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swear word euphemisms

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Before TV characters were allowed to say actual curse words, a lot of them said euphemisms in place of them. What are some that you can think of?
These are some that I remember:
Samantha Stevens: "My stars!"
Fred Flintstone muttered something unintelligible under his breath: "Razzel fratzen" and I never could decipher the rest of it.
Gomer Pyle: "Sha-ZAM!"
Charlie Brown: "Good grief."
Robin: "Holy _____!" (fill in the blank)
Daffy Duck: "Thuffering thuccotash!"

On a related note, Jo March in Little Women yelled, "Christopher Columbus!" and Scarlett O'Hara said "fiddle-dee-dee."
 
Yosemite Sam - often heard shouting a slew of nonsense words which were supposedly swears.
Yosemite Sam has a temper - YouTube

More recently, on the Adult Swim series Tom Goes to the Mayor, the title character often said "shirt" in place of that word without the R. On one episode, he also referred to a dam as a "darn." Tom really didn't like to swear.
 
The edited-for-TV version of Smokey and the Bandit overdubs Jackie Gleason's swear words, such as changing "sumb!tch" to "sumbuck." IIRC, the voiceover work was not done by Gleason himself, but by Henry Corden, aka Fred Flintstone #2.
 
This likely predates TV, but Perry White on Superman exclaiming "Great Caesar's Ghost!" Also, how about Mork's favorite profanity, "Shazbot!" Then there's Colonel Potter's many euphemisms for the solid waste material produced by large farm animals, like "Horse hockey" and "Mule fritters".
 
From the original Battlestar Galactica: "Frack" (which the newer version also used, "for Sagan's sake," "Hades hole" and my personal favorite, "You gall-monging snit rat!"
 
KeithE4 said:
The edited-for-TV version of Smokey and the Bandit overdubs Jackie Gleason's swear words, such as changing "sumb!tch" to "sumbuck." IIRC, the voiceover work was not done by Gleason himself, but by Henry Corden, aka Fred Flintstone #2.
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I thought it was "scumbum"
 
Way back in the day, Jim Backus said that when he was voicing the nearsighted Mr. Magoo character, the mumbling was actually a string of expletives.
 
Hearing the euphemisms is more entertaining in many cases than the actual cursing. Though, it only really works with comedic material.
 
The Old Man had a lot in A Christmas Story, although SOB came out a few times. And then Ralphie had some when he was beating up Scut Farcas, and of course "Oh fudge!" šŸ˜
 
Corky Marlowe said:
This likely predates TV, but Perry White on Superman exclaiming "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
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Perry White was on the first few years of Superman and used this quite often. And remember that Col. Potter was pretty old, was a farm boy in his youth and was a member of the Cavalry during WWI. Perfectly honest of him to use "horse puckey".
 

Don't be Ridiculous had to a euphemism for something Balki was about to swear about in Perfect Strangers and is one of the catch-line from the show.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
This likely predates TV, but Perry White on Superman exclaiming "Great Caesar's Ghost!" Also, how about Mork's favorite profanity, "Shazbot!" Then there's Colonel Potter's many euphemisms for the solid waste material produced by large farm animals, like "Horse hockey" and "Mule fritters".
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Harry Morgan actually said "Horse hockey!" in a commercial for Total cereal, when told it would take four bowls of his cereal to equal the nutrition in one bowl of Total, but somehow that line was changed to "Horse feathers!" in later airings (I don't know why that was done; "Horse hockey!" was funnier!).
 
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