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-->'''Stewie''': Oh, oh! Cancer, oh no!

** Of course, it is established that Cartman doesn't know what a Jew is, and thinks it's a generic insult, so it's not surprising he doesn't know what it starts with.

* Rather tediously lampshaded in PhilipJoseFarmer's Sherlock Holmes/Tarzan crossover, ''The Adventure of the Peerless Peer'', in which Holmes's grotesquely OutOfCharacter line, "Watson, isn't that a****** shooting a machine gun?" merits an editorial footnote questioning whether the word has one asterisk too few, or whether Holmes might have used the American formation since the a****** under discussion was himself an American.

* ''In The Loop'': "You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know that you disapprove of the swearing so I'll sort that out...You are a boring f star star ''cunt''."

One of {{Uncyclopedia}}'s category templates links to a whole alphabet of these.

* Used as a StealthPun in ''ArrestedDevelopment'', with the joke spanning several episodes. GOB's first ship is called "The Seaward". When it's sunk, he names his second ship the "Lucille II". Also leads to the following joke early on:
--> '''Michael''': Get rid of the Seaward.\\
'''Lucille''' (''shocked''): I'll leave when I'm good and ready!

* The trope is comically subverted in UK cop film ''HotFuzz''. The police station's swear box has a list of prohibited swear words, each of which is [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerized]] -- except the most offensive one.

* In ''Time Crisis 4'' (arcade), there is a sequence where you continually (more or less) shoot at a boss while he is wrestling with an ally. As usual, you are being debriefed on the situation by another ally who is speaking to you via intercom. (This is basically narration of the game script, which is also displayed at the bottom of the screen.) For whatever reason, she decides to name the wrestling moves used by the boss. After a few ordinary examples, the script comes up "F---!" at the bottom of the screen - ''and she actually yells out, "Eff!"''

* In one arc in BloomCounty, the Bloom Picayune decides to do a frank, honest article about sex. The first draft, submitted by an obviously nervous writer, is ''full'' of T-words.

* From the first episode of TheVentureBrothers:

* In TheSimpsons episode "Bart Star":

** ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny F this ramen! F it to high heaven!]]''

* In {{Doonesbury}}, when Lacey Davenport's political opponent challenged her to mutual drug tests -- "Any time! Any place! I will fill any bottle!" -- Lacey's husband commented dryly, "It would appear the contest has turned into a p- - -ing match." (To which Congresswoman Davenport replied, "A what? You know I can't understand you when you use hyphens, dear.")

* In ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', a musician called the Prince has a super popular blog called "F Everything" which gets referenced several times. No, it doesn't mean what you think it does,[[spoiler: because the Prince is high on life. It stands for Fantastic.]]

* [[HarryPotter "Effing"]] is a variation, overlapping with UnusualEuphemism.

** StrawmanHasAPoint: Until fairly recently, "butt" was considered a profanity (albeit a mild one) in the American media.
*** Even TinyToonAdventures was pushing that "boundary" in 1990. When you've got afternoon kids' shows doing it twenty years in the past, I think you've downgraded from "mild" to "suitable for patients recovering from surgery".

* In Isaac Asimov's [[{{Foundation}} Forward the Foundation]], the word "whore" is written "wh___".

* In ''{{WhoHasSeenTheWind}}'', while most characters just swear openly, one guy uses 'GD' in place of 'goddamn'.

* An episode of ArrestedDevelopment plays with this. GOB Bluth buys a yacht called ''The Seaward,'' and his brother Michael is annoyed. Then their mother shows up at the tail end of the conversation and mishears "The Seaward" as "the c-word":

* There was an early MalcolmInTheMiddle episode where the family meets the other families of Malcolm's krelboyne class. One mother acts hostile to Lois because Malcolm taught her son "The R word." Lois' only reaction is confusion over which word is meant.
* In {{MASH}} the guys say that "the cook made 'food' a 4-letter word".

** It's a variation but nobody's mentioned "7a" yet?
*** To explain further, "7a" is a ''{{Discworld}}'' euphemism for the number between 7 and 9, which is considered unlucky (as in, tends to attract [[EldritchAbomination eldritch nightmares]]) by magic users. Though TerryPratchett often noted this point in his early novels, he tended to ignore it in later works...which led to a lot of surprise when ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' had Chapter 7a...