premise: Sausage Party is only a television show.
hypothesis: Other Lives is the self-titled debut album by American indie rock band Other Lives which was released physically April 7 , 2009 by TBD Records and PIAS Recordings and digitally released March 17 , 2009 . Sausage Party is a 2016 adult computer-animated comedy film directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon and written by Kyle Hunter , Ariel Shaffir , Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg . It is the first CGI-animated film to be rated R by the MPAA . The film 's rough cut premiered on March 14 , 2016 at South by Southwest and the film was theatrically released in the United States and Canada on August 12 , 2016 by Columbia Pictures . The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed more than $ 140 million .