South Park pulled by Tom Cruise

exhibit A for people who can't take a joke.

 

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/3734186.html
Cruise denies effort to halt South Park rerun


By STEVE GORMAN
Reuters News Service

LOS ANGELES - Actor Tom Cruise threatened to boycott promotion of his upcoming Paramount Pictures film unless a sister cable TV network pulled a South Park rerun lampooning the Church of Scientology, industry sources said.

Representatives for Paramount and Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, denied he made any such threats or had anything to do with the Comedy Central network canceling plans to air a repeat of the South Park episode titled "Trapped in the Closet," last Wednesday.


Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the crudely animated cartoon hit, issued a quirky statement, filled with references to Scientology and the science-fiction writings of church founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In it, they suggested Scientology was behind the scheduling change.

"So, Scientology, you have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun," the pair wrote.

Instead of the Tom Cruise episode, the network aired reruns of two South Park episodes featuring the character Chef, voiced by veteran soul singer Isaac Hayes, also a Scientologist, who quit the show last week.

Comedy Central, which like Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc., declined comment on the rerun switch, other than to say: "In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for."

 

The big fear was that several dozen Scientologists world-wide would riot and
threaten jihad if the show was aired.

 

LOL

 

Did you hear about the guy who's dianetic?
He has to take insolence.

 

That episode 'warranted' a CNN clip asking "Did South Park go to far?".

Funny how that is what triggered it, not:

Cartmen rallying the towns people to kill the Jews, and dressing like Hitler
Having a statue of the Virgin Mary bleed out of her ******, and onto believers.
The Catholic Church meeting to discuss how to molest young boys and not get caught.
Having the forest animals have their own savior be born, who is the seed of Satan, and requiring the mountain lion cubs (since only the mountain lions can stop them) learn how to perform abortions in order to stop the birth.
etc
etc
etc

BTW I am serious with the above, they actually did all of that. The show thrives off of it.

 

you forgot this too, http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1121515128 NSFW!!!

 

T cruise is GAY
BROOKBACK *****.

 

I call it BrokeBUTT Mountain.

 

OMG. :shock: I didn't remember that one...what episode was that from?

 

'Stumpbroke Mountain'

 

It wasn't actually from an episode of the show. That is a clip from the movie "The Aristocrats."

 

PERFECT!

 

Apparently, you can watch the 20+minute South Park Scientology episode here
http://pop.wizbangblog.com/2006/03/20/south-park-scientology-episode.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!

-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu

Confirmed statement is true
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5286835
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Mr. Hankey is L.Ron reincarnate, anyway...
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Hmmmmm, I think Katie was inseminated by the Thetans(aliens). Xenu rising...
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not from an episode, but hilarious nonetheless.

 

Chef's Quitting Controversy
Monday, March 20, 2006
By Roger Friedman


Isaac Hayes' Quitting Controversy

Isaac Hayes did not quit "South Park." My sources say that someone quit it for him.

I can tell you that Hayes is in no position to have quit anything. Contrary to news reports, the great writer, singer and musician suffered a stroke on Jan. 17. At the time it was said that he was hospitalized and suffering from exhaustion.

It’s also absolutely ridiculous to think that Hayes, who loved playing Chef on "South Park," would suddenly turn against the show because they were poking fun at Scientology.

Last November, when the “Trapped in a Closet” episode of the comedy aired, I saw Hayes and spent time with him in Memphis for the annual Blues Ball.

If he hated the show so much, I doubt he would have performed his trademark hit song from the show, “Chocolate Salty Balls.” He tossed the song into the middle of one of his less salacious hits and got the whole audience in the Memphis Pyramid to sing along.

I can tell you, Hayes was very pleased with himself, was in a great mood and, as always, loved his fans' coming up to him and asking him about Chef.

As recently as early January, before his stroke, Hayes defended the "South Park" creators in an interview with “The AV Club,” the serious side of the satirical newspaper, The Onion.

AV Club: They did just do an episode that made fun of your religion, Scientology. Did that bother you?

Hayes: Well, I talked to Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker] about that. They didn't let me know until it was done. I said, 'Guys, you have it all wrong. We're not like that. I know that's your thing, but get your information correct, because somebody might believe that [expletive], you know?' But I understand what they're doing. I told them to take a couple of Scientology courses and understand what we do. [Laughs.]

The truth is, Hayes has a sly sense of humor and loves everything about "South Park." It’s provided him a much-needed income stream since losing the royalties to the many hits he’s written, such as “Shaft” and “Soul Man,” in the mid-1970s.

Even though he’s one of America’s most prolific hit writers, Hayes has been denied access to profits from his own material for almost 30 years.

But it’s hard to know anything since Hayes, like Katie Holmes, is constantly monitored by a Scientologist representative most of the time. Luckily, at the Blues Ball he was on his own, partying just with family and friends. He was very excited about having gotten married and about the impending birth of a new child.

Friends in Memphis tell me that Hayes did not issue any statements on his own about South Park. They are mystified.

“Isaac’s been concentrating on his recuperation for the last two and a half, three months,” a close friend told me.

Hayes did not suffer paralysis, but the mild stroke may have affected his speech and his memory. He’s been having home therapy since it happened.

That certainly begs the question of who issued the statement that Hayes was quitting "South Park" now because it mocked Scientology four months ago. If it wasn’t Hayes, then who would have done such a thing?

Meantime, Tom Cruise may have gotten Comedy Central to pull its repeat of "South Park"'s Scientology spoof last week, but the result is that episode is all over the Web. You can see it for free at youtube.com.

Not only that, the Comedy Central Web site has four clips from the 21-minute show. And it also says that “Trapped in the Closet” will air this Wednesday at 10 p.m.

So whether or not Cruise actually did use influence at Viacom/Paramount to get the show pulled from last week’s schedule, here it is, bigger and better than ever. Of course, no one would have cared one way or another if “Trapped” simply had aired on schedule.

Of course, no one could blame Cruise, John Travolta or even R&B singer R. Kelly for being upset about the episode. They are poked fun at mercilessly.

In the episode, Stan, one of the "South Park" characters, is solicited into Scientology. He gives them $240 and takes an EMeter test. This convinces the higher-ups that Stan is the reincarnation of the group’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

That would be bad enough, wouldn’t it? But Cruise visits Stan in his bedroom and winds up hiding in his closet when Stan tells him he’s not the greatest actor. Thus is born the line “Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet.”

It’s repeated dozens of times. Travolta soon joins Cruise in Stan’s closet. He won’t come out, either. And when they do, there is the ecstatic announcement that they’ve “come out of the closet.”

You get the picture. But nothing in “Trapped in the Closet” is any worse than anything "South Park" creators Stone and Parker have done before. Just rent “Team America” and see what I mean.

 

Remix,
Thanks for the post.
Possibly I, along with others, have jumped the gun ridiculing Hayes. I will refrain from including him in my comments 'till he or a spokesperson makes a statement regarding what is going on.
However, Tom Ruse is a different matter...

 

Does anyone remember awhile ago when the Andretti's were going to run a car in the 24 hrs of Daytona, and the car was sponsored by Dianetics, and after elder Andretti was aprised of what 'Dianetics' was, it disappeared off the car ?

 

I really liked this episode, some think its wrong but to each his own.

 

If anyone is watching Southpark now, this has to one of the best yet!

 

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