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| name          = Blame Canada
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| artist        = [[Mary Kay Bergman]] and [[Trey Parker]]
| album         = [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (soundtrack)|South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]
| released      = ((Start date and age|1999|06|15))
| format        = 
| recorded      = 1999
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| genre         = [[Satire]]<ref name="shehori">((cite web |last1=Shehori |first1=Steven |title=Video: Robin Williams Sings ‘Blame Canada’ At The 2000 Oscars |url=https://etcanada.com/news/18234/video-robin-williams-sings-blame-canada-at-the-2000-oscars/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325170916/https://etcanada.com/news/18234/video-robin-williams-sings-blame-canada-at-the-2000-oscars/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 25, 2023 |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=April 30, 2023))</ref>
| length        = 1:35
| label         = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
| writer        = Trey Parker and [[Marc Shaiman]]
| producer      = Darren Higman
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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 [[Gerald and Sheila Broflovski|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|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.<ref>((cite web |title=When Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to the Oscars on LSD |author=Swapnil Dhruv Bose |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/when-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-went-to-the-oscars-on-lsd/ |website=FarOutMagazine.co.uk|date=27 December 2021 ))</ref>

An [[Chiptune|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.<ref name="Weinstock2008">((cite book|author=Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock|title=Taking South Park Seriously|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7OEFij0QkgC&pg=PA61|date=11 September 2008|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-7566-9|pages=61–))</ref> 

In 2023, Shaiman wrote new lyrics for the song reflecting conspiracy theories about the [[2023 Canadian wildfires]].<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/marc.shaiman/posts/pfbid0pkQVr6xV7NRtmVQj1n8kxYAEYhjgoZUq8iVxk3AJtTNToBcT9gm1q7Vt97z3seH9l |title=BLAME CANADA 2023|first=Marc|last=Shaiman|work=Facebook|date=June 7, 2023|accessdate=June 8, 2023))</ref><ref>((cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2023/06/08/blame-canada-why-the-wildfires-are-fuelling-some-pretty-wild-conspiracy-theories.html |title=Blame Canada? Why the wildfires are fuelling some … pretty wild conspiracy theories |author=	Vinay Menon |website=[[Toronto Star]] |date=8 June 2023))</ref>

==Reception==
The song was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] at the [[72nd Academy Awards]] (1999). This created controversy because all nominated songs are traditionally performed during the Oscar broadcast, but the song contained the word ''[[fuck]]'', which the [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] prohibits using in prime time broadcasts. At the awards ceremony, comedian [[Robin Williams]] performed the song with a [[choir|chorus]] that gasped when the word was to be sung (Williams turned around at the crucial moment and did not actually sing it). He included digs at [[Margaret Trudeau]] and [[Bryan Adams]], partially taken from lyrics of [[Sheila Broflovski]]'s reprise of the song in "[[La Resistance (South Park song)|La Resistance]]". He referenced [[Celine Dion]] as well. [[Mary Kay Bergman]], the voice actress who sang the female parts in the song, died months before the performance, forcing the organizers to search for a replacement for her and [[Trey Parker]], who did the male voices. Williams introduced the song by speaking with [[duct tape]] over his mouth so that his speech resembled that of [[Kenny McCormick]], then tearing it off and finally saying [[Stan Marsh]]'s trademark line, "[[Kenny's deaths|Oh my god! They killed Kenny!]]"

There was also some concern about the fact the song referred to well-known Canadian singer [[Anne Murray]] as a "bitch", but Murray indicated that she was not offended by the tongue-in-cheek lyric (Murray was invited to sing the song herself on the Oscar telecast but had to decline due to a prior commitment). When asked, the Canadian [[Consul General]] (and former [[prime minister]]) [[Kim Campbell]] said that she was not offended by the song since it was clearly a silly satirical piece and not intended to insult her country. This is made clear in the final line of the song:
<blockquote>We must blame them and cause a fuss.<br />Before somebody thinks of blaming us!</blockquote>

Coincidentally, the Canadian Oscar telecast in which Williams sang the song included the premiere of the [[Molson Canadian]] "[[I Am Canadian]]" rant advertisement, which counters many perceived [[Stereotypes of Canadians|Canadian stereotypes]].

The song lost to [[Phil Collins]]' song "[[You'll Be in My Heart]]" from ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'', which was parodied on an episode of ''South Park'' released the following year, "[[Timmy 2000]]", as "You'll Be in Me".

==See also==
* [[Anti-Canadian sentiment]]
* [[Moral panic]]

==References==
((reflist))

==Bibliography==
* ((cite book
 | last = Johnson-Woods
 | first = Toni
 | authorlink =
 | year = 2007
 | title = Blame Canada
 | url = https://archive.org/details/blamecanada00toni
 | url-access = registration
 | publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group
 | location= New York
|isbn = 978-0-8264-1731-2))
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