History Main / InnocentSwearing

* Done on the Creator/PBSKids version of ''Literature/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]]''. Apparently this is highly offensive to anthropomorphic bears. The book that inspired this episode never said exactly what word Sister learned and repeated from the video, just that [[AndThatsTerrible it sounded offensive]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Curses", the girls overhear Professor Utonium using a naughty word and start using it themselves. Many {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s ensue.

** In a different episode: Moe has turned his tavern into 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:

* In ''Fanfic/DoYouBelieveInFairies'', the cute and innocent [[NatureSpirits Harvest Sprite]] Finn repeats back Evelyn's cursing at her. She quickly notes not to curse around him:

'''Evelyn''': Okay, no cursing in front of the adorably innocent fairy hallucination. I feel like a Mom all of a sudden.” 

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' entitled "Word Of The Day" had Angelica audition for a children's show. While backstage she overheard a DepravedKidsShowHost state, rather sarcastically, that the "real" catchphrase of the show is that the children who watch it "are all little [[SoundEffectBleep (censored by outside noise)]]." Angelica, being a three, thinks this is sincere. HilarityEnsues.

* ''Webcomic/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.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[SoundEffectBleep (censored by outside noise)]]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Potty Mouth", the siblings get scared that they accidentally taught their one year old sister how to say "damn it". It turns out Lily is instead mispronouncing "donut" because she saw donuts in a TV show the girls wanted to watch, though she does curse at the end of the episode when the family dog steals her donut. Interestingly, most of the siblings (the second youngest child is ''four'') are all shown cursing without it being depicted as this. They all know exactly how to use the word.

* Towards the end of ''Film/WeBoughtAZoo'', little Rosie informs a USDA inspector visiting the eponymous zoo that everyone has said that he was "a dick". She admits that she doesn't know what it means.

* ''Film/BigDaddy'' has Julian's "The goddamn Jets".

* In the American edition of ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything''[[note]]The original joke, used in the UK edition, is that there is a film award for "Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'Fuck' in a Serious Screenplay". Adams re-wrote this section in the American edition to avoid using the F-word, and added another layer to the joke in the process.[[/note]], the word "Belgium" is the vilest profanity imaginable on every planet except Earth (and thus can only be used in serious screenplays). Arthur Dent is not aware of this, being from Earth, and so he repeats the word in conversation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Potty Mouth", the siblings get scared that they accidentally taught their one year old sister how to say "damn it". It turns out Lily is instead mispronouncing "donut" because she saw donuts in a TV show the girls wanted to watch, though she does curse at the end of the episode. Interestingly, most of the siblings (the second youngest child is ''four'') are all shown cursing without it being depicted as this. They all know exactly how to use the word.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[SoundEffectBleep (censored by outside noise)]]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. HilarityEnsues

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[NarrativeProfanityFilter (censored by outside noise)]]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. HilarityEnsues

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "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. The Tibble twins tell her it's a hypnosis word, and saying it will make adults follow their orders. Her mother finally tells her that it means that someone wants to hurt your feelings. We're never actually told what the word is, and due to the various ways it's used in the episode, it's not based on a specific word.

* In one of the ''[[Literature/EmilOfLonneberga Emil of Lönneberga]]'' stories by Creator/AstridLindgren, Emil decides to teach his little sister Ida all the word he gets 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.

* Creator/SamAndMickey's ''Dreamhouse Dinners'' episode #3, Barbie recalls that Baby Krissy once attempted to say, "duck", but it sounded more like an F-bomb. [[spoiler:Krissy does this again at the end of the video.]]

* In one episode of ''WesternANimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', Daffy learns a swear word from a passing garbage man. He later tells the other Tunes about it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "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. The Tibble twins tell her it's a hypnosis word, and saying it will make adults follow their orders. Her mother finally tells her that it means that someone wants to hurt your feelings. We're never actually told what the word is.

"When I was very young, my mother always said "pardon my French" when she swore. So you can imagine the reaction of the teacher in my first French lesson after she asked if we knew any French."

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

* 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. The moral of the ''Franklin'' story was that the words you use say a lot about you, and [[TropesAreNotBad it actually works fairly well]] if you can get past your knee-jerk reaction to the idea of "stupid" as a swear word. (It's credible too, since the writing on the show is monitored carefully for the language they use, and normally they ''don't'' use "stupid").

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "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. The Tibble twins tell her it's a hypnosis word, and saying it will make adults follow their orders. Her mother finally tells her, that it means that someone wants to hurt your feelings. We're never actually told what the word is.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Potty Mouth", the siblings get scared that they accidentally taught their one year old sister how to say "damn it". It turns out Lily is instead mispronouncing "donut", though she does curse at the end of the episode. Interestingly, most of the siblings (the youngest is ''five'') are all shown cursing without it being depicted as this. They all know exactly how to use the word.

->'''Mrs. Read''' Well, you're off the hook this time because you didn't know what you were saying. But I hope you know now that swear words are not appropiate things to say, especially for three and four year old children. \\
'''DW:''' Why?\\

'''DW:''' But why? What do they mean?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "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. The Tibble twins tell her it's a hypnosis word, and saying it will make adults follow their orders. Her mother finally tells her, "You could say, it means 'I want to hurt your feelings.'" We're never actually told what the word is.
-->'''DW:''' ''That's'' what it means? Why didn't somebody just ''say'' so?!