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Tom Cruise Threatens South Park

by leora on January 19th, 2006

I wish I had seen this episode of South Park.  If anyone has it on tape and wants to send it my way I’d be forever grateful!!!!  I bet South Park Tom Cruise was pretty awesome:

“UK TV viewers will not get to see an episode of South Park which shows Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta attempting to coax a fictional Tom Cruise character out of a closet, with Kidman saying: “Don’t you think this has gone on long enough? It’s time for you to come out of the closet. You’re not fooling anyone.”

Naturally, the robustly heterosexual Top Gun star took exception to this when Trapped in the Closet aired in the US. The episode also showed Stan - believed by the Cruise character to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - having a pop at Cruise’s acting abilities, and Cruise reportedly waved the legal big stick at Paramount and threatened to sue if the offending program was ever shown again.

An insider said: “Tom is famously very litigious and will go to great lengths to protect his reputation. Tom was said not to like the episode and Paramount just didn’t dare risk showing it again. It’s a shame that UK audiences will never see it because it’s very funny.” via The Register

Tags: south park, tom cruise, scientology, john travolta, nicole kidman, ron hubbard, trapped in the closet

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