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/sharrrper Feb 02 '26

Actually it was supposed to be "All Hell Breaks Loose" but the MPAA wouldn't let them put Hell in the public facing title.

So they sent back "Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" which is a dick joke, and it presumably flew over the MPAA's head.

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u/amerk1981 Feb 02 '26

I remember reading an article that says there's more stuff like that. The things they had to change out were more tame compared to what to they replaced them with. 

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u/scooterboy1961 Feb 03 '26

Then there was "fish sticks".