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"South Park: Bigger, Longer & Unct" took on "Tarzan" 25 years ago, and signaled the end of the Disney Renaissance

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Tarzan went head to head at the box office and Oscars 25 years ago

The show had barely been on the air for two years when Bigger, Longer & Uncut was released, but they’d already made headlines and shocked concerned parents worldwide with episodes featuring circumcision, Charles Manson, anal probing, and multiple violent deaths for poor Kenny. Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a surprisingly faithful old-school Disney-style musical, complete with the “pretty little town” song, the “I want” number, and a rousing cry to battle sung by a child with a voice uncannily similar to Liza Minnelli’s. It’s no surprise now, to audiences of The Book Of Mormon, that Parker and Stone are musical theater nerds, but the idea of the guys who made Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo being like the petulant nephews of Alan Menken was even more hilarious than watching Satan get railed by Saddam Hussein.

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