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== 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.

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

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

* Several instances in the [[Austin Powers]] movies.

** In ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' there is a scene where Austin visits Mr. Roboto in his office looking for his father in Japan. He speaks Japanese to Austin for most of the scene {{spoiler|but is revealed to have known how to speak English the entire time}} so subtitles are used to translate his words into English. The subtitles are displayed in white, and coincidentally, many objects in the office also happen to be white. Austin is aware of the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|subtitles]], and as a result of carefully aligned camera angles, certain words in the subtitle are blotted out creating [[Accidental Innuendo|seemingly dirty phrases]] which elicit shocked reactions from Austin. Of course, once the objects blocking the subtitles are removed, the phrase is revealed to be perfectly normal. Mr. Roboto and Austin lampshades heavily on this trope.

*** "Your ass{{spoiler|ignment}} is {{spoiler|an un}}happy {{spoiler|one}}."

** "..Dream a dream you little {{spoiler|[[Sound Effect Bleep|bleem]]}}."

{{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! }}

* In ''[[Catch-22]]'' Yossarian is given letters to censor while in hospital. To relieve the boredom, he censors random words rather than actual valuable information.

** For one letter, just for the hell of it, he blanks out the entire thing and replaces the text with a fake love letter purportedly from one of the other characters. It leads to some unpleasant consequences.

* ''[[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 (TV series)|Blackout]]'' effectively made a game out of this trope, a celebrity had to communicate a word to their partner, but instead of doing it directly with the contestant, they had to record it (while the contestant wore headphones). When it was played back, the other team could use a giant plunger to mute out parts of the recording to make the clue word harder to guess.

* 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.

* The explanation of the "Jewish mistletoe tradition" by Jon Stewart in ''[[The Colbert Report|A Colbert Christmas:]] [[Christmas Special|The Greatest Gift Of All]]''. A ''forty-five second'' censor bleep, complete with hand gestures, ending "...with a [[Noodle Implements|lamb shank]]." The audience's mind is always filthier than anything the writers could have come up with.

* Used in the [[Songs to Wear Pants To]] song [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."

* 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'.

== 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 ==

*** Nowadays, censor beeps are just seen as lazy and unprofessional among the community, who usually consider it more entertaining to [[Manipulative Editing|make the characters appear to actually swear]].

* [[YouTube]] musician Julia Nunes does this in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaPNKslTxI&feature=plcp&context=C3eacf40UDOEgsToPDskKWGoy0zUB5NwhL82e9Zv0a video] answering viewers' questions. Apparently, someone objected to Julia's mild, infrequent language as they allowed their children to watch her videos. Julia responded: "{{spoiler|Hot}} d{{spoiler|og}}! When will you bi {{spoiler|lly goat}}s realize that I'm twenty years old, and I'm gonna say whatever comes to my mind? Fu {{spoiler|ngus}}! Ti {{spoiler|ngly}}! {{spoiler|D}}uck!Sh {{spoiler|eets}}! F{{spoiler|ond}}ue!"

* 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|"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.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' uses this in the episode "A Hero Sits Next Door": On ''Wheel of Fortune'', a contestant ponders the incomplete puzzle phrase "GO _UCK YOURSELF". After the complete phrase is shown as "GO TUCK YOURSELF IN", Chris - watching at home with Peter - turns and says, "You were close, Dad."

** Actually, "GO TUCK YOURSELF IN" is the [[Fridge Brilliance|only option that is actually possible]] - there is already an "F" in "YOURSELF", which would have revealed the other "F" had it been guessed. Also, the two unguessed letters in the word "in" would have been visible on a real-life Wheel of Fortune board.

* Another ''Wheel of Fortune'' gag turns up in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson." Randy is a contestant on the show, and is confronted with the following puzzle phrase (in the category of "People who annoy you"): "N_GGERS". With time running out and after several long moments of hesitation, he finally blurts out the only answer that occurs to him...after which the correct answer is revealed as "NAGGERS".

* Another episode of ''South Park'' bleeped out words like "dummies" to make it appear the kindergarten-age characters were swearing as much then as they did in fourth grade.

** Bleeped lines of dialog followed by unbleeped lines like "That's legal in Tijuana" make this an example of a [[Noodle Incident]].

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

== Live-Action TV ==

* 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".

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

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

* In one episode of ''[[7th Heaven]]'', Mary is upset that Simon called her "Big Butt." When the episode airs on the Hallmark Channel, they cut out the word "butt." This leaves the viewer to wonder what parts of his sister's body Simon could think are big.

* BBC America censors the use of the word "cock" as an exclamation, which makes ''[[Top Gear]]'''s James May sound much more potty-mouthed than usual.

* On the TV show ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'', a guest uttered a stream of swear words, which were bleeped out. The guest then informed the production team that [[Unwitting Pawn|they had just broadcast the Morse Code for "fuck"]].

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.]]

** British MTV even edited out the line "I drank a fifth of vodka, do you dare me to drive?" in [[Eminem]]'s "Stan"

** Perhaps the most ridiculous example: the video for Electric Six's "Gay Bar" (already a masterpiece of comedic raunch) that censors words like "war" and "nuclear war." That's right, "''nuclear war''" is a dirty word. Even better is how the verse is censored with whip cracks: "Let's start [wha-khish!]/ start a [wha-khish! wha-khish!]/ at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar!"

** 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 Butthead|Beavis]].

* 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.

{{quote|On a mountain he sits,

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