Rafe Masters: What are you going to do to me?
Reagan Ridley: Well, I was going to erase every woman you've ever dated...
Rafe Masters: No! Not Chesty McThong and Boussums Naturale and Nora Gagreflex!
Reagan Ridley: Well, I was going to erase every woman you've ever dated...
Rafe Masters: No! Not Chesty McThong and Boussums Naturale and Nora Gagreflex!
When a person's name sounds like it can refer to a person's breasts, bottom, genitalia, or depraved acts one does with all three.
There is a certain Double Standard when it comes to Euphemistic Names. When a woman has it, expect her to be the smoking-hot Femme Fatale type that is just begging to be hit on by the male protagonist. If it's a man, it's either an Atrocious Alias he picked out for himself to evoke the trope or an Unfortunate Name that got him bullied in school.
The two common applications of Euphemistic Names are in either Tuxedo and Martini–style Spy Fiction or Pornography. In the latter, it's a staple of Porn Names for obvious reasons. It also regularly crops up in Parallel Porn Titles, where any naughty pun that can be made from the original title will be made.
Related to Meaningful Name, Punny Name, and Unfortunate Names. May turn out to be a Real Joke Name. If the name was bestowed by someone else, it may be an Embarrassing Nickname. For innuendos that originally sounded innocent (like those wholesome old names "Dick" and "Fanny"), see Have a Gay Old Time.
See also A Dick in Name, usually used with the Jerkass meaning of dick, rather than the sexual one.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Gintama: In Eastern order, recurring reporter Ana Ketsuno's name sounds like the Japanese term for "anus" (ketsu no ana).
- World's End Harem: Shota Doi, the deuteragonist, is a case that gets Lost in Translation unless you're familiar with Japanese pornography: "shota" is a term for fetish scenarios where a motherly older woman has sex with an inexperienced younger male, i.e. pretty much exactly what happens when Shota is unfrozen and placed into a "Truman Show" Plot that includes his beloved former music teacher Yuzuki Hanyu.
Comedy
- This is the subject of the Rowan Atkinson sketch "No One Called Jones," where a teacher at a boy's prep school is taking attendance. While some names ("Herpes," "Clitoris," etc.) are not even remotely euphemistic, most of the students being called on have names like "Imadick," "Myprick," and the Russian exchange student "Suckmeoff," leading to sentences like, "Doodoo, Suckmeoff, Niceandquick, detention Saturday!" Then the headmaster of the school is revealed to be named "Mr. Greatbighardcock." There is a "clean" version of the same sketch where the boys only have Inherently Funny Names like "Plectrum" and "Nancyboy-Potter," but they manage to sound like euphemisms anyway.
Schoolmaster: NIBBLE! LEAVE ORIFICE ALONE!
Comic Books
- Cinema Purgatorio: In the film The Picture Palace Mystery, the Amateur Sleuths that compose the Clue Club are named Titty, Dick, and Fanny.
- In the Gerard Way run of Doom Patrol, Casey Brinke's Teddy Ruxpin-like alien buddy is named Fugg.
Films — Live-Action
- Blazing Saddles: Lili Von Shtupp, a German Ms. Fanservice who attempts to seduce Bart as part of her deal with Hedley, has a surname that sounds like the Yiddish word schtupp, which has a very particular meaning.
- Epic Movie (2007) includes a Jack Sparrow parody named "Jack Swallows", whose name Edward can't help but chuckle at.
- The Trope Codifier that spawned a billion homages with the trope belongs to the James Bond franchise, with various female characters James Bond encounters (either as foes, love-interests, or allies) having a suggestive name of some sort. Examples include Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead, Octopussy, Plenty O'Toole, Chew Mee, Xenia Onatopp, Honey Ryder, Mary Goodnight, Miss Moneypenny, Penelope Smallbone, Dr. Molly Warmflash, Kissy Suzuki, Thumper, Dink, Solitaire, Domino, Jenny Flex, Bibi Dahl, Pan Ho and so on.
- Lampshaded in Casino Royale (2006). While taking a taxi from the Montenegro airport to the casino, Bond and Vesper Lynd (a Punny Name but not an example of this trope) start going over their cover identities. Bond tells Vesper her cover name is "Miss Stephanie Broadchest", prompting her to interrupt, "I am not!" We never actually find out for certain whether it's her real cover name or if he's just pulling her leg.
Bond: (grinning and playing keep-away with the documents) You're going to have to trust me on this.
Vesper: No, I don't.
- Lampshaded in Casino Royale (2006). While taking a taxi from the Montenegro airport to the casino, Bond and Vesper Lynd (a Punny Name but not an example of this trope) start going over their cover identities. Bond tells Vesper her cover name is "Miss Stephanie Broadchest", prompting her to interrupt, "I am not!" We never actually find out for certain whether it's her real cover name or if he's just pulling her leg.
- Being an Affectionate Parody of the James Bond films, the Austin Powers films have at least one example per film. Such examples include Number Two's companion Alotta Fagina, Austin's Love Interest in the second film Felicity Shagwell ("Shagwell by name, Shag very well by reputation"), Dr. Evil's spies Ivana Humpalot and Robin Swallows and an In-Universe film character named Dixie Normous.
- Carry On Spying features an agent named Daphne Honeybutt. (Her code name is the rather less alluring "Brown Cow".)
- Most characters in Doctor Strangelove: General Jack D. Ripper,note General Buck Turgidson, Colonel Bat Guano,note Group Captain Lionel Mandrake,note President Merkin Muffley,note Alexei DeSadesky, and Dr. Strangelove himself.
Literature
- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong:
- The protagonist Shen Yuan's online ID was Peerless Cucumber (cucumber being as a euphemism for a penis). He also attempts to use it as a regular alias later in the story, though he almost immediately regrets it.
- Shang Qinghua, the author of the novel the story is set in, wrote under the name Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky. 'Beating one's airplane' is Chinese slang for masturbation.
Live-Action TV
- A question in The Chase (Game Show) asked who Andy Capp is known as in Germany — Dick Tingeler, Helmut Schmacker, or Willi Wakker. Bradley and the audience near-instantly lost their composure at the first name.
- Another particularly notorious question asked "In what sport does Fanny Chmelar compete for Germany?" Bradley nearly inhales his lips for a whole minute trying to keep from laughing and ultimately fails.
Bradley: I'd be straight down to the court in the morning if that was my name, I'd have that changed straight away!
- Another particularly notorious question asked "In what sport does Fanny Chmelar compete for Germany?" Bradley nearly inhales his lips for a whole minute trying to keep from laughing and ultimately fails.
- Mock the Week: "Lines You'd Never Hear in a James Bond Film":
Hugh: I hope you're not going to be one of those Russian agents whose name is just a cheap sexual pun, Miss Suckmeoff!Andy: So, she's smuggling diamonds, Bond, and your job is to find out how. Just go to the hotel reception, and ask for Fanny Vajazzle.
- WandaVision: Ralph Bohner finds his own last name rather amusing when Monica says it out loud. Whether this was the name given to him in the Hex, a stage name (since he had a headshot), or his real name is never elaborated on.
- Played with in the Seinfeld episode "The Junior Mint". Jerry's new girlfriend told him that her name rhymes with a part of the female anatomy, but he can't remember what it is. In desperation, he guesses Bovary, Mulva, Loleola, Celeste, Hest, and Gipple, and she storms out angrily. It isn't until too late that he remembers it's Dolores.
- Referenced by Aunjanue Ellis when drew from the "Sombrero of awkward questions" on the red carpet before the 2022 Oscars.
"If there was a porn version of your movie, what would it be called? The movie is called King Richard."
- A pair of Saturday Night Live sketches feature news reports on disasters happening at the local name change office and interviews with the poor saps who didn't get to change their names. This includes folks with sexual Punny Names like Edith Puthienote , Duncan Dixon-Coffey, and Mike Rodick (who immediately regrets his decision to go by his mother's maiden name and become Mike Litt).
- 3rd Rock from the Sun sometimes does this with Dick, most notably when he finds out that the Big Giant Head is his father.
Dick: I don't know what to do! I don't know what to feel! Who am I?!
Harry: Well, let me see. Your first name is Dick. Your new last name is Head. I guess that would make—
Dick: Oh my God!
Music
- Some Hair Metal musicians' Stage Names are this. Examples include Faster Pussycat vocalist Taime Downe, Tigertailz vocalist Kim Hooker, and W.A.S.P. bassist Johnny Rod.
Theatre
- In the song "Meet the Plastics" from Mean Girls, Janis and Damian recall the time the titular trio made fun of Jen Morecock — one of the teachers — due to her name.
Video Games
- Often invoked as part of Video Game Perversity Potential on Kahoot! and other review games. Though the game doesn't actually let players enter certain words, there will occasionally be players who decide to have some fun with these restrictions, entering names that sound like sexual acts or similar topics. Some names that may show up among players include Mike Hunt, Barry McCocciner, Gabe Itch, Jenna Talia, and Penny Trayshun.
- Katamari Damacy: One of the Prince's many cousins is an Oddball Doppelgänger with an elongated head that sticks out like the barrel of a gun. His name? Cousin Johnson. Subtle.
- Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!: Almost all of the girls' names are sexual euphemisms (in addition to referencing movie stars): Jamie Lee Coitus, Whydoncha & Nailme Jugg, Annette Boning, etc. The male crew members are named after euphemisms for a part of the male anatomy: Peter, Johnson, Wang, Dick, etc.
- LISA: The Hopeful: The Lovelies all have sexual euphemisms for their names. Members include Biggie Cummings, Wayne King, Isaac Cox, and many more.
- Pico: Pico's second homeroom teacher is a frumpy middle-aged man named Mr. Flacit.
- The Walking Dead: Season Four: Willy's name is a slang term for "penis". He was sent to Ericson's for chronic masturbation around the age of 4.
Web Video
- Dream SMP: The spin-off Tales From the SMP features a couple one-shot characters with names based around lewd puns, such as Jack Kanoff from "The Wild West" and Mike Hunt from "The Maze".
- Sergeant Anous is an Ian/Anthony-era Smosh character, a police officer that has a habit of shouting "BULLSH*T!" and mowing down a target with bullets over the slightest infractions.
Webcomics
- Stick in the Mud: The first name of Jellybean/Kisiel in the Polish version of the comic is "Wacek", a Polish euphemism for a penis. When Lamia learns of it, she almost immediately declares she'll stick to calling him Kisiel.
Western Animation
- American Dad! features an unfinished one in the James Bond-styled episode, "Tearjerker". Francine's counterpart is named "Sexpun T'come".
- Being a Tuxedo and Martini spy, Rafe Masters from Inside Job (2021) has a history of dating women with euphemistic names, including Chesty McThong, Boussums Naturale and Nora Gagreflex. His newest girlfriend Reagan Ridley seems to be the exception to the rule.
- The Simpsons: At the end of "Homer to the Max", Homer tells Marge that while he was at the courthouse, he had her name officially changed to "Chesty LaRue". When Marge protests, Homer proposes the alternatives "Busty St. Clair" and "Hooty McBoob".
- South Park has Miss Choksondik, whose name is only two letters off from "chokes on dick". Lampshaded by the kids; they snicker when she writes her name on the blackboard in her debut.
- The Venture Bros. has Molotov Cocktease, a Femme Fatale mercenary and Brock's old love interest.
