Sensible Erection | Chef quits South Park... can't take a joke.

Monday, 13 March 2006

Chef quits South Park... can't take a joke.

quote [ "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians." ]

This sucks. I like Isaac Hayes. Given his history though I gotta side with Matt and Trey. Instead of treating it the same as everything else the show (and he himself) has made fun of, he's taking it personally. Respect--

[humour] [by wieder@5:29pmGMT] [+10 WTF]

Comments

pmar13 said @ 5:32pm GMT on 13th Mar
Celebrities are funny.

ricky60 said @ 5:33pm GMT on 13th Mar
Fucking scientologists.

Seriously, what next? Will he jump on a couch and start yelling about it?

pmar13 said @ 5:34pm GMT on 13th Mar
Fucking scientologists.

Greatest porno evar!

ricky60 said @ 5:35pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
Tom Cruise fucking Isaac Hayes.

OMG HAWT!

Lawyer for Tom Cruise said @ 5:49pm GMT on 13th Mar
A $100 million defamation suit has been filed against ricky60 for concocting and spreading the completely false story that Mr. Cruise engaged in hawt homosexual acts with fellow Scientologist and "ladies man" Isaac Hayes.

Defence for ricky60 said @ 5:54pm GMT on 13th Mar
Look at this footage of Tom cruise on a chair. He's clearly a psychopath, even though he is fucking Katie Holmes (and Isaac Hayes).

ricky60 said @ 5:54pm GMT on 13th Mar
/me fires defence lawyer

Law Office of Broflovski & Mar said @ 6:10pm GMT on 13th Mar
/suggests hiring a defense lawyer

Fu Man Chu said @ 5:39pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
Didn't they air that episodes months ago?

Isaac Hayes is being a hypocrite regardless.

ENZ said @ 5:43pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Interesting]
I don't know what to be more shocked at, the fact that he quit because of this, or the fact that he actually believes in that crap...

dekebass said @ 5:43pm GMT on 13th Mar
Isaac Hayes can suck my salty white chocolate balls.

Adam said @ 5:45pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Underrated]
"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored,"

Right, I will fight to preserve your right to believe whatever you want, but that doesn't mean that I don't have the right to tell you that your beliefs are silly. If you insist on believing stupid things, don't expect people to suddenly respect your silliness because you label it religion.

PontifexPrimus said @ 3:05am GMT on 14th Mar [Score:1 Informative]
Found that a while ago in a post on Slashdot, and it seems to fit:

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy.
-- H. L. Mencken, "Aftermath" (coverage of the Scopes Trial) The Baltimore Evening Sun, (September 14, 1925),

BW said @ 5:51pm GMT on 13th Mar
So how rich and famous do you have to get before the Scientologists show up and take you away?

It's no excuse, but I'm sure Hayes was getting ENORMOUS pressure from the church. They're rather famous for their, um, powers of persuasion.

Studmuffin said @ 5:58pm GMT on 13th Mar
If you speak out against the church of scientology, you probably don't get a Thetan.

Or something.

RhesusMonkey said @ 6:46pm GMT on 13th Mar
Thetan, is that like a +1 Good? Or more of a jelly doughnut?

VictorTyne said @ 7:15pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
As I understand it, a Thetan is more like a -1 Repost. You have to scramble to get your hands on some porn before you get too many of them and it fucks up your karma.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 6:00pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
Yeah, I have a difficult time thinking straight when a girl is going down on me, too.

scarshapedstar said @ 5:59pm GMT on 13th Mar
Isaac <<<<<<<<< Barry, 'nuff said.

ComposerNate said @ 7:42pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:2]
Referring to religion, Barry White told Reuters in 1999 interview, "I don't like stories, things I can't prove."

Ted213 said @ 6:02pm GMT on 13th Mar
can dish it out but......

nik said @ 6:11pm GMT on 13th Mar
I keep waiting to hear that the Co$ is suing South Park for that episode. I mean it ends with Kyle yelling:

"Go ahead! Sue me! Go ahead! See if I care! Sue me! You can all sue me!"

So, you know, I was kind of hoping the Church would pick up on the subtle challenge.

Hito said @ 6:53pm GMT on 13th Mar
Stan, nik. It was Stan.

nik said @ 8:45pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Interesting]
They both have little round heads. It's all the same shit.

sacrelicious said @ 9:21pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
you're a construction-paper racist!

ragazze said @ 9:23pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
a papist?

Hito said @ 9:43pm GMT on 13th Mar
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!

popejp2 said @ 9:52pm GMT on 13th Mar
i think that is someone who has derogotory, generalized ideas about popes.

not all popes are shiftless crack-addicts.

Hito said @ 9:56pm GMT on 13th Mar

Care to reiterate that statement?

foobar said @ 11:21pm GMT on 13th Mar
Actually, it's a perjorative for Catholic. ie, pope-lover.

mattfish said @ 6:18pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Informative]
extreme hypocrisy

Class1Product said @ 6:35pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:4 Informative]
HELLO SE! I have been through a tornadic strom that took out electricity for 2 days, I somehow survived. my car was pelted with golf ball hail and I woke up the other day to 200mph winds and uprooted tress on top of cars. most of my fridge was lost in the disaster..

wieder said @ 6:36pm GMT on 13th Mar
OH SHEET!

lokialmighty said @ 6:46pm GMT on 13th Mar
i think what we're all wondering is.... is your erection okay?

Class1Product said @ 7:00pm GMT on 13th Mar
kevlar stops bullets does it not?

ENZ said @ 7:04pm GMT on 13th Mar
All it does is change it from piercing damage to blunt-force trauma.

Class1Product said @ 7:12pm GMT on 13th Mar
My erection was protected either way

ENZ said @ 7:15pm GMT on 13th Mar
From being shot off, perhaps, but it's got to be bruised pretty bad. I'd imagine it must feel like being smashed by a ballpen hammer.

Class1Product said @ 7:16pm GMT on 13th Mar
god shut up dude. <3

ENZ said @ 7:33pm GMT on 13th Mar
Fine. Just be sure to use plenty of ice and not do any strenuous activities. :)

Nostrildamus said @ 7:17pm GMT on 13th Mar
/gets turned on

skainsmate said @ 11:05pm GMT on 13th Mar
Best check your saving throws, just to be safe.

pmar13 said @ 9:49pm GMT on 13th Mar
plz speak for yurself ;)

Class1Product said @ 7:05pm GMT on 13th Mar
I woke up to a loud "THOOOM!!" and the tornado sirens going off, thought about getting into the bathtub with a blanket but decided I should put on pants first. don't want to be the only person naked in the street with no house. They canceled classes today because of the damage, check out some pics from damage on campus
http://www.news.ku.edu/2006/march/13/storm_photo_lg.shtml#af

Class1Product said @ 7:07pm GMT on 13th Mar
I have some better ones but they're on normal old fashion film. A couple of cars got trees bending them in two, along with trees completely uprooted and thrown several yards

RowanSJ said @ 1:08am GMT on 14th Mar
I'm glad to see you're okay.

sacrelicious said @ 6:58pm GMT on 13th Mar
hasn't south park taken some shots at scientology prior to that ep? granted, less direct things such as "blainetology", which had more to do with the heavens gate cult than scientology. but when they're drawing a similarity between heavens gate and scientology, seems to me that would have been a fine time for him to get sand in his vagina.

oh wait, here's the difference: that was nothing more than idle ad-hominem, where as the trapped in a closet ep actually went after the ideas, which anyone as calculating and cynical as the church of scientology knows is much more dangerous.

why someone as insecure as a scientologist would have anything to do with matt and trey in the first place is beyond me.

jimmyjimjim said @ 7:53pm GMT on 13th Mar
seems odd considering he sounds relatively ok with it in this Onion AV club interview from a while back- http://www.avclub.com/content/node/44132/2
"AVC: They did just do an episode that made fun of your religion, Scientology. Did that bother you?

IH: Well, I talked to Matt and Trey about that. They didn't let me know until it was done. I said, "Guys, you have it all wrong. We're not like that. I know that's your thing, but get your information correct, because somebody might believe that shit, you know?" But I understand what they're doing. I told them to take a couple of Scientology courses, and understand what we do. [Laughs.]"

wieder said @ 8:17pm GMT on 13th Mar
If I were to speculate, I'd guess that he was trying to play it down (for his own sake too) but after enough time he realized it bugged him enough that he couldn't shrug it off anymore. Either that or there are some really great things coming in new SP that he knows about. ;)

Hito said @ 9:59pm GMT on 13th Mar
That, or they convinced him the Thetan of Xenu himself has inhabited their souls...

felix said @ 11:16pm GMT on 13th Mar
like someone else mentioned above, he's probably been getting a lot of pressure from the church since the show aired, and he finally gave in.

RowanSJ said @ 1:11am GMT on 14th Mar
L Ron came back from the grave and put his foot down on Isaac's balls.

arrowhen said @ 8:07pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:2 Insightful]
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.

Right. And, of course, that time is when you start satirizing stuff *I* like.

nanashi said @ 8:23pm GMT on 13th Mar
Shaft? A civil rights activist?

Bitch, please!

housewares said @ 8:28pm GMT on 13th Mar
Speaking of which

Does anyone have a tape of last night's Cheerleader Nation premiere; I don't have $#@%@!@ cable...

They have a "podcast" but that's not suitable for my crank

strangeffect said @ 8:33pm GMT on 13th Mar
I was wondering how long this was going to take.

structured_spirits said @ 8:39pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:1 Interesting]
I'm sure my karma is going to take a hit for this, but I'm starting to get sick of South Park. I loved it at the beginning when it came on in 97 but I haven't watched it in a while because for the past season or so , the shows right wing subtext is becoming unbearable. I don't blame Haye's for wanting to leave a show which many people really don't find funny anymore and kind of insulting. Maybe this is just a convenient way for him to quit? Other than that I don't think much of Scientology or any other religion for that matter.

wieder said @ 9:03pm GMT on 13th Mar
I can't imagine a reasonable person modding you down for stating a preference.

Too bad there are plenty of unreasonable people out there. :P

popejp2 said @ 9:48pm GMT on 13th Mar
right wing subtext?

structured_spirits said @ 10:07pm GMT on 13th Mar
Yeah its there, South Park is basically a morality play whith the "I've learned something today" format. for example:

In the episode where the Tweaks try to stop the competing coffee chain from moving in by starting anti-big-business propaganda and then he "learns" in the end that the bbig comanies are the biggest because they have the best products and he gets a job at the shop.

The episode where big gay al gets kicked out of scouts and then agrees in the end that they should have the right to kick out homosexuals because it is a private club.

Those are old episodes
More recently:

transgender people being portrayed as monsters with kyle's dad going "transpecies" and kyle going "transracial"

I could go of if I had a decent memory. Point is that that to me at least the show seems unbalanced toward being a little old fashioned on its world views.

Final_Draft said @ 10:49pm GMT on 13th Mar
I think it's only fair that since Comedy Central's Daily Show is left leaning along with the Colbert Report, that they have another hit show to contend with them: a Right-Wing Libertarian show which is South Park.

Personally as a Leftist, I really don't care what context their showing stuff in. I don't even care more when all my Right Wing Libertarian friends can only cite that as their source when they get into an argument with me.

Final_Draft said @ 10:51pm GMT on 13th Mar
I don't even care more

An explanation by Final_Draft:

I originally was going to say "I enjoy the show, I enjoy it more when all my..." however... because I realize that the latest season sucks, I replaced all "enjoy the show" with "don't even care".

I apologize for my mistakes. I hope you will forgive me :'(

felix said @ 11:03pm GMT on 13th Mar
forgive you??? i don't even know you! who is this??!? prank caller! prank caller!

pserafinhk said @ 12:00am GMT on 14th Mar
Thankfully (and I hope I'm not the only one) I do not derive morality from South Park.

justbeamensch said @ 8:48pm GMT on 13th Mar
I don't blame Isaac. South Park is for mouth breathers and people who read with their lips.

sacrelicious said @ 8:55pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:5 Funny]
I read brail off your moms vagina with my lips.

though for some reason all it ever says is "."

and yet she still insists she's on the pill...

phunkeybuddha said @ 9:14pm GMT on 13th Mar
Shit, I busted a nut laughing at that. Too bad I can't give you more than +1 Funny. How about a reach-around?

sacrelicious said @ 9:18pm GMT on 13th Mar
I cannot apologize enough for causing the sudden and unexpected explosion of one of your testicles. I promise I won't do it again!

but if I do, I'll be really super extra sorry about it.

pserafinhk said @ 2:05am GMT on 14th Mar
Wow you opened it right up for some potentially wicked harsh come-backs. Can you reply to one of my comments like that? And don't half ass it! Preferably something scatalogical.

justbeamensch said @ 9:03pm GMT on 13th Mar
do you know who your mom is?

Nostrildamus said @ 9:35pm GMT on 13th Mar [Score:5 Funny]

pserafinhk said @ 2:07am GMT on 14th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
The left hand is often most sensible.

opt said @ 10:18pm GMT on 13th Mar
he's a complicated man

Rapscallion said @ 10:30pm GMT on 13th Mar
South Park is prety much dead anyhow. Season 9 has been a real stinker.

ring riot said @ 11:54pm GMT on 13th Mar
The format is old. That's the problem. It's grown too familiar. The X-Files had a 9th season simply because Chris Carter couldn't...

Oh, my God...

I AM a nerd...

felix said @ 12:09am GMT on 14th Mar

pmar13 said @ 8:47am GMT on 14th Mar
Hey are you gonna share some of that?

paul_austin0816 said @ 12:16am GMT on 14th Mar
I'm thinking Shaft is Cruise's bitch

fiester said @ 10:55am GMT on 14th Mar
So what do they do now with the Chef character? They could kill him off and introduce a new school chef that's a nutty Scientologist.

thezzie said @ 2:24pm GMT on 14th Mar
chef has barely been in south park for the last 3/4 seasons at least. ill miss him but it wont really change anything.... besides, there were 3 voices when south park started (matt, trey, and a girl). the girl did all the voices for all the females in the show. when she died, she was replaced easily enough. it wont be the same but nothing ever is.