page_title: Innuendo
section_title: Film, television and other media
hierarchical_section_title: Innuendo / Film, television and other media
caption_attribution_description: English: A flyer divided into a top and a bottom part. The top part of the flyer features a four-legged animal (possibly a cat?) with a word bubble above its head that reads YA GOTTA MAKE CALLS. The bottom part of the flyer features the same four-legged animal with five smaller four-legged animals and a house and a sun in the background. Under the animals are the words IF YA WANTA GET RESULTS.
context_page_description: An innuendo is a hint, insinuation or intimation about a person or thing, especially of a denigrating or a derogatory nature. It can also be a remark or question, typically disparaging, that works obliquely by allusion. In the latter sense the intention is often to insult or accuse someone in such a way that one's words, taken literally, are innocent.
  According to the Advanced Oxford Learner's Dictionary, an innuendo is "an indirect remark about somebody or something, usually suggesting something bad, mean or rude", such as: "innuendos about her private life" or "The song is full of sexual innuendo".
context_section_description: Comedy film scripts have used innuendo since the beginning of sound film itself. A notable example is the 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? and Round the Horne have also made extensive use of innuendo. Mild sexual innuendo is a staple of British pantomime.
  Numerous television programs and animated films targeted at child audiences often use innuendos in attempt to entertain adolescent/adult audiences without exceeding their network's censorship policies.
  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.
caption: A male cat paying a "call" on a female cat, who then serves up kittens, insinuating that the "result" of children is predicated on a male "catcall"
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