Fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Battlestar Gallactica, The Simpsons and Buffyverse will find some very familiar words in Wikipedia's list of fictional expletives :
- ass-tard From Andy Weir's webcomic Casey and Andy, a portmanteau of "bastard," "ass" and "retard," and used in the same way as its source words.
- bleep - from Larry Niven's Known Space stories; the bleep used to censor profanity eventually turned into a swearword itself.
- d'oh - famous phrase coined by Homer Simpson from the popular series The Simpsons
- frack - from Battlestar Galactica. Similar meaning to "fuck", but the usage by children in a 1978 TV show might suggest that it doesn't carry more social weight than "rats" or "darn" in the universe of Battlestar Galactica.
- fucktard - from B3ta; contraction of "fucking" and "retard"; meaning a fucking retard.
- Holy flerking shnit - Phrase used by Kang of The Simpsons in one of the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes. Derived from "Holy fucking shit."
- joojooflop - from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "One whole joojooflop situation"
- zark - from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; seems to be a substitute for "fuck"; almost certainley a blasphemy on the Great Prophet Zarquon. The full Zarquon is also commonly used.
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