| 1 | ->''"It's not pining, it's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ''ceased'' to ''be''! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This. Is a ''late. Parrot!'' It's a ''stiff''! Bereft of life, it rests in peace, if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! ''It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!'' '''This! Is an EX! PARROT!'''"'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Mr. Praline''', ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E8 Full Frontal Nudity]]"[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke (He means it's dead)]][[/note]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | When a character rattles off a list of euphemisms, synonyms, figures of speech, slang terms, and/or foreign language translations that all mean the same thing, in order to emphasize a point or give an unsubtle hint to the person they're taking to. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | When used one at a time, euphemisms serve as milder substitutes for words considered too harsh or blunt for the situation. When you refer to something using multiple euphemisms, however, you instead draw attention to the actual subject in a way that's impossible to avoid. You're saying the same thing in so many different ways that they can't play dumb by pretending not to understand at least one of the expressions you're using, and you're implying that any attempt by them to hide behind euphemisms is useless because nobody knows what they really mean better than you do. This is great for teasing, exasperating, or accusing someone about something they're trying to avoid, but in any case it's a shining opportunity for the user to show off their vocabulary, wit, and/or knowledge of slang. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | It could be about anything, but tends to be about subjects that are taboo or embarassing to discuss such as death (in which case it's often used to mock or defy NeverSayDie), sexuality (private parts, sexual orientations, masturbation, sex acts), bodily functions (farting, burping, urination, defecation, vomiting), sensitive health problems (obesity, drug/alcohol addiction, mental or physical disabilities), or crime and punishment (drugs/contraband, murder, prison, the police). |
| 9 | |
| 10 | A subtrope of RapidFireComedy. Similar to HurricaneOfPuns. Compare FreudianSlipperySlope. Contrast ClusterFBomb. See also ClicheStorm. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ---- |
| 13 | !!Examples: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 18 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEERynU6cOI This advert]] gives us a hurricane of {{Visual Pun}}s... it may take a while for the penny to drop. (It's for [[spoiler:Charmin toilet paper]].) |
| 19 | * An AT&T Commercial: |
| 20 | -->"Yeah, so with AT&T Next you get the new iPhone for zero down."\ |
| 21 | "Zero down? Zilch. Nothing? Nada. Small potatoes? No potatoes. Diddly-squat? A big old goose egg." |
| 22 | [[/folder]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 25 | * ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': Hiruma and Leonard Apollo trash-talk each other in GratuitousEnglish, throwing out just about every ([[CensoredForComedy censored]]) euphemism for "penis" there is. Sena and Monta are left wondering who "Dick" and "Johnson" are, while a mortified Mamori refuses to translate any further than saying they're using very rude language. |
| 26 | * ''Manga/FutariEcchi'': The real beauty of that is that the usual onomatopoeia for "chirp chirp" in Japanese is "chin-chin", which doubles as a childish way to say "penis". |
| 27 | -->"What's a blow job?"\ |
| 28 | "That's... fellatio... fella-chan?... lip service..."\ |
| 29 | "Lick-suck... flute play... chirp-chirp-lick-lick..."\ |
| 30 | "Stop it!" |
| 31 | * ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'': In episode four, Miki rages at Hajime for having not corrected his misimpression that Mayotama was a girl before he made a move, thus setting up an UnsettlingGenderReveal: |
| 32 | -->"Your sister has a palm tree and coconuts! Arabiki... elephant... wiener! ***k *f destiny!" |
| 33 | [[/folder]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 36 | * Dylan Moran does a brilliant routine in his 'Monster' DVD about how he didn’t even ''know'' about gay people for a long time while he was growing up, because all the grown-ups around him only talked about it using stupid-sounding and impenetrable euphemisms: |
| 37 | -->"Well, you know what they say about John, anyway."\ |
| 38 | "No I don't. Wh—what do they say?"\ |
| 39 | "Well, you know, apparently he's, uh, he's, you know, he's..." ''[cocks leg]''\ |
| 40 | "I'm sorry, what are you talking about?"\ |
| 41 | "You knoooow! If I have to spell it out, apparently he's... you know, still picking up twigs in the springtime." ''[raises eyebrows]'' "Oh yes, one of Yul Brunner's hairdressers. Likes his toast done on three sides, yes."\ |
| 42 | ''[now exasperated]'' "What ARE you talking about?!" |
| 43 | * British stand-up comedian Creator/JasperCarrott has a bit where he goes through an unfeasibly long list of euphemisms for sex, breasts and the penis. It is GENIUS. |
| 44 | -->"[[{{Punchline}} ... and those are the things you can say on television!!]]" |
| 45 | * George Carlin: |
| 46 | ** He had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNk_kzQCclo great bit]] about this. |
| 47 | ** He uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDTSJo5bYU another one]] during his famous 7 Words You Can't Say on TV routine. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 51 | * Creator/MarkWaid had this to say in response to people asking him to [[BackFromTheDead bring back]] [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen]] |
| 52 | --> "What is it with you people? Barry is Dead! Gone! Hearsed! Why can't you let him rest honorably, in peace?" |
| 53 | * Zodon from ''ComicBook/PS238'' does this a fair bit... or would, if that [[RestrainingBolt "Barry Ween" chip]] didn't translate all his swearwords into non-offensive terms, and actual hurricanes into excerpts from show tunes. |
| 54 | * In ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'', when Super Tough[[note]]based on ComicBook/NickFury[=/=]ComicBook/CaptainAmerica[=/=]Franchise/{{Batman}}[[/note]], after years of being TrappedInAnotherWorld, reunites with his former sidekick Mace AKA Young Tough[[note]]based on Bucky[=/=]ComicBook/{{Robin}}[[/note]], they greet each other with a passionate kiss, prompting NobleBigotWithABadge Howard Niseman to spend the whole rest of the scene in the background muttering euphemisms for "gay". |
| 55 | * Captain Haddock of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' loves to hurl hurricanes of obscure euphemisms at his enemies. |
| 56 | ** This was originally to please the MoralGuardians, as Hergé couldn't have his character using foul language in a comic read by children. Then it became a definite quirk of the personage. |
| 57 | ** All of Haddock's curses can be found [[http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html here]], in alphabetical order. |
| 58 | * In the thirteenth ''ComicBook/{{Valhalla}}'' album, when Loki upon finding himself in the underworld tries to ask Hel if he's really dead or not, he uses every every possible euphemism for "death," only to have her completely misunderstand them all, until he breaks down and screams the real word. Translated and paraphrased: |
| 59 | -->'''Loki:''' What brings me here... to the kingdom of the dead... ''ulp!'' Does this mean I have... passed away?\ |
| 60 | '''Hel:''' Away? You're right here.\ |
| 61 | '''Loki:''' Have I found my peace?\ |
| 62 | '''Hel:''' You don't look very peaceful.\ |
| 63 | '''Loki:''' Ceased to breathe?\ |
| 64 | '''Hel:''' Doesn't sound like it.\ |
| 65 | '''Loki:''' Kicked the bucket?\ |
| 66 | '''Hel:''' What bucket?\ |
| 67 | '''Loki:''' Danced the last dance... perished... pushing up the daisies... snuffed out... croaked... '''''Am I DEAD, damn it?!''''' |
| 68 | ** [[spoiler:He isn't, he's just dreaming.]] |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 72 | * ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/collections/hpfandom/works/7973908 Blackbird]]'': |
| 73 | -->'''Harry:''' I know you’re extremely curious about what the "Whore of Gryffindor" has been doing with himself these past two years, but I have a question for you first.\ |
| 74 | '''Bill:''' Don't call yourself that!\ |
| 75 | '''Harry:''' What? Whore? I was also a freak, a slut, a faggot, a cocksucker, a shirt lifter, a ponce, a nancy boy, a queen, a bitch...I could go on, but if you frequent a place like Tommy’s then you’ve probably been called all those words yourself. |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': |
| 77 | ** In "The Cakes," Mittens peevishly puts forth a blizzard of euphemisms for doing a bowel movement in Creator/MontyPython "Dead-parrot-sketch" fashion. Her litter box is located in the laundry room, and Bolt [[ComicallyMissingThePoint misunderstands her initial veiled explanations regarding why she was there]]. Once the dog finally figures things out, he supplies an unusual contribution of his own. |
| 78 | ** In "The Kippies," Mittens offers several increasingly eccentric euphemisms to point out that Bolt cannot get her pregnant. |
| 79 | * ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1547276/chapters/3279905 Broken Twilight]]'': |
| 80 | -->'''Harry:''' Well, I have three dads now, and while it's totally amazing, it does get confusing. I mean, do I call you guys, daddy, dada, father, papa, pappy, sire, old man, old fart... |
| 81 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12026760/13/Dahlia-Evans-the-Broken-Bridge Dahlia Evans & the Broken Bridge]]'' Hermione explains the purpose of a SwearJar to Neville. |
| 82 | -->'''Neville:''' So if I said "Malfoy's an enormous tit"--\ |
| 83 | '''Dahlia:''' Prick--\ |
| 84 | '''Neville:''' Wanker--\ |
| 85 | '''Dahlia:''' Bawbag--\ |
| 86 | '''Neville:''' Plonker--\ |
| 87 | '''Dahlia:''' Knob--\ |
| 88 | '''Neville:''' Bogie-licking bum kisser--\ |
| 89 | '''Dahlia:''' Dragon dung-eating arsewipe-- |
| 90 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2096028/1/Di-Catenas Di Catenas]]'': |
| 91 | -->'''Draco:''' You're... You're a...\ |
| 92 | '''Harry:''' Homosexual? Poofter? Queer? 'Light in the shoes?' Surprised? |
| 93 | * Prevalent in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11581541/11/Entropy Entropy]]'' due to the cast of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' watching a dvd of the series. Milly and Lloyd in particular get in on it. |
| 94 | -->'''Lloyd:''' You don't think space was tight in that tunnel? And that he should pull out before he gets in trouble?\ |
| 95 | '''Zero/Suzaku:''' I don't like where this is going.\ |
| 96 | '''Milly:''' But Nina and I were in danger! I don't see anything wrong with Suzaku penetrating the terrorists' defenses straight through that tunnel to save us -- as hard and fast as he can.\ |
| 97 | '''Zero/Suzaku:''' Stop.\ |
| 98 | '''Kaguya:''' Maybe not straight through, right? Maybe just a little bit to the left.\ |
| 99 | '''Zero/Suzaku:''' STOP.\ |
| 100 | '''Milly:''' It's not like he'd have to be gentle. The enemy was experienced..\ |
| 101 | '''Zero/Suzaku:''' No, no, nonono--!\ |
| 102 | '''Milly:''' I'm glad he didn't hold back and really gave it to them! |
| 103 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074341/2/Expecting-the-Unexpected Expecting the Unexpected]]'' Harry is somehow pregnant with Draco's child despite never having sex, period. |
| 104 | -->'''Draco:''' Pregnant? What do you mean, 'pregnant'?\ |
| 105 | '''Harry:''' You know, Malfoy. Pregnant. Knocked up. With child. Up the duff. In the family way. Bun in the oven. Expecting. Is that enough euphemisms for you, or would you like me to continue? |
| 106 | * In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/collections/hpfandom/works/767514 The Glow of Gold Dust]]'' Harry's bitten by a vampire Veela. |
| 107 | -->'''Draco:''' Semen is your life-saving nutrition. Because of the treatment we've been providing for you, you've had no immediate need for it up till now, but as the treatment progresses, you will soon start to need the nourishment.\ |
| 108 | '''Harry:''' Semen? Excuse me? What are you saying?\ |
| 109 | '''Draco:''' Semen, come, jism, spunk, the elixir of love, love juice, whatever you want to call it. |
| 110 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12208660/8/I-Welcome-the-Unwelcome I Welcome the Unwelcome]]'': |
| 111 | -->'''Violet:''' Some seventh year just called me the Dark Lord's whore. And both Parvati and Lavender ignored me.\ |
| 112 | '''Hermione:''' I thought you actually had to do... stuff to be considered a whore.\ |
| 113 | '''Violet:''' Sex, Hermione, not stuff.\ |
| 114 | '''Hermione:''' Yes, well--\ |
| 115 | '''Violet:''' You're nearly seventeen! Surely you can say sex. Or shag. Or screw. Or bang. Or fuck. |
| 116 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10996537/13/Lady-Black-Lord-Potter Lady Black, Lord Potter]]'': |
| 117 | -->'''Tonks:''' Oh, what a bunch of arseholes. Well they are arseholes, Mum. They doubted what Harry's been through with...the dark idiot. That doesn't seem strong enough, idiot.\ |
| 118 | '''Ted:''' Wanker? no, that won't do.\ |
| 119 | '''Tonks:''' Git?\ |
| 120 | '''Ted:''' Numbnuts?\ |
| 121 | '''Tonks:''' Moron?\ |
| 122 | '''Ted:''' Fucker?\ |
| 123 | '''Tonks:''' Fuckface? |
| 124 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3004662/1/Life-Death-and-Other-Career-Options Life, Death and Other Career Options]]'': |
| 125 | -->'''Snape:''' I am not ill, Mr Potter. I am pregnant.\ |
| 126 | '''Harry:''' Pardon? I think my ears are playing tricks.\ |
| 127 | '''Snape:''' ''Preg-nant''. You heard me. Pregnant. In trouble. Up the duff. In the family way. Knocked up. Enceinte. A bun in the oven. A cake in the cauldron. Eating for two. Spawning... |
| 128 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9882526/20/Mockingbird Mockingbird]]'': |
| 129 | -->'''Mrs. Granger:''' I...I beg your pardon? Mr. Potter is w-what?\ |
| 130 | '''Luna:''' Oh, don't you use the word pregnant in the Muggle world? Well he's up the duff, knocked up, bun in the oven...Masquerading as a hot air balloon...With child. |
| 131 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8388112/1/Not-the-Golden-Route Not the Golden Route]]'' Harry admits that he and Hermione had sex in the tent after Ron left. |
| 132 | -->'''Ron:''' No, save it, Harry! You had her go wild on the hippogriff, ride your broomstick, show you her Chamber of Secrets and allow your basilisk to slither in, whomping the willow, visit your restricted section, let you stir her cauldron, take you to the Shrieking Shack, turn into Moaning Myrtle, duel with your wand, take a trip in your Forbidden Forest, make your mandrake cry, and...\ |
| 133 | '''Harry:''' Are you done, Ron? Are you through with all your sexual puns?\ |
| 134 | '''Ron:''' No, I got a few more. |
| 135 | * ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'': In Episode 33, Lana denies being a "snitch", "stool pigeon", "tattletale", and "blabbermouth" when reading a story in which her sister Lynn fears she'd tell on her. |
| 136 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10977612/1/The-Perilous-Conflict The Perilous Conflict]]'', Hermione tells Harry that Bill and Fleur are engaged. |
| 137 | -->'''Harry:''' Engaged?\ |
| 138 | '''Fred:''' Yep, that's right. Engaged, betrothed, plighted, affianced, leg-shackled. Doomed, enslaved-- |
| 139 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4081016/9/The-Poker-Game The Poker Game]]'', Harry creates a sentient magical construct and Luna makes a remark about "knocking up" magic. |
| 140 | -->'''Harry:''' That's not a very nice thing to say.\ |
| 141 | '''Luna:''' Then what would you like me to say, Harry? Impregnate? Inseminate? Fertilize? Fecundate? Or would you prefer the more basal terms? Bang up? Prang up? Pupped? Stuffed? Preggered? Hatched an egg in the dragon nest? Spread the Egyptian flu? Joined the pudding club? Up the kite? Up the pole? Up the spout? Up the duff? Put a bun in the oven? Baking cookies? Caulked the pipes? |
| 142 | * Comes up in ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-26398-2/CrazyDan+Beware+my+power+Rainbow+Brite+s+light.htm Rainbow Brite's Light]]'' when [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] tells Dawn she can have sex with Xander but only if they don't go past 3rd base. |
| 143 | -->'''Dawn:''' What's third base?\ |
| 144 | '''Xander:''' We were only supposed to go to Third Base? Buffy's gonna kill me!\ |
| 145 | '''Dawn:''' What did we do?\ |
| 146 | '''Xander:''' First through fourth, a little of left field and that last time I think we knocked the cover off the ball as we hit it out of the park.\ |
| 147 | '''Dawn:''' Oh. I guess I got carried away.\ |
| 148 | '''Xander:''' No, you carried me away.\ |
| 149 | '''Dawn:''' Extra innings?\ |
| 150 | '''Xander:''' You know it. |
| 151 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12356422/41/Relief-from-Nightmares Relief from Nightmares]]'' Dobby comments that Remus and Sirius are still in bed and Harry interprets this as their being asleep. |
| 152 | -->'''Fred:''' They're bumping uglies!\ |
| 153 | '''George:''' Having a bit of how's your father!\ |
| 154 | '''Fred:''' Some good ol' rumpy-pumpy!\ |
| 155 | '''George:''' Making the beast with two backs! |
| 156 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10623866/10/Sekirei-Is-that-some-new-species-of-little-sister Sekirei? Is that some new species of little Sister?]]'': |
| 157 | ** After Naruto has sex with Kazehana, he and Uzume trade euphemisms for sex. |
| 158 | --->'''Uzume:''' You boinked her, didn't you big bro?"\ |
| 159 | '''Naruto:''' Mounted her like a mule.\ |
| 160 | '''Uzume:''' Did the no pants dance.\ |
| 161 | '''Naruto:''' Fed the kitty.\ |
| 162 | '''Uzume:''' Swept the chimney.\ |
| 163 | '''Naruto:''' Checked the oil.\ |
| 164 | '''Uzume:''' Tested the suspension.\ |
| 165 | '''Naruto:''' Filled the cream donut.\ |
| 166 | '''Uzume:''' Made the beast with two backs.\ |
| 167 | '''Naruto:''' Stuffed the beaver.\ |
| 168 | '''Uzume:''' Did the horizontal hula.\ |
| 169 | '''Naruto:''' Attacked the pink fortress.\ |
| 170 | '''Uzume:''' Lusted and thrusted.\ |
| 171 | '''Naruto:''' Gave her a hot beef injection.\ |
| 172 | '''Uzume:''' Okay, you win.\ |
| 173 | '''Naruto:''' "ThatsWhatSheSaid." |
| 174 | ** Later, Naruto gives several euphemisms when asking Miya if she's masturbated since her husband's death. |
| 175 | --->'''Naruto:''' How often have you kneaded the love muffin? Diddled the skittle? Flicked the bean? Stroked the kitty? Done some indoor fishing? Given yourself some lip service? Brushed the--\ |
| 176 | '''Miya:''' I DON'T MASTURBATE!\ |
| 177 | '''Naruto:''' Well, since you feel the need to scream, [[YouNeedToGetLaid perhaps you should consider starting?]] |
| 178 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12461030/2/The-Tinkerer The Tinkerer]]'': |
| 179 | -->'''Harry:''' Ravenclaw is the house for nerds, isn't it?\ |
| 180 | '''Neville:''' Nerds?\ |
| 181 | '''Harry:''' Oh, you know. A geek, an egghead, a bookworm, a brain, a sophist, a know-it-all, a philomath, an erudite, a ... well, a nerd. |
| 182 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4627044/2/Veritas-Oracle Veritas Oracle]]'' Harry keeps slipping out to meet Tonks as part of the effort to destroy Voldemort, with her in different forms so no-one can catch on. Fred and George ''have'' caught on, but put a different spin on their interpretation. |
| 183 | -->'''George:''' We thought that you might be, how do you say?\ |
| 184 | '''Fred:''' Sampling the fruits of life?\ |
| 185 | '''George:''' Sowing your wild oats --\ |
| 186 | '''Fred:''' Taking the old bicycle out for a ride --\ |
| 187 | '''George:''' Testing the limits of your manhood --\ |
| 188 | '''Fred:''' Dipping the wick -- |
| 189 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13263612/14/Yule-Ball-Drama Yule Ball Drama]]'': |
| 190 | -->'''Harry:''' I am Lord Potter and Lord Peverell. Second in line to the House of Black.\ |
| 191 | '''Sirius:''' Maybe first-in-line, pup. I don't know if my little buddies work well enough to give me a future heir.\ |
| 192 | '''Hermione:''' Little buddies?\ |
| 193 | '''Sirius:''' Semen, jizz, cum, little swimmers, tadpoles, baby batter! |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': |
| 198 | ** For starter... |
| 199 | --->'''Kuzco:''' Oh, and by the way, you're fired.\ |
| 200 | '''Yzma:''' Fired? W-W-What do you mean, "fired"?\ |
| 201 | ''[Kuzco snaps his finger and a servant comes in and writes down Yzma's "pink slip"]''\ |
| 202 | '''Kuzco:''' [[LiteralistSnarking Um, how else can I say it?]] "You're being let go." "Your department's being downsized." "You're part of an outplacement." "We're going in a different direction." "We're not picking up your option." Take your pick. I got more. |
| 203 | ** Later in the movie, Yzma [[IronicEcho returns the favor]]. |
| 204 | --->'''Kuzco:''' Okay, I admit it. Maybe I wasn't as nice as I should have been. But Yzma, you really wanna kill me?!\ |
| 205 | '''Yzma:''' Just think of it as... you're being let go. That your life's going in a different direction. That your body is part of a permanent outplacement!\ |
| 206 | '''Kronk:''' [[LampshadeHanging Hey, that's kinda like what he said to you when you got fired]].\ |
| 207 | '''Yzma:''' [[DontExplainTheJoke I know]]. It's called a "cruel irony"--like my dependence on ''[[StealthInsult you]]''. |
| 208 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': |
| 209 | -->'''Zazu:''' Your parents will be thrilled, what with your being betrothed and all.\ |
| 210 | '''Simba:''' Be-what?\ |
| 211 | '''Zazu:''' Betrothed. Intended. Affianced.\ |
| 212 | '''Nala:''' ''[beat]'' Meaning?\ |
| 213 | '''Zazu:''' One day, you two are going to be married! |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 217 | * Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson) describing what the Apocalypse is in ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''. |
| 218 | -->'''Jackson Curtis:''' I was listening to the broadcast and I was wondering what is exactly that's gonna start in Hollywood?\ |
| 219 | '''Charlie Frost:''' It's the apocalypse. End of days. The Judgment Day, the end of the world, my friend. Christians called it the rapture, but the Mayans knew about it, the Hopis, the I Ching, the Bible, kind of... |
| 220 | * In ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', Rex Kramer laments that Stryker is now the pilot of the plane: "I know. I know. But it's his ship now, his command; he's in charge, he's the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, number one..." |
| 221 | * In ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', Lester Burnham lets loose with a short one of these at his wife when she catches him masturbating: "Oh, all right! So shoot me, I was whacking off! That's right, I was choking the bishop, chafing the carrot, you know, saying "hi" to my monster!" |
| 222 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'': |
| 223 | ** In ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', Dr. Evil escapes into space in a rocket that has a more-than-passing resemblance to a giant-- |
| 224 | --->'''Pilot:''' Dick!\ |
| 225 | '''Dick:''' Yeah?\ |
| 226 | '''Pilot:''' Take a look outta starboard.\ |
| 227 | '''Dick:''' Oh my God! It looks like a huge--\ |
| 228 | '''Birdwatching Woman:''' Pecker!\ |
| 229 | '''Birdwatching Man:''' Ooh, where?\ |
| 230 | '''Birdwatching Woman:''' Wait, that's not a [[DoubleEntendre woodpecker]], that looks like someone's--\ |
| 231 | '''[[DrillSergeantNasty Army Sergeant]]:''' PRIVATES! WE HAVE REPORTS OF AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. IT IS A LONG, SMOOTH SHAFT, COMPLETE WITH--\ |
| 232 | '''Baseball Umpire:''' TWO BALLS! ''[looking up from game]'' What is that? That looks just like an enormous--\ |
| 233 | '''Teacher in China:''' Wang! Pay attention!\ |
| 234 | '''Wang:''' I was distracted by that enormous flying--\ |
| 235 | '''Musician:''' Willie!\ |
| 236 | '''Music/WillieNelson:''' Yeah?\ |
| 237 | '''Musician:''' What's that?\ |
| 238 | '''Willie:''' ''[squints]'' Well, that looks like a giant--\ |
| 239 | '''Colonel:''' [[OverlyLongGag Johnson!]]\ |
| 240 | '''Johnson:''' Yes, sir?\ |
| 241 | '''Colonel:''' Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this. |
| 242 | ** A little bit later: |
| 243 | --->'''Basil:''' Did we get Dr. Evil?\ |
| 244 | '''Johnson:''' No, sir, he got away in that big spaceship that looks like a huge--\ |
| 245 | '''Teacher:''' Penis! The male reproductive organ. Also known as "tallywhacker", "schlong", or--\ |
| 246 | '''Barbecuing Dad:''' Wiener? Any of you kids want another wiener?\ |
| 247 | '''Son:''' Dad, what's that?\ |
| 248 | '''Dad:''' I don't know, son, but it's got great, big--\ |
| 249 | '''Peanut Vendor at Baseball Game:''' NUTS! HOT, SALTY NUTS! WHO WANTS SOME? ...Lord Almighty!\ |
| 250 | '''Woman:''' That looks just like my husband's--\ |
| 251 | '''Circus Barker:''' ONE-EYED MONSTER! STEP RIGHT UP AND SEE THE ONE-EYED MONSTER!\ |
| 252 | '''One-Eyed Monster:''' ''[bursts out of tent]'' RAAAR! ...Hey, what's that? It looks like a big--\ |
| 253 | '''Fan:''' Woody! Creator/WoodyHarrelson? Can I have your autograph?\ |
| 254 | '''Woody:''' Sure, no problem. ...Oh, my Lord! Look at that thing!\ |
| 255 | '''Fan:''' It's so big...\ |
| 256 | '''Woody:''' I've seen bigger. That's--\ |
| 257 | '''Dr. Evil:''' ''[holding a syringe]'' Just a little prick! ''[injects Mini-Me]'' It's a flu shot! You've been in the [[SpaceIsCold coldness of space]]. I don't want you to get sick. |
| 258 | ** Done again and lampshaded in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', when Dr. Evil uses his tractor beam to pull a satellite out of orbit that looks like a huge pair of-- |
| 259 | --->'''Fruit Vendor:''' Melons! Big, juicy melons! ''[holds up two melons in front of her chest]''\ |
| 260 | '''Customer:''' Are they nice and firm?\ |
| 261 | '''Fruit Vendor:''' ''[suggestively]'' Well, what do ''you'' think?\ |
| 262 | '''Customer:''' Look at that! It looks like a set of giant--\ |
| 263 | ''[cut to four shirtless football fans cheering in the stands, with letters painted on their chests spelling "TITS"]''\ |
| 264 | '''Second T:''' Hey! A and N, you're late!\ |
| 265 | ''[two more fans join, the group now spells TITANS]''\ |
| 266 | '''A:''' How we doin'? We're back, yeah!\ |
| 267 | '''Group:''' GO TITANS! YEAH!\ |
| 268 | '''A:''' Check it out! Those remind me of--\ |
| 269 | '''Music/OzzyOsbourne:''' ''[pausing the movie]'' Boobs!\ |
| 270 | '''Sharon:''' Boobs, Ozzy?\ |
| 271 | '''Ozzy:''' These filmmakers are just ''[[[SoundEffectBleep bleep]]]''-ing boobs.\ |
| 272 | '''Kelly:''' What do you mean, Dad?\ |
| 273 | '''Ozzy:''' Well, they're using the same ''[bleep]''-ing joke as they did in the last ''Austin Powers'' movie.\ |
| 274 | '''Sharon:''' What ''[bleep]''-ing joke?\ |
| 275 | '''Jack:''' You know, the ''[bleep]''-ing joke about the long, smooth rocket that looks like some guy's--\ |
| 276 | '''General:''' [[OverlyLongGag Johnson!]]\ |
| 277 | '''Johnson:''' Yes, sir?\ |
| 278 | '''General:''' Any sign of that satellite?\ |
| 279 | '''Johnson:''' No, sir. It's gone. |
| 280 | * From ''Film/BrainDonors'', in a scene where Roland T. Flakfizer is trying to convince the Great Volare (ballet dancer) to join the company he represents: |
| 281 | -->'''Volare:''' Do you realize what I was doing at the age of seven?\ |
| 282 | '''Flakfizer:''' I can imagine and you must be thankful you didn't go blind.\ |
| 283 | '''Volare:''' I was dancing professionally.\ |
| 284 | '''Flakfizer:''' Ehhh, whatever you call it! Flogging the carrot, polishing the cue stick, choking the chicken, clearing the snorkel... |
| 285 | * ''Film/ClerksII'' features what is more accurately described as a Hurricane of Dysphemisms: |
| 286 | -->'''Dante Hicks:''' "Porch monkey" is a racial slur against black people!\ |
| 287 | '''Randal Graves:''' Oh it is not! Coon, spook, spade, moolie, jigaboo, nig-nog, those are racial slurs against black people! |
| 288 | * Donald Faison's character does this in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' to illustrate that Cher's "boyfriend" is gay. |
| 289 | -->'''Murray:''' Your man Christian is a cakeboy! He's a disco dancing, Creator/OscarWilde reading, [[Music/BarbraStreisand Streisand]] ticket holding friend of Dorothy, know what I'm saying? |
| 290 | * A far more vulgar one from Williams appears in ''Film/DeathToSmoochy'', as Sheldon had managed to play off a phallic cookie (that Randolph had planted) as a rocket ship. |
| 291 | -->'''Rainbow Randolph:''' What are you, blind? It's a cock! It's not a rocket, you sick fuck! It's a cock! Look. It's a cock and balls! A dick! Chorizo and the huevos! It's a big stiffy! It's a PENIS! Penis maximus! A willie! A weenie! Mr. Jiggle Daddy! A wayne! The one-eyed wonder weasel! Don't you see that? It's Jimmy and the twins. Rumple Foreskin. He made this. It's made from dil-dough. |
| 292 | * ''Film/ErnestGoesToJail'': |
| 293 | -->'''Ernest P. Worrell:''' Like in real, really, really, really, really real prison? The hoose-gow, the slammer, the joint, Alcatraz, San Quentin, Sing Sing, Oh no. I'm in... I'm in... jaiiiiiiil! |
| 294 | * ''Film/FourRooms'', the Second Room: The bellhop is trapped with an armed man and his wife tied to a chair, mistaken for the wife's lover. |
| 295 | -->'''Sigfried:''' Would you stop talking about his penis?\ |
| 296 | '''Angela:''' How can I stop talking about something that's so huge? I could go on and on about his cock, his bone, his knob, his bishop, wang, thang, rod, hot rod, hump mobile, oscar, dong, dagger, banana, cucumber, salami, sausage, kielbasa, schlong, dink, tool, big ben, Mr. Happy, Peter Pecker, pee-pee, wee-wee, wiener, pisser, pistol, piston joint, hose, horn, middle leg, third leg, meat, stick, joystick, dipstick, one-eyed wonder, junior, little head, little guy, rumple foreskin, tootsie roll, love muscle, skin flute, roto-rooter, snake, hammer, rammer, spammer, bazooka, rubber, chubby, sticky, stubby, schmeck, schmuck, schvantze, ying-yang, yang... |
| 297 | * The closing HilariousOuttakes reel in ''Film/GrumpyOldMen'' features various different sexual euphemisms that Burgess Meredith had his character utter in different takes of the same scene. While technically not a use of this trope, the way they're edited and presented together in rapid succession gives it much the same effect. |
| 298 | * ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'': During Moriarty's trial, Watson and Holmes go through a long string of unusual euphemisms while attempting to explain to the court that the man in the dock is a masturbator. Eventually realization dawns and someone in the gallery says "Oh, he's a wanker!" |
| 299 | * Beautifully subverted in Creator/TheMarxBrothers' ''Film/HorseFeathers'', in which Groucho tries to tell Harpo that he can't burn the candle at both ends - Harpo produces a candle burning at both ends. Groucho tries another, Harpo produces, etc... |
| 300 | * From ''Film/LiarLiar'', Fletcher Reede attempts to ask a witness a question he knows will result in a lie (and even that he has proven incapable of doing)... and finally snaps and actually ''badgers a confession out of his own witness'': |
| 301 | -->'''Fletcher:''' You slammed her, you dunked her donut, you gave her dog a Snausage! You stuffed her like a Thanksgiving turkey! ''(starts jumping up and down and making gobbling noises)'' |
| 302 | * ''Film/MaryPoppins'': After losing his job, Mr. Banks exclaims, "I've been sacked! Discharged! Flung into the street!" |
| 303 | * ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' has a delightful scene wherein, upon finding out that his father was a Roman, making him one[[labelnote:although...]] According to the Torah, race and religion are inherited through the mother, so he'd still be Jewish[[/labelnote]], Brian spews out a series of racist synonyms for "Jew" while arguing that he is one. |
| 304 | -->"I'm not a Roman, mum, I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook-nose, I'm kosher mum, I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!" |
| 305 | * ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' features Dennis the Anarcho-Syndicalist peasant's incredulous reaction to Arthur's claim of divine kingship. |
| 306 | -->'''Dennis:''' Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.\ |
| 307 | '''Arthur:''' Be quiet!\ |
| 308 | '''Dennis:''' Well, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!\ |
| 309 | '''Arthur:''' Shut Up!\ |
| 310 | '''Dennis:''' I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! |
| 311 | * In ''Film/TheManWithoutAFace'', Chuck Norstadt's mother uses one to see if Chuck has been molested--but it's clear [[EntendreFailure he has no idea what she's really asking.]] |
| 312 | * Creator/RobinWilliams does this in ''Film/PatchAdams'' to cheer up a dying patient who'd proven inconsolable, using a string of euphemisms for dying [[GallowsHumor to tickle the morbid funny bone]]. |
| 313 | * Done for dramatic effect in ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}''. |
| 314 | -->'''Joe Miller:''' Are you a homosexual?... Answer the question! Are you a homo? A faggot, a punk? A queen, pillow biter, fairy? Booty snatcher? Rump roaster? ARE YOU GAY? |
| 315 | * In ''Film/TeenWitch'', the teacher of a sex ed class holds up a rolled-up umbrella and asks the students to guess what it represents. One of them responds: "A Roger. A love one. Joystick, dong, zipper-lizard, tallywhacker, trouser-snake, schlong!" |
| 316 | %%* ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'' has a Hurricane Of Euphemisms for masturbation. |
| 317 | * ''Film/TommyBoy'', Tommy walks in on Richard who's masturbating: |
| 318 | -->'''Tommy:''' Richard! Were you watching, "Spank-tra-vision?" Maybe you were watching a movie with that funny comedian! Oh, whats his name? [[Creator/BuddyHackett Buddy... Whack-it]]? Say! That's a pretty girl down there! Gee, I wonder if she goes out with one of the ''Yank''ees!\ |
| 319 | ''[later]''\ |
| 320 | '''Tommy:''' Richard... who's your favorite [[Film/TheLittleRascals Little Rascal]]? Alfalfa? Or is it... Spanky? (''snickers'') Sinner... |
| 321 | * ''Film/TurkeyHollow'': Ron uses ever word but "divorce" at first to describe having ended his marriage with his wife. |
| 322 | * ''Film/VarsityBlues'' had this gem, set in a sex ed. class: |
| 323 | -->'''[[HotForTeacher Miss Davis]]:''' "Can anyone tell me a common slang term for the male erection?"\ |
| 324 | '''Student:''' "Boner? Is boner one?"\ |
| 325 | '''Miss Davis:''' "Yes! Boner is good, boner is very good! Moxon, how about you?"\ |
| 326 | '''Jonathon "Mox" Moxon:''' The male erection. Pitchin' a tent, sportin' a wood, stiffie, flesh rocket, tall tommy, Mr. Morbis, the march is on, icicle has formed, Jack's magic beanstalk, rigor mortis has set in, Mr. Mushroom-head, mushroom on a stick, purple headed yogurt slinger... [[ICallHimMisterHappy Oh, and Pedro]]."\ |
| 327 | '''Miss Davis:''' "[[OddNameOut ...Pedro?]]"\ |
| 328 | '''Mox:''' "Yeah, uh huh." |
| 329 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': |
| 330 | ** First... |
| 331 | --->'''Dolores:''' It's a rotgut room. Holdover from Prohibition.\ |
| 332 | '''Roger:''' Oh, I get it. A speakeasy, a gin mill, a hooch parlour! |
| 333 | ** And also: |
| 334 | --->'''Roger:''' I didn't kill anybody, I swear! This whole thing's a set-up, a scam, a frame job! |
| 335 | ** Roger's prone to this: |
| 336 | --->'''Roger:''' Jessica's the light of my life, the apple of my eye, the cream in my coffee...\ |
| 337 | '''Eddie:''' You better start drinkin' it black, 'cause Acme's takin' the cream now. |
| 338 | ** Earlier, Yosemite Sam experiences a RumpRoast; |
| 339 | -->'''Yosemite Sam:''' Mah biscuits are burnin'! Fire in the hatch! Great horny toads, that smarts! |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 343 | * Marco in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had a number of "vomit" euphemisms in one book. |
| 344 | -->'''Marco:''' You ever notice how many different ways there are to say "throwing up"? There's vomiting, of course. Hurling. Tossing your cookies. Puking, a classic. Ralphing...There's cascading. But I prefer the terms that are more real. Like blowing chunks. Spewing your guts. Tangoing with the toilet. That's a good one. Technicolor yawn." |
| 345 | * ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'' has a creature called a Thesaurus which always speaks like this. |
| 346 | -->"Maim!" roared the monster. "Mutilate, mangle, crush. See [-HARM-]." |
| 347 | * ''Literature/DirtyBertie'': In "Loo!", when Bertie is having a PottyEmergency, his friends Darren and Eugene tease him by saying, "Bertie needs a wee." "A piddle?" "A widdle." "A tiddle?" |
| 348 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 349 | ** Partial example in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', where it's caused by Twoflower reading out ''all'' the synonymous alternatives suggested by his phrasebook at once. |
| 350 | ** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', Gaspode uses one of these to describe how angry Commander Vimes will be when he finds out William de Worde dropped a powerful scent bomb in front of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Sgt. Angua]]: "Vimes will go round the twist. He's going to go totally Librarian-poo. He's going to invent new ways of being angry and try them out on you." |
| 351 | * In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Literature/BloodRites'', Harry and [[ActionGirl Murphy]] are discussing a porn director that Harry is working a case for. At one point he brings up the director's aversion to using breast implants in his films. |
| 352 | -->'''Harry:''' He doesn't believe in using surgically altered... uh... You know.\ |
| 353 | '''Murphy:''' Boobs? Jugs? Hooters? Ya-yas?\ |
| 354 | '''Harry:''' I guess.\ |
| 355 | '''Murphy:''' Melons? Torpedoes? Tits? Gazongas? Knockers? Ta-tas?\ |
| 356 | '''Harry:''' Hell's bells, Murph! |
| 357 | * The humor book ''A Guy's Guide to Dating'' has [[TheLongList five full pages of euphemisms]] for masturbating, from "adjusting the set" to "yanking the yo-yo," and including such gems as "dating Rosie Palm and her five sisters," "being your own best friend," "sheathin' the heathen," and many others. |
| 358 | * In ''Literature/HiddenTalents'', Lucky tells Cheater not to call people "wacko" and so Cheater gives him a list of other synonyms for "crazy". |
| 359 | -->'''Cheater:''' My mistake. [Trash isn't] wacko-- he's bonkers. Or maybe he's loony. How about ''deranged''? I like that one.\ |
| 360 | '''Lucky:''' How'd you like to be called that?\ |
| 361 | '''Cheater:''' I think I'd prefer ''insane'', if you're going for technical terms. But ''flipped out'' has a nice ring to it. And let's not forget all those wonderful phrases that can be used to indicate that a mind is somewhat less that perfect: one card short of a full deck, one sandwich short of a picnic, off your rocker, out in left field- the list goes on and on. |
| 362 | * In Creator/TomSharpe's black satire of life in apartheid South Africa, ''Literature/IndecentExposure'', the Nazi-inclined psychiatrist Dr von Blimenstein has to deal with a hysterical and sexually repressed Afrikaaner woman who is suffering from that common phobia, ''Blackcock Fever''. Unable even to say the word ''penis'', the patient resorts to euphemism as the (not) good doctor pretends ignorance: ''They've got such big ones. Hoo-has. Whatsits. Wibbledy wands. Pork swords. Knobs. Pee. Are. Eye. See. Kay. Spells "prick!"'' The root of the patient's anxiety is fear she is going to be raped when the blacks eventually rise in rebellion against apartheid combined with sexual repression. (This summarises three pages of hysterically funny dialogue on pp 172-175 of the paperback edition). |
| 363 | * ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': The peach gets caught up in a massive cloudburst, and a great solid mass of rainwater comes crashing down upon them, bouncing and smashing and sloshing and slashing and swashing and swirling and surging and whirling and gurgling and gushing and rushing and rushing. |
| 364 | * ''Literature/TheKeptManOfThePrincessKnight'': So says Matthew in the first chapter, "My occupation, according to the rest of the world, is ''kept man''. They call me other things, too: male prostitute, gigolo, boy-toy, philanderer, lady-killer, playboy, man-whore, scum." |
| 365 | * ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'' gives us a euphemism-laden nursery rhyme, ripe with foreshadowing: |
| 366 | -->''Seven things stand before\ |
| 367 | The entrance to the Lackless door\ |
| 368 | One of them a ring unworn\ |
| 369 | One a word that is forsworn\ |
| 370 | One a time that must be right\ |
| 371 | One a candle without light\ |
| 372 | One a son who brings the blood\ |
| 373 | One a door that holds the flood\ |
| 374 | One a thing tight-held in keeping\ |
| 375 | Then comes that with comes with sleeping'' |
| 376 | * In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Trunchbull tends to do this when ranting about this children. When she accuses Bruce Bogtrotter of stealing her cake: |
| 377 | --> '''Miss Trunchbull:''' This ''clot'', this ''blackhead'', this ''foul carbuncle'', this ''poisonous pustule'' that you see before you is none other than a disgusting criminal, a denizen of the underworld, a member of the Mafia! That robber-bandit, that safe-cracker, that highwayman standing over there with his socks around his ankles stole it and ate it! |
| 378 | * In ''Piddler on the Roof'' by Creator/PaulJennings, Weesle fears that his cousin Ralph will "Dob. Rat on me. Tell tales." |
| 379 | * In ''The Ten PM Question'', Frankie is shy about stating his friend's mother's profession (she's a sex worker), so his sister Gordana rattles off a list of words, including "hooker", "ho", and "prostitute". |
| 380 | * In one of the ''Literature/TimeWarpTrio'' books, every time someone tries to say they're going to throw up, another character interrupts with a different euphemism: "toss your cookies", "ride the porcelain bus", "make a sidewalk pizza"... |
| 381 | * ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'': Poynt wants Falshed to make sure a boxer he's bet against loses, and Falshed tries to start a euphemism hurricane: |
| 382 | -->"You mean take a dive, take a fall, throw the fight--"\ |
| 383 | "Any of those will do, so long as he makes it look good." |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 387 | * ''Series/AlmostLive'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0q1i2mqMgs Roscoe's Oriental Rug Emporium]] in the style of furniture store going out of business sale commercials. |
| 388 | * In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', in the episode directly after Angel fires Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn. |
| 389 | -->'''Cordelia:''' What just happened? Can someone explain to me, what just happened here?\ |
| 390 | '''Wesley:''' I believed we were fired.\ |
| 391 | '''Gunn:''' Canned.\ |
| 392 | '''Wesley:''' Let go.\ |
| 393 | '''Gunn:''' Axed.\ |
| 394 | '''Wesley:''' Shown the door.\ |
| 395 | '''Gunn:''' Booted.\ |
| 396 | '''Cordelia:''' All right, I get it. |
| 397 | * From ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': "Does that include doing the cyber-nasty? You know, the virtual pickle-tickle, the digital BowChickaWowWow?" |
| 398 | * ''Series/TheBill'' featured Sgt. Gilmore (who was gay) in his first episode reeling off a long list of euphemisms for "gay". |
| 399 | * From the ''Series/BrassEye'' pedophile special, with increasingly bizarre made-up euphemisms: |
| 400 | -->'''Interviewer:''' You are a paedophile. You are a nonce. You're a perv. You're a slot badger. You're a two pin din plug. You're a bush dodger. You're a small bean regarder. You're a unabummer. You're a nut administrator. You're a bent ref. You're The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. You're a fence vole. You're a free willy. You're a chimney bottler. You're a bunty man. You're a shrub rocketeer.\ |
| 401 | '''Paedophile:''' Yes well, you know, you've just mentioned some of the names that we have to put up with every day and it's just another form of racism. |
| 402 | * ''Series/CornerGas'' has an episode where Wanda uses several euphemisms for jail, confusing and annoying Brent. |
| 403 | * ''Series/DaAliGShow'', about drugs: |
| 404 | -->'''Ali:''' We all know that it's called the bionic, the bomb, the puff, the blow, the black, the herb, the sensie, the cronic, the sweet Mary Jane, the shit, Ganja, split, reefa, the bad, the buddha, the home grown, the ill, the maui-maui, the method, pot, lethal turbo, tie, shake, skunk, stress, whacky, weed, glaze, the boot, dimebag, Scooby Doo, bob, bogey, back yard boogie. But what is the other terms for it? |
| 405 | * Some of Creator/DavidLetterman's Top Ten lists qualify. Example, "The Top Ten Mafia Euphemisms for Death": |
| 406 | -->10. Checked into the Wooden Waldorf.\ |
| 407 | 9. No longer eligible for the census.\ |
| 408 | 8. Dropping both AT&T and MCI.\ |
| 409 | 7. Your highway taxes at work.\ |
| 410 | 6. Upcoming guest on 20/20.\ |
| 411 | 5. He's fallen and he can't get up.\ |
| 412 | 4. Resting his organs.\ |
| 413 | 3. [=McRibs=] (for a limited time only).\ |
| 414 | 2. Kicked the oxygen habit.\ |
| 415 | 1. Bought a Yugo. |
| 416 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 417 | ** While probably not humorous, the Sixth Doctor (played by Creator/ColinBaker) has a habit of using such streams of related terms, especially when frustrated or angry. In one Big Finish audio adventure, a character says that talking to the Doctor is "like arguing with a bloody thesaurus!" |
| 418 | ** Another example from the same argument in the audio: |
| 419 | --->'''The Doctor:''' If I have to endure another insult--\ |
| 420 | '''Banto Zane:''' Oh here we go, another voyage round the English language... |
| 421 | ** Which is probably a nod to the serial "The Trial of a Time Lord", which revels in thesaurus abuse. |
| 422 | * ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In "Reality Takes a Holiday", Marshall learns from Dash X and the ''Eerie, Indiana'' writer José Schaefer that they intend to kill him off. When he asks what they mean when they say dead, he receives the following explanation: |
| 423 | -->'''José Schaefer:''' I mean offed.\ |
| 424 | '''Dash X:''' Snuffed.\ |
| 425 | '''José Schaefer:''' Kicked the bucket.\ |
| 426 | '''Dash X:''' Pushing up daisies.\ |
| 427 | '''José Schaefer:''' Bought the farm.\ |
| 428 | '''Dash X:''' Did I mention rigor mortis? |
| 429 | %% * Attempted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-I1xGUciE8 this]] ''Series/FamilyFeud'' clip. |
| 430 | * A sometime-catchphrase used by [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]]--whenever he made what he thought what a casual declaration of something, and people replied "Whaaaa?", he would reply with a Hurricane Of Euphemisms. |
| 431 | * Polly of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' does this to inform Basil that the new chef has gotten drunk while attempting to hide the same fact from the guests by following each euphemism with something that might reasonably be the object of said euphemism: "''potted'' the shrimp", "''soused'' the herrings", "''pickled'' the onions", and "''smashed'' the eggs". ''Under the table''... |
| 432 | * On ''Series/{{Friends}}'' when one of Monica's prospective catering clients gets baked before coming to dinner. |
| 433 | -->'''Phoebe:''' In the cab on the way over, Steve blazed a doobie.\ |
| 434 | '''Rachel:''' What?!\ |
| 435 | '''Phoebe:''' Smoked a joint, ya know, lit a bone, weed, hemp, ganja.\ |
| 436 | '''Rachel:''' Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I know. Okay, I'm with you [[Creator/CheechAndChong Cheech]]. |
| 437 | * On ''Series/GameOfThrones'', when Tyrion is called to confess his crimes, he confesses that when he was twelve, "I milked my eel, I flogged the one-eyed snake, I skinned my sausage, I made the bald man cry." And he did it [[NauseaFuel into his sister's stew]]. |
| 438 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': Dr. House uses one of these to explain a child's odd behavior to her mother: |
| 439 | -->'''House:''' You mix rocking, grunting, sweating, and dystonia with concerned parents and you get an amateur diagnosis of epilepsy. In actuality, all your little girl is doing is saying "yoo hoo" to the hoo-hoo.\ |
| 440 | '''Mother:''' She's what?\ |
| 441 | '''House:''' Marching the penguin. Ya-ya-ing the sisterhood. Finding Nemo.\ |
| 442 | '''Girl:''' That was funny.\ |
| 443 | '''House:''' It's called gratification disorder. Sort of a misnomer. If one was unable to gratify oneself, that would be a disorder.\ |
| 444 | '''Mother:''' ''[covering the girl's ears]'' Are you saying she's masturbating?\ |
| 445 | '''House:''' I was trying to be discreet. There's a child in the room! |
| 446 | * ''Series/TheITCrowd'': Played straight, and later {{Metaphorgotten}} by Douglas: "Well, I'm the boss, head honcho, el numero uno, Mr. Big, the Godfather, Lord of the Rings, the Bourne Identity, er... Taxi Driver, Jaws... Forgot the question a while ago." |
| 447 | ** Also played straight with Jen trying to tell Moss that 'Aunt Irma is visiting her'. Roy finally comes up with one Moss gets. |
| 448 | * ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' also features Gene Hunt (who's not gay and is more like homophobic) doing a shorter, more offensive list of gay euphemisms. |
| 449 | * The ''Series/LoisAndClark'' episode "I've Got a Crush on You", when Lois is angry at Clark for revealing her cover for a story that she ended up writing herself: |
| 450 | -->'''Lois:''' Superman for example would not have cut me out of the story by ratting on me to the opposing team. It's a good thing I got myself back into the game and scored the winning touchdown.\ |
| 451 | '''Clark:''' Well sometimes the quarterback has to fake a throw to his primary receiver in order to free up his secondary target.\ |
| 452 | '''Lois:''' I'm really getting tired of fumbling around with all these football metaphors.\ |
| 453 | '''Clark:''' Me too, I pass.\ |
| 454 | '''Lois:''' Let's drop the ball, okay?\ |
| 455 | '''Clark:''' Okay. |
| 456 | * ''Series/TheLWord'': A truly ''staggering'' number of euphemisms for the vagina are listed by the regulars at the end of the first episode of season three, featuring such terms as "bikini biscuit", "breakfast of champions", "munch box" and probably 30 or so more. |
| 457 | * One OpeningMonologue of ''Series/MockTheWeek'' concerning a police officer who joined in on a couple having sex in their car straddled this and HurricaneOfPuns very quickly indeed. And very well. |
| 458 | * When Series/{{Monk}} believed he had been accidentally exposed to marijuana, he spent a few minutes naming slang words for the drugs, almost all of them made up. |
| 459 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': |
| 460 | ** The legendary "Dead Parrot" sketch climaxes in the frustrated customer rattling off a long list of euphemisms that indicate the dead Norwegian Blue parrot is ''not'' simply "pining for the fjords". |
| 461 | ** Many other sketches had similar lines. Creator/JohnCleese and Creator/GrahamChapman would often write sketches together, using a thesaurus to come up with many ways of saying the same thing. This was later lampshaded by Creator/EricIdle and Graham, when, during one sketch where Eric (in drag) is naming off different ways to say "predict". A board comes down with a list of all the words he's saying, and the audience reads them off at the same time while Graham (also in drag) points to them. |
| 462 | *** The above sketch was written by Creator/TerryJones and Creator/MichaelPalin as a parody of the Cleese/Chapman. Terry and Michael were incredibly surprised when the group decided it was still funny enough to be filmed. |
| 463 | *** This was coupled with UnusualEuphemism in the [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre "Wink Wink"]] sketch, including "candid photography" - at least [[spoiler: until TheReveal that the man spouting said euphemisms is also a virgin]]. |
| 464 | ** The beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ Cleese's eulogy]] [[TheFunInFuneral for Chapman]]: "Graham Chapman, co-author of the 'Parrot Sketch', is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and [[WentToTheGreatXInTheSky gone to meet the great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky.]]" |
| 465 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': At the end of Episode 320 (''The Unearthly''), TV's Frank pesters Dr. Forrester to do his Leo Gorcey impersonation: |
| 466 | -->'''Forrester:''' Frank, once again I'm going to have to kill you.\ |
| 467 | '''Frank:''' You wanna run that by me one more time?\ |
| 468 | '''Forrester:''' I'll run that by you one more time! ''(hitting Frank with his hat)'' Yeah, you know... kill... boost... ice... wax... skrag... douse... stifle... eighty-six... slip the Rosco... chill... dust... yank... toss a little kickshaw... raja... |
| 469 | ** Joel gets in one of these earlier in the same season, explaining his [[OnceAnEpisode Invention Exchange]] for Episode 307, the Air Freshener Mobile: |
| 470 | --->'''Joel:''' It's got bright-colored air fresheners that hang from strings, they stimulate baby's tiny brain, while the movement of the mobile activates charcoal filters, covering up the foul odor of baby's checher, ca-ca, po-po, nimbus, BM, and poopies.\ |
| 471 | '''Servo:''' ... [[UnusualEuphemism checher]]?\ |
| 472 | '''Crow:''' ... [[UnusualEuphemism nimbus]]? |
| 473 | ** [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E19Outlaw Episode 19 of Season 5]], ''Outlaw Of {{Literature/Gor}}'', has Mike and the bots sing about the {{Fanservice}} of the movie, describing it as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzKgcWDcl4 Tubular Boobular Joy]]!" |
| 474 | --->'''Trio''': It's an [[NippleAndDimed areola]]gical, autoerotical, tubular, boobular joy; An [[VaporWear exposular-regional]], batchical-pouchular fun for girl and boy! |
| 475 | ** In episode 6-12: The Starfighters, the mid-air refuelling scenes are exploited for all the DoubleEntendre Mike and the Bots can wring out of them: |
| 476 | --->'''Mike:''' Just lie back and think of England's airspace.\ |
| 477 | '''Servo:''' [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Ohhh, sweet mystery of life, at least I've found yooouuu!]] |
| 478 | * In one episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' they attempt to see whether you can literally PolishTheTurd, but they're not allowed to say the word turd, or crap, on the show. They give a LongList of the things they ''are'' allowed to call the substance in question, like "scat," "feces," "dung" and "[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking poopies]]". |
| 479 | * In the ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "Santabarbaratown", when Shawn and Gus are interviewing someone connected to the case: |
| 480 | -->'''Ida:''' I wanted children.\ |
| 481 | '''Gus:''' And he didn't?\ |
| 482 | '''Ida:''' Let's just say they weren't in the cards for him.\ |
| 483 | '''Shawn:''' [[EntendreFailure Meaning what?]]\ |
| 484 | '''Ida:''' His juice had no pulp. His seed wasn't fruitful. He was pouring decaf. Pumping unleaded. His Hall had no Oates. He was sterile!\ |
| 485 | '''Shawn:''' Oh! Sure. |
| 486 | * When Sam switched places with Dr Ruth on ''Series/QuantumLeap'', Al took advantage of her presence in the waiting room to have a therapy session about his hangups: |
| 487 | -->'''Al:''' More about Tina?\ |
| 488 | '''Dr. Ruth:''' Uh-huh.\ |
| 489 | '''Al:''' Ah -- well -- ummm -- oh well, ha-ha-ha, she's got... great... casabas!\ |
| 490 | '''Dr. Ruth:''' What are these... casabas?\ |
| 491 | '''Al:'''' Well you know... melons, ho-has, honkers, hooters, headlights, ah-- ta-tas? teeters, tweeters, tom-toms, tee-tees? ''[his face is all contorted trying to say just one word]''\ |
| 492 | '''Dr. Ruth:''' Say it!\ |
| 493 | '''Al:''' I'm trying to say it! Meatballs, mangos, cream pies, cupcakes, eh -- bangers, bouncers, bolumbas!\ |
| 494 | '''Dr. Ruth:''' Al!\ |
| 495 | '''Al:''' Bazongas! BREASTS! ...I said it! ''[with a very self-satisfied look on his face]''\ |
| 496 | '''Dr. Ruth:''' You see, it wasn't that hard.\ |
| 497 | '''Al:''' Yes it was. |
| 498 | * ''Series/QueerAsFolkUK'': After Stuart's preteen nephew tries to blackmail him for being gay (Stuart's parents don't know) and with false accusations of paedophilia, Stuart corners him in front of the entire family and outs himself with a long stream of euphemisms and cacophemisms for homosexuality. |
| 499 | -->'''Stuart:''' Because I'm queer. I'm gay. I'm homosexual. I'm a poof, I'm a poofter, I'm a ponce. I'm a bumboy, batty-boy, backside artist, bugger. I'm bent. I am that arsebandit. I lift those shirts. I'm a faggot-ass, fudge-packing, shit-stabbing uphill gardener. I dine at the downstairs restaurant, I dance at the other end of the ballroom. I'm Moses and the parting of the red cheeks. I fuck and I am fucked. I suck and I am sucked. I rim them and wank them, and every single man's had the fucking time of his life. And I am ''not'' a pervert. |
| 500 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' when Zelda finds out that Morgan has been manipulating her and Hilda. |
| 501 | -->'''Zelda:''' Hilda, we've been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led down the primrose path and shoved into a thicket of thorns.\ |
| 502 | '''Hilda:''' Huh? |
| 503 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': |
| 504 | ** ''Film/WaynesWorld'' would frequently do this when discussing vomiting, including in the movie. |
| 505 | ** One SNL sketch had series regular Randy Quaid trying to tell Pee-Wee Herman that he needs to get a prostitute, without coming out and saying it: |
| 506 | --->'''Randy:''' Well...they wear lots of makeup...\ |
| 507 | '''Pee-Wee:''' Clowns!\ |
| 508 | '''Randy:''' No...let's just say you'd be embarrassed to be seen with one...\ |
| 509 | '''Pee-Wee:''' ''[nodding gravely]'' Mimes! |
| 510 | :: This goes on for a while until Pee-Wee finally says "Well, I don't get it; maybe you should just go see a hooker!" |
| 511 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': |
| 512 | ** When Ruthie pretends to be angry for Oscar in an episode, she says lots of synonyms for "angry". |
| 513 | --->'''Ruthie:''' Oh, oh! You've made me so angry! You make me so furious!! You make me so mad! Stewed! Oh, I am ''enraged''!! I am ''steamed''! Oscar, Oscar, I am so sore at you I am ''blowing my top''!!\ |
| 514 | '''Oscar:''' I think she's swallowed a dictionary here.\ |
| 515 | '''Ruthie:''' Oh! Oh, Oscar, I'm losing my temper! I mean I am ''really fuming''! Oh, ooh, I am ''boiling'' mad! I am also peeved and I am irked!! Oscar, I am '''''seething'''''!!!\ |
| 516 | '''Oscar:''' Yeah, but are you ''angry''?\ |
| 517 | '''Zoe:''' Yes, yes, she is. |
| 518 | ** In "Elmo's Potty Time", a crowd of children says various names for human waste, including "pee-pee", "tinkle", "pee", "wee-wee", "widdle", "piddle", "pee-pee-pee-pee", and "[[LittleProfessorDialog urinate]]" for number one, and "doo", "poopie", "poopa", "poo-poo", "dookie", "[[GratuitousSpanish caca]]", and "doodie" for number two. |
| 519 | * In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', episode "My Brother, Where Art Thou?" (03x05) J.D. asks Dr. Cox for a favor. Reply is: |
| 520 | --> Good God in heaven, Newbie. There are just so very many ways for me to say this to you: Never. Not in a million years. Absolutely not. No way, Jose. No chance, Lance. Nyet. Negatori. Mm-mm. Nuh-uh. Uh-uh. And of course, my own personal favorite of all time, man falling off of a cliff. Noooooooooo! |
| 521 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' came in for some controversy with one of these when Elaine's boss J. Peterman talked about an employee with an addiction to opium ("the yam-yam"): "He's back on the horse, Elaine. Smack. White palace. The Chinaman's nightcap." The last-named euphemism was edited out in syndication after complaints from the Asian-American community. |
| 522 | * ''Series/{{Skins}}'': |
| 523 | ** Naomi and Katie do this for lesbianism in front of Emily. It's a rather awkward and painful sequence, as Katie thinks Naomi's gay (she's not - certainly at the time, and even by the end of the series she doesn't get past "confused"), while Naomi strongly (and rightly) suspects that Emily actually is gay, and Emily is nursing an epic crush on Naomi (which Naomi knows about, and isn't exactly pleased with until a couple of episodes later). |
| 524 | --->'''Naomi:''' So, Katie, you gonna be nice to me now we're Twister pals? I promise not to grab your minge and everything.\ |
| 525 | '''Katie:''' Okay, ha ha. Hands off the muff and we're sorted.\ |
| 526 | '''Naomi:''' Gotcha. No buffing the beaver.\ |
| 527 | '''Katie:''' No groping the growler.\ |
| 528 | '''Naomi:''' Don't tickle on my tinkle.\ |
| 529 | '''Katie:''' Okay, I won't fluff up your flange.\ |
| 530 | '''Emily:''' ''* hurt* '' You done?\ |
| 531 | '''Katie:''' Yep. We're double done with the DNA dump. |
| 532 | ** The autistic JJ also tends to launch into one of these whenever he gets locked on. |
| 533 | * ''Series/Sleuth101'': In "Delete Cache", Detective Claire Hooper asks Torben about his comment that "Cache would be taken care of", and he admits that he was planning to fire him that week. "He was gonna be... eighty sixed. He was gonna be fired. I was gonna fire him. I was gonna let him go. I was gonna put him out to pasture. I was gonna show him the keys to the door. I was gonna give him his pink slip. I was gonna show him the exit." [[OverlyLongGag He interrupts Claire twice during this]]. |
| 534 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'': |
| 535 | ** Jack O'Neill describing his declining mental state in "Window of Opportunity", saying, "Lose it. It means, go crazy... nuts... insane... bonzo... ''no longer in possessions of one's faculties''... '''three fries short of a Happy Meal'''... '''''WACKO!'''''" Along with a [[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/File:Stargate_Window_of_Opportunity_Wacko.jpg fantastic illustration.]] |
| 536 | ** Jack does this again a few seasons later after he downloads an alien database into his head. From previous experience, they know what to anticipate if they don't manage to get him somewhere that it can be removed from his brain before it's too late: |
| 537 | --->'''Samantha Carter:''' And then it will overwhelm his nervous system and the colonel will...\ |
| 538 | '''Jack O'Neill:''' What? Meet my maker? Pay the piper? Reach the pearly gates? Start pushing up daisies here and there? |
| 539 | * Data was known to do this in earlier seasons of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. |
| 540 | -->'''Guinan:''' That's it, isn't it? You don't have any idea what a joke is.\ |
| 541 | '''Data:''' Of course I do. It is a witticism, a gag, a bon mot, a fluctuation of words which concludes with a "trick" ending, it is... |
| 542 | ** As does fellow robot Kryten in ''Series/RedDwarf'', especially when annoyed. |
| 543 | * The closing narrative for ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Four O'Clock" features a string of euphemisms for LaserGuidedKarma: |
| 544 | --> "At four o'clock, an evil man made his bed and lay in it, a pot called a kettle black, a stone-thrower broke the windows of his glass house. You look for this one under 'F' for fanatic, and 'J' for justice...in the Twilight Zone." |
| 545 | * The whole point of the ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' game "If You Know What I Mean" is to make as many [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Lampshaded Double Entendres]] as possible referencing a given subject, like hotels or weightlifting. It tends to end when the euphemisms start to become too vulgar or [[{{Metaphorgotten}} just nonsensical]]. |
| 546 | * In ''Series/WhosTheBoss'', Tony and Sam's grandfather are discussing the latter's incarceration, describing it as "Jail, the slammer, the big house, the joint." |
| 547 | * ''WesternAnimation/WorzelGummidge'': In one episode, [[BrattyHalfPint Pickles Bramble]] fires a slingshot at Mrs. Bloomsbury-Barton's butt, and she claims that she's been "Molested! Assaulted! Shot!". |
| 548 | [[/folder]] |
| 549 | |
| 550 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 551 | * OlderThanSteam: the Elizabethan song "My Thing Is My Own" relates the words of a young maiden who is propositioned by men from all walks of life and and uses the language of the occupation of each to paraphrase his or her private parts like thus: A fine man of law did come out of the Strand To plead his own cause, with his fee in his hand. He made a brave motion, but that would not do. For I did dismiss him, and non-suit him too! A fine dapper tailor, with a yard in his hand, Did proffer his service to be at command. He talked of a slit I had above knee: But I'll have no tailors to stitch it for me! |
| 552 | * "Pound Sign #?* !" as sung by Kevin Fowler is an example of this. The whole song basically lists euphemisms for curse words the narrator is no longer allowed to say now that he has small children at home. |
| 553 | * Music/{{Rihanna}}'s "Shut Up And Drive" is basically a massive amalgam of sexual innuendos spun into the language of cars and driving. |
| 554 | * Music/SirMixALot's "Baby Got Back" is basically a Hurricane Of Euphemisms, though he has the advantage in that he's not ''always'' describing a woman's backside. |
| 555 | * Singer Voltaire's "Sexy Data Tango" is one long string of {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for sex and the sexual organs, including "cause a quantum singularity in your transwarp conduit" and "his Defiant, with all its thrusters, will explode in your wormhole". |
| 556 | * Roy Zimmerman's song "[[http://youtu.be/pS5LWS5m5h4 Firing the Surgeon General]]" is a Hurricane Of Euphemisms for masturbation. (The title is a reference to Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired after proposing that frank discussion of the topic should be part of sex education.) |
| 557 | * A verse of the song "Bring On The Men" from Jerkyll and Hyde is made of this. |
| 558 | * "The Bad Touch" by The Bloodhound Gang. That is all. |
| 559 | ** In the same vein, by the same artist, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo". It contains some of the most... interesting sex euphemisms you'll hear. |
| 560 | *** ..."Squishmitten?" |
| 561 | * [[http://www.spaff.com/poesy/boobs.html 99 Words For Boobs]] |
| 562 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlCLHf76q_w Working Where the Sun Don't Shine (The Colorectal Surgeon's Song)]] |
| 563 | * The "Not Creator/NoelCoward Song" from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' is another Hurricane Of Euphemisms for the same organ. |
| 564 | -->'''Eric Idle as [[BlatantLies A Guy Who Is Totally Not Supposed to Be Noel Coward]]:'''\ |
| 565 | ''Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis\ |
| 566 | Isn't it frightfully good to own a dong\ |
| 567 | It's swell to have a stiffy, it's divine to own a dick\ |
| 568 | from the tiniest little tadger to the world's biggest prick!\ |
| 569 | So three cheers for your willy or John Thomas\ |
| 570 | Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake\ |
| 571 | Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend, your percy or your cock\ |
| 572 | You can wrap it up in ribbons or you can stick it in your sock\ |
| 573 | But don't take it out in public or they'll put you in the dock\ |
| 574 | And you won't a-come a-back.'' |
| 575 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0 Sledgehammer]] by Music/PeterGabriel. The entire song is made of euphemisms. |
| 576 | * The Music/BarenakedLadies have some fun with this in the aptly titled "Crazy": |
| 577 | --> ''The lights are on but nobody's home, my elevator doesn't go to the top\ |
| 578 | I'm not playing with a full deck, I've lost my marbles...\ |
| 579 | I'm a few bricks short of a load but then a full load always hurt my back\ |
| 580 | I flew over the cuckoo's nest and I'm never ever coming back...'' |
| 581 | * Music/{{Queen}}'s "I'm Going Slightly Mad" is filled with euphemisms for insanity [[spoiler: in particular, the AIDS-related dementia Freddie Mercury was going through at the time]]. |
| 582 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4crlNRPySfs "Hide the Sausage"]] by Music/IvorBiggun is almost entirely composed of euphemisms for "penis" and "sexual relations", many of which are rather silly. |
| 583 | * Music/{{Jellyfish}}'s "He's My Best Friend" is one for the narrator's private parts along with masturbation. Singer/songwriter/drummer Andy Sturmer [[WordOfGod said in an interview]] that the song was stylistically the band's "love letter to Music/HarryNilsson". |
| 584 | ** "Hypocrite, four-flusher, snake in the grass, just a swindler, a wolf in sheep's clothing... LIAR!" -- "All Is Forgiven" |
| 585 | ** Jellyfish splinter act The Lickerish Quartet continue this tradition with "Fadoodle", entirely consisting of a string of pre-20th century euphemisms for sexual intercourse. |
| 586 | * Music/LadyAntebellum's oral sex song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WeSItykFyY Downtown]]" contains all kinds of euphemisms for female genitalia including "[[TitleDrop downtown]]", "door" and "uh-uh" which is also a slang term for [[SexualEuphemism sexual intercourse]]. The video also contains references to "donuts" and "sprinkles". |
| 587 | ** At the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zCpBBYzr7A#t=1m51s 1:52 mark]], Hillary Scott points to her crotch when she sings the line "I'm only counting on your cancellation, when I should be counting on you at my door" when she sings it live at the 2013 American Country Music Awards. |
| 588 | * [[Music/BlueManGroup Blue Man Group's]] "Shake Your [[LampshadeHanging Euphemism]]" is a song dedicated to listing off different terms for the [[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks buttocks]]. Some of them are... [[UnusualEuphemism kind of weird]]. |
| 589 | * In "House of Fun" by Music/{{Madness|Band}}, the song's narrator, attempting to buy condoms in anticipation of losing his virginity on his sixteenth birthday [[note]]16 is the age of consent in Britain, from which the song originates.[[/note]], asks for "a box of balloons with the featherlight touch", "pack of party-poppers that pop in the night" and "a pack of party hats with the coloured tips". The bemused assistant responds "This is a chemist, not a joke shop". |
| 590 | * ''Music/{{Songdrops}}'': In "The Day You Told Me Your Name", the singer never heard his girlfriend's name, so instead, he calls her a variety of {{Affectionate Nickname}}s from his "baby" to his "snugglicious cuddle blossom". |
| 591 | * "Drinkin' On The Job" by The Rainmakers features numerous occupation-related euphemisms for being drunk -- i.e., "The garbageman got trashed, the janitor got messy" -- and the final verse adds a related theme: |
| 592 | -->The terrorist got bombed |
| 593 | -->The president got hit |
| 594 | -->Security was tight |
| 595 | -->The Secret Service got lit |
| 596 | * The first verse of "The Cuppy Cake Song" goes, "You're my honey bunch, sugar plum, pumpie-umpie-umpkin, you're my sweetie-pie. You're my cuppy-cake, gumdrop, shnookums-boogums, you're the apple of my eye". |
| 597 | * Music/TheStupendium's "Vending Machine of Love" is four minutes of constant innuendos for porn and [=OnlyFans=], done in the style of talking about a vending machine and the word "cans". |
| 598 | -->''Now you’ve seen other paysite galleries\ |
| 599 | But none of those girls taste like raspberries\ |
| 600 | So if you think we’re just some obscene cannery\ |
| 601 | All our cans are over eighteen [[LastSecondWordSwap calories]]'' |
| 602 | [[/folder]] |
| 603 | |
| 604 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 605 | * After an infamous Raw match from the tail end of 1997 where Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels put on a complete mockery of a European title match (really just a gag on [[Wrestling/SgtSlaughter Commissioner Slaughter]]), commentator Wrestling/JimCornette responds thusly: |
| 606 | -->'''Jim:''' It was a ruse! A ploy, a plot, a plan, a charade, a conspiracy, a sham! We've been conned, hoodwinked, bamboozled, flimflammed, had the wool pulled over our eyes, even!! |
| 607 | [[/folder]] |
| 608 | |
| 609 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 610 | * Franchise/TheMuppets: |
| 611 | ** In ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', when the Muppets see a motorcycle cop [[spoiler:that turns out to be Doc Hopper's assistant Max]]. |
| 612 | --->'''Dr. Teeth:''' It's the man with the badge, the PO-lice, the cops, the fuzz, the P-I...\ |
| 613 | '''Miss Piggy:''' Don't you dare! |
| 614 | ** In ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', when Piggy's been wrongfully imprisoned. (She used "cooler" and "stir" earlier in the conversation, which established that she'd been locked up for 45 minutes.) |
| 615 | --->'''Miss Piggy:''' Great. I'll be stuck in the big house for life.\ |
| 616 | '''Kermit:''' "Big house"? Is that prison talk?\ |
| 617 | '''Miss Piggy:''' Yeah, big house, squealer, slammer. That's the lingo we use here in the joint. |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 621 | * A ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' skit had someone warning John that his new employee was, well, John never figured that out, but euphemisms for it included "He parts his hair in the middle" and "He wouldn't thank you for punching him in the face", among many others. John said he wouldn't thank someone for punching him in the face either, and the other guy said that in ''that'' case, he was sure they'd get on very well. About the only thing John ''could'' confirm was that the person being talked about wasn't gay. |
| 622 | * On a certain 30s episode of the ''Kraft Music Hall'' pianist Rudolph Ganz tried to be as precise as possible when translating the title of a Claude Debussy piece. |
| 623 | -->'''Rudolph Ganz:''' "Port of the Wine," or "Door to the Wine," or tavern, or inn--\ |
| 624 | '''Bob Burns:''' Or gin-mill. |
| 625 | * ''Radio/TheNowShow'' had a skit about the fact English has more euphemisms for penis than any other language. Hugh then goes through all of them. Twice. |
| 626 | [[/folder]] |
| 627 | |
| 628 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 629 | * The ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' expansion deck ''Munchkin Bites!'' has a monster with the PunnyName "Thesaurus": |
| 630 | -->Will not pursue, chase, follow, track, shadow or ferret out anyone of level 5 or below.\ |
| 631 | '''Bad Stuff''' [if it beats you]: You are dead, deceased, departed, defunct, lifeless, perished, moribund and exanimate. |
| 632 | [[/folder]] |
| 633 | |
| 634 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 635 | * Lampshaded in ''Theatre/TheCompleteHistoryOfAmericaAbridged'': |
| 636 | -->'''Flush:''' I got you now, Diamond! You're dead meat. Your butt is mine. Your ass is grass. Your keister's cooked! Your heinie's history!\ |
| 637 | '''Spade:''' Calm down, Flush. I don't have time for a long list of rump references. |
| 638 | * In the Cole Porter musical ''Du Barry Was A Lady'', Du Barry and Louie have a duet that is literally NOTHING BUT this trope. For verse after verse. |
| 639 | -->"Are you fond of poker, dear? Kindly tell me if so."\ |
| 640 | "Yes, I'm fond of poker, dear... but in the morning, no."\ |
| 641 | "Do you ante up, my dear? Kindly tell me if so."\ |
| 642 | "Yes, I ante up, my dear...but in the morning, no."\ |
| 643 | "Can you fill an inside straight? Kindly tell me if so."\ |
| 644 | "I've filled ''plenty'' inside straight... but in the morning, no." |
| 645 | * In Fröken Fleggmans mustasch the death of one of the characters is greeted by a series of these by three of the other characters. Each time one of them uses a euphemism for dying the others respond "What?", as if not understanding what it means. In the end another character says "He is dead", to which they all respond "What?!" in great surprise. (The whole thing runs on RuleOfFunny.) |
| 646 | * OlderThanSteam: In ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'', Launcelot Gobbo uses a few [[UnusualEuphemism unusual euphemisms]] to imply that his father was unchaste: "...for indeed, my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a kind of taste..." |
| 647 | * ''Theatre/{{Matilda}}'': When the eponymous girl is born, her [[TheDitz stupid]] father mistakes her for a boy and asks where her "thingie" is. When the doctor doesn't understand, Mr. Wormwood says, "His thingie! His whatsamacallit. His whojamaflip. His doo-dah." |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 651 | * In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', when Idiot Doom Spiral tells the tale of a famous graphic designer, he will mention that crucial part of the story is that the designer, like most people in his field, was hopelessly addicted to "nose candy". You can ask him to clarify, triggering a bit in which he, your partner Kim, and your Encyclopedia skill all chime in with different euphemisms, until Electrochemistry gets impatient. |
| 652 | -->'''Electrochemistry:''' HE'S TALKING ABOUT COCAINE. |
| 653 | * Octa of ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' is a walking, talking, spell-casting font of euphemisms for sexual intercourse and the organs typically involved, especially his own. He never once actually ''says'' what he's talking about, but trust us: you'll know. |
| 654 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': |
| 655 | ** If the female PC romances [[CelibateHero Alistair]], one of [[CasanovaWannabe Oghren's]] party banter conversations with Alistair in the party goes like this: |
| 656 | --->'''Oghren:''' So. With the boss, aye?\ |
| 657 | '''Alistair:''' Pardon?\ |
| 658 | '''Oghren:''' You and the boss. Rolling your oats.\ |
| 659 | '''Alistair:''' I don't know--\ |
| 660 | '''Oghren:''' Polishing the footstones.\ |
| 661 | '''Alistair:''' --what you're--\ |
| 662 | '''Oghren:''' Tapping the midnight still, if you will.\ |
| 663 | '''Alistair:''' What are you going on about?\ |
| 664 | '''Oghren:''' [[OverlyLongGag Forging the moaning statue. Bucking the forbidden horse. Donning the velvet hat.]]\ |
| 665 | '''Alistair:''' Are you just making these up right now?\ |
| 666 | '''Oghren:''' Nope. Been saving 'em. |
| 667 | ** Isabela's banter in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is full of these, ''especially'' with Merrill and Aveline. |
| 668 | --->'''Isabela:''' So. How good is Donnic? Is he "cocksure"?\ |
| 669 | '''Aveline:''' Just... get it out of your system.\ |
| 670 | '''Isabela:''' Did he "curl your toes?", "dwarf your beard?", "Arl your Emon?", "caress your kitty?", "established his canon?", "put it in your peach?", "mastered your taint?", "satisfied the demands of your Qun?", or did he "cup your joining?"\ |
| 671 | '''Aveline:''' Yes, all right, he's an incredibly proficient lover. Happy?\ |
| 672 | '''Isabela:''' [[DontExplainTheJoke Well, that's rather personal, don't you think?]] |
| 673 | ** Also from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', there's one advertisement for an apothecary received by mail: |
| 674 | --->Feeling inadequate? Flag flying at half-mast? Does your soldier not stand to attention? Does your dwarf shy away from the Deep Roads? Come to Jorman's Apothecary and ask for our Special Sauce. |
| 675 | * In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', the monsters found at [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Hole_in_the_Sky The Hole in the Sky]] are all constellations, mostly named after euphemisms for genitalia, because the Astronomers of the Times of Old were all incredibly immature. Potential opponents include The Burrowing Bishop, The Family Jewels, The Hooded Warrior, The Junk, One-Eyed Willie, The Pork Sword, The Skinflute, The Trouser Snake, The Twig and Berries, The Axe Wound, The Beaver, The Box, The Bush, The Camel's Toe, The Flange, The Honey Pot, The Little Man in the Canoe, and The Muff. The only monster than doesn't fit this theme is The Astronomer, because the Astronomers of the Times of Old were also incredibly egotistical. |
| 676 | * In ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' in the "Murder on Eridanos" DLC when questioning Blackhole Bertie. |
| 677 | -->'''[[PlayerCharacter The Unplanned Variable:]]''' What were you doing the night Helen died? |
| 678 | -->'''Blackhole Bertie:''' I was getting blotto with the rest of the rangers. |
| 679 | -->'''The Unplanned Varible:''' What? |
| 680 | -->'''Blackhole Bertie:''' You know.. soaked. Muddeled. Preserved. |
| 681 | -->(If [[TheAlcoholic Nyoka]] is in the party) |
| 682 | -->'''Nyoka:''' Blootered. Half-shot. Void-lush. "On the Byzatine Swizzle". Starry. One-bit down, three bits up. Spread across the Spectrum. Top-heavy. Should I go on? |
| 683 | -->'''The Unplanned Varible:''' What? |
| 684 | -->'''Nyoka:''' Drunk, Captain. |
| 685 | * ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' itself is practically a Hurricane Of Euphemisms for various sex-related subjects, but the most concentrated form is the radio-commercials for Freckle Bitches' (a fast-food chain that combines features of [=McDonalds=] and Wendy's), who expounds on their various menus including their large trademark burger, "The Fist", a two-burger menu called "The Twins", and their kiddie-meals, the Funbags, who comes with two jugs of your favorite juices, and a surprise -- this week, for the girls, it's a genuine pearl necklace! |
| 686 | * [[GagPenis Mara]] of ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games is extremely fond of this. Unsurprisingly, it all has to do with his ''unusual'' shape. |
| 687 | * Famously delivered in ''VideoGame/TotalDistortion'''s Game Over song, [[HaveANiceDeath rubbing in the fact that you've died]] as much as humanly possible. |
| 688 | [[/folder]] |
| 689 | |
| 690 | %%[[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 691 | %%* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. The Elevator scene. |
| 692 | %%[[/folder]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 695 | * ''WebAnimation/DrTran'': Leland's grandma [[RuleOfFunny lets loose with a completely nonsensical string of euphemisms]] after Tran asks where she'll be taking them for her errands. The torrent of euphemisms lasts for an astonishing 35 seconds, and only about 1/4 of them actually ''relate'' to Tran's question. |
| 696 | -->'''Grandma:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94m_P4-0wXw#t=3m15s Oh, you know. Here and there. Out and around. Round and about.]] Hither and thither - to and fro, back and forth, up and down, in and out. Over-and-under, hippity-hoppity, round the corner over the river and through the woods, lickety-split, clocking the G's, grinding the ax, up to no good, nip in the bud, good 'n plenty, lollygagging around making the rounds painting the town red. [[MotorMouth Packing a load, hugging a tree skinnin' the dog skip to my loo sowing my oats passing a stone, shooting the breeze]] jumping the fence! [[OverlyLongGag Humping the horse dancing a jig spinning a yarn sipping the cider! Flexing the pecs lubin' my do packing the feed licking the chicken pinching the pennies!]] Do-si-do...\ |
| 697 | '''[[OnlySaneMan Tran:]]''' [[BigShutUp Shut up!]] Why don't you shut up right now!? |
| 698 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': A CutawayGag in the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "environment" has Strong Bad typing up a LongList of euphemisms for the buttocks that are "Okay For Mom": |
| 699 | -->'''Strong Bad:''' Tuckus... hinders... bwathom... boontockle... |
| 700 | * ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': |
| 701 | ** Yahtzee, after swearing not to mention Lara's breasts at the beginning of a ''Franchise/TombRaider'' review, finally fails to rein himself in and explodes into a long string of mammary-related euphemisms. |
| 702 | ** ''Bosoms, melons, milk factories, busts, fun bags, knockers, [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 ballistics]], boobies, jugs, nipples, jubblies, '''stonking great tits'''.'' The last of which became offered on a FunTShirt. |
| 703 | [[/folder]] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 706 | * For [[http://www.bitemecomic.com/?p=511 beheading]] in ''Webcomic/BiteMe'', many of which are actually historical. |
| 707 | * From ''Webcomic/DaisyOwl'': Daisy's principal skates around saying [[http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-09 "a sandwich with dog poop in it"]]. In the AltText the author claims to have "1000 more of these phrases". |
| 708 | * ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' gets into it in [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/boffing/ this strip]]... |
| 709 | -->"...We're both makin' up words, now, right?" |
| 710 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080827 The Castle apparently wants to ensure the succession very quickly.]] |
| 711 | -->'''Castle:''' Do you have a... boyfriend?\ |
| 712 | '''Agatha:''' A ''what?''\ |
| 713 | '''Castle:''' A boyfriend. A sweetheart. A swain. A beau. A lover. An intended consort. A fiancé. A ''stud.'' |
| 714 | * ''Webcomic/GoGetARoomie'': Troll's attempt to explain to Lillian that Roomie is in the back room engaging in lesbian sex [[http://gogetaroomie.chloe-art.com/2010/12/cunninglingus-2/ here]]. |
| 715 | * Dave from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is all about elaborate euphemisms, but [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/1099 his countertrolling of Tavros]] stands out. The fun begins with "so at what point in the future am i supposed to look forward to you whipping up this titanic hankerin for my knob", and then proceeds through "throbbing beef truncheon", "crotch-dachshund", "naked spam porpoise", "little boy peckers" and "vienna sausages". |
| 716 | * From ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'': Jason trying to give Joyce "[[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20001108.html The Talk]]", and [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030310.html these]] [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030311.html three]] [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030312.html strips]] from the chapter "Innuendo". |
| 717 | * ''Webcomic/TheLastHumanInACrowdedGalaxy'': The little drone on Sarya's shoulder offers a staggering array of [[NeverSayDie synonyms for "die"]] when she asks it to stop saying the word. |
| 718 | %%* ''Webcomic/{{Muertitos}}'': [[http://muertitos.comicgenesis.com/d/20080513.html demonstrates]]. |
| 719 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 720 | ** Haley [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0530.html tries]] to break the news of Roy's death gently to his DitzyGenius girlfriend, only for her to [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Comically Miss the Point]] until Belkar angrily {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s the trope and blurts out the truth. |
| 721 | ** When the fallen [[ThePaladin Paladin]] [[spoiler:Miko]] wakes up in prison, Belkar [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0419.html rattles off]] a list of synonyms for jail to rub it in. |
| 722 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': |
| 723 | ** In strip number [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1779 1779]], Tai (who is a lesbian, and attracted to Marten's girlfriend Dora) has just shared with Marten her realization that she would not be able to bring herself to hook up with Dora even if Dora and Marten were to break up first. Not so much out of respect for her friendship with Marten, as because she wouldn't want to lick Dora's private parts while knowing that Marten had previously ejaculated there. Marten tells Tai that it's not like Dora is dripping his "happy-batter" everywhere she goes. |
| 724 | --->'''Tai:''' "Happy-batter?" ''Seriously?''\ |
| 725 | '''Marten:''' Yeah, you know. My joy-juice. My glee-gloop. My ''euphoria fluid''.\ |
| 726 | '''Tai:''' Agh! Stop! Enough already! |
| 727 | ** In strip number [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4555 4555]], Marten's mischievous robot buddy Pintsize has just gotten a more lifelike humanoid body, and is bothered by how he feels inhibited from acting and speaking as crudely as he did before. When the rather bosomy Willow says it was nice meeting him, he tries to answer with, "And it was nice meeting YOUR TITS," except he gets stuck on "TI—" without being able to say the rest. Some alternatives, "Your ju—" and "Your baz—", also stick in his throat, causing him much consternation. Willow giggles that she's going to start calling breasts "Tijubas". |
| 728 | ** In [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4769 #4769]], Roko has dressed up for a night out, but has yet to reveal her outfit. Talking through the door to Beeps, she rattles off a string of descriptions implying that her dress is very short. |
| 729 | --->'''Roko:''' I feel like if I had a dad he wouldn't let me leave the house like this. If Nelson had come with us he'd have to wear a wide-brim hat to preserve our working relationship. If I bend even slightly forward everyone will know it's animal-print underwear day and my favorite primate is the lemur. No one is going to ask if my legs go all the way up because it is abundantly clear where they join my torso. This dress was outcompeted for food by its other, larger nestmates. [[YouMustBeThisTallToRide This dress isn't allowed on most amusement park rides.]] This dress has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to provide adequate raiment. This dress is ''abridged''. |
| 730 | * In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', when someone's trying to tell to Bun-bun that he has to ''deliberately lose'', a concept he has difficulty grasping since he normally never gives up. |
| 731 | -->"You give up the ranch. Blow a bundle. Take a dive. Vote Nader. Down the tubes. In the drink. Sing lead for Music/VanHalen. It's all over but the crying. Stick your head up a..."\ |
| 732 | '''Bun-bun:''' No, really, what are you trying to say? |
| 733 | * The webcomic ''Webcomic/TheSuburbanJungle'': |
| 734 | --> "You're not interested in me at all?"\ |
| 735 | "Look, Leona, I'm gay, alright? A poofter. A complete nancy. In the game of love, I'm batting for the other team. I'm queerer than a three-dollar bill and a bigger fairy than Tinkerbell. I am, in short, totally ginger."\ |
| 736 | "Ha! Why don't you just admit it?"\ |
| 737 | "I thought I just did ...?"\ |
| 738 | "You're in love with Tiffany Tiger, aren't you?"\ |
| 739 | "Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" |
| 740 | * ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'': In strip #1864 "City Nicknames," Black Hat Guy reels off endless, completely made-up nicknames for St. Louis ("The Winged City. The Golden Trombone. Castleopolis. The Kissing Kingdom. Sandland. The High Place. Ol' Ironhook. ...") |
| 741 | [[/folder]] |
| 742 | |
| 743 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 744 | * ProfessionalWrestling website Cageside Seats had a four-part review of Wrestling/{{Chyna}}'s [[ParallelPornTitles latest foray into wrestling]], [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2012/9/25/3380898/kanenites-review-of-chyna-is-queen-of-the-ring-part-one "Chyna is Queen of the Ring"]], which is filled to the brim with euphemisms and puns. |
| 745 | ** The same writer later reviewed her ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2013/4/18/4239742/review-of-she-hulk-xxx-part-one adaptation]], where "Jennifer Walters showed that she really knows how to expertly use her mouth to bypass legal boundaries". |
| 746 | * [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-363-jennifer-love-hewitt/ This]] [[Website/{{Cracked}} Cracked.com]] article combines this trope and StealthPun throughout. |
| 747 | * The ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' provide the [[http://chelonianmobile.livejournal.com/51752.html Gay Weasel Sketch]], taking cues from the Monty Python example. |
| 748 | -->"He's GAY, Drake! And I don't mean in the jovial sense! Queer as a three-dollar bill, bent as a threp'ny bit, camper than a row of tents, a bigger fairy than Tinkerbell, and gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide! Fag, fruit, invert, mariposa, call it what you will! H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L! He is, in short, totally ginger! Do you get it or would you like us to explain with a sock puppet show?!" |
| 749 | * ''Creator/{{Seanbaby}}'': [[http://www.seanbaby.com/news/commonsense.htm Temptation Beach vs. a Book About Retarded People]] features the book "Common Sense Not Needed" by Corrie ten Boom, which discusses the author's experiences [[{{Glurge}} preaching Christianity to developmentally disabled people in Nazi-occupied Europe]], and in the process uses a broad variety of terms for "developmentally disabled": |
| 750 | --> The other important theme of the book is having lots and lots of different ways to call someone stupid. Such as mentally retarded, abnormal, feeble-minded, ''creature'', imbecilic, and my new favorite: '''subnormal'''. |
| 751 | * ''Website/SFDebris'' comes up with a Japan-themed one of these for one scene in ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', including sexually-charged references to katanas, cherry blossoms, several foodstuffs and Toyota. |
| 752 | %%* ''Website/TVTropes'': The opening to the DeusSexMachina and BandOfBrothels articles. And NoPeriodsPeriod. |
| 753 | [[/folder]] |
| 754 | |
| 755 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 756 | %%* What Yahtzee does for breasts, Jungle Recon from ''Action Figure Therapy'' does for penises in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO8_QaQdANU this video]]. |
| 757 | * WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd goes into a tirade when he pronounces ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'' as "semen" twice. |
| 758 | -->'''Nerd:''' Aw, no, no, no, no, no, no! It's "Seaman!" SEA! MAN! Not semen. As in jizz! Splooge! Man bazooka juice! |
| 759 | * ''WebVideo/BoardJames'' has one in the Mr. Bucket episode, when the bucket himself threatens to [[GroinAttack suck James's balls]]. |
| 760 | -->'''Mr. Bucket''': I wanna suck on your balls! |
| 761 | -->'''James (throwing plastic balls)''': You mean ''plastic'' balls! These kind! |
| 762 | -->'''Mr. Bucket''': No, I mean balls! Testicles! Scrotum! Gonads! Family jewels! Bollocks! Cojones! ''Balls!'' |
| 763 | * Website/{{Buzzfeed}}: In "When the Doctor Needs to See Your Penis", the doctor says a list of strange euphemisms when explaining he wants to examine Justin's penis, including "cradle your ladle", "berry-picking season", and "going down under". |
| 764 | * The humorous self-help video "[[http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-hide-an-unwanted-erection How to Hide an Unwanted Erection]]" uses a lot of euphemisms, and ends like this: "Congratulations. You've tamed your trouser snake. Your love gun is firmly in its holster. Excalibur is back in its scabbard. Now you can approach any situation with confidence, safe in the knowledge that no one will be able to see your big, fat, throbbing penis." |
| 765 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKawczrD_Uo One]] of the fake failed scenes of ''Huerfanos Electronicos'' (a SpinOff of Calico Electronico) have Captain Torpedo saying a lot of the existing euphemisms for "penis" found in the spanish language. |
| 766 | * WebVideo/MatthewSantoro: |
| 767 | ** In ''The Best Worst Pick Up Lines'', Matt lists some pick-up lines which he says might work for his viewers. He gives the disclaimer, "Warning- these pick up lines may not result in you getting any of the: Punani, Poon-tang, Pink Taco, Gut Locker, Meat Purse, Fur Burger, Bearded Clam, Wizard's Sleeve, Yogurt Pot, Clown's Pocket, Hippo's Yawn, Literature/HarryPotter, Pooter, Snack that Smiles Back, Whisker Biscuit, Beef Curtain, Squish Mitten, or the Pink Velvet Sausage Wallet." |
| 768 | ** In his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cGJM56Nko "worst jobs"]] video, Matt mentions the sperm bank janitor, who picks up after people who are answering the bone phone, playing backstroke roulette, bludgeoning the beef steak, choking Charlie till he throws up, discharging dishonorably, playing the skin flute solo, doing the five-finger knuckle shuffle, participating in hand-to-gland combat, jerking the gherkin, jacking the beanstalk, milking the monkey, paddling the pickle, shining their helmet, playing tug-of-war with Cyclops, and/or whipping the dripper. |
| 769 | * When J's boss in ''WebVideo/MisadventuresOfAwkwardBlackGirl'' is going on vacation: "I want to know [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_why_the_caged_bird_sings why the caged bird sings]], I want to [[Film/HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack get my groove back]], and I want [[Theatre/ForColoredGirls the rainbow to be enuf]]. E-N-U-F." (the boss is known for her attempts to act black). |
| 770 | * In WebVideo/MusicalHell and Archer's crossover review of ''WesternAnimation/DiscoWorms'', Diva goes on a rant about the [[NonMammalMammaries worms with boobs]] containing nearly every synonym of "breasts". |
| 771 | -->'''Diva:''' I mean these characters are creepy enough without you sticking gazongas on them! And I understand that sweater puppies are the usual visual shorthand for females even on non-mammalian cartoon animals, but come on! Nobody wants to see worm ta-tas! Nobody! Not to mention how uncomfortable it would be to go crawling around on your belly with your funbags in the way. It looks wrong! It ''feels'' wrong! It's logistically ridiculous! And you should have scrapped this entire movie the minute someone decided "hey, let's put some chest bongos on an invertebrate!" |
| 772 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': |
| 773 | ** The Critic lets loose the Creator/MontyPython set on the page quote describing [[spoiler: Johnny's death]] at the end of ''Film/TheRoom2003''. |
| 774 | ** [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum's]] review of ''Film/RedRidingHood'' has this: |
| 775 | --->'''Chester A. Bum:''' They just cut to the credits before anything else happened. What do you think they're doing!? She's taking off his sheep's clothing! He's riding her hood! [[Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs She's blowing his house down!]] The better to eat her with! She's taking him to grandma's house! He's checking under her hood! Holy smokes, I could make a book of these. |
| 776 | * ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'': In the episode "Heir Superiority", the party meets a sandwich salesman who has recently invented a new type of dish, but doesn't quite know what to call it yet. [[RunningGag For the rest of the episode]], everyone keeps coming up with increasingly bizarre new ways to describe a hot dog. |
| 777 | -->'''Salesman:''' Who wants to buy a hot sausage in a bun? Who wants a wiener in a roll? A meat cylinder in a long bread? |
| 778 | * In the ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' episode "The 1UP!", Mario visits his dying grandfather Harold, who unloads some euphemisms for death... among other things. |
| 779 | -->'''Harold:''' Mario, I'm dying. I'm kicking the bucket. I'm buying the farm. I'm choking the chicken. I'm flicking the bean. I'm spanking the monkey. Huh, I'm just straight-up masturbating, Mario. For real though, I am dying. |
| 780 | [[/folder]] |
| 781 | |
| 782 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 783 | * Used by two trolls in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode, "A Tree Grows In Dunwyn" after Gruffi tells them that the tree that contained the trolls' treasure was taken to the castle: |
| 784 | -->'''Troll #1:''' Not the castle!\ |
| 785 | '''Troll #2:''' We can't go back there!\ |
| 786 | '''Troll #1:''' Jail!\ |
| 787 | '''Troll #2:''' Prison!\ |
| 788 | '''Troll #1:''' The cooler!\ |
| 789 | '''Troll #2:''' The hoosegow!\ |
| 790 | '''Troll #1:''' The pen!\ |
| 791 | '''Troll #2:''' The slammer! |
| 792 | * This trope resulted in a bit of controversy in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_Look_a_Smith_Horse_in_the_Mouth Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth]]''. |
| 793 | -->'''Roger:''' You're gonna have to do the horse chores...You have to brush the horse's coat and mane, water and feed it, then give it a full release. You know, give it a happy photo finish. Take the glue out of the factory. Spank his front butt. Grant him a bone loan! |
| 794 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': In "It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape", after Captain Kidder tells our heroes about the giant performing ape, BJ proceeds to list off a string of euphemisms for dying as Captain Kidder "croaks", complete with [[LiteralMetaphor literal interpretations of those euphemisms]]. Of course, Kidder's not really dead because, as Ginger points out, [[MediumAwareness "This is a family show!"]] |
| 795 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'': in the first episode of the second season, several characters must recite several euphamisms for marijuana while successfully passing a hacky sack around, or risk burning to death. (ItMakesSenseInContext.) |
| 796 | -->'''Dave:''' Okay, people. Let's go! Marijuana, Mary Jane, green, kind, dope, stank, skunk!\ |
| 797 | '''Jerry:''' Indica, sense, pot, grass, bud, ganja, bongload, doobage!\ |
| 798 | '''Dave:''' Gak, dank, troll, sniper, jolly green banana!\ |
| 799 | '''Jerry:''' [[Creator/CheechAndChong Viet Chong]], Congolese crippler, warlock, short bus biofuel, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Tom Bombadil]], red-headed stepchild!\ |
| 800 | '''Mary:''' Riddler, jungle fungus, Cro-Magnon, Vancouver salad, Topanga brain gank, short-term what?\ |
| 801 | '''Benny:''' Polynesian brush fire, G.E.D. test prep, Polynesian pinkeye, Incredible Hulk--take it, Dave!\ |
| 802 | '''Dave:''' Getting there... Manchurian candy, hobo harvest, Mojave drymouth, Solvin Heston, chinstrap...\ |
| 803 | '''Jerry:''' Cambodian ball gag!\ |
| 804 | '''Dave:''' And Arabian crime ''because it gets you so stoned!'' We did it! |
| 805 | * ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': |
| 806 | -->'''Ling-Ling:''' Please to show me [[JapaneseRanguage bleasts]]?\ |
| 807 | '''Xandir:''' What?\ |
| 808 | '''Ling-Ling:''' Bleasts! Bleasts! You know, merrons, headrights, hootels, flied eggs, cleam puffs?\ |
| 809 | '''Xandir:''' What?\ |
| 810 | '''Ling-Ling:''' I said TAKE OFF SHIRT! |
| 811 | %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-bhFO-Ue8U This]] is just one of WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'s efforts. |
| 812 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 813 | ** Also done in the "Blue Harvest" episode. In a cut scene, Stewie, playing the part of Darth Vader, remarks on the "foul stench" line from Leia (Lois). |
| 814 | --->'''Stewie:''' Uh, sorry. That's me. I made a Darth Doodie. I ''Sithed'' my pants. My diaper's gone over to the dark side. I got pages of these, I could go on. |
| 815 | ** In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire isn't convinced that his father is [[CampGay gay,]] but hearing these statements from his father's [[HelloSailor Navy buddies]] doesn't reassure him. |
| 816 | --->It's great to see ya back in your element tonight, surrounded by sea-men.\ |
| 817 | Your dad was very brave back in south east Asia. He flew supplies in where others wouldn't dare to go. I can't tell you how many loads your dad took when I served with him.\ |
| 818 | He'd walk into an army barrack and make every private there feel important. Yeah, he just knew how to stroke those privates.\ |
| 819 | Your dad was cock of the walk, Glenn.\ |
| 820 | Everyday at rifle training, he'd help me clean my butt.\ |
| 821 | Your dad once drank me under the table.\ |
| 822 | If there's one man you wanted in your hole, it was your dad.\ |
| 823 | [[ParodiedTrope Your dad had the best penis in the military.]]\ |
| 824 | '''Quagmire:''' Okay! Stop! Stop! Everybody just stop! |
| 825 | ** In "Pawtucket Pete", Peter complains to his friends when Brian replaces him as Pawtucket Patriot Ale's mascot while he's been reduced to playing his dumb sidekick. We don't get to hear the entire rant, as it's interrupted by a look into a bored Joe's fantasies. |
| 826 | --->'''Peter:''' I doubt any of you can begin to know what it's like to ride someone's coattails! To play second fiddle to some fat idiot! To constantly be setting up someone else's... |
| 827 | --->''(Joe zones out and imagines himself starring in "The Joe Show" before cutting back to reality)'' |
| 828 | --->'''Peter:''' ...Just a footnote to someone else's narrative! I tell ya, [[CutawayGag this sucks worse than being a monkey at Coachella]]. |
| 829 | * A RunningGag in the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode ''Sly Spy Guy'': |
| 830 | -->'''W:''' That is it! I have had enough! Enough, I say! You, Double-Oh-Orson are fired!\ |
| 831 | '''Double-Oh-Orson:''' Fired?\ |
| 832 | '''W:''' Fired! Washed up, kaput, forcibly resigned, dismissed, discharged, you're out of here!\ |
| 833 | ''[later]''\ |
| 834 | '''The Weasel:''' Mr. Pinfeather, I have seen it with my own eyes! Double-Oh-Orson has been fired!\ |
| 835 | '''Pinfeather:''' Fired?\ |
| 836 | '''The Weasel:''' Fired! Axed, dismissed, let go, done!\ |
| 837 | ''[later]''\ |
| 838 | '''Pinfeather:''' Agent Double-Oh-Orson has been fired.\ |
| 839 | '''Madame Lanolin:''' Fired?\ |
| 840 | '''Pinfeather:''' Fired! Ousted, suspended, shelled, displaced!\ |
| 841 | ''[later]''\ |
| 842 | '''Pinfeather:''' I am so sorry to hear that you have been fired.\ |
| 843 | '''Double-Oh-Orson:''' Fired?\ |
| 844 | '''Pinfeather:''' Fired! Banished, bounced, defected, drummed out! |
| 845 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}'' short "No Smoking", Goofy can't resit the urge to smoke and begs a man for some tobacco. |
| 846 | -->'''Goofy:''' Hey, mister! You got a cig? A fag? A pipe? Nail? Weed? Rope? Or chaw? Or cigar? Or snuff? Or... or anything?! Just ANYTHING! |
| 847 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Old Iron Man" with Grandpa Phil and his lifelong friend / rival Jimmy Kafka as they're both about to drown while competing in the titular senior citizens' triathlon: |
| 848 | -->'''Grandpa:''' This is it Jimmy. The end. We're going to Davy Jone's Locker.\ |
| 849 | '''Jimmy:''' Kicking the bucket.\ |
| 850 | '''Grandpa:''' Buying the water farm.\ |
| 851 | '''Jimmy:''' Checking out of the hotel of life.\ |
| 852 | '''Grandpa:''' And checking into the hotel of death.\ |
| 853 | '''Jimmy:''' The big round up.\ |
| 854 | '''Grandpa:''' The last tango in Paris.\ |
| 855 | '''Jimmy:''' "Last tango in Paris?" That's not an euphemism for dying.\ |
| 856 | '''Grandpa:''' I know but it was my turn and I ran out of euphemisms and I didn't want to lose the game. |
| 857 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode, "Big House Mickey", when Mickey goes to jail, he calls Goofy to come and help him out of the big house. |
| 858 | -->'''Mickey:''' What took you so long?\ |
| 859 | '''Goofy:''' Well, I went down to the big house and you weren't there. So I looked for ya over at the hoosegow and couldn't find ya. Then I tried the pokey, the pen, the prison, the cooler, the gulag, the brig, the can, the clink, the lockup, the rock, the convict castle, the criminal condo and even the grey bar hotel. Why didn't ya just tell me you were in jail? |
| 860 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Hollywood Daffy", after WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck ruins a director's film by pasting together different films together, the producer who watches it ends up liking it. |
| 861 | -->'''Producer:''' Amazing! Marvelous! Stupendous! Colossal! Tremendous! Gigantic! Astounding! Unbelievable! Spectacular! Phenomenal! And it's good too. |
| 862 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Daffy panics when he and Bugs get thrown in jail: |
| 863 | -->"We're up the river! Down the creek! There's no 'i' in 'team'! You have to fight for your right to party! |
| 864 | * [[LargeHam MOOOOOOJO JOJO]], antagonist of ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', is known for this. It's sort of a VerbalTic and it's notoriously difficult to translate. |
| 865 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' episode "The Night Before," when Officer Shirley delivers a warning that anyone caught out past curfew on "[[HalloweenEpisode mischief night]]" will be locked up in jail, she uses numerous slang words for it... |
| 866 | -->'''Shirley:''' So remember, citizens of Ocean Shores: Anyone caught outside on "mischief night" will spend the rest of the night inside a cell in the pokey, the hoosegow, the iron bar hotel, the big house, JAIL! |
| 867 | %%* Done with breasts [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/milk-sacks.html in this]] ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch. |
| 868 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', specifically ''Recap/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerS1E09NoPrincessLeftBehind'', the princesses - blaming themselves for the [[NeverFoundTheBody apparent]] death of Entrapta - do this so they can NeverSayDie. |
| 869 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 870 | ** Done in an episode where Homer goes to a power convention with his coworker Mindy. At their hotel, the Bellhop says a bunch of words, onomatopoeia, and other sounds to hint that Homer and Mindy are going to have sex. |
| 871 | ** This was done in an old Tracey Ullman short "The Funeral", when Bart explains to Lisa what "passed away" means. |
| 872 | --->'''Bart:''' You know, kicked the bucket. Pulled the croak chain. Had a meeting with old Mr. Grim. The...\ |
| 873 | '''Homer:''' BART!\ |
| 874 | '''Bart:''' The dude died. |
| 875 | ** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E18ThisLittleWiggy "This Little Wiggy"]] when Bart, Ralph, Jimbo, Kearney, Dolph and Nelson arrive at a condemend prison: |
| 876 | -->'''Bart:''' Here she is- the big house. The stony lonesome. The thug jug. The mobster trap. Penn State. The old crook- |
| 877 | -->'''Nelson:''' Shut up. Let's just open the gate. |
| 878 | * From the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Nasty Patty" |
| 879 | -->'''Mr. Krabs:''' We've been duped!\ |
| 880 | '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Duped!\ |
| 881 | '''Mr. Krabs:''' Bamboozled!\ |
| 882 | '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' We've been smeckledorfed!\ |
| 883 | '''Mr. Krabs:''' That's not even a word and I agree with ya! |
| 884 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': |
| 885 | ** The end of the first short of 'The Acme Acres Zone' Episode, 'A Walk on the Flip Side', has this: |
| 886 | --->'''Buster:''' Portrait of a spoiled brat getting a dose of his own medicine; [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoisted by his own petard]]; receiving his just desserts; finding himself behind the 8 ball.\ |
| 887 | '''Monty:''' You don't have to rub it in. |
| 888 | ** In "Return to the Acme Acres Zone": |
| 889 | --->'''Babs:''' So you're a detective. A shamus. A sleuth. A P.I. A peeper.\ |
| 890 | '''Buster:''' And you must be a thesaurus. |
| 891 | [[/folder]] |
| 892 | |
| 893 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 894 | * Creator/BenjaminFranklin's [[http://www.historycarper.com/1737/01/13/the-drinkers-dictionary/ "Drinker's Dictionary"]] (published in 1737) lists dozens of euphemisms for being drunk. |
| 895 | ** There's another guy who's collected ''hundreds''. |
| 896 | * As noted under Live Action TV, the [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Parrot Sketch]] was referenced by John Cleese [[TheFunInFuneral at the funeral]] of Graham Chapman. |
| 897 | * [[http://img1.etsystatic.com/015/2/5343933/il_570xN.429785933_srpx.jpg This notice]] displayed on cages and enclosures at the San Diego Zoo. |
| 898 | * A factual book ''Literature/ChildrenArePeopleToo'' from the 1980s arguing against CorporalPunishment of children observes how the English language has developed a remarkable vocabulary to cover the hitting of children, listing synonyms such as smacking, spanking, slapping, cuffing, switching, slippering, "six of the best", among others. |
| 899 | [[/folder]] |
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