History Trivia / SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut

* DVDCommentary: For the 2009 Blu-Ray release, Paramount included a full lenght commentary hosted by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, where they talk about thier fights with the MPAA and Paramount, and also call some of the crew members to talk about some of the insight of the production of the movie. They also admited they haven't seen the movie ever since it's release in 1999.

* TropeNamer: LaResistance.

** There are also at least two French adaptations. The mainstream French release did not dub the songs, while a more obscure Quebecois version dubbed all musical numbers. Christophe's nickname was also changed to "The Weasel".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The film was originally going to open with Saddam getting executed on an electric chair in a gory manner. It got scrapped, but his line "Last words? Let's see, how about, 'GET ME THE FUCK OFF OF THIS CHAIR!'? How's that for last words?" was spoken by Phillip in the final film.
** There was originally going to be a music video made for "Eyes of a Child" where Michael [=MacDonald=] would be walking on a beach while film clips were projected on a white sheet, but the studio nixed it.
** Ike was originally going to follow the boys to the battlefield, as seen in early trailer footage and promotional screencaps of the film. His role was truncated and he was removed from all later scenes, with the [[PostCreditsScene post-credits]] attic scene being added in to explain his absence.
** The scene with Creator/WinonaRyder was originally going to have her really shoot the ping-pong balls from her vagina, but because the scene would get the film an NC-17 rating, it was changed to a BaitAndSwitch joke.
** The song "Uncle Fucka" was originally plain old "Motherfucker", but again to avoid an NC-17 and secure the R rating, the song was changed. Trey and Matt admitted the change made the song funnier.
** In an early version of the script, Sheila was portrayed a lot less sympathetic. In the eighth draft, it is clear that the power of leading M.A.C. went to her head and made her insane to the point where after discovering Ike, Cartman and Kyle were at the USO show, General Plymkin thinks they are "Canadian Sympathizers" and wanted them executed along side with Terrance and Phillip and apparently she and Liane were okay with it while Sharon and Carol (Stan and Kenny's mothers) are shocked. After the war began, she went on a insane rant about how perfect her plan is to eliminate "not pretty things" and among other things admitted that Kyle wasn't born in a hospital (later confirmed in "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E9ItsAJerseyThing It's a Jersey Thing]]"). That and she mistook Satan for Alan Dershowitz. This aspect of Sheila's was dropped from the as it seemed to be very uncharacteristic of her and to make her more sympathetic as she saw what the war lead to.
** Also, the town of South Park was going to be turned into a concentration camp, with Kyle even being issued with a yellow star for "doing well at school". While the army does occupy the town, nothing like that happens.
** The German scat porn scene with Liane was originally meant to be a (much shorter) bestiality scene involving a horse. The studio objected despite not being able to see anything on the computer screen. Strangely enough in the finished film, one of the words Cartman said that activated the V-Chip was "horsefucker" and it does show a small image of a man having sex with a horse.
** Creator/ConanOBrien originally killed himself via gunshot to the head, but the MPAA rejected the scene on basis of the gun violence since UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} two months earlier and it was switched out with the scene of him jumping and falling to his death.
** Originally instead of just Mr. Garrison dying during the war, all of the recurring adult male characters aside from Chef were supposed to have onscreen death scenes (that were filled with {{pun}}ny wordplay).
** A subplot in earlier drafts involved Cheesy Poofs being revealed as Canadian and therefore banned, much to Cartman's annoyance.
** Kenny was originally given a subplot where he'd have to try to find Snacky S'mores proofs of purchase in order to get a wish granted. In the end, his ghost pressures Cartman to give him some. He then uses them to wish everyone else back to life. In the final product, Satan lets Kenny get a wish granted due to helping him realize that Saddam was a bad partner.
** According to composer Marc Shaiman, Sheila's VillainSong was the hardest to write, as over four different songs were written and abandoned. One of them was to have been a dark, sinister DisneyAcidSequence that included a scene where she would [[ScaledUp scale up]] a la [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], which was abandoned when he and Trey realized that they didn't want to ''completely'' demonize concerned parents, and they came up with a march tune that became "Blame Canada".
** Although Terrance gets stabbed by Sheila in the early draft (spilling his blood and releasing Satan), neither he nor Phillip actually die.
** Wendy was going to see ''Asses of Fire'' with Stan and the rest of the class, albeit remaining bored throughout, eventually resulting in her breaking up with Stan due to not having anything in common anymore.
** Trey was convinced that the film would be a major flop and made it as a last hurrah for the series, which is why the ending plays out very much like a GrandFinale and the original theatrical poster features [[ContinuityCavalcade every single character who'd appeared on the show up until that point]]. Obviously, [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail it didn't bomb]].
** Anne Murray was invited to sing "Blame Canada" at the Oscars (and wanted to do so as SelfDeprecation), but had to decline due to pre-existing commitments.
** Originally, [[Recap/SouthParkS1E10Damien Damien Thorn]] was to play as a supporting character, but the idea was ultimately scrapped.
** In the eighth draft, Kenny was never going to originally show his face, and was going to disappear with Satan and his minions. This was changed, and we got to see Kenny's face. The script still showed that Kenny was going to wake up and only show his hair from the back as he gets dressed.
** Originally, Mrs. [=McCormick=] started selling t-shirts of Kenny after he died, and later, mentioned in the eighth draft, she starts counting all the money she made from selling shirts.
** The classroom scene was different in the eighth draft:
*** Instead of learning math problems, Mr. Garrison would've taught the environment. This would've led to a different scene of Cartman saying the f-word ("I fucking hate it.")
*** Cartman originally said "How would you like to gargle rat jizz?". The final film has him say "How would you like to suck my balls?"
** In the scene that follows, the boys were sent to Principal Victoria's office (the final film has them in Mr. Mackey's office), and Shelia takes note of that the boys used "fisting" as a curse word (the final film uses "rimjob"; both feature scenes of Liane describing the actions).
** Wendy's PrecisionFStrike at the end of the film was supposed to be a CallBack to Cartman saying the same thing about Gregory while once again mixing up British and French people. However, the line that it was referencing was changed to, "You're a fucking faggot, dude."
** During the newscast, there was supposed to be a second clip of children, in which some kids swear at a clown, with one of them calling his pants "gay". This scene was removed, and in the final movie, the word is instead used in Mr. Garrison's classroom shortly before the school assembly. On a related note, said classroom scene originally had the math problem dialogue with Mr. Garrison insulting Clyde, but that dialogue was moved to the aforementioned "swearing in class" scene earlier in the movie.
** Also in the newscast scene, the eighth draft script refers to the "Midget in a Bikini" as being quadriplegic, meaning that it was either a different character or he suffered a severe injury.

* LifeImitatesArt: There were [[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADHB&p_theme=adhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED0296CCFB1D99F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM reports]] of underage teens purchasing tickets to ''Film/WildWildWest'' and jumping to this film instead. Trey and Matt were not happy about this because they hated that film and were mad that they inadvertently helped it make more money at the box office.

** Wendy's BreakingPointSwearing at the end of the film was supposed to be a CallBack to Cartman saying the same thing about Gregory while once again mixing up British and French people. However, the line that it was referencing was changed to, "You're a fucking faggot, dude."

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Sheila leads a war against Canada over a cartoon. Her [=VA=], Creator/MaryKayBergman, was close friends with Canadian-born Creator/TaraStrong.

** Wendy's PrecisionFStrike at the end of the film was supposed to be a CallBack to Cartman saying the same thing about Gregory while once again mixing up British and French people. However, the line that it was referencing was changed to, "You're a fucking faggot, dude."

'''Terrance:''' It says, "Dear Terrance, please don't ever tell my son that I licked your hairy balls".

*** Cartman originally said "How would you like to gargle rat jiz?". The final film has him say "How would you like to suck my balls?"

* DVDCommentary: For the 2009 Blu-Ray release, Paramount included a full lenght commentary hosted by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, where they talk about thier fights with the MPPA and Paramount, and also call some of the crew members to talk about some of the insight of the production of the movie. They also admited they haven't seen the movie ever since it's release in 1999.

** In the Italian dub, Creator/FabrizioManfredi replaces Fabrizio Vidale as Kyle. The replacement was also kept for Seasons 3-4.

** In the Italian dub, Fabrizio Manfredi replaces Fabrizio Vidale as Kyle. The replacement was also kept for Seasons 3-4.

* DirectedByCastMember: Both Trey and Music/IsaacHayes (voice of Chef) have directorial credits on the film.

** The song "Uncle Fucka" was originally plain old "Motherfucker", but again to avoid an NC-17, the song was changed. Trey and Matt admitted the change made the song funnier.

* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: This trope becomes more accurate [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece in hindsight]]: It's a little-known fact that this is the first computer animated film to be rated R. However, as time went on, computer animation become more associated with CGI, and given that there were little 3D elements in this film, it didn't seem to fit under the category anymore. Thus, when ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' was greenlit, ''it'' was deemed the first R-rated computer animated film, seemingly ignoring ''Bigger, Longer and Uncut'' in the process.

*** Even the ''title'' was an example of this. Parker and Stone originally wanted to call it ''South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose'', but the suits vetoed it on grounds that the title could not contain profanity. The duo sarcastically suggested ''Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' as a subtitle, and were flabbergasted when the executives missed the obvious phallic DoubleEntendre.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Just like the rest of the show, the film is full of topical humor. But also, since ''South Park'' does musical numbers and episodes less frequently than ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the fact that ''Bigger, Longer and Uncut'' is a musical might seem out of left field to modern viewers. In fact, Wiki/TheOtherWiki says that it was intended as a spoof of the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Renaissance]] animated musicals, which was really big at the time but have long since faded away (although later hits like ''WesternAnimation/{|Tangled}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' have given it a revival of sorts).

** When reporters asked Kim Campbell, Consul General to the United States and former Prime Minister of Canada, about the song "Blame Canada," she replied that it was clearly satire (against Americans, no less) and didn't find it offensive in the slightest.
** Anne Murray is name-dropped in "Blame Canada" as one of the terrible things about the country. Murray herself thought this was hilarious and even wanted to sing the song at the Oscars (which she was invited to do), but had another commitment and couldn't go. Robin Williams did it instead.

* CensorDecoy: Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone have said that their original cut was rated NC-17, then they retooled it by taking out the "offensive" stuff and putting in things that "were five times worse". The new cut was rated R. [[http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/ps-this-is-my-favorite-memo-ever.html Here]] is a memo written by Matt Stone detailing what he thinks should replace the scenes the Censor Board noted as too far.
*** Even the movie's ''title'' was an example of this. Parker and Stone originally wanted to call the movie ''South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose'', but the suits vetoed it on grounds that the title could not contain profanity. The duo sarcastically suggested "Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" as a subtitle, and were flabbergasted when the executives missed the obvious phallic DoubleEntendre.

* DirectedByCastMember: Both Trey Parker and Music/IsaacHayes (the voice of Chef) have directorial credits on the film.

** Two dubs were produced for the Latin American market in 2000, each one by a different ADR studio in Mexico. The version by Sensaciones Sonicas for Creator/WarnerBros was heavily censored in dialogue to adhere to the standards of local TV, and did not dub any of the songs. An alternate version by Intersound SA (produced for cable TV by Paramount) did not soften any of the dialogue, and dubbed the songs. Although this version was later released on Creator/{{Paramount}}'s Blu-ray, the censored version is better known due to its prominence on network TV, as well as having been aired by MTV Latinoamerica and being put up for availability on Netflix.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Sheila leads a war against Canada over a cartoon. Creator/MaryKayBergman, who voices her in the movie, was close friends with Canadian-born Creator/TaraStrong.
* LifeImitatesArt: There were [[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADHB&p_theme=adhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED0296CCFB1D99F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM reports]] of underage teens purchasing tickets to ''Film/WildWildWest'' and sitting in the theaters showing this film instead. Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone were not happy about this because they hated that film and were mad that they inadvertently helped it make more money at the box office.

** Big Gay Al is usually voiced by Matt Stone, but Trey Parker does his singing voice.
** Trey Parker provides Gregory's speaking voice, but his singing voice is actually reserved for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McGillin Howard McGillin]].
* OrphanedReference: Shortly before the "Uncle Fucka" sequence, Terrance is seen holding a letter that seems to have appeared from out of thin air. This was part of a joke in an earlier draft that was ultimately cut:

** The toned-down version aired on Mexican TV kept the voice actors for the four boys and Wendy from the local TV dub of the series, although many supporting characters were recast [[note]]In particular, the boys' parents, Chef, Mr. Garrison, Phillip, and Mr. Mackey[[/note]]. Clyde also went from being voiced by a man (Carlos Hugo Hidalgo) to a woman ([[Creator/IsabelMartinon Isabel Martiñón]]). A less-edited version for pay TV had Kenny and Wendy receive completely different voice actors[[note]]They were voiced by Creator/IrwinDaayan and Creator/MariaFernandaMorales in the TV film dub and the original Audiomaster series dub. Their actors in the pay TV dub are Creator/VictorUgarte and Gaby Willert[[/note]] as well as numerous more changes to the supporting cast. Interestingly, the original voice actor for Gregory (Enzo Fortuny) wound up performing the role of Mole in the alternate "dirtier" dub.

** The Brazilian dub of the movie (made in Rio de Janeiro at the Cinevideo studio) predated a TV adaptation by BVI Communications (and later Kitchen Inc., which is based in Miami), and features a completely different cast. While Stan, Kyle, Ike, and Cartman are voiced by women in the TV series, they had male voice actors for this version.
** Creator/GeorgeClooney voices the doctor in the film, while he was voiced by Trey Parker in the series. Although said doctor was also renamed from "Dr. Doctor" to "Dr. Goauche".
** In the Italian dub, Fabrizio Manfredi replaces Fabrizio Vidale as Kyle. The replacement was also kept for Seasons 3-4 of the main show.

* SurprisinglyLenientCensor: When Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone were told they couldn't subtitle the movie ''All Hell Breaks Loose'' because "hell" is a curse in America, they sarcastically suggested calling it ''Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'', and were surprised that the ratings board had no issue with the phallic double entendre.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The "Windows 98" gag; RuleOfFunny at the time, but now you'd wonder why South Park's military would consider having an operating system so outdated.

* TroubledProduction: As stated below, Parker and Stone often fought with both Paramount and the MPAA over the film's content and release. There is a famous photocopy of a memo passed around where Matt Stone goes over specific lines and details of what they cut (cut 'hole' from 'asshole') and what they are keeping (scene with Cartman's mom and the horse "this is one scene we are really fighting for"). At the end Stone says "P.S. this is my favorite memo ever."
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Just like the rest of the show, this movie is full of topical humor. But also, since ''South Park'' does musical numbers and episodes less frequently than ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the fact that ''Bigger, Longer and Uncut'' is a musical might seem out of left field to modern viewers. In fact, Wiki/TheOtherWiki says that this movie was meant as a spoof of [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Renaissance]] animated musicals, which were really big at the time but have long since faded away (although later hits like ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' have given it a revival of sorts).

** There was originally going to be a music video made for "Eyes of a Child" where Michael [=MacDonald=] would be walking on a beach while clips from the movie were projected on a white sheet, but the studio nixed it.
** Ike was originally going to follow the boys to the battlefield, as seen in the early trailer footage and promotional screencaps of the film. His role was truncated and he was removed from all later scenes, with the [[PostCreditsScene post-credits]] attic scene being added in to explain his absence.

** In an early version of the script, Sheila was portrayed a lot less sympathetic. In the eighth draft, it is clear that the power of leading M.A.C. went to her head and made her insane to the point where after discovering Ike, Cartman and Kyle were at the USO show, General Plymkin thinks they are "Canadian Sympathizers" and wanted them executed along side with Terrance and Phillip and apparently she and Liane Cartman were okay with it while Sharon and Carol (Stan and Kenny's mothers) are shocked. After the war began, she went on a insane rant about how perfect her plan is to eliminate "not pretty things" and among other things admitted that Kyle wasn't born in a hospital (It was confirmed in "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E9ItsAJerseyThing It's a Jersey Thing]]"). That and she mistook Satan for Alan Dershowitz. This aspect of Sheila's was dropped from the main film as it seemed to be very uncharacteristic of her and to make her more sympathetic as she saw what the war lead to.

** The German scat porn scene with Ms. Cartman was originally meant to be a (much shorter) bestiality scene involving a horse. The studio objected despite not being able to see anything on the computer screen. Strangely enough in the finished film, one of the words Cartman said that activated the V-Chip was "horsefucker" and it does show a small image of a man having sex with a horse.
** Creator/ConanOBrien originally killed himself via gunshot to the head, but the MPAA rejected the scene on basis of the gun violence since UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and it was switched out with the scene of him jumping and falling to his death.

** According to composer Marc Shaiman, Sheila's VillainSong was the hardest to write, as over four different songs were written and abandoned. One of them was to have been a dark, sinister DisneyAcidSequence that included a scene where she would [[ScaledUp scale up]] a la [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], which was abandoned when he and Trey Parker realized that they didn't want to ''completely'' demonize concerned parents, and they came up with a march tune that became "Blame Canada".
** Although Terrence gets stabbed by Sheila in the early draft (spilling his blood and releasing Satan), neither he nor Phillip actually die.

** Trey Parker was convinced that the film would be a major flop and made it as a last hurrah for the series, which is why the ending plays out very much like a GrandFinale and the original theatrical poster features [[ContinuityCavalcade every single character who'd appeared on the show up until that point]]. Obviously, [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail it didn't bomb]].

** Originally, Mrs. [=McCormick=] started selling t-shirts of Kenny after he died, and later, mentioned in the Eighth Draft of the official Script, she starts counting all the money she made from selling shirts.

** Parker and Stone began feeling the film's production would burn every bridge they had in Hollywood, and decided to go down swinging. They even sent handwritten faxes to executives saying "Compliance + You Doing Nothing = Success" and openly said none of them knew how to do their jobs. Thankfully, the film's surprise success saved them and the series' future.

** FakeAmerican: Creator/BrookeShields is played by British actress Creator/MinnieDriver.

* LifeImitatesArt: There were [[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADHB&p_theme=adhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED0296CCFB1D99F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM reports]] of underage teens purchasing tickets to ''Film/WildWildWest'' and sitting in the theaters showing this film instead. Matt and Trey were not happy about this because they hated that film and were mad that they inadvertently helped it make more money at the box office.

** In an early version of the script, Sheila was portrayed a lot less sympathetic and insane. In the eighth draft, it is clear that the power of leading M.A.C. went to her head and made her insane to the point where after discovering Ike, Cartman and Kyle were at the USO show, General Plymkin thinks they are "Canadian Sympathizers" and wanted them executed along side with Terrance and Phillip and apparently she and Liane Cartman were okay with it while Sharon and Carol (Stan and Kenny's mothers) are shocked. After the war began, she went on a insane rant about how perfect her plan is to eliminate "not pretty things" and among other things admitted that Kyle wasn't born in a hospital (It was confirmed in "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E9ItsAJerseyThing It's a Jersey Thing]]"). That and she mistook Satan for Alan Dershowitz. This aspect of Sheila's was dropped from the main film as it seemed to be very uncharacteristic of her and to make her more sympathetic as she saw what the war lead to.

* WorkingTitle: It was supposed to be called ''South Park: To Hell'' and Back'' but they weren't allowed to put the word Hell into the title of a movie so they named it after an uncircumcised penis as revenge.