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** 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.

* ''[[Lucky Star]]'''s Kagami in the OVA:

{{quote| "I want to [[Wild Mass Guessing|*******]] with Konata!}}

** This is apparently supposed to mean {{spoiler|'cosplay'}}, though that could have its own [[Fetish Fuel]] in itself...

** [[Kyo Ani]] also seems to like to censor any names of anime/manga not from [[Kyo Ani]] (although it's blatantly obvious what they're talking about), with the exception of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''. They can get very creative with the types of sounds used to bleep things out.

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== Literature ==

* In a ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody about a reality dating show, one of the crew is a sound editor, whose job is "bleeping out random, inoffensive words of a couple's conversation - making even the most articulate, civilized discussion sound like a drunken sailor's profanity-laced tirade". Example:

{{quote| '''Man''': You're such a cutie! I could {{spoiler|loo}}k you in the {{spoiler|eye}}s all day long!~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Man''': You're such a cutie! I could {{spoiler|loo}}k you in the {{spoiler|eye}}s all day long!

'''Woman''': Oh, {{spoiler|than}}k you! }}

* There was a book called ''Mother Goose Censored'' that did this, way back in the 1926, with nursery rhymes. (e.g., "He put her in a pumpkin shell, / And there he [CENSORED] her very well.")

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* Similarly subverted in ''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' with bleeps dubbed over a wildlife documentary on penguins: "I just can't find any **** king penguins! Ah! There's a **** king penguin!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2eNMWdNCqU The presenter is of course searching for ''king'' penguins...]

* Done ''so very many times'' on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', thanks to a combination of [[Genre Savvy]] and [[Medium Awareness]]. One suggestion in the ever-popular ''Scenes From a Hat'' game actually challenged the players to make the censors do this.

{{quote| "That's never gonna make it to air, if you know what I mean..."}}

{{quote|"That's never gonna make it to air, if you know what I mean..."}}

* ''[[Myth Busters]]'': The famous clip of Jamie saying "That's what we do on ''Mythbusters'': We blow '''''bleep''''' up!" When the clip was aired without the bleep for for the "Favorite Myths" special, Jamie clearly says "crap", which ''is'' a borderline bleepable word in the U.S. (but often considered "optional").

* ''[[Leverage]]'' features a visual rather than audio example of this trope. In "The Office Job," the characters are performing a con at a greeting card company and during talking-head interviews (a documentary film crew is filming there at the same time - the episode is an homage to ''[[The Office]]'') characters hold up a blurred-out greeting card.

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* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5ua7uL4aY does this] with The Non-Fat Yogurt episode after Jerry drops an F-bomb and the store owner's kid starts repeating it.

* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' As Corey is being grounded for sneaking off to [[Disney World]].

{{quote| '''Alan''': For starters this house and school are the only two places you are going to see for the next month.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Alan''': For starters this house and school are the only two places you are going to see for the next month.

'''Morgan''': A month? I got more the time I said [BLEEP]~~ ~~

'''Morgan''': A month? I got more the time I said [BLEEP]

'''Alan''': MORGAN! Get up to your room there, you're grounded for two months!~~ ~~

'''Alan''': MORGAN! Get up to your room there, you're grounded for two months!

'''Morgan''': I've got to learn self control. }}

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== Radio ==

* [[Britney Spears]]' "Oops I Did it Again" was played on Radio Disney with the word "innocent" obviously silenced:

{{quote| "[[This Is Sparta|I'm not... that...]] ''[three note piano sound]''"}}

{{quote|"[[This Is Sparta|I'm not... that...]] ''[three note piano sound]''"}}

* A certain game on ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again|I'm Sorry Ill 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.")

* The day after the first McCain-Obama Presidential debate in 2008, an Atlanta radio station aired the audio of the event...with random bleeps inserted, while the DJs tried to determine whose fake profanity-laden tirade was funnier. {{spoiler|1=Obama, apparently. McCain just sounded like a generic [[Grumpy Old Man]].}}

* British radio presented Danny Baker inserted random bleeps into John Denver's ''Annie's Song'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJejdVGT2Q and the results sounded like this].

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** What made it even better, though, is that the beep she used to censor herself was a recording of her own voice saying the word "beep".

* 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.}}

{{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|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!"}}

{{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.

* 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.}}

{{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: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITr90v7UaNg with censor] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNoeEqIcQw&NR=1 bleeps].

* 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.~~ ~~

{{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! }}

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* An episode of ''Kablam!'' had Henry being bleeped randomly as a practical joke.

* Zig-zagged in the ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' episode "One Of Our Stately Homes Is Missing". The brick-and-mortar theft of the Duke of Bedbug mansion prompts DM to conclude they need help:

{{quote| '''DM:''' Well, Colonel, looks like it's a job for BLEEP.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''DM:''' Well, Colonel, looks like it's a job for BLEEP.

'''Penfold:''' Who's that?~~ ~~

'''Penfold:''' Who's that?

'''Colonel K:''' Organization called BLEEP, Penfold.~~ ~~

'''Colonel K:''' Organization called BLEEP, Penfold.

'''Penfold:''' Oh, go on. You can tell me. I'm a trustee.~~ ~~

'''Penfold:''' Oh, go on. You can tell me. I'm a trustee.

'''DM:''' Penfold, it's BLEEP.~~ ~~

'''DM:''' Penfold, it's BLEEP.

'''Penfold:''' All right then. I shan't tell you where I hid the corn flakes.~~ ~~

'''Penfold:''' All right then. I shan't tell you where I hid the corn flakes.

'''DM:''' Penfold, shush. BLEEP is the '''B'''uilding '''L'''ocation and '''E'''mergency '''E'''xpedition '''P'''latoon. }}

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* The first time episodes of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' were shown in the US, on ABC (yes, ABC's ''Wide World of Entertainment''), there was some interesting censorship. Specifically, for this trope, in the episode about the Montgolfier brothers the narrator says "That night the Montgolfier brothers had a good bath, they washed their [a list of body parts follows] and also their BLEEP BLEEP." The words that were censored were "naughty bits".

* On [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFX3C-QO4RM&t=1m30s one episode] of the American ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', during game called "Title Sequence", Drew asked the audience for "Unlikely Roommates in a Sitcom". One audience member shouted "Bill Cosby and Hitler!", and the group all looked really excited to run with it... until the director walked over and told them they couldn't use Hitler. Carey and the crew, obviously pissed, ripped on the whole fiasco up until Ryan's fantastic verse during "Hoedown" -

{{quote| Our director, he really is the boss,~~ ~~

{{quote|Our director, he really is the boss,

For yelling and screaming, he's never at a loss,~~ ~~

For yelling and screaming, he's never at a loss,

He's the meanest guy you will ever see,~~ ~~

He's the meanest guy you will ever see,

He should sprout a mustache and move to Germany! }}

** Sidenote: Here, Ryan is not subject to [[Godwin's Law]].

** Drew: "If Tarzan and Tonto were roommates -- oh, I like that, let's make fun of Native Americans, who gives a {{spoiler|fuck}} about them?

{{quote| "Tonto": "Will you go upstairs and tell Hitler to be quiet?"}}

{{quote|"Tonto": "Will you go upstairs and tell Hitler to be quiet?"}}

** The magic words are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdCTdn4s1w Stephen Hawking].

** A game of "If you know what I mean" with a gym theme ended in hilarity when one of them mentioned a 200 pound snatch (a weightlifting move). Ryan correctly predicted "I don't think that will make it to air, if you know what I mean." (The segment did make it to air.)

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* MTV does this a ''lot'' with any lyrics relating to guns, violence (particularly against women), or drug abuse. One example that makes the song sound filthier was the video edit for "Le Disco" by Shiny Toy Guns, which turned "on your back, with loaded guns" into "on your back, with ---".

** There's a line in Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet" where he refers to his altercation with a guy who was having an affair with his wife:

{{quote| What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb~~ ~~

{{quote|What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb

But the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of my gun~~ ~~

But the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of my gun

'Cuz I'd have killed him, shit, I would've shot Kim and him both~~ ~~

'Cuz I'd have killed him, shit, I would've shot Kim and him both

It's my life, I'd like to welcome y'all to the Eminem show }}

** MTV censored "shit," "bullets" and "gun," thus destroying a condemnation of violence. [[Serious Business|There's probably some kid somewhere who drifted into a life of crime because he never got to hear his idol denounce violence.]]

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* 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 [[MIA]]'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.

{{quote| On a mountain he sits,~~ ~~

{{quote|On a mountain he sits,

Not of gold but of {{spoiler|sin}} }}

* There's at least one radio edit of [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Poker Face" that blanks out the line: "When it's love, if it's not rough, it's not fun."

* A music video and a radio version of "Almost" by [[Bowling for Soup]] edited out a reference to underage drinking...and ended up making this line sound either really risque or really incomprehensible:

{{quote| I almost got {{spoiler|drunk}} at school at {{spoiler|14}}}}

{{quote|I almost got {{spoiler|drunk}} at school at {{spoiler|14}}}}

** This also happened with "No Hablos Ingles". There's a bit in the video where they microphone up to someone bare ass on the line "Where'd you leave your pants?/''No hablos ingles!''" When aired it gets the black bar with the song title on it, making it look worse than it actually is. (You can't see anything in the uncensored version.)

* The original radio edit of Eve's "Let Me Blow Your Mind" simply blanks the cuss in the line, "Don't fight that good shit in your ear / now, let me blow your mind". A cover by Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, however, has the line, "Don't fight that [boing] in your ear...", making it sound like [[Freud Was Right|something else entirely]] is being inserted into the listener's ear.

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* There is a radio edit of Foster the People's song "Pumped Up Kicks" that censors the words {{spoiler|"bullet"}} and {{spoiler|"gun"}}. The Other Wiki notes that the song was intended "to bring awareness to the issue of gun violence amongst youth."

* The song Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna is heavily censored on radio stations to get rid of offensive language and references to violence against women. One line is usually completely censored, which inadvertently gives the message that committing arson is okay {{spoiler|by editing out the reference that a woman is being forcibly tied to the bed just before the aforementioned act of arson}}:

{{quote| If she ever tries to {{spoiler|fuckin’}} leave again~~ ~~

{{quote|If she ever tries to {{spoiler|fuckin’}} leave again

I’ma {{spoiler|tie her to the bed}} and set this house on fire. }}

== Western Animation ==

* [[Treehouse TV]]'s broadcast of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|censors out every instance of the word "loser".]] This only makes anything the character said sound like it must've been worse, the most jarring example being in "Party of One" when Pinkie Pie holds a party with inanimate objects after believing her friends abandoned her and provides the objects with voices.

{{quote| '''Rocky''': Not so bad?! Pu-lease! Dey’re a bunch’a [censored]!~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Rocky''': Not so bad?! Pu-lease! Dey’re a bunch’a [censored]!

'''Pinkie Pie''': Oh, c’mon now. “[censored]” might be a little strong, don’cha think?~~ ~~

'''Pinkie Pie''': Oh, c’mon now. “[censored]” might be a little strong, don’cha think?

'''Sir Lintsalot''': After the way they treated you? I say “[censored]” isn’t strong enough! }}