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South Park Season 9 Episode 12 "Trapped in the Closet" Early Access YouTube Edit

🕑 Added 2025-03-10 00:47:34 +0000 UTC

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Tam McKie

there's a YouTuber that reacted to this episode, and she "escaped" Scientology (her words) that you might enjoy watching...for the life of me I can't find the video though.

ChrisAm13

Oh yeah, you're right. After I watched this reaction I did more research on Scientology and that's exactly what happened to Chef's voice actor. I forgot to edit my comment. Thanks for the correction.

xattygt

I pretty sure the voice of chef sin came out and said that the church of scientology quit for him and that he didn't have a choice since he was in the hospital

Jake the Movie Geek

You guys need to react to “The Wacky Molestation Adventure”

David Caine

The funniest bit to me is when they dare Scientology to sue them at the end, dare them again, and it cuts to the credits and everyone is John Smith or Jane Smith.😂 Don't know if true, but apparently Tom Cruise did get pissed off at this episode, demanded it pulled or he wouldn't do press tour for his Mission Impossible movie at the time, Paramount and Comedy Central were owned together. - Penn Jillette is friends with Matt and Trey, and Showtime wouldn't let him make an episode about Scientology in Bullshit! so Matt and Trey decided to do it, and Comedy Central had their back. This is back in the day when Scientology was pretty ridiculous in their lawsuits, threatening people, investigating members, journalists, etc, might still be the same now. - Chef, (Isaac Hayes) was a Scientologist, and Trey and Matt told him about the episode, they make fun of everyone and everything, no one is spared. AFTER the episode airs, Isaac Hayes "quits" the show. His son says Isaac did not quit the show himself, but people from Scientology controlling his publicity did it on his behalf. Reports MONTHS later say that at the time he had had a stroke and had been disabled. Most likely it was the pressure from the group itself, Isaac did want Comedy Central to pull the episode and did interviews after he was released from his contract, and Trey and Matt pointed out the hypocrisy of making fun of Muslims, Jews, Christians and everyone else but drawing the line at your own religion. But the timeline for them does not add up, and Matt and Trey believe the Scientology people were the bad influence. - The controversy regarding the rebroadcast of the episode cannot be done justice with a few sentences here. Comedy Central pulled one rebraodcast, fans went nuts, boycotted Mission Impossible, pirated the episode and put it online for free everywhere. In other countries the stations feared getting sued, they didn't broadcast the episode. Others were not afraid. Tom Cruise denied getting the episode pulled. News shows, newspapers, reporters had a field day everywhere, it was called CLOSETGATE. "The Return of Chef" deals with all that drama typical South Park style.

Mob K.O.

Well this was a waste of time

Ez

Ya’ll have to watch S8E6, called “The Jeffersons”. It’s about Michael Jackson. One of the funniest episodes in the series.

fallingupdownthere

Highly recommend the documentary “Going Clear” by Alex Gibney. If you want even more after that watch “Scientology and the Aftermath”. It’s a wild “religion”.

Melchizedek

The deep Scientology lore about Zenu and Alien souls was actually uncommon knowledge before this episode came out. Even most Scientologists didn't know about it because you have to get deep into the church before they tell you about it.

kbobravo

I'm pretty sure they haven't seen it but absolutely should.

Angus

Watch "Dances with Smurfs" - South Park: Season 13, Episode 13

Fnnko

This episode is one of the biggest reasons why Scientology fell and is also the reason they forced chefs voice actor to quit after he got into an accident

Shannon Jefferson

Love the vids lol

Dancal7212

This was a very controversial episode when it came out.

Fulcrum Agent

Ah the second most controversial episode of south park starring tom cruise. Please find a way to watch 200 and 201

Fulcrum Agent

Im pretty sure they watched that already

Critical

According to Isaac Hayes' son, he was forced to quit the show by leadership within Scientology.

Kyle Gibson

Everything in this is true about Scientology. This is what they actually believe. You need to watch the Mormon episode next.

Melchizedek

RIP Chef (and Isaac Hayes)

ChrisAm13

This is a classic must-watch episode for all South Park fans. Yep, this was the episode that exposed Scientology. There are testimonies from ex-members saying this episode is what made them leave because they didn't know about the whole alien backstory. The voice actor for Chef was a Scientologist and he quit because he was offended by the making of this episode. The gag at the end about everyone suing Stan is a reference to the Church constantly suing/doxing people who talk bad about them. That's why in the credits, everyone is named John/Jane Doe. The whole "Tom Cruise/John Travolta in the closet" gag was such a clever joke. All the allegations of them being gay plus being Scientology members while also referencing R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet created a perfect storm for a perfect episode.