Hayes, who voiced SP mainstay Chef, has quit the show, claiming that "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs ... begins."
Oddly enough, this epiphany of religious tolerance didn't arise until SP took Hayes' religion, Scientology, to task in an episode that not only lampooned prominent Scientologists Tom Cruise and John Travolta, but also revealed a number of Scientology's core beliefs, as prop
hesized (?) by L. Ron Hubbard. (The episode was, like so many SP episodes, absolutely brilliant.)
hesized (?) by L. Ron Hubbard. (The episode was, like so many SP episodes, absolutely brilliant.)Matt Stone made the same observation regarding Hayes' attack of tolerancitis, saying "In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews...He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show." Nevertheless, Stone and co-conspirator Trey Parker released Hayes from his contract, and it appears that someone else will be providing Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny with mashed potatoes and cream corn.
I actually don't think this is a bad thing. Chef was becoming a one-trick pony, and had been pretty much played out. (Really, this happened after Chef Aid.) So I won't be too upset with the loss of the nation's most virile lunchroom worker. Besides, they can just replace him with a skinny, white insurance salesman.
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