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== Anime
* ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'':
{{quote|"What's a blow job?"
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== Film ==
* Beautifully subverted in [[The Marx Brothers]]' ''[[Horse Feathers]]'', in which Groucho tries to tell Harpo that he can't burn the candle at both ends - Harpo produces a candle burning at both ends. Groucho tries another, Harpo produces, etc...
* Dr. Evil in ''[[Austin Powers|Austin Powers:
{{quote|'''Pilot:''' Dick! Dick, take a look out starboard.
'''Dick:''' Oh my God. It looks like a huge--
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== Live
* The page quote is from the legendary Dead Parrot sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
** Many other sketches had similar lines. John Cleese and Graham Chapman would often write sketches together, using a thesaurus to come up with many ways of saying the same thing. This was later lampshaded by Eric and Graham, when, during one sketch where Eric (in drag) is naming off different ways to say "predict". A board comes down with a list of all the words he's saying, and the audience reads them off at the same time while Graham (also in drag) points to them.
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'''Servo:''' ... [[Unusual Euphemism|checher]]?
'''Crow:''' ... [[Unusual Euphemism|nimbus]]? }}
* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'': Played straight, and later [[Metaphorgotten]] by Douglas: "Well, I'm the boss, head honcho, el numero uno, Mr. Big, the Godfather, Lord of the Rings, the Bourne Identity, er... Taxi Driver, Jaws... Forgot the question a while ago."
* [[House (TV series)|House]] uses one of these to explain a child's odd behaviour to her mother:
{{quote|'''House:''' You mix rocking, grunting, sweating, and dystonia with concerned parents and you get an amateur diagnosis of epilepsy. In actuality, all your little girl is doing is saying "yoo hoo" to the hoo-hoo.
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{{quote|'''Stuart:''' Because I'm queer. I'm gay. I'm homosexual. I'm a poof, I'm a poofter, I'm a ponce. I'm a bumboy, batty-boy, backside artist, bugger. I'm bent. I am that arsebandit. I lift those shirts. I'm a faggot-ass, fudge-packing, shit-stabbing uphill gardener. I dine at the downstairs restaurant, I dance at the other end of the ballroom. I'm Moses and the parting of the red cheeks. I fuck and I am fucked. I suck and I am sucked. I rim them and wank them, and every single man's had the fucking time of his life. And I am ''not'' a pervert. }}
* When [[Monk]] believed he had been accidentally exposed to marijuana, he spent a few minutes naming slang words for the drugs, all almost all of them made up.
* A sometime-[[Catch Phrase]] used by Steve Urkel in ''[[Family Matters
* When Sam switched places with Dr Ruth on ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', Al took advantage of her presence in the waiting room to have a therapy session about his hangups:
{{quote|
'''Dr. Ruth:
'''Dr. Ruth:
'''Dr. Ruth:
'''Dr. Ruth:
'''Dr. Ruth:
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'':
** The ''Wayne's World'' sketches would frequently do this when discussing vomiting. This carried over into [[Wayne's World|the movie]].
** One ''SNL'' sketch had series regular Randy Quaid trying to tell [[Pee-
{{quote|'''Randy:''' Well...they wear lots of makeup...
'''Pee-Wee:''' Clowns!
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'''Katie:''' Yep. We're double done with the DNA dump. }}
** The autistic JJ also tends to launch into one of these whenever he gets locked on.
* One [[Opening Monologue]] of ''[[Mock the Week]]'' concerning a police officer who joined in on a couple having sex in their car straddled this and [[Hurricane of Puns]] very quickly indeed. And very well.
* The whole point of the ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' game
* [[Ali G]], about drugs:
{{quote|'''Ali:''' We all know that it's called the bionic, the bomb, the puff, the blow, the black, the herb, the sensie, the cronic, the sweet Mary Jane, the shit, Ganja, split, reefa, the bad, the buddha, the home grown, the ill, the maui-maui, the method, pot, lethal turbo, tie, shake, skunk, stress, whacky, weed, glaze, the boot, dimebag, Scooby Doo, bob, bogey, back yard boogie. But what is the other terms for it?}}
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'''Rachel:''' What?!
'''Phoebe:''' Smoked a joint, ya know, lit a bone, weed, hemp, ganja.
'''Rachel:''' Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I know. Okay, I'm with you, [[Cheech and Chong|Cheech]]. }}
* The closing narrative for the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Four O'Clock" features a string of euphemisms for [[Laser-Guided Karma]]:
{{quote|"At four o'clock, an evil man made his bed and lay in it, a pot called a kettle black, a stone-thrower broke the windows of his glass house. You look for this one under 'F' for fanatic, and 'J' for justice...in the Twilight Zone."}}
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'''Ida:''' His juice had no pulp. His seed wasn't fruitful. He was pouring decaf. Pumping unleaded. His Hall had no Oates. He was sterile!
'''Shawn:''' Oh! Sure. }}
== Music ==
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{{quote|'''Eric Idle as [[Blatant Lies|A Guy Who Is Totally Not Supposed To Be Noel Coward]]:'''
''Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis
''Isn't it frightfully good to own a dong
''It's swell to have a stiffy, it's divine to own a dick
''from the tiniest little tadger to the world's biggest prick!
''So three cheers for your willy or John Thomas
''Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake
''Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend, your percy or your cock
''You can wrap it up in ribbons or you can stick it in your sock
''But don't take it out in public or they'll put you in the dock
''And you won't a-come a-back.'' }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0 sledgehammer] by [[Peter Gabriel]]. The entire song is made of euphemisms.
* The [[Barenaked Ladies]] have some fun with this in the aptly titled "Crazy":
{{quote|''The lights are on but nobody's home, my elevator doesn't go to the top
''I'm not playing with a full deck, I've lost my marbles...
''I'm a few bricks short of a load but then a full load always hurt my back
''I flew over the cuckoo's nest and I'm never ever coming back...'' }}
* [[Queen
* [[Bob Rivers]]' "Caught Me One Handed" is a flurry of [[A Date With Rosie Palms]] euphemisms, [[Caught With Their Pants Down]] style.
== New Media ==
* ''[[TV Tropes]]'': The opening to the [[Deus Sex Machina]] and [[Band of Brothels]] articles.▼
** And [[No Periods, Period]].▼
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s topic page on [http://www.cracked.com/funny-363-jennifer-love-hewitt/ Jennifer Love Hewitt] combines this trope and [[Stealth Pun]] throughout.
▲== Stand-up Comedy ==
* Dylan Moran does a brilliant routine in his 'Monster' DVD about how people use stupid euphemisms which there's no hope of guessing, where he enacts this conversation:
{{quote|"Well, you know what they say about John, anyway."
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* The [[Literotica]] [[Netorare Genre|cuckold story]] ''Click'' by Paul Pines has Pines' wife Sally and her lover Ted, refer to their upcoming date as "an exciting, enthusiastic, optimistic conversation":
{{quote|"Looking forward to having an exciting, enthusiastic,optimistic conversation about my new business and life style."
To which Ted responded.
"So then the question only remains if we have the exciting, enthusiastic, optimistic conversation about your new business and life style clothed or naked."
My wife answered,
"Naked of course."}}
▲*
▲** And [[No Periods, Period]].
== Western Animation ==
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