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[[File:PS 0044 MIKE HUNT RK 8017.jpg|frame|Go ahead, say this out loud. [[Schmuck Bait|We dare you]].]]
''Tell him from me''
Let's not [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|beat around
▲{{quote|''[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|If you see Kay]]''<br />
▲''Tell him to-day''<br />
▲''[[Fun with Acronyms|See you in tea]]''<br />
▲''Tell him from me''|James Joyce, ''[[Ulysses]]''}}
Specifically, how (at least in North American works) it's the one word nobody ''ever'' uses unless they want to break someone down and in the process make themselves look like a total and complete [[Jerkass]]. Even shows comfortable with using [[Seven Dirty Words|other swear words]] hesitate to use it, and Internet filters sometimes block other words that happen to [[Scunthorpe Problem|inadvertently contain it]]. Also known as "the [[T-Word Euphemism|C word]]". In North America, it is among the worst insults in the English language. (In Canada, it's considered ''the'' worst.) It's virtually always used to express bitter, mocking contempt, and is more likely to be directed at women than at men. Calling someone this doesn't mean you think the person is subhuman slime; it means that you think that comparing him or her to subhuman slime [[Insult to Rocks|is a grievous insult to subhuman slime]]. Considering that the word's literal meaning is simply "female genitalia," the extremely negative connotations attached to "cunt" have [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Fortunately, another word, "pussy," exists as a slang word for that female anatomy which also has the benefit of sounding relatively cute and innocent.▼
▲Let's not [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|beat around the]] [[Stealth Pun|bush.]] This is an article about the word "cunt."
In other English-speaking countries, it's nowhere near as mind-blowingly offensive (but still a strong expletive) and it's generally unisex or (as in Britain) mainly directed at men, being something like a stronger version of "asshole". In some situations (ie. among young [[Violent Glaswegian|Glaswegians]] or [[Land Down Under|Australians]]) it might even be a term of ''[[Vitriolic Best Buds|affection]]''. See ''[[Trainspotting]]'' where it's not a word, [[Just Add Bitch|it's a punctuation mark]]; it's also likely to be practically a catchphrase for any [[London Gangster]]. Other languages can have similar uses for the word. In the Dutch language, in particular, it's considered mostly harmless: you're having a cunt day when there's cunt weather outside and the cunt dog ate your cunt homework, which is, as the Dutch say with heartfelt compassion, "cunt for you".<ref>The Dutch equivalent word is "kut", pronounced exactly the way you think (like "cut", but with a bit of a softer sound - "kuht"). It's also not applicable as an insult to men (though this has been changing recently, due to a certain dutch show, and as the example illustrates, it's most commonly used as an adjective, of sorts. "Die kuthond" (that cunt dog, literally) is, in the context of this example, very much comparable to "that fucking dog". Using it against a woman is still a grave insult, however -- even the swear-happy Dutch aren't likely to do it, except, perhaps, in the heat of an argument. Even then, it's not easily excused.</ref> Strangely in French speaking countries the word "con" means simply "fucking idiot" and is a mild insult only. (that helps that almost nobody uses it in a sexual meaning). ▼
▲Specifically, how (at least in North American works) it's the one word nobody ''ever'' uses unless they want to break someone down and in the process make themselves look like a total and complete [[Jerkass]]. Even shows comfortable with using [[Seven Dirty Words|other swear words]] hesitate to use it, and Internet filters sometimes block other words that happen to [[Scunthorpe Problem|inadvertently contain it]]. Also known as "the [[T-Word Euphemism|C word]]". In North America, it is among the worst insults in the English language. It's virtually always used to express bitter, mocking contempt, and is more likely to be directed at women than at men. Calling someone this doesn't mean you think the person is subhuman slime; it means that you think that comparing him or her to subhuman slime [[Insult to Rocks|is a grievous insult to subhuman slime]]. Considering that the word's literal meaning is simply "female genitalia," the extremely negative connotations attached to "cunt" have [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Fortunately, another word, "pussy," exists as a slang word for that female anatomy which also has the benefit of sounding relatively cute and innocent.
▲In other English-speaking countries, it's nowhere near as mind-blowingly offensive (but still a strong expletive) and it's generally unisex or (as in Britain) mainly directed at men, being something like a stronger version of "asshole". In some situations (ie. among young [[Violent Glaswegian|Glaswegians]] or [[Land Down Under|Australians]]) it might even be a term of ''[[Vitriolic Best Buds|affection]]''. See ''[[Trainspotting]]'' where it's not a word, [[Just Add Bitch|it's a punctuation mark]]; it's also likely to be practically a catchphrase for any [[London Gangster]]. Other languages can have similar uses for the word. In the Dutch language, in particular, it's considered mostly harmless: you're having a cunt day when there's cunt weather outside and the cunt dog ate your cunt homework, which is, as the Dutch say with heartfelt compassion, "cunt for you".<ref>The Dutch equivalent word is "kut", pronounced exactly the way you think (like "cut", but with a bit of a softer sound - "kuht"). It's also not applicable as an insult to men (though this has been changing recently, due to a certain dutch show, and as the example illustrates, it's most commonly used as an adjective, of sorts. "Die kuthond" (that cunt dog, literally) is, in the context of this example, very much comparable to "that fucking dog". Using it against a woman is still a grave insult, however -- even the swear-happy Dutch aren't likely to do it, except, perhaps, in the heat of an argument. Even then, it's not easily excused.</ref> Strangely in French speaking countries the word "con" means simply "fucking idiot" and is a mild insult only. (that helps that almost nobody uses it in a sexual meaning)
When the two meanings combine, you can end up with some major [[Values Dissonance]] - for instance, the Englishman who can't understand why his Canadian friend just broke his nose; after all, he was only having a larf, right?
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== Advertising ==
* Back when they could actually run cigarette commercials on television and radio, the Salem brand had a jingle, "You can take Salem out of the country, but... You can't take the country out of Salem." The singer (female) always pronounced country as "cunt-tree", and when they ran the jingle more than once, it always ended on "but..."
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s dub has the word used only once during the Roberta arc, as Revy is preparing for her one-on-one battle with Roberta.
{{quote|'''Revy:''' ''Listen closely Rock. I'm about to light up like a goddamn firecracker, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. When that happens, it's pretty much over. I'm not even gonna warn you before I give you a second asshole. When she decided to use that shell on me, she made a big fucking mistake. I'm gonna make that bitch wish she was still home cleaning shitty toilets. It's time to go teach this fucking cunt the meaning of pain.''}}
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', there's a scene where a man on a nearly empty train is trash talking his girlfriend, and [[Spice Up the Subtitles|in some translations]], the word "cunt" is used. This is arguably
* In ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', Shino tries to teach Tsuda the meaning of the English phrase "dry eyes" by writing "ma_ko aren't getting wet" on the chalkboard. It's supposed to be filled in "manako" (eyes), but it looks a lot like the censored form of "manko" (see Real Life below).
* In one ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' scanlation, Olivier Armstrong gets called a "cunt" by a Central Command general.
==
* There's a ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' comic where the leader of the Amazons gets called "cunt" by a girl she's taken prisoner and calmly explains the origins of the word and claims its origins don't justify how it has come to be used as the most offensive swear in the English language... Then, after the girl calls her a bitch, she orders Hero to kill the girl.
** She also goes on a weird rant about how "Only in America" could it come to have that meaning, and claims that in Britain the word isn't particularly offensive. [[Did Not Do the Bloody Research|This is inaccurate.]]
*** Probably to show how batshit insane she was.
* [[Garth Ennis]] has no problem with the word, especially in ''[[The Boys]]'', where the first line of dialogue in the series is a protagonist saying, with regards to superheroes, "I’m gonna fucking have you. You cunts."
** Not to mention the "Kitchen Irish" arc of ''[[The Punisher]]'', which featured an aging Irish gangster who threw the word around like it was confetti.
* In one issue of ''[[Power Girl]]'' Satanna can be seen wearing a shirt that says "CU Next Tues" in a flashback, making it a case of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* [[Warren Ellis]]'s viciously accurate historical comic ''[[Crecy]]'' features this gem;
{{quote|''In England, the word "cunt" is punctuation.''}}
* In ''[[Savage Dragon]]'', two superwomen named Rapture and She-Dragon fought each other for reasons that aren't important here. Rapture manages to get as far as "You stupid cu -" before she is cutoff mid-sentence.
== Fan
▲** ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Dragon]]'' has the martial arts club leader (who is being possessed by one of the villains at the time, mind you) at Ichiban High (a girls' school) call Ryan Lee a cunt. Big mistake. Ryan does ''not'' take kindly to that term being thrown at him or his friends, and he [[Would Hit a Girl|punches her halfway across the room]] for the effort. He later notes that he's an equal opportunity fighter if someone pisses him off enough and that he'd never use such a word as that:
{{quote|'''Ryan Lee''': Some people need to realize that you do ''not'' use the C word unless you're among the 1% of the school that's looking for a fight, even if you ''are'' being possessed by a demon at the time.}}
* In ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'', [[Bastard Boyfriend|Ronan]] and several of the other characters ''repeatedly'' refer to women this ways, ranging from as an insult to a term of endearment. When vaginas aren't called "pussies," this term is used.
* In ''[[Fuck the Jesus Beam]]'', the author refers to readers this way, but it turns out that [[Fun with Acronyms|it stands for "Cool Understanding Never Terrorizing Superpeople"]].
* In the very, ''very'' NSFW [[Deviant ART]] piece [https://web.archive.org/web/20200428071328/https://www.deviantart.com/blades-123/art/The-Great-Hunt-701747404 seen here] (again, very NSFW) the announcer of the [[Deadly Game]] apologizes to the viewers for use of this word, a very odd case of [[Hypocritical Humor]], as it suggests obscenity is worse here than nudity and state-sponsored murder.
== Film ==
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* ''[[In Bruges]]'' gives us this gem:
{{quote|'''Ken:''' Harry, you're a cunt. You've always been a cunt, and you'll always be a cunt. And the only way you're gonna change is you're gonna become ''more'' of a cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.
'''Harry:''' [[I Take Offense to That Last One|Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done?!]] ''[[Berserk Button|You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!]]''
'''Ken:''' I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids. }}
* [[Silence of the Lambs|Clarice Starling's]] first visit to Hannibal Lecter is made even more unpleasant when one of the other patients snarls "I can smell your cunt!" at her. She then repeats those exact words to Hannibal when prompted.
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* Ed from ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' uses the affectionate version, but it's very jarring<ref>outside of the UK, perhaps</ref> and used to illustrate what an obnoxious oaf he is.
{{quote|'''Ed:''' Can I get any of you cunts a drink?}}
* There's a semi-affectionate female-to-male usage early in the Australian horror film ''Primal''. Then Mel, the female in question, teases Anja for her <ref>apparently uncommon where they're from</ref> aversion to the word, trying to get her to say it. And indeed, "Cunt" ends up being the film's last line of dialogue, said as a [[
* Used in a startling way in ''[[American Beauty]]'':
{{quote|'''Playground girl:''' You were only in ''Seventeen'' once, and you looked ''fat!'' So stop acting like you're goddamn Christy Turlington!
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== Live-Action TV ==
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110121180734/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-c-word-524059.html first recorded instance of the C-word on live British TV] (or the whole world for that matter) was on ITV's ''The Frost Programme'' on 7 November 1970, when Felix Dennis let one slip. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxjnfDToQmA Here's the uncut video].
* There was a classic ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Monty Python]]'' sketch about a man who pronouces all his 'C's as 'B's. At the end of the sketch the other man suggests he try spelling these words with a 'K' instead, leading the first man to observe "What a silly bunt." This actually got the BBC into a lot of trouble.
* ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' has an episode where Larry David's use of it during a poker game causes an effeminate acquaintance to have a slow motion nervous breakdown. Made all the funnier when David later mentioned in retrospect, he "should've said [[Values Dissonance|''pussy'']]".
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'''Lorraine:''' Runt.
'''Lyle:''' ''(to Karen, who is very clearly about to say something starting with "C")'' Stop it! }}
* In an episode of ''[[Penn
** On the other hand, there seems to be some implied use of it as immediately after the stream of the word "cunt" it cuts to a scene of the main opponent of the matter for the episode, a woman.
* Averted: Caprice Bourret used it live on daytime television while discussing ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'' without any uproar at all.
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* Played with in ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', episode "Look Who's Stalking":
{{quote|'''Kendall:''' Oh, well if it isn't Little Miss Teen Getaway. Your dad and I were just dealing with a little trouble.
'''Veronica:''' Like, trouble with a capital "T", that rhymes with "C", [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|that stands for...]]
'''Keith:''' Veronica!
'''Veronica:''' [[Blatant Lies|What? I was going to say "cute.]]" }}
* A recurring segment on ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'' is “Computer Corner”, in which Gunter Wilson teaches the audience about computers despite knowing virtually nothing about them. One sketch dealt with Instant Messaging and Gunter used several abbreviations including an unfortunate one for “See you next Tuesday.” The audience doesn’t see the abbreviation but the implication is clear.
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== Music ==
* Parodied in [[Kevin Bloody Wilson]]'s song ''You Can't Say Cunt In Canada''.
* Averted with [[Anal Cunt]], obviously.
** Not really, as the band is more commonly known by the acronym A.C.
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''Spin that plant around''
''You've got a third world country.'' }}
* The Death! Death! Die! song "Kiss of Poseidon" has a series of PG-13 verses regarding women of rather indiscriminate affections, which each chorus is simply the repeated phrase "Cause you're a cunt! A stupid cunt! Such a stupid cunt! Yeah!"
* The song "In My Country" by the Lemon Sisters features a female singer entreating lonely sailors to come and visit her country. That is, the nation in which she lives. For some reason, she keeps pausing in the middle of words.
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* [http://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=155 This] ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' [[Filk]] where Sue Richards-nee-Storm [[Power Perversion Potential|redefines the phrase "country mile" thanks to her Fantastic elastic husband Reed]].
* [[Shooter Jennings]] (son of [[Waylon Jennings|Waylon]]) titled his first album ''Put The 'O' Back In Country''. [[Captain Obvious|Not a Toby Keith fan, we're thinking.]]
* In the [[Sex Pistols]] song "Pretty Vacant", guess how
** And Sid Vicious' version of [[Frank Sinatra]]'s ''My Way'' changed the line, "My friend, I'll say it clear", to "You cunt, I'm not a queer".
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]] in the [[Emilie Autumn]] song "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches": "''Hell''-o to the surgeon with scalpel old and blunt/ he'll tie you to the table and he'll mutilate your/ ''come'', it's nearly teatime ..."
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{{quote|"I like my friend. He's a real guy's guy. He's not a loudmouth like that cunt-hole Steve!"}}
* [[Lynyrd Skynyrd|Ronnie Van Zant]] said it in a throwaway line during the live version of "Gimme Three Steps" found on One More from the Road (and also on Gold & Platinum).
* Averted with a song by the Asylum Street Spankers
{{quote|My cunt, my cunt,
My ''country'' calls to me,
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* "Blubber Boy" by Regurgitator might be the only song featuring the c-word ever to have charted in Australia or anywhere in the world. Nobody noticed the line "rub me on your cunt, I'll come back again".
* "Australia the Lucky Cunt" is an EP by TISM.
* K.T. Oslin's "Hey Bobby" opens with the lines "Hey Bobby, would you like to [[Intercourse with You|go for a ride]]/In the country with me?". Actually she uses the term throughout [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvOzNOL0w1A#t=0m09s the entire song].
* ''[[Bring Me the Horizon]]'' went through a phase on including this at least once per album, on the tracks "Blacklist", "Antivist", and "Sleep With One Eye Open", with the last two being particularly [[Atomic F-Bomb|atomic]] uses.
== Radio ==
* Radio personality [[Kenny Everett]] got fired from [[BBC|BBC Radio 2]] in 1981 for saying, "When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have [[Margaret Thatcher]]."
== Recorded and Stand
* Perhaps the
* [[Titus|Christopher Titus]] - ''Norman Rockwell is Bleeding'': (Talking about the time he fought with Erin over cheating on him when they broke up while they were dating) "And she took everything I threw at her man! She ''even took the 'C' word''! I know! ...she's perfect!"
* [[Bill Hicks]] used the word freely once when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdKpR9qNtg handling a female heckler.]
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* Billy Connolly gave this gem in a recent stand-up:
{{quote|'''BC''': You're a cunt. You're such a cunt. Why, you're so much of a cunt, that if there were a contest to find out who the biggest cunt was, you'd come in second. Why? ''Because you're a cunt!''}}
* [[Stewart Lee]] uses this freely, and has great fun with it in ''Content Provider:''
{{Quote|"I don't know if you can make massive generalisations about people who voted to leave Europe anyway because people voted to leave Europe for all sorts of different reasons; and it wasn't just racists who voted to leave Europe... [[Beat]] ''Cunts'' did as well, didn't they? ''Stupid fucking cunts.'' Racists and ''cunts''."}}
== Theatre ==
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{{quote|'''Hamlet:''' Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
'''Ophelia:''' No, my lord.
'''Hamlet:''' I mean, [[Lap Pillow|my head upon your lap]]?
'''Ophelia:''' Ay, my lord.
'''Hamlet:''' Do you think I meant country matters? }}
* There's another example by Shakespeare in ''[[Othello]]''. In Act 3 Scene 3, Iago tries to insinuate that Desdemona is not as pure as she seems. He uses the phrase "country disposition", alluding to both the stereotype of the open and passionate Venetian woman and, well...you know.
* Shakespeare also has a bilingual example in ''[[Henry V]],'' in which the French-speaking Princess Katherine, getting an English lesson from her lady-in-waiting, is both horrified and amused to discover that the English words "foot" and "gown" (which Katherine and her lady mispronounce as "coun") resemble the French words for "fuck" and "cunt."
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'''Ugandans:''' Hasa diga eebowai!
'''Mafala:''' Fuck God right back in his cunt! }}
{{quote|'''Ugandans:''' If you don't like what we say/try living here a couple days./Watch all your friends and family die./Hasa diga eebowai! Fuck you!/Hasa diga eebowai!/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you in the eye!}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* There was a sourcebook for the superhero
▲* There was a sourcebook for the superhero [[Tabletop Game]] ''[[Silver Age Sentinels]]'' literally called Country Matters. It was a roster book of female supers.
* ''[[FATAL]]'' has no problem with the word. This would not, in itself, be too bad. It then starts throwing around phrases like "mouth-cunt", "cuntress", "cunt-pipe" (really) and the name "Cuntrina".
▲== [[TV Tropes]] Wiki ==
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]
== Video Games ==
* Thoroughly averted in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', where this word is dropped several times through the course of the game. Considering the other [[N-Word Privileges|offensive words that are used]] and the overall [[Dead Baby Comedy|cringe worthy]][[Crosses the Line Twice|subject matter]] of the game, its not surprising.
** However, it's thrown in for attentive radio listeners in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'': ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|Head Radio]] music station is hosted by none other than DJ Michael Hunt, who states his name pretty frequently. He never shortens it to "Mike," but the joke is pretty obvious.
* [[Rockstar Games]]' own ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' uses the word three times, two of which are in fairly quick succession.
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* In ''[[Prototype 2]]'', a mission involves Heller being informed of a Blackwatch Tank Commander who made some inflammatory remarks about his deceased wife and calls Dana Mercer a "pasty hacker cunt". [[I Take Offense to That Last One|Dana's objection is at being called "pasty"]].
== Web Comics ==
* A ''[[Something
▲* A ''[[Something Positive]]'' strip had this as the next-to-last line of hostility Mike crosses with regards to PeeJee. He even stammers when he says it. The last line? Physical threats. Which of course results in pain from her many friends.
* Hunter Ravenwood of ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' freely drops a [[Cluster F-Bomb]] just about every other strip, but only drops the C-bomb for emphasis, e.g. when "encouraging" (at gunpoint) a group protesting against gay marriage to disperse.
* A near use of it occurs in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=542 by a schoolmate of Annie's mother in a flashback], before he gets [[Curse Cut Short|punched out]] by Eglamore.
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* [http://xkcd.com/75/ this] xkcd comic.
* At ome point in the surrealist comic ''5ideways'', Emerald is testing out their surroundings. "[[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|Hm. Biting into an apple results in a rain of cunts. Hardly useful.]]"
* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]''; in one strip, the heroine trades her voice to a scorpion-demon for the power to fly. When Patrianna remarks that this "at least got her to shut up", Wonderella tells her - using a notepad - to "eat a can't", her bad penmanship making her "u's" look like "a's".
== Western Animation ==
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* Similarly, Roger in ''[[American Dad]]'' uses this when Francine orders him off the phone. "I'll call you later, the boss is being a real- '''C'''atch '''U''' '''N'''ext '''T'''uesday!"
** That lady is a real C-word. Hey, we're all guys here; I'll just say it: "Cuckoohead."
* ''[[Family Guy]]'':
** In
{{quote|'''Brian''': "Quagmire's Cross-Country Tour." Uh, isn't there an "o" in "country?"
'''Quaqmire''': Nope! }}
{{quote|'''Woman (arguably Lady Astor)''': Ah, [[Winston Churchill|Winston]]. Drunk again, I see.
'''Churchill''': Yeah, well you're a cunt. }}
{{quote|'''Brian''': We love the work of Allen Funt...
'''Stewie''': Or a nicely shaven leg! }}
{{quote|'''Brian''': I don't know. Although, your sunburn was pretty bad, I suppose it could be... the C Word.
'''Stewie''': What the hell does that have to do with anything?!
'''Brian''': No, cancer.
'''Stewie''': Oh, oh, I-I thought you meant... it's not important. Oh no, cancer! }}
* ''[[Archer]]:''
{{quote|'''Cheryl:''' My last name isn't Gimble like on my W-4. It's Tunt.
'''Archer:''' Tum again? ''([[Beat]])'' What, nothing? }}
* Not an explicit example, but in one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Bart agrees to do Skinner a favor in exchange for being taught a swear word that he doesn't already know. We don't hear what word he learns, but Skinner tells him it's a noun. Between that and Bart's shock at having never heard it before, it's clear what word was implied.
* In the 2019 ''[[Harley Quinn]]'' cartoon, Dr. Psycho uses the word ''on nationwide TV'' in reference to [[Wonder Woman]]; no surprise there, [[Politically-Incorrect Villain| as he's ''always'' been a chauvinist]], but Poison Ivy remarks that [[Even Evil Has Standards| he is now the least employable person on the planet]], while Harley comments that if Psycho had henchmen, they might have advised him to instead use the "B-word". Later, Psycho's inability to keep himself from using the word becomes a [[Running Gag]]. Ironically, this is the only cuss word that is bleeped out in the show's dialogue.
** A later episode shows that even [[Darkseid]] himself refuses to use this word.
** [[N-Word Privileges| Poison Ivy]] does it herself in season 4, calling Metallo a "metal c---"; suffice to say, she was ''very'' angry at the time.
* The "see you next Tuesday" joke was also used in ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', accidentally said by Louise.
* In the ''[[Little Devil]]'' episode "Domestic Disturbance VIII", Chrissy calls ''her own mother'' this after discovering how she once tried to [[Ret-Gone]] her when she was four years old. Kind of hard to blame Chrissy for being angry there...
== Real Life ==
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* "Did you know Stuart Adamson?" "He was a Big Country member." "Oh, I remember."
** This is derived from the original comment in Australian Federal Parliament by early 1970's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in response to an angry outburst by a member of an opposing party (Country Party - now the Nationals half of the Liberal/National Coalition): "I'm a Country Member!" Gough Whitlam - "Oh, I remember".
* In a particularly obnoxious possible example, University of Colorado football players have reportedly called [[Jackie Robinson Story|teammate Katie Hnida a cunt]] while [https://web.archive.org/web/20130120120809/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/rick_reilly/02/16/hnida/ brutally hazing her]. When CU president Betsy Hoffman was later called on the carpet to explain why the coach wasn't fired, she responded that "cunt", in Chaucer's times, was a term of endearment and perhaps that's what the players meant. [[wikipedia:Cunt#Referring to women|Really.]]
* Probably apocryphal example doing the rounds:
{{quote|'''Australian sovereigntist''': We're going to have our own independent state and call it the Principality of Australia!
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'''Australian sovereigntist''': What do you suggest then?
'''Prince Philip''': Why not leave it the way it clearly is. A ''country''. }}
* "Coney" (pronounced "cunny") is an old word for "rabbit" that fell out of use because it sounded like "cunt." "Rabbit" is the main replacement, but it's obvious that "bunny" is a modified form of "coney."
** Bit more than "sounded like"; "cunny" is also an old word for "cunt".
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* Completely [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in Spanish, where "coño" is thrown around freely even by children and nobody seems to bat an eye. Of course, every fourth word said by a Spaniard is a swearword, third if they're happy, so this is not surprising.
** The same in Bangla, and likely related languages as well.
** In Hispanic Latin America, "Coño" is one of these words that are way too rude for TV and radio (on some places not even in shows after the [[Watershed]]), but not so much for other media and daily use, where it has degenerated as an all around expletive and, in some countries, as a synonymous of "dude". The local synonymous for the word tend to be seen as more rude if used in the same way. Bafflingly, in Spain, where "coño" is still used in its original sexual meaning along with the expletive one, [[Media Watchdogs]] doesn't have such a hangup.
* In fulfilling its guiding purpose, Cockney Rhyming Slang has a completely innocuous way of saying it, Berk, which comes from Berkshire Hunt, rhyming with cunt. Now you know a way to say it without anyone knowing, providing no one around you speaks Cockney...
* [[Jane Fonda]] was appearing in a benefit production of the above-mentioned ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'', and while being interviewed about it on ''Today'', casually mentioned on live daytime tv the title of one of the pieces. Meredith Viera apologized on behalf of NBC, and it was censored for broadcast in later time zones. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150822080032/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/nbc-apologizes-for-jane-f_n_86686.html
* Western Australia had the unfortunately-named [[Fun with Acronyms|Curtin University of New Technologies]] (The "new" has now been dropped, probably for this reason).
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