Tropescilloscope: Double Entendre

Using a phrase with an obvious innocent meaning, but also a taboo or sexual meaning. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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For the Evulz Properly Paranoid Dogged Nice Guy A Date with Rosie Palms Bait-and-Switch Ascended Extra The Atoner Taking the Bullet Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! folderlabel Silent Movie Darkest Hour Scary Black Man Not So Stoic Sequel Hook Sports Stories Show Within a Show Laser-Guided Karma Black Comedy Shell-Shocked Veteran Fiery Redhead Ambiguous Disorder Gory Discretion Shot Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gilligan Cut Fanservice Extra Ungrateful Bastard Race Against the Clock What the Hell, Hero? Character Development Once More, with Clarity! Let's Get Dangerous! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Loads and Loads of Characters Took a Level in Badass Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Exactly What It Says on the Tin Papa Wolf Wham Shot Homage Redemption Equals Death Interrupted Suicide Mr. Exposition Epic Fail Important Haircut Corrupt Corporate Executive Last-Name Basis Getting Crap Past the Radar The Cavalry Manipulative Bastard Back from the Dead The Bully Anachronic Order Mooks Authority Equals Asskicking Stylistic Suck Big Eater Broken Bird As Himself I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Adults Are Useless Storming the Castle Famous Last Words Loophole Abuse Totally Radical The Alleged Car Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Death Glare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good From Nobody to Nightmare Based on a True Story I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Break the Cutie Dark Reprise Bloodless Carnage Gone Horribly Right Broken Pedestal Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Malevolent Masked Men Ms. Fanservice Visual Pun Never Found the Body Cowboy Cop Funny Foreigner Daylight Horror Flipping the Bird Mexican Standoff No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Red Eyes, Take Warning Market-Based Title Rule of Funny It Can Think Film Series Rape as Drama Black and Gray Morality The Great Depression Genre Throwback Bloody Hilarious Happily Married Fanservice The X of Y Took a Level in Jerkass Cold-Blooded Torture Fantasy Films Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bilingual Bonus "Awesome McCool" Name Beta Couple Thriller Intergenerational Friendship Not Using the "Z" Word Author Appeal Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Deliberately Monochrome "Shaggy Dog" Story Not Even Bothering with the Accent Here We Go Again! Stuff Blowing Up Psychological Thriller Ironic Echo Grievous Bottley Harm Determinator aka: The Determinator Idiot Ball A Minor Kidroduction Action Girl Adaptational Villainy War Is Hell Kill It with Fire Heel Realization Even Evil Has Loved Ones timeperiod Shut Up, Hannibal! Face–Heel Turn Sole Survivor I Did What I Had to Do Combat Pragmatist Setting Update Kids Are Cruel Four-Temperament Ensemble Bound and Gagged Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bad Boss Cain and Abel Bunny-Ears Lawyer Drugs Are Bad Adaptation Expansion Even Evil Has Standards Asshole Victim All There in the Manual Laughing Mad Better to Die than Be Killed I'm a Humanitarian Final Girl Married to the Job Star-Crossed Lovers Deadpan Snarker Soft Glass Red Shirt Guns Akimbo Flashback Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Captain Ersatz Eyepatch of Power Precision F-Strike Chekhov's Gun Abhorrent Admirer "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rule of Symbolism MacGuffin Victoria's Secret Compartment The End... Or Is It? All Men Are Perverts Expository Hairstyle Change The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Face Death with Dignity Slasher Smile An Axe to Grind Cat Fight Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Creator Cameo Unresolved Sexual Tension Attempted Rape Mythology Gag Imagine Spot Dies Wide Open Reality Is Unrealistic Major Injury Underreaction Those Two Guys Ass Shove Not So Above It All Karma Houdini Drowning My Sorrows Drill Sergeant Nasty Suspiciously Similar Substitute O.O.C. Is Serious Business Grey and Gray Morality Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Hate Sink Dirty Cop Evil Brit Badass Grandpa Reality Ensues Artistic License – History Bi the Way Left the Background Music On The Sociopath Kick the Son of a Bitch Obviously Evil Gainax Ending Video Credits Affably Evil Genre Shift Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Chekhov's Gunman Casting Gag Lock and Load Montage I Need a Freaking Drink Off with His Head! Early-Bird Cameo Skewed Priorities Oh, Crap! Retcon Posthumous Character Dutch Angle Sci-Fi Horror Award-Bait Song Adaptational Heroism Comically Missing the Point Improvised Weapon Plucky Comic Relief The '50s Sinister Minister Dumb Blonde Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hollywood Darkness Translation Convention Undying Loyalty Bavarian Fire Drill Vitriolic Best Buds Twist Ending Department of Redundancy Department Overly Long Gag Works Set in World War II Motor Mouth Deconstruction Mood Whiplash Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Brick Joke Shout-Out Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Decoy Protagonist Death by Sex Would Hurt a Child Covers Always Lie Dirty Old Man Action Prologue Mad Scientist Really Gets Around In the Back Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Arc Words Truth in Television The Place Downer Ending Shipper on Deck Celebrity Paradox Creepy Child '80s Hair Adult Fear Big "NO!" Logo Joke Becoming the Mask Love Triangle Unreliable Narrator Crapsack World A Father to His Men The Reveal Distracted by the Sexy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 20 Minutes into the Future Dull Surprise Framing Device Made of Explodium May–December Romance Artistic License – Law Leave the Camera Running Driven to Suicide Spiritual Successor Police Brutality The Starscream The Chick There Is No Kill Like Overkill Auto Erotica Narrator It's Personal Gorn Betty and Veronica Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Stinger Word of God Retired Badass Wham Line Hair-Trigger Temper Lighter and Softer Obstructive Bureaucrat BFG Moment Killer Silence Is Golden A God Am I Big Applesauce Evil Is Hammy Camera Abuse Cool Old Guy Psycho for Hire Mama Bear Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Call-Forward Not So Different Damsel in Distress Neck Lift British Films Diabolus ex Machina Cool Guns Military and Warfare Films Catapult Nightmare Heroic BSoD Actually Pretty Funny What You Are in the Dark Brutal Honesty Music Stories Very Loosely Based on a True Story Stalker with a Crush Hero Antagonist Villain Song Only in It for the Money Defiant to the End Pet the Dog The Remake Fish out of Water One-Word Title Expy Tranquil Fury The Dragon Parental Substitute Obfuscating Stupidity Artistic License – Military Rated M for Manly Monumental Damage Nice Hat Random Events Plot Cool Old Lady Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Psychopathic Manchild Conspicuous CG Adaptation Dye-Job And Starring Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The '90s Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mystery and Detective Films Amoral Attorney Brainless Beauty Fire-Forged Friends Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Villain Protagonist Cruel and Unusual Death Animal Motifs From Bad to Worse Ominous Latin Chanting Reality Has No Subtitles Karmic Death Cool Car Police are Useless Tempting Fate True Companions Jerk Jock Apocalypse How Reckless Gun Usage Does Not Like Shoes Children Are Innocent Empathic Environment Big-Bad Ensemble Book-Ends Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Agony of the Feet Artistic License – Gun Safety Death by Adaptation Taking You with Me The Ace Adaptational Attractiveness Those Two Bad Guys French Films Artistic License – Geography Fake Shemp Peek-a-Boo Corpse Knife Nut Chewing the Scenery Black Comedy Rape Fantastic Racism Cluster F-Bomb Zombie Stories The Dreaded Gratuitous English Curse Cut Short Adapted Out Instant Death Bullet Woman in White Half the Man He Used to Be La Résistance Advertised Extra Pre-Mortem One-Liner Italian Films Black Best Friend Green-Eyed Monster All Just a Dream Vacation Films The Voiceless Names to Run Away from Really Fast Intrepid Reporter The Cameo A.I. Is a Crapshoot Foreshadowing Deliberate Values Dissonance Whole Plot Reference The '60s Faking the Dead The Smurfette Principle All Girls Want Bad Boys Butt-Monkey Fat Bastard Yandere Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Stoic Everyone Has Standards Deus ex Machina No Celebrities Were Harmed The Faceless What Happened to the Mouse? The Load Canadian Movies "Well Done, Son!" Guy Paper-Thin Disguise Race Lift Spanner in the Works Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Fatal Family Photo The Mole Babies Ever After Extremely Short Timespan Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Continuity Nod Running Gag Male Frontal Nudity My Beloved Smother Red Oni, Blue Oni Batman Gambit Would Hit a Girl Revenge Cloudcuckoolander Scare Chord Enemy Mine Offscreen Teleportation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Maybe Ever After Dramatic Gun Cock Christmas Movies Index Madness Mantra Deal with the Devil Henpecked Husband She Cleans Up Nicely Bolivian Army Ending Disappeared Dad Curb-Stomp Battle The Hero Villain Ball Anti-Hero Car Fu Defrosting Ice Queen Historical-Domain Character Cat Scare Good Is Not Nice Depraved Bisexual Bald of Evil Artistic License – Physics Chiaroscuro Those Wacky Nazis Sequel Escalation Unusual Euphemism Crazy Jealous Guy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Overprotective Dad Never My Fault Epic Movie Public Domain Feature Films Our Vampires Are Different I Have Your Wife Say My Name Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Animal Title Index Cool Shades Manic Pixie Dream Girl Composite Character Jump Scare Playing Gertrude Beard of Evil Hell Is That Noise Slasher Movie Film Noir Antagonist Title The Quiet One Only One Name Dual Wielding Wicked Cultured You Killed My Father Animated Credits Opening Martial Arts Movie Unwitting Instigator of Doom Romantic Comedy Fate Worse than Death Parental Abandonment Kick the Dog Age Lift Manchild Didn't Think This Through Tap on the Head Eye Scream Slap-Slap-Kiss The Film of the Book Villainous Breakdown Hypocrite Bond One-Liner Stealth Hi/Bye Pay Evil unto Evil Contrived Coincidence Pyrrhic Victory Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ax-Crazy Mundane Made Awesome Neck Snap Evil vs. Evil Five-Man Band The Dog Bites Back Action Survivor The Lost Lenore Awesome, but Impractical Outrun the Fireball Hong Kong Films Poor Communication Kills Jitter Cam Frame-Up Blackmail Suddenly SHOUTING! Throwing Your Sword Always Works Big Bad Armor-Piercing Question Hooker with a Heart of Gold As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Badass Boast Cassandra Truth Super Strength Fingore Parental Neglect Fan Disservice Exact Words Make It Look Like an Accident Rich Bitch Gold Digger Calling the Old Man Out Real Life Bloodier and Gorier Wretched Hive Love at First Sight Death of a Child Drives Like Crazy Evil-Detecting Dog Anachronism Stew More Dakka Blood from the Mouth Only Known by Their Nickname Historical In-Joke Death Seeker Anguished Declaration of Love Large Ham Brother–Sister Incest Mr. Fanservice It Will Never Catch On Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ghost Fiction Film Noir Index Disney Death Freudian Excuse Author Avatar Pretty Little Headshots Dissonant Serenity Worthy Opponent Serial Killer Shirtless Scene Dark Is Not Evil Naïve Newcomer This Is Gonna Suck Your Cheating Heart Horror Comedy Evil Plan Death by Irony How We Got Here Pretty in Mink Small Name, Big Ego Manly Tears Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dropped a Bridge on Him Failed a Spot Check Woman Scorned Suspiciously Specific Denial Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dark Action Girl Needs Wiki Magic Love Mistaken for Gay Actor Allusion Evil Sounds Deep Horror Films Training Montage Insane Troll Logic Humans Are Bastards Freeze-Frame Bonus The Casanova Soundtrack Dissonance Femme Fatale In Medias Res Killed Mid-Sentence Bond Villain Stupidity The '80s Earn Your Happy Ending Arranged Marriage Heel–Face Turn One Steve Limit The Power of Love Nothing Is Scarier Spared by the Adaptation Disguised in Drag Mind Screw Same Language Dub World of Ham Male Gaze Faux Affably Evil Ambiguously Gay Scenery Porn Demoted to Extra Alas, Poor Villain As the Good Book Says... Mighty Whitey Country Matters Boom, Headshot! Bland-Name Product Jerkass Has a Point Sexy Discretion Shot Get Out! Historical Hero Upgrade Bittersweet Ending Guile Hero Have a Gay Old Time Chase Scene Dark and Troubled Past Disney Villain Death Unusually Uninteresting Sight No-Sell Funny Background Event Gender Flip Not Quite Dead Redshirt Army Catch-Phrase Hidden Depths Daddy's Girl My God, What Have I Done? Scenery Gorn Mercy Kill Big Brother Instinct Central Theme Heterosexual Life-Partners Mugging the Monster Heroes Want Redheads Breaking the Fourth Wall NO INDOOR VOICE Older Than They Look Missing Mom Product Placement No Name Given Handicapped Badass Dressing as the Enemy Blood Knight Japanese Films You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Credits Gag Re-Cut Captain Obvious Improbable Aiming Skills Stealth Pun Hollywood Law Big Bad Duumvirate Pragmatic Adaptation Man on Fire Artistic License – Biology Refuge in Audacity Match Cut Token Minority Destination Defenestration Adaptation Distillation The Bad Guy Wins Our Zombies Are Different It's All About Me Kill 'em All The Stoner Genre Savvy Chekhov's Skill Parental Incest Insult Backfire Wrong Genre Savvy The '70s Honor Before Reason Hypocritical Humor Stepford Smiler All There in the Script Closed Circle Does This Remind You of Anything? Trailers Always Spoil Sealed Evil in a Can Spiteful Spit Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Bullying a Dragon Creative Closing Credits Double-Meaning Title Never Trust a Trailer Corpsing Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Broken Aesop Science Fiction Films The Ghost The Lancer Russian Films The Oner Bottomless Magazines Break the Haughty Abusive Parents The Un-Reveal Australian Movies One-Man Army Groin Attack Bad "Bad Acting" Shown Their Work Affectionate Parody Call-Back N-Word Privileges Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Beware the Nice Ones He Who Fights Monsters Red Right Hand Offscreen Moment of Awesome Punch-Clock Villain Did Not Get the Girl Non-Indicative Name Vampire Fiction Every Car Is a Pinto An Arm and a Leg Smug Snake Plot Hole Badass Bookworm Jerkass Men Are the Expendable Gender Alliterative Name Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rousing Speech Badass Longcoat Protagonist Title Greater-Scope Villain Serious Business Only Sane Man Body Horror She's Got Legs Accidental Murder The Smart Guy For Want of a Nail Implacable Man Vomit Indiscretion Shot Morality Pet Kubrick Stare B-Movie Ship Tease Villain Opening Scene Early Installment Weirdness You Have Failed Me No Antagonist Sadistic Choice Adaptational Badass Rasputinian Death Sassy Black Woman Big Damn Heroes Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Noodle Incident Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Your Head A-Splode Crucified Hero Shot Bring My Brown Pants Too Dumb to Live Action Genre Lampshade Hanging Coming-of-Age Story And I Must Scream He Knows Too Much Eiffel Tower Effect Villain with Good Publicity Politically Incorrect Villain Crazy-Prepared Vomit Discretion Shot Hope Spot The Mafia Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Retirony Improbable Weapon User Superhero Biopic Bar Brawl Be Careful What You Wish For Sacrificial Lion As You Know Evil Counterpart Black Dude Dies First Pimped-Out Dress Canon Foreigner "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Amusing Injuries Despair Event Horizon Annoying Younger Sibling Knight Templar Costume Porn Accidental Misnaming Insistent Terminology Meet Cute Establishing Character Moment Take a Third Option Immune to Bullets Sanity Slippage The Musical Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Due to the Dead Darker and Edgier Slashed Throat Romantic False Lead Fatal Flaw Self-Deprecation The Big Guy Line-of-Sight Name Punny Name Rule of Three Smoking Is Cool Put on a Bus Television Movie Index Heroic Sacrifice Alpha Bitch Demonic Possession Title Drop Straight Gay Adaptation Name Change Aside Glance Extreme Doormat Danny Peary Cult Movies List Arch-Enemy Easily Forgiven Up to Eleven Novelization Only a Flesh Wound Adorkable In Name Only Big Fancy House Facial Horror Well-Intentioned Extremist Bowdlerise Recycled IN SPACE! Hoist by His Own Petard Eagleland Index of Film Westerns You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Shower Scene Fourth Date Marriage Anyone Can Die The Ditz Developing Doomed Characters Eureka Moment Aluminum Christmas Trees Spell My Name with an "S" Documentary No OSHA Compliance The Hero Dies Time Skip All for Nothing Humiliation Conga Friend to All Children Irony Tagline An Aesop Badass in a Nice Suit Double Entendre Rewatch Bonus The Alcoholic Sir Swears-a-Lot Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Laugh And the Adventure Continues German Films Domestic Abuse Light Is Not Good Camp Gay Riddle for the Ages Nice Guy Card-Carrying Villain Real Life Writes the Plot Dwindling Party Dirty Coward Meaningful Echo Naked People Are Funny Eldritch Abomination Determinator Fun with Acronyms Blatant Lies