# Favorite fictional swear words? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126 "2003-03-05T00:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/21 "2003-03-05T03:32:50Z")
For extra credit, remember that Niven’s **tanj** is an acronym for “there ain’t no justice.” Our own **Podkayne** would probably remember her fictional counterpart’s expostulation at the opening of Chapter 2 of Heinlein’s “Podkayne of Mars” – \*\* Oh, _Unspeakables!_ Dirty ears! Hangnails! Snel-frockey! _Spit!_ WE AREN’T _GOING!_\*\* I’ve always had sort of a nostalgic attachment to “snel-frockey.” Too bad it didn’t catch on. And in Heinlein’s “Door Into Summer,” D.B. Davis discovers that the world of 2000, views “kink” and “host” as off-color. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/22 "2003-03-05T03:37:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Omorka \* > \*\*“Hraka,” from **Watership Down** ; also, the rabbit deity-names, Frith and Inle. I took up swearing by them in high school, since my mother didn’t permit me to cuss “for real.” \*\* To which I must add that Bigwig’s cursing of Woundwort represent the single best line ever uttered by a rabbit. Not that there’s much else to go with, there. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/23 "2003-03-05T04:16:39Z")
**"You cursed peaching sneakthief"** one orc to another in _The Lord of the Rings_ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/24 "2003-03-05T04:26:30Z")
Conan used to invoke the name of his deity…“Crom!”…as an expletive. Then there’s Ross & Monica’s (Friends) invented obscene gesture–banging your wrists together twice, as an alternative to flipping the bird. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/25 "2003-03-05T04:40:27Z")
**Late Night with Conan Obrien** introduced “krunk” as an all-purpose substitute to swears not allowed on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/26 "2003-03-05T04:44:09Z")
**Frell** from Farscape. As in, “Frell the Sci-Fi channel for cancelling Farscape, the best show on television.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/27 "2003-03-05T04:45:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eternal \* > \*\ ***Late Night with Conan Obrien** introduced “krunk” as an all-purpose substitute to swears not allowed on TV. \*\* I remember that! That was early on, like the first year of his show. I thought it was great, then I had a student whose last name was Krunk. I felt glad for him that it never caught on. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/28 "2003-03-05T04:50:50Z")
From the Simpsons: Kang’s “Holy flurking schnit!” ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/29 "2003-03-05T04:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > \*\*Anybody remember the cartoon series _The Pirates of Dark Water_? They had a good all-purpose swear word, pronounced “Noy-gee-tut!” It also had an adjective form; you could, for example, call someone a “gee-tutin fool.” I remember it because it was my first encounter with fictional profanity 🙂 \*\* Remember it? Hell, I used to use those curses! Another good one is _krunk_, made famous by Conan O’Brien. It’s extra-fun because it’s also the name of a Transformer’s Nebulan partner! ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/30 "2003-03-05T04:56:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > \*\*Anybody remember the cartoon series _The Pirates of Dark Water_? They had a good all-purpose swear word, pronounced “Noy-gee-tut!” It also had an adjective form; you could, for example, call someone a “gee-tutin fool.” I remember it because it was my first encounter with fictional profanity 🙂 \*\* Remember it? Hell, I used to use those curses! Another good one is _krunk_, made famous by Conan O’Brien. It’s extra-fun because it’s also the name of a Transformer’s Nebulan partner! ---
**Author:** ![markdiscordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@markdiscordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdiscordia)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/31 "2003-03-05T05:02:53Z")
Star Wars characters like to say “stang,” “blast,” and “Sithspawn.” ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/32 "2003-03-05T05:15:35Z")
Just about any line of Captain Haddock’s dialogue. It’s great for building the vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/33 "2003-03-05T06:13:42Z")
Someone on this board (can’t remember who, too lazy to search) reminded me of this gem from _Bloom County_: “Snugglebunnies! Snugglebunnies! Snugglebunnies! Snugg—” ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/34 "2003-03-05T06:37:09Z")
Whenever Boris Badenov swore, he said “Raskolnikov!” (Sounds like a Slavic curse word, actually the name of the murderer in Dostoyevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/35 "2003-03-05T06:37:52Z")
Psst! **Dragonblink**! [Check it out!](http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/questforcamelot/0/74.html) ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/36 "2003-03-05T07:11:05Z")
The _Honey, I Shrunk The Kids_ TV series (which was really underrated, IMO) had some great ones from Wayne Szalinski. Usually variations of _ **cheese and rice!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/37 "2003-03-05T07:29:33Z")
PANTS, used by Lord God King Stephen Fry, in his smashing novel [_Making History_.](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099464810/qid%3D1045068994/sr%3D2-3/ref%3Dsr_2_3_3/202-9967136-7127816) I’ve adopted it for regular use in this timeline-- it’s extremely satisfying, either as a standard ejaculation, eg, “Pants! There’s a _hair_ on my toast!”, or as an intensifier, as in “There’s a pantsing _hair_ in my toast!”, or even as an abstract verb, such as “It doesn’t matter whether I apply jam, marmalade, or just plain butter to my toast, it’s always contaminated to some degree by the presence of some folic material, usually somebody’s cussed _cilium_. What a load of _pants!_” **SolGrundy** , my favourite variant of that is “Cheese 'n Rice all Muddy!” I didn’t know it was fictional-- it’s an invocation that I call upon at least once a month. ---
**Author:** ![CadburyAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@CadburyAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CadburyAngel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/38 "2003-03-05T08:21:47Z")
Firefly gave us “gorram” and “rutting.” They’re pleasantly close to the words they replace. ---
**Author:** ![sc913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sc913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sc913)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/39 "2003-03-05T08:55:48Z")
Frell for me too. My favourite use was when Aeryn and John were getting hot and heavy (under the influence of some gas in season 3). Aeryn: “Frell” John (breathily): “Yeah” Aeryn (breaking off reluctantly):“No,no,no, bad frell” I’ll also second Captain Haddock. Billions of blue blistering barnacles! There’s was whole educational string of them when (IIRC) pirates rob them in _Red Sea Sharks_. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/40 "2003-03-05T09:13:26Z")
I always thought the one from _Pirates of Darkwater_ was “noy-chee-tawt”. But I use that one, too. I’ve used “frell” and “Holy Flurking Schnitt” as well. “Pants” is a good one, but I’ve never used it. I may from now on. Sometimes I like to mix them up. For example: “What a frelling load of pants!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126.md?page=3)