# Chef didn't quit South Park?!? WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250 "2006-03-21T04:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/61 "2006-03-23T17:18:45Z")
Here you go, **Diceman** : [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952) ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/62 "2006-03-23T17:19:55Z")
No clue. I have the PC version of the game and only a regular XBox. (Going for a PS3 this time around in the console wars.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/63 "2006-03-23T17:32:50Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > Here you go, **Diceman** : [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952) “It’s not clear he’s really dead”? Uh, guys, it’s pretty clear he’s **not** dead. **Askia** , I see what you’re saying, but I think Trey and Matt wanted to remind everyone that _South Park_ really is all about the dorky puerile juvenile offensive humor. If they’d ended at the funeral, it would ahve been too sweet, mature, and nuanced for them. They wante dto hold true to their vision. I’m not sure I can fault them for that. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/64 "2006-03-23T17:40:47Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > Here you go, **Diceman** : [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952) Yeah, that sounds like Trey and Matt. As subtle as a sledgehammer :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/65 "2006-03-23T17:51:15Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > No clue. I have the PC version of the game and only a regular XBox. (Going for a PS3 this time around in the console wars.) I think you forgot to switch something. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/66 "2006-03-23T17:57:17Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Brooke Shields, talkin’ as low as she can manage: > > "What kind of mush-minded idiot told you little crackers that a daily dose of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin C is going to help you with a chronic mental illness? Butters, you need to get your messed-up little ass down to the clinic and see what Dr. Doctor can do for you."That’s a bit confused. The OT levels are above the non-OT members, but “Operating Thetan” is far from “Highest Ranking.” Scientologists go through auditing and training until they are declared “Clear” – the first goalpost. After they reach that goal, they are eligible to be invited to do the OT levels. After you complete OT I, you’re an “Operating Thetan.” There are still at least seven OT levels after that, and before you can do OT VIII you have to go through a set of courses called NOTS. “New Era Operating Thetan.” OT VIII is the highest level that has leaked to the public with any degree of reliability, because by then the investment is well into millions of dollars, and apparantly no-one has gotten there without being a life-time True Believer. So, I wonder who’s responsible for all this Scientology craziness lately? Let’s see, let’s see, could it be… **THETAN???** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/67 "2006-03-23T18:44:32Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Oh. My. God. They killed Chef. Bastards. > > I gotta say, that’s a horrible way to dispose of a character whose voice actor departed the show! I thought it was fucked up right up until Che’f death, but then redeemed itself during the funeral scene. I thought, “Okay, that was harsh, but I can see that.” It was the scene AFTER that, the final jab at Isaac Hayes and the Super Adventure Club, that I hated because it detracted from the scene immediately before it. > > Season Ten, at long last, South Park may have Jumped The Shark. But see, I don’t believe it was really intended as a jab at Hayes so much as Scientology. Remember? “Let’s not blame Chef-let’s blame the fruity little club that brainwashed him.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/68 "2006-03-23T19:00:28Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Oh. My. God. They killed Chef. Bastards. > > I gotta say, that’s a horrible way to dispose of a character whose voice actor departed the show! I thought it was fucked up right up until Che’f death, but then redeemed itself during the funeral scene. I thought, “Okay, that was harsh, but I can see that.” It was the scene AFTER that, the final jab at Isaac Hayes and the Super Adventure Club, that I hated because it detracted from the scene immediately before it. It’s the frog and the scorpion story, really. Every time they said something nice about Chef it was undermined like that. They’re not going to make a Very Special South Park, you know? And you had to know they weren’t going to end on that funeral speech. It just wouldn’t have been South Park. That’s part of why I’m not into South Park, but you can’t expect them to do things differently than the way they’ve done them for 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/69 "2006-03-23T19:03:00Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I think you forgot to switch something. Maybe if you squint _really_ hard you can make it fit the topic. Or maybe not. I reported it to a mod. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/70 "2006-03-23T19:07:55Z")
One thing I still don’t get is if “Super Adventure Club” is some sort of reference I’m not getting. I understand that it’s meant as a dig on Scientology, but is “SAC” supposed to stand for something? Or what? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/71 "2006-03-24T06:10:35Z")
On NPR’s Talk of the Nation today, they talked about this ep and said that Cruise is denying he had anything to do with CC bumping the ep mocking him. Of course, it could have been his agent/handlers who put the threat in (if one was made) and Cruise could truthfully claim that he had nothing to do with it. Or, he could just be a liar and a whackjob. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/72 "2006-03-24T16:50:49Z")
Knowing most of the background behind the story, it was really interesting to see how they addressed the issue and I can see it being somewhat of a landmark episode. But, aside from the “Dude, it’s waay more retarded” quip which was hilarious, we really didn’t find the show to be very humorous. Maybe it was the child molestation theme, Chef’s rather violent death, or maybe it was, as mentioned, the general sense that you really don’t want to piss these guys off but whatever it was it left me half heartedly apologizing to my wife for encouraging her to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/73 "2006-03-25T06:07:51Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > One thing I still don’t get is if “Super Adventure Club” is some sort of reference I’m not getting. I understand that it’s meant as a dig on Scientology, but is “SAC” supposed to stand for something? Or what? Well, it’s pretty close to a reversal of Co$ (Church of $cientology), then you have the fact that it sounds like “sack” and Chef did refer to ball sack several times in the episode, and finally, knowing Matt and Trey, they probably wanted a “fruity” name for the club. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/74 "2006-03-25T06:50:07Z")
[E! Online has a story about Hayes’s people denying Friedman’s story.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060325/en_celeb_eo/18647) Although Hayes himself doesn’t seem to say anything. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250/75 "2006-03-25T14:39:52Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Well, it’s pretty close to a reversal of Co$ (Church of $cientology), then you have the fact that it sounds like “sack” and Chef did refer to ball sack several times in the episode, and finally, knowing Matt and Trey, they probably wanted a “fruity” name for the club. If you have the guts to go through the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition in L.A. as I have, you’ll be regaled with tales of Hubbard’s mountain climbing, exploring, and various other expeditions- even before he discovered Dianetics. It was enormously entertaining on one level, still ominously Orwellian on another. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chef-didnt-quit-south-park-wtf/349250.md?page=3)