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[[File:this-trope-is-bleep_family-guy_8588.jpg|link=Family Guy
{{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 god damn pig!!!"''|'''Vegeta''', ''[[
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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* A Swedish insurance company is currently running radio commercials of the form: insurance clerk repeats the claimant's story, with every third word or so bleeped. The claimant confirms that this is what happened, and the clerk tells him that no problem, we can cover that.
* Commercials for the then-new TV Land channel featured clips from wholesome shows like "[[The Brady Bunch]]" and "[[The Andy Griffith Show]]" with random censor bleeps, as if they'd been re-edited into something [[Darker and Edgier]].
** [[Cartoon Network]] made similar bumpers for [[Adult Swim]], using clips from ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' and ''[[
* 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".
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** [[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.
* Episode 7 of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]? Fumoffu'' has tons of censoring speech by Sousuke, in order to butch up the sissy-pants rugby team. Arguably one of the best examples in anime ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|and one of the funniest as well]]).
* ''[[
* According to ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' volume 8's Q&A, Loke's guild tattoo is on his {{spoiler|ba}}ck.
* Some episodes of ''[[
* One of the previews in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'' cover what the hell {{spoiler|Hanyuu}}'s {{spoiler|horns}} are. Well, it's obvious isn't it? They're {{spoiler|horns}}!
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' bleeps when Hana says she'll *BLEEP* you with her poison arrows. This is done both in the manga and anime.
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* ''[[
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'''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.")
* In ''[[Catch
** 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.
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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 (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.
* ''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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* In ''Time Trumpet'', innocuous political rhetoric like "these cuts must be stopped" is bleeped into sounding like "these c__ts must be stopped". [[Armando Iannucci]] appears to be quite a fan of subversive wordplay.
* 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?
{{quote| "That's never gonna make it to air, if you know what I mean..."}}
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqxnm6t3QMw "Mother Uckers"]
** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I "Boom"]. The word "boom" is used as a substitute for many words in different contexts. What each usage of the word actually means is up to the audience.
* ''[[
* ''[[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.<br />
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== Music ==
* [[
** 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, [http://www.cbsradiobaltimore.com/mix_morning_show/?p=276 this "MIX Morning Show"] version of Sally's tirade from ''[[
* When someone on the [[Lemon Demon]] forums asked for a version of "The Ultimate Showdown" with the word "ass" bleeped, he was given [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]
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* [[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]''"}}
* A certain game on ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
** 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]].}}
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam
** The whole point in this exercise is to get a vital piece of information out of Tiny Timmy, whose [[Tourettes Syndrome]] seemingly turns the little rat tyke into a fountain of bleeped-out cursing. Of course, once you switch the lists, it turns out that his "expletives" were all [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|family]] [[Curse of the Ancients|friendly]] to begin with, although it's soon obvious why the demented [[Media Watchdog]] responsible would censor out the information as well ( {{spoiler|it's the name "Dick Peacock"...think about it}}).
* The visual novel Tsukihime uses it interestingly by (actual spoiler) {{spoiler|blanking out the word 'kill' to make the line "I want to her."}}
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== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.drunkduck.com/Stickman_and_Cube/index.php?p=296810 This] ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' comic.
* An early ''[[
* [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=54 This] ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' strip.
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* 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: Friendship Is Magic
* 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 ''[[
* The Micro-Episodes of ''[[
{{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.<br />
'''[[The Wasp]]:''' {{spoiler|Eat}} them? Eww! }}
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** 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 puzzle phrase turned out to be "MY H{{spoiler|A}}IRY {{spoiler|A}}UNT" (not shown onscreen because the hidden "A" in "hairy" would've given it away) and, once again, Peter got it wrong.
* Another ''Wheel of Fortune'' gag turns up in the ''[[
* 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.
* The ''Sealab2021'' episode "Radio Free Sealab": The end of the episode, the Father-Son FCC duo have an exchange that is heavily but masterfully bleeped, implying a nasty conversation. A DVD extra features the unbleeped dialog which is much tamer and in many cases the opposite of what you were expecting. The younger agent's entire last line of dialog is bleeped to implying that he is cursing out his father, when he's actually saying something like "I love you, dad."
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== Film ==
* Occasionally efforts to censor or cut a scene on the grounds that it would be objectionable to viewers might make the result seem worse due to [[Nothing Is Scarier]]:
** In ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'', there is a scene where the Creature is playing with a little girl, throwing flowers onto a pond. After they are out of flowers to throw, he looks for something else pretty to throw into the pond, and chooses her, not understanding that she would drown. His killing the girl accidentally was deemed too intense for audiences of 1931, so execs cut off the scene just as he reached for her, jumping to her bereft father carrying her lifeless body back to town. Unfortunately, audiences imagine that the Creature had done something far worse than accidental murder.
** In ''[[The Brood]]'', the birthing scene was similarly cut. David Cronenberg lamented at the cut, saying that he had a long and loving scene of Nola biting the infant free of the birthing sac and licking it clean, but the censors cut it just as she bit through the sac, leaving audiences with the impression that she was eating her baby.
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== 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".
* 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,<br />
For yelling and screaming, he's never at a loss,<br />
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* One season of ''[[Survivor]]'' featured a contestant whose regular outfit included camouflage-pattern pants. For some reason, CBS censors blurred out the pants, thus making it look like the contestant was pantsless.
** The reasoning (well, "Reasoning(TM)") was probably that camo... Somehow... Indicated gang affiliation.
* In one episode of ''[[
* 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.
* GMC (The Gospel Music Channel) censor words like "stupid" and "jerk" from its reruns of ''[[Sister Sister]]''.
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* 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 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 [[
* The radio version of the 30 Seconds to Mars song "From Yesterday" suffers from this as well.
{{quote| On a mountain he sits,<br />
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Treehouse TV]]'s broadcast of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
{{quote| '''Rocky''': Not so bad?! Pu-lease! Dey’re a bunch’a [censored]!<br />
'''Pinkie Pie''': Oh, c’mon now. “[censored]” might be a little strong, don’cha think?<br />
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