We've got dirty words on the brain.

Today, we're talking about the use and functions of profanity in entertainment and how it may

or may not be changing.

In this episode from way back in 2013, I chat with our pals Steven Thompson, Glen Weldon

and Trey Graham about everything from Anchorman to South Park to Shakespeare.

I'm Linda Holmes and in this encore episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're talking

about profanity in pop culture.

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So Steven, why don't you talk a little bit about your observation that got us onto the topic

of swearing?

Okay, I mentioned last week that I recently became, turns out, one of the last people to

see Anchorman and I was very struck by something very clever they did, where they spent about,

I don't know, the first 45 minutes of the movie, never swearing.

It sets itself up to be this very naughty movie, but it feels like it's sanitized for television.

And there's even a scene where the Christina Applegate character is yelling an anger and she's

saying, that is baloney, that is baloney.

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