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Innocent Swearing
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When someone uses a naughty word without realizing it's a naughty word. Quite often, the person (almost always a child) will get into a lot of trouble for using such a bad word without knowing the meaning of the word or what he or she has done wrong. Related to Entendre Failure. Can lead to a Swear Word Plot about how the word is offensive and shouldn't be used. Compare Fee Fi Faux Pas. Compare Innocent Bigot if it is a racial slur that a child/children say without knowing the meaning of such words. Truth in Television for kids who are very young or very sheltered. See also Fowl-Mouthed Parrot if the one doing the swearing is an animal. |
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Coal Miner's Daughter: When Doolittle and Loretta Lynn are buying baloney at a store, Doo says that baloney makes you horny. Supremely innocent Loretta asks what "horny" means, whereupon Doo cackles with laughter and says "Kinda tired, like." Unfortunately , when she's interviewed on the radio she starts talking about how when she and Doo get to feeling 'horny' they just pull right off to the side of the road and do it. She means take a nap. | |
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From Mrs. Doubtfire, "We're his goddamn kids too." | |
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Something Rotten has two-year-old Friday Next learn naughty words (notably "bum", "bubbies", "arse" and "pikestaff" rendered in an Old English font) from St. Zvlkx. Thursday speaks as if she isn't certain what he said the first time he uses them, but the second time she tells her son, "If those are rude Old English words, St. Zvlkx is in a lot of trouble—and so are you, my little fellow." | |
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Thud!: Sam Vimes reads his son his own version of Where's My Cow? with the catchphrases of prominent Ankh-Morporkians instead of animal noises, including Foul Old Ron's "Bugrit! Millenium hand and shrimp!" The next day Young Sam announced "Buglit!" to his nanny, and from then on Vimes sticks to the written version. | |
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The Jungle has little Antanas learn "God damn" and start repeating it after his father reacts to his saying it with laughter. | |
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Good Luck Charlie: In the episode "Teddy on Ice", little Charlie says a naughty word, which lands her in time-out. Her parents, Bob and Amy, spend the episode trying to (unsuccessfully) figure out who taught Charlie the word. Finally, while driving, Amy is cut off and shouts the bad word (over her car horn), revealing herself to be the culprit and winding up in time-out at the end. | |
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America's Funniest Home Videos has a clip featuring a little boy doing an imitation of his dad golfing. Using a toy golf club, the child takes a swing, throws his club to the ground and yells "Damn it!" | |
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In The Mallorean, Belgarath mentions the name "Zandramas" to the leader of the Ulgos — only to learn that it is an absolutely horrific word in their language. | |
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In The Shining, when five-year-old Danny and his mother, Wendy talk about the family car: | |
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The Simpsons: After overhearing Homer one day, Todd Flanders swears twice at the dinner table ("Hell, no!" and "I don't want any damn vegetables."). The humor turns heartbreaking after he is scolded and runs from the room crying, not understanding what he has done wrong. In a different episode: Moe has turned his tavern into a family restaurant and has worked himself near to the Rage Breaking Point. And then one little girl complains that her soda is too cold, causing Moe to erupt into a sanitized-for-primetime Cluster F-Bomb, ending with: |
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Persona 4: The Animation: In episode 20, Nanako happily announces to the group that the fortune teller at the cultural festival told her that Yu was a "gigolo" (translated as "man-whore" in the dub). The teller is Margaret, though Yu and the audience only know that by her voice. | |
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Jump Start: Teddy's first word ends up being a swear word, and they can't get him to stop saying it. Then he ends up shouting it while in the family's in church. | |
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Seen in a story from the Franklin television series. The word in question? "Stupid". The moral of the episode was that the words you use say a lot about you, and it actually works fairly well if you can get past your knee-jerk reaction to the idea of "stupid" as a swear word. (It's credible too, since the writing on the show is monitored carefully for the language they use, and normally they don't use "stupid"). | |
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For Better or for Worse had an example involving April where she overheard a swear word and repeats it proudly. Elly tells her that the word she used is not appropriate language to use. Subverted when April replies "I know. I was just testing you" to Elly's shocked expression. | |
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The Family Circus had this with Jeffy, who swore and got spanked as a result. | |
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Baby Blues: One storyline had infant Wren naming her stuffed puppy a curse word (censored with Symbol Swearing). Her parents calmly explain to her that she can't call her puppy that, so she gives it a different name... a DIFFERENT curse word that was presumably even worse. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion has a stark, morbid example. A very young Rei Ayanami calls Naoko Akagi a "hag"; while shocked, Naoko takes it softly and gently discourages her from using the word. Again, though, Rei insists that she is a "hag", sincerely and flatly. Naoko, now starting to get angry, warns her that she intends to spank her and tell Gendo. Rei asks her why she would tell him, when he is the one who refers to Naoko (his lover) as this, quoting him as saying "'That hag is useless'... 'That hag is unwanted'... 'That hag'". Naoko snaps and strangles her to death, and then either kills herself or is murdered shortly thereafter. | |
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An Angel at My Table: Young Janet does not know certain words are not to be said at the dinner table. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In the episode "Moo Moo", a scene with Jake and Amy babysitting Terry's young twin daughters ends with one of them innocently asking what an orgasm is. The next day, Amy apologetically tells Terry that she panicked and said it was another word for "orange". | |
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Romper Room: The Japanese version had an unintentional example that is a well-known urban legend. There are rumors of an episode where Miss Midori, the Japanese localization's hostess, asked the children if they know any words beginning with "ki", and a boy responded with "I know: kintama!", which is Japanese slang for testicles. Miss Midori then asked the boy if he could think of anything more kireina ("nice" in Japanese), prompting the boy to respond with "Kireina kintama!" ("Nice nuts!"). The boy was then replaced with a teddy bear after a commercial break. | |
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Marvin: In one storyline, Marvin learned a swear word, represented by him yelling "Censored!" He figured it meant "mommy", as every time he said it she'd run over urgently. | |
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The Berenstain Bears: Also done on the PBS Kids version of "The Big Blooper" just like in the book as mentioned above in the Literature Section, with Sister Bear and her friend Lizzie using the word "furball" after watching a video that belonged to the latter's brother — Trouble at Big Bear High. Apparently this is highly offensive to anthropomorphic bears. | |
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Donnie Darko: "What's a fuckass?" | |
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Homestuck has this exchange from Act 6: | |
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Rolie Polie Olie has the episode "Dingle-Dangle-Doodle". The title is the bad word in question. | |
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The Dick Van Dyke Show: One episode revolves around Richie learning several swear words from another kid he made friends with at school. The episode ends with Rob and Laura confronting the boy's parents about what he's been saying, only to find that they wanted to talk to Rob and Laura because their son was disturbed about some things Richie had been saying as well. | |
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In TAU, the titular AI computer provides an example when it turns out he has not been programmed to know the F-word: | |
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In Wish You Were Here (1987), Lynda tells a psychiatrist that she began swearing when she was very little. This brilliant scene has to be seen to be believed. | |
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Caillou: One episode did this with the word "stupid", which Caillou learns when he learns how to ride a skateboard from an older boy. After doing so, he and Leo uses the word at Clementine when she says he didn't actually skateboard by himself, which makes her upset. Caillou doesn't know why the word is bad until his mom gets a call from Clementine's mom saying that he hurt Clementine's feelings when he called her that word as well as hearing Rosie say the word herself. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Curses", Bubbles overhears Professor Utonium using a naughty word. She later says it in front of her sisters and they start using it themselves. Many Sound Effect Bleeps ensue. In a subversion, eventually they do understand it's wrong but at the end of the episode Buttercup openly swears with clear intent, which sees her mouth washed out with soap in the closing sequence. | |
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Outnumbered: In "The School Run", six-year-old Karen asks her father, Pete, about some words she overheard: | |
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Arthur: In "Bleep", DW hears a swear word and wants to know what it means. (She doesn't know at all that it's a swear word.) She accidentally gets her entire preschool class saying it. The Tibble twins tell her it's a hypnosis word, and saying it will make adults follow their orders. While her mother doesn't punish her this time, she finally tells her that it means that someone wants to hurt your feelings. Satisfied with this answer, D.W. decided to have a talk with her classmates the next day about using swear words. | |
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Sandra and Woo: In #189, Yuna completed her call for the freedom of the people of Burma with the word "motherfuckers". After she was told that it's an very offensive swearword, she apologized. | |
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Destiny 2: During Season of the Splicer, a House of Light Eliksni (city aligned Fallen) tries to offer their thanks to a ramen shop owner after trying a bowl. Unfortunately, the word they use is implied to be a vulgar term they heard Petra Venj use to describe the Spider, which she sarcastically claimed was a compliment. Things escalate to the point the Eliksni is chased by a lynch-mob out of paranoia and racism, and left to an Uncertain Doom. | |
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In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the innocent puppy, Perrito, would sometimes swear without realisation. With his past owner calling him "[bleep] for brains" and when reliving his past or calling the Bear family names, his words are covered in bleep noises. | |
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Big Daddy has Julian's "The goddamn Jets." | |
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Towards the end of We Bought a Zoo, little Rosie informs a USDA inspector visiting the eponymous zoo that everyone has said that he was "a dick." She admits that she doesn't know what it means. | |
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Life, the Universe and Everything: In the American edition,note The original joke, used in the UK edition, is that there is a film award for "Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'Fuck' in a Serious Screenplay". Adams re-wrote this section in the American edition to avoid using the F-word, and added another layer to the joke in the process. the word "Belgium" is the vilest profanity imaginable on every planet except Earth (and thus can only be used in serious screenplays). Arthur Dent is not aware of this, being from Earth, and so he repeats the word in conversation. | |
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The Loud House: In "Potty Mouth", the siblings get scared that they accidentally taught their one year old sister how to say "damn it." It turns out Lily was trying to say "donut", but then the dog steals her donut and then she swears for real. Interestingly, most of the siblings (the second youngest child is four) are all shown cursing without it being depicted as this. They all know exactly how to use the word. | |
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Dinosaurs has one episode where Baby learned one such word, "smoo". (In the dinosaur lingo, this is a dirty word because it describes debris that accumulates on the sole of a dinosaur's foot. It's also a slang term for the vulva.) | |
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And similarly to the Blast from the Past example, The Kid wonders what "Sportin' wood" and "Pitchin' a tent" mean, and one of the older kids tells him it's when you get excited. Cue his parents asking if he's excited to see a movie, and he blurts out — "Am I!? I'm sportin' wood!" Cue Spit Take from dad. | |
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Implied on the Goofy short "Fathers Are People". A photo on Goof Jr.'s baby album marked "Baby's First Word" is of Goofy washing his mouth with soap. | |
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The titular Starman does this after learning a new word from Jenny and being unclear on the definition beyond it being "not a nice word": | |
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From Meet The Fockers, Little Jack's first word is "asshole". | |
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Ojamajo Doremi: The English dub of the episode "Majorika Goes To Kindergarten" has Caitlyn's mother react in shock when she accuses her sister Dorie of carousing, immediately causing her to question where she learned such a word. | |
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Rugrats: The episode entitled "Word Of The Day" had Angelica audition for a children's show. While backstage she overheard a Depraved Kids' Show Host state, rather sarcastically, that the "real" catchphrase of the show is that the children who watch it "are all little (censored by outside noise)." Angelica, being three, thinks this is sincere. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Coming to America, Akeem, an African prince who comes to live in New York thinks that "fuck you" is greeting. "What does dumbfuck mean?" |
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In Avengers: Endgame, Tony's reaction to the fact that he's discovered a plausible means of Time Travel is to fall back in his chair and say "Shit!" Then he hears his four year-old daughter Morgan, who's sitting behind him on the stairs, repeat the same thing. | |
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Alter Ego (1986): During the Childhood chapter, you hear your dad cussing out the lawnmower. You can mimic him, naming your toy lawnmower $@*%#. | |
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Questionable Content has a twist on this one. After Pintsize tells Hannelore that robot swear words come from mashing on the keyboard, she asks him and Winslow what "qwerty" means. They're shocked. | |
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A rare non-verbal example involving a grown adult in Bean: Mr. Bean, for reasons known only to the almighty, doesn't know that flipping someone the middle finger is an obscene gesture and thinks it's an American gesture for "goodbye" after some random street toughs flip him off midway through the movie. So the host family he's staying with over the course of the film are somewhat off-put when he says goodbye by flipping them off as he leaves. | |
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FoxTrot: One storyline has Paige watching Jerzy Spaniel while babysitting. Of course, the kid hears a bad word and starts repeating it. In the epilogue, Paige reports that the mother was surprisingly understanding, saying that kids always hear bad words and repeat them, but if you don't use them often or attach special significance to them, they'll eventually drop it. Then they discussed Paige's watching Jerzy Spaniel while babysitting... | |
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Modern Family: Little Lily quickly starts firing off the F-word … at a wedding, her dads' attempts to stop her in vain. | |
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In Do You Believe in Fairies?, the cute and innocent Harvest Sprite Finn repeats back Evelyn's cursing at her. She quickly notes not to curse around him: | |
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In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars "merfolk AU" fanfic By the Sea, one of the first English words the merman Cody learns is "fuck". Obi-Wan is mortified at the prospect of accidentally teaching a mythical creature profanity, although it doesn't take Cody very long to learn that's what it is. Cody comes to prefer its sharpness over Mando'a profanity. | |
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Impractical Jokers: One challenge involved the guys working with a kid, Luke, who closed out the explanation of the challenge with "Let's do this, bitches!" (Cue the guys falling apart). | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Sailor Mouth", SpongeBob and Patrick read a bad word (heard as a dolphin chirp) written in a trash bin and start using it. Patrick claims it's a "sentence enhancer". Later Mr. Krabs ends up launching into a whole tirade of every one in the book, which even makes SpongeBob aghast. | |
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In an episode of Growing Pains, Chrissy, then a toddler, repeatedly says a curse word, signaled by a "Cuckoo!" sound. | |
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In Reunion Falls, it's implied that being around Wendy made Dipper more comfortable with swearing. | |
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YouTube has plenty of examples of toddlers mispronouncing words. For example, "dump truck" becomes "dumbfuck", "vacuum" becomes "fuck you", and "frog" is "fuck". Some adults in the videos exploit this: "Say 'awww, truck'." | |
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Baby Looney Tunes: In "Who Said That?", Daffy learns a swear word from a passing garbage man. He later tells the other Tunes about it. | |
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Little House on the Prairie has the Ingalls briefly move to the city and get a house near the local bar. This leads to the youngest daughter Carrie exclaiming "Damn!" at the dinner table. Pa reprimands her and tells her to ask him about unfamiliar words before using them in the future. | |
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Hollowtale has two non-verbal sign language examples: In one side comic, as Sans watched the Knight learning MoSL (Monster Sign Language), he decided to teach them some "advanced signs" not featured in the MoSL book, and tells them to sign them to Papyrus. Shortly after, the Knight comes to Papyrus and, as instructed by Sans, shows him the middle finger gesture. Papyrus is...less than amused. In the next side comic, when Papyrus was calling out Sans on being a terrible influence to the Knight, the Knight decides to interfere to innocently ask Papyrus about another gesture they learned from Sans. Said gesture turned out to be a MoSL sign for "asshole". For Papyrus, this was the last straw, and he gave Sans a Time Out in the corner, complete with the Dunce Cap. |
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Emil of Lönneberga: In one of the stories by Astrid Lindgren, Emil decides to teach his little sister Ida all the words he gets chastized for saying, and telling her she must not ever use these words. He is quite honest in his intentions, he's just become victim to some Insane Troll Logic. | |
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Between the Lines (1992): At the climax of the first season, the main villain becomes tangled up in a group of schoolchildren while trying to flee the heroes. As he tries to push the kids out of the way, one of them can clearly be heard to say (probably unscripted) "you dirty bastard!". | |
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Wimzie's House: This is done with the word "stupid" with one cent going into a "charity cup" each time it's said. Only Wimzie's little brother Bo is exempt because A.) He's only 1 1/2 and B.) He doesn't have any money. See more examples under Western Animation below. | |
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Angelo Rules: In one episode, Angelo swears in the proximity of Peter (who is five years old) after tripping over his toys. Peter hears the word and keeps using it throughout the episode because he thinks it sounds "cool". It becomes less innocent after he tries using the word more to turn people into space monsters (due Angelo's failed attempt at scaring Peter). The trope is inverted as well after Peter uses the word "gastropod" with the intent to swear (which, again, was part of Angelo's plan). | |
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How I Met Your Mother: While discussing the Attention Whore lead singer of The Mother's band Marshall offers to yell insulting things like "the lead singer sucks skunk junk!" during a performance. Cue Marshall's infant son Marvin, who was sitting behind him, repeating "skunk junk" as his first words. Marshall and The Mother look around in horror and hurriedly agree that if anyone asks they'll claim his first word was actually "Mommy". | |
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