Here Are the Best F-Bombs in PG-13 Movie History

According to the classification standards of the Motion Picture Association (formerly known as the MPAA), a PG-13 film can use the “f-word” exactly one time without running the risk of an R-rating — so they better fucking use it wisely.

Now, to be clear, the MPA’s rules for rating a film over its explicit content are more like guidelines, and the recently renamed organization has long been known to give preferential treatment to friendly studios while keeping the ratings process frustratingly opaque for less esteemed filmmakers. The dubious ethics and lack of transparency that plagued America’s foremost film rating organization was the subject of the 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated — hilariously, the then-MPAA awarded an early cut of the film with the dreaded NC-17 classification. 

However, for all the inconsistencies of the rating system that decides the marketability of every domestically released feature film, one MPA standard has stayed constant throughout the rebrands: one “fuck” does not an R-rating make.

Over in Film Twitter, horror movie enthusiast Erick Lorinc proclaimed that Regina Hall’s hilarious and iconic line delivery in a special Scary Movie 3 scene is the top f-bomb ever dropped in a PG-13 movie — though it certainly has competition. Readers under the age of 17 require an accompanying parent or adult guardian for this thread…