Editing Innuendo (section)

==Film, television, and other media==
[[File:Rocko's Modern Life - Washing Machine Innuendo.png|thumb|left|In an episode of the [[Nickelodeon]] animated series ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', a washing machine is displayed among multiple other unconventional carousel horses as a reference to female masturbation.]]
Comedy film scripts have used innuendo since the beginning of sound film itself. A notable example is the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' film series (1958–1992) in which innuendo was a staple feature, often including the title of the film itself. [[British sitcoms]] and comedy shows such as ''[[Are You Being Served?]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/264230.stm|title=Going down: 'Grace Bros' store closes|publisher=BBC News|date=February 1, 1999|quote=The innuendo was loud and clear|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227013009/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/264230.stm|archive-date=February 27, 2009}}</ref> and ''[[Round the Horne]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3605608/A-return-to-unalloyed-joy.html|title=A return to unalloyed joy|author=Dominic Cavendish|date=31 Oct 2003|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|quote=...a censor-baiting mixture of absurd spoofs, yarns, links and character-turns, laced with end-of-the-pier innuendo and erudite-infantile wordplay.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924212749/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3605608/A-return-to-unalloyed-joy.html|archive-date=2015-09-24}}</ref> have also made extensive use of innuendo. Mild sexual innuendo is a staple of British [[pantomime]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/12/25/144248303/only-the-brits-not-christmas-without-pantomime|title=Only The Brits: Not Christmas Without Pantomime|publisher=NPR|date=December 25, 2011|quote=No panto is complete without a dose of smutty innuendo for the adults and some contemporary political jokes.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101101932/http://www.npr.org/2011/12/25/144248303/only-the-brits-not-christmas-without-pantomime|archive-date=January 1, 2012}}</ref>

Numerous television programs and animated films targeted at child audiences often use innuendos in an attempt to entertain adolescent/adult audiences without exceeding their network's censorship policies.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schreiber |first1=Hope |date=March 29, 1997 |title=A History of Weird Sexual Innuendo in Children's Movies |url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/01/sexual-innuendo-childrens-movies/ |website=Complex |access-date=5 December 2020}}</ref> For example, ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' employed numerous innuendos over its run, such as alluding to [[masturbation]] by naming the fictional [[fast food]] chain in the show "Chokey Chicken".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Scibelli |first1=Anthony |title=The 6 Creepiest Things Ever Slipped Into Children's Cartoons |url=https://www.cracked.com/article_18672_the-6-creepiest-things-ever-slipped-into-childrens-cartoons_p2.html |website=Cracked |date=6 August 2010 |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref> Over 20 percent of the show's audience were adults as a result.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Scott |title=CARTOON KINGDOM |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1997-03-29-9703280244-story.html |website=South Florida SunSentinel |date=29 March 1997 |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>

On ''[[The Scott Mills Show]]'' on [[BBC Radio 1]], listeners are asked to send in clips from radio and TV with innuendos in a humorous context, a feature known as "Innuendo Bingo". Presenters and special guests fill their mouths with water and listen to the clips, and the last person to spit the water out with laughter wins the game.<ref>{{cite web|title=Innuendo Bingo|date=21 June 2011 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hq228|access-date=15 October 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102185555/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hq228|archive-date=2 January 2013}}</ref>