South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Legacy

Legacy

Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, later said he regretted not giving the film an NC-17 rating. In response to the film's controversy, the MPAA began backing up their ratings on print posters by posting reasons to explain them, beginning in 2000.

The film's use of profanity gained it a Guinness World Record in their 2001 edition for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film" (399 profane words, including 144 uses of fuck; 128 offensive gestures; and 221 acts of violence—in effect, one every six seconds. In the song "Uncle Fucka", the curse word fuck is said 31 times. The pop punk band Blink-182 would often end songs on their The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show Tour with lines from "Uncle Fucka" throughout 2000. The lines can be heard is present on the band's live album, The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!).

In 2006, a memo between Stone and the MPAA dating from shortly before the film was released leaked to the Internet. The memo informs the board of several jokes kept in but also taken per their request. The memo ends with a tongue-in-cheek remark to the organization: "P.S. This is my favorite memo ever." There is an urban myth that the film was also banned in Iraq, for its depiction of Saddam Hussein as Satan's abusive homosexual lover. Because of the sanctions against Iraq at the time and the collapse of the Iraqi Dinar (which kept theaters and retailers from being able to pay the required licensing fees), no film production company had been able to distribute movies in Iraq since the Gulf War, although the content of the film made it highly unlikely to have been approved by the government censors in any case. While the real Hussein was on trial for genocide charges in 2006, Matt Stone joked that the U.S. military was showing the movie repeatedly to the former dictator as a form of torture. Parker and Stone were also given a signed photo of Hussein by the American soldiers.

In 2011, when asked on the official South Park website whether a sequel would be made, they said "the first South Park movie was so potent, we're all still recovering from the blow. Unfortunately, at the current moment, there are no plans for a second South Park movie. But you never know what the future may bring, crazier things have happened..." In 2011, Time called South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut the sixth greatest animated feature of all-time.