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* In episode 20 of ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]]'', Nanako happily announces to the group that {{spoiler|Margaret}}, the fortune teller at the cultural festival, told her that Yu was a "gigolo."
 
== [[Comic Strips]]
* ''[[The Family Circus]]'': Jeffy learns to swear from his dad, Bil.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Donnie Darko]]'': "What's a fuckass?"
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The novel ''My Best Fiend'' had one chapter where the headmistress was cracking down on swearing at the school. When the main character's friend fell and got a nasty gash on her leg, and all the other kids were crowding roundaround, she shouted: "She can't move her bloody leg!" A variant, since she ''did'' know "bloody" was a swear, but that wasn't what she ''meant''; she meant the leg was covered in blood. She explained this to the headmistress, who agreed that [[Have a Gay Old Time|it was a shame perfectly good words]] ''[[Have a Gay Old Time|became]]'' [[Have a Gay Old Time|swears]].
* Famous Victorian poet Robert Browning used the word "twat" in "Pippa Passes". Browning was [[wikipedia:Pippa Passes#.22A distressing blunder.22|under the mistaken impression]] that "twat" meant a part of a nun's habit.
* Two-year-old Friday Next in ''[[Thursday Next|Something Rotten]]'' learns naughty words (notably "bum", "bubbies", "arse" and "pikestaff" [[Foreign Looking Font|rendered in an Old English font]]) from St. Zvlkx. Thursday speaks as if she isn't certain what he said the first time he uses them, but the second time she tells her son, "If those are rude Old English words, St. Zvlkx is in a lot of trouble--and so are you, my little fellow."
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* An episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' entitled "Word Of The Day" had Angelica overhear a [[Depraved Kids' Show Host]] state, rather sarcastically, that the "real" catchphrase of the show is that the children who watch it "are all little [censor]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. [[Hilarity Ensues]]
* In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Sailor Mouth", SpongeBob and Patrick read a bad word written in a trash bin and start using it. Patrick claims it's a "sentence enhancer".
* After overhearing BartHomer one day on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', one of the Flanders children swears twice at the dinner table ("Hell, no!" and "I don't want any damn vegetables.") The humor turns heartbreaking after he is scolded and runs from the room crying, not understanding what he has done wrong.
** Same user, different episode: Moe has started a family restaurant and has worked himself near to the breaking point. And then one little girl complains that her soda is too cold, causing Moe to erupt into a sanitized-for-primetime [[Cluster F-Bomb]], ending with:
{{quote|'''Moe''': And I'll tell you where you can stick your freaking' sodie too!
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