Thursday, March 23rd, 2006,
by Fred (,
crime, humor, scientology, South Park
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Wow. Don’t ever piss of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Check out how they killed off Chef after Scientologist Isaac Hayes left the show in a huff:
“A lot of us don’t agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days,” one of the children eulogizes him at a funeral. “Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. But we can’t let the events of the past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile.”We shouldn’t be mad at Chef for leaving us,” the eulogy concludes. “We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains.”
Sounds like a good tagline. Scientology: A Fruity Little Club That Scrambles Your Brains.
Except it’s not just a fruity little club. And it’s not harmless. Instead of scrambling your brains, Scientology kills you by depriving you of contact with humans or medical treatment in a bogus ritual. And makes you consent to said ritual and waive any claims against them before you can join their “religion”. Or insists that you forego psychiatric treatment for your schizophrenia in favor of vitamins from a chiropractor (because modern psychiatric medicine derives from an ancient space alien civilization’s plot to drug and enslave humanity, of course), until you stab your mother 77 times. The pedophiles of the adventurers club on South Park seem kind of harmless in comparison.
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006,
by Fred (,
censorship, Comedy Central, cults, scientology, South Park, Tom Cruise
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There appears to be some evidence that Tom Cruise pressured Comedy Central into pulling the scheduled airing of the episode of South Park mocking Scientology. According to Hollywood, Interrupted
Sources from inside Paramount and South Park Studios report that parent company Viacom pulled last night’s scheduled repeat of the high-rated “Trapped in the Closet” episode after the humorless Scientologist movie star Tom Cruise threatened to cancel all publicity for Mission Impossible:3 if Comedy Central aired the episode that satirizes Scientology and mocks his sexuality again.
Not only is this the first time that the South Park creators have been officially censored in their ten hit seasons with Comedy Central, Viacom officials also reportedly ordered Matt Stone and Trey Parker not to discuss the reason why their episode was cancelled.
The South Park boys are said to be angry, but will probably get revenge with the manner in which they deal with Scientologist Isaac Hayes’ departure from the show.
So far, 1948 people have signed an online petition stating that
We, the loyal viewers of television’s South Park, do hereby protest against the removal of the episode “Trapped in the Closet.” We demand that Comedy Central put this episode back on the air and show it as soon as possible: we want everyone, including Tom Cruise, to know that censorship is wrong.
To that effect, we also will refuse to see any movies featuring Tom Cruise, most especially Mission Impossible 3, until this episode is once again shown.
Boycotting Mission Impossible 3 seems more like self-defense than a statement of political principle, but any attempt to stand up to murderous cults is to be commended.
[via lots of people, including Boing Boing]
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