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* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo'': During the Childhood chapter, you hear your dad cussing out the lawnmower. You can mimic him, naming your toy lawnmower [[SymbolSwearing $@*%#]].

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* ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'': When Doolittle and Music/LorettaLynn are buying baloney at a store, Doo says that baloney makes you horny. Supremely innocent Loretta asks what "horny" means, whereupon Doo cackles with laughter and picks her up. Unfortunately Loretta takes this to mean that "horny" means having fun and making mischief ("cutting up"), so when she's interviewed on the radio she starts talking about how baloney makes her husband horny, much to Doo's horror.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Curses", Bubbles overhears Professor Utonium using a naughty word. She later says it in front of her sisters and they start using it themselves. Many {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s ensue.

* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' has 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. This also doubles as GettingCrapPastTheRadar, since "smoo" is also a slang term for the vulva.)

-->'''Akeem:''' ''(sticking his head out a window)'' Good morning, my neighbors!

** "GOOD MORNING, MY NEIGHBORS!" "HEY, FUCK YOU!" "YES! YES! FUCK YOU TOO!!!"

* ''Film/ComingToAmerica'':

Related to EntendreFailure. Compare FeeFiFauxPas. TruthInTelevision for kids who are [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes very young or very sheltered]]. See also FowlMouthedParrot if the one doing the swearing is an animal.

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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a stark, morbid example. Toddler Rei Ayanami calls Naoko Akagi a "hag": Naoko, while shocked, takes it softly and gently discourages her from using the word, but, again, Rei insists that she is a "hag", sincerely and flatly; genuinely miffed, Naoko warns her that she intends to spank her and tell Gendo; [[spoiler: Rei asks her why she would tell him, when he is the one who refers to Naoko (his lover) as this, quoting him as saying (of Naoko) "'That hag is useless'... 'That hag is unwanted'... 'That hag'"]]. Naoko reacts [[spoiler: and strangles her to death]].
* The English dub of the ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' episode "Majorika Goes To Kindergarten" has Caitlyn's mother react in shock when she acuses her sister Dorie of carousing, immediatley causing her to question where she learned such a word.

* ''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, there's no real one it could be.

* The Japanese version of ''Series/RomperRoom'' had an unintentional example that is a well-known PopCultureUrbanLegend. There are rumors of an episode where Miss Midori, the Japanese localization's hostess, asked the children if they know any words beginning with "ki", and a boy responded with "I know: ''kintama''!", which is Japanese slang for testicles. Miss Midori then asked the boy if he could think of anything more ''kireina'' ("nice" in Japanese), prompting the boy to respond with "Kireina kintama!" ("Nice nuts!"). The boy was then replaced with a teddy bear after a commercial break.

* The Japanese version of ''Series/RomperRoom'' had an unintentional example. There was an episode where Miss Midori, the Japanese localization's hostess, asked the children if they know any words beginning with "ki", and a boy responded with "I know: ''kintama''!", which is Japanese slang for testicles. Miss Midori then asked the boy if he could think of anything more ''kireina'' ("nice" in Japanese), prompting the boy to respond with "Kireina kintama!" ("Nice nuts!"). Cue the boy being replaced with a teddy bear after a commercial break.

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* An episode of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' revolves around Richie learning several swear words from another kid he made friends with at school. The episode ends with Rob and Laura confronting the boy's parents about what he's been saying, only to find that they wanted to talk to Rob and Laura because their son was disturbed about some things Richie had been saying as well.
* At the climax of the first season of ''Series/BetweenTheLines'', the main villain becomes tangled up in a group of schoolchildren while trying to flee the heroes. As he tries to push the kids out of the way, one of them can clearly be heard to say (probably unscripted) "you dirty bastard!".
* In the ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' episode "Teddy on Ice", little Charlie says a naughty word, which lands her in time-out. Her parents, Bob and Amy, spend the episode trying to (unsuccessfully) figure out who taught Charlie the word. Finally, while driving, Amy is cut off and shouts the bad word ([[SoundEffectBleep over her car horn]]), revealing herself to be the culprit and winding up in time-out at the end.
* One challenge of ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' involved the guys working with a kid, Luke, who closed out the explanation of the challenge with "Let's do this, bitches!" (Cue the guys falling apart).

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': While discussing the AttentionWhore lead singer of The Mother's band Marshall offers to yell insulting things like "the lead singer sucks skunk junk!" during a peformance. Cue Marshall's infant son Marvin, who was sitting behind him, repeating "skunk junk" as his first words. Marshall and The Mother look around in horror and hurriedly agree that if anyone asks they'll claim his first word was actually "Mommy".

* The English dub of the ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' episode "Majorika Goes To Kindergarten" has Caitlyn's mother react in shock when she acuses her of carousing, immediatley causing her to question where she learned such a word.

* ''Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!'': In an episode aptly titled "The Bad Word", Toto goes around spouting a curse he learned from a group of mean apes. He ends up alienating everybody, until he finally gets the courage to say sorry.

* In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', Sam Vimes reads his son his own version of ''Discworld/WheresMyCow'' with the {{catch phrase}}s of prominent Ankh-Morporkians instead of animal noises, including Foul Old Ron's "Bugrit! Millenium hand and shrimp!" The next day Young Sam announced "Buglit!" to his nanny, and from then on Vimes sticks to the written version.

Related to EntendreFailure. Compare FeeFiFauxPas. TruthInTelevision for kids who are very young or very sheltered. See also FowlMouthedParrot if the one doing the swearing is an animal.

When someone uses a naughty word without realizing it's a naughty word. Quite often, the person (almost always a child) will get into a lot of trouble for using such a bad word without knowing the meaning of the word or what he or she has done wrong.

* Seen in a story from the ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' television series. The word in question? [[GoshDangItToHeck "Stupid"]]. The moral of the episode 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").

* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Tony's reaction to the fact that [[spoiler:he's discovered a plausible means of TimeTravel]] is to fall back in his chair and say "Shit!" Then he sees his four year-old daughter Morgan sitting behind him on the stairs.
-->'''Tony:''' ''(makes a shushing motion - whispers)'' What are you doing up, little miss?\\
'''Morgan:''' ''(smiles)'' Shit.

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

* A rare non-verbal example involving a grown adult in ''{{Film/Bean}}'': Mr. Bean, for reasons known only to the almighty, doesn't know that flipping someone the middle finger is an obscene gesture and thinks it's an American gesture for "goodbye". So the host family he's staying with over the course of the film are somewhat off-put when he says goodbye by flipping them off as he leaves.