South Park's 200th Episode

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Babbles

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"South Park" airs censored episode after threat
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Wed Apr 21, 10:30 PM PDT
Satirical animated TV show "South Park" beeped out the words Prophet Muhammad and plastered its Wednesday episode with the word "CENSORED" after being issued a grim warning by a U.S. Muslim group.
The irreverent comedy show on Comedy Central also substituted a controversial image seen last week of the Prophet Muhammad in a bear outfit with one of Santa Claus in the same costume.
It was not immediately clear if the move was a bid to tread carefully following the warning against the "South Park" creators, or if they were poking fun at the fuss.
The little-known group RevolutionMuslim.com posted a message on its website earlier this week warning creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker "that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show."
The website posted a graphic photo of Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was killed in 2004 by an Islamic militant over a movie he had made that accused Islam of condoning violence against women. It also posted a link to a news article with details of a mansion in Colorado that Parker and Stone apparently own.
Most Muslims consider any depiction of the founder of Islam as offensive.
The website warning followed the first in a two-part episode of "South Park" a week ago in which Prophet Mohammad was depicted in a bear outfit.
"South Park" has a history of biting satire against politicians, celebrities and the media. The two Colorado filmmakers are known to often work on "South Park" until just before they air, enabling them to react to current events.
In Wednesday's new episode, Jesus Christ was depicted watching pornography and Buddha was portrayed snorting cocaine.
The head of Revolution Muslim, Younus Abdullah Muhammad, 30, defended the Web posting by his group.
"How is that a threat?," he told Reuters earlier on Wednesday. "Showing a case study right there of what happened to another individual who conducted himself in a very similar manner? It's just evidence."
According to U.S. law enforcement officials, the federal government rarely prosecutes threat cases. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives broad protections to free speech, and what constitutes a threat is often subject to interpretation.
Muhammad described his group as an alternative media outlet with about 20 active posters to the website. He said the group "didn't tell anyone to go to their houses and conduct violence" against Parker or Stone.
Comedy Central, a unit of Viacom Inc, has declined to comment on the controversy.
 

spidey07

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Muhammad described his group as an alternative media outlet with about 20 active posters to the website. He said the group "didn't tell anyone to go to their houses and conduct violence" against Parker or Stone.

They did all that censoring over some guy with a website and a whopping 20 active posters? FAIL viacom/comedy central, pure fail.

I thought it was matt/trey that did all the incredibly excessive bleeping and big huge censor blocks to poke fun at reactions (and was laughing at how long the bleeps were), but no. Apparently the network did it.
 

Juddog

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They did all that censoring over some guy with a website and a whopping 20 active posters? FAIL viacom/comedy central, pure fail.

I thought it was matt/trey that did all the incredibly excessive bleeping and big huge censor blocks to poke fun at reactions (and was laughing at how long the bleeps were), but no. Apparently the network did it.

ROFL that is funny.
 

Fox5

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I think the censor blocks were in the show originally, but the beeps weren't.
 

her209

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Also, I assume the long beeps at the end of episode 201 was a result of censorship by CC/Viacom then?
 

spidey07

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Anyone catch the "amberlamps" reference?

LOL! Sure did.

I still wonder if they put every single character ever in the two part series. It sure looked like it. Moses always cracks me up and did again last night.
 

Gibsons

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LOL! Sure did.

I still wonder if they put every single character ever in the two part series. It sure looked like it. Moses always cracks me up and did again last night.

They made an effort, but I'm pretty sure there were a few missing. The Marklars and starvin Marvin for instance, Terance and Phillip (?). Tweek?
 

Hayabusa Rider

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I sent this off to Comedy Central just now:

We've had every religious leader mocked over the years, including a parody of Mohamed himself, now some scum site pulls some shit and you cave.

Grow some balls.

:D

I was going to check out the nutty wannabe terrorist site, but they've been down for days, and knowing Matt and Trey's fans, I doubt they're going to get back on the intarweb for a long long time :p
 

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Matt and Trey are not happy about the censoring of last night's show...

A Statement from Matt and Trey

In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it.
 
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Anonemous

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Younus Abdullah Muhammad, 30, defended the Web posting by his group.
"How is that a threat?," he told Reuters earlier on Wednesday. "Showing a case study right there of what happened to another individual who conducted himself in a very similar manner? It's just evidence."
Muhammad described his group as an alternative media outlet with about 20 active posters to the website. He said the group "didn't tell anyone to go to their houses and conduct violence" against Parker or Stone.
Comedy Central, a unit of Viacom Inc, has declined to comment on the controversy.

I wonder how they would feel like if they had their house/residence placed on a website condoning their actions.
 
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her209

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They made an effort, but I'm pretty sure there were a few missing. The Marklars and starvin Marvin for instance, Terance and Phillip (?). Tweek?
The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka. Jakovasausrus. The Quituplets. Big Gay Al. The Chicken Fucker.
 

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...isode-is-altered-after-muslim-groups-warning/

In the 14 years we’ve been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn’t stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn’t some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle’s customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn’t mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We’ll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we’ll see what happens to it.
 

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The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka. Jakovasausrus. The Quituplets. Big Gay Al. The Chicken Fucker.

yes, yes... The Underpants gnomes, Hat McCullough, Trent whatshisname (the guy they framed in kindergarten) Robert Smith of the Cure, Scuzzlebutt and... Brian Boitano!
 

her209

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WTF!!! They killed the original Super Best Friends episode on southparkstudios.com also. HUGE WTF!
 

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail?blogid=150&entry_id=61868

SF Gate said:
Al-Amrikee also posted the addresses of Comedy Central, Parker and Stone's California production office and a Colorado retreat owned by the two animators.

Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee is a Islamist blogger who identified himself as Zachary A. Chesser in January 2010, publicizes terrorist propaganda, endorses suicide attacks and espouses hatred against the United States, the US Armed Forces, Jews, Israel and Shi'a Muslims through several Internet sites, blogs and social networking sites. His web site (though you can look at the cache) is down but his YouTube sites are alive and well. Al-Amrikee sent out a Twitter message, "May Allah kill Matt Stone and Trey Parker and burn them in Hell for all eternity. They insult our prophets Muhammad, Jesus, and Moses..."

Chesser describes himself as a "Muslim revert" (...whatever!) and is former student at George Mason University. He used his George Mason University email to register his TheMujahidBlog.com. He is a white male so he would not fit a racial profile and I assume he is an American. He claims to live in Virginia and his DNS registration confirms a Bristow, Virgina address. He had a Facebook profile though it claims it was being updated by his wife.

What an ass. I wonder if this little stunt will bring more publicity to Mr. Chesser than he might have wanted.
 

sandorski

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Haven't watched SP in years, watched a couple Episodes last night, including this one, and found myself generally unamused. I think it's played out.