History Main / ImaginedInnuendo

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* In ''Film/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.

--> '''Thompson''': I was looking out of the window on the underground, travelling overground,...when I saw a man [[ThatCameOutWrong messing about]] with a girl.
-->'''Reporter''': What?!\\
'''Thompson''': He was trying to stick a knife into her.\\
'''Reporter''': Ha, knife, I get you.

* Steve Rogers in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' doesn't have much experience with international cuisine, so when he hears notorious playboy Howard Stark invite a woman out for "fondue," Steve assumes he's talking about something a bit racier than melted cheese.

* 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.

-->'''Rachel''': How do you expect me to grow if you won’t let me blow?\\
'''Ross''' You know I don’t... have a... have a problem with that...

-->'''Sam''': I had silverfish all over my apartment last night.\\
'''Cliff, Norm''': Ooh, silverfish!\\
'''Sam''': Spent the whole night rolling up newspapers and swatting them.\\
'''Cliff''': Oh, ''kinky''.\\
'''Sam''': It got so bad there, I started rubbing ammonia on the baseboard.\\
'''Cliff''': Sammy, don't know what that means, but does she have a sister?

-->'''David Mitchell''': That sounded like it should sound rude, but then when you think about it, no, not really.

* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'': Deandre is prone to picking up sexual meanings where none are intended, between his dirty mind, the SeparatedByACommonLanguage aspects of his New Zealand English compared to everyone else's (everyone else is either from the USA or learned it while living in Belgium) and the homonyms of some geology terms. The scene in which Melissa walks into a room while Hendrik (a PungeonMaster [[spoiler:who is also the "oblivious to innuendos" type of asexual]]) is on the tail end of giving Deandre a long geology talk is a sight to behold.

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-->'''Elgin:''' If anyone asks, you haven’t seen me since this morning, and I’m certainly not at home. That goes for the lady as well.\\
'''Sorenson:''' I don’t think your father would approve, sir.

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-->'''Alex''': Hey James, you wanna play Bros Twisting bros?\\
'''James''': (Backs away) Is this another trick question?

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* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Jamie originally assumes that Jason is Graham's boy (in the sense of SexSlave or at least sex partner) and wonders whether Graham will still want him, but Graham assures him that he (Jason) isn't.
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Not to be confused with the AccidentalInnuendo, where it's the ''audience'' who got the wrong impression. Compare and contrast InnocentInnuendo and UnEntendre. See also CallingMeALogarithm.

'''Reporter''': Ha, [[UnEntendre knife]], I get you.

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* In the first [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin miniseries]] Tim gets a fright when Lady Shiva wakes him up at night for martial arts training, telling him that she'll bring him to a ''"whole new world"''. Tim responds with ''"Um... I don't think I'm ready for this"''. Lady Shiva then nonchalantly replied with a joke that they could do ''that'' later, after the training.

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* Exaggerated in one particularly [[MemeticMutation memetic]] ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' short comic by Bomber Grape, in which Remilia misinterprets completely innocuous actions by the girls around her as blatant sexual advances. HilarityEnsues.

* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'': After Benedick has been [[BluffTheEavesdropper convinced]] that Beatrice is in love with him, he interperets everything she says as an innuendo when she is sent to bid him "come to dinner."

* In one episode of ''Series/JustShootMe'', a Finch switching around the "from" tags on birthday gifts for Elliot ends up switching a gag gift of sex toys (from a minor, male character) with a normal gift of video games (from Maya). Elliot 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". Meanwhile he freaks out the guy who gave him the sex toys by inviting him over for "just us guys" playtime. The guy [[EvenTheGuysWantHim goes for it]], though.

'''Harold Stark:''' Fondue's just cheese and bread, my friend.

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

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* In the first [[ComicBook/RobniSeries Robin miniseries]] Tim gets a fright when Lady Shiva wakes him up at night for martial arts training, telling him that she'll bring him to a ''"whole new world"''. Tim responds with ''"Um... I don't think I'm ready for this"''. Lady Shiva then nonchalantly replied with a joke that they could do ''that'' later, after the training.

--> '''Reporter''': What?!
--> '''Thompson''': He was trying to stick a knife into her.
--> '''Reporter''': Ha, [[UnEntendre knife]], I get you.

--> '''Rachel''': "How do you expect me to grow if you won’t let me blow?"
--> '''Ross''' “You know I don’t … have a ... have a problem with that …”

-->'''Elgin''': If anyone asks, you haven’t seen me since this morning, and I’m certainly not at home. That goes for the lady as well.
-->'''Sorenson''': I don’t think your father would approve, sir.

--->'''Alex''': Hey James, you wanna play Bros Twisting bros?
--->'''James''': (Backs away) Is this another trick question?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Last Exit to Springfield" has Homer as a Union Boss, whom [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Burns]] tries to deal with by making innuendos toward bribery. Unfortunately for Burns, [[TheDitz Homer]] ends up concluding that [[MistakenForGay Burns is trying to seduce him]].
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* 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 UsefulNotes/{{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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Last Exit to Springfield" has Homer as a Union Boss, whom [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Burns]] tries to deal with by making innuendos toward bribery. Unfortunately for Burns, [[TheDitz Homer]] ends up concluding that Burns is trying to seduce him.

** In his defense, Howard did say "late-night fondue" on a very seductive tone, that it would be easy to interpret it as a euphemism.

* On ''Main/{{Friends}}'', Rachel reads a female-empowering, jargon-laced book, “Be Your Own Windkeeper,” which inspires her to push back on Ross’ demand that they leave for movie on time, resulting in this exchange:

* The 1940 British {{Thriller}} ''Film/AWindowInLondon'' has a scene where the protagonist, Peter Thompson (played by Creator/MichaelRedgrave) is describing a stabbing he thought he witnessed to a reporter:

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