History Main / HeadTiltinglyKinky

'''Simmons'''...Okay...okay...\\

* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Visiting a Hobgoblin camp... [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-08-19 during the mating season.]]

* Whatever ComicBook/LexLuthor's fantasies are, they're enough to momentarily startle [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death]], who has quite literally SeenItAll.

The solution? Let the audience TakeOurWordForIt. Keep the [[UnusualEuphemism limber lambada]] dancers off screen and have [[ReactionShot witnesses tilt their heads]] or turn the magazine sideways, preferably with their mouths [[JawDrop agape]]. Their conversation may be vague about what is happening, yet still implying something kinky is happening, possibly at an oblique angle, and they can't take their eyes off it.

This avoids the problems of showing it on-screen, and also gives the viewer's imagination (perverse) grounds for speculation.

* One particular scene from the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' fic, "''Fanfic/AhArchfall''" In Belldandy's own words ; "Oh my! I didn't know Lind made ''that'' kind of noise!"

* In ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'', Marty (Creator/RobertRedford) is conducting surveillance on a scientist, who'sin his apartment. The scientist's girlfriend comes over, and as they start making out, she exclaims passionately "Let's do what we did in Mexico City!" Marty looks through the camera and mutters, "I didn't know they could do '''that''' in Mexico City."

* Implied in the Dudley Moore vehicle ''Film/WhollyMoses''; the Sodomites' orgies are off screen, but ''Herschel's'' own head literally tilts as he watches them.

** The actual ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook'' is filled with these, for the reader, in the form of editor notes. Including one that is a head nod to the "Joye of Snacks" and other works by Ogg, including "Mother Ogg's Tales for Tiny Folk" with the story "The Little Man Who Grew Too Big". Finally the sections "meaning of flowers" and "Etiquette in the Bedroom" are covered in notes, leaving random lines to sneak through, or removed completely.

* ''Literature/YoungWizards'': In ''A Wizard Alone'', Kit's sister watches a lot of alien television channels. Their parents can't make head nor tail of them, but like one particularly soothing channel. They quickly realize their mistake.
* The SF "Worlds Apart" by Richard Cowper contains a scene with a) jelly beans, b) slurping noises and c) a very prudish wife of the protagonist who probably has d) a mind-shattering orgasm and never forgives the hero for that. Since the whole book is a MindScrew, it's up to the readers interpretation anyway.

-->'''Tycho:''' (''in disbelief'') What is going on? Why is he...? I thought that....

** In the episode when they go to Brazil, Bart is watching a kids TV show hosted by a woman in a very {{Stripperific}} outfit. The bit on "counting" has scantily clad dancers writhing around on giant letters and a showgirl demonstrates "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" using the tassled pasties on her chest. As the shot cuts away from the show, the host says "On top of... beneath!" Marge and Bart can only stare in disbelief.

* Implied in the Dudley Moore vehicle ''Wholly Moses''; the Sodomites' orgies are off screen, but ''Herschel's'' own head literally tilts as he watches them.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In the 6th season episode "Inevitable" [[OfficialCouple Fitz and Simmons]] are wired into a mind prison where their thoughts are given life. During the episode, they both have to face their inner demons (The Doctor, the evil Fitz from the Framework, and Nightmare Simmons, a zombie-like version of Simmons who represents her own darker side). Finally Fitz and Simmons prepare to face off against their darker sides...only to see the Doctor and Nightmare Simmons getting freaky together. They find themselves quite intrigued by the sight.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD:'': In the 6th season episode "Inevitable" [[OfficialCouple Fitz and Simmons]] are wired into a mind prison where their thoughts are given life. During the episode, they both have to face their inner demons (The Doctor, the evil Fitz from the Framework, and Nightmare Simmons, a zombie-like version of Simmons who represents her own darker side). Finally Fitz and Simmons prepare to face off against their darker sides...only to see the Doctor and Nightmare Simmons getting freaky together. They find themselves quite intrigued by the sight.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD:'': In the 6th season episode "Inevitable" [[OfficialCouple Fitz and Simmons]] are wired into a mind prison where their thoughts are given life. During the episode, they both have to face their inner demons (The Doctor, the evil Fitz from the Framework, and Nightmare Simmons, a zombie-like version of Simmons who represents her own darker side). Finally Fitz and Simmons prepare to face off against their darker sides...only to see the Doctor and Nightmare Simmons getting freaky together. They find themselves quite intrigued by the sight.
-->'''Fitz''': What...The hell?\\
'''Simmons'''...Okay...okay...\\
'''Fitz''': Didn't know you liked that.\\
'''Simmons''': Didn't know you'd ''do'' that.

The solution? Let the audience TakeOurWordForIt. Keep the [[UnusualEuphemism limber lambada]] dancers off screen and have [[ReactionShot witnesses tilt their heads]] or turn the magazine sideways, preferably with their mouths [[JawDrop agape]]. Their conversation may be vague about what is happening, yet still implying something kinky is happening, possibly at an oblique angle.

* Film/TheViewAskewniverse comic ''Chasing Dogma'' has an installment where Jay drops his pants on the street in order to impress a porn star he'd been talking to. She is not impressed and walks away, just as a mother and two small children turn the corner and see him. The mother does the head-tilt, the two little boys stare in fascination, and one of them says "Mommy, why's his pee-pee littler than mine?"

* Played straight in the current BT Broadband ads, where after running from a house with a slow connection to one using the above brand, something (unseen) appears on the screen, prompting this response and (to paraphrase) "no, guys, not on my stag night, she'd kill me!"
* A recent Bud Light ad ends with one of these involving a debauched tourist, a customs officer, and a camera that has to be rotated 90 degrees.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' gives us a live-witness version. Leo and Piper are in the club on a rowdy night with quite a few scantily clad girls dancing on podiums. Leo tilts his head and says "Can you do that in public?"

[[caption-width-right:350:If you [[InnocentInaccurate have to think]],\\
it's head-tilt [[RhymesOnADime kink]].]]

%%[[caption-width-right:192:[-If you [[InnocentInaccurate have to think]],\\
it's head-tilt [[RhymesOnADime kink]].-] ]]

* ''Series/AgathaRaisin'': At the end of "Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley", Agatha brings home a copy of the nude yoga dvd. As she and Gemma sit down to watch it, they immediately start tilting their heads at an odd angle.

Occasionally, happens with other weird events, as people tend to imitate others' actions subconsciously. Also a fun OfficialCouple variation of NotWhatItLooksLike! Often used with BelligerentSexualTension, leading the {{Tsundere}} to [[LuminescentBlush blush profusely]] and then go [[BerserkButton tsuntsun]] on her LoveInterest.

'''Ryan:''' (stares silently for a moment, then tilts his head sideways'')

* Appears in a ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''-themed ad for Sky Broadband's internet security system (conveniently enough, called Shield): Nick Fury orders a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to bring up the files on the Winter Soldier, then protests "''That'' is ''not'' the Winter Soldier!" While he rails about how this would never happen if they had Sky Broadband Shield, the agent turns back to the unseen screen and tilts her head.