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That joke is even better when you know the story behind it. What they would do is put extremely over the top jokes into the script for the censors to pounce on so that the slightly off color joke they wanted two pages later would seem tame by comparison.
That was one of those jokes and somehow it slipped by everybody.
Ahhh, an early form of the Team America approach. Matt & Trey shot the most over-the-top nonsense they could think of so the MPAA busybodies would label it NC-17 and go 'but it'd be R if you removed the sex scene where the puppets shit on each other.'
It's comedy as ablative armor.
What was the tame-by-comparison joke it was paired with?
Honestly I can't remember. I just remember reading, many many moons ago, a writer talking about that.