Complaining to Comedy Central

[Quiet Stranger]

they showed muhammad in the super friends episode a while back. i can't believe anyone would threaten violence over a cartoon! grow up terrorists, it's satire for chrissakes.

They're all a bunch of fucking idiots

 

[Enigmers]

I don't recall South Park ever giving a shit about offending anybody. Hell, if they're not offending somebody in every episode, I want my money back.

It's like that Saxton Hale comic. "An ape will die on every page!"

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Censoring is exactly what the terrorist want you to do, and that is exactly what you what you did. But you have to realize that an episode of a tv show is not something someone once to killed for. You don't want to start your car and then it going WTFBOOM on you. So you have to understand the position there in.

We can say these things because of our anonymity, but if you were at Comedy Central you would be pissing yourself right now.

 

[GL2814E]

Yea American here, They bleeped Muhammad when they said it and they censored him with a big black bar. I don't know about anyone else but South Park has been getting a little stale over the last few seasons.

See I've enjoyed it more for the last few seasons more than any of the others. Different tastes I assume.

 

[CK76]

"In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it."

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It really is sad how much we have to curb freedoms some of us, myself included, hold sacred due to others demands of not being offended.

 

[ejb626]

I haven't even seen that episode. I usually watch them on Thursdays off of southparkstudios, I was pretty disappointed when I sat down in front of my computer ready for another episode and just got a long message about how heavily censored it was and how it couldn't be streamed. But sounds like it was pretty badly censored, its funny, like the OP said, how they made fun of this exact thing in the Cartoon Wars episodes.

 

[Canid117]

Based on the fact that Tom Cruise became censored near the end of the episode at the climax of his evil plans fruition and the fact that Mohammad has been visible in the intro songs movie for the past three years. I think the censorship was all part of the joke. Am I wrong or did it just fly over a bunch of people's heads?

 

[asinann]

they showed muhammad in the super friends episode a while back. i can't believe anyone would threaten violence over a cartoon! grow up terrorists, it's satire for chrissakes.

Extremists don't have a sense of humor.

 

[Spiner909]

Well, in America, they bleeped out the name of Muhammaed. Which is probably the damn stupidest thing they've ever had to do.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Yea American here, They bleeped Muhammad when they said it and they censored him with a big black bar. I don't know about anyone else but South Park has been getting a little stale over the last few seasons.

I think you and quite a few others missed the joke here. The big black censor bar was mocking that fact that Muhammad can't be made fun of, which is what the whole episode was about.

 

[FlashHero]

What happened to my free speech and that of my fellow countrymen ...since when did we ever cave in to terrorism....caving in only promotes it dammit

 

[firedfns13]

Hey Guess what!?!
We already bend over trying to protect ourselves from terrorism, so now we're just letting them straight up dictate what we can and can not say and do?

FFFFFFF THHHATTT

 

[Eggsnham]

Heh. That's ironic.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

When I watched the episode, I kinda hoped they would drop the beeping and reveal Muhammad to be some twat at the end of the show, but I was severely disappointed. Caving into the demands of some pathetic cavedwelling, ego-maniacal retards with socio-political views from the 11th century is nothing short of cowardly.

But on the other hand, I had to remember that only truly offensive content gets censored, so in a way the South Park guys still won; Muhammad and those extremists are simply too offensive/disgusting for TV. Hell, they might have called him any of Carlin's famous 7 words instead of his real name, and nobody would have been any wiser...

 

[AMMO Kid]

The terrorists are just jealous cause we have THE BEST HEALTHCARE BILL EVAAAAAAA oh wait

 

[Maxman3002]

While I hate the fact that Comedy Central censored the show, I also have to point out that it's easy for us to complain about it cause we have the awesome safety blanket known as internet anonymity. The employees for Comedy Central and South Park studios don't have that luxury. Personally, I wouldn't risk my life for a satirical TV show.

If you truly want to stand up for anti-censorship, then draw and post an insulting picture of Mohammad on a popular website along with your picture, name, and address. If anyone does that, I will give them kudos, and acknowledge their huge balls. If you can't do that, they we're all just as big as cowards as Comedy Central.

And I would like to repeat my earlier sentiment, that I absolutely HATE that they did censor the episode, and wish Muslim extremists would just f*** off.
*sigh* They are the reason why we can't have nice things...

Yea I know what you mean and I did think that when I wrote the complaint, but it was also the way they handled it. They did a blanket censoring and then totally removed the episode from existance. Couldnt they have continued with the censoring they did in the 1st episode and maybe put a disclaimer at the beginning? 'this episode will offend those of a muslim origin, if you are muslim please dont watch this.' 'this episode supports the veiws or the creators and not comedy central'

Matt and Trey claimed the origional episode had no censoring at all

I filed my complaint... it was a tad wordy but I got it as direct and to the point as I could. It was still about 7 paragraphs long...

Mine too, I did my best to be understanding in it rather than some disgruntled mad man, I know its a awkward situation they were put in, Im just upset by the way it way handled

Based on the fact that Tom Cruise became censored near the end of the episode at the climax of his evil plans fruition and the fact that Mohammad has been visible in the intro songs movie for the past three years. I think the censorship was all part of the joke. Am i worng or did it just fly over a bunch of people's heads?

I think this anwers that. The idea was a joke about speaking about people and how no-one was safe from being taken the mick out of, but even that was censored in the end speech making the episode seem hypocritical

"In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it."

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It really is sad how much we have to curb freedoms some of us, myself included, hold sacred due to others demands of not being offended.

 

[AtticusSP]

Canadian here, they played the cat pee/Heavy Metal episode again instead of the second part of 200/201.
To anyone who thinks the censorship was part of the joke, it wasn't. Or they'd have still aired it here. And the guys who created the show put it on their site that they didn't do that, and Comedy Central did it without permission. They wanted to have the uncensored episode air anyway.

 

[Babitz]

they showed muhammad in the super friends episode a while back. i can't believe anyone would threaten violence over a cartoon! grow up terrorists, it's satire for chrissakes.

Extremists don't have a sense of humor.

Or common sense.

I watch South Park every week on their website, but this time I had to torrent this episode, since I don't have Comedy Central in my country.

I was like "What the fuck, where'd the freedom of speech go?". It was actually one of the better episodes in the last few seasons.

 

[AndyVale]

I completely disagree with censoring it like that. That's giving into fear and letting them win, however it's not my life, family and home that could be at stake.

 

[SextusMaximus]

They went too far, but not on a level of terrorism, but by ridiculing other religions to get laughs.

Lets not think of the Terrorist side of it for a second, because there are OBVIOUSLY muslims who aren't terrorists and it can be their lives work to help people realise this, because of obtuse fools who believe that all muslims are terrorists. Think if they watched the programme and realised that their religion and everything they believed in is being ridiculed by a huge programme in world-wide television.

You know the phrase "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me". I call bollocks.