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PG? THERE WAS AN F-BOMB!

posted 18 years ago by genie-13
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Alright, it's been years since I saw this, so I forget the exact context of the scene. But somewhere in the second half of the film, during a game, a home run is hit, and J.P. stands up and quietly says something. When I saw this, I was like "wait a minute... did he just say what I think he said?" I rewound the VCR, turned the volume up loud, and clear as day, he dropped the big F DASH DASH DASH word! I guess the only reason it made a PG rating is because J.P. says it quietly enough to go over most peoples' heads!

[–] imzadi35 18 years ago

I think it's PG because Glover's character says "...are you S---tin' me..." at one point in the movie.

[–] goombakiller 18 years ago

The ratings have been less strict in the past. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure has numerous swear words and some sex references, but still has a PG rating.

[–] piratelover71 18 years ago

Are you kidding me? They've been a lot LOOSER about their ratings lately.

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[–] gobears19872 18 years ago

A lot of older movies were rated PG when they had swear words, but weren't bad enough to be R. That is why they developed the PG-13 rating in recent years.

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[–] m-lake 17 years ago

Yea but in SpaceBalls even though it's a bad word it so funny that you end up laughing!!!!

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[–] thisjustin804 11 years ago

The ratings reflect zeitgeist; words weren't the worst worry.

[–] piratelover71 17 years ago

It really depends on how far back you're talking. Years and years ago there was no PG-13, I'll agree with you there, but there were a lot that if it had even one swear word they'd be marked up to an R rating. I'm talkin way back when. Back in the days of Carey Grant, Katherine Hepburn, you know, those golden years!! Those movies were the best!

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[–] tdvda 17 years ago

Airplane! has the F word and Nudity yet its rated PG :-)

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[–] GanjaChief 16 years ago

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is rated PG. Unless you're a complete moron, this obviously is a kids movie suitable for kids.

It easily could've been rated G, except for the one time usage of "sh*t".

[–] b_shockey21 16 years ago

What about Sixteen Candles?? It was made in '85, is rated PG, and it drops an F-bomb, plus the nude girl in the shower, and lots of use of 's' and *beep* excessive drinking/partying, and a lot of sexual conversation/innuendos.

I haven't watched this in years but it is much more kid-friendly than Sixteen Candles.

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[–] Pythe 17 years ago

It really depends on how far back you're talking. Years and years ago there was no PG-13, I'll agree with you there, but there were a lot that if it had even one swear word they'd be marked up to an R rating. I'm talkin way back when. Back in the days of Carey Grant, Katherine Hepburn, you know, those golden years!! Those movies were the best!

Actually, movie ratings as we know them did not exist back in the '30s and '40s, when Grant and Hepburn were making movies. The MPAA did not adopt the ratings system until some times in the '60s. Before that, the Hays Code specified what movies could and could not show and what philosophies they ought to promote; there were no ratings as such, there were merely movies that could be released and movies that couldn't. Before even that, movies could do whatever they wanted (in theory, although most didn't); for example, pre-Code movies did exist which showed nudity.

But, I digress.

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[–] genie-13 17 years ago

I "S" you not- there was an "F" word!

[–] sbarker15 17 years ago

i doubt they would have a 7 year old kid whisper the f word

[–] tuxedomaskdawg 17 years ago

yeah theres no way J.P. said the f word come on

[–] canadianannie86 11 years ago

Yeah what F word? There was none

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[–] jmcvay_666 17 years ago

The Pg-13 rating was well established by the time this movie was released in 1995. Red Dawn released in 1984, which incidentally had a earned a Guiness World Record for the most acts of violence portrayed in a movie at the time, was the first movie to be released with a Pg-13 rating. And I honestly can't recall any of the characters in that movie using the F-word. So I sincerely doubt that had J.P. said that word, no matter how quietly, it would have been caught and either edited out or the movie would've been rated appropriately. The matter of when this movie was released is a moot point, because no matter how young some of these posters may be 12 years is not that long ago. PG-13 ratings were around then.

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[–] Jake3988 16 years ago

Spaceballs is pg, and there's TWO f-words, a couple s-words, and a few b-words.

"Son of a btch. He shot my hair."
"Come back here you fat bearded btch!"
"We ain't found sh!t"
"Fck. Even in the future nothing works."
"We're not just doing it for the money... we're doing it for a SH!T load of money!"

And so on. Those are the ones I remember.

[–] mcfly-31 16 years ago

Far as I remember, Spaceballs only had one (mentioned above). I don't recall it used aside from Moranis.

There were no ratings 'til the 60s because all films operated on the same moral structure. Be it comedy, drama, romance, war film, whatever. None of those films featured heavy gore or nudity, so a rating was unneccessary. Parents knew what kind of material a kid would be interested in. Not in a strong content kind of way, but whether they'd be bored or not. In the late 60s the "M" rating (Mature) was attached to a lot of Hitchcock films because his were pushing the normal boundaries of partial nudity or graphic violence. I believe the same went for "Peeping Tom".

The rule for the "F" bomb the last 20 years or so has been that if it's used as a throwaway (and spoken off-camera), you might get a PG. If it's used in a sexual way, immediate R. Though that might be different now, as even if you smoke in a film, an automatic R is attached.

[–] androydd 14 years ago

PG-13 Rating was adopted in 1984 when viewers were concerned with violence and gore in movies(particularly Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom. This led to the PG13 rating which still had a vague description as to WHAT was PG and what was PG 13, but it originated to be attached to films with greater violence or gore, not necessarily language.

This is why many comedies were still rated PG despite language, yet action movies of the late 80s were rated PG 13 such as Batman and others.

Can someone tell me where George uses the S Word and specifically where JP drops an F bomb? I still don't really believe he does

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 11 years ago

Good points.

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[–] kicagree 15 years ago

I thinks it's because it was a time when parents weren't so uptight. The ratings system is rediculous not. I was 7 when I first saw it. Me and my sister watched it ALL THE TIME! Now that was a while back. But I don't think it bothered us. If it did, not for too long.

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