History and Evolution of Swearing In Movies

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Contents:
0:00 intro
1:30 The Habit of Happiness 1916
2:30 The Big Parade 1925
3:50 Glorifying the American Girl 1929
4:20 Perfect Day 1929
4:48 Hell's Angels 1930
5:28 The Production Code - Hays Code
7:12 Gone with the Wind
8:04 First F Word
8:38 Ulysses 1967
9:08 MASH 1970
9:40 The MPAA Rating System
10:18 The Exorcist
11:18 The Wolf of Wall Street
12:00 PG-13 Movies
13:10 PG Movies
#movie #history #evolution

[@TKRVideoCentral]

"No G rated movies have swearing." - Hit the buzzer! "BZZZZZZ" - In "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" which is (inexplicably) rated "G" and released in 1979, when Dr Leonard McCoy arrives on the Enterprise, Kirk tells him "Dammit Bones, I need you!". So, mild as it is, it's still there! Heh heh, great video, dude!

[@laslalal8451]

And less we forget Planet Of The Apes' two most iconic lines, "You damn dirty ape!" and "GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!"

[@gwenwagner-sr6zn]

When you mentioned Star Trek, I thought you were going to say, "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a [whatever]." But then I looked it up, and apparently that line was never said any Star Trek media. How odd.

[@J4MMUS]

What about the true grit (1969). That movie was rated G and had moderate swearing (Son of a bitch) and a scene where a guy's hand gets chopped off on-screen

[@elijahvincent985]

Let it Be. 1970. 2 F-Bombs. Rated G.

[@laslalal8451]

Let It Be is rated TV-MA on Disney+ now lol

[@aidanr.c.2604]

9:38 Harold Lloyd actually used the middle finger in Speedy (1928) when he looks in a mirror and realizes his suit is covered in wet paint-he flips the bird to his own reflection

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[@BioHaggard]

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[@quodguidocummensprava9560]

Funny enough, if you look deep enough. Before the 70's and 80's, there were some pretty fucked up, violent, films out there.

[@laslalal8451]

Some minor corrections: There are other PG films that have the F word in them. Examples include All The President’s Men,* The Song Remains The Same (both 1976), Sorcerer (1977), The Right Stuff (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Spaceballs (1987), and Big (1988). And there are some G rated films with swearing, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet Of The Apes (both 1968) come to mind. *All The President's Men actually has 10 F-bombs to be exact and originally got an R rating for it, but ultimately got a PG due to the movie's historical context.

[@qwertypixelYT]

The only "cuss" I remember from 2001 Space Odyssey was "hell"

[@Mega-Tim]

A bridge too far (1977) also features the F word and is pg rated.

[@britneyhochman5204]

And the latter two examples came out after the implementation of PG-13. I can’t think of any other PG examples post-1984, other than Big, but please list them if anyone thinks of any. I think it’s kinda weird that few people talk about this brief window between ‘68 and ‘84 where PG had similar rules to PG-13, and the even briefer window in the mid to late 80s where PG and PG-13 hadn’t quite found its differentiation. Like even the creator of this video doesn’t seem to be fully aware of that. And if you try googling it, most articles just discuss F-bombs in PG-13 movies, totally ignoring the handful of PG examples in the 70s and 80s.

[@inoahguygames]

I originally thought Mrs. Doubtfire was originally rated PG, but in recent years, that became more of a Mandela effect to me.

[@inoahguygames]

That means Beetlejuice was the last use, unless Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is rated PG and has special clearance as a comeback line.

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[@Mars0984]

Well said! Also I’m glad you have this non-tornado channel. Some movies are out the box and some like 1980’s Airplane is PG but has a scene with topless women in it

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[@CockneyRebel1979]

'Beetle-juice' wasn't rated 'P.G.' over here in the U.K. back in the day, it was rated 'Fifteen'- (your equivalent of that's about an 'R'). I think 'Beetle-juice' is rated 'Twelve' over here now, which is roughly equivalent to 'P.G.-Thirteen'.

[@rasmus2777]

Great video! Which source(s) did you use to find these occurrences and establish your timeline?

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[@swegz]

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[@kelechi_77]

9:36 there's silent films that came earlier that also used the middle finger, also a lot of explicit material was prevalent in underground movies, although they weren't mainstream commercially released films so most of the time they didn't adhere to the rules, still a great video though

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[@audenpresents]

I’d love to see a history and evolution of CGI in movies OR types/amount of musicals nominated for Oscars

[@michellecrocker2485]

I can’t imagine there was a lot of movies outside of Gone With the Wind that had swearing during the hays code. You start getting swearing late 60s-early 70s when the Hays code was abolished

[@chad9186]

Spaceballs and Big are PG rated movies with an F bomb in it ..And 16 Candles. PG-13 was around, but not many people were aware of it back then

[@Chris-fm5pl]

There is a G rated disney movie that uses the word 'Hell'. Although it was released in 1959 before the MPAA, it may have been later submitted because all the Home Video releases (VHS, DVD, Bluray) have the G Rating logo on it. In the scene where Maleficent turns into a dragon, she says "Now shall you deal with me, oh Prince, and all the powers of Hell!" And oh, the scene is epic, btw.

[@elijahvincent985]

This isn't profane in context to be fair, and therefore, it isn't considered swearing in this nature and is still appropriate for the G rating.

[@cartooningwithchris5329]

Planet of the Apes was G rated and it had some mild swearing like "damn" and "hell". Also, for PG movies with f*ck "Big" , "Sixteen Candles" , and "Spaceballs" come to mind.

[@ibji]

There's also that line in the movie Sound of Music...'what is it you can't face?'

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[@miggans21012]

In Sixteen Candles Molly Ringwall says "they forgot my fucking birthday" and the movie was PG.

[@matthewbayliss6757]

Big was rated PG and had an F-word in there

[@Warrior2044]

13:26 Beetlejuice isn’t the only PG movie with the f-word. Movies like Sixteen Candles (1984), The Front (1976), Nothing in Common (1986), Spaceballs (1987) had one f-word snuck in, Big (1988), back between the mid 70’s like “All the president’s men (1976) at least 10 f-words to the early 80’s like REDs (1981) had a few. But mostly using the f-word once in Well-known PG movies like Big, Spaceballs, Sixteen candles, and Beetlejuice, sadly that’s a thing from the past. Idk why that change has happened other than the MPAA being inconsistent and timing making the change. 13:16 Also, “shit” was more common in the 70’s and 80’s. Like Top Gun (1986), “shit” was used over 30 times.

[@gwenwagner-sr6zn]

It is a bit weird that the MPAA has become more strict with swearing in family films over the years, despite swearing becoming more common in real life and the internet.

[@Warrior2044]

@@gwenwagner-sr6zn It’s fucking stupid. They’ve been more relaxed with the blood and sex scenes and you’d think they would’ve been more relaxed with the profanity in PG-13 and PG movies.

[@isaacluke4121]

Now you have to make a video about how much swear words are in some of the movies with the most swear words

[@MajaEngel3542]

You should also do a evolution of comedy

[@Croccydile]

An addendum if it will help... A G Rated movie with mild expletives is "The Andromeda Strain" from 1971. It also has a brief scene containing a topless woman. This movie gets away with quite a bit for a G rating. The other PG movie F-bomb of the 80s I remember is Spaceballs with the line "Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!"

[@britneyhochman5204]

A minor correction that the loose “one fuck and moderate swearing” rule seemed to apply to PG movies before the introduction of PG-13, such as the seven-ups or 16 candles and there seemed to be some overlap after the new rating’s implementation in the mid to late 80s with movies such as Beetlejuice, Big, and Spaceballs. I haven’t done much research on this, this is just all based on observations of movies before and after the implementation of PG-13.

[@Ben-ve8js]

wow!

[@nathanslay6342]

Can't believe you forgot to mention a big popular film that really broke the barriers when it comes to swearing, Scarface. That was the first movie to ever use the f-word over 200 times, which was hugely controversial at the time.

[@ioanjonez]

Frankly my dear, this was a great fucking video

[@daniel.d.roberts6850]

9:15 My favorite line

[@spaceKadz]

White Water Summer from 1987 has an f bomb and it's fair share of shits and it's rated PG.

[@ryadachaibou8098]

You're gonna blow up so f-in' hard

[@gumdroplandfilms]

Spaceballs was PG and had an F-Bomb in it.

[@Anotherroom]

I think the real question this video raises is, what would our classic ("oldies") films have looked like without the Hayes code? Such a shame that a LARGE chunk of movies from this era feel so similar because they all had to follow a certain formula.

[@CockneyRebel1979]

I think one of the first swearwords what was used in a British movie was the word, "bloody"- (which, for the record's pretty much equivalent, with regards to its rudeness-level, to "Goddamn" in Canada and the U.S.), in 'The Italian Job', right at the very end of the Sixties, in which, a very angry Charlie Croker yells "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" Now, having just compared "bloody" to "Goddamn"- (which means that it's a step up from 'Gone With The Wind's' "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"), that probably sounds so tame now, by today's standards, but I'm surprised they got away with that particular line back in the Sixties!

[@mrnekokittycatsaki1419]

1980s and the 1990s used the most swear words in PG movies

[@hetconaviation2624]

I remember watching the episode of South Park when, "They're Going to Say Shit on Television" ironically predicted the future by one week. The week after the South Park episode, a USA Network show featured characters saying "shit" and "bullshit" so frequently that it was almost like watching re-runs of SP. Reality imitating "art?"

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[@swegz]

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[@KhmerRestoration]

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[@richiekirsch4885]

Did gotg 3 have anything to do with you making this?

[@swegz]

Nah. I haven't seen it yet. Does something related happen in the film?

[@richiekirsch4885]

@@swegz it has the first mcu f-bomb

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[@3muggles435]

I think the movie Big is also a PG movie with the F Word, I may be wrong it’s been a few years since I’ve watched it

[@inoahguygames]

Another noteable example: out of all the fucks in Rent, not one, not two, but three of them were used in the film (two sung in The Tango Maureen scene and one spoken at the start of the restaurant/La Vie Boheme scene), as they could only choose one outside of singing. I preferred the "Benny called the cops" part of the restaurant scene better for the use of fuck.

[@pleaseenteraname1103]

13:49 Big starring Tom Hanks has oneF bomb in it, “ Who the fuck are you”.

[@Pogo-qo1ob]

There’s a Velvet Underground show from the 60s where the police come in to try & stop it and an officer starts turning down the amps & you can visibly see Lou Reed mouth “what the fuck”

[@Pogo-qo1ob]

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[@void779]

Mel Brooke’s spaceballs has an f word and a couple s words and is PG

[@et2petty]

What about "The Last Detail" dir Hal Ashby?

[@skittleking360]

coud you do a video of the evouloution of gore in horror movies

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Will Scarlet says "FUCK ME, he cleared it!" Also I vaguely remember some old cartoon - maybe a Popeye short but I don't remember - where a bunch of street kids are hanging around when one of them shouts "JESUS! THE COPS!"

[@HCScomix]

I loved this video but I want people to be mature about swearing Tbh

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[@danielphillips7537]

Actually, The Boston Strangler (1968) with Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda was the first movie from a major studio to use the F-word. I've heard that the movie, Blow-Up from MGM in !967 used the word but I've never seen the movie. The film, Medium Cool (1969) also had the F-word from a scene with protesters, That too was before M*A*S*H.

[@mcnerd1767]

The movie spaceballs is rated PG and has an F bomb and a lot of other profanity for a PG movie.

[@dj-um7el]

Kramer VS. Kramer uses the "S" word I believe.

[@LampHatScott]

For some people it is like the atomic bomb dropping on them when damn and hell is used in pg movies.

[@BSL_HAB]

13:02 we shouldn’t say f***

[@indianajones4321]

A Bridge Too Far from 1977 is PG and used an F bomb

[@vin072]

you should look at the history of sex scenes i think it's be and interesting topic lol

[@Shlobama]

Why did I think you said mpla?

[@calamitytor]

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[@Phillysportsplushdude]

9:15

[@Sydneysideliner]

Wait I thought he said "Frankly my dear, I love you let's remarry"

[@BioHaggard]

OH FUCK YEAH

[@swegz]

Nice.. First swear word in the comments on a video about first swear words

[@kalide1704]

idk if you'll take this as a compliment but you kinda look like a cross between two versions of the same character known as Dr. Nick "Niko" Tatopoulos from the 1998 film, "Godzilla" and it's animated cartoon continuation. so, here's my suggestion on what to talk about... *worms.*

[@aripoff9125]

Bullet is not the first movie to say bullshit as it was used in the good the bad and the ugly in 1966 when tuco is talking to his friends one of them asks tuco I thought you were killed in Albuquerque and tuco responds by saying and people talk bullshit

[@lori-annmacdonald5016]

I noticed the earlier movies said g-d d-mn...was this not considered a swear word/taking the Lord's name in vain..? Nothing was mentioned about this in the first five minutes...

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[@ethanmay5667]

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[@sovetski8893]

So even back then people were sensitive 🙄