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This article has been tagged as Needing work due to its lack of organization and clarity (201's uncensored cut is apparently available, for instance, but don't know about 200).

A screenshot from "201", showing the censorship box on top of Muhammad.

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Another instance of censoring Muhammad from "Cartoon Wars Part II".

"200" and "201" are two episodes from Season 14 of the South Park animated series that were banned after their original airing.

Premise

The two episodes form a story arc about Tom Cruise and many other celebrities teaming up to destroy South Park.

The celebrities want to extract "goo" from Muhammad's (The Prophet of Islam) because he is the only celebrity who cannot be made fun of, and thus become untouchable.

Controversy

Because of the Muhammad-centered storyline, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone received death threats from radical Muslim groups.

A similar scenario happened in an earlier story arc, Cartoon Wars, where Muhammad is in the center of controversy due to him advertised as appearing in a "cut-away gag" in the Family Guy animated series. Due to network pressure, Muhammad ended up being censored.

Muhammad originally appeared uncensored in an even earlier South Park episode, Super Best Friends, without controversy.

Censorship

In 200, the only censored element was swearing. In 201, however, any mention of Muhammad was censored along major cursing.

This episode arc also caused the banning of previously-mentioned episode Super Best Friends, due to Muhammad's appearance.

Trey and Matt also have stated that the big thing they were focusing on was animating Mecca-Streisand - who is exclusively 3D-animated - not Muhammad.

Censored speech

When the episode was originally aired, the entire speech after "I learned something today" was censored. Many viewers assumed this was a meta joke on the part of the creators. However, this has been repeatedly denied by Parker and Stone.

The original uncensored speech can be seen/heard here.

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 we've 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 to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. The only true power is violence."

Legacy

Although the censored episodes appear on the season 14 home video release, the uncut episode remains unreleased in any official form. It has never been re-run on Comedy Central. Additionally, it is not available on the South Park Studios website, due to Comedy Central's refusal to release the episode uncut.

However, in January 2014, a 4chan user noticed that the completely uncensored 201 episode was actually available on the South Park Studios servers, although inaccessible, and was able to be downloaded in high definition using rtmpdump.

This copy was then leaked to the public and can now be found through various websites. Comedy Central has refused to acknowledge the leak nonetheless.

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 [[File:SP-s10e04-censor.jpg|thumb|300px|Another instance of censoring Muhammad from "Cartoon Wars Part II".]]
-"200" and "201" are two Season 14 episodes of ''South Park'' that were banned after their original airing. Both of them follow Tom Cruise and many other celebrities on the show teaming up to destroy South Park.
+"200" and "201" are two episodes from Season 14 of the ''South Park'' animated series that were banned after their original airing.
-The celebrities want Muhammad's (The Prophet of Islam) "goo" because he is the only celebrity able to be shown without being made fun of. This seems like a small thing, but it caused series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to receive death threats from radical Muslim groups. Muhammad's image was shown in "200", which is considered blasphemous and offensive to Muslims.
+==Premise==
+The two episodes form a story arc about Tom Cruise and many other celebrities teaming up to destroy South Park.
-In "200", the only censorship done was swearing. In "201", however, the following things were censored:
+The celebrities want to extract "goo" from Muhammad's (The Prophet of Islam) because he is the only celebrity who cannot be made fun of, and thus become untouchable.
-*Major cursing
+==Controversy==
+Because of the Muhammad-centered storyline, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone received death threats from radical Muslim groups.
-*Any mention of Muhammad
+A similar scenario happened in an earlier story arc, ''Cartoon Wars'', where Muhammad is in the center of controversy due to him advertised as appearing in a "cut-away gag" in the ''Family Guy'' animated series. Due to network pressure, Muhammad ended up being censored.
-These episodes also caused the banning of "Super Best Friends", which showed Muhammad in his uncensored form, originally with no controversy. Trey and Matt also have stated that the big thing they were focusing on was animating Mecca-Stressiand, not Muhammad.
+Muhammad originally appeared uncensored in an even earlier ''South Park'' episode, ''Super Best Friends'', without controversy.
-At first, only one aspect of the '''uncut episode''' had surfaced. It was Kyle's speech, which, like the creators said, never mentions Muhammad once. You can find it [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=452803128180744 here].
+==Censorship==
+In ''200'', the only censored element was swearing. In ''201'', however, any mention of Muhammad was censored along major cursing.
-The transcript is below:
+This episode arc also caused the banning of previously-mentioned episode ''Super Best Friends'', due to Muhammad's appearance.
-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 we've all learned, it's that terrorizing people works.
+Trey and Matt also have stated that the big thing they were focusing on was animating Mecca-Streisand - who is exclusively 3D-animated - not Muhammad.
-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.
+==Censored speech==
+When the episode was originally aired, the entire speech after ''"I learned something today"'' was censored. Many viewers assumed this was a meta joke on the part of the creators. However, this has been repeatedly denied by Parker and Stone.
-SANTA: That's right, friends. All you need to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. The only true power is violence.
+[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=452803128180744 The original uncensored speech can be seen/heard here].
-When the episode was originally aired, the entire speech after "I learned something today" was censored. Many viewers assumed this was a meta joke on the part of the creators. However, this has been repeatedly denied by Parker and Stone.
+'''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 we've 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 to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. The only true power is violence."''
+==Legacy==
 Although the censored episodes appear on the season 14 home video release, the uncut episode remains unreleased in any official form. It has never been re-run on Comedy Central. Additionally, it is not available on the South Park Studios website, due to Comedy Central's refusal to release the episode uncut.
-However, in January 2014 a 4chan user noticed that the completely uncensored 201 episode was actually available on the South Park Studios servers, although inaccessible, and was able to be downloaded in high definition using rtmpdump. This copy was then leaked to the public and can now be found through various websites. Comedy Central has refused to acknowledge the leak nonetheless.
+However, in January 2014, a 4chan user noticed that the completely uncensored 201 episode was actually available on the South Park Studios servers, although inaccessible, and was able to be downloaded in high definition using rtmpdump.
+This copy was then leaked to the public and can now be found through various websites. Comedy Central has refused to acknowledge the leak nonetheless.
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