Hill Street Blues - Frank and Joyce have a nooner at a hotel and as they’re leaving the room he says ‘counselor, you give good succor’.
Friends had a lot of sexual humor without necessarily being graphic about it.
When Rachel botched the Thanksgiving trifle recipe, Ross discovered that the pages of the cookbook were stuck together, and Joey accusingly yells, “Chandler!” Friends: Rachel's English Trifle (Clip) | TBS - YouTube
And one of my favorites: Ross and Rachel are about to do it for the first time. They are rolling on the floor and Rachel suddenly gasps.
Rachel: Oh, God!.. Oh, Honey… Oh, that’s OK.
Ross: What?.. Oh, no, you just rolled over the juice box.
I suspect it has already been noted that with this summer’s shows, the use of ‘SHIT’ is permitted, allowed, and is being fitting into every script.
When humor or drama depends on smutty dialog, one knows the storyline is ji-ral.
There was an episode of Silk Stalkings years ago in which the male detective is calling on a female witness. The woman answers the door, leers at the detective and says (approximately) “Well, hi there. Are you selling vacuum cleaners that suck and blow?”
Simpsons. Homer invents that makeup blasting shotgun.
Marge: Homer, women won’t like being shot in the face.
This was from one of the few Friends episodes I saw- pretty sure it was the bumper at the top of the show. They’re all sitting around the coffee shop talking about something, I can’t remember what. There was a muffin involved, and one or more of the guys licked it while Monica wasn’t looking. Her last line, delivered somewhat naively with regard to what she was saying, was:
“That’ll teach you to lick my muffin”.
Chandler’s brain nearly fried, overloaded with comebacks, none of which he was able to say.
I think I remember that: was Monica being naive? Chandler had made some kind of bet, or resolution, or something, to be less snarky, and so the group was feeding him straight lines, trying to provoke him, and that may have been one of them.
:smack: That never ever would have occured to me if you hadn’t pointed it out.
What’s the point of double-entendres when Family Guy is all but openly pornographic?
“The funny thing is, in this universe, she’s still one of the ugly ones. If you saw Lois, you’d have to put your penis in a wheelbarrow”.
“Just don’t forget our deal Lois. I sit through this and later tonight I get anal…You hear me? No matter how neat I want the house you have to clean it.”
This is kind of obscure, but I remember a TV special featuring Elvira. She has an accident where she gets hit in the head. Later, a man asks her, “How’s your head?”. She replies, “I haven’t had any complaints yet.”
I think this is from her feature film Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. IIRC, she had just slipped off a ladder after “correcting” the spelling on a cinema marqee (and going from something like “How to Cook a Duck” to “How to Fuck”).
On Movie Macabre, she once had a European horror flick that bordered on soft-core porn. Just before the station break, she asked the audience “What do they call women in Portugal who like other women? Lis-beons?” ![]()
I haven’t seen it myself (so it might be apocryphal), but supposedly on Laugh-In Jo Anne Worley pulls off a wig, revealing that she has no hair underneath (she’s wearing a bald-head cap). She then says:
“I’ve never been bald on television before!”
It was Judy Carne, and the double entendre (bald/balled) got by the censors.
Interesting. I saw it on TV, and the production values were so low, I had assumed it was written for TV. I don’t remember the “How to Fuck” part, so I’m guessing they censored that out.
Golden Girls had a lot of things like that.
On inviting the mailman in for a warm bath; Blanche says -Dorothy, the man was just recovering from a hernia operation and he was having trouble carrying his sack.
Dorothy: Wait, Blanche, aren’t you forgetting something?
Blanche: Oh, no, I never wear underwear.
When Blanche’s grandmother’s plantation was being torn down and she dragged the girls to Atlanta to see it, she handcuffed herself to the radiator in her old bedroom to prevent the workmen from dynamiting the place.
DOROTHY: (gesturing to Blanche’s handcuffed wrist attached to the radiator) “How long to do you think you can keep that up?”
BLANCHE: “My personal best is 32 hours…but then, I had someone to play with.”
And on, and on, and on. Love that show so much.
That’s not the episode where Chandler has made the resolution to be less snarky-- but Monica may still be baiting him on purpose.
She was walking under the marquee, and the cinema owner (who I think was her love interest in the film and somewhat dim, IIRC) dropped one of the letters he was putting up on her head, prompting the “How’s your head?” line… I don’t recall what the marquee read though.
That was in the pilot for Max Headroom, too - both UK and US versions.
Edison Carter was in a dust-up and took a hit to his head. On meeting his new controller, Theora Jones (Amanda Pays… wait a minute, I’ll get back to this…) -
Theora: “How’s your head?”
Carter: “Fine. How’s yours?”
It’s subtle in the UK version, more smirking in the US one.
A later episode had a line that made it all the way to the final S&P review:
Carter: “Shit, that was my favorite blanket!”
In the broadcast version, there’s a very rough cut that takes out this line. Remember, this was 1986…