the last two episodes of south park have had me quite interested, especially the last one, "Cartoon Wars, part 2." a little back story first, but i'm not going to detail every little thing...go watch the episode for all of that.

anyway, there's a big uproar in south park because the show family guy is going to show Mohammed in one of their episodes. everyone freaks out and is relieved when they find out that fox censored the show at the last minute. an announcement is then made that they have a new episode coming that's going to show Mohammed again, and this time it won't be censored. cartman's pissed because he hates family guy, so he goes to fox studios to try and pull the newest Mohammed episode. his thinking is that once one episode is pulled, more can be pulled and the show will eventually go off the air. kyle wants to stop cartman for 2 reasons: (1) he likes family guy and doesn't want to see it go off the air and (2) he thinks it goes against freedom of speech if it does get pulled. kyle wins out in the end and the episode goes on as planned. south park shows the family guy episode and, right before Mohammed is seen on screen, the screen goes black and a message from comedy central comes up saying they refuse to show Mohammed on their network.

this was where my interest came in...was that message part of the episode or did comedy central censor south park. turns out that it's the latter (yahoo news).

quite shitty of comedy central, especially since that entire episode and its prequel were basically calling out comedy central to do the right thing and stand up for free speech. another thing they seem to have forgotten is that Mohammed was shown on there before, more than once, in the south park episode "super best friends." that episode had various deities, including Mohammed, acting as a sort of religious justice league.

tsk tsk comedy central. my respect for south park grows while my respect for you drops. after pulling the scientology episode from last season and this, you've fallen pretty far away from your previous status. quit bending over for blowhards.

if i could do without, i'd stop watching, but you do have the daily show, colbert report, and south park that i have to watch.