It appears the Scientologists don't have a sense of humor.
An episode of South Park, poking fun at Scientology, was scheduled to be rerun earlier this week. We missed it the first time around so Xan set the ol' DVR up to record it. A few minutes into watching it Thursday night, we realized that we had seen this episode before and it was not the scheduled episode. Xan immediately said, "They pulled it!"
At first, I didn't think that was the case. After all, South Park has made fun of virtually EVERY OTHER mainstream religion I can think of--Jews, Christians, Mormons, Catholics, even Muslims--and, while there may have been some general sniveling about the show being offensive, none of them have ever been pulled before.
And then I saw the headlines. Apparently the Scientologists have a lot more power than I anticipated.
In fact, I must have been sleeping during the week because I never heard that Isaac Hayes actually quit the show earlier this week, claiming 'bigotry and intolerance'. So I guess its only fair to make fun of religion when its practiced by others?
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. I fully expect Trey Parker and Matt Stone to come up with something far more clever (and highly insensitive) to fire back with.
Hell, I'd pay to see it.
Posted by geekchik at March 17, 2006 06:27 PM