The Swear Jar: Difference between revisions

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZK_w1bUpYA Thoroughly explored] by ''[[The Two Ronnies]]''.

* In ''[[Californication]]'', Hank Moody has this arrangement with his daughter - both ways. She gets most of the money.

* ''[[Steptoe and Son|Steptoe & Son]]'': Reveal in the final episode they had been operating a Swear Box at at the rate of 10p per swear. Two things should be taken into consideration. 1) The total amassed wealth of the Steptoe’s is divided thus: '''BANK BALANCE:''' £3·00 '''BUILDING SOCIETY ACCOUNT:''' £7·00 '''SWEARBOX:'''{{spoiler|£79·80}} 2) That swear box was no more than two years old, as decimalisation was only introduced two years previously.

** Not necessarily - pre-decimal shilling (5p) and two-shilling (10p) coins were still valid at the time, and for many years after.

* ''[[The Salvation War]]'' has a variation on this: Any time one of the researchers looking for a gateway to Heaven wishes aloud for [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]/[[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]/insert-Nobel-Prize-winner-here to magically appear and help them solve a particular problem, they cough up a couple of bucks. Last Friday of the month, everyone goes out drinking with the cash.

* In the Christmas episode of Weebl's ''[[Cat Face]]'' cartoon, Cat Face gives [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Mr. So-Called Gordon Ramsey]] a swear jar for Christmas. By Christmas morning it's already full.

* The [[Demolition Man]] example was parodied by the [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony One]] when he reviewed the video game based on that movie. His robot, Burton, was programmed to issue a fine every time he swore. By the end of the review he was so infuriated by the game (and had so many fines) that he throttled and beheaded the robot.

** The reason for the swearing fines is because Spoony ([[Kayfabe|supposedly]]) got a sponsorship deal with Taco Bell and they want his show to be all-ages appropriate. [[Pardon My Klingon|He tries to get around it by using curses from sci-fi shows]]. At the end of the review, all the Taco Bell food has given him [[Potty Emergency|indigestion]], seemingly setting up a parody of the ''Demolition Man'' scene...[[Subverted Trope|except that Spoony chooses the game's instruction manual over the pile of fines]].

** In a later episode, when low-flying planes are causing items to fall to the floor, Marge runs around trying to save them. Then she turns and sees:

{{quote| '''Marge:''' No, not the swear jar! It's the only thing holding back the filth! *jar shatters* Nutty-fudgkins!}}

* ''[[Chowder]]'': [[The Unintelligible|Shnitzel]] is shown to have one that is filled to the brim with money.

* In ''[[Home Movies]]'', Brendon's mom assigns him one after he films a movie with his friends containing gratuous profanity.

* Director Robert Rodriguez didn't want the crew swearing in front of the young cast in ''[[Spy Kids]]'', so he instituted one of these. One of the crewmen slipped up, and went "Oh shit...ake mushrooms", in order to avoid the fine. [[Throw It In|Rodriguez liked this so much he had Alexa Vega say the line in the movie.]]

* Chris Columbus did a similar thing to the adults in ''[[Home Alone]]''. Reportedly, [[Joe Pesci]] filled the jar in a single day.

* The devoutly Catholic actress Loretta Young kept a swear jar on the set of her movies. After shooting one movie with the high-maintenance actress, Robert Mitchum dropped a $20 bill into the jar, saying, "This should just about cover everything I've been wanting to say to Loretta."

* They say that the Russian Empress [[Catherine the Great]] had once created a box for lying on banquets (the money was later used for charity). When the man responsible for handling the box complained to her that a certain person should be kept out of her palace so he won't get broke, she replied she likes hearing lies sometimes. His advice? ''You should visit the Senate more often''.