South Park troublemakers Trey Parker and Matt Stone have finally made uneasy peace with the f-word and fellatio tabulators at the MPAA ratings board, as their puppet movie Team America: World Police ultimately got the R rating they needed for release. The R will be accompanied by an explanation that the movie contains "graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language all involving puppets." [Emphasis ours.] We hardly even need a movie after Stone and Parker got the MPAA to admit there's a completely different ratings standard for marionette fucking. Even better, they got a discussion of water sports into Page Six:

"It's a back-and-forth with the ratings board," Parker says. "We love the golden shower, but I guess they said no to that. But I just love that they have to watch it. Seriously, can you imagine getting a videotape with just a close-up of a puppet [bleep]hole, and you have to watch it?"

Imagine it? We're willing to bet there's a ten-minute loop of puppet assholes playing on a plasma screen above new MPAA head Dan Glickman's desk.

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