Holy crap. This is the funniest thing that I've read in a long time.

Preparing for the MPAA. This is a memo from Matt Stone regarding a cut of the South Park movie that was cut down in an attempt to get an R from the MPAA. Friggin' hilarious.

Anyone that's into movies is probably well aware of the MPAA's ridiculous inconsistency and absurd standards by which they assign movies their rating. A memo like this being brought to light only highlights the absurdity. I've typed it out in full here.

Here is our new cut of the South Park movie to submit to the MPAA. I wanted to tell you exactly what notes we did and did not address.

1. We left in both the "fisting" and "rimjob" references in the counselor's office scene. We did cut the word "hole" from "asshole" as per our conversation.
2. We took the entire "God has fucked me in the ass so many times..." It is gone.
3. Although it is not animated yet, we put a new storyboard in for clarification in the scene with Sadaam [sic] Hussein's penis. The intent now is that you never see Sadaam's [sic] real penis, he is in fact using dildos both times.
4. We have the shot animated that reveals the fact that Winona is not shooting ping-pong balls from her vagina. She is, in fact, hitting the balls with a ping-pong paddle.
5. We took out the only reference to "cum-sucking ass" in the film. It was in the counselor's office and we took it out.
6. We left in the scenes with Cartman's mom and the horse as per our conversation. This is one joke we really want to fight for.

Call with any questions.

Matt


P.S. This is my favorite memo ever

Love, love, love the postscript. One of mine too.