History UnusualEuphemism / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has the following exchange. The way the expression comes off is a bit confusing; it's implied that they think she's dancing and the song that they perform follows that logic. Though, at the exact moment the line is spoken, Candace is bending over with her hands on her butt and begins to shake her hips. It does look like dancing, especially when you consider that they are supposed to be breakdancers/rappers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'', almost everybody has at least one of their own. (Mr. Strong, for example: "Aw, pickles.")

* ''WesternAnimation/Mixels'': "Aw, schnixel!"

** The show features such phrases as "What the cabbage?" and "Let's get the math out of here."
** [[GoLookAtTheDistraction "Someone got hit in the boingloings! ...Hit in the boingloings...Boingloings...Someone got hit in them."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The Glorft leader uses "I'll have your Jorblachs!" to chew his lackies out. Jorblachs most likely being the Glorft word for ass.
** [[GroinAttack I believe it means something else....]]

* Butters, one of few ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' characters who rarely swear, often uses "Aw hamburgers" and "Son of biscuit!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', Mr. Lancer constantly uses book titles as expletives of shock. Ex.: "Moby Dick!", "Literature/GulliversTravels, I'm losing my mind - and my pants!", and "Literature/LordOfTheFlies! They're slipping right through my hands!" "Literature/WarOfTheWorlds, creature, get away from my youthful charges!" "Literature/ChickenSoupForTheSoul!" [[Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober Hunt for Red October]]!", when the faculty's steak dinners are stolen, "Literature/ParadiseLost!" and, beautifully, when locked in a closet, "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', Mr. Lancer constantly uses book titles as expletives of shock. Ex.: "Moby Dick!", "Gulliver's Travels, I'm losing my mind - and my pants!", and "Lord of the Flies! They're slipping right through my hands!" "War of the Worlds, creature, get away from my youthful charges!" "Chicken Soup for the Soul!" "Hunt for Red October!", when the faculty's steak dinners are stolen, "Paradise Lost!" and, beautifully, when locked in a closet, "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Transformers}}'' is famous for this, particularly ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Various permutations of the word "Slag" are the most popular, but are others, including the perennially popular "kiss my skid plate" (though "skidplate" is used similarly in ''Animated'')

* An episode of ''TheBackyardigans'' called "The Great Dolphin Race" has "Jumping jellyfish!" as an euphemism. It also has "Leaping lobsters!" and "Holy cowfish!".

** The word barnacles seems to be their equivalent of sh* t or bull sh* t as it's sometimes used like "this is a load of barnacles" and "you're full of barnacles", in another example Mr. Krabs had given on ever being able to do something and Spongebob says "Barnacles!" and Mr. Krabs says "Spongebob!" as if he said a very bad word and Spongebob says "Sorry about the foul language, Mr. Krabs". This euphemism is actually directly lampshaded by the song "Barnacles" in the music CD "Spongebob On The High Seas," in which Spongebob, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton flat-out state that it's a euphemism for curse words. This goes so far as to break the fourth wall and may even count as a TakeThat at censorship in general. However, the fact that it encourages censorship by use of this euphemism suggests otherwise. Still, I can't help but feel the chorus is poking fun at it.

** It seems to be more like a variation "Mother of God".

* ''HalloweenIsGrinchNight'' deserves special credit here: an outhouse is referred to as "the euphemism."

** In another case, The Maximals thought they would be returning to Cybertron. Upon remembering that LawfulGood Silverwing never knew Cybertron, and seems upset about leaving Earth ([[spoilers He's really DatingCatwoman behind everyone's backs and isn't pleased with the fact that they will not be able to see each other upon leaving Earth]]), Cheetor offers to take him to "Six Lasers over Cybertron". Rattrap instead offers to take him to a little hole in the wall he knows of where the waitresses don't have chest plates and you can see their chassis. Given Silverwing's personality and his real concerns, this CrossesTheLineTwice.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has the following exchange. The way the expression comes off is a bit confusing; it's implied that they think she's dancing and the song that they perform follows that logic. Though, at the exact moment the line is spoken, Candace is [[HartmanHips bending over with her hands on her butt and begins to shake her hips]]. It does look like dancing, especially when you consider that they are supposed to be breakdancers/rappers.

** ''[[TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' gave us a couple, such as "glitch-head". They're actually seeing how far they could go (they had to cut the line "What the forklift was that"; in the finished episode, the line largely survives, but "forklift" had to be replaced with "front-end loader"), as they weren't allowed to use many initially. However, during the second season, some of the bots (especially Bumblebee) got surprisingly rust-mouthed.

** Spongebob and his friend Patrick use "Tartar Sauce", "Fish Sticks", "Fish Paste", and "Barnacles" as their favored exclamations. One would guess that, to a fish, tartar sauce would be pretty shocking. "What the shell" and "What the halibut" crop up occasionally, too.

* There's a kind of variation in the 1970s British animated puppet show ''WesternAnimation/TheClangers''. None of the title characters had any actual dialogue. They all "spoke" in echoing slide-whistle notes that had the cadence of English speech, so that it was often possible to work out what they were saying from the context of the story - for instance, "Whee-oo, woo-oo woo-oo" could be interpreted as "Hello, Tiny Clanger". On one occasion it was claimed that one of the character's whistles meant "Sod it! The bloody thing's stuck!" although this could never be proven.
** As a matter of fact, the offending phrase was used in the voice-box for the Clanger toys, and is "Oh sod it! The bloody thing's stuck again".

* Tek Jansen, eponymous hero of the animated ShowWithinAShow on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', has a new curse every episode - usually space-themed puns ranging from "Venus Flytrap!" to "Space Mountain!" "Solar Plexus!" has been used repeatedly to the point where it's almost a CatchPhrase.
* Fij Fij of WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy always says "Yappin' Yumblebum!" when something bad happens.

-->'''Green Lantern''': Judas Priest!

* Inevitable ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' example: Aang expresses frustration by exclaiming "monkey feathers!"

*** ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'' also gives us the very colorful "Oh for the love of [[PhysicalGod Aang]]!"

** The sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' had "What the [[PrecisionFStrike flameo]] happened in here?"

* In Goodfeathers shorts of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', pigeons use the word "Coo" in dirty ways, such as "Coo you" and "Coo off".
** In one episode where one of their girlfriends leaves them for another Pesto I believe it was says to the new boyfriend says "have you been cooing my girl?"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Principal Skinner will use this on occasion, the most memorable being the exclamation "GM Chrysler!" Similarly, Mr Burns is fond of this: most apparent is '22 Short Films About Springfield' where he motivates a bee-stung and quickly-dying Smithers to continue powering their bicycle-built-for-two in completely accurate 19th century slang insults--calling him (among other things) a "stuporous funker." Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has a breakdown [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Short_Films_About_Springfield here.]]

* Elisa in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' occasionally uses "Jalapeños!" as a general-purpose curse.
** Actually, Goliath and Broadway started that trend (Goliath first shouted "Jalapeño!" appropriately enough, the first time he ever ate a jalepeño), and Eliza picked it up due to her hanging with the Gargoyles.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' and an episode of ''TheBackyardigans'' called "The Great Dolphin Race" both had "Jumping jellyfish!" as an euphemism. The latter also had "Leaping lobsters!" and "Holy cowfish!".
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has this exchange.
-->Candace: *screams* There's squirrels in my pants!
-->Rapper: Wow! That girl's got some serious squirrels in her pants!
** The way the expression comes off is a bit confusing, it's implied that they think she's dancing and the song that they perform follows that logic. Though, at the exact moment the line is spoken, Candace is [[HartmanHips bending over with her hands on her butt and begins to shake her hips]].
*** It does look like dancing, especially when you consider that they are supposed to be breakdancers/rappers.
* When Naveen crashes the Charlotte's wedding in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', she exclaims, "Cheese and crackers!"
* WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} once had a horde of video zombies "scare the living carp" out of him. [[LiteralGenie Indeed, there was a live carp flopping around.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'': "Oh, biscuits!"
* 1973-74 ''{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}}'' episodes.

* In ''TheProblemSolverz'', "oh my dog" is used occasionally. In one episode, a character says, "What the ''funny face''?"

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' apparently has some in-universe euphemisms such as "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM876GDF8TY horseapples]]," "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zyx4OTo8Q what in the hay]]," and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5RdzTZBVs ponyfeathers]]", still these words are not commonly used. "Ponyfeathers" in particular appears to be a CurseOfTheAncients. They also love to say "everypony", anypony, etc, even when referring to non-ponies like Spike and Zecora.

* ''Pixar/ToyStory'' has Woody get angry and yell out "Son of a ''building block''!"

* Combined with ThankTheMaker in ''Pixar/{{Cars}}'' where cars say things like "For the love of Chrysler!" and "Ford Almighty!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Hunter orders Junior to "liberate" Tulip. And then bluntly and repeatedly makes crystal clear that he means to fire her.
--> '''Hunter''': If I'm not being clear, I mean fire her!

* TomTerrific used "Hoboken, New Jersey," "Omaha Nebraska," "Chicago, Illinois" and "Holyoke, Massachusetts."

*** AvatarTheAbridgedSeries also gives us the very colorful "Oh for the love of [[PhysicalGod Aang]]!"

* ''KickButtowski'': "Oh, biscuits!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'', Hannibal [=McFist=]'s stepson Bash often uses the phrase "make a Mr. Grumpy" to refer to defecation.

** The periphery demographic has a few as well. "Plot" came to mean a pony's rump (after the phrase "I watch it for the plot" went viral), which means a reference to a "plothole" in a fanfic likely has nothing to do with bad writing. Well, OK, it kinda does, but not in the usual way. They also tend to use "buck" as a synonym for the F-word, leading to [[FridgeLogic interesting implications]] for Applejack's use of "apple-bucking" to get the apples out of the trees.

** The periphary demographic has a few as well. "Plot" came to mean a pony's rump (after the phrase "I watch it for the plot" went viral), which means a reference to a "plothole" in a fanfic likely has nothing to do with bad writing. Well, OK, it kinda does, but not in the usual way. They also tend to use "buck" as a synonym for the F-word, leading to [[FridgeLogic interesting implications]] for Applejack's use of "apple-bucking" to get the apples out of the trees.
* ''CloneHigh'' uses "Dinger!" where one would usually use a stronger word to mean OhCrap.
* ''Ben10'' Kevin starts explaining to a 10 year old Ben where baby aliens come from. He gets cut off, and says "What? I had to learn astrophysics on the street." [[SarcasmMode Astrophysics indeed.]]

f* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', the word "smurf" is applied to anything the writers feel would be funny, but especially as a rather transparent substitute for expletives; in some cases, they are then upbraided by another character for using "such language."

* In ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'', Hannibal [=McFist=]'a atepson Bash often uses the phrase "make a Mr. Grumpy" to refer to defecation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', the word "smurf" is applied to anything the writers feel would be funny, but especially as a rather transparent substitute for expletives; in some cases, they are then upbraided by another character for using "such language."

* Combined with ThankTheMaker in ''Pixar/{{Cars}}'' where cars say things like "For the love of Chrysler!" and "Ford Almighty!"