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It says in the interview that they told Comedy Central they wanted to do a cartoon with Mohammed in it as reponse (& to get the attention of?) to the Muslims in Europe rioting over the editorial strip. CC told SP that they would not air it. In a power-move, SP told CC that they were already under contract to produce 7 new episodes and one of the eps would be the Mohammed one and that CC would have to pay for it irregardless. They then upped that to two eps out of the seven by making it a two-parter putting even more pressureon CC to go ahead and air both shows, which they eventually did. To show they were good sports, SP didn't even actually show Mohammed. They had, however, already done so in a ep for a couple of seasons ago called "Super Best Friends." The first of the interview explains how when they first caught wind of the riots over the editorial comic, they (a tad self-importantly) thought at first it was because the particular Muslim groups had eventually seen "Super Best Friends."
That's swell to know that Matt & Trey actually want to piss off these extremists and dictators, isn't it?
On that note, I thought Team America:World Police was much better than I thought it would be, but it still is basically dogshit as satire.
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