Note to self: Do not tick off the writers of Veep because they know how to write an insult.

Veep, HBO’s popular political comedy, revels in the fact that it operates far from the grasp of the primetime TV standards set by the F.C.C. by airing on cable television and regularly delivers some of the sharpest, dirtiest, and downright stunning insults to ever exist outside a bathroom wall at an all-girls school.

“[The writers are] all British and it’s like they have this vault of insults that’s phenomenal,” star Tony Hale explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “They put people down so creatively. It‘s really funny.” The show is so virtuosic in their swearing that it elevates cursing from eyebrow-raising shenanigans to high art.

To wit, phrases like “Spewbacca,” “gold-plated f--king sh-t-gibbon,” and many, many more are batted around the show like a birdie in a badminton competition, mostly directed at the show’s easiest and most worthy target, Jonah Ryan (Timothy C. Simons).

As the country’s leader, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), seems to consider it her patriotic duty to offer expletive-ridden commentary on every person she meets. When she has to talk to an elderly constituent, she complains, “I just got ear-f--ked by Father Time,” and manages to deliver line after line with a straight face and plenty of flair.

Before the season finale on Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter asked the Veep cast and writers to choose their favorite insults.

“Somebody called [Jonah] ‘human scaffolding,’ which I loved,” said Hale, adding that he was also a big fan of the insult “the world‘s largest single-cellular organism.”

Want more? Read the full list at The Hollywood Reporter. Plus, Fast Co. Create put together a supercut of some of the most creative insults on the show:

The season four finale of Veep airs Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on HBO.