Stuff not stated directly in books/movies you didn't get

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There's lots of scenes in "The Simpsons" I didn't get. One scene I didn't exactly understand in "SpongeBob SquarePants" is where Gary comes in, and SpongeBob in alarm changes the TV channel, I didn't get he was watching adult stuff.

Watching „Sailor Moon” in my early teens I didn’t hit upon an idea Haruka and Michiru were lesbians, I thought they were only close friends. I also thought Fish Eye from the same anime was a girl (in fact he was a transvestite). I wouldn’t know this if not the net that enlightened me on this several years later.

In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sailor Mouth", after SpongeBob and Patrick get in trouble with Mr. Krabs for swearing (which was censored)....

Patrick: What's gonna happen to us?
SpongeBob: We'll probably get 40 lashes!
Patrick: Oh no! (Imagines himself with 40 eyelashes)

I actually thought SpongeBob did mean eyelashes, it took me a while to find out what he was really talking about.

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I also didn't understand, while reading "Pat of the Silver Bush" by L. M. Montgomery that when Pat's mom at the beginning of the novel is told by Pat's family's old servant to suffer a bad case of headache and later a baby is born, it was just such a form of explaining to the children that they can't be home so as not to be trouble to their mom and the midwife. I always, even as an adult, thought her mom just had a headache and it was accidental that she went into labor then, when the kids were sent away. Nor did I get it in the second novel on Pat, that her sister went into labor, too.

I didn't understand what the sin of Sodoma and Gomorrah was, when I read about this in the book "The Bible Tales" (I didn't read the Bible itself, then).

I also didn't know that Chronos (?) got castrated by his son, I thought he was just wounded like stabbed with a knife on his chest or stomach, something like that, that's how I interpreted his "shameful wound" given to him by his son.

Few years ago I was watching A League of Their Own and I picked up on all the sarcasm Ernie did and realized he was making fun of Dottie and Kit the whole time. He was not a nice man. Duh, Dottie told him so in the movie. "You know something, you're not nice." She probably didn't like him either. He also made fun of Marla too I think. "see how it works it is, the train moves, not the station." They had a deleted scene where they are all eating on the train and it made it more obvious how mean he is and makes fun of people because he made fun of her the whole time. I also picked up on some sex scenes like "What's your rush doll buddy, I say we slip in the back seat and you make a man out of me" and Dottie tells him "Let's just say I smack you around for a while" and he goes "can't we do both." The kid looked to be about 12 and he was asking for sex. Also the act when she gets inside, Kit's date asks her "I've got my truck parked outside" and he was asking for sex. Then that prayer scene where Jimmy says "lord I just like to thank the waitress in South bend, you know who she is, she kept calling your name." That explains the look on Evelyn's face when I found out just by reading online. There was a deleted scene and I didn't pick up on it at age 19 but did five years later. Kit's date tries to get her to see his truck and she tells him she has seen a truck. He also tells her if she can't strike him out, they go out to the truck. That made me think of rape. He wanted to have sex with her and Kit was telling him no and he was pushing it on her so he decided "Hey if you can't strike me out, we are having it." That just screams rape to me. I don't know if he was going to rape her or not but she throws him pitches and Mae asks her if she really wants to strike him out, he really likes her. Then Jimmy stops her and tells her maybe it's a decision she should make with a few less beers in her and then he looks at him and tells her "maybe not." She does strike him out.
I also found out that all the way means having sex. Mae was someone in the league who has had sex with other men and she wasn't married. In a deleted scene, Dottie tries to talk Kit out of going to the Suds Bucket and it was all about because Dottie heard from some of the girls she has gone all the way. I didn't understand it then, now I realize she meant she has had sex. Back then it was inappropriate to have sex before marriage. That doesn't mean women still did it, they just kept it private and a secret. It would be naive to assume people didn't do things back then just because it was inappropriate and improper back then. People still go against the social norms to this day.
In the scene where Jimmy and Dottie are talking on the bus, she is showing him a picture of Bob and they talk and then she asks him if he has ever been married and he goes "Yeah, twice" and she asks him "Any children?" and he goes "One of them was." I thought he meant he had a step child. But my husband told me one of them was immature and it was meant to be a joke when he said that.
There was one scene that always hit close to home, Doris makes fun of Kit saying "What's the matter Kit, you're too big to finish your own games now?" and Kit throws her mitt at her and Doris tosses her water in her face and Kit gets up and started to fight with her. I couldn't understand why Dottie was siding with Doris by telling her to cut it out. Then Mae was siding with her too telling Dottie to get her sister off of her and hey Doris was being mean to her so why side against her. People who have seen the movie kept saying she was being a baby and even Dottie told her so in the movie. Then my husband told me it was just a harmless joke Doris did and it was meant to be playful, not being mean and Kit took it that way and turned it into a big deal. Still hit close to home because it just reminds me how kids tease us and we get upset because we didn't understand it was a joke and then we are treated like the bad guys for reacting to it and I would always be told they are just having fun and just playing and it was before my mom knew I was on the spectrum. Of course Kit isn't on it and I think why do you need to be on it to be excused and understood better and not be treated as the bad guy when you take a joke seriously? I still don't think she acted like a big baby because of it. I was even labeled as being a bully in 7th grade because I thought I was being teased and bullied so I reacted to it to make them be all afraid of me so they would leave me alone and quit bumping me in the halls. That was just the result of me being picked on in the past so it clouded my judgment about the new kids. But then again, I had to be the bad guy for it and I was put in special ed full time and ended up with a full time aid for when I go to PE or choir. I thought it was to protect me from other kids but no it was to keep them safe from me.

In Beethoven's 2nd, The man Rice liked locks her in his room with him and I realized he was going to rape her because he said it be the time of her life she will never forget. I didn't pick up on it when I was little and couldn't understand why my mom said he was a jerk for doing that. Then she thanks Beethoven for tearing the side of the house off and the guy falls into the lake. I used to think she was thanking him for tearing the home apart and I couldn't understand why. She still couldn't get out.

When I saw the movie Titanic again at the age of 26 I hadn't seen in over ten years, I realized Jack and Rose had sex in William Carter's car in the cargo area. Also the fact when the old Rose told Bodine and others about the portrait scene, one of them asked her what happens next and she goes "You mean did we do it?" I realized he was asking if they had sex and she asked him if he means if they do that.

In Benny & Joon, I did not know they had sex until I read about it online from peoples reviews about the movie.

I didn't get Holden Caulfield being in hospital either. Is it ever actually explained in the book that that is what happened?

Read the beginning - the question is whether it was an asylum or a hospital for those ill with tuberculosis or a similar condition (at the end Holden is exposed to rain, which can mean he ends up with a cold, which in turn, can lead to a more serious illness).

Films that are supposed to have 'complex' plots that other people claim they struggled with (like the Matrix) I have no problem with. What I struggle with is the subtleties and subtext of dramas or arthouse films. That's a shame because I like them but I feel like some things I need to watch two or three times to get things I didn't notice the first time.

I know I'm very far behind but I only just watched Inception last night and as usual I followed along with what was supposedly a complex plot without any problem. It definitely seems to be the subtle interpersonal crap that goes over my head.

In Lady and the Tramp: the owners are called "Jim Dear" and "Darling". I didn't understand this until VERY recently Also in a streetcar named Desire, I thought it was very difficult to pick up that "Alan", Blanches dead husband was gay. That was incredibly subtle yet very important to the play.

In Sweeney Todd, during the song "Not While I'm Around, Toby says that he will protect Mrs. Lovett from bad people (meaning Sweeney) and when he realizes that her purse was stolen from Pirelli and he tells her that they need to run away from Sweeney, she tells him that she needs to help him make her pies and locks him into the boiler room with a sad expression on her face. Later when she and Sweeney are walking around in the cellar, she calls out for Toby while Sweeney has a razor hidden behind his back.

It's implied that Mrs. Lovett thinks that she has to let Sweeney kill Toby because Toby knows too much. It sounds so obvious when I type it out, but the way they did it in the movie was subtle, and it only makes matters more confusing because during the song Mrs. Lovett cuddled with Toby on the recliner. I didn't pick up on what was really going on until I read about it on TV Tropes and then rewatched the movie.

Also, when I was a little kid and watched Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, I didn't understand the scene where Ace was alone in his tent and apparently masturbating. In the scene, he was sitting up in bed, rocking back and forth, and going "oh mama, oh mama". I thought that he was having a panic attack about the mission, not realizing that he was actually fantasizing about his would-be girlfriend.