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Past episodes of South Park have skewered Catholics, Jews and Mormons, among others. However, according to Stone, he and Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology." "He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin," Stone told the Associated Press.
The first time I heard that song I was back from college for the first time, stoned, trapped in the apartment of a girl I'd been friends with before I left for Boston and then Portland as she leafed through this photo album of guys she'd sold magazines to/slept with. Horrified.
bloody mary didn't bother him, all the jewish stuff never bothered him, the fundamentalist cartman stuff never bothered him, the giant spider pope pedophile stuff never bothered him, the passion of the christ never bothered him, the muslim episode with the goat and osama, all the dum-dum-dum-dum mormon stuff...
Do sacred cows always make tastier burgers? SP is a funny show, but perhaps at some point equal-opportunity offense just for the sake of equal-opportunity offense misses the point. Maybe Hayes had had enough.
funny how the point where he had finally had enough was about his own religion, tho, no? and--it was an episode where they really weren't at all as harsh as they've been to mormons and catholics and jews, etc.
I agree with you in principle, but let's put this in perspective. CNN is making this issue front page news on its site, while the prez keeps destroying the country. It's just a cartoon.
I'd take a stab and say voice-wise, we might hear Dennis Haysbert ("24") or Avery Brooks ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") as replacement voices (assuming Matt and Trey don't butcher the Chef character out of spite.
Mr. Hayes may be upset (or whatever) but the cool cash he made off the shows, toys, etc. surely takes a bit of the sting off the jab at his quasi-cult religion.
after so many years on the air, unless they have the Virgin Mary give a menstrual-blood facial to the Pope nobody seems to care that much about SP anymore.
it's all free publicity for them, and maybe CoS will find a part for Hayes in "Crash 2 -- The Chinaman's Revenge"
but then, I've never joined the anti-Scientology cult -- its alien and quack-therapy stuff is not more bizarre than many other religions dogmata
I grew up in West Michigan, where Amway was born. You have no idea all the people who tried to explain to me how rich they were all going to get, how i could too, yada yada. Amway was damn scary. At least they never got Tom Cruise to shill for them.
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