Swearing in cartoons

[Pietro]

I know this subject came up before, but can let's see how many cartoons we can list with swearing in them.

-Pietro:D

[Gossamer]

Originally posted by Pietro Shakarian
I'm working on a webpage about swearing in cartoons.
Does anyone know any cartoons that characters swear in?

-Pietro:D

Most obvious one that comes to mind is the Porky Pig with the hammer bit that was done as part of the gag reel that Warner's did.

[Thad Komorowski]

Tweety says "I Tawt I Taw a D--- Yankee Tat" and the General says "D--- Yankees!" in "Rebel Without Claws"

In the Noveltoon "By Leaps and Hounds" (1951), a big dog says "Silly ass"

In "Freudy Cat", the doctor says "The schmart ass"


-Thad

[Nelson]

In "Bosko's Picture Show", Bosko utters the "F" word

"The Milkman" When Flip The Frog, and the little Kid they're singing "Hail, Hail The gangs all here" , the horse sings "What the hell do we care".

And in the 1932 "Flip The Frog" short, "Room Runners" , Flip says Damn, in the short.

[J Lee]

Don't forget the mouthed, but unspoken, "God damn son of a *****" from the Indian after getting hit in the head with an arrow in "The Hardship of Miles Standish" and (I believe) from the stork after being knocked over one last time in "Dog Tired."

[lislebartman]

How about the use of 'jack-ass' from "A Tale of Two Mice" and "Mississippi Hare"? Or Bugs saying the word 'hell' (in the phrase 'Hell's Angels) in "Dumb Patrol"?:eek:

[billyjoelfan]

well if this counts heres a list of cartoons i know that uses 'bad' words

SOUTH PARK

BEVIS & BUTTHEAD

FAMILY GUY

THE SIMPSONS

KING OF THE HILL

FUTURAMA

THATS ALL I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW

billy joel rocked the formor U.S.S.R. back in 1987 fan!

[The Dork Knight]

Originally posted by billyjoelfan
well if this counts heres a list of cartoons i know that uses 'bad' words

SOUTH PARK

BEVIS & BUTTHEAD

FAMILY GUY

THE SIMPSONS

KING OF THE HILL

FUTURAMA

THATS ALL I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW

billy joel rocked the formor U.S.S.R. back in 1987 fan!

Celebrity Deathmatch
Daria
TV Funhouse (comedy Central)
Spy Groove
MTV Downtown
Undergrads
Duckman
Home Movies
Harvey Birdman
Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast
The Brak Show
Sealab 2021
The Critic

[Matthew Hunter]

Private Snafu says "Hell" in "Spies".
-Matthew

[Brandon Pierce]

In the movie "The Secret of Nimh" Justin says, "Damn".

[Paul Penna]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nelson
[B]In "Bosko's Picture Show", Bosko utters the "F" word

Hasn't this pretty conclusively been confirmed as at best wishful thinking, and at worst a base canard?

[Emmanuel Cruz]

The king calls the knight an ass in "I Was a Teenage Thumb."

[PorkyandDaffy]

I think the bird in THE EARLY BIRD DOOD IT cursed at the part where he tried to get the worm before it went back into it's hole. The bird says "Aww...." then the whole sound track suddenly mutes but you can see his mouth moving. Maybe Avery deliberately muted the soundtrack to make it look like he really cursed (ala the freeze frame in BLITZ WOLF when the pigs are singing "You're in the army now"), but that edit was too sloppy. There wasn't even any background music heard when the "dialogue" was muted. Maybe it's a TV edit?

Also, in LIFE WITH FEATHERS, after Sylvester spits the bird out of his mouth, the bird coughs, then says something to the camera (I think it was "Darn it"), then coughs, then looks at the camera and says something else, but it's muted for some reason. Maybe he cursed, or is this just a case of the actors forgetting to voice one part (like one of Elmer's "laughs" in HARE REMOVER)?

[Emmanuel Cruz]

By the way, did "The Blitz Wolf" originally freeze like it does when I saw it on the wartime special while the pigs are singing "You're in the Army Now?"

[PorkyandDaffy]

Yeah, that's the way it is in the original version. He froze it because after the "you'll never get rich..." line came, "you son of a (you can guess the rest)...". I was confused at first when I saw that, then I laughed my butt off when I realized Avery slipped that in as a joke about censoring himself. He used other jokes like that a lot too (like an agitated character holding up a "Censored Dialogue" sign instead of just flat out cursing). I bet even Hayes himself found them funny. That's why I'm wondering if that line in EARLY BIRD DOOD IT was intentionally muted or what. I watched the bird's lips, and it just looked like he said "foo". Is or was that a bad word?

[Tintin]

Also damn in "The Rebel Without Claws"

I am already watch on a french video of Daffy Duck Hunt and Daffy say "Les chasseurs sont des malades mentaux". Un peu de respect, Daffy quand même!:mad: :mad: :mad:

[kiddiesunshine]

damn, i like this topic! helluva lot of damn and hell.

[Cartman]

Well, I don't know if this was actually what was said, but in the Disney cartoon short REASON AND EMOTION, it sounds like Emotion says "Look at that classy bit**!"

[Sogturtle]

Ummmm, is it just me, but didn't we cover this whole ridiculous mess on the old board (just about this time last year!)?? Are we going to have a cussing and swearing session this time EVERY year before Thanksgiving???

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Cartman
Well, I don't know if this was actually what was said, but in the Disney cartoon short REASON AND EMOTION, it sounds like Emotion says "Look at that classy bit**!"


Emotion says "a classy dish".


-Jon

[Mike]

Originally posted by Paul Penna
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nelson
[B]In "Bosko's Picture Show", Bosko utters the "F" word

Hasn't this pretty conclusively been confirmed as at best wishful thinking, and at worst a base canard?

I was just watching the cartoon last night (was going through some tapes of mine), and I backed it up and listened to it three times, and that's clearly, without a doubt (at least in my mind) what he says. He definitely doesn't say "the dirty fox." I don't know how they got away with it (maybe the censors were bored by Bosko, and didn't really pay attention to his cartoons), but that's really what he said.

And anyway, the Nick folks must've thought that's what he said too, or else they wouldn't have looped it to "the dirty cur."

Mike

[DR. BELCH]

--full-length animated movies? Wicked City had profanity and adult situations.
Cowboy Bebop also has profanity...and in an ep of Gargoyles--the first one, in fact--Xanatos says that a man will walk "barefoot through hell" if the money's right.

[Geezil]

Originally posted by Sogturtle
Are we going to have a cussing and swearing session this time EVERY year before Thanksgiving???

Well, I for one hope the **** not! At least we could hold off on the **** blue language until a bit later when those **** fruitcakes start appearing again on holiday tables ...!!

[Cartman]

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman says "What the hell is wrong with that script?" and "How many times do we have to do this damn thing?"

In the Disney short Camaflouge, Yahooey the chameleon says "I'm getting the hell out of here" when he sees the Japs fly above the army base.

In The Cuckoo Murder Case, the telephone says "damn" after failing to wake up Flip.

[Pietro]

Oh yeah!

Snafu swears a lot in both Clampett Snafus:

Fighting Tools - "I'm da woild's best damn fightin' machineo, my wonderful guns will moider dem bums! An' I'll bury dem in da latrino!"

Booby Traps - "Aw, I wish da hell you'd shad up!"

Also, there's more swearing:

Ragtimr Romeo - Flip utters damn in this one as well as Room Runners

In the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry short, Puzzled Pals Afterthe two fail to complete a puzzle Jerry (the shorter guy) says "Aw, this is a piece of s**t!"

-Pietro:cool:

[Daffyfan2002]

Wow! No wonder the Snafu shorts aren't seen on TV. Lol. I guess, "I tawt I taw a #$$#//!! Yankee cat" sticks in my mind the most. It is usually cartoons aimed at an adult audience with a lot of swearing such as "The Simpsons" or one of my brother and sister's favorites "Family Guy." Anybody remember this:

Ernie: Bert, I wish you wouldn't drink so much, Bert.

Bert: Well, Ernie, I wish you wouldn't eat cookies in the #$#$//!! bed!!!!

Oh, there was also "The Bashful Buzzard" where Beaky said, "Infintestinal piece of shhhhhhhh-oe leather." We all know, what he WANTED to say.

[Larry T]

Originally posted by Daffyfan2002
"Family Guy." Anybody remember this:

Ernie: Bert, I wish you wouldn't drink so much, Bert.

Bert: Well, Ernie, I wish you wouldn't eat cookies in the #$#$//!! bed!!!!

Oh yeah, was THAT ever funny. That show ruled.

Anyway, we're also forgetting the pantomime of the dog behind the window after Porky locks him out in "Porky's Pooch" .

[Pietro]

Anybody remember the scene in Woody Woodpecker?

Where Woody says "Where the - do ya get the stuff?"

It sounds like Woody originally said "hell" in between the "the" and "do."

I dunno if this was edited before the cartune's final release or just edited for TV distribution and home video release.

-Pietro:cool:

[dendawg]

Originally posted by Mike
I was just watching the cartoon last night (was going through some tapes of mine), and I backed it up and listened to it three times, and that's clearly, without a doubt (at least in my mind) what he says. He definitely doesn't say "the dirty fox." I don't know how they got away with it (maybe the censors were bored by Bosko, and didn't really pay attention to his cartoons), but that's really what he said.

And anyway, the Nick folks must've thought that's what he said too, or else they wouldn't have looped it to "the dirty cur."


:( :mad: :rolleyes: Some urban legends just refuse to die. :rolleyes: :mad: :(

What's next, is the Bugs Bunny "erection" legend coming back too? :mad:

Jerry Beck, or someone else well versed in this legend, could you PLEASE comment on this so it can be settled once and for all? :rolleyes:

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Originally posted by Pietro
I know this subject came up before, but can let's see how many cartoons we can list with swearing in them.

-Pietro:D

Does hinting at a swear word count? If so, then in A Tale of Two Kitties the Castello cat addresses the audience with the line: "If that Hays office would only let me, I'd give 'im the 'bird,' alright!" "The bird" meaning you-know-what.

As someone else mention before, Beaky Buzzard hints at a certain four letter word until settling on the words "shoe leather" in The Bashful Buzzard.

In Easter Yeggs , when the Easter Rabbit tells Bugs Bunny that he'll give the Easter Rabbit a bad name, Bugs replies, "I already HAVE a bad name for the Easter Rabbit!"

[Jason Furness]

Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
He froze it because after the "you'll never get rich..." line came, "you son of a (you can guess the rest)...".
Eh?

I thought he froze it for a different reason. Cuz, you see, there's an alternate version to those lyrics:

You'll never get rich
By digging a ditch

But, well, the "Practical Pig" IS doing just that. This is the song I heard:

You're in the army now
You're not behind the plow
You're digging a ditch
[PAUSE]
You're in the army now!

[Geezil]

Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
Yeah, that's the way it is in the original version. He froze it because after the "you'll never get rich..." line came, "you son of a (you can guess the rest)...". I was confused at first when I saw that, then I laughed my butt off when I realized Avery slipped that in as a joke about censoring himself.

Plus, he surely knew what was likely to happen whenever "Blitz Wolf" was screened for the troops overseas! :D

[Brandon Pierce]

In the movie Ub Iwerks: The Hand Behind the Mouse, they show a clip from a Flip the Frog cartoon. In one scene a clock is trying to wake up Flip. After many futile attempts (they were futile because they didn't wake him up :p ), the clock looks at the camera and says, "Damn!"

[Cartman]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
In the movie Ub Iwerks: The Hand Behind the Mouse, they show a clip from a Flip the Frog cartoon. In one scene a clock is trying to wake up Flip. After many futile attempts (they were futile because they didn't wake him up :p ), the clock looks at the camera and says, "Damn!"

The name of that cartoon is The Cuckoo Murder Case and that wasn't a clock, it was a telephone.

[Emmanuel Cruz]

In "Daffy Duck Slept Here" after Daffy spills the water on the bed and Porky awakens, Porky mouthes the word "damn."

-Emmanuel :bosko:

[Billy]

Originally posted by Mike
It is clearly, without a doubt (at least in my mind) what he says. He definitely doesn't say "the dirty fox."
(section cut)
And anyway, the Nick folks must've thought that's what he said too, or else they wouldn't have looped it to "the dirty cur."


Here's my reasoning. 'Fox' sounds phonetically like 'Focks'. The 1933 print that has yet to be restored has a sound error on that line, accidentally blanking out the 's' of the line. So, it sounds like something beginning with F, and ending with a K. So, really, he is saying fox!This entire paragraph is, at least in my mind, true.

And of course after Nickelodeon showed this intact, they changed it to 'The Dirty Nick!'. There were also versions that said 'The Dirty ABC!' 'The Dirty TNT!' 'The dirty NBC!' 'The dirty CN!' for any other channels.This entire paragraph is a complete lie.

[billyjoelfan]

LOL That was too Funny!

[Andrew Gilmore]

Originally posted by Pietro

In the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry short, Puzzled Pals Afterthe two fail to complete a puzzle Jerry (the shorter guy) says "Aw, this is a piece of s**t!"


Really?? :eek: I won't believe it til I see it! Or was "s**t" muted? It was pre-code, I know, but still...