History Main / TheSwearJar

* The Commander in ''ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' keeps several for the words "epic", "awesome", and "fail".

* In ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', Patty, a kindergarten teacher, maintains one for her gaming group Patty's Perps.

** Not necessarily - pre-decimal shlling (5p) and two-shilling (10p) coins were still valid at the time, and for many years after.

** DeadBabyComedy variation with Laburnum and Foxglove; they have performed an AssShove with a scythe handle on a man who AttemptedRape on Laburnum and given assassination victims to the Redneck Trees of SomethingPositive and Drip Rat of {{Jack}}, so now on top of the mandatory counselling they have to use the "Rape Jar". It's a childrens' money bank shaped like [[NaughtyTentacles an octopus]].

* In {{Dexter}}, '''Debra'''. At one point, she manages to use the words "damn," "shit," "bitch," "fuck," "cum," "ass," "bastard," and "pussy" '''in a single sentence'''. The sentence actually has so much profanity in it that it doesn't even make sense. In another episode, when being confronted by an InternalAffairs agent, over the course of a conversation, she manages to use ''every single obscenity in the English language'', excluding racial slurs.

* Played with in ''PowerRangersNinjaStorm''. The latest MonsterOfTheWeek is a boxing kangaroo who likes to pepper his vocabularly with made-up words. When this becomes contagious, Lothor puts his foot down. "The next person to use a made-up word has to put a dollar in the made-up-word jar."

* The DemolitionMan example was parodied by the [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony One]] when he reviewed the video game based on that movie. His robot, Burton, was programmed to issue a fine every time he swore. By the end of the review he has so infuriated by the game (and had so many fines) that he throttled and beheaded the robot.

* The DemolitionMan example was parodied by the [[SpoonyExperiment Spoony One]] when he reviewed the video game based on that movie. His robot, Burton, was programmed to issue a fine every time he swore. By the end of the review he has so infuriated by the game (and had so many fines) that he throttled and beheaded the robot.

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* ''BabyBlues'' has this, with Darryl having to put money into the Swearing Jar numerous times.
* In ''BeetleBailey'', due to an excess of SymbolSwearing, Sgt. Snorkel finds himself contributing.

* In "I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader", Annisa's father has initiated a "like" jar. She says that she could have a much better wardrobe if she would stop using the word so much.

* In PawnStars, "[[http://www.history.com/content/pawn-stars/meet-the-pawn-stars/the-appraiser the old man]]" institutes a swear jar. It quickly fills, and while counting the money, he swears himself.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZK_w1bUpYA Thoroughly explored]] by TheTwoRonnies.
* In {{Californication}}, Hank Moody has this arrangement with his daughter - both ways. She gets most of the money.

* [[SteptoeAndSon Steptoe & Son]]: Reveal in the final episode they had been operating a Swear Box at at the rate of 10p per swear. Two things should be taken into consideration. 1) The total amassed wealth of the Steptoe’s is divided thus: '''BANK BALANCE:''' £3·00 '''BUILDING SOCIETY ACCOUNT:''' £7·00 '''SWEARBOX:'''[[spoiler:£79·80]] 2) That swear box was no more than two years old, as decimalisation was only introduced two years previously.
* In KitchenNightmares, the UK version, there was an episode, Gordon Ramsey challenged a chef to avoid drinking alcohol and smoking during service. Ramsey also set a challenge for himself by not swearing during a service. If either did that, they have to put a pound into a piggy bank. Ramsey had to put in quite a few pounds into the jar.

* In "I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader", Annisa's father has intiated a "like" jar. She says that she could have a much better wardrobe if she would stop using the word so much.

* Legally enforced in ''DemolitionMan''.

* The Richard Pryor movie ''Moving'' had one. It is shown used normally to punish his daughter for swearing. She then pays in advance at one point so she can cuss him out. Later, when the "move" goes very badly we see Pryor prepare to let loose... instead the movie cuts to the jar totally stuffed with cash.

* In the Christmas episode of Weebl's ''Cat Face'' cartoon, Cat Face gives [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Mr. So-Called Gordon Ramsey]] a swear jar for Christmas. By Christmas morning it's already full.

* In AnneMcCaffrey's ''Acorna'', after the miners take in a little alien girl they institute this, just because they don't want her learning those particular words.

* On ''Friends'', the people at Alexandro's Restaurant had initiated a "shouting jar":