More South Park/Scientology nonsense, featuring TomKat!

JBB · #1 03-17-2006, 01:14 PM

From dlisted,

Tom Cruise forced Comedy Central to cancel an episode of South Park that was due to air Wednesday. The controversial episode was about Scientology and Tom refused to do any publicity for Mission Impossible 3 if the episode aired.

Ya see, Paramount is producing MI3 and Paramount is owned by Viacom which also owns Comedy Central so his bullying worked.

The "South Park" episode, "Trapped in the Closet," pokes fun at Scientology and shows Cruise, John Travolta and R. Kelly (who is not a Scientologist, but has a song called "Trapped in the Closet") literally in a closet.

The episode, which first aired last November, was set to rerun Wednesday night, but was mysteriously pulled at the last minute.

Now, hollywoodinterrupted.com reports Cruise went straight to the top - to execs at Viacom - and warned he'd boycott the promotion for "MI3" unless the "South Park" episode was pulled.

Series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have been told not to discuss the matter - to avoid embarrassing Cruise as they did Isaac Hayes last week when Hayes, also a Scientologist, quit his role as the voice of the Chef character.

A Comedy Central rep blamed the episode being yanked on Isaac Hayes recently quitting.

I can't believe their asses are letting a loon like that bitch run their company. Seriously, they might as well hand their stocks and balls over to him. He basically owns their dumb asses!

Georgia Avenue · #2 03-17-2006, 01:19 PM

This is not funny. It is really really scary. What would happen if a politician blackmailed a TV network into pulling a show that offended him? Media firestorm. Mommy I'm scared...

--GA

DcifrThs · #3 03-17-2006, 01:21 PM

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This is not funny. It is really really scary. What would happen if a politician blackmailed a TV network into pulling a show that offended him? Media firestorm. Mommy I'm scared...

--GA

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its FAR more disturbing that we've lost the voice of chef.

Barron

tomdemaine · #4 03-17-2006, 01:22 PM

so 3-4 companies owning all the media in a country isn't a good idea???? Who'da thunk it?

MoreWineII · #5 03-17-2006, 01:22 PM

thus making copies of this episode an instant cult classic!

ps. $$$$$$ > all

pps. i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall throughout this entire process lol

JBB · #6 03-17-2006, 01:24 PM

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so 3-4 companies owning all the media in a country isn't a good idea???? Who'da thunk it?

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I think the #1 thing to get outraged about isn't the global media structure, but the power Scientology and its members appear to hold over.....well, everything.

MoreWineII · #7 03-17-2006, 01:26 PM

the guy who invented scientology is far smarter than people give him credit for imo.

krazyace5 · #8 03-17-2006, 01:27 PM

If you missed it in the previous thread you can get the episode here.

http://www.xenu.net/

Thanks to whiskeytown for the link

Rudi · #9 03-17-2006, 01:27 PM

Yet another reason, as if they needed more, for Matt and Trey to hate Hollywood.

Scientology doesn't have a hold over anything, it's only TomKat leveraging a movie studio who spent $$$ on rubbish called MI3 with his own star power.

moondogg · #10 03-17-2006, 01:31 PM

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Series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have been told not to discuss the matter - to avoid embarrassing Cruise as they did Isaac Hayes last week when Hayes, also a Scientologist, quit his role as the voice of the Chef character.

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This bothered me the most. I was thinking "I can't wait to see what Parker and Stone say about this."