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* ''{{Empowered}}'' makes liberal use of this, despite that its creator is pretty much his own boss on the project.

->''"Whoever came up with this is an ass[bleep]! Ass? Hole? Ass[bleep]? Television makes a lot of sense." ''

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SarcasmMode Blast, I can't make out anything behind those giant letters! Is the Flash decapitated? dismembered? I can't tell!]]]]

* Parodied in ''Source Wars: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf7RTWpjxzs Day of Defeat vs. The Hidden]]'': at the beginning the hosts mention that some viewers had problems with the uncensored wearing in the first episode, and so brought in a sound-effect guy to censor their swears live. Said sound-effect guy is, however, a sleepy old man, who either misses bleeping out swears entirely, or fails to do so until a few seconds after they're uttered.

* The Doujinshi culture has a lot of this. Due to censorship laws, genitalia must be covered, but it is not uncommon to see some doujins to have very short, thin and almost transparent censor bars that pretty much fails to cover anything and only serve as a legal pass for publishing.
** In one case, the laws against showing genitalia backfired on the censors by creating the [[NaughtyTentacles tentacle]] [[{{Urotsukidouji}} rape]] genre.

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* In ''{{Persona 2}}: Eternal Punishment'', the characters often swear, ''especially'' Ulala, who might start off a battle saying, "Don't underestimate me you *bleep*ing bastards!" This actually doubles as GettingCrapPastTheRadar, since you can ''clearly tell'' what the characters are saying (Such as when Baofu asks, "Who the f##k are you?"), but since They were bleeped, the game got away with a "T" rating in NA.

-->-- '''WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''

* WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd [[DiscussedTrope demonstrated this hypocrisy]] in one of his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsO7Xq717c videos]].
* Happens often in [[WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]
* WebOriginal/ToddInTheShadows tries to show that even he doesn't have any NWordPrivileges during his review Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris". The first time he had to say the name of the song, he stopped himself and asked for "Ni***as in Paris" to show up on screen. At the end of the review, he almost says it again, but stops once more and points to the bottom of the screen. It now says "Niggas in P***s". He sighs in disappointment. "What the hell do I pay you people for?"

->Egads, this trope is filthy! Hm, try spoilering out some of those apostrophes...

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->"Whoever came up with this is an ass[bleep]! Ass? Hole? Ass[bleep]? Television makes a lot of sense."
--> '''WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''

--> '''TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''

* The AngryVideoGameNerd [[DiscussedTrope demonstrated this hypocrisy]] in one of his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsO7Xq717c videos]].

-->Cuss like a sailor, drink like a mick!
-->Only words of wisdom are to [RADIO EDIT]

Could be used simply to get past censorship laws, as a half-hearted way of saying "look, we tried, honest." Or it could just be that the people in charge of the censorship were putting in a [[IncrediblyLamePun half-asterisked]] effort that day. Inconsistency in the censorship is also likely to occur in shows that make heavy use of {{Censor Decoy}}s.

* "[[SouthPark Hey Wendy, what's an 'assh***'?]]"

--> TheAngryVideoGameNerd

->"You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!"
--> [[TheBible Matthew 23:24]]

* The UltimateWarrior's short-lived comic book, ''Warrior'', has him yelling [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox14/pics/awaken.jpg FFUUC--]] at one point. (How is the Warrior capable of pronouncing the C and not the K can be probably attributed to his near-divine skills.)

* In [[VivaLasVegas Vegas]], advertisements for prostitutes will have naked women in sexually provocative poses, but with tiny stars over the nipples.

* The radio edit of the song "Dynamite" by TaioCruz contains the line "Gonna do just what the fuck I came here to do". The 'fuck' is, of course, censored but slightly late and with a distortion rather than silence, so the end result is that it sounds exactly like they're singing "Gonna do just what the fuck I'm here to do."

* The radio edit of the song "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz contains the line "Gonna do just what the fuck I came here to do". The 'fuck' is, of course, censored but slightly late and with a distortion rather than silence, so the end result is that it sounds exactly like they're singing "Gonna do just what the fuck I'm here to do."