“Fork it!”: An expression I picked up from “The Good Place"

Yesterday, I was doing something in the kitchen, and something (I don't remember what) slipped out of my hand and spilled onto the counter. "Fork it!" I exclaimed, and was amused as always when I use that expression instead of the other work that starts with F and ends with K. I picked the "fork" version up from the television series "The Good Place" a few years ago: the characters in the "good place" in the afterlife cannot use swear words, so they say "fork" and "shirt" instead. Once, when Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) finds herself outside of "the good place", she is thrilled to be able to cuss properly again. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 1 February 2025)