Trivia

• In the German version of the film, the scatological pornographic film the boys watch on the computer is changed from German to British.

• In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut the 13th greatest comedy film of all time.
• Trey Parker, in a VH1 special, said he heard that Stephen Sondheim, famed musical theater producer and composer, thinks South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is the best musical he's seen in the past 15 years. He wrote Mr. Sondheim in response, saying, "We think you've done some good work, too."
• Despite coming out only weeks after Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, there is a spoof on Jar Jar Binks in the movie. According to Matt Stone, this spoof was created upon seeing the first Episode I trailer, as Stone explained: "When we saw this thing going, 'Is the people gonna die?' in the first 'Star Wars' preview, we looked at each other and said, people are going to HATE that thing!"
• The ending of the film, in which Satan tells Saddam Hussein, "I have had enough of YOU!" as he throws him into a pit of fire, mirrors the climax at the end of the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, in which Captain Kirk, struggling on the edge of a cliff with the Klingon Kruge on a planet erupting into fire, kicks Kruge in the face while telling him the same thing, with similar inflection on the words "had" "enough" and "you".
• The film has 146 uses of the word "fuck".
  
  

Controversy

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is one of the most profanity-filled movies ever produced. The film features a song entitled "Uncle Fucka" in the Terrance and Philip movie that uses the word fuck 27 times. The song title originally used mother rather than uncle, but it was changed to qualify for an R rating (instead of NC-17).

The movie's excessive use of profanity also gained it a place in the Guinness Book of Records for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film" (399 profane words, 128 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence).

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 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 in movies and TV) is simply a parental tool for escaping blame. This is summed up neatly in the climactic line of "Blame Canada", in which 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 itself is a double entendre. This version of events 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.

The film was also banned in Iraq, for its depiction of Saddam Hussein as the homosexual lover of Satan.

In spite of the controversy, film critics were generally enthusiastic about the film as an intelligent and entertaining satire.

Politics

This film deals with race relations, war, and censorship. The film clearly opposes censorship, as it is ultimately Eric Cartman's foul mouth that saves the day. In the film, Kyle's mother starts a campaign to censor a Canadian film called Asses of Fire, which culminates in a war being waged against Canada by the United States, a possible criticism of the perceived overeagerness of some nations, particularly the United States, to jump to war over unimportant issues.

Race-relations themes are also touched upon in a sequence in which a group of soldiers designated as Operation Human Shield turns out to be entirely black, whereas another troop composed entirely of white soldiers is called "Operation Get Behind The Darkies".