Gosh Dang It to Heck: Difference between revisions

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'''Mister Potato Head:''' Who the hell cares? }}

* ''[[Dilbert]]'': [[Playing with a Trope|Playing with the trope]] through exaggeration, it features a demonic character, Phil, who is the "Prince of Insufficient Light" and "Supreme Ruler of Heck." Armed with a giant pitch-spoon, he is empowered not to damn people for eternity, but to "darn" them, usually for 15 minutes, or with an annoying, sometimes ironically appropriate, fate. Scott Adams claims he came up with the concept when the syndicate didn't allow him to use [[Satan]] as a character in the strip and that he is more pleased with the end result.

* A pro golfer missed a putt with a $35,000 championship riding on the shot in an early ''Tank MacNamara'' strip. Just before he swung, someone reminded him that they were on national television. After the miss, he managed to confine his enraged comments to terms following this trope while still bending golf clubs over his knee and generally stomping around. In the final panel, he lay on the ground, exhausted, and the newsman asked, "'Golly willikers' doesn't seem to get the job done, does it?"

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Prior to the advent of FOX's animated cartoons – particularly, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]'' – swearing in cartoons was very rare. For instance, during the Golden Age of Animation, whenever a character expressed disgust or contempt for someone or a given situation, they would utter something ~~non-sensical~~, such as "Rackin-frackin' rickin'-rackin' ... " and so forth.

* Prior to the advent of FOX's animated cartoons – particularly, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]'' – swearing in cartoons was very rare. For instance, during the Golden Age of Animation, whenever a character expressed disgust or contempt for someone or a given situation, they would utter something nonsensical, such as "Rackin-frackin' rickin'-rackin' ... " and so forth.

** The ill-tempered Yosemite Sam was particularly prone to this trope, using nonsensical ~~euphenisms~~ for his heavy swearing. This takes center stage in the 1960 cartoon "From Hare to Heir," where longtime ~~antagnoist~~ [[Bugs Bunny]] – in a 17th century English setting – informs Sam that he will inherit 1 million pounds if he can keep his temper under control; the wascally wabbit then tests Sam's anger management skills by annoying him with multiple small favor requests, with the penalty for losing his temper at 300 pounds per offense. This frustrates Sam so much he tries to run outside to rant and rave, although Bugs also deducts for these instances as well! Eventually, Sam tries to set up Bugs' doom, but they all end with Sam "rackin' frackin' rickin' rackin'" himself to the wrong end of things. Eventually, Sam does find a way to manage his temper ... too late, as he loses his inheritance.

** The ill-tempered Yosemite Sam was particularly prone to this trope, using nonsensical euphemisms for his heavy swearing. This takes center stage in the 1960 cartoon "From Hare to Heir," where longtime antagonist [[Bugs Bunny]] – in a 17th century English setting – informs Sam that he will inherit 1 million pounds if he can keep his temper under control; the wascally wabbit then tests Sam's anger management skills by annoying him with multiple small favor requests, with the penalty for losing his temper at 300 pounds per offense. This frustrates Sam so much he tries to run outside to rant and rave, although Bugs also deducts for these instances as well! Eventually, Sam tries to set up Bugs' doom, but they all end with Sam "rackin' frackin' rickin' rackin'" himself to the wrong end of things. Eventually, Sam does find a way to manage his temper ... too late, as he loses his inheritance.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', for instance, the words "damn" and "hell" are treated as fairly shocking. [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|When the show debuted, "damn" and "hell" ''were'' shocking in a cartoon, at least in America, as was the word "butt".]] The trope has been fading in the series's more recent episodes, most likely to keep in line with other adult cartoons, such as ''[[Family Guy]]''. Definitely long since subverted. Words like "bastard", "pissed", and "bitch" have been used occasionally for well over a decade in the show now. Probably because of the show's ever growing immunity to [[Executive Meddling|tampering]]; at this point, the creators can do whatever they like in the show and get with it.

** Played with in a specific episode where Sideshow Bob is meeting his parole board. He describes prison as a "urine-soaked hellhole", when one of the board members objects and says he could have just as easily called it a "peepee-soaked heckhole". Sideshow Bob cheerfully withdraws his choice of words.

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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':

** Well it's another universe, so slang from our culture would logically not exist in the Avatarverse. For al we know "monkeyfeathers" is a strong curse word where's Aang from.

** Well it's another universe, so slang from our culture would logically not exist in the Avatarverse. For all we know "monkeyfeathers" is a strong curse word where Aang's from.

* Played with in the car wash episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. Phineas overuses the word 'dang', then decides that he's not street enough to pull it off. "It's the Black Knight! And his hounds of heck!"

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' - Kim's teacher Steve Barkin mitigates his blasphemy by saying "Cheese and crackers!"