History Main / ProfanityPolice

* During the Epilogue for ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'', Cassie Drake (daughter of Nathan and Elena) says "Shit" a couple of times, prompting Nathan to say, "Language." He seems to be okay with her saying "Crap" instead.

* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Bad prefers to keep his content family friendly, [[GoshDangItToHeck using the words "muffin" or "muffinhead" as replacement for swears]], while saying "Language!" whenever his server-mates swear around him. As a result of this, [[SirSwearsALot Tommy and Quackity]] often troll him by openly cursing in front of him.

* ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'': Bad prefers to keep his content family friendly, [[GoshDangItToHeck using the words "muffin" or "muffinhead" as replacement for swears]], while saying "Language!" whenever his server-mates swear around him. As a result of this, [[SirSwearsALot Tommy and Quackity]] often troll him by openly cursing in front of him.

'''Deadpool:''' ''[ClusterBleepBomb]''
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': During the confrontation with the devil possessing the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' cartridge, the HypocriticalHumor example is used:
-->'''Nerd:''' Holy shit...\\
'''Super Mecha Death Christ:''' ''[shoots the Nerd]'' '''WATCH YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE!!'''
* ''WebVideo/JonTron'': In his Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop video, Jon watches one of her product demonstrations where she says the product "is the shit" with the profanity bleeped out. Jon tells Gwyneth [[HypocriticalHumor not to curse]] while a loud train passes by his house, Jon abruptly yells at the train to [[BigShutUp "Shut the]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck up!"]]

This is usually a single guy's reaction in the heat of the moment. See MoralGuardians for those guys who make it their lifestyle to actively seek and silence profanity, CulturePolice when things go to dictatorship levels, and MagicalProfanityFilter when characters are magically compelled not to swear.

This is usually a single guy's reaction in the heat of the moment. See MoralGuardians for those guys who make it their lifestyle to actively seek and silence profanity, and CulturePolice when things go to dictatorship levels.

* Typing a swear word for a safe file in VideoGame/SpiderMan2000 will result in Spider-Man punching the word, turning it into a random non-swear word

So the author thinsk a series where nobody ever swears would be boring. They think that normal people curse under certain circumstances, and it would make sense that their characters do. But they are not ''that'' dirty either, and they want to remind the audience to DoNotDoThisCoolThing. The solution? When somebody curses, someone else will tell him not to.

Who would like a work that TastesLikeDiabetes, where nobody ever curses? Not the authors of this one, at least. They think that normal people curse under certain circumstances, and it would make sense that their characters do. But they are not ''that'' dirty either, and they want to remind the audience to DoNotDoThisCoolThing. The solution? When somebody curses, someone else will tell him not to.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E16BartTheLover Bart the Lover]]", Todd Flanders hears Homer scream, "Damn it!" and "To hell with this!" in the backyard, leading him to repeat the offensive words at the dinner table. Ned is shocked at his son's behavior and pointedly reprimands Homer upon finding out he was the source of the swears.

This is not a CurseCutShort, as the curse ''is'' fully said. Contrast SirSwearsALot.

Also see GrammarNazi and YouMakeMeSic for the ''other'' kind of language police.

* Typing a swear word for a safe file in VideoGame/SpiderMan(2000) will result in Spider-Man punching the word, turning it into a random non-swear word

* Typing a swear word for a safe file in ''VideoGame/{{Spider-Man(2000)}}'' will result in Spider-Man punching the word, turning it into a random non-swear word

* Typing a swear word for a safe file in ''VideoGame/Spider-Man(2000)'' will result in Spider-Man punching the word, turning it into a random non-swear word

* Typing a swear word for a safe file in '''Video Game/Spider-Man(2000)'' will result in Spider-Man punching the word, turning it into a random non-swear word

* ''ComicBook/Hellions'': Mutants have a perfect resurrection protocol in the age of ''ComicBook/DawnOfX'': each time a mutant dies, those in Krakoa can grow him a body that is exactly the same, and upload his mind to it from the giant Cerebro database. Empath has been through this, and the Hellions discuss the whole concept. Is Empath alive again, or is he dead and replaced by a similar-looking, similar-thinking stranger?

* ''ComicBook/Hellions2020'': Mutants have a perfect resurrection protocol in the age of ''ComicBook/DawnOfX'': each time a mutant dies, those in Krakoa can grow him a body that is exactly the same, and upload his mind to it from the giant Cerebro database. Empath has been through this, and the Hellions discuss the whole concept. Is Empath alive again, or is he dead and replaced by a similar-looking, similar-thinking stranger?

* A G-rated example in the ''Series/WimziesHouse'' episode "Please Don't Say That!": To teach Wimzie and her friends that calling people "stupid" hurts people's feelings, she institutes a [[SwearJar "charity cup", with one cent going into the cup every time somebody says "stupid"]]. Every time Wimzie says "stupid", Yaya makes her pay one cent into the cup. This results in Wimzie being unable to afford a red box she wants to buy from a GarageSale for fifty cents. The only time Yaya doesn't hear Wimzie say "stupid" is when Wimzie chooses to stay at home while her friends and Yaya go to the garage sale, though she does confess what she did to Yaya when her friends buy the red box for her. Only Wimzie's younger brother, Bo is exempt from the charity cup because he doesn't know any better due to being only one and a half, and he doesn't have any money.

This is not a CurseCutShort, as the curse ''is'' said in its fully. Contrast SirSwearsALot.