The characters in About Scout seem strangely fond of the word "effing."
In Airplane!, two African-American men speak "Jive", a nearly impenetrable version of AAVE note African American Vernacular English with regular English subtitles. The subtitles translate the word "shit" as "golly", and an impenetrable cussword-filled saying as, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
In Aliens, when ordered not to use heavy weapons for fear of setting off a destructive chain reaction, one of the Marines shouts back at Ripley, "Well, what are we expected to use, then; harsh language?"
The main kid in the remake is berated by his foster parent for saying "shut up" at the dinner table.
The coach insists that his players cease all swearing to appease the angels. One of said players notes that this eliminates most of the team's vocabulary.
Doc Brown uses "Great Scott!" whenever he's excited or surprised.
In the second movie, Doc expresses his frustration with "Sir Isaac H. Newton".
It's parodied when young George wonders if it's appropriate to swear when coming to Lorraine's rescue, to which Marty responds "yes, definitely, goddamnit George, swear!"
At the beginning, Lorraine scolds Dave for saying "Goddamn it".
Zigzagged with Biff, who at first uses a lot of lame insults, like "Butthead". It's averted in a few scenes, like when Biff chases Marty through Hill Valley in Part 1:
(Biff and his cronies look forwards, there is a manure truck in front of them) Biff and Co.:SHIIIIIIIIIIT! (crashes into the truck and manure falls into the convertible)
In a later scene, Biff tells Marty he's going to take the cost of it "outta your ass".
In the third movie when Mad Dog Tannen winds up in a pile of manure the sheriff says "Get him out of that shit".
This iconic quote:
Doc: When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit.
Marty says "Holy shit!" quite a few times throughout the trilogy.
Daredreamer defied this according to an article about the movie’s creation. Originally the script did have censored language, but the kids playing the students found it unbelievable and insisted on swearing, as that was how they actually spoke.
Christopher Nolan's Batmanfilms approach this trope if you go back and study the characters' dialogue (Commissioner Gordon's "Dammit, Harvey!" in The Dark Knightparticularly stands out) - and especially if you compare them to Tim Burton's Batmanfilms, which certainly earned their PG-13 ratings. Not only that, but the Nolan films contain much less gore (even bordering on Bloodless Carnage) and feature practically none of the sexual innuendoes for which the Burton and even the Schumacher films were notorious. Kudos to Nolan for still managing to make the films so intense that they're remembered for being less tame than Burton's efforts!
Parodied in The Brady BunchMovie, which lampooned the goody-goodyness of the 70s show. When Mr. Brady confronts the villain, the bad guy, ready for a showdown, angrily threatens to "Kick your Brady butt!" The entire family, who are watching, gasp in absolute horror, with little Cindy crying, "Daddy, he said the B-Word!"
In High Anxiety, Dr. Thorndyke (Brooks' character) is holding a conference on penis envy when one of the attendees brings his kids, forcing him to switch to "pee-pee" and "voo-voo".
Freddy in Young Frankenstein describes his grandfather's work as "doo doo".
Taggart: What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-going on here? I hired you people to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!
Silent Movie: Brooks' character is clearly seen mouthing "You son of a bitch!", but the intertitle instead says, "You bad boy!"
Bulletproof Monk was originally going to have an R rating. During the switch to a PG-13 rating, one of the characters was renamed Mr. Funktastic from his previously, more offensive moniker. His original name is still noticeable where his necklace has been suspiciously affixed to his chest to cover up the fifth letter in his "MR. FU KTASTIC" tattoo.
In The Cave, Piper Perabo screams memorably of the monsters coming after her that "They fly, they freaking fly!" Another case of sacrificed on the altar of the PG-13 rating.
Die Hard: In the German translation, Willis' famous dictum becomes "Yippie-ki-aye, Schweinebacke!" (Pig-butt, if you will.) Somewhat justified, since Germans don't engage in oedipal actions when swearing, and to prove it, his cry is as memetic in Germany as in the original.
The Doors (1991): The band are asked to replace the word "higher" with "better". This is based on a real incident behind the scenes on The Ed Sullivan Show.
In the 1950s-set Far from Heaven, the main character admonishes her child for saying "shucks." There is later a Precision F-Strike from another character.
Galaxy Quest: When Jason turns around and realizes what Gorignak is, "Oh darn." His mild language is probably due to years of having to tone it down for the TV show in the first place. A more literal replacement of a swearword is when Nesmith and Gwen first see the "mashers" while being guided by a fan of the show, she utters "well SCREW THAT!" but her mouth obviously forms a different word entirely - the line was overdubbed. This is partly due to the movie changing its target rating from R to PG-13 during production.
Godmothered: Because she's a fairy godmother, Eleanor says "Oh my Godmothers" instead of "Oh my God."
The Hairy Bird: "Up your ziggy with a wah-wah brush!" and "None of your floppin' buggies!"
Alan in The Hangover is crude in many ways but not with his language:
Phil: God damn it! Alan: Gosh darn it! Phil: Shit! Alan: Shoot!
House Shark: A couple of instances where swearing wouldn't have been out of place get this treatment.
The films of Jared Hess, such as Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, do not contain any hard swear words, most likely due to Hess' Mormon faith. This gets parodied in Date Movie with a Napoleon spoof repeatedly saying "God".
Max tells his mother that his day at school "sucked". He is then told to mind his language. The word originally was vulgar. It referred to fellatio - and in fact still does, although the milder meaning is now more common.
Winifred Sanderson tends to say "damn" a few times, except for one scene when she sees that Max has knocked off the head of zombie Billy Butcherson:
Billy: GO TO HELL!!! Winifred: I've been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely!
The DVD release of Hot Fuzz included a feature entitled "Hot Funk: The TV Version", which takes some scenes from the movie that involve swearing and replacing them with typical TV edit dubs, leading to lines such as "What the funk?!" and "Aw, peas and rice!"
In the Loop: Assistant Secretary of State Linton Barwick studiously avoids all swear words while ruthlessly enforcing the American administration's push for war in the Middle East. This is part of why he is so at odds with his ally across the pond, Malcolm Tucker, who swears spectacularly.
It's a Wonderful Knife (2023): Winnie initially refrains from using swear words, which Cara lightly teases her over. After she's depressed by Cara's death and mad at her family, Winnie uses the f word however.
The impact of the scene in It's a Wonderful Life where George, filled with rage and self-disgust, rejects Potter's job offer and tells him off is a little diluted by George's wrathful "Doggone it!"South Park showed us how these scenes might have gone without The Hays Code:
You-oo you just can't buy people, Mr. Potter, wuh— Why, you know what you are? You're a little bitch. That's right, you're a bitch, and I bet you'd like to suck it, wouldn't you?
Given the way Jimmy Stewart talked in real life, it isn't too far fetched to imagine him doing this in an out-take.
In Johnny Dangerously, Roman Moronie mangles all his cursing, resulting in words like "bastige" and "farging iceholes." In one scene, he says, "Thees ees fargin war!" Cue the Spinning Paper, the headline of which reads, "Fargin War."
Thanks to The Hays Code, Life with Father has Clarence Day Sr. frequently exclaiming "Oh, GAD!" rather than God—though the ham level is still very high. (The exception is when he is actually praying... in which he still yells OH GOD at the top of his lungs.)
Paul: Now, for the love of Mike, will someone please tell me what the heck is going on here?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the single rudest thing Captain America has ever used is "bastard". He also used "son of a gun" rather than anything more expletive than that.
He's lost this trait by Avengers: Endgame, though, after five years pass.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Jeff is tricked into missing an important Senate vote to spend the day seeing the sights with the gorgeous Susan Paine. After hearing his naive gushing about the time he had, Saunders seems to relish using the family-friendly BS euphemism, "horseradish," in reply.
Rat: Our pens have turned to ink-sicles! Our assets are frozen!
The 1962 movie The Music Man uses this, but is justified by its setting being 1912. This causes some great comedy when all the parents are terrified by their children using such foul words like "swell" and "so's your old man".
In Mystery Men the Fork Fencing Blue Rajah uses cutlery-related speech, which thereby extends to swearing like "What the fork?" It is done for laughs: he also uses genuine curses more than any other character in the movie. For example, at one point he quite audibly mutters "Oh, shit." Plus cases of distinctly British cursing, like "bugger all." That could be a case of Did Not Do the Bloody Research because the Blue Rajah is very British (You just have to know your history.)
The eponymous Mystery Team expresses pain and anger through childish euphemisms... usually.
Lampshaded in the 1991 film adaptation of Oscar; Sylvester Stallone is having the worst day of his life, as he is walking through his house, cursing, he notices the Cardinal who is waiting for him, and immediately switches to non-offensive "swears".
In silent film The Patsy, when Ma and Grace are badgering Pat, she busts out with "I don't give a whoopin' darn!". Her mother and sister are shocked.
Swearing in The Hays Code Era films was a big no-no, so Remember the Night is filled with gems like "Hogwash" and "Fiddlesticks".
In The Right Stuff, John Glenn is portrayed as being very averse to foul language. Even if he wants to curse, he can't. Not even the word "damn"!
John Glenn: And most of all, I am sick and tired of being second to those... (struggles) ...those darn Russians!
The Rock: Dr. Stanley Goodspeed starts out not using actual swears, but minced oaths, e.g. "gee-whiz" and "A-hole" since Nicolas Cagesuggested Goodspeed didn't swear. At first, anyway, because as the action intensifies, Goodspeed gradually starts using actual swear words.
The Scott Pilgrim vs. The World DVD has a segment called Scott Pilgrim Vs The Censors. They seem to replace every instance of "ass" with "owl".
In Semi-Pro, one character calls another a "jive turkey," and this is treated as the worst insult imaginable. The other characters try to defuse the situation by claiming he actually said "cocksucker".
In Signs, Graham and Merrill are trying to scare an intruder by shouting angrily and swearing. Graham (a lapsed priest) objects that it doesn't sound convincing when he swears, but manages to come up with: "Ahhh! I'm insane with anger! I'm losing my mind! It's time for an ass-whooping!" Afterwards, he confesses, "I cursed." Merrill responds, "I heard." (A bit of Irony as She Is Cast, as Graham is played by the infamously foul-mouthed Mel Gibson.)
Averted in Speed Racer: The film keeps a PG rating despite having its fair share of cursing. They used "ass" and "damn" a bunch of times, and used "shit" twice - one had a Sound-Effect Bleep in-movie because the character was on TV, but the other wasn't and was said by Speed himself, although it was hard to hear due to the car noises in the background. The Annoying Younger Siblingflips off the main villain.
Star Wars: In keeping with their retro-1930s sci-fi tone, nobody in a galaxy far, far away says anything stronger than "damn" or "hell" most of the time. There's occasional forays into Pardon My Klingon, and "blast it" is also used, but since they call plasma guns "blasters" that makes sense. Post-Disney acquisition movies have occasionally implied the existence of stronger swearwords, like Lando beginning to say "Ssshhhh-" in Solo.
Stroker Ace features Pembrook, who only ever says "darn" on occasion. Justified in that she's a Sunday school teacher and is so pure that she simply doesn't swear like everyone else.
Stuart Saves His Family: Stuart simply can't swear. When describing Roz, he struggles to describe her, and finally settles on calling her a "cootie". He finally gets mad enough at her to call her... "a vagina!" He then flees in shock at his crude verbiage, even though Roz is unaffected.
In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the crooked meat dealer is outwitted by a clever ploy Francie's mom told her to use, and responds "Sweet Jumping Christopher!"
Played with very amusingly in Zack and Miri Make a Porno; during their scene in the titular porno, Zack and Miri are (very badly) doing cliche porno dialogue. Zack blurts out "I'm gonna fuck you with my pecker" and Miri crossly tells Zack that she's offended by that. Bemused, Zack changes the word 'pecker' to 'penis' to Miri's approval.
about the movie’s creation. Originally the script did have censored language, but the kids playing the students found it unbelievable and insisted on swearing, as that was how they actually spoke.