Tom Cruise, member of Scientology, the funniest religion in the world, is far from pleased with the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, at the moment.

In November 2005 the South Park episode "Trapped in the Closet" aired, it made fun of the Church of Scientology, and in it Tom Cruise won't come out of a closet, because Kyle, who Cruise believes is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard, doesn't like his acting. The trouble started when Comedy Central wanted to show the episode again. This time Tom Cruise felt it was nescessary to sue Paramount, owner of Comedy Central, he also stated that he would not go on the press tour for his upcoming movie Mission Impossible: 3, because it was being distributed by Paramount, if the episode's reairing wouldn't be cancelled.

Not exactly a surprising move from the lunatic, unfortunately Paramount agreed and removed the episode from the program. You'd think the farce was over now, but no, Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, suddenly decided to quit. He's also a member of the Church of Scientology, and apparently self-irony isn't one of the values they practise. I knew Scientology is a pretty crazy belief system, but after a bit of researching I'm more or less in chock. Scientology believes that the alien Xenu brought billions of aliens to the earth, 75 million years ago, dumped them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. The souls of these beings infected the humans and today they are the reason that we have problems such as fear and uncertainty. Did I mention that the creator of Scientology was a science-fiction author? Anyway, Stone and Parker decided to show the episode outside in London, on a big screen, for free. Lastly:

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!" – South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, responding to Viacom/Comedy Central's bowing to Scientology/Tom Cruise pressure to not re-show "Trapped in the Closet" episode