History Main / MouthingTheProfanity

* In ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'', Ballister exasperatingly mouths "agh, fuck..." when he gets annoyed by an obnoxious car saleswoman.

* The fox in Creator/TexAvery's M-G-M cartoon "The Early Worm Gets The Bird" gets plonked on the head and starts mouthing off profanities which are muted and the scene has a "Censored" caption over the screen.

* The goofy cat in Creator/TexAvery's M-G-M cartoon "The Early Worm Gets The Bird" gets plonked on the head and starts mouthing off profanities which are muted and the scene has a "Censored" caption over the screen.

* Wrestling/WWESmackdown: During a match featuring Team Xtreme (Wrestling/MattHardy, Wrestling/JeffHardy and Wrestling/{{Lita}}) as Lita is making her way up the ramp to escape some carnage suddenly Wrestling/TheUndertaker (who Team Xtreme were feuding with at the time) comes out of the back. Lita can clearly be seen saying an unheard "Fuck!"

* At the climax of ''Film/TheGraduate'' when Ben interrupts Elaine's wedding, Elaine's mother, father, and almost-husband are seen yelling silent profanities.

* [[Music/{{Gorillaz Gorillaz]]: At the end of the music video for ''Rock It'', Noodle can be seen mouthing "fuck you."

* This is a recurring gag on ''Series/{{Miranda}}'', who will especially mouth "sex", "breasts", and "moist". This is then played with when Miranda's mum (it all runs in the family) does something similar, but mouths the innocent words around the profanity instead, notably in such an embarrassing way as: "I'd say she was company, but [whispered] she looks like [shouted] a HOOKER!"

* One of the kids in "[[Music/{{Brothers}} Tighten Up]]" by Music/TheBlackKeys mouths "motherfucker" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc&t=1m33s after the other kid steals away]] the attention of the girl he was trying to woo (since there was music playing over, he might have actually said it too).

** In Seann William Scott's opening monologue, he made reference to his scene in ''Film/AmericanPie'' where his character [[IAteWhat drank a beer laced with semen]] by saying he came from a long line of actors, and proceeds to show a clip of one of his "ancestors" in a silent movie. The guy drinks a beer only to find that his friend jizzed in it, causing him to clearly mouth "MOTHERFUCKER!" A caption then appears reading "Darn you!"

This trope is about situations where a character, possibly as a result of witnessing something that leaves them in a state of utter disbelief, visibly mouths a profanity but doesn't actually make a sound.

* ''Film/SchoolOfRock'': After Dewey takes her out for drinks Principal Mullins launches into a rant about the stress and pressures of the job have turned her into a "bitch", which she silently mouths instead of saying out loud.

This trope is about situations where a character, possibly as a result of witnessing something that leaves them in a state of utter disbelief, visibly mouths a profanity but doesn't actually make a sound. Usually a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar if it appears in a show where the characters don't normally swear.

* The goofy cat in Creator/TexAvery's M-G-M cartoon "The Early Worm Gets The Bird" gets plonked on the head and starts mouthing off profanities which are muted and the s one has a "Censored" caption over the screen.

* ''Series/{{Combat}}''. In "Far From the Brave", while Littlejohn shows Kirby how a grenade works, he has a brief (and unscripted) struggle getting the safety pin back into place, and you can see him mouthing, "Son of a bitch."