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The reason I brought up Four Weddings And A Funeral when someone mentioned the F-word, is that (at least in the cinema version) the opening scene is of Hugh Grant waking up very late for a wedding he's going to, using the F-word when he realises how late, waking all his friends up, all of whom verbally realise how late they are too, and eventually everyone piles into a car and set off for the wedding. The first few minutes of the film have literally no dialogue except the F-word. Dozens of F-words, in fact. And it works because it's realistic: for once a character in a film is actually saying what you'd (well, I'd) say in the same situation.

And US network television can't just cut the whole scene, because the credits run over it -- so I wonder what they did instead.

Exactly.

I personally use, err, s-word. It's not that Croatian doesn't have plenty of curses, but they are more suitable for verbose outpours (e.g. when you hit you finger when hammering a nail). English ones are nice, short, concise one-sylable words.