The group’s website claimed violent retaliation "will likely happen" to the show’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and provided the addresses of both Comedy Central's New York office and Stone and Parker’s production office in Los Angeles. Throughout, Muhammad is dressed in a bear suit, an ironic nod to the prohibition on showing images of Islam’s founding father.Īfter episode 200, titled Fudge Packer, was broadcast in the US on April 14, 2010, Comedy Central - which is part-owned by media giant Viacom - was threatened by New York-based radical group Revolution Muslim.
In a bizarre sub-plot in the two-part episode, Cruise also wrangles the prophet Muhammad into his scheme, secretly motivated by a desire to harness the prophet's "goo", which grants immunity to ridicule.
Censorship was at the heart of the South Park season 14 episodes "200" and "201." The story celebrates the landmark of the show's 200th episode by referencing several past storylines - including the South Park Cartoon Wars episode.The episodes in question feature a typically convoluted plotline in which Tom Cruise - the butt, so to speak, of an elaborate gag in season nine about both his sexuality and his membership of the Church of Scientology - rounds up 200 other celebrities who have been targets of the show’s satire in order to launch a class-action defamation suit against the town of South Park. There are five South Park episodes banned in total, but season 14 episodes "200" and "201" are especially infamous because they sparked an enormous outcry from Middle-Eastern terrorism groups over the South Park Muhammad image. The Trey Parker and Matt Stone comedy is well known for its crude and controversial material, and while there are some South Park episodes that have aged badly, "200" and "201" caused such an uproar that they were pulled from circulation on Comedy Central, South Park Studios website, and any streaming platform that airs the show. There are two banned South Park episodes from season 14, "200" and "201", that are so infamous they've gained near urban-legend status (alongside the South Park Cartoon Wars and Super Best Friends episodes).
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