This is What DiMattiaFilms Actually Believes

Even after ten years of gross-out humor and biting satire, South Park's still got it. Recently, two of their episodes have come under fire from two different religious organizations (or, in my opinion, one religious organization and one crock of sh*t): the Catholic church for the episode "Bloody Mary" and Scientologists for "Trapped in the Closet." Both episodes have been banned indefinitely, though it's pretty easy to pick up either of them on BitTorrent (don't tell the FCC).

But creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have not backed down. In fact, they upped the ante when they debuted their tenth season premiere episode "The Return of Chef!" even though Issac Hayes, who provides Chef's voice, left the show, citing its religious intolerance (probably because of the fact that he's a Scientologist). So, instead of giving someone else the task of doing Chef's voice, Parker and Stone simply re-cut Hayes' voice from past episodes and edited the snippets together into new dialogue.

It didn't stop there. In the episode, Chef returns to South Park only for the kids to find out that he's been brainwashed into becoming a child molester after joining the Super Adventure Club, an obvious reference to Scientology. After Chef dies an utterly gruesome, albeit hilarious death, Kyle remarks at his funeral,

"We can't let the events of the last week take away the memories of how Chef made us smile.... So, you see, we shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving us. We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains."

Feel free to interpret that dialogue however you see fit.

For more on the continuing South Park controversy (jokingly referred to as "Chefgate"), read the Scanners blog, written by the editor for Roger Ebert's website, Jim Emerson.

IN OTHER NEWS: This Sunday's episode of the Simpsons will have the show's first-ever live action opening sequence. That's right; everything that happens in the traditional Simpsons opening will be done by real-life people! Read the story here.