Posted on 03/21/2006 8:35:16 PM PST by Panerai
I suppose if you want a champion of broadcasting decency, a soul star whose biggest hit invited listeners to suck on my chocolate, salty balls. (Put ’em in your mouth!) Put ’em in your mouth and suck ’em . . . wouldn’t automatically be your first choice.
Isaac Hayes, the wonderfully gifted singer who sang the theme from Shaft, reached No1 with Chocolate Salty Balls in 1999. The song was one of a number that Hayes performed while playing the school Chef in the US cartoon series South Park. Among the other Chef tunes, the Christmas song stands out, with its seductive lyrics, which I believe ran:
I’m gonna lay you down by the Yule log I’m gonna love you right Baby, I’m gonna deck your halls And silence your nights You’ll hear the herald angels sing When I’m sliding off your bra I just can’t wait to jingle your bells and falala your love . . .
But now the soul sinner appears to have repented. Hayes has resigned from South Park claiming that the show was “insensitive to personal religious beliefs”.
He has a point. The writers of South Park have, inter alia, depicted Jesus and Santa Claus fighting a martial arts contest over the true meaning of Christmas, had one of their characters sing “I’m a lonely Jew at Christmas” and given an extra twist to Chef’s lasciviousness by making him a convert to Islam. In an episode first screened in 2000, Chef changes his name from Jerome McElroy to Abdul Mohammed Jabbar-Raof Kareem Ali.
And there’s the rub. Isaac Hayes has been happy to collaborate with the South Park team over the past decade while they merrily subverted, parodied, trashed, mocked and ridiculed a variety of faiths.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
No real need to ridicule "Scientology;" just tell folks the truth about it:
That it was invented on a dare over many beers at a SciFi writers' convention, by L. Ron Hubbard, who claimed - accurately, as it turns out - that he could invent a religion and, no matter how bizarre, actually get people to "believe" in it.
While the scientology episode did poke some fun here and there, the real brilliance of it was that it DID just tell truth about that wacko religion. It's so ridiculous that they even caption the whole exposition with "This is what scientologists actually believe."
"South Park" didn't ridicule Scientology, they just depicted with absolute accuracy what they believe, with a caption reading, "This is what Scientologists actually believe." No ridicule was necessary to make it hilarious.
We don't know for sure if Isaac Hayes really quit. According to Roger Friedman at Fox, he had a stroke in January, is incapable of writing any letters to anyone, and it's possible he may have been taken away from his necessary rehab by Scientology "minders," who could also be the source of that suspiciously thin-skinned and humorless resignation letter.
Yeah, it's perfectly fine if we ridicule all of those OTHER religions -- and I'll take the paycheck for doing it, thank you very much -- we just better not ridicule MY religion [no matter how stupid it is].
Hypocrite.
Most likely Isaac Hayes was BLACKMAILED by the Scientologists into quitting SP. What the Scientologists do with celebs is to confess their innermost secrets on tape. Then they have the material to blackmail them with at anytime. Not sure what dirt Hayes foolishly provided him with in his confession but I can guess what Tom Cruise told them. Neither can ever act independently again because those Scientology tapes are in their vault.
Mohammad, smeared with pig crap though he may be, did the same thing 1400 years earlier and didn't need the beer or the bar bet.
Bingo.
Kwanza, anyone?
Same crap....and it all stinks.
I'll make a small wager that this was not religion related - he had been down that road many times before - but one of $$$.
Beotch!!!!!!!!!!!
required link for all scientology threads...
http://www.xenu.net
I read SP used this site as resource for the episode.
BTTT! And it was hilarious!
Moe Hammed was a piker - at least Hubbard got a beer!
The Scientologeeks are going to rue the day they decided to take on South Park. Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Wheee, tomorrow night's episode (first for season 10) is titled "Return of Chef"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1600458/posts
Hey man, while we're at it, someone needs to hit the Jehova's Witnesses, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Santa Ria......
scientology whackos ping.
May as well say "What Islam needs most is to be ridiculed" and see how far it gets you.
"No real need to ridicule "Scientology;" just tell folks the truth about it:"
No real need to ridicule "Islam;" just tell folks the truth about it
Works just as well.
The best part of that episode was when the head scientology says "You don't actually think I believe this crap."
bump
Psst! Check the section on Islam in Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
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