[Wormwood]

According to an interview with on the Penn Jilette Show, Parker and Stone received a lot of heat when they took a swipe at Richard Dawkins.

Unlike the manufactured outrage they get when they slam religious figures, that episode angered people who actually watch the show.

[Calvin Locke]

I was pretty mad at that [double] epi. Horrible lack of time for the Wilma Deering character.

[mjolnir]

Are you trying to imply that people who are religious tend not to enjoy watching South Park? That would be pretty silly. Pretty much everyone watches South Park; it’s the only show on Comedy Central that people do watch (much).

Hey, I was annoyed and continue to be annoyed that they made William Donahue out to be such an evil punk and made such simplistically dogmatic criticisms of the Papacy. At the same time, the episode was pretty funny, especially the “double cross” line. Just because I like South Park doesn't mean I have to agree with everything in it.

The same goes for my opinion of William Donahue. Anyone who saw him on the Colbert Report (I realize that’s in the single digits) knows he actually has a pretty good sense of humor. He’s in the business of criticizing the glorification of blasphemy and attacks on his religion-— sometimes, like Matt and Trey, he goes over the line because, as with their occupation, his carries that sort of occupational hazard.