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* [[Day of the Dead|Captain Rhodes]] wants to know what the fuck you're doing with his time.

* ''500 Days of Summer'' is rated PG-13, so it has to keep its language relatively friendly. When Tom {{spoiler|is in the throes of depression after Summer leaves him}}, he tends to take his anger out via "poetry"

** The UK's BBFC ratings had/have a similar rule, in that the F word can be used twice and qualify for a 12 certificate, but any more gets a 15.

* ''[[Donnie Darko]]'' was rated R and therefore made few attempts to limit its "fuck"-ing, however it still features two prime examples of precisely-used F bombs.

* Angela's use of one in ''[[American Beauty]]'' marks the point where we first start to see her true nature.

* ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]'' actually has a few of these, all from different characters.

** The first ''[[Aliens vs. Predator]]'' film has this line: "It's a bomb. Well, I hope it blows up every fucking one of them!"

* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' ''almost'' had McClane's catchphrase "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker", but like the above, it was [[Curse Cut Short|censored by a gunshot]]. The Director's Cut left it in, and it's hugely satisfying.

** The episode "Fraudcast News" has one delivered by Groundskeeper Willy near the end of the episode:

{{quote| '''Willy''': Check out the Willy World News! I review the new tractors... They're all shite!<ref>Guess which three words of that sentence have ''always'' been cut from subsequent British TV airings... after being left intact for its premiere on Sky One, shown before the watershed.</ref>}}

* ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' gets in its "one F-word to avoid the dreaded R rating" when Bruce shouts "back to you, ''fuckers''!" during a live newscast.

* "[[Hot Fuzz|Oh, fuck off, grasshopper!]]"

** There is a slightly better example; Early on, we are introduced to the "swear box," into which one must put money if they swear. This is [[Chekhov's Gun|called back later]] when {{spoiler|Nick Angel tosses in a coin and yells "Leslie Tiller was FUCKING murdered!"}} Up 'til then, he was shown not even to swear ''ever'' on police time.

* In ''[[BAS Eketball]]'', Coop lets out a distraught "Fuck!" {{spoiler|after an argument with Remer when the Beers are exploited by Baxter Caine}}. Televised airings cut that F-bomb out.

* Used in ''[[So I Married an Axe Murderer]]'', when an axe thuds into the dresser right in front of Mike Myers and he shouts "What the Fuck?!" It's possibly a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* In ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'', [[Judi Dench]] of all people drops a spectacular one when she snaps, "I don't give a ''shit'' what the CIA thinks!" This, after 22 [[James Bond]] films where the strongest swear word heard is "bastard"... oh, my.

** There's also Pam Bouvier in ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]'', one of the series' most notable attempts to go [[Darker and Edgier]]. Her response to Q telling her Bond's just doing his usual thing in sleeping around on her is "Bullshit!"

{{quote| '''Mr. Bignose''': One more time, mate, I'lll take you to the fucking cleaners!<br />

'''Mrs. Bignose''': ''[[Lampshade Hanging|LANGUAGE!]]'' }}

* This trope is most definitely prevalent in ''[[Finding Forrester]]'' {{spoiler|after Jamal calls out Forrester for being too scared to help him out.}} And this is to a character played by ''[[Sean Connery]]'', nonetheless.

* In the ''[[Towering Inferno]]'', after Steve McQueen realizes that the only way to put out the fire will probably kill both him and Paul Newman: "Oh, Shit!"

* [[Sophisticated As Hell|Normally eloquent]] scientist [[The Professor|Dr. Emmett Brown]] chimes in with probably [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the funniest line]] from ''[[Back to The Future]]'':

{{quote| '''Dr. Emmett Brown''': If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.}}

*** "Yes, George, goddammit, ''swear''!"

* ''[[Public Enemies]]'' makes good use of this trope, partly due to taking place in a time when swearing had yet to be as cheapened as it is today. The "bomb" itself is dropped under appropriate [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|duress]].

* In ''[[Red Eye (Film)|Red Eye]]'', [[Psycho for Hire]] Jackson Rippner spends the majority of the film suave, calm, and in control of himself. His voice even borders on a [[Creepy Monotone]] at times. However, when he catches Lisa attempting to foil his plan, ''again'', in the airplane bathroom, not only does he get seriously violent, but he finally starts to swear. (The rest of the swearing in the movie is from mostly heroic characters.) In a callback to his earlier misjudged drink order--

{{quote| ''"You know what I think? I think you're not such an honest person. Because I've been following you for eight weeks now, and I never once saw you order anything but a '''fucking''' Sea Breeze!''}}

{{quote| '''[[Silent Bob]]:''' [[This Is Sparta|The sign! On the back of the car! Said "Critters...Of]] ''[[Completely Missing the Point|Hollywood!!]]''" '''YOU DUMB FUCK!!!'''}}

* In ''[[Twenty Eight Days (Film)|28 Days]]'', the writers had to deliberate over the best place for Sandra Bullock to use the F word, it being a PG-13 movie an' all. In the end, they struck "Fuck Mr. Rogers" and went with the more perfunctory scene in which Bullock's character defends herself in a group circle. "Would you please just BACK THE FUCK OFF?!"

* An extremely creative usage in ''[[Raising Arizona]]'', one of the [[Coen Brothers]]' few PG-13 rated movies:

{{quote| So, he's got the sandwich in one hand, and the fucking head in the other!}}

{{quote| '''Adam Banjo''':(bleeding to death) Fuck... you...<br />

'''Otis B. Driftwood''': That's what they all say. "Fuck you!" Well it ain't gonna save you. It don't scare me none and it don't suddenly make you a fucking hero. }}

{{quote| "Well...FUCK!"}}

** This is also the only time we get to hear ''Ryan Seacrest'' curse.

* Even ''Siskel & Ebert'' considered this trope to be hilarious in the film ''[[Critters]]'', in which it's uttered in Critterese by a foot-tall alien furball, and the translation appears as a subtitle.

* Subverted in the ''Porky's'' sequel, when a character's misheard demand that an evangelist "get the flock out of here!" is mis-heard by an arena full of people ... and (this being a ''Porky's'' film) receives a standing ovation from the teen protagonists.

* [[Pirates of the Caribbean|"You blew me hat off, ya bitch!"]]

** That was a deleted scene, and the word was censored.

* 1971's "A New Leaf" (which co-writer and co-star Elaine May had since disavowed) has Walter Matthau dropping "hell" and "damn" several times (throwing in a "damn it to hell") as well as "son of a bitch"once (after being called a son of a bitch). Plus it had a scene of a woman removing her bikini top, cutting away to Matthau running off in a panic just in time. The MPAA gave this film a "G" rating.

* In the PG-13 rated ''[[Cellular]]'', Mooney finally reaches the end of his rope with people calling his retirement business a beauty parlor. "It's a day spa, you fuck!"

* ''Tank'' features one. While in the chow hall, Command Sergeant Major Carey ([[James Garner]]) is eating with the enlisted men, much to the displeasure of the mess sergeant. Fully prepared to chew the Sergeant Major a new one for such a breach of etiquette, the master sergeant points out that he's been working mess halls over 27 years. Dwight D. Eisenhower ate his cooking! Carey calmly explains he came in not for a surprise inspection, but because he wanted to eat with the men and because the food smelled good, and proceeded to compliment the mess sergeant on his cooking.

{{quote| '''MSG Johnson:''' "You wanna talk about my food, you taste that apple cobbler and ''then'' you talk about my food."<br />

* In the first ''[[Critters]]'' film two crites are having a subtitled argument about how harmless the humans when suddenly one of them gets blown to pieces with a shotgun blast the survior shouts "Oh fuck!" in subtitles.

* In the anti-[[Mc Carthyism]] film ''[[The Front]]'', Woody Allen spends the entire film fronting for blacklisting writers, but without committing himself... until (in the last line) he tells the Unamerican Activities Sub-Committee to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|go fuck themselves]]... ''in a PG-rated movie!''

{{quote| '''Senator Chalmers:''' Frank, we must all compromise.<br />

'''Lt. Bullitt:''' Bullshit. }}