If you were to read the previous few frames, you'd know that this is The Scottish Trope being violated. Rocco: Fuckin' Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word. While the media aimed at a general audience tends to only sprinkle on swearing, media aimed at mature audiences sometimes dumps it on with a big fucking ladle: lots and lots of fucking F-bombs.
Some writers think the media is oversanitized and does not reflect how people speak in Real Life , particularly how they swear. Heavy usage of swearing is seen to be more realistic or 'gritty'. There is some truth to this, as there is more swearing in real life than any prime time TV show would lead you to believe.
On the other hand, writers can go overboard on swear words to the point you can't take the characters spouting them seriously. This is particularly noticeable in works that try too hard to be Darker and Edgier but come across as childish instead. When there's already gratuitous Gorn and sex all over, using Obligatory Swearing to make the characters sound like year-olds out of their parents' earshot seems par for the course.
Putting a bunch at the beginning can result in an R-Rated Opening. Often, this is used as a Comedy Trope , where a character's usage of a long string of curse words is the joke itself.
This often occurs in dark comedies. When movies or shows re-air in syndication, where they often cannot use the amount or severity of swears as they did on their original airing, the curses are often redubbed or bleeped out , to sometimes amusing results, like "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
