Euphemism Buster

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    Someone uses a euphemism, Last-Second Word Swap or something similar, and someone else blurts out exactly what the first person meant.

    It generally comes in two versions: Ditz and Intentional. Ditz version is just the person figuring it out for himself. Intentional being the euphemism is too insulting/obvious or the character simply doesn't care, and so busts the euphemism.

    The euphemism may or may not be unusual. Compare and contrast If You Know What I Mean, Don't Explain the Joke.

    Examples of Euphemism Buster include:


    Live Action TV

    Elliot: Those gyno girls are really putting the pressure on. Who wants to look at a hundred women's bajingos today? Bajingo, bajingo, bajingo. I mean, I can't even look at my own bajingo.
    Carla: Is that because it looks so much like a vagina?
    Elliot: Carla, there's people!

    Narrator: And in the pouch will be... let's call it 'genetic legacy'
    Jamie: Genetic Legacy? It's sperm. Every kid in grade school knows that. Helps make babies, you know?

    Topher: He seemed to be having a kind of...man-reaction.
    Dr. Saunders: A what?
    Topher: A, you know, reaction that a man -- person might have in the...you know, the...naked part. Shower. Victor.
    Dr. Saunders: Victor had an erection?
    Topher: I prefer man-reaction.

    • In Lost this overlaps with Censorship by Spelling. Hurley doesn't want to talk about the dead in front of a kid (Walt), so he spells it out:

    Hurley: But what about the B-O-D-Y-S?
    Michael: What are you trying to spell, man, "bodies"?
    Walt: B-O-D-I-E-S.

    Warning
    Narrator: For viewers sensitive to issues of race, be advised that the following piece contains gratuitous use of the "N" word.
    [[[Beat]]]
    Narrator: And by the "N" word, I mean Nigger.
    [[[Beat]]]
    Narrator: There, I said it.

    Sally: He said he wanted to sleep with me. I wanted sex, but seeing as he was tired I decided to just go home.

    Mayor: No slayer of mine is going to live in a fleabag motel. That place has a very unsavory reputation. There are immoral liaisons going on there.
    Faith: Yeah, plus all the screwing.

    Film

    Brandi: Second suitor: if we were making whoopee, what sounds would you make?
    Brodie: Wait, what's whoopee?
    Brandi: You know, being intimate.
    Brodie: What? Like fucking?

    Shenzi: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared! For what?
    Scar: For the death of the king!
    Banzai: What, is he sick?
    Scar: No, you fool, we're going to kill him.

    Web Original

    Joey: "Shut up, Tristan! You just wanna get into [my sister]'s pants!"
    Tristan: "No I don't. I want to have sex with her!"
    Beat
    Tristan: "Oooooooh, that's what you meant...!"

    Western Animation

    Spongebob: Squidward! He's... he's... pushing up daisies!
    Patrick: Oh, I thought he was dead.
     

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