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South Park Gets Revenge on Chef
--The War on Scientology Continues
BBC News, March 23, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4836286.stm
South Park has exacted revenge on its former star Isaac Hayes by
turning his character Chef into a pedophile 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".
Hayes did not participate in the episode but his lines were apparently
patched together from previous recordings.
Chef arrives after traveling 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.
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 rumors 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.
--The War on Scientology Continues
BBC News, March 23, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4836286.stm
South Park has exacted revenge on its former star Isaac Hayes by
turning his character Chef into a pedophile 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".
Hayes did not participate in the episode but his lines were apparently
patched together from previous recordings.
Chef arrives after traveling 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.
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 rumors 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.
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