History Main / InnocentSwearing

-->'''Rod Flanders'''[[hottip:*:or maybe Tod; who can tell?]]: Ow, my freakin' ears!

-->'''Moe''': And I'll tell you where you can stick your freaking' sodie too!

* In ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrarie'', the Ingalls briefly move to the city and get a house near the local bar. This leads to the youngest daughter Carrie exclaiming "Damn!" at the dinner table. Pa reprimands her and tells her to ask him about unfamiliar words before using them in the future.

-->'''Danny:''' Don't say that, Danny.

** In a different episode: Moe has started a family restaurant and has worked himself near to the breaking point. And then one little girl complains that her soda is too cold, causing Moe to erupt into a sanitized-for-primetime ClusterFBomb, ending with:

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

* ''ComicStrip/FamilyCircus'' had this with Jeffy, who got spanked.

* 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.

* ''FamilyCircus'' had this with Jeffy, who got spanked.
* ''ForBetterOrForWorse'' had an example involving April.
* One storyline in ''FoxTrot'' has Paige watching ''[[JerrySpringer Jerzy Spaniel]]'' 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 ''Jerzy Spaniel'' while babysitting...

* The webcomic ''YouDamnKid'' 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).
* ''QuestionableContent'' has [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1200 a twist on this one]]. After Pintsize tells Hannelore that robot swear words come from mashing on the keyboard, she asks him and Winslow what "qwerty" means. They're shocked.
* ''MoonOverJune'' gives us June Akagawa's [[http://moonoverjune.com/go/223 first words]][[hottip:*:(on one of the few remotely SFW pages in the entire series)]]
* This exchange from ''{{Homestuck}}'' Act 6:
-->'''GT:''' The last thing i need on my bday is another installment of and i quote manbro bukkake theater.
-->'''TT:''' You still don't actually know what that means, do you.
-->'''GT:''' Not really? Its your friggin figure of speech man. I gathered it just meant getting slimed like in [[GhostBusters ghost busters]] or somesuch.
-->'''TT:''' Kind of. I told you to look it up.
-->'''GT:''' Yeah yeah. Im a busy fella dirk!

* An episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' entitled "Word Of The Day" 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 ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' 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".

** Same user, different episode: Moe has started a family restaurant and has worked himself near to the breaking point. And then one little girl complains that her soda is too cold, causing Moe to erupt into a sanitized-for-primetime ClusterFBomb, ending with:

* Seen in a story from the ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' television series. The word in question? [[GoshDangItToHeck "Stupid."]] Done using the same word on ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' as well.
* Done on the PBSKids version of ''TheBerenstainBears'' with Sister Bear and her friend using the word "furball" after watching a video that belonged to Lizzie's brother - ''[[ShowWithinAShow Trouble at Big Bear High]]''

* 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 [[HaveAGayOldTime it was a shame perfectly good words]] ''[[HaveAGayOldTime became]]'' [[HaveAGayOldTime swears]].

* In one of the ''Emil'' stories by AstridLindgren, Emil decides to teach his little sister Ida all the word he get's chastized for saying, and telling her she must not ever use these words. He is quite honest in his intentions, he's just become victim to some InsaneTrollLogic.

* 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).

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

* ''AlmostFamous'' has a scene in which Zooey Deschanel's character, Anita, says "feck" and her mother thinks she actually used the word it replaced.
-->'''Elaine''': "Well, she did it. She finally said the F word."
-->'''William''': "I think she said 'feck'."
-->'''Elaine''': "What's the difference?"
-->'''William''': "The letter 'U'."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{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.'"

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

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

* After overhearing Bart one day on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', one of the Flanders children 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.

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

Related to EntendreFailure. Compare {{Fee Fi Faux Pas}}. TruthInTelevision for kids who are very young or very sheltered.

-->'''Adam:''' "Well then.... Shit!"

* 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."

* One storyline in ''{{FoxTrot}}'' has Paige watching ''[[JerrySpringer Jerzy Spaniel]]'' 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 ''Jerzy Spaniel'' while babysitting...

* 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".

* 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