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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on March 20, 2006, 04:56:31 pm
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/20/south_park_repeat/
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have all but declared war on the Church of Scientology following member Tom Cruise's successful move to have episode Trapped in the Closet pulled from US screens.
Comedy Central canned a repeat of the offending programme due to air last Wednesday, provoking the show's creators to declare to Variety: "So, 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!!!"
The episode which initially provoked the titanic struggle between Scientology and South Park features Tom Cruise refusing to come out of the closet into which he has locked himself after Stan - believed by the Cruise character to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - unfavourably compared Cruise's acting abilities to those of Leonardo di Caprio. The programme rolls out a continual stream of characters - including Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta - begging the Mission Impossible star to "come out of the closet", without success.
Despite Parker and Stone's sabre-rattling, The Church of Scientology won a significant victory last week when Isaac Hayes - who had played Chef since 1997 - quit South Park due to its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion.
Scientologist Hayes said: "There is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs begins."
Stone responded: "In 10 years and over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."
Hayes' resignation seems to have been the reason behind Comedy Central's decision to axe the Trapped in the Closet repeat. The channel replaced it with another episode featuring Chef and his tasty "Chocolate Salty Balls".
I really just want to goad Hollywood alumni into replying :D
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Time to start proliferating that episode via p2p it would seem.
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Time to start proliferating that episode via p2p it would seem.
P2P? I think they released it freely on tinternet.
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Xenu.net has it up for HTTP download.
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Nurts. They got flooded and changed it to a torrent.
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Well done scientology. You have now made it a certainty that even people who don't regluarly watch South Park will want to see them take the piss of you.
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Well done scientology. You have now made it a certainty that even people who don't regluarly watch South Park will want to see them take the piss of you.
Cruise makes enough of a fool of himself and scientology without others having to do it for him... perhaps he should outsource to a mockery company, or something, though.
let's face it, folks, america has more nutjobs and wierdos than any other country in the world. :p
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Streaming episode ahoy! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSj9gc36Bw8&search=southpark%20scientology)
edit: There was also a nice and hilarious pdf going around, it was on digg, but apparently it got yanked. Unbelievable. I'll try to find it.
also, there's a nice investigative report here
http://www.xenutv.com/trust/policevideo.htm
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Cruise didn't want to pull the episode, he didn't even know it was airing.
He probably doesn't even care.
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Just watched the episode......
WHAA HAHAHAHAHA HAAH AAHAA HAAAHAHA
Now THAT is Just ***in hilarious
Funny how a scientology, hit a nerve causeing Isaac Haye's leaving. Christians,Buddhists, muslims, jews, have been made fun of in that show for awhile now. But I guess Isaac must fight the evil XENU!!!!
Interesting, South Park..., acronym, "SP"... ha ha ha ha.
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I think we can all learn a lesson from this...
It's okay to make fun of main-stream religions but blasphemous to make light of the silly little ones.
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This episode isn't a new one is it? I know I've seen this one before.
Still, funny. :lol:
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This was a much more amusing reason as far as I'm concerned.
Tom Cruise blackmailed Comedy Central to cancel Wednesday night's airing of the 'South Park' episode about Scientology by warning that he would not promote 'Mission Impossible 3' if they did. Comedy Central and Paramount Studios are both owned by Viacom. Paramount is the studio relying on 'MI3' to be their summer blockbuster. The Scientology episode first aired last November, and was set to rerun Wednesday night, but was mysteriously pulled at the last minute. Reports say Cruise went straight to the top and warned he'd boycott the promotion for 'MI3' unless the episode was pulled. 'South Park' creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have been given a strict gag order not to discuss Crusie or his actions.
The bad news is that Comedy Central is a bunch of pussies. The good news is that the execs at Paramount have no memory, and don't seem to remember what Tom Cruise was like when he promoted 'War of the Worlds'. He just barely doesn't need to be kept on a leash, they should lock him in a freezer, not book him on Oprah again. His insanity has gone untreated for another year, so the odds of him doing the Today show wearing a crocodile head for a hat and the pants to a suit of armor are somewhere around 110 percent.
Doesn't sound much true, but it sounds just whacked enough to be true. I mean after all, we're talking about Scientology. Anything's possible.
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Hasn't it been aired before?
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Many times.
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Meh, I really don't find South Park all that funny. Much ado about nothing.
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Many times.
Then it seems odd he would want it pulled now. I think more than likely Comedy Central just felt like pulling it.
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Meh, I really don't find South Park all that funny. Much ado about nothing.
Personally I think South Park does a great job of making fun of politics science, and religion... albeit in a very strange and obscene manner.
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I haven'twached an eppisode of SP in like years, but I'm now going to wach this, well done tom cruse and scientology on keeping this eppisode away from people.
the ending was very VERY apropriot :lol:
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/SPSCI.avi
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He just barely doesn't need to be kept on a leash, they should lock him in a freezer, not book him on Oprah again. His insanity has gone untreated for another year, so the odds of him doing the Today show wearing a crocodile head for a hat and the pants to a suit of armor are somewhere around 110 percent.
Ah, so in other words he'll become an Orc shaman!
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google ads are... we now have sciontology ads on our site....
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Meh, I really don't find South Park all that funny. Much ado about nothing.
On the contrary, I think South Park must be the one of the most astute and provocative programmes ever made. The absolute insensitivity to EVERY political and social issue it's ever satired is what gives it such appeal. It's gotten a lot better since the first few seasons, after the novelty of foul-mouthed eight year olds wore off and the creators had to think of some new ideas. But it's expert in pointing out the hypocrisy of righteous causes and moral stances that most take for granted - the anti-smoking episode, if you've seen it, exemplifies that.
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:lol: That episode was fabulous, I'd heard a bunch about it but hadn't ever seen it before.
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I'm very fond of "The passion of the Jew", pure brilliance.
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let's face it, folks, america has more nutjobs and wierdos than any other country in the world. :p
Amen to that.
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A quote from the episode, by R. Kelly.
"Well, I was just standin' here,
Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet
Then John Travolta come in there
John Travolta in the closet too!
Please, Tom Cruise and John Travolta come out of the closet!!!
Im'll calm myself down...
And I pull out my gun!!!
*Insert Various Screams here*
If Tom Cruise and John Travolta don't come out of the closet i'm gonna cap this b****!"
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DO NOT RIDICULE, PUNY HUMANS.
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/Mistah_Kurtz/travolta150.jpg)
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Oh. My. God. If anyone saw tonight's episode of South Park, you witnessed the consequences of incurring their wrath.
That was amazing.
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Indeed, and quite emotional too.
it'll be mere minutes before a Chef: NOOOO! YTMND is made.
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http://chefnoptkfgs.ytmnd.com/
http://chefvader.ytmnd.com/
Here they come.....
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http://chefnoptkfgs.ytmnd.com/
I like the music on that one.
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I'm going to have to start watching southpark again
untill then it's nice being a pirate (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3461317)
it's almost streaming fast now.
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:eek:
holy ****!
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it'll be mere minutes before a Chef: NOOOO! YTMND is made.
http://chefno.ytmnd.com/
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Best episode ever.
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:eek2: :shaking: :wtf: :eek: :eek2:
holy ****!
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they are compareing scientology to brainwashing pedophiles... prefict, if only they would have made it a little more transparent so those who weren't following along with the whole situation would be more likely to get it.
and it looks like this season might get some sort of story arch.
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They're really sticking the boot in. :D
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"I don't care what you believe, so long as you're not a dickhead about it" - me.
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"If you're wrong, you can either admit it, or I'll destroy your viewpoint, then your credibility, then your mind, then your body, then your memory." ---- an0n
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Best. South Park. Ever.
And I get the impression the entire 10th Season is going to be devoted to the Scientology War.
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The only problem I have with South Park's depiction of Scientology is that no one is going to believe it. Since it's a cartoon people are going to say that they're making the whole Xenu stuff up. But it's really what they believe. Or at least what those people who've paid to reach Operating Thetan Level III believe at least.
I **** you not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Operating_Thetan_levels_and_the_Xenu_incident).
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The BBC's portrayal of Xenu look exactly like Ming the Merciless.
edit: I just remember. One time I was walking past Scientology's HQ in Toronto and some guy tried to hand me a brochure. I just sort of looked away and tried to walk past as fast as possible. At least they don't show up at your door or anything...yet.
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These morons can make up a religion based on Xenu and yet I can't use Jedi as a faith on my uni record?
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I WANNA MAKE LOVE TO the children.
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Issac's quitting... something doesn't seem right about this, everything I've seen leads me to think the scientologists quit the show for him, there have been a number of statements were he said he had no problem with that eppisode and looky what I just found (http://files.foundrymusic.com/MP3/121905_IsaacHayes_OA.mp3). apparently he had a stroke or something, and he's getting the best medical treatment a UFO cult can provide.
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The rumor has been out for a few days now that Isaac Hayes never had any intention of quitting his role as Chef on 'South Park'. He loved the show and needed the income, and the 'South Park' episode that made fun of Scientology - of which Hayes has been a member for 14 years - didn't change that. But in late January, Hayes suffered a stroke, and members of Scientology took advantage if his infirmed condition to issue a statement claiming to be Hayes leaving the show. Today the story gains momentum as the New York Post picks it up and now names names:
"(Hayes is) at home recuperating and did not issue the press release which said he was quitting because the show made fun of his faith. That release was put out by fellow Scientologist Christina "Kumi" Kimball, a fashion executive for designer Craig Taylor … 'Hayes loves 'South Park' and needs it for income. He has a new wife and a baby on the way.' "
I guess this could be more despicable, but only if Scientology attached the statement to a ten year old with cancer in a wheelchair, and then delivered the statement by pushing him down some stairs. And also, there's a puppy in the wheelchair too. And the puppy also has cancer.
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So Chef joins Kenny in episodic reincarnation?
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well, he didn't actualy die, it just looked that way. and kenny hasn't died in two or three years, they finaly got sick of the old joke, killed him off for a season, then brought him back and have left him in one peace sence.
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What in the name of Xenu?
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Ah, well, snakes on a plane...
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I think it was great that stan and kyle did the you killed kenny dialog, but replaced kenny's name with chef's.