South Park's 200th episode aired last week to high expectations. The creators of the show had assured everyone that they would be packing every single person they have ever made fun of into a single 22 minute episode and be done with it. This turned out to not be the case. We were left with several cliff-hangers by the end of the episode, leaving loose ends to be tied up in a future episode.
The celebrities were all there, Tom Cruise leading the others. South Park tends to stir up some controversy every now and then, but this time it was Tom Cruise at the heart of the problem. After years of putting up with bullshit from the town of South Park, Tom has decided to lead all the shows victims to sue the town for everything it's worth. But where is the controversy in that? I'll tell you where it is. Tom Cruise has other plans up his sleeve. As it turn out, Tom Cruise wants to use the pressure on South Park as a means for him to get a chance to see in person someone he has always wanted to meet: the prophet Muhammad.
Muhammad seems like an obvious character to include in such an episode of South Park. He had been depicted previously in the show, uncensored, in episode 504: "Super Best Friends." Here he played alongside other religious figures as superheroes, whose job was to take down the evil David Blaine and his religion, Blaintology. From that season on, Muhammad could be seen in the show's opening sequence at the beginning of every episode, even the episode in which Comedy Central censored to prevent any type of retaliation from crazy Islamic groups. This episode was in response to both the Jyllands-Posten contoversy, after having printed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, and comparisons the show had received to Family Guy. In the show, the Family Guy writers have decided to show Muhammad for shock value. Comedy central censored the image in the second part of the episode, and everything was fine. In response to Comedy Central's decision to censor the image, the creators ended the show with Jesus Christ and George W. Bush defecating on the United States flag. While the meaning of this seems obvious to me, I sometimes hear others talk about how random and senseless the ending is. So, to quickly point out the obvious...
In America, we have a freedom of religion. Despite this, many of our citizens believe us to be a Christian nation, and to a great extent, we are. The Muslim world has proven several times to be against America, and has also shown that its ways are almost entirely incompatible with the freedom available in the United States. Matt Stone and Trey Parker show us, despite all of the things we worship as Americans, Comedy Central is more willing to bend to the demands of our enemies than it is to care about attacks on the United States.
So, for the 200th episode of South Park, Matt and Trey brought back the subject of free speech for us, versus the ability to prevent free speech on the part of religious extremists. The first image we get of Muhammad is a stick-figure drawing, to which one of the characters asks, "Is that okay to show?" It seems to me that this would be offensive enough to Muslims, but South Park wasn't done. The boys end up tracking down Muhammad, who is again censored from the show, but the characters come up with a great idea: putting him in a bear suit so he could be shown without being shown. This is where they made a mistake. It wasn't long until the Muslim nutcase website, Revolution Muslim (it has been down a lot lately, but if you really want to go there, Google has a cached copy), threatened (nearly guaranteed) death to the creators of South Park. Anderson Cooper did a great piece on it last night:
Bill O'Reilly also did a little something on the subject:
So, what happens now? There is a follow-up episode due to air tonight at 10 pm. One of three things will happen on the new episode.
- Matt and Trey are going to reveal that the person is the bear outfit isn't really the prophet Muhammad, and the Muslim radicals are still going to look like assholes like they always have.
- Matt and Trey are really going to try to go all out to drive the point home.
- Matt and Trey are going to try to take the situation further, and Comedy Central is going to puss out once again and censor the show to prevent anymore madness.
The show will air in just a few hours, and we are going to find out whether the terrorists win or not. After that, I might end up blogging about the outcome. And I will probably go on a rant on the Muslim overlords ruling this country. We'll see.
You can watch all of these episodes for free at http://www.southparkstudios.com/
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