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Society in the distant future is then depicted as being completely atheistic, worshiping science and ridiculing as well as violently fighting everything religious, but involved in a three-party civil war over an atheist community naming dispute (which is called the great question). While atheism is favourably depicted in the episode, it does depict Dawkins as being a dick and condescending to anyone who disagrees with him. The two later lead the abolition of all religion. The episode features Richard Dawkins (whose voice actor should be executed for his poor accent imitation) having an affair with the local transgender school teacher (the creators have said that Dawkins comes off as a smart guy, but still ignorant enough to have sex with a transgender woman without realizing it). In true South Park manner of poking fun at everyone and everything, the creators of South Park also made an episode about atheism.
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The event eventually sparked " Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" in protest, with the aim being to make depictions of Muhammad common enough to render them hardly offensive at all, or at least make most Muslims grow up and get over themselves. However, the degree to which Comedy Central took the censorship - especially Kyle's speech at the end, of which only connecting words such as "and" are audible - was extreme enough to make it look like satire. Stone and Parker were adamant that it wasn't some random in-joke, particularly as the entire event was foreshadowed by the 2006 episode "Cartoon Wars" the storyline was almost identical to how the 2010 controversy played out, but with the cartoon in question being Family Guy. Despite the depiction being of just a guy in a bear suit and the same show depicting Muhammad back in 2001 (and in the flesh, sans bear suit) Comedy Central decided to outright censor the image. In 2010, South Park - being a show that likes to intentionally piss people off by making very good points - decided to broadcast an episode featuring the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In October 2011, Mark "Marty" Rathbun, a defector from Scientology who was once the head of a secret unit within Scientology charged with inspecting critics of the organization, claimed to have documentation that his former unit had done in-depth investigations of the South Park production team - particularly of Stone and Parker - in retaliation for the episodes Trapped in the Closet and The Return of Chef. But as the time to produce the episode drew closer, Hayes withdrew his support and eventually quit the series, saying "There is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward my religious beliefs begins." In the first episode of the tenth season - "The Return of Chef" (aired 22 March 2006) - Chef is killed off after he joins a club that is really a brainwashing cult. It ends with Stan saying to the Scientologists "so sue me", to which they reply "fine, we will!" In the end credits, everybody is credited as "John Smith" or "Jane Smith".Īt first, Isaac Hayes was willing to participate in the episode.
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The episode also includes a long segment describing the dogma of Scientology. Eventually, fellow Scientologists John Travolta and R&B singer R. This leads to a running gag where several people ask him to come out of the closet. When Stan ridicules Cruise's acting and career choices, Cruise throws a tantrum and locks himself in Stan's closet. Tom Cruise and other Scientologists visit Stan and try to recruit him as a church leader. In it, Stan Marsh is screened by a Scientologist who finds that he has a high thetan level, and so is believed to be the reincarnation of L. The episode, titled "Trapped in the Closet", aired on 16 November 2005. (Stone - who is from a Jewish background (now a self-proclaimed agnostic/ atheist) and who supplies the voice of Kyle Broflovski, who is Jewish - has written many episodes satirizing Judaism.) That Stone and Parker would want to produce such an episode should have come as little surprise to the hierarchy of Scientology, as they had lampooned elements of other religions - especially dogma, fundamentalism and the slave-like devotion many religious leaders demand of their followers.
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These rumors likely originated with cast member Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist who voiced the character of Chef. See the main article on this topic: Scientologyĭuring the ninth season, which began in March 2005, there were rumors that the creators of South Park were working on an episode that would skewer Scientology.