HOW IN THE WORLD DID THIS GET A 'PG' RATING WITH THE F-WORD IN IT?

If the F word was muted, then the F word wasn't in it.

holy *beep* this guy love the caps lock button.

The film was actually rated R at first, but it was re-rated PG on an appeal.

This film predated the PG-13 rating by several months, for which it would've qualified for had it existed since it has elements that made it unsuitable for a PG rating, but not bad enough to warrant an R rating.

"Tank" and many other films that sat somewhere between PG and R necessitated the PG-13 rating, which made its debut in 1984.

It ruined your day THAT MUCH did it SirCapsLockAlot, that it didn't get an R-rating? This is one of the most harmless films I've seen in ages, the type that gets rated 11 (as in 11 years) in my part of the world.

It happens. Look at Beetlejuice. lol

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This is not the only PG movie I've seen with the dreaded 'f' word in it. "Hanky Panky," with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, also contains the dreaded 'f' word. I don't understand it. Don't Hollywood filmmakers know that people never talk that way in real life? I never heard the 'f' word outside of a Hollywood movie! Don't they know that saying that word will curve your spine, infect your soul, and keep our country from winning the two wars? Shame on you, Hollywood, for introducing that evil word into our language. They invented it; no one ever used it before the movies did.

Thank you, George Carlin.

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It was formally appealed to the 21-member MPAA appeals board. You need a 2/3 vote to be successful, and it was.

Prior to the advent of the PG-13 rating later that year, the “automatic language rule” meant an automatic R rating for any use of the “harsher, sexually-derived” vulgarities. With PG-13, a single use of the f-word in a non-sexual context was allowed.

F-bombs had been allowed before in PG films. The first instance was 1976’s “The Front” in which the protagonist uses it in his final defiant payoff. Later that year, “All The President’s Men” used it many times. In fact, “rat fucking” was a plot point — an actual term used by the actual subjects in the story. Both were formally appealed, and were successful on the basis of historical accuracy.

The only use of the word in “Tank” that I recall was Jim Garner saying, “That’s the best fuckin’ apple cobbler I’ve ever tasted.” How they argued that line was indispensable I have no idea.

BTW, movies are never re-rated unless the producer applies for it.
The original rating always stands unless surrendered or revoked.