Similar to “Super Best Friends,” these episodes were also banned from streaming. This version of Muhammad was shown in two episodes: season 14’s ‘200’ and ‘201’. Undeterred, Parker and Stone continued to use the ‘Super Best Friends’ team, but this time displaying Muhammad as a censor bar. The controversy that arose from the episode led to it being removed from the South Park website and not streamed on Hulu. “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had previously clashed with Comedy Central over their desire to portray Muhammad in the season 5 episode ‘Super Best Friends,’ which saw important figures from major religions (Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna, Joseph Smith, Laozi, and an Aquaman-like character) come together to fight evil and protect the world. Interestingly, the HBO Max did decide to remove five episodes of “South Park,” due to the potential to offend Muslims through depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. They’ve offended virtually every religion, be it Catholics with a menstruating Virgin Mary statue and two pedophile priest-centric episodes, Jewish people with the near-constant barrage of antisemitic jokes Kyle Broflovski faces from his frenemy Eric Cartman, and Scientologists by describing what they believe, just to name a few. The “Pokemon” parody episode displayed Japan as an imperialist nation intent on destroying the United States. The show compared the PC mob to a concentration camp in a “Schindler’s List” homage. ![]() ![]() You would be hard pressed to find a single “South Park” episode less offensive than “Gone with the Wind.” The show has featured every stereotype known to man. One of the four protagonists, Eric Cartman, is a virulent racist, antisemite, sexist, and all-around evil kid. Then, the service announced it would no longer stream “Gone with the Wind,” eventually adjusting to delay the arrival of the 1939 epic romance until they can discern some means by which to put the film into historical context for viewers. First, they rid “Looney Toons” cartoons of guns, as choosing give Elmer Fudd a scythe to hunt Bugs Bunny is obvious less scary than a rifle. The streaming service faced serious scrutiny due to its attempts to make their content increasingly politically correct. The newly launched streaming service, a breakout of HBO, has been using its acquisition of “South Park” aggressively in their marketing, However, one place it is bizarre to see this bastion of offensive comedy is HBO Max.
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