Blame Canada
| "Blame Canada" | |
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| Promotional single by Mary Kay Bergman and Trey Parker | |
| from the album South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | |
| Released | June 15, 1999 |
| Recorded | 1999 |
| Genre | Satire |
| Length | 1:35 |
| Label | Atlantic |
| Songwriter(s) | Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman |
| Producer(s) | Darren Higman |
| Film clip | |
| "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut on YouTube | |
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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. The song satirizes scapegoating and parents who fail to control "their children's consumption of popular culture", with the fictional South Park parents, led by Sheila Broflovski (Mary Kay Bergman), blaming the nation for children imitating the Terrance and Phillip film Asses of Fire.
"Blame Canada" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 72nd Academy Awards. Parker and Matt Stone arrived at 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.
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.
Shaiman wrote new lyrics for the song in 2023 reflecting conspiracy theories about the Canadian wildfires that year.
Blame Canada was referenced in the 2025 teaser trailer for South Park season 27.