Basic Trope: Characters use a fictional profanity in place of real ones.
- Straight: The characters are rude with each other, but all curses are replaced by the phrase "swear word", as in "What the swear word are you talking about?"
- Exaggerated: There are many Unusual Euphemisms, each used in a different context, e.g. "Beats the question out of me!"
- Downplayed: The "swear word" euphemism is used alongside real euphemisms such as "gosh", " dang" and "heck".
- Justified:
- There are children present, so the characters can't use real profanities.
- The characters are children, so they made up the euphemisms to get the adults off their back.
- A character doesn't like cursing, so they make a few euphemisms up to use so they can "fit in" with the swearers.
- They speak a fictional language translated into English for the audience, the actual swears are Lost in Translation.
- Inverted: Unusual Dysphemism
- Subverted: After a constant battering of these euphemisms, in a very serious situation, a character says "Holy shit!"
- Double Subverted: "Holy shi..h tzu!"
- Parodied:
- The euphemism in question is a bunch of gibberish that changes sentence-to-sentence, e.g. What the qhfohw are you talking about!?.
- Unusual Technical Euphemism e.g. "What is this Bovine Manure you're spouting?"
- Japanese Delinquent Flash, the resident Boisterous Bruiser and Kansai Guy, is about to swear. He gives an Aside Glance as he instead switches the swear word with a euphemism.
- The camera pans around to show a bunch of angry looking censorship crew who Flash can expect to MAUL him dare he actually say the word.
- Zig Zagged: The euphemisms the cast use also have a Curse of The Ancients or two mixed in, so while it's not conventional swearing, some of them were at one time.
- Averted:
- Real profanities are used (either bleeped or unbleeped).
- No rude words are used at all.
- Enforced:
- The writers had to keep it G-rated, right?
- No real profanity could fit the mouthflaps, so the chief of translation went for something a bit more creative.
- Lampshaded: "Why do we say 'what the swear word' instead of using actual swears? It's not like there are children around to hear us!"
- Invoked: "You can't say that word. You have to use a made up word."
- Exploited: The word used in the euphemism is a particular thing the cast (or the writer) doesn't like, turning its replacement into a Stealth Insult of sorts.
- Defied: "Aw, the Hell with it! I'll say whatever the fuck I want and I don't give a damn who it pisses off!"
- Discussed: "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT EUPHEMISM!?"
- Conversed: "This is one rude show, but at least the characters use Unusual Euphemisms instead of real profanities."
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