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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: LePaul on March 13, 2006, 04:51:26 PM
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Story from Yahoo...
Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park' By ERIN CARLSON, Associated Press Writer
43 minutes ago
Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.
Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.
"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."
"South Park" co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."
Last November, "South Park" targeted the Church of Scientology and its celebrity followers, including actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, in a top-rated episode called "Trapped in the Closet." In the episode, Stan, one of the show's four mischievous fourth graders, is hailed as a reluctant savior by Scientology leaders, while a cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out.
Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin."
*Nice* reply from the creators...well said.
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Doh, that sucks. The show lost a great character/voice. That being said, grow some thicker skin, Chef.
Glad to hear Stone didn't keep quiet though.
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OMG..they killed Chef!
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(http://www.tibac.com/SouthPark/images/Chef.gif)
"hello children"
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Yeah that blows, I hope they kill Chef off and dont try and duplicate the voice.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored
Uh yeah... How about this particularly respectful exchange Chef, did you forget about this one?
Stan : "Why would God let Kenny die, Chef? Why? Kenny's my friend. Why can't God take someone else's friend?"
Chef : "Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?"
Stan : "But then, why does God give us anything to start with?"
Chef : "Well, look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, then you would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power."
Stan : "I thnk I understand."
Give me a break Isaac, as if you never noticed the recurring satirical "Jesus" character. The man has ben appearing for almost a decade in a show that has spoofed every major religion under the sun, and suddenly after an episode in which Scientology finally came under the South Park hammer he's offended by all religious satire? I'm glad that at least Stone and Parker aren't buying that particular crock. It seems Chef "Operating Thetan" is only offended when his science-fiction cult gets the same treatment SP has been dishing out to religions for years.
- SEAGOON
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What would be funny is after he has left South Park, they leave chef in but have him mute
Or make an episode and totally roast chef a new one about making fun of scientology
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I'm very disappointed in you, Chef. :(
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I do a pretty good Isaac Hayes impression.... anybody know where I send my resume'?
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They need to make him turn into a failed singer who goes and gets a job doing voice overs for a cartoon.
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Originally posted by FiLtH
They need to make him turn into a failed singer who goes and gets a job doing voice overs for a cartoon.
LMAO, quick, email Trey...that would be a great episode
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i wonder how they'll kill him off.
boy; is he gonna get it, too.
;)
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He'll be cashing residuals checks until the day he dies.
I was once in a crowd shot of "The Joe Gibbs Show", but I dont get nuthin'.
darn
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Originally posted by FiLtH
They need to make him turn into a failed singer who goes and gets a job doing voice overs for a cartoon.
:aok
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So Comedy Central is plugging tonight as 'The Return of Chef'...sounds like something is up. I wish I was not at work. I wonder if they will just cut together old dialog from past episodes and skewer Isaac Hayes.
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Originally posted by Fury
I wonder if they will just cut together old dialog from past episodes and skewer Isaac Hayes.
Seeing how Isaac Hayes had a stroke, I'd say it's a safe bet.
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Actually, it was more than safe... WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!
Chef joined the Super Aventurers Club and became a child molester in a direct shot at Scientology. He was killed after a lightning bolt struck the bridge he was crossing and fell into a canyon where he was mauled by a mountain lion and a bear and torn limb from limb.
At a touching memorial where Kyle euloguised Chef: "A lot of us don't agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days," one of the children eulogizes him at a funeral. "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 past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile.
"We shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving us," the eulogy concludes. "We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains."
Meanwhile back at the Scientology laboratory, Super Adventure Club mad scientists bring Chef back to life and place him in a special suit. Chef is now Darth Vader, err Chef Vader.
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AHHH you beat me to it RPM. Turned on south park and :rofl as he was getting mauled.
"They say the last thing you do before you die is crap your pants"...
Isaac Hayes=teh pwn
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It really sounds like Hayes is a total jacka**. He can dish it out with no problem but he runs home and cries like a sissy when it hits close to home.
What a total two-faced loser. Frankly the show is better without "his kind" around... "his kind" being the losers who will make fun of everyone else but can't take any heat themselves. I can't see him getting much sympathy.
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Man they really were p/o at him huh? In the end they didnt kill the character, they killed the voice.
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Chef wasnt into the bashing other relegions aspect.His character never participated.That being said,He didnt have a prob with them stoneing the Jews in every episode,or the cath'O licks in more than I can count.Bad form Hayes,bad form.
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I don't like cartoons or shows about or with a lot of kids in em or shows that take place where there is a lot of friggin snow but...
The way Southpark makes fun of every stupid thing that comes down the pike with no holding back... makes it worth watching all those stupid cartoon kids in the snow.
lazs
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Yup. Chef got whacked. Pretty apparent that Trey and Matt were a bit pissed. Laughed my bellybutton off at the 'fruity little club' refrence.. thought the child molester bit was just viscious character assination though... unless Matt and Trey know someything we don't.
...of course the huge fat black pole dancer part had me rolling on the floor...
damn; I sure wouldn't wanna piss off matt and trey.
;)
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Originally posted by DrDea
Chef wasnt into the bashing other relegions aspect.His character never participated.
Wha? Did you not read Seagoon's post?
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'South Park' Creators to Scientology: War Has Just Begun
Friday, March 17, 2006
(AP) NEW YORK — "South Park" has declared war on Scientology. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday — with Internet rumors it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.
"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the "South Park" creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obsructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"
Internet bloggers accused Cruise of threatening to not promote "Mission Impossible 3," a surefire summer blockbuster, if the offending episode ran. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, as is Paramount, which is putting out "MI:3."
But Cruise's representative, Arnold Robinson, told The Associated Press Friday that the mega-star made no such demands.
"Not true," Robinson said. "I can tell you that he never said that."
A call by The Associated Press to a Paramount representative was not returned Friday.
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"fruity little club"
*snicker*
This should be at the least.... interesting.
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You know...I really didn't know much about Scientology, and with all this buzz I decided to find out a little more. OMFG!! If you want to laugh your arse off here is the first paragraph from Wikipedia's article on part of the Scientology mythos:
In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (also Xemu) is a galactic ruler (of the "Galactic Confederacy") who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to cause problems today. These events are known to Scientologists as "Incident II", and the traumatic memories associated with them as The Wall of Fire or the R6 Implant. The story of Xenu is part of a much wider range of Scientology beliefs in extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in Earthly events, collectively described as space opera by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
To continue laughing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Those guys are waaay out there (you think they might sue me? Skuzzy...don't give any Scientologists my contact info, ok)
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Its on again. Sounds like what they did to chef was take sound clips rom him and splice them together to make him sound normal
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You dont know SP if ya think he sounded normal:rofl :rofl
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Originally posted by Meatwad
Its on again. Sounds like what they did to chef was take sound clips rom him and splice them together to make him sound normal
The whole point was to NOT have him sound normal.
(p.s. the bad animation is on purpose as well)