i too was waiting for 12 to watch it in bed

no way i'm getting out to watch it downstairs on the dvr

woe is me

4/22/2010 12:13:52 AM

So apparently after all that self-censoring, Comedy Central won't re-air the episode?

Really it just reiterates Matt and Trey's point about censorship...

4/22/2010 12:18:43 AM

Loved the Super Best Friends throwback, with Seaman jokes. Did anybody else get tired of the bleeping of Mohammed's name? They said it so frequently too. I liked the nostalgic feel of this episode but I thought the bleeping of the entire "lesson learned" was pretty dumb, even with the Willzyx ending making up for it somewhat.

4/22/2010 12:41:53 AM

im sure there is an uncut version on the web somewhere

4/22/2010 12:44:55 AM

Quote :

"i thought they were gonna go to imaginationland at the end"

I thought they were going to go to Big Gay Al's Big Gay Animal Sanctuary since it was Tom Cruise and all.

4/22/2010 5:25:33 AM

they won't show it online either. Guess I'm going to have to try and find a torrent or something, I always watch on their website.

[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM. Reason : .]

4/22/2010 8:23:27 AM

so it seems like the southpark guys bleeped "mohammed" and put the censor bars on mohammed and tom cruise, but comedy central bleeped the "i learned something today"?

4/22/2010 9:34:43 AM

wait nvm, who the fuck knows

[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 9:58 AM. Reason : l;]

4/22/2010 9:57:31 AM

praise allah for DVRs

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

4/22/2010 10:13:58 AM

allah allah sheik muhammad

4/22/2010 10:46:18 AM

Looks like they aren't going to rerun it tonight either.

From Wikipedia:

Quote :

"New episodes of South Park are usually re-aired at least three times on Comedy Central: at midnight on the following Thursday morning, at 10:30 PM on the same Thursday, and at 11:00 PM that Sunday. Instead of episode 201, the network re-aired "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" in the midnight rebroadcasting slot, and according to Comedy Central's TV schedule will again re-air Scrotie McBoogerballs on Thursday night.[2] The network will also re-air "You Have 0 Friends" in the Sunday night rebroadcasting spot instead of episode 201.[3] "

4/22/2010 10:53:23 AM

this is weak. trey and matt have become victims of their own success. they helped build comedy central into the cable network it is today and this is how they get repaid. i hope they do nothing but terrance and philip episodes until their contract runs out as payback. it's like the point they made in "cartoon wars," either everything is ok to make fun or or everything is off limits, there isn't a middle ground (that may not actually have been the point they made but that's what i seem to remember and i'm at work so i really can't fact check myself at the moment).

[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM. Reason : i know i should probably take this to the soapbox but oh well...]

4/22/2010 11:11:31 AM

^ see: strategy of every major network

Could you imagine how much would have to be censored and pulled off the air if Christians threatened to blow up everything? This country is quickly becoming based solely on appeasing the minor radical islamic group.

4/22/2010 11:51:13 AM

I wonder what network would have the balls to air the Mohammad stuff unedited? HBO maybe? It's had some pretty controversial stuff in the past but I doubt they'd be able to air a new South Park episode on a different network.

If there is every a second South Park movie, I'm sure they'll put something in there about this.

4/22/2010 11:52:16 AM

i just really want to know what was said at the end? i couldn't tell if that whole speech was intentionally bleeped by matt and trey, or if CC bleeped it bc of its content.

4/22/2010 12:24:36 PM

i thought matt & trey did all the bleeping at the end as a joke.

4/22/2010 12:37:36 PM

I wouldn't put it past Matt and Trey to be the ones behind all the censorship. If you noticed at the beginning of the episode the boys said Mohammad way to often and repetitive.

Things censored:
The word Mohammad - Said way too often and seem intentional
The black rectangle over Mohammad - Had to be done by the creator because they did the same thing to Cruise at the end. No way that Comedy Central could have done this.
The speeches at the end - None of you actually think that CC did this do u? Definitely done by South Park for satirical effect.

The only thing that might be done by CC is not re-airing it. All the "censorship" was just done as a joke. Don't get your panties in a wad that "we are conforming to the terrorist demands." Yall take this shit way too seriously.

V Well lets think. Maybe Trey and Matt are not re-airing it themselves to stir up more controversy, causing more news coverage, causing an increased demand. Now that they've done this they can now release a "Special Unedited DVD" just to fuck with us. Its excellent marketing. I don't think we will ever really know who was responsible for the censoring and I don't care. The episode was funny and made its point.



[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM. Reason : .]

4/22/2010 12:42:05 PM

but not re-airing an episode seems like a pretty big deal to me. i know they didn't re-air trapped in the closet for a while, but didn't they eventually relent on that decision? i'm not getting my panties in a wad over anything, i just hate not knowing all the facts bc then we just end up discussing hypotheticals all day on a message board. at least one day i'll be able to tell my grandkids about seeing the infamous episode of southpark that never aired again...

4/22/2010 12:48:43 PM

Quote :

"Now that they've done this they can now release a "Special Unedited DVD" just to fuck with us. Its excellent marketing."

Yes, because this is exactly what they've done before. In fact, I remember when the South Park movie came out on bluray a few months ago, that very same week it was FREE to watch in HD on their site. And they do a really good job of forcing people to buy the Seasons on DVD by putting every single episode online for free.

Wait...

4/22/2010 1:06:51 PM

muhammad through the ages...

he used to be the favorite subject of many european religious artists, typically depicting him being brutally tortured in hell.

4/22/2010 1:13:21 PM

It was pretty obvious that the lesson was bleeped intentionally

The word muhammad was the only thing comedy central bleeped I think

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b177588_comedy_central_bows_extremists_censors.html

4/22/2010 1:18:34 PM

^ that article made a good point - the original 2001 episode "super best friends" where they show Muhammad in full is currently streaming on south park's website...either the fundamentalists forgot about that or this entire thing is a hoax by matt and trey

4/22/2010 1:32:02 PM

http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/04/south-park-censorship-.html

Quote :

"....The character of Muhammad was once again also hidden from view, covered by a large block labeled "censored." A Comedy Central spokesperson confirmed it was the network's decision to bleep the words. The Muhammad content is also not available on the South Park Studios website. Ironically, "South Park" apparently shows an image of the Prophet Muhammad briefly in its opening credits that has gone largely unnoticed. "

4/22/2010 1:32:59 PM

Now I'm hearing that the episode didn't air on the west coast AT ALL.

I'd be pretty pissed off...

4/22/2010 1:50:57 PM

they are just using the same business techniques that cartman used with his own theme park cartmanland. He said no one could enter his theme park and it made everyone want to go in. Since they are not reairing this episode everyone is now wanting to watch it

4/22/2010 3:41:54 PM

i have some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you if you believe that

4/22/2010 3:49:44 PM

Actually, if they announced that they were going to show the episode unedited on cable they would probably bring in huge numbers of viewers. But that is a Comedy Central tactic, I assure you that Matt and Trey don't give a shit about tricking fans into buying more dvds or anything.

The problem (with this entire situation) is sponsorship. There is no violation of Free Speech here, it's just an inequality in the way society treats religious parody. And Comedy Central doesn't want to lose sponsors by offending the public.

4/22/2010 3:56:00 PM

Quote :

"And Comedy Central doesn't want to lose sponsors by offending the a very small percentage of the public."

4/22/2010 4:02:20 PM

Group A: Muslims pissed off at South Park over a depiction of Muhammad.
Group B: Americans pissed off at South Park for offending Group A.

Group C: People pissed off at Comedy Central for censoring only Muhammad and no one else.
Group D: People that don't care about any of this crap.

Size: D, C, B, A.

How loudly they complain: A, B, C, D. <-- This is what sponsors care about.
Groups C and D may be the largest, but they're not going to start boycotts over the unequal censorship.

4/22/2010 4:17:06 PM

statement from matt and trey

Quote :

"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. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it. "

4/22/2010 5:08:47 PM

BS.

they bleeped that shit at the end

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message

[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 5:13 PM. Reason : and these two episodes were not that funny. we get it... censorship is dumb]

4/22/2010 5:12:51 PM

There is a side of me that says it is wrong and the after effects wouldn't be good, but I wouldn't cry, if it happened.

4/22/2010 10:47:41 PM

i was surprised that i couldn't watch the original super best friends episode on south park studios.

4/22/2010 10:53:18 PM

the censor bars were a plot device (Tom loses his when he has Sea Man on his back) so thats gotta be on south park.

I'm willing to bet that most of the bleeps were south park but CC came in and added some more.

4/22/2010 10:54:35 PM

I'm pretty sure SP censored muhammed because they knew it wouldn't be aired otherwise & on top of that they censored everything else to make a point. They PROBABLY pulled the show themselves emphasize that point.

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

4/22/2010 10:56:34 PM

^^^ they just pulled that today, it appears.

4/22/2010 11:49:49 PM

To see Tom revealed as a censored black box was brilliant and hilarious to me.

Success!




But the long beeeeeeps were just a shame...

4/23/2010 12:45:20 AM

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ua6m_superbestfriends-theme_fun


Original Super Best Friends episode where they fight David Blaine.

This is just a vid someone put up with the power rangers theme song dubbed over... but just a nice reminder clip that they actually did this before and nobody gave a shit.

4/23/2010 1:23:17 AM

Quote :

"The ADL has identified Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, the blogger who posted the warning about "South Park," as Zachary A. Chesser, a former student at George Mason University who lives in Virginia and has become more active with Revolution Muslim in the last several months. On April 15, he wrote on one of his Twitter accounts: "May Allah kill Matt Stone and Trey Parker and burn them in Hell for all eternity. They insult our prophets Muhammad, Jesus, and Moses.""

4/23/2010 2:08:41 AM

I'm sure the CIA has his house/internet/phone/life bugged in case he tries to become the next Adam Gadahn.

4/23/2010 3:09:02 AM

4/25/2010 7:43:14 PM

I wonder how Matt and Trey will retaliate. Worst episode ever? Clip show? Remake? Not Without My Anus: Part 2?

4/25/2010 11:12:56 PM

4/26/2010 8:44:55 PM

You can not even watch the super friends episode on netflix on demand anymore
WTF

Are network executives really bending over and taking it in the ass from whiny Islamic extremists.

Great!!!

Crazy right-wing christian evangelist nutjobs now know all they have to do is threaten crusade and violence in order to blackmail society to adopt to their religious standards.

4/26/2010 11:29:52 PM

Upon a second viewing, this episode kicks ass.

4/27/2010 1:13:17 AM

LOL! I watched the Super Best Friends episode last night on http://www.xepisodes.com

4/27/2010 1:42:18 PM

NEW YORK, April 26, 2010 - JIMMY AND TIMMY head off TO SUMMER CAMP WITH ALL THEIR HANDICAPABLE FRIENDS in an all-new episode of "South Park" titled "Crippled Summer," premiering on Wednesday, April 28 at 10:00 p.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL.

Competition is the name of the game this summer. There is no time for Jimmy and his friends to slack off. They're working to be this year's champions at summer camp. Jimmy suits up and prepares to shred in the annual surfing contest.





[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM. Reason : i really hope this is a retaliation episode.]

4/27/2010 4:03:10 PM

I really hope a Special Olympics blog makes vague threatening remarks about blowing up Comedy Central.

4/28/2010 4:10:44 PM

very reminiscent of old looney toons

4/28/2010 10:08:24 PM

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

IT'S LIKE I'M WALKIN ON SUNSHINE

4/28/2010 10:17:42 PM