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Sound-Effect Bleep
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A sound effect is used to cover up a naughty word. This is often used to let a character to say something rude in a show where Media Watchdogs would undoubtedly leap on it otherwise. It's the audio equivalent of Scenery Censor. Strangely enough, the bleep effect often makes the joke funnier than if the swear word had actually been used (thus forming the premise of Censored for Comedy). This is particularly true when it's used to cover up a Cluster F-Bomb. This is likely because profanity is often a mundane occurrence in real-life conversation, whereas loud, incongruous bleeps are not. Unfortunately, it can have the same effect on scenes that are supposed to be serious. Sometimes used in the service of The Unreveal, or to cut a curse short. In television, typically a 1kHz sine wave. Compare with Symbol Swearing, Narrative Profanity Filter, and T-Word Euphemism. Contrast with Seven Minute Lull, or Plot-Based Voice Cancellation. Also compare to Gag Censor, which is the visual equivalent. See also Jackhammered Conversation, as well as Cluster Bleep-Bomb for the longer version. |
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Played with in Night Watch, where Archchancellor Ridcully's swearing is drowned out by the tolling of the bell in the University's clock tower — which, being a magical bell in a magical University, makes silence instead of noise, giving the effect of a less diagetic kind of censorship. | |
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'Sluggy Freelance has an alternate dimension, the Dimension of Lame, where absolutely nothing evil or nasty exists in any way. As such, when a character tries to say "hell", it gets covered by a bleep, meaning that it actually says says a bleep. | |
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Dominic Deegan uses this on a regular basis, though usually by another character interrupting and covering the word or something happens where the art can cover the word. | |
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Ozy and Millie had a one-off joke in which Avery was shown using Beep noises every other word, having mistaken the beeps as actual swears, and brushed Ozy off when he tried to correct him. | |
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8-Bit Theater also has at least one. Or two. |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lee Jordan calls a player on the opposing team a "filthy, cheating bastard", but in print, only the "b" part is heard, as Professor McGonagall's own shouting at the player drowns it out. For once she didn't pay attention to Jordan's language (or favoritism, or any other junk Jordan pulls regularly while commentating). Although “bastard� is used twice in the seventh book, once by Aberforth Dumbledore and once by Ron. Used oddly in Chamber of Secrets. The teachers are patrolling the corridors at night due to the monster attacks, but Team Harry has to sneak out to do something so they drape Harry's Invisibility Cloak over themselves. As they pass Snape, Ron stubs his toe and swears. Luckily, Snape sneezes at the same time. Given the context, it's likely the word that was covered up was "shit". |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, both time the Doctor tries to say "Motherf-", he gets interrupted by someone shouting "He said a bad word!" Later on, each time someone tries to swear, the actual bad word is covered by a black box with a silly replacement word. One comic censors fingers (ineffectively) with little black boxes saying things like "[How] [Rude!]" |
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In the Xanth series novel Yon Ill Wind, The Adult Conspiracy magically censors swearwords so that children will not hear them. If children do swear, the word is bleeped. This appears to be an upgrade from the original Conspiracy. The previous book, Roc and a Hard Place, centered around the issue of speaking a profanity in the presence of a minor and referred to events from The Color of Her Panties, where the Conspiracy and swear words were also significant points. And note the novels have always used Symbol Swearing in print. | |
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Schlock Mercenary used a bleep-concealing box on several occasions, often to hilarious effect. | |
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Ash and Serena's Atomic Odyssey: The Pokémon Speech Translator device has this as a built-in feature, shown when they tried it on Ash's Dunsparce. | |
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The picture above comes from Gunnerkrigg Court. Curiously averted earlier in the same chapter when this girl used the phrase "Goddam it!" without being censored. There's also this. |
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Used oddly in Chamber of Secrets. The teachers are patrolling the corridors at night due to the monster attacks, but Team Harry has to sneak out to do something so they drape Harry's Invisibility Cloak over themselves. As they pass Snape, Ron stubs his toe and swears. Luckily, Snape sneezes at the same time. Given the context, it's likely the word that was covered up was "shit". | |
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Not shown directly, but in Grrl Power when Sydney is interviewed on national television she doesn't tone down her language, and eventually the person in charge of real-time censoring pleads with her to stop via the news crawl. | |
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Tough Magic has outtakes in the back of the books, one of which has the Author's attempt to curse beeped out. | |
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In Don't Say, "Dannit", Lynn Sr. says, "Dang it", which he thinks is profanity, and hopes his horn blocked it out so that baby Lily didn't hear. | |
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In Erfworld, the universe literally *boops* out any profanities, even written ones. It's a rather important plot point when this stops happening. |
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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lee Jordan calls a player on the opposing team a "filthy, cheating bastard", but in print, only the "b" part is heard, as Professor McGonagall's own shouting at the player drowns it out. For once she didn't pay attention to Jordan's language (or favoritism, or any other junk Jordan pulls regularly while commentating). Although “bastard� is used twice in the seventh book, once by Aberforth Dumbledore and once by Ron. | |
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In The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show, The Adventures of Basil the Cylinder is supposedly a children's series. Therefore Nigel the Parallelogram's swearing is censored that way. | |
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In the Artemis Fowl series, particularly the eighth book, The Last Guardian, "bleep" itself seems to be an actual Gnommish profanity. At least one character shouts "What the bleep?!" in confusion. | |
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In Kyon: Big Damn Hero Fujiwara is interrupted this by a car horn when calling Tachibana a bi-[HONK]. | |
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In Season 7 episode 10 of Happy Heroes, the Supermen observe that Ambassador Wang and Ambassador Miao are having a fight that has escalated to the point that their yelling has multiple censor bleeps peppered in them - a fact that Smart S. lampshades. (Being a children's show, Happy Heroes doesn't use censor bleeps officially. This is meant as a one-off joke.) | |
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In RFG (Radio For Gamers) words are censored with the tones that make up 9-1-1. | |
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