Title: South Park Season 10!
rob - March 17, 2006 09:12 AM (GMT)
The 10th season begins in 5 days 12 hours and 53 minutes :D
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| “South Park” kicks-off its tenth season with seven new episodes beginning Wednesday, March 22 at 10:00P.M. Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny return this spring to the groundbreaking series, a social satire that takes no prisoners. No stranger to controversy, the astonishingly topical “South Park” gets ready, once again, to prove nothing is off limits! The tenth season of the widely-acclaimed series premieres Wednesday, March 22 at 10:00 p.m. on Comedy Central. |
and for those who haven't heard...
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| Isaac Hayes Wants Out of 'South Park' Creators only too happy to oblige March 13 2006 Isaac Hayes LOS ANGELES -- Saying he's become uncomfortable with "South Park's" frequent jabs at organized religion, Isaac Hayes has asked to be let out of his contract as the voice of Chef on the show. The show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, say they'll grant the request, but not before calling Hayes out about his own affiliation with Scientology, at which "South Park" recently poked a great deal of fun. A statement from Hayes' representatives say the "Shaft" composer and soul singer, who's voiced Chef on the Comedy Central cartoon since 1997, wants to leave the show "because of recent episodes and press that have embarked upon what he feels are inappropriate ridicule of religious communities." The statement also mentions the Danish newspaper cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have sparked riots across the Muslim world. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," Hayes says. "Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices." In a statement of his own, Stone notes that Hayes had never in the past voiced concern about episodes that lampooned religious convictions. "This 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,'" Stone says. "In 10 years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslims, Mormons and Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show." That said, Stone adds, "Of course we will release Isaac from his contract and we wish him well." |
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prophecy girl - March 23, 2006 11:41 AM (GMT)
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| South Park gets revenge on Chef South Park has exacted revenge on its former star Isaac Hayes by turning his character Chef into a paedophile and seemingly killing him off. The opening episode of the 10th series, screened in the US on Wednesday, appeared to be a satire on Scientology. Hayes, a Scientologist, quit the animated comedy after a different episode ridiculed the religion. In the new show, Chef is brainwashed by the "Super Adventure Club" - thought to be a veiled reference to Scientology. The other characters are angry at "that fruity little club for scrambling his brains". Patched together Hayes did not participate in the episode but his lines were apparently patched together from previous recordings. Chef arrives after travelling the world with the Super Adventure Club and repeatedly tells the children he wants to "make sweet love" to them. The children take him to a psychiatrist and then a strip club, where he remembers his love for women and is cured. But he is brainwashed by the Super Adventure Club again - before falling off a bridge and being burned, stabbed and mauled by a lion and a grizzly bear. 'Hurt and confused' At his funeral, one of the children says: "A lot of us don't agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days. "Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. "But we can't let the events of the past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile." Soul singer Hayes recently announced he had left the show because of its "intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs". But co-creator Matt Stone said: "In 10 years and over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews. "He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show." US TV network Comedy Central then pulled a different episode, which mocked Tom Cruise and more explicitly lampooned Scientology. That prompted rumours that Cruise had demanded that the episode be dropped, which were denied by his representatives. Hayes, 63, was admitted to hospital with exhaustion in January. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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rob - March 24, 2006 09:44 AM (GMT)
Watched it last night, not a great ep but still pretty funny, they really stuck it to him :lol:
prophecy girl - April 15, 2006 03:42 PM (GMT)
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| South Park duo criticise network The duo behind South Park have used the cartoon's latest episode to attack their network for banning them from using an image of the Prophet Muhammad. Comedy Central prevented Matt Stone and Trey Parker from using the image after the furore caused by a Danish newspaper publishing caricatures of Muhammad. Instead, Wednesday's episode showed an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President George Bush and the US flag. Comedy Central said in a statement that it stood by its decision. "In light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision," it said. Scientology protest The episode was built around the incident, and features the character Kyle trying to persuade an executive at rival network Fox to air an episode of cartoon Family Guy which features an image of Muhammad. "Either it's all okay, or none of it is," Kyle tells the executive. "Do the right thing." The executive decides to show the image, but a caption is displayed reading: "Comedy Central have refused to broadcast an image of Muhammad on their network." It is followed by the images of Christ, President Bush and the flag. Comedy Central recently cancelled a repeat airing of an episode which mocked Scientology. Singer Isaac Hayes - a Scientologist - quit his role as the Chef character in protest over the episode. But last month South Park depicted Chef being killed and mourned as somebody whose brains were scrambled by the "Super Adventure Club", which turns its members into paedophiles. Last week, South Park won US broadcasting's prestigious Peabody prize. Awards director Horace Newcomb said that by setting out to be offensive, the show "reminds us of the need for being tolerant". Story from BBC NEWS: |
Phillip Culley - April 15, 2006 04:40 PM (GMT)
Once I get next weeks episode I'll have enough to burn off to a DVD, so I'll finally see these episodes :)
Phillip Culley - April 22, 2006 12:35 AM (GMT)
Seen up to Episode 5 (the Towelie one), and it's ranged from the superb (the Family Guy episodes) to the disappointing (the aforementioned Towelie, however I loved the story with her rebelling genitalia).
I enjoyed the Chef episode though - there's something childishly hilarious listening to them combine Hayes' dialogue to have Chef shouting out 'I'm going to make love to.. the children' :)
I enjoyed the Chef episode though - there's something childishly hilarious listening to them combine Hayes' dialogue to have Chef shouting out 'I'm going to make love to.. the children' :)