Chef: Cooking up a Storm :)

Elmo

Ok so the title of this thread could com from some lame Anglo-Irish Tabloid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4804334.stm

South park is joking about everyone. Then is it ok? I think so.

Ponster

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."

That sums it all up for me !

mcgarnicle

What a wanker. To be honest anyone who believes that Scientology balls should be in a mental home anyway. DC-8s brought aliens to earth billions of years ago so they could be put in volcanoes and then nuked? okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

flogen

Scientology isn't a religion anyway.

But yeah, an ass about it indeed... it's like Frank Zappa's "Have I Offended Somebody" where he systematically targets every single minority and majority race, gender, political viewpoint etc. and all with the idea that it's not good to pick out one minority but it's good to get them all.

Hayes made a huge comeback off the back of South Park, I wonder how much money he's made over the last 9 series, especially with his single and album; not to mention the deals he got from other companies just from being back in the spotlight... as they said, he was happy to get stuck in when everything els on this planet was being joked about, even black people, but auld Hubbard must have visited him in a dream and told him he wouldn't have his evil alien soul clensed from his body unless he quit...

... I have to ask though, if he isn't earning anymore, how on earth will keep up his "religious" payments.. I mean.. donations.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Well there was bound to be some backlash from that episode... I didn't think a cast member would be one of them though :eek:
Pitty really, Chef was such a useful charictor... the voice of reason in so many episodes.
I wonder will they make an episode where he's killed off
Or kind of mirror this whole event in another episode, the way they do with other current events.
Looking forward to seeing what they do with this tbh.

Creamy Goodness

i was kind of hoping they would replace chef with that white dude they replace him with when chef married the succubus.

let's wait until wednesday and hope that they do something.

Chardee MacDennis

Article from Yahoo
link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060317/ap_en_tv/tv_south_park;_ylt=AhhJwHRRyRZb1BzW6FJbqXis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

'South Park'-Scientology Battle Rages On

By ERIN CARLSON, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 17, 5:53 PM ET

NEW YORK - "South Park" has declared war on Scientology. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist
Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday — with Internet rumors it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.
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"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the "South Park" creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obsructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"

Internet bloggers accused Cruise of threatening to not promote "Mission Impossible 3," a surefire summer blockbuster, if the offending episode ran. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, as is Paramount, which is putting out "MI:3."

But Cruise's representative, Arnold Robinson, told The Associated Press Friday that the mega-star made no such demands.

"Not true," Robinson said. "I can tell you that he never said that."

A call by The Associated Press to a Paramount representative was not returned Friday.

The episode in question, "Trapped in the Closet," which first aired last November, shows Scientology leaders hailing Stan, one of the show's four devilish fourth graders, as a savior. A cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out. An animated
John Travolta, another famous Scientologist, enters the closet to try to get him out.

In another dig at the famously secretive religion, the credits at show's end are filled with names like "John Smith" and "Jane Smith."

The battle began in earnest earlier this week when
Isaac Hayes, another celebrity Scientologist and longtime show member — voicing the ladies' man Chef — quit the show, saying he could no longer tolerate its religious "intolerance and bigotry."

Stone and Parker didn't buy that either.

On Monday, Stone told The Associated Press, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith in Scientology...He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."

A Comedy Central spokesman said Friday that the network pulled the controversial episode to make room for two shows featuring Hayes.

"In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for," the spokesman said.

blastman

flogen wrote:

But yeah, an ass about it indeed... it's like Frank Zappa's "Have I Offended Somebody" where he systematically targets every single minority and majority race, gender, political viewpoint etc. and all with the idea that it's not good to pick out one minority but it's good to get them all.

Just a small point on that album, it was a compilation released (I think) after Zappa died of his most obviously targetted songs, so he didn't actually make an album designed to offend everyone (not all at once, anyway, and not to say he wouldn't have approved of the idea)

flogen

blastman wrote:

Just a small point on that album, it was a compilation released (I think) after Zappa died of his most obviously targetted songs, so he didn't actually make an album designed to offend everyone (not all at once, anyway, and not to say he wouldn't have approved of the idea)

my mistake, but it's still the case that he can't be called a racist as a result..:D

I love the statement by South Park; I'm sure they'll do something to rip the piss out of chef or Issac Hayes, something nice and subtle I hope.

TBH Chef lost his charm for me a few seasons ago; he was never a bad character, but he was never a great one either... once the funny chef-related jokes passed by he lost his charm