Line #13 YMMV/SausageParty


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2	* AccidentalAesop:
3	** The film features CampGay, StraightGay, and bisexual characters, but more importantly, [[NonHeteronormativeSociety treats sexual orientation as a complete and utter non-issue]]. Characters simply love who they love and, in the end, have sex when, how, and with whomever they like. The film, even as it indulges in [[spoiler:a graphic food orgy]], makes it a point to portray this as wonderful and liberating.
4	** The food items, when they're not floundering in shallow prejudice or stressing over the "gods", get a lot of mileage out of the little things in life -- sex, love, swearing, partying, and getting high as a kite. One interpretation is that the human condition, while uncertain and crude, is actually pretty awesome.
5	** As Screen Rants [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKM8WUD3F8c pitch meeting]] showed; the gods are dead, so just indulge in mindless hedonism.
6	* {{Adorkable}}:
7	** Barry is a cute [[TeenyWeenie little sausage]] who's just as eager to get inside a bun as [[AllMenArePerverts all the other sausages]] and shows such adorable enthusiasm at the thought of doing so. [[spoiler:He still maintains his adorkableness when he [[TookALevelInBadass leads the revolt against the humans.]]]] Plus, being voiced by Creator/MichaelCera doesn't hurt.
8	** Sally, Barry's bun girlfriend, who shares his physical abnormality (in Sally's case, being smushed) that sets her apart from her peers. She also gains a shy and timid voice following her being smushed by Brenda.
9	* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: A much more modest example. The film's success, critical and otherwise, came as a surprise to many.
10	* AnimationAgeGhetto: Intended as a [[TakeThat gigantic middle finger]] towards this mentality, as it goes out of its way to promote itself as such. But... weirdly enough, a year later, when an Creator/{{HBO}} channel in Brazil aired the movie, it was subsequently banned by the government with a fine Of R$ 2 million, because according to them "it aired inappropriate content at the time", since it was aired in the morning. But the channel denied it, claiming that they clarified the content of the animation and its age ratings. The weirdest thing of this is the fact of this channel not even being free-to-air, one of the most mature HBO channels and being one of the most expensive pay TV channels in the country...
11	* {{Anvilicious}}: The arguments over the Great Beyond's existence or lack thereof are taken straight from the standard arguments between believers and atheists. To some, the film ultimately comes down on the "side" of vague agnosticism, to others on the anti-religious atheist side (see WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical below). Whatever the case, there is a message that if you want to challenge a belief system, you need to offer an appealing alternative, as summed up by Barry late in the movie:
12	-->'''Barry:''' ''(to Frank)'' [[WhatTheHellHero You can't just slam their beliefs!]] You have to show them that there's a better way. You need to inspire them like you inspired me! You need to give them... [[HopeBringer hope]].
13	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Before release, ''Sausage Party'' was seen as this: an R-rated CGI-animated film starring AnthropomorphicFood, full of raunchiness, crude jokes, offensive stereotypes, and inappropriate visual puns. It became a critical and commercial success, unexpectedly.
14	* AwardSnub: We wouldn't exactly say that this is an award deserving movie ''per se'' but, more than a few fans were disappointed that the film didn't receive even a single nomination at the Academy Awards, citing "The Great Beyond" as a perfect potential nominee for Best Original Song.
15	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "The Great Beyond", which sounds ''exactly'' like a song from the Disney Renaissance (with added raunch, obviously). Not surprising, considering [[Music/AlanMenken who wrote it.]]
16	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Ask around and there are two things you will find this film most remembered for: [[PunnyName Camille]] [[HartmanHips Toh]], and the rather graphic [[spoiler: food orgy]] at the end of the story.
17	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: While it may have been hilarious, from a plot standpoint, [[spoiler:the food orgy]] fits the definition of BLAM quite nicely.
18	* BrokenBase:
19	** The film itself is extremely polarizing. Either you think it’s a hilarious AffectionateParody of animated films or you think it’s an overly vulgar and substance lacking abomination that embodies everything wrong with [[AnimatedShockComedy adult animation]]. There is no in-between.
20	** The film being announced as the first R-rated CGI-animated feature was bad enough, but the release of the Red Band trailer further worsened the division. Opinions of it range from being a faithful AffectionateParody of Creator/{{Disney}}[=/=]Creator/{{Pixar}} movies, to being a cold-blooded and hilarious skewering of those same films, to being a typical Creator/SethRogen film completely devoid of any funny moments.
21	** The news of the TroubledProduction and mistreatment of animators. For some people, those are enough to completely dismiss the movie all together, while for others, it's not much of big deal or even increases their appreciation for the film.
22	** On a lighter note, some are split whether [[spoiler:the [[GainaxEnding ending]] was meant to be a legitimate SequelHook or is just another throwaway gag that shouldn't be taken seriously]].
23	* CriticalDissonance: Film critics seemed to mostly praise the film, awarding it a solid 83% "Certified Fresh" on Website/RottenTomatoes, while overall audiences reception seems to be more in the polarizing camp. The backlash involving the terrible working conditions the film's animation studio inflicted on its animators only seemed to sour these sentiments further.
24	* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's safe to say that ''Sausage Party'' gleefully plays double dutch with every line it can find.
25	** "They're eating children! '''''FUCKING CHILDREN'''''!"
26	** When we meet the traumatized roll of toilet paper, the "corpse" (cardboard tube) of his predecessor is seen hanging on the bathroom handle behind him.
27	** The best way to describe [[https://youtu.be/yBvjk8RCAK8 "The Great Beyond"]] is that it takes everything good and decent in the world and fries it, boils it, gouges its eyes out and tears its head in half all while being sung in a Musical Number akin to a film from UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation.
28	** [[spoiler: During the supermarket's WhatTheHellHero reaction to Frank [[KickTheDog when he insults their belief in "The Great Beyond"]]]], one of the foods calls [[spoiler: him]] an "intolerant piece of shit". Now, this example wouldn't be here ''[[spoiler: [[HypocriticalHumor if the food in question hadn't been]] [[AdolfHitlarious Sauerkraut Hitler!]]]]''
29	** Barry complimenting the squished hot dog bun on how her lopsided face "just gives up halfway through."
30	** The climax (pun intended). More specifically, [[spoiler: after the food defeat the evil humans, they have a massive orgy]].
31	** The scene where the Condom is lamenting on what he was used for shouldn't have been as hilarious as it was.
32	** All of the ethnic stereotypes. ''All of them.'' Mostly because it's generally agreed that they never cross the line from good-natured ribbing to outright cruelty.
33	%%** Gum being a stand-in for Creator/StephenHawking. Think about it for a second.
34	%%** Holocaust jokes of some variety.
35	* DancingBear: The main draw of the film is that it's the first feature-length CGI film targeted to adults.
36	* DesignatedVillain: The humans, who need to eat food to survive, but are nonetheless portrayed as being evil, monstrous murderers. Probably intentional, as the food characters clearly don't know that and the humans aren't ''actually'' portrayed as "evil" (except for Darren, but he's more of just a typical {{jerkass}}). According to Firewater, the reason that the humans kill food is because it makes them stronger.
37	* DracoInLeatherPants: Douche gets this treatment a lot on Tumblr, with some seeing him as a sympathetic villain, others depicting him as a good-looking human, and others have him paired up with El Guaco and juicy box.
38	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
39	** Barry has received a good deal of love from both critics and audiences. His cute looks and [[{{Adorkable}} personality]], along with Creator/MichaelCera's performance, certainly helped.
40	** The juice box that [[spoiler:gets raped by Douche]] is ''very'' popular with fans, especially shippers... [[MisaimedFandom unfortunately]].
41	** The Non-Perishables. Right next to Douche, El Guaco, Barry and Teresa Del Taco, they're practically ''the'' most popular characters in the film.
42	* FandomRivalry: The film was thrust into the crosshairs of Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse fans when it provided a surprising amount of competition for ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''.
43	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Successful as it may be everywhere else, the film is way less polarizing in New Zealand.
44	* GottaShipEmAll: There are a ''lot'' of HoYay pairings for this movie. Douche[=/=]Frank, Douche[=/=]Juice Box, Firewater[=/=]Twink, Firewater[=/=]Grits, Twink[=/=]Grits... the list goes on.
45	* HarsherInHindsight: A meta example, as well. The cheery "That's terrible work, you're fired" gag in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRmh06Ab2E Seth Rogen's Animation-Imaginatorium]] became a lot less funny when people realized the horrible working conditions the animators had been under.
46	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: For how dirty this movie is, one can't help but admire Frank and Brenda's relationship.
47	** Same can be said for [[TrueCompanions his relationship with Barry]].
48	* HilariousInHindsight:
49	** InvokedTrope. Once the foods find out the [[EatenAlive truth]] about the Great Beyond, you can't help but feel a bit bad for them when they sing about how the Great Beyond is a wonderful place in the beginning of the film.
50	** The food are shown at Camille Toh's house realizing their true fate after seeing their food friends get murdered. Cut to three months after the movie was released, and a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' [[Recap/SouthParkS20E6FortCollins episode]] contains a scene where Randy attempts to kill the member berries, who are a bunch of anthropomorphic grapes. This results in the rest of the member berries observing the murdering process from the kitchen counter and sneaking out at night to escape his house.
51	** Considering the reports of how cruel co-director Greg Tiernan had been to most of the animators, it's hard not to imagine the catharsis they must feel when watching the potato he voices get his skin brutally peeled off, if not when they were animating it.
52	** The Whole Cake Island arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'' (which was in publication around the time this movie was in theaters) featured animate, sentient food who insist they taste delicious and actually ''want'' to be eaten - the polar opposite of ''Sausage Party's'' foodstuffs.
53	** There was [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2icmgz a Saturday TV Funhouse sketch]] on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' that parodied ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''. It had a line saying that if you masturbated, you went to hell, showed several scenes of food murdering other food, and had a scene where a tomato is portrayed as having a harem of 70 virgins. Fast forward to this film, and there's a scene where Brenda worries that bad things are happening to her and Frank because they "touched tips", which could be seen as being equivalent to masturbation or dry humping, a product who murders other foods (Douche), and Lavash saying that in the Great Beyond, 70 bottles of extra virgin olive oil wait for him.
54	** Douche shoving himself up Darren's butt is even ''more'' amusing now that Nick Kroll, Douche's voice actor, is playing Professor ''Poopypants'' in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie''. This is also hilarious because in the books, Professor Poopypants had robotic pants that he poked his head out of the zipper portion of in one point, which is also seen in the end credits sequence of the Captain Underpants movie during the part where it shows Nick Kroll’s name.
55	** Here, Nick Kroll plays a sex-crazed douche that can't be seen by normal people. In ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'', he'd play a sex-crazed monster that can't be seen by normal people. Not only that but he'd repurpose his voice for Douche, a narcissistic bully of a villain, for the character of Coach Steve, the single nicest character on that show. Similarly, Kristen Wiig, who plays a character who resembles a sentient vagina, would later appear on Kroll's show as an ''actual'' sentient vagina.
56	** The YouTubePoop [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEXKZEtgBM "Billy Mays Pitches Sausage Party"]] has Billy Mays smashing the movie posters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', and ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'' at one point in the video when he tells the audience they could say goodbye to those films after seeing the movie. In the deleted alternate ending, Seth Rogen and his friends state that ''Sausage Party'' is the best food movie they’ve seen since ''Ratatouille'' and ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs''.
57	** It only took four years after this movie for a genuine Pixar film, ''{{WesternAnimation/Soul}}'', to unironically call the afterlife “The Great Beyond.”
58	* HypeBacklash: Despite the acclaim the film has received from critics, many general audience members find the film to be overly raunchy and arguably less mature than many so-called "kids'" films from Disney and Pixar, despite being advertised as the first ever CGI-animated film for adults.
59	* InferredHolocaust: Just how many living, breathing food items were brutally carved up before the events of the film? And what is to become of the foods at the ''other'' supermarkets??
60	** For that matter, what of the families and friends of the customers and staff that were killed by the rebellious food items? Or any other people that could end up killed if the foods in other stores do similar uprisings?
61	** While drugging humans with bath salt would enable the grocery items to rebel against the humans, it would not guaranteed the success of said rebellion. Now imagine what would have happened to the surviving grocery items and humans if the latter had miraculously defeated the rebellion.
62	* IronWoobie: Barry does [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] mid-way through the film and [[spoiler:even kills both of the movie's villains]].
63	* ItWasHisSled:
64	** The food's "destiny" is actually to be eaten. [[CaptainObvious Duh.]]
65	** Thanks to the leaked script and countless reviews on the internet, everyone going to see this movie will be fully aware of [[spoiler:the food orgy]].
66	* JerkassWoobie:
67	** Honey Mustard. He might be full-of-himself, but he suffers from honest to god realistic portrayals of PTSD when he comes back from the "Great Beyond". [[spoiler:Being DrivenToSuicide definitely brings him even further into sympathy.]]
68	** Even Darren to an extent. While he is a sleazy worker, did he ''really'' deserve to [[spoiler:get blown up along with Douche and being ''[[BlackComedyRape sexually controlled]]'' by Douche?]]
69	* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Douche gets paired with most of the male characters in the film, particularly Frank, Barry, El Guaco, and the Juice Box.
70	* LGBTFanbase: The film is pretty popular among gay and bisexual audiences, owing to the film's cast consisting largely of gay and bi characters with the film itself treating these characters in a casual manner.
71	* LoveToHate: Douche. Despite being a massive... well, douche, fans can't help but be entertained by how stereotypically over-the-top he is.
72	* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales:
73	** Most of the food characters (such as Teresa Del Taco and Sammy Bagel Jr.) are pretty popular among people that represent their respective ethnicities, despite being rather blatant stereotypes.
74	** Similarly, Twink is popular with LGBT viewers despite his CampGay personality.
75	* MisaimedFandom: Douche gets paired with the Juice Box a lot ([[FanNickname nicknamed "Juicy" by most of the fandom]]), despite the fact that Douche [[spoiler:[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped the juice box to death]] when sucking the juice out of a wound located on his crotch]].
76	* MisBlamed: Regarding the controversy over the animators' working conditions, the animators that spoke out [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/08/17/for-audiences-sausage-party-was-a-laugh-riot-for-some-animators-it-was-a-nightmare/?utm_term=.9e3744541c8c stressed that their issues were strictly with the animation company]], Creator/{{Nitrogen}}[[note]]a non-union animation studio based out of Vancouver, Canada[[/note]], and director Greg Tiernan, and had no complaints against writer-producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg or director-producer Conrad Vernon. Despite this, many angry responses were directed against the film's crew as a unit (or, more egregiously, singled out Rogen), and the issue was often framed as a way of "vindicating" complaints about the content and morality of the film itself.
77	* {{Moe}}: Barry, Sally, Twink, the baby carrots, and interestingly enough, Camille.
78	* MoralEventHorizon: Douche crosses it when he [[spoiler:[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil drinks the juice out of a wounded Box of Grape Juice.]]]]
79	* NauseaFuel:
80	** The [[spoiler:orgy scene]]. Just the idea that they show [[spoiler:various food items having sex]] can ''really'' disgust people. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It barely even made sense at all.]]
81	** During the supermarket battle, [[spoiler:one man's head is blown up]].
82	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The red-band trailer accidentally being screened in front of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' increased interest in the movie.
83	* OlderThanTheyThink:
84	** ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForceColonMovieFilmForTheaters'' was another adult animated film about anthropomorphic food (like the TV series it was based on) that was released nine years before ''Sausage Party''. However, ''Sausage Party'' features a far more diverse variety of food characters; the ''Aqua Teen'' movie primarily featured three (albeit more if you count the intro with the movie theater snacks singing the advertisement jingle and [[Creator/BruceCampbell Chicken Bittle]], whom were all minor characters). Also, the ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' movie was based on a TV series and only had a limited release.
85	** This is not, in fact, the first computer animated film to receive an R rating. ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' earned that title seventeen years prior. This film, however, is the first to have 3D computer animation, whereas the ''South Park'' movie used it to create [[StylisticSuck crude 2D puppet animation]].
86	** ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' was another adult animated film. Which was the inspiration behind Conrad Vernon joining as the co-director of the movie according to WordOfGod.
87	** ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends'' used the "Hot Dog Buns with sideways mouths" design before this film did. Although here, [[VisualPun it's a bit more blatant]].
88	** Back in the 80s an episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' had a similar premise, although from a human perspective. A woman tries a weight-loss plan that gives her glasses and an earpiece that cause her to see faces on her food, and hear them talking to her. In that episode, however, it's not totally clear if this is actually happening, or if it's an illusion to discourage her from over-eating. The episode ends with the woman [[MouthStitchedShut sewing her mouth shut]] and [[HeroicSacrifice starving to death.]] Oddly, that episode ventured into UnbuiltTrope territory, and can actually come across as a {{Deconstruction}} of ''this'' movie, acknowledging that the food is basically screwed either way, and not eating it actually means a slow and painful death by rotting.
89	** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had [[https://youtu.be/t1aX2OBvC5Y a scene]] that also [[TakeThat made fun of]] Creator/{{Pixar}} with AnthropomorphicFood. The only difference is that the food act like the way the toys in ''Franchise/ToyStory'' do rather than the whole AlternateUniverse situation. It's actually gotten to the point where [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer people have mistaken that]] ''[[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer Simpsons]]'' [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer scene for a scene in]] ''[[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer Sausage Party]]''
90	* OvershadowedByControversy: It's ''very'' difficult to bring this movie up in animation circles without mentioning the mistreatment of the animators by co-director Greg Tiernan.
91	* PeripheryDemographic: Betcha never expected a raunchy, R-rated film about talking food would be so popular with women now, didja?
92	* ProtectionFromEditors: According to the filmmakers, they actually had full control over production, which was how they were able to get away with much of the film's risque content.
93	* QuestionableCasting: Many question if Music/AlanMenken's involvement in the movie was necessary, let alone fitting. Is it just so he can poke fun at his works with Disney? Or is it an attempt to [[PlayingAgainstType try something new]] and shake off his reputation [[IAmNotSpock of being a Disney composer]]? His hiring to do the score was bizarre to many, even to Disney fans who enjoy his scores, aside from his work in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' before working with Disney.
94	* RootingForTheEmpire: Since the villains of the story are the humans who are just eating the food to, you know, fulfill a very basic [[DesignatedVillain survival need]], it's not hard to relate, and for some people, to side with them.
95	* ShockFatigue: Owing to this movie's BrokenBase, people either love it for the swearing, violence, and sexual humor because it's an AffectionateParody of animated movies, or they find the vulgarity (such as the scene where everyone has a massive orgy) too over-the-top to the point where it gets old. There is no in-between.
96	* SignatureScene: The entire [[spoiler:[[SexMontage orgy scene]]]] between the lead gang and all the other foods is quickly reaching this status, with the scene where Camille slaughters the foods at her home not far behind.
97	* SpiritualSuccessor:
98	** Can be considered a deconstruction of ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''. Just replace household items with food products.
99	** In that it's a [[SubvertedKidsShow brutal, adult-centric work disguised as something child friendly]], it can be seen as one for ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' or possibly ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''.
100	** Many Website/YouTube comments have often referred to the movie as the film version of ''Anime/AttackOnTitan''. Only here, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters we're the Titans]].
101	** It's also been described by fans as "the version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' that doesn't suck."
102	** Let's see... An animated product that uses AnthropomorphicFood to deliver its message about Religion. Gee, [[WesternAnimation/VeggieTales doesn't that sound familiar]]?
103	** In the words of Creator/BradJones...
104	--> This movie's kind of the ''Film/LogansRun'' of talking food movies.
105	** For some people, the kitchen scene is very reminicent of ''WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange'' earliest episodes and many older [=DaneBoe=] talking food videos. They refer to them as "''Sausage Party'' before ''Sausage Party''".
106	* SpoiledByTheFormat: Because it's a spoof on the AnimationAgeGhetto and [[ArtStyleDissonance designed to resemble the kind of film which plays it straight]], Sony was practically required to release the red band trailer first and put a huge "RATED R" stamp on the home media artwork to make it perfectly clear that it was a spoof, more or less [[DontExplainTheJoke spoiling the main joke]].
107	* SoOkayItsAverage: Despite its overall reception being much more positive-to-polarizing than had been expected, the consensus is that it's a perfectly serviceable raunchy comedy, but otherwise doesn't have much appeal beyond the novelty factor of basically just being a [=DreamWorks=] movie that's explicitly for adults.
108	* {{Squick}}
109	** The close-up of Camille Toh's... well, [[MeaningfulName camel toe]] as Douche [[MaleGaze ogles it]].
110	** The [[spoiler: food orgy]]. Some laugh, some puke.
111	** The discarded, used condom. There's still remnants of semen on him.
112	** The piece of poop in the street Barry sees that still has corn pieces in it. And then the corn pieces come to life as ''zombies''.
113	** Douche [[spoiler:[[AssShove sodomizing Darren]] and yanking on his scrotum to puppeteer him (essentially a grosser version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'')]].
114	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Douche's leitmotif sounds very similar to the theme for Hopper and his band from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''.
115	* UglyCute: Given the animation style and the fact that the characters are food items. Barry most especially.
116	* UnintentionalUncannyValley: Owing to the film's modest budget, some of the facial features on the human character designs seem a little off. To say nothing of the anthropomorphic hot dog buns, who resemble blow-up dolls whose [[BodyHorror mouths go the wrong way]].
117	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
118	** While we're meant to understand that Frank judging the groceries when showing them the proof of what really happens in the Great Beyond is meant to be him disrespecting their beliefs, [[{{Hypocrite}} the problem is that they aren't any better when it comes to judging others for different beliefs]]. It's even stated in the opening song that foods with different beliefs are "fucking stupid", so really, they have no right to get angry at Frank for judging them.
119	** The Food as a whole fall into this following the climax because the moment they stop living with any kind of purpose, every last product in the store descends into mindless [[TheHedonist hedonism]]. Not only that, but their activies appears to be a little self-destructive judging by how violent that [[spoiler: orgy]] gets. Not a very good use of their newfound freedom.
120	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Despite the above, the animation is surprisingly top-notch for something made on such a small budget, helped by the fact that one of the co-directors is a veteran of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.[[note]]Though if you really want to give credit where it's due, you can thank the poor animators who were forced to work overtime for no pay.[[/note]]
121	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids:
122	** Those who first watched the ''Red Band'' trailer anticipated that it would be a children's movie since it involved anthropomorphic food and that it [[ArtStyleDissonance bore an uncanny resemblance to what you would see]] in a Disney, Pixar or [=DreamWorks=] film. Then, once the Irish potato [[PrecisionFStrike dropped the F-bomb]], said viewers thought, "What the ''hell'' is this?". [[https://youtu.be/6nnVdGQKVPo One of the TV spots]] had to give a warning that the movie is rated R twice the first at the very beginning and the later ones even had to put a red stamp saying "Rated R" on the film's release date.
123	** [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/29/theater-plays-sausage-party-trailer-before-finding-dory-apologizes A trailer for the film was shown]] just before ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' in one California theater. The theater apologized later on, explaining that ''Dory'' had not been scheduled in that auditorium until late due to unexpected demand, and they had forgotten to switch it out with an adult-oriented movie (and its trailers) playing earlier in the same auditorium. The theater stated that the ''Sausage Party'' trailer has never been scheduled with ''Dory''; however, it has been speculated that the reason the error wasn't caught until it was too late was because the first trailer to play was for [[AnimationAgeGhetto a bright, cheerful-looking animated picture]].
124	** And after the home release, several stores and streaming services have put a big red "Rated R" label on the movie's cover and advertising, less risking a parent bring this movie home for his little child.
125	** Verizon Fios initially incorrectly labeled the movie as having a ''PG-13'' rating. [[http://freshliciousflower.tumblr.com/post/151535827129/i-just-got-back-from-seeing-sausage-partys According to a Tumblr post]], this also happened at one Regal Cinemas location in New York during the Columbus Day weekend re-release when a PG-13 MPAA rating card showed up before the movie started.[[note]]The PG-13 rating doesn't particularly mean a film is kid-friendly either, but this film ''definitely'' makes anything PG-13 rated you've seen look G-rated in comparison.[[/note]]
126	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:
127	** MoralGuardians, aside from being horrified by the adult jokes and stereotypes, accused the film of promoting an anti-religious message, as it is a major plot point that the food are taught to believe humans would send them to "their destiny," which supposedly means food heaven, instead of being chopped and cooked for a human meal in reality. The food's "religion" is revealed to be a lie (akin to some hardline atheists views on religion), this idea is introduced by [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a Stephen Hawking expy]] (Hawking himself was an avowed atheist) whose knowledge of the food's "religion" is correct, and the foods go on to fight and kill some of their "gods" and the story treats it as a good thing. Many early reviewers who saw the rough cut at the SXSW festival [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/15/sausage-party-seth-rogen-animated-sxsw-film-festival did not]] [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3493685/FIRST-LOOK-Seth-Rogen-s-filthy-animated-masterpiece-Sausage-Party-debuts-R-rated-trailer-wowing-audiences-SXSW.html fail]] [[http://www.slashfilm.com/sausage-party-sxsw-screening/ to point]] this analogy out. While the film isn't explicitly pro-atheist, the film is a rather big indictment on when organized religion is rigid.
128	** A large contingent of Tumblr saw the film as one long nose-thumbing against "political correctness", feminism and racial equality.
129	* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Japanese dub, since douches aren't common in Japanese stores, Douche is renamed Bidet (a sink used for washing genitalia and buttocks).
130	* TheWoobie: Poor little Barry. He's a misshapen hotdog who's constantly bullied for his short stature, insecure over his feelings of inadequacy and perceived lack of desirability to the buns, witnesses his fellow foods being brutally slaughtered, and he gets thrown far out of his element in the humans' world. He grows out of being a woobie by [[TookALevelInBadass taking several levels up in badassery]] and [[EarnYourHappyEnding gets a happy ending ultimately]].

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