Posted on 04/14/2006 5:08:34 AM PDT by Panerai
I'VE never been a "South Park" fan, but the animated show's last two episodes on Comedy Central had me hooked. Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker keyed off the continuing conflagration over the Mohammed cartoons (published last fall by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten) to lambaste their own network's capitulation to Islamic terrorism.
Viewers are viciously, deservedly, mocking the network for its cave-in. "Comedhimmi Central," jibed one of my Web site readers. "Cowardly Central," derided Canadian blogger Damian Penny.
The plot of Wednesday's show revolved around Kyle (one of the "South Park" kids) trying to convince a Fox network executive to air an uncensored episode of the animated show "Family Guy," even though it contained an image of Mohammed. (Many Muslims consider it blasphemy to depict Mohammed, though his image has appeared in art, architecture, and literature throughout the ages with nary a peep.)
"Do the right thing! Show Mohammed!" implores Kyle, as his nemesis, Cartman, pulls out a gun to force the network executive to pull the offending episode. (There's also a must-see send-up of the White House press corps.)
After much anguish, the Fox exec agrees to air the show - but, in place of the planned image of Mohammed, a black slate appears to announce: "Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Mohammed on their network."
Prior to the start of the true-life Cartoon Jihad, "South Park" had featured cartoon images of Mohammed without incident. A 2001 episode titled "Super Best Friends" featured the Muslims' prophet as a superhero with flame powers. No fatwas ensued; no suits complained. But when Parker and Stone wanted a Mohammed image for their latest show, Comedy Central balked.
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In a horribly twisted manner!
Obviously that was meant as sarcasm.
I'm trying to figure out if the Comedy Central censoring Mohammed was a joke or was serious. But they have no problem showing Jesus. Were they merely pointing out the hypocracy of western media, or are they actually participating in that hypocracy?
Isaac Hayes (Chef) quit because of an episode called Trapped in the Closet lampooning Tom Cruise and Scientology as a ludicrous cheap science fiction like fraud of a religion. Tom Cruse reportedly threatened to stop promoting MI3 if Viacom (Comedy Central’s parent) re-ran it.
So South Park created a final episode called Chef Returns out of obviously spliced together clips of Chef’s words over the years where he returned from being brainwashed by a cult of child molesters posing as big game hunters. In the end, Chef couldn’t get out from under their spell, fell down a cliff trying to escape and the had his face and body graphically torn apart and eaten by wild animals.
On second thought, that’s pretty ambiguous. They should have come out more strongly against Scientology.
Of course I'm joking.
"Sure, they might go after the Mohammedans, but what about Scientology? Parker and Stone wouldn't dare try to do a show about the RELIGION OF HOLLYWEIRD!"
You made the exact same comment over a week ago. If you mean to be sarcastic then the obligatory sarcasm tag (/sarcasm) would be appropriate. If you are not being sarcastic then why post a line about the lack of a Scientology plot that was so easily refuted last time as it is this time.
Do you read responses? Or are you lonely and know that you will get responses because what you propose has already been done?
ROTFLMAO! You must love the smell of napalm in the morning. :)
Yesterday, too.
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I'm trying to figure out if the Comedy Central censoring Mohammed was a joke or was serious. But they have no problem showing Jesus. Were they merely pointing out the hypocracy of western media, or are they actually participating in that hypocracy?
South Park is created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They created the cartoon with the benign image of Mohammed and the insulting image of Jesus, knowing that the cowards at Comedy Central (who air, but do not create the show) would censor one and not the other.
The point was to illustrate the cowardice and hypocrisy of Comedy Central and western media in general, in the face of threats of violence by islametards.
We really need a standing Sittinyonder Southpark disclaimer... :)
I've always considered it inappropriae to tag sarcasm.
I've learned something today.
To some people, South Park is a crude and vulgar show that depicts little kids doing terrible things to sacred symbols. And the people who hold those symbols sacred really hate South Park.
To other people, South Park is the height of comedic satire and should never be talked about except in the glowingest of terms.
And to others, South Park is a really funny cartoon with a great message, and it keeps on giving because those people can come on FreeRepublic and find a South Park thread and really, really irritate those who hold symbols sacred and those who hold South Park sacred.
But if we were all a little more considerate of other's sacred symbols (be they cartoons or cartoon depictions of the Virgin Mary or Tom Cruise) then the Muslims wouldn't riot and peace would reign on Earth.
Thanks Big Gay Al! Thanks Chef! And thank you, too, The Family Guy!
LOL! ME TOO!
Actually, I think it was the decision of the writers to put in the censorship, just to bait Comedy Channel for not re-airing the scientology episode and the bloody Mary episode.
That's what I thought, but there have been a couple of stories posted today that say otherwise, including one with an interview of the producer.
CC really did censor SP.
no more posts on this please.
too many stupid people who just don't understand south park or the sarcasm used by people who post on the south park ping list.
it's killing the threads!
CC really did censor South Park? Well then hurray for the writers. The two part show was so in your face about it. And the press conference was also very in the face of the idiot media and Bush came off as one of the good guys and the media whores as idiots.
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