Thursday, July 13, 2006; Posted: 11:39 a.m. EDT (15:39 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "Trapped in the Closet," the controversial "South Park" episode that skewers Scientology and its popular proponent Tom Cruise, is hitting the airwaves again.
Comedy Central plans to air the Emmy-nominated episode on July 19. It was last scheduled to rerun in March but was abruptly pulled by the network.
The network rotates its 150 episodes of "South Park" in and out of the broadcast schedule, spokesman Tony Fox said Wednesday.
"This episode just happens to be rotating back in," he said.
The show's co-creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were told in May that the episode was pulled from the schedule to appease Cruise and his partners in "Mission: Impossible III," according to reports.
"If they hadn't put this episode back on the air, we'd have had serious issues, and we wouldn't be doing anything else with them," Stone said in Wednesday's edition of the trade paper Variety.
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Comedy Central is pussing out lately, glad this episode is coming back on. It's like they start being too edgy they might not get Emmy's for The Daily Show or something. Turds.
If I may have a moment… I remember a Comedy Central that had Mystery Science Theater 3000, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Dr. Katz and an upstart faux news program called The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn. That's the station I miss. Sure, South Park and Jon Stewart have made the station what it is today, breeding shows with Dave Chapelle, Carlos Mencia and fake cops, but at what cost? WHAT COST? In the big shuffle of life has Comedy Central lost that unique spark that made them great in the first place? Have they sold their very souls for gold plated statues, political poo-poo'ers and animated kids with foul mouths? Have they lost their very identity? Will they be banished to the annals of television history and spit upon when their very name is mentioned? No, probably not. They're better now, just saying they sold out. That's all, damn, settle down.
07-13-2006 07:46 PM
