I don't know if any of you are fans of the show, but I am pretty fanatical!
The past two episodes have featured some of the plots, celebrities, and jeers in seasons past. These episodes were 200 and 201 for the show. A major premise of the show surrounded the depiction of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, which is no new topic for the show. On this occasion, even the words Muhammad and Prophet were censored, along with the image himself.
How do you feel about the censorship? Do you think it was forced upon the South Park creators? What is a move made by the creators to poke fun at the situation?
http://tv.yahoo.com/south-park/show/492/news/tv-news.en.reuters.com/tv-news.en.reuters.com-20100422-us_southpark_muslims
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I do not think the censorship was forced by the South Park creators. I do recognize your observation as well, they usually never seem to censor much of their episodes. On the other hand, I believe this was their way of poking fun of Today's society in maybe a more subtle way.
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Just another article about the topic
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1763
Stone and Parker later made this statement, "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."
So...apparently, they DIDN'T have a choice. They were gonna take the risk anyway, but no, Comedy Central knew they had to be play it safe for their own sake.
I used to watch south park. I did hear about this episode though and I find it interesting that they managed not to censor the episodes that poke fun at Jesus and God but they were pretty quick to censor Muhammad I guess not to offend the Muslim viewers. I don't see why that censor ship was necessary.
It seems that anything that deals with religion in an offensive way will get censored. I understand that comedy central does not want to offend religious groups, but that seems a bit extreme. But then again South Park can be a little too extreme, and that seems to be the reason viewers like it. It ended up kind of making it funny though.
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