What led to PG13 movies being allowed to say the F-word once?
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It’s a partly a myth.
>Profanity may be present in PG rated films, and use of one of the harsher “sexually-derived words” as an expletive will initially incur at least a PG-13 rating. **Multiple occurrences will usually incur an R rating as will the usage of such an expletive in a sexual context. Nevertheless, the ratings board may still award a PG-13 rating passed by a two-thirds majority if they believe the language is justified by the context or by the manner in which the words are used.**
>**There are several exceptional cases in which PG-13-rated films contain multiple occurrences of the word fuck:** Adventures in Babysitting, where the word is used twice in the same scene;The Hip Hop Project, which has seventeen uses; and Gunner Palace, a documentary of soldiers in the Second Gulf War, which has 42 uses of the word with two used sexually. Both Bully, a 2011 documentary about bullying, and Philomena—which has two instances of the word—released in 2013, were originally given R ratings on grounds of the language but the ratings were dropped to PG-13 after successful appeals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system
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