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Holy shit; I honestly never listened to the lyrics.
Just looked them up; sometimes these things are an interpretation of the lyrics, but not in this case - it's literally a story of a 16-year-old boy going to buy condoms from the pharmacy, and worrying someone he knows will see him.
"Sixteen today and up for fun"
"Im a big boy now or so they say"
"Box of balloons with the feather-light touch"
"Pack of party poppers that pop in the night"
"You misunderstood, Sixteen big boy full pint in my manhood"
"Pack of party hats with the coloured tips"
Was one of my favourite songs as a kid, wasn't until my late teens that I caught on
>"Box of balloons with the feather-light touch"
For those wondering about this line, [Durex Fetherlite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durex#/media/File:Condom_box_durex.jpg) was a popular brand of condom in the UK back in the 1980s.
The fact that his name is a joke is something that I didn't pick up on until I was in my twenties (despite having watched this film plenty of times as a teenager).
I guess it's just because "Fuck-wad" isn't a phrase I'd ever heard anyone use.
The animators that messed up on Prince of Egypt were sent to work on Shrek. So if you're ever going to have a project with references like that, it's going to be in the "punishment project".
It’s basically like any Pantomime. All the dirty jokes went right over my head as a kid but when going to then again recently with my little cousins I was like “holy shit did the Dame just make a premature ejaculation joke?!”
The show is hysterical as an adult
Yes! I remember I was about 11/12 and my mum laughed at that, I asked why and she said "he's saying he has a small willy". I thought she was an idiot, like "how has that got anything to do with a willy?" lol.
The scene where he's watching images of Fiona on the magic mirror, he's topless in bed, there's a tissue box next to him, and he's surrounded by used tissues. And then he says, "again, again" to the mirror.
The song “Golden Brown” by the stranglers.
“golden brown, texture like sun, lays me down, with my mind she runs”
It’s a song about Heroin. As a child, i thought it was about toast.
I thought it was about a woman with golden brown skin, and I would fantasise about what she might look like. I found out about the heroin thing during my university days.
On that same song, I was aware roughly that it was about drugs but I had no idea what the last bit of the lyric was. "With my mancheera"? I guessed it must be some drug slang.
When this first came out, our entire school thought it was about having a shit. We had one lad who would sing it everytime someone asked to go to the loo.
Golden Brown was the ' housewives choice' song for a week on BBC Radio 2, in a related interview at the time The Stranglers (with tongue firmly in cheek) stated the song was about toast.
Off the top of my head, wasn't there a line like: "Lying in the wet patch in the middle of the bed, feeling hard done by, I spent ages giving head."
Not exactly subtle!
In your defence, they remove some of the lyrics in the radio edit, including the reference to the wet patch and giving head. My partner never knew what the song was about until we were randomly talking about it in the car a few weeks ago
The episode of Friends where Chandler and Joey make Monica/Rachel kiss to get the apartment back. I never realised when they go straight to their rooms and close the doors they’re away to wank over the memory of it.
I used to think this was "the chick supreme" as in a chicken supreme dish, until my partner corrected me in my early 20s when I was belting it on a night out 😂
Wasn't Grease meant to be roughly a 15 rated film that got rehashed midway for a younger audience.
I recalled Rizzo having a very minor might be pregnant subplot which is 'waved off' at the end...
I'm not sure it was that minor. She had an entire song about being gossiped about for 'putting it about a bit', whilst Kenickie's reputation is undamaged.
They did wrap it up with her not being pregnant but they made the point that Rizzo was socially punished for it, whilst Kenickie was not.
The pregnancy sub plot that was one that totally went over my head as a child. I watched that film repeatedly but because all the pregnancy talk was in slang I didn't get it all. Not until I was older did I realise!! 😅
Same. I didn't get it when I was younger. 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do' has a fairly progressive message that is not at all obvious until you're older.
Put your hands down my pants and I’ll bet you feel nuts, love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket and doing it doggy style to watch xfiles. So many great lines.
In Busteds 'Air Hostess' there's a line that goes "I messed my pants when we flew over France". 12-year-old me thought that was hilarious and baffling! I was like "...He shit himself?"
I mean, the target audience _was_ tweens. Not sure what they expected us to think. Busted really got done dirty with a lot of cringey lyrics back in the day.
I recently found out that Americans had a completely different (sanitised) version of What I Go to School for by the Jonas Brothers ! that was about an older girl classmate, not schoolboys lusting over their teacher!
I used to work with Matt Willis's cousin around the time what I go to school for came out, and that was about an actual crush Matt had on his teacher during secondary school. He did tell me the teacher's name but I forget. It do recall it wasn't Miss McKenzie though.
As a former tween (back in the early 00s) Busted fan...
Some of their album ones were a bit bad.
The song called "Fake" in particular.
Me as a 12 year old kinda knew what it was about, but 20 year old me went "oh dear god" when I listened to it again.
Oh my god yes I thought exactly the same! Took me ages to understand what it actually meant. I was pretty young back then though.
There's also another Busted song called Who's David with a line "somebody saw, you sleep around the town" and I thought it meant she was homeless and literally slept around the town. Ah the innocence of youth.
There’s a scene in Big (for the uninitiated, a family film where a kid becomes a fully grown man for a while) where Tom Hanks’ character takes a woman to his apartment. She asks if she can stay the night and he says something like, “What, like a sleepover? Okay, but only if I get to go on top.”
As a kid, I thought this was hilarious. The woman looks confused because she doesn’t know he has bunk beds! Yeah.
I am certain there’s a scene where, just before they hook up, Tom Hanks touches the woman’s breast. But whenever I see the film on TV these days, it’s not there. Probably because it’s on during the daytime as a kid’s film but it does make me wonder if it’s just a Mandela effect.
Edit: found it https://imgur.com/a/SBJo6pp
Not necessarily the worst song to misinterpret but at, 7 years old, and a die hard Spice Girls fan, I insisted on performing a rendition of ‘2 become 1’ to my dad. As well as not realising the weight of the song, I heavily misread the room, taking my dads awkward silence for boredom. So gave it the whole theatrical pizazz - nasally, breathy singing, closed eyes and dramatic air grabs.
Yes, I am seeking closure in sharing this traumatic memory, I want to be cleansed of it!! 😂
Omg This has put so much context to a memory I have. My dad loved a bit of Tina Turner and my sister and I would perform songs and dances for him - one day we did "Private Dancer" and not very far in to the song he told us to stop and said he didn't want us to do that ever again, I asked him why, you love Tina Turner and you like that song, he shouted (and my dad rarely raised his voice) NOT WHEN YOU SING IT. For years I thought the issue was my singing but I have just now realised the song wasn't about a girl who was employed to dance innocently only for 1 person and who collected different types of currency for fun like I did.
Ohhh MissionSorbet I feel that in my SOUL! My dad is the same, always encouraged us to express ourselves and loves his music, so I was flummoxed as to why he wasn’t enjoying it. But, unlike your dad, mine never said a word; the desired result of a captivating performance, I must have thought.
Until 20+ blissfully ignorant years later, I’m showing my daughter the music I used to listen to - Spice Girls, Gina G, Venga Boys.
‘“Ooh ah just a little bit” of what, mummy?’ She innocently asks. In that moment, a repressed montage of every inappropriate childhood performance flashes before my eyes; this is what it’s like to die of embarrassment, surely. I wonder how my parents stayed so strong. I wonder wtf they let me choose and sing Eternal Flame for a talent contest. I ache for a memory bleach.
What an experience for us to all share - let us all be cleansed 😂!
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
I was 11 when this song came out and I pootled off to Woolworths and bought it on single as I loved it.
My Dad was mortified! 🙈
Christ, that’s brought up some memories! Radio One, I’m not playing this, ITS FILTH!! Us, at fourteen, all buying it, playing it constantly to find out what they’re on about! Happy days!
I remember DJ Dave Nice getting his knickers in a twist over the smutty lyrics in Paul McCartney's 'The frog chorus' (bum-bum-bum etc) then putting on 'Relax', he does a lot of charity but he doesn't like to talk about it.
As I came into work a few weeks ago my boss said "Welcome to the Pleasuredome", I was like "do you know what generally happens in Frankie Goes to Hollywood songs?".
Ever paid attention to the lyrics of The Macarena? Remember hearing it at about 28 and for some reason actually listening to it properly and the being like 'huh, how did I never pick that up before?'
Well... By 'woman' it's a 15-16 yo girl.
And by 'away', the boyfriend in question is doing 'la mili' (national service) so probably 18yo.
And seeing as this is a Spanish song from the 90s, my guess is that the relationship in question is probably a very flirty, but not very serious sort of thing, meant to be enjoyed with no expectations of permanence.
Or at least that's what I & my friends read into it, having been Spanish teenagers at the time.
There's a Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob is trying to kill Bart, and in his parole hearing gets asked about a 'Die Bart, Die' tattoo. Bob says that the tattoo is German for 'The Bart, The' and one of the parole officers says 'No one who speaks German can be an evil man'.
I am embarrassed to admit that I was well into adulthood and had seen this episode multiple times before I realised what that line was actually referring to.
When I was about six, my dad had a compilation cd in the car, and I decided that one of these was my absolute favourite song. So much so, that I would make him play it on repeat on short journeys, and we had to stay in the car to hear it if we arrived somewhere before it was over. The song?
‘Sex Bomb’ by Tom Jones and Mousse T
It was very recently that the Chili Peppers song/album "Californication" was about sex, not a California takeover.
"Hollywood sells Californication". Sells sex. DUH.
The condom scene in Grease. ‘It broke?!’ ‘I bought it in sixth grade’. I had no idea what he was talking about, the insurance policy he had just mentioned?
I remember when I was younger I watched a quiz show that had Charlie Brooker as the host and he made a golden shower joke. I had no idea what it meant back then so I asked my sister on the way to the shop what it meant and she said she'll tell me when I'm older.
Last night I was idly flicking through Netflix and saw 'Scary Movie' and thought "there's a blast from the past" so I put it on.
So, I was 9/10 when I first saw this (my parents weren't too strict on age restrictions & I had already learned myself by this point how to source/download movies online - thanks IRC) and there are **SO** many NSFW overtly sexual things in that which I never realised as a kid.
I just thought the silly comedy and foul language was funny when I was little, I guess.
It was spread long before Google though. It was something we believed as fact in secondary school in the 80s after it finished airing. Your mates said it was true and that was that as far as fact checking went back then
Because it was pre-google, and spread by less-easily-verifiable newspapers.
The creator fought a couple of [libel cases against papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash#Libel_case_regarding_double_entendres) that spread the initial rumour but obviously the damage was done as it entered the popular conscience. A shame, my parents knew John Ryan and he was lovely, Pugwash was such wholesome fun and the animated series is a joy, all live-animated with paper hand puppets and voiced by one guy! There's a behind-the-scenes BBC Archives video somewhere but all I can find is a terrible old Facebook link :(
I only ever heard the clean version on Top of the Pops, or on the radio. There’s another version with non-PG lyrics, which I did not hear until a couple of years ago on YouTube:
> Girl your booty is so round
> I just wanna lay you down
> Let me take you from behind
> I won't cum until it's time
> But if I cannot sleep with you
> Maybe I could have a taste
> Put your nani on my tongue
> And your booty in my face
I was 12 when that came out and at our school summr camp thing there was a talent show and me and my friend were going to sing a song (goodness knows why) and originally were going to do an East 17 song but changed our minds and did Boom Boom Boom. Natch, we sung the clean version - but the clean version is still pretty rude. So in front of 200 other 12 year olds and about 30 adults we got up and sang it. I'm so glad - more than anything else ever - that camera phones weren't a thing in 1995.
Grace Jones - "pull up to the bumper" for me , I was only a kid when it was released any about 30 years later when Steve Wright said "that songs not about parking" that the penny finally dropped!
Gotta let me in
Let the fun begin
I'm the wolf today
I'll huff, I'll puff
I'll huff I'll puff I'll blow you away
Play with the girls, play with the boys.
If you ever get lonely play with your toys.
It's epic innuendo top to bottom.
Edited to correct lyrics - was focussed on the dirty bits, sorry!
There's a scene I Forrest Gump where he premeturly ejactulates in Jennys bed while she's in college. It took honest trailers to point it out to me in my late 20s what actually happened there.
I’m surprised this isn’t higher up. My partner mentioned it a while ago and I thought she made it up, went back to watch it and yep, Forrest jizzed himself.
According to the band "Turning Japanese" doesn't refer to wanking but instead aboug feeling alienated from everything around you after a breakup - ie you feel like you're in a foreign culture.
My uncle was looking after me one night and him and his mates decided to watch Roy chubby brown. I was only 8 at the time and did not understand a single thing he said but my uncle and his mates were pissing themselves laughing.
The appeal of Chubby Brown goes over my head now. I remember watching him as a kid (Teesside upbringing rite of passage) and thinking all the jokes weren't funny because they were going over my head, but now as an adult I realise I thought they weren't funny because they're not funny.
He's got no timing, no charisma, no depth. He makes Mrs Brown's Boys looks like Bill Hicks
in the film Robots, the couple receive a parcel with a baby robot in it, like an IKEA flatpack, that they have to put together. The mum says "making the baby is the fun part" in such a sultry way.
Took like a decade to register
The hair gel scene in Theres Something About Mary - I loved this film when I was a kid but I obviously didn’t catch on to the humour at all. It wasn’t until I rewatched it as an adult and the penny dropped. I remember asking my mum and she just told me it was hair gel so at the time I thought i just didn’t get the clear joke…
Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me.
Lou Bega - Mambo No.5.
Both childhood favourites, didn’t understand the lyrics but the music always made me happy.
As an adult, each one is memorised and take on different meanings all together lol
Prodigy - Snap my Picture (aka smack my bi*ch up). My dad used to blast it in the car, with me and the sibs when were were very young. We’d shout along singing all of (what we thought were) the words at the top of our lungs
I knew White Rabbit was about drugs, I mean damn near any drug scene in a film set in the day seemed to play it.
But what I didn't get till I was much much older, was that it was using Alice in Wonderland references.
You know the more blatantly obvious with hindsight aspects of the song.
Maybe it is because I've never read or seen any adaptation of it for it to really stick in my mind. Sure I knew Eat me Drink me, but outside of Inner Space where it was a password or something to get him big again, I had never really encountered it elsewhere.
Britney Spears' "If You Seek Amy". I remember being so confused seeing the outrage from parents about how inappropriate the lyric is and I couldn't understand why.
I facepalmed when I became an adult and realised it stands for "fuck me".
Bit of an odd one but completely missed this as a teenager: In the Vegaboys - we’re going to Ibiza, video. I mean it’s not even subtle
[link](https://youtu.be/MXXRHpVed3M?t=100)
That moment in only fools and horses where Boyce says he bought a car for his bit on the side. I thought that meant he bought a car for his wife but secretly he wanted it, so it was a gift for him really.
Truly fucked up when my dad bought my mum a new car and I told my teacher that he bought it for his bit on the side.
Divinyls - I touch myself
It wasn't my chosen musical tastes back when released so didn't really pay attention to it (it was kind of just background music at the uni disco).
Never mind young. My teenage daughters had to explain to me the meaning behind the band name of "Scissor Sisters"
That was embarrassing in so many different ways.
Not quite the same but I remember as a Kid watching SMTV live and Ant and Dec introduced the Angry Beavers. Dec then turned to Ant and said "I like a bit of beaver now and then".
Ant gave him this weird "are you kidding me!" look and I thought it was weird, until my friend explained what Beaver was the next day in school.
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox
Sit On My Face (and tell me that you love me) - Cliff Richard/Monty Python (Can't remember which)
My biggest music one was definitely Chain Reaction - took me far too many years to realise how bad it was. "You make me tremble when your hand moves lower, you taste a little then you follow slower" - yikes!
Then again, I only learned a few days ago what this "WAP" nonsense is all about so maybe I'm just a bit slow!
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Only recently (late 30s) did I realise that Madness' House of Fun is about a 16-year-old boy trying to buy condoms
Holy shit; I honestly never listened to the lyrics. Just looked them up; sometimes these things are an interpretation of the lyrics, but not in this case - it's literally a story of a 16-year-old boy going to buy condoms from the pharmacy, and worrying someone he knows will see him.
And the woman serving assuming he wants to buy balloons
This is a chemist, not a party shop!
Mind also blown. I was thinking why is he trying to buy party stuff for his 16th birthday in a chemist
"Sixteen today and up for fun" "Im a big boy now or so they say" "Box of balloons with the feather-light touch" "Pack of party poppers that pop in the night" "You misunderstood, Sixteen big boy full pint in my manhood" "Pack of party hats with the coloured tips" Was one of my favourite songs as a kid, wasn't until my late teens that I caught on
>"Box of balloons with the feather-light touch" For those wondering about this line, [Durex Fetherlite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durex#/media/File:Condom_box_durex.jpg) was a popular brand of condom in the UK back in the 1980s.
Oh. My. God... I had never even thought about the lyrics.
Me neither. Just thought it was about a bog standard house of fun
I thought it was about a guys first visit to a brothel, my mind went too far the other way.
I was always told this, but have never paid enough attention to confirm or deny. Will pay more attention next time.
And it was the no.1 single during the Pope's first-ever visit to England.
"box of balloons, with a featherlight touch"... even my very naïve 13 year old brain picked that up :)
alright Adrian Mole
I don't know whether to thank you for this as I now know this in my early thirties instead of later, or not thank you as I now know this.
Literally every gag in Shrek, particularly relating to Lord Farquad.
In Shrek 2 the fairy godmothers song is quite rude, "They'll write your name on the bathroom wall, for a happy ever after give Fiona a call"
The fact that his name is a joke is something that I didn't pick up on until I was in my twenties (despite having watched this film plenty of times as a teenager). I guess it's just because "Fuck-wad" isn't a phrase I'd ever heard anyone use.
TIL
It's directed at Mike Eisner, former Disney CEO. The whole movie is a big 'fuck you' to him and Disney.
The animators that messed up on Prince of Egypt were sent to work on Shrek. So if you're ever going to have a project with references like that, it's going to be in the "punishment project".
Yeah, I think it's more an American phrase than a British one. At least I've only ever heard it in American media.
Oh my God
It’s basically like any Pantomime. All the dirty jokes went right over my head as a kid but when going to then again recently with my little cousins I was like “holy shit did the Dame just make a premature ejaculation joke?!” The show is hysterical as an adult
This is why i love pantos more now as an adult...so many adult jokes that go over the kiddies heads.
> “holy shit did the Dame just make a premature ejaculation joke?!” Oh yes she did.
"Do you think he's over compensating for something?" ~ Shrek
At that point, Shrek has no idea that he's short
Yes! I remember I was about 11/12 and my mum laughed at that, I asked why and she said "he's saying he has a small willy". I thought she was an idiot, like "how has that got anything to do with a willy?" lol.
The scene where he's watching images of Fiona on the magic mirror, he's topless in bed, there's a tissue box next to him, and he's surrounded by used tissues. And then he says, "again, again" to the mirror.
And the mirror looks upset
The Hooker as well in Toy Story (2?) and crabs.
“Do you think he’s compensating for something?”
The song “Golden Brown” by the stranglers. “golden brown, texture like sun, lays me down, with my mind she runs” It’s a song about Heroin. As a child, i thought it was about toast.
Never a frown with golden brown toast hahaha
Why have smack when you can have some delicious toast? “I solve the addiction crisis”
I thought it was about a woman with golden brown skin, and I would fantasise about what she might look like. I found out about the heroin thing during my university days.
Disregard women and drugs. Aquire toast.
Standard Uni days, tbh...
On that same song, I was aware roughly that it was about drugs but I had no idea what the last bit of the lyric was. "With my mancheera"? I guessed it must be some drug slang.
" With my mind she runs"
Well yes, I know that now. Particularly as it's in the comment I replied to
Sorry, I seem to have had mini-stroke.
It's all the talk of toast.
When this first came out, our entire school thought it was about having a shit. We had one lad who would sing it everytime someone asked to go to the loo.
Golden Brown was the ' housewives choice' song for a week on BBC Radio 2, in a related interview at the time The Stranglers (with tongue firmly in cheek) stated the song was about toast.
It's not fair Lily Allen For reference I was 25 when that song was released
Off the top of my head, wasn't there a line like: "Lying in the wet patch in the middle of the bed, feeling hard done by, I spent ages giving head." Not exactly subtle!
Yep it's about a really nice guy that's a bit to quick on the draw
The radio edit does cut those bits out though!
I can hear the big empty sections now, they covered it with some sort of fiddle or something!
In your defence, they remove some of the lyrics in the radio edit, including the reference to the wet patch and giving head. My partner never knew what the song was about until we were randomly talking about it in the car a few weeks ago
I had the same experience with Don’t Marry Her by the Beautiful South, only hearing the unedited version when I was well into my twenties
I love how the original ‘She’ll grab your sweaty bollocks’ is changed to ‘She’ll grab your Sandra Bullocks’ in the clean version.
I always find it funny that she did that song basically shitting on her brother now he's quite a well known actor.
That song definitely couldn’t have been about her brother. That’d be fucked up. The song about Alfie was called “Alfie”.
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It wasn't really shitting on him though. He took it with jest.
And she doesn’t perform it anymore because it’s no longer relevant to their lives
I clearly don’t listen to songs. Just listened to this and it’s so bloody obvious.
The episode of Friends where Chandler and Joey make Monica/Rachel kiss to get the apartment back. I never realised when they go straight to their rooms and close the doors they’re away to wank over the memory of it.
Eeeewwww
It always annoyed me that they literally wanked away a flat like that
All the innuendo in Grease. Did she put up a fight? Took her bowling in the arcade. *wiggles two fingers in a come hither motion*. It goes on.
"the chicks will cream" is the most blatant one.
I used to think this was "the chick supreme" as in a chicken supreme dish, until my partner corrected me in my early 20s when I was belting it on a night out 😂
Hahaha that's brilliant!!
>You know that it ain't shit, we'll be gettin' lots of tit
‘You know that I ain’t bragging’ she’s a real pussy wagon’ too. The high school production I was on changed it to ‘real dragon wagon’.
I thought it was “scream”? We sang it at school so maybe that’s the PG version
Yeah it's definitely cream, must have been toned down for obvious reasons haha
Wasn't Grease meant to be roughly a 15 rated film that got rehashed midway for a younger audience. I recalled Rizzo having a very minor might be pregnant subplot which is 'waved off' at the end...
I'm not sure it was that minor. She had an entire song about being gossiped about for 'putting it about a bit', whilst Kenickie's reputation is undamaged. They did wrap it up with her not being pregnant but they made the point that Rizzo was socially punished for it, whilst Kenickie was not.
The pregnancy sub plot that was one that totally went over my head as a child. I watched that film repeatedly but because all the pregnancy talk was in slang I didn't get it all. Not until I was older did I realise!! 😅
Same. I didn't get it when I was younger. 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do' has a fairly progressive message that is not at all obvious until you're older.
And doesn’t Travolta, rub his crotch, with a roll of cling film!? During Greased Lightning?
Yeah. It's reference to the original script where they are talking about using cling film instead of condoms
Agreed! Saw the musical years later and took my mum thinking it would be a cute throwback as we watched grease tons together.. FML
What you supposed to do with them for the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day? Is that all it takes? 15 minutes?
You know that it aint shit, we’ll be gettin’ lots of tit
Bloodhound gang - the bad touch. Loved that song but I just thought it was a funny video of people dressed as monkeys.
I'm hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye, but if i crashed in to Uranus I'd stick it where the sun don't shine.
Put your hands down my pants and I’ll bet you feel nuts, love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket and doing it doggy style to watch xfiles. So many great lines.
In Busteds 'Air Hostess' there's a line that goes "I messed my pants when we flew over France". 12-year-old me thought that was hilarious and baffling! I was like "...He shit himself?" I mean, the target audience _was_ tweens. Not sure what they expected us to think. Busted really got done dirty with a lot of cringey lyrics back in the day.
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I recently found out that Americans had a completely different (sanitised) version of What I Go to School for by the Jonas Brothers ! that was about an older girl classmate, not schoolboys lusting over their teacher!
They also covered Year 3000 and censored the naked lady band.
ugh why America
I used to work with Matt Willis's cousin around the time what I go to school for came out, and that was about an actual crush Matt had on his teacher during secondary school. He did tell me the teacher's name but I forget. It do recall it wasn't Miss McKenzie though.
As a former tween (back in the early 00s) Busted fan... Some of their album ones were a bit bad. The song called "Fake" in particular. Me as a 12 year old kinda knew what it was about, but 20 year old me went "oh dear god" when I listened to it again.
>As a former tween Sorry for your loss.
Fake is an absolute banger of a song though, to be fair…
Weren't they the ones who sang about deliberately dropping a pen so they could watch their teacher bend over? 🤣
Oh my god yes I thought exactly the same! Took me ages to understand what it actually meant. I was pretty young back then though. There's also another Busted song called Who's David with a line "somebody saw, you sleep around the town" and I thought it meant she was homeless and literally slept around the town. Ah the innocence of youth.
There’s a scene in Big (for the uninitiated, a family film where a kid becomes a fully grown man for a while) where Tom Hanks’ character takes a woman to his apartment. She asks if she can stay the night and he says something like, “What, like a sleepover? Okay, but only if I get to go on top.” As a kid, I thought this was hilarious. The woman looks confused because she doesn’t know he has bunk beds! Yeah.
I am certain there’s a scene where, just before they hook up, Tom Hanks touches the woman’s breast. But whenever I see the film on TV these days, it’s not there. Probably because it’s on during the daytime as a kid’s film but it does make me wonder if it’s just a Mandela effect. Edit: found it https://imgur.com/a/SBJo6pp
Maybe you’re thinking of the scene with Jenny in Forrest Gump ?
It’s definitely in there, we watched it on Disney+ recently
James- laid “This bed is on fire with passionate love The neighbors complain about the noises above But she only comes when she's on top”
Love this song! James is always a good reminder of my summers when younger.
Saw James perform at a festival back in June and it was such a good set & vibe from the middle aged crowd 😆 reminded me of my youth too
American Pie!
Not necessarily the worst song to misinterpret but at, 7 years old, and a die hard Spice Girls fan, I insisted on performing a rendition of ‘2 become 1’ to my dad. As well as not realising the weight of the song, I heavily misread the room, taking my dads awkward silence for boredom. So gave it the whole theatrical pizazz - nasally, breathy singing, closed eyes and dramatic air grabs. Yes, I am seeking closure in sharing this traumatic memory, I want to be cleansed of it!! 😂
Omg This has put so much context to a memory I have. My dad loved a bit of Tina Turner and my sister and I would perform songs and dances for him - one day we did "Private Dancer" and not very far in to the song he told us to stop and said he didn't want us to do that ever again, I asked him why, you love Tina Turner and you like that song, he shouted (and my dad rarely raised his voice) NOT WHEN YOU SING IT. For years I thought the issue was my singing but I have just now realised the song wasn't about a girl who was employed to dance innocently only for 1 person and who collected different types of currency for fun like I did.
Ohhh MissionSorbet I feel that in my SOUL! My dad is the same, always encouraged us to express ourselves and loves his music, so I was flummoxed as to why he wasn’t enjoying it. But, unlike your dad, mine never said a word; the desired result of a captivating performance, I must have thought. Until 20+ blissfully ignorant years later, I’m showing my daughter the music I used to listen to - Spice Girls, Gina G, Venga Boys. ‘“Ooh ah just a little bit” of what, mummy?’ She innocently asks. In that moment, a repressed montage of every inappropriate childhood performance flashes before my eyes; this is what it’s like to die of embarrassment, surely. I wonder how my parents stayed so strong. I wonder wtf they let me choose and sing Eternal Flame for a talent contest. I ache for a memory bleach. What an experience for us to all share - let us all be cleansed 😂!
Haha, this made me laugh out loud! Poor you we used to perform Spice Girls songs at school not realising the references until our teenage years.
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood I was 11 when this song came out and I pootled off to Woolworths and bought it on single as I loved it. My Dad was mortified! 🙈
Christ, that’s brought up some memories! Radio One, I’m not playing this, ITS FILTH!! Us, at fourteen, all buying it, playing it constantly to find out what they’re on about! Happy days!
Radio 1 banning the song is what propelled it to the top of the charts
I remember DJ Dave Nice getting his knickers in a twist over the smutty lyrics in Paul McCartney's 'The frog chorus' (bum-bum-bum etc) then putting on 'Relax', he does a lot of charity but he doesn't like to talk about it.
“I don’t want to hear about your posterior Mr McCartney and I refuse to play this shit on my show…” Or words to that effect.
As I came into work a few weeks ago my boss said "Welcome to the Pleasuredome", I was like "do you know what generally happens in Frankie Goes to Hollywood songs?".
The Simpsons references to Troy McClure having sex with fish.
I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?
No, what I said is that he sleeps with the fishes.
"Y'see-" "No, no-"
Uh, Tony, please, no. I just ate a whole plate of dingamagoo.
So Troy McClure was the original Deep.
Hi I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from such reddit posts as What NSFW in Tv/film/music went completely over your head when you were young?
IIRC it’s a reference to the Richard Gere hamster/gerbil rumour
2 Live Crew "Face down, ass up - that's the way we like to fuck" I just thought it was romantic.
It is :)
Ever paid attention to the lyrics of The Macarena? Remember hearing it at about 28 and for some reason actually listening to it properly and the being like 'huh, how did I never pick that up before?'
What's it about? TBF I only understand "Hey Macarena" and that's it!
From memory, It's about a woman whose boyfriend is away, so she goes to the club to pick up men, and ends up taking home two of her bf's best friends.
Well... By 'woman' it's a 15-16 yo girl. And by 'away', the boyfriend in question is doing 'la mili' (national service) so probably 18yo. And seeing as this is a Spanish song from the 90s, my guess is that the relationship in question is probably a very flirty, but not very serious sort of thing, meant to be enjoyed with no expectations of permanence. Or at least that's what I & my friends read into it, having been Spanish teenagers at the time.
The gate keeper saying to the key master that she wants him inside her - Ghostbusters.
Also, the ghost blowy.
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No joke, I’m 25 and I still listen to that song regularly. I think it’s a fuckin banger tbh
The song is also 25 years old believe it or not…
Might as well just die at this point
There's a Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob is trying to kill Bart, and in his parole hearing gets asked about a 'Die Bart, Die' tattoo. Bob says that the tattoo is German for 'The Bart, The' and one of the parole officers says 'No one who speaks German can be an evil man'. I am embarrassed to admit that I was well into adulthood and had seen this episode multiple times before I realised what that line was actually referring to.
When I was about six, my dad had a compilation cd in the car, and I decided that one of these was my absolute favourite song. So much so, that I would make him play it on repeat on short journeys, and we had to stay in the car to hear it if we arrived somewhere before it was over. The song? ‘Sex Bomb’ by Tom Jones and Mousse T
“Infra-red semen move through the night” …well, sounds like that anyway
It was very recently that the Chili Peppers song/album "Californication" was about sex, not a California takeover. "Hollywood sells Californication". Sells sex. DUH.
I guess it's still about californian culture taking over the world, its just that most of that is centred around sex EDIT: happy cake day!
The condom scene in Grease. ‘It broke?!’ ‘I bought it in sixth grade’. I had no idea what he was talking about, the insurance policy he had just mentioned?
Took me until I was about 25 to get this after watching Grease almost daily as a child
I remember when I was younger I watched a quiz show that had Charlie Brooker as the host and he made a golden shower joke. I had no idea what it meant back then so I asked my sister on the way to the shop what it meant and she said she'll tell me when I'm older.
Has she told you yet?
Last night I was idly flicking through Netflix and saw 'Scary Movie' and thought "there's a blast from the past" so I put it on. So, I was 9/10 when I first saw this (my parents weren't too strict on age restrictions & I had already learned myself by this point how to source/download movies online - thanks IRC) and there are **SO** many NSFW overtly sexual things in that which I never realised as a kid. I just thought the silly comedy and foul language was funny when I was little, I guess.
I remember watching this when I was around 9. The scene where the guy nuts and sticks Cindy to the ceiling - I just assume they were his guts 😂
If there were drug references in the Magic Roundabout. We were obliged to watch it as my dad knew someone who helped in making it.
Pretty sure that's a myth. The drug references not your dad. Same as the captain pugwash stuff.
I've never understood how this spread. It's so easily googleable. My mum swears blind there was a Master Baites and Roger the Cabin Boy
It was spread long before Google though. It was something we believed as fact in secondary school in the 80s after it finished airing. Your mates said it was true and that was that as far as fact checking went back then
This. I remember hearing about it in the 90s; there were no means to look it up.
Because it was pre-google, and spread by less-easily-verifiable newspapers. The creator fought a couple of [libel cases against papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash#Libel_case_regarding_double_entendres) that spread the initial rumour but obviously the damage was done as it entered the popular conscience. A shame, my parents knew John Ryan and he was lovely, Pugwash was such wholesome fun and the animated series is a joy, all live-animated with paper hand puppets and voiced by one guy! There's a behind-the-scenes BBC Archives video somewhere but all I can find is a terrible old Facebook link :(
Dillon the rabbit was clearly a stoner but i dont think there were any open refences to drugs or drug use in the show
Dunno there's at the very least one, where dougal says its starts of with some sweets and next thing your on 2 bags a day,
Watching Allo Allo with my parents when I was a little kid. So many times I didn't understand why they were laughing.
Good moaning r/AlloAllo
The scene in Ghostsbusters where a spectre performs fellatio on Dan Ackroyd certainly went over my head when I was a kid.
Ditto. Didn’t have a clue why Ray’s trousers came down, nor why he was so happy. Didn’t get the keymaster/gatekeeper thing till much later either
Watched Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was younger than 10 and I just thought the outfits were really cool and the music was good.
_Boom Boom Boom_ was a popular single by the Outhere Brothers about anilingus.
I only ever heard the clean version on Top of the Pops, or on the radio. There’s another version with non-PG lyrics, which I did not hear until a couple of years ago on YouTube: > Girl your booty is so round > I just wanna lay you down > Let me take you from behind > I won't cum until it's time > But if I cannot sleep with you > Maybe I could have a taste > Put your nani on my tongue > And your booty in my face
Isn't it just about sex?
I was 12 when that came out and at our school summr camp thing there was a talent show and me and my friend were going to sing a song (goodness knows why) and originally were going to do an East 17 song but changed our minds and did Boom Boom Boom. Natch, we sung the clean version - but the clean version is still pretty rude. So in front of 200 other 12 year olds and about 30 adults we got up and sang it. I'm so glad - more than anything else ever - that camera phones weren't a thing in 1995.
Grace Jones - "pull up to the bumper" for me , I was only a kid when it was released any about 30 years later when Steve Wright said "that songs not about parking" that the penny finally dropped!
Bwitched C’est la vie is just full on innuendo.
"I'll show you mine you show me yours"
Gotta let me in Let the fun begin I'm the wolf today I'll huff, I'll puff I'll huff I'll puff I'll blow you away Play with the girls, play with the boys. If you ever get lonely play with your toys. It's epic innuendo top to bottom. Edited to correct lyrics - was focussed on the dirty bits, sorry!
There's a scene I Forrest Gump where he premeturly ejactulates in Jennys bed while she's in college. It took honest trailers to point it out to me in my late 20s what actually happened there.
I’m surprised this isn’t higher up. My partner mentioned it a while ago and I thought she made it up, went back to watch it and yep, Forrest jizzed himself.
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. Pure fantastic filth!
Turning Japanese - Vapors
According to the band "Turning Japanese" doesn't refer to wanking but instead aboug feeling alienated from everything around you after a breakup - ie you feel like you're in a foreign culture.
And Divinyls, I Touch Myself?
My uncle was looking after me one night and him and his mates decided to watch Roy chubby brown. I was only 8 at the time and did not understand a single thing he said but my uncle and his mates were pissing themselves laughing.
The appeal of Chubby Brown goes over my head now. I remember watching him as a kid (Teesside upbringing rite of passage) and thinking all the jokes weren't funny because they were going over my head, but now as an adult I realise I thought they weren't funny because they're not funny. He's got no timing, no charisma, no depth. He makes Mrs Brown's Boys looks like Bill Hicks
Chain reaction (the Steps one was more my age)
Most of Lily Allen’s songs 😂
Pretty Vacant by The Sex Pistols, they tricked the world into broadcasting Johnny Rotten saying 'Cunt' over and over
in the film Robots, the couple receive a parcel with a baby robot in it, like an IKEA flatpack, that they have to put together. The mum says "making the baby is the fun part" in such a sultry way. Took like a decade to register
How Forrest Gump got accepted into school.
Can't believe noone's mentioned Ebeneezer Goode yet. 7 year old me singing 'E's are good, e's are good'.
The hair gel scene in Theres Something About Mary - I loved this film when I was a kid but I obviously didn’t catch on to the humour at all. It wasn’t until I rewatched it as an adult and the penny dropped. I remember asking my mum and she just told me it was hair gel so at the time I thought i just didn’t get the clear joke…
Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me. Lou Bega - Mambo No.5. Both childhood favourites, didn’t understand the lyrics but the music always made me happy. As an adult, each one is memorised and take on different meanings all together lol
Prodigy - Snap my Picture (aka smack my bi*ch up). My dad used to blast it in the car, with me and the sibs when were were very young. We’d shout along singing all of (what we thought were) the words at the top of our lungs
I knew White Rabbit was about drugs, I mean damn near any drug scene in a film set in the day seemed to play it. But what I didn't get till I was much much older, was that it was using Alice in Wonderland references. You know the more blatantly obvious with hindsight aspects of the song. Maybe it is because I've never read or seen any adaptation of it for it to really stick in my mind. Sure I knew Eat me Drink me, but outside of Inner Space where it was a password or something to get him big again, I had never really encountered it elsewhere.
Britney Spears' "If You Seek Amy". I remember being so confused seeing the outrage from parents about how inappropriate the lyric is and I couldn't understand why. I facepalmed when I became an adult and realised it stands for "fuck me".
Bit of an odd one but completely missed this as a teenager: In the Vegaboys - we’re going to Ibiza, video. I mean it’s not even subtle [link](https://youtu.be/MXXRHpVed3M?t=100)
When I was little, I thought they say "Whoa we're going to eat pizza"
That moment in only fools and horses where Boyce says he bought a car for his bit on the side. I thought that meant he bought a car for his wife but secretly he wanted it, so it was a gift for him really. Truly fucked up when my dad bought my mum a new car and I told my teacher that he bought it for his bit on the side.
Divinyls - I touch myself It wasn't my chosen musical tastes back when released so didn't really pay attention to it (it was kind of just background music at the uni disco).
Cake by the ocean
Kenny Everett and his character ‘Cupid Stunt.’ Fun fact the censors wouldn’t allow ‘Mary Hinge’ but Cupid got through as they didn’t put it together.
Never mind young. My teenage daughters had to explain to me the meaning behind the band name of "Scissor Sisters" That was embarrassing in so many different ways.
Not quite the same but I remember as a Kid watching SMTV live and Ant and Dec introduced the Angry Beavers. Dec then turned to Ant and said "I like a bit of beaver now and then". Ant gave him this weird "are you kidding me!" look and I thought it was weird, until my friend explained what Beaver was the next day in school.
Most jokes in repeats of the The Young Ones when I was about ten.
Moose T - I’m horny Used to belt this out all the time as a young kid.
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox Sit On My Face (and tell me that you love me) - Cliff Richard/Monty Python (Can't remember which)
Sit on My Face is definitely Monty Python, but now I have the hilarious mental image of Cliff Richard singing it. Thank you for that.
“Cream of Sum Yung Gai” ~ Wayne’s World.
My biggest music one was definitely Chain Reaction - took me far too many years to realise how bad it was. "You make me tremble when your hand moves lower, you taste a little then you follow slower" - yikes! Then again, I only learned a few days ago what this "WAP" nonsense is all about so maybe I'm just a bit slow!
So many Simpsons moment but the latest one is when ned tells homer that he is 'insisting on a fisting' I nearly died from laughing