PG-13
3A PG-13 rating allows you one tastefully, tactfully placed use of the word “fuck.” The usage is non-sexual of course it is a PG-13 film after all.
So, what is your favorite singular use of the word “fuck” in a PG-13 movie?
Alternatively, what PG-13 movie would you insert the word “fuck” in? Shoehorn it into a portion of the dialogue and then share that below.
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I don’t know about fuck but I was shocked when watching Mothra vs Godzilla the Battle for Earth and there’s a muttered shit in it. It’s just after an Indiana Jones like escape from an ancient temple where the hero just stole a jeweled idol. Then gets arrested. Pretty appropriate.
I loved it when Veronica Corningstone gets Ron Burgundy fired in “Anchorman” by changing his teleprompter to read, “Go fuck yourself, San Diego!”
But probably the most meta example is when Chili Palmer, played by John Travolta, says in “Be Cool” (sequel to “Get Shorty,” rated PG-13), “Do you know that unless you’re willing to use the R rating, you can only say the F-word once? You know what I say? Fuck that!"
@ircon96
Just re-watched that film recently… I forgot how funny some of it was.
“Milk was a bad choice”
@chienfou
One of my favorites is the whole “Sex Panther” thing… “60% of the time, it works every time.” 
1986 animated film/ad for Transformers, a generally PG rated cartoon (violence), got upped to PG-13 for this one moment (and not, oddly enough, the very visceral slaughters of the heroic characters – because newer toy models were going to hit shelves – in the first fifteen minutes).
Also a similar case in Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel (2019); there’s gruesome CGI murders, but they hold off on swearing until one scene near the back end. Even the titular character’s “and you call yourselves heroes” rallying speech doesn’t get punctuated with swearing.