Line #43 PrecisionFStrike/Theatre


1	* ''Theatre/AndJuliet'' ends act 1 with a huge one, as a newly engaged Juliet is surprised too run into a BackFromTheDead Romeo.
2	-->'''Romeo''': It's Romeo, Here-for art thou Romeo!\
3	'''Juliet''': Romeo! You're alive?!?\
4	'''Romeo''': Yes! And I've come back for my wife!\
5	'''Juliet''': ''(to the audience)'' Oh Shit!
6	* In ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'':
7	** John Wilkes Booth justifies his murder by calling Lincoln a tyrant, butcher, war-mongerer, and so forth. His high-minded rhetoric is undercut when he calls Lincoln a nigger-lover.
8	** Sam Byck drops one at the beginning of "Another National Anthem":
9	--->"Where's my prize? ... I want my prize ... Don't I get a prize? ... I deserve a fucking prize!"
10	* ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' makes it clear what the audience is in for in the midst of its first big number "It Sucks to Be Me!" when the cute little puppet Kate Monster drops this little line.
11	-->'''Kate Monster''': I'm kinda pretty, and pretty damn smart!\
12	'''Brian''': You are!\
13	'''Kate''': Thanks. I like romantic things like music and art,\
14	And as you know I have a gigantic heart, so why don't I have a boyfriend?!?\
15	'''FUCK!''' It sucks to be me!
16	* In ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'', Captain Corcoran, who "hardly ever says a big, big, D," is responsible for the one and only instance of swearing in the Creator/GilbertAndSullivan canon: "Why damme, it's too bad!" It's still enough to shock the rest of the cast.
17	** Parodied in George S. Kaufman's ''Hollywood Pinafore''. Mike Corcoran "never says a big, big D" because, as Pinafore Pictures' top movie director, he of course respects UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode. His final answer to the question, "What, never?", is, "Only in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''."
18	** Though it's not in the text of ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'', many productions have the exasperated Major-General shouting, "But damme, you ''don't'' go!" near the end of the ensemble "When the foeman bares his steel."
19	** Also, in ''[[Theatre/UtopiaLtd Utopia Ltd.]]'', King Paramount says "da-" twice, but is cut off before he can finish.
20	* In the 1966 film version of ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/RichardBurton, Martha's line "Screw you!" is changed to "Goddamn you!" Other expressions, such as "hump the hostess", "Up yours", and "monkey nipples" are kept. In the 2005 revival with Bill Irwin and Creator/KathleenTurner, the expression "Screw you" is replaced by the stronger "Fuck you!"
21	* Any time Eddie swears in ''Theatre/BloodBrothers''. It's not like the other characters don't mouth off from time to time, but somehow it's far more shocking (and funny) to hear the middle-class, BBC-English-speaking Edward Lyons shouting "WELL SHAG THE VICAR!" at the top of his voice.
22	* In "Theatre/TheGinGame" a man and a woman in a nursing home are playing gin against each other. He constantly uses the F word on her because she keeps winning. At one point he is so nasty to her she says, but unable to find a strong enough word to adequately describe him, "You are a horrible person, you... you... You FUCK!" She then is shocked, admitting it's the only time she ever used the word.
23	* One of the most audience-startling moments in Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw's ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' when it was first produced was when Liza, conversing with Freddy and his mother in a scrupulously refined accent, suddenly dropped the word "bloody".
24	* Somewhat surprisingly, ''Theatre/JerrySpringerTheOpera''. The show is famously rich in profanity which should dilute its impact, but the song ''"I just wanna dance"'' manages to pull off a Precision F Strike with full emotional effect.
25	--> '''Shawntel:''' ''I wanna do some living, 'cause I've done enough dying. I just wanna dance. I just wanna '''fucking''' dance.''
26	* In ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'', King Arthur has a solo number bemoaning how alone he is... right in front of his horse/servant/squire, who gets increasingly frustrated by this as the song goes on.
27	-->'''Arthur''': I'm all alone...\
28	'''Patsy''': Oh no you're not!\
29	'''Arthur''': So all alone...\
30	'''Patsy''': I'm HERE, you twat!
31	* Sadly {{bowdleri\|se}}zed in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': Stephen Sondheim originally wrote the last line of "Gee, Officer Krupke" as "Gee, Office Krupke, FUCK YOU!" but was forced to change it to the very silly "Krup you!", much to his chagrin at the time. Sondheim later admitted that "Krup you" was more appropriate for the tone of the show; he just really wanted to be the first in musical theatre to have a character say "fuck" on Broadway, which, in 1957, was never likely to happen.
32	* At the end of the play Oleanna by David Mamet, the teacher, John, holds a chair above his head, aiming it at his former student Carol and utters the line, "I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole, you little cunt!".
33	* In ''Theatre/TheProducers'', during "The King of Broadway", when Max Bialystock translates, poorly, some Yiddish given to him by Yiddish theatre veteran Boris Thomashefsky, he claims that he said, "When you're down and out and everyone thinks you're finished, that's the time you gotta stand up on your two feet and shout, 'Who do ya hafta '''fuck''' to get a break in this town?!'"
34	** Fun fact: That line originates from an ad-lib by the original portrayer of Max, Creator/NathanLane.
35	* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and it's filled with people who are filled with SHIT..."
36	* ''Vanities'': "Big fucking deal!"(Joanne in Scene 2) "Whoa, oh shit!"(Joanne again, near the end of "The Same Old Music") "What shit will you say next?"(Mary in "The Argument") "Trying to figure out what the fuck to do."(Joanne again, in the final scene/epilogue)
37	* In ''Working'', the truckers use the f-word freely, but we ''expect'' that kind of language from a truck driver. When the schoolteacher says "damn", however, it's shocking because we aren't expecting it from her.
38	* The last act of ''Theatre/NixonInChina'' has perhaps the first such example in the history of opera: "We'll teach these motherfuckers how to dance!" The fact that said line is sung by a coloratura soprano makes it all the better.
39	* Cathy uses this at least twice during ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'', specifically in the songs "See I'm Smiling" and "Climbing Uphill":
40	-->"You could stay with your wife on her '''fucking''' birthday, and you could, God-forbid, even see my show!"
41	-->"Don't look at my resume, I made up half my resume! Stop looking at that, look at me! No, not at my shoes, I hate these fucking shoes!"
42	* The cast of Theatre/ILoveYouBecause manages to keep a show revolving around sex pretty clean for the first act, but soon into the second, as Austin is beginning to discover his feelings for Marcy:
43	--> '''Jeff''': Can't you just FUCK SOMEBODY?
44	* In Athol Fugard's ''My Children! My Africa'', the white South African heroine begins the play apologizing for her language when she uses the word "hell." By the end, when she finally understands how devastating apartheid has been for South Africa, she storms out with a furious "This fucking country!" The line would be effective on its own, but it's especially powerful contrasted with her earlier apologies.
45	* The [[WordofGod current canon]] of ''Theatre/{{Chess}}'' (established in the 2008 Royal Albert Hall concert) has this moment:
46	-->'''Anatoly:''' What about Florence's father? My wife and my children?\
47	'''Freddie:''' Oh fuck you. You let them all down already. Win or betray yourself too.
48	** The 1988 Broadway production had an entirely different one (though Freddie again, of course) in the scene before 'No Contest':
49	-->'''Freddie:''' …tell the Secretary of State that I am ''very'' busy, and that he can FUCK HIMSELF.\
50	'''Walter:''' Okay, I’ll do that. Maybe not in those exact words.
51	* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', Mme. Thénardier has this in Master of the House. "Master of the house, isn't worth me spit. Comforter, philosopher and lifelong SHIT!"
52	* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', Maureen shouts "That FUCK!" when the crew finds out that Benny locked the apartment.
53	* In Roger Waters' Music/TheWall Live tour, the lyric "Mother, should I trust the government?" is accompanied by the phrase "NO FUCKING WAY" appearing in bright red graffiti on the eponymous Wall.
54	* In ''Theatre/TheFix'', Cal accidentally says "fuck" in front of the press while on the city council. However, he manages to turn it into a show-stopping number about how he's a straight-shooting, plain-spoken guy. It works.
55	* In ''Theatre/PokemonTheMewsical'', Ash says the F-word when Gary is shot. It's the only time it's said in the show.
56	* For a Disney musical, ''Theatre/MaryPoppins'' includes a rather strong word in the middle of the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" number.
57	-->'''Michael''': She may be tricky, but she's ''[[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch bloody]] good''!
58	* In Theatre/ShrekTheMusical, after using the UnusualEuphemism "sucks pine sap", Pinocchio ends the song "Story of My Life" with an exclamation of "Crap!"
59	* There's a doozy in Theatre/ItsOnlyAPlay
60	--> '''I Love Liza Minelli'''\
61	'''Ah She's a Cunt! But I love her!'''
62	* In Act II of ''Theatre/TheAndersonvilleTrial'', when Otis Baker compares Colonel Norton P. Chipman to Captain Henry Wirz (i.e. a puppet JustFollowingOrders from his superiors) during a recess in the trial, an indignant Chipman exclaims, "God damn you...!"
63	* In ''Theatre/HeathersTheMusical'', the word "fuck" is uttered for the first time after 60 minutes, after J.D. has killed [[JerkJock Kurt and Ram]] in "Our Love is God"
64	-->'''Veronica''': What the FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?!
65	* In ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'':
66	** "[[spoiler:Hercules Mulligan]], I need no introduction, when you knock me down I get the FUCK back up again!"
67	** "Southern Mother-fucking Democratic Republicans!"
68	** "Sit down, John, you fat motherf-[[CensoredForComedy BLEEEEEEEEP]]"[[note]]This is the only instance of the word to be censored, even though it's used elsewhere. When asked why this was the only instance of censorship, Creator/LinManuelMiranda explained that [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit "It wouldn't have been funny then"]] [[/note]]
69	** And in the workshop version of "One Last Time", entitled "One Last Ride":
70	--->'''Washington:''' "You are outgunned!"
71	--->'''Hamilton:''' "What!"
72	--->'''Washington:''' "Outmanned!"
73	--->'''Hamilton:''' "What!"
74	--->'''Washington (nervously):''' "Outnumbered, outplanned-"
75	--->'''Hamilton:''' "PAY YOUR ''FUCKING TAXES!''" [[note]] Of course Hamilton would be annoyed, he was Secretary of the Treasury at the time [[/note]]
76	* In ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' the Ugandans drop F-bombs without a second thought but the Mormons are quite clean with their language, with Elder Cunningham actually having trouble spitting out the word "clitoris". [[spoiler:This makes Elder Price's comment about the Mormon mission leader all the more surprising:]]
77	--->[[spoiler:'''Price:''' "You know what, guys? '''Fuck''' him!"]]
78	* ''Theatre/IfThen'' includes Creator/IdinaMenzel's "Always Starting Over." Lyrics:
79	--> Thank you for finding me and thank you for the care
80	--> And fuck you for making me think that this life might be fair
81	* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'': "Let's Have Lunch" has one use of the word "fuck", and about a few uses of the word "shit". Other songs have the words "bitch", "ass", and "hell" on some occasions.
82	* ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' has a scene where the titular character calls ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' boring, ending his rant with "Fuck ''Brigadoon''!"
83	* In ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'' an enraged Cliff gives Sally an accurate but harsh wake up call about her ''career''.
84	-->'''Cliff''': The only reason people have ever let you get this far is because you're FUCKING them!!!
85	* During ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' in the midst of the garishly posh and hoity-toity Ascot Day Race, Eliza, though somewhat precariously, has made her way quite graciously through Upper-Class Polite Conversation with Professor Higgins mother and her circle of friend, when the race begins her horse unfortunately is in last place causing her to have a quite a cockney outburst.
86	-->'''Eliza''': COME ON DOVER! MOVE YOUR BLOOMIN' ARSE!!!\
87	''(Eliza looks mortified at her faux pas, the crowd reacts shocked, some women even fainting, but Professor Higgins merely laughs condescendingly)''

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