Accidental Innuendo / Film

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Accidental Innuendos in Film.

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Films — Animated

• Disney's Aladdin has a famous example of unintentional innuendo in the song "A Whole New World."
  I can open your eyes,
  Take you wonder by wonder;
  Over, sideways and under
  On a magic carpet ride.
  A whole new world!
  A new, fantastic point of view.
  No one to tell us no, or where to go,
  Or say we're only dreaming.
  ...
  Unbelievable sights!
  Indescribable feeling!
  ...
  A whole new world! (Don't you dare close your eyes.)
  A hundred thousand things to see. (Hold your breath — it gets better!)
  • Well at least the song has a happy ending. At the end, they hold hands as literal fireworks are shown going off…
  • The parody song A Whole Nude World removes the 'Accidental' part, needless to say it's NSFW..
  • From the opening song, "Arabian Nights", we get this. It's probably praising Agrabah as an exotic or fun place but, really...
  Arabian nights
  Like Arabian days
  More often than not
  Are hotter than hot
  In a lot of good ways...
• In Barbie Fairytopia, the villainess, during her Villain Song, offers to make the heroine "her consort". Sure, it can just mean "associate", but since the "spouse of a monarch" meaning is more common and it was in the middle of a We Can Rule Together speech, well...
• Bartok the Magnificent: Some of Piloff's dialogue in the scene where Bartok is trying to rescue her could come off as sexual if taken out of context.
• Beauty and the Beast:
  • "Barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly." Ummm. Disney should not be putting people's minds into the gutter..
  • Gaston's Villain Song includes the line "You can ask any Tom, Dick, or Stanley/ And they'd tell you whose team they'd prefer to be on!" So, Even the Guys Want Him?
  • "And every last inch of me's covered in hair!" It might not all be unintentional, though.
    • He winks at the camera when he says that though....
• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Fife's "I'd do anything for a solo!" Made worse by his voice actor being Paul Reubens. Forte's response to this line is not helping. Just the way Tim Curry says it. "Yes... I know."
• Beauty and Warrior: Try to take this bit of footage out of context... (The actual context, which has Mega vigorously yanking on a magic sword, doesn't help.)
• In Bolt, Penny's father declares that he has "altered" Bolt. To "alter" an animal can also be a euphemism for neutering it.
• During "I Love You Too Much" in The Book of Life: "I yearn for your touch, I whisper your name night after night..."
• Brother Bear: "Well gee, eh, you're one big beaver." Doubles as Fridge Brilliance if you remember that there was a giant species of beaver that existed during the time the movies take place.
• A Bug's Life: When Flik is showing off the telescope he's invented:
  Flik: Hello, Princess! My, aren't you looking lovely this morning! ...Not that you'd need a telescope to see that.
• The song "Badebussen" from the Norwegian children's film Bukkene Bruse på badeland contains the line "You're not allowed to bathe with your pee-pee out", followed by "Let the bottle spray" and a warning that things will be sticky. While the bottle and the stickiness were intended as a reference to soda, some parents argued that the lines sounded like sexual innuendo and complained that the song was inappropriate for children.^note The "bathe with your pee-pee out" thing also appears in the book the film was based on, and was supposed to be relatable to kids — they'll recognize the rule from actual water parks and find it funny. There's probably also some Naked People Are Funny going around. It doesn't help that the song is a style parody of russ music, a genre full of intentional sexual innuendo.
• There is a scene in The Chipmunk Adventure where Brittany and Jeanette have to get past a swarm of snakes. To do so, they charm them by singing "Getting Lucky", which makes the snakes go rigid.
• Coraline: "Mothers don't eat daughters, do they?"
• There are quite a few examples from Dingo Pictures. A recurring one is for the camera to suddenly cut to a character quietly snickering, making the line that came before sound dirty.
  • Anastasia: "He won't molest you again so quickly."
  • Animal Soccer World has several:
    • The box art features a bear and a pig lying down and laughing, and it looks like they're having sex. You also have a lion's foot uncomfortably near a monkey's crotch, with the latter recoiling upward like he's in severe pain.
    • "Big round of applause for the unbelievable porn!"^note Mishearing of "the unbelievable four"
    • "OH! Grommel, not that hard! I didn't know you could shoot that hard."
    • Butcher's goalie stance is VERY suspect. Especially with his refusing to get in the goal unless Grommel shoots.
  • Countryside Bears: "He... can't... his leg, you know, the one, I mean, the one that... he... stuck in my house is still... hurting it- him- yes..."
  • Dalmatians 3: As a punishment, Castor and Pollux force Pino to clean his pen. One of them says "It better looked like it was licked clean! Your mother was very good at that."
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame: "He could still feel the vibration of the bells, and that was enough to keep him happy."
• Felix the Cat: The Movie: When Pim first shows up at Wack Lizardi's office with the bag, Wack asks "What in Zill have you got to be excited about? Did someone invent enlarging pills?" (It's meant to be a crack at Pim's height.)
• Frozen: In the Arabic version of "Let it Go", the part where Elsa originally sang, "Let it go/Let it go/That perfect girl is gone" translates to, "It's not coming back/It's not coming back/I've lost my innocence," with the masculine version of "it".
  • "Let It Go", it has been alleged by certain people, can be interpreted as a song about a woman coming out.
  • "In For The First Time In Forever", Anna sings the line "Why have a ballroom with no balls?". Friendless Background and You Need to Get Laid at the price of one.^note  As CinemaSins says: "You and AC/DC need to have a talk."
• Happily Ever After: "Watch this. I'll get her from behind!".
• Incredibles 2:
  • After being interrogated by Rick Dicker, before Tony Rydinger gets his memories of Violet's identity wiped, he expresses regret for having seen her with her super suit on, possibly meaning that he felt sexually excited.
  • After Violet squirts water out of her nose, her father Bob (Mr. Incredible) claims that "Normally, she doesn't ever drip like this". This could have several connotations.
• Nick's line in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius about Jimmy's extreme nausea: "I remember my first time. Shake it off, Neutron! Hah hah hah!"
• The entire Hulesangen number from Jungledyret Hugo. Even moreso in the Danish version, where the tones of voices are a little more... suggestive.
• In the DreamWorks Animation movie Kung Fu Panda, after Po serves noodles to the Furious Five for the first time, the group tuck in and find his cooking delicious. Mantis says "I wish my mouth was bigger!" and Monkey adds "Tigress, you've got to try this!"
• Leafie, a Hen into the Wild: The one-eyed weasel.
• The Little Mermaid (1989) has this iconic line from the song “Under the Sea:”
  Everything’s better down where it’s wetter.
• Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings features a decidedly worrying depiction of the bit in the book where Merry and Pippin try to persuade the orcs to untie them by impersonating Gollum to trick the orcs into thinking they have the ring. Their facial expressions really do not help.
  "You won't get it that way. It isn't easily found."
  "It's no good groping in the dark. Uglúk will be back soon. Nothing for Mordor, nothing for poor Grishnakh. Gollum. Untie us, my precious."
• The Nightmare Before Christmas:
  • The song "What's This" has quite a few passages that can sound like they're describing something completely different.
    "I've never felt so good before
    This empty place inside of me is filling up!
    I simply cannot get enough!
    I want it, oh, I want it
    Oh, I want it for my own!"
  • "In here they've got a little tree! How queer!"
  • Boogie's Villain Song makes it seem like he may have ulterior motives in his capture of Santa. While the original version of the song made it clear that it was to make soup out of him, the removal of the one verse that says it leaves it as just "I'm gonna do the best I can."
• The walrus in Spark Plug Entertainment's Piper Penguin and His Fantastic Flying Machines sings at the prom. Judging by the faces of the party-goers, it looks like everyone really likes his singing.
• Ratatouille gives us Anton Ego's line "If I don't love it, I don't swallow!" ^note  He's an ultra-elitist food critic, and he refuses to swallow the food that he tastes if he doesn't find it absolutely perfect (the full line is, "I don't like food, I love it. If I don't love it, I don't swallow!").
• When the dwarfs meet Snow White for the first time, Grumpy tells Doc to "Ask her who she is and what she's a-doin' here!" Of course, given his tendency to get words mixed up, Doc comes out with "What are you and who are you doin'?" Surprisingly enough, given the time period Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was made in, this is probably one of the earliest examples of this trope.
• While justified in the context, it can definitely raise your eyebrows to hear Plankton in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, sweating and trembling with excitement, yell out with audible joy, "Daddy, YES!"
• Tangled: "I've got a man in my closet!"
• Toy Story: “Somebody’s poisoned the waterhole.”
• Toy Story 2:
  "He's selling himself for 25 cents!"
  "Oh, Woody...you're worth more'n that!"
• Vídeo Brinquedo: The Little Bees keep going on about their stingers, and one of the Little Cars says that the Champion gets her motor running.

Films — Live-Action

• The very title of The 400 Blows has likely elicited at least a few snickers by now, especially from non-French speakers unaware that the original title, which the English title is directly translated from, is derived from the idiom "faire les quatre cents coups", meaning "to raise hell".
• Barbie (2023)'s tagline, "She's everything... he's just Ken", became this when translated into French, where "ken" is slang for sex. "Elle peut tout faire. Lui, c’est juste Ken" can be interpreted as "She knows how to do anything. He just knows how to fuck."
• Batman & Robin: Any time Bruce Wayne calls his sidekick "Dick", but the crowning example is probably "She's trying to kill you, Dick." Given how Clooney delivers the line, it might not be that accidental.
• The Dark Knight Rises: The following exchange between Bane and a CIA agent has become memetically legendary for this:
  CIA: If I pull that off, will you die?
  Bane: It would be extremely painful...
  CIA: You're a big guy.
  Bane: For You.
• Bella Dancerella: The title song doesn't mean it, but but when sung as it is — by a girl, about Bella — it seems a little odd:
  "Bella, I'm in love with you / show me what to do!" and "I feel good when I'm with you"
• The Breakfast Club: "Grab some wood there, bub."
• Burlesque: "I've been brought down to my knees/And I've been pushed way past the point of breakin/But I can take it.."
• Camp Rock: The song "Too Cool" opens with the lyrics "I'm too cool for my dress."
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has this gem from one of the Bumbling Henchmen Duo: "Pardon me for protruding, but have I the pleasure of undressing Herr—Mm! Uh! Mister Potts?"
• Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000: "Just a squirt in your face!"
• This scene in Commando when John (Played by Ahnold) convinces the villain (who honestly looks like Freddie Mercury if he was a member of the Village People) to let go of his daughter.
  John: "You don't want to pull the trigger. You want to put the knife in me and look me in the eye and see what's going on in there when you turn it. That what you want to do, right? Don't deprive yourself of some pleasure. Come on, Bennett, let's party."
  Bennett: "I don't need the girl!"
  • It's also worth noting that Bennett has a very orgasmic expression◊ on his face at the thought of sticking his knife in John.
  • An in-depth analysis.
• Cowboys & Aliens: An alien is killed when molten gold is dripped onto him. In other words, he gets a golden shower.
• Down Periscope: Dodge does this twice when introducing Lt. Lake to the rest of the crew, much to his embarrassment.
  Dodge: All right, look, gentlemen! I know this is an unusual situation. Can't be easy for Lt. Lake to be thrown into a jungle such as this, and I know it will make things hard on all of us... *crew laughs* Let me re-phrase that. It's going to make things difficult on all of us as well. But, if we just work together as a team, I'm sure we can handle ourselves... *crew laughs* ...comport ourselves as professionals. That is all.
  • The Toys Room: "It's not really Pamper's fault that the little boy... takes him to bed with him. I'll just have to get used to the fact that he loves somebody else besides me."
• The Eagle (2011) is a film about a Roman soldier and his male slave, with maybe five minutes of screen time where a woman is actually in the movie, and no female love interest for either of the main characters, so Ho Yay seems a given. But special mention goes to the line, "Put your weight on him, slave!"
• The very title of Free Willy due to "willy" being a well-known slang term for penis.
• Ghostbusters (1984): "Crossing streams"? Really?
  • From the theme song: "Bustin' makes me feel good!"
• "Thank Heaven for little girls! For little girls grow bigger every day..."
  • Due to the changing times, it's easy to feel a little bit of a twinge when that number plays at the start of Gigi.
  • Played even closer to the trope, when Gérard Depardieu chooses this song at a vacation spot karaoke contest in My Father the Hero. When his daughter has been mistaken for his lover.
  • Also used in Wag the Dog.
  • A TV commercial from The '90s for Mountain Dew had the song covered as a hardcore punk anthem and played up the entendre for all it was worth (using "big girls" instead of little girls).
• As pointed out in the DVD Commentary for the They Might Be Giants documentary Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, the title can be taken sexually.
• The Goonies. "One-Eyed Willy", the legendary pirate.
• The Harry Potter movies have some that aren't in the books below:
  • Half Blood Prince: Snape slamming Malfoy against the wall followed by Malfoy saying "I don't need protection!"
  • Harry P is so full of that stuff it's not funny. Imagine "wang" each time anyone says "wand", and there's a 99% chance you'll end up with an accidental innuendo.
  • Deathly Hallows: "Engorgio!" "Reducio! Reducio!" "What are you doing in there?"
  • There's an interview with Tom Felton where we get this beautiful exchange:
  Interviewer: So tell me about your one-on-one with good old Daniel in the bathroom.
  Tom: Yeah, it sounds so wrong, every time you say it, "Oh, me and Daniel had a wand fight in the bathroom."
  • Or the fact that Oliver Wood was played by the actor Sean Biggerstaff.
• Highschool Musical: "I Don't Dance". I'll show you how I swing, really?
• Hook: This combat banter between Hook and Peter while they are fighting It Makes Sense in Context but seems rather interesting out of context:
  Peter: You know, I remember you being a lot bigger.
  Hook: You were a ten year old, I was huge.
• In the original B&W Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), hero and heroine are fleeing the alien pod people, and stumbling around from exhaustion (because the aliens get you while you sleep). At one point they're lying side by side, hiding in a ditch from their pursuers, and the woman blearily — and hilariously — stammers out "We'll never make it without sleep...", her lips and body suspiciously close to the man's.
• Jack the Giant Killer: Seize the bone!
• Right as Chrissie is being eaten by the shark in the first scene in Jaws, the guy she took with her to the deserted beach is almost passed out drunk on the sand, breathing heavily and whispering, "I'm coming...I'm coming..." Of course, given that he's wasted and he's chasing a girl, it may be deliberate.
• Ending of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, anyone? When the four kids fall out of the wardrobe:
  Professor Kirke: What were you all doing in the wardrobe?
  Peter: You wouldn't believe us if we told you, sir.
  Professor Kirke: (weird grin) Try me.
• In Man of Steel when Dr Hamilton tries to get the Phantom Drive to work, Lois points out the S-key and yells "it's supposed to go in all the way!" Cue the audiences yelling "That's what she said!".
• In Mars Attacks! Martian "paper" looks suspiciously like condom wrappers.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Captain Marvel: After Carol Danvers demonstrates her photon blasts by warming up a kettle of water, Nick Fury quips, “She can do more with those hands than just make tea.”
  • Avengers: Endgame has another one, also focused on poor Carol. She’s just made her Big Damn Hero entrance, and Spider-Man is awestruck. After he timidly introduces himself, she replies, “Hey, Peter Parker. You got something for me?” She’s talking about the Infinity Gauntlet in his hands, but out of context, it sounds like an uncomfortably flirty exchange between a 16-year-old boy and a woman who’s physically in her 20s or 30s but chronologically in her early sixties.
• Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders: The way Grandpa Borgnine phrases that [the female psychic] is "sensitive in that area" is rather disturbing.
• In Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Eric takes Henry into his room to show him his hat collection. Everything was innocent, of course, but you have to wonder why Eric's mother didn't act a bit more alarmed when she found her son with a grown man in his room.
• In The Muppets, the song "Me Party" could be taken to be about masturbation.
  I look around
  And once again I'm on my own
  My man ain't here
  He's gone and done me wrong
  No one’s gonna stop this girl from having fun
  I throw my hands up high and have a party for one
• Muppet Treasure Island: Piggy: "Hello, Loooooong John." Kermit: "What? Him too?" Apparently Miss Piggy dated him (in addition to Flint) after Kermit abandoned her. Try not to think about the details.
• The great threat in The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia is "The Nasty", leading to perhaps one of the most unintentionally funny lines ever:
  Childlike Empress: We must not give into the Nasty!
• The Nutcracker 3 D: Close your eyes and the Rat King’s torture of NC sounds like the most wrong thing ever. “Open your mouth…like a good little prince!” Ditto for Frau Eva saying to Mary: “Get changed, something nice…I’ll help you.”
• On Golden Pond: Upon seeing how happy Billy makes Norman, Ethel exclaims, "I should have rented him a 13-year-old boy years ago!"
• The Sylvester Stallone film Oscar gets two good in-film moments from linguist Dr. Poole (Tim Curry), both involving linguistic terms — the first comes when he comments on Lisa's (Marisa Tomei's) "nicely rounded diphthongs", only to have have Snaps (Stallone's character) reply that they're "what got her in this jam [Lisa's fake pregnancy]." He later comments on another (male) character's "dangling participle", and the character responds by turning around and checking his fly. Then again, this is Tim Curry (and might explain why he liked the role so much)...
• Peter Pan: "Both hands." Probably doubles as Squick for many.
  • "You'll never make a man out of me!"
• At the risk of ravaging people's childhood memories, this song from Pete's Dragon (1977) is now incredibly creepy.
  • "We don't match in size but we fit so neatly"
• "He's Large" from Popeye.
• Red (2010) has the tagline, "There's no substitute for experience." They were referring to fighting, but it did costar Helen Mirren...
• Rocky's special training routine in the first film consists of him "beating his meat."
• Sherlock Holmes (2009): "Gently, gently Watson. Be gentle with me!" No way is this one accidental. Not with Downey playing Holmes.
• Son of God: "I am coming soon."
• The Lonely Goatherd from The Sound of Music. Especially the line "lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard".
• Spider-Man: Peter finds himself in a cage match with Bonesaw. His opponent notes, "You're going nowhere! I've got you for three minutes... three minutes of playtime!"
• Spider-Man 2: During the scene when Peter tries to get Mary Jane back:
  Peter: Picking up where we left off.
  Mary Jane: Where was that? We never got on. You can't get off if you don't get on, Peter.
• Spider-Man 3: This brief exchange between Peter and Eddie:
  Peter: Eddie, the suit! You gotta take it off!
  Eddie: Oh you'd like that, wouldn't you...
• Starcrash: "It's so nice to be turned on again."
• There are multiple "Top 10 best innuendo lines in Star Wars" lists all over the Internet. None are intentional innuendo.
  • Some samples: "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
  • "Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?"
  • "They came from behind!"
  • "Pull out! You're not doing any good back there!"
  • "(pant) I can't... (pant) it's too big..."
  • "In time you will learn to call me 'master'."
  • "Look at the size of that thing!"
  • "Judge me by my size, do you?" For Episode II, they even made a poster with Yoda on it that says "Size matters not", although that might have even been an intentional innuendo.
  • "Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!"
  • "I have felt him."
    • "Strange that I have not."
  • "Back door, huh? Good idea."
  • "Hurry up, Golden Rod, or you're going to be a permanent resident!"
  • "Myself, the boy, two droids, and No Questions Asked."
  • "It's possible he came in through the south entrance." You could do this all day.
  • "Well, my little friend, you've got something jammed in here real good."
  • "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash."
  • My goodness, you've grown!
    • "So have you", says Anakin, his eyes fixed squarely on Padme's chest.
  • And on a more memetic note, there is "He is in my behind!" from the Translation Train Wreck, Backstroke of the West.
  • Its Fan Sequels, The Star War Gatherings, are no better.
  Tarkin: "We will then crush the uprising, a quick stroking motion."
• A misplaced pause in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze has Splinter responding to the question "What were you doing up on the roof?" with "Coming. ...to a decision."
• The Ten Commandments (1956): Sephora has the very unintentionally memorable "Moses! There is a man among the sheep!"
• The resulting dialogue when TRON, Flynn and Ram find a pure source.
  Flynn: What's that?
  Ram: That is just what I need right now...
  • Ram seems to be more prone to these.
  Ram: My friends, my fellow conscripts, we have scored. I feel so much better.
• In New Moon, Edward is a real bastard:
  Bella: (exasperated) I'm coming!
  Edward: I don't want you to come!
• The 2010 Yogi Bear movie got unexpected press at gay entertainment website After Elton.com just for the unintentionally hilarious tagline "Great things come in bears." Bears meaning something different in the gay community... This poster◊ really did not help.
• Viewed a certain way, Young Man's Fancy can be an effective premise for a porn film, when considering the dialogue.

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