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Get teleported back to the late '90s as dirty language and sexually explicit jokes scared the country, and the world was shocked that South Park did a whole musical about it! Yes, we're covering the landmark film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut as this month's premium podcast. Released just at the height of the show's first era of popularity, we reflect on how of its time this story is, the parts that are pretty dated today, as well as the music that's held up pretty well. It's easy, mmmkay, so listen now to learn everything about South Park's film!

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Kaz Nosu Gref

Watched this on VHS aged 4. And I'm all the better for that fact.

Nathaniel

I just want to share this since the show was mentioned. If anyone is reading this PLEEEAAASSEE watch "Ten Year Old Tom". It's a great show, that I am certain Bob and Henry would enjoy

polo bear

This one AND the Minion Death Cult episode, you guys are dominating my nightshift podcast listening time now!

Harry Thornton

At last! I’m so glad you guys finally covered this, and I concur with many of the opinions here. I don’t have as much to say as I thought I would because you both covered it so well, but I do have a few things: That "Montage" song is so good it basically ruined all other '80s training montage parodies after it. Even Gravity Falls, a show that I love, did a training montage parody song in the "Dipper vs. Manliness" episode, and it’s not nearly as funny. I'd call the South Park game more of a Turok clone, since it's from the same developer (Iguana Entertainment). In other words, it's a self-ripoff much like how Hanna-Barbera made a million "mystery gang and their pet" cartoons after Scooby-Doo. Funny thing is, Trey and Matt tried to distance themselves from those old games years later, especially in the runup to The Stick of Truth, but recollections by former Iguana developers do indicate that they were more involved than they let on. The "hide that it's a musical" marketing scheme also happened to another R-rated musical: Tim Burton's adaptation of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. (Funnily enough, that was also a co-distribution deal with Paramount in the US and WB internationally) Even after the South Park movie, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, etc. they were so skittish about it being a musical they hid that fact in the advertising, and there are stories of people walking out when they realised it had songs in it. My favourite work of Marc Shaiman is, of all things, the score and songs he did for Mary Poppins Returns. It's not talked about much, but it’s amazing how he nailed that old-fashioned ‘60s style of composing, something that I rarely see in films these days. He really did the Sherman Brothers and Irwin Kostal justice. Speaking as a Gen-Zer who grew up watching South Park, I also don’t swear as much as I used to. I only swear when I feel it’s really needed for the situation. I can confirm that the high notes Satan sings in Up There are by Michael MacDonald, not Trey Parker. At the very least The Simpsons Movie was released at the perfect time for me, an 8-year-old kid who grew up watching the series. And funnily enough, there was gonna be A song in it, the “Springfield Anthem” sung to the tune of La Marseillaise (the French anthem), in a parody of Casablanca. Like many things in the movie, it was cut.

Cossover

The transformers the movie has a lot in common with this. The work for the movie being as the show was airing the frist 13 episode of the cartoon they underestimate the love for the cast that’s was happening at the time tho. Just like this the show was not same after the movie of course this did not kill 50% of the casts. Just saying most tv to movie don’t matter to the show.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I've just never been into South Park, and that persists to this day. As left-leaning as I now am (and as a NB bisexual, even), it's not even just because I've grown to really dislike a lot of the show's messaging and the beliefs/attitudes of its creators. Even when I was a surly teen with much shittier opinions than I have now, who even regularly watched and rewatched Family Guy, I was always just BORED by South Park. That continued with WAC's episode on "What a Crappy Christmas" and was even truer here with a feature length outing. I know technically it's very competent and the story of Matt & Trey's rise is better/more interesting than, say, Seth McFarlane's, but that just doesn't make me enjoy sitting through it. I don't wanna be that person who just comes in to complain, but honestly on the realm of movies that WAC has covered, this is very much near the bottom for me, above only like Space Jam and... movies I've probably forgotten (Black Cauldron?). -- That being said, even when I have very little fun with a movie, the podcast episode is always much more fascinating and enjoyable (see also: Shrek and Cool World), so I'll gladly suffer through ~75 minutes to listen to one of these 5 hour 'casts.

I Am Mr. Cheeseball Productions

Also around the time of this film they did a few things for Troma, I believe Terror Firmer cameos were filmed around this time. -Troma Jerry

Camille Walters

I loved South Park and this movie especially when I was a kid. I'm now 30 years old and Transgender 😂 I have some complex emotions for Matt and Trey to say the least.

mavrick

five. five hour. five hour podcast! (sung to the subway jingle)

Alex Irish

This was the movie I wanted to see when I was an 11 year old kid more than anything in the world. How funny that South Park was the forbidden fruit to kids back then. Not being a cool 17 year old or having a cool uncle, my mom absolutely did not want me seeing this at the time. For years, I could only experience it second hand through bits and pieces like tv commercials, the soundtrack, and the Comedy Central special promoting the movie that summer. I would even go on to print out the entire script at one point, it was like Bart with the Itchy and Scratchy Movie. I finally saw the South Park movie in full when I was 16 in late 2003 via picking up the DVD. Being my mom still hated South Park and being begrudging towards me having any merch from it, I had to hide the DVD under my mattress like a tool. She did find it soon after and I had to rationalize why the movie was both good and I should be allowed to watch it. The3 next year when I got the season 3 box set, the Pandora’s Box could no longer be contained. Today’s kids would have the equivalent of Ted and Sausage Party as the R-rated immature comedies they would die to see. There is something intoxicating about immature things meant for mature audiences that attract kids and parents despise, especially when it is mainstream popular and animated. I still want Fathom Events to rerelease this movie in theaters so I can fulfill what I couldn’t do at 11. On a related note, as the South Park movie has great songs, there should really be a soundtrack release for all the great songs from the show proper over 25 years, in the vein of Songs in the Key of Springfield and such.

Devin Hoffarth

Surprised they did that reference from Star Trek 3 when the REAL famous scene from that movie is Christopher Lloyd screaming "RUUN! GET OUT OF THERE!" when he hears the Enterprise self destruct counting down.

Gayest Episode Ever

I am sick of this podcast’s bias against the proper spelling of Mackie

Cossover

Ok yeah this is one of few that don’t do the full new town or place with a new cast. I do hate that in movie sadly it look bob movie is doing that.

Dan Vincent

The Windows 98 scene is a specific riff on a very public failure of a beta demonstration of Windows 98. Bill Gates was on stage with one of his assistants, Chris Capossela, at the Spring Comdex 1998. They were demonstrating Windows 98's new USB plug-and-play features, and when Capossela plugged a scanner in to the computer, it blue screened spectacularly when loading the drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeUyxjLhAxU

Cossover

Now they a Twisted Metal’ TV show

LoganTheWise

I was admittedly never a huge South Park fan, I was too young to really buy into the craze, but this unearthed the memory of seeing this at the Drive In theater and upon doing the math, I couldn't have been more than 3 years old.... yeesh, that explains a lot

Ryan Ingram

Did Henry refer to the black kid as "Token"? That's kinda racist.

marathedemon

Bob asks why Saddam Hussein sounds like a Canadian after making a point about how South Park relies too heavily on running jokes, and in fact there is an incredibly running joke heavy episode from a later season about how Saddam Hussein is Canadian.

SilkiePJ

It's funny how so many of these stories where Matt & Trey get involved on a project, so often they are motivated either out of spite towards some entity or by that trolling sense of humor. I think as much as they rightfully dislike Hollywood and producers, it feels like they still eventually wanted to be powerful executive big shots especially since they continue South Park. I still hold a lot of fondness to this film because it is removed from their "ripped from the headlines" mode. As much as they can grind my gears, I have to give them credit for making a truly funny and fantastic musical that I can still memorize to this day. I believe it is stronger the movie versions of Simpsons and Beavis & Butthead because it is a bigger, cinematic, passionate project

SilkiePJ

Also I am going to be pedantic, but there have been several R-Rated animated films in the US after South Park: BL&U. Many are limited release or go straight to streaming now, but we do have a few of note like Waking Life, Eight Crazy Nights, A Scaner Darkly, Tower, Anomalisa, It's Such a Beautiful Day, and Hell & Back

glowstickjuice

As much as I don't like SP now, this was a very nostalgic listen. I was not allowed to watch it, I was only like 6 when the show premiered, but Comedy Central put this movie on at midnight in the summer of 2002. My neighborhood friend was always talking about how good it was so I waited until my folks were asleep and tuned in with a pair of shitty headphones plugged into my tv. I’m a “recovering” SP fan. I fell off around 2013-2014, maybe slightly before. Whenever it was they had all the episodes on their website. Probably for the best considering the hard right they took and the hard left I did. Oh and the whole transitioning thing. Their transphobia would have hurt more if I still cared about the show. Still sucks, but it wasn’t like losing John Cleese.

Kat Heagberg

I really love how y'all cover South Park, because you acknowledge what's shitty and problematic about it while still enjoying what's enjoyable about it. It's really refreshing to not hear people either totally shit on it or totally excuse it, so appreciate the nuanced take. This is one of those movies that I was sure I'd always seen since I'd seen so much pre-2010s South Park, but when my husband and I "re"watched it a year ago it turned out that I'd never actually seen it, and as a former theater kid, I really loved the musical structure, but am also very glad that I didn't actually watch it sitting next to my parents in a theater in 1999. Also, my husband's name is Kyle. He is 32 years old, and yet claims that no one ever sang "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" to him as a child. I find this very hard to believe.

Komsomol General

For as much as I can't stand what this show stands for now, I can't help but feel fuzzy when I hear these songs. South Park always had the best songs.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Cool to hear that "I Can Change" cover song getting some love. Hadn't thought of it in years but I remember really liking it. 😁 Thanks for the great podcasts, guys!

MilesDX

As far as the orchestra having to suffer through doing these kinds of songs, someone's tune must have changed at some point (pun intended). On the South Park YouTube channel, as part of the lead into the 25th season, they were doing cover versions of South Park songs with a 30 piece orchestra with four vocalists for the lyrics. Including a version of Kyle's Mom https://youtu.be/IoUqh5q--MY

'Intrepid' Girl 'Reporter'

Oh boy, finally some extended clitoris discourse on the Talking Simpsons network! Fun and somewhat depressing fact: watching this movie actually taught me the word "clitoris." I was only around 10 or 11 when I saw it (in retrospect, probably a bit too young but kids are always drawn to forbidden fruit) so it's not like I was a full-grown adult that was clueless about my own anatomy, but given the fact that I've always had one, it seems pretty bizarre that it was such a hush-hush topic. Even after seeing the movie, I didn't totally understand what a clitoris was until I learned about it a few years later in a sex ed class. I've met other people who didn't learn what a clitoris was until way later, though, so I guess I'm comparatively lucky. I honestly think it's because the main function is pleasure (god forbid women/AFAB people enjoy sex!) while penises and vaginas can both have more utilitarian uses. And this really isn't even the half of it — the clitoris has a centuries-long tradition of being misunderstood or downright shamed (good article about it here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-clitoris-uncovered-an-intimate-history/). Fortunately, I feel like that's starting to change. For what it's worth, I hear people (rightfully) mocking straight men who don't know where the clitoris is/what to do with it — or who just don't care — a lot more than they used to. Anyways parents, hope you keep this little anecdote in mind. Teach your kids about their bodies, or Trey Parker and Matt Stone will.

Eric Gonzalez

My first comment and it's going to be a Genius at Work one.... Broadway and Off Broadway refer to venue size, not location. Theaters with more than 500 seats are Broadway theaters. Theaters with between 99 and 499 seats are Off-Broadway. Anything less is Off-Off Broadway. So when Henry saw Les Mis he was watching a touring production. (Boy I really hope someone got fired for that blunder) Anyway! It's been years since I properly listened to these songs despite listening to them over and over, even learning the harmonies with a friend, and this making me remember how GOOD they were. It was fascinating to learn that Marc Shaiman had a hand in it and gave the songs so much polish.

nalem

I dragged my poor mom to see this film when I was 12. She was concerned by how amused I was.

Colby

I’ll be 37 in June, had to sneak into the movie to see this while visiting my cousins in Detroit lol. Bought tickets to Big Daddy and just walked in and what and amazing experience.