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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Hana SakuHanasaku Iroha]]'', Tsurugi Minko uses the word "horibon" (meaning [[Foreign Queasine|"balut"]]) as an insult towards Ohana as a replacement for the more harsh insults that she'd been using, as per Ohana's request.
 
 
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** Oddly, though, the entire gag originated in the radio series, but was added only to the US edition of the book. The prize in question in the UK version was just for the most uses of "Fuck" in a serious screenplay, and passed uncommented upon.
* At one point in [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]], Manny starts calling Greg "pootie" out of the blue. Thinking it is a "little kid bad word", Greg asks their mother about it, though she is clueless and does nothing about it -- freeing Manny to use the word wherever and whenever he wants. Later, while the family is in church, Greg uses the name on Manny to get him to stop bugging him, and Manny becomes hysterical -- only then does the word become obscene in their mother's eyes.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', carolers have changed the lyrics to a song so it starts "the red rosy hen" (presumably the word used to be "cock"). The book goes on to say that the carolers often had to stand and show people where they thought the obscenity was before they would be offended by it.
* At one point in ''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)'' by Ellen Raskin, Mrs. Carillon is jailed and protesters gather outside the prison. Because the signs the protesters are using were painted over and reused after a grape farmers' strike, one sign that was evidently left unfinished inadvertently reads "GRAPE MRS. CARILLON". Nearly everyone who sees the sign comes to the conclusion that "grape" means something horribly offensive, culminating in a bystander attacking the sign-holder and yelling "Grape Mrs. Carillon? Grape ''you''!".
* Harry Harrison's ''[[Bill the Galactic Hero]]'' introduced 'bowb' as a made-up all-purpose swear word to substitute for the rich variety of vulgarities in use by soldiers (in order to keep the book from being censored):
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* [[Samuel Blink And The Forbidden Forest]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Stinkymudfungle]]!
** Alluded to with "cagal" in Harrison's ''The [[Stainless Steel Rat]] Gets Drafted''.
* In one of the [[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz books]], in a moment of great rage, the Nome King exclaims "Hippikaloric!" The narrator helpfully notes that this "must be a dreadful word because we don't know what it means."
 
== Live Action TV ==
* The [[Trope Codifier]] is ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where, after a sketch filled with naughty words, [[Michael Palin (Creator)|Michael Palin]] appears to show us a list of words that will not be tolerated on the program. After a list of (decidedly British) dirty words, the word "Semprini" appears. A woman then comes on screen and says, "Semprini?" prompting Michael to throw her out. Incidentally, the word is the last name of composer [[wikipedia:Semprini|Alberto Semprini.]]
* ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' had one episode in which a great controversy erupted over the word "smoo".
** Not to mention flark, and glick.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has something like this, where Tom Tucker mentions the "trendy new curse word -- clemen." According to the DVD commentary, [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]] jokingly said that if "clemen" ''does'' become a real-life curse word, then the scene of Tom Tucker mentioning it will have to be censored in hindsight.
* On ''[[Recess]]'' there was an episode where T.J. was brought to court for use of his [[Catch Phrase]] "This whomps". The judge decided that "whomps" was not dirty in and of itself, and that only a dirty-minded person would think it was.
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "It Hits The Fan", The Knights of Standards and Practices each represent a different bad word. One of these: Meekrob, the name of [[Foreign Queasine|an actually delicious Thai dish]] that [[Brick Joke|Cartman had earlier said he was going to start using as a swear word]].
* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'' episode, "The S-Word," the eponymous 12-letter "s" word is "spearchucker." While this is a derogatory (if somewhat antiquated) term for a black person, the fact that the school district expects people to automatically know what the "twelve letter S-word" ''is'' is what makes this an example. Of course, the entire episode is a [[Refuge in Vulgarity|non-stop]] [[Refuge in Audacity|mambo]] over the [[N-Word Privileges]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|line]].
* An episode of [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]] claims that there are thirteen dirty words, all of them represented by some sort of sound effect, the most prominently featured being a dolphin's chirp. This appears to be an odd version of [[Sound Effect Bleep]] until a moment of [[Lampshade Hanging]] at the end of the episode in which an actual car horn is mistaken for a character swearing.
* In the [[Berenstain Bears]], "Furball" is considered horribly offensive, as Sister found out when she and Lizzy learned it from a video Lizzy's old brother rented.
 
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