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1->''"I don't know what I'm going to say or do until I do it. I improvise about one-third of my dialogue. The director gives me a time slot and I fill it. I walk all over the script, I pick up a verbal shotgun and go berserk, otherwise you end up giving in to TV. The pressures on TV writers are so great they'll do the silliest things over and over. My job is to fight that voodoo repetition...''
2->''"You can ''nanoo'' your heart out, it would be very easy to do that. So I try to work out several levels at once, to slip in tiny innuendos. It's a little game I like to call "[[LampshadeHanging Getting shit through the radar]]." [[GratuitousYiddish Yiddish]] is good because the censor knows Spanish; she knows what "putz" means, though."''[[note]]Penis[[/note]]
3-->--'''Creator/RobinWilliams''', behind the scenes commentary about ad-libbing on ''Series/MorkAndMindy''
4
5->''"It is better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission."''
6--> -- '''[[AnonymousAuthor Anonymous]]'''
7
8->''"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."''
9--> -- '''[[MsFanservice Mae West]]'''
10
11->'''Mom:''' Hey Norman, what are you watching?
12->'''Norman:''' ''([[RefugeInAudacity matter-of-factly]])'' [[BrutalHonesty Sex and violence.]]
13-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''
14
15->[=<Good. Spacey. Now I'm going to ask you some questions, Spacey. You will answer me. If you answer all my questions I will give you a bottle. If you attempt to lie I will kill you. Is that clear?>=]
16-->--'''Visser Three''', ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''
17
18->'''Ifi''': [=<I will also trade you this knife I made out of a toothbrush for a pack of cigarettes.>=]
19->'''Adam''': [I] like how they can't actually say the contents of the bottle, due to the target audience of this book.
20->'''Adam''': [[Creator/KAApplegate KA]] talking with her editor: "[[BlatantLies Oh, you know! It's a bottle filled with warm milk! Because Spacey has been out on the street so long, and he could use a good nap]]."
21-->--'''Adam and Ifi''' of ''Blog/CinnamonBunzuh'', responding to the above quote.
22
23-> Let me choke on your cocksuredness [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre (Innuendo!)]]
24-> Strip away my conscience
25-> Tear away my jew guilt
26-> Kiss around my sense of right and wrong
27-> But not on it, it's sensitive
28-->--'''Rebecca Bunch''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmErbAsI7I Strip Away My Conscience]], ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend''
29
30->''What most non-English majors don't realize is that under Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s flowery language and incomprehensible old-timey wordplay is a whole lot of sly references to boners, anal sex, masturbation, and much worse.''
31-->--'''Grace [=McCarthy=]''', before listing [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20501_7-filthy-jokes-you-didnt-notice-in-shakespeare.html#ixzz2agi2tuu6 several examples of Shakespeare using this trope.]]
32
33->"Watch this scene with your eyes closed, and tell me it doesn't sound like Tiger's Eye is chasing the girl down and sexually harassing her."
34->"Yeah we can do ''THAT'', but whatever you do, don't ''dare'' [[HideYourGays mention that Uranus and Neptune are gay]]."
35-->-- a few Website/YouTube comments on ''Manga/SailorMoon Super S''.
36
37->"I like that, let's make fun of the Native Americans, who gives a *[[BleepDammit bleep]]* about them? But whatever you do, don't *[[BleepDammit bleep]]* make fun of Hitler."
38-->-- Drew Carey on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', after the director told them they couldn't make fun of Hitler.
39
40->''According to what I've read, [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein "informer licky boom boom down"]] means something like [[RageAgainstTheLegalSystem "I'm gonna kick that snitch's ass"]]. ''Series/InLivingColor'' said that Snow [[DoubleStandard got away with it because he was white]]. I think it's more because [[IndecipherableLyrics no one knew what he was saying]].''
41-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sez5kjcrww4 reviewing]] [[OneHitWonder "Informer" by Snow]].
42
43->''"If it wasn't for that grass, I'd have kicked your... Uh, if not for that grooty, I'd have kicked your booty. ... Don't ask me what a grooty is!!!"''
44-->-- '''Undyne''', ''Videogame/{{Undertale}}''
45
46->''"You will be gone, and you'll be burning in... well, you'll go to heaven!"''
47-->-- '''Department Store Spook''', ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''
48
49->''"Blue, blue. You strange, unmasked fellow. Don't go to heaven!"''
50-->-- '''Happy Happyist''', ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''
51
52->''"sure we can show [[BodyHorror animal heads bleeding]], allude to porn and [[CurseCutShort swearing]], but [[HideYourLesbians no gays]] bc this is a kids show!!"''
53-->--'''[[https://storygirl000.tumblr.com/post/189249851671 A Tumblr post]]''' on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''
54
55->''"Okay, I've got a new name for the group: [[FunWithAcronyms Caring Relatives Are Problematic]]."''
56-->-- '''Simon Cowell''', ''Series/TheXFactor UK'', following a terrible audition by the group CASYR (Care And Support Your Relatives).
57
58->'''Creator/StuartPankin:''' An erection...
59->''(the audience screams)''
60->'''Contestant:''' [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Things a man gets]]? Things that excite you?
61->''(audience laughter)''
62->'''Stuart:''' Uh... uh, a starched shirt...
63->'''Contestant:''' Things that are stiff?
64->'''Stuart:''' Yeah!
65->'''John Davidson:''' Are we still on the air?
66-->-- ''[[Series/{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]''
67
68->''"Often I put scenes in my stories that I know will not get past Egmont editor Bryon Erickson, just to give him a chuckle... or heart failure later on if he doesn't spot my mischief."''
69-->--'''Creator/DonRoaa'''

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