Today we’re talking South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut—the 90s musical that’s basically Trey Parker and Matt Stone picking a fight with censorship (and the MPAA) while also taking shots at themselves. We get into why the movie’s whole Terence & Phillip “asses of fire” swearing epidemic is an obvious stand-in for South Park’s own reputation, and whether that self-defense angle works or feels like the movie is justifying its own existence. I also point out how some jokes age like cheese, some age like vegetables, and this one ages like a Greek salad—there’s still a lot here, but the “it has lots of swearing” comedic thrust doesn’t hit like it used to. The big saving grace (and honestly the strongest part of the film) is the music. If this wasn’t a musical, it’d be way worse; the songs give it that weird, wholesome earnestness even while the plot is Satan, Saddam Hussein, a V-chip that shocks Cartman when he swears, and a full-on apocalypse triggered by an execution. We also get into fandom repulsion, why some people bounce off South Park as “lowest common denominator,” and the show’s complicated legacy of being “outside” politics—sometimes to its benefit, sometimes to its detriment. Final scores: David 8.2/10, me 7.5/10, Riley 7/10.