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Comic Books
- The second The Savage Dragon/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) crossover ends with a building falling on the heroes, while they exclaim: "Oh, sh-". The storyline continues in Savage Dragon #22, in which begins with them saying "-it!"
- In Superman storyline The Hunt for Reactron, when Supergirl realizes she and her companions have been surrounded by a Science Police K-Squad, she utters "Oh, son of a—" right in the last panel of the chapter.Nightwing: Guys! Guys, c'mon, stop! Someone's gonna see us—
Perseus Hazard: Little late for that. Squad K— Take them down!!
Supergirl: Oh, son of a—
Fan Works
- During Manehattan's Lone Guardian, Ignition tries to go into a profanity-laden outburst after Gray pulls a fast one on him. The narration deliberately intervenes, cutting him off and ending the chapter.
- Stoneybrook Revisited: A Baby-Sitters Club Fan Series ends with Stacey telling Kristy that the baby she's pregnant with is the daughter of Kristy's middle brother Sam. The short ends with Kristy exclaiming "What the—" before it cuts off with the credits.
Film — Animation
- NIMONA (2023): With the title character having apparently performed a heroic sacrifice to save the kingdom, Ballister’s reaction to Nimona showing up alive is to blurt out “Holy sh-“ as the film smashes to the title.
Film — Live-Action
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: HEY, BLOOOONDIE! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU AAAAAAAAAAARE?! JUST A DIRTY SON OF A B— aaaaAAAAaaaaAAAAaaaah!!!! (waaah-WAAAH-waaah)
- Johnny English: Aww fu–
- My Fellow Americans: You son of a– (smash cut to credits)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe: The first two films in the Spider-Man: Home Trilogy end with a Parker saying, "WHAT THE FU-" before it cuts to the credits.
- Spider-Man: Homecoming: Aunt May after finding out Peter is Spider-Man.May: WHAT THE FU– [cue credits with The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" playing]
- Spider-Man: Far From Home: Peter/Spider-Man after he gets framed for terrorism and murder, and his secret identity is exposed to the world by The Daily Bugle.Spider-Man: WHAT THE FU– [smash cut end credits]
- Spider-Man: Homecoming: Aunt May after finding out Peter is Spider-Man.
- Where the Spies Are. We don't hear what David Niven's character thinks of British Intelligence for getting him involved in this crazy caper as the vehicle he's in gets driven away as the credits roll.
Live-Action TV
- The Blackadder episode "Beer" ends with everyone very drunk:Lady Whiteadder: "Luck!" Wa-hey! Get it?
Everyone else: No…
Lady Whiteadder: Oh, come on! "Luck" sounds almost exactly like "fu–" [closing credits] - Heroes:
- "One Giant Leap" and "Cautionary Tales":Claire/Noah: [having in both cases come back to life on a mortuary slab] Holy sh– [to be continued...]
- Did it again in "I Am Become Death":Adam: [after being released from his coffin] Hiro, you son of a bi– [to be continued...]
- "The Eclipse, Part II":Claire: [on seeing Hiro's comic and how it matches the scene in the past they're watching] Holy sh– [to be continued...]
- Amusingly, in several of these cases the next episode's cold open repeats the final scene... except, obviously, the show doesn't end, which leads to unfortunate continuity errors like the scene playing out in the exact same way except for Claire saying "Oh my God" instead.
- "One Giant Leap" and "Cautionary Tales":
- Every episode (at the very least most of them) of Lab Rats ends with the words "Oh, for fu—". In fact, it cuts off after "fuck" rather than in the middle, leaving the full phrase uncompleted but the Precision F-Strike intact.
- At the end of "Let Go Of Me" from Lockwood & Co. (2023), Lucy reveals that she's been keeping Annabel Ward's ring around her neck, and thus the intruder wasn't able to steal it. "What the f—-?" asks George as the show slams to the credits.
- Modern Life Is Goodish: The episode "I've Never Seen a Cat" centres around Dave pulling a prank on his wife by swapping out the insides of one of their son's "Toot-Toot" talking electronic toy cars. After he takes the prank too far, dragging several other couples into his shenanigans, he apologises on stage, singing along with the electronic bus toy that he introduced at the start of the episode. The final word gets cut off by the show credits:Dave: I apologise
For my Toot-Toot car-based stunt
I should have stopped it sooner
But I'm such a Toot-Toot cu- [cut to black] - In the famed Spanish Inquisition episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Cardinal Ximenez' Catchphrase gets cut short by the credits, prompting him to say "Oh, bug-" (presumably the beginning of 'bugger')
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- The Office: Michael ends one episode by saying "But I think this plan sucks ba-"
- Phoenix. At the end of "Give A Dog A Bone", Detective 'Grumpy' Roberts gets a phone call.Grumpy: You know that woman who helped me out the other day? She was just on the phone and...she wants to take me out to dinner. I think she wants to use my body.Fluff: (leaning in close) Grumpy, Grumpy, you're a dirty little—(sound of punch and Freeze-Frame Ending of Grumpy bending over in agony while his colleagues laugh)
- The Rockford Files ended one episode with Rockford hanging up the telephone and angrily declaring, "Son of a—" before a cut to closing credits. For The '70s, this was pushing the envelope.
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: The Stinger of the first episode has Bruce Banner explain to a seemingly drunk Jen that Steve Rogers lost his virginity to a girl during his USO tour. Jen, having faked her drunkenness, triumphantly announces, "CAPTAIN AMERICA FU-" before getting cut off by the credits.
Music
- Weird Al is notoriously clean in his lyrics, but he does push the envelope in a couple songs as they fade out. The first one is in "Phony Calls" where the final line as the song fades out is "...but you're just a pain in the..."
- "Another Tattoo" is Even Worse, as the last thing heard before the fade out is "OW! Mother-"
- Wilco's song "Monday" ends with singer Jeff Tweedy exclaiming, "Son of a—!"
Visual Novels
- Used in Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane when Ruby is reading the newspaper about the new crowned queen.Ruby: Whoever this new queen is, I bet she's just another rotten noble. Hmph... It says there's a picture of her on the next page. ...! Wait... WHAT THE FU
Webcomics
- This happens in Avalon, when Ceilidh turns around and unexpectedly sees a lot of student campaign posters plastered all over the school wall.Ceilidh: HOLY SH—
Caption: To be continued... - El Goonish Shive: Tedd's reaction to how much magic's "not-change" has actually changed things is "What. The. F-", before the strip ends. (Nanase previously had the same reaction interrupted by a cut to Elliot and Ellen).
- Gunnerkrigg Court: There is a symbol (the elemental symbol for antimony) that is in the lower right hand corner of the last page of each chapter. On one occasion, the symbol was strategically placed over the last half of a curse word.
- Nedroid once covered up Beartato shouting "WHAT THE FUCK?" by placing a "To Be Continued" sign over it.
- Rage Guy, to the point when it has become so memetic that it's a subversion to end it with -CK.
- Subnormality: A newly-damned soul in hell is wearing a shirt which displays his thoughts. After smugly assuming he can outwit the oncoming inescapable punishments, he realizes he's about a receive a horrible beating from a large and violent man, and so the last panel has his shirt saying "OH SHI-"
Web Original
- The traditional Internet response to someone trying to divide by zero is "OH SHI—" with the implication that the universe ended in mid-word.
- Atop the Fourth Wall: The ending of Linkara's Future 5 review is as follows:Linkara: (goes to answer door) Oh hey, it's my student loan bill! Did— Wait... MY STUDENT LOAN BILL??!! Oh, fu—
- Bad Lip Reading of The Force Awakens:Kylo: No, no I'm a Vulcan.
Han: Vulcan, my a— - Dad: In "Carl", we watch Carl sneaking into a black and white building while thinking to himself. Just as he enters the building, he starts to say "Yippee ki yay, motherfu-". The door slams shut and cuts off the dialogue for the audience before he can finish. Then the episode ends.
- Four Swords Misadventures: "VAATI you NO GOOD MOTHER—" *Credits Music Plays*
- A popular way to end an episode of Game Grumps.JonTron: Next time on Game Grumps! Order up! ORDER UP A NEW FU
- The first season finale of the web series The Guild ends with Codex's "Oh, sh—"
- In the Honest Trailer for Frozen Fever:Narrator: Do you remember when Disney actually tried to hide the innuendoes in their films? 'Cause those things [the snowgies] look like chubby little d— BE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE HONEST TRAILERS
- How It Should Have Ended: The ending of "The Wizard of Oz" parody.Dorothy: Wh-wh-WHAT THE FUC-(ends)
- Future!Lex Luthor in I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC after getting Deadpool and Green Goblin out of the past instead of Superman."Motherf-" (credits)
- One episode of The Legend of Neil ended with the line "Fu-" The next episode began with the line "ck!"
- LoadingReadyRun's "Munro's Meats"Mr. Munro: What the f—[20 seconds of end credits]--uck is this? [continues rant]
- My Little Transformer Black Friday has Grumpy bear say this:Grumpy: Son of a bi-[credits of tsubasa wa pleasure line plays]
- From the Nigahiga episode "How To Run For President!":"I'm Ryan Higa, and I don't approve any of this shi—"
TEEHEE - Shorts Wars: In "RIGGY VS. CLONE RIGGY", Riggy is about to say "motherfucker" at the end in response to him not getting a raise, but is cut off by the end of the short.
- The Nostalgia Critic ended his review on Free Willy with:NC: "But like I said, it's not a terrible movie. I mean, it's not as bad as something like, A Troll in Central…- Nope! …Nope, nope! I know how this works. If I say the entire title, that means I have to review it next week. Yeah, I know this joke. I'm not doing it, mm-mmm. There is no way you're getting me to say A Troll in Central Park…!"
Text: "Next Week: A Troll in Central Park"
NC: FUUUUUUU- * cut to villain sinisterly eating popcorn, then end credits* - In Robotbox and Cactus, Robotbox gets out a "go fu—" in response to Cactus in the episode "Sitcom" before the ending screen cuts him off.
- In ScrewAttack's Top Ten PS3 Exclusives list:Announcer: NUMBER EIGHT!
Stuttering Craig: Now THIS is a game! Virtua Fighter 5: All the levels, characters, it's so—
Handsome Tom: Wait, wait, wait. It's on the 360. It's not exclusive.
(Beat)
Stuttering Craig: Fu—
Announcer: NUMBER SEVEN! - Sonic for Hire: At the end of "Casino Zone part 3".Earthworm Jim: Wait a second... isn't Sonic on Ice cancelled? YOU MOTHERFU-(end theme)
- In the SuperMarioLogan episode "Bowser Junior's Lottery Ticket!":(Long Beat)
Bowser Junior: WHAT THE— (cut to SML Question)- The episode "Jeffy's Scavenger Hunt!" ends in a similar way:
Jeffy: (after realizing he's been tricked) YOU MOTHERFU- (cut to SML Question) - Ultra Fast Pony, "Random Eye Magic":Twilight: Son of a—
[end credits] - Viner Thomas Sanders plays around with this in some of his Vines:
- A couple take advantage of Vines being on infinite loop to make it sound like he's actually cussing.Uuuuuck... all of these expletives. *stubs his toe on something* FFFFFF—
It... is ridiculous how many people curse. *drops his drink* Shhhhh— - In a couple of his Disney pranks, the Vine's timer cuts off the curse at the end, such as:"Disney Pranks with Friends!" "I'm a beautiful butterfly!" *dumps plastic bugs on a friend playing a video game* "AAAH! Those are fake?! Oh, you son of a bi—"
- A couple take advantage of Vines being on infinite loop to make it sound like he's actually cussing.
- Yahtzee, of Zero Punctuation fame, spent his time ragging on that 50 Cent game exhaustively wording every phrase so that nothing could be misconstrued as racism. Then he ends the review with this gem: "Not that they'd know anything about work, the lazy nig—" *END CREDITS*
- At the end of the Overly Sarcastic Productions "Animal Brides" episode, this is how Red (who usually plays a song over the end of her videos) reacts to a guitar string snapping. Doubles as Last Note Hilarity.Red: "Oh F-!"
- At the end of Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 30, when the Namekians leave Earth after Dende confesses his love for Gohan:Dr. Briefs: What a fa—! [cut to end card]
- Spooky Month: At the end of "Unwanted Guest", one of the Wheel of the Worst hosts somehow hears Skid and Pump say it's Spooky Month through the TV, causing him to start dancing. His baffled co-host replies "What?! What the fu-", with the short cutting to the credits before he's able to finish.
Western Animation
- In BoJack Horseman: "Love And/Or Marriage" does this with Diane when she finds out she's pregnant.Doctor: Oh, and, uh, lay off the drugs. Especially now.
Diane: Why especially now?
Doctor: Oh, don't worry. Your baby's fine.
Diane: What do you mean "baby"? Why do you say "baby"?
Doctor: Do you not know? You're pregnant.
Diane: MOTHERF— [episode ends]- Subverted in the following episode, which begins where this previous episode left off, with Diane audibly yelling "—UCKER!"
- In an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Billy is taking a shower with the new "shampoo" Mandy gave him:Billy: (sniffing) This isn't shampoo, it's dog— [Episode ends]
- Harley Quinn: The episode "Climax at Jazzapajizza" ends with Poison Ivy yelling "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU—" due to having to abort her plan to terraform Gotham in order to save Harley who sacrificed herself in order to stop this plan. This is repeated in the Previously on… that begins the next episode. That episode begins properly with Poison Ivy yelling "—UUUUUUUCK!"
- South Park:
- In "Here Comes The Neighborhood", after the townspeople have finally chased all of the rich people out of town (who coincidentally all happened to be black):Mr. Garrison: ...and now we can sell all their homes and become millionaires.
Guys: WHAT?!
Jimbo: But then you had us all do all that for nothing! Don't you see, if you get rich selling these homes, then there'd still be rich people in South Park.
Randy Marsh: Yeah, you'll become what you hate.
Mr. Garrison: ... Well, yeah, but at least I got rid of all those damn ni— [South Park ending theme] - Mr. Garrison, now the President of the United States, finally gets to say the N-word uncensored in "Doubling Down".
- In "Here Comes The Neighborhood", after the townspeople have finally chased all of the rich people out of town (who coincidentally all happened to be black):
- The ending of the Tigtone episode "Tigtone and Lord Festus: Credible Threat" when Tigtone and Festus' fight continues into the end credits after it seemed like the latter was defeated:Helpy: I'm getting too old for this shi- [company logo]
