!! [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon The religious text]] has moved [[YMMV/TheBookOfMormonAnotherTestamentOfJesusChrist here]].


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!! [[Theatre/TheBookOfMormon The stage musical]] contains examples of:

* {{Adorkable}}: Elder Kevin Price. There's something rather endearing about his utter adoration of Orlando and how devoutly he believes in the Book of Mormon.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: General Butt Fucking Naked is another example of Parker and Stone's infamous brand of vulgar absurdism, right? [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked Wrong.]] ''He's a real person.'' Though he’s actually from Liberia rather than Uganda, he converted to Evangelical Protestantism rather than Mormonism and while he was nicknamed General Butt Naked, calling him General Butt Fucking Naked with the F-bomb was an invention of this play.
* AwardSnub: Despite the musical sweeping the Tonys, neither Creator/AndrewRannells or Creator/JoshGad won, with many believing the split the vote.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** "Man Up" (which closes Act I), Elder Cunningham getting his first real bit of character development by choosing to stay in Uganda and help people. Besides being empowering, the excessive {{yarling}} and heart that Cunningham puts into it makes the song awesome and funny at the same time.
** "I Believe" (Elder Price's mid-Act-II power ballad). It's something like TheElevenOClockNumber, as the climax begins to happen shortly after it. But it manages to cross into audacious with how Price reaffirms his faith, only to [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome have all of that undone by General Butt-Fucking Naked]].
** "Tomorrow is a Latter Day", which closes the show, contains call backs to "Hello" and "Hasa Diga Eebowai", in addition to being a huge ending number.
** "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream," an OpinionChangingDream for Price and the closest the musical gets to a VillainSong. There's even a sick guitar solo in the middle of the song worthy of a heavy metal band, [[RockMeAsmodeus played by The Devil]].
* CrossesTheLineTwice: When "Hasa Diga Eebowai" isn't being terrifying, it does this by showing how bad things really are in Africa for the Ugandans.
* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Elder Cunningham shows several signs of being autistic—particularly his bluntness, socially awkward behavior, noticeable special interests, and [[NoInsideVoice lack of ability to regulate the volume of his voice]].
* EnsembleDarkHorse: No matter how minor, if a character in this show has a name [[AllThereInTheScript (even one that only appears in the script)]], they have a fan following.
** Elder Thomas, Elder Church, and Kimbay seem to be especially popular.
** The biggest example would be Elder [=McKinley=] for his CampGay antics and obvious crush on Elder Price.
** Mafala is also popular for singing “Hasa Diga Ebowai”.
* EsotericHappyEnding: Sure, the Elders and the Ugandans are happy with their new bastardized version of Mormonism, and they've even defeated General Butt-Fucking Naked, but nothing has really happened to fix the numerous other problems facing the Ugandans, such as AIDS, starvation, and [[RunningGag maggots in their scrotums]]. [[BlackComedy Although the creators probably intended for people to pick up on this.]]
* FandomSpecificPlot: So much of the fan fiction pairing Elder Price and Elder [=McKinley=] together follows the same general formula (one of them not being able to sleep and going to a communal space in the middle of the night, finding the other already there, sharing an emotional conversation, confessing feelings for one another, and falling asleep together) that it’s become a running joke among fans. To some, the formula is prolific enough to be seen as all but canon, and as such, is expected in stories about the pairing - it would be easier to list all of the fics that ''don’t'' incorporate it in some way.
* FanNickname:
** Elder [=McKinley=] is almost always referred to by the fan-created first name 'Connor'. Elders Church and Thomas are typically called 'James' and 'Chris', respectively. However, there's never been any official word on what the characters' first names are.
** Nabulungi is often nicknamed 'Naba'.
* {{Fanon}}:
** While Elder [=McKinley=]'s first name is never stated In-Universe, he's almost universally referred to as 'Connor' by the fandom. Elders Church and Thomas are generally referred to as 'James' and 'Chris', respectively.
** While his adoration of Disney is well established in canon, for absolutely no discernible reason it is widely agreed that Elder Price’s specific favourite Disney movie is ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid''.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** You'll notice that there's no cursing for the first twenty minutes or so of the play until they finally arrive in Africa during "Hasa Diga Eebowai." That's to lull the viewer into forgetting that they're watching a show written by the creators of ''South Park'', and then club you over the head with as much cursing as humanly possible.
** Hatimbi mentions during the song that "80% of us have AIDS; Hasa Diga Eebowai!" He later rattles off a list of people he knows that have AIDS, including the butcher, the teacher, the doctor, and himself, except for his daughter who has "a wonderful disposition." If you're keeping track, that's four out of five people, or 80%.
** The whole "maggots in my scrotum" bit has some rather obscure FridgeBrilliance: that kind of infestation is known as [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warble_fly warbles]], as is [[http://www.dictionary.com/browse/warbling a type of singing]].
** "Joseph Smith: American Moses" CrossesTheLineTwice in every act of the play, but almost every message is something directly applicable to the Ugandans: stopping rape, preventing genital mutilation, and promoting clean water. The only thing that stands out is their literal interpretation of Go Forth and Multiply, which is probably the most grotesque part of the play. Except we never see Elder Cunningham talk about that aspect of the scripture (and his own anxiety in "Baptize Me" makes it seem unlikely he'd give a sermon on orgies with Jesus). The person who does talk about that part of scripture? Elder Price, in "All-American Prophet," as a lead-in to talking about himself. It seems like Arnold isn't the only one to blame for that racy number.
** Elder Price coming around to Elder Cunningham's ''loose'' interpretation of their holy text makes more sense when you remember that he'd ''always'' been fairly light on actual faith despite his encyclopedic knowledge of the Book of Mormon. Note his professed desire to "blow God's freaking mind", his assurance that God would tell him "you've done an awesome job, Kevin", and later him outright ''telling God he's made a mistake'' by placing him in Uganda instead of Orlando. His final line is basically him admitting what had already been on his mind prior.
-->'''Elder Price:''' We are all still Latter-Day Saints, even if we change some things, or we break the rules, or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick we have complete doubt that God exists.]]
* FridgeHorror: Elder [=McKinley=]'s situation, when you remember the Ugandan government's general attitude towards homosexuality.
* GeniusBonus: Cunningham being heavily into science fiction (''Star Wars'', ''Star Trek'', etc.) and fantasy (''Lord of the Rings'') may seem like stock nerd traits at first, but it is also a subtle reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_fiction#Science_fiction_and_fantasy the disproportionate influence]] Mormon writers had on those genres.
* HarsherInHindsight: Elder Price's DarkReprise of the "Orlando" refrain can hit a little too close to home for some after the June 2016 mass shooting.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** At one point, Elder Cunningham calls Nabulungi "[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Nala]]"; in a later Los Angeles show, Nabulungi's actress played Nala and General Butt-Fucking Naked played Mufasa.
** The shoutout to ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' becomes hilarious at the news of Nikki M. James (Nabulungi) going on to play Eponine in that very show on Broadway.
** Elder Young hopes to meet gnomes and trolls in Norway. Maybe if he followed Creator/JoshGad into [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 another Robert Lopez musical, which took some inspiration from Norwegian culture...]]
** If you have a ''very'' dark sense of humour, all the AIDS jokes are this when you remember what one of Andrew Rannells’s [[Theatre/{{Falsettos}} next big stage roles was]].
* JerkassWoobie: Elder Price during his CrisisOfFaith. He's still a self-centered jerk, but it's hard not to feel bad for him when everything keeps going wrong for him.
* LGBTFanbase: The overly-friendly, mostly male cast and especially "Turn It Off"'s satire of the TransparentCloset (complete with glittery tap dance) has attracted a lot of gay fans.
* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite the musical's [[RefugeInAudacity extremely irreverent portrayal]] of Mormonism, lots of real Mormons are fans of this musical. The LDS church even referenced it for an advertising campaign.
** It also helps that the musical never portrays Mormons or even Mormonism itself as ''bad''. The whole point of the musical is that religion can be used to bring people together, and that's what the Mormons ultimately do.
** During the touring production, not only has the LDS church bought multiple ads in the Playbill, but they station missionaries at the entrance to hand out cards. Members of the church knew that protesting wasn't going to work, so why not use it to their advantage?
--->'''Playbill ad:''' Our version is sliiiightly different.
** [[http://collider.com/book-of-mormon-movie-matt-stone-trey-parker/ Matt Stone and Trey Parker]] have suggested that part of the reason Mormons like it is that it never uses [[DeadHorseTrope the old joke about Mormons being polygamists]].
** Despite being not much more than a CampGay stereotype, Elder [=McKinley=] has a lot of gay fans due to how relatable [[TransparentCloset his story of repression is]].
* OlderThanTheyThink: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E15MissionaryImpossible Missionary: Impossible]]" (2000) features a very similar plot.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: [=McPriceley=] (Price/[=McKinley=]), Arnaba (Cunningham/Nabulungi), and Pricingham (Price/Cunningham). Also 'Churchtarts' (Church/"Poptarts" Thomas) and 'Schravis' (Schrader/Davis).
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: 'Churchtarts', the pairing of Elder Church and Elder 'Poptarts' Thomas, who each have a verse in "Turn It Off". They have about ten lines between them, and never speak to each other. Even more random is 'Schravis' - Elders Schrader and Davis. The former isn't even named outside of the script.
* SignatureSong: Depending on who you ask, it’s either “Hello”, “Hasa Diga Ebowai”, or “I Believe”.
* {{Squick}}: The running gag about the doctor having maggots in his scrotum, as well as a later point where Elder Price gets [[spoiler:his copy of the title book (very painfully) [[AssShove shoved up his ass by General Butt-Fucking Naked]]]].
* TheWoobie:
** Elder Cunningham. He may be kind of a self-centered WideEyedIdealist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him when he keeps failing to do what he earnestly set out to do.
** A good majority of the Mormon missionaries seem to be woobies, actually, if "Turn It Off" is anything to go by.
** With the horrors the Ugandans go through, their lack of faith is unsurprising.
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