South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 motion picture based on the cartoon television series of South Park.

Contents

1 Plot 2 Controversy 3 Soundtrack guide 3.1 Track listing 4 External links

Plot

The plot deals with the four South Park eight-year-old stars who sneak into a profanity-filled movie entitled Asses of Fire, featuring fictional Canadians Terrance and Phillip. After watching the film, the boys start to swear even more than usual, and the parent-teacher outrage that ensues triggers an international crisis that eventually escalates into a war between the United States and Canada. A sub-plot of the film involves a scheming Saddam Hussein, who tries to take over the world with the assistance of his gay lover, Satan (a sub-plot that led to the film being banned in Iraq). A few new minor characters are introduced, including Gregory of Yardale and The Mole. The Mole has been featured a few times in cameo-like appearances on the television series, appearing once on a television talk show during one episode.

The film is a musical, and features twelve songs. The song "Blame Canada" was nominated for an Academy Award, allegedly because it is the least profane of the songs (though "Up There" actually has no profanity at all). It was the first song with profanity ever nominated for an Oscar, causing some concern about its performance in the Oscar ceremony. Nevertheless, Robin Williams performed the song with a full chorus line.

Controversy

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is allegedly the most profanity-filled movie ever produced. It is difficult to dismiss this claim, considering the film features a song entitled "Uncle Fucka" in the Terrance and Philip movie that uses the word fuck over 30 times. The song title originally used mother rather than uncle, but it was changed to qualify for an R rating (instead of NC-17); also, the authors say uncle sounds funnier than mother.

The movie angered moral conservatives not only for its heavy use of profanity, but also for its depiction of conservatives starting a war against Canada purely because of Terrance and Phillip's use of profanity. The underlying theme of the message of the film, however, is that it is the responsibility of parents and guardians to protect their children from what they deem inappropriate, and that censorship of anything (particularly film and television) is simply a parental tool for escaping blame. (This is summed up neatly in the line from "Blame Canada" when a group of parents sing: "We must blame them / and cause a fuss / before somebody thinks of blaming us.")

It is often claimed that the movie was originally titled "South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose", and that the MPAA forced a change of the title; the creators of the characters, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, counterproposed "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" as a title, which is a double entendre. The story comes directly from Parker and Stone; Richard Taylor, a spokesman for the MPAA, denies that any film was ever submitted with that title and states that the MPAA did not reject the use of the word "hell" in the title. See, for instance, the film adaptation of the books From Hell and Hellboy, or the Hellraiser films.

Soundtrack guide

The movie's soundtrack album was released by Atlantic Records on June 22, 1999. The CD inlay states that only the first twelve tracks actually appear in the film (the remainder, described as being "inspired" by the movie, are mostly other acts performing alternate versions of those twelve songs); however, D.V.D.A.'s "What Would Brian Boitano Do? Pt. II" does feature heavily in the closing credits.

Track listing

1. Mountain Town
2. Uncle Fucka
3. It's Easy, M'kay
4. Blame Canada
5. Kyle's Mom is a Stupid Bitch
6. What Would Brian Boitano Do?
7. Up There
8. La Resistance (Medley)
9. Eyes Of A Child
10. I Can Change
11. I'm Super
12. Mountain Town (Reprise)
13. Good Love (Isaac Hayes as Chef)
14. Shut Yo Face (Uncle FUCKA) - Trick Daddy, Featuring Trina & Tre
15. Riches To Rags (M'Kay) - Nappy Roots
16. Kyle's Mom's A Big Fat Bitch (Joe C. featuring Kid Rock)
17. What Would Brian Boitano Do? Pt. II - D.V.D.A.
18. I Swear It (I Can Change) - Violent Femmes
19. Super (RuPaul)
20. O Canada (Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush featuring Terrance and Phillip)

External links

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• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=25036&cartoon=South%20Park%3A%20Bigger%2C%20Longer%20and%20Uncut) at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut movie script (http://www.spscriptorium.com/Treats/ScriptGuideT.htm)

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