The Guinness World Record South Park Has Held Since 2001

If a movie could ever be described as deliberately offensive, none would fit the description more than “Bigger, Longer & Uncut.” In its remarkably brief runtime, the movie questions and pushes the boundaries of censorship, both on and off the screen. The film’s plot actually surrounds a fictional movie that is itself deemed horribly offensive and unfit for polite consumption – directly mirroring the sort of backlash Parker and Stone were likely expecting to receive. 

Sure enough, the film was subject to the same moral panic as experienced by the characters within, with one critic at the Chicago Tribune going so far as to damn the entire season of films as “the Summer of Raunch.” The film, ultimately rated R, was at one point struggling to avoid a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), due to the sheer amount of swears present in the final cut. According to Entertainment Weekly, the MPAA denied the film five times before producer Scott Rudin stepped in to apply pressure, which the filmmakers noted in an interview with Playboy convinced the MPAA to grant the film an R rating. 

Exactly how many expletives did the “South Park” movie contain? Enough to win a Guinness World Record.