Hat, Tom Cruise, Barbara Streisand, Jennifer Lopez/Mitch Connor, and all those other celebrities would have been enough to make South Park’s landmark 200th and 201st episode great, but when coupled with learning the true identity of Cartman’s father and satire promoting free speech, these episodes are necessities for any South Park fan to watch. The return of Scott Tenorman, the Super Best Friends, Mr. Muhammad’s entire body was blacked out, his name itself was bleeped out, and the characters’ traditional “I learned something today” speech about not giving in to fear and terrorism at the end of the episode was bleeped out in its entirety. The writers originally intended to show Muhammad fully in “201,” but the episode was censored beyond belief by Comedy Central in response to threats Stone and Parker received after “200” aired. Is a depiction of Muhammad really offensive? Another is when the writers show Buddha snorting cocaine and Jesus looking at porn on his computer to show how ridiculous it is that it’s okay to make fun of religions as long as extremists aren’t threatening you.
One example is the people being afraid after Randy Marsh draws a stick figure picture of Muhammad to show how ridiculous it is to fear these threats of terrorism for depicting him. The satire is at its strongest, possibly in South Park history, in these two episodes. “200” ends on quite the epic note as Mecha-Streisand is released while the city is set to explode. The ginger kids interfere with the town’s plans and reveal they will blow the city up if Muhammad’s goo is not given to them. The plot revolves around the celebrities agreeing to withdraw the lawsuit if the people of South Park provide them with Muhammad’s goo, which will allow them to never be made fun of again.
“200” and “201” reopen that topic and make the statement even stronger than before. All in typical, satirical South Park fashion, of course.Īlthough Muhammad appeared fully depicted in "Super Best Friends," this is how he appeared throughout "200" and "201" Matt Stone and Trey Parker thought it was ridiculous to censor new images of Muhammad when viewers had already been able to see Muhammad fully before those controversies erupted, and made a statement about how ridiculous and cowardly it was in those episodes, even suggesting that it infringes on First Amendment rights and borders on censorship. This new rule by Comedy Central of not showing the prophet of the Muslim religion came about after seeing the threats generated by the controversial cartoons in some European newspapers in 20. Aside from needing to know about the identity of Cartman’s “father” and Eric’s history with Scott Tenorman, to fully appreciate this episode, you need to watch “Cartoon Wars Part I” and “Cartoon Wars Part II” first, which were a response to Comedy Central censoring the image of Muhammad despite the fact that in a much older episode, “Super Best Friends,” Muhammad was fully depicted. To fully understand the satirical and comedic power of these two episodes, you have to understand a few important points in South Park’s history. Tom Cruise, Rob Reiner, Mel Gibson and other celebrities on South Park over the years
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