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{{quote|''"It's not swearing if you don't enunciate the last phoneme. PRO TIP"''|''[[Dinosaur Comics]]''' [[Alt Text]]}}
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* [[Hard Cut]]
** Simply cut to another scene (or commercial).
** The episode
** The episode ''begins''
* Speaker is [[Killed Mid-Sentence|Killed (or just injured) Mid Sentence]] (you might call this an [[Incredibly Lame Pun|even harder cut]]).
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Noise covers the profanity. This can include a person talking over them, which can manifest as a [[Speech Bubbles Interruption]].
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{{quote|'''Esmeralda''': You sneaky son of a...
'''Pheobus''': Ah ah ah, watch it. You're in a church. }}
* There's a really weird instance of this in some versions of the song ''Mark It Up'' from ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''. In the film, IIRC, Pavi manages to quite clearly sing "[[Brother-Sister Incest|My brother and sister should fuck!]]" before Luigi turns on him, but in one of the soundtrack versions, it's a
** The hilarity is that it's cut short by a phrase involving a [[Precision F-Strike]]: ''Pavi! Shut the FUCK UP!''
* In ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', as Grace is putting Jake into his link pod:
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{{quote|'''Ambassador Udina''': I'm tired of this council and its anti-human bull--
'''Asari Councillor''': Ambassador! }}
** The Convo system being what it is, there's a noticeable delay between the
* In ''[[Starcraft]]'', when Mengsk and Raynor rescue Duke:
{{quote|'''Duke''': What's your angle here, Mengsk?
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{{quote|"Dr. Quest": "I have half a mind to come down there and kick your little a-"}}
* In the [[Looney Tunes]] short "The Bashful Buzzard Beaky Buzzard" says to the dragon "Why you shriveled up incontestable piece of sh...shoeleather."
** A quasi aversion happened in a 1938 "blooper reel" film shown at the Warner Bros. Christmas Party that
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Krusty has just shown a lackluster Itchy & Scratchy cartoon where all that happens is Itchy weakly hits Scratchy's head with a mallet three times, then both say to the camera, "Kids, say no to drugs!"
{{quote|I coulda pulled a better cartoon outta my a--ha ha ha}}
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** Also done in 'Our Mrs. Reynolds'. Both Mal and Inara get their curses cut short when {{spoiler|Saffron's knockout drug takes effect.}}
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' has a variation on this in "Afternoon Delight". One scene starts with Gob talking about his "-king six thousand dollar suit." We later get a flashback to the first part of the scene, where he starts the "fu-" before it cuts away
* In the episode "Boom", [[Castle|Castle's
{{quote|'''Castle''': Ryan and Esposito have a better car than you do. I'm just embarrassed to have criminals in the back of that thing and I don't know about your seat, but mine has a spring that hits me in the...}}
* An episode of ''[[Holmes On Homes]]'' had Mike Holmes, astounded by the bad job a house builder had done, start making a comment, and then cut to Damon while he was in the middle of a sentence.
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'''Church:''' "Hey, Caboose! Why didn't you tell us you could drive the tank?"
'''Sheila:''' "Firing main cannon."
'''Church:''' "Oh, son of a-" [[Stuff Blowing Up|* BOOM*
* The [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wtf-boom WTF Boom] meme.
* [http://stasisdesigns.deviantart.com/art/Carnival-Night-Zone-Short-96893249?q=favby%3AKatana-the-Cat&qo=961 This Sonic Short] about the [[Guide Dang It|infamous Carnival Night barrel.]]
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'''Dr. Light:''' "A word of advice. Find shorter magic words." }}
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror XV", [[Moral Guardian|Ned Flanders]], of all people, has this moment.
{{quote|'''Ned''' "You stupid son of a-" [[Earthshattering Kaboom|* BOOM*
** "Saddlesore Galactica"
{{quote|'''Nelson:''' Man, that horse don't take no guff from no one.
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