South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version

Yesterday we mentioned the controversy facing Matt Stone and Trey Parker after last week's South Park (episode 200) depicted Muhammad, founder of Islam, concealed in a bear suit. Today, penguinman1337 writes "Apparently, all is not well over at Comedy Central. The heavily censored version of episode 201 that aired last night has a lot of people angry, including the show's creators." From their note: "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."

Comments

Re:Mohamad == pedo bear

[geekoid]

As soon as Mohammad wipes my jiz off his beard, I'll send him by.

Re:The media really are pussies

[MightyMartian]

In any case, here among us non-immortal people who are currently alive: anyone who is offended by things like this needs to grow the fuck up.

Or remove themselves to some place occupied by equally cowardly co-religionists, where they can hide themselves in an imposed monoculture and leave everyone else to behave like adults.

Re:You don't say

[PopeRatzo]

The Bible advocates stoning many people under various circumstances,

Right, but hardly anyone, including devout christians, really believes that crap. Except for whacked out oathkeeper hutaree militia nuts sitting in the Michigan mud wearing camo and playing war, you won't find many people, many christians, or even many bible-humping evangelicals who take the "stone adulterers" seriously.

Mainly because they're busy humping their neighbor's wife, but still, most people in the world don't have to worry about christians shooting up a school bus full of children in the name of hay-zoos. Yet there's good reason to believe the guy driving my cab is trying to get his hands on some explosives to kill people with. In fact, here in Chicago, they just busted a guy for connecting with al qaeda and trying to do that very thing. Fortunately, he wasn't bright enough to figure out that the guy in the plastic "FBI" jacket who said he was working for al qaeda and could hook him up wasn't really who he said he was.

But it's not really all that comforting to know that the main thing that protects us is that religious zealots seldom have much going on "upstairs".

Re:You don't say

[iPharaoh]

I Guess the ediot who's cursing one of prophets is the one who will be running in hell forever and ever !. and regarding "pedophile" , LOOOOOL , don't you watch the news for the past 10 days ?? should we ask the pope regarding pedophile ???. should we ask in Germany , Italy , Cyrprus , USA Curches and many more ??????????

Re:The media really are pussies

[NeutronCowboy]

And again, someone fails to understand the difference between censorship and modding. Fail more, AC.

Jumped the Shark, anyway

[BlueBoxSW.com]

I can't stand that show anymore. Removed it from the Tivo list.

While I have no problem with them poking fun at all things, they never get around to stating their own beliefs.

I think you have to take a stand, right or wrong, if you want your comedy to be important.

Otherwise you're just chucking eggs at people and calling it funny.

Good

[Zorque]

Those assholes have had it coming for a long time. And by "had it coming" I mean that the show isn't funny or insightful in the slightest and just rehashes jokes that a lot of other shows do better. I'm not really for censorship but it sure would be great if they'd stir up more bad publicity for Comedy Central and get taken off the air.

Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks

[Rogerborg]

Maybe they could try some sort of Final Solution? Wishy washy liberals.

Re:1984?

[mapkinase]

"and let the agents of terror dictate your actions. "

Typical liberal BS exaggeration. You are limited in your actions every day of your life by common sense, by laws, by morality. Nobody in the West killed for drinking, or eating pork, or prostituting, or any other possible offense.

There is one aspect we Muslims make a principal stand on, and that is of course the action that you are choosing.

"Oh, my god! If we let them win this, they are going to take away our freedoms!" That's your train of thought, liberal moron, no different from the train of thought of inbred Fox News audience.

Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks

[mapkinase]

"if you happen to be a techno-savvy hard-line Muslim reading this post"

Here you go (I am not sure what techno-savviness has anything to do with it, though).

There are two moments in today controversies in depicting the Prophet, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam:

1. As you noted, the depiction is not allowed in Islam, and answering your question about Shia, their scholars and leaders are not considered Muslims by majority of Sunni scholars, and ordinary Shia folks are considered ignorant deviant Muslims at best.

2. Derogation of the Prophet, which was planned in the recent SP episode. That's a different and far more serious offense with which Muslims are obligated to deal very seriously.

The first point is irrelevant here in this context.

Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks

[Dog-Cow]

Throughout history, same-sex couplings have existed, but at no time were they considered a marriage. People today just want to redefine a term with a long-standing meaning to get money from their fellow citizens.

It is perfectly natural to keep the legal definition of marriage as a coupling between 2 adults that may lead to a biological family. There is no benefit to society to recognize anything else.

And it's completely illogical to assume that someone who does not eat animal (non-human) meat would suddenly gain a taste for human. But this kind of stupidly-illogical blather is expected from idiots like you.

Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks

[Dorkmaster Flek]

Uh, no we don't, but the Pope doesn't threaten non-believers with death if they don't follow his rules.

Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks

[Dorkmaster Flek]

Yes, that's what I meant; the current papal high command in modern day. Obviously, I'm working on the assumption that we got over the Crusades a while ago.

Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks

[KnownIssues]

Do we ever tell the Pope to STFU because he disagrees with some other Christian Church 1/10th their size?

Maybe we should.