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** It's also used in Volume One by Buck, the scumbag rapist orderly, in telling his latest "customer" about the Bride's spitting tendencies, [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|unaware that she's just come out of her coma]], just a few minutes before both of them get what's coming to them in a big way.

** Also in Volume One, the Bride mentions that she can still "see the faces of the cunts that did this to [her], and the dicks responsible"

* In ''[[Memento]]'', Natalie finally gets Leonard to snap and punch her when she refers to his dead wife with the word.

* Mrs. Lintott uses the word to describe the headmaster in ''[[The History Boys]]''. It's notable in a show that flings other curse words around a lot, this is the only time the word is used.

* ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' is not afraid to use this word as a part of being [[Darker and Edgier]] retelling of the story.

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': Cameron, of all people, gets away with the "see you next Tuesday" variant, though [[It Makes Sense in Context]]--this is during Chase's attempts at courtship by saying he likes her once a week; the line's delivery didn't suggest the hidden meaning, but the euphemism is not hidden.

* [[Dead Like Me]] has Delores Herbig using the "see you next Tuesday" variety, IIRC.

* Louis C.K.'s HBO sitcom ''Lucky Louie'' has this exchange come up in an argument about the existence of [[God]]:

** 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.

* The BBC had to be astonishingly careful when discussing the word on the Oxford English Dictionary Word Hunt show ''[[Balderdash And Piffle]]'', including [[Content Warnings]] both before and during the show. (It aired pre-[[Watershed]].) It sought out the etymology of various words. [[Double Entendre|One episode explored 'cunt' in some depth.]]

* "Dirty" Den on ''[[Eastenders]]'' once failed to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Get Crap Past The Radar]] when the actor left rather ''too'' long a pause in the middle of addressing a PC as "constable" - there's a fine art in getting the insult noticeable but not blatant. [[Don't Try This At Home|Try it at home, kids!]]

* In ''An Evening With [[Kevin Smith]] 2: Evening Harder'', while speaking in London, Kevin talks about the difference between saying the C-word in England (''Right on, mate!''), and saying it in America (''Ugh. Cunt?'').

* Showtime's ''[[Californication]]'' has a scene where an obnoxious party attendant calls Karen a cunt and even presses his luck with her in front of Hank Moody (Catch You Next Tuesday). Hank then causally walks up to the man and in the words of Les Grossman, punches him in the face really f'in hard.

* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a sketch about music executives trying to get Cee-Lo Green's single "Fuck You" changed so it can air on TV (as "fuck," like "cunt," is one of the seven words you can't say on TV). One of the executives (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) calls a female censor a "...world-class ''Country Strong''." (Also counts as a [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] and a [[Title Drop]] to the Gwyneth Paltrow movie of the same name).

** Which makes for a great [[Brick Joke]] in episode 1.06 of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'', where a character demonstrates:

{{quote|'''Chas''': His name's easy. Rhymes with my favorite word. In fact, we used to call him [[Curse Cut Short|Hunt the-]]}}

* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' one of our early signs that Joffrey Baratheon is in fact a [[Complete Monster]] is when he uses this term to refer to Arya Stark.

** Bronn isn't a terribly bad guy ([[Only in It For the Money]] at least) but he makes his opinion of Joffery quite clear in "Garden of Bones":

* The Anti-Nowhere League, ''So What'':

{{quote|I've [done something evil or disgusting] and I've [something else, etc]; so what, so what, you boring little cunt?}}

{{quote|"Who invited Steve? That Steve is a cunt!"}}

** Also used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVdca9U9LM We Like Sportz], again in regards to Steve.

 

== Stand-Up Comedy ==

* [[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.]

** There's an instance in ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' where Malvolio finds a forged note by Sir Toby that appears to have come from the Countess, and proclaims it authentic based on the handwriting: "See how she makes her ''C''s, her ''U'', ''an'' her ''T''s, and thus makes her ''P''s."

** This quote allowed the BBC to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|get away with saying it very prolifically]] when they aired the scene at 6:40pm on a Saturday night.

* Some feminists have attempted to reclaim the word; there's a piece in ''The Vagina Monologues'' called (what else?) Reclaiming Cunt. (seriously, it culminates in loud, repeated exclamations of CUNT!!! It is pretty awesome to behold), and there's Inga Muscio's book ''Cunt: A Declaration of Independence''. Hasn't ''quite'' been reclaimed on the level that "queer" has been for gays, but it's still something to note.

* The Ugandans in ''[[The Book of Mormon (theatre)|The Book of Mormon]]'' are quite fond of the word, and "Hasa Diga Eebowai" abounds with it.

'''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".

* There was an inn called the "Flying Cunt" somewhere in Transylvania. The local feudal lord AND his entire court were regulars there, and his still living descendant still can't get that name out of his head.

* The Japanese equivalent of "cunt" is "manko", and is similarly treated as one of the most vulgar words in the Japanese language. It's always bleeped if said on television, and if written down, it very often has the middle "n" character blanked out.

* In Mandarin Chinese, the equivalent is "bī" (屄), and has about the same effect and usage, with one weird exception: "niú bī" (牛屄, sometimes with a different last character but with the same sound), usually abbreviated as "NB" on Chinese message boards, can mean "really fucking cool" when used to describe something, and either "badass" or "total dick" when describing a person, depending on whether you mean it positively or negatively.

** On a related note, [http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=18912 this discussion] was brought up between [[Quentin Tarantino]] and [[Conan O'Brien]] regarding [[Kill Bill]].

* The Chicago Tribune once printed an article about the use of this word. Even though they carefully avoided the word itself, the article title, "You C*n't Say That" made it obvious enough that the ''entire section the article was printed in'' was pulled out at the last minute<ref>That is, after the papers had been delivered to the distribution centers, which is their absolute last stop before being brought to stores and people's homes.</ref> at great expense.

* In regards to the example provided at in the page description, Australian men of all ages often use cunt not only as a term of affection(He's a good cunt that cunt), but as a designator(Yeah, it was that cunt over there), descriptor(Oh, that fucking cunt, he's a deadshit), group name(Oi you cunts, Listen up!) or nickname(G'day y'old cunt, howyagoin?). This has also given rise to the curious saying that Australia is "Where you call your mates cunt, and some cunt mate." Another curious phenomenon is that an Australian can - in a similar manner to the local wildlife - pack enough venom into a single word, often "Mate", with vocal inflection alone, that it is exactly equivalent to saying "Cunt" in it's place.

* [[wikipedia:Gropecunt Lane|Gropecunt Lane]], which was [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]

* Somewhere in coverage of the Tea Party protests in the US, there's a photo of a man wearing a T-shirt that reads "I love my country" below a rebus of [[Hillary Clinton]] + a tree.

* 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.

* [[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. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/nbc-apologizes-for-jane-f_n_86686.html\]

 

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