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Advertising

One commercial for Orbit gum had "reactions" to the gum, with each person beginning a curse (apparently because the gum was so good), but being cut off by the ever-perky Orbit girl after the first letter, which is also the first letter in the name of the next person. The commercial ends with her cutting off a young boy with the word "fantastic!"

Anime and Manga

In Digimon's English dub, one character has his last word interrupted by another word that sounds like another word that has the same meaning.
Davis: We're gonna kick your—
Digimon Emperor/Ken: But! You didn't let me finish!
The Samurai Pizza Cats Fan Club Oath:
So hail to thee, O Pizza Cat
Please ring your little bell
Although you may be pen and ink
We know you'll fight like—
Pizza Cats: PIZZA CATS!
Slayers Try has Amelia comment that a mountain they were about to climb "looks like a pile of—" before Lina steps in with a reminder that she's a royal princess (and thus shouldn't be cussing).
In the "Yo-kai Espy" episode of Yo-kai Watch involves a youkai that can see into people's minds. She gets embarrassed at "improper" things like Nate thinking about how he needs to pee, so Nate starts to imagine himself pulling his underwear up and down repeatedly while singing (badly):
Nate: Up, down, do not slump!
Nate: If you don't watch out you'll see my rump!
Nate: Down, up, lightning fast!
Nate: Don't look now, you'll see my—(Jibanyan and Whisper Face Fault before he can finish)

Comedy

The "We are from..." sketch by the Insterburgs, a 1970s comedy quartet from Berlin. Consisting of naming towns and making fun with it. "I am from London - I am a Londoner - I am from Paris - I am (the three others hold Karl Dalls mouth shut) NO Londoner!" ^note (Also has an example for the self-interrupted variety - "Ich leb auf dem Pazifik - ich bin ein...Dampfer!" ^note)
A WWII veteran is giving a talk to an all-girls school:
Pilot: So there I was above Calais, when all of a sudden I see enemy planes below, six of the f-
Teacher: As You Know, girls, the Fokker was a German warplane.
Pilot: [surprised] Quite right, miss. Anyway, so these six fuckers in their Messerschmitts…

Comic Books

In the Animorphs: The Invasion graphic novel, Rachel calls the Hork-Bajir-Controllers "stupid sacks of lizard...", but gets interrupted by one of them shouting something in Galard.
Happens to Ms. Marvel during the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover. She attempts to insult Magik, who promptly uses her powers to gag Ms. Marvel mid-sentence and dismissively comment on how "loud" she is.
During the Batman storyline Knight Fall when Azrael headbutts Tom of the Trigger Twins:
Tom: You broke my nose you son of a...(Azrael kicks him in the face)
Dastardly & Muttley: Captain Dudley Muller while explaining how Lieutenant Colonel Atcherly changed after the unstable element incident.
Dudley: I mean I know you always used to talk like you had a stick up your—
Richard: Balderdash! Complete and utter codswallop!
Dudley: Yeah, you see?
In DC Showcase '94 when a prisoner taunts the serial killer Mr. Zsasz:
Prisoner: Think you're a dog pal? Woof, woof, woof! Ya crazy bas—(Mr. Zsasz bites his nose)
In The Demon Annual #2, after the rhyming demon Etrigan pounds his opponent through the pavement into a sewer:
Etrigan: By my dearest brother Goat—
Who'd've thought the oaf would float?
Down that sewer all so dank and dimly lit?
But just watch the fellow hurry
Through that mass of noxious slurry...
He really seems at home in all that—
Policeman: Freeze!
Done in What If? Vol 2 #16, when Wolverine drags a singing bard into an alley to steal his clothes. As it happened, the bard was singing this verse:
Bard: We do not fear our rivals' blades/Nor the serpent's <hic!> hiss/Except the one who calls to me/When I must take a- WHOULP!
ElfQuest occasionally has one character censoring another, for instance here (panel 6).
Hellboy usually only gets as far as "Son of a..." before getting struck by his opponent.
This exchange from the third issue of the Muppet Classics miniseries Muppet Robin Hood.
Dr. Teeth: Who knew the holy land was hot as h—
King Richard (Pepe): I said enough complaining! Enough!

Comic Strips

In one Garfield comic:
Jon: Bad date, Garfield. We went sailing. Ever had a mizzenmast stuck up your...
Garfield: No, and let's talk about anything else right now.
In one Get Fuzzy strip, when Rob's pets have got hold of his freshman yearbook:
Bucky: Were you voted Most Likely to Remain Chickless?
Rob: Dude, I'm about to be voted Most Likely to Kick Your—
Satchel: Assuredly, that's the skinniest leather tie I've ever seen!
In one Retail strip, where Marla finds out that Josh lied about getting a job offer from another store in order to get himself a raise:
Marla: [pissed off] That son of a...
Bradley: Maybe I should have hired him. He's smarter than I thought.
In this Dilbert strip, there are are two trolls running the accounting department instead of one "Because it's hard to reach into your own..."
Rat of Pearls Before Swine once told a customer he was "not in the mood" while working at a coffee shop.
Customer: Not in the mood?
Rat: Yeah, not in the mood. You know, like your wife when you ask her for s-
Manager: (quickly places hand over Rat's mouth) -Ssssssssssssoy milk cappucino.... ... on the house, sir.
Rat: Mmmph

Fan Works

BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: In Chapter 70, Ruby cuts off Terumi's c-bomb in anger at the revelations he gave her.
Terumi (after Ruby shoots off his hat): That...Was my favorite hat you pathetic little cu-
Ruby: Shut the hell up, you monster! YOU KILLED MY MOTHER!
The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Teacher," Penny's friend relates how a classmate describes the new hot Physics teacher. Penny interrupts her just as she reaches the word describing his butt.
Penny's chem lab partner: Kari told me she hasn’t got a clue what he's on about ninety-nine percent of the time, but he's such a hunk that it doesn't matter. Or as she put it, "Come for the class, stay for the… "
Penny: [interrupting] Yeah, I get it, I get it. He really fills out a pair of jeans. Something I first noticed about him when he showed up as a guest in our home-ec class.
The Boy Who Cried Idiot: Lincoln calls the bullies "green-shirted, stupid, ugly sons of—" but then is cut off by Principal Huggins.
Celadon's New Blossom: Brock gets cut off by Ash before he can finish a sentence about Gary being stuck up his own ass.
Brock: That kid is way too far up his own-
Ash: Okay! Enough of this nonsense about Gary!
This fancomic features Codename: Kids Next Door character Numbuh 4 upset for receiving coal for Christmas. Numbuh 3 interrupts his rant to show what she received for Christmas.
Numbuh 4: HA, HA Pretty Funny Phat Man!! I'm going to kick your...
Numbuh 3: WALLY!!!!!!!
Coyote: In a faculty meeting after all of Class 1A of UA High School walks out in protest over Aizawa's methods (particularly being willing to expel entire classes if their performance on his Quirk test doesn't meet his standards), the teachers discuss what to do about Aizawa.
Midnight: Honestly, Aizawa, expelling them on the first day? We’re going to have educational reviewers climbing up our...
Ectoplasm: (clears throat noisily) I think the phrase ‘we’ve got a mess on our hands’ covers it.
Deception Unveiled: Aja cuts Rio off during an argument:
Rio': Then why'd she keep doing it, huh? What'd she continue with the deception, continue chasing me as both Jem and Jerrica; why, Aja?
Aja: She didn't have a choice.
Rio: Bull-
Aja: Unlike you, Jerrica has this company and the accompanying foundation to keep afloat.
Dragon Ball Z Abridged: The scene where the Namekians leave Earth plays out two ways: in the official cut, Dr. Briefs ruins the sentimentality of the moment by calling Dende a "fa—", before the episode abruptly ends. In the Deleted Scene...
Dr. Briefs: Finally! We got rid of all those damn ni—
Bulma: Dad!
Dr. Briefs: I was gonna call them "Namekians"!
Bulma: ...
Bulma: ...No, you weren't.
Dr. Briefs: No, I wasn't.
The Echo Ranger: During Izuku and Melissa's fight against the Shadow of Psycho Pink, when the latter assumes her monster form, Melissa says "You are one ugly motherf..." before being cut off by Psycho Pink attacking her with her tentacles. Though the author states in the notes that she was about to say "motherflora".
In the Superjail! fanfic Et Mundus Eos, this exchange ensues:
"Hello, Eddie boy." Zora greeted the fifteen-going-on-sixteen-year-old boy. "It is very nice to meet you."
"And it's nice to meet you, too, you courteous ni-" Eddie was about to say.
"Edward." Mistress warned him as she was about to pull out her riding crop.
"I mean, you courteous black woman." the boy instantly corrected himself. Zora smiled at his quickness.
Expecting the Unexpected:
Ron: Lucius really is a complete cu-
Hermione: You finish that word, Ronald Weasley, and you'll be getting very acquainted with your right hand for the next month because you'll be coming nowhere near me.
Fates Collide:
- Chloe von Einzbern asks Cinder Fall about the tattoo on her back. When it becomes clear she is about to call it a "tramp stamp", Cinder covers Chloe's mouth with her hand and tells her she is too young to use words like that.
- After Astolfo gets a broken pelvis, Da Vinci jokes that it is a good thing Nightingale is not the school nurse anymore or else she would have amputated his di- Dr. Roman cuts her off.
Friendship Is Magic: The Adventures of Spike: When the Elements of Harmony confront Chrysalis:
Chrysalis: Ah, Twilight Sparkle. How did it feel, having all of your loved ones lose faith in you?
Twilight: Not as bad as you're going to feel, you dirty, rotten bi-(dodges magic blast)
One Good Omens fanfic combines this with Last-Second Word Swap:
Crowley: You quite liked the fu—
Aziraphale: Crowley!
Crowley: Fur rug in front of the fireplace, I was going to say. Thought I was going somewhere else with that, didn't you?
Harry Potter: What I See:
Sirius: ...You don't just happen to take your clothes off. You don't just happen to let him stick his co-
[Remus smacks him on the head for swearing in front of baby Teddy.]
In Haru's Beautiful Betrayal, as Haru is giving her former fiancé Sugimura a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Sugimura says, "You filthy little who-" but Haru cuts him off, insisting that he listen when she's talking, and resumes the speech.
This Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic plays around with this trope.
Prussia: And by talking, I'm guessing you mean f-
Canada: I mean talking!
Prussia: I was going to say fighting, but your interpretation works too. *beat* So are they f-
Canada: NO!
Prussia: Sensitive much?
Happens in the J-WITCH Series, when the heroines first meet the Tracker in Season 1.
Jade: That is one ugly mother…
Taranee: Jade!
Jade: I was gonna say a face only a mother could love!
Occurs in the first chapter of the fan comic The Legend of Genji when the titular character banters with his boss at the repair shop he works at.
Old Man Lao: Pfft. As if they'd let a dusty sandbender like you pass through the gates [of Ba Sing Se].
Genji: Yeah, 'cause they'd definitely welcome your greasy old— [ducks as Lao throws a wrench past his head]
Old Man Lao: Shut it, or instead of wages you're gettin' a fat bar of soap in your mouth!
In Long Road to Friendship, Rarity asks Sunset Shimmer's opinion on some clothing at a renaissance faire. Little does Rarity know that Sunset is cursed to be brutally honest.
Rarity: What do you think, Sunset? Does this make me look good?
Sunset: I think it makes you look like a wh—
Rarity: Ooh, is that a ruby necklace?
Luminosity has a conversation including a distressed person, and a person with lightning powers.
Tanya: Don't tell me you're competing with Carlisle for the title of most sanctimonious - [zap]
In the fifth chapter of My Name Is Molly, Liam is cut off at "son of a-" when Molly interrupts his rant.
Naru-Hina Chronicles:
- While Sasuke is fighting Rokuro inside of Naruto's mind, we get this exchange:
  Sasuke: What the...?! Are you saying you could have left Naruto's body at any point? Why you son of a...
  Rokuro: Of course I could have.
- Naruto tells Hinata he can leave the hospital and get some ramen without Sakura knowing about it. However, he doesn't realize Sakura is right behind him while he's saying that:
  Naruto: [smirking to Hinata] Don't worry about it. I know exactly out to sneak out of here. There's no way she'll catch me. She wouldn't know I was out of my room unless I walked up right behind her and kicked her right in her skinny little...
  Hinata: [nervously points behind him while having Blank White Eyes and a Sweat Drop]
  Naruto: Huh?! Hinata? What are you point... [suddenly makes an Oh, Crap! face] She's right behind me isn't she?
  Sakura: [angrily smirking] Yes I am. Me and my skinny little... ass were you going to say?
- Naruto has a conversation with Kakashi and Sai regarding a jutsu that could be useful for a mission. When the blond ninja says he always tries his best:
  Sai: [making a large innocent smile] Yes, but could you try even harder than that? We have limited time.
  Naruto: [frowning] What's that supposed to mean, Sai?
  Sai: You get distracted by Hinata.
  Naruto: So... She's beautiful. Is it now a crime?
  Sai: No, I mean you get distracted by wanting to use your pe...
  Kakashi: [smiling] OK, you two. We don't have time for this kind of discussion.
Not So Glamorous Life: Jerrica gets cut off when she curses out a man she's talking to:
"You're through, you backstabbing, mother..."

The Palaververse: In Second Sun, while the id half of Celestia is happily engaging in a drunken barfight, a comment from the captain of the guard sent to deal with the situation cuts the narration short right before her singing can get to a line clearly intended to describe male genitalia.

Patterns of the Past has Olesya nearly swearing in a manner that's apppropriate for the time period (The Roaring '20s) when Ogden quits Odd Squad, just before she's cut off by Oxley's partner, Ocelot.
Olesya: Why that lazy old lollygagger! YOU HEAR THAT?! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT AN UPSTAGED PIKER, YOU SCREWY HARD-BOILED-
Ocelot: Whoa, there! So the goods finally come out, huh?
In the Punch-Out!! fanfic Shining and Sweet chapter "Sleeping Fabulous", Disco Kid's narration cuts off Don Flamenco before he can say the word "sperm"^Context.
From Spots Off:
Alya: There is no way you just got here. You told me at 7am that you were coming to visit Mari.
Nino: Yeah dude, what gives? How did Mari's mom not know you're here?
Adrien: Ah, I, um... I came in really quietly?
Alya: Bull-
Marinette: Sit! We should all sit down. So we can talk about everything.
In The Tainted Grimoire, this has happened at least twice:
- One time, Sasasha got interrupted when two members of the Targ Wood Police put a hand each over her mouth.
- Another time, Luso got interrupted by an announcement.
True Potential: Kanji makes a really sarcastic comment in Chapter 62. After hearing this, Katsumi crosses her arms and says "Sarcastic ass-" before being interrupted by the arrival of Lee and Tenten.
TRULY OUTRAGEOUS: A Jem Fan Film!:
- When trying to save Kimber from Cobra, Stormer's bandmates try to run away after seeing the guns. This occurs when Stormer tries to convince them to stay:
  Stormer: (talking about Kimber) But in there, that person—she's important to me. Please help me save her.
  Pizzazz: Like I give a—
  Stormer: Please!
- Pizzazz later gets cut off by Eric in the final scene:
  Stormer: You're not as mean as they think.
  Pizzazz: You tell anybody that and I'll shove that flower so far up your—
  Eric: Ladies!
The Ultimate Evil:
- When Captain Black learns that Valmont injured Valerie as well with the Dragon Talisman, he's about to call Valmont a SOB before one of his agents comes to report to him.
- While refusing to give Shendu what he wants when first captured by him, Valerie is about to use the term jack shit before Shendu cuts her off.
- Nat is about to call Drago a SOB in the 21st chapter of The Stronger Evil before Valerie (who happens to be Drago's future mother) interrupts her.
Characters often interrupt someone else when they've realised the speaker is about to curse about two seconds ahead in Warriors of the World.
Emeth: I get that you're a dirty coward and an incompetent fool, but I didn't know you were also a contradictory di-
Iruna: [hurriedly] Let's just go.
The Western Sky - Series 1:
Prue: Powers of love, my pleadings take, make my sleeping husband wake. Put some water in a bucket, and pour it on him, so he shouts...
Pandora: Mummy?
Wishing Well: In a past event, Sparkleworks called Sweetberry "a total bi-", but was cut off when Sweetberry entered the room. Rainbow Dash had understood what Sparkleworks was saying, but Sweetberry heard enough and gave him a black eye.
From You Got HaruhiRolled!:
Fujiwara: That good for nothing upstart wouldn't even know goodness for all of humanity if it bit him right in the-
Kyouko: Tut tut, Fujiwara! Remember your blood-pressure.
In Only Truly Dead, Lui Hui is cut off by Tong in one conversation:
Tong: "I'm taking you with me to meet my family."
Lu Hui: "You son of a-"
Tong: "No one has to know you're an Air Nomad."
The Pokémon Squad:
- In "Dungeons and Dragon-types":
  Ash: And now we're back home, where instead of being a witch, June is-
  June (angrily): I heard that, Ketchum!
  Ash: Uh oh.
At the end of the Law & Order: UK fanfic "Choices", Alesha learns that she's pregnant with twins:
Matt: [to the doctor] "Are you sure there's only two of them?"
Alesha: "What am I, a rabbit?"
Matt: "Well, we sure fu---" [Alesha clamps her hand over his mouth]
A Running Gag in the Total Drama Do Over version of the "Changing Guard Mix" song is that the characters keep getting cut off before they drop a swear or sexual innuendo... at least until the end, where Chris sings a long, censored Precision F-Strike.
Nathaniel: ♪ ♫How could Chris make us do this? This is so wrong! I don't want to see his bum, especially his d-♪ ♫
Mel: ♪ ♫This is right up my alley....our team is in luuuuck...Could stand to be a lot hotter, but not like we would f-♪ ♫
Izzy: -♪ ♫Oh YEAH! Strippin guards down, that stuff takes guts!♪ ♫ (she starts ripping off the guard's shirt)
Brick: ♪ ♫I love serving my noble teaam... but I don't like n-♪ ♫(cut off by next singer as he takes off the guard's pants)
Episode 19 of **Final Stand of Death**, Celebrity Deathmatch has this dialogue.
“Ladies, since you’re no longer humans, I’m sure the laws we got don’t apply to you anymore.” Debbie said.
“DON’T GIVE THEM AN IDEA, YOU STUPID C—-!” Nick said.
“D Oh” Johnny said.
The ladies looked confused.
“What was that, Diamond!” Debbie said.
“I don’t get it.” Victoria said.
“I’ll explain. What he just called Debbie is the equivalent of what you ladies call a wanker.” Fiona said.
“But, we use the c…” Mel said.
Emma coughs.
“I mean, it’s used constantly without issues to call someone foolish. That word you just said… it means someone who jacking off.” Mel said.
“I know. It gets confusing. The word wanker here is just any way of calling someone a dumb-ass.” Fiona said.
“Then, what about…” Emma said.
“It’s slang for female genitalia. It’s hated by American women.” Fiona said.
“Oh” Emma said.

Film — Animated

In Barnyard, when Otis is about to get a talking-to from his father Ben.
Otis: Okay, Miles, what do you think?
Miles: I think you're lucky. Most cows only have four hooves, but you're gonna have an extra one right up your—
Otis: Okay, that's nice.
In Batman: Gotham by Gaslight:
Jack the Ripper: [while pursuing Selina Kyle] Come to Jack you little bi- [Selina shines a spotlight in his eyes]
In Batman: Hush when Hush breaks into Poison Ivy's hideout and cuts the power:
Poison Ivy: What the fu—
Hush: Not yet, Ivy. Fifty, fifty.
From Batman: The Long Halloween:
Penguin: En garde, you sanctimonious shi— [Catwoman kicks him in the face]
In Batman: Under the Red Hood:
Black drug dealer/crime lord: I am the East Quarter drug trade, you stupid bags of- [gets a gun pointed at his head]
- The Hungarian dub got a bit bolder with the line:
  "I am the East Quarter drug trade, you wee-brained fucku-"
In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America:
Pilot: Get the hell out of the cockpit!
Butt-Head: Huh huh, you said c—
Pilot: [pulls Butt-Head out] NOW!
In Cats Don't Dance:
Agent: ...who's going to fill in?
Sawyer: (sarcastically) You?
Agent: Nah, I only fill in for those dashing, Clark Gable types.
Sawyer: Frankly, Clark, I don't give a d--
Agent: Sawyer!
In DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Count Vertigo is posed to murder a helpless Green Arrow and Princess Perdita, and boasts:
Vertigo: Soon to be King Vertigo, once I've dispatched you and the little bi-
Black Canary: Watch your mouth! [screamblast]
Finding Nemo: Listen to these lines closely:
Gurgle: Don't you realize we are swimming in our own sh—
Peach: Shh! Here he comes.
Even Disney pulls this one, in A Goofy Movie:
Max: My life's a living...
Mascot: HELL-O, little buddy! Who's your favorite possum?
Disney does it again in The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
Esmeralda: You sneaky son of a...
Pheobus: Ah ah ah, watch it. We're in a church.
From Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure:
Danielle: [Chuckles again] I bet he gets a slipper right across his great, big, fat....[looks up at Lady who has an stern look. Danielle nervously laughs, pretending to care about Scamp] We really do miss him, Mom. [nervously smiles]
From the short Lemmings (2005) made by the crew members of the former animation studio StarToons:
Lemming 1: (singing) Our population's run amuk!
Lemming 2: Can't help it, but we love to f—
Artie: Stop!, you can't say that!
The Lion King (1994):
- In one scene Timon is trying to help Pumbaa through a narrow gap, and complains "Why do I always have to save your—AAAAHHH!", although it could be argued that he was going to say "save your skin" or something non-profanic. (Or possibly "save your bacon", which is non-profane, but would presumably be a tactless thing to say to a member of the pig family.)
- In the song "Hakuna Matata" when Pumbaa is singing about his odour problem, it contains the lines "And I got down-hearted/Every time that I—" whereupon Timon leaps in going "Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!" The obvious rhyme would've been "farted", but at the time of the movie, it was taboo to say that word in movies or on TV.
From Puss in Boots: The Last Wish when Perrito tells Puss and Kitty the only way to get past the killer flowers is to smell them, Kitty replies with this:
Kitty: All I smell is bullsh—-
Perrito: (placing his paw over her mouth) Shhh!
This gem in the Rainbow Magic film "Return to Rainspell Island:
Kirsty: It's all right, Rachel. I'll be careful from now on.
Rachel: I know I should just ignore her, but Lydia is such a...
Kirsty: Carrot!
Rachel: (shrugging) I had another word in mind.
From Son of Batman:
Nightwing: (regarding his wound being treated) I took the cut, I can take the stitch.
Damien: Maybe you need more anesthetic.
Nightwing: (getting fed up with his attitude) Maybe you need to go fu—
Alfred: Master Dick!
In Superman vs. the Elite when it appears that Superman has killed his teammates, Manchester Black exclaims "Holy sh—" before getting blown back by a burst of wind.

Film — Live-Action

The A-Team film has "AMF" or "Alpha Mike Foxtrot".
Face: Adios, Mother F... *B.A.'s van roars into the scene*
- Later, he manages to get the whole thing out, without the last word being interrupted.
In Avatar, as Grace is putting Jake into his link pod:
Grace: Just relax and let your mind go blank. That shouldn't be hard for you.
Jake: Kiss the darkest part of my lily white-
In Battleship, during the final battle:
USS Missouri Veteran: Let's drop some lead on these mother-
Stone: Fire!!!
In Bob The Butler, while a toilet bidet is being installed, the family the titular character is working for have this conversation:
Bates: What's a bidet?
Tess: It's like a fountain for your-
Anne: Ask me later.
In Bruce Almighty, Bruce is cut off by his girlfriend while trying to explain to a kid that saying ass is OK when referring to a donkey.
Kid: Hey, you said ass!
Bruce: Yeah, but it's OK if I'm talking about a donkey. I didn't say "hole". If I said ass-
Grace: Oh wai-wait! OK, you know what honey, let's go.
In Dad's Army (1971), the Home Guard, disguised as choir singers, sing a version of "All Things Bright and Beautiful" that outlines their plans to stop the three Nazis:
Captain Mainwaring: Frazer stand behind him-
Sergeant Wilson: And I will get his gun-
Lance Corporal Jones: And I will take my bayonet, and stick it up his-
Nazi Photographer: Halt!
Doctor... Series:
- In Doctor in Love, Dr. Hare cuts off Mr. Green before he can say "penis" as he tries to tell him about the funny feeling he gets when he sees his landlady's daughter.
- Doctor in Clover: Sir Lancelot does to Wendover in the middle of his war wound explanation:
  Wendover: Well, I was bending down in the trenches like a private leading my men over the top, when suddenly - bang - awf goes there's a grenade, an' a lump of shrapnel hits me right up the-
  Sir Lancelot: Rectum?
  Wendover: Well, it didn't do 'em any good.
In Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Jeanie slams the door on some people wishing Ferris (who they think is ill and on the verge of death) well. This includes a stripper-gram from a lady dressed in a Naughty Nurse Outfit.
Nurse: ...I came to help restore your pluck, 'cause I'm the nurse who likes to...
Jeanie (Slams Door)
A case of this happens in The Garbage Pail Kids Movie when Dodger is given a nice coat by the Garbage Pail Kids and they encourage the boy to wear it to impress Tangerine.
Dodger: What am I supposed to do with these?
Greaser Greg: Stick 'em up your—
Valerie Vomit: Wear 'em!
In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, when Tuco realizes that Blondie has lied to him about which grave the gold is buried in, he gets to his feet, brandishing a shovel, ready to club him with it.
Tuco: Why, you son of a-
Blondie: You thought I'd trust you?
In The Great Escape, Hilts gets caught trying to test a blind spot near the prison fence and attempts to explain himself to a guard by saying he was retrieving his baseball. The head guard, Stratwitch, appears and the following exchange ensues.
Stratwitch: What are you doing over here by the wire?
Hilts: Well, like I told Max here, I was trying to get my god-d —
[German soldier calls out as the commandant enters the scene.]
In Hairspray, the film of the musical of Hairspray:
Amber: You try that again and there'll be stumps where your feet should be. You got that, you little who-
[Link walks in with a ring]
Amber: Holy moly.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey: While chasing chickens, Chance encounters a turkey.
Chance: Whoa! What the-
Turkey: *angry gobble*
Chance: AHHH! It's Birdzilla!
In Hot Fuzz when we see that Angel is disrupted in chasing a shop lifter, he says mothers... turns out there is a group of actual mother (with babies in prams) blocking the way.
Several times in the theme song to I'm Gonna Git You Sucka:
The Gap Band: I'm gonna git you, sucka/dirty mother—
Female: Don't say that!
Krampus:
Howard: (pointing a shotgun at the gingerbread men) Merry Christmas mother—
Gingerbread Man: There he is, get him!
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist:
Chosen One: Well, I'm gonna count to three, and if I hear one more friggin' squeak, I'm gonna take his shoes, and shove em' up his...
Chosen One's Friend: Chosen One, Master Pain's in town!
The Film of the Series for Leave It to Beaver:
Wally: Oh don't worry dad, I'll do my homework without you and mom having to crawl up my...
Ward: Yeah that's great Wally.
In The Matrix Reloaded, Link, returning after a long deployment, bursts into his quarters with the inquiry "Where's my puss—-" which is quickly strangled off at the sight of his sister-in-law, niece, and nephew with his wife. To her credit, though, sis shuffles the kids out post-haste. Hilariously mocked in that movie's RiffTrax: "But I wanna help Uncle Link find his cat!"
In Magnum Force, this happens in the Palancio gunfight:
Goon 1: Bullsh-
Goon 2: FUCK YOU!
Monster Mash (1995) had Dracula insult Dr. Frankenstein, but his remark is interrupted by Igor.
Dracula: Blow it out your—
Igor: Ask me what time it is!
In The Muppet Movie the Muppets are pulled over by a motorcycle cop (who turns out to be Doc Hopper's lackey Max suffering a Heel Realization). As he walks up, Dr. Teeth starts listing slang and is about to get to a particularly rude word for them when...
Dr. Teeth: Hey hey! It's the man with the badge, the police, the cops, the fuzz, the P-I-...
Miss Piggy: Don't...you...dare!
Dr. Teeth: Why, I wouldn't think of it.
When David and Catherine discuss Lionel's fondness for ghosts in No Kidding:
David: The morbid little-
Catherine: Well, I expect he just feels a bit strange.
David: "Feels a bit strange"? He is a bit strange.
In Office Space, Peter does this during Anne's phone call.
Anne: ...and don't blame this on hypnosis either; that is total bull-
(Peter hangs up on Anne.)
In Pixels, when the children send the president a message thanking him for defending the Earth from aliens, their "they are bad motherf-" gets cut short by said aliens interrupting the TV broadcast.
Amusingly played with in Predator 2, where the titular alien cuts Harrigan's assessment of its looks short by choking him, then finishes it off anyway.
Mark It Up from Repo! The Genetic Opera. In the film Pavi manages to quite clearly sing "My brother and sister should fuck!" before Luigi turns on him, but in one of the soundtrack versions, it's an example. The hilarity is that it's cut short by a phrase involving a Precision F-Strike: Pavi! Shut the FUCK UP!
In the title song for Shaft:
Isaac Hayes: They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother—
Female Chorus: Shut your mouth!
Isaac Hayes: But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft!
Female Chorus: And we can dig it.
In Sister Act, when Dolores (as Sister Mary Clarence) has her first meal with the nuns:
Dolores: (tastes a spoonful of stew and spits it out) Eww. Gee, what are you people, a Pritikin order? This stuff is terrible. It tastes like sh—
Reverend Mother: (stands up) Sisters. We shall spend the rest of the day in silence.
In Sudden Impact, when Harry tells Horace he "might just" quit the force:
Horace: You ain't nothin' but a cop. That's all you've been and that's all you're ever gonna be, Jamf.
Harry: Thank you, Doctor.
Horace: And listen, when you get cut, you bleed P.D. Blue. Jamf.
Harry: What the hell's a "jamf"?
Horace: Well, that means you're a jive-ass mother—
Harry: Forget I asked!
During Top Hat when Dale and Jerry are discussing horses.
Dale: Who was his dam?
Jerry: I don't know, Miss. He didn't give a d- [Dale shuts the hatch]
The The Three Stooges short film "Boobs in Arms":

Curly: Boy, this reminds me of card number twenty-four. You're in the Army now, you'll always have your chow. You'll never be rich...
Moe: I know, I know, but we don't need any money in the army.

In A View to a Kill, Zorin demands to know why Stacy won't accept his bribes. She says, "You can take your offer and shove it up your-" James Bond tells her not to bother talking to Zorin because he's a psychopath.

Literature

In Brotherband, Jesper and Stefan are singing an epic saga of their adventures.
Jesper and Stefan: We sailed into Raguza and he said as bold as brass, we've come to challenge Zavac and we're going to kick his-
Svengal: LANGUAGE!
Jesper and Stefan: ...and he's going to breathe his last.
In A Brother's Price, Corelle tries to get Jerin to Be Scantily-Clad To Get Wives, which progresses into mocking him for his insistence on proper pronunciation.
“No one is going to marry you for your diction. They’re going to marry you for your dic–”
- He flicks her with a rolled-up towel.
Discworld:
- In Hogfather, the Canting Crew are singing "Hogswatch is coming, the pig is getting fat". They get as far as "If you ain't got a dollar, a penny will do", before Foul Ol' Ron adds solo "An' if you ain't got a penny, then..." The others stop him, pointing out it doesn't even scan.
- One example in Feet of Clay likewise falls just shy of revealing what the curse would have been, although a full-on Cluster F-Bomb is implied. Vimes, having freed the golem Dorfl and hired him as a police officer, is confronted by a mob of outraged priests. When they lambast Vimes for what they consider grossly-profane conduct (because golems' animation is not gods-given life) and the worship of idols, his response is priceless:
  Vimes: I'm not worshipping him, I'm just employing him. And he's far from idle. {deep breath} And if it's gross profanity you're looking for-
  Dorfl: Might I Offer A Comment?
Doctor Who Expanded Universe:
- In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, a Faction Paradox member taunts the Doctor with a parody of a Gallifreyan rhyme:
  "Sing the past to me, 'cause I'm the one who wrote the song
  I made it up next week so all the words will come out wrong
  The past won't keep you warm tonight, the future's blown to bits,
  And everything that you believe is really full of —"
  The door slammed behind him.
- In the Script Fic short story "Trials of Tara" by Paul Cornell, which for some reason is written as an Elizabethan play, one break in the iambic pentameter comes when the Doctor ends a speech about why Bernice is Sweet Polly Olivering to avoid the attentions of Taran noblemen with the rhyming couplet "'Better avoid the stares of amorous ducs/Than risk their hard and hasty..." at which point Bernice interrupts because she's just seen a Taran Wood Beast.
In the Dungeons & Dragons novel "The Savage Caves", Lidda and Jozan have such lovely and friendly conversations with each other.
"See," Lidda said to the burgher's back. "I told you you can't just string me up you fat f—"
"Hold your tongue!" Jozan commanded.
- And then...
  "It's true," she said. "My first night there he approached me in the tavern. He put his hand on my thigh and whispered lewd suggestions in my ear."
  Naull giggled and asked, "Really? Like what?"
  Lidda scuttled closer to the young mage and said, "Well, first of all he told me that if I put his —"
  "Ladies," Jozan interrupted, "for the love of Pelor, remember yourselves."
- And again...
  "Or," Lidda said, "Regular here can climb my—"
  "Lidda," Jozan interrupted.
- Still going...
  "You're wounded," the priest said.
  "I know," Lidda answered, "and it hurts like a son of a—"
  "I was talking to Regdar," Jozan answered.
- Regdar also takes over the job once:
  "Nice," the halfling said. "I wonder if Pelor will be able to get my foot out of your—"
  "Naull might be dying out there somewhere," Regdar interjected.
Quoth Earl, in Gil's All Fright Diner: "Goddamn it, Duke, you stupid prick. You just ended the world, you stupid mother—", before being interrupted by the main villain going all One-Winged Angel.
Harry Potter has quite a few of these considering they are children's books:
- Prisoner of Azkaban:
  - Lee Jordan: 'YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B-'
  - 'Do you know what that-' ([Ron] called Snape something that made Hermione say Ron!)
- This section in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, after Hermione and Harry discuss the situation where Harry is chosen as a Triwizard participant despite Harry having made NO effort to register as such and his fallout with Ron due to Ron's own jealousy towards Harry:
  Hermione: Harry, I've been thinking — you know what we've got to do, don't you? Straight away, the moment we get back to the castle?
  Harry: Yeah, give Ron a good kick up the —
  Hermione: Write to Sirius. You've got to tell him what's happened.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
  - Implied when Hermione starts to presumably call Umbridge a bitch, but Malfoy interrupts her and docks points from Gryffindor.
  - Earlier:
  Fred Weasley: No, well, you wouldn't, they're not in a place we generally display to the public.
  George Weasley: But they make riding a broomstick a real pain in the-
  Angelina (loudly): All right, everyone, listen up, I know it's not ideal weather, but there's a chance we'll be playing Slytherin in conditions like this so it's a good idea to work out how we're going to cope with them.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
  - Ron gets out 'Merlin's saggy left—' before his father interrupts him.
  - In the same book Fred reminisces about his late uncle Bilius:
  Fred: He used to down an entire bottle of firewhisky, then run on to the dance floor, hoist up his robes and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his –
  Hermione: Yes, he sounds a real charmer.
Journey to Chaos: Basilard has taken Eric to see the Dragon's Lair in-house advocate because he's gotten himself into legal trouble. Reywal remarks how glad he is that his latest client is a rookie like Eric and not one of the guild's lunatics like Ginger Hasina because "that woman is fu"; he doesn't get any further because Basilard cuts him off.
In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster, Entropy starts complaining about a new superheroine, Pretty Bubbles, who defeated him. His mother, Starshine, cuts off his complaints just before Mirabelle figured he was going to start swearing.
In the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War, one of the entries to the Politically Incorrect Guide (PIG) series, there was an interview with Vietnam Veterans Gerald Gearhardt and Jack Armstrong. At the point where they are talking about the Paris Treaty Accord, this exchange is made:
Gearhardt: Nixon told them [the North Vietnamese], and the South Vietnamese who were scared shi—
Jack: Family book, Gearhardt.
Gearhardt:—scared to death, that the U.S. would come back and bomb the crap out of them if they tried anything.
In Going Under, book three of the Quantum Gravity series, the imp repeatedly says "What the f..." before another character interrupts him. Or shoots him.

Live-Action TV

Angel:
- From "Five by Five":
  Wesley: I was your Watcher, Faith. I know the real you. And even if you kill me, there's just one thing I want you to remember.
  Faith: What's that, love?
  Wesley: You... are a piece of shi— [Faith stuffs a gag in his mouth]
- While looking for clues in a vampire crackhouse in season 4, Faith is conveniently attacked by a vampire:
  Faith: What... the fu—
- Jealous over Wesley's attraction to Winifred Burkle, Lilah Morgan dresses up in Girlish Pigtails and Nerd Glasses.
  Lilah: Isn't this what you like? Big brain and a tight little—
  Wesley: [rolls eyes] Lilah...
Subverted in Arrested Development:
GOB: No Al, I want to spill booze all over my fu-
GOB (Five minutes and a few scenes later): -cking $6300 suit! Come ON!
Babylon 5:
Sheridan: Well, you can tell Earth Central they can take a flying —
Ivanova: It's only 30 credits a week, sir, it's not that much.
- Not so much a curse word as it was a rude sentiment:
  Sheridan: Pick 'em up, bring 'em in, and throw them in the brig. And I want every one of those ships scanned for weapons. And tell Ambassadors G'kar and Londo that I want to see them in chambers now.
  Ivanova: And what if they refuse?
  Sheridan: Then you can throw them in the—
  Ivanova: Ahem! (Gestures her head to remind him a news crew is filming them)
In the 1960s Batman (1966) TV episode "Penguin's Disastrous End", the Penguin barricades himself and his gang inside a Gotham City bank vault as the police and the Dynamic Duo try to break in. Someone asks how Penguin will keep from starving to death in there, prompting Batman to say: "I wish I knew." Then Robin asks: "And how would he be able to go to the - " and is cut off by Batman snapping: "I wish I knew, Robin!"
German kids show Bernd das Brot. In this scene he's the weather announcer (which he hates like everything else). The weather is shitty too. Consequently:
Bernd: Von der Oder bis zur Neisse - heute ist das Wetter...^note
Announcer: Danke, Bernd!
Boy Meets World has Cory's younger sister make disparaging remarks about the dress Cory's fiancée picked out for her, going so far as to say "I wouldn't use this dress to wipe my—" before being dragged away, with her mouth covered, by Cory's father.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- In season 6 episode "Wrecked", Spike and Buffy have just had sex for the first time.
  Spike: I knew the only thing better than killing a Slayer would be f—
  Buffy: [enraged] Is that what this is about? Doing a Slayer?
- In season 5, Glory gets out an "Oh, Sh—" twice. Once as a roof collapses on her head, and the second time when she's been teleported to an altitude of several thousand feet.
- In season 3, Vampire!Willow returns to her world, is immediately impaled on a piece of wood by Oz, and says "Oh fu—" as she crumbles into dust.
Chicago Fire: After Capp is cleared for duty following an eye injury, the team celebrates at Molly's. Mouch asks Capp if he can read a string of letters.
Mouch: Can you read the top line of letters?—
Capp: F-U-C—
Mouch: Whoa! That's not what it says at at all!
Criminal Minds:
- From "The Longest Night":
  JJ: The EAS is coordinated by the FCC, Thema, and the Nation Weather Service, it's a bureaucratic pile of steaming—-
  Receiver: Ma'am?
- In "Painless", Morgan gives out Reid's cellphone number to a bunch of reporters as a prank and Reid finally loses it after at least 500 calls and then manages to avert and play this trope straight in less than thirty seconds:
  Reid: (while giving the profile) Loner, invisible, outcast, boiling rage- (phone rings) SON OF A BITCH! (answers phone) Hi, this is Dr. Spencer Reid. Yes I can come to the phone right now with a very special message that your mother is a-
  Hotch: Reid!
CSI: NY: In season 2, there's a Bird-Poop Gag scene in which it is noted that getting pooped on by a bird is considered good luck. Fast forward to season 7's "Food for Thought" where Adam finds traces of bird saliva on a victim and asks Mac if he thinks someone getting bird spit on them is good luck "just like bird sh..." Mac testily interrupts him before he can finish his question.
Death in Paradise: In episode four of season six, one of the suspects hides the murder weapon in the jeep's engine. This was Dwayne's reaction after Humphrey figured it out.
Dwayne: Man alive! That takes a big pair of-
Humphrey: Er, yes thank you Dwayne.
Doctor Who:
- "New Earth":
  Rose: So you're talking out your a–
  Cassandra: Ask. Not.
- "The Lie of the Land": When Bill realizes that Nardole knew about the Doctor's Secret Test of Character towards her, she says one as she tries to punch him.
  "Oh. My. God. I am going to beat the sh–"
Emergency! : John Gage in "Gossip".
John: I hurt from the tips of my toes all the way up to my— *the klaxons sound*
From Forever, episode "Social Engineering":
Abraham Morgan: No matter the decade, I know how young people think. See, they think with their hearts, and they think with their—
Henry Morgan: Congratulations!
From Full House, during Viper's guitarist audition for Jesse's band, Danny doesn't appreciate Viper's interest in tattooing D.J.'s name on his arm:
Danny: Hi, I'm D.J.'s father Mildew, and you can tattoo that name on your—
Jesse: Hey ho ho ho! Mildew, take five.
Green Acres: Oliver Wendell Douglas often says "What the . . . ." But that's as far as he gets.
The Hogan Family: Back when the series was called Valerie, the third episode "The Wrong Stuff" saw young Willie Hogan begin using (mild) profanity around the house. When Valerie confronts him and threatens to wash his mouth out with soap, Willie decides to test his mother and see if she actually would. Finally, after saying a mild expletive ("crap") and getting ready to say another, Valerie made good on her promise!
Several characters take turns at this in an episode of Home Improvement:
Randy: Yeah, well it really doesn't matter what he thinks because he's a big piece of —
Tim: Randy!
Brad: Hey! Don't give me any more of your —
Tim: Brad! You guys are becoming a major pain in the —
Al: Tim. Okay, we'll be right back after these messages from- (Brad throws a football at Randy, but hits Al) ah! Would you just cut it out, you little —
Tim: Al.
iCarly
- In iOMG, Spencer gets cut off just before he completes a line about a stinking gas being pumped into the torture chamber Carly has locked him in.
Spencer: It smells like—
- After Carly bans T-Bo from her apartment in "iGet Banned", he calls Spencer and says "Man, your sister can be a real bi—." Spencer hangs up before he can finish that last word.
iCarly (2021) In "iHate Carly", Carly send her online troll a message full of "love and light". His response isn't.
Carly: Oh. They already replied with..."Do better." To my olive branch. Oh, I'll do better. I'll lodge that branch so far up--.
Freddie: Ah, yes. Love and light.
It's Garry Shandling's Show, Garry's neighbor's son, Grant, comes to Garry for advice about sex. For some strange reason, the entire episode is accompanied by a group of men who perform the duties of a Greek Chorus. Garry tries to dissuade teenaged Grant from having sex until he's really ready, with the Greek Chorus performing color commentary in the background. At the episode's conclusion, Grant decides that he's not ready, and tells his girlfriend that he's decided to wait. This prompts the following exchange:
Greek Chorus: Well now Grant has decided to wait! So from now until then he'll have to mastur—
Garry: (Rushing in) HIS STUDIES! MASTER HIS STUDIES!
Law & Order season 22, episode 5, "12 Seconds" has a pre-recorded variation. Violet, the technician, plays a video of Professor Nichols groveling about a Supreme Court nominee who happens to be not only Black, but also the first openly LGBT in-universe. She pauses it right before he finishes it.
Professor Nichols: (on video) Not enough to be Black, gotta be a f-
Violet: (pauses the video) Need I say more?
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Episode "Partings" has this nice exchange.
Durin: Shipping off its warriors, expandin' its cities. Bit sudden for Elves, no? Typically takes your people weeks just to decide to take sh...
Elrond: IF I MAY.
Monty Python's Flying Circus: In a military court-martial, a presiding general won't drop the point of a special pair of gaiters:
Presiding General: Why did they present him with a special pair of gaiters?
Fawcett: Sir, it seems to me totally irrelevant to the case whether the gaiters were presented to him or not, sir.
Presiding General: I think the court will be able to judge that for themselves. I want to know why the regiment presented the accused with a special pair of gaiters.
Fawcett: (stifling his impatience) He ... used to do things for them. The total value ...
Presiding General: What things?
Fawcett: (exasperated) He .. he used to oblige them, sir. The total value ...
Presiding General: Oblige them?
Fawcett: Yes, sir. The total value of the uniform ...
Presiding General: How did he oblige them?
Fawcett: What, sir?
Presiding General: How did he oblige them?
Fawcett: (more and more irritated) He ... um ... used to make them happy in little ways, sir. The total value of the uniform could therefore not have been less than ...
Presiding General: Did he touch them at all?
Fawcett: Sir! I submit that this is totally irrelevant.
Presiding General: I want to know how he made them happy.
Fawcett:(losing his temper) He used to ram things up their ...
Presiding General: (quickly) All right! All right! No need to spell it out!
During the I'm Wishing song in Morecambe and Wise:
Ernie/Prince: "Tell me wishing well."
Eric/Well: "Ask and I will tell."
Ernie: "Will my wish come true?"
Eric: "It's entirely up to you."
Ernie: "With your magic spell."
Eric: "Why don't you go to he-"
Ernie: "Will you tell my love one what to do?"
In an episode of My Family:
Mr. Casey: I think you're mistaking me for someone who gives a f—
Michael: (bursting into the room) FIRE!
Tom Servo's Canada Song in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Final Sacrifice":
Servo: Just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border / With countries far superior to it? Why, you lousy, stinking, francophonic, bacon-loving bastards / Your country's just a giant piece of sh—
Crow: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
NCIS has this in the season 3 episode "Bloodbath".
Mikel: It's Mikel, Abby. Don't hang up.
Abby: Oh great. My biggest fan.
Mikel: Look, I know we got off on the wrong foot.
Abby: The wrong foot? The only right foot is my foot up your a-
Mikel: Abby. Abby, listen, I need to see you.
Our Miss Brooks: One episode has this exchange between Miss Brooks and Walter Denton:
Walter Denton: Mr. Conklin's making my usual tranquil life a veritable . . .
Miss Brooks: WALTER!
Walter Denton: . . . (meekly) inferno?
In Pat and Margaret, Pat is talking to someone about Margaret on the phone and says "She can take a flying yes, quite."
In some of the post episode vintagees of the game show version of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, where H.C. is in jail, sometimes, he tries to call the host Bill Thompson a piece of shit (the game show itself uses bleeps) but Bill tells him to shut up before he can utter the word.
- In the episode that marked both the 40th anniversary of the cartoon of the same name & it's first episode (the peril of the day was the first one from the former), after H.C. kills Penelope, he says to Bill off camera (he doesn't appear on the set): "After 40 years of failure on my first peril, I have finally killed that mother….." which gives Bill a chance to say "Finally the first peril from 1969 was successful. Way to go, Butthead." (that was also the moment where Bill PWND H.C.)
In Power Rangers RPM, this is what happens after Ziggy ticks off Flynn when he rips open a bag of chips all over Flynn. While he's driving.
Flynn: Dude! As if you wouldn't learn to open a bag of...
(Venjix appears)
In the "Rock & Roll" edition of the Saturday Night Live "Celebrity Jeopardy" skit, Sean Connery starts reciting a filthy limerick he wrote about Alex Trebek:
Connery: There once was a man named Trebick
Who had the world's tiniest—
Trebek: Enough.
In the pilot for Speechless, J.J.'s interpreter cuts off his attempt to snark at his teacher after the class nominates him for class president solely because of his cerebral palsy.
Interpreter:(reading J.J.'s word board) He says eat ... a ... bag ... of ... d— he's excited and he'll think about it!
In the Stargate Atlantis episode "The Return", when Jack O'Neill expresses disdain for McKay's proposed "Plan C":
O'Neill: Sounds more like a Plan F, doesn't it? As in, "We are totally—"
McKay: If we can fight our way back to the bay...
Star Trek: The Next Generation:
- From the episode "The Naked Now":
  Data: There was a rather peculiar Limerick being delivered by someone in the shuttlecraft bay. I'm not sure I understand it. "There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a—"
  Picard: [cutting Data off] Captain to security! Come in!
- Also, in the episode "Family":
  René Picard: You know, you don't seem so arrow... arrow... you know...
  Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Arrogant?
  René Picard: Yes, arrogant. You don't seem that way to me. What does it mean, anyway? "Arrogant son of a..."
  Captain Picard: Let's talk about that later, shall we?
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Miles O'Brien starts to tell a Bajoran shopkeeper where he can stick his Jumja stick, but is dragged away/yelled over by Keiko.
Star Trek: Voyager:
- In "Message in a Bottle", the Emergency Medical Hologram is boasting to the next generation about how he's evolved over the past four years.
  EMH Mark One: I'm as close to a sentient life-form as any hologram could hope to be. I socialise with the crew, fraternise with aliens. I've even had sexual relations.
  EMH Mark Two: Sex! How's that possible? We're not equipped with a—
  EMH Mark One: [cutting in with a smug expression] Let's just say I made an addition to my program.
- Neelix warns the crew not to eat a poisonous fruit that will give them stabbing pains that work their way up to the—
  Chakotay: [grabbing Neelix's pointing finger as it reaches groin level] I think we get the picture.
In Suite Life on Deck, Zack finishes with his graduation speech, "Goodbye seniors. Goodbye class. High school, you can—", which is as far as he gets before Ms. Tutweiler interrupts hastily.
From an episode of Veronica Mars:
Kendall: Your dad and I were just dealing with a little trouble.
Veronica: Like, Trouble? With a capital 'T', that rhymes with 'C', that stands for
Keith: Veronica!
Veronica: I was gonna say "cute".
From The Vicar of Dibley episode "Songs of Praise":
The Bible Alice is reading has been writen using a ‘long s’ (ſ) so ‘Ye ɑre the ſɑlt oƒ the Eɑrth ɑnd ſɑinted. God ſhɑll ſeɑl your endeɑvours until ye ſit on his right hɑnd. Thereƒore ƒight the good ƒight, ƒor his ſɑke, ɑnd he ſhɑll be thy ſuccor.’ comes out as⋯
Alice: Ye are the fault of the earth and fainted⋯ sainted. God shall feel⋯ seal your endeavours until ye fit on his right hand. Therefore fight the good fight, for his⋯ fake, and he shall be thy f-
Geraldine: SUCCOR!! And he shall be thy succor.
This part of the Victorious song "Take a Hint":
Get your hands off my hips
Or I'll punch you in the lips
Got you staring at my—HEY!
One episode of Walker, Texas Ranger has Trivette being held hostage by a racist sheriff who believes black people shouldn't be cops, at one point while he's making him did up bodies of prisoners he asks him if he has any last words, his response:
Trivette: You can kiss my black a— (Sheriff cocks shotgun)
Webster: Webster and a friend are singing a spaceship song, and just before they sing the last word in the line "The spaceship went to hell," Katherine interrupts and sends them to bed.
From The West Wing episode "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen—Part I":
Hoynes' staffer: It's what magicians call "misdirection".
Josh: Really? 'Cause it's what the rest of us call bull—
Hoynes: Knock it off!
A bit of poetry from the short-lived sitcom Whoopi:
Mavis: Here's something I just can't figger / Why a white girl wanna act like a—
Courtney: Mavis!

Music

The final lines of Beastie Boys' "Brass Monkey", cut off by the chorus:
We got the bottle, you got the cup,
Come on everybody let's get ffffffff...
- From "The New Style", off the same album:
  MCA: Got rhymes that are rough and rhymes that are slick,
  I'm not surprised you're on—
  Ad-Rock: MIKE D.!
From "Another Irish Drinking Song" by Da Vincis Notebook:
McNamara crossed the street and by a bus was hit
But he was just a Scotsman, so nobody gave a (OCH)
In chorus-like segments of "Swing Swang" by Naughty By Nature, the drving vocal set gets his line cut from going "... Rip the record-rocking, come down and rip the whole mutha—" into a "Watch it!" exclamation. It's rather an another way to play with the rhythms of the song, as the group doesn't quite shy away from explicit lyrics. Straightforward "fuckin'-rockin'" bit can be found in the same song.
From Brad Paisley's "Cornography":
Jimmy: That woman sure chaps my...
George: Ask her out then!
From The '90s Australian political satire The Recession Rap
Reporter: All along around they passed the buck. Excuse me, they couldn't give a f—
Radio Voice: Good reason why the economy is in a tailspin: high interest rates, inflation at 88%!

Pinball

The left outlane of The Walking Dead has the phrase (cut off by a walker body):
GOT BIT FEVER HIT WORLD GONE TO SH

Podcasts

After Kepler decides not to rat on him in the Wolf 359-episode "The Devil's Plaything".
Eiffel: What. The. Fu-
Jacobi: (bursts into the room) EIFFEL!

Theatre

Parodied and then played straight in Hamilton, both when reading from James Reynold's letter. It should be noted that both times were done purely for comedy, not out of any need to self censor: the fourth word in the opening number is "bastard", and nine of the songs are listed as explicit (with many more sliding underneath the radar with less severe curses and curses cut short). That said:
- The first in "Say No To This", when Hamilton first receives the letter:
  James Reynolds: You see, that was my wife you decided to-
  Hamilton: Fuuuuuuuuck.
- And again in "We Know", when Hamilton reads the same letter to Jefferson, Madison, and Burr:
  Hamilton: "You see, that was my wife you decided to-"
  Jefferson: Whaaaaaaat?
Kiss the Boys Good-bye by Clare Boothe:
Cindy Lou: You don't call Mr. Harner God-Almighty?
Lloyd: So far as you go he's God-Almighty. I call him a son of a—
Cindy Lou (Quickly): I was raised a lady and an Episcopalian, thank you.
The prologue of The Little Foxes: Regina combines this with Musicalis Interruptus:
Cal (singing against the chorus): "Naught's a naught, figger's a figger, all for the white man and none for the ni—"
Regina: Alexandra! (The music stops.)
Alexandra: Hello, Mama.
Regina: What is that racket going on down there?
My Fair Lady, in the show's verse for "On The Street Where You Live":
Freddy: [singing] And I never saw a more enchanting farce,
Than the moment when she shouted, "Move your bloomin'"—
Mrs. Pearce: [opens the door] Yes, sir?
Freddy: Is Miss Doolittle at home?
Done in two numbers in The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd:
- "With All Due Respect":
  Cocky: My mind you have mastered.
  You sit there, half-plastered.
  You aren't half a...
  Sir: Cocky!!
- "Where Would You Be Without Me?":
  Sir: You've got no style -
  You've got no class -
  Without me, you'd be on your...
  Cocky: Ask yourself, Sir, just where would I be?
  Sir: You can scarcely read or write or spell.
  For my part, you can go to...
  Cocky: Well, Sir,
  I try to do my best.
Done in [title of show]:
Hunter: Broadway.com can kneel down, open its online mouth, and suck my—
Chorus: [singing] Festival medley!'''
- Subverted in the original Off-Broadway show, and its official cast album:
  Hunter: [screaming over the others] IT CAN SUCK MY FUCKING COCK!
The Frogs has one in its opening number, "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience":
Actor 1: Don't say, "What?"
To every line you think you haven't got
And if you're in a snit
Because you've missed the plot
(Of which I must admit
There's not an awful lot)
Still, don't say—
—>Actor 2: What?^noteThe subverted rhyme being “shit”
In the musical Six when Anne Boleyn tries to go for another song, "Wearing Yellow to a Funeral" when she already had her turn with "Don't Lose Ur Head"
Anne Boleyn: Catherine was a MASSIVE C- !!^note Cunt
All the other Queens: WHOAAA!
Also done in the opening of Theatre, Anna Of Cleves starts cursing but is cut off by Katherine Howard.
Anna Of Cleves: Funny how we all talk about that but never Henry’s little -!!! ^note Penis
Katherine Howard: Prick up your ears, I’m the Katherine who lost her head.

Puppet Shows

In The Jim Henson Hour episode "Dog City", Rowlf interrupts Coleen's torch song:
Colleen: He don't need to be a big dog,
I don't care if he 's rich,
He'll be my ever loving puppy,
And I'll just be his...
Rowlf: HEY! Welcome to family programming, folks!

Video Games

During her gag reel in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Makoto is increasingly distraught with how In-Universe horribly miscast the re-enactment of her family life turned out, but she breaks into this trope when the "baby" comes onto the stage.
Ragna: Goo. ('Sup?)
Makoto: What the fuuuuuuuu-
Ragna: Goo! Goo ga ga! (Hey! No F-bombs!)
Creature Crunch has this exchange occur when Wesley enters the bathroom by being defecated out of the horse's backside mounted above the toilet.
Wesley: I feel like—
Brian: Hey, watch it! Kids play this game!
In The Darkside Detective, a character begins to offer the opinion that Twin Lakes' police are "full of sh—" but has to stop in mid-word to answer a phone call.
Fear Effect. Deke tells Glas "You need a shave and a haircut, mate." Glas says "You mother-" before Hana interrupts him. It is likely that she did not interrupt Glas because of his cursing (Hana can curse, too), but because she needed to ask Deke questions and she could not do that if a fight broke out between Glas and Deke.
In Growing Up, when you notice Wendy walking home from school instead of taking the bus, she says that she doesn't want to sit next to "those bully mother..." just before you shush her.
In Highway Blossoms, this trope often happens when people curse around the 11-year-old Tess.
- Lil' Tess was almost close to delivering a Precision F-Strike regarding the difficulty of her crew in getting into Double Arch, which is one of the rock formations at Arches National Park. What's more, the game immediately moves onto Mariah's next line the moment the first syllable escapes Tess's mouth, even if you aren't automatically advancing the text.
Tess: Sis said anyone who bothered to get out was a fu—
Mariah: You weren't supposed to hear that!
- In Next Exit, Mariah is the one who almost curses when talking about her mother and Joe stops her.
Mariah: Quit lying. The old hag is probably too busy choking on a bottle of wine when she ain't busy choking on d-
Joe: AHEM. (gestures at Tess)
In Immortal Souls, John isn't sure tasing Raven successfully freed her from mind control, and wonders if he should try again, leading to:
Raven: Touch me again and I'll shove that taser up your—
John: YIKES! OK! I get the point.
In Left 4 Dead 2, Coach will shout "MOTHERF—" while being choked by a smoker, only to be cut off by his own coughing.
In Love & Pies on the day of the slam poetry event, Sam decides to give Amelia a "preview".
Sam: Oh Amelia, I'd like to see ya for a coffee at my place,
Then I'd hold ya, like I told ya, and I'd kiss you on the face.
I like to see you smile, yeah I like your style and class...
But if I'm being honest what I like most is your—
Amelia: —That's enough, thank you!
Mass Effect:
Ambassador Udina: I'm tired of this council and its anti-human bull—
Asari Councillor: Ambassador!
- The Convo system being what it is, there's a noticeable delay between this and the next line. Net result being that it comes off more like self censorship than actually being interrupted.
Metal Wolf Chaos gets one when Michael gives his opinion on Richard's Spider Tank:
Michael: You are a sick-
Richard: Take a bite from its super energy wave phaser! It'll get you high enough to reach heaven!
- The subtitles in the XD remake reveal the intended end to Michael's sentence, which turns out to be "man".
Mortal Kombat 1 has a scene early on where Johnny Cage attempts to respond to seeing a Fire God and two Lin Kuei ninjas appear on his doorstep in the most appropriate way possible:
Johnny Cage: What in the actual fu-
Fire God Liu Kang: Good evening, Johnny Cage.
In Portal 2, Cave Johnson gets interrupted by his own assistant.
Cave Johnson: Black Mesa can eat my bankrupt—
Caroline: Sir, the testing?
In Psychonauts, just before facing down Coach Oleander, Razputin is ready to do a bit of trash-talking of his own. However, Raz is conveniently cut off right before he would have cursed, courtesy of Milla levitating both him and Lili out of the asylum tower and safely back to the ground level.
Razputin: Back home I had to clean up after the elephants, so trust me; I can take care of this ugly pile of—
Milla: (sending both Raz and Lili off) Let the grown-ups handle this!
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal gave us this gem at Captain Qwark's funeral:
Galactic President: (concludes heartfelt speech)
Clank (actually Klunk): What a load of bull-
Ratchet: Shh!
During the intro to Rita James and the Race to Shangri-La, Rita's pilot says "I'm gettin' too old for this sh-" before being cut off by Marbles the one-eyed monkey impatiently blowing the plane's horn.
Spyro the Dragon:
- There's a Running Gag in Spyro 2: Season of Flame where Sparx is about to say "ass" but gets interrupted, with the lines "Getting rid of all those Rhynocs was a real pain in the..." and "We kicked [Ripto's]..."
- Spyro cuts off the Ice Princess in Spyro: A Hero's Tail when she says "It's colder than a witch's—".
In StarCraft, when Mengsk and Raynor rescue Duke:
Duke: What's your angle here, Mengsk?
Raynor: Our angle? I'll give you angle, you slimy Confederate piece of sh-
Mengsk: Jim! Enough! I'll handle this!
Seems to be unintentionally subverted in The Suffering; in the opening cutscene a character gets cut off before they can swear (or barely even start the word), yet if you have subtitles on "cunt" is in full view.
Lara Croft in Tomb Raider I cuts off Larson twice before he can say where he would shove the Scion fragment.
Larson: You and that dribblin' piece of the Scion! You want to keep it so bad? I'll harness it right up your—
Lara: Wait. We're talking about the artifact here?
Larson: Damn straight, we are! Right up—
Lara: Hold on! I'm sorry. This piece you say. Where's the rest?
Virtue's Last Reward: Phi towards the resident Jerkass Dio.
Phi: Augh, you son of a—
K: Please, We don't have the time for this.

Web Animation

Played with in Girl-chan in Paradise, before it's eventually subverted.
Yusuke: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF—
Kenstar: Is this the episode where we say the F-word?
Yusuke: You mean FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuck?
In The Grossery Gang webseries, during "The Grossery Gang Movie", when the Putrid Powered Grosseries eavesdrop on Vac Attack's plan to wipe Cheap Town clean of all life.
Pizza Face: What the—
Rocky: DUCK!
(Cut to a family of ducks walking past the Clean Team, as they stare in confusion and awkward silence.)
RWBY:
- Blake Belladonna holds Roman Torchwick hostage at sword point. Roman goes, "Oh for fu-" before Blake presses her sword against his neck.
- Glynda rants at Ironwood that his wanting to send armies in every time there's a problem is tantamount to him engaging in "a contest of measuring di-". Ozpin cuts her off before she can complete her sentence.
- When confronted by Yang and Blake during an attempted heist, Robyn gets out, "bullshi-" before being cut off by Yang.
Spooky Month:
- In "Unwanted Guest", the Candy Dealer attempts to say "What the fuck?" in response to Skid and Pump dying on the spot after saying they want to go to the hospital, only for a hysterical woman to start screaming that he killed the kids.
- In "Deadly Smiles", the Happy Fella almost calls Lila a "dumb bitch", but gets interrupted by Skid and Pump shoving him into the oven.
- Confused at Lila's panic over the Happy Fella doll, Jaune trails off into a "what the fuck", but the doll's yelling startles her before she's able to finish.
Turnabout Storm: The courtroom's reaction when Phoenix makes a particularly astonishing claim.
Trixie: What-!
Judge: The-!
Twilight: HELLO!?

Webcomics

In the Doctor Who Fan Webcomic The 10 Doctors here.
Sabalom Glitz: Personally I think it tastes like Nimon shi—
The Second Doctor: Ahem-hem... that's enough of that.
In this issue of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja.
Dr. McNinja: Yo ho, motherf—
Pirate mook: He said a bad word!
- Lampshaded in the Alt Text: "The self-censorship is killing me, Johnny."
In DM of the Rings, when Gimli tries to strike contact with the Rohirrim, but rolls a 1 for Diplomacy:
Gimli: TELL ME YOUR NAME, HORSE-FU—
Aragorn: Gimli!
Gimli: And I'll tell ye mine.
Done in Errant Story here, when Meji is calling out Sarine for a bit of hypocrisy.
Meji: Well that seems like a mixed message, telling us not to kill anyone right after she kills the Queen Bi-
Jon: Not the time Meji.
Mr. Mighty's Large Ham speech in Everyday Heroes gets rudely interrupted.
Mr. Mighty: Wherever evil plots are sowed / They shall not come to pass!
Summer: So take your lunch and hit the road / Before Mom kicks your -
Jane: SUMMER!!
From Hijinks Ensue, this:
Josh: Emma Frost didn't even sound British. That's her thing! She uses a fake British accent, she's mostly naked and she's a total cun...
Joel: Cunning telepath! My point exactly!
Housepets!:
- Spot interrupts Spo.
- In a later strip, Pete's curse^note interrupted by nearly getting a set of sharp teeth clamped onto his backside.
Two in The Meek, including one where the curse is accidentally finished!
Alamand: It's hotter than a donkey's buttho—
Soli: Alamand.
Alamand: —out there.
- Earlier:
  Pinter: What the h-
  Angora: Hello!
Inverted in this page◊ of Murphy's Law, with Lexington's ponytail covering the first half of Miles' speech balloon.
The Order of the Stick
- From a Lizard Folk: "Hey, while you're at it, look up 'hemipenes', because you can suck BOTH of my-"
- #913, when Laurin and Tarquin learn that one of their allies has been killed and the killer gloats about it:
  Laurin: You arrogant little sh-
  Tarquin: Laurin, please. try to stay professional.
Precocious:
On-Cue Ball: All signs point to I don't give a—
Shii-An Hu: KAITLYN!!
Done THRICE in this Schlock Mercenary strip. Made even funnier because what's being cut short is pretty tame compared to most others on this page.
In a Missing Moments page of Sister Claire:
Clementine: If I fuh-fuh-fuh--
Mother Abraham: Clementine.
Clementine: —m-muh-mess up.
VG Cats does this numerous times. For example, in this comic.
Leo: It's a p—
Aeris: I KNOW.

Web Original

Atop the Fourth Wall: In Linkara's riff on the 1935 film version of Scrooge he sings, "This movie is a piece of—", at which point his co-riffers hastily break in, telling him that it's Christmas and he should keep it appropriate.
On Good Game: Spawn Point, Bajo describes the 'Movie-Game Tie In' of Avatar thusly:
Bajo: Be careful with any movie-game tie-in, cause the chances are that it's going to be a big, steaming pile of sh-
Hex: That's it for this week...
Often used in I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC:
Lex Luthor: Wow, this is good sh-
(Superman appears)
- Also Green Goblin after electrocuting Lex.
  Green Goblin: I knew you'd try to pull something like this, you son of a -
  (zapped by Lars)
From The Nostalgia Critic/The Nostalgia Chick/brentalfloss musical combo review of Moulin Rouge!, this happens during the "El Tango De Pretense" musical number. They're not exactly concerned with limiting swearing over at TGWTG, especially given how many of their members typically default to Cluster F-Bomb, so it's probably due to the Rule of Funny.
Phelous: So proud of the way they botch classic rock/Ugh! These creative thieves can all suck on my -
Chick: There's no shame in liking something lame...
In Potter Puppet Pals we have this in "Wizard Angst":
Ron: Maybe he's in love!
Hermione: Who'd fall in love with such an a—"
Ron: Maybe he needs a hug!
Harry: I don't want a hug!
StacheBros:
- In "A StacheBros Christmas Carol", when Mario Cratchit declares Bowser Scrooge the founder of the feast:
Peach: Ugh, that guy makes me so mad! If he were here, I'd take a big stick AND SHOVE IT IN HIS-
Mario: Peach!
Peach: Calm down, calm down, I was only gonna say "piehole".
Mario: Ohhhhh. Wait, what?
- In "Bowser Junior's Time Out", when Bowser Jr. catches his father having sex with Peach in his bedroom:
Bowser Jr.: Ew! Dad, why are you playing footsies with Peach's belly button?
Peach: No, Junior, that's not my belly button, it's my-
Bowser: JUNIOR!!!
- In "Home Alone", when Bowser Jr. asks Spike for help with packing his suitcase:
Spike: I wouldn't help you if you were GROWING ON MY-
Goomba: Esophagus!
Spike: What?
Goomba: That's what you were gonna say, right?
Spike: No!
Whateley Universe: "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy" when Kismet is trying to get her team to take a Team Tactics class:
Lemure: I think you've mistaken me for someone who gives a rat's a- [Kismet interrupts]
Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: The Screenwriter does this when confronted about a Contrived Coincidence in Christmas with the Kranks
Producer: Wow, what are the odds of that?
Screenwriter: Oh, odds don't matter when invokedI'm pulling all of this out of my... (interrupted by the Producer, who changes the subject)
Thomas Sanders: In one "Pokémon Pranks" Vine, Thomas uses a "Horn Attack" (honking the horn on a car's steering wheel) on an unsuspecting friend. The friend, chuckling, says "You motherf-" only for Thomas to cut him off with another honk.

Western Animation

6teen, "Khaki Girl":
Caitlin: Tricia.
Tricia: Caitlin. New loser friends of Caitlin.
Nikki: Oh, you stuck up little bi—
Jonesy: OKAY, who wants some chunklets, huh?
Inverted in an episode of American Dad!, after Hayley sleeps with Stan's boss:
Hayley: I know it's crazy, but I like him. He challenges me, and besides, he has a really huge-
Stan: Penis! I mean, Hayley! Dammit! I was trying to cut you off before you said-
Hayley: I was going to say "heart" but, well, you shined his shoes.
Animaniacs (2020):
- In the episode “How To Brain Your Dragon” when Brain lies to Benedict the dragon saying that he loves minstrel music, Pinky interrupts and tells him:
Pinky: But you hate the arts Brain, you always say the Renaissance is French for bull...(Brain punches him knocking him unconscious)
- In “A Brief History of History" Yakko sings about the American railroad built for the city and how the workers were treated real shitty, one of the aliens cuts him off when he says it but it’s still audible.
- Inverted in "Rome Sweet Rome," when Dot uses a laser pointer to make tigers attack Nero (who is depicted as a stand-in for Donald Trump). As the tigers are mauling him:
  Nero: Somebody grab these pussy-
  Yakko: Goodnight, everybody!
  Nero: -cats!
Subverted in Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "A PE Christmas":
Shake: Happy birthday Jesus, you are the one coming down to Earth from planet Krypton. Rollin' out tracks and getting it on, like the 'Wrath of Khan' with Ricardo Montalban. It rained fishes and loaves on the bitches and the hos. They said they want some mo' and he said, "Hell no!" Yo I got the flow, you ghost ridin' the whip, you suckin' on my-
Michael: Ok... let's cut it there.
Shake: Whew... I was hoping to get the word "ding-dong" in on that take but I ran out of breath.
In the pilot of Archer:
Lana: It's Archer's fault.
Cyril: It's fine.
Lana: It's just with the lying, and the cheating, and that thing with the mayonnaise...
Cyril: It's FINE.
Lana: Not to mention how messed up he is about his mother! Did you know he once called her name while we were f-
Cyril: FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!
Batman: The Brave and the Bold — "The Battle of the Superheroes", which is a half-hour tribute to the concept of Superdickery, naturally had to sneak in a joke based on the actual term.
Jimmy Olsen: Superman's turned into a real di-
Lois Lane: -fferent person.
Beast Wars: "Changing of the Guard"
Rattrap: The next time that big ape asks me to do something for him, man, I am going to shove my blaster so far up his—
Silverbolt: Target dead ahead. Prepare for drop.
In the Beetlejuice episode "Robbin' Juice of Sherweird Forest", after BJ sets himself up as a Robin Hood knock-off, only to con the poor peasants out of having to give them any of the money he steals from the rich, Greek Chorus Alan Airdale starts singing a mocking song:
Alan Airdale: Robbin' Hood, he can't be trusted
Robbin' Hood, his heart is rusted
Robbin' Hood, he's got not class
Robbin' Hood is such an...
(Beetlejuice clubs Alan over the head with his own lute)
Ben 10: At a baseball game, Ben chants "We want a pitcher, not a dirty-" until Grandpa Max stops him. The chant is supposed to go "We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher". The fact that Ben said 'dirty' makes it seem like he was going to say the N-slur afterwards. It doesn't help that Ben himself has coined many a Fantastic Slur (sludgepuppy).
Big City Greens:
- In "Uncaged":
  Gramma: All I know is that a jailbird doesn't change her strifes!
  Nancy: Alice! (chuckles) I know we've had our differences in the past, but...
  Gramma: You can take our differences, and shove 'em up your—
  Remy: Uh...hello! Heh...hello, Remy here! This kinda seems like family business, so...maybe I should go.
- In "Hiya Henry":
  Tilly: I guess you're right. I could find somethin' else to do.
  Hiya Henry: Yeah! Find something respectable instead of stickin' your hand on someone's—
  Tilly: Henry! We're at the dinner table!
Tex Avery did this at the end of "Blitz Wolf" when the Big Bad Hitler Wolf winds up in hell.
The Boondocks:
- "Wingman": After Huey's former friend Cairo headbutts him and sends him flying across the deck:
  Riley: YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FU— (Granddad shushes him) never mind.
- "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy": During Robert's nightmare, when Tom is forced to abandon Sarah:
  Sarah: TOM! You punk-ass motherf— (the Stinkmeaner clones drag her away) AAAAAAH!
A similar example in Dexter's Laboratory, when Dexter grows a beard and is being gawked at by Dee Dee and her friends.
Dee Dee: That is one rugged brother—
Dee Dee's friends: Shut your mouth!
In Codename: Kids Next Door the Spinach Inquisition (an army of Spaniards who have an odd obsession with Spinach) shows up to get kids to eat the green leafs. They capture the titular kids and attempt to force them to eat spinach, through song. Numbah 1 almost lets out a not-so-kid friendly word before being cut off.
Numbah 1: I said no once, I said no twice, you chained me here and that’s not nice. I will not eat it, not a scrap. I tried it once, it tastes like-
In The Crumpets episode "Supernawak", the Trickster Twins Bother and Blister attempt having their showering sister Caprice fall victim to one of their pranks. They force her out the bathroom by changing the water temperature and they anticipate dropping a bucket of red paint on her from the top of the door. One of their little brothers, Ohoh, spots and hastily pushes Caprice, whose speech got interrupted as she gets rescued from the falling paint bucket.
Caprice: Dirty rotten little—[pushed by Ohoh]
DuckTales (1987):
- Through the course of the series, Huey, Dewey and Louie say "What the ..." a few times, before being inevitably interrupted. What the what? It's unclear.
- In "Where No Duck Has Gone Before", Doofus refers to Launchpad's dismissal of T.V. star Major Courage:
  Doofus: Launchpad says Major Courage wouldn't known an asteroid from an ...
  Huey, Dewey and Louie: Shh! (as Courage of the Cosmos begins)
Ed, Edd n Eddy:
- In a combination of this and Sound Effect Bleep in "No Speak Da Ed".
  Kevin: Get away from me, Space Dork, or I'll shove these moon rocks right up your- (Jonny's trumpet)
- In Sir Ed A Lot:
  Ed: I am a horse!
  Eddy: You're a horse's-
  Sarah: HEY!! You'd better win!
The Ewoks episode "Bringing Up Norky".
Teebo: He sure is a pain in the—
Latara: Mud puddle!
When The Fairly OddParents! were interviewed by MTV's TRL
Timmy: Well, Quddus, much like Christina, Vicky is an evil...
Wanda: Timmy!
In Futurama, one of the deleted scenes from "Parasites Lost" has Fry explaining that he was trying to stick up for Leela at the truck stop, leading to this exchange:
Leela: Your heart was in the right place, but your brain must've been up your-
Hermes: Moving on to item 0.002!
In Gravity Falls episode "Not What He Seems", Dipper and Mabel find a security tape of Grunkle Stan stealing barrels of toxic waste. Then he drops something on his foot:
Stan: Gah! Hot Belgian waffles! (beat) Wait, I'm alone. I can swear for real! (deep breath) SON OF A—
(Dipper hastily fast-forwards the tape, while Mabel claps her hands over her ears)
Dipper: That's him, alright...
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
- "Curse of the Black Knight":
Grim: Don't make me get medieval on your...
Irwin: As I was saying...

Irwin holds the ''s'' for a bit too long.

One episode featured both this and a version at the end where Billy gets cut off by the ending:
Grim: Billy, that's not really shampoo. It's dog-
Mandy: Steak sauce.
Billy: Dog STEAK SAUCE? No wonder it tasted so GOOD!

Jellystone!: In Jabberjaw's Imagine Spot in "A Coconut to Remember", she tells all the mean girls in high school to kiss her ass, but the last part is interrupted by El Kabong arriving on the scene.
On Jimmy Two-Shoes, when Jimmy is hallucinating all his friends, including Heloise in a girly dress. After a few steps she growls "If I were awake, I'd kick your-" before hallucination Lucius picks her up.
Justice League used this now and then:
Braniac: I am Krypton.
Superman: You're a perversion, dishonoring the very memory of my father and all my people.
Braniac: And this is your final decision?
Superman: Read my lips. Go to-
Braniac: Unfortunate, but predictable.
- In "A Better World", Superman goes, "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready to kick some serious-" before Flash cuts him off.
- In "Hawk and Dove", a thug tells Dove, "Why don't you kiss my-" at which point Dove twists his arm, causing him to scream.
- And from "The Balance", when Wonder Woman has just been told that Zeus has ordered her to stop Felix Faust, who has taken over Tartarus:
  Wonder Woman: So, he's telling me to go to-
  Hermes: Basically.
Kaeloo had an episode where Mr. Cat decided to sing a rap song with words ending in "alls":
Mr. Cat: He keeps breaking my b-
Kaeloo: MISTER CAT!
Kim Possible
- Subverted regarding Kim's Nana, and a callback to Shaft:
  Drakken: Your Nana is one bad grandmother—
  Kim: Shut your mouth!
- Another example, when Ron is wearing half of a unicorn costume on Halloween:
  Kid: You're no unicorn, you're just a horse's...
  Duff Killigan (suddenly appearing): I've come to claim what's mine!
In King of the Hill:
- From "The Company Man:"
  Thatherton: M.F. Thatherton. Thatherton Fuels.
  Mr. Holloway: Dang glad to meet you, M.F.
  Hank: The M.F. stands for...
  Thatherton: My friend!
- One episode has Bobby, after seeing how hot a flashlight can get, exclaim "fu—" before Peggy comes in. Bobby tells her that he was going to say "fu...ggetaboutit," but Peggy isn't fooled, telling him that as a substitute teacher, she knows half a swear word when she hears one.
Shows up in Lalaloopsy of all places during "Search For Pillow".
Jewel: [offscreen] First, Kitty, we'll go down with you on my lap facing forward, then facing backward. And be careful not to scratch my-
Mittens: [offscreen] Watch out, Jewel!
Looney Tunes: In Paying the Piper, the cats of Hamelin are outraged that Porky Pig, the Pied Piper, drove away all the rats. One cat shouts "Why that dirty—!" before a hand places a "CENSORED" sticker over his mouth.
The Loud House: In "11 Louds a Leapin'", Luna tries to write a Christmas song, and one particular draft receives an interruption.
Merry Christmas, honey
If you don't have a gift, I'd gladly take money
I wrote it down on my Christmas list
If I don't get my presents, I'm gonna get—
Mr. Grouse: LOUDS! Knock off that racket!
In one episode of Pepper Ann, Milo rants about the art teacher giving him a bad grade.
Milo: That woman wouldn't know art if it bit her in the—
Pepper Ann: Assignment, Milo, it was just an assignment.
At the end of the Popeye short Shape Ahoy, Popeye and Bluto are shocked that Olive has sailed off with Frank Sinatra. The two exclaim "Well, I'll be a—!" before a pair of live-action hands place "CENSORED" stickers over their mouths.
In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Kiss Me, I'm Foreign":
Rocko & Filburt: (answering the door while shouting) What in the he...llo? (realizing the deportation guy keeping track of them is at the door)
In The Shiny Show (which is aimed at three-year-olds!) this occurs. Obviously the cut-off word is not as strong as other cases.
The Simpsons:
- Not exactly a curse, but in "Yokel Chords":
  Spunkler Kid: Ain't you one o' them funny, big-nosed, show-biz people?
  Krusty: Oh, you mean a clown?
  Spunkler Kid:: No, a J-
  Krusty: Joker! And I'm not a practicing joker, so I'm not offended. Heh-heh!
- And in "Hurricane Neddy" about Ned Flanders' troubled childhood:
  Ned: I'm Dick Tracy! Take that, Pruneface! Now I'm Pruneface! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I'm Prune Tracy! Take that, Dick-
  Doctor: Ned! Stop that at once!
- Again in "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony":
  Fat Tony: I like you; I don't know whether to knock you on your kisser or kiss you on your knockers.
  Selma: I don't know whether to peck you on your kisser or kiss you on your-
  Fat Tony: You shall have your lipo.
- "Saddlesore Galactica" saw the Simpsons obtain a horse they rename "Furious D" and enter in races. He swiftly obtains a following as an outrageous rebel with legions of fans, among them Springfield Elementary's most notorious bullies. Nelson Muntz's (sincere, if somewhat temporally awkward) expression of admiration of D's attitude is not taken well by his contemporaries:
  Nelson: Man, that horse don't take no guff from nobody!
  Jimbo and Kearney: [in unison] "Guff"?
  Nelson: I mean "sh-" [Jimbo and Kearney pummel him]
SpongeBob SquarePants has a few:
- From "The Algae's Always Greener":
  Plankton: No more intrusions! I'd like to begin writing a "memoirs of my success" story, so everyone just stay the— *ground shakes*
  Pearl: Daddy! DADDY!
- And one from "The Bully", after SpongeBob tries to ask for pencil-arranging help:
  Nancy: I think it goes stuck inside your—
  SpongeBob: Wait, I got it!
- From "The Lost Mattress" (Really a Threat Cut Short, but it still counts):
  Squidward: You did this, SquarePants! If you don't get Mr. Krabs' mattress back from the dump, I am going to mur—!
  Officer: Ahem.
  Squidward: Uhh...Help you do it myself.
- From "Bubble Buddy":
  SpongeBob: Oh no, Squidward, wait! There's cheese on these patties!
  Squidward: And?
  SpongeBob: Bubble Buddy's lactose-intolerant, he can't eat cheese! What should we do?
  Squidward: We? How about you take these patties and sh-
  Mr. Krabs: (off-screen) Mr. Squidward!
- From "Dirty Bubble Returns":
  Dirty Bubble: Remember this face, and remember it well! So you'll recognize me when I see you in-
  Al Priss: (Places a cork on the Dirty Bubble to trap him in the bottle) Jail!
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Mystery of a Thousand Moons" has this:
Anakin: If you ask me, that sounds like a load of s–
Obi-Wan: Superstition?
Anakin: That's one word for it.
Star Wars Rebels:
- "Twilight of the Apprentice": The interruption in this case being an attack.
  Kanan: If it's a riddle, then what's the question?
  Ezra: Why is Kanan such a– GET DOWN! [shoves Kanan aside to block the Eighth Brother's lightsaber]
- "Trials of the Darksaber":
  Sabine: [to Ezra] I'm going to kick your– [is interrupted by Kanan]
Steven Universe: In "Last One Out of Beach City", when Pearl is outrunning the police:
Amethyst: Pearl, you're a total bad– [car speeds up]
Super Giant Robot Brothers!: Happens near the beginning of the episode "Put me in, Coach".
Shiny: Of course Thunder can take'em! Thunder is the raddest, most impressivest robot I've ever seen! He's basically the sh-
Alex: Shiny!
Shiny: Wh- what- What? What? I wasn't gonna say it! "Shiz". I was gonna say "shiz".
From the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Speed Demons":
Superman: [grabbing the Flash as he runs around him] Save it for the race.
Flash: Don't worry about me pal, I've got more than enough heat to burn your sorry a—
Mayor: [clearing his throat] Thank you both for participating in this charity event.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) has this gem.
Raph: Can you hang on for a second? I just got a call here from someone named I don't give a FLYING F--
Donnie: That's great, Raph! Nice diplomacy there.
Teen Titans (2003) :
- A mild example: Cyborg says to Brother Blood, "You can take your offer and blow it out your—" "INSOLENT CHILD!"
- And again with Johnny Rancid, who taunting Robin about his dog "kicking your a—" then he is knocked back with two hoofprints on his chest. Reverse angle to Beast Boy, who has turned into a donkey.
- And in "Only Human", after Beast Boy has tried a complicated trick with shape-shifting and a cookie to try cheering Cyborg up:
  Beast Boy: You're supposed to laugh! What do I have to do? Make it fly out my—
  Raven: Let me try.
- "Mother Mae-Eye":
  Robin: Let us go, you crazy—
  Mother Mae-Eye: You didn't say "Mother Mae-Eye"!
Total Drama:
- A fly lands on Heather's nose in "No Pain, No Game" and Lindsay tries to help her by smacking it with a rolled-up magazine. Of course, the fly buzzes off just before impact and Lindsay accomplishes no more than hitting Heather in the face. In anger, Heather prepares to give her an earful: "Lindsay, you are a total-," but throws her hands over her mouth when a sudden foghorn announces the return of the guys just as Heather was about to say her insult of choice.
- Courtney and Heather get into a leadership quarrel in "Newf Kids on the Rock" and inevitably Courtney brings up the fact that she is a C.I.T. Heather shoots back that she's more like a B-I-T-C- when Gwen interrupts to tell them they're holding up the team.
- After catching an intern in a bag as per the instructions, Beth throws him into Blaineley to finish up her challenge in "Aftermath III: Aftermath Aftermayhem". Blaineley has been cruel towards everyone the entire show and her co-host Geoff is one of her main victims. As she gets up, Geoff smugly says: "Well, ain't karma a real-," but Blaineley cuts him off before he can say "bitch" by denying that Beth's throw has any more significance than bad aim.
Spider-Man uses his trademark webbing to do this in an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (2012).
Thundra: You miserable little…
Thundra (gagged): Mmmph!
Spider-Man: Uh-uh! Language, Thundie! Kids are watching!
Wander over Yonder: "The Pet", which is a Whole-Plot Reference to Alien:
Sylvia: Get away from him, you—
Wander: Sylvia!
In Wolverine and the X-Men (2009): Wolverine vs. The Hulk
Wolverine: Oh, you gotta be kidding me, Fury. Mystical curse my a- * violently grabbed by Hulk*
This exchange from the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Dirty Work".
Triffid: But, as we say on Rhizome, bloom where the sun shines.
Buzz: I got another idea, Triffid, why don't you stow it where the sun—
Mira: BUZZ!

Real Life

Neil Patrick Harris got one when he appeared on Craig Ferguson's show in which he discussed his love of Silly Bandz. Possibly that it is scripted, funny either way.
NPH: They all make shapes! So I have four of them. This one I am very excited by, it's a rabbit 'cause I'm a magician and I like magic. (shows a rabbit-shaped band)
Craig: Oh yeah? You still hidin' rabbits down your pants and that kind of thing?
NPH: Sometimes...
Craig: Mmmkay.
NPH: This one's a pineapple because I like piña coladas. (show a pineapple)
Craig: And, uh, walks in the rain?
NPH: Sometimes... This one's a dolphin because I like dolphins. (shows a dolphin)
Craig: Oh really? (in a snooty voice) I don't care for dolphins, I prefer sharks!
NPH: And this one's a rooster, because I love —
Craig: Heeeeyy!! Neil Patrick Harris, everybody!

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