I SWEAR I heard that in a non adult toon.

If we're counting "freaking", I remember in one Johnny Bravo episode Pops saying "Great freakin' toadstools!" or something to that effect.
 
I also recall an episode of Teen Titans, I believe it was "Only Human", where Cyborg was upset so Beast Boy tries to cheer him up by becoming an elephant, stuffing a cookie down his trunk, turning human again, and the cookie pops out of his mouth. Cybrog, unamused, tosses Beast Boy to the back of the room. Beast Boy complains "I was just trying to help! What do I have to do? Make it [the cookie] come out of my-" before being cut off by Raven.

I think it's pretty obvious what word was coming up next.
 
On Rcoky and his Friends (Rocky and Bullwinkle) early in the first arc, with rocket fuel, and easter egg can be seen on a background bookshelf. One of the books is called "Sex on Planet X". I saw it on Nick as a kid, and it made it onto the DVD as well.

On Rocko's Modern life there is an episode where Hef has a near death experience and finds himself in "Heck". When he's told where he is, he's momentarily confused and then says "Oh you mean He--" but he's cut off by a demon telling him he must call it "Heck" because this is a family show.

Ralph Bakshi's New Adventures of Mighty Mouse had a *maybe it is - maybe it ain't* drug reference that got cut after the first airing. I remember seeing it as a kid and being shocked something so naughty got on the air, as well a a subsequent news artical about the controversy. The plot involved a mean spirited rich man abusing the generosity of a homeless and poverty stricken flower girl. At some point she gives Mighty the remains of a flower the bully had destroyed, and Mighty puts it in his sock for safe keeping. Later during an adventure mighty pours out the remains of the flower to "smell" it, and guess what happens.

I would need this to be verified, but I think some of the lyrics on the jukebox may be obscene in an episode of Dexter's Lab that takes place in a truck stop.

B:TAS - "Pretty Poison" the carnivorous plant that fights Batman strikes me as highly suggestive of the female anatomy. This suits Poison Ivy who views men as weak.
 
My turn:

In The Beverly Hills Teens, Wilshire said, "You're asking me to betray my own sex." Such a line was taboo in any DIC cartoon.

And in The Rugrats, Angelica said, "Not even a reindeer t**d."

In the Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, Popeye once said to Bluto, "Hey!! You can't make a j***a** out of me!!"

And in The Flintstones, Barney said to Fred: "I think my money is better than the old fashioned way, and I am going to spend the day shoving it, as they say in the funny money business."

Oh, and let's not forget Eugene Krabs' immortal line: "I was chef on the S.S. Diarrhea."
 
I think you took that one out of context.


Sex, in reguards to gender isn't that taboo. I recall hearing a Popeye cartoon in which he referes to Olive Oyl as "a woman of her sex"




Jackass is an animal. It is another term for donkey (or a specific kind of Mule). I've seen that joke used for years in old cartoons before someone found a dirty subcontext. In certain shows you can say it, if you're referring to the animal. Pinkya and the Brain did a riff on the bible story of Samson (and I'm guessing a parody of a film about it) in which one character keeps saying how he was defeated by the Jaw bone of one.



Batman TAS got away with multiple characters saying "Oh my God!" and Dear God numerous times. I think they even said it on X-men, but I'm not sure.
 
THE most shocking example of this for me would have to be the episode of FOX's X-Men in which Rogue refers to Graydon Creed as a "p***erwood". I did a double take the 1st time I heard that.
 
Oh that's a good one. I think I remember that one too, but having a character who can do that and be able to say things like that is a writer's dream.

Usually I find that the cencorship board allows swear words or taboo words to be spoken baised on context. Family brings a good point in the FCC song where the line goes "You'll have to do her with you ding-a-ling, because you can't say penis". This is saying, you can't have sex with someone while using your penis, you can't really imply that you're having sex at all (though FG has pushed that board farther that I don't know why they'd bring it up in the song).

It's all about context of the words. Jackass can be used if refering to a real donkey but not to someone's butt. Ren & Stimpy had one that was cut some time later where they had an ugly picture of some guys ugly butt, wearing stained underware, fading over Ren with donkey cires heard in the background.

A! and Histaria were able to get away with using hell and damn because they used those words with historical or literary content and background. For those of you who saw "Damn the Torpedos" is a great explination of why and when you can use swears in childrens cartoons. Other shows like Gargoylas, DBZ, or other serious action shows, it might be allowed because of the level of violence involved, and being able to say at least one swear word brings up the tension of the moment (and ratings). In a way it's like "damn the Torpedos", the character is so pissed off, you have to just let a swear out for that one scene.

Bleeped words are used even in sunday comics, and they just write them like "!@##@!". So alot of the cartoons that bleep thier words are not acaully saying anything they're just trying to show the character as an adult or quick to anger. "Cutey and the Best" had Dot spewing out bleeped words left and right when she couldn't get her lines right. That bit was hilarious when I saw it back in the day. Most of the time you hear bleeped words in kids shows is like in "Sailor's Mouth" when they're trying to 'teach' kids that swearing is bad. The difference with "Sailor's Mouth" over Dot's angery rantings was that you can acaully pick out the swear word Spongebob is saying (IMO it's the f-word).

Plus how can you guy forget the famous 'sex' in Lion King and the 'take off your cloths' lines in Aladdin. At a certain phrame in Lion King you can pause and it looks like it's reading the word 'sex' but it can also be confused for 'sfx' for 'sound effects'. The Aladdin one is when you get to the spot where the Tiger is attacking Aladdin and you can hear some wispering voices say 'take off...' but through internet rumors and other stuff people thought the next words were take off your cloths, because as the story goes a mother finds her little girl tacking off her cloths while watching the movie and when the mother asks why, the girl says, 'because the movie told me so'.
 
I know Beavis and Butt-Head is an adult toon, but when "Beavis and Butt-Head do America" aired on MTV2, during the big casino scene with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' cover of "Love Rollercoaster" playing in the backround, Anthony Kiedis (or one of the other band members, I can't tell) screaming "AAAAA SH*T!" during the beginning of the song was left unbleeped.
 
I don't think "peckerwood" is actually dirty. I've always heard it used in the same vein as "redneck". I guess it could be considered offensive in terms of being a slur.
 
Other than the episode of Pinky and the Brain where the biblical character kept shouting in horror that he was defeated by the jawbone of an ass ("I, who have survived a marriage to one of the Gabore sisters, defeated, by the Jawbone of an Ass?!?!?!") I never heard it in Animaniacs. Really still surprised that they even allowed Damn in a historical quote, and even play off it.

Here's another one that slipped by the censors. 2 example of Bobby's World.

Uncle Ted says "So how did it go wit' that bully who was making your life a living Hell?"

and my favorite, in a fantasy where Bobby was fighting a girl octopus, "I thought only boys had tentacles!"
 
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