Name: Sylvester's life-saving swearing
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T17:08:34.000Z
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SOME HAVE CLAIMED THAT SYLVESTER SAVED HIS COMPANION'S LIFE BY SWEARING.

I guess we should try and work out who this Sylvester is.

What are we allowed to say on the podcast?

Because we're not allowed to say anything on our channel.

I previously had one question which had an unavoidable bleeped swear in the answer.

And joyfully this is similar, but it will be bleeped.

It means more work for our team, but in theory, sure.

We also just had Stuart Goldsmith on the show an episode ago.

And I once saw him doing warm-up for a studio audience.

And he found one of the kids in the audience and in front of the parent just asked them, what's the rudest word you know?

The first Sylvester that I can think of is Sylvester the cat.

Yeah, I went there and then I went Sylvester Stallone.

If it is a cat and the cat talks, I've not actually ever seen Sylvester the cat.

The one with little Tweety Pie always trying to eat the little bird?

I know the Looney Tunes are steadily becoming less relevant over time, but I think Sylvester's still well enough known there.

But there is a subset of our audience that's screaming the answer here based on a couple of keywords.

Doesn't apply to every question, though, in this game.

More so than this, and they will be insufferable about it.

You are about to get us in trouble on the social media, aren't you, Tom?

Because this is what happened last time, is you gave us one that a subsection of your audience knew very well, and I just was full of people telling me that they should have got it quicker.

Is it like Sylvester who's some wizard or something?

The word companion is also doing quite a lot of hard work.

Who played a doctor in Doctor Who, and doctors have companions.

Oh, you've got us in so much trouble, Tom.

People on the internet are going to hate us.

OK, so how do you save your life by swearing?

Oh, is there a swear word that sounds like the word duck?

I'm not sure where you're going with that.

I don't want to give you more work to do.

So did someone shout that word and they thought it was duck and they ducked and it saved their life?

Anyone that writes for Doctor Who, if you'd like to add that in, I think that'll go down really well.

Oh, if any Doctor Who writers are listening to this, please just add some swearing in there.

This is Sophie Aldred's Ace.  So was this, did this happen on set?

And she would have died, if not, or herself.

Oh, you know how directors say cut when they want to end a scene?

Did someone think they heard cut so they stopped acting?

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