoubleEntendre real meaning of it.]] Person B takes the comment literally. HilarityEnsues... [[PlayedForDrama or maybe not.]]

Person A makes a comment, [[ViewersAreGeniuses expecting people]] to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean know]] the [[DoubleEntendre real meaning of it.]] Person B takes the comment literally. HilarityEnsues... [[TearJerker or maybe not.]]

* ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' has [[spoiler:Leonardo da Vinci]] attempt to come out of the closet by declaring that, "Women provide little distraction" (from constructing equipment for the Assassins) and not-very-subtly placing a hand on Ezio Auditore's shoulder. However, after a moment Ezio answers, "Wait, I don't get it..." and looks at him with apparent confusion, leading to an awkward silence for the both of them.

* ''GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" "I keep telling you I don't know, homes, where his holiness does his business is his business."

-->'''Dave:''' No, no, no... Do you... do you know if you sister is, you know... ''active?''

* In ''TheShining'', Danny, who has telepathic powers, catches a female hotel guest checking out a bellhop and thinking, "I'd like to get into his pants." Danny, who is five years old and rather clueless about things sexual, takes it to mean that the lady wanted the guy's pants and is thoroughly confused. He has to talk to Dick Halloran about it before the man informs him that this wasn't what she wanted (though Danny being just five, he just tells him that she has quite the dirty mind).

* In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'', the older, more cynical guards assume that young and innocent Carrot joined the Watch to get away from a bad situation at home. One of them asks him if he "got a girl into trouble", and Carrot, recalling all the times his girlfriend was lectured by her father about how unsuitable he was, says that he did, more than once. He also admitted to staying at "Mrs Palm's" (a notorious brothel) every night, impressing his co-workers, though Carrot was actually under the impression it was a boarding house. His letter home to his family included a line about one of the girls waking him up to ask if he wanted anything "but they had no apples so I said no". Non-sexual IncrediblyLamePun examples abound throughout the series as well.

* In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'', the older more cynical guards assume that young and innocent Carrot joined the Watch to get away from a bad situation at home. One of them asks him if he "got a girl into trouble", and Carrot, recalling all the times his girlfriend was lectured by her father about how unsuitable he was, says that he did, more than once. He also admitted to staying at "Mrs Palm's" (a notorious brothel) every night, impressing his co-workers, though Carrot was actually under the impression it was a boarding house. His letter home to his family included a line about one of the girls waking him up to ask if he wanted anything "but they had no apples so I said no". Non-sexual IncrediblyLamePun examples abound throughout the series as well.

* GrandTheftAuto SanAndreas: "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" "I keep telling you I don't know, homes, where his holiness does his business is his business."
** My favorite bit was when CJ gave the hippy a long speech full of colloquialisms like that, including casually calling him a 'motherfucker', and the hippy interprets everything literally, including, "And I never made love to my mother, man."