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Will South Park's "Bloody Mary" episode air?

This episode already aired. I've seen it twice.

eta: whoops, just read the part about further airings.
 
I guess we will find out tonight....

Starting at 10pm they are doing a "marathon" of the last 7 episodes of the just ended season. It should be the last one.
 
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights predictably expressed outrage and called on Comedy Central to ban further showings of the episode. (The president of this alleged civil rights organization recently claimed, "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.") South Park offends some group or other nearly every episode, and the network has consistently backed the show's creators against complainants.
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Oh, come on! Based on news articles, there hardly appear to be any other mainstream Christian sects that embrace as many "miracles" as the Catholic church.
 
It was on the DirecTV satellite schedule as of 2 nights ago, about 12:30 am during a marathon. I had set my Tivo to record it, but it wasn't on the list of recorded South Park shows the next day (no doubt due to a family member declining to "switch other tuner to record South Park" when the time came.)
 
"It was determined that the statue was not bleeding from its anus but from her ****** and a woman bleeding from her ****** is not a miracle."
 
What, we're not allowed to say vagina?!

EDit : Oh, RandFan used a much more exciting word. You dirty dirty man!

Either that, or he believed vagina to be a dirty word...
 
Ryokan said:
The episode was pulled from the reruns.

Was on the frontpage of one of Norway's largest online papers, actually.

SHAME!
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From UPI:

Comedy Central pulls 'South Park' rerun
Dec. 29, 2005 at 7:18PM

Comedy Central pulled a scheduled rerun of the season finale of "South Park" that incensed the Catholic League the first time around.

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights angrily denounced the Dec. 7 "Bloody Mary" episode, saying Comedy Central parent Viacom owed an apology to Roman Catholics for "South Park's" portrayal of the Virgin Mary.

Viacom board member Joseph A. Califano Jr., a Catholic, released a statement calling the episode an "appalling and disgusting portrayal of the Virgin Mary."

"It is particularly troubling to me as a Roman Catholic that the segment has run on the eve and day of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day for Roman Catholics," Califano said.

Califano at the time promised to have Viacom chief Tom Freston watch the episode, E! said.

The episode was pulled from Wednesday's night schedule without comment.
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Catholic nutster/victim Bill Donohue is gloating about having the episode pulled:

“Several news stories today are reporting on the decision by Comedy Central to pull a scheduled rerun of the ‘Bloody Mary’ episode that was shown on ‘South Park’ on December 7-10. The decision reflects what I asked for in our news release of December 8. Therefore, I commend Comedy Central for finally making the right decision. That it aired in the first place, however, does not speak well for the bigots responsible for creating it.

“Already, we are being deluged with hate mail that is as obscene as it is viciously anti-Catholic. All because we exercised our First Amendment right to request that Comedy Central not offend Catholics again! But we’re used to such things and will not be deterred.”
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If you haven't seen the episode, you can find it here:
http://www.mrtwig.net/

I haven't seen South Park in a long time, as I don't have cable. After downloading it, frankly, I found the episode rather preachy and not terribly funny.
 
ceo_esq said:
Viacom board member Joseph A. Califano Jr., a Catholic, released a statement calling the episode an "appalling and disgusting portrayal of the Virgin Mary."
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No, you moron. It was an appalling and disgusting portrayal of A STATUE of the Virgin Mary.
 
NotJesus said:
No, you moron. It was an appalling and disgusting portrayal of A STATUE of the Virgin Mary.
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I'm not sure this really matters to his point. A statue of the Virgin Mary is a portrayal of the Virgin Mary, and Califano obviously thinks that a statue of Mary that sprays blood from its nether orifices is an appalling and disgusting portrayal. I suppose the episode was a portrayal of a portrayal, but Califano's point, whatever its merits, is reasonably clear.
 
It's an appalling and disgusting portrayal of the people who are stupid enough to accept "bleeding" statues as divine miracles. That's really the issue.

I'm surprised they didn't complain as vehemently about the episode where the Catholic priests refuse to give up their granted priviledge of molesting altar boys, and the good father has to bypass the traps and the giant Vatican spider to change things.
 
Melendwyr said:
I'm surprised they didn't complain as vehemently about the episode where the Catholic priests refuse to give up their granted priviledge of molesting altar boys, and the good father has to bypass the traps and the giant Vatican spider to change things.
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According to the Catholic League website, they did complain rather loudly about that one (which was funnier overall than the "Virgin Mary" one, I thought) including on TV, but it's not clear whether anything ever happened as a result.
 
Ryokan said:
What, we're not allowed to say vagina?!

EDit : Oh, RandFan used a much more exciting word. You dirty dirty man!

Either that, or he believed vagina to be a dirty word...
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:D I thought there was a context issue. Using vagina in that context could be impolite. Like, you can say "prick your finger" but you can't say "finger your..." well, you get the idea.
 
RandFan said:
:D I thought there was a context issue. Using vagina in that context could be impolite. Like, you can say "prick your finger" but you can't say "finger your..." well, you get the idea.
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I never took you for a prude, RandFan ;)

How do you finger your prick, anyway?
 
Ryokan said:
I never took you for a prude, RandFan ;)

How do you finger your prick, anyway?
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I put on some soft music and light some candles and climb into a warm tub with lots of bubbles. I might be easy but I'm not without class.
 
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