G-Rated Sex/Playing With

Basic Trope: Two characters do something innocuous that is a metaphor for having sex.

• Played Straight: Alice and Bob get into the shower and literally sing together.
• Exaggerated: While they do so, Censor Steam comes up and it really looks like a Sexy Discretion Shot except for the singing.
• Inverted: Sex is a metaphor for something innocent.
• Justified: Alice and Bob are Starfish Aliens, and singing is how they have sex.
• Subverted: Alice is alone in the shower, singing.
• Double Subverted: But then Bob comes in and sings along with her, before opening the door and producing Censor Steam.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied: The neighbors have a traumatized look on their faces.
• Lampshaded:
• Averted:
  • Alice and Bob actually have sex.
  • Alice and Bob's relationship is not of a sexual or romantic nature, so nothing they do together is even remotely suggestive.
• Enforced:
  • "We want Alice and Bob to "express their love," buuut...this is a kids' show, so we need them to have sex in a way that isn't really sexual."
  • The Hays Code or some other similar rules/laws governing what is/is not too morally objectionable for network TV/movies/literature/games in a particular place.
• Invoked: Bob sees Alice naked and singing in the shower and feels like joining her.
• Defied: Bob doesn't want to encroach on Alice's private time, so he doesn't join her.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
• Played For Drama: Bob sings a duet with someone else, and it affects his relationship with Alice.

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