25 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulp Fiction

17. The F-Word Is Used 265 Times

Pulp Fiction Samuel L Jackson
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It's no shock to anyone that Pulp Fiction makes liberal use of profanity, though it might surprise you to learn quite how much. The word "f**k" is used a staggering 265 times across the film's 154 minutes, accounting for 1.72 F-words per movie minute.

At present, this makes it the 28th most F-word-heavy movie in history, coincidentally falling one spot below Tarantino's previous film Reservoir Dogs, which pips it with 269 uses of the expletive (though with a mere 99-minute runtime, that's a far higher per-minute average of 2.71 F-words).

Hilariously, the incidence of profanity proves a major headache for squeamish TV networks when trying to edit the film for content:

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