The F Word (Not the show!)

[Lorne.t]

I don't know if it's just me but I seem to have noticed the word **** appearing far more frequently on a variety of UK tv shows from sit coms to dramas and talk shows.
I have no problem with it at all but it just seems recently the floodgates have opened and shows have carte blanche to wheel it out willy nilly alongside the C word on several occasions.
Anyones else noticed an increase or am I just ******* stupid?!!

[LouBarlow]

I can't recall ever hearing the c-word on tv.

[Richie]

Weirdly I only ever notice it when it's bleeped for some bizarre reason (like on the post-watershed Screenwipe and Jonathan Ross shows) but that's maybe because I swear like a **** all the time.

[Lorne.t]

That's the thing,it's not beeped on JR's show anymore,that was one of the ones that stood out.

[LeftHandedGuitarist]

I can't recall ever hearing the c-word on tv.

Deadwood
The Sopranos
The Wire
Weeds
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Rome

(I guess you don't watch any of them :p )

EDIT: Ah, unless you're referring to UK only shows. In that case, yes it doesn't really crop up.

[zantarous]

The really bizarre thing is Trouble and Paramount bleep out the strangest things, things that could not even be considered swearing.

never really got into Deadwood and stopped watching mid season two but Lovejoy turned swearing into an artform brilliant. Having the f word used in comedy and drama is a lot more realistic then someone saying, damn or sugar.

[LouBarlow]

Deadwood
The Sopranos
The Wire
Weeds
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Rome

(I guess you don't watch any of them :p )

EDIT: Ah, unless you're referring to UK only shows. In that case, yes it doesn't really crop up.

Yeah I was referring to UK TV shows really - US shows stick out like a sore thumb and it is always a massive thing when they use it. CYE in particular - that first season episode with the mispelling of the obituary is just a clasic piece of comedy :lol:

[Dan]

I can't recall ever hearing the c-word on tv.

Stephen Fry said it in his 50 NOT OUT documentary last weekend between 9pm and 10pm.

[Lorne.t]

A quick Google search brings up the fact that 5 were fined recently for using the C word in a documentary about a fat boy who mentioned people would say there's that fat **** from Tricia when they saw him!
It also brought up Billie Piper saying it in the first episode of her prossie programme but I can't remember hearing it.

[LouBarlow]

Wow I must watch more tv then.

[Lorne.t]

The really bizarre thing is Trouble and Paramount bleep out the strangest things, things that could not even be considered swearing.

never really got into Deadwood and stopped watching mid season two but Lovejoy turned swearing into an artform brilliant. Having the f word used in comedy and drama is a lot more realistic then someone saying, damn or sugar.


I'm fine with "Ruddy Nora" thank you very much!

[GProject]

The really bizarre thing is Trouble and Paramount bleep out the strangest things, things that could not even be considered swearing.
You mean the daytime stuff - well in the case of Paramount, they seem to use the daytime American versions which ban more words that we do over here. We could show the regular unbleeped version in most cases I'm sure, I've never worked out why they don't.

[36Degrees]

I can't recall ever hearing the c-word on tv. Oh, great. And now you're mocking me. You selfish country-music-loving lady..

but then that wasn't for the UK market.... nor US market......

I guess give it a few years, the more people say it the more acceptable it is ;)

[Greemie666]

I'm fine with "Ruddy Nora" thank you very much!

What about "blummin ummer"

[Lorne.t]

Or my all time favourite "Flippin' heck"!!

[Richie]

Homegrown shows like Shameless use the C word frequently alongside the F word!

[SqueakyG]

I can't recall ever hearing the c-word on tv.
I was watching a prog on the history of Channel 4 last night on More4 (it was basically C4 patting themselves on the back for all the controversial groundbreaking programming they have made...)

It had a few instances of the C word, including the time on Brass Eye that Chris Morris inserted the subliminal message: "Grade is a ****."

[Island Swing]

Or my all time favourite "Flippin' heck"!!


Tucker ? Is how i always think of that phrase!

[wozwebs]

You must have missed this classic on Sky's Goals on Sunday then 2 weeks ago at 11am when West Ham keeper Stephen Bywater was talking about his former goalkeeping coach Les Sealy and said "he always gave me good advice - always said not to me not to be a, you know a, a...." then he spelt out the C word. It was a classic TV moment.

Chris Kamara didn't know what to say. Apparently the week after they did a formal apology at the start of the show. Baker & Kelly were taking the mick out of it in their new podcast (which is excellent).

Must be the earliest recorded time of the C word either being said or spelt out in UK TV history. Was watching live and nearly spat out my cuppa!

[Alan b]

I didn't see that bit when he said it but I saw the apology on last Sunday's show and thought he had actually said it, not just spelling it out :nuts:

[rozzer1971]

I can't recall ever hearing the c-word on tv.
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[LiviLion]

IIRC did Billie Piper not say the C word in the first episode of that hooker program she is on at the moment.

[SIMON ADEBISI]

Caprice said it at 9am on GMTV.

[Alan b]

The vet woman Trudder Moss or whatever here name was said that she was ****** off once on Saturday morning kids TV.