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** The word's [[spoiler: midgets, which has come under fire for being a slur against the vertically-challenged]].
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** In "Class of the Titans", also censored, there's ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' F-bombs. Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is [[MeaningfulName Curseus]].

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** In "Class of the Titans", also censored, there's ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' ''five'' F-bombs. Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is [[MeaningfulName Curseus]].
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* The panty shot from "Grey's In Anime" (shown on the page).

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* The panty shot PantyShot from "Grey's In Anime" (shown on the page).
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[[caption-width-right:250:If Creator/CartoonNetwork can get away with a PantyShot on a kids show, imagine what else they can do...]]
* The PantyShot from "Grey's In Anime" (shown on the page).
** In the original animatic of "Grey's In Anime," the PantyShot scene was also supposed to have the monitor read "WTF" ("What the fuck"), but when the episode was actually animated, the screen was left blank. Considering that the upskirt shot remained, could this be a possible case of using a CensorDecoy?

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[[caption-width-right:250:If Creator/CartoonNetwork can get away with a PantyShot panty shot on a kids show, imagine what else they can do...]]
* The PantyShot panty shot from "Grey's In Anime" (shown on the page).
** In the original animatic of "Grey's In Anime," the PantyShot panty shot scene was also supposed to have the monitor read "WTF" ("What the fuck"), but when the episode was actually animated, the screen was left blank. Considering that the upskirt shot remained, could this be a possible case of using a CensorDecoy?
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** These words do get used (openly) in the 1991 retrospective book, ''Completely MAD''.
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* Cartoon nudity every so often (including, in the late 90's/early 2000's, a doctor ogling a woman through an X-Ray machine, and another where a woman flashes the bouncer at a club to get herself and boyfriend in. When they did a special on ''The Matrix Reloaded'', the overseer program watches porn on all his TV's when it doesn't have company. In TheNewTens, a mexican lady skinny-dipping in the Rio Grande to distract the border guards from a pack of illegal immigrants.).

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* Cartoon nudity every so often (including, in the late 90's/early 2000's, a doctor ogling a woman through an X-Ray machine, one where a mother strips her son's room of SlasherFlick posters, to which he responds to by putting up girlie pictures, and another where a woman flashes the bouncer at a club to get herself and boyfriend in. When they did a special on ''The Matrix Reloaded'', the overseer program watches porn on all his TV's when it doesn't have company. In TheNewTens, a mexican lady skinny-dipping in the Rio Grande to distract the border guards from a pack of illegal immigrants.).
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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the "[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}" segment has Carl clearly saying "prostíbulo", meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is otherwise known for constantly getting {{bowdlerize}}d only makes this ironic...

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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the "[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}" S']]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}" segment has Carl clearly saying "prostíbulo", meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is otherwise known for constantly getting {{bowdlerize}}d only makes this ironic...
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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}” segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is known for constantly getting {{bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...

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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}” "[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}" segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, "prostíbulo", meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is otherwise known for constantly getting {{bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...ironic...
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** In "Class of the Titans", there's ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' F-bombs. Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is [[MeaningfulName Curseus]].

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** In "Class of the Titans", also censored, there's ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' F-bombs. Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is [[MeaningfulName Curseus]].
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* "A Fish Tale", a one-page comic in Issue #145, features a mermaid being caught like a fish... and then cooked like a fish. Said mermaid is drawn with visible nipples, very likely the first time these ever appeared in ''MAD''.
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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}” segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is known for constantly getting {{Bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...

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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}” segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is known for constantly getting {{Bowdlerize}}d {{bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...
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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} S’Up]]” segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is known for constantly getting {{Bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...

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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} S’Up]]” “[[Series/JerseyShore S’]]WesternAnimation/{{Up}}” segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is known for constantly getting {{Bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...
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* The Latin American Spanish dub of the “[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} S’Up]]” segment has Carl clearly saying “prostíbulo”, meaning '''brothel'''! The fact that this region is known for constantly getting {{Bowdlerize}}d only makes this even more questionable...
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* In ''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the]] [[Disney/PeterPan Neverland]]'' they got away with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DcP3K5Zlc&feature=related a message on the back of Hook's ship:]] ''"shi'''p''' happens"''.

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* In ''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the]] [[Disney/PeterPan [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Neverland]]'' they got away with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DcP3K5Zlc&feature=related a message on the back of Hook's ship:]] ''"shi'''p''' happens"''.



* In ''[[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Snott Pilgrim vs]] [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Wonderful World of Disney]]'', where the title character has to fight the 7 dwarves, who are Snow's "evil exes", we hear this:

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* In ''[[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Snott Pilgrim vs]] [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Wonderful World of Disney]]'', where the title character has to fight the 7 dwarves, who are Snow's "evil exes", we hear this:
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** Since the move to Burbank, the StealthFBomb has shown up now and then.

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** Since the move to Burbank, the StealthFBomb PrecisionFStrike has shown up now and then.
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** Since the move to Burbank, the StealthFBomb has shown up now and then.
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** The segment ends with Wolverine-as-Michael throwing out the oft-used "That's what ''she'' said!" catchphrase--while it doesn't even make sense in the context of the sketch, parents might be uncomfortable explaining what the joke usually means...
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** Al Jaffee snuck the word "shit" into the background art of an article entitled "Who's Who at a Comics Convention".

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** Al Jaffee snuck the word "shit" into the background art of an article entitled "Who's Who "Real Life Superheroes at a Comics Convention".Comic Book Conventions".

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** [[SerialEscalation In "Class of the Titans" They drop FIVE F-BOMBS]]! Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is [[MeaningfulName Curseus]].

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** [[SerialEscalation In "Class of the Titans" They drop FIVE F-BOMBS]]! Titans", there's ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' F-bombs. Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is [[MeaningfulName Curseus]].



** Not to mention the body tape outline had the head ''separated from the body.''



** Plus, there was a sketch that not only references a certain lesbian-related Music/KatyPerry song, but she kisses the Liberty Bell "on the crack"

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** Plus, there was a sketch that not only references a certain lesbian-related Music/KatyPerry song, but she kisses the Liberty Bell "on the crack"crack".



* Fireworks come out of [[Music/KatyPerry Katy Putty's]] breasts in the "Flammable" sketch, but that also happened in the "Fireworks" music video they parodied. There's also the rather violent ways the paper woman and the clay man were burned (not the ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque muppet man; he was singed rather badly, but he was rescued in time by a pair of live-action hands with a fire extinguisher) and the implication that Katy Putty is a pyromaniac.

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* Fireworks come out of [[Music/KatyPerry Katy Putty's]] breasts in the "Flammable" sketch, but that also happened in the "Fireworks" music video they parodied. There's also the rather violent ways the paper woman and the clay man were burned (not the ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque muppet man; he was singed rather badly, but he was rescued in time by a pair of live-action hands with a fire extinguisher) and the implication that Katy Putty is a pyromaniac.



** Give up? It's [[spoiler: midgets, which has come under fire for being a slur against the vertically-challenged]].

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** Give up? It's The word's [[spoiler: midgets, which has come under fire for being a slur against the vertically-challenged]].



* In "Total Recall Me Baby", a mash-up of "Total Recall" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", there was an adult joke where they randomly showed a three-breasted old woman, referencing Kaitlyn Leeb's character from the original ''Total Recall''. You know, the '''''hooker''''' at the futuristic bar?
* The Spy vs. Spy segments occasionally show rather graphic violence, such as one where the White Spy gets impaled and is visibly bleeding and another where his face gets blown off by the Black Spy, exposing his skull.

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* In "Total Recall Me Baby", a mash-up of "Total Recall" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", there was an adult joke where they randomly showed a three-breasted old woman, referencing Kaitlyn Leeb's character from the original ''Total Recall''. You know, the Recall'' (the '''''hooker''''' at the futuristic bar?
* The Spy vs. Spy segments occasionally show rather graphic violence, such as one where the White Spy gets impaled and is visibly bleeding and another where his face gets blown off by the Black Spy, exposing his skull.
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* "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is essentially a beauty pageant which picks out the hottest videogame character ever made, with many female characters who're already [[{{Ms.Fanservice}} heavily sexualized]] in their own games and fan bases. They're even showcased in BoobsAndButtPose stylized character introductions. Particular mention should go to [[Videogame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]], who're both featured in mature games.

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* "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is essentially a beauty pageant which picks out the hottest videogame character ever made, with many female characters who're already [[{{Ms.Fanservice}} [[{{MsFanservice}} heavily sexualized]] in their own games and fan bases. They're even showcased in BoobsAndButtPose stylized character introductions. Particular mention should go to [[Videogame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]], who're both featured in mature games.
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[[AC:The [[Magazine/{{MAD}} magazine]]]]

* While the words "fuck" and "shit" were almost never printed into the magazine in full (any F-bombs were usually [[SymbolSwearing censored with asterisks or other symbols]]), there are at least two known exceptions:
** The cover to [[http://www.madcoversite.com/mad326printid.jpg issue #326]] has the word "fuck" among the graffiti on the wall.
** Al Jaffee snuck the word "shit" into the background art of an article entitled "Who's Who at a Comics Convention".
* Creator/SergioAragones drew barely-visible uncensored penises in the graphics accompanying a Frank Jacobs-penned parody of "Music/WeAreTheWorld".
* A parody of ''ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'' has Biddy hurl herself at Starchie. As she does so, several syringes and bottles of pills spill from her handbag, and this was a strip from the fifties!
* "Woman Wonder!" saw the titular character change her outfit inside her invisible jet with it implied her boyfriend was watching her. He keeps a horrifically lecherous face through the next few panels.
* They've never been afraid of the [[StealthPun Stealth F-bomb]]. For instance, their parody of ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' included the exchange
--> Minus five percent? How can you get -5% on an exam?\\
He spelled his '''name''' wrong! That's S-H-'''O'''-T, Horseshot!
* Cartoon nudity every so often (including, in the late 90's/early 2000's, a doctor ogling a woman through an X-Ray machine, and another where a woman flashes the bouncer at a club to get herself and boyfriend in. When they did a special on ''The Matrix Reloaded'', the overseer program watches porn on all his TV's when it doesn't have company. In TheNewTens, a mexican lady skinny-dipping in the Rio Grande to distract the border guards from a pack of illegal immigrants.).
* In the parody of "The Goonies," after one girl gets excited about a "huge stud," a guy has to clarify, saying that he's warning her about two giant tentacles, cutting himself off before he gets to what she thought she heard. ([[DontExplainTheJoke Testicles]]).
* In one personality quiz about whether you have Type A personality, if you get mostly "yes" answers, it says that there's a word for [[JerkAss the kind of person]] you are, which starts with A and rhymes with "gas hole"..

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Like ''MADtv'' and ''MAD'' magazine itself, this show became notorious for pushing the boundaries of acceptable content for kids.
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* In ''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the]] [[Literature/PeterPan Neverland]]'' they got away with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DcP3K5Zlc&feature=related a message on the back of Hook's ship:]] ''"shi'''p''' happens"''.

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* In ''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the]] [[Literature/PeterPan [[Disney/PeterPan Neverland]]'' they got away with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DcP3K5Zlc&feature=related a message on the back of Hook's ship:]] ''"shi'''p''' happens"''.
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** Plus, there was a sketch that not only references a certain lesbian-related KatyPerry song, but she kisses the Liberty Bell "on the crack"
* [[Series/TheOffice Meredith]] says she's got [[INeedAFreakingDrink just the thing]] for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in "The Clawfice" after Rogue tries to absorb her persona and becomes depressed.
* Fireworks come out of [[KatyPerry Katy Putty's]] breasts in the "Flammable" sketch, but that also happened in the "Fireworks" music video they parodied. There's also the rather violent ways the paper woman and the clay man were burned (not the ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque muppet man; he was singed rather badly, but he was rescued in time by a pair of live-action hands with a fire extinguisher) and the implication that Katy Putty is a pyromaniac.

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** Plus, there was a sketch that not only references a certain lesbian-related KatyPerry Music/KatyPerry song, but she kisses the Liberty Bell "on the crack"
* [[Series/TheOffice [[Series/TheOfficeUS Meredith]] says she's got [[INeedAFreakingDrink just the thing]] for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in "The Clawfice" after Rogue tries to absorb her persona and becomes depressed.
* Fireworks come out of [[KatyPerry [[Music/KatyPerry Katy Putty's]] breasts in the "Flammable" sketch, but that also happened in the "Fireworks" music video they parodied. There's also the rather violent ways the paper woman and the clay man were burned (not the ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque muppet man; he was singed rather badly, but he was rescued in time by a pair of live-action hands with a fire extinguisher) and the implication that Katy Putty is a pyromaniac.
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* The random reference to ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' in "Parent Trainer" could count; it's not inappropriate in and of itself, but the anime it's referencing tends to be really, ''really'' vulgar and risque.
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* In ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the]] [[PeterPan Neverland]]'' they got away with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DcP3K5Zlc&feature=related a message on the back of Hook's ship:]] ''"shi'''p''' happens"''.

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* In ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean ''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the]] [[PeterPan [[Literature/PeterPan Neverland]]'' they got away with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DcP3K5Zlc&feature=related a message on the back of Hook's ship:]] ''"shi'''p''' happens"''.



* [[TheOffice Meredith]] says she's got [[INeedAFreakingDrink just the thing]] for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in "The Clawfice" after Rogue tries to absorb her persona and becomes depressed.

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* [[TheOffice [[Series/TheOffice Meredith]] says she's got [[INeedAFreakingDrink just the thing]] for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in "The Clawfice" after Rogue tries to absorb her persona and becomes depressed.
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* "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is essentially a beauty pageant which picks out the hottest videogame character ever made, with many female characters who're already [[{{Ms.Fanservice}} heavily sexualized]] in their own games and fan bases. Particular mention should go to [[Videogame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[Franchise/LaraCroft Lara Croft]], who're both featured in mature games.

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* "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is essentially a beauty pageant which picks out the hottest videogame character ever made, with many female characters who're already [[{{Ms.Fanservice}} heavily sexualized]] in their own games and fan bases. They're even showcased in BoobsAndButtPose stylized character introductions. Particular mention should go to [[Videogame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[Franchise/LaraCroft [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]], who're both featured in mature games.
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* "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is essentially a beauty pageant which picks out the hottest videogame character ever made, with many female characters who're already [[{{Ms.Fanservice}} heavily sexualized]] in their own games and fan bases. Particular mention should go to [[Videogame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[Franchise/LaraCroft Lara Croft]], who're both featured in mature games.
** Also Birdo, who ''isn't even humanoid'' was a high runner-up. [[{{Squick}} Think about it.]]
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* "The Da Grinchy Code" had Indiana Jones's line, "I'll take this stick here/My Staff of Ra/And shove it on up/Your tiny Who-Kah!" with one of the Whos gulping and turning pale ([[spoiler: The Who-Kah was a Dr. Seussian machine]]).

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* "The Da Grinchy Code" had Indiana Jones's line, "I'll take this stick here/My Staff of Ra/And shove it on up/Your tiny Who-Kah!" with one of the Whos gulping and turning pale ([[spoiler: The ([[spoiler:The Who-Kah was a Dr. Seussian machine]]).
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* In "Big Time Rushmore," one of the costume ideas UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln wear to create their boy band image are kinky, S&M-style leather attire. UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln is the only one who liked wearing his costume and when the four turn back to normal thanks to their fairy godmother Taylor Swift, Abe is the only one who keeps his costume.

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* In "Big Time Rushmore," one of the costume ideas UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln wear to create their boy band image are kinky, S&M-style leather attire. UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Lincoln is the only one who liked wearing his costume and when the four turn back to normal thanks to their fairy godmother Taylor Swift, Abe is the only one who keeps his costume.

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