Okay, I’m going to be honest with you. This was a really hard list to put together. How do I distinguish between best F-bomb one-liners and best F-bomb scenes and best F-bomb movies? I could make a top ten list of best F-Bomb movies (movies filled to the brim with great uses of the word, “fuck”) and films like Casino and Goodfellas would certainly make the list (and they do not appear here). Also certain to make the list would be one of the best cursing movies of all time, Pulp Fiction, there’s more than a handful of great uses of the F-word in that sucker (our very own David Frank correctly threw Ving Rhame’s magical delivery of the word “Mutha … fucka” into the mix as I was making the list … again, it did not make the cut.
Instead I decided to go for an imperfect hodgepodge of great F-Bomb moments, be it a scene or just one line. Not the best, perhaps. But the best right now. Ask me again tomorrow and you get a different list. The purpose of these things is not necessarily to be correct anyway (though that helps). It’s to get the discussion going and inevitably be called a jerk by someone because I dared include a scene from Planes, Trains and Automobiles but left out one of the best cursing characters in recent memory (the great Detective Dignam). I get that I’m an absolute moron for not including this or that. And how, oh how, could I not include one Sam Jackson scene? (Hint: I kinda do). But away we go.
Welcome to my very first cheat of the list! Be sure to keep an eye out for two more as some of these pairings were just too irresistible to miss.
Steve Martin, Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Martin has been through one disaster after another trying to get home for Thanksgiving dinner and now Mrs. Poole is about to let him have some very bad news.
Signature F-bomb line: “And I really don’t care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn’t fucking there. And I really didn’t care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile in my fucking face. I want a fucking car right fucking now.”
Judd Nelson, The Breakfast Club: Judd Nelson recalls just some of the sunnier moments in the Bender household. This scene still hits hard and the F word replacement (with the word “damn”) is one of the great unintentionally funny moments of the film on regular TV.
Signature F-bomb line: “No, dad, what about you? ‘FUCK YOU'”
Pacino does a lot of gold-medal caliber cursing in this movie so it was hard to choose. So I chose one of the 8 billion times he was really upset, and probably the line I quoted most often when I was a young, disturbed child watching this movie.
Signature F-bomb line: “Fuck Casper Gomez and fuck the fucking Diaz Brothers. Fuck ’em all. I bury those Cock-A-Roaches!”
Pesci’s Leo Getz hates tuna and he definitely hates hospitals. I purposely left off Lethal Weapon 4 because the schtick — like its cast members — got way too old.
Signature F-bomb line: “They fuck you at the drive-thru!/They fuck you at the hospital!”
Murphy and Arsenio Hall talk smack about boxing greats.
Signature F-bomb line: “Fuck you, fuck you and fuck you, who’s next?”
Goodman has things to say or think about but that damn Donny (Steve Buscemi) keeps distracting his train of thought.
Signature F-bomb line: “Shut the fuck up, Donny”
