History Main / ImaginedInnuendo

* In ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Steve Rogers mistakes a mention of a 'late-night fondue' as a reference to something sexual after he hears Howard Stark inviting Peggy out to have fondue. It's a while before anyone explains to him what fondue is.

* In ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Steve Rogers mistakes a mention of a 'late-night fondue' as a reference to something sexual. It's a while before anyone explains to him what fondue is.

* In CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger, Steve Rogers mistakes a mention of a 'late-night fondue' as a reference to something sexual. It's a while before anyone explains to him what fondue is.

* In one episode of ''Series/JustShootMe'', a prankster switching around the "from" tags on birthday gifts ends up switching a gag gift of sex toys with a normal gift of video games. The guy with the presents is understandably uncertain when the woman who gave him video games asks if she can come to his house to "play with the present I gave you".

* In ''CommodoreHUSTLE'', Alex invokes this in "Bros Clubbing Bros".

* Used quite famously in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''. Once Benedick has been tricked into believing that Beatrice is in love with him, he immediately interprets his next vicious encounter with her as being a form of SlapSlapKiss- ignoring the fact that this encounter is quite identical to every other encounter they've had where he saw no romantic subtext at all.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Homer as a Union Boss who Burns tries to deal with by making innuendos toward bribery. Unfortunately, Homer isn't smart enough to understand this and ends up concluding that Burns is trying to seduce him. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Unfortunately for Burns, anyway]].

* Used quite famously in MuchAdoAboutNothing. Once Benedick has been tricked into believing that Beatrice is in love with him, he immediately interprets his next vicious encounter with her as being a form of SlapSlapKiss- ignoring the fact that this encounter is quite identical to every other encounter they've had where he saw no romantic subtext at all.

* In one episode of JustShootMe, a prankster switching around the "from" tags on birthday gifts ends up switching a gag gift of sex toys with a normal gift of video games. The guy with the presents is understandably uncertain when the woman who gave him video games asks if she can come to his house to "play with the present I gave you".
* In ''{{Glee}}'', Mercedes suspects that Kurt is gay...at least until the cheerleaders tell her he likes her. Then she interprets every time they hang out as a date. Unfortunately, her first instincts were correct.

* In ''ILoveLucy'', Lucy goes to a job interview with Ricky in disguise. Unfortunately, [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Ricky can't really talk to women without sounding like he's propositioning them.]] When he asks to see her credentials, Lucy slaps him.

* In CommodoreHUSTLE, Alex invokes this in "Bros Clubbing Bros".

* WebVideo/KampferAbridged. This happened in the anime as well, but poor Akane's confusion over Natsuru asking her to ''[[AccidentalInnuendo come over]]'' to his house is more hilarious than it was.

* One episode of TheSimpsons has Homer as a Union Boss who Burns tries to deal with by making innuendos toward bribery. Unfortunately, Homer isn't smart enough to understand this and ends up concluding that Burns is trying to seduce him. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Unfortunately for Burns, anyway]].

* A "by proxy" example, if you will, as it was actually the radio that did it. In ''Series/AlloAllo'', a {{Britcom}} set in Occupied France during {{WWII}}, stealth [[LaResistance French Resistance]] operative René is hiding a radio behind the bar in his Café. The radio begins spouting code phrases meant for resistance agents (usually gibberish like "Pierre enjoys riding his new bicycle") and this rouses the suspicions of German Wehrmacht Lieutenant Gruber. Gruber asks René who is saying these things, and René, wanting to keep the radio a secret, claims that he's the one who said them. Unfortunately for René, the next phrase to come out of the radio is "Listen very carefully, meet me behind the woodshed at one o'clock." Lieutenant Gruber interprets this as an overture for a homosexual tryst, and very eagerly and happily agrees to meet René at o'clock.

Not to be confused with the AccidentalInnuendo, where it's the ''audience'' who got the wrong impression. Compare and contrast InnocentInnuendo and {{Unentendre}}, see [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar]] for a well-detailed list from the audience's POV.

Not to be confused with the AccidentalInnuendo, where it's the ''audience'' who got the wrong impression. Compare and contrast InnocentInnuendo and {{Unentendre}}.

Not to be confused with the AccidentalInnuendo, where it's the ''audience'' who got the wrong impression. Compare and contrast InnocentInnuendo.

* KampferAbridged. This happened in the anime as well, but poor Akane's confusion over Natsuru asking her to ''[[AccidentalInnuendo come over]]'' to his house is more hilarious than it was.

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* One episode of TheSimpsons has Homer as a Union Boss who Burns tries to deal with by making innuendos toward bribery. Unfortunately, Homer isn't smart enough to understand this and ends up concluding that Burns is trying to seduce him. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Unfortunately for Burns, anyway]].
* In one episode of JustShootMe, a prankster switching around the "from" tags on birthday gifts ends up switching a gag gift of sex toys with a normal gift of video games. The guy with the presents is understandably uncertain when the woman who gave him video games asks if she can come to his house to "play with the present I gave you".

* In ''Literature/TheStupidestAngel'', during a bout of sex, Molly promises to wash Theo's car. Theo assumes this is a euphemism for something, but confesses he doesn't know what it means. Molly explains it means [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what she said]].

* This happens in PGWodehouse novels all the time. Literature/BertieWooster mistakenly creates the impression that he is proposing to/hitting on/in love with various women on a regular basis (when usually he is, in fact, trying to set her up with a friend). Most of the time they aren't particularly interested in Bertie, but end up accepting his "proposal" anyway, for one reason or another.

* This happens in PGWodehouse novels all the time. Bertie Wooster mistakenly creates the impression that he is proposing to/hitting on/in love with various women on a regular basis (when usually he is, in fact, trying to set her up with a friend). Most of the time they aren't particularly interested in Bertie, but end up accepting his "proposal" anyway, for one reason or another.

What happens when, in-story, Alice starts interpreting statements by Bob to be a variant of IfYouKnowWhatIMean. Most common if Alice has either been given misinformation by a third party, or if she's simply not intelligent enough to realize what it is that Bob is actually referring to. Almost always, HilarityEnsues.

* KampferAbriged. This happened in the anime as well, but poor Akane's confusion over Natsuru asking her to ''[[AccidentalInnuendo come over]]'' to his house is more hilarious than it was.

* ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum: A semi-closeted StraightGay agent was offered a cigarette by someone who didn't know him well and chose to phrase it in a rather unfortunate way; i.e. by simply holding out the packet and saying "Fag?" The agent in question didn't see the cigarettes until too late. That did not go down well.

* In ''ILoveLucy'', Lucy goes to a job interview with Ricky in disguise to make sure he's not using a CastingCouch. Unfortunately, [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Ricky can't really talk to women without sounding like he's propositioning them.]] When he asks to see her credentials, Lucy slaps him.