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Rocco: Fucking... what the fucking... fuck... who the fuck... fuck this... fucking... how did you two fucking fucks... FUCK! Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word. — The Boondock Saints
Elvira: Can't you stop saying "fuck" all the time? — Scarface
Swearing is cool as fuck! Right? Are we fucking right? Fuck yes, we are!
Fuck, people fucking swear. It's a fucking fact of fucking life. As a result, fucking authors who try to avoid the fuck out of having their fucking characters use harsh fucking language end up sounding pretty fucking silly.
Some of those fuckers, however, go to the fucking opposite extreme. (Or is it the opposite fucking extreme? That's probably a fucking distinction without a fucking difference.) They fucking try to make their fucking dialogue sound fucking "fresh" and fucking "real" by dropping fucking swear words into every other fuckity sentence, or more fucking often, until they use fucking foul fucking language every fucking phrase, whether or not they have the slightest fucking worth of use. This is the fucking Cluster F Bomb: fucking swearing for fuckity swearing's sake, where fucking realism and fucking self-restraint can go fuck themselves. Extreme fucking forms of this type of fucking dialogue can become blatantly fucking unrealistic and quickly de-fucking-sensitize motherfucking audiences, thereby fucking up the entire fucking purpose of fucking swearing.
This is a fucking subjective fuckstick of a trope. The "realism" factor is very fucking context-dependent: fucking obscenities that sound fucking natural coming from a fucking drunken frat boy or a violent-as-fuck Glaswegian would fucking sound completely fucked up coming from a fucking Indiana housewife (although sometimes that's the fucking point). And every fucking fucker will have their own fucking standards for how much cussing is too fucking much.
If these fucking shows or movies get fucking rebroadcast on network TV or even basic fucking cable, expect the offending fucking scenes to be fucking fucked up and fucking edited to within an inch of their fucking lives, mrifking ludicrously redubbed, or ***ing hilariously deafiningly bleeped the f*** out.
Some fucking writers will give a character fucking Tourettes Shitcock Syndrome to fucking justify this. Compare fucking Refuge In Vulgarity, and con-fucking- trast Foreign Cuss Word, fucking Pardon My Klingon, and especially Gosh fucking Dang It To Heck. Just for the fuck of it, see also that other fuckin' wiki .
Notice that if you take a fucking look at most fucking kinds of fucking pornographic fucking literature, you'll find that they also fuck the living fuck out of some of the same words as the Cluster F Bomb. The two fucking phenomena may seem pretty fucking similar, but there's a big fucking difference. Because if you're writing a pornographic fucking text, or in some kind of similar fucking circumstances, you're using "fuck" when you mean actual fucking. (Lady Chatterley's Fucking Lover is a fucking example of this, and not of the Cluster F Bomb version.) On the other fucking hand, some of even the most fucking excessive users of the fucking Cluster F Bomb will tend to use other, milder fucking choices of fucking words for when the fucking characters have actually begun to fucking talk about literal fucking. Some fuckers don't fucking see the fucking distinction, but there is a motherfucking one. The word "fuck" has been a fucking integral part of fucking dirty talk for many fucking centuries before the first fucked-up fucking fucker dropped a fucking Cluster F Bomb.
Fucking compare with Precision Fucking F Strike and fucking Angrish, motherfuckers. Fucking see also Obligatory Fucking Swearing, which sometimes fucking well takes the form of fucking Cluster F Bombs all over the fucking place. If you're looking for that one other word, see Country Matters.
WARNING: This fucking article gratuitously fucks the living fuck out of the fucking F word. Which we probably should have fucking warned you about approximately twenty fucking lines ago. So, uh... if you are offended by the fucking text above, please don't fucking read it, because if you do, we're fucked... Fuck.
Due to the nature of the trope, the following examples will contain swearing. Please do not be a Bluenose.
Even this fucking article has the fucking fuck word over 730 fucking times.
Fuck.
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Fucking Examples
Fucking Anime & fucking Manga
- A lot of dubbed anime from Manga UK
in the 1990s, such as Cyber City Oedo 808, Angel Cop, and Genocyber did this to garner an R-rating so everyone knew that these animes were not for kids. Given the gorn of Angel Cop and Genocyber, this probably wasn't necessary.
- Episode 12 of Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai contains one of these from a hot dog vendor dressed as Elvis, for no reason other than that it was the "Hollywood" episode.
- Both the English dub
and the subtitles for Gantz are filled with foul language.
- The refrain of the second opening song to Death Note "What's Up People" repeatedly uses the word "sucker" and "fucker" in English (though the singer is technically saying Japanese words pronounced oddly, they don't mean anything and the intention is quite obvious). Incomprehensible enough to air on Adult Swim and YTV entirely unedited.
- Creating the odd situation when Adult Swim adds english subtitles to the song. The viewer will clearly hear the lyrics as "Hey hey ningen (human) sucker! Ah ningen ningen fucker!", but the subtitles read "Hey hey subservient humanity!"
- The dub of Black Lagoon, as evident here
. (For those playing along at home, they're averaging at over 10 fucks per episode, or 1 fuck every 2.2 minutes.) The original version was like this, as well. And by that I mean the swear words were in English. The other characters cuss their fair share, but Revy herself is by far the most foul-mouthed of all the characters on the show.
- Agito in Air Gear commonly uses the F bomb, even making it his catchphrase.
- Jan Valentine in Hellsing fits this trope perfectly. See here
.
- It's also utterly hilarious.
- There's also that teenage vampire in the second episode of the TV series (the male one).
- Given that he's a ridiculously strait-laced military man, you'll probably never hear Sōsuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic! swear... unless, of course, he decides that he needs to go Gunnery Sergeant Hartman on your ass like he did in Fumoffu. If that happens, then prepare to endure every every curse, slur, and swear word ever uttered before he's through with you, you limp-dicked, motherfucking, cocksucking, shit-maggot!
- When asked, Sōsuke reveals that his diatribes come from a guidebook written by Sgt. Melissa Mao. Kaname later wonders if he even knows what the things he's saying actually mean.
- The scene is even funnier in Super Robot Wars W, as Sōsuke is doing it while in Bonta-Kun, with Kaname translating, cursing and all.
- For such a "gentleman", England from Axis Powers Hetalia certainly has one really filthy mouth... Of course, he also had a delinquent period as a pirate. BLOODY FUCKING SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, WHAT WHAT!
- Tony the alien says "FUCKING" in each one of his brief appearances. "FUCKING LIMEY! I'LL KILL YOU FUCKING LIMEY!" "YOUR FUCKING FAULT."
- Hiruma from Eyeshield 21, but only when directly addressing his Fucking Teammates, the Fucking Manager or the Fucking Opponents. Changed to Damn in the official english translation for obvious reasons.
- Kaiji. There's even one scene where all he says is fuck as he kicks the shit out of a table, blowing off steam after giving a manly speech.
- Detroit Metal City. Johan Krauser vs Jack Ill Dark in a Cluster F Bomb duel.
- In a similar vein, one of Krauser's "claims" to fame is the ability to yell "rape" 10 times a second. As a favor to a sick fan, he attempts to push this record Up To Eleven, literally.
- Tayuya from Naruto swears like a pirate with a hangover, as does Hidan of the Akatsuki. Tayuya's foul language was toned down somewhat for the dub. It remains to be seen if the same will apply to Hidan.
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Fucking Comics
- John Constantine is generally fairly vulgar (in a British manner), but Brian Azzarello's run on Hellblazer took it to new heights: One issue had the "F-word" appearing 51 and a half times in a single issue, prompting the then-Director of Production to ask the Publisher, "Is this really necessary?" (For those who care, the one-half was someone screaming, across the top of a panel, "FUUUUUUUUU".)
- Transmetropolitan. Both displayed and referenced. For example, aside from the cuss-laden dialogue, the reader is informed that after the Beast won the last election, Spider Jerusalem attempted to submit an "8,000-word" column... of the word "fuck" written 8,000 times.
- Sam & Twitch, a spin off series of Spawn during the late 1990s had every single page of every single issue absolutely brimming with profanity. This troper remembers reading some fanmail at the back of each issue praising the writers for not swearing just to try to be cool, though I'm sure they were just trying to be ironic.
- Actually, the Cluster F Bomb is dropped in a lot of Bendis's work. The first word in his Marvel series Alias is "Fuck!" and it really sets the fucking tone for the entire fucking series, fuckfaces.
- This is how the fuck Bendis talks in real fucking life. That fuck says fuck all the fucking time.
- In the last (so far) book of Gorsky and Butch, they do a Matrix parody. When they appear in a "blank page", Gorsky launches into a Cluster F Bomb to prove that they are outside the "comix" and no longer bound by its rules.
- In the Nodwick story Krutz, two necromancers need a word of power ("krutz") said more times than they can hope to themselves in any reasonable amount of time. What do they do? Make it a swearword and popularize it overnight.
- Here's an uncencored version of Cyclops dropping the F Bomb... with Brand and Beast following the trend.
Fucking Fan Works
Fucking Films
- Bad Santa is a fucking good example
. It seems that every other word is a curse, which is especially amusing seeing as the main character is a department store Santa.
- Beverly Hills Cop is an Eddie Murphy swear-a-thon.
- Jay from The View Askewniverse (home to Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and other Kevin Smith movies) is infamous for this. The most famous expression is his rap
from the beginning of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which features eight (creative) uses of the F-word and one shit.
- The Boondock Saints has its protagonists engaging in this all the time, the most hilarious instance being Rocco's reaction to the Copley Plaza massacre used as the page quote.
- Ditto for Scarface. See here
(NSFW by a longshot!) The special edition DVD even has a counter in the special features that tallies up how many F-Bombs Tony or one of the other characters let loose in the movie, along with how many bullets are fired. Several videos like this have since become an internet meme.
- The Polish dub has to be heard to be believed, as it quite noticeably doesn't feature any swearing stronger than the equivalent of "bloody hell".
- Quentin Tarantino and his imitators are very fond of dropping the F-Bomb constantly in their movies. Reservoir Dogs, which runs 99 minutes, uses it approximately 230 times. Also
, Pulp Fiction.
- Although this is partly the actors' fault, because if you compare the screenplay as originally written to a transcript of what they actually say in the film, the usage of "fuck" increased by some 400%, or so I heard. It would seem that if the actors were having trouble remembering their exact lines, the general solution was to swear more to cover it up.
- And Reservoir Dogs also tends to use the form "fucking", which makes it just funny after about the fifth time.
- The Departed, as demonstrated here
. The original Hong Kong version Infernal Affairs has even more instances of the three Cantonese words that translate into the English "fuck."
- Mish-mash cussing became increasingly predominant for the dialog of the Blade trilogy. Made for some very entertaining exchanges in second, just plain ridiculous in the third. Although the third one did give the world the glory that is "cock-juggling thundercunt".
- In Jumping Jack Flash, Whoopi Goldberg says fuck and shit almost every fucking goddamn shitting sentence.
- 3D Movie Maker gives us this wonderful example of the versatility of the F word in Will Maltby's Diabolical Delightment; "Shut the fuck up you fucked up fuck!"
- Frank Booth from the film Blue Velvet is the only character in the entire film to use the word. He makes up for it by saying (more like yelling) the F word in almost every line that he gives, often more than once. (The infamous line "Fuck you, you fucking fuck" comes from this movie.)
- Joe Pesci in his roles in Casino, JFK, and Goodfellas makes extremely prolific use of the word. In Casino
he drops the F bomb over 400 times by himself.
- Four Weddings And A Funeral's first dozen words are all the s-word, as the main character attempts to reach a wedding after oversleeping, seeing no cabs, finding his car clamped and finnaly running through London in an attempt to arrive in time.
- S-word? Was this redubbed for a family audience? As I recall it went something like "Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuckity fuck fuck... fuck-a-doodle-doo."
- They actually had to film large parts of the movie twice, once with the swearing toned down, so it could be played on American TV and on planes. Apparently executives even tried to get rid of a reference to a priest having an "enormous erection" as it wouldn't be allowed on US TV!
- Although the movie as a whole is fairly tame, one scene of one "cluster bomb" was the sole reason Planes, Trains and Automobiles received an 'R' rating. In his review of the movie, Ebert described it as a "verbal symphony for the f-word."
"You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosy fucking cheeks. Then give me a fucking automobile. A fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Buick. Four fucking wheels and a seat... I don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. I didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want a fucking car right fucking now."
- Of course, don't forget the priceless rebuttal to this in the same movie...
Car Rental Agent: May I see your rental agreement? Neal: I threw it away. Car Rental Agent: Oh boy. Neal: Oh boy, what? Car Rental Agent: You're fucked.
- As this relatively NSFW abridgment
shall show, The Big Lebowski makes liberal use of the F-Bomb. "Do you have to use so many cuss words?"
- What the fuck you talking about?
- A 1997 British film called Nil By Mouth set the record for the most uses of the word in fictional context (428 times) as indicated by the Wikipedia link above.
- The most instances of the word used in any movie is a 2005 documentary named (guess what?) Fuck
, which is about the word itself. It uses the word over eight hundred times, roughly nine a minute.
- "I have HAD it with these mother-fucking snakes on this mother-fucking plane!!"
- Strangely enough, the rest of the movie was relatively curse free. This is because that line was added during reshoots intended to give the movie an R rating.
- The reshoots were only doing because the series got a cult following before it was even finished shooting, just because Snakes on a Plane sounded hilarious. At some point or another fans clamored to have Samuel Jackson use that line. When the studio realized that they managed to get a cult following before they even released it, they decided they were just going to reshoot some and try to appeal to them, so that's how the line wound up getting worked in.
- The documentary 101 Reasons Not to Be a Pro Wrestler has a trailer
that starts with a clip from an interview with Sean O'Haire...
- Glengarry Glen Ross. Used casually and constantly. You know someone is really upset when they start using cluster C bombs. (Yes I know it was a play first. I didn't see the play.)
- The cast sometimes referred to it as Death of a Fucking Salesman because of this.
- Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges. As Colin Farrell (in real life, not averse to the occasional Cluster F Bomb himself) puts it, "Geez, he swears a lot."
- And that was just in the phone message he left!
- Although The Proposition has loads of swearing, it's only Sam Stoat, in his desire to be cool, who truly overuses it, although Arthur occasionally comes close, with "Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Copper." Ironically, the interviews on the DVD reveal that the foulest mouth on set wasn't Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Nick Cave, Tom Budge, or Guy Pearce, but Emily Watson.
- Heavy amounts of profanity in Day of the Dead, probably uttered during every sentence ever spoken by any character in the film.
- Spoofed in Shaun of the Dead:
Pete: It's four in the fucking morning! Shaun: It's Saturday! Pete: No, it's not. It's fucking Sunday. And I've got to go to fucking work in four fucking hours 'cos every other fucker in my fucking department is fucking ill! Now can you see why I'm SO FUCKING ANGRY? Ed: Fuck, yeah!
- Amusingly, they were mandated to do a different version of this scene for the airplane version. After some wondering of how in the world they were going to do this, they just replaced every use of the word "fuck" with the word "funk". The name of the special feature on the DVD with this? "Funky Pete". It (in this troper's eye) is probably more hilarious than the unedited scene by sheer inappropriateness.
- Every scene involving Jim Carrey's "sons" in Me, Myself, and Irene. The hook being that the foul-mouthed triplets have genius I Qs, but swear like gangsta rappers.
- A slight twist occurs in the Amazing Yen from the Oceans Eleven trilogy. Almost all of his speech is in Mandarin Chinese, but the few English lines he does have are nearly all swear words.
- The Guy Ritchie films. The Snatch DVD has an easter egg: when opened, it asks "Are you easily offended?" If no is picked, this shows up
. With "yes" instead, the video is shown with profanity BLEEPing censored (turning it even more hilarious).
- Wilt: In one scene, a construction worker who witnessed a woman's body it's really an inflatable sex doll being dumped into a hole and covered with concrete is talking to a cop:
Construction worker: You could see her fucking limbs... all fucking twisted... it were fucking horrible. Cop: (to his subordinate) Make a fucking note of that.
- Virtually every song in Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny features creative and varied use of swearing, mostly 'fuck'. And yes, they rhyme "rock" and "cock" at least thirty times across the whole movie.
- The Blair Witch Project. Noteworthy because the dialogue was entirely improvised.
- Hard Core Logo. Just... Hard Core Logo.
- For Fuck's sake, would you Please Fucking Elaborate, Fucker. I for one have no fucking idea what the fuck fucking Hard Core Logo is and I can't be fucked googling those three fucking little fucking four letter fucking words. FUCK!
- Seriously though, Please Elaborate.
- It's a fucking mockumentary about a fucking punk band doing a fucking final reunion tour. Fuck.
- Planet Terror, of the Grindhouse double-feature:
El Wray: I like how you say "fuck". Cherry: Good. Fuck you. (later) Cherry: You were being an unbelievable dick. I was walking out on you. I was cold, I took your fucking jacket. So if you're going to go on one of your psycho-obsessive controlling rants about a fucking jacket, then fucking take it because I'd rather fucking freeze than fucking hear about it one more time. El Wray: (long pause) Did you find what was in the jacket? Cherry: Fuck, no.
- An early shootout in Shoot Em Up takes place on the roof of "FAULK TRUCK & TOOL". The hero shoots out letters in the neon sign until only "F_U_K __U__" is left, "TOOL" being temporarily covered. The camera lingers on this for a moment... and the hero says "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers." (The villain replies by shooting out the final L.)
- Twin Town. 318 "fuck"s in 99 minutes. Well, it is set in effing Swansea.
- This troper remembers watching a horrid, low-budget horror movie called Chupacabra Terror years ago. The one line that sticks in her head: "Never fuck with a fucker, you'll only get fucked."
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil has a hilarious scene
in which the two main characters, one deaf and one blind, have a misunterstanding with a police officer. This results in her repeating "shit" some twenty times in rapid succession.
- Possibly parodied in Star Trek IV, in which Kirk explains how in the late 20th century, "Nobody pays attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period." He cites the works of Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins as examples, to which Spock replies "Ah, the giants."
- Les Grossman's response
to getting a ransom demand from the Flaming Dragons. Hell, just fucking watch this .
- Burn After Reading. We're used to seeing Brad Pitt dropping the F-bomb all over the shop, but it's very refreshing to hear it coming out of John Malkovich, J K Simmons and Tilda Swinton.
- George Clooney: "What the fuck are you doing in here, you fucker?!?" Incidentally one of my favorite movie lines of all time...
- "AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKING DAY, YEAH!"
- On that note, Kim Jong-IL's rant when he dumps Hans Blix in the shark tank.
- The original script for The Matrix was toned down from this to a Cluster S Bomb, with Trinity's sixth or seventh line being a heartfelt utterance of the word.
- The opening scene of The Way of the Gun features a particularly memorable speech from Sarah Silverman.
Raving Bitch: Hey dickless, get off the fucking car! Hey fucksuck, get your slippery fucking ass off the car! Listen to me, get off the fucking car with your fucking ass!
- Then they answer her back, and she gets really abusive.
- In Ocean's Twelve, when Benedict is tracking everyone down, there's a scene where Basher is in a studio with a guy, listening to the final of a song. The song is full of bleeps, and Basher and the guy start arguing, their speech full of bleeps, especially the bit where the guy goes,
"Well, if you want a *bleep* single on the *bleep* radio, you'll have to make some changes!" (and then Basher goes) "Well that's *bleep*, isn't it? That's really *bleep*."
- Don't forget that almost all lines by Yen, the Chinese from Ocean's gang, have profanity.
- Four-letter words are used constantly and by everyone in An Officer and a Gentleman.
- The titular character of Happy Gilmore. That is all.
- Something of a subversion, really; it's a PG-13 movie, so most of Happy's foul-mouthed tirades are covered up by network censors' frantic bleeping. This actually makes it more funny, though.
- Bon Cop Bad Cop puts a Québecois twist on this one:
Martin: Shit de fuck de shit de merde de shit de câlice de TABARNAK!
- Pretty much any movie produced by Judd Apatow is guaranteed to have this.
Jay: Man, my balls are shaved, my pubes are trimmed, I'm ready to fuckin' rock this shit! Jonah: What the fuck, man? If I go in there and see fuckin' pubes sprinkled on the toilet seat, I'm gonna fuckin' lose my mind! Last time I went to the bathroom, Jay, I took a shit and my shit looked like a fuckin' stuffed animal!
- Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) himself has one:
Ben Stone: Hey Doc Howard, Ben Stone calling, guess what the fuck's up? Allison is going into labor and you are not fucking here, you know where you're at? Your at a fucking bar mitzvah in San Francisco you motherfucking piece of shit, and you know what I'm gonna have to do now? I'm going have to kill you, I'm gonna pop a fucking cap in your ass. You're dead, you're Tupac, you are fucking Biggie you piece of shit, I hope you fucking die or drop the chair and kill that fucking kid... I hope your plane crashes, peace fucker!
- While we're on the topic of Jonah Hill, Superbad, also
.
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter:
Axel: Jesus Christmas! Holy Jesus goddamn! Holy Jesus jumping Christmas shit!
- The Taking of Pelham 123 has John Travolta's character saying "Motherfucker" seemingly every 5 minutes. Granted, its not as bad as some of the other examples, but its enough to warrant a response of "what the fuck is he doing up there?" due to the simple fact that he does it for no reason. Also, the amount of birds flipped at people that characters either can't see or do not necessarily exist (to the character's knowledge) is excessive.
- The ever-amusing Spill Review crew comments on this in their review, at the very end.
- Most fucking war movies in general, including Jarhead
.
- I Heart Huckabees begins with Jason Schwartzman firing off a cluster f-bomb.
- Edward Norton delivers one of the best examples of a cluster f-bomb in 25th Hour as he "fucks" every racial group and person in all of New York City. Notably, it's to himself.
Norton: Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this city and everyone else in it.
- Fuck yeah, that one is pretty fucking inspired. Fucking great performance, too.
- You wouldn't expect a biopic about a famous Victorian author to feature one of these, but Wilde begs to differ. In a scene where Oscar has fallen ill, Bosie comes to visit him and starts flipping out, dropping the F-bomb in just about every sentence and even throwing Oscar's water basin to the floor.
Bosie: NOW WILL YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THE FUCKING WATER!
- District 9's protagonist's vocabulary primarily consists of "fock" and "focking". IMDB states that the F-bomb is dropped 137 times in the 112-minute film, which puts it in nearly the same category as Reservoir Dogs.
- Hoffa features the F-word 153 times. This scene
sums up perfectly (this troper used to laugh every time an ad featuring the "Fuck you and fuck your threats and fuck your brother!" showed up at the History Channel, promptly BLEE Ped).
- Paul Vitti in Analyze This uses profanity freely. Best bit is when he's talking to a rival over the phone, trying to control himself... and bursts into:
You make one more move on me you motherfucker, I'll fucking cut your fucking balls off and I'll shove them up your fucking ass, I'll fucking bury you, I'll put fucking ice picks in your eyes, I'll chop your fucking eyeballs, I'll send them to your fucking family so they can eat them for dessert! You understand me?
- There was a scene in a movie, I think it was Lord of War that includes the unforgettable line: "Fuck you, you fucking fuck! Fuck!"
- Any movie in the Saw franchise. Nearly everyone uses Fuck in every sentence.
- The Crank movies with Jason Statham are good at this, with many of the characters yelling at his character "FUCK YOU CHELIOS!" repeatedly through both movies.
- The Devil's Rejects holds the record for most F-bombs in a single movie(not counting Fuck, a documentary about the word "fuck", so, yeah...) with 560. It's safe to say Bill Moseley is responsible for most of those.
- Rob Zombie's recent redo of Halloween II, features a hilariously awful sequence where an ambulance containing Michael Myers' supposedly dead body crashes into a cow. While the driver is killed instantly, the other coroner spends the next 45 seconds repeatedly yelling nothing but the word FUCK! while trapped in the wreckage before Myers reanimates and shuts the guy up by decapitating him.
- SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!!
Fucking Literature
- Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. This troper counted 245 uses of the word, but I may have been off by a few. The movie doesn't cuss at all (that I noticed)...but the movie (opinion) really sucked. Book adaption or not.
- Richard fucking Marcinko. The fucking Rogue Warrior books fucking run on fucking cluster fucking F bombs.
- Pick a novel by Stephen King. Any of them. He was criticized enough for it that one aspect of Annie Wilkes (the villain of the novel Misery) was a near-frothing intolerance for bad language in her favorite author's books.
- This is lampshaded in It, where one of the characters makes note of how many times his author friend used the F word in his latest novel.
- See also The Tommyknockers, where he refers to himself as that fella who lives up Bangor way, and his books as being full of monsters and dirty words.
- Parodied in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Life, The Universe and Everything) where the Rory Award for "The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word 'Fuck' In A Serious Screenplay" is mentioned.
- In the radio play and the US versions of the book, the award was for most gratuitous use of the word "Belgium", which is apparently an alien swear word.
- Spoofed in The Truth where Mr. Tulip is likely to drop "—-ing" bombs. Yes, he actually pronounces the dashes. ("An —-ing werewolf? Are you —-ing kidding me?!") Terry Pratchett has referred to what it sounds like as "the Englishman's version of the bushman 'click' language". Sacharissa later tries to curse the same way, but leaves out the dashes (she just yells "ing", and proclaims it to be very satisfying).
- Explicitly averted in The Lord of the Rings, where Tolkien explains that evil creatures talk like this all the time, but he cleaned it up:
But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.
- Lady Chatterley's Lover was controversial and banned for its use of "fuck" and other words, but unlike the more typical modern Cluster F Bomb, the context is explicit portrayals of characters having sex and talking dirty to each other. Who could have predicted ahead of time that when they decriminalized the ban on using the word "fuck" in literature/media, dirty talk would still be as much of a fringe phenomenon as it was before, while the far more striking trend is the popularization of comics who break the taboos against obscenity just for the hell of it?
- Dave Barry, in the introduction to his novel Tricky Business, repeatedly warns the reader that "THIS BOOK CONTAINS BAD WORDS." This paragraph can be found repeating continually through several of its chapters:
...ROAR VROOM WHAM "FUCK!" "FASTER!" ROAR VROOM WHAM "FUCK!" "FASTER!" ROAR VROOM WHAM "FUCK!" "FASTER!" ROAR VROOM WHAM "FUCK!" "FASTER!" ROAR VROOM WHAM...
- House of Leaves, anyone? To quote Johnny Truant;
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."
- In the book Lamb (a comedy about Jesus' best friend), the narrator is resurrected in our time to write his version of the Gospel. He also includes random comments on his bewilderment in the modern world, including a rant on curses, which lampshades this.
"Back home we had maybe half a dozen curse words. Here you can curse the air blue for twenty minutes without repeating yourself..."
- Closing Time, the sequel to Joseph Heller's Catch-22, had this peppery exchange between Milo Minderbinder and the decidedly irreverent Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, regarding Yossarian's likely response to their schemes to defraud the United States government:
Milo: He might object. Wintergreen: Then fuck him. Let him object. We'll ignore the fuck again. What the fuck! What the fuck fucking difference does it make if the fuck objects or not! We can ignore the fucking fuck again, can't we? Shit. Milo: I wish, you wouldn't swear so much in the nation's capital.
- In his college novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe has a very hilarious discussion of what he calls the "fuck patois", frequently used by college students. It is all very clinical, analysing how the word can be used as adjective, noun, adverb, etc., providing an example for each, and then at the end of this very long list it concludes "And sometimes, it can even refer to copulation! (So, you'll never believe who I fuckin' walked in on fuckin'." The passage itself is very funny in that there is no vitriol behind any of the uses, and were it not for the variants of "fuck" given as examples after every type of word, it could be a regular old discussion of grammar. It is, in a word, AWESOME.
- The last joke in Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor is a subversion of this trope. It's about a foul-mouthed soldier telling his friends what the fuck he did while out on the town on a 24-hour pass. He keeps fuckin' talking about the woman he met at a fuckin' bar, he says that they went her fuckin' apartment, the other soldiers ask what happened...
"What do you think happened, you fuckin' jerks? We had sexual intercourse."
- Used liberally in John Dies at the End. In one memorable fuckin' moment, when Dave is being threatened by Robert North...
"No, no. Keep driving," said a soft voice in my ear. "She will not bite if you keep driving." Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking Captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.
- In The City and the City: "Even though of course those fuckers, those fuckers more than any other fuckers — and we have our share of fuckers."
- Any fucking Charles Bukowski book, often in caps making the statement seem bizarrely monotone and awkwardly hilarious.
- Janet Evanovich's Plum books, anything said by Sally (Salvatore) Sweet. Example:
"Nobody heard of fucking Howling Dogs. I was fucking living in a fucking packing crate in the alley behind Romanos Pizza. I've been punk, funk, grunge, and R&B. I've been with the Funky Butts, the Pitts, Beggar Boys, and Howling Dogs. I was with Howling Dogs the longest. It was a fucking depressing experience. I couldn't stand fucking singing all those fucking songs about fucking hearts fucking breaking and fucking goldfish fucking going to heaven. And then I had to fucking look like some western dude. I mean, how can you have any self-respect when you have to go on stage in a cowboy hat?"
I was pretty good at cussing, but I didn't think I could keep up with Sally. On my best day, I couldn't squeeze all those "f" words into a sentence. "Boy, you can really curse," I said.
"You can't be a fucking musician without fucking cursing."
- Precious in Push by Sapphire, though it's really more like Cluster B and S Bomb. Every woman she doesn't like is a bitch, and she replaces the word stuff with shit. The most extreme version is her calling her former principal "cunt bucket" all the time. May be justified, in that she is uneducated and doesn't know any better.
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- Any HBO show (other than Big Love) could be accused of this.
- Deadwood is a particularly strange example, as it features characters using modern obscenities in a setting where "God dammit to Hell" was still shockingly profane. The producers were well aware of this and decided to use anachronistic dialogue anyway, reasoning that historically-accurate dialogue would sound too tame. After all, the real Deadwood was home to many a miner, and they weren't known for their restraint as far as language, so the Cluster F Bombs are accurate... from a certain point of view. In the words of Geoffrey Nunberg: "If you have your characters use historically accurate swearwords, they're apt to sound no more offensive than your grandmother in a mild snit."
- The Wire features a particularly brilliant example: an entire three minutes and thirty seconds of two detectives examining a crime scene, the only words exchanged being variations on the f-word. It kind of has to be seen to be believed. (Definitely NSFW
.)
- The best part about that particular scene is that it doesn't even seem out of character for a second.
- A CMOF in that scene has one of them almost say "shit", but it comes out "fuck".
- 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 the only character on the show to never use even mild profanity.
- The Sopranos uses that four-letter word regularly, too.
- To the point where a compliation of every instance of "fuck" and "shit" in the show made a 27-minute video
.
- Rome adored this trope. "I FUCK [the goddess] Concord in her FAT ASS!!" "Juno's CUNT!" And so forth.
- For an interesting early dropping of the bomb on HBO, see Billy Crystal's "Don't Get Me Started." Crystal's imitation of his father's home movies have him portraying his uncle cursing the air blue at a family barbecue, but the "film" is silent, Crystal only mouths the words for everyone to follow.
- Amusingly played with in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm; after Larry has accidentally left an abusive message intended for someone else on David Schwimmer's father's answering machine, Schwimmer's father calls back to return the favour with interest. After unleashing a barrage of abuse and swear words that would make a sailor blush, he finishes by calling Larry a comparatively tame "Son of a b-" - and the last word is cut off by the end credits before he can finish.
- On Top Gear, presenter Richard Hammond is one the most likely to throw profanity around like confetti. However, he's also been known to let fly with a choice word, clap a hand to his mouth, and say "Where did that come from?"
Hammond [in his book As You Do]: I was told later that I managed to swear constantly and without repetition for 40 minutes.
- In Dexter (both the print and TV versions), Deb's vocabulary seems excessively foul, even for a cop. And then there was Doakes, whose favorite word was motherfucker, usually used with regards to Dexter
(please note that this video contains spoilers within the last couple minutes for the end of Season 2).
- This troper was amazed to hear CBS was going to run Dexter. They'd have to cut out all of Deb's scenes just to make it acceptable for cable.
- Lampshaded in season 3:
Deb: I'm fucking desperate, all right? I got a steaming heap of crap-all on this case and I've gone through every scum-sucking ballsack of a pimp I know, every whacked-out hooker. You are my last-ditch assfucked effort! Anton: Damn, you got a mouth on you, woman.
- One of the better usages of this was the famous "Gollum acceptance speech" at the MTV Movie Awards
, when Gollum won "Best Virtual Performance" for The Lord of the Rings: 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 Dobby's sexuality and calling Peter Jackson a "fucking hack") — with his alter ego Smeagol 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.
- Or maybe just disapproved eloquently; see above regarding LotR.
- Appears in The IT Crowd, when Jen loudly (and with much use of the Profanity Buzzer) tells a visiting Japanese delegate exactly what she thinks of him after he steps on her foot with heavy Doc Martens boots on. As the delegate cannot speak English, it's helpfully translated for him by the interpreter.
- On Friends, Phoebe, the resident ditz had bought Chandler and Monica a Ms. Pac Man 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, but we don't get to hear it — Beethoven's Ninth plays over it.
- The internet/TV series Devvo can go as far as using the word "fuck" before every noun, adjective and verb; "I'm fucking sweared out! But fucking thing is, I fucking found this fucking motor. Fucking Rover, like. Some fuckin (bleeped) left fucking door open. I'll fucking show ya mate, fucking show ya". He also yells random strings of swear words at buses and dead pigeons for no reason.
- Penn and Teller Bullshit 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.
- 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 Cluster F Bombs — during a Sunday afternoon in a major network.
- Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares contains so much swearing that in Australia there was a parliamentary inquiry into whether it was appropriate to air it at the Watershed-dubious time of 8:30PM.
- And the Television Without Pity
reviews of the show have the "bleep-o-fucking-meter" to keep count. I believe the high for a single episode was around 50.
- Only 50? A double length episode in the UK got Channel 4 a wristslap
from Ofcom, as whilst the watershed is 9 O'clock, that doesn't mean you can have 115 examples of "the most offensive language" in the first 40 minutes of a show starting at 9pm, it's supposed to be a bit more gradual than that.
- Speaking of Gordon Ramsay, Hell's Kitchen is also well-known for its language, as evident here
.
- Slings and Arrows has moments of this, notably when stage manager Maria delivers a drunken, profanity-ridden rant about actors (ending "Well, fuck you all! Fuck off, you fuckers!")
- French comedic trio "Les Inconnus" ruthlessly parodies this trope (and American action movie trailers in general) in a sketch titled 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 things: "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.")
- A version of this trope appeared in The Young Ones...
Vyvyan: NO! NO! NO! WE ARE NOT WATCHING THE BLOODY GOOD LIFE! BLODDY! BLOODY! BLOODY! I hate it it's so BLOODY nice! Felicity TRECLE Kendal and Richard SUGAR-FLAVOURED-SNOB Briers! What are they doing now? Chocolate BLOODY button ads, that's what! They're nothing but a couple of reactionary stereotype confirming that everyone in Britain is lovable middle-class eccentric and I HATE THEM! That was a highly articulate outburst, considering it's Vyvyan
- The Adam & Joe Show New Sic*: "He was heard to say 'Fuck you, fuck this, fuck fucker'".
- In a House DVD bonus
, a random scene was reshot, with Cameron and Cuddy managing to curse about 30 times in a little more than one minute. When you remind yourself of how the characters behave in the show, this is pure gold.
- Battlestar Frakking Galactica.
- The Supernatural episode "Ghostfacers", filmed documentary style, took the opportunity to heavily abuse 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 the fanfic writers chose to interpret it...
- The Thick of It has a writer unofficially known as the team's swearing consultant. Peter Capaldi'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"
- Still, as far as concise profanity goes, nothing beats Tucker's Law
: "If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck up, because that cunt's a cunt."
- This carries over to The Movie, In The Loop, from a telephone conversation that ends "fuckity-bye" to the brilliant:
Malcolm: You are a boring fuck! Oh, I'm sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing, so let's sort that out: You are a boring eff-star-star-cunt."
- Red Forman from That70s Show used this when he is convinced to take in Hyde when his mother leaves. Doing a good deed made him very unhappy.
- Variation: Fez really likes to drop the "son of a BITCH" phrase whenever he can.
Fez (during Trick Or Treat): An apple?! WHERE'S MY CANDY, YOU SON OF A BITCH?!
- One of Steve Coogan's videos is prefaced with his Paul Calf character explaining that the reason why it is rated 18 is because of the bad language, and going on to explain exactly what words are used and how many times (28 fucks, 29 counting that fuck, fuck it make it 30 etc.). At the end he conceeds that in fact, all the bad language is in his introduction "and the rest of the video is like Bambi."
- The scripts of Lost indulge in this. ABC says that it makes them "energetic" and fun to read. From the end of Two for the Road, which uses "fuck" almost a hundred times and is not alone in that regard:
And Michael is fucking SHOOTING before he even sees what he’s shooting at — INSTINCT now as he WHIPS AROUND towards the sound of that voice and REVEAL —LIBBY. SHOCKED. HOLDING THE BLANKETS SHE WAS GETTING FOR HER PICNIC WITH HURLEY. A BLACKENED HOLE now permeates in the center of those blankets as Libby’s knees fucking BUCKLE — She hits the ground like a back of rocks. Over. DONE. Oh sweet fucking CHRIST. TIME STOPS. ON MICHAEL. FREAKING OUT. SWEATING. BLINKING. HIS GUN HAND FUCKING TREMBLING. FROZEN.
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Fucking Music
- Insane Clown Posse's "Fuck the World" holds the record of expletives, with 93 F-Words in 3:43 minutes. It declares this fact near the end: "Don't bother tryin' to analyze these rhymes / In this song I say 'Fuck' 93 times!"
- Limp Bizkit's "Hot Dog" uses the F-word 48 times. It even lampshades: "If I say "Fuck", two more times, That's forty six 'Fucks' in this fucked up rhyme".
- Also their song Break Stuff has fuck in almost every line; and if fuck isn't there then they say shit.
- Eamon's 2004 track "F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)" holds the UK record of most expletives in a #1 song, with 33, 20 starting with F. Frankee, who alleged to be Eamon's girlfriend (he denied it
), made a answer song titled "F.U.R.B. (F**k You Right Back)", which contains 22 expletives (18 with F).
- The UK chart record for most expletives in a Top 40 song is "The Man Don't Give A Fuck" by Welsh space rock band Super Furry Animals, with 50 uses of the F-word in its 5 minute running time. Also, the live, 18 minute version contains over 100 F-words. Oh, and all the swears are from a line of a song by Steely Dan repeated over and over and over and over and...
- The British band Muse rarely uses profanities in their lyrics. But during their live-in-the-studio appearance on Spain's Radio 3, they were told that their songs couldn't contain any swearing. In response, Matt Bellamy replaced the second verse of the single "Feeling Good" with the lyrics: "Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking little fucking, fucking little fucking, fucking fucker, yeah." They've been banned from Radio 3 ever since.
- Don't forget this
hidden track, which is often referred to as 'Fucking Motherfucker' by fans.
- Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) had the "FCC Song", where he expresses his anger towards the titular agency by using the word "fuck" fourteen times. It's also commonly referred to as the "Fuck the FCC" or "Fuck You Very Much, FCC" song.
- The Python guys also beautifully subverted this trope with the song, I bet you they won't play this song on the radio where all the naughty bits are bleeped out, possibly making the song dirtier than if they were actually cussing.
- From 1982 through 1995, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley's between-song speeches were often peppered with gratuitous uses of the F-word, among other profanities. The cursing disappeared with the 1996 reunion of the original band, and a return to a more "family-friendly" image. Example here
- The fact that "Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven" surely deserves a mention (from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby). According to The Other Wiki, it uses the loop 108 times.
- The band Splatpattern would be completely unknown if not for their song Fucking Fucking Fuck, which can be found on the iTunes store, along with a censored version. This troper is at a loss as to why they even bothered with the censored version.
- Eminem, and anything he's ever done.
- During Woodstock, Country Joe and the Fish got the crowd of 500,000 to sing along to a song that starts with, "Give me a F! Give me a U! Give me a C! Give me a K! What's that spell?!".
- Though "fuck" only being included 33 times makes it comparatively tame, "America Fuck Yeah" deserves a spot here out of sheer American jingoism. The first lines being "America - FUCK YEAH! Coming again to save the motherfucking day yeah!" should be enough.
- Canadian comedy duo Bowser & Blue have a song called "Use Of The F Word In Canada", where they logically go through every grammatical and tonal use of the word ("the imperative", "the reflexive", "the ominous"), and also note that fuck isn't a bad word in Canada — "it's not even a word; it's simply a form of verbal puntuation".
- However, Canada does have standards - Australian comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson released a song called "You can't say cunt in Canada".
- As is implied in the mention of The Proposition above, Nick Cave has occasionally lapsed into these. Since it's him, though, it's more scary than humorous.
- Nick Cave: "I'll fuck Billy Dilly in his motherfucking ass"
- "So What" by the Anti-Nowhere League, a British punk band (it was also covered by Metallica on Garage Inc.). The song is based on the band members listening to two men in a bar going back and forth about things they've done in their life, each trying to top the other in vulgarity & audacity. It's a pretty safe bet that this song probably didn't see much radio play.
- Metallica played this song, together with Last Caress, during the 1996 MTV European Music Awards. And it was awesome.
- Rage Against the Machine ends the song "Killing in the Name" by repeatedly chanting "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"
- Famously (or infamously), the uncensored version of "Killing in the Name" was played on BBC Radio 1's UK Top 40 chart show on a Sunday afternoon, leading to over 150 complaints.
- Reel Big Fish's "Another F-U Song": 'Fuck living, fuck dying, fuck laughing, fuck crying, fuck this song, but mostly fuck you. Fuck loving and friends, fuck following trends, fuck this song, can't wait till it ends'.
- "Fuck everything! (but fuck you the most.) Fuck everyone! (But fuck you the most.) With a big rusty pole or a splintery post, yeah, fuck you the most. Fuck you!" The best part of this song being that it's entirely upbeat and cheerful.
- How can we forget The Sex Pistols? 'Fuuuuck this and fuck that. Fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat'.
- The Buzzcocks "Oh Shit!", which ends 'Admit, you're shit, you're shit, you're shit. Admit, admit, you're shit, you're shit, you're shit, you're shit, you're shit'. But only one 'fuck' in the whole song.
- While no longer holding any records, it is amusing to note NWA's "Fuck tha Police" is 12.1% profanity with a solid 42 seconds of the song being unplayable on the radio.
- We simply cannot go without mentioning Wednesday 13 / The Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 / Murderdolls's "I Love to Say Fuck!"
. There's nothing quite like being in a live crowd all singing along.
- The track "X-plicit" on the Evangelion: VOX album. Apparently, it's supposed to represent someone's reaction to that scene where Shinji masturbates over Asuka's comatose body.
- Many rock band concerts are loaded with this. For example, a recent concert by Motley Crue had singer Vince Neil mention, after a pre-adolescent was brought up on the stage, that he doesn't let his children say "fuck", after which he says to the child's parents (still in the audience), "I'm fucking sorry about that."
- The song "K@#0%!" by Korn has roughly 10 seconds of radio-friendly audio. The rest of the song is a string of nearly any obscenity one can imagine.
- Their song "Y'All Want a Single" (a protest against the music industry) has 87 instances of the F-word. The chorus goes "Y'all want a single say fuck that, Fuck that, Fuck that!" three times.
- The London Underground Song.
- A pearl of wisdom coming from a Brazilian funk song: "The fucking cunt is mine and I can fuck whoever I want with it!"
- Black Sheep's "For Doz Dat Slept" applies this trope to baroque.
- Evidently Chickentown
by John Cooper Clarke. Just one of the verses: The fucking pies are fucking old/The fucking chips are fucking cold/The fucking beer is fucking flat/The fucking flats have fucking rats/The fucking clocks are fucking wrong/The fucking days are fucking long/It fucking gets you fucking down/Evidently chicken town.
- Sons of Butcher's short song aptly named [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxNgnQ9m30
"Fuck The Shit"] uses a total of 6 words, repeated through most of the song. Fuck, shit, fucking, shitting, the, and yeah.
- Fuck You, by Norther is an obvious example.
- I'm On A Boat by The Lonely Island. "Fuck land, I'm on a boat, motherfucker"
- Anything by DJ Felamanski, but most notably "Fuck That Bitch". (That's pretty much the entire lyrics.)
- Somewhat subverted by Ozzy Osbourne. Those who were introduced to him through The Osbournes would assume that his music was laden with swearing (given that Ozzy and his entire fucking family swear their asses off. I wouldn't be surprised if the barking dogs were swearing in doggy language.) However, his music is practically devoid of "fuck". Only two songs with the word come to mind. However, his stage banter makes up for the loss, with concerts often beginning with his yells of "I CAN'T FUCKING HEAR YOU!".
- Similar case: Bruce Dickinson is prone to F-bomb rants, and yelling "FUCKING SCREAM IT!" on stage. His solo career is profanity free. And Iron Maiden, besides some b-sides recorded as jokes (among them, a discussion
), has only one song with profanity ("I've lived in filth, I've lived in sin, and I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in!").
- Slipknot's first two albums were rife with F bombs and other profanities. However, Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses doesn't have any swearing stronger than "Jesus", and All Hope Is Gone only has a handful of F bombs, just enough to earn a Parental Advisory label.
- "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani has 38 shits in 200 seconds: "this my shit" in the first verse, a "talking shit" in the second, four "shit is bananas" in the fourth, and eight "this my shit" in each of four choruses.
- "Stupid MF" by Mindless Self Indulgence.
- Not to mention "Shut Me Up" by the same band
- "Shit Piss Fuck" by Blink-182 is almost entirely composed of cuss words.
- Youn only listed that song, almost all of their songs have swears. It's actually their nature and I suggest you see them live.
- Soundgarden's "Big Dumb Sex" uses the F-word in the... Biblical sense, to parody songs which metaphorically talk about sex. The straight and repetitive chorus ("Hey, I know what to do! I'm gonna fuck fuck fuck fuck you!") leads to over 20 F-bombs.
- System Of a Down's song Fuck The System, among others.
- While the studio version is profanity-free, the 10 minute live version of "Stigmata" from Ministry's In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up suddenly turns into an f-bomb filled rant towards the end ("Fuck me! Fuck you! Fuck everyone! Fuck the church! Fuck Jesus!" and so on). Parodied by Wckr Spgt: their cover of the song
consists of nothing but this for a minute and a half, with some original additions ("Fuck Japan! Fuck Hawaii, it's near Japan!").
- The Rolling Stones' "Star Star", from the Goats Head Soup album, is better known to many fans as "Starfucker", due to that word's repeated appearance in the song's chorus. (Indeed, "Starfucker" was originally intended to be the actual title of the song before Ahmet Ertegun, head of the band's then-distributor Atlantic Records, made them change it.)
- The German band Knorkator has a song called Ich will nur ficken (I just want to fuck). The chorus translates to: "I just want to fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck / I just want to fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck" So Yeah...
- Staind's song Waste:
Well fuck that!
And fuck her!
And fuck him!
And fuck you!
- Nobody mentioned Oasis? The Gallagher brothers' quotes, interviews, blogs, and casual conversations are laced with this.
- Self's "Trunk Fulla Amps"
consists of three elements: electronic noises from toys, the names of famous musicians, and the repeated lines
I got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
Like [insert musician's name] motherfucker!
- This troper CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE that none of the fuckers here before him have as of yet cited Adam Sandler's "Uses Of The Word Fuck," which spends four whole fucking minutes ramming home the versatility of the word "fuck" and putting the word through its fucking paces in every fucking aspect of daily life like so:
Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay: Aww, fuck it, trouble: I guess Im really fucked now.
Aggression: Dont fuck with me buddy.
Difficulty: I dont understand this fucking question.
Inquiry: Who the fuck was that.
Dissatisfaction: I dont like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetence: He's a fuck off.
Dismissal: Why dont you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself?
Fucking New Media
- From Yahoo Answers:
Renesmee is a *** *** name.
EJ??What the *** is that???
Stupid *** name stupid *** whore.
Its just one *** big *** fan fic piece of ***!!!
- Tod Goldberg fucking seems to fucking write his fucking blog for this fucking purpose.
Pro fucking Wrestling
- Pick an Iron Sheik shoot interview. ANY Iron Sheik shoot interview.
- Professional Wrestler Scott Steiner in WCW regularly went off script and also frequently indulged in gratuitous profanity. On at least one occasion, the censors gave up on trying to bleep out the swear words, and just turned the bleeper on until Steiner stopped talking.
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Fucking Theater
- The Firesign Theatre troupe has a very tongue-in-cheek skit on one of their albums describing the "F word" and its various grammatical uses in English. It includes a number of hilarious examples, including "Fuck the fucking fuckers" and "Why don't you go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?".
- Jerry Springer The Opera, anyone?
- Fucking what? Fucking Jerry fucking Springer fucking opera? Fuck, that's fucked up.
- Most of David Mamet's plays are guaranteed to used the words "asshole," "jagoff," "faggot," "cunt," "shit," and, of course, "fuck" at least once.
- The end lines of Lucy's Aria from Threepenny Opera are generally translated quite liberally from the original German and end up being a long line of curses.
Lucy: Ich rette ihm das Leben, und diese Person soll den Rahm abschöpfen?' Wenn ich dieses Mensch vergifte, dann kann die Welt aufatmen.''
- ? That's no curse in German.
- Bottom Live, took profanity to every major British theatre:
Richie: Eddie, we are not saying "fuck" this year... oh, FUCK! Eddie: Can we say "Cunt"? Richie: Very much not... Eddie: Right! CUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNT!
- And on two other occasions:
Richie: What the fuck happened there!? What the fuck happened there!? I mean, what the fuck happened there!? What the fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck happened there!? I'm not afraid to swear.
- Angels In America has plenty of this from Roy, especially in his first scene.
- "Original Musical" from [title of show]:
Blank Paper/Hunter: You might just be fucking crazy enough to fucking fuckity fuck fuck succeed fucking fucking motherfucker! Jeff: Augh! What's with all the foul language? Is that appropriate or even necessary?
Fucking Tabletop Games
- Changeling the Dreaming's Nockers. Their kithbook outright states that half of their profanity is just a verbal tic, and the other half is the result of frustration. Either way, it makes them the most foul-mouthed of all the kiths, and there isn't any method of permanently keeping them from swearing.
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- Ever tried to restring a Mini Super Dollfie with tight elastic, minimal tools and no directions? This troper has seen the most angelic old woman ever break out in the kind of unrestrained profanity that would make a sailor blush. Oh, and she's tried to do the same thing, with similar results. ("Fuck fuck fuck fucking fuckity fuck FUCKER... ass!")
Video fucking Games
- House of the Dead: Overkill have a character who use this every sentence (and opened the game with such line). Ironically when someone is actually a literal Motherfucker he doesn't use it.
- The game is placed on the front because it is the first game ever to win a Guinness World Record in video games for this trope[1]
. The final F-bomb count? 189.
- Fucking Kingpin. Fucking Kingpin. The game was just as excuse to use fuck as many times as fucking possible.
- This
(very NSFW, but hilarious) dubbing of a modded Super Mario level may qualify, as the "soundtrack" was added after the fact. Then again, video games tend to induce heavy swearing, so it may be justified. In addition to the Cluster F Bomb, the game gets compared unfavourably to Family Guy, Panic at the Disco, Ann Coulter, and reading YouTube comments.
- Cluster F Bombs are a common feature of the commentary in any Lets Play of particularly Nintendo Hard games, such as just about every Platform Hell game. YouTube's collection of Lets Plays of I Wanna Be The Guy are in particular quite entertaining to listen to, though you really have to feel sorry for the player. They're called "masocore" for a reason. A shining example of this phenomenon can be found here.
- This troper disagrees; Deceased Crab almost never swears, even when playing the most Nintendo Hard games. La Mulana's Hell Temple made him say "FUCK" exactly once, and he immediately chastised himself over it, but mostly he just freaks out (or goes batshit insane). Of course, he still hasn't Let's Played I Wanna Be The Guy, so...
- If you can play I Wanna Be The Guy and the word "fuck" doesn't cross your mind, then you have 'anger issues.'
- There's also the legendary Let's Play Sonic 2006 where, as the saga progresses, results in massive f-bomb dropping from Poke Capn. Especially during the final story (A Long Long Time 'till Touchdown: Anger) where he extends one scream of the word Fuck for at least half a minute.
- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts features much more swearing than the original game. The British say "wanker" a lot, and the Germans use such colourful expressions as "Leck mich im Arsch" (also the title of a composition by Mozart
which your school music teacher probably didn't teach you) and "Hurensöhne".
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was the first GTA game to make use of F-bombs, and dropped them at every available opportunity. One gaming magazine retrospective complained that it made the characters sound less like bad ass gangstas and more like twelve-year-olds out of adult earshot.
- Though the F-word is notably absent, both Cid and Barret from Final Fantasy VII deserve a mention, especially Cid. One of his first scenes contains the memorable line "SIT DOWN AND DRINK YOUR GODDAMN TEA!" and his reaction to seeing the apparently M.C. Escher inspired Temple of the Ancients is, "Shit! Shit! Shit!"
- Considering the game is T, and it uses profanity of varing degrees VERY liberally, it should be in a trope of its own. Most notably, it seems that Barrett drops the F-Bomb every ten minutes, and its BLEEPED OUT WITH RANDOM SYLLABLES!
- "Fuck you, Kazuma," is pretty much Yakuza's catch phrase.
- In The Longest Journey there is a character named "The Flipper" who averages 2-3 swear words per sentence, even introducing himself as "The Fucking Flipper" at one point.
- Try to play a multiplayer game of Mario Kart DS or Mario Kart Wii for at least one full round without swearing.
- For this troper, the most common thing said during Super Smash Bros Brawl sessions is "Goddamn it!"
- Especially if they're someone who thinks it's high-larious to trap you and beat the crap out of you with the fan. Just the fan... *eye-tic*
- Play N on any level past 30 and don't swear once. Come on. I dare you.
- If you play Kill Zone 2, you're guaranteed to hear the F-word or some other profanity every 30 seconds at most.
- Parodied in the "Meet the Demoman" trailer for Team Fortress 2, where the Demoman mutters drunkenly about his problems, and a long section is beeped out.
- The multiplayer announcer in Kane And Lynch has a tendency to drop these, especially by by spamming "fucking traitor, make him pay" after every "friendly"-fire kill, which happen often in the game.
- Both Max Payne games feature a mob boss named Vinnie Gognitti. His life seems to be powered by this trope.
- The game Metal Arms: A Glitch in the System has a character named Krunk, a robot who looks like a potbellied war vet, and because all the characters are robots, has a censor bleep. For example, "Of course I f***ing fixed him. It was a huge pain in the f***ing wastepan, 'cuz he's some kind of custom jobbie!" He's also playable for one level, and curses whenever you're shot or if you die.
- The Sonic 2006
Let's Play is filled to the brim with this. Considering the game they're playing, you can't exactly blame them.
- In 'Soul Calibur III, Hilarity Ensued once this troper found out that his sister's custom fighter says, "Fuck off!" when she throws a bomb high with the dagger and bombs. She can throw a literal F-bomb!
- Does this fucking apply for fucking crazy awesome?
- Scarface, the film, has a memorable clip of the number of times fuck is used. The game, however, easily tops it. In fact Tony fucking Montana comes close to the useage in the film once he enters blind rage.
- The first words in the Wii game No More Heroes are by the main character, yelling "Fuck heads!" You can expect more of the same during the rest of the game.
- The Wii game Mad World is fucking full of f-bombs, but it's a fucking awesome game so fuck you.
- One of the admins of Kingdom Of Loathing, mr skullhead, had a truly epic example
when people started whining after Crimbo 2008.
- Delta squad is your house, bitch! You hear that shit? You grubby-ass bitches are goin' down! Like way down-dead down, so down you ain't even goona know which way is up! Your asses are gonna be cryin' to your skank-ass queen, 'Oh, mommy, don't let the bad man hurt us!' Fuck you! We're gonna whup your mamma's ass. Whoo-!
- Colonel Vanek, a major villain from FEAR 2 is prone to this. In fact, his last words are basically a long string of swears.
- Pandemic FUCKING two!
Pan-fucking-demic. Fucking. Two. Soundtrack by player, courtesy of the country of Madagascar.
- In the visual novel Kira Kira, one scene features the main characters 'learning how to swear', as they're trying to become punk rockers and punk rockers swear a lot.
- Naturally, this leads to hilarious situations with improper use of the word, made even funnier by the awkward Japanese pronunciation:
(While working in a restaurant:) Maejima: "Yo, have you decided what the fuck you're going to order?" Kirari (smiling innocently): "So this mother fucker customer wants a fuckin' beer, right?" Manager: "What are you saying?" Maejima and Kirari: "Nothing! Fuck off!"
- Maejima was told not to come back to work for a month after this scene.
- Mortal Kombat is usually just over the top violence but the spinoff Shaolin Monks has an easter egg for Scorpion's spear attack. Randomly he'll shout "Get over here bitch!" and "Get the fuck over here!"
- In a game that has a fair amount of profanity, it's something of a surprise that one of the most vulgar characters in Fallout 3 is the child mayor of the kids-only city Little Lamplight.
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- The Season 5 prep-video-thing for Red Vs Blue is a condensed version of all the episodes from Seasons 1 through 4... but only the vulgarity. It starts with 'Whoop-de-fucking-do', and goes downhills from there. Common phrases include- fuck, fucktard, shit, son of a bitch, crap, dick, shisno, bitch, and cockbite. It goes for about 2 and a half minutes.
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- The Angry Video Game Nerd. The guy who plays and invented him, James Rolfe, says this was because the first game he reviewed (Castlevania 2) was really hard. He doesn't just swear a lot, he invents compound swears for games he really hates (which is even refenced in his extended theme song: "He's the angriest, most pissed off gaming nerd / The games suck so bad he makes up his own words"). He also tends to use them strangely, in coinages like "this game is ass", or this troper's personal favorite, "it sucks monkey fuck". In one episode, he apologizes for being excessively foul after coining the portmanteau "shizz" (think about it) to describe his hatred of a game.
- While somewhat outddone by his rival (the fuckin' Nerd) The Nostalgia Critic is no joke either. Case in point
.
- In Survival of the Fittest version one, Adam Dodd is as famous for this as Jacob Starr is for having too much iron in his blood. There are others, but nobody has quite reached his level of profanity.
- Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation seems incapable of finishing a sentence without using some curse-language along with really complicated words.
- And most of his rants have some sort references female body parts as well.
- The Angry Marines on 4chan's /tg/ board. Most of the anonymous neckbeards posting in their name are apparently trying to outdo the proverbial American GI.
- From The Onion, we have "Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work
".
- Pick any internet forum ever. This trope is bound to be found in atleast one thread. Hell, a forum this troper goes to has this as a form of humor.
- Hello? Fuck!
- Hotel Fucking Mario
- The classic Onxyia raid wipe
- This fucking page in the TV Tropes Wiki.
- IN CASE YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THE MOTHER FUCKING WEATHER IS LIKE
- Animals. Foodstuffs. Gratitious Profanity.
- Most of MonkeyandApple's
humorous videos on Youtube.
- Also at Youtube, THIS
"abridged" version of the documentary F*ck (that is it's name). It drops no less than eight hundred F-bombs in just four and a half minutes. Warning: NSFW.
- Lampshaded in this example...
- Internet Radio has no censorship whatsoever. No Holds Barred Radio was one of the pioneers of it and the title is exactly what it is:
"I don't know what the fuck you're talking about; I have a great fucking vocabulary. Fuck just happens to be my favorite fucking word!"
and
"Fuck you, fuck you again and fuck you three more times just because I feel like it!"
and of course
"I'm gonna hang you out the fucking window, saw off your balls with a butter knife; sew them in your mouth and make you whistle dixie you FUCKING FAGGOT!"
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- South Park does it purely for laughs, primarily because the characters doing the curses are third-graders. One episode left "the s word" uncensored and featured a counter for how many times it was said. It ended at 162. Oh, and don't forget the movie, which at the time set a record for number of swear words.
- Probably a great deal more if you count all the times it's shown on screen on T-shirts, hats, newspapers...
- Virtually every sentence uttered by Kenny contains the word fuck. Of course his speech is muffled so that the only word you don't have trouble understanding is fuck.
- "What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody! Fuck Fuckity Fuckfuckfuck!"
- And let's not forget Terrance and Phillip's song from the movie: "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle Fucker."
- Surprisingly enough, that was Getting Crap Past The Radar — it was originally "Shut your fucking face, mother fucker", but that would've pushed it over to NC-17. Luckily, Matt and Trey thought that "Uncle fucker" was funnier.
- Not to mention the magnificent Cluster Bitch Bomb that is "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch (In D Minor)".
- The movie is also that rarest of beasts in that there's actually a point to the cluster bombing (that the world's problems will never be solved by overzealous censoring).
- The animated Spawn movie rarely let a sentence go by without using the F-bomb, regardless of whether it made sense or not.
- Depending on who is talking on The Boondocks this can happen, ironically enough by the white people on the show more that the black people (even though the two white people who do so are voiced by Charlie Murphy and Sam Motherfuckin' Jackson himself).
- Also, the rare Cluster S Bomb was done by Tom Dubois, of all people.
- The Oblongs: "How could I have been such a fiddly faddly fool!? Excuse the string of F-words. Subverted, of course.
- A gag on Bromwell High had one of the main characters doing a piece on the sitar for the school's music night. The girl then goes to her friends for commentaries. One of them pulls out an S Bomb, so to speak.
Natella: Well? What did you think? Give me your honest opinion. Keisha: You were shit. Shitter than shit. You were so shit that it made me want to block up my ears with shit, then eat some shit, and then do a shit. Natella: Right. Latrina? Latrina: ... Shit.
- On Drawn Together, the characters toast to freedom of speech ("Fuck yeah!" "It's the shit!"). Captain Hero then rips off his pants and says "I wanna to fuck the head off a fucking pig and then rip its fucking guts out and then fuck its fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck fucky fuck fuck fuck fuck..."
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force gives us pregnant Meatwad
.
- There was an episode of Dexter's Laboratory in which Dexter accidentally made evil twins of himself and DeeDee. This episode was only released once, at a panel, because of the maturity of it. Most of the lines in the episode have curses in them.
- Rude Removal. It was shown at at least three panels.
- Animaniacs of all things had a moment where girly Dot burst into a string of (bleeped of course) profanities upon being interrupted one too many times. Yacko proudly says, "That's my sister."
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- Let's face it, we've probably all resorted to one of these at some point.
- This trope is the reason why you don't, uh, fuck with Christian Bale. Here's some audio proof.
This Troper lost count at 35 f-bombs.
- David Jaffe essentially knows no social context, and will sprinkle these into his speech, whether it be on his personal blog, while doing interviews, or appaering on a panel of guests. Most of the time he's not even upset when he says it.
- After the infamous "tuck rule game" (an American Football playoff game decided by a particularly obscure rule), the losing Oakland Raiders were understandably put out. Analysts described the Oakland press conference afterwords as "the Raiders sounded like a truck backing up" (in the US at least, large trucks make loud beeping noises when in reverse).
- Frequently used by comedians, especially Louis CK who is practically a god of obscenity.
- The founder of the Parti Quebecois, Rene Levesque, is famed among other things for being the first person to utter the word "fuck" on television in Canada, as noted by Bowser and Blue in their aforementioned song. "C'était foké."
- Please note that "fuck" in Quebec French is a mild Expletive and an Anglicism. The direct equivalent is... Just pick any of them
.
- EGM once noted that, in person, John Madden seems to say "fuck" every other word, and his most impressive power is the ability to stop doing this when he goes on-air. This make explain his sometimes redundant speaking style; he's concentrating too hard on not cussing to say anything informative.
- An amusing now-PG version is recorded in a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a slavery proponent:
God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and good damnation god damn them and god damn your god damned friends to hell.
- Not used by Richard Nixon. Contrary to popular belief, most of the "expletives deleted" were apparently
"hell" and "damn", and at the worst "shit".
- Former US Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is notorious for this.
Actual quote to PA Congressman Joe Sestak on the phone: If you fuck this up I will fuck you, I will kill you. All right, I love you. Bye.
- Lampooned by none other than his boss, Barack Obama, [paraphrased] "Rahm is having trouble with this holiday, he's not used to saying the word 'Day' after 'Mother'".
- A bit of controversy erupted when he was chosen to be Obama's Chief of Staff. One reporter on NPR described him in Lewis Black's terms (below) as "using the F word like a comma." Another reporter described a plaque in Emanuel's office as having the text, "The Secretary of ____ Off." (Of course they had to bowdlerize for broadcast, as this was Morning Edition.)
- Eastern New England. The Departed and Stephen King didn't pull it out of their asses, just fucking trust me here.
- Fuck Yeah! For all their vaunted vulgarity, Long Island ain't got fuckin' nuthin' on Rhode Island!
- A bill was recently introduced in the South Carolina legislature to ban profanity
. Several blogs have commented on it, and the fucking comments tend to contain quite a fucking variety of fucking dirty words. This Troper is fucking pissed off and thinks the sponsor is a stupid cocksucking son of a bitch who needs to read the motherfucking Constitution, then move to Belgium and silflay hraka. Pardon My Klingon.
- According to comedian Lewis Black, the city of New York uses "fuck" not as a swear word but, in his words, a comma.
- He seems to be very fond of it himself.
- Lee Elia, then-manager of baseball's Chicago Cubs, delivered this tirade
at a postgame press conference in 1983, serving up his opinion of the Cub fans who had been booing his woebegotten team. This troper counts 38 F-word iterations along with various other choice profanities.
- The legendary Troggs Tapes.
Definitely NSFW)
- Let's be honest with ourselves here, The Aristocrats joke is pretty much built around this trope in about half of its renditions.
- He's here, he's der, he's swearing everywhere, Joe Kin-near, Joe Kin-near!
Interim Newcastle United boss Joe Kinnear didn't get on well with the press, to say the least.
- George Carlin had a bit in the seventies about the word itself, where at one point, he launches into a hilariously hostile Cluster F Bomb: "Don't fuck with me you'll get fucked I'm the fucker don't fuck with the fucker!"
Fuckity-bye-bye!
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