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Censorship by Spelling
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Whenever people (usually parents) want to discuss something they don't want anyone younger (or dumber) to know about, they tend to spell it out because they figure that kids can't spell (which is somewhat fair, as English is notorious for having numerous words that are spelled quite differently to how they're pronounced). Usually Played for Laughs, and is Truth in Television. In comedy, usually results in the person being spoken to not understanding what was spelled and/or the person who's supposed to be locked out understanding perfectly. This can also be done with animals (e. g., mentioning a W-A-L-K within earshot of the dog you don't want to rile up). Compare T-Word Euphemism, in which only one letter is used to represent an entire word. Not to be confused with Spell My Name with a Blank or Year X. May lead to Misspelling Out Loud. Contrast Spelling for Emphasis, which is spelling to make the word have more impact. |
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Inverted in Henry and Ribsy. Henry Huggins has no idea what Ramona means when she hears everyone talking about "PTA" (Parent-Teacher Association) and insists that she wants some. Beezus figures out that Ramona thinks that they're spelling out something tasty, like "c-o-o-k-i-e-s" or "c-a-n-d-y". This leads to them having to buy a snack for Ramona and telling her that it's PTA. | |
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Happy Days: Howard tells Marion that now's not the time to get "F-R-I-S-K-Y", but then Joanie says, "They think we can't spell." | |
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Finding Nemo: When the Tank Gang spots Nemo depressed because he's going to be adopted by the irresponsible fish killer Darla. | |
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In Room, Ma's lawyer says that somebody has sent F-E-C-E-S. Young Jack says "why has someone sent us poo?" "He's a good speller," Ma tells him. | |
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The Fifth Elephant also reveals that werewolves have a problem with the words "bath" and "vet" (because something that's partly wolf and partly human is basically a dog). In Thud!, Sally refers to "the whole B.A.T.H. thing", which Angua takes as sarcasm. | |
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In The Jetsons, when Jane is out shopping for a robot maid, the salesman introduces her to one of their older models, Rosie. He notes how Rosie is a dedicated worker even if she’s a bit “H-O-M-E-L-Y�. Unfortunately for him, Rosie is clearly smart enough to know how to spell, and promptly lays into him. | |
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From Jingle All the Way: | |
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In one scene of The Shape of Water, Mrs. Strickland suggests getting the kids a P-U-P-P-Y. Her husband isn't listening. | |
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The Addams Family: Morticia says that her plant Cleopatra is not very "S-M-A-R-T". Gomez suggests they call the "P-O-L-I-C-E" when they think Wednesday is missing. When Uncle Fester claims to have turned Pugsley into a chimp (he hasn't but he thought he did), Morticia says "I think he's D-R-U-N-K". Meanwhile when someone tries to do this around 6-year-old Wednesday, with "B-O-O-Z-E", she just announces that that spells "booze". |
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Madagascar features a variant that combines this trope with Fun with Acronyms. When Marty the zebra and Alex the lion reunite, they do a Meadow Run towards each other, until Marty realizes Alex's joy at seeing him again has turned to anger towards him for getting them stranded. Marty blurts out "Oh, sugar honey iced tea!" and runs away. | |
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One episode of Benson, in which the title character is Mistaken for Dying, has Clayton try to use this method to keep this information from Katie. It doesn't work. | |
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Played hilariously straight in Mongrels: | |
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In The Worst Thing About My Sister, Marty doesn't want to share her Embarrassing Nickname (Bluebottle), her mother assumes it's a swear word and has her spell it out. | |
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Done in The Goonies by Data, who "cusses", "Holy S-H-I-T!" He didn't want to swear in the film for his parents' sakes. | |
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That '70s Show: In "Oh, Baby We Got a Good Thing Goin'", Kitty loses her temper when she sees Red taking pictures with some swimsuit models at a car show. | |
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The Baby-Sitters Club: The girls usually spell out W-A-L-K around dogs (either their own pets or their baby-sitting charges') in order to keep the animals from freaking out. At one point, Dawn is caring for a Great Dane who has figured out what W-A-L-K means. Inverted in one book: Kristy takes her dog for W-A-L-Ks so that she can say “walk� in normal conversation. Early in the series, Mrs. Newton is pregnant and knows her three-year-old wants a B-O-Y, while she wants a G-I-R-L. In The Ghost At Dawn's House, Mrs. Newton tells Claudia that Jamie has had a long day and should go to bed S-O-O-N. Jamie cries out, "No fair spelling, Mommy!" |
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The Simpsons: In the episode, "Don't Fear the Roofer": Also this call back to Krusty's illiteracy in "Grade School Confidential". From "Tis the Fifteenth Season": From "Milhouse of Sand and Fog", after Bart confesses to Marge that he was the one who planted the bra that broke up her and Homer: |
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Full House: Jesse and Becky do this to try to get Nicky and Alex to sleep. Also: |
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Back to the Future: Lorraine says D-U-M-B during a conversation with George in 1972 but, when George points out Marty's too asleep to understand, she outright says "dumb". | |
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In Under the Dome, Carolyn Sturge does it with the word "dope" in front of two kids, Alice and Aidan, but it doesn't work, because Alice can spell. | |
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In "Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" on Medium, Bridgette starts wearing a red helmet all the time and Joe doesn't like it, but Allison thinks she'll grow out of it. When Allison arrives home on the morning of the school Picture Day, Ariel tells her that Joe is talking to Bridgette about her "H-E-L-M-E-T." | |
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Annie tries this and fails in the Community episode "Ladders", when she says Abed is not comfortable with C-H-A-N-G-E; Abed understands it perfectly, while Chang thinks she's talking about him and gets offended. | |
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In The Fifth Elephant, Gaspode the Wonder Dog does this to himself: | |
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A non-child version occurs in the Beethoven: The Animated Series. | |
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In one strip of The Family Circus, one of the kids (probably Billy) wonders whose birthday is approaching since their parents are spelling their words again. | |
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In the Dirty Bertie story "Fleas!", Bertie has to take his dog Whiffer to the vets so he can figure out how to get rid of the fleas. | |
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In one strip of Baby Blues, Wanda and Darryl spell quite a few food names in front of their kids and then observe that it feels like they've entered a spelling bee. | |
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Garfield: Jon tries to do this in a strip while on the phone with Liz, only for it to backfire: Jon tries it again during the 2016 Christmas season, again while on the phone with Liz. |
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The "Annual Rural Music Awards Show" skit from The Carol Burnett Show features Donna Cargo (Vicki Lawrence) singing "S-P-L-I-T" (an obvious parody of Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"). | |
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In Big Fish, one boy proclaims "That's bull-S-H-I-T, that is" as only a kid from the Deep South can. | |
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Discworld: In The Fifth Elephant, Gaspode the Wonder Dog does this to himself: The Fifth Elephant also reveals that werewolves have a problem with the words "bath" and "vet" (because something that's partly wolf and partly human is basically a dog). In Thud!, Sally refers to "the whole B.A.T.H. thing", which Angua takes as sarcasm. |
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In Junie B. Jones Is (almost) a Flower Girl, Junie B's mother looks at her father and says "I think someone is s-l-e-e-p-y." Junie B. tells her that she's a grown-up lady and she knows how to spell. "And so I am not one bit slippery. So there." | |
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Metalocalypse has one made funnier by the fact that Toki's English is atrocious: | |
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In The Hen of the Baskervilles from the Meg Langslow Mysteries, Meg and her family do this when discussing sensitive topics in earshot of Meg's twins. At one point, they spell out i-c-e c-r-e-a-m, only for one of the twins to immediately start babbling about ice cream, but Meg assures the others that the twins are always asking for "ice cream" and it doesn't mean that they're learning to spell. | |
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Subverted in a segment on The Daily Show segment, where Samantha Bee has her young son standing right next to her (it's Take Your Child to Work Day) while talking about torture methods: | |
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In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Subterranean Sonic", Sonic disguises himself as an accountant to trick Scratch and Grounder, which leads to this exchange: | |
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From DuckTales (1987), while in front of Scrooge's business partner while Fenton Crackshell is pretending to be Scrooge: | |
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In My Name Is Earl when Earl sleeps with Joy, Joy and Earl have this conversation in front of Earl Jr. | |
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In Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, a neighbor tells Herman, "You know what that welfare lady said. Gran ought to go to the old people's H-O-M-E." Herman's grandmother, who was listening from the other room, yells, "I'm not going to any bleeding old folks' H-O-M-E!" | |
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Played with in the Red Dwarf episode "Parallel Universe", where it turns out that the Cat's alternate-universe counterpart is a Dog: | |
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Subject of a joke in O Brother, Where Art Thou? where a father tries to explain what happened to his missing wife in front of his son: "she done R-U-N-N-O-F-T". A couple of scenes later the son reveals he knew exactly what was (trying) to be said when he attempts to do the same. | |
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In the Hart to Hart episode "One Hart Too Many" Max, while reading a postcard from Jennifer, mentions a reminder that it's time to take the D-O-G to the V-E-T for his S-H-O-T, prompting Jonathan to ask whether Max really believes that Freeway would have understood that. | |
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A MAD "Lighter Side Of" strip had the parents talking about their son's bad report card in front of him; the mother was reluctant but the father said "just spell it." So they had a conversation, which ended with: Another "Lighter Side Of" used a similar one: |
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Jonathan Pie episode "Teaching Is Hard": Pie tries this to avoid swearing in front of a small child. The child then spends the rest of the episode working out what he spelled. | |
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The Inbetweeners: Simon tries this when talking about getting weed for a gig they're going to: | |
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Arthur: First off: At the beginning of "The Secret About Secrets", the Read parents are keeping a secret from D.W. that has something to do with twins. We don't know the secret, all we hear is this. |
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In Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit, the title character compares this with adults telling private jokes to each other, something she feels isn't fair because when kids tell jokes that they want to be private in school, the teacher makes them tell them out loud to the entire class, or gives them detention if they don't. | |
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In 101 Dalmatians, Pongo suggests getting the puppies to bed so he and Perdita can go out on a W-A-L-K. While not explicitly stated whether the puppies know how to spell, a couple of them do beg to stay up and join their parents on the walk. | |
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An issue of The Simpsons comics has Maude Flanders telling the police that "Neddy and I had an A-R-G-U-M-E-N-T" when he angrily abandons their campsite and never comes back. (It's eventually revealed that he's been abducted by space aliens.) | |
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The Flintstones: Employed by Fred whenever he has to take Dino to the V-E-T-E-R-I-N-A-R-I-A-N. Unfortunately, Dino knows how to spell. In "Dino Disappears", when Wilma has trouble feeding an inconsolable Pebbles after Dino runs away. |
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The New Yorker has a cartoon dating back from 1934 where there's a fancy dinner party with a man introducing a bimbo to the bartender: | |
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In an episode of the Mexican sitcom El Chavo del ocho, when Quiko is doing a "magic" trick: | |
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In Love & Pies Amelia and Esme do it in front of Kate. | |
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Parodied in Girl Genius, where the character attempting it is the only person present who can't spell "husband". | |
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In The Boss Baby, at dinner with his parents and the Boss Baby, Tim tells his parents that he needs to talk with them alone about the "B-A-B-E-E." Later, the Boss Baby refers to Tim on the phone as the "K-I-D." | |
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Starlight Express features "U-N-C-O-U-P-L-E-D", a nod to Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"; the spelling in this case is because the concept of being "uncoupled" is so painful to Dinah she can't even say the word. Of course, the end of the song also spells out B-A-S-T-A-R-D. | |
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M*A*S*H: In the season 3 episode "Rainbow Bridge", after Hawkeye tells Frank Burns to surrender his handgun to the Chinese doctor they're doing a prisoner/patient exchange with: In the season 10 episode "Wheelers and Dealers", Colonel Potter is (reluctantly) taking a remedial driving class, Klinger is (even more reluctantly) helping him with the written test, and Potter warns Klinger his number will be up if there's another question with a number in it. So Klinger reads the next question, "Suppose you're in a car traveling T-E-N miles per hour..." |
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From Lost: | |
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Reba: During the first season, while rallying Van to pass his exams so he can keep being a football player, Brock tries to spell "ass" while Jake is around. Unfortunately for him... Later on within the same episode, when Brock asks Van about his history exam: At the end of a fifth-season episode, after Van has a bad day at house-brokering after Reba talks Brock out of selling his house: |
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In 102 Dalmatians, Chloe did not want to offend the spotless dalmatian Oddball by mentioning spots, so she uses S-P-O-T-S in a scene when Oddball is with her. | |
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The Loud House: In "Baby Steps", Lincoln teaches Clyde how to be a big brother by using the Three C's: Confidence, Caring, and Cookies (the last one is only as a last resort). When baby Lily accidentally hurts herself while playing with her hardware toys, Lincoln kisses her sore thumb to make it better, and Clyde remarks that he doesn't need the cookies out loud, but Lily knows what a cookie is, so Lincoln advises that it's sometimes safer to spell. Immediately afterwards, twins Lola and Lana are fighting over a princess and knight playtime scenario, so Lincoln compromises by dressing as a troll that is attacking their tower. Clyde remarks that this time, Lincoln doesn't need to use the "C-O-O-K-I-E-S"... but unfortunately, Lola and Lana know how to spell. | |
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The Brittas Empire: In "We All Fall Down", Carole does this when she doesn't want her eldest child Ben to hear the word "out". | |
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Dinosaurs: Played with in "Nature Calls" when Fran and Earl argue over who will change Baby's diaper: | |
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Dumbo: "Wow, just take a look at those E-A-R-S..." (which is then completely undone when one of the other elephants, not understanding, thinks it over and then blurts out: "Oh! EARS!") And then, a little bit later... |
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In the Helluva Boss episode "Western Energy", Blitz tries to get Loona inoculated and refers to the procedure as an "S-H-O-T" when discussing the appointment while Loona's in earshot. This backfires when he makes it to the hospital and it turns out the receptionist can't spell. | |
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From one Dennis the Menace (US) strip: | |
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In the Bob's Burgers episode "Sacred Cow", when Bob keeps a cow in the house: | |
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In Scary Movie 3, one of the president's advisers tells him that he should go on TV and tell everyone that there's no such thing as UFOs. The president's reaction seems to indicate he thinks he's a victim of this trope. "Don't spell in front of me, dammit." | |
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In an episode of Bewitched, Darrin sees Endora playing with his daughter Tabitha and using magic. He says "Stop using M-A-G-I-C in front of my daughter or she'll grow up to be a W-I-T-C-H". | |
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In the Little Dogs on the Prairie short "Cheating", Hollister does this with Darcy's name twice in a row when telling Gilroy that he suspects that she was the one who actually cheated on the spelling tests that Sport and Scout were accused of cheating on. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, Wanda tries to take Cosmo to the D-O-C-T-O-R. | |
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In Father Ted, Mrs. Doyle mentions having met a couple while on pilgrimage who said the trip did them the world of good, because "They were a bit obsessed with the old S-E-X!" | |
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In The Annoying Orange episode, "The Microwave Effect": | |
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From The LEGO Movie: | |
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From Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree: | |
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From the Timon & Pumbaa episode, "Once Upon A Timon": | |
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From the Robot Chicken sketch, "Fruity Fables": | |
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In one Pogo strip, Pogo tries to use it to talk to Albert without the puppy they're taking care of understanding. Unfortunately, Albert doesn't quite get it... | |
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Sybil in the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat" says they might have to put Manuel's rat "to S-L-E-E-P," to which Manuel responds, "Spleep?" | |
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Occurs in Recess: School's Out. The scene starts at breakfast, where T.J. is brokenhearted about being alone that summer without his friends, who were all at camp. His sister comes down, and this is when it occurs: | |
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In Easy A, Olive is trying to tell her parents why she got detention (use of a certain word in class) at the dinner table, in front of her much younger brother. Her parents tell her to spell the word with her peas. | |
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Defied in Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One: "How's everything going with N-E-F-A-" "I can spell, you morons." | |
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Emmy the Robot: It doesn't work on 8-year-olds. They know how to spell "petting zoo". | |
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In Superstore we get this one from Glenn: | |
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slowbeef: | |
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A beautiful example in 6teen: | |
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This exchange from the classic Doctor Who serial "The Sun Makers": | |
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In Return to Planet Tad, the title character, Tad, agrees to dress up as his high school's mascot, a shark, only to learn that he has to dance to complicated routines taught to him by the school cheerleaders. When he fails miserably during rehearsals, one of them comments "I can't believe he's this A-W-F-U-L," leading him to state "I can understand when you spell words out." | |
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In the Yes, Dear episode, "One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, Blue Fish", We get this exchange after Sammy's pet fish dies suddenly: | |
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On an episode of Party of Five, Claudia does this in front of Owen when talking about the p-a-r-t-y they're having for his birthday. | |
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David Near: Laughing Jack starts his "Easter Story Time" by explaining that his videos were delayed because "YouTube can be a C-U-N-T for people like us." | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: One of the aliens in "The Spaceship" not only uses a malapropism when he whispers to his colleague, he also spells out the word "genius" so as not to tip Rhino off regarding how dumb they are — and misspells the word while doing so. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), Delirium attempts to slyly speak to Despair about their brother Dream in this way. Delirium being Delirium, she spells it D-R-E-A-M-M. Later, she calls Lucifer the D-E-V-E-I-L. | |
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Cartman at one point on South Park tries to do this while badmouthing Kyle (who is Jewish) within the latter's earshot. Because Cartman is an idiot, he spells it out as "J-O-O". | |
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In Daddy Day Care, Charlie discreetly tells his wife that he lost his J-O-B at the dinner table. | |
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There's an example in one of The Comic Strip Presents episodes, possibly "The Beat Generation". | |
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Famously in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "When She Was Bad": | |
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In The Three Stooges short "Listen, Judge", when Larry finds the wire for the doorbell they try to fix, Moe congratulates him: | |
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All the Way Home: The conservative Mary worries about how to explain to 6-year-old son Rufus that she is pregnant. She tells her husband, "Jay, I don't want him asking any q-u-e-s-t-i-o-n-s." Jay laughs and says that won't work as Rufus can spell better than they can. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Farmer Guy": | |
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In Disney's Alice in Wonderland, while trying to avoid the C-word (not THAT one) which causes the Dormouse to go berserk. | |
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In the Mog book, "Mog and the V.E.T.", Mr Thomas says "V_E_T" instead of "Vet", because Mog hates going to the vet but he reckons she can't spell. | |
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Breaking Bad: Hector Salamanca, by virtue of his stroke, can only communicate "yes" or "no" by ringing a bell, and conveying his requests through an alphabet board. In "Face Off", he agrees to help Walt get rid of Gus Fring, by luring him into a trap. This means asking to be taken to the DEA to speak to Hank. Once Hank shows up, Hector begins answering, using this laborious communication to spell out things like "S-U-C-K-M-Y" before being cut off, then "F-U-C-"... | |
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From The Muppet Movie: | |
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From The Muppets (2011): | |
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In Histeria! the younger cast sang a song about the history of the British royals to the tune of "Greensleeves/What Child Is This": | |
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Frasier: Martin tries to keep Eddie from running every time the word "vet" is mentioned by invoking this trope. It doesn't work. In another, a Genre Savvy Frasier discusses this with a skeptical Niles. |
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From Friends: | |
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In The Big Heat, the hero to his wife: "According to the book, you should lead her [the daughter] to B-E-D..." | |
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