Throughout, Muhammad is dressed in a bear suit, an ironic nod to the prohibition on showing images of Islam’s founding father.Īfter episode 200, titled Fudge Packer, was broadcast in the US on April 14, 2010, Comedy Central - which is part-owned by media giant Viacom - was threatened by New York-based radical group Revolution Muslim. In a bizarre sub-plot in the two-part episode, Cruise also wrangles the prophet Muhammad into his scheme, secretly motivated by a desire to harness the prophet's 'goo', which grants immunity to ridicule. The episodes in question feature a typically convoluted plotline in which Tom Cruise - the butt, so to speak, of an elaborate gag in season nine about both his sexuality and his membership of the Church of Scientology - rounds up 200 other celebrities who have been targets of the show’s satire in order to launch a class-action defamation suit against the town of South Park.
