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This is most often used for comedy: generally, the rhyme set up and subverted was clearly supposed to be a profanity. (If the replacement word begins the same way as the averted word, this amounts to a deliberate [[Curse Cut Short]].) It's one of the myriad gimmicks used for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], and when used this way is known as a "Miss Susie", after one of the most famous examples. Sometimes in this case the cut-off word will appear in a different context as a [[Midword Rhyme]] (The steamboat went to '''Hell'''/o operator.) Doing this is the only way to get the worse [[Bawdy Song|Bawdy Songs]] on American network television -- though of course the trope is much older than that: it's used in an Elizabethan broadside ballad about seducing a maiden, thus making it at least [[Older Than Steam]].

 

 

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* The English version of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' gives us this gem from the cheerleader trio in volume 1.

{{quote| "Rickum, rackum, ruckum, ruckum!<br />

* From ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]''

{{quote| "Rah rah ree,<br />

He deserved what he got. I don't regret it a bit.<br />

By the way, you're standing in bull ca-ca. }}

{{quote| I came to help restore your pluck, <br />

cause I'm the nurse who likes to...<br />

{{quote| It's a big '''hit''' isn't '''it'''<br />

Even if it's a piece of '''junk''' }}

{{quote| This song's got nothing to say<br />

But I'm recording it anyway<br />

Feels so good<br />

Baby, let's play to win }}

{{quote| You, by the phone<br />

You, all alone<br />

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|The gag here, of course, is that]] {{spoiler|"B plus" would have been the more obvious grade.}}

*** 'B minus' ''does'' work, but it's something of a [[Painful Rhyme]].

{{quote| '''Yuffie:''' That's the way things go, you know. Without luck, you're...Uh, okay, moving on!}}

* In ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', there is a room full of graffiti which includes

* The ''[[Pacman]]'' ghosts: Pinky, Blinky, Inky, and [[Odd Name Out|Clyde]].

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Awakening'', a clue for one sidequest reads as follows:

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', there's a point where Guybrush Threepwood has to subvert the rhymes of his crew.

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an ''orange''.<br />

How many women did he...HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH? }}

* An older jump rope rhyme:

To go up to heaven in a flying machine. <br />

The machine broke down, and down he fell, <br />

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