Sabrina Carpenter caused a stir on live television Saturday night after dropping the F-bomb twice during her performance on Saturday Night Live.

The 26-year-old pop star, who pulled double duty as both host and musical guest, didn't hold back when singing some of her most explicit lyrics.

While performing Nobody's Son from her new album, Man's Best Friend, she raised eyebrows as she crooned 'He sure f**ked me up,' on two separate occasions.

While the expletives aired uncensored during the East Coast live telecast and Peacock simulcast, NBC quickly cleaned it up for the West Coast broadcast and digital uploads on YouTube and Hulu.

After the episode aired, fans took to social media to react to the surprise profanity, with many expressing disbelief that the curse words made it through NBC's usually strict censors.

'SABRINA SAYING F–K UNCENSORED LIVE ON SNL IS KILLING ME,' one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

'Oh NBC about to be fined so bad for letting Sabrina say f–k 2 whole times on SNL,' another joked.

A third viewer tweeted: 'Sabrina Carpenter is one of the best modern #SNL hosts but I do fear for her future on the show after she dropped two uncensored f-bombs during her second musical performance tonight.'

According to Variety, there was 'likely some miscommunication with NBC's censors,' as the profanity was not muted or delayed during the East Coast broadcast. 

Historically, SNL runs with a minimal delay to avoid such slip-ups, though the show's West Coast airing appeared to have added one after the fact.

Carpenter's explicit moment came during her second performance of the night, staged in a martial-arts-inspired set.

Earlier in the episode, she performed her single Manchild.

During her opening monologue, Carpenter poked fun at her own sultry image, joking that she wanted to 'clear up some misconceptions' about being a 'horndog pop star.'

'Everyone thinks of me as this, like, horndog pop star, but there's really so much more to me,' she quipped. 'I'm not just horny. I'm also turned on and I'm sexually charged. And I love to read. My favorite book is the encyclopedia. It's so big and it's hard…'

She also addressed her provocative Man's Best Friend album cover, which shows her on all fours with an unseen figure pulling her hair — though, as she joked, fans had the wrong idea.

'Some people got a little freaked out by the cover. It was just me on all fours with someone pulling my hair,' she said. 'But what people don't realize is, that's just how they cropped it. If you zoom out, it's clearly a picture from the 50th anniversary special — Bowen [Yang] helping me up by the hair after Martin Short shoved me out of the buffet line.'

This isn't the first time the singer has surprised viewers with some unfiltered language.

At the 2025 MTV VMAs, Carpenter shocked audiences when she dropped the F-word during her Best Album acceptance speech.

'This world can be so full of criticism and negativity,' she said on stage. 'So to get to be a part of something that brings you light, makes you dance, and makes you feel like the world is your f***ing oyster — I'm so grateful.'

While NBC is famously wary of live profanity due to potential FCC fines, Carpenter joins a long list of SNL hosts and performers who have accidentally — or intentionally — let curse words fly on live TV.

Past offenders include Kristen Stewart, Sam Rockwell, and Ariana Grande, along with former cast members Jenny Slate and Norm Macdonald.

Even the rock band The Replacements made headlines for the same offense back in 1986.

Though NBC hasn't commented on Saturday's slip-up, fans are already calling it one of SNL's most memorable unbleeped moments in recent years.