Q*bert has a dirty mouth.

A compilation of Q*bert swearing on Saturday Supercade.

[@BovineDesigns]

At least in the game you could assume he was speaking his own alien language, but here there's no bones about it. He's already speaking English so there's only one thing it could be.

[@Dot878]

more like squashednose-onezze

[@LytroBlox2016]

And plus, he mostly says his ‘alien language’ when he’s in trouble or hurt, or mad, so I guess it would make sense for him to be cursing

[@jaykay8426]

Yeah he only says the language whenever his nose is pressed in

[@LeafyHasVr]

It's actually Q*bertese

[@SanicmonkeLOL]

But watch this 0:51

[@fancifulgamer28]

I cannot believe they even managed to make a cartoon premise out of Q*bert

[@arqivist2077]

There was big money to be made with cartoon/product tie ins in the 80s, and studios would do anything to turn a popular toy or game into a Saturday morning show. Hanna Barbera proved it in the video game industry with their Pac-Man series, and Ruby Spears, a studio formed of ex-HB employees, decided to get in on every other video game license they could afford in one fell swoop. The result was CBS’s Saturday Supercade, where Frogger became a journalist, Q*bert lived the life of a 1950s high schooler, and Donkey Kong Jr. was under the protection of a motorcyclist, among other things. Clearing the rights for all the video game licenses has made Saturday Supercade near impossible to rerelease in any format, but Sony Pictures, who owns both Q*bert and the Saturday Supercade show, has released the majority of the Q*bert segments on DVD (the exclusions were 2 episodes that featured copyrighted songs they couldn’t get clearance for, one of which was a Michael Jackson tribute episode, if that can be believed!). Some years back, Boomerang had also rebroadcast the Space Ace segments. Hanna Barbera already had the license to Don Bluth’s other game, Dragon’s Lair, and although that’s on DVD as well, there seems to be no plans to issue Space Ace or any of the other Saturday Supercade segments.

[@thegameplayers494]

​@@arqivist2077you wrote a whole essay on q*bert you can congratulate yourself

[@willku9000]

Me either

[@AndrewSouzaGames555]

Verdade

[@Austroid]

Well they did make one of Pac-Man way back too.

[@solarischannel4998]

Fun Fact: In the cartoon series, he attempted the same swear as in the game.

[@arqivist2077]

It is indeed a recording of the speech synthesis in the Q*bert arcade game. The game feeds random data through to the speech synthesizer to generate Q*bert's distinct "language" and tone.

[@solarischannel4998]

@@arqivist2077 ok then

[@Retrodove101]

@@arqivist2077 Although, speaking of Q*Bert’s gibberish and grawlix. This arcade game’s aesthetic is meant to be psychedelic, non sensical and was sort of a puzzle game to change the block’s colors.

[@Medachod]

@@solarischannel4998 Yeah.

[@jaketucker2559]

I’m starting to think that this isn’t cursing and more like a speech impediment caused by a squished nose

[@KokoGogo1728]

He's trying to say "OUCH" but he can't.

[@doozy5184]

He is shown to actually speak, and the "swearing" only happens when his nose is squished, so this is plausible

[@regicorp6514]

The speech bubble make it clear for me that he's pissed.

[@xxsuperproductionsxx138]

ok.

[@suisui239]

You do have a point

[@Quintesson16]

The running gag of him smashing his nose in and cussing out God Almighty. Man, cartoons got soft

[@chaick5148]

he’s not cussing.

[@KokoGogo1728]

@@chaick5148 Exactly.

[@parker-boy98]

​@@chaick5148The speech balloon has censored text.

[@redbot.3090]

He tries to yell obscenities, but since his nose is squished in, he just can't

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

This is evidently what happens when you learn swear words from the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, instead of from your parents...

[@superplushtiman7ti075]

I guess this is just part of the shows identity, in the game Q*Bert speaks in gibberish and those symbols are used whenever he speaks, and it was usually as an exclamation for both

[@ThreeEyedPea]

I got thrown for a HEAVY loop when I heard him speak actual English.

[@squitlertron]

same dude

[@Fafabear8]

0:14 when I get a scratchy voice

[@killeveryoneandeverything]

1:00 boing jumpscare

[@Yonah_144]

As a kid, I was over at a parent's friend's house, and I got in trouble for using symbols in place of a swear word. The word was even fully censored, and there was no indication of what the word actually meant. This right here is why I am starting my own business as an adult, and why I typically avoid online public communities. People in general have ego trips, and just want to show authority.

[@nessthecat1]

"Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"

[@faveless]

How did this go from strict families to online communities and business???

[@tigergirl8686]

Where did you hear that symbol from

[@Yonah_144]

@@faveless People abuse power all the time. I've seen it in criminal justice, business, etc. The key is to become independent, and this all vanishes.

[@somerandomguyontheinternett]

Holy shit. This guy had an actual villain backstory. Gabriel, calm down before it's too late!

[@kalinsavage788]

00:38 Favorite part

[@tigergirl8686]

Yeah it's funny

[@jacksondesorcy1851]

Q-Bert wearing a jacket is the most 80s thing ever! 🤣

[@Vexcenot]

They made qbert a high school American jock Fricking qbert

[@jacksonrizo4188]

Yeah plus he has arms but in-game he doesn't and to you and Qbert: NO DIRTY MOUTH 🚫👎⛔🚽🤐👄🤐

[@plasticold2167]

Qbert's friends are the cool sporty kids while Coily's gang are the mean greasers, whoever wrote this show was real nostalgic about the 50's.

[@annalinde816]

Just when you think the 80s were already a weird, yet influential time, you find shows like Saturday Supercade to further state that fact.

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

The timing was perfect. A lot of kids like me had tremendous interest in video games, yet couldn't get out to the arcades, and our parents couldn't afford the consoles. There was also the Great Video Game Crash of '83, so those who bought them stopped doing so, as the tech of the time had reached its limit, and they'd grown tired of it. So these cartoons fit the bill. Fortunately the industry was revitalized by the arrival of the NES in '87, which we could then afford.

[@Blargss]

I don’t blame Qbert for cussing so much. Guy gets his nose broken pretty often.

[@PigBoy99]

I love how nobody acknowledges him swearing since if they did the kids watching this show would realise what it was

[@MelRetro]

*This is the premise of the whole series*

[@garthdavis4320]

This is what censorship was like back then.

[@kootunesscrewy]

Q*bert was always like this, lol.

[@janomartin4483]

This is like making a tetris cartoon

[@spacemanmonster23]

they kinda did...

[@alphaghoul]

I honestly had no idea that this existed.

[@owenthebraixen2.045]

Same

[@Alantheguy2024]

1:23 is me

[@danielfrank8840]

Q*bert, are you okay?

[@princess_mio]

We don’t need that foul language in the amazing digital circus

[@arqivist2077]

I was looking back through the comments on here and you gave me a brilliant idea: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3moiIOOar-qeKc

[@user-pq8ym1xg9c]

Or dolphin sound from SpongeBob

[@georgeshelton6281]

OH HEHE I can't wait until Conan O'Brien gets shocked about this.

[@PUZZLER366]

“And for God sake, watch your language!” -Robert Downey Jr.

[@mickeymousehotdog]

Alt title: Orange Guy Swearing in his own TV Show

[@vsmousefanandleaks6120]

Literally 2 Minutes and 18 seconds Of Q'Bert Cursing At the Mouth

[@fsofficialyoutubechannel7370]

In 1:55 to 2:01 Q*Bert isn’t cussing, he is just making Angry noises

[@CG978Garfield]

Everyone from the alphabet lore likes Q*Bert! (Especially Q)

[@kootunesscrewy]

Yosemite Sam-style cussing, lol.

[@yeahh80]

but in the 2:01 he was really cussing

[@sonicfanboy3375]

@@yeahh80 he means the clip ends at 2:01

[@DaFGuns45]

@@CG978Garfield who asked about alphabet lore

[@TAGanimation]

For a while many years ago, I was kinda intrigued by the idea of old cartoons based on video games because I imagine it be kinda fun for kids back then to compare what's similar or what's different between the 2. (PS I was born in May 1991). For me as a kid, it was the Pokémon anime/Pokemon Version games. I also bought the "Captain N trilogy" on my Wii several years ago (Castlevania, Megaman, & Kid Icarus).

[@campbellphoenix7662]

These Q*Bert cartoons should’ve added laugh track especially for the moments with Q*Bert berating due to how funny his profanity sounds.

[@polancoboomer]

You're thinking Hanna-Barbera there! This once-lost series is produced by Ruby-Spears, a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. Plus, at the time, this so-called practice was long abandoned due to controversy.

[@timothyfinn3619]

Orange orb creature can't stop swearing

[@Sa7urnz_channel_123]

I smell... *U N D E R-R A T E D*

[@123mendezYT]

0:19 favorite part

[@duncanation]

These could be stingers like King of the Hill.

[@alexcats57]

0:13 The only part where Q*bert swear like a man instead of swearing like a kid

[@skunkman9815]

I’m imagining him saying “SHIT!!”

[@YellowBallOfficial]

Do you mean @#$&!?

[@eascec8374]

Just for a little thought here, but I really wanted to know if either Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, or someone in the RS studio actually knew about Q's cursing in the actual game before creating the series.

[@Yaxxin23IsCool]

Well this is kind of fine if you think about it It could be some kind of catch phrase he says everytime he gets hurt because if you listen carefully you can notice its always the same sound effect And depending on how long he is stuck / hurt he will say the whole sound clip so it’s probably just a catch phrase

[@deionpehowdy]

I Can't Exactly Understand What Q*Bert Says, But, I Had No idea he had an entire Species Like Pacman Does with his Family. Also, I've never seen him with an Actual Mouth. Although, It's Too Bad the Pac Man Cartoon is Outside of Saturday Supercade.

[@Rizzz0]

0:51 “I Got A Nose For Solving Crime!”

[@SPINO_GAMING183]

The type of sound that Roblox will redound the new death sound

[@ObservingPaul678]

Q*BERT! This is a Kids Show!

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

So, there was a Q*bert TV series in the 80s? Like Pac Man & Donkey Kong?

[@arqivist2077]

Indeed! Q*bert and Donkey Kong shared their time with the stars of Frogger, Pitfall, Donkey Kong Jr., Space Ace and Kangaroo on CBS’s Saturday Morning Supercade, produced in 1983 by Ruby-Spears, following the success of the previous year’s Pac-Man show, produced by rivals Hanna-Barbera for NBC. All but 2 of the Q*bert episodes have been released on DVD under the title “The Best Of Q*bert”.

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

@@arqivist2077 My father told me he watched those shows when he was a kid.

[@SgtBilby]

@@arqivist2077 what are the 2 lost episodes?

[@owenthebraixen2.045]

@@arqivist2077 seems interesting!

[@pumpkinz3]

Q*berts magical spell makes his nose pop out when it’s squished in

[@zanir2387]

and i remember that my parents didn't liked me to watch this as child...

[@RegularityTelevision]

I always thought that q.bert mouth was hos nose

[@SoapheadPog]

0:50 LOOK AT THE SIGN

[@LillianGraceFullofficial]

What about it?

[@SoapheadPog]

The scene where Q*Bert crashed into a piano, there are bookshelves and a sign reading the Koran

[@SoapheadPog]

Oh wait, it's a reference to a metal band, oop

[@TheDragonstorm1993]

0:35 oh lord

[@Sunky_real]

I was really hoping the entire show was just that sound over and over again

[@Raposadividida]

fortnite player be like 1:39

[@KaplaWorld]

Q*bert Says “🌀!#?🌀!”

[@therealrookie531]

I dint even know Q*Bert had a cartoon in the 80's (i dont know if its the 80's or the 90's)

[@allenharper2928]

Never understood why Slick and Sam were friends with the good guys, those little assholes changed the color of your blocks and undid a lot of your hard work!

[@Oddbodswithme197]

0:03 intro

[@Oddbodswithme197]

0:14 pipe

[@Oddbodswithme197]

0:23 covered my nose

[@Oddbodswithme197]

0:30 squashed

[@Oddbodswithme197]

0:32 angry witch qbert

[@Oddbodswithme197]

0:38 stuck purple juice

[@thomasrothwell3173]

Alien talk. 👽

[@powerONdelta]

Q*bert had a cartoon?

[@turquoisechannel2.0commentsYT]

0:51 OMG Roblox from the 80s

[@keddricksapalo3392]

If Q*bert keeps crashing, he will swear

[@Soup898]

I laughed at this so hard

[@robotdude_1259]

alr so what ive learned is that if qubert gets his nose pushed in he swears

[@myflyisopen.8732]

Was this a "once and episode" thing? It was the gimmick back then.

[@Fafabear8]

0:56

[@SoapheadPog]

The sign

[@supergamer2.091]

Q*bert HAD A CARTOON !?

[@theofficialcamerachannels]

Yea

[@Sketch_pad]

Bro is saying robot language💀

[@AngelSebastianLeon]

I didn't know this existed... Why? ._.

[@ckb799]

Q Bert is alien

[@fm_artz]

How is nobody talking that the qberts in the cartoon haves another mouths besides it´s tubes

[@Videogamer-555]

What is that last scene from that also shows the humans?

[@arqivist2077]

A transition bumper between the Q*bert and Space Ace segments on Saturday Supercade.

[@yasmineharris6483]

Can you make qberts monster mix up for Halloween

[@ThePoliteKitten]

Bro's talking in avatar language 💀

[@ethanthefurry]

I think every time his nose gets squished is actually trying to mutter something but since he’s nose is squished he can’t talk

[@Poob6762]

WHAT THE @#$?! HE CAN SPEAK

[@Alanblock8.1]

Makes sense why he keeps saying @$?!#%*

[@user-wy5ss4xx2n]

Poor Q*bert.

[@jackmoon824]

.... what. Did they really made a tv show of that character?

[@Flo_Resolution]

I think it was a show of multiple cartoons based on arcade games, they also made Donkey Kong cartoons if I'm not mistaken.

[@Parcel_GT]

@@Flo_Resolution yes you are right

[@Flo_Resolution]

@@Parcel_GT ok yeah, I wasn't around back then. I just remembered looking up a Donkey Kong show, years ago

[@jaketaller8567]

At least Fix-It-Felix isn’t around to translate this Q*bertese

[@psychoreactive]

0:56 my favorite 80's Muslim pop band "Quran Quran!" What? it's supposed to be pronounced "cue-ran cue-ran" to rhyme with "Duran Duran?" (Now that I said it - you can't not see it.)

[@Chompy_Pod]

Doctor: I Have Some Good News And Some Bad News Q*Bert: The Good News First Doctor: Your Son Will Survive The Cancer Q*Bert That's Amazing, But What Are The Bad News? Doctor: Your Son Subscribed To LogydoesEditerVideos Q*Bert: @!#?@!

[@AsherTheAngel]

Q*bert had a show?!

[@Pmarker961]

I thought he talks with his nose I didn't know he's mouth is under I thought the mouth was the nose

[@ThePro-Simple]

q*bert says bad words

[@tigergirl8686]

He sounds like a broken machine

[@canal_Angelisland]

Qbert had a cartoon ?!

[@ultrazonomega970]

I know what he's saying: ⎓⚍ᓵꖌ, ᓭ⍑╎ℸ ̣ , ʖ⚍ꖎꖎᓭ⍑╎ℸ ̣ , ᒲ|| ᔑᓭᓭ

[@FunkyPittoo]

I kinda knew there was a cartoon of Pac Man made by Hanna Barbara but I DON'T REMEMBER A Q*BERT CARTOON

[@mckinleemaiden9933]

wait q-bert has a cartoon???!!! i need this!

[@TankTheMouse]

The animation style looks like pacman a little.

[@agustinaviquez8798]

Remember kids english is a universal language and swearing in only one idiom is not a universal method ;)

[@albertcalleros9489]

'PROFANITYPE'

[@DecoytheSkeletalBoy]

I can take a lot, but what I can't deal with is Q*Bert with arms.

[@Elfilinfan2004]

It's like if there was a cartoon in the 80s of Kirby in high school with legs

[@jonespianist3189]

@@Elfilinfan2004 Except this actually looks normal.

[@jhh88813]

Q*bert from reck it ralph

[@nessa_wcfan]

I think someone already commented this but the fact the bullies and friends dont care about him cussing and help him anyway😊 Edit: HELL I USED THE WRONG EMOJI

[@kus_ofc]

Meu Deus, não entendi nada🤨

[@mangoblade3877]

Someone needs to replace the audio with the classic Tourette’s guy cursing

[@chrysoulachatzopoulou2826]

I didn't know this even existed And how did you find so many clips of it?

[@DingoWalley01]

This show was a part of a series called "The Saturday Supercade", which had a bunch of shorts from popular arcade games at the time: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Frogger, Space Ace (yes the Don Bluth Game), Pitfall, Kangaroo, and of course, Q*Bert. Their Q*Bert segment was closest to the then competing Pac-Man Cartoon in which they took the game, which really had no plot, and put it in a suburban setting full of duplicates of the main character, and made all his rivals just a bunch of jerks. The biggest difference between Q*Bert and Pac-Man was that Pac-Man was set closer to the then modern times (of the idealized 80's), where Q*Bert was set in the idealized 50's which was big during the 80's (thanks to shows like Happy Days and movies like Grease).

[@chrysoulachatzopoulou2826]

@@DingoWalley01 I am aware of the Saturday Supercade,just never knew this had Q*Bert shorts.

[@josephsheranda]

"Quran Quran" I miss old cartoons with their political incorrectness. 😆

[@Keshely]

What

[@rizzypoop21698]

I noticed that sometimes he @!#?@! swears, his mouth or nose is squished.

[@princei6402]

After Q*Bert he said the bad word

[@thisispkmadness]

Like bro wtf this show just started appearing out of nowhere now videos from 7 year ago are appearing

[@loganmcnab1582]

Hey, I remember this show it’s called Qbert Why does he have a little*in his name?