"South Park" Takes Stab at Scientology... and Isaac Hayes
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that "South Park" fans have responded to the cancellation of "Trapped In the Closet", which was scheduled to air a week ago. They have threatened to boycott the upcoming Tom Cruise movie "Mission: Impossible III" until Comedy Central (run by Viacom, the same company putting out MI:III) puts back on its schedule the show's Scientology episode the network did not air. Meanwhile, Comedy Central and the show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, hoped to calm down the shows angry fans with a hastily thrown together season-opening episode where Chef wass brainwashed by "a fruity little club" whose members travel the globe having sex with children. The "fruity little club" was a metaphor for Scientology. The episode ended with Chef, Isaac Hayes character, being converted into a child molester and also being shot by lightning, then falling down a cliff, being impaled at the bottom of the cliff, and being mauled by both a mountain lion and a grizzly bear. This was Stone and Parker's way of getting back at Hayes for wanting to leave the show because they "poke fun at religious communites." Clearly, the show has been making fun of religions and other things for the past 10 seasons, and this is nothing special.
There isn't really much I could compare this to. I just felt like doing an article on this because I was flipping through channels the other night and noticed on CNN that the headline on the bottom of the screen was "South Park vs. Scientology." If a show like "South Park" actually has some kind of controversy that is being taken seriously enough to air it on CNN, then it's obvious that Tom Cruise and other Scientologists have really taken this one too far because the show has been poking fun at things for many years and will continue to do so.
There isn't really much I could compare this to. I just felt like doing an article on this because I was flipping through channels the other night and noticed on CNN that the headline on the bottom of the screen was "South Park vs. Scientology." If a show like "South Park" actually has some kind of controversy that is being taken seriously enough to air it on CNN, then it's obvious that Tom Cruise and other Scientologists have really taken this one too far because the show has been poking fun at things for many years and will continue to do so.
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Poor Issac...always trying to make love to the children....
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