# Isaac Hayes quits South Park **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245 "2006-03-13T22:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/141 "2006-03-16T23:16:59Z")
I think Chef should be dropped into a volcano in Hawaii and carried off by millions of freshly awoken Thetans. And they should replace him with his parents. (“You know how much those Thetans want to free my boy? T’ree fitty!”) ---
**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 17, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/142 "2006-03-17T00:01:02Z")
Now, keep in mind it’s a gossip site, but apparently, Tom Cruise threatened not to do promo work for MI:3, if Paramount allowed the episode to be aired. So it was pulled. What a jackass. [Tom blackmails Comedy Central](http://hollywoodinterrupted.com/cblog/index.php?/archives/40-HI-EXCLUSIVE!-SCIENTOLOGIST-TOM-CRUISE-BLACKMAILS-VIACOM....html) Fucking clams. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/143 "2006-03-17T00:15:20Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > [It’s not, though.](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=54063&dict=CALD) > > [/usage nazi] It appears that they were plussed. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/144 "2006-03-17T00:46:15Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > That’s on Central, right? I’d never seen that until a few weeks ago when I took a different route to work for some reason, and hey presto, there’s a HUGE SIGN out front announcing what I was looking at. I considered taking a picture, but didn’t want to arouse suspicion. > > And I think the new voice of Chef should be Dakota Fanning. Yep, on Central right before it merges with Lamar. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/145 "2006-03-17T02:43:01Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Now, keep in mind it’s a gossip site, but apparently, Tom Cruise threatened not to do promo work for MI:3, if Paramount allowed the episode to be aired. So it was pulled. What a jackass… Well, I’m calling SHENANIGANS on Tom Cruise, Cruise’s agent, Cruise’s PR person, Cruise’s brain-dead pregnant beard, the studio/marketing/advertising complex, the Hollywood star-making machinery, and every a-hole studio suit at Paramount whose job it is to keep Tom Cruise happy, productive, and profitable. Screw 'em! We’ve got to get _organized_, people, and threaten Paramount, et al with _a boycott of MI:3_ if they don’t release the gag on South Park! No “Trapped in the Closet”? Fine! Then we won’t support MI:\*@#%#@_3_! Pass it around! > [@Guinastasia](#): > > Fucking clams. Preach it! \*In all honesty, I wasn’t interested in MI:3 anyway. But, still. Now I’ll be avoiding it for reasons aside from haphazard, incoherent plotting, a near-total lack of human characterization, OTT action sequences with an overreliance on CGI, etc. ---
**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 17, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/146 "2006-03-17T03:01:03Z")
And it’s not like they couldn’t have gotten Phillip Seymour Hoffman to promote _MI:3_ instead, especially with all the buzz after his Oscar win. Paramount, you are On Notice. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/147 "2006-03-17T03:06:02Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > And it’s not like they couldn’t have gotten Phillip Seymour Hoffman to promote _MI:3_ instead, especially with all the buzz after his Oscar win. > > Paramount, you are On Notice. I here they are conspiring with Bears also. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/148 "2006-03-17T03:14:32Z")
You know, I’ve had a long-standing policy of not letting Tom Cruise’s presence prevent me from checking out movies that are otherwise appealing to me (not that this set includes _MI:3_,) but now… Peter Jackson could cast Tom Cruise as Horselover Fat in an epic adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s _Valis_, and I’d just have to give it a miss. His career needs to end now. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/149 "2006-03-17T09:28:47Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > … Or lose his vocal cords like Ned and talk with one of those vibrating things. Oh, so THAT’s why he sounds like that. I was wondering. I hope they don’t kill him off. But if they do, it could be an enlightening loss-of-innocence experience for the kids. “Now we’ll just have to start making decisions on our own, I guess. We’re in 5th grade now, so we can handle it. I think.” Personally, I’d love to see an episode where the kids spend the entire episode looking for him, and being told “Um, I think maybe he went out of town, or… maybe just to the bathroom. Huh. I’m not sure,” and then they don’t find him, and they say “Tune in next week to find out where Chef is.” But next week, it’s totally ignored. Maybe Isaac will come back, and then they can just have him show up again and pretend nothing happened. I hope they don’t just keep him and put a new actor in. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/150 "2006-03-17T11:53:21Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#): > > No “Trapped in the Closet”? Fine! Then we won’t support MI:\*@#%#@_3_! Pass it around! Isn’t that going overboard? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/151 "2006-03-17T13:35:13Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > > [@The Scrivener](#): > > > > No “Trapped in the Closet”? Fine! Then we won’t support MI:@#%#@3\*! Pass it around! > > Isn’t that going overboard? Yeah, the second “#” was _totally_ unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245/152 "2006-03-17T14:23:41Z")
Maybe that Succubus Chef was going to marry could show up again and . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isaac-hayes-quits-south-park/348245.md?page=7)