Precision F-Strike/Western Animation

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Lois Griffin in Family Guy: "This isn't art! This isn't even entertainment! This... BLOWS!!"
    • After Quagmire delivers a massive, much-appreciated "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Brian, he finishes with "thanks for the fucking steak."
    • The trope would apply to most of the swears in Family Guy since, despite this being an adult show, swear words are still fairly rare, so when they do swear it tends to stand out a lot.

Brian: Peter, I don't wanna say "I told you so", but....YEEAH! IN YOUR FUCKING FACE FUCKWAD!!

    • Each entry in the Star Wars parody trilogy contains one precision F-Strike.
  • Lisa Simpson swears by far the least number of times of any Simpsons character. She only does so twice: once in "Girls Just Want to Have Sums, where she screams, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" at Milhouse, and once in "The Night of The Dolphin", where she is bit by a dolphin, causing her to yell, "Son of a bitch!"
  • Butters from South Park doesn't swear often, and thus it has a far greater effect when he does. The rest of the characters swear like crazy doesn't really matter: it's very much to do with the individual.
    • Comedy Central seems to agree that this is effective, as he was allowed to say "Ah, shit." at the end of "Imaginationland". As we all know from the episode "It Hits The Fan", the network has a history of only allowing them to use that word when the situation calls for it.
    • Another classic was his cheering "Fuck him up, Wendy!" when Wendy fights Cartman in Breast Cancer Show Ever.
    • A particularly brilliant one comes at the end of "Christian Rock Hard", when, after being screwed over by Cartman, Butters calmly walks over to him, farts in his face, gives him the finger and says "Fuck you, Eric." He then calmly walks away.
    • "It Hits The Fan" also spoofed this trope when the use of a single swear word was hyped on a TV show was hyped in the media. The actual sentence came at the end of the fake episode, "Oh, by the way, you got some shit on your face there."
    • Don't... FUCK... with... Wendy... Testaburger!!!!
    • This incident from The Movie stands out amongst the Cluster F Bombing: when Cartman learns he's grounded for one week longer than Stan and Kyle for watching the Terrence and Phillip movie against their parents' strict orders not to, he can only say, "That's fucking bullshit." This carries enough weight to shock Kyle's mom further.
  • Similar to the South Park example, most of the cast of Drawn Together swear like sailors. Princess Clara, on the other hand, uses profanity very sparingly, so when she drops an F-bomb, you notice it.
  • Used in Hey Arnold! when Helga (not the most delicate flower to begin with) is seemingly freed from her obsession with Arnold and reads her own love journal entries: "What. Is. This. Crap?!"
  • In Dexter'sLaboratory, the gym teacher says the exact same thing in reaction to Dexter's excuse note.
  • Metalocalypse: "That's my bread and butter you're fucking with.". Run away. Now. Charles is pissed.
  • In The Boondocks, Martin Luther King Jr gets one with the n-word. He went on to give a speech using the cluster N-bomb.

Tom: MOTHER FUCK! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit Pricks! Shit! Shit! SHIIIIIIIIIT!

  • The (G-rated) animation The Secret of NIMH contains a single, clear "Damn!" spoken by the character Justin. Being in the Animation Age Ghetto, it carries a lot of impact.
  • The Donkey Kong Country cartoon had a couple. One episode has Cranky exclaim "What kind of CRAP is that!?" after he wakes up from a sleeping potion and is prompted by Bluster to say the lines for his barrel factory's commercial (It Makes Sense in Context), and also had K. Rool says "It's bad enough I can't get "Gator Wrestling", but I also have to listen to this blathering butt-head baboon as well!" after watching another commercial. Another episode had Kaptain Skurvy say "Me great-great-grandpappy Skurvy, may he rot in Hell, loved a good joke!" ("in Hell" is replaced by a laugh in the American version, but the closed captioning still has the original line).
  • In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, after being betrayed by Amanda Waller, Lex Luthor simply turns to face her and says "Bitch." It is rated PG-13, but the fact that the line is spoken by Clancy Brown after years of him playing Mr. Krabs on Spongebob makes it more surprising, awesome and funny.
  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: Alfred uses this to show us why he is the most awesome butler alive.

Batman: You think you know everything about me, don't you?
Alfred: I diapered your bottom. I bloody well ought to... sir.

  • There's a classic "blooper" clip of Porky Pig (presumably a studio gag reel or something like that) smacking his thumb with a hammer while pounding a nail, and muttering, "Son of bi-bi-bi, son of a bi-bi-bi, son of a bi-bi-bi-Gun!" He then turns to the camera and adds, "Ha-ha-ha, you thought I was gonna say s-son of a Bitch, didn't you?"
  • Every time that Total Drama Island unleashes something bleeped in-show, it's always either really awesome or really hilarious.
    • DJ and his "Oh, shit" when facing the first challenge.
    • Lindsay insulting Heather with a really long list of (bleeped) insults (complete with middle finger) after finding out how much she's used her the entire season.
    • Gordon in the Total Drama Action Aftermaths, in a parody of Gordon Ramsey. This was, so far, the only bleep actually not removed in the Cartoon Network version, making it even more awesome.
    • Izzy and her Shout-Out to Christian Bale in the Celebrity Manhunt special while on a movie set.
    • Alejandro in the first episode of World Tour, when he finds out how useless his team is. Bonus points for putting on a good face until he gets to the confessional, as well as for the Gratuitous Spanish.
    • The show also gets away with several uncensored Curse Cut Shorts.
    • Anytime somebody says "crap".
  • In G.I. Joe Resolute:

Cobra Commander: [addressing his Mooks] There will be no moves to take over my command. There will be no mistakes. THERE WILL BE NONE OF YOUR CRAP! NONE OF IT!!!

Narrator: On and on they trod though the white sands in the noonday sun and the merciless hell of a waterless desert.
DM: You know, Penfold....after trodding on and on through the white sands in the noonday sun and the merciless hell of a waterless desert, I don't quite feel so lucky anymore.

Meatwad: I thought you said television was bad.
Frylock: It is. But we f--king need it.

 Beavis: What do you know, asswipe!
Saint Peter: I know everything, buttmuch.

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