Background Information

"And finally, with 'Blame Canada,' from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, please welcome Academy Award winner Robin Williams!"

The crowd roared with cheers and applause, and the curtains opened. On a blackened stage with a path of light before him, Williams came out in black pants and coat and red shirt, and with duct tape over his mouth. He spoke through the tape, but couldn't be understood. After a while he ripped the tape off and said, "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" Then he marched forth and began singing…

Williams ended the song with a chorus line of female Mounties. In the middle of the coda he skipped a few words to concentrate on the right moment to take off the pull-away shirt and coat (he wasn't tired, just apprehensive). When he turned to face the audience again he was wearing a black T-shirt with a flashing "No Canada" sign sewn into it (that's gotta be sold somewhere!). As the Mounties turned to leave, he looked at their rear ends and said, "Wooo! Booty call! No wonder they get their men!."

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, "Blame Canada" did not get the Oscar for best song. That went to "You'll Be In My Heart." Now Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman (who wrote the Movie's soundtrack) can be known as the men who lost to Phil Collins, and we should all go down with them.