Here you go, Diceman: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1757952
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.)
“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
Yeah, that sounds like Trey and Matt. As subtle as a sledgehammer :rolleyes:
I think you forgot to switch something.
So, I wonder who’s responsible for all this Scientology craziness lately?
Let’s see, let’s see, could it be…THETAN??? 
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.”
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.
Maybe if you squint really hard you can make it fit the topic.
Or maybe not. I reported it to a mod.
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?
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.
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.
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.
E! Online has a story about Hayes’s people denying Friedman’s story. Although Hayes himself doesn’t seem to say anything.
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.