‘South Park’ Had to Hide the Names in the Credits for This Classic Episode, Thanks to Tom Cruise
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To this day, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology still haven’t been able to track down and silence the many writers, animators and voice actors who made the 2005 South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet” a hit, but they’re pretty sure it was a family affair.
It’s no secret that the politically aggressive organization founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is a litigious group, though the Scientologists will probably sue me for saying so. The Church of Scientology famously bombarded the Internal Revenue Service with more than 50 lawsuits in their fight to gain status as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, a war the Scientologists won handily. As such, the Church of Scientology takes decisive action to protect its most internationally popular and recognizable figurehead from embarrassment or mockery, no matter which 10-year-old’s closet he may be hiding out in.
When South Park’s first and certainly not last takedown of Tom Cruise and Scientology hit television in 2005, the incensed agents of the organization who watched “Trapped in the Closet” to the end credits were dismayed to find that, in the place where the names of their next targets should be, every single person involved in the making of the South Park episode was credited as either “John Smith” or “Jane Smith,” including the show’s world-famous pair of creators, John Smith and John Smith.
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