“Trapped in the Closet” is the twelfth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 16, 2005. Tom Cruise reportedly threatened to back out of his promotional obligations for the Paramount Pictures film Mission: Impossible III if Viacom, the owner of both Comedy Central and Paramount, allowed a repeat airing of the episode. The episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in July 2006.
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“Trapped in the Closet” is the twelfth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 16, 2005. In the episode, Stan joins Scientology in an attempt to find something ‘fun and free’ Tom Cruise reportedly threatened to back out of his promotional obligations for the Paramount Pictures film Mission: Impossible III if Viacom, the owner of both Comedy Central and Paramount, allowed a repeat airing of the episode. Isaac Hayes, the voice of staple character Chef, asked to be released from his contract shortly before the start of the tenth season due to his membership in Scientology. The episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in July 2006, in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program category. It is mentioned in the Scientology critique film The Bridge. TV Guide ranked the episode #17 on its list of “TV’s Top 100 Episodes of All Time”. The title is a reference to the R. Kelly serialized song of the same name and a satirized version of R. Kelly appears in the episode as well as the movie R. Kelly: The Machine That Loved Me, starring John Travolta, Nicole Kidman, and Robert De Niro. It was featured among Comedy Central’s list of ’10 South Parks That Changed The World’, spoofed by Conan O’Brien in the opening segment of the 58th Primetime Emmys. It has since been rebroadcast on Comedy.
Central multiple times, and has been re-run several times on the Comedy Central satellite channel Comedy Central Live. It also appeared on The Colbert Report and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, among other TV shows, including The Daily Show, The Voice, and The Voice Kids, among others. “Trapped” was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for South Park creator Trey Parker’s production company, South Park Productions. “Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls” was shown instead of the original episode on March 15, 2006, as a tribute to Hayes, but South Park creators said they were’servants of the dark lord Xenu’ The episode has been cited as one of the top 10 South Park episodes of all time, along with “South Park: The Animated Series” and “The Simpsons: South Park: A Tribute to South Park” (both by South Park co-creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone). The episode also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. “L. Ron Hubbard’s Second Coming” is a condensed version of the Scientology Operating Thetan III, according to the church’s website. The Church of Scientology’s website states that the president of the church is the founder and prophet of Scientology, L.Ron Hubbard, not the founder himself.
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