South Park "201" bleeped speech found!

Well, it appears that somebody has found uncensored audio of the notorious "201" episode of South Park. The audio has since been taken down, but bet here's a transcript of that long bleep that covered the "fear and intimidation" speech. it turns out it was a little more far fetched than we thought.

Kyle: That’s because there is no goo, Mr. Cruise. You see, I learned something today. Throughout this whole ordeal, we've all wanted to show things that we weren't allowed to show, but it wasn't because of some magic goo. It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. That’s obviously the only true power. If there’s anything weave all learned, it’s that terrorizing people works.

Jesus: That's right. Don't you see, gingers? If you don't want to be made fun of anymore, all you need are guns and bombs to get people to stop.

Santa: That's right, friends. All you need is to instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. The only true power is violence.

So, what do you think? I'm starting to get why Comedy Central censored it. The speech glamorized using threats to get what you want at a time when exactly that was happening to them.

This has already been brought up in the South Park thread.

Regardless, I don't feel it's glorifying that type of action. More with the whole approach to situation, it's mocking that type of behavior and how there are plenty who use it who effectively get away with it. Given that they themselves were technically victims of it with it being censored due to groups, well, the behavior being mocked is sort of proven.

edited 2nd Feb '14 1:17:06 PM by Prime_of_Perfection

It's a parody, but some people might have taken it seriously. Remember "Ginger Kids"?

Like most things on South Park, that speech is entirely tongue-in-cheek. Not surprised that Comedy Central bleeped it, though. They must have thought some asshole would take it at face value.

It's become a tradition in some schools to celebrate "Kick a Ginger Day", which is exactly what it sounds like. It was in the news just recently!

Sounds like something a journalist would make up

I thought the speech would be more vulgar in its language (since that's what bleeps would normally be used for). Having read the speech, the message seems tongue-in-cheek, but I could also see a viewer misinterpreting the speech and using it to excuse doing something horrible. Or as a trigger for victims of horrific events such as Sandy Hooks or the Boston Marathon bombing. In any case, I'm not surprised at all that Comedy Central bleeped it out.

edited 3rd Feb '14 10:48:23 AM by sanfranman91

I don't think it was worry that it would be taken at face value. Because by bleeping it, and everything else in that episode, they were proving that face value statement true.

Sounds like some network is afraid to encourage the underclass to rise up against their oppressors!

While I do think it seems pretty hilarious, ironic (due to the reason it was censored), and spot-on in terms of what they're mocking, I have no doubt that some idiot would have taken it completely out of context and thought it was glorifying that kind of behavior, and then acting upon it. Because, let's face it, while it's no secret that South Park is an incredibly satirical, tongue-in-cheek show, there's no shortage of people who watch it who just don't get it and who would take such a message as a legitimate call to arms. I'd say Comedy Central was right to worry about it, even if what they did about it does incredibly undermine the point. While I don't necessarily condone censorship like this, I can certainly understand their position, and while I personally would've liked to have seen that make it to air, it's really no wonder why it didn't.

The thing about Parker and Stone is that they go at the show with an attitude that is both their greatest quality and their worst enemy. They are not afraid of offending anyone and they take a large degree of artistic pride in that. That is why the show works, because it doesn't pull its punches. The speech itself wasn't so much the problem as the episode was meant to be offensive as an attempt at flexing their muscles.

The problem is that you can only represent yourself, you do not have some unadorned right to speak for another or put another person at risk because of your actions. If you go looking for a fight you are likely going to find one, even if a fight wasn't waiting for you to begin with. The controversy around the episode was fully intended and I agree with their message but they do not represent Comedy Central and they reserve the right for control over what they air.

edited 3rd Feb '14 10:13:01 PM by KJMackley

as expected,there are torrents of the episode with the uncensored audio now.

Given how Parker and Stone were not pleased with the whole affair,I wonder if they deliberately left traces of the audio on the site already expecting that this would happen eventually so that people could check how was the speech...