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South Park is the reason this religion is failing, and we don't talk about it enough.
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This was a great video!
hey man, you might wanna put a flash/seizure warning on that intro. great video, though!
The “This is what Scientologists actually believe” joke has got to be one of the most savagely based moments in all of television.
The fact it’s not even a joke is what makes its sort funny.
Super*
@@Katie_Lou_whoyeah supper is my favorite meal
Puts some truth behind the statement “the jokes write themselves”
They had to make it clear that they weren't making it up
The fact that they signed off their statement as "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu" will never fail to make me cackle
Shit had me cackling
Shit sounded like a fucking DnD title
I scrolled too far for this 😂
W pfp bro
That’s so fucking funny 😂
In Germany, it's illegal for Scientologists to teach in school. I had to tick a box saying I wasn't a member of Scientology,
That is a good start, although when you think about it all religions are questionable.. I once had a psychologist get defensive when I asked her if she believed in god. She felt it was immaterial, but I felt that anyone in charge of my mental well being should not be delusional. For a similar reason if I needed surgery and found that the surgeon was a Jehovah's Witness who didn't believe in blood transfusions, for example, I would demand a different surgeon. It is not a question of religious freedom but a question of doing your damn job.
it seems to me that believing in God and being religious aren't necessarily the same thing. There's plenty of people that become convinced of a divine creator through the scientific evidence alone. My take is that it's when you start attributing attributes and beliefs about that entity based on supposed divine revelation that you have a religion.
@@JonHuhnMedical please give any example of scientific evidence leading to a belief in a divine creator. Belief in some sort of god is the definition of being religious, perhaps you are talking about spirituality which, in my book, is a cop-out.
@@jeremybirmingham2316Go outside and look around. There is your proof
Germany sounds cool
Scientologists have an episode made about them and throw a tantrum. The mormons had an episode and a whole musical mocking them and they took out an ad in the playbill.
😂😂😂
To be fair, The Book of Mormon (musical) mocks the religion but at the same time shows the value of well placed faith and the good it can bring in the right circumstances. Iirc Matt and Trey described it as an atheist’s love letter to religion. Mormonism can be dodgy, but Scientology deserves no ounce of good will.
@@Legionbass19 Yeah, I loved the ending speech in the Episode "All about Mormons" that the mormon kid says to Stan about how the religion may seem silly but preaches good values.
@Jackie89000 I heard so many bad stories about how things as SA in the church are constantly covered up by the Mormons though. Religion can be good, but too often it's used by bad people to justify their bad behavior
@@Legionbass19I mean they had a pretty major role in the lynching of several black people afaik.
The Jane and John Smith wasn't a joke. Matt and Trey wanted to make sure none of their employees got sued only them
What Chad's... well more then Chad's from what they done but ntl
@@kang4137 *gigachads*
He said that in the video😅
The heroes we don’t deserve
He said this in the video idiot. Here I'll add your pointless statement: Did you know that South Park basically brought down an entire religion called Scientology?
never forgive scientology for what they did to chef
chief?
Think they mean Chef, Issac Hayes was a goddamn tragedy.
@@curiouscommand5916 you got it man he was the goat it sucks that he got brainwashed
That fruity little club
The Super Adventure Club
Calling Scientology a religion is the same as calling a seahorse a horse
I dunno there all same people believing in bollocks being scammed out of money
Or calling tuna "chicken of the sea".
@@yvan2563 but is it chicken or tuna? chicken..... or tuna.... hmmmm
😂
I think cults are basically smaller religions, I could be wrong though
My sister took a World Religions class. They had speakers come in from a number of different religions. My sister simply could not stop laughing at the Scientology representative and everything they said. She thought it was a joke the teacher had set up.
I don't see how they are much worse than any other church. Christianity is full of insane beliefs so is the Muslim faith.
I don't see how believing in alien ghosts is that much different from believing in an invisible all powerful God, that needs priests that can't keep their hands of small boys to tell you what is right.....
It was a joke the teacher had set up. Only the scientologist rep didn't know it.
Scientology is a joke that was played on the world
But you respected the other fairy tales that were told.
@@user-oo7uq9zq3b What's with you bud. Even the most staunch professionals admit that 30-40% of the Bible mirrors history
I think Scientology hates Psychiatry because they know any therapist worth their salt would advise the client to flee the cult.
Faxx
Aye!!!
Most therapists aren’t worth their salt tho
Most cults hate psychiatry. For obvious reasons lol
My personal theory is that Hubbard was in mental institutions when he was younger, and held a grudge against them forever. And to be fair, psychiatry had a lot of ethical issues in its infancy. That's not really the case anymore, but Scientology already placed its bets so it has to keep making psychiatry sound bad because religions don't make a habit out of changing tenets in the face of facts.
Imagine paying 200k to be told some secret science fiction story and some cartoon animates it on TV for you the next day
4 times more than the infamous Verbalase animation costed I guess.
That would be utterly soul crushing for anyone who actually DID pay to 'advance' to that level of spiritualism only to find out the next day, week or month on a damned cartoon for FREE! I didn't fully grasp this until seeing this video despite having actually seen the episode the day it aired 🤣
It should be reminded scientologists of lower level go through initiations practices that have been described as hypnotic for the one who went through it. It's extremely disorienting, and probably one of the reasons people lower their guard
@@_M_a_r_t_i_n_M You literally just said what the comment you replied to said...
@@RedFail1-1 Yes, sometimes discussions focus on a single topic, rather than veering off in any old direction. Acknowledgment that one agrees with another and reiterating in ones own words is, in large part, how consensus is formed.
I remember a couple of years before this episode, they had Scientologists in the Times Square subway station. I did that meter reading, they told me I was depressed, and I said no shit we are in New York. That is what alcohol is for. They stopped talking to me
Its crazy how the founder even ADMITTED he made it all up as marketing to sell his book yet there are people who still believe it. Its not like he was trying to hide it and say he was the next Jesus.
i guess they hide this part to newcomers, like the dumb alien story. It doesn't help to the money-machine
It’s the Heaven’s Gate all over again. A cult waiting for aliens to come take them in their spaceship but it never came - instead of the members realized they were conned their faith in the cult strengthened thinking “oh they did not arrive because our faith is not yet strong enough” eventually some members even committed suicide because of their belief
The founder was a notorious narcissitic piece of shit, so it doesn't really surprise me that people ate it up.
South Park saved my own family from being brainwashed by Scientology. They convinced us into their headquarters in LA and managed to bring my Mom to her knees. I saw right through them because the questions they asked were exactly the same as on South Park. My Mom says she had been through the worst depression and fear in her life in just 25 minutes with them. I showed her the South Park episode so she'd see what they actually beleive. I of course had to back it up with news articles and leaks but the Story of Xenu snapped her out of it. Who'd have thought South Park could save Millions from this cult.
Did you mean South Park saved my own family from being brainwashed by Scientology? Because you said South Park saved my own family from being brainwashed by South Park.
@@GrievousRebornI corrected it.
That's cool
@@gavincarothers595 Cope detected. Opinion rejected.
@@FrankieChickenlmao, found the scientology cult member.
The biggest red flag is that L. Ron Hubbard's own son said that L. Ron is a liar and a crook. That apple fell off the tree, landed in a river, and floated far away from the tree. 😂
Also, I find it funny that if there is really a scientology sector or whatever that reviews all internet videos about scientology they can't watch this one since it talks about xenu or whatever the thing is called 😂😂
@augustwhite7390 I grew up in the LDS (Mormon) church, and there are things the members aren't told until they reach the highest levels. It's basically a Freemason front, but none of the members would ever believe you if you told them that. I'm willing to bet that most of today's religions are that way. If people knew the truth of what they believed from day one, they wouldn't want to be a part of it.
They also believe a sci-fi novel is religion
And, honestly, well done to him. Worthy of truly great praise.
@@TheValoisMadness Agreed. He could have inherited it all, but he called it out instead.
A friend got involved with them in the 70s. He resurfaced years later and became a surveyor. He told me and a friend at a college reunion that those were lost years and it F'd him up for a decade.
My father was in scientology when L. Ron was still alive. He doesn't talk about it much, but some of the stories we could get out of him are horrifying. One such story was them forcing a heavily pregnant woman to eat garbage right out of the can. Torture, abuse, all of this stuff.
The sad thing, Isaac didn't quit. His Scientologist POA quit for him while he was in the hospital.
One thing that's not mentioned in this video is that Hayes did a few interviews after the episode aired, and he said that while he didn't find the episode accurate, he wasn't offended because he realizes that Matt and Trey make fun of everybody. That seems to lend further proof for the fact that him quitting was entirely Scientology's idea.
He does talk about this.
Blooms needs to see this.
His son backed up a statement similar to this comment.
@@Saintnick90 I mean Matt and Trey have often times talked about Religion, not just in the show but in the writing room, it's how they get ideas for episodes, like Isaac knew it was gonna happened
>owns a popular series
>exposes a cult
>save people from being scammed
>continues on like nothing ever happend
No replies?! Scandalous!
@@Joostmhwtruly out of place , something extraordinarily rare
well chef quit for one...
just an average day
@@spyhy4019good riddance I say.
Went into a scientology center once out of curiosity. It immediately gave me the creeps.
Got welcomed by a pretty receptionist who asked for my name. I initially just came in to use the bathroom, take a look around and leave, but right before I left I got called again and eventually was directed to a video screen. Again, out of curiosity, I stayed. The first video I watched was called "The Truth About Scientology" and was batshit insane - the whole video was about how scientology is not a cult and how the newspapers, the media and "bad people" (like doctors and scientists) lie to you so they could profit off of you being depressed and "not knowing the truth". The video had heavy anti-medication sentiments which were only implied. At this point my leg was already shaking with unease. The second video was a short 30-second introduction to scientology that said nothing to me. The third video was about the 3 'principles' of scientology (which were all really generic, like "knowledge should be for everyone"). What absolutely bothered me is that none of the videos, nor any of the people I talked to, could properly explain to me what scientology actually was. After I filled out the personality test, I sat down with an older lady that typed all my answers into a computer program, and printed out a graph (which, of course, told me I'm depressed), then tried to shill me one of their many introductory courses. At this point I was completely tuned out, since I realized scientology was just a glorified self-improvement course and not a religion.
It's incredible how accurate South Park's depiction is.
The silver lining is that if they're following their doctrine, at least they're not drugging people. We can only hope
This sounds amazing, how do I check it out?
Where can I find these amazing self improvement courses without joining the cult?
google @@kathleenshaw932
I knew he was a Scientologist but had no clue Tom Cruise was that cooked in the head.
He's possibly dyslexic, so he had to rely on pragmatic on-site experience his whole life.
That includes talking more often to people instead of reading.
He's probably trusted these people enough at some point, and got far enough in that he can't back out without admitting it was all for nothing.
Kind of like Travolta.
Not justifying it, but just putting some logic to his reasoning.
“YOU’RE NOT A RELIGION, YOU’RE A PYRAMID SCHEME!”
-Spatula Madness
Más bien es un culto
What’s the difference?
@@ProsecutorZekrom Are you this stupid to NOT see a difference? A pyramid scheme and religion have a clear benificiery, but Pyramid Schemes have people who lose a lot by nature, but religion does not. Communities are built on religion. Before you say, "Oh religions cause vIoLeNcE!1!", that only occurs because Religion is used as a dress for other things, also, only seven, SEVEN, percent of wars were caused by religions
@@ProsecutorZekromYour mother will never make it on top.
@@dansmith16 Your mum tried to make it on top, but fell off - long story short, Tohoku 2011
BRUH imagine only finding out your religion is a scam after you've dropped half a million on it, I would be HEATED.
That would make me crash out I’m ngl
Even worse if you paid to actually KNOW what it's about for it to be public knowledge now lmao
That's every religion brother
That whole sentence sounds crazy dropping half a million and not knowing it’s a scam is insane lol
No, you would probably double down as a coping mechanism, like many victims of scams and cults do.
The "Tom Cruise is a fudge packer" episode is also part of this amazing saga. Great episode! 💯
"...but, I'm not in the closet."
Yes, Tom.. you are in the closet.
Speaking of Scientology not liking Psychology:
I once heard Dr. Drew Pinsky on Loveline describe how he once visited the "Museum of Psychology" run by Scientology. He described it like a haunted house where they show you the horrible atrocities that psychologists have committed throughout history, such as electroshock therapy, and at the end they try to sign you up for Scientology.
Dr. Drew's conclusion was that at some point in his life, L. Ron Hubbard received some psychological help, perhaps against his will by his parents, and hated it so much that he decided to demonize it for the rest of his life.
Fun fact: 4chan's first real-life raids was against scientology.
Or at least one of them
were*
4chan doesn't raid anymore.
@@archermadsen7744Everyday we stray further from God's light. 😔
@@archermadsen7744 how does that change the fact presented
Matt Stone and Trey Parker went to the oscars high on LSD and wearing dresses. I dont think you can really do anything against guys like that.
One was dressed up like Jlo. With the open back green dress. Jlo hates both of them so much
“It’s a magical evening!” was one of the hardest laughs of my life. They’re legends.
@Skimmerlit still one of the funiest deflections ive seen from them.
That's friggin awesome.
@@teddycustumz3267because they love those taco kisses!
Weirdly, Scientologists had a stand at a car show here in Dublin a few years ago. They were offering personality tests, and for a laugh I went for it.
Given the asininity of the questions asked, it was very difficult not to laugh and I cracked more than once. They then asked me to leave and then followed me around the show as I took photos of the cars on my phone. I got to the point of asking their opinion on particular cars, which angered them even further.
Edit: I had known quite a lot about the cult prior to this.
I love screwing with them. Try not to laugh so they spend more time with you and not on someone else.
This was so important an episode, not just for South Park but for exposing the truth about this organization, which is not a church by the way, there is no religion involved here, their time is over
The death of Issac Hayes is still one of the saddest stories I’ve heard. A single episode forced a man from being able to continue the show he enjoyed working on, and the “religion” he supported ended up (supposedly) killing him completely. Just fucking depressing
A stroke killed him
@@tiffprendergast4925 ..said stroke was caused by a lack of proper medication and strict diets/exercise routines forced upon him by the church. They killed him.
@@johan-bq9ie and I believed this was confirmed by his son?
Well sadly it’s probably not the first time of the organization of taking a life
@@raptorskilltor4554oh look at Shelly Misciavage. Scientology has LAPD officers on payroll. They said they confirmed she was alive but no one has seen her in 18-ish years.
The greatest part of this was the fact that they wrote "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGY ACTUALLY BELIEVES", if they wanted to sue, they'd have to prove that they don't believe it, which would show what they actually believe.
It's actually not that big of a mystery anymore. Joe Rogan did a full on interview with a former scientologist member. She basically confirmed that it is indeed a cult.
That's not how the burden of proof works (eg. In a defamation case). It's the one who claims something who has to prove it, so here the South Park authors.
I guess they had some good proofs to back it up though.
@@DidierLoiseauAlmost. 😂 The burden of proof lays on the plaintiff. And since the South Park team wasn’t one, they didn’t have to prove they weren’t servants of Xenu or whatever other accusations the plaintiff (the cult of Scientology) would write down in the lawsuit. 😉 Meaning if I were to sue you for defamation, I would have to prove that you defamed me. You would not have to prove that you didn’t. 😂
@@DidierLoiseauno. You have to prove the thing they said wasn’t true.
If you can’t provide evidence that proves the party you are suing for defamation is lying, you don’t get to win.
@@SergeDuka defaming does not necessarily imply that the statements were false, just that they hurt your reputation. However the case would be dropped if the statements are proven to be true.
Generally, you would thus not have to prove that the statements were not true. In fact, in most cases, it would be impossible. If I say that you have committed a crime, e.g. that you were drunk driving two months ago, how would you prove that it wasn’t true?
Same thing here: how do you prove that you don’t believe something?
It’s the general issue of proving a negative.
What the plaintiff has to prove instead is that the defendant made a defamatory statement to at least one other person and, usually, that the plaintiff suffered special damages as a result.
However here, we are dealing with media, which makes things more complicated. They might be covered by freedom of the press, I don’t know (and IANAL). In that case, the plaintiff might indeed have to prove that the statements were untrue, and even that some malice was involved.
Got a Scientology ad during this video and thought it was included at first cuz I wasn’t looking at the screen n just listening 😂😂
I went to the Scientology museum I. Los Angeles and when they asked what knew about the religion I just said I know about the South Park episode
😅😂❤
Then what happened?😂
The fact that even 4Chan also banded together to take down Scientology speaks volumes
If 4Chan is against u than u really fucked around and found out
Yeah 😂
The one time 4Chan actually did something good, & boy, did they deliver!
@@antonydrossos5719 One time? Go look up what they do to anyone who posts animal abuse.
@@Chpow014chan is like a fragmented hive mind that occasionally coalesces into one being to do good things and then spends the rest of it's time hating minorities
"I'll take the video down for $50,000."
Scientology: You're breaking my balls, man.
Lmao tells a lot about their current "power", which i just love so much.
IDK if they can afford 50k right now. @Blooms
Scientology owns the most amount of real estate in Los Angeles than any other entity. They are over 20 million members. They are rich as heck. They've gone socially underground; they are still if not more so, a contender in cult-ish and Szionist related circles.
"Your really pushing the envelope here man..."
They own almost half of the real estate in LA. They have over 20 million members. They have a ton of money and power...they have all gone underground, however. CZcams deleted my last comment on this in this thread... Regardless, don't underestimate them; gaslight masters, human traffkrs
I totally forgot R. Kelly was in this. It wasnt mentioned here but that was a parody of this really bizzare series of videos he made back then called "In the closet." Havent seen in well over a decade but I remember it giving me a good wtf? laugh
Thank you for posting this, John Smith.
Fun fact: Hubbard committed so many crimes that he had to spend the end of his life on a boat in international waters. This is because he would be arrested immediately anywhere in the world he put his foot on land.
on a boat, in international waters, surrounded by underage "servant" girls 🤢
Anyone who wants to learn more, listen to Behind the Bastards Ron L Hubbard
And then he somehow convinced people to place their CHILDREN ON THAT BOAT!
Well people also continue to send their kids to religious institutions infamous for child molestation and rape. Parents unfortunately often sacrifice their children on the altar of their personal believes. So that didn't really surprise me... Howard did hold some sway to some people back than as any cult does...@@maliamock7642
So that's why he was so associated with boats.
"I'll sue your ass and your balls" One of my favorite South Park lines.
"We'll sue you too, buddy!"
Cult is just another four letter word for scam
Revelatory
It's weird, here in Germany there was a very lively and public debate about scientology, and the public was fairly well informed. We even had someone at our school to speak about it.
Ja, wir haben das Thema Sekten und Scientology im Religionsunterricht durch genommen und warum sie gefährlich sind.
They don't talk about cults in most schools in the US. It's seen as infringing on the rights of other cults.
@@toulousegoose1150the line between cult and religion is a lot blurrier in the USA than in other Western countries. There are many supposedly Christian denominations that are little more than cults.
@@happyspaceinvader508 I'm American, am living elsewhere for now. My mother's former church told them that Satan put fake dinosaur bones in the ground to confuse people and lead them away from God. The whole denomination is a cult, and the laws are written so Abrahamic cults don't get offended. I agree with you that those lines are blurred.
@@happyspaceinvader508izlam is a dangerous cult that marrys k*DS and throws LGBT ppl off roofs but y'all afraid to talk about it
One of south park's most controversial episodes. "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"
😂 so true
I'd even argued that this is the least controversial episode
Least controversial but biggest aftermath @Zamtrios245
@@Zamtrios245Easy to say nowadays, but as stated in the video, talking about scientology was a big no-no in the industry before this episode aired.
@Zamtrios245 I wanna say their Muhammad one takes the cake. Back when it was on Hulu, they didn't even list the episode lol.
L. Ron Hubbard: You can't get rich by writing science-fiction.
George Lucas: Hold my beer.
Yea if you ever read his books before Scientology he wasn't a very good writer. I mean obviously his description of the ships is literally "they look like planes with jet engines." So... they look like planes..
And even George Lucas wasn't that good.
Star Wars is a straight plagiarize of the 1st Dune book.
It was so bad the Frank Herbert sued Lucas.
@@x808drifter😂people love to hate
Weirdly, I read these books when I was in my early teen and kinda liked them as an humoristic science-fic, in the same genre than Diskworld and Hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy. I though hilarous how the hero suceeded when the space drug dealer tried to sabotage him by using batshit solutions even to an alien civilization, like learning the language while speeding the recording, or calculating something size by using the echo of steps.
@@x808drifterDune Flash Gordon and the Hidden fortress
4chan and South Park teaming up to take down Scientology is the least expected thing ever
I love the episode where Tom Cuise was working as a fugde packer lol
I had to do a research presentation on Scientology in 11th grade. I spent like 5 minutes of it talking about this episode and the controversy that surrounded it and my teacher ended up giving me extra credit because he said that he loved the episode and was glad I mentioned it.😂
I’m going to bring up South Park in school thank you
That's a cool teacher
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Here in germany, you have to confirm that you are not a Scientologist when you want to work with kids. I think that is very sensible. Edit: after reading a flustered comment about me being not right I'd like to add that I can only speak for Berlin, since I only taught kids here. Not as a teacher, but a coding workshop mentor.
Would be more sensible to extend that to many many other religions that prey on the developing minds of kids 😬
Gg Germany 🇩🇪
@@nebojsarodic1720Islam
*WHOA*
as someone who is planning to move to germany, i have yet to see a genuine downside to moving there compared to the USA lol
This is the greatest video you have every posted absolutely insane
The fact that Tom Cruise actually propagated a bullshit of this magnitude makes me wonder what kind of a dumb guy he must be.
“Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu” That was pure gold 😂
i remember being like 13 and watching the one scientology south park episode with my dad and genuinely thinking that scientology was just something they made up for the plot of the episode 😭😭
it fr doesn't sound real
They used the Anal Probe to lure me into the cult. The Probe Of Xenu.
Wait until you hear about Nation of Islam (not to be confused with the religion, Islam; they're two different things). It's like scientology mixed with Heaven's Gate Cult for afrosupremacist terrorists.
Wait until you hear about Nation of Islam (not to be confused with the religion, Islam; they're two different things). It's like scientology mixed with Heaven's Gate Cult for afrosupremacist terrorists
Wait until you hear about Nation of 1slam (not to be confused with the religion, 1slam; they're two different things). It's like scientology mixed with Heaven's Gate Cult for frosupr3macist t3rrorists.
Sorry about all the numbers and stupid censoring. CZcams won't let me post anything mentioning religion, race, or anything slightly controversial. I've tried to post this twice already.
I think cheeseburgers go well with fries
Same
Don't forget your nuggets
Or the sauce
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Hello Scientologists watching this! You can escape. It's ok out here.
GTA 5 did a wonderful piss take of Scientology as well.
"My journalistic integrity is worth a lot less than a million dollars. if you just slide me $50k this video will cease to exist" absolutely TOOK me OUT 😹
Fortunately, that would not be a problem. It would be reuploaded the very next day. The internet, uhh, finds a way.
I recall Penn and Teller had their show Bullshit! at the time; and told Matt and Trey they wanted to cover Scientology so bad, but the lawyers and network wouldn’t clear it. Then Matt and Trey just up and did it, proving they shouldn’t have been so fearful in the first place
In fairness it was the lawyers and network; P&T likely would have gone after them.
That's not on P&T - their show is live action, it needs studio space and travel expenses and god knows how much else and it all has to be cleared through execs who would see 'scientology episode' and just say no.
SP is made by a very small and very close knit crew of madlads who don't need to interact with anyone else and can get an episode from conception to broadcast in as little as 3 days.
We need a part 2 of this. And other cults and all religions. Thank you Christopher Hitchens.
"We need more Marks!"
-Scientology, probably
I think South Park standing up to Scientology showcased that in many ways they were something of a paper tiger; they opened the doors for others to mock and laugh at them.
are you an idiot? Anonymous was well into Project Chanology at this point .. Trey and Matt were piggy backing on what they were doing..
The last bit of inspiration I needed!
"What religion was he in? Hare Krishna??"
No, it's Kamitora! And it's not really a religion. I just found out... Actually my police family neighbors call them Paper Paladins!
"...Why?"
Because they're all about paper! Cash Donations, Lawsuits and Posters with scandalous stuff!
"Google translated that as Paper Tiger...?"
YEAH. That's why they didn't get to be a religion!
If you were an individual, especially one who had little to no money. they could, and would, make your life hell. Paulette Cooper, Richard Behar, Karin Spaink, David S Touretzky, Gracy ward, and more.
ngl there’s really not much dirt u can have on 2 guys who admitted to being high on acid while wearing dresses at an awards show 😭
I totally forgot the acid but yea.
They were doing Acid and still doing South Park. There isn’t much more what could look as munition against them. 😂
When I was a teenager as close friend talked me into entering Scientology I did some tests with them in Sydney Australia and told him they were just about brainwashing and control I was young but not stupid and moved on and the watched their machinations over the years I'm glad I kept my life intact and normal
Thank you for your time and effort with this video. More people should know of this.
The Scientologists trying to dig up dirt on the creators of the show, only to find nothing because all the crazy shit they do is public anyway
I’m amazed they didn’t find anything on anyone. Like… how? How do you not find anything of note on the people who make _South Park?_
I’m pretty sure this means their spies aren’t that good at digging up dirt.
@@chinsaw2727 They were actually very thorough. The issue is that nothing South Park does is private, you can’t find any dirt to hold against them because it’s already public information
@@chinsaw2727you try finding dirt on two dudes who admitted to being high on acid while wearing dresses at an awards show
@@chinsaw2727spent all that money looking, hoping for actual evidence when they probly coulda spent like half that on a few people to lie about them. it wouldve done more damage
they get paid to make the skeletons in the closet.
"Just slide me 50k and this video will disappear" - Blooms
I won't call you a sellout, I'd do the same thing.
Yeah the economy is rough these days
Hell you'd be doing more by taking down the video and slowly draining their fund than by keeping it up as everybody who knows SouthPark knows about scientology
And then reupload it a week later from a different account 🤣
If the video really disappear then we should all do videos about scientology! To protest? Hell no, it's for the easy money!
And cheap! Do 1M!
Great intro, I especially loved the part where i was trying to read the quote from Trey and Matt but the graphic was bouncing with the beat drop.
When you think of the word scientology, you think it must be a science related thing 😅
Respect to the creators of South Park for leaving all the names out of the credits in order to protect their staff. Love it
Is Old Mother Hubbard L Ron's wife ?
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel." - Mark Twain
By the way, since Warthunder is the sponsor for the video... Take a shot for every time classified information has been leaked on it's fourms.
When will Southpark do the same to lslam??
R
am acoustic what does this mean
"Its easier to fool somebody, than to convince them they have been fooled"
M.Twain 👍
@@RalphEllis they kinda did with the Image of the Prophet episode...
... Thing is, way back in season 2, not only did they have an animated character of Muhammad as one of Jesus' Super Best Friends, they were also making fun of Scientology at the same time, but using David Blaine and his Blaine-iacs as the stand in for it.
one of hazy moments I have on Scientology is about Travolta's son
All jokes aside. I LOVED this video.
I remember watching that episode years ago and being flabbergasted at the information about Scientology's beliefs and having a good laugh and all...etc. But I never imagined that it had that profound an impact to this day! I'm so, well, grateful to SP for doing this. I've always hated Scientology and all CULTS like it for taking advantage of people at their most vulnerable. Mentally AND financially.
You're video taught me a LOT of things about that episode and what unfolded afterwards! Thanks for going so deep into it and creating videos like this.
Peace and prosperity!
*LIKED and SUBSCRIBED BTW*
Also, Church of Scientology wanted to infiltrate the South Park studios? They had friggin Isaac Hayes RIGHT THERE!
So the short answer is loyalty and a stroke.
The longer version is that the church felt he was “too close to be useful” combined that with his aforementioned stroke and he was about as useful to them as a screen door on a submarine.
Isaac Hayes probably wouldn't've been on board with it, even if he hadn't suffered a stroke. He was upset but reasonable about the episode, and soon afterwards, he had a stroke, and because of that the Scientologists essentially resigned FOR him(there wouldn't have been any way for him to do espionage on Parker and Stone after that), leading to them trying to treat him with their pseudoscientific crap.
“You’re not the guy who played Napoleon Dynamite, but you’re alright” 😂
I was in school when this episode came out and me and my best friend LOVED IT. Brandon literally could not wait to show it to me. He used to tape episodes off cable for me because I didn’t have cable and could watch South Park lol.
That’s actually a really cute story. Glad y’all had fun with that, haha!
You did an awesome job with this video. New sub my man.
The way South Park brought down Scientology reminds me of Mickey Rourke's quote from Iron Man 2:
"If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in Him. There will be blood in the water, the sharks will come. All I have to do is sit back and watch as the world consumes you."
When I played „The Stick of Truth“ Southpark videogame I almost died from laughing because Tom Cruise was still in Stans closet.
I didn't actually catch that. I know I missed a good deal of it. Good catch :)
XD
The best thing you can do when a scientologist tries to talk to you is just say "dont you miss your family? how long has it been since you saw them? when did you hug your mother last?"
You can see the tears in their eyes as they walk away because they literally arent allowed to talk about their life before scientology. Its the only way to get them to leave you alone
Thanks for the info!
Damn thats cold. But effective.
@@TheSuperappelflap AS THEY DESERVE
Thanks. I could put that information into use someday.😊 Maybe I could finally have some fun for once...
@@TheSuperappelflap anyone that uses that method is a horrible human being and will HAVE a terrible life because of their bad karma.
Oh I forgot that Scientology was taken down 20 years ago. So glad they were taken down and we haven't heard from them since.
Fascinating. On so many level. Nice piece of investigative journalism.
Matt and Trey deserve the Noble Peace prize for saving millions from this scam
Nothing changed after this episode aired and if you watch this shitty reaction channel you’re a moron.
Noble Peace Prize is reserved for war criminals and loan sharks
Nothing gets through to most cult members.
I've written D&D one-shots with more cohesive and believable stories than what Scientology is based on.
Damn, imagine getting beaten by a random dnd dungeon Master lol.
I played a mind flayer paladin that rolled a nat 20 forgery check that showed he should be the king. Then the royal golem truth tested me and I rollee a nat 20 on the bluff check and it attacked his own family and said I was king
Riches await you! Just need some dark triad personality defects ...
This what happens when your mythology is based on a failed sci-fi writer in the 40's.
@@tyrant-den884 I read Battlefield Earth, not a bad book, the movie? A disaster.
This was a good Video, subscribed. Thanks for making it
We need South Park to take on Swifties
The fact that Isaac Hayes quit while he was fine with making fun of every other religion proves South Park's point.
IIRC, according to his son, Hayes seemingly wasn't really offended by that episode. I think he was pressured by scientology to quit.
@@user-jl7cz2pe6d he reportedly suffered a stroke, during which time associates within the ‘religion’ quit for him; at least that’s what I’ve heard.
@@John_the_Paul 'that's what I've heard', bruh, it's in this video. Just say it said towards the end of this video.
Scientology is like ALL religions - they make some good points (eg. over-prescription of psych meds) but then spoil it with a lot of offensive nonsense…
@@LastRookie well yeah, but given the original comment and the amount of likes that comment got, how many of these people actually watched the video?
I grew up in Scientology and was in elementary school when this episode came out. I still remember the rumors about this episode when it came out. No one was directly allowed to talk about it, but we still questioned if it was accurate. It caused a lot of drama around Scientologists at the time.
Do you still believe in, it okay if you I'm not judging I'm asking a legitimate question
@@jakeutage374 Definally not some of my family is still in it but I’m wayyyyy out of
@@calvinbenson3663 Ah thank you for answering my question
K. Ron Hubbard was a fraud!
@@calvinbenson3663Damn are you okay these days hope you are
I remember those days and my impression was that Cruise's erratic behaviour did most of the damage to the ehm...."church".
After coming out of the closet, in episode 200, the boys find out Tom Cruise got a job at a chocolate factory…. in short he was a fudge packer.
"i had a really weird lecture the other day, my Professor was waffling about war of thunder"
Maybe they are sponsoring him too 😅. Wouldn't surprise me, this day in age.
I can’t overstate enough how much I love how Matt and Trey for how they don’t back down to bullies. The balls they have is insane! We’re very lucky to have them.
I like their balls
I love their balls
They have huge balls. Baseketballs if you will.
They backed down from the Muslim religion.
@@truejaneysue8269 That wasn't them, that was Comedy Central.
"I'd make up a religion just for laughs, but L. Ron Hubbard beat me to it!" 😂
Cool that you added A-Aron too! His channel is good and growing.
This episode saved my life. Not kidding. Craziest plot twist of my life.
Edit: fyi Tom Cruise is absolutely not distancing himself from the cult. He's bff's with David Miscavige. He just appeared at the first post-covid IAS annual event in England a few months ago. He's as locked in as anyone in the cult. You can't interview him unless you promise in writing to never ask him about Scientology.
Whats the story?
@@michelhadid yeah I want him to spill the beans!
Born in the cult. Had no idea about any of the confidential OT materials. I was trafficked by the cult. I watched that episode. I got tf out haha
@@carpeimodiem Dam glad you got out and Screw Scientology
@@carpeimodiem thanks for the context. Glad youre out
The R. Kelly, "now I'm in the closet, I'm in the closet too". I always die laughing hearing that.
Excellent presentation.
Thank you.
Thank you. Never been a South Park fan. So did not know of this episode. But I had read leaked documents several years ago. Reading about that Xenu nonsense made me glad I did not get caught up in that crap when I was teenager. I had read the Dianetics (sp??) book eons ago and am glad I think it was my mother who pointed out this was a dangerous shallow con. Was attracted to the promises of making you more than you are. To reach your true potential and all that. They prey on the weak and broken but pursue the rich and anyone with money. Glad they are decreasing in numbers despite their billions.
"Heheh look at this. I found Trey and Matt once dropped acid and wore dresses."
"DAMN THAT'S PERFECT! Where did you find that?"
"The Oscars reel."
fr lmao like what embarrassing shit did they expect to find that wasn't already proudly on public display?
@@caspers3rdbathroomstall766 “Scientology can’t expose you if you carefully expose yourself first lol”
“FUCK what about them saying some gay or trans shit?”
“Sir-“
“I KNOW I KNOW IM TRYING DAMMIT”
@@Werewolf.with.Internet.AccessYou good bro?
@@caspers3rdbathroomstall766 they were high.
Years ago I had a friend consider joining Scientology. She’s fairly smart but after our deployment she came back with a lot of issues and saw that group as a way to help her. I showed her this episode and at first she didn’t believe it but she eventually did her own research and decided against joining them!
Such a good story affirming the reason Matt and Trey wanted to risk doing the episode.
Don't stop there! Go forth and prevent others from joining...
Is joining scientology still popular.
@@Halcon_Sierreno Kind of seems like it. When I still had tiktok, there were sooo many videos of a guy just "camping" in front of their buildings and embarrassing the workers there when they tried to get unexpected people to come in and join them, essentially saving them from their shady hands
Love your presentations and SP!!
Up there with the Mormon episode. Brilliant.
A funny little story about scientology. My grandfarther was interveiwed in a church of scientology and, of course, got told that he should become a part of the church because he could become happier. My grandfarther is a very happy and compasionate man so he didn't see any point in joining the church, so he reversed the interview and got the interviewer to reflect on their life. They were in tears and my grandfarther comforted them and left.
Nice
Your grandfather sounds like a lovely man
He reminds me of Iroh from avatar
Bro pulled out a uno reverse card
@@Susman69. I was about to write that but I chose not to
The R. Kelly addition was all because at the time, he had a music video series called “Trapped in the Closet”
oh yeah, but now he locked up fr 😅
@@Sentarry Trapped in the Cell
@justpok3285 My names R. Kelly and I like to p
@@justpok3285Trapped in the lockup sounds better
I’ve met a few Scientologists and they were all senior citizens with money.