South Park retaliated at a former star by skewering his belief in Scientology—and a New York Times reporter modestly declined to quote from the episode. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were lashing out at Isaac Hayes, the voice of the character Chef, who walked out on his contract because he was angry at Parker and Stone for creating an episode that mocked Scientology. In this season's premiere, Parker and Stone didn't mention Scientology, but instead made Chef a member of the Super Adventure Club, "a ring of globe-trotting, mind-controlling pedophiles," Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times. "After the boys snap Chef out of his trance (he yells disjointed phrases too obscene to print here), his former captors hunt him down and he appears to die a gruesome death." Among those disjointed phrases—strung together from voice clips from prior episodes—that were apparently too obscene to print here (according to spscriptorium): "Well, how about I meet you boys after work and we make love?" How is that worse than "mind-controlling pedophiles"?

Among the other phrases Stanley (Gawker's favorite TV critic) could have quoted:

"Come on, children! You're my sexual fantasy. Let's all make sweeet love."

and

"I'm gonna make love to the children."

Some of Chef's lines were more obscene, like, "I want to stick my balls inside your rectum, Kyle." But Stanley didn't have to quote those. Most other reviewers of the episode didn't quote it, but none cited obscenity constraints (more likely reasons: space constraints, or a failure to transcribe the key lines). The New York Daily News reported, "he tells Kyle, Cartman and the other young boys he wants to have sex with them, and exactly how." And the Associated Press wrote, "Chef repeatedly said he wanted to 'make sweet love' to the "South Park' elementary school kids."

[The media's struggles with how to handle obscenity is a favorite topic here at Gelf; most recently we examined the Baltimore Sun's apology for publishing a photo with the word "cunt" visible on a book.]