Bingo and bingo. Thanks!
Btw, in the Asspen episode the blond jerk kept calling Stan “Stan Dearth.” Was this, like Dearth Chef in The Return of Chef, a reference to Vader? I must admit it didn’t make much sense to me. TIA.
I thought it was Stan “Darsh”, which the blond jerk seemed to think was an insult.
According to comedycentral.com, the ep will be rebroadcast Friday 11/10c.
And, BTW, how could Scientology and its freakazoid minions ever hope to go to war with Messrs. Parker and Stone? Remember, these are the guys who took on 1 billion Catholics and survived!
Screw Scientology and screw Isaac Hayes! Long live South Park!!
come to think of it, they should have just used the old “Neck-brace-well-lit-pie” trick 
you are correct.
It just means I have a sick mind, but nowhere near the level of brilliance of Parker and Stone.
I haven’t watched the show as regularly as I should. Were the scenes of Chef leaving South Park at the beginning from an actual episode?
No, that was part of the Genius. Several shows in the 70’s and 80’s would have story arc cliffhanger like this to end a season. It allowed the Producers to play hardball with actors and hopefully generate extra interest from the viewers.
Jim
They did something similar on Family guy at the beginning of the “Brian goes to Hollywood” episode, except there they used a bunch of action movie cliches that weren’t at all related to each other. Only one scene there was from a previous episode.
Wow.
I can’t believe I just watched that. Unbelievable.
I can’t believe what they can get away with today on basic cable.
Apparently some South Park fans are already trying to organize a boycott of MI:3 until the original Scientology episode comes back on.
Heck, South Park did this with “Cartman’s Mom Is a Dirty Slut”.
No, they faked it. “Previously on South Park” never happened, Dude.
Who is Eric Cartman’s father? Is it:
Officer Barbrady?
Chef?
Mr. Marsh?
Chief Running Water?
The 1987 Denver Broncos?
“Super Adventure Club” is a little more direct than you might think. The CoS has a carefully cultivated image of LRH as an adventurer and explorer. (Link goes to Google cache of Scientology site, so as not to attract the Eye of L. Ron.)
My favourite part? “I’m gonna make love to your asshole, children.” Made me bust right up, the timing was perfect.
That and “I think he might be alright…” “Aw, never mind.”
I flashed back to McLean Stevenson leaving MAS*H and expected Chef’s plane to crash on takeoff.
That would have been too easy, and not nearly as much fun.
(NPR’s talking about the episode, and about Snakes on a Plane today. I feel so, oh, I don’t know, connected.)
It put me in mind of the Sea Org, a select group of Scientologists who spend all their time traveling the ocean. Although it may have been a coincidence.
thems sea org people are odd. an almost full-fledged navy at th ebeck and call of the scientologists.
they’re just so damned clandestine and creepy about everything they do…then when it comes out, it blows your mind that someone is actually going along with it.
Exactly. I thought it was very clear that they were angry with the CoS and not (necessarily) Isaac Hayes himself, though perhaps they fault him a bit for falling for the, uh, Super Adventure Club’s bullshit.
However, I wouldn’t expect much chance of him making amends and coming back; anyone notice the burning bridge? Yeah, Mr. Hayes had better find work elsewhere.
The Darth Chef angle adds a slight hope for “redemption” someday in the future - but only after he casts his SAC overlords into the abyss and is moments from death:
“Children…help me take…this mask off.”
“No way, dude. You’ll die.”
“Nothing…can stop that now…”
:smack: Missed that.