A Cavalcade Of ‘Bond’ Sexual Double-Entendres

Quantum of Solace opens in the US tomorrow, and will likely draw out every stripe of James Bond fan. (Except the George Lazenby contingent, who all these years later still feel the On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Kentucky Fried Movie star was wrongly stripped of his double-o status.) But as audiences thrill to the secret agent’s adventures battling the nefarious Dr. Heinrick Discord and his plans to detonate the planet using a sympathy-powered nuclear device, some of the touchstones of the Bond brand—the gadgets, the martinis, and, most of all, the cringe-worthy double-entendres—will be nowhere on display.

Ex-Bond Roger Moore has recently voiced his disappointment over the character’s devolution into a monosyllabic id, lumbering around hotel lobbies and breaking necks in skimpy gay swimwear. “My Bond,” he said wistfully, “was a lover and a giggler.” Yes, we remember him well—so it’s in his honour that we dedicate the above montage we call Five Decades of James Bond Sex Puns. We hope you it Moonrakes your Octopussies off. (Thanks to Nick McGlynn for putting this together, and Maxim for finding the clips.)

• Previously: Ex-Bond Wishes Daniel Craig Was More of a ‘Lover and a Giggler’ [Defamer]