Sir Swears A Lot / Live-Action TV

• Jack Bauer in 24 is most notably well-known for his catchphrase, "Damn it".
• Averted and Played for Laughs in an episode of The Benny Hill Show. In one sketch Benny is a driver who gets ticketed in a "No Parking" zone by a lady cop. He flies off the handle and launches a barrage of curse words at the young lady. A passing priest is shocked at such language and covers her ears out of discretion. She then fires back with a massive assault of profanities and swearing that out-and-out shock Benny, the priest, and a couple of bystanders to point of covering their own ears while blushing red as beets from it all!
• Most of the cast from Boardwalk Empire is quite used to dropping profanity all over the place, but the Commodore sticks out as being the worst. The part that may surprise some people about it is that he's a SENIOR.
• Parodied in Brødrene Dal: Karl XIIs Spats, a Norwegian comedy series. Drittsekkene ("the dirtbags"), an MC gang hired by the bad guys, get their missing and immediately swear up a storm, which is all censored because it's a kids' show. It quickly gets to the point where there's just one long beep covering the entire scene. The boss eventually yells "If we don't quit this swearing, we're not gonna get shit done!". The word "shit" is not beeped out.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike. Some of this is due to Did Not Do the Bloody Research, but it's also a character trait.
• Nan from The Catherine Tate Show, combined with Evil Old Folks. "What a fucking liberty!" "Take a fucking chill pill, you!" "It's a bit too fucking lastminute.com for that!"
• A sketch on The Chaser's War On Everything parodied stand-up comedians whose routines "solely involve dropping the F-bomb".
• From Cutie Honey: THE LIVE, we have Duke Watari, a Panther Claw member in charge of arms manufacturing. He's usually a calm and collected individual, but if slighted in the very least, he will let loose English swearing.
  Watari: SHIT!
• Deadwood:
  • Calamity Jane has the notable distinction of being the most foul mouthed character in a Cluster F-Bomb cast. She keeps a swear jar for whenever she swears around little Sophia, with the intention of giving her the money.
  • Don't forget Al Swearengen. He's at least as infamous for this as Calamity Jane is, if not more (although even he refers to Jane as a "sewer mouth").
• Jimmy Brooks from Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Jerk Jock who swears most than the other characters.
• Dexter:
  • Debra Morgan was even swearing more than anyone as a child, according to a flashback. Dexter introduces her to the viewers on the first episode as, "my foul-mouthed step sister". Once, when being confronted by an Internal Affairs agent, over the course of the conversation, she manages to use every single obscenity in the English language, excluding racial slurs. When she's forced to give a press conference, she can't help dropping an f-bomb on air. When she sees herself on TV later, complete with bleeped-out obscenity, her response, in a hospital waiting room full of kids: "oh, fuck."
  • Surprise, motherfucker! James Doakes is pretty foul-mouthed as well. The difference between him and Debra is that the latter mostly uses it as filler; Doakes generally curses a lot out of genuine anger and disgust.
• Diablero: Both Nancy and Elvis drop chinga and puta basically anywhere they please. This being Mexico, though, everyone swears a lot by other countries' standards.
• Doctor Who:
  • Tegan Jovanka is a "G-Rated" version of these, using fictitious expletives such as "Rabbits!" and "Hell's Teeth!" on what was a rather frequent basis in TV, but exaggerated in the Expanded Universe.
  • The Seventh Doctor could also be this via Pardon My Klingon in the Expanded Universe, with his companions Benny and Ace using said trope or real swear words on a random basis. In the TV series, Ace drifted into Tegan territory—mainly with insults, like "toerag".
  • Back to the TV series, various non-English speaking characters (including the Twelfth Doctor, as an Actor Allusion to Capaldi's turn as Malcolm Tucker mentioned below), are implied to be this, but the TARDIS's translation circuit comes with a profanity filter that, like the chameleon circuit, appears to be stuck, which is of course a pure plot contrivance to portray naturalistic speech while still remaining family friendly, but a funny one that absolutely works in-universe.
• A recurring sketch on The Fast Show involved ''That's Amazing!", a pop-science show where guests would recount their "amazing" stories (which were invariably very mundane.) On the one occasion, a guest did have a genuinely interesting story to tell, it couldn't be broadcast because of his constant swearing.
• Dave from Flight of the Conchords drops all but one of the F-bombs on the show. Those of the duo's songs that contain the F-word have helpfully been modified to use "flip" instead, as the characters they play in the show aren't given to swearing. Well, not all of them. "Too Many Mutha Uckers" uses variants on "uck" and "shi" instead.
• Sandor Clegane, AKA "The Hound", from Game of Thrones, has the notable distinction of being one of, if not the most foul-mouthed character in a series which not only contains loads of characters, but where a good chunk of them aren't the least bit shy of at least occasionally dropping memorably profane lines. The Hound, however, is so profane that using the F-word towards the king and by extension, the kingdom, is practically a Catchphrase for him.
• The Goldbergs: While all of the main characters swear, Beverly Goldberg takes the cake, as she swears constantly throughout the series.
• Gold Rush!: Tony Effing Beets. At least one f-bomb per sentence. Sometimes more.
• All the characters swear in Good God, but Danny McClure's profanity-laden rants are particularly epic and occur nearly every time he speaks.
• The Good Place: Eleanor, sort of. The afterlife has a swear filter, so her words come out censored. Curiously, when alive or in a place where the swear filter is no longer active, she curses a lot less.
• The Good Wife:
  • The Informed Flaw of Eli Gold in the episode where he's introduced. Peter warns him to watch his mouth in front of his kids... and Eli doesn't say a bad word since, even when it'd be appropriate.
  • The spin-off The Good Fight no longer censors swear words, so Precision F Strikes are common, especially from the seemingly proper Diane. While it would be a golden opportunity to show Eli Gold's Informed Ability, he doesn't actually appear on the show (in fact, he's not even mentioned, despite his daughter being a key character).
• Ice Road Truckers: Trucker Hugh Rowland is known for dropping f-bombs every other sentence. Sometimes more than once per sentence.
• The Inside No. 9 episode "Séance Time" involves a hidden-camera prank show where the "mark" is led to believe he or she is taking part in a séance with a mysterious psychic. One of the participants constantly swears throughout the whole thing (unaware that he's being recorded for TV), causing the crew to become concerned since this will make it difficult to edit for broadcast.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: All of the Gang, but Sweet Dee probably takes the cake.
  Dee: Your mom doesn't know dick. She's a dumb, fat cow, and your sister — she is a stupid little shit-mouthed bitch, isn't she?
• The Law According to Lidia Poët: Lidia is not shy about cursing, including right to people's faces, as one more aspect of her rebellious and less ladylike personality.
• Mad TV featured Emcee Escher, a "hardcore" rapper who used so much profanity in his music that it consisted almost entirely of Sound Effect Bleeps.
• Sir Gwain in Merlin. While it is a family show, and therefore the number of swears is limited, more than once he has sworn in the background in an indistinct manner, sounding like fuck.
• Vince from Mongrels who is clinically incapable of getting through a sentence without at least three swearwords.
• A short Mr. Show sketch features Reverend Winston Dupree, who preaches while doing this.
• NTSF:SD:SUV::: The President of the Navy briefly has to undergo speech therapy when it's pointed out to him that he can't stop injecting foul language into every sentence that comes out of his mouth.
• In one episode of Only Fools and Horses, the Trotters chase off a pair of louts who are trying to mug an old lady and have knocked her to the ground. She's fine, but her vulgar response shocks Del and Rodney.
• Only Murders in the Building: Mabel's by far the most likely to drop an f-bomb of any of the characters.
• The Smoking Room: Len, the security guard, drops enough F-bombs in casual conversation that even his grandson calls him "Granddad Fuck-off".
• Ahn Eun-young from The School Nurse Files drops the f-bomb a lot. Her actor, Yumi Jeong, said that she decided to take on the role because Eun-young swears a lot, and so the director added more f-bombs.
• Batiatus from Spartacus: Blood and Sand, especially when he's suffering from a Villainous Breakdown. And in a show where virtually every character makes liberal use of the Cluster F-Bomb, that's really saying something.
  Batiatus: I speak... of being fucked! And I will not, not be fucked, you fucking fuck, you fucking cock-sucking, you hemorrhoid-sucking fuck, you fuck!
• Spirited has Henry Mallet, who says a swear word of some description almost every other word. This is in contrast to his love interest Suzy, who at first can only manage the utterly feeble "Eff off, you dead… dick!".
• Admiral Clancy from Star Trek: Picard drops at least one F-bomb in every appearance, usually aimed at Picard. Her first one ("the sheer fucking hubris!") became particularly memetic almost immediately.
• Everyone in Strike Back is prone to letting loose a Cluster F-Bomb in tense situations, but Damien Scott takes the cake. If he's not swearing, he's probably not conscious. When he regains consciousness, expect him to start up again almost immediately.
• The title character of Ted Lasso is the only one who shows any hesitancy about using "fruity language" and even he drops a Precision F-Strike around once per season. But the show's Sir Swears-a-Lot example par excellence is undoubtedly "He's here! He's there! He's every-f*cking-where! Roy Kent! Roy Kent!"
• The Thick of It and its spin-off movie In the Loop:
  • Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) is robustly famous/infamous for being a man whose favorite word started with a capital "F" and cropped up in nearly every sentence he spoke.^note So much so that when Capaldi was cast as the Twelfth Doctor, fans joked that Twelve would be a swear-happy Time Lord. But that would never fly past the censor on a show watched by impressionable kids parroting the always iconic Doctor's easily quotable lines and catchphrases. His second-favorite word starts with a "C", so much so that when Peter Capaldi did a PSA for Macmillan in-character, he said he was talking "about the big C, and not my usual big C!"
  • Also from those works, Jamie Macdonald, nicknamed "The Crossest Man in Scotland."
• The Canadian Sitcom Trailer Park Boys might have a lot of fucking swearing, but nobody tops off the obscenities like Ricky. He even admits in court that "If I can't smoke and swear, I'm fucked!"
• And in The Thick of It's Spiritual Successor Veep:
  • Selina Meyer has a mouth just as filthy as Malcolm's, if not even louder and fouler, especially since she's the Vice President and eventually, the President.
  • Congressman Furlong spends six seasons popping up as an incredibly foul-mouthed man with blistering insults for everyone around him. This leads to a priceless moment in season six when his wife appears and everyone is shocked to find she's a devout Christian who thinks Gosh Darn It to Heck! is strong language and Furlong clearly stifling himself when she's around.
• In The Windsors, Prince Philip is only ever briefly seen in person once from behind, but leaves various letters around for his relatives that are riddled with abusive expletives.
• Inverted by Omar in The Wire — in spite of being a major badass, he's the only character who refuses to curse and admonishes others for doing so constantly. This is the show whose Establishing Series Moment was Bunk and McNulty communicating entirely through the word "fuck" for a scene.
• Wolf Hall tones down the Duke of Norfolk's language only slightly from the books. He rarely makes it through a scene without a curse, a crude sexual reference, or just shouting that he'll "shoot your fucking head off." His response to Thomas More's defense of silence is to call it bollocks, and when Audley points out it has precedent, counters that it's still bollocks.
• Detective Manners on The X-Files "Rashomon"-Style episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". The good detective uses lots of bleeps, blanks and blankety-blank bleeps.
  Manners: [to Mulder] Well, thanks a lot! You really bleeped up this case.
• You Me Her: Izzy probably uses the most profanity (usually the f word) of all the characters. Especially when she gets upset it becomes a continuous stream.

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