Gosh Dang It to Heck/Playing With

Basic Trope: A show refuses to use swearing, preferring to use more childish workarounds.

• Straight: Bob is a full-grown adult, yet verses his displeasure with phrases like "goshdang it!" and "oh, crud!"
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob is a Mafia don who's just seen his entire mob gunned down by Inspector Javert and a squad of cops. It comes to the final showdown, and he comes out, guns blazing, screaming "DIE, you... doodooheads!"
  • In the entire universe where the story takes place in, they ARE considered swear words. Fuck is the more toned down version of Fudge.
• Downplayed: Bob normally doesn't swear, but every now and then he'll use a Precision Darn Strike.
• Justified:
  • Bob is around kids a lot, and prefers to use those variants on the words.
  • Bob's religion frowns upon cussing, or even forbids it entirely. But, Bob is only human, and thus is prone to displeasure (and the need/desire to voice that displeasure) now and then, so he works around the "No cussing" rule this way.
  • Bob personally finds swearing distasteful, but this is a deliberate character trait rather than a demand of the Moral Guardians.
• Inverted: Cluster F-Bomb, Sir Swearsalot
• Subverted: "What a gosh-darn cunt!"
• Double Subverted: "What a gosh darn cunnn...try music fan!"
• Parodied:
  • Bob is a shock-jock down at the local radio station. What you'd expect to be a very profane show is instead very childish.
  • Bob speaks Angrish when he gets mad, and no-one save God knows what he's actually saying, as it sounds like a slobbering dog mixed with mindless seething and dirty Japanese and Spanish words. However, anyone who overhears it is horrified.
  • Unusual Euphemism
• Deconstructed: Bob sees his refusing to swear as a mark of deep personal morality, balancing out his less salubrious qualities such as serial puppy murdering. He's contrasted with a foul-mouthed hero in a story with An Aesop about censorship being Bad, M'kay?
• Reconstructed: Bob knows how to swear... he just prefers not to.
• Zig Zagged: Bob gets in a screaming row with a guy in a bar, without ever uttering a word unsuitable for children's television. On the way out he steps in a puddle; "Aw, fuck."
• Averted:
  • Bob swears at regular intervals, but nothing too insane.
  • The show doesn't use phrases where swearing could logically go in the first place.
• Enforced:
  • "This show is watched by a lot of kids, so we can't show swearing!"
  • "This show is generally a Cluster F-Bomb, so having that one guy never swear will make him stand out and be an early hint towards his being a Knight Templar."
• Lampshaded: "Nice language. What are you, a kindergarten teacher?"
• Invoked: Bob prefers to tone down the foul language specifically so that when he does breaks it out, you know he REALLY means it.
• Defied: "I may be around kids who don't know any better, but still... fucking hell, man!"
• Discussed: "You see, if everyone knows you never use serious curses normally, it has more impact when you really need it."
• Conversed: "Goddamn kids shows, what kind of Drill Sergeant Nasty says "fiddlesticks"?"
• Played For Laughs:
  • Bob curses all the time when he's calm but when he's in rage mode, he'll start using "Gosh dangnabit"-ish swears.
  • Bob is a gritty, chain-smoking Badass who is surrounded by people who swear like sailors, but he never uses anything more harsh than "friggin'." People are too scared of him to ask why.

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Push off back to Gosh Dang It to Heck, ya darn chucklehead.