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Posted on 07/27/2006 4:44:35 AM PDT by Panerai
South Park creator Matt Stone is laughing off reports he has been targeted by Scientology officials following the controversial 2005 Tom Cruise episode, insisting the church bosses are perfectly happy about the scandal.
The Trapped In The Closet episode poked fun at Cruise's sexuality and his involvement with the Church of Scientology, but despite media claims Stone and partner Trey Parker have been hounded by church officials, the animators have heard nothing.
Stone doesn't even agree with reports the Scientologists were behind the decision to pull a repeat of the episode from airing on US cable network Comedy Central.
He says, "I think Scientology has this reputation for intimidating people and, you know, throwing dead animals over your fence and putting notes on your cars and bricks through your windows. I think it's all bulls**t. I think the press has made that monster. I think Scientology enjoys that reputation because it keeps everyone from doing anything about it. Since we've done the episode, we haven't had any contact from them at all."
Church-Going Producer Urged Animators To Attack Reeve
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrestled with an idea to poke fun at late paraplegic actor Christopher Reeve on their irreverent cartoon show for a year - before their church-going producer urged them to go ahead.
The duo feared they would be going too far if they featured an animated Reeve sucking the stem cells out of fetuses in an episode of South Park, and ditched the idea.
But, when their Christian producer learned about the sick idea, she urged the animators to shoot the episode.
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Funny episode.
"Tom.......come out of the closet. Come on Tom....come...out...of the closet."
Too bad CC caved on the Muhammad episode.
My kind of people, DO NOT DISCRIMINATE!!! Make fun of EVERYONE!!! Equal opportunity offenders. Keep it up Matt and Trey
That episode really skewered the embryonic stem cell lobby.
Use of embyronic tissue for medical purposes is a sick idea: South Park merely kept that idea in our faces. Plus it was brilliantly funny.
I've noticed that the website that was supposed to track Suri Cruise through her life went offline and never came back either. Are these folks like a mini-mafia?
Ye shall know them by their couch jumping.
Scientology is the result of a bar bet made by Hubbard, who actually hated religion, that he could invent a "religion" out of thin air. Hubbard won that!
Perhaps the programmers at Comedy Central would have run that baby, but we know where their task masters at CBS-Viacom stand.
With Robert Heinlein no less.
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Even they can differentiate between getting sued and having your head hacked off.
They are sooo sued!
And a great episode it was :~)
Not so fast Chris! ... Your fetus-sucking days are over!
The show put a better spotlight on all the issues involved than any show actually depicting 'him' would have.
You got the issue, sliced, diced and presented to the world, over two much-publicized episodes. I honestly don't understand how people see that as a failure just because they didn't show the dude's face. It's funnier that they didn't!
>>South Park creator Matt Stone is laughing off reports he has been targeted by Scientology officials following the controversial 2005 Tom Cruise episode, insisting the church bosses are perfectly happy about the scandal.<<
Not to mention the scientologists are not the people who are likely to put a bomb in his car - that would be the radical Islamists.
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrestled with an idea to poke fun at late paraplegic actor Christopher Reeve on their irreverent cartoon show for a year - before their church-going producer urged them to go ahead.
The duo feared they would be going too far if they featured an animated Reeve sucking the stem cells out of fetuses in an episode of South Park, and ditched the idea.
But, when their Christian producer learned about the sick idea, she urged the animators to shoot the episode.
Gee, I wonder what point this joker is trying to make. Why does it matter that their producer is a Christian? It seems to me that South Park goes out of its way to insult Christianity as much as any other faith.
Since the "show" which was to show Mo was Canadian, Terence and Philip, it was the "censor" not Comedy Channel or South Park. It is a big joke.
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