Chef leaves South Park

[gowachin]

The soul singer Isaac Hayes has resigned from his role as Chef in the hit anti-establishment cartoon series South Park.

Hayes said it was in response to the US TV show's satirical attacks on religion, which he saw as part of a "growing insensitivity toward personal spiritual beliefs" in the media.

The show's co-creator, Matt Stone, said in a statement on the show's website that Hayes' resignation "has nothing to do with intolerance and bigotry and everything to do with the fact that Isaac Hayes is a Scientologist and that we recently featured Scientology in an episode of South Park".

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1730828,00.html

I wonder which side is true? Personally, I believe what Matt Stone saying is on-the-ball... I see too many people willing to poke fun at anothers religion, and not thier own.

Anyway... I will miss Chef.

[Kiyouta]

South Park... eww thats so 1998.

Just shows how shallow some people are. I think he left for the wrong reason. 'It's fine to mock other religons, just not your own.' That's sad.

[alchemi2]

Yea but it goes to show, we each take our own beleif more seriously than the next man. :O

[Acriku]

I'm surprised he lasted this long. It just doesn't seem like his character to be a part of such a controversial thing.

[Jack Leaf]

Well seriously, anyone who is a scientologist shouldn't be working, esspecially if he's a voice actor in series like South Park.

[Anathema]

The plot thickens. Tom Cruise blackmailed Viacom into scrapping a rerun of said episode that ridiculed scientology, threatening that if it was run he would cancel all publicity for Mission: Impossible 3

That's the first time somebody managed to censure South Park.

Their response:

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!!!

--Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu.

;D

[Edric O]

Someone should set up a fake "Xenu religion" like that Jedi religion a while back.

[Edric O]

By the way, you can see the full South Park Scientology episode here:

http://www.scientomogy.com/southpark_scientology.php

[Egeides]

Besides, why does this "stopscientology" website picture their leader as Hitler with his mustache and hair cut?... Anyone knows?

[Khan]

I thought the reuters board on my route to south park said 'chef returns to south park'. Anyone know if this is true?

[Acriku]

Yeah, he was on the episode last night. It was on in the background while I wrote a paper, but it seemed like it was about Chef returning and was changed (he suddenly wanted to molest children, etc). It was hilarious when the kids confronted this travel group that goes to every corner of the world to molest children of different tribes, one of them said to "have never experienced a white man's erect penis." Didn't catch the ending though.

[Andrew]

It was a good episode. Even though I havn't regularly watched it since 1999 :P

I do watch the controversial episodes though. Like scientology one, and I will get around to bloody mary one soon.