Isaac Hayes Quits South Park

Damn. He has such a great voice for the character; I can't imagine how they're going to replace him. Then again, they may just kill off Chef, because it's not like they haven't done it before. *coughchokesondickcoughbusdrivercough*

And I guess that explains why I saw him in a commercial today.

 

Sounds like he was offended by the digs at scientology but not at other, cough, religions.

 

That's the problem--keep making jokes about religions, sooner or later your's will come up. If you can't take it, you have no right dishing it out. What they should do is get another actor to play the voice of Chef and continue without him...

 

I'm certain there are heaps of black men who'd love to line their pockets with money. It can't be too hard finding somebody who sound like Chef.

 

I don't know how people can take Scientology seriously - come on, it was founded by a guy who said that the best way to make money was to start your own religion...

I hope the South Park guys do something really good with this...

 

I think it was a gutsy move. I can't think of two people I would be more afraid of to have mad at me than the creators of South Park.

You know some terrible things are going to happen to either Chef or they may actually use Issac Hayes in the show.

 

Two things: the guy that does his voice in spanish is much better than him. No big loss to me.
Second: what's the name of that religion the king of england created long ago? Anglican? And more important, why do you think he created it? Think about it... scientology is not alone on the money making thing, come on. And that 10% fee the catholic church used to charge on their followers!? If I'm not mistaken, the Holy Spirit has a *BANK* in Rome...

 

First, the church created by the King of England is the Church of England, or Anglican. That's about all I know on that regard.

Secondly, it's the Law of Tithing. It's actually in the Bible. The Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) have it too. It pays for the consrtruction of church buildings (an average of 2 per day) all over the world.

 

King Henry VIII was the King of England who created the Anglican Church. While he no doubt made money from it, the King was already a very wealthy man, so that was not the only, or even the primary reason he split from Catholicism. The main reason was his wife had not given birth to any sons, and he wanted to divorce her and remarry so he could have a male heir. The pope did not allow the annulment of the marriage, and so he made his own church that was very similar to the Catholic Church, except it was the King, not the pope that was in charge of giving a marriage annulment.

 

I just saw that Chef's coming back to South Park tonight, and he did sound like Chef. Of course, this could mean any number of things. They could be bringing him back permanently, or just bringing him back to kill him off. They might have gotten Isaac Hayes back, or found a replacement (if so, WOW), or they could just be using audio clips from Hayes's previous work since the only thing he said in the preview was the common "Hello there, children!" Anybody have any more news on this?

 

The episode was made after he quit, so I assume they'll use canned audio from his previous shows. I'm sure they'll do some evil things to the poor guy. When's it air tonight? I can't miss "Lost" and I don't have TIVO.

 

@Sir Fink:
I'm in the same boat (both South Park and Lost are on at the same time), but hopefully they'll replay it at 11:00. Just in case, though, I'll be taping it. Do you at least have a VCR?

@Tal:
Actually, I was able to discern what he meant rather clearly. While Isaac hayes did not actually quit the show himself, someone must have sent a statement on his behalf that he was quitting. And unfortunately, Hayes himself is in no condition to either refute or confirm it. So only time will tell.

EDIT:
Absolutely horrible. This is only the second time I have been disgusted by this show (even as an avid watcher), and I think this was worse than the last time. They made Chef into a brainwashed child molester, with rather obvious hinting at Scientology brainwashing, including even an exposition with an obviously identical format to their Scientology beliefs exposition. Then they killed him off in quite a gory manner at the end; Chef is definitely gone. And hopefully Darth Chef (I don't even want to explain that one) will stay out of the show too.

[ March 23, 2006, 07:22: Message edited by: Felinoid ]

 

It wasn't all that funny. I think I would have preferred it if they had just made fun of Scientology in a more obvious way. But perhaps they were afraid of lawsuits?

And what happend to the thing about Tom Cruise threatening to not promote MI3 if Comedy Central aired the show? Or was that another show that makes fun of Scientology? What happened to that episode?

 

I thought the episode was hilarious.

 

Did you even watch the end of that episode? Where Cruise and all the other scientologists kept screaming "We're gonna sue you, mister!" at Stan, and Stan replied "Fine, douchebags! Sue me! I dare you!" for about a minute straight? Then the credits roll, and everyone's name is "John Smith, John Smith, John Smith...." They were basically daring them to sue.