Pip says "fuck." It happens in the second episode of Steven Knight's new miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations , airing now on FX and streaming on Hulu. Pip's in a fistfight with current rival, future buddy Herbert Pocket. Herbert's overmatched, but he keeps peskily coming at Pip, so Pip shoves him to the ground, shouting, "Will you just fucking stop?" The scene grinds to a halt. Estella, the girl both boys love, turns to Pip and says, "Oh. Will you teach me that word? My vocabulary is evidently lacking." Pip apologizes—for cussing, not laying out Herbert—and stalks away. I'd be lying if I said I didn't do a quick "Find" search of Project Gutenberg's full text of Dickens's novel, looking for the f -word. But, much as I suspected, no fuck s were given. The scene, like many in Knight's miniseries, is not new—Herbert and Pip do indeed resort to fisticuffs in Dickens...