Attention Issac Hayes: STFU
The soul singer and composer who has been the voice of Chef on South Park has left the series after objecting to an episode which made fun of Scientologists in the latest season.
Matt Stone, who co-created the series, said yesterday: “In over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslims, Mormons or Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show.”
The Times offers a lengthy list of the ridicule religious figures and groups have been subjected to over the years that South Park has been in production.
Years before the recent cartoon protests, South Park depicted Muhammad as a Muslim superhero
In the same episode the Hindu God Krishna turns into a beaver in an attempt to kill Abraham Lincoln
In an episode titled Bloody Mary, a statue of the Virgin Mary squirts menstrual blood on to the face of the Pope
In 1998 an episode denounced by Christians showed Jesus in a boxing match with Satan while a priest shouted: “Jesus, you’re gonna kick ass”
In 1999 Satan was portrayed as Saddam Hussein’s homosexual lover According to South Park, the Japanese people and redheads do not have souls
It’s missing a few of my personal favourites:
The episode which deals wholly and exclusively with ridiculing Mormons, every appearance of The Super Best Friends (Jesus, Buddha, Mohhamed, Moses, James Brown, Vishnah), the episode where the Pope is depicted as a drooling retard only capable of making funny noises by wobbling his lips with his finger and of course the episode which reveals that the Catholic Church is in fact run by a giant 300 foot long spider.
Oh yeah and the bit where Jesus performs the miracle of feeding 5,000 by asking everyone to “turn around” and then loading up cartfuls of fish before telling them they can “turn back now”.
Issac Hayes needs to get a life. I just lost all respect for him. The fact that he didn’t turn to his lawyers is the only thing which makes him less of a joke than the other Scientologists who demand absolute immunity from criticism for their faith.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at March 15, 2006 03:23 PM