BloodyMary

Last week's winners (once again, no stars yet. I will get to them when we can assign stars again!):

1 star to Alan: "You're much more attractive than the usual bus station skanks Uncle Charlie usually brings home."
2 stars to Aaron M: "I want two of those...and some cookies too."
3 stars to Brent McKee: "Jake was sure to get everything on his Christmas list afer arranging HIS treat for Santa. If only he could keep her away from Charlie."

This week's image is from the controversial "Bloody Mary" episode of South Park:

This is actually an update to an earlier story stating that this would probably happen. According to Boing Boing and ComedyCentral.com, the season finale of South Park, entitled Bloody Mary and featuring a statue of the Virgin Mary *ahem* bleeding, has been pulled from the season marathon tonight. As you know, many catholic groups were up in arms over the portrayal and imagery in the episode and were putting lots of pressure on Viacom to have Comedy Central delete the episode from its library. Did Comedy Central actually buckle? We'll have to tune in tonight and find out because, according to most cable and satellite providers' guides, this reporter included, the episode is going to air as scheduled. Let me know what you think, but as for me: GO TREY AND MATT!!!

UPDATE: Someone caved. So last night, Comedy Central aired the classic Dodgeball episode in the first "position" of the South Park season marathon, then moved everything back a half an hour so that the "Free Willzyx" episode showed in the last of the marathon slots. Who pushed who? I have no idea, but feel free to speculate away.

Sure there have been some crazy episodes of South Park, but this may be a first for Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They've actually been condemned by the Catholic Church. The episode entitled "Bloody Mary" that aired on December 7th 2005, made fun of not only the Pope and miracles, but also the Virgin Mary.

Although I'm not sure that is any worse than having Satan date Saddam Hussein and sing Disney showtunes, the church apparently does. On December 8th The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights demanded Viacom permanantly retire the show, and not even include it on future DVD releases. Yea... I'm sure the boys will do that....