19 August 2011

Viacom withholds South Park ‘Muhammad’ episodes in all foreign territories

SOUTH Park fans buying the “complete 14th season” of the show on DVD have been angered to discover “complete” is but a relative term.

The DVD box set that went on sale in Australia on August 11 contains all the episodes that went to air on SBS during its most recent season, but it does not contain two of the most eagerly anticipated episodes in the long and often bumpy history of the cult US animated series.

Episodes 200 and 201 are missing from the Australian edition, prompting fans to voice their disapproval to the local distributor, Paramount Home Entertainment, and on a dedicated Facebook page (South Park Episode 201 Uncensored).

.... The episodes in question feature a typically convoluted plotline in which Tom Cruise… …wrangles the prophet Muhammad into his scheme, secretly motivated by a desire to harness the prophet’s “goo”, which grants immunity to ridicule.

Throughout, Muhammad is dressed in a bear suit, an ironic nod to the prohibition on showing images of Islam’s founding father. [Creeping Sharia] Read more