History Main / TakeOurWordForIt

* On the TV series ''Series/{{Monk}}'', Adrian Monk takes up painting as a hobby in one episode and paints a portrait of his (beautiful) assistant Natalie Teeger. Nearly everybody's reaction to it is one of disgust, and the model herself is mortified to find it on display at an art show. It even goes so far as to her trying to burn it, even though [[spoiler:it's evidence against a counterfeiting ring]].
** It's actually averted in that episode, in that you do get a glimpse of it during the scene where Randy is trying to restrain Natalie as she tries to burn it. The result looks a bit like a very bad MS Paint doodle.
** In another episode, where Monk and Natalie were searching the office of a city official for evidence of her disappearance, Natalie opens a drawer to find something surprising and possibly dirty (in both ways), and then right after, she repeatedly tells Monk to never open that drawer.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': A number of details about each SCP are covered up with {{censor bar}}s or deleted text make [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED]. There are usually the worst results of the SCP's unchecked behaviour or influence, because leaving them to the reader's imagination makes for better horror or comedy than pinning them down.

* Babydoll's dancing in ''SuckerPunch'' is never seen, covered instead by the bizarre metaphorical battle sequences.
* Deliberately invoked during the ''{{Terminator}}'' films in regards to John Connor's tenure as leader of the Resistance. During the first three films and the television series, every character who comes back from the future is in awe when they talk about John Connor's legendary combat prowess and leadership skills, and are willing to throw down their lives at the drop of a hat to protect him. In flash-forwards, of the two times the audience ever sees Connor, he's looking through a pair of binoculars at a ragtag Resistance outpost, and cheering on his soldiers after the Battle of Crystal Peak. ''TerminatorSalvation'' toyed with this - John Connor is serving as an ineffectual lieutenant midway through the Future War, and never gets a chance to take true command until the last major battle sequence.

* The AvatarTheLastAirbender fanfic ''FanFic/TheStalkingZukoSeries'' has the hedgehog song which is incredibly [[BawdySong filthy]]

** In "The Tape", Elaine leaves an [[AudioErotica erotic message]] on Jerry's tape recorder as a joke, which eventually causes all the guys to become attracted to her. The audience, of course, can't hear it.

* WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob used this in a episode reviewing ''{{Caligula}}''. Since he couldn't actually show the infamous orgy scene in a blip video, instead we just get shots of him reacting to it, along with various comments describing the action: "Wait... is that a fucking snake?"

* When ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' was adapted into a film in 1945, the HaysCode dictated that Dorian's perversions and debaucheries couldn't even be named, let alone shown or described, so the narrator just tells the viewer that he has done such terrible things that he is a social outcast among most everyone who isn't blinded by the idea that BeautyEqualsGoodness.

* Gary Larson once drew a strip for ''TheFarSide'' with the caption "Suddenly, two bystanders thrust their heads into the frame, ruining what would have been the funniest cartoon ever." Behind the huge heads of the waving "bystanders", all the reader can make out is a man sitting in a chair holding a chicken and a woman standing beside him. We are left to speculate as to what the strip might have involved.
* Calvin's favorite bedtime story, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie", in ''CalvinAndHobbes''. As Bill Watterson explains in the comic's 10th anniversary book, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie (like the NoodleIncident I've referred to in several strips) is left to the reader's imagination, where it's sure to be more outrageous."

* This was necessary to an extent in ''TheFountainhead'', to get around the difficulty in depicting buildings through prose. Howard Roark, who is for all intents and purposes one of the greatest architects of all time, designs many buildings during the course of the book, only a handful of which are described in detail (and even then, many of the descriptions are delivered by his antagonists with an obvious negative bias).
* The ''SherlockHolmes'' mysteries do this with the case of "the giant rat of Sumatra" and other stories "for which the world is not yet prepared."

* Many of the battles in ''{{Rome}}'' are only described afterward. This is likely for budget reasons, given that historical accounts of the battles are quite clear what happened.

*** In "Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'', however, the song is heavily implied to be ''Beezleboss''.

* TenaciousD

** Also the more obscure song "Warning" the pair are "not at liberty to say the details of our most peculiar warning. Suffice to say, that all of you here are in grrrraaaaavvvveeee danger!"

* Used repeatedly in the ''SilentHill'' series for the purpose of making the player void themselves. A specific example is [[spoiler:whatever happens to Lisa]] near the end of the first game, the player only seeing [[spoiler:blood oozing from her head]] before Harry flees and blocks the door.

** if ended up watching AtlantisMiilosReturn Audrey does tell us moles story, which can leave you going WaitWhat

-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000: PodPeople''

* [[CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin's]] final moments were caught on tape as he filmed a nature documentary. The only footage of the incident was turned over to his widow, who says it was destroyed unwatched.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''

** Also, we don't see much of Annie's entry proposal, but the whole class went "Ewww!" on it.
** We only see Annie's rection to Jones's [[TheUnsmile unsmile]]

** In "The One with Ross's Thing", Ross has a ''thing'' on his upper buttock and goes to get it removed. The doctor, having never seen anything like it in 19 years of practicing medicine, calls in every other doctor in, seemingly, the county to have a gander.

** Occasionally averted- for instance, VforVendetta contains a full set of sheet music for V's song. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2nhTQ2ypVU Decide for yourself if it's any good.]]

** Also, when Lister and the Cat are imprisoned on Waxworld by the evil wax droids, Lister watches from his cell window as a firing squad executes WinnieThePooh.

* In the ''TheGunslinger'', first of the ''DarkTower'' novels, Walter revives a man from death and tells Allie that the once dead man will say what lies beyond death if Allie says "19." When she tells him 19, we don't hear his response, but [[spoiler:apparently it's so traumatic that she begs Roland to shoot her dead. He does.]]

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages]]'', Link has to tell a joke. Since link is a HeroicMime, this results in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFJBnNCK3w a bizarre interpretive dance]].