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Topics: Entertainment, Film and TV, South Park, World News, Religion
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Entertainment, Film and TV, South Park, World News, Religion
Every episode of South Park is pretty punchy, however, there are five episodes considered so outrageous they've been removed from HBO Max.
While South Park is set to move on over to Paramount Plus from 2025, you can still binge-watch back all 26 seasons on HBO Max.
The satirical animation has sparked backlash on more than one occasion, whether it be for its Ozempic episode or ripping into Logan Paul and KSI, but so scandalous were five episodes that they actually ended up being taken down, unable to view legally. But which five made the cut?
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Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman team up with Jesus to take down magician David Blaine, who they discover is behind a mass suicide pact.
The episode didn't actually receive much backlash when it first aired.
However, it was later removed when episodes '200' and '201' were taken down - fundamentalist organization Revolution Muslim sending death threats to co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in '200'.
South Park studios said: "We apologise that South Park Studios cannot stream Super Best Friends."
In 'Cartoon Wars Part I', Cartman and Kyle come to blows over an upcoming episode of Family Guy, which intends to feature the Prophet Muhammad.
In the episode, Family Guy’s network threatens to ban the episode, and Cartman sees this as a chance to get Family Guy off the air for good.
However, Kyle doesn’t want the show off air, and the two lads embark on a race across the country to Hollywood, knowing that whoever gets there first will have the final say on Family Guy’s future.
In Cartoon Wars Part II, Cartman ends up in Hollywood first, but Kyle isn’t far behind him. They have a final showdown at the television studios, in which Cartman attempts to shoot Kyle with a shotgun before discovering there are no bullets in the weapon.
The Family Guy episode ends up airing (sans Muhammad, because of Comedy Central’s refusal to show an image of him on screen), and terrorists respond with a cartoon of their own that shows Jesus taking a dump on the American flag.
Last, but never least, '200' and '201' see celebrities who have featured in past South Park episodes - such as Tom Cruise - and been ridiculed by the animation’s writers attempt to steal the Prophet Muhammad’s ‘powers'.
Revolution Muslim once again threatened the show's creators and speaking in 2016 about pulling the episodes, former Comedy Central head Doug Herzog told the Hollywood Reporter: “We were protecting everyone who works here. That was the decision we needed to make.
“That was the hardest we’ve ever pushed back [over the show’s content].”