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'''Johnny Cochran''': I got OJ freed. }}
:: Elder Price then proceeds to claim he's [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|worse than all of the above for the thoughtless way he treated his mission brother]].
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Subverted - Elder Cunningham can't find appropriate verses that condemn things like raping babies or genital mutilation, so he resorts to [[Ass Pull|making it up]].
* [[Ass Pull]]: Elder Cunningham does this repeatedly, [[In Universe]]. {{spoiler|When the Africans perform a stage play of the events of the Book of Mormon as described by Cunningham to the President of the Mormon Church, he decommissions the mission.}}
* [[Ass Shove]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Elder Price}} in Act II. It's a bit of [[Mood Whiplash]] -- at first, it looks like General Butt-Fucking-Naked is going to kill or otherwise mutilate {{spoiler|Elder Price}}... and then we see him in the doctor's office, where an X-Ray shows that his own copy of the Book of Mormon's been shoved up there.
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* [[It's All About Me]]: Elder Price has a problem with this, best seen in "You And Me (But Mostly Me)".
* [[Large Ham]]: "Have you heard the story of our prophet, {{spoiler|Arnold Cunningham, Arnold Cunningham, Arnold Cunning...HAAAA-AAALLLOOOO!!!}}
* [[Last
** During "Hello", where at one point the singers go "So you won't burn in..." and another man belts out a "HeeeeeEEEEEEELL-OOOOOOOOOOOO!"
** In "Hasa Diga Eebowai", Mafala Hatimbi says, "Here's the butcher, he has AIDS, here's the teacher, she has AIDS, here's the doctor, he has AIDS, here's my daughter she has AAAAAAA......wonderful disposition!"
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* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: A whole musical number, in fact.
* [[Record Scratch]]: "And your mission location is... Uganda!" [[[Record Scratch]]]
* [[Red Baron]]: The local warlord is called General "Butt Fucking Naked" because, in his own words, "When I kill my enemies and drink their blood, I do it [[This Is Sparta|butt. Fucking.]] ''[[Full
* [[Running Gag]]:
** "I have maggots in my scrotum." <ref> Which may double as [[Fridge Horror]] if you think about the fact that maggots eat only ''decaying flesh.''</ref>
** Elder McKinley's [[Transparent Closet]].
** Cunningham messing up Nabulungi's name.
* [[Shout
** "Joseph Smith American Moses" is likely an homage to "The Small House of Uncle Thomas" from ''[[The King and I]]''.
** Also, "You And Me (But Mostly Me)" seems to be a parody of "The Wizard and I" from ''[[Wicked (Theatre)|Wicked]]''. It also has similar chords to "Defying Gravity".
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