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1999 promotional single by Mary Kay Bergman and Trey Parker
"Blame Canada"
Promotional single by Mary Kay Bergman and Trey Parker
from the album South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Released
June 15, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-06-15)
Recorded
1999
Genre
Satire[1]
Length
1:35
Label
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman
Producer(s)
Darren Higman
Audio sample
file
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"Blame Canada" is a satirical song from the 1999 animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, written by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman. In the song, the parents of the fictional South Park, led by Sheila Broflovski (Mary Kay Bergman), decide to blame Canada for the trouble their children have been getting into since watching the Canadian film Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire and imitating what they saw and heard in it. "Blame Canada" satirizes scapegoating and parents who do not control "their children's consumption of popular culture". The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 72nd Academy Awards. Matt Stone and Parker showed up to the ceremony in dresses previously worn by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow, and later claimed to be under the influence of LSD while on the red carpet.[2]
An 8-bit remix of the song appears in the 2014 game South Park: The Stick of Truth, included as one of the overworld themes for the Canada level. The song appears again in the game's 2017 sequel, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, near the Canadian wall.[3]
In 2023, Shaiman wrote new lyrics for the song reflecting conspiracy theories about the 2023 Canadian wildfires.[4][5]
^Shehori, Steven. "Video: Robin Williams Sings 'Blame Canada' At The 2000 Oscars". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on March 25, 2023. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
^Swapnil Dhruv Bose (27 December 2021). "When Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to the Oscars on LSD". FarOutMagazine.co.uk.
^Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (11 September 2008). Taking South Park Seriously. SUNY Press. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-0-7914-7566-9.
^Shaiman, Marc (June 7, 2023). "BLAME CANADA 2023". Facebook. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
^Vinay Menon (8 June 2023). "Blame Canada? Why the wildfires are fuelling some … pretty wild conspiracy theories". Toronto Star.
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