There's a Lesson in There Somewhere
No doubt you have heard of the falling out between Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, and the co-creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. If so, please forgive this brief synopsis.It seems that Isaac Hayes quit the popular cartoon when he grew uncomfortable with the irreverant way that the program deals with religions. Some say that his discomfort only arose after his own religion was the subject of ridicule, and that he never said anything when Judaism, Christianity, Muslims, or Mormons were singled out. Mr. Hayes is a devotee of Scientology, you see.
In the past few days, a press release indicated that the original press release with Mr. Hayes separating himself from the "offensive" show was not from him. This second press release claimed that he couldn't have made these statements as he has been in hospital.
What a tangled tale. Some have suggested that perhaps it was the powers that be at Hubbards Scientology Center may have issued the press release for Mr. Hayes, without his knowledge.
Whatever the truth, you have to be very careful when you piss off people who make public ridicule their chief occupation.
Chef, it turns out, is a pedophile when he returns from the Super Adventure Club's brainwashing. The children are able to remind him of his love of women by taking him to a strip club, but in the end, he is brainwashed again. And, in the grand South Park tradition of overkill, Chef then falls off a bridge, is "burned, stabbed, and mauled by a lion and a grizzly bear."
See what I mean? There's a lesson in there, somewhere. A quiet notice that you were leaving for personal reasons might have been a better tactic. Now you'll be remembered as a brainwashed crazy pedophile. So sad.
And more than a little funny.
