Actor Tom Cruise threatened to boycott promotion of his upcoming Paramount Pictures film unless a sister cable TV network pulled a "South Park" rerun lampooning the Church of Scientology, industry sources said on Friday.
Representatives for Paramount and Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, denied he made any such threats or had anything to do with the Comedy Central network canceling plans to air a repeat of the "South Park" episode titled "Trapped in the Closet," on Wednesday.
The controversy caused Isaac Hayes (the voice of Chef) to quit the show. And Comedy Central caved in by cancelling the planned repeat.
But Stone and Parker threw together a new show featuring The Return of Chef (with edited snippets of Chef's voice from past show) featuring the Super Adventurer Club. (And, true to form, even more slanderous than the original.)
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