The ongoing and delightful saga of Trey and Matt vs. Scientology

[thehefner]

Now as several of you already know, Comedy Central has yanked the infamous Scientology episode of South Park off the air. It was to have been played this past Wednesday, but they replaced it with "Chef-Aid." Now the most popular rumor going around is that Tom Cruise used his star power, but Cruise's publicist is denying it. I know I wouldn't put it past the crazed dwarf, but in my opinion, it could also be a case of Comedy Central pussying out.Here's the article by Variety with all the details, in so far as they have actual details. But the best part?

"While the "South Park" creators didn't directly comment on Comedy Central's decision to pull the episode, they issued an unusual statement to Daily Variety indicating the battle is not over.

"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 for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"

The duo signed the statement "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."

And now tonight they will be airing the season premiere of South Park, in which... Chef returns. That's all we know. Chef is returning.

I cannot wait to see what they do. Cannot WAIT.

Comments

[karmaflouge.livejournal.com]

have i EVER mentioned how much i love Matt and Trey? this calls for an icon. will you or shall i?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Go for it.

[(Anonymous)]

What I read yesterday on CNN.com says that Chef returns and the town is happy, but the boys notice something is wrong. My own personal (and entirely baseless) speculation is:

The boys discover that "Chef" is actually some kind of doppleganger (be it robot, clone, whatever) sent by the Church of Scientology to infiltrate the town and convert or destroy it. Everything Chef says in the episode will be a sample of his lines from the previous nine years, so they won't need a new voice performer.

[torberg.livejournal.com]

Damn...didn't realize I wasn't logged in when I posted the above.

[karmaflouge.livejournal.com]

couldn't resist. there we are, for now.

[scarydavedc.livejournal.com]

Hey, email me at scary dave (at) a o l (dot) com. I have a regular writing/acting role for you (non-paying, maybe even costing you some money, but it'll be fun and regular work)

[fishymcb.livejournal.com]

Don't do it! He's full of Thetans!

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree, it looks like that's what might happen. I still like fishymcb's idea of them recasting Chef with a totally different voice like Gilbert Gottfried and just pretending like nothing was different.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that will be the case too. Or that instead of that we get a reveal somewhere along the lines of crap people. Like the head of CoS was secretly replaced by Xenu's giant spider wife, or something. Or that all scientologists have been replaced by weird mutated clone babies, or something like that.

Nooooooooooooooooo!

[torberg.livejournal.com]

Looks like I was half right.

Re: Nooooooooooooooooo!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

"Fruity club."

You were right enough. Anyway, it's better than just an outright blantant attack on Scientology. Well, ok, it still was outright and blatant, but it was just ironic enough to send the point home.