Chef Quits South Park!

[Doramius]

If you line your room with aluminum foil, the voices will...... go a-way!

[Conquest10]

Reminds me of a picture I took the other day:

[Doramius]

I wonder if putting it on your computer would keep the MPAA & RIAA from being able to scan your files & downloads. :P

[BJ_M]

only if you remove this part from your system

[Doramius]

only if you remove this part from your system

My mouse isn't working now. :P

[offline]

[Faustus]

No need to go THAT far. Just cut this and you will be fine.

[Doramius]

No need to go THAT far. Just cut this and you will be fine.

Ah, the wireless system.


Dammit, now my email isn't working.

I wonder if Microsoft can help?............Nope. The site must be down. :P

[Conquest10]

Things are getting interesting:

'South Park'-Scientology Battle Rages On

[BJ_M]

it will be a war of the worlds soon ...



oh wait -- that was done already

[zzyzzx]

South Park'-Scientology Battle Rages On

NEW YORK (AP) - "South Park" has declared war on Scientology. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday - with an Internet report saying it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the "South Park" creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"

The Internet blogger hollywoodinterrupted.com said Thursday that Cruise threatened to not promote "Mission: Impossible 3," a surefire summer blockbuster, if the offending episode ran. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, as is Paramount, which is putting out the film.

But Cruise's representative, Arnold Robinson, told The Associated Press Friday that the mega-star made no such demands.

"Not true," Robinson said. "I can tell you that he never said that."

A call by The Associated Press to a Paramount representative was not returned Friday.

The episode in question, "Trapped in the Closet," which first aired last November, shows Scientology leaders hailing Stan, one of the show's four devilish fourth-graders, as a savior. A cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out. An animated John Travolta, another famous Scientologist, enters the closet to try to get him out.

The battle began in earnest earlier this week when Isaac Hayes, another celebrity Scientologist and longtime show member - voicing the ladies' man Chef - quit the show, saying he could no longer tolerate its religious "intolerance and bigotry."

Stone and Parker didn't buy that either.

On Monday, Stone told The Associated Press, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith in Scientology...He has no problem - and he's cashed plenty of checks - with our show making fun of Christians."

A Comedy Central spokesman said Friday that the network pulled the controversial episode to make room for two shows featuring Hayes.

"In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for," the spokesman said.

[Doramius]

Quote in a future episode of South Park,

"Oh My God They Killed Chef!!!"

"Eh, Who cares?"

:P

[zzyzzx]

The launch of "South Park’s" 10th season is marked by the triumphant homecoming of school chef, Jerome McElroy. "The Return of Chef!," premieres Wednesday, March 22 at 10:00 p.m., only Comedy Central.

The town is jolted out of a case of the doldrums when Chef suddenly reappears. While Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are thrilled to have their old friend back, they notice that something about chef seems different. When Chef’s strange behavior starts getting him in trouble, the boys pull out all the stops to save him.


southparkstudios.com

[zzyzzx]

Quote in a future episode of South Park,

"Oh My God They Killed Chef!!!"

Your prediction comes true!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060324/ap_en_tv/tv_south_park;_ylt=Alnc7ipVBm8MfqbMGBEWn4...RrBHNlYwM3NjI-

NEW YORK - Nothing like a little controversy to cook up a big audience. Last week's spat that pitted "South Park" against Scientology and Isaac Hayes, with a rumored dollop of Tom Cruise stirred in, led Wednesday night to the animated series' highest-rated season premiere since 2002, according to a Comedy Central spokesman.

An estimated 3.5 million viewers — including 2.3 million in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49 age bracket — tuned in to watch the show unleash a new salvo against Scientology.

In the episode, the first of the series' 10th season, Isaac Hayes' Chef character was brainwashed by the "Super Adventure Club" and then apparently killed off.

Hayes, a soul singer best known for composing the Oscar-winning theme to the movie "Shaft," has voiced Chef since 1997. The outspoken Scientologist quit the show last week, saying he could no longer tolerate its religious "intolerance and bigotry."

Series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker immediately blasted back, saying Hayes left because he couldn't stomach an episode from last November that mocked Scientology and its celebrity followers, including Tom Cruise. A rerun of that episode, called "Trapped in the Closet," was then yanked off the air without notice last week, resulting in rumors that Cruise made demands to pull it. The actor's spokesman denied it. Stone and Parker said there would be retribution.

Without Hayes' participation, they cobbled together clips of his character for Wednesday's episode, in which the "Super Adventure Club" that Chef joins turns its brainwashed members into child molesters. "South Park's" impish grade-schoolers try to save him, but he is burned, stabbed and mauled by a mountain lion and bear. They try to revive him, and it's not clear if they succeed.

"We shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving us," says one of the children. "We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains."

[Doramius]

I should write for these guys.

[Supreme2k]

They did "revive" him, a la Anakin/Vader in Sith. He was a Chef-shaped Vader weilding a ligh-spatula.Different voice, too.

That was pretty sad how horribly they destroyed him. First,a child-molester, then a burnt-shot-dismembered-mauled death, then an even more evil child-molester.