Basic Trope: Characters are censored for in-universe reasons, such as being around children.
- Straight: Alice is about to say a swear word, but her husband Bob reminds her that their young child, Charlie, is within earshot.
- Exaggerated: Alice never gets to say anything inappropriate, as Bob always tells her that Charlie is still around, even when he really isn't.
- Downplayed: Charlie is around preteen age. Alice sometimes uses milder words such as "dammit" when within earshot, but Bob stops her from using an outright Precision F-Strike.
- Justified: Charlie is impressionable, and swearing around him can potentially lead to him repeating it in inappropriate contexts.
- Inverted: Charlie invites his friends Dylan and Emily to his house for a sleepover, and tells them not to swear around his parents.
- Subverted: Alice points out that Charlie isn't around, and that now she can swear for real, so she starts to yell "Son of a-"
- Double Subverted: Charlie comes in, so she switches her statement to "Biscuit!"
- Parodied: The characters already swear constantly, but attempt on censoring themselves for in-universe reasons anyway, saying things such as "Holy shit, watch your damn language! There are goddamn children nearby!"
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes characters are censored for in-universe reasons, but sometimes they aren't.
- Averted: There is no in-universe censorship.
- Enforced:
- It's a show for younger audiences - the statement "not in front of the kid" has a double meaning in this case.
- Swearing simply isn't allowed on this show for other reasons, so there has to be a good reason why they don't swear - being around children is an example.
- Lampshaded: "Alice, not in front of Charlie!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice isn't around Charlie, so she realizes the things she can say and get away with.
- Defied: "I don't care that Charlie is around, he needs to improve his vocabulary anyway."
- Discussed: "Oh, so that's why you haven't been swearing all that often anymore."
- Conversed: "People in real life aren't really that wary of swearing around kids, are they?"
- Implied: It's mentioned that Alice used to swear constantly. Since she's had Charlie, she swears a lot less, if at all.
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