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T-Word Euphemism
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This trope is a common kind of euphemism, where a word that shouldn't or can't be used will be referred to as "the <letter>-word" instead. Or, alternately, the offending word will have key letters masked by dashes, asterisks, or other punctuation (such as "f-k," or "$#!+"). Usually occurs in Real Life as a specific form of Gosh Dang It to Heck! and Bowdlerise, especially in performances for all-ages audiences. Might also appear for comedic value, such as using a euphemism for an innocuous word, or leaving it completely ambiguous what the substituted word actually is. Inspiration for The L Word (in spirit, anyway). Also see Not Using the "Z" Word and N-Word Privileges, as well as the frequently related Country Matters. Sound-Effect Bleep is the audio equivalent. Sometimes characters will resort to Censorship by Spelling instead. Not to be confused with the actual T-words considered derogatory terms for Transgender people. More contemporary authors treat this as a Dead Horse Trope with all related snarkery — expect a dash of Lampshade Hanging as characters marvel that someone could pronounce all those dashes and ampersands. Compare Tradesnarkâ„¢. Examples |
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At least as far back as Mort: | |
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Sister show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Obscene," the character played by guest star Lewis Black refers to another character as a "bitch with a capital C." | |
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The Far Side has a joke about "the D-word" in a MENSA convention. It's "duh". | |
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In Isaac Asimov's Forward the Foundation, the word "whore" is written "wh___". | |
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In an issue of Viz, Student Grant is being Politically Correct and is talking about saying the N-word. Of course, he doesn't say the word itself; he says the phrase 'the N-word'. However, one friend tells another that Grant 'said 'the N-word''. Hilarity ensues. | |
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In The World Ends with You, a musician called the Prince has a super popular blog called "F Everything" which gets referenced several times. No, it doesn't mean what you think it does, because the Prince is high on life. It stands for Fabulous. Which is weird, because you find this out an in-game week after it is implied that "F Everything" means exactly what you think it means. | |
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And it's subverted again in Raising Steam, when Harry King threatens to throw someone down the Effing stairs. It transpires that the stairs are so-called because they're made from fine wood from the Effing Forest, visited later in the book. (In the real world, there's an Epping Forest near London.) (According to Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook, Effing Forest is also known for its birdlife, including the Effing Great Tit.) | |
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Sluggy Freelance: "F-word!" is used in place of actually swearing on a few, occasions. In a very early strip, Bun-Bun is very sensitive to the word "neutered". |
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Subverted in Reaper Man, where the Dean is forbidden by the Archchancellor from uttering "the Y-word" again, because Ridcully's gotten fed up with his colleague shouting "Yo!" every few seconds. | |
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The comedic subplot of the L.A. Law episode " Beef Jerky" had Grace prosecuting the theft of bull semen. During testimony to explain how the samples are collected, the technician shyly asks the judge "May I say the "p-word"? May I say the "v-word"?". The supposedly fed-up judge orders Grace and the defense attorney into his chambers—-where they all burst into hysterical laughter as soon as the door is closed. | |
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Subverted in That '70s Show. | |
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Played for laughs in Wings when Lowell is telling the guys about his fears that his wife is cheating on him. | |
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In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis angrily calls an Israeli man a Jew, causing Mac and Charlie to protest, saying that Dennis used "a hard J." Dennis is confused about objecting to calling a Jew a Jew, but Mac and Charlie insist that context makes the word offensive. Later Mac calls the same man a Jew and pre-empts Charlie's objection by saying that the context was appropriate and that he had thought about it ahead of time. | |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "Bart Star" (after Homer announces that Bart will be the new quarterback, replacing the far more talented Nelson): From "Marge Gamer" |
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Zombie Prom: "She said the C word! The really bad one! Rhymes with 'map'!" | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): In the episode “Turtle Terminator�, Krang sends a robot that inflicts a Beam Spam attack on anything even remotely resembling a turtle. Including toys, balloons and even somebody uttering the word “turtle�. The turtles and April manage to draw this robot over to an abandoned amusement park where it can’t hurt any innocent bystanders. Unfortunately, April’s ditzy friend Irma is there too. April locates Irma and warns her to never use the “T-word� in here. Irma realizes what the T-word is, only when the robot starts raining blaster fire towards her. | |
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The cleverly titled Carcass song "R**k the vote". | |
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In Roseanne, Becky is sent home crying by her Jerkass boss, and her father and boyfriend find out that he called her a particularly nasty word. Her brother DJ pesters them over it, asking if it was "the b-word," "the f-word," or "the l-word." (He then admits he doesn't even know what "the f-word" is after being asked what "the l-word" is). And it's heavily implied Becky was called "the c-word." | |
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In the 2006 London Royal Variety Performance Avenue Q portion, Mrs. Thistletwat comes on after "It Sucks to be Me" is played and yells this: | |
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Similarly, from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The entire "G-wiz" episode. | |
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In Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings, after you synthesize a water bag for the first time, you get a scene in which Suelle suggests that it's a "portable toilet," although every time she tries to say "toilet," she gets cut off by Lydie. Eventually, the screen goes dark and you get Lydie warning her to not say the "t word," with a sound of Suelle being kicked and crying out in pain. | |
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From the Community episode "Home Economics", Vaughn's song about "getting rid of Britta, I'm getting rid of the B..." (She's a G-D-B!). Has Added Alliterative Appeal since her name starts with a B. | |
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HFIL is a special rehabilitation center in Hell for villains with an unnaturally high level of ki. But as Mez reminds Goz, they don't like using "the v-word" for those in HFIL because "it implies it's forever". Goz corrects himself by calling the residents "morally compromised malefactors". | |
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Doonesbury: Played with when Lacey Davenport's political opponent challenged her to mutual drug tests — "Any time! Any place! I will fill any bottle!" Upon hearing this, Lacey's husband commented dryly, "It would appear the contest has turned into a p—-ing match," whereupon Davenport replied, "A what? You know I can't understand you when you use hyphens, dear." In a story arc about Frank Sinatra's skills with profanity, the text is censored thusly: "Get me your (obscene gerund) boss, you little (anatomically explicit epithet)!" Which is horribly offensive because, as everyone knows, there's a huge difference between a gerund and a present participle, whether they look alike or not! |
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In "Franklin and the Grump" on Franklin, Mr. Groundhog invites Franklin into his home for cocoa after Franklin returns his container of cocoa mix that he had left behind while fleeing from folks that wanted him to either tell him that there's either going to be an early spring or more winter. Franklin promises not to Talk About the Weather, but then notices Mr. Beaver's various meteorological instruments and comments that he "must know a lot about the weather," then covers his mouth and says that he forgot he wasn't supposed to talk about "the W-word." Mr. Beaver, however, says that he loves talking about the weather, it's just that he doesn't like everyone pestering him about Groundhog Day because there are always going to be those who don't like the answer they hear. | |
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The minions of Lord Pilaf of Dragon Ball are this way about the "K-word" (the K-word, of course, being "kiss"). | |
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Harry Potter: "Effing" is a variation, fitting since the books are set in Britain ("Effing" or "f-ing" is a common euphemism for "fucking" in British slang). Also, in a Pensieve Flashback James refers to "Mudblood" as "the M-word." The "M-word" is "magic" in Vernon Dursley's mindset. He expressly forbids Harry from saying that when he reminded Dudley that he should say please euphemistically. | |
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The increasingly ridiculous abbreviations in "FYI I Wanna F Your A" by Ninja Sex Party. | |
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We Bare Bears: In "Viral Video", Panda gets into an argument with Grizzly and calls him a "dingle". Grizzly responds "Hey, there's no need to roll out the D-word!" | |
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An episode of Arrested Development plays with this. GOB Bluth buys a yacht called The Seaward, and his brother Michael is annoyed. Then their mother shows up at the tail end of the conversation and mishears "The Seaward" as "the c-word": Note that GOB's other yacht in the final episode is actually called ''The C-Word,'' so written. He also calls another of his yachts (after The Seaward. sunk) the ''Lucille II.'', making the link explicit. |
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In The Demented Cartoon Movie, a certain phrase that causes Stuff Blowing Up whenever it is said is referred to as "the Zeeky words." | |
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Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes once used a variant with flash cards marked with a letter followed by several dashes in show and tell. When he showed the card, he would have the class yell the offending word in full. Subverted in that Ms. Wormwood doesn't allow it and promptly sends him back to his desk. Muses Calvin: "She's such a hypocrite about building vocabulary." | |
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Played for laughs in A Very Brady Sequel, when the villain confronts Mr. Brady with a threat to "kick your Brady butt!" The family gasps, and little Cindy exclaims "Daddy, he said the B-Word!" | |
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In Deadpool 2, "family" has always been an "F-word" for Wade - a moral of the film is about him and others finding a Family of Choice. | |
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In This Country The Vicar frequently chastises Kerry and Kurtan for "effing and jeffing". | |
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"7a", a Discworld euphemism for the number between 7 and 9, which is considered unlucky (as in, tends to attract eldritch nightmares) by magic users. Though Terry Pratchett often noted this point in his early novels, he tended to ignore it in later works...which led to a lot of surprise when Going Postal had Chapter 7a... Rincewind noted that, being a Cosmic Plaything, his room number at Unseen University is, of course, 7a. |
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On the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode "Greg and Larry", Jake tells a suspect about to go through Perp Sweating that "You're about to get S'ed in the B!" Yes, it's the rare T-Word Euphemism/Gosh Dang It to Heck! combo. On the "Honeymoon" episode, Jake is understandably flustered when Amy unnecessarily euphamizes "This B(abe) wants a D(rink) in her A(rms)". |
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An inversion by Jeremy Hardy during his first appearance on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue in 1996. Hardy fumbles a line, swears and then apologises 'for using the fuck-w'. (This has been left in the CD of the live recording, but obviously was edited out of the broadcast.) | |
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The trope is comically subverted in UK cop film Hot Fuzz. The police station's swear box has a list of prohibited swear words, each of which is bowdlerised — except 'cunt'. | |
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A One Big Happy strip has Ruthie tattle on Joe about name-calling, except that the letters used as euphemisms aren't the usual suspects so the parents aren't sure what the uncensored words are supposed to be. Joe still gets sent to his room. | |
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That Wacky Redhead never refers to "the V-word" explicitly, as part of an in-joke about how that topic tends to dominate American-penned Alternate History timelines set in this period. | |
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The issue of Quantum and Woody titled "Noogie" begins with the characters introducing the issue by saying that they've been forbidden to use the "N-Word", and will use the word "Noogie" instead. The idea is later subverted when a poor black character repeatedly calls Quantum "noogie". Quantum, whose full-body costume covers his identity, demands to know how the man knows he's black, only to be told "You're black? S-Word!" | |
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Played with in a scene in Rush Hour 3. Carter and Lee are interrogating a man who speaks only French, so they enlist a nun, who's fluent in French, to translate. So, naturally, when she translates the prisoner's taunts, she summarizes with "Well, he used the N-word". For the rest of the scene, Carter and Lee ask her to translate things like "Tell this piece of S-word that I will personally F-word him up", complete with brief stops to determine the spelling of some of the words. | |
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In the Buu Bits for Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Videl tells Gohan that she lost her mother to 'The Big C'. She meant cancer, but Gohan misinterprets it as Cell. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law: In the premiere episode "Going the Extra Milo", Milo introduces himself to his new classmate Zack, saying that he has a reputation at his school for being "the J-word". Then a series of freak catastrophes lead to Milo and Zack getting chased down the block by a huge length of concrete pipe that nearly squashes them flat. | |
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: From the episode, "Birthday Police" when the titular trio finds a group of outcasts who hid from the birthday police with this exchange after Rock talks about escaping from them: | |
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In the Dragon Tales episode "Roller Coaster Dragon," after Wheezie finally finds a method that works for her to be patient, she comments that while she was doing it, she wasn't thinking about the roller coaster. Zak, shocked, comments that she "said the R word," but Wheezie brushes it off, saying that she just thought of another way to distract herself. | |
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The English dub of Kinnikuman Nisei has this: When Kid Muscle denounces wrestling as fake, Sosumi declares "How dare he say the F-word!" | |
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In Going Postal, after Moist von Lipwig goes on a screaming tirade about Reacher Gilt's smug, weasely speech in the Ankh-Morpork Times, the ultra-prim Miss Maccalariat admonishes him to avoid using the K-word, the L-word, the T-word, the V-word, the Y-word, and both of the S-words in the future. "Murdering conniving bastard of a weasel" was acceptable, however, since he was talking about Reacher Gilt. | |
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Beetlejuice, when the title character is about to marry Lydia: There is, however, a practical reason: B can be summoned or banished by saying his name three times. |
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Before it was a television series in which it referred to lesbianism, "the L word" was a T-word euphemism for "liberalism." In American politics from the 1980s onwards, conservatives have enthusiastically held onto the word "conservative", but left and center-left politicians have tended to avoid the word "liberal." This doesn't necessarily apply to people not running for office. For the bitterest of ironies, liberal doesn't even mean leftist to begin with. Also standing for "Love", which can be a difficult thing for some people to directly express using its proper name... and, relevant to the TV show, extremely troublesome for homosexual couples (or would-be couples) to admit to having for each other for a lot of recorded history, or even for others to suspect. Sometimes fatally so. Hence having to whisper it, in bowdlerised terms. |
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Bloom County: In one arc, the Bloom Picayune decides to do a frank, honest article about AIDS. The first draft, submitted by the obviously-nervous editor, is full of T-words. In another, the characters have been informed that they must refrain from using the "14-letter 'S' word." It turns out to be "Snugglebunnies." |
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In No Straight Roads, Bunk Bed Junction face against the Virtual Celebrity Sayu. After talking with the digital mermaid for a bit, Mayday gets fed up and says it's pointless to talk to Sayu because she's not real. Zuke quickly tells her she can't use "the R-word" around Sayu as it's taboo in the Akusuka District. Mayday ends up even more fed up at that statement. | |
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In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, when Cartman calls Kyle a "fucking Jew" in class. Later in the movie when the boys' mothers come to school, Sheila asks if her son Kyle said "the S-woid" and then when told no, she asks, with greater horror, "The F-woid?!� Also, trailers for this movie include a deleted scene of Mr. Mackey asking, “Young man, did you just say the Q-word?� The finished film features no allusions to or mentions of this word. |
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Chainsaw Man: The Japanese version has Nayuta saying "fuck you" in English, which the English version changes to "eff off [sic]". The spelling is apparently to emphasize she's literally saying the letter out loud. | |
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In Time Crisis 4 (arcade), there is a sequence where you continually (more or less) shoot at a boss while he is wrestling with an ally. As usual, you are being debriefed on the situation by another ally who is speaking to you via intercom. (This is basically narration of the game script, which is also displayed at the bottom of the screen.) For whatever reason, she decides to name the wrestling moves used by the boss. After a few ordinary examples, the script comes up "F—-!" at the bottom of the screen - and she actually yells out, "Eff!" | |
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Perfect Hair Forever combined this with Sound-Effect Bleep by bleeping out any usage of the F-word with a guy yelling "EFF!" | |
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Played with in 30 Rock, when the maintenance guys are dealing with a gas leak. Kenneth uses the C-word. "Yes, that's right, a cranky sue." |
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Similarly, The Rolling Stones' "Star Star" is pronounced "Starfucker". | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has Alice, in order to avoid frightening a nervous mouse, referring to cats and dogs as "C and D". I'm | |
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The Story of Valentine and His Brother spells "damned" as "d——d." | |
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In M*A*S*H the guys say that "the cook made 'food' a 4-letter word". | |
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In the Reba episode "Sweet Child O' Mine", "bitch" is addressed as "the B(-word)" instead. | |
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In the Law & Order episode "Ritual," one of the detectives asks if he's "the only one here thinking the T-word." They were investigating the murder of a Middle Eastern man whose behavior looked a little suspicious; the T-word is obviously "terrorism/terrorist." | |
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Roommates has two strips titled this way: "Roommates 145 - The M Wordnote Mother" and "Roommates 168 - The F Wordnote French" (in this one a character actually says "so... you know... the f-word..." in a questionable situation). | |
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In A Pelican at Blandings, Johnny Halliday's landlady Ma Balsam reports speech like this, quoting Johnny's friend as saying "For G's sake isn't he back yet?" and "Oh, aitch!" | |
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There was an early Malcolm in the Middle episode where the family meets the other families of Malcolm's krelboyne class. One mother acts hostile to Lois because Malcolm taught her son "The R word." Lois' only reaction is confusion over which word is meant. | |
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Regular Show: After accidentally damaging their bedroom wall in "The Power", Rigby grouses "Now, how in the H are we gonna fix this S?" H is a recurring one in early episodes. | |
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A Christmas Story: "It was the word! The big one! The queen mother of dirty words! The "F dash dash dash" word! | |
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The Futurama episode "War is the H-Word": | |
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From the first episode of The Venture Bros.: | |
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In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where everyone is conceived and born artificially, the word "mother" is considered an obscenity. Thus, when Bernard Marx is writing his report to the World Controller about the Savage, he writes the word as "m——". | |
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In The Truth, Mr. Tulip habitually injects "—ing" throughout his dialog ("They never told us about no —ing dog."). It's eventually explained that, rather than being censored text, Mr Tulip actually has a 'speech impediment' that prevents him from pronouncing any part of the word except 'ing'. Lampshaded when other characters speculate on what "ing" means. The best one, though, is one character's response to Tulip's comment when someone mis-identifies an antique instrument (It Makes Sense in Context). It also makes perfectly clear exactly what the word means. Terry Prachett has noted that people have complained about the use of —ing in reading the book to school children. Pratchett reportedly could not understand their ire, as, he said, "It is essentially a self-censoring swearword" and as such better than children really swearing. |
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Perfect Pie: Played for laughs, when Patsy is horrified at Marie for saying "the "F" word" after Marie said "shit". | |
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In The Most Popular Girls in School when Tanya finds out that Mackenzie is losing her hair because she curses too much she says, "Face it Mackenzie, when you're not allowed to say the A-word, the B-word, the C-word, the D-word, the E-word, or the F-word, you have nothing to say." | |
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In an episode of The Charmings, Snow White is upset that her husband used "the F-word" in front of the kids... but since the Charmings come from a Sugar Bowl, the F-word in this case is "fiddlesticks". | |
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On Orphan Black, Alison sometimes resorts to using the letter "F" as a stand-in for "fuck". Sometimes, "the C-word" is used instead of clone, again because of Alison, who's having a hard time dealing with being one. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, while the party is exploring Lohengrin Castle, Jusis comments on how they're finding many odd mechanisms and ghost-like monsters. Millium, who has already been scared by the monsters, tells him to not say "the g-word." | |
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In one episode of Father Ted, Mrs Doyle has been reading the works of a lady novelist staying at the parochial house and is shocked by the language. She refers to "the F-word", but this being Father Ted has to clarify "The bad F-word. Not feck. Worse than feck." | |
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In Pygmalion, housekeeper Mrs Pearce reprimands Professor Higgins for setting a bad example to Eliza: | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Sneeze, Detention, and Sissy Spacek", Sheldon repeats Georgie's use of the phrase "bad ass" by saying "bad a-word". | |
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In "Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch", the conjurer, the Great Edmondo, has a bit of a mouth on him when he's off-stage, letting out a "b——r" and referring to his predecessor as a "slipper b——d". But that's nothing on Lord Emsworth, who has a lengthy dashed-out complaint about a fellow guest at the party who "shows no f——n' interest" in pigs; it goes on for several sentences, with at least a third of the words dashed out, among them the F word, the C word, the S word, and four different B words. | |
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In the first episode of Black Dynamite, the N-Word is Ninja, used in every possible way the actual N-Word is used. | |
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The TV Tropes page for N-Word Privileges | |
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In Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo, Rabbit doesn't want to hear the word "Easter." So at one point, Tigger tells Roo to not say "the E word." | |
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In Easy A Olive admits to her parents that she got sent to the principal for calling another girl an inappropriate word. They ask her what letter the word started with, since her little brother is around, but then can't think of a bad word that starts with T (it was "twat"). | |
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Maximum Ride would sometimes say "What the h". | |
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The Parent Trap (1998) makes use of this trope when Hallie-As-Annie talks to her mother. | |
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One splash in Minecraft is "Doesn't use the U-word!" The consensus among fans is that the U-word in question is Unity, a common 3D game engine.note The original PC version of Minecraft uses Java, all other versions (including the Windows 10 version) use the custom-made Bedrock Engine. As such, this trope is Played for Laughs here. | |
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One of Uncyclopedia's category templates links to a whole alphabet of these. | |
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In Battle for the Planet of the Apes, humans are forbidden to use the word "no" or any similar "negative imperative" if they are addressing apes, who can, in turn, freely use it on each other and on humans. The justification is because the humans used to keep the apes as slaves and conditioning them to respond to the word "no" was part of the training before they fully developed human-level intelligence. | |
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In Wylder's Hand, Stanley Lake says "d——" and "d——d" a lot. | |
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In the Johnny Bravo episode "The Sensitive Male!", Jack Sheldon sings to Johnny about impressing women by getting in touch with his sensitive side: | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Roxie does this while attempting to finish off Scott in a fight. Earlier: All these T-words are probably why Scott is confused about what, exactly, the L-word isnote He thought it was "lesbian" instead of "love. |
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From H.M.S. Pinafore: The euphemised word is "damn". Capt. Corcoran—the "I" in the above quote—does eventually say "Damme, it's too bad!", which is overheard and, at ridiculous length, condemned. |
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South Park: In "Clubhouses" Randy is trying to find Sharon's wedding ring which fell down the sink. He thinks he found it only to hold up an alarm clock. After it was heard 162 times in the episode "It Hits the Fan", Kyle notes that we are using the s-word too much. The episode "You Got F'd in the A" has the trope right in the title. It's used in the dialogue as well. The episode "The F Word" has the definition of the word "fag" changed to: 1. An extremely annoying, inconsiderate person most commonly associated with Harley riders. 2. A person who owns or frequently rides a Harley. |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3, the Mayor, when talking to Faith, states that Faith "is all the slayer he would ever need" and that, if Buffy would offer herself, he would reject her now. When Faith reacts defensively, the Mayor realizes his error and apologizes for using the "b-word" (which, in this case, is "Buffy"). Made funnier by the fact that before her Face–Heel Turn, Faith frequently called Buffy "B." | |
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Forestdale has Izabell Carroll slip in 'the B-word' as something she'd call her friend Sora after being cleverly insulted through a game of scrabble. | |
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A right-wing American senator in In the Loop repeatedly uses minced oaths rather than swear words. When Malcolm Tucker dresses him down, Tucker says, "You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know that you disapprove of the swearing, so I'll sort that out: You are a boring f-star-star-cunt." | |
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Goblins has the N-wordnote it is "Noe" or any of its homophones such as "no" or "know". The reason for this is different than usual: it is the name of the guardian of the dungeon who is summoned by saying his name. He will answer a question the first 3 time you summon him, at the 4th time he kills you. | |
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Family Guy: | |
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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: The Penal Zone: | |
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In "LazyTown's New Superhero" on LazyTown, Robbie Rotten created a Robot Dog that attacked whenever it heard the word "trouble" because it was traditional on the series for Sportacus to shout "Someone's in trouble!" As such, "trouble" became "the T-word." | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Flower", Wander and Sylvia try to find a planet to plant a flower before Lord Dominator destroys it. Every planet they try is too dangerous, and more than a few times they are chased by a giant bee. When they finally find the perfect spot to plant the flower, a Shadow of Impending Doom appears and this exchange occurs. | |
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In the Jim Henson Hour episode "Secrets of the Muppets", when Jim says "I suppose you'd like me to talk about... puppets", the Muppet characters start freaking out and shouting "He said the P-word!" | |
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Frasier: One episode has Niles talking about how he once donated sperm to a sperm bank. Martin gets grossed out hearing his son talk about sperm, and insists he refer to it as "s" instead... which only manages to make it sound more sordid, as Niles talks about what he did with his "s" money. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "The Love God", Grunkle Stan shouts "What the H?" before getting hit on the head by a giant letter "H". | |
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