The animation when Kyle and Cartmann were traveling across the desert seemed a lot different than anything the SP crew has down before. Did anyone else think that it looked more like CGI than what we’re used to seeing?
I really though it was one of the best ever. The “Family Guy” digs pretty accurate and pretty funny, but I don’t think “Family Guy” was the real target (except to stir up shit between the two shows for fun). There seemed to be a lot of oblique references not just the Scientology episode, but to the now-pulled episode that outraged Catholics, and it seemed more to be a critique on the politics of outrage and the consequences of living in a society that values free expression.
I’ll bet next week’s episode somehow uses Mohammed’s already-made appearance on South Park, as a “Super Best Friend.”
I di like the self-referential bit where Cartman asks Kyle “How would you like it if there was a show that made fun of Jews every week?” and Kyle just glares at him.
Sean Factotum, I was thinking the same thing during Kyle’s nuclear nightmare.
I really liked the episode. I loved the ‘defend Free Speech vs. bury our heads in sand’ debate. That was dead on. I got a kick out of the Big Wheel chase and the explosion at the end. It’s been done to death, but it was still perfect parody. But my favorite part had to be Cartman’s explanation of his ultimate evil plan was to get ‘Family Guy’ cancelled by having one episode pulled. He correctly predicted that if getting one episode pulled because it offended Muslims, that every other special interest would feel they were entitled to the same right to get anything that offended them taken off the air.
For anyone who doesn’t yet know, South Park and Battlestar Galactica have been Peabody’d.
So was I, and I think it was deliberate.
It was pretty clearly a Terminator 2 reference, and by extension yet another dig at Family Guy by being a pop culture reference that was actually relevant to the plot.
I liked it (especially the big wheel chase), but they need to sprinkle in some episodes that are mindlessly funny and not relevant.
Can’t do it. Jesus is dead after going to rescue Santa in Iraq.
Besides that (1) Mohommed is one of Jesus’s super best-friends, and (2) according to canon, Mohommed would not want to distract anyone from God by sharing his opinions about anything. If he doesn’t even want anyone misdirecting their attentions by painting him, what makes you think he wants people to listen to him after his one-time trick of channeling God’s word and then disappearing into heaven?
“Stale”? There’s still riots going on.
If you were an exec at CC, would you take the risk of airing that?!
craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab peeeeople, craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab peeeeeople, (etc.)
Hey, has that ever stopped him before? 
Watched this while working out last night (must have been a quick re-run). I wished I wasn’t working out at the time, because this was one of the best S.P. episodes I’ve seen in a while, and it would have been nice to relax on the couch and belly-laugh.
I cannot stand Family Guy, so the combined mockery of both the Danish Cartoon crisis and that gawdawful show was too perfect. I loved the cut-ins with that Imam who kept offering rather incisive critiques of F.G.'s annoying weaknesses, followed immediately by threats of jihadist reprisals.
Stone and Parker must live in an underground bunker by now, Og love 'em.
As a topic for satire? Yeah, that horse has been beaten into a coma at this point. If the episode had said anything new about the issue, it would be different. But they didn’t say anything you couldn’t have heard on The Daily Show or read on this board two months ago.
you all are focusing on the **Out Of The Closet ** episode being pulled from reruns by pressure from the CoS; But don’t forget **Bloody Mary ** was pulled by The Church and didn’t even get a Thursday repeat. So yeah, special interest groups are picking away at South Park. But if, heaven forfend, the JAL had Kyle Sees The Passion pulled, the Jewish community would be attacked as not having a sense of humor.
damn gerbils - I meant to add
But Stephen Colbert was not! 
I wouldn’t equate The Catholic League with the Church proper; that’s a tiny bit like using “protestants” and “Fred Phelps” interchangeably. (Though for some reason people pay more attention to Bill Donohue’s press releases.)
Yeah, I didn’t feel the hate either. When South Park singles out a target, it rarely pulls punches. Maybe next week they’ll bring out the big guns. Or not.
Unless they’ve stated otherwise, I wouldn’t be surprised if Matt and Trey enjoy Family Guy, or at least grudgingly respect the creators. The two shows have overlapping styles of humor (and viewership, one would assume), and Family Guy would probably be a lot more like South Park if it didn’t have to conform to the restrictions of network TV.
Over here, they say…
What’s the meanest thing ever said to you before, during or after a gig?
Stone: When people say to me, “God, you guys have one of the best shows on television. You and Family Guy.” That fucking hurts so bad.
Parker: Very well said. It’s such a kick in the balls.