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abrasive in your insults.
Director:Well what would you suggest?
Gohan:Well how about those fu-
Director:Are you insane?! We'll get sued into a oblivion if we say that on a
kids show! Read from the script
and quit compaining

The main problem with a lot of the anime that makes it to American tv is that 
they take shows that are aimed at a target audience of 15+  and edit them to 
try to be suitable for children.  As a result many of the translations are 
somewhat... how should we say.. intentionaly butchered.  Unfortunately there 
is not much we can do about it, because television networks are going to do 
what they want, wether we complain or not.