Almost every television series starring Rik Mayall (The Young Ones) featured a number of double entendres every episode; in fact, the original intent of calling one series Bottom was to force double entendre on the viewers: "I saw that 'Bottom' on telly the other night — no, wait, that's not what I meant." The original title of the show, "Your Bottom", made the double entendre even worse: "I saw Your Bottom on TV yesterday."
There a bit of this within-show, as well:"Now can we just get our equipment out? I mean, get our tackle out... no, I mean, get our GEAR out! Oh my God, you can't say anything without some dreadful double entendre lurking round the corner!"
Gleefully played with in one Bottom live show where characters, actors and audience all know of the (barely) double meanings. "For hours we clung to your sturdy organ as we were tossed about in the foamy... brine!"
Surprisingly, The New Statesman, for a Mayall series, is relatively free of double entendres, except for the lead character's name, Alan B'Stard. Maybe the rule regarding Mayall should be that he double-entendres himself to death in any role written by either himself or Ben Elton. His double-entendres as the various Lord Flashhearts on Black Adder are barely single entendres, and are the exemplars of this trope. 'Send a car. General Melchett's driver should do. She's used to hanging around with the big nobs so will be fine with a chap like me. Woof!'
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2 Broke Girls While "And the Pearl Necklace" revolves around an actual pearl necklace, when Caroline mentions it at the end Max assumes she's talking about fellatio.
Max likes to turn the word come (and its variations) as one quite frequently, usually after someone else uses the word.
Many of 3rd Rock from the Sun's episode titles are puns based on Dick Solomon's first name:
"Dick, Smoker"
"Assault With a Deadly Dick"
"Father Knows Dick"
"Much Ado About Dick"
"World's Greatest Dick"
"Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick"
"Will Work for Dick"
At least a quarter of all the dialogue on 30 Rock is double entendres.
From season 6, Jack has realized that Liz has learned to talk business by watching his (Jack's) seminars. He is excited to be able to compete with someone who knows all the same tricks as him...
Are You Being Served? lives and breathes double entendre. Mrs. Slocombe is the most notorious offender, such as her constant discussions about her pussy, complaining about the state of her drawers and them being sticky, and her asking if she should remove her undergarments and put perfume there insteadnote She's talking about her cat, the cupboard drawers behind her counter, and the undergarments displayed on her counter. You perv.. The Comically Serious Captain Peacock and debatably senile senior floorwalker Mr. Grainger are no strangers to this as well. Then of course there's the mild one right in the title.
Tobias' homosexual tendencies are a running joke in the show; he makes frequent sexual double-entendres to which he seems completely oblivious.
Tobias Funke: ... even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up.
While talking to Michael after preparing to audition for the Blue Man Group with full makeup:
Tobias Funke: I just blue myself!
Then there's when he accidentally used a gift card whilst thinking it was just a preview of what he could get for it.
Tobias: Well, yes, but I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I’m afraid I have something of a mess on my hands. Michael: There's just... so many poorly chosen words in that sentence.
In viral marketing for the fourth season, on a website called "Insert Me Anywhere", Tobias reveals he botched a commercial audition for a mango juice ad.
Tobias: It's like having a man-go in your mouth!
Babylon 5 is not averse to these. From early in the third season:
Garibaldi:[faced with a pack of Drazi missionaries] Zack, do me a favour and explain the missionary, ah, position to these folk.
In one Beakman's World segment explaining rotational inertia, Beakman breaks out the Beakman Rotational Aerodynamic Thingies. Commence thingy-twirling jokes, and compound that with the fact that the girl wins...
Bill Nye the Science Guy had one in an episode about Volcanoes. It showed a family of three sitting at a table, and the dad had made his mashed potatoes into a tall, semi-cone shaped blob. He then took a large spoonful of gravy and poured it onto the top and watched it drip down the sides. And then he talks to his wife while continuing to pour gravy on it:
Dad: Honey... What does this remind you of? (eyebrowquirk) Mom:(smirk) Oh honey, you KNOW what that reminds me of. Dad: C'mon honey, I wanna hear you say it. What does this remind you of? Mom: Honey! It's embarrassing! Dad:(stares) Mom: Oh, alright... If you insist... (suddenly very serious) It reminds me of a Strata Cone Volcano, which builds up in the Earth's crust to make it BIG.... and STRONG... (sexy hissing) Son: ... Dad?... May I please be excused from the table?
Used completely unexpectedly in an experiment to see which hat would hold up to the most punishment. After describing the hard hat, Vic Reeves turns to the camera and says, with a perfect poker-face, "If you've ever had a hard on, you'll know it can be rock solid."
The "Professor Mayang Lee" segments are full of it. Let's just say that she is rather large in a certain area and it involves fruit.
Also the "How hard is your thing?" segment. PLUS, as a bonus, on one of the 'NASA didn't try...' segments (the car one), at the end Vic states that Braniac will be responsible for, and I quote "The first pilot of a rocket car to blast off on Uranus."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: a Running Gag in the series, Detective Charles Boyle is a Freudian Slip fountain. Lampshaded almost every time it happens, Boyle seems to be oblivious to the sexual undertones of many of the things he says.
Charles: On the ride over, he gave me a quickie. Jake: A what? Charles: A quick therapy session. We talked about so much. Did you know that I have a tendency to be unconsciously sexual? Jake: Yes. Charles: It's a real tough nut to bust.
The show featured a number of double entendres based around Kendra's pet name for her favorite stake, "Mr. Pointy".
Depending on who you ask, this was either this trope or Accidental Innuendo. In Season 8, after Xander is forced to ride Centaurette Dawn (causing her to get soaking wet), this exchange happens:
Xander: How're you feeling? Centaurette!Dawn: Like I was ridden hard and put away wet. Xander: AGH! Dawn, that's dis — oh. No. It's just true.
Also when Buffy talks to her mother about Angel's true nature.
Buffy: He was my first. (Joyce is shocked) My only!
For a non-sexual example, in the final episode, Buffy has just ripped a man in half using an axe. When her ex boyfriend asks what happened to the man, she tells him that he had to split. This is followed by Buffy laughing.
Referenced in "Phases":
Larry: Man! Oz, I would love to get me some of that Buffy and Willow action, if you know what I mean. Oz: That's great, Larry. You've really mastered the single entendre.
Also, Larry is actually gay, so the above line works pretty well for a gay guy trying to hide his gayness.
The end of Willow and Tara's song in "Once More With Feeling" with lyrics like I can feel you inside and Lost in ecstasy, spread beneath my Willow tree. Joss later admits in the commentary, "OK, this is porn."
"Once More With Feeling" is riddled with it. The song with Xander and Anya have a few: "You're the cutest of the scoobies with your lips as red as rubies and your firm yet supple.. tight embrace"
A non-sexual one from the same episode: (in the middle of a tense musical confrontation of the villain) "[Buffy] needs backup. Anya, Tara." They both hurry take their places as back-up dancers.
Buffy brings home chicken legs for the Scoobies.
Willow(looking slyly at Tara): I'm a breast girl, myself."
Spike works in plenty during his covert relationship with Buffy, such as when Buffy won't let him inside the house for sex because Dawn is there.
Spike: I can't go inside, so ... maybe the time is right ... for you to come outside.
Faith naturally gets in on the act, e.g. "Enemies" when talking to Buffy about her UST with Angel.
Faith: The close-but-no-cigar thing with Angel. I don't know if I could handle, you know, the way you're not handling it.
Even 'nice boy' Riley does it in "Something Blue".
Buffy: Cars and Buffy are, like...un-mixy things. Riley: It's just because you haven't had a good experience yet. You can have the best time in a car. It's not about getting somewhere. You have to take your time. Forget about everything. Just... relax. Let it wash over you. The air... motion... Just, let it roll. Buffy: We are talking about driving, right?
Another non-comic version is in "Fool for Love" when Spike is sparring with Buffy outside the Bronze while relating how he killed her predecessors. Spike's talk of 'dancing' (fighting to the death) with Buffy increasingly takes on sexual overtones until he's driven to make an actual pass at her. Buffy's disgusted rejection of the idea that Spike will be the one to kill her is played exactly like Buffy rejecting the idea that she will ever become his lover.
The scene between Willow and Spike in season 4 (just after he's been made unable to hurt people) when he tries to bite her and can't. Just replace every instance of "bite" with...you know...
Jonathan, grab your magic bone!
In Season 9:
Centaurette Demon: Please mount me, great one. Willow: There's just no way out of the double entendre with this one.
Even before Willow and Tara's relationship was revealed, there were several references implying it in various ways:
In Restless:
Xander: Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell, and...then I do a spell by myself.
In Who Are You:
Faith (in Buffy's body): So, Willow's not driving stick anymore.
The Brazilian show Casseta e Planeta: Urgente ran on this, being particularly known to use a joke about rubber tapping, namely one of the harvesters complaining about this profession being described as "spending all day taking milk out of wood". The revolt even had Reality Subtext, as the guy playing the harvester hated the joke yet they kept reusing it just to mock him. (his biography notes that the tribute show following his untimely death playing the rubber harvester joke thrice was some good-natured Last Disrespects by the rest of the crew)
In the first episode there's the line "we could go to dinner, debrief each other"
From season 3:
Castle: We should savor this moment and— Beckett: Let's just stick it in and get it over with.note They were talking about a blank DVD that may or may not have evidence for a case on it.
And then in season 5, after Castle recalls that line during a flashback:
Beckett: That's not how I meant it. I can't help it if you get off by putting things in my mouth.
Community: In "Comparative Religion", Jeff commends Pierce on not reacting to Shirley commenting on the Dean "shoving his PC-ness down my throat." Turns out the only reason was that Pierce didn't get it until Jeff pointed it out.
An episode is based around the male characters all trying to buy better cell-phones than each other. The following dialogue occurs between one of said men and an unsuspecting local.
"Do you think my new cell phone is small? Brent's got a smaller one. I mean, I wasn't looking at it on purpose, or anything. He had it out and I just sort of... glanced at it. You know, you get an inaccurate idea because you see smaller ones in movies and magazines and stuff. But for a normal person's cell phone, mine is small. Smaller than average. Right?" "I don't think anyone cares as long as it works."
The episode involving Davis, the Cosmo-reading somewhat Ambiguously Gay police officer, being locked in a jail cell with Hank, the village idiot. Davis ends up escaping, which leads to this exchange between Karen (Davis' partner) and Hank:
Karen: Davis is out? Hank: Well, that's not for me to say, really...
A drug one when half of the cafe letters fall down
Hank: Hey, where's your F 'n' E?
The episode with the female doctor coming to town involved the doctor taking everything the locals said as a double entendre. Hilarity Ensues.
Penelope Garcia of Criminal Minds is fond of doing this, especially with Derek Morgan, who's happy to play along.
Morgan: Give it to me good, Mama.
Garcia: You know I'm gonna. note The information she's gathered, that is.
She's much chillier with Morgan's replacement Luke Alvez, but a few still slip out.
Garcia: [My boyfriend] is coming over to help me with my fingering.
Alvez: *raises eyebrows*
Garcia: For my clarinet!
CSI has these from time to time. For example, Sara saying, out of the blue "I've got crabs.", with Gil looking at her funny, then she points at a piece of evidence she's examining, which has... crabs. (That was one of the ickiest episodes of all of CSI, which is famous for its levels of squick. Also one of the few with no B or C Corpses.)
Deadliest Warrior has this bit of smack talk in the Viking vs Samurai episode when they were about to test the Viking Shield:
Viking Expert: That's the biggest piece of wood your samurai has ever seen.
Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs is fond of these as well.
Discovery Networks actually collected a bunch of them into a video here.
The show featured a number of "unintentional double entendres" where neither meaning was sexual. At least once an episode, someone would say, "There is no plot!", "We must act!", or similar phrases.
Both "Revenge of the Cybermen" and "Terror of the Zygons" (two consecutive stories) feature a virtually identical gag at the climax of the Doctor telling his companions about "big bangs" and then eyeballing the people he's with significantly.
The Doctor and the Master always seem to be doing this to each other:
The Master: I want the Doctor's body!
In "The Two Doctors", Jamie and the Second Doctor spot a spaceship via the scanner screen.
Jamie: Look at the size of that thing, Doctor! The Doctor: Yes, Jamie, that is a big one. note This exchange was a reference to a similar one in "The Faceless Ones", where the innuendo had been unintentional.
In "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", the Seventh Doctor comments to Ace that the robot was "just a device to get us involved". This is a triple-entendre — it's a "device" (a robot), a "device" (a plot device) and a "device" (a manipulation).
In the TV Movie, Eight shows just how much of a Chaste Hero he is, even if he is the first Doctor to snog on camera, by innocently walking straight into one of these:
The Doctor: See, I told you it [a gadget] was small. Grace: What is it they say? The Doctor: Yeah, they say that on my planet too.
The "Shada" reconstruction opens up with Tom BakerAdam Westing enormously while going through a bunch of Doctor Who props and informing them that he beat them. Then he says "I was irresistible in those days... irresistible" (referencing his notorious real-life womanising and debauchery with his "time-travellers").
In "The Doctor Dances", dancing is used as a euphemism for sex, showing off the Doctor's problems with intimacy and Captain Jack's flexibility, among other things. In a rare visual double entendre, the Doctor literally slips Jack a banana.
From "The Christmas Invasion", Jackie's comment when Rose was explaining to her about how the Doctor has two hearts. This while she's eyeing him up and down.
Jackie: Anything else he's got two of?
This is reused in "The Girl in the Fireplace", when Reinette asks the Doctor to dance with her. Notably, this episode also features the Doctor utilizing a banana. (He visits a really wild party, gets very drunk and may have invented the banana daiquiri. Except that he doesn't.)
Even when the Master isn't around, he isn't safe, as in "Time Crash":
10th Doctor: Oh, [the Master] just showed up again. Same as ever. 5th Doctor: Oh no, really? Does he still have that rubbish beard? 10th Doctor: No! No beard this time. Well... a wife.
"The Time of Angels": River Song asks the Doctor to sonic her radio to boost the frequency. Amy, on the other hand...
"Ooh, Doctor, you sonicked her!"
The Teller from "Time Heist" works at a bank, but can also "tell" what people are thinking.
Right after Dracula rips his way out of the wolf he possessed to ambush the convent in Episode 1 of Dracula (2020), he strokes the dead beast's body and quips to the nuns "Don't know about you, ladies, but I love a bit of fur." Keep in mind that he's 1) completely naked and 2) displaying a glorious (though blood-soaked) Carpet of Virility when he says that.
In Eureka season 4:2, Dr. Grant is locked in Carter's jail cell and Andy greets Carter. Grant is staring in wonder at Andy for being a robot, and his final line in the scene is 'I'd love to see underneath your uniform.' (meaning he wants to see the mechanics). Andy doesn't even try to hide his comprehension of the innuendo by making a sidelong glance.
Also in the last episode of Season 3 we get this one:
In the pilot, because Hawkins Fuller is attracted to Timothy Laughlin, his final line during their conversation at the park bench is laced with a sexual innuendo.
Tim: I should leave soon anyway. It's noon Mass at St. Joseph's. Hawk: Perfect. (leans closer to Tim and whispers) I'll spend the afternoon picturing you kneeling in prayer.
In the fourth episode, Hawk learns that Tim will attend a very important meeting with Senator Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and John Adams (the Army's lawyer), and he tells his lover "My boy's coming up in the world" while fondling Tim's erect penis through his pants. Hawk then playfully adds "Speaking of coming up" before removing Tim's pants and underwear.
In the sixth episode, Hawk shows Tim his hunting cabin. Tim had previously used the word "hunting" to refer to Hawk's Gay Cruising in episode 5, so what they really mean in this scene is that Hawk seduces men for one-night stands at his cabin.
Hawk: This is Daddy's hunting cabin. Tim: Where you do your hunting. Hawk: I manage to bag a buck every now and then.
Firefly includes some amusing examples. In the episode "War Stories", Jayne watches Inara kissing a female client — and right after he proclaims he's going to his bunk, Zoe orders him to "grab your weapon" for a potentially dangerous mission.
From "Our Mrs. Reynolds": "Jayne. Go play with your rain stick."
At the end of an episode of Frasier, wherein a number of circumstances have aligned to make Frasier's listeners think they're asking him about sleeping with Roz, but Frasier himself is under the impression they've heard about an ordeal he had at a parking garage earlier in the day that made him late for work:
Frasier: It sounds as if Roz has informed you of my exploits! Jerry: She hasn't said much, but we'd like to hear it from you. Frasier: Well, it wasn't my finest hour. Let's just say that I got in there, realized I made a mistake, and then tried like hell to get out! Roz: Frasier! Frasier: There was a lot of shouting, and then a line started to form behind me. Fortunately, my brother was with me for moral support and, well, let's face it, somebody to talk to. You know, you'd be amazed how long twenty minutes can be when you're watching the clock. At least, in the end, I got out of of there without paying the four dollars!
Another example from Friends when Monica is asked that why she sold her stock:
Monica: Ya know, my motto is get out before they go down. Joey: This is so not my motto.
Joey apparently has a talent to make anything sound like innuendo. Take, for example, like "Grandma's chicken salad".
After reading the female-empowering, jargon-laced book, Be Your Own Windkeeper, Rachel pushes back on Ross’ demand that they leave for movie on time, resulting in this exchange:
While discussing Shae's cover story as his personal cook, Tyrion suggests Varys should taste her fish pie.
Tyrion rewards Podrick for sticking a spear through a would-be assassin with a "spear handler" of another sort.
In one episode of The Goodies, the lads' apartment are encased in concrete with no connection to the outside world. Tim, off-hand, mentions "building a better world for our children". Cue Bill explaining to him that they're not going to have any children, are they, culminating in this:
Bill: Let's face it, for the next three years, we three are doomed to be bachelors gay. (puts his hand on Tim's shoulder, grinning)That'san idea, isn't it?
Also, later on:
Tim:(shocked) But a man isn't a man unless he exercises his right for fatherhood! Bill: You can exercise it all you want, mate, but it won't get you anywhere!
At least 70% of Chuck Bass's dialogue on Gossip Girl consists of this. Example:
Georgina: No thank you, the Lord cannot enter the body solely by alcohol. Chuck: That's good, because I prefer to be the one doing the entering.
Paul's obsession with looking for moisture affecting the crispness of pastry bases — "soggy bottoms". Mel and Sue don't exactly dissuade him from using the term at every possible opportunity, and will do so themselves if he doesn't.
Inevitable in any episode featuring tarts or buns.
Successful Madeira cake should show a prominent crack. Mel and Sue pass up no opportunity for a crack-related comment.
Sue is generally very good at creating innuendos out of perfectly innocuous dishes. "OK, everyone, you've got half an hour! Let's get those lady-fingers soggy!"
Sue: Good morning, bakers. The following signature challenge has been assessed by the Double Entendre Police and I’m delighted to inform you that Paul and Mary would love you to make cream horns. And there’s nothing fun to say about that whatsoever.
Mary pulls off a totally, hilariously innocent one during a challenge, inspecting a contestant's plans to use hemp flour: "What is hemp, exactly? A kind of grass, is it?"
Sue:[clearly desperate to keep a straight face] It's the legal kind of grass, Mary, yeah...
Sue gets off a corker before the titles of series 7 have even started rolling, while she and Mel are going through a box of whisks, rolling pins and other assorted kitchen aids.
Mel: What's that down there? Sue: That? That's from home. I don't know why that's there. Sorry.
While presenting her pub-themed Showstopper in the second episode of series 7, Candice invites Mel to 'grab her jugs' (that is, bring them up to the front table), and Mel pays it forward by inducing Mary to say how much she's looking forward to eating some (sticky gingerbread) carpet.
Candice seemed to pull one of these out every week in season 7, including 'nobody likes a small underfilled ball' during bread week, 'I don't even have lace pants' in batter week, and 'sometimes you just need to get your hands in there and give your sausages a good squeeze' in pastry week.
Nice one (possibly unintentional, but who can tell?) from kid's show The Hoobs in the episode "Ba-Boom". When Iver finds out that that noise in his chest is actually his heart, the Hoobs all listen to each other's heartbeats. Groove sticks his 'ear' next to (female Hoob) Tula's chest and exclaims "Great ba-booms, Tula!"
The title doctor of House is also fond of double entendres.
Though in season 4's "Whatever it Takes" he fails, saying: "You know, I happen to have a position available on my penis... Wait a second, I think I screwed up that joke."
An example played straight in season 4 from "Don't Ever Change": House asks Thirteen, "You do it both ways, right?" Earlier in the episode she is revealed to be bisexual. House claims he was referring to two ways of doing an ultrasound.
House of Cards (U.S. Remake): When Zoe wants to break off her sexual relationship with Frank, then sends him a text-message asking to see him (on the eve of an important House vote), Frank has this exchange with his wife:
Claire: Going somewhere? Frank: Just for an hour or two. I've got one last holdout to whip.
In How I Met Your Mother Robin and Barney are having dinner in a restaurant, and as he is being abnormally nice, clean and appropriate (he has recently fallen in love with her and wants to show her that he's not always a sleazy womanizer), she tries to set him back in his old ways by telling him about her day in a suspiciously crude manner. It doesn't work:
Robin: Hey, so I went to the chiropractor yesterday... That guy bent me over the table and pounded me for a good hour... Barney: Insurance gonna cover that? Sometimes they don't. Robin: That's it? Barney:(polite smile) Robin: Okay... Well, um, today, I was at the dentist, that guy drilled me. All day long. Barney:(polite nod) Robin: He drilled me hard. Barney:(polite nod) Robin: He filled all of my cavities... Come on, man! Barney: Well your teeth look fantastic. Robin:WhoAREyou?!
The series loves this trope. Most of the time though, it's unintentional, and the characters realize the Squick potential a little too late.
Ted: Alright, I'm gonna head upstairs and keep working. I gotta find a way to introduce some wood in Bilson's dark atrium. Beat Ted: I think you know what I meant.
At one time, Ted's boss is designing a skyscraper that is clearly a giant penis.
Druthers: [about the model trees Ted made to surround the tower] Too green. Ted: Too green? Druthers: I want them to be more of a natural brown color. Almost a brunet. Also, they need to be bushier. Ted: Bushier? Druthers: I want this tower to emerge from a thicket of unkempt brunet shrubbery. Can you picture it, Ted? Ted: I can't unpicture it, sir.
Lestat de Lioncourt informs Louis de Pointe du Lac on the latter's first day as a fledgling vampire that he needs to rest during the daytime, but there's only one coffin in the townhouse. Louis initially refuses to do so, but then Lestat strips naked and allows Louis to get an eyeful of his body before entering the coffin. Just before Lestat lies down, he adds, "It's okay. You can be on top."
Later in the episode, Louis is surprised to learn that vampires are telepathic, so he asks Lestat in a playful tone, "And you gonna sit on that skill for how long? You gonna make me beg?" The naughty smirk on Lestat's lips indicates that he's imagining Louis begging him in their boudoir for a different type of skill (they're in a Lover and Beloved relationship after all, with Louis as the subordinate partner).
After Claudia elaborates on how they will trap their would-be prey inside their home after the Mardi Gras ball, Lestat's left hand grabs Louis' butt and pulls his boyfriend closer to his chair. While glancing hungrily up at Louis, Lestat utters in a seductive tone, "And let the flesh instruct the mind." Lestat is ostensibly telling Claudia that they'll let their thirst for human blood dictate their actions during the feast, but it's also plain that he's ravenous for Louis' body and wishes to take him to their bed.
Later in the Season 1 finale, a blood-starved Lestat is attired as a French king at the Mardi Gras ball, and when he's introduced to the MacPhail twins, he expresses his literal hunger with "The king finds himself suddenly famished," only to turn around and see Louis in his French duke costume for the first time. Lestat is gaping at his gorgeous lover as if he's tempted to "devour" Louis right there and then.
Jackpot!, a game show that started on NBC and was revived twice in the '80s, had a contestant pose a riddle that had a direct and clean answer, but the answerer (known on the show as the King of the Hill) made the question out to be an unintended double entendre.
Contestant: First you make a sale then you open my drawer. What am I? King of the Hill:A hooker! Contestant: A cash register, you louse!
There's a rather clever one in the Easter 2010 Jonathan Creek special - while talking about carpentry, The Vicar states "if I have a vice, it's to be screwed on the edge of a bench." before adding "that's got me into trouble on more than one occasion."
Law & Order: UK: A forensic expert is describing the evidence found on a victim as "stuff you might find in your mattress". DS Matt Devlin promptly turns to CP Alesha Phillips and cracks, "Not in my mattress". Granted, he could always be merely disagreeing with the forensics guy, but the look he's giving her seems to indicate another reason he's mentioning his mattress ...
Legends of Tomorrow: In the second part of the pilot, Martin Stein, Jefferson Jackson, and Sara Lance, having traveled back in time to the seventies, visit Martin's younger self to get his help tracking alpha particles. They introduce themselves to young-Stein as a physicist and his two lab assistants. Young Stein asks them if they are more interested in theoretical or applied physics. Sara, in a deliberately over-the-top sexy voice, says "I just can't decide. I love them both." One gets the impression that she was not talking about physics.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: A A small exchange between Durin and Disa implies that they have a kinky marriage behind the curtains. When Durin names her cunningness being a good reason enough to marry her instead of another dwarven woman called Margid Rustborin, Disa asks her husband what other reasons he had to take her as his wife. He promptly responds he will tell her later. Disa asks him keep quiet while giggling.
Mad Men: Don is a plane with a gay coworker and he tells a coworker about an idea he has. He proposes an image of an attractive girl opening a rain coat infront of a man. The slogan, "London Fog: Limit your exposure." Don did seriously propose using the advertisement for the rain coat, and he seriously wanted his friend to know he was safe provided he kept out of trouble.
Things are gonna be different now that I'm in charge. Cause I'm really hands-on. I'm gonna be on top of you non-stop. I'm gonna be riding you so hard you'll be begging for mercy. There's no pulling out. I'm gonna work you all night long. You will wanna explode. But I won't let you quit until I'm satisfied!
Married... with Children was quite generous with the double entendres, perhaps the funniest when Al and Jefferson are trying to assemble a workbench and Al is frustrated with trying to align two "L" brackets:
Al: I can't find the hole! (Peggy, nearby, flashes a shit-eating grin)
The 70s game show Match Game was notorious for these. And it got worse in the '90s remake. One frequent example was any question involving a woman and a plural answer, which was likely to get “Boobs” as a response.
Mimpi Metropolitan: Episode 18 revolves around Alan and Prima becoming what Bambang calls "cowok panggilan", which literally means "guy who get called" (since they are called and paid to be a fake boyfriend) but can also mean prostitutes. Alan and Prima have no problem with the term but it causes misunderstanding when they tell Mami Bibir and Pipin.
One sketch sees a Dirty Old Man go into a newsagents and interpret all of the adverts on the noticeboard as being adverts for prostitutes, eventually leading him to some truly ludicrous double entendres when he tries to get further details from the newsagent. ("I'd like a bit of pram, please!") Eventually, in frustration he demands the actual prostitute's advert, which is written in a fashion bluntly describing what is on offer (Sexy blonde prostitute, will perform all acts...) — and doesn't understand a word of it.
The Wink Wink Nudge Nudge guy, who turns everything said to him into a double entendre, no matter how forced it is, and then tries to force a double entendre into everything he says. In the end, the character admits it's because he's never had sex and wonders what that's like.
My Boys had one. The protagonist's old friend visits her, bringing her Sex and the City look-a-like friends. The one that acts like Samantha speaks in so much innuendo that no one understands her.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 explored this trope when the 'bots asked Joel why the actors in the movies were talking the way they were. Joel explained that by controlling the inflection of your voice you can make anything sound sexual. He went on to demonstrate with such phrases as "The Factory is still open, but they are making different stuff" or "Yep, My shoes are a little tight." She came back from the store with a bag of apples... and a loaf of bread!
The narrator and sometimes even the crew of Mythbusters seems rather fond of double entendres. "It's time to play hide the sausage" from the Salami Rocket myth, for example.
The less said about Adam riding the giant chicken cannon, the better.
This exchange between Tony and Ziva whose whole relationship seem to based on. After a cat has run out the pet door and Tony jumps startled:
Ziva: Tony, I never knew you were afraid of a little pussy... cat.
Another such example was during another of Tony and Ziva's bantering sessions, where Ziva says, "Tony, I've told you, I like to have fun in more... adult ways." It turns out that she's talking about reading, but it's understandable why people might initially interpret it in a very different way.
New Girl: Played for Laughs when Cece's sex talk is so weird that Schmidt has no idea what she's implying.
Schmidt: The biscuits... are ready. Cece:[sexy voice] Did you make enough for Cousin Andy? [beat] Schmidt: See, I don't get that, who is Cousin—
The Newsreader: In the third episode, there's a sexual connotation when Tim Ahern (who has a crush on Dale Jennings) brings up Dale's pants on a hot day, and the latter alludes to his bisexuality.
Tim: You sure you don't want to get out of those pants? Dale: What? Tim: They look hot. Dale: I'm fine. Tim: What are they? Polyester? Dale: They're a blend.
In The Office (UK), Tim and Dawn amuse themselves with a perfectly innocent conversation about armed combat with Gareth.
Tim: If a military man like you, a soldier, er, could you give a man a lethal blow? Gareth: If I was forced to, I could. If it was absolutely necessary, if he was attacking me. Tim: If he was coming, really hard? Gareth: Yeah, if my life was in danger, yeah. Tim: And do you imagine always doing it face to face with a bloke, or could you take a man from behind? Gareth: Either way's easy. Tim: So you could take a man from behind? Gareth: Yeah. Tim: Lovely.
Open All Hours does this all the time, but memorably in this line:
Arkwright: You have lovely knees, Nurse Gladys. Of course, my thoughts are above such things.
Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks' letter to Mr. Conklin requesting flower pots for her windowsill gets mixed up with a love letter in "Bones, Son of Cyrano". Cue a flurry of double entendres when Mr. Conklin questions Miss Brooks.
Pee-wee's Playhouse, which was ostensibly a children's show, thrived on subtle double entendres.
One of the best ones:
Cowboy Curtis: You know what they say about a man with big feet? (pause) Cowboy Curtis: He needs big shoes.
The title of the 1958-1961 private-detective series ‘’Peter Gunn’’ was a double double entendre. All the more remarkable it was allowed to slide at the time.
Horneigh: Say, do you believe in the hereafter? Woman: Yeah. Horneigh: Well, now you know what I'm here after.
Rules of Engagement features more than a few, usually delivered by Russell. However, one of the funniest episodes features a woman who speaks in nothing but double entendres, seemingly without realising what she is doing, and this drives Russell nuts. Her best effort occurs when she is talking about the new nightclub she is starting:
"You guys should totally check out my opening. It takes a while for things to warm up down there, so try not to come too early."
In Series 7 of Russell Howard's Good News, one of the Mystery Guests had won the Best Sausage In Britain award and the entire conversation about sausages was littered with these, especially when a male audience member "whistled at [his] sausage".
Saturday Night Live (which has been packed with double entendres since 1975) has this in early Celebrity Jeopardy sketches, in which Sean Connery would turn the categories into these. For example...
Connery: I'll take Jap-Anus Relations. Trebek: That's "Japan-US Relations". (...) Connery: I'll take The Rapists. Trebek: That's "Therapists". (...) Connery: I've got to ask you about The Penis Mightier... Trebek: That's "The Pen Is Mightier". Connery: I don't care what you call it, I'm asking does it work?! (...) Connery: I'll take Catch the Semen. Trebek: That's "Catch These Men". (...) Connery: I'll take Anal Bum Cover. Trebek: That's "An Album Cover", you horrible, horrible man. Connery: HO, HO, HO, HO! (...) Connery: I'll take Whore Semen. (Walks up to the board and points at the "Horsemen" category) See? "Whore"—like your mother—"Semen."
And then there's the "Delicious Dish" sketch in which Alec Baldwin's character, baker Pete Schweddy, introduces his dessert, "Schweddy Balls". Rapidly becomes an Overly Long Gag (and an obvious one), but they maintain perfectly deadpan delivery throughout while saying such lines as, "Wow. I can't wait to get my mouth around his Balls", and "Do whatever you want to, ladies. My Balls are here for your pleasure."
And then he comes back with Schweddy Weiners, which taste best if they're inserted into Schweddy Buns.
Betty White as confectionery rock star Florence Dusty and her Dusty Muffin.
There's also a sketch about a tour at a winery with Janet Jackson Finding out about Cork Soaking. (The sketch almost falls apart as Janet and the rest of the cast can barely hold it together, as Janet almost Blows the Line (wait I just Made one there.)
Also a series of parody campaign ads in which Pat Finger runs for city council of Butts, New York. ("In 1869, my great-grandfather, E. T. Finger fell in love with Butts and, well, there's been a whole mess of Fingers in Butts ever since.")
Robert De Niroplayed a CIA spokesman who read lists of suspected terrorists - "most of the calls have come from high school and college students nationwide". They include Hous Bin Pharteen ("a silent, but deadly killer"), I-Zheet M'Drurz ("when he was fleeing the scene of his last attack, he left skidmarks") and Apul Madeek ("who we believe will be targeting adult bookstores sometime in the near future").
In Scrubs, a character named Todd turns nearly everything said to him (or near him) into a double entendre. ("I'd like to double her entendre!")
Patient: Doctor, I'm getting a little tired of the sexual innuendo. Todd: In-your-endo.
This is nearly the Todd's raison d'être. In at least one episode he mentions that he actually seeks out these opportunities, commenting, "People think I just luck into these situations, but it's really a lot of hard work. You know what else is hard?" "I should go."
The 2015/2016 New Year's Special for Sherlock has four in rapid succession, while Moriarty appears in Sherlock's apartment his mind palace.
Moriarty: It's a dangerous habit, to finger a loaded firearm in the pocket of one's dressing gown. Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Sherlock: You'll forgive me for taking precautions. Moriarty: I'd be offended if you didn't. Obviously, I brought my own. [takes out a shiny, white gun]
Smallville: In "Bride", Lois does it when explaining to Clark how to wear cufflinks. Judging by her face it seems that she only noticed the double entendre after she said it.
Lois: Big city boy, let me give you a lesson. You just have to make sure this part sticks up straight, and then it slides right in. [Cue awkward silence from both]
Spin City would occasionally spend an episode leading up to an extended double entendre. For example, in this one, Carter is making a speech on prostitutes; unfortunately, Mike told him it was about libraries...
Carter: You walk past them every day, and you never even notice them. I say use them. Take advantage of them. Reporter: Uh, Mr. Heywood, are you saying you've... used one? Carter: Why yes, I was in one just this morning. In fact, I was having such a good time I found it hard to keep quiet.
When Richard Woolsey on Stargate Atlantis discovers that a new (gorgeous female) team member is standing in the area of the city he uses to reflect on his thoughts:
Woolsey: You poached my private spot!... Uh, what I meant to say is: you discovered my little personal area... Uh, this is where I come to be alone with my thoughts. Conrad: Do you mind sharing it? Woolsey: Not at all.
Made even worse when you find out he actually is talking to himself.
One episode of Supernatural (s2 ep6) features a female character squeezing by Dean in a tight space between walls of an apartment complex. Dean mutters "Should've cleaned the pipes." When he is asked what that meant, he quickly shines a flashlight over to the plumbing and stammers something out.
Being that Season 7's Big Bad was named Dick, the entire season was sprinkled with puns on his name.
Stranger Things: When Nancy and Jonathan spend the night at Murray's place, he offers them the guest room, and when they insist that they're not a couple, he rolls his eyes and says Jonathan can have the pull-out sofa bed. Then the next morning, after Nancy and Jonathan spent the night together in what they thought was a stealthy manner...
Murray: How was the pull-out? Jonathan:[Spit Take] I'm sorry..? Murray: The sofa. Jonathan: Oh yeah... it was good. Murray:[grins] I bet it was.
A 1974 telecast of Tattletales had the following question posited to the wives: "If I want something from my husband, to make sure I get 'yes' for an answer, I always approach him after he's had _______." (Gene Rayburn guest hosted that week as regular host Bert Convy was on the panel with his wife, so the question was posed a la Match Game.) Harvey Korman predicted his wife Donna would say "a drink." Donna's response: "It's either pizza or sex..." As the audience roared with laughter, Harvey topped it: "With or without sausage?"
In the That '70s Show episode "Jackie's Cheese Squeeze", Jackie feels neglected by her boyfriend, Kelso, and ends up kissing her boss at the mall where she works as a cheese maiden. Eric catches them, and later torments Jackie by making double entendres in Kelso's presence:
Jackie: I just came to get Michael. Come on. Eric: Oh, no, stay! We're just gonna hang out and fool around. We all know how much you like to... fool around. [...] Eric: So, hey, Jackie, how's it going down at the cheese shop? You must be so tired from... giving it away at the mall. [...] Jackie: Come on, Michael, let's go! Eric: No, let's stay! We could play Monopoly. Oh, but that wouldn't be much fun, since we all know that... Jackie cheats.
The whole scene is made even funnier by the fact that Kelso remains completely oblivious to the other meanings, even as Jackie becomes noticeably agitated by them.
Parodied in a That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch set in a "bawdy 1970s hospital" of the Carry On school. Unfortunately, one of the doctors doesn't fully understand the nature of double entendre, leading to some unfortunately Literal-Minded examples whenever he tries to contribute ("Shall I get my cock out?").
The show has a Running Gag involving Grim making suggestive comments about his arse being on the line for whatever reason, one of the most egregious examples being when he urges Fowler not to get in the way of his serious policework: "Your cock-up, my arse!" note David Haig has said in interviews that this is the one line people most enjoy shouting at him if they recognise him in the street.. The joke appears in seven out ofthe fourteen episodes, with some rather inventive variations on the same theme. Compare; "My arse will be on the line, and I don't want a cock-up!", and "I'll show these bloody kids, when Grim of Gasforth puts his backside on the line, they can't just stick two fingers up!"
Fowler misty-eyed at Christmas as a kid, reducing Patricia to giggles "Dad would bring a fat bird home and tell mother to stuff it." (Bird being British slang for 'woman')
Cloudcuckoolander Dave from Titus thinks he hears these often. Or can make the audience make them. Papa Titus frequently makes them as well.
Titus: Dad, you're not in love with her. It's a heart attack rebound thing. It's the angina talking! Dave: It TALKS?!
Done in Top Gear in the form of Innocent Innuendo (after segueing from a discussion about car firms putting their badges on any old merchandise)
Hammond: It does work, this sort of branding. This wizard's sleeve for instance. (holds up a literal sleeve from a wizard costume with a Ferrari logo on it) May: This pork sword... (holds up a fencing foil with a load of sausages speared on it) Clarkson: This cock... (holds up a stuffed chicken with an Audi logo on it) Hammond: Has it got four rings on it? Clarkson: Yes it has! Put this cock in your wizard's sleeve.
They also pointed out the "minefield of double entendres" that cropped up when they made a kit car.
Clarkson: The nipple is off. The tube is in the hole. Clarkson: We'll be needing some pump. May: You should feel it go stiff now. Clarkson: Pump, man. Pump! Hammond: Oh yeah, that much better. Yeah, that's hard.
Then there's the review of a car where they picture a situation where a family seating arrangement has the mother in the front seat with the kids and her husband sits in the back seat:
Clarkson: It's the most pitiable sight you can see. May: She's effectively saying "You've given me the baby, now get in the back!" Hammond: Yep. Clarkson:[bursts out laughing]
Torchwood has quite a few by virtue of being... well. Torchwood. Example: [1]
Gwen: Have you ever eaten alien meat? Jack: Yeah. Gwen: What was it like? Jack: Well, he seemed to enjoy it...
A non-sexual example can be found in the title of The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "To Serve Man" (based on a short story by Damon Night). The title can mean either "to perform a service for humanity" or "to serve the meat of a human as food." Given the show, guess which one they're talking about here.
Two and a Half Men is also fond of using this, sometimes excessively, which shows in this example of Charlie talking to Herb in the garden.
Charlie: You know, Herb, that is a fine, fine hat. Herb: Gotta wear it. Otherwise I freckle like a banana. Charlie: Well... I wouldn't want your banana to get freckled. Alan: Let's go, Charlie. Charlie: Hang on! Hang on. We're having a real interesting conversation here. Hey Herb, tell Alan what you told me about how you plant seeds. Herb: Well, first I make sure the soil is moist. Charlie: Uh-huh. And tell him how you do that. Herb: Well, I just stick my finger in the old Mother Earth. If it comes up dry, I just whip out my hose and give it a good spritz. Charlie: And then? Herb: And then I carefully plant the seed in the soil. Charlie: Carefully? Why carefully? Herb: Because if you just fling that stuff around, half of it's wasted! Charlie: You hear that, Alan? If you fling your seed around it gets wasted. Alan: Fascinating. Let's just go. Charlie: Now hold on, hold on... How do you feel about bushes, Herb? Herb: Well, I like a full bush. The way God intended. Charlie: I like 'em trimmed. What about you, Alan? Alan: We're going! Bye Herb.
The Two Ronnies had many of these. Ronnie Barker once said that the thing about a joke with two meanings is that it can only possibly have one meaning.
In one episode of A Very Peculiar Practice, Doctor Rose Marie and the university director ("call me Jack... Rose") have a business conversation. The pauses, throaty voices and staring are an interesting addition.
Rose Marie: You have... such a big desk, Jack. Jack:[Pause] It is kinda big. Rose Marie: I was wondering — I know you're awfully busy — but I thought you might come round to my flat one evening. [Laughs.] I know you'll think I'm silly, but I'd find it much less daunting there and we could really have a proper... talk.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? has a whole game built around these, appropriately entitled "If You Know What I Mean." The goal is for the performers to speak them exclusively. Most work. Some are a stretch. Some are... really a stretch.
"I heard you were having a problem with your hard drive, if you know what I mean." "I'm having a little problem with my RAM, if you get my drift." "I'll be happy to help you fluff your Garfield, if you know what you mean."
A common theme in "Scenes From a Hat" is "Things You Can Say About Your [Blank] But Not Your Girlfriend". Every single line the players say is one of these.
About Your Motorcycle: "Sure, you can ride her, everyone else has!" About Your Business: "Open 24 hours." About Your Boat: "You can put a dozen guys down below." To Your Dog: "Come!"
WKRP in Cincinnati - Les is going to do something drastic on hearing about a rumor. Jennifer warns him "Now Les, don't go off all half-cocked!" Les replies "I'm a newsman, Jennifer - I'm always fully cocked!" Jennifer gets a disturbing mental picture.
Maecanus: I’ll put it up there for you right now, most beautiful of goddesses. Tie your gem on my arrow so my shaft can bring you satisfaction. Aphrodite: [Giggles] I do believe your sweaty, smelly leader is flirting with the goddess of love. You don’t have the thrust. [breaks off said arrow] Besides, my guy in Parnassus has better equipment. And he knows the right time to shoot.
When Gabrielle is observing a parchment:
Gabrielle: It’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Don’t you think it’s beautiful? The way it dips and curves?
Mulder of The X-Files loves to do this to his stoic, uptight partner, Scully, because she gets visibly flustered by it. At least for the first few seasons. Then she just starts rolling her eyes and tuning him out.
Scully: Snake handling... didn't learn that in Catechism class. Mulder: That's funny, I remember a couple of Catholic school girls that were experts at it.
In "Empedocles", a very rare Scully double entendre back at Mulder:
Scully:[about a gift Mulder had brought] Is that for me? Mulder: Yeah. Scully: Nice package. Mulder:[bemused] Thank you.
Mulder: I was merely extending a professional courtesy to her. Scully: Oh is that what you were extending?
Groucho Marx was known for his quick wit in his talk show, You Bet Your Life. One interview with a woman with many children led him to ask why she had so many. She replied that she loved her husband. His reply: "Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!" Apparently everyone in the studio was in hysterics for some time. note It's actually just an urban legend as no tape of the episode exists and Groucho vehemently denied ever saying it. However, it's still funny either way. He did say something similar when talking with a mother of a large family: "Well, I love pancakes, but I haven't got closets full of 'em."
from "The Trophy", episode one of the girls on the beach tells Eddie Kramer "I go far when I go out." it's then lampshaded by one of the other girls when she says "Yeah! All the way!".