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Compare with [[But Not Too Evil]]. Related to [[Unusual Euphemism]] and [[Pardon My Klingon]], and a sub-trope of [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* 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
* An episode of [[Spongebob 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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