Update: Here's a clip from a December 2005 interview with Isaac Hayes on the Opie and Anthony Show. [MP3, 512 KB, 0'32"]
Caller: You're a Scientologist, right?
Isaac Hayes: Yeah.
Caller: What did you think of it all when Matt and Trey did that episode on South Park about Scientology? With Cruise in the closet.
Isaac Hayes: One thing about Matt and Trey: They lampoon everybody. And if you take that shit serious, then I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for two dollars. That's what they do.
Draw your own conspiracy theory conclusions! :D
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Another development on the Closetgate story from a couple of posts ago:
One of the great things about South Park's low budget animation style is that they can write and rewrite episodes less than a week before the air date. The season premier just aired, and it was a farewell episode to Chef. Apparently, you can grab the episode from this website, though of course you shouldn't because that'd be illegal...
*Spoiler Warning!*
It was all about how Chef left South Park to join "The Super Adventure Club" and returned.... changed. Since Isaac Hayes was gone, they reused old clips of his voice and mixed them together to make him say terrible things about how he wanted to make sweet love to the children. :P But you see, he's saying these terrible things because the "club" he joined brainwashed him!
[Update: Whoa, I totally missed the significance of the fact that the children took Chef to a psychiatrist, who cures him, only to have the Super Adventure Club kidnap Chef again.]
The Scientology episode that started all this depicted the wacky story of Xenu, volcanos, H-bombs, and body thetans in cartoon form all while display a large "THIS IS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS REALLY BELIEVE" banner. Apparently because of the Scientology episode getting pulled, they recreated part of that story with all the names changed, and a banner that said, "THIS IS WHAT THE SUPER ADVENTURE CLUB REALLY BELIEVES". :P All while depicting this "Super Adventure Club" as a bunch of pedophiles, of course.
So in South Park's own twisted yet touching way, the kids valiantly try to save Chef from the club. "We love you," they say. But Chef turns his back on them, and then he accidentally falls off a bridge and gets gruesomely ripped apart by wild animals. It wouldn't be South Park if it weren't offensively tasteless now and then. :P But I actually got a little emotional when the children were pleading with Chef to come back to them. There's a grand funeral with all the South Park characters, and Kyle presents the eulogy:
We're all here today because Chef has been such an important part of our lives. A lot of us don't agree with the choices Chef has made in the past few days. Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. But we can't let the events of the last week take away the memories of how much Chef made us smile. I'm gonna remember Chef as the jolly old guy who always broke into song. I'm gonna remember Chef as the guy who gave us advice to live by. So you see? We shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving us. We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains!
And in the end, I know that somewhere out there, there's a good part of Chef that's still alive in us all.
Brilliant. And sad. You can tell that Parker and Stone stick to their satirical guns, but they really are sad about what happened.
Comments (1)
because of my dislike for the church of xenu thetan worship, i really like this episode, one of my instant favorites.
yeah i liked how they lampoon the lead guy's brain scrambler device
and even talk about how they lock him in a cell and read him literature depriving him of sleep and food.
Posted by badxmaru | March 28, 2006
Posted on March 28, 2006