I really didn't like the whole idea of the episode though it had some funny parts. I really hope South Park isn't trying to head in a new direction.

Well they had to get rid of Chef one way or another. What better way to do it then by making fun of a stupid cult?

Yeah, I agree. I knew that episode was necessary, but I just hope they stop making fun of scientologists. The show is supposed to make fun of stuff, it's not supposed to be political.

It's no more political than when they make fun of Christians or Jews. Obviously they aren't going to turn the show into an anti-Scientology show but I'm sure they'll poke fun once in a while.

I would call it topical.

 

I mean, there's always some political stuff every few episodes or so. But, there's also a fair share of making fun of popular culture in general, etc., etc.

 

I highly doubt they'll stop doing everything else to keep going after Scientology. And even if they do... The shows have been good, who cares?

I just hope they bring back Darth Chef at some point. That ending was too great to not use him at least one more time.

 

"No, I mean my balls."

Awesome, I really liked how they did it. Nice jabs at Scientology and nice way to end it (the funeral part I mean) even though Chef Vader was a good ending too.

 

Oh, great... Way to use that new "spoiler" feature, Admin! :mad

"I wanna MAKE LOVE to the children"

If anyone hasn't noticed, my colors are that of the late great Chef.

They just made this episode available on iTunes, so now I get to see what everybody is talking about. :thumbup

I'm sure some of you saw Wednesday's episode that was making fun of Family Guy. In the episode, Family Guy writers decide to make an episode with Muhammad in it, which people figures will piss off Muslims like what happened with those Dutch cartoons. However, if you look back to about 2000, South Park had an episode where they actually did draw Muhammad as some kind of superhero or something. I guess Parker and Stone forgot about that one.

The whole episode was them making fun of themselves really.

The whole episode was them making fun of themselves really.

 

It seemed kind of schitzophrenic to me. On one hand, you had some of the characters attacking Family Guy, while you had others (Kyle, Butters' dad), trying to be the voices of reason.

 

I'll wait until the second part is over to decide whether or not this was a good episode.

I thought it was a good episode, I'm excited to see where they go with the second one.

It was pretty awesome tonight until the network wimped out on showing Muhammed. The reference to the Cartman's dad/Not Without My Anus thing brought back memories of how awesome the show has been through the years.

It was pretty awesome tonight until the network wimped out on showing Muhammed. The reference to the Cartman's dad/Not Without My Anus thing brought back memories of how awesome the show has been through the years.

 

I don't think that ACTUALLY happened, it was probably just something the writers put in there as a joke.

It was pretty awesome tonight until the network wimped out on showing Muhammed. The reference to the Cartman's dad/Not Without My Anus thing brought back memories of how awesome the show has been through the years.

 

I don't think that ACTUALLY happened, it was probably just something the writers put in there as a joke.

Well, the end of the last episode said "unless Comedy Central pussies out". I kinda wanted them to do something extremely obscene to Mohammed like they did to chef a couple weeks ago.

Disappointing episode tonight.

I thought it was a joke but this says otherwise.

 

There was something missing in Wednesday night's South Park--as a title card explained: "Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Mohammed on their network."

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It was not a joke.

 

The scene depicting the Islamic prophet handing a football helmet to a character from Family Guy (at least that's how another of the show's title cards put it) really was nixed by Comedy Central.

 

A source close to the show said safety concerns were behind the move. Earlier this year, the Danish publication of newspaper cartoons about Mohammed sparked deadly rioting throughout the world. Any rendering of the prophet is considered insulting by Muslims.

 

"In light of recent events, we feel we made the right decision," Comedy Central said in a statement Thursday.

 

There was no public response from series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

 

Wednesday's South Park, "Cartoon Wars, Part 2," was the concluding half of a story arc in which Family Guy, yes, the Fox animated series, causes international consternation when, in a familiar-sounding turn of events, it depicts Mohammed. (The story line is better understood if one accepts that, as The South Park Scriptorium explained, "Family Guy=South Park.")

 

In the South Park version of things, Family Guy makes it to air with the controversial scene, prompting an animated response (literally) from al Qaeda involving Jesus,

President Bush, the U.S. flag and bowel movements.

 

In an interview with the Associated Press, William Donohue of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights attacked Parker and Stone, but not Comedy Central, for the Jesus bit making air. Of the show's creators, Donohue said, "[They're] like little whores...They'll sit there and they'll whine and they'll take their shot at Jesus."

 

South Park has been winning friends of late with its religious-themed episodes. Last year, Comedy Central ran, but later declined to rerun the episode "Bloody Mary" after Donohue's group took umbrage with a menstruating Virgin Mary statue. Last month,

Isaac Hayes turned in his Chef's hat, saying the show's satire had gone too far. His departure was seen as a belated response to "Trapped in the Closet," a 2005 episode that focused on Scientology, Hayes' religion. Comedy Central pulled a rerun of that episode, too.

 

An avowed equal opportunity offender, South Park previously depicted Mohammed to little public outcry. In that case, timing might have been everything. The episode, "Super Best Friends," debuted in July 2001, or two months before the arrival of the post-9-11 world.

 

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It still seems like a joke to me, but this does kind of strike me as odd.

Real-life censorship controversy

 

Immediately after the episode aired, there was much speculation about whether Comedy Central actually censored the image of Mohammad, as represented within the episode. On April 13, 2006, Comedy Central issued a statement [1] which appears to confirm that the network did prohibit the show's creators from airing an image of Muhammad. The statement reads, "In light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision." An anonymous source close to the show indicated that Trey Parker & Matt Stone were informed of the policy several weeks earlier, and wrote this story arc in protest.

 

It is not clear whether the writers ever actually expected a scene with Mohammad to be aired. One plausible scenario is that the episode was written with the expectation that they would not be able to show Mohammad, but with the possibility of inserting the scene if Comedy Central changed their mind. The plot of the episode can be interpreted as a direct satirical plea to Comedy Central executives (specifically, network president Doug Herzog) to reconsider their position on censorship.

 

This interpretation is supported by the closing narration of Part I, which directly challenges Comedy Central not to "puss out," even though the plot of the show is ostensibly about Fox. Further support for this view can be found in the scene where Kyle attempts to convince the Fox president to air the Family Guy episode featuring Mohammad. Kyle says, "Yes, people can get hurt. That's how terrorism works. But if you give in to that, Doug, you're allowing terrorism to work." The current president of Entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company is named Peter Liguori. The name "Doug" is presumably a veiled reference to Comedy Central's president Doug Herzog, who previously served as president of Fox TV Entertainment from 1998-1999.

 

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Well if it wasn't a joke, then couldn't Trey and Matt just release the photo's independently?

 

Seems fake to me, but who knows.

 

I liked last night's episode, and it was nice to see South Park take a bunch of shots at itself for being too preachy recently.

Yeah it's time for some none preachy episodes. Episode like the "You've Got Served" epsiode are what makes South Park great.

Yeah it's time for some none preachy episodes. Episode like the "You've Got Served" epsiode are what makes South Park great.

 

 

They've hated on organized religion and current events since day one.

 

What show have you been watching?

Yeah it's time for some none preachy episodes. Episode like the "You've Got Served" epsiode are what makes South Park great.

 

 

They've hated on organized religion and current events since day one.

 

What show have you been watching?

stfu n00b. Only about 1/2 or less of the episodes of South Park all time have been about current events or religion. Most of the funnier episodes have been making fun of popular culture or just being funny for no apparent reason.

I really like how every episode has a lesson to be learned in it.

Yeah it's time for some none preachy episodes. Episode like the "You've Got Served" epsiode are what makes South Park great.

 

 

They've hated on organized religion and current events since day one.

 

What show have you been watching?

stfu n00b. Only about 1/2 or less of the episodes of South Park all time have been about current events or religion. Most of the funnier episodes have been making fun of popular culture or just being funny for no apparent reason.

 

Only about 1/2 or less... Okay.

 

Guess making fun of Stan for being a Jew doesn't count? I hope the creators keep doing what they want to do. They seem more motivated to do the "preachy" episodes and generally the finished product is funnier as a result.

Yeah it's time for some none preachy episodes. Episode like the "You've Got Served" epsiode are what makes South Park great.

 

 

They've hated on organized religion and current events since day one.

 

What show have you been watching?

stfu n00b. Only about 1/2 or less of the episodes of South Park all time have been about current events or religion. Most of the funnier episodes have been making fun of popular culture or just being funny for no apparent reason.

 

Only about 1/2 or less... Okay.

 

Guess making fun of Stan for being a Jew doesn't count? I hope the creators keep doing what they want to do. They seem more motivated to do the "preachy" episodes and generally the finished product is funnier as a result.

Stan Marsh is not a Jew. If you look at past seasons when the show was in its prime, most epsiodes are not very preachy on serious issues. Sure there was a show about abortion, but most episodes were about things like making a kid eat his parents, how John Edwards is a douche, the Loch Ness monster wanting tree fitty, anal probes, Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers video store, etc. Those are what make South Park great.

Yeah it's time for some none preachy episodes. Episode like the "You've Got Served" epsiode are what makes South Park great.

 

 

They've hated on organized religion and current events since day one.

 

What show have you been watching?

stfu n00b. Only about 1/2 or less of the episodes of South Park all time have been about current events or religion. Most of the funnier episodes have been making fun of popular culture or just being funny for no apparent reason.

 

Only about 1/2 or less... Okay.

 

Guess making fun of Stan for being a Jew doesn't count? I hope the creators keep doing what they want to do. They seem more motivated to do the "preachy" episodes and generally the finished product is funnier as a result.

Stan Marsh is not a Jew. If you look at past seasons when the show was in its prime, most epsiodes are not very preachy on serious issues. Sure there was a show about abortion, but most episodes were about things like making a kid eat his parents, how John Edwards is a douche, the Loch Ness monster wanting tree fitty, anal probes, Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers video store, etc. Those are what make South Park great.

 

Haha, you're right he isn't.

 

Those are all still current issues you mentioned and on par with Tom Cruise, scientology and R. Kelly. It's not like they're doing news. It's a current events cartoon.