SP v. Scientology
Via Bitter, comes Parker and Stone’s official statement regarding the pulling of their Scientology episode:
So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu.
Heh.
March 17th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
I imagine their bodies will be pulled from a river not to long from now….
March 17th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Nah, scientologists will just sue. A lot.
March 17th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
What happened to celebrities worried about the “chilling effect” of censorship?
March 17th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Scientologists are a weird breed although less creepy than Jehovah Witnesses.
March 17th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I disagree; I think they’re more creepy than Jehovah Witnesses…
March 17th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
I vote more-creepy> too, much more. IMO and from my experience/exposure, it’s not even a religion so much as a vehicle for leveraging-away individual power in various forms of pseudo-scientific one-upsmanship with game-theory Authoritarianism, and then comes the social-engineering.
March 17th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
I saw that episode, it was hilarious. I can’t see why the Scientologists would want it pulled, it was all true.
Also, Scientologists are definitely significantly creepier than Jehova’s Witnesses. It makes me wonder why people give credit to the opinions of the Hollywood types, knowing that half of them are Scientologist kooks.
March 18th, 2006 at 1:43 am
Nah, scientologists will just sue. A lot.
Matt and Trey are everyguys, they know that they have more than enough to live as they please for the rest of their lives, hell they knew that the day they signed for their second season (just listen to the first season comentary)
Everyguys ain’t affraid of standing up to effete assholes unless they can’t afford the repercussions. FILTHY RICH! Everyguys ain’t concerned about a fucking thing but selling out.
March 19th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I haven’t bothered to watch South Park since 1998 or so, but I downloaded this episode to see what the flap was about. I have lots of friends in the same position, which to me says that the Scientologists can threaten and they can sue, but they can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
Also, after Isaac Hayes quit the show (he’s a scientologist), I read a quote from Matt/Trey saying something to the effect that “He didn’t have a problem cashing his checks when we were making fun of every other religion.” Too true.
March 20th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Jehovahs Witnesses are annoying. Scientologists are creepy, scary, and annoying. Get the difference?
Of course, I might be biased because a couple of my grandparents were JWs. They were backsliders, I guess, because their relatives were all Mennonites = creepy, but not scary or annoying.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Did you see SP last night? It was pretty good, and blamed the whole Chef thing squarely on the Church of Scientology (whom they painted as a group of child molesters).