[5][6] Produced by Jimmy Pop and Richard Gavalis, it is the band's second release with Geffen Records after One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996).

The album was a commercial success that generated favorable reviews and brought the Bloodhound Gang into the mainstream consciousness.

Five singles were released from the album: "Along Comes Mary", "The Bad Touch", "The Ballad of Chasey Lain", "Mope", and "The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope".

[7][8] After adjusting its lineup, the group began working on their second album, One Fierce Beer Coaster.

The album's first single, "Fire Water Burn", played a major role in the slow build of interest that ultimately led to the band's mainstream breakthrough.

The first of these skits, entitled "Mama's Boy" is an impromptu phone conversation between Jimmy Pop and his mother.

[11] "A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper Is Crying" is a parody of the narrative of Red Sovine's "trucker songs".

[12] "Right Turn Clyde" features a chorus parodying Pink Floyd's hit single "Another Brick in the Wall Part II"; "All in all you're just another dick with no balls."

In Europe, the album was initially released without the song or "Take the Long Way Home", thus containing only 45 CD tracks.

A third reissue was announced for February 28, 2020, as a double album, with "Take the Long Way Home" and "Right Turn Clyde", on transparent vinyl.

AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, "on one hand, it's easy to hate the Bloodhound Gang.

Entertainment Weekly writer Doug Brod decried the album, saying "on Hooray for Boobies these knuckleheads tap into '80s-style metal and New Orderish dance-wave to back their dumbbell odes to oral sex, porn stars, revenge, and – did I mention oral sex?