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The show won a huge amount of TonyAwards, including Best Musical.
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* OhCrap: You can tell the music is doing this when we learn Elder Cunningham is going to Uganda. Yes, ''that'' Uganda.
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* DarkReprise: Inverted. "Hasa Diga Eebowai" is reprised as "Thank You God" during "Joseph Smith American Moses."
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The cast album was released, and became the best-selling cast album of all time on itunes, beating out ''AmericanIdiot'' and reaching #2.
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* RedBaron: The local warlord is called General "Butt Fucking Naked" because, in his own words, "When I kill my enemies and drink their blood, I do it [[ThisIsSparta butt. Fucking.]] ''[[ThisIsSparta Naked!]]''"
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** It's a bit of MoodWhiplash, actually. At first, it looks like General Butt-Fucking-Naked is going to kill or otherwise mutilate [[spoiler: Elder Price]]... and then we see him in the doctor's office, where an X-Ray shows that his own copy of the Book of Mormon's been shoved up there.
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** Elder Price then proceeds to claim he's worse then all of the above for breaking "Rule 72" by [[spoiler:abandoning his mission brother in the field.]]
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* ArmoredClosetGay: Elder McKinley
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Subverted - the Elders can't find appropriate verses that condemn things like raping babies or genital mutilation, so they resort to making it up.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: PlayedForLaughs with ElderMcKinley
[=McKinley=].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: During "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream":
--> '''Hitler''': I started a war, and killed millions of Jews.
--> '''Ghengis Khan''': I slaughtered the Chinese.
--> '''Jeffrey Dahmer''': I killed a guy and fucked his corpse!
--> '''Johnny Cochran''': I got [=OJ=] freed.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Subverted -the Elders Elder Cunningham can't find appropriate verses that condemn things like raping babies or genital mutilation, so they resort he resorts to making it up.up.
* AssShove: Happens to [[spoiler:Elder Price]] in Act [=II=].
* ArmoredClosetGay: PlayedForLaughs with Elder
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: During "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream":
--> '''Hitler''': I started a war, and killed millions of Jews.
--> '''Ghengis Khan''': I slaughtered the Chinese.
--> '''Jeffrey Dahmer''': I killed a guy and fucked his corpse!
--> '''Johnny Cochran''': I got [=OJ=] freed.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Elder Price.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Price and Cunningham.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Elder Price has a problem with this, best seen in "You And Me (But Mostly Me)"
* ManChild: Elder Cunningham.
* {{Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number}}: "Man Up" becomes one about half waythrough.through.
* MoodWhiplash: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the various Elders' stories in "Turn It Off".
* ManChild: Elder Cunningham.
* {{Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number}}: "Man Up" becomes one about half way
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** Elder [=McKinley=]'s TransparentCloset.
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* OminousLatinChanting: [[spoiler:During Spooky Mormon Hell Dream ("Rectus! Dominus! Spookytus! Deus! Creepyus!")]]
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The story follows two young Mormon men who are assigned to Uganda as part of their mission. One of them is a fresh-faced, eager young man, while the other one hasn't ''really'' yet the Bible yet and keeps accidentally confusing it with popular fiction.
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The story follows two young Mormon men who are assigned to Uganda as part of their mission. One of them is a fresh-faced, eager young man, while the other one hasn't ''really'' yet read the Bible yet and keeps accidentally confusing it with popular fiction.
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** Notable in that it's a rare example of a song being interrupted by something else sung.
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place. Even if they convey the Bible's stories in a wildly inaccurate way -- typically involving Mordor and Boba Fett -- their honesty and optimism ends up convincing their Ugandan students to convert to Mormonism and try to make the world a better place.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[spoiler:Spooky Mormon Hell Dream]]
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Not to be confused with TheBookOfMormon.
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A forthcoming musical by [[SouthPark Trey Parker]], [[AvenueQ Robert Lopez]], and [[SouthPark Matt Stone]] scheduled Stone]].
The story follows two young Mormon men who are assigned toopen spring 2011.
Uganda as part of their mission. The musical pokes fun at organized religion, but in the end, the characters realize that their faith has inspired them to be better people helping to make the world a better place.
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!!The Book of Mormon Provides Examples of...
*AffectionateParody: Of musical theatre.
*ArmoredClosetGay: Elder McKinley
*AsTheGoodBookSays: Subverted - the Elders can't find appropriate verses that condemn things like raping babies or genital mutilation, so they resort to making it up.
*BookEnds: The musical begins with missionaries knocking on doors. The ending number has the newly-converted Ugandans doing the same.
*CrossoverCosmology: Elder Cunningham starts mixing the Mormon theology... with stuff from ''StarWars'' and ''LordOfTheRings.''
*HeterosexualLifePartners: Price and Cunningham.
*IWantSong: "Sal Tlay Ka Siti"
*RageAgainstTheHeavens: A whole musical number, in fact.
*RunningGag: "I have maggots in my scrotum."
*ShownTheirWork: The creators did their homework about Mormon theology, as well as conditions in Uganda.
The story follows two young Mormon men who are assigned to
Not to be confused with
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*AffectionateParody: Of musical theatre.
*ArmoredClosetGay: Elder McKinley
*AsTheGoodBookSays: Subverted - the Elders can't find appropriate verses that condemn things like raping babies or genital mutilation, so they resort to making it up.
*BookEnds: The musical begins with missionaries knocking on doors. The ending number has the newly-converted Ugandans doing the same.
*CrossoverCosmology: Elder Cunningham starts mixing the Mormon theology... with stuff from ''StarWars'' and ''LordOfTheRings.''
*HeterosexualLifePartners: Price and Cunningham.
*IWantSong: "Sal Tlay Ka Siti"
*RageAgainstTheHeavens: A whole musical number, in fact.
*RunningGag: "I have maggots in my scrotum."
*ShownTheirWork: The creators did their homework about Mormon theology, as well as conditions in Uganda.
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A forthcoming musical by [[SouthPark Trey Parker]], [[AvenueQ Robert Lopez]], and [[SouthPark MattStone]] Matt Stone]] scheduled to open spring 2011.
