History ClusterFBomb / LiveACtionTV

* MTV Brazil VJ and punk rock singer João Gordo always speaks his mind, so his TV shows feature lots of profanity. When participating in the Brazilian ''The Moment of Truth'', he released at least 10 ClusterFBombs -- during a Sunday afternoon in a major network.

->-- '''Abby Lee Miller''', ''Series/DanceMoms''

* One of the better usages of this was the famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUGdXGhurQ&feature=related "Gollum acceptance speech" at the MTV Movie Awards]], when Gollum won "Best Virtual Performance" for ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers''. Andy Serkis steps forward to accept, only to have the trophy swiped by Gollum himself, who delivers a beautifully profane rant (including insulting [[Film/HarryPotter Dobby's]] sexuality and calling Peter Jackson a "fucking hack") -- with his [[JekyllAndHyde alter ego]] Sméagol apologizing profusely in between outbursts and Serkis looking aghast. Tolkien would've dropped dead of shock. Make sure you're not drinking anything when you click on this.

*** The show also subverts the trope with the character Omar, who despite being a total badass who walks around in a duster with a shotgun robbing drug dealers, is very conspicuous by being one of the only characters on the show to never use even mild obscenity (save for [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness one instance]], when he calls out Marlo.

* Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything succinctly describes the 2010 Australian federal election [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV-inAzEleE in song]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpcIKCzmNDk This skit]] from the Australian ''The Late Show''.

* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Non-Fat Yogurt", Jerry calls some non-fat yogurt "fucking delicious" (bleeped out of course) in front of the store owner's child, who proceeds to use "fuck" all the time, telling his mother "I don't want a fucking cupcake!" and calling Jerry a "funny fuck". His mother brings him to Jerry so that he can tell him that cussing is bad. He succeeds, until the kid messes up one of his cassette tapes of his stand-up, at which point Jerry yells, "What the fuck are you doing, you little shit?"

-->'''Lifesaver Les:''' Well if you wanna own the fuckin beach, you have to go through FUCKIN US! Because we own this fuckin beach! Our grandfathers thought World War FUCKIN 2 in this fuckin beach! Alright, and if I were you, I FUCK OFF!!

* ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' uses this profusely. As they explain in the first episode, "Your statement is a lie" is grounds for slander charges; "Your statement is bullshit", not so much. The "Profanity" episode plays with this -- while the guests do a lot of swearing (the subject being censorship of language), Penn himself doesn't use ''any'' foul language for the duration of the episode.

* French comedic trio "Les Inconnus" ruthlessly parodies this trope (and American action movie trailers in general) in a sketch titled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOpUfspL8ls Fuck You -- The Movie]]''. The humor comes mainly from the French subtitles, which ''considerably'' downplay the swearing (until the final gag, which is plain untranslatable). To clarify: "fuck" is mostly translated as "embêter", which means "bother", with a few other very, very mild swear words thrown in...but in the final gag, "phoque" (meaning "seal", the animal, and pronounced almost like "fuck") is rendered in the subtitles by "enculé" - a very strong insult similar to "motherfucker" (though meaning literally "buggered.")

** After Theon's takeover of Winterfell and killing two boys to pose as the Starks when they escape, Yara lets him absolutely have it.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is not shy with the swearing. There's a [[http://jezebel.com/5992990 compilation video]] on Jezebel.

** ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is not shy with the swearing. There's a [[http://jezebel.com/5992990 compilation video]] on Jezebel.
*** After Theon's takeover of Winterfell and killing two boys to pose as the Starks when they escape, Yara lets him absolutely have it.

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe, the resident [[TheDitz ditz]] had bought Chandler and Monica a Ms. PacMan machine as a wedding gift. Chandler proceeds to own the shit out of it, replacing every highscore with dirty words ''that spelled longer dirtier words if you read them from top to bottom to boot''. Monica gets ''very'' upset, considering her nephew Ben is coming to visit. Phoebe, who was the previous highscore keeper, goes on to attempt to defeat the scores to clear the scoreboard. She nearly gets there... and loses right as Ross and Ben come trough the door. Phoebe starts a cascade of swearing, [[CurseCutShort but we don't get to hear it]] -- [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven's]] Ninth plays over it.

** ''Series/TheWire'', which usually uses profanity regularly but not to ridiculous degrees, features a particularly brilliant example: an entire three minutes and thirty seconds of two detectives, Bunk and [=McNulty=] examining a crime scene, the only words exchanged being variations on the f-word. It kind of has to be seen to be believed. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0xulrOsgQ Definitely NSFW]].) The best part is that it's entirely coherent as a scene and doesn't seem out of character for a second. A [[CrowningMomentofFunny CMOF]] has one of them ''almost'' say "shit", but it comes out "fuck".

** Also used for a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in series four: "I'm Katie Fucking Fitch, who the fuck are you?"

** Or maybe just disapproved eloquently; see the ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' example from the Literature Page.

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' may be the sweariest sitcom ever made. One of the show's writers, Ian Martin, is unofficially known as the writing team's "Swearing Consultant". Creator/PeterCapaldi's character Malcolm Tucker is the best known for swearing, but all the characters drop Cluster F Bombs continually. In one famous scene, Tucker answers a knock at the door with "Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off." Malcolm must be the only character capable of getting an extra "fuck" into "fuck off"

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Ghostfacers", filmed documentary style, took the opportunity to heavily abuse the ability to bleep out swears, implying that if the show were on a different network or standards weren't so rigid, the brothers would have quite the foul mouths. At least, that's how [[FanDumb the fanfic writers]] chose to interpret it....Anyway, it makes a lot of sense, since they're not really on speaking terms with polite society.

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p25SdQEnhHI&feature=related infamous Bill Grundy interview]] with the SexPistols in 1976. In what was then a record for televised profanity, Steve Jones dropped the F-bomb 3 times, while Johnny Rotten dropped the S-bomb twice.

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