South park 201 what was bleeped

Muhammad appeared with his body obscured by a black box labeled "censored," since Muslims consider a physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.

Parker and Stone said that in 14 years of making "South Park," which just had its th episode, they've never delivered an episode they couldn't stand behind. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it.

Besides the censored dialogue, only one inside joke in this week's episode could be interpreted as a reference to the Muslim group's warning. During one scene, a mechanized Barbara Streisand robot is seen stomping through the town on a path of destruction. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it.

I have to say, I'm surprised to hear that the summarizing message was bleeped out at the end. When hopeful fans navigated to South Park Studios to stream the episode and were greeted with the message that Comedy Central had censored parts of the episode, I think most figured -- I certainly did -- that those edits were the Muhammad bleeps.

The end-of-episode moral bleeping felt like a joke; Parker and Stone, for all of their crass humor, can do subtle. And faking a redacted message felt very much in keeping with their sense of humor.

I'm distressed to hear now that there was something written, and that it didn't even mention Muhammad. Bleeping the Islam founder's name is a justifiable network decision. It is potentially offensive to a religious group and Comedy Central did what they deemed necessary to not offend their broad viewer base.

Despite this, the newspaper ran the images, and even with outcries from several prominent Muslim groups, the paper did not back down. While US news outlets covered the controversy, they did not reprint any of the depictions of Muhammad, even though the US values freedom of speech and the press. For the US, religious sensitivity along with a larger population of people of the Islamic faith was a more important factor.

Episodes "" and "" revolve around past South Park episodes , storylines, and controversies, with Trey Parker and Matt Stone pushing the boundaries of censorship, especially in the case of Muhammad.

Irritated that they could show Jesus and other religious icons, the inability to display Muhammad becomes a focal point of the episode. Throughout the story, past celebrities, angered by the town of South Park for continually ridiculing and mocking them, want to steal the powers Muhammad has to not be shown or insulted.

After episode "" aired, threats were leveled against both creators of the show and Comedy Central if they depicted the image of Muhammad further. Revolution Muslim, a group known for advocating the end of western imperialism, had an author post to Twitter wishing death and Hell for both Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Additional threats and veiled references were made comparing the creators to Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered after a film he made portrayed violence against women in some Islamic societies.