This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them." The New York Timesreports that the statement posted on the organisation's website named South Park creators Trey P arker and Matt Stone and claimed "they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. South Park isn't synonymous with treading carefully when it comes to its no-holds barred style of comedy, but that can't always be said for the networks and platforms that it broadcasts on.īack in 2010 when season 14's '200' aired, Revolution Muslim, a now-defunct New York-based extremist group, released an ominous statement. Some Muslims believe that depictions of Muhammad or any of the other prophets – for example in images, drawings, statures or cartoons – are a violation of Islamic beliefs. The uncensored version of "200" was included in the Complete Fourteenth Season DVD that was released on April 26th, 2011, with Muhammad's name unbleeped.In the Islamic faith, Muhammad was chosen by God to receive his divine revelations and spread the word of the lord. Comedy Central has refused to acknowledge the leak nonetheless. This copy was then leaked to the public and can now be found through various websites. However, in January 2014, a 4chan user noticed that the completely uncensored "201" episode was actually available on the South Park Studios servers, although inaccessible, and was able to be downloaded in high definition using rtmpdump. Additionally, it is not available on the South Park Studios website, due to Comedy Central's refusal to release the episode uncut. It has never been re-run on Comedy Central. The only true power is violence."Īlthough the censored episodes appear on the season 14 home video release, the uncut episode remains unreleased in any official form. All you need to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. Don't you see, gingers, if you don't want to be made fun of anymore, all you need are guns and bombs to get people to stop." If there's anything we've all learned, it's that terrorizing people works." It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. Throughout this whole ordeal, we've all wanted to show things that we weren't allowed to show, but it wasn't because of some magic goo. Kyle: "That's because there is no goo, Mr. The original uncensored speech can be seen/heard here. However, this has been repeatedly denied by Parker and Stone. Many viewers assumed this was a meta-joke on the part of the creators. When the episode was originally aired, the entire speech after "I learned something today" was censored. Trey and Matt also have stated that the big thing they were focusing on was animating Mecha-Streisand - who is exclusively 3D-animated - not Muhammad.
This episode arc also caused the banning of previously-mentioned episode Super Best Friends, due to Muhammad's appearance. In "201", however, any mention of Muhammad was censored along major cursing. In "200", the only censored element was swearing. Muhammad originally appeared uncensored in an even earlier South Park episode, "Super Best Friends", without controversy. Due to network pressure, Muhammad ended up being censored. Ī similar scenario happened in an earlier story arc, "Cartoon Wars", where Muhammad is in the center of controversy due to him advertised as appearing in a "cut-away gag" in the Family Guy animated series. The celebrities want to extract "goo" from Muhammad (The Prophet of Islam) because he is the only celebrity who cannot be made fun of, and thus become untouchable.īecause of the Muhammad-centered storyline, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone received death threats from radical Muslim groups. The two episodes form a story arc about Tom Cruise and many other celebrities teaming up to destroy South Park.