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[[File:this-trope-is-bleep family-guy 8588.jpg|link=Family Guy|frame|[[Fridge Brilliance|Note that there's already an F revealed in the puzzle.]]]]
{{quote|Son of a g{{spoiler|um chewing}} f{{spoiler|unk monster}}! Why the f{{spoiler|ruit}} does all this f{{spoiler|unny}} s{{spoiler|tuff}} happen to me?! F{{spoiler|orget}} my life! Always surrounded by miserable f{{spoiler|ailing}} c{{spoiler|lod}}s, like this whole world just wants to bend me over and f{{spoiler|ind}} me in the a{{spoiler|lps}}! Well, as far as I care, these m{{spoiler|iserable}} c{{spoiler|ow}}s can have a f{{spoiler|ancy barbecue}} with a [[Subverted Trope|god damn]] pig!!!
When a show removes a perfectly innocuous word or words in a sentence, giving it dirty connotations. This can be done intentionally for comedy, to parody censorship, or unintentionally as a result of actual censorship because some {{spoiler|one}} really {{spoiler|mess}}ed up.
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** [[Cartoon Network]] made similar bumpers for [[Adult Swim]], using clips from ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' and ''[[Superfriends]]''. This includes an add where Batman says "Grodd did a masterful job of f***ing us!"<ref>Framing, of course.</ref>
* Around March 2010, [http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/987324/Tango-cans-use-temperature-sensitive-ink-cheeky-campaign/ limited edition cans of Tango] were printed with risqué slogans printed with temperature-sensitive ink, so the cans would have to be chilled to reveal hidden words in phrases such as "Chilled Tango froze my {{spoiler|pips}} off", "Chilled Tango made my {{spoiler|stalk}} shrivel" and "Chilled Tango made my {{spoiler|stones}} shrink".
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiuq2BKLhgo Frank's RedHot]. "I put that (bleep) on everything!"
▲=== Anime/Manga ===
* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': It wasn't a literal bleep, but some people found Mikuru's "I tried to contact but they said Classified Information, etc., thing in Endless Eight similar to this. Especially when you consider what could be in there. Kyon even asks whether it's meant to censor something obscene.
** Haruhi gets bleeped in the anime as she blackmails the computer science club president to give her a computer by taking photos of him groping Mikuru. In the event he tries to deny it Haruhi says she'll say all the male thugs ganged up on Mikuru and *BLEEP* her.
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=== [[Fan
* ''[[Clash of the Elements]]'': At the end of chapter 40 of Part 1, as {{spoiler|Cecilia Frost}} is beating up {{spoiler|Ezekial Gaia}}, her swear words are censored out by his screams of pain. {{spoiler|[[Don't Explain the Joke|Though it is quite obvious from the first letter that she was going to use the word fuck.]]}}
* Episode 19 of ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' makes use of this trope.
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=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': On a [[Jerry Springer]] clone, the Spellman family finds random words bleeped out, so that their arguments sound more heated than they really are.
* The short-lived Jay Wolpert [[Game Show]] ''[[Blackout (
* ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' has a recurring segment called "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship", which consists entirely of this trope. So, for example, a clip of the President saying "I visited the Queen and we talked for hours" will have the words "visited" and "talked" bleeped out.
* The writers behind the ''[[Match Game]]'' series loved this trope; many of the questions allowed the audience to go {{spoiler|make up dirty words for}} themselves.
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** The amusing thing is that the first two choruses have "fucking" beeped while saying "They're gonna beep it anyway." It's only the last chorus, after doing that twice, that they leave the profanity and beep the actual word beep.
* [[Five Iron Frenzy]] did this to parody the [[Cluster F-Bomb|copious swearing]] of gangsta rap in Part 8 of their mock rock opera "These Are Not My Pants": loud BEEP's are applied liberally and completely at random over Micah's improvised rapping.
** Similarly, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090919020535/http://www.cbsradiobaltimore.com/mix_morning_show/?p=276 this "MIX Morning Show"] version of Sally's tirade from ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]'' gives the impression that it would be more at home on ''[[Wetsern Animation/South Park|South Park]]''.
* When someone on the [[Lemon Demon]] forums asked for a version of "The Ultimate Showdown" with the word "ass" bleeped, he was given [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622003507/http://media.illemonati.com/parodies/ultimate-clean.mp3 this] instead. Made even better when "ass" remains one of the only words ''not'' bleeped.
** Another Lemon Demon example is his version of ''[[Sesame Street]]'''s "Song of the count", where everytime the Count count something, it's bleeped out. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA here]
* One version of Dropkick Murphys "Pipebomb On Lansdowne (Dance Remix)" has bleeps in the entirely wrong spots at times (you'll have bleeps and then a clear "FUCK!" right after).
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*** Sure they do, it was "My Name is David Ruffin... and These are The Temptations"
* As mentioned above, the Pussycat Dolls song "Beep" sounds incredibly dirty, as the end of almost every line is a beep, talking about what men "look at" and what men "play with." The most explicit thing mentioned, however, is wanting to hold the singer's hand.
* Used in the [[Songs to Wear Pants To]] song [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514131713/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/little-eeeee-foo-foo/ Little Eeeee Foo Foo] where 'bunny' is among the random bleeped words.
* Benny Bell's legendary "Shaving Cream."
* [http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=sta_27_warz&sortkey=date "Gallows Hill" by Sta' Warz], which was an entry in a songfight competition: It's a mock-gangsta rap song where nearly every line had a bleep or two, but the members also posted the full lyrics, which were completely clean, if [[Word Salad Lyrics|pretty nonsensical]]. For instance, "Mother {{spoiler|said}} you can suck on my {{spoiler|peppermints}}!", and "They call me fireman, 'cause I {{spoiler|am one}}!".
* Subverted in The Notorious Cherry Bombs' song "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long". They even Lampshade it with the lyrics 'It's okay if we say it, 'cause the radio won't play it'.
* [[Spike Jones]]' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u07gqBqHc4 "I Dream of Brownie in the Light Blue Jeans"] does this with the song "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" starting at the 2:10 mark.
=== Newspaper Comics ===
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20101114013138/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-11-09/ Mad Libs] [https://web.archive.org/web/20101115051914/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-11-10/ strips] of [[Pearls Before Swine]] from November 2010, and before them, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616015517/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-06-11/ this.]
* A ''Robotman and [[Monty]]'' comic strip did an inverted version. When the [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]] gave them a letter complaining about swearing in the strip, the characters explained that the asterisks and other symbols actually stood for words like "puppy" and "Iowa".
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=== Radio ===
* [[Britney Spears]]' "Oops I Did it Again" was played on Radio Disney with the word "innocent" obviously silenced:
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* A certain game on ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' and ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' does this to songs. In addition to the example above, there was a version of "My Favourite Things" from ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' in which ''everything'' except the "and"s and "...all tied up with string; these are a few of my favourite things" was bleeped.
** One ISIHAC Christmas special played the Censorship Game with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". It worked very well indeed. So did one with "Underneath The Arches" ("...I [buzz]<ref>dream</ref> my [buzz]<ref>dreams</ref> away.")
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* One of the stock games on the [[CBC]] Radio show ''Because News'' is to bleep out words from a politician's sound bite and have the panelists guess what the quote was originally about.
=== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ===
* [[Neil Hamburger]] has a bit on one of his comedy albums called "The Top 10 List - Censored!". The whole joke is that [[Laugh Track|the "audience" apparently finds the list hilarious]], but anyone listening to the album can't make anything out because almost every other word is bleeped. Occasionally, the bleep will be too short to actually obscure a word, but the word will clearly be something completely unoffensive anyway: The word "internet" is censored, for instance.
=== Video Games ===
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=== Web Comics ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322034251/http://www.drunkduck.com/Stickman_and_Cube/index.php?p=296810 This] ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' comic.
* An early ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' strip used [
* [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=54 This] ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' strip.
* ''Lowroad'' used [http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20090816.html another variation.] "{{smallcaps|Mosaic filters.}} The instant porn maker!"
* ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'' has [//ffn.nodwick.com/?p=190 this] commentary on trademark disputes over common words such as ██████████. What a bunch of total █████████s.
* ''[[The Noob]]'' had [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/90/ a character] [[The Trope Formerly Known as X|formerly named Dick Tracy]].
=== Web Original ===
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* OAFEnet did this with their review of [[G.I. Joe|Shipwreck]], under the conceit that since he's a sailor, he'd be cursing like one. Though all of the bleeped words were chosen at random, some of them [http://www.oafe.net/yo/gij25ship.php worked out well]:
{{quote|If nothing else, at least he got to {{spoiler|date}} Cover Girl every month.}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM This Youtube video] of ''[[Sesame Street]]''{{'}}s The Count singing his signature song has been subjected to this in the most simplistic but devastating way possible.
{{quote|"I ''beep'' the spiders on the wall/I ''beep'' the cobwebs in the hall/I ''beep'' the candles on the shelf/when I'm alone I ''beep'' myself!"}}
* Due to difference in cultures, some Australians are amused when commonly used words such as ''hell'' and ''damn'' are censored on some websites and message boards, making the censored words seem a lot worse than they actually are.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120121020758/http://ds.ign.com/articles/115/1153589p1.html IGN review] of ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' was "redacted" prior to the game's release to avoid spoilers. This resulted in humorous bits like this:▼
▲* Episode 19 of ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' makes use of this trope.
▲* The [http://ds.ign.com/articles/115/1153589p1.html IGN review] of [[Pokémon Black and White]] was "redacted" prior to the game's release to avoid spoilers. This resulted in humorous bits like this:
{{quote|But then he turns into ¦¦¦¦¦¦, who looks like ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦ narwhal ¦¦¦ ¦ drunk bear ¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦. ¦¦¦¦¦ conveys the image of ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ melted ice cream sandwiches ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ cigarette butts.}}
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* Though the original videos are only rarely bleeped (most often in the case of [[Precision F-Strike]]), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUBuqI0o-o this edit] manages to take the soft spoken and eloquent [[The Engineer|Engie]] of ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' and manages to make him sound much more crass than he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYkuCZ2IYI actually is.] And then there's the bit at 0:54 in the edit which takes a bit of the game's innate abuse of [[Ludicrous Gibs]] and turn it into positively [[Crosses the Line Twice|hilarious black comedy]]...
* The Micro-Episodes of ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' got this treatment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OverXxNSE38 here].
{{quote|'''[[Ant-Man]]:''' There were a couple of mercenaries on the beach, and I shrunk them down. Could you make sure the ants don't {{spoiler|eat}} them? Thanks.
'''[[The Wasp]]:''' {{spoiler|Eat}} them? Eww! }}
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVC8IdEy_I TANGLED | Unnecessary Censorship]'' by Ninja Panda creatively bleeps selected scenes from Disney's ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'' for maximum humor value.
=== Western Animation ===
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* The radio edit of [[Scissor Sisters]]' "Filthy/Gorgeous" bleeped the word "acid" (slang term for LSD)... but only the second syllable, which makes it sound weird and vaguely sexual ("Trip on a hit of ass"? ''Really''?!)
* In Malaysia, Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl", after playing uncensored for a couple of weeks, had the word "Girl" censored out of the title and the song. The first thing that comes to mind after hearing the beep in the chorus are certain...erogenous parts of anatomy, which makes the song sleazier than intended.
** Which seems odd, considering they ran Jill Sobule's song of the same name with absolutely no cuts back in the '90s, much to the delight of [[Beavis and
* At Jamba Juice, the music that plays is from disks sent to the stores from the company. In an effort to be more hip, the disks have been including more recent hits, like [[M.I.A.]]'s "Paper Planes." They made the choice to censor out the sound effects, leaving us with "All I wanna do is ... and a ... and take your money," which can be interpreted as being strikingly sexual.
* The radio version of the 30 Seconds to Mars song "From Yesterday" suffers from this as well.
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=== Real Life ===
* Chicago Police released body cam footage showing Jussie Smollet with a noose around his head after an supposed (but by the release shown to have been done by two black men if not outright faked) hate crime. Smollet's face is blurred out even though the video was released because it was of him.
* Some local TV stations' weather tickers will have three beeps as a sound effect, which may overlap with dialog and unintentionally censor it.
** Also happens on BBC radio when presenters "crash the pips" - accidentally overrun so that their dialogue overlaps with the hourly time signal.
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