The announcement has come down this week that Isaac Hayes is Chef no more -- he is leaving South Park. This news has been reported (using slightly different quotes) in a number of different places, but the long and short of is this:
Hayes' story (paraphrased): "There is a line between satire and intolerance, and I feel this show has crossed it."
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's story (paraphrased): "When we portrayed the Jewish faith as a summer boys camp where Moses appeared as the Master Control Program from Tron, you didn't blink. When we had Jesus sacrifice himself to save Santa Claus and a talking piece of poo from the Iraqis, not a word. When we did an entire episode mocking the creation of the Mormon religion, nada. But now that we've done an episode that points out the insanity of Scientology... now you have an issue."
I have to side with the boys on this. To Isaac Hayes, I say: "Shut yo' mouth!"
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Ha ha, it's funny when you parody religions... hey wait, that's MY religion!
I remember looking through the groups in the old Illuminati card game. Ha ha, Comic Book Stores, UFOs... hey, wait, that's MY political party!
I don't think Isaac has any idea how stupid he looks making this decision, but when you're Level XII Thetan and the Mind Control Lasers kick in, you don't really have any choice at all. Or so I've heard.
but Tom Cruis is in the closet!!!!
What a tool. Xenu can suck it.
It's all fun and games until someone gets poked in the religion.
Update:
Trey Parker and Matt Stone sent this to Daily Variety after religious nutjob and megalomaniac Tom Cruise pressured execs at Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, to yank a second showing of the now-famous 'Trapped in the Closet" episode of "South Park":
So, Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!
Temporarily anozinizing our episode will not stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies.
Curses and drat! You have obstructed us now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu.
--Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants to the dark lord Xenu
It's almost enough to get me to watch SP again, if only I had the time. But bravo for standing up to them, Matt and Trey.
Actually, reports recently have shown that Hayes did not quite South Park. He had a stroke and Scientology stepped in and spoke for him to SP.
SP was about his only souce of income, so, he was all good with SP.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,188463,00.html
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