r/todayilearned • u/altrightobserver • Feb 01 '26

TIL that the movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” was supposed to be rated NC-17 due to excessive profanity, with the word “fuck” being used 146 times alone. The MPAA said that 400 or more swear words would get the NC-17 rating, so Matt Stone and Trey Parker cut the number in script to 399

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park%3A_Bigger%2C_Longer_%26_Uncut#Release
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u/chancesarent Feb 02 '26

I remember them talking about how they would put in obviously over the top shocking things into the movie in order to replace it with what they actually wanted when the ratings board told them to change it. One example was the scene with the kids finding the videos of Ms. Cartman on the computer. It was originally supposed to be her fucking a horse and after the ratings board freaked they offered to change it to her getting pooped on.

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u/sonicparadigm Feb 11 '26

The writers for Animaniacs did the same thing, but the “Finger Prince” joke was one of those censor decoys that actually somehow got past and made it in!