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Pretend Cuss Songs

Posted by CIEIRMusic - July 20th, 2023


Over the years, as we grow up, we often have a better or worse understanding of our respective languages. Whether you speak, English, French, Spanish, Japanese or any of the other known languages. You have what is known as proper languages and improper languages aka swearing.


When media entertainment first came a thing with the rise of censorship many artists from painters, to singers, movie stars today, would often do or say jokes that some how get passed the censors using clever wordplay. The biggest offender being Animanaics, due to their trademark of passing off adult humour through kid shows:



Which even WB's more serious kid shows like the DC Animated Universe have taken cues from:


However for at least a century or two, the most popular I've seen of getting away with censorship issues, were the pretend cuss songs.


These were songs, whose lyrics and wordplay are designed to make people think you're gonna hear swearing and dirty words, but then throw off a similar sounding or not so similar sounding words into place. The most popular named Miss Susie:


But there was others like the Old English Folk song, which was adapted by legendary dirty joke artist Bob Saget:


Which unlike Miss Susie, rather than have no swearwords at all, saves one for last.


Then of course there's South Park's version during that Boy Band Episode:


The best part about theses is that you don't need a set tune for them. It could be any melody as long as the lyrics match up with it. I'll even do one.


There once was a man who walked down the block.

Reached in his clothes so he can feel his...

Cockles in his heart from his first sweetheart.

Only to find she was always a....

Tardy young woman, who shows up dates late.

But makes up for it 'cause she likes to get...

Eight chores done all at once before the door.

With patience like his you'd think shes a....

Horrible person with no sense of self.

And if you think this is dirty then go fuck yourself.


Let me know what you come up with.


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I love this. Wendy's cussing song makes me rofl a lot.

This is the one thing I'm thinking about adding to the show I'm working on lol

By all means. The trick isn't to swear exactly, unless it's a good punchline to a bunch of censor jokes, but to trick your viewers into thinking you're about to swear or say something dirty, only to either be something mundane or leading up to an even more messed up joke.

Like here's a simple one, from a board game known as Dirty Minds. "What starts with F and ends with K." Now most people would obviously think it's the word "Fuck" but the answer is "Firetruck".