Accidental Innuendo / Live-Action TV

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Accidental Innuendos in Live-Action TV.

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• From one of the earlier seasons of 24:
  Ryan Chapelle: Alright everyone, fall back to B protocols, have all units on the ground prepared. Wherever Bauer lands, I want to be on top of him.
• 30 Rock gives us the following exchange:
  Jack: Jenna, I wanna Tupac you.
  Jenna: Okay, but I have to pee first.
• The Amanda Show:
  • "When I kiss a girl, I SLURP her!"
  • "No coconut rubbing on the beach."
• The Amazing Race (American Version):
  • Millie & Chuck (Season 4) were a little infamous for this, especially considering they were labeled "The Virgins".
    Chuck (on his inability to get in an F1 race car due to his claustrophobia): It's feeling tight. Hot and tight.
  • Christine Godlweski (Season 8) to her sister Tricia, when giving her a water pump to help bail out their row boat in the leg 8 Detour:
    Christine: Put it between your legs and pump.
  • Dustin & Kandice (Season 11), upset at Mirna for her attempt to cut in line and steal their standby tickets, gave this exchange to the camera:
    Dustin: We're bigger than she is. We can make a Beauty Queen sandwich outta her.
  • Pretty much any task involving eating/making sausages are full of these.
  • Also any milking task.
• On the 19.3.2016 episode of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, the Ant vs Dec was a mock-up of Family Fortunes. When Dec was asked "Name something it's hard to get your leg over", he stuttered, looked over at his female team-mate, and said "Well...Ashley...".
• On the UK edition of The Apprentice, Simon's attempt to sell a trampoline on a TV shopping channel and demonstrate how to assemble it.
• From Babylon 5: "You didn't have to pull out of me so fast. You hurt me." Lyta to Kosh 2 as he pulls *ahem* part of his soul out of her. Psychically. The whole scene plays out as though Lyta were comparing her current, abusive lover to her former, caring one.
• In one episode of Barney & Friends, while the characters are singing the "Brushing My Teeth" song, one of the characters demonstrates how to brush his teeth "in back". It looks like something else.
• Between the Lions: "What's Cooking with Theo and Cleo" features a lot of rhyming titles like "Slammed and Rammed Ham", "Beef in a Sheet", and "Tackled and Paddled Hamburger".
• The short-lived Food Network reality show called The Big Tip had this problem from day one. The show was about going to restaurants and giving a huge cash reward to a server who the hosts think deserved it most. However, the line "Candy has no idea she's about to receive The Big Tip" sounds uncannily like the description of a porno.
• Blake's 7. In "Death Watch", Avon teleports down to confront Servalan, saying he's guessed her Evil Plan and delivering a blatant death threat. He then calls for Cally to teleport him up again. Unfortunately the actors decided on their own initiative to acknowledge their character's Foe Romance Subtext by having Avon grab Servalan for a passionate "Take That!" Kiss. So when Avon then tells Cally he's ready to come up now...
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • "Shoot me, stuff me, mount me."
  • Think that's bad? Howsabout this little gem from "Never Kill A Boy on the First Date?"
    Giles: I'm not saying that your methods are without merit, it's, uh, y-you're spending too much time and energy. It should simply be: plunge, and move on. Plunge and—
  • Similarly, Buffy — before their relationship begins in "Smashed" — mistakes something Spike says for innuendo e.g. "rough-and-tumble" or "grunt work" — hinting that despite Buffy's denials she has begun thinking about Spike sexually. Later when she is secretly having sex with him, the Scoobies keep making comments that remind Buffy of what she's up to, e.g. "We know you've been all tied up." and "You've been going at it too hard, slinging the doublemeat and pounding the big evil."
• Bullseye (U.S.) : During a late-1981 civilian episode while Jim was talking to a contestant named Toni about her golf game:
  Contestant: I'm straight, but I'm not real long.
  Jim Lange: Well, we all have our problems. I'm real long but I'm not very straight.
  (while the clip typically appears in blooper specials, they usually omit what Jim said next — "See how they misinterpret me?")
• Charmed: Piper's line about Wyatt "corrupting himself" in "Imaginary Fiends".
• The Chase has quite a few of these, in the form of both certain questions and certain things the contestants have said. Like for the former, "What colour is the giant cock on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square?, which nearly caused host Bradley Walsh to break down there and then. Or for the latter, an artist saying her husband has 'put up a temporary erection', referring to the stairs to the art studio. The former can be seen here, the latter here and there's a whole playlist of this in this Youtube playlist
  • With Bradley Walsh playing one of the companions on Doctor Who, and one of the contestants was a Doctor Who fan who sometimes cosplayed. When the connection came up he asked Bradley "Do you think I could pull you off?"
  • On the American version, whenever questions seem to have this or otherwise sound awkward or inappropriate, hostess Brooke Burns will either apologize or look to someone off camera and ask, "Really, guys?"
• The first episode of Chockablock has a moment where Chockabloke says "cock", referring to a picture of a cockerel on Chockablock's screen. However, the word "cock" can also be used to refer to a certain part of a male's anatomy. It doesn't help that, moments later, he sits with his arms folded and his legs splayed.
• Community:
  • From "Environmental Science":
    Annie: You have to get Chang to call off some of this homework. You're the one with the silver tongue.
    Pierce: Go tongue Chang.
  • All over the place in "Celebrity Pharmacology".
  • From "Course Listing Unavailable":
    Dean: Okay this is my school, and I'll enter whatever I want!
• Conan: A classic blooper occurred in the interview with Julianne Hough. She got to talking about wearing "Daisy Dukes" shorts for a movie. Tom Selleck, who was the first guest, asked her if the shorts were wet, as a Brick Joke to what he was talking about in the first segment. Of course, it goes without saying that asking if the shorts are wet can be taken more than one way, and Conan got up and walked around while the audience laughed.
  • Another incident...
    Steven Ho: (to Conan) Now, you get on top of me.
• Corner Gas: invokedThe entirety of the episode "Doc Small"^note if the doctor in question were to move from her current residence, the town would have been left with eighty-seven people from season two.
  • In the episode "World's Biggest Thing", the town gets the idea to make its own biggest object. Unfortunately, while out of ideas, Fitzy's grandmother's suggestion for a hoe (the garden tool) becomes predominant because no one wants to speak up about the unfortunate accidental innuendo, or are simply oblivious to it.
  • In "Slow Pitch," Emma is shopping at the gas station and Hank starts tossing her cans of soup around to test his new baseball glove. She finally snaps, "Stop playing with my cans!" Brent and Wanda are visibly trying not to laugh, but Emma just says, "What?"
• On The Creatives Tanya warns Charlie she will be "in him like a ton of pricks."
  • After he comes out much of the advert Greg appears in comes across as this.
• Something Lance Corporal Jones was prone to in Dad's Army. For example, describing an mutinous American sailor being whipped -
  "And that was the noise that he ejaculated while he was being flogged, sir."
• The UTF captain in the MTV series Death Valley has a habit of spouting accidental innuendos all the time. Sometimes he becomes aware of it afterwards, sometimes he doesn't and just goes with it in his usual high self-esteem.
• Doctor Who:
  • "The Savages" starts with the First Doctor exploring the planet holding a device. When the natives of the planet stop him to ask what it is, he explains that it's a "reactive vibrator" and offers to demonstrate.
  • The jury is out on whether the Doctor's dodgy time disturbance detection device in "The Time Monster" was deliberately phallic or not. But... he built it to detect The Master. That probably tells us everything we need to know.
    • Speaking of "The Time Monster", the secret project is called "TOMTIT"; it's rhyming slang for exactly what you think, and whether the writers knew this is unknown.
  • The Unfortunate Character Design of the Creature from the Pit - which looks exactly like a giant, green cock-and-balls - results in an astonishing scene where the Doctor (who is trying to communicate with the creature) picks up the creature's front... protuberance in his arms, rubs it up and down with his hands for a while, then puts his mouth on the end and puffs out his cheeks as he asks it "hello?".
  • Fifth Doctor serials seem to have a knack for this. "The Visitation" gives us this exchange...
    Tegan: Hurry up!
    Adric:^note Who's actually trying to force open a window It's stiff.
    Tegan: You were boasting your strength a minute ago. Get on with it!
  • The sonic vibrator Nyssa builds in the same serial may also deserve mention. Made worse by Adric's line, "I don't see why you wanted to work in here (her bedroom)."
  • From "Terminus", we have this spit-take inducing line:
    The Doctor: Nyssa's skirt... There's blood on it!
  • Three words: Tissue Compression Eliminator. So phallic the cast and crew were falling over laughing.
  • The fact that the title "companion" carries some pretty... adult... connotations. Lampshaded immediately when the Ninth Doctor first used the term to refer to Rose. The policeman questioning him immediately asked if it was sexual.
  • LOADS in "Faith Stealer":
    The Doctor: I think it's about time we came out of the closet!
  • "Death in Blackpool": When the "Zynog" tells Lucie that Pat and the Doctor have a secret and are hiding in a closet together, Lucie mentally shudders. The "Zynog" tells her it's worse than that. She can't imagine anything worse.
  • Lampshaded in "The Next Doctor":
    Miss Hartigan: "The Cyberking will rise"? How like a man.
• When Double the Fist has its timeslot publicly announced, Doug Bayne (Mephisto) suddenly realised that the title sounded like that of a gay porno flick.
• During the brouhaha over the revelation of Thomas's homosexuality on Downton Abbey, Molesley says "See? Now my grip is firm, but tender. Cherish the ball; don't crush it." No one seems to notice that it... came out wrong.
• The eponymous heroes of Drake & Josh ooze Ho Yay and Flirty Stepsiblings subtext in every scene. In "Steered Straight," their father/stepfather tells them, "Both of you, in the closet!"
• The Electric Company (1971): "Billy Lick a Lolly", especially after Molly gives a lollipop to Lilly and the song says that "Molly gave to Lilly just what Billy gave to Molly."
• Fear Factor hosted a game where a woman was forced to eat live cave spiders, but when she was afraid to do it the host started yelling for her to, er, "Just put it in your mouth! Come on, it won't bite!"
• In Firefly:
  • There is actually a lot of this in many of the scenes between Simon and River. For example, in the pilot, Simon is leaning over River in bed, with the kind of intimate lighting one would associate with something... else. There's a similar scene in "Ariel", which also has Simon telling River to "lay back" on the bed and then, ahem, injecting her with a needle. Plus the candlelit dinner scene in "Safe" and River spying on Simon and Kaylee making love in the movie. This goes beyond accidental in a deleted scene when River asks Book to marry her and Simon, and tries to convince Simon by putting a pillow under her shirt and claiming she's in the "family way"...
  • It's terribly, terribly easy to infer this with many of the Operative's lines, which can be interpreted as one-way attraction toward River. And the way he just stares at her hologram at the beginning of the movie...
  • In "Shindig" the sign "Management not responsible for ball failure" (and a corresponding Mandarin translation) is shown after a holographic pool table flickers after a malfunction. Think about that for a moment
  • "No trouble, little crazy person. We're gonna go for a nice shuttle ride...." The way Jayne speaks that line just resounds with "come inside my van" connotations....
  • Then there’s “Our Mrs. Reynolds” where Mal tells Jayne to go play with his rain stick. Jayne got a rain stick at the same party Mal accidentally got married in, but it still sounds dirty.
• Fraggle Rock:
  • Take a very close listen to "Let Me Be Your Song".
  • Toughpigs' list of Muppet songs with rude-sounding titles includes some songs from this show, including "Do It On My Own", "Helping Hand", "Muck and Goo" and "Pass It On".
• Ghost Adventures: In an episode while panning for gold.
  Zak: Hey, I think I got the wrist action down! *Beat* I should just not talk...
• Ghostwatch: The phrase 'glory hole', which carried an entirely different connotation in the UK at the time (it referred to a cupboard under the stairs. Make all the Harry Potter jokes you like), is repeated throughout. Please accept this fact and move on.
• Glee
  • The name of the eponymous glee club is Nude Erec—I mean, New Directions. The idea for this came to the glee club coach while he was in bed.
  • Another group has the name "Aural Intensity". "Aural" could refer to hearing, as in it's intense to hear Aural Intensity's singing, but it ends up sounding like something else.
• Gold Rush!: As Joel McHale has shown, a lot of the dialogue and narration can sound kind of dirty out of context. Especially "glory-hole".
• Susanna Reid's otherwise bland interview with English actor Dan Stevens on Good Morning Britain took an amusing turn when she asked him if he had to "beat off" actual American actors to land a Fake American role in The Guest.
• In the The Haunting Hour episode "Grampires," Christopher Lloyd's character gets pulled over for speeding, but the officer mentions he'll forget the ticket if he can have "that takeout meal," referring to the old man's teenage granddaughter. (That's because the officer is a vampire.)
• Occurs in the memorable Chained Heat episode of Hey Dude! when the handcuffed Brad and Ted are forced to sleep in bunk beds. "What do you want — top or bottom?"
• Horatio Hornblower, "Mutiny": Mr Bush's mentioning of the "spanker boom" excited many a fan-girl's imagination, even though it's fairly clear from the context that it's just naval terminology. Yet the connection to Kinky Spanking is irresistible...
• In How I Met Your Mother, the Show Within a Show Space Teens that starred a teenage Robin is rife with these. It's meant to be an educational kids' show to teach math - and involves math problems about things like pet beavers eating wood. The rest of the HIMYM cast quickly start to point this out and crack jokes as they watch.
  • Also occurs with mentions of one of Ted's architecture projects, an unusually phallic skyscraper... "This project is a big deal for the team, and we don't want to blow it," etc.
• iCarly
  Sam: I want to do bad things to that chick.
  Freddie: You should.
  Sam: I will.
  • "iWill Date Freddie" gives us "You won't get respect if your back's not erect!"
  • In "iWant My Website Back", Sam persuades Mandy to inflate a garbage bag by blowing:
  Sam: Do you want to help get our website back or not?
  Manday: Of course!
  Sam: Then blow.
  Mandy: (Beat) On it.
  • "iThink They Kissed" has a scene where the prisoners come out of the large pair-of-pants sculpture through the zipper area.
  • In "iStart a Fan War", Spencer's cosplay character's weapon is a long staff, while his rival uses two wrist balls.
  • In "iDate Sam and Freddie", Gibby exclaims "I LOVE Pini's!" referring to a local restaurant with really good lasagne. With a slightly different inflection, it would sound exactly like a certain male body part.
  • Spencer's assistant in "iBalls" has a weird knack for these:
    • The electronic toilet seat which warms your bottom. And it vibrates.
    Assistant: Think of me when you're using it.
    • The assistant giving Spencer a piggy-back ride, and Spencer answering a phone call, saying "I'm riding him."
    • Their final exchange:
  Spencer: Where will you go?
  Assistant: Wherever the wind blows me.
  Spencer: I hope it blows you someplace wonderful.
  • There are a couple of more examples in "iFind Spencer Friends":
    • Spencer plays tennis with an 8-year-old grader, but loses because his tennis racket is "floppy". Add in that Gibby pronounces tennis like "teenis" and you've got one weird scene.
    • A random loony fan runs to a men's restroom to get a picture with Gibby. When she got back she started to scream: "I touched Gibby, I touched Gibby!"
• In Treatment: In Season One, Sophie wears some new red shoes which Paul states remind him of Dorothy's. Sophie doesn't get straight away that he means Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz, and explains her confusion by saying, "You said Dorothy like she was a friend of yours". Paul's face is nothing short of priceless for those who know that "a friend of Dorothy" is a euphemism for being gay.
• The 1970s edition of Jackpot posed this riddle to the expert (or King of the Hill, as the 80s version used):
  Contestant: First you make the sale then you open my drawer. What am I?
  Expert: A hooker! (loud audience laughter)
  Geoff Edwards (show's host): A cash register, you louse!!
• Charlie singing "I got the Good Lord goin' down on me!" in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie uses the now-obsolete slang term "to touch [someone]", meaning to con them out of money. Nowadays viewers automatically think he means literally touching someone.
  • In "Chuffy" Bertie complains Seabury was "trying to touch me for five bob", which sounds... much less innocent than what actually happened. This goes beyond accidental innuendo and becomes accidentally disturbing because Seabury is a teenager.
  • In "The Full House" Bertie says Rocky's aunt thinks he's "touching [Rocky] for free meals". He means she thinks he's sponging off Rocky, but it sounds like she thinks he's doing something else entirely.
• In Jeopardy!: What's the term for a long-handled gardening tool that can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker? Even though "a ho" is more fun, the correct answer would be "a rake".
  • Made even more hilarious in that the "ho" answer was said by Ken Jennings, the longest running winner in the show's history. (He's also a Mormon who tries not to use swearwords, making "What is a ho?" even funnier because it was so unpredictable.)
  • When Jenna Bush Hager made a guest appearance for a category, they actually named the category "Jenna Bush Hager", which unfortunately made it inevitable that a contestant would say "I'll take Jenna Bush Hager for $ [X]".
• Jessie:
  • "Who broke into my room and touched my badger?"
  • "Would you like to see a picture of my lizard?"
  • "I'm on you like stripes on a tiger!"
  • "That date ended with me all wet."
  • The episode title "Pain in the Rear Window".
• Kamen Rider Den-O: When the Taros are trying to possess Ryotaro together, Ryuu delivers this line:
  Ryuu: Let me be on top!
• In Kamen Rider Fourze #13, Gentaro promises to help bring Miura (the Orion Zodiarts) back to school, saying "The best medicine for a hurt heart is friendship, so I'll make sure he gets his daily dose of me morning, noon, and night!" Judging by the reactions of Miura's girlfriend and Yuuki, he's the only one who doesn't realize what he's saying. And he keeps saying stuff like "Drink me" or "I'll be good for him" as he tries to "help" Miura out.
• KYTV: The constantly-giggling "Uncle" Mike Stand was the undisputed master of these, which led to (deliberate by the writers) unfortunate implications, since he was a child show host. This was probably the in-universe reason why he was Put on a Bus in later seasons.
  • Certain names and titles had them as well; most notably the resident daredevil, "The oh-so-daring Mike Hunt" or debate programs with the title "Mass Debate." These were always pronounced very carefully.
• Invoked on Late Night: A visual instance occurred in a one-time skit involving Late Night collectibles. Conan introduced toy versions of Vomiting Kermit and the Masturbating Bear. Much like bobble heads, the Masturbating Bear has an arm that shakes when you touch it. Conan shook the Bear's arm to make it look like it was masturbating, and soon after activated the Vomiting Kermit so that it threw up on the Bear. Of course, this simultaneously looked like Vomiting Kermit ejaculated on the Masturbating Bear, something which Conan immediately realized and was embarrassed about.
  Conan: I did not intend for it to go down like that.
• In LazyTown's "You are a Pirate" song Stephanie says "if you like to sail the sea" but it sounds like "if you like to sell pussies" Ahem.
  • The line about "precious booty" within the song.
  • Then there's the scene during "Master of Disguise" where Robbie sneaks up on Stingy, a 6-year-old boy, while singing "You walk right by me, not knowing that I'm slimy!" complete with a creepy predator esque expression on his face.
  • Also in 'You Are a Pirate', there's a line 'Hang the black flag on the end of the mast!', but it's said so fast you can't hear the 'l' in flag.
• The game show Lingo was prone to several of these, mostly centered around the show's Lingo Balls. Co-host Shandi Finessey often made comments like "Okay, guys, let's have a look at your balls."
• Even a panel show where Double Entendre and Censored for Comedy are the name of the game, Match Game managed one at least once. After a contestant gave the answer "breasts", Gene prompted one of the panelists (Fannie Flagg) with "'Breasts' seems to be the answer. Fannie, let's see yours."
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Durin's "Give me the meat and give it to me RAW" has essentially become this show's "Give it to us RAW and wriggling!".
• In season 2 of The Mandalorian some of the dialogue can get a little... suggestive when taken out of context.
  Djarin: Take it off. Or I will.
  Vanth: We gonna do this in front of the kid?
  Djarin: He's seen worse.
• Merlin
  • The frankly ridiculous levels of Ho Yay between Arthur and Merlin make this trope unavoidable anyway, but then we have the sleeptalking sequence...
    Merlin: Go on Arthur... faster... move it... climb!
  • One can only imagine the faces of the guards outside Arthur's room listening to this exchange. Merlin was holding onto a rope that allowed Arthur to escape from his room. Unfortunately, the rope wasn't long enough and Merlin was forced to drop Arthur halfway down.
    Arthur: (muffled) What are you doing... the rope!
    Merlin: (panicking) THERE IS NO MORE ROPE!
    Arthur: (straining) Merlin...
    Merlin: (groaning) Oh... I don't know if I can hold on any longer!
    Arthur: (even more strained) ...don't let go of the rope!
    (Merlin groans until there's a startled shout and then a thump)
  • Not just Arthur and Merlin.
    Lancelot: Do you submit, Sire?
    (guards restrain Lancelot; Arthur gets up, apparently angry, and grabs his sword)
    Arthur: On your knees.
  • Also quite prominent in the season 3 premiere, with Arthur's quip of "aww is your little bottom sore?" after Merlin complains he's been in the saddle too long.
  • Happens so frequently that even the actors aren't impervious. During Comic Con 2011 Bradley James kept discussing how he liked to get his sword out and wave it around. Either side of him, Anthony Head and Katie McGrath try to stifle their giggles.
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
  • The "Lights, Camera, Action" episode has the following exchange:
    Rocky: They (the Power Rangers) really reached out and touched me.
    Ms. Applebee: Actually class, they really reached out and touched young people all across the world.
  • "I Want My Mommy!." "Yeah, I want your mommy." (Though considering the weird look Bulk gives Skull in response to that, it may have actually been intentional)
  • "Oh, don't leave! You'll miss my coming-out party!"
  • In the first season Halloween episode, Rita: "I love to get nasty, it's so nice!"
• Minute to Win It: "I just rocked the house with your mom."
• In an early episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mr Rogers and a group of kids sing "Where is Thumbkin?" and hold up the appropriate finger for each line. Mr Rogers cracks up when they reach "Tall Man."
• In the Christmas Episode in the second season of Moonlighting, there's this line that Agnes says to Maddie. Even Maddie looks a bit surprised:
  Agnes: There was no one I'd rather have children with than you.
• My Name Is Earl: The Right Choice Ranch has tried a number of slogans throughout its history, but each one turned into one of these (examples include "Touching Bad Boys Since 1963" and "Bringing Bad Boys To Their Knees Since 1963"). In desperation, they eventually settled on "We Don't Do Anything Inappropriate To The Boys."
• Nickelodeon had a Halloween promotion called "Nick-or-Treat" for a couple decades, encouraging kids to go door-to-door shouting the titular phrase. Problem is, some of the hosts and kids said the "Nick-or" part so fast that it sounded like a very bad racial slur.
• MythBusters:
  • In one episode, the team are trying to see if a man can really fly a distance strapped to some fireworks. After the three team members each design a prototype rocket system, one of them enthusiastically declares to the female team member "Well, let's go see if you can put this rocket where your mouth is..." as they decide to test them out.
  • In a myth about bullets made of unusual material that would disintegrate, there was the meat bullet. Lampshaded: "What did you do at work today?" "Made a meat bullet." "Is that what they're calling it now?"
• NCIS. Ellie Bishop's then-husband Jake returns a tool to Gibbs.
  Jake: It really helped with our bedroom door. It kept swelling and sticking and jamming.
  Tony: So many set ups to so many jokes that I can't say out loud.
• People often think the name of The Noddy Shop sounds like "The Naughty Shop", to the point where this misheard title became quite the meme.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • The infamous "How to get the savior to taste my forbidden fruit?" line. In the show Regina is referring to the poisoned apple, but due to "forbidden fruit" often being slang for a woman's private parts, it comes off like Regina asking how to get Emma to sleep with her. This line is still often referenced by Swan Queen shippers years later.
  • "I want to see your hook inside his body". Given that fans had already picked up on the Ho Yay between Hook and Charming, this was the worst thing Pan could have possibly said.
• The Professionals. The excessive Ho Yay of this 1970's action series isn't helped by the constant talk about the 'hard men' of CI5.
• Power Rangers Turbo: "We're here to toss your salad!"
• Radio Active: Mr. Noseworthy talking to Kevin about musicians, bringing up the most awkward names in the biz, like Englebert Humperdink and Joe Cocker.
• Sam sticking a pork finger in Sophie's mouth in Sam & Cat.
• Scrabble:
  • A female contestant selected two "P" tiles and said, "Chuck, I guess I'll have to take a 'P'." Cue uproarious laughter from Woolery and the audience, and a quick trip to Dick Clark's Bloopers specials.
  • An eight-letter word presented thusly on the board—_ _ _ O _ _ _ _ with the clue "Men with short ones often have problems." The audience started chuckling over this, and it rose to even louder laughter when the contestant drew the first two tiles. The letters that came up were "S" and "M."
• Sesame Street,
  • A skit with Elmo, dressed in a pith helmet and vest, talking to the audience about exploring. Upon seeing Susan, he says "Let's explore Susan!"
  • A Very Special Episode that aired just after September 11th, 2001, featured a trip to the local fire station after Elmo was frightened by a grease fire in a diner. When Elmo and Maria got to the firefighters' pole, Elmo rode it down, but Maria chickened out at the last moment. It wasn't the first time a woman was ever repelled by a giant pole...
  • The Count counts "slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster. Once I starts counting it is very hard to stop! Faster! Faster! It is so exciting!" Parodied by a YouTube video which censored all instances of the word "count" as a verb.
• Molly tells Sherlock that if he ever needs help, he can "have her." And later on, Sherlock says he "needs" Molly though he means he needs her help to fake his death.
• Contrary to popular belief, Smack the Pony was not conceived as an Unusual Euphemism for female masturbation. Then again, nobody minded when they found out it could be taken as such.
• A lot of segments on The Soup lampshade this in various shows (often overlapping with Hurricane of Euphemisms). One example in the segment "What the Kids Are Watching" had a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode in which the gang finds a "Triangle Bush" in the park, pushes the "Mickey Marker" button on it, and causes fireworks to shoot out of it. As Joel said, "Disneyland is truly the happiest place on Earth!"
  • Also frequently highlighted on The Soup is Gold Rush Alaska on The Discovery Channel. They dig through glory holes with large phallic machinery for crying out loud. They also like to talk about Man Woman Wild, and the host named Myke Hawke ^note My cock, for those who don't get it.
• In Stargate Atlantis, Jack O'Neill assures Dr. Weir that she and her team will remain in Atlantis as, in his words:
  O'Neill: Since you saved Woolsey's ass, and you did a fair job on mine...
  • This exchange episode 5.15, as Richard Woolsey sees that a women he's been flirting with found his balcony hang-out spot:
  Woolsey: You’ve poached my private spot!
  Woman: ...What?
  Woolsey: I mean you’ve entered my little personal area.
  [Beat]
  Woolsey: ...This is where I come... to be alone with my thoughts.
  • And then there's this little gem from the Stargate SG-1 episode "Forsaken":
    Carter: "All we're doing is plugging your ship into my battery."
    • In case you couldn't tell, she's talking to an alien about his starship.
• Season 1 of Solitary had a task where contestants had to pick up and count thousands of rubber balls on the ground.

  Number Five: "My pants were falling down and I didn't have a belt, so I had to concentrate on one of two things - my pants or the balls."

  Number Three: "My booty was so sore. If anybody wants a booty workout, get on your hands and knees and pick up some balls."

• In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "This Side of Paradise", Kirk has this to say of Spock:

  Kirk: Aroused, his great physical strength could kill.

  • Even more hilarious if you've seen the episode "Amok Time"^NoteThe one where Spock goes into pon farr.
  • "The Immunity Syndrome" has an amusing exchange. This YouTube video parodies the darn innuendoes in this episode.
    Kirk: When do you estimate penetration?
    Spock: Slowing now. Contact in eighteen point three seconds. Brace yourselves. The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive.
    (They're referring to passing through the barrier between them and the Monster of the Week.)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "The Game", we get Troi and Crusher discussing something that Riker picked up on his latest trip to Risa, (a sex-tourist hotspot), before it's revealed they were actually talking about the titular game.
  • Star Trek: The Sexed Generation compiles all such instances of this in the show. A few of them do directly refer to sex, though, but are by and large outstripped by the sheer amount of the accidental mentions.
  • Missing from that video is when an alien asks to check out the holodeck, which he's heard is used for officer training:
    Picard: It's also used for other things. Perhaps Commander Riker and Counselor Troi can demonstrate for you.
  • Klingons sometimes say "experience bij," with bij being the Klingon word for "punishment". However, it's led to Heh Heh, You Said "X" for more that one Trekkie, as it sounds like a slang term for blowjob.
  • In "Evolution", when talking about being away from Wesley for a year, Dr. Crusher says, "I missed a couple inches of him."
• Storage Wars: Barry wins a locker with a bid of $1,525, and it has a wooden sculpture of a head. He takes the head to get it appraised while he consigns the rest of the locker to Dave for sale. The appraiser tells Barry the head's worth $6,000 in a gallery, but sees that Barry's not going to sell it. Later, getting his share of the consigned stuff from Dave, Barry tells Dave, "$1,500 is a lot to pay for some head." Dave can't stop giggling.
• Storage Wars: Texas:
  • Moe sure loves his wood furniture. In the stinger for "Snake, Rattle and Roll", as he is proudly gushing over the amount of wood furniture he got in his locker, he manages to rattle off a ton of wood innuendos. He seems quite unaware of what he's saying in his excitement, but the background sound effects clue everyone in very quickly.
  • Moe again in "The Ninja and the Pitmaster" tells the pitmaster who appraises his grill (which looks like a car engine) "I've got to taste your meat." (The pitmaster had some sausages— the edible kind—ready to grill.) It didn't hurt that like Moe, he too knew about wood, which was more what wood cooked better in barbecue.
• A regular occurrence on Strictly Come Dancing.
  Len: You've got a very tidy downstairs.
  Darcy: You were supposed to be seducing her, but you just looked a little stiff.
• Supernatural: From Appointment in Samarra
  "I have to say, I'm not a fan of your brother, so screwing him would delight me.
• In one episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Derek shoves Cameron up against a wall, leans in close, and sticks his pistol up against the bottom of her jaw.
• Today's Special: And it is painfully innocent, given that it's from Jeff, in the episode "Trash".
  Jeff: Well now, TXL, how do we turn you on? I've never done this before. What button do you suppose I press?
• Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: Practically half of Atticus Murphy Jr’s dialogue (particularly when directed at Todd) is this.
• The Tonight Show segment Headlines, takes real newspaper clippings that have funny meanings, and some of these include accidental innuendo. This either happens because of a typo (i.e. A menu that features a Triple Pecker Sandwich) or they simply didn't think about it, or hoped no one would notice (i.e. A slogan for a hole digging company "Your Hole is Our Goal").
• In the Big Rigs episode of Top Gear (US), Rutledge refers to Tanner's truck (a red Peterbilt truck) as a "nice Peter." Adam notes how wrong it sounds.
• In the Torchwood serial Children of Earth, the 456 control the Earth's children repeating the message "We are coming.". That's right, accidental innuendo on Torchwood.
• The Ultimate Fighter: Dana: "This isn't Survivor! You don't vote people off, you beat them off! ... That didn't sound good, did it?"
• In a rare serious example, after the Veronica Mars season 2 finale many fans thought Cassidy had raped Mac. He hadn't, and the writers never meant to imply that, but the scene, dialogue, and the fact he had raped Veronica threw people off.
• Victorious:
  Jade: "Sometimes it's fun... Like, when I'm in the mood to do it."
  Beck: "Which she was yesterday."
  Jade: "I kinda was."
  • From Freak the Freak out
  I scream your name!
  it always stays the same.
  I scream and shout!
  • From "Roborazzi":
    Cat: It's the ball freshener!
    Lane: Cat, I think we need to talk about this.
  • In "Cat's New Boyfriend", when Tori says that she and Cat's new boyfriend have met (they used to date)...
    Cat: Really, you know Daniel?
    Jade: Ohh, she knows Daniel.
  • The lyrics to "Give It Up" in "Freak the Freak Out" can be read as a BDSM allusion if your mind is filthy:
    Look at me, boy
    'Cause I got you where I want you
    Isn't it so exciting?
    Wanna shake you, wanna break you
    Take the backseat, boy, 'cause now I'm driving
  • "The Wood" has everybody incredibly excited about seeing The Wood, and Trina and Robbie get squirted all over their faces and hair with white lotion.
  • In "A Christmas Tori", when she reveals herself as Tori's secret Santa, Jade flatly greets her "Ho ho..." and Tori dubiously responds "Ho."
  • In "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", Trina bobs her head to "Blow" with a pickle in her mouth.
  • Tori "beats the balls of pain" in "The Gorilla Club".
  • The very title of "Wanko's Warehouse"; naturally, in the UK it's just called "The Warehouse".
  • In "Star-Spangled Tori", Jade mentions that it’s embarrassing to mess up the National Anthem. For an example, she says how a girl messed up by instead or saying “And the rocket’s red glare” she said “And the cockpit’s red hair”. Sikowitz adds that she was laughed at so hard because of this mistake that she had to leave town.
• The Voice: Christina telling a contestant she wants to play with them.
  • CeeLo telling a contestant he can put her in different positions.
• Warehouse 13: Pete invites Claudia, Myka, and Leena to watch movies with him in his room and mentions his big flat screen TV. He also happens to be in his pajamas.
• Usually occurs on Wipeout (2008) with the 'big balls' obstacle, as can be expected. And sometimes still the show itself makes not so accidental things like calling a pair of uh... foam spheres on strings danglers.
• Wizards of Waverly Place:
  • In "Justin's Little Sister", Alex blatantly admits to her mother that the idea of her parents canoodling grosses her out more than the idea of going out with her own brother. This scene can be considered the turning point for many fans of the show, as from this point on you were either a Jalex fan or you weren't. Note that is not a case of That Came Out Wrong, as neither her or her mother saw anything wrong with this.
  • Perhaps not-so-accidental: in "Helping Hand", after Max 'invents' his toothbrush/backscratcher, Jerry and Theresa have a conversation debating how unfair their 'backscratching' is in bed. Jerry accuses Theresa of pretending to be too tired to 'scratch his back' and she accuses him of not returning the favour, stating "It's just scratch, I'm done."
• Would I Lie to You?: Happens now and then, for example season 1 episode 4:
  Myleen Klass: Every woman, as you know, goes up and down in their underwear, and so—
  Leslie Ash: Sorry?!
• Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: When Virsun Joyro-fies the reservoir in episode 22, it really looks like he's taking a giant piss.
  • Luckiero tends to make rather suggestive sounds whenever someone else reaches into his stomach-pouch...which given that Luckiero himself seems to be made of cloth, could well be considered a bodily orifice.

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