The results go all the way to the top of the organization, as Stan's "Thetan levels" are extraordinarily high - leading higher-ups to peg him as the reincarnation of Scientology founder L. In the episode, Stan is sucked into the faux-religion after taking a personality test. Let's begin with the season 12 episode "Trapped in the Closet," which took on a pretty big target: the Church of Scientology. Well, we're certainly game to try, but it'll take some digging. The fact that the show became a massive hit and is still going strong today should tell you all you need to know about its reception from audiences, but critics and television watchdogs have taken the show to task early and often for its vulgar, shocking, insensitive (and hilarious) humor. After more than two decades, is it even possible to pin down the single most controversial episode ever aired? When the show debuted in 1997, audiences were still accustomed to their cartoons being no more edgy than The Simpsons (which could actually get pretty edgy), and the adventures of Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman - those foul-mouthed, morally ambiguous children who can't seem to keep from stumbling into the most bizarre situations imaginable - was pretty far beyond. Parker and Stone reportedly received death threats in response to the episodes.Comedy Central's long-running animated series South Park has been controversial from its very first episode. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revisited the subject of censorship in episodes "200" and "201," the latter being deemed particularly incendiary and which saw Comedy Central beefing up security around their offices. These episodes were produced following the protests and violence sparked by Danish newspaper cartoon depictions of Muhammad, as well as the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim man who objected to van Gogh's short film Submission: Part 1. The episodes explored the themes of censorship, free speech, and fear, but were also censored by Comedy Central to remove any on-screen depictions or mentions of Muhammad. In IGN's "Super Best Friends" review, we said, "While this isn't one of South Park's best episodes of all time, it stands out because of the sheer audacity of incorporating just about all of the world's major religions in one silly joke." South Park then explored, in its own very meta way, the furor over depicting the prophet in the two-parter "Cartoon Wars," which chronicled the uproar over a cartoon's (in this case, Family Guy) attempt to broadcast an uncensored version of the Prophet Muhammad. Even so, the episode aired without much controversy in 2005 and was only censored in later years. "Super Best Friends" portrayed a superhero team made up of religious figures such as Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, and Muhammad, the latter being strictly prohibited from being figuratively depicted in Islam.
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