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The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song ( 1999 ).

This created controversy, because all nominated songs are traditionally performed during the Oscar broadcast, but the song contained the word fuck, which the FCC prohibits using in prime time broadcasts.

Comedian Robin Williams performed the song with a chorus who 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 ".

He referenced Celine Dion as well.

Mary Kay Bergman, the voice actress who sang the female parts in the song, committed suicide 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, " Oh my god!

They killed Kenny!