LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- "Blame Canada" is the sole Oscar nomination earned by the animated movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." There would be a meticulous list of what games (Doom) and movies (Natural Born Killers) they liked, but the biggest emphasis was on what music they listened to. Censorship won. Anyone who has chosen not to condone South Park for any variety of legitimate reasons should be well understood, particularly as the world has shifted from the boomer paradise of the ’90s to the millennial hellscape that the 2020s are becoming. It’s been fucking 22 years. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Phil Collins grasps his Oscar in 2000; Robin Williams performs “Blame Canada” the same year; Mariah Carey, left, … Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. (“We must blame them and cause a fuss / Before someone thinks of blaming us!” the parents sing in “Blame Canada.”), Just a few years ago, Parker was still combative about the prospect of his possible cancellation—both cultural and literal: “The witch hunt is coming,” he told the L.A. Times. However, the truth, as is more easily understood after decades of interviews clarifying their personal and political beliefs (or lack thereof), is that the duo resent any form of the establishment—and that includes the self-serious Oscars itself. Parker has always been the central mastermind of the show—Stone himself admits that his own role is something like David Lee Roth to Parker’s Eddie Van Halen—and is firmly in the driver’s seat week after week to steer one the most massive and influential platforms in media however he so chooses. Not when one in 1,000 Black men will be killed by police; when 68 percent of people on unemployment are making more than they were before they lost their jobs; when the president is using Nazi iconography in ads for his reelection campaign. In other words, we didn’t want to say in some interview, ‘Well, we don’t feel so great about that episode.’ It doesn’t feel as good as ‘Fuck that, we’ll do a whole two-parter.’”, “And it is not just atoning,” Parker added. The man tapped to provide lead vocals: comedy legend Robin Williams. (Kenny is attempting to light a fart on fire, as one does, and fails spectacularly.) No, blame Canada!”), Much like The Itchy & Scratchy Show for The Simpsons, The Terrance and Phillip Show can be understood as a meta-reference to South Park itself—a way for Parker and Stone to poke fun (OK, fart) at their critics for accusing them of being too obscene, particularly for young viewers, who watched the show in droves regardless of its TV-MA rating. However, Blame Canada contained the "F" word, which is not allowed on television. Content ©2020 The Ringer All Rights Reserved, Robin Williams, an Acid Trip, and Moral Panic: The Story of “Blame Canada” at the Oscars, The Ringer’s Top 40 Episodes of ‘South Park,’ Ranked, Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and, uh, John Denver, one in 1,000 Black men will be killed by police, more than they were before they lost their jobs, Nazi iconography in ads for his reelection campaign. A contestant named Talia, who had only $600 left, didn't come up with the right one. In this regard, then, Asses of Fire can be understood as a stand-in for Bigger, Longer & Uncut, shrewdly predicting the ensuing protests and scandals that the filmmakers already knew were coming. “To try to get him to say to me what he was feeling and thinking about something, rather than to automatically [jump] to a way to make him not feel that way or to fix the way he felt.”. Williams locking arm-in-arm with dancers dressed as Canadian Mounties, high-kicking in unison before nailing the poor man’s version of the Michael Jackson tiptoe landing, is easily one of the most absurd—and best—moments in Oscar history. In a two-part episode—“Time to Get Cereal” and “Nobody Got Cereal?”—the boys repent to Al Gore for not listening to him about ManBearPig, which, in essence, was Parker and Stone’s admission that they had been wrong to make fun of climate change in the initial “ManBearPig” episode in 2006. She was the inventor and gatekeeper of pretty much every central female character in the early seasons, each of them wildly different and most of them now iconic: Liane Cartman, Sharon Marsh, Carol McCormick, and Wendy Testaburger, to name a few. “It would be ironic to have to change the words in a movie about censorship.”, Shaiman was right about that. I always felt like if we were going to rewrite that or comment on it or atone, whatever you want to call it, it’s in kind. A wickedly entertaining gaffe. Drugs.”, To those who had not yet seen South Park, either in show or movie form, perhaps the image of Parker and Stone in drag, wearing gowns modeled after iconic ones styled by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow, might have seemed harmless. So how do you go but not go? Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain. Because of this, there are countless moments throughout the history of the show that are reprehensible, to say the least. Stone was so shaken up by what happened that he had to take a few days off from the movie production: “Nothing seemed funny after that,” he explained to The New York Times in 1999. Across 23 seasons, the only period in which outside writers were relied upon was during the second and third seasons, when Parker and Stone were busy with projects like BASEketball and Bigger, Longer & Uncut and thought they would do what everyone else does in the industry by getting some help. Both Parker and Stone had grown up in Colorado, so the news hit home for each of them, but explicitly for Stone, who was raised in Littleton and attended a neighboring high school just miles from Columbine High. "Blame Canada" is a song sung by the parents of South Park in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. For some, like Parker and Stone, the answer was in the question itself: “When anything like the Columbine thing happens, everybody—us included—is so confused and saddened,” Stone said to Rolling Stone in 1999. South Park is unique in that, unlike pretty much every other animated show that’s run for an extended period (The Simpsons, Family Guy), it’s still directly made by its creators. Blame Canada, blame Canada We need to form a full assault it’s Canada-s fault! Blame Canada - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (3/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD Immediately, South Park and its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, became the focus of the category. The years leading up to Bigger, Longer & Uncut were filled with surreal images of artists like Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and, uh, John Denver testifying before Congress about parental advisory stickers in 1985. And despite its political incorrectness, Blame Canada was far from anti-Canadian. So what did they do with this precious, possibly fleeting invitation into the spotlight? The Golden Globes air Jan. 13. Robin Williams, an Acid Trip, and Moral Panic: The Story of “Blame Canada” at the Oscars The breakout song from Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park’ movie took center stage at … He tried to defend himself, eloquently, in an op-ed in Rolling Stone (“What inspires Bill Clinton to blow people up in Kosovo?” he wondered), and some, like the critic Ann Powers in the The New York Times, backed him up as well (“The attempt to … associate an interest in extreme rock with mental illness [only confirms] the fears, or fantasies, of many fans that they are doing something terribly wrong,” she wrote). To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. They were arriving in Hollywood in more ways than one: Less than three years before, their cutout-animation show South Park, about four foul-mouthed elementary school kids in small-town Colorado, had premiered on the then-fringe network Comedy Central. mwillis was the first of those who deluged us with this story: Robin Williams is set to sing the South Park song "Blame Canada" at the Oscars. But this performance was unprecedented in a certain way: With various sarcastic insults to Canadians littered throughout, as well as one glorious and essential use of the word “fuck,” the song would need to be censored for the telecast. We’re pretty different people now.”, Both Parker and Stone have young kids these days—and perhaps they’re starting to understand how difficult it is to adhere to their own lesson in “Blame Canada,” looking within before blaming others for the fucked-up world their kids are brought into. The breakout song from Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park’ movie took center stage at the 2000 Academy Awards. But it’s worth emphasizing it within the context of the obscenity discussions that were swirling out of control in the ’80s and ’90s: Seemingly unaware (or unwilling) to notice the similarities between prior, frequent moral-panic scares of the 20th century, the likes of Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman thought the best use of their time was analyzing the ways in which media was damaging the American youth—and how to stop it. And for those uninitiated with Parker and Stone, the performance was going to tell them pretty much everything they needed to know about why these two pasty dudes with dilated pupils were changing the future of the entertainment industry. Robin Williams is to sing the controversial Best Song Oscar nominee Blame Canada live on television, it was announced yesterday. (The most recent season of South Park was still the top cable comedy for young adults.) Parker and Stone battled bitterly with the MPAA to get their initial NC-17 rating lowered to an R (“We did cut the word ‘hole’ from ‘asshole’ as per our conversation,” one memo from Stone to the MPAA reads), and eventually won, although the organization’s president later said he regretted it. Parker and Stone, who counted Bergman as a close friend, were crushed. Peppered with … The laughter and fun must all be undone It will be performed at the Oscars but it is not known who will be singing it. Blame Canada, blame Canada There not even a real country anyway. “We were so, like, punk rock—you know, like, against all of that stuff,” Stone remembered to The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. / Or should we blame the images on TV? … And the explanation that some people are fucked-up—that’s a scary answer, but it is the answer.”, For others, however, the answer was clearly that, unlike the Leave It to Beaver–type shows that they’d watched in their youth, kids nowadays were watching their favorite character getting probed, anally, and then buying T-shirts to mark the occasion. February 22, 2000 - Trey Parker will rewrite the lyrics for "Blame Canada," the Oscar-nominated song from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, before it is performed at next month's Academy Awards telecast, USA Today columnist Jeannie Williams reported today. Should we blame the matches? (One of the men subsequently arrested for the theft turned out to be Fulgear’s half-brother, but that connection wasn’t figured out until after Fulgear was sent to the awards as the toast of the town. (*Blame Canada, by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman, is the Oscar-nominated song from 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.) The trash we must bash Producers have added more interest to the issue by naming king of improv, Robin Williams, as the singer of the song from the censor-mocking, Canada-bashing comedy, SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT. Questions have been floating around for months on how the Academy will handle the curse-word laced best song nominee "Blame Canada" at the Oscar ceremony. Ledger also made Oscar history as only the second actor to win a posthumous award (the first was Best Actor winner Peter Finch for 1977's Network). Nate Rogers is a writer and editor in Los Angeles. Marilyn Manson famously told Michael Moore in 2002’s Bowling for Columbine that, rather than saying anything to Harris and Klebold, if given the chance, he would instead opt to listen to them, because “that’s what no one did.” In 2016, Klebold’s mother, Sue, echoed the same sentiment to NPR: “I think what I needed to do with Dylan more was to just shut up and listen,” she said. (“It’s gonna take four or five people to replace her,” Parker said in a panel just weeks before the awards, emphasizing how integral she was to the South Park world.) A major focus in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, in which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher, was the media the shooters consumed and how it might have pushed them over the edge. Remember how “Blame Canada” infamously lost to Phil Collins’s Tarzan theme? Given the theme of the movie, the irony of this saga is almost too on-the-nose to even mention. The Oscars will be broadcasted on March 26, 2000. But if it doesn’t work out that way, you’ll know who is to blame. For most, that preshow gag would’ve been the end of the story. That description of Bergman’s contributions to South Park isn’t an exaggeration. (There’s a moment in Bigger, Longer & Uncut where Cartman briefly appears in blackface that is especially hard to watch in 2020, just to pick one detail.) 1948 Walter Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Won 1949 John Ireland: All the King's Men: Nominated Ireland was born in Canada, but raised in the United States. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. If you are of a certain age, you may recall the Oscar-nominated song “Blame Canada” which featured in the “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” motion picture installment of the popular (and crude) TV show. Simultaneously, they’ve basically been given carte blanche by Comedy Central to do whatever they want, as long as it’s approved by legal before air. Oscar: Best Music, Original Song Trey Parker Marc Shaiman. Shame on Canada for… As you can see from the video below, Robin was clearly the perfect man for the job: equal parts showman and rabble-rouser. My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue. American Cinema Foundation, USA 2000 Nominee E Pluribus Unum Award: Feature Film: Annie Awards 1999 Nominee Annie: Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production Kyle’s mom, Sheila, finds out about the origin of Kenny’s demise and decides to create Mothers Against Canada, bursting into song about how the depraved Canadians are rotting their American children’s minds—the joke being that blaming that innocent, hockey-loving country up north is just as arbitrary as blaming any other single entity. The 72nd Academy Awards took place on March 26, 2000 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. This created controversy because all nominated songs are traditionally performed during the Oscar broadcast, but the song contained the word fuck, which the FCC prohibits using in prime time broadcasts. They still talk about how much they hate most of those seasons, and since then they’ve had limited writers’ room help (which notably included a young Bill Hader in the late aughts), instead choosing to adopt a “fuck it we’ll do it live” attitude. / Or blame society? First Canadian actor to win an Oscar. Fighting words: “My fellow Americans, at five a.m. today, a day which will live in infamy, the Canadians have bombed the Baldwins. By Steven Shehori, . " Blame Canada " is a song from the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, written by Trey Parker & Marc Shaiman. 20 Feb 2019 3:58 PM . 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The stakes are very high these days, and acting like every issue is equally dumb from both sides just isn’t something they can afford to do anymore. These final lines hit the point home nicely: Blame Canada! “We have a lot of friends in the TV world with way bigger shows than ours,” Parker noted on a panel in 2010, “and when they hear the freedom we have, they’re like, ‘Well, who reads your scripts?’ ‘Nobody. This was the same Academy that recognized “Blame Canada” from “South Park,” after all. Advertisement: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut — The Movie of that famous cartoon about the foulmouthed fourth graders —hit theaters in 1999, less than two years after the show's premiere, making it one of the fastest TV-to-film adaptations in history. 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