History Main / InnocentSwearing

* From ''[[MeetTheParents Meet The Fockers]]'' Little Jack's first word is "asshole".

* ''MoonOverJune'' gives us June Hasegawa's [[http://moonoverjune.com/go/223 first words]][[hottip:*:(on one of the few remotely SFW pages in the entire series)]]

* ''QuestionableContent'' has [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1200 a twist on this one]].

* [[DonnieDarko "What's a fuckass?"]]

* ''{{Arthur}}'': In "The Bleep," DW hears a bad word and wants to know what it means. (She doesn't know at all that it's a bad word.) She accidentally gets her entire preschool class saying it. Her mother finally tells her, "You could say, it means 'I want to hurt your feelings.'"

* After overhearing Bart one day on ''TheSimpsons'', one of the Flanders children (I forget which one) swears twice at the dinner table ("Hell, no!" and "I don't want any damn vegetables.") The humor turns heartbreaking after he is scolded and runs from the room crying, not understanding what he has done wrong.

* One storyline in ''{{FoxTrot}}'' has Paige watching ''JerrySpringer'' while babysitting. Of course, the kid hears the word and starts repeating it. In the epilogue, Paige reports that the mother said kids always hear bad words and repeat them, but if you don't use them often or attach special significance to them, they'll eventually drop it. ''Then'' they discussed watching ''Jerry Springer'' while babysitting...

* Two-year-old Friday Next in [[ThursdayNext Something Rotten]]'' learns naughty words (notably "bum", "bubbies", "arse" and "pikestaff" [[ForeignLookingFont rendered in an Old English font]]) from St. Zvlkx. Thursday speaks as if she isn't certain what he said the first time he uses them, but the second time she tells her son, "If those are rude Old English words, St. Zvlkx is in a lot of trouble--and so are you, my little fellow."

* The webcomic ''You Damn Kid'' at one point recounted an incident with the author's little sister who asked him who Sunsub is and why he itches when something bad happens. Things didn't click for him until at the dinner table when, after his dad tells a story, the sister shouts, "Sunsub itches!" (say it out loud if you haven't figured it out)

* One storyline in ''{{FoxTrot}}'' has Paige watching ''JerrySpringer'' while babysitting. Of course, the kid hears the word and starts repeating it. In the epilogue, Paige reports that the mother said kids always hear bad words and repeat them, but if you don't use them often or attach special significance to them, they'll eventually drop it. ''Then'' they discussed watching ''Jerry Springer'' while babysitting...

* ''QuestionableContent'' has [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1200 a twist on this one]].

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* ''{{Dinosaurs}}'' had one episode where Baby learned one such word, "smoo". (In the dinosaur lingo, this is a dirty word because it describes debris that accumulates on the sole of a dinosaur's foot.)

* Seen in a story from the ''{{Franklin}}'' television series. The word in question? [[GoshDangItToHeck "Stupid."]]

* ''FamilyCircus'' had this with Jeffy, who got spanked.
* ''ForBetterOrForWorse'' had an example involving April.

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* ''{{Arthur}}'': In "The Bleep," DW hears a bad word and wants to know what it means. (She doesn't know at all that it's a bad word.) She accidentally gets her entire preschool class saying it. Her mother finally tells her, "You could say, it means 'I want to hurt your feelings.'"
-->''That's'' what it means? Why didn't somebody just ''say'' so?!
* In the ''PowerpuffGirls'' episode "Curses", the girls overhear Professor Utonium using a naughty word and start using it themselves. Many {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s ensue.
* One storyline in ''{{FoxTrot}}'' has Paige watching ''JerrySpringer'' while babysitting. Of course, the kid hears the word and starts repeating it. In the epilogue, Paige reports that the mother said kids always hear bad words and repeat them, but if you don't use them often or attach special significance to them, they'll eventually drop it. ''Then'' they discussed watching ''Jerry Springer'' while babysitting...
* An episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' had Angelica overhear a DepravedKidsShowHost state, rather sarcastically, that the "real" catchphrase of the show is that the children who watch it "are all little [censor]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. HilarityEnsues
* In the ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' episode "Sailor Mouth", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick read a bad word written in a trash bin and start using it. Patrick claims it's a "sentence enhancer".
* After overhearing Bart one day on ''TheSimpsons'', one of the Flanders children (I forget which one) swears twice at the dinner table ("Hell, no!" and "I don't want any damn vegetables.") The humor turns heartbreaking after he is scolded and runs from the room crying, not understanding what he has done wrong.
* ''QuestionableContent'' has [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1200 a twist on this one]].

* In the ''PowerpuffGirls'' episode "Curses", the girls overhear Professor Utonium using a naughty word and start using it themselves. Many {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s ensue.
* After overhearing Bart one day on ''TheSimpsons'', one of the Flanders children (I forget which one) swears twice at the dinner table ("Hell, no!" and "I don't want any damn vegetables.") The humor turns heartbreaking after he is scolded and runs from the room crying, not understanding what he has done wrong.
* Famous Victorian poet RobertBrowning used the word "twat" in "Pippa Passes". Browning was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippa_Passes#.22A_distressing_blunder.22 under the mistaken impression]] that "twat" meant a part of a nun's habit.

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* ''{{Dinosaurs}}'' had one episode where Baby learned one such word, "smoo". (In the dinosaur lingo, this is a dirty word because it describes debris that accumulates on the sole of a dinosaur's foot.)

* In one issue of ''{{PS 238}}'', Tyler the primary-school-aged trainee superhero goes on patrol with his adult mentor, and they wind up fighting a female supervillain. At one point his mentor notices an unusual reading on a sensor gadget, and realises that it means the supervillain has had "work done" to [[MostCommonSuperpower improve her professional image]]. The following day at school, Tyler tries out the sensor gadget on his teacher, and remarks that apparently ''she's'' never had "work done"; next thing he knows, he's on detention and he's really not sure why.

* The novel ''My Best Fiend'' had one chapter where the headmistress was cracking down on swearing at the school. When the main character's friend fell and got a nasty gash on her leg, and all the other kids were crowding round, she shouted "She can't move her bloody leg!" A variant, since she ''did'' know "bloody" was a swear, but that wasn't what she ''meant''; she meant the leg was covered in blood. She explained this to the headmistress, who agreed that it was a shame perfectly good words ''became'' swears.

* ''{{Dinosaurs}}'' had one episode where Baby learned one such word, "smoo".

Related to EntendreFailure. TruthInTelevision for kids who are very young or very sheltered.