The Revenge of Xenu

Hollywood Interrupted reports:

Sources from inside Paramount and South Park Studios report that parent company Viacom pulled last night's scheduled repeat of the high-rated "Trapped in the Closet" episode after the humorless Scientologist movie star Tom Cruise threatened to cancel all publicity for Mission Impossible:3 if Comedy Central aired the episode that satirizes Scientology and mocks his sexuality again.

"Trapped in the Closet" is absolutely mercilessly hysterical, by the way. Go out of your way to see it if you haven't already.
H/t Boing Boing

Comments

[Hoodlumman]

Pardon my English but Tom Cruise is a fucking douchebag.

[Julie]

Hood, how dare you insult douchebags in such a vulgar way.

I just watched that episode last night. It kills me. The whole time they tell the weirdo story of the foundation of Scientology, they have
"This is what Scientologists actually believe"

plastered across the screen. The whole thing is an instant classic.

[Carin]

I'll have to watch it. I've never been much of a South Park fan. Can't get beyond the visuals.

[dorkafork]

Boom. There you go.

[Scott P]

Amazing that it was posted on the 'Net, Dorka.

[dorkafork]

I heard Parker and Stone were ok with it being downloaded. YouTube tends to pull copyrighted stuff fairly quickly.

[dorkafork]

Huh. I thought Xenu used nukes on the aliens. I read an article back in the mid-90's about those beliefs being released. Scientologists had kept them under tight wraps, and there was a big legal battle over it. The Scientologists argued that revealing those beliefs would actually be dangerous to someone who wasn't "clear" enough of Thetans. That if someone who wasn't clear even heard it, they would go insane and their head would explode.

Guess I should have warned you before providing that link. I take no responsibility for exploding heads.

[gail]

Oops. Splash. Too late now.

[Ana]

Stupid Tom Cruise. Too bad about John Travolta. Can we get him deprogrammed?

[JBelle]

This is brilliant.