Okay, so it turns out that Teletoon hasn’t stopped airing old Home Movies episodes altogether, but instead has shifted its timeslot to the high-octane 1:30 am hour. Poo on them, I say.
About the whole Isaac Hayes leaving South Park fiasco, I’d like to share this: not many people like scientologists, especially with goofball representatives like Tom Cruise prancing up and down, so Hayes is an easy target right off the bat. But never did Hayes specifically mention that he was leaving South Park due to the scientology episode. It was Matt Stone in his statement who claimed the relation.
I’m sure you’ve read all the “hypocrisy” arguments, stating that Hayes had no trouble mocking all different sorts of organized religion but then suddenly became offended when his religion got involved. If you subscribe to that, then you’re buying Stone’s side of the story. I like to think that human behaviour is a little more layered than that.
If you consider that the scientology episode was recorded earlier last year and aired last November, perhaps Hayes would have left in protest way before now, which leads me to believe that Stone is full of shit. Hayes, in his statement, is right about one thing: religious intolerance has been growing more and more, and being a religious person (regardless of what you may think about his beliefs) perhaps there are outside factors which have led him to this decision. After all, he did mention the Muhammad cartoons as an example of mass media insensitivity. Maybe he’s just reached a boiling point. Maybe he saw some upcoming South Park scripts that made his skin crawl. Fact is we don’t know for sure.
It isn’t all that hard to believe that this decision was reached after a good bout of soul searching. It does come across as odd, but it doesn’t seem implausible. Moments of clarity don’t only happen to drunks, you know.
Funny that I talk about this considering today’s classic Aren’t We Real re-run. HA!
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