History PlayingWith / CurseCutShort

* '''Justified''': John didn't want Bob to curse, due to being in an area that frowns upon cursing.

** Or, the interruption itself changes a character's word into a curse word.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Justified''': The episode has reached the end of it's scheduled runtime.

* '''Subverted''': He swears after Emily honks her horn.

Back to Main Page, you son of a--[[CurseCutShort Language, friend.]]

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Back to Main Page, you son of a [[CurseCutShort bi—]]

'''Basic Trope''': Someone is about to curse but interrupts him- or herself.

* '''Parodied''': Bob is desperately trying to curse, but all f the characters suddenly decide that it's a great time to start telling him their life history.

* '''Enforced''': The writers wanted to keep Bob from swearing to prevent too high a rating, but they wanted to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sneak something inappropriate past the censors]], so they chose to have another character interrupting him.

* '''Inverted''': Bob speaks sounds and curse words are interruptions.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': Ghost!Bob gets up and says "At least have the decency to let me finish!"

* '''Exaggerated''': ???

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Justified''': Bob learned about something evil that this enemy has done.

[[folder:AnotherCharacter Interrupts]]

* '''Straight''': Bob says to himself loudly "Son of a..". when John calls him from another room "Hey, Emily wanted to speak with you!"
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob says to himself loudly "Son of a..". when John calls him from another room "Hey, Emily wanted to speak with you!" Bob then tries to swear again, "Sodding bast..". when Emily opens the door and says "Come on, you need to see this!" Bob tries to vent "Look, I really need to fu-" meaning to end "-cking swear" but Emily grabs his arm and drags him off without him getting a chance.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Another character's talking is interrupted with Bob suddenly swearing.
-->'''Emily:''' "Aww, your cat left a gift fo-"\\
'''Bob:''' "Bastard! Humans don't eat mice!"

* '''Subverted''': Bob starts, "Son of a..". John calls from another room, "Hey, Emily wanted to speak with you!" Bob waits until he is done, finishes, "...bitch!" and ''then'' answers, "Okay, let her in".
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob starts, "Son of a..". John calls from another room, "Hey, Emily wanted to speak with you!" Bob waits until he is done and is yelling, "...bi-" when the door opens and John says, "Hey, didn't you hear what I said?"
* '''Parodied''': Bob is desperately trying to curse, but all of the characters suddenly decide that it's a great time to start telling him their life history.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob starts, "Son of a..". John calls from another room, "Hey, Emily wanted to speak with you!" Bob waits until he is done and is yelling, "...bi-" when the door opens and John says, "Hey, didn't you hear what I said?" but Bob continues, "...bit-" and John calls again "You coming?"

** Bob successfully shouts, "Son of a bitch!".

* '''Enforced''': The writers wanted to keep Bob from swearing to prevent an all too high rating, but they wanted to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sneak something inappropriate past the censors]], so they chose to have another character interrupting him.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Damn John, you interrupting me again? What is this, some kind of kid-show where no-one's allowed to swear?"

* '''Exploited''': John knows Bob has a filthy mouth, and constantly does this [[TheGadfly in order to enrage him]].
* '''Defied''': Bob closes all doors, so that he can hear no-one, and then shouts 'son of a bitch!' to prevent anyone from interrupting him.

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[[folder:Self Interruption]]
'''Basic Trope''': Someone is about to curse but interrupts him/herself.
* '''Straight''': Bob shouts "You damn c-...ah whatever."
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob shouts "Motherf- Agh, who cares." Five minutes later, he becomes angry again : "Agh what the f- Meh." Ten minutes later, Emily stomps on Bob's foot and Bob shouts "You son of a bi- Fine, OK."

* '''Subverted''': Bob interrupts his own curse word... to find a better one.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob shouts "You damn c-...ah whatever.", then when Alice says, "What were you going to say", it was revealed he was actually going to say "cat" because he'd tripped over a cat, then later he says, "What the f-oh, forget it.", but then he swears fully when he stubs his toe.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Huh. Just interrupted myself. They do that all the time in fiction".

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* '''Straight''': Bob says "Son of a bi-" but the scene suddenly changes to a peaceful garden.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is in the middle of a battlefield where everything is gory and dark, and he tries to curse outright - only for the scene to switch to Valhalla itself.

* '''Inverted''': John, in a peaceful scene, tries to say something normal, only the scene switches to Bob, interrupting him mid-sentence - and Bob was just about to swear.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The scene keeps shifting and each time it shifts, someone tries to swear but gets interrupted.

** The writers didn't want Bob to curse and there was another plot thread hanging - so they chose to interrupt him.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is about to yell 'you son of a bi-' but the episode ends before he can.

** Bob is about to yell 'you son of a bi-' but the episode ends, only for Bob to finish his curse while the credits roll.
** Bob is about to yell 'you son of a bi-' but the episode ends. Next episode starts, however, with Bob who gets to finish his sentence.

** Bob is about to yell 'you son of a b-' but the episode ends, only for Bob to finish his sentence when the credits roll. It turns out he wanted to say 'you son of a bad, bad mother'.
** Alternatively, Bob finishes his 'bad mother'-sentence the next episode.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': See Double Subverted, but Bob finishes his sentence with '...who is one hell of a bitch!'

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[[folder:Killed/Injured mid-sentence]]

* '''Straight''': Bob shouts, "Son of a bi-" when he is killed by the enemy.

* '''Inverted''': The enemy is about to kill Bob when he yells "BITCH!".

* '''Double Subverted''': Bob gets up to "it-" and is killed.
* '''Parodied''': "What the fu-" Cue time over.
* '''Zig Zagged''': See DoubleSubverted, but when he gets to "it-", [[MadeOfIron he gets up again]] and finishes with "tch!"

* '''Discussed''': "Don't yell that out loud Bob. You might get killed in mid-sentence".

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[[folder:Interrupted by background sound]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob tries to swear but is interrupted by Emily's horn a lot of times, and at the end he finally gets to swear.

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Back to Main Page, you son of a [[CurseCutShort bi-]]

** Bob successfully shots "Son of a bitch!".

* '''Enforced''': The writers wanted to keep Bob from swearing to prevent an all too high rating, so they chose to have another character interrupting him.

* '''Exploited''': John knows Bob has a filthy mouth, and constantly does this in order to enrage him.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob interrupts his own curse word... To find a better one.

* '''Enforced''': The writers didn't want Bob to swear and Bob wasn't the kind of guy to swear often, so they opted for this method.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???

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'''Basic Trope''': Someone is about to curse but then killed/injured before cursing.

* '''Inverted''': The enemy is about to kill Bob when he yells "BITCH!"
* '''Subverted''': Bob gets up after the enemy begins to walk away and screams "... bitch!"

* '''Zig Zagged''': See DoubleSubverted, but when he gets to "it-", he gets up again and finishes with "tch!"

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* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': "Cussing or no, it would be nice if John would let Bob finished a sentence.

* '''Straight''': Bob says "Son of A Bi-" but the scene suddenly changes to a peaceful garden.