Paramount Home Entertainment has issued a statement confirming it is 'releasing the entire South Park Season 14 as it aired in Australia'.Īdding to the intrigue is the fact that this is not the first time an episode of South Park featuring Tom Cruise has seemingly met with interference. 'We felt that episode was likely to be extremely offensive to a large proportion of our audience,' a spokeswoman for the network said. The station did screen Muhammad's two previous appearances, in season five and in season 10, but it did not screen an episode called Bloody Mary in 2006. What is not clear, however, is whether SBS would have broadcast them had they been available. SBS did not broadcast them in Australia because they were not part of the season 14 package it bought, and the episodes have not been included on the DVD box set because they were never made available in the Australian market. Viacom's international unit also decided to withhold the two episodes from sale to all foreign territories.

'However, the safety of our employees is our unquestioned number one priority, and therefore we have decided to take these precautionary measures.'

'When unique and deeply insightful creative talents like those behind South Park are able to express themselves freely, we all benefit,' Viacom said. In response, Comedy Central censored episode 201, which aired on April 21, and decided 'with great reluctance' not to air either episode on Viacom-affiliated channels thereafter. The group’s website claimed violent retaliation 'will likely happen' to the show’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and provided the addresses of both Comedy Central's New York office and Stone and Parker’s production office in Los Angeles. Throughout, Muhammad is dressed in a bear suit, an ironic nod to the prohibition on showing images of Islam’s founding father.Īfter episode 200, titled Fudge Packer, was broadcast in the US on April 14, 2010, Comedy Central - which is part-owned by media giant Viacom - was threatened by New York-based radical group Revolution Muslim. In a bizarre sub-plot in the two-part episode, Cruise also wrangles the prophet Muhammad into his scheme, secretly motivated by a desire to harness the prophet's 'goo', which grants immunity to ridicule. The episodes in question feature a typically convoluted plotline in which Tom Cruise - the butt, so to speak, of an elaborate gag in season nine about both his sexuality and his membership of the Church of Scientology - rounds up 200 other celebrities who have been targets of the show’s satire in order to launch a class-action defamation suit against the town of South Park.

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