This Episode Had Us Busting A Gut Laughing - South Park:Trapped In The Closet

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In today's video we react to South Park: Season 9, Episode 12
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[@mariobnicole8669]

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[@dansgaming2064]

Have you seen the episode Cash for Gold? I think that's what it's called.

[@MrDevintcoleman]

South Park doesn’t need to embellish when it’s making fun of religion. This one and the Mormon one both essentially accurately portray their beliefs and practices.

[@AyAy008]

Those are cults, not religions.

[@Tero92]

​@@AyAy008right

[@LamirLakantry]

Christianity is just as ridiculous and weird. You're just used to the idea of symbolically drinking blood and eating flesh in remembrance of the human sacrifice of a god man who sacrificed himself to himself to make himself forgive you for being descended from someone who ate a forbidden fruit. Oh and their symbol is a literal torture device. See! All religions are ridiculous.

[@reggielacey2235]

​@@AyAy008no it's not

[@Saphthings]

I was once stuck in the Scientology cult. Took me years of deprogramming to get back to normal, and even then it's hard sometimes. By "personality test" what it does is they have a whole system of quantifying your emotions into numbers. Like "you're a 2, which means anger". Then they have a whole system of trying to manipulate others by becoming a different number and dominating the conversation by matching their "tone". Picture Arya in Game of Thrones. You learn to be "no one" and fully becoming another emotion by matching their tone then raising it. You learn to mirror people. You literally spend hundreds of hours sitting in front of someone else and learning to fully become a different emotion to manipulate others. I had a moment of clarity where I was watching a movie and someone was crying and instead of me feeling empathy or sad, I just calculated her emotion and was like, "she probably is doing blank and blank wrong". That's the moment where I knew this was getting inside me. Everything they show said about the cult is very accurate. And they're in more places then you think, like they'll target dentists, professionals, and then take over their entire business and every employee has to go get trained by them in Florida. They'll say it's separate, their management methods and their cult, but it's designed to slowly get you in until you don't even realize you're part of them until you're paying them hundreds of dollars a month for them to hypnotize you in order for you to get "clear" while they're telling you to separate yourself from all your family and friends & not to take any medicine either because all you need is them. They use these tone matching things to get customers to buy stuff from them.

[@LiveForFuntasy]

This episode was one of the first times most people were exposed to the real beliefs of Scientology. The E-meters, thetan levels, personality test questions, and the Xenu aliens were all very close to what Scientology practices.

[@Juide80]

Well, it's pretty bold to put a big text to the screen that says "This is what the Church of Scientology actually believes" and not being worried about of any legalities. They knew their stuff and thought it was time for the whole world to know. They would've never done any of this if they weren't absolutely sure they had their facts straight. And they still make it hilarious which puts them so much higher than the other ones.

[@joelt00b]

Yes its real. This is one of the only episodes you see "this is what scientologists actually believe". Leah remini and others who separated from scientology confirmed it

[@mclovinit8639]

It is funny because it is true and so ridiculous. To think people actually look up to these nutballs in Hollywood is even funnier.

[@rsync9490]

Charles manson even said Scientology was too crazy for even him.

[@joelt00b]

Fun fact: they couldnt say tom cruise was gay so they put him in a literal closet to get around it 😂

[@worthless7653]

why couldnt they say he was gay?

[@sasuke1718]

​@@worthless7653 Cuz Tom Cruz likes to sue anyone who calls him gay

[@tonyburkett3960]

Don't forget his job packing fudge at the fudge factory, too bad those episodes are banned. Presumably they were banned for showing Muhammed but I suppose Tommy boy might have had something to do with it.

[@bryanneal939]

​@@worthless7653tom sued anyone that publicly called him gay, so south Park literally put him in the closet to tell him to come out haha

[@noahlogue]

My parents are nurses and we all lived at a scientologist Narconon for a time, those people are really weird and before every meal they stand and look at a picture of L. Ron Hubbard.

[@joelt00b]

You might have missed at the end the credits say jane and john smith to prevent them from being sued. Scientology is very litigious

[@666FallenShadow]

the church of scientology actually hired private detectives to try and find dirt on the creators of south park but they couldn't find anything

[@SuperDrocket]

@@666FallenShadow It's probably more accurate to say they couldn't find any dirt that would be damaging if it would be revealed. I mean, we're talking about two guys who showed up for the Oscars high as a kite on LSD - I'm sure they have lots of dirt. They just don't care and are entirely willing to admit it all publicly. It's like the story of the time the KGB tried to blackmail the president of Indonesia with secretly recorded sex tapes - he asked for more copies so he could give them to his friends.

[@Juide80]

Obviously the credit thing was just a joke but it was obviously also a big middle finger to the Church of Scientology just to make it a little harder for them to sue all of the parties involved. I have never thought of a second that Trey, Matt or the Comedy Central were ever really worried that they would have a serious chances of losing any possible court case if any was ever to come up because of this episode. Obviously leaving the names out of the credits would never give you any kind of cover for legal liabilities so of course it was all just a joke and of course they were never worried about any legalities.

[@patrickkanas3874]

They went after Matt and Trey big time to. They were so hell-bent on finding something to use against them that one of the actions they took was to hire a film school gradute to get a job for the show so he could spy on them

[@bryanneal939]

Around when this came out, tom cruise would sue anyone that called him gay and in the closet. South park found a work around and literally put Cruise in the closet just to tell him to come out of it hahahaha

[@treeherder2201]

This one is particularly funny because Tom Cruise actually got triggered IRL over this.

[@noneed4me2n7]

There’s a joke in the end credits after Stan says he isn’t afraid of them everyone is named John or Jane Smith if I remember correctly.

[@patrickkanas3874]

It wasn't a joke. Matt and Trey consulted a former scientology executive when writing this episode and were told about what they did when someone insulted or tried to expose them. They didn't care if they got sued, but they didn't want their employees getting caught up in anything that happened. So they did that to protect them

[@marine5480]

Tom Cruise threatened to sue them over the gay insinuations. South Park fired back hard by making him a main character in another episode as an employee in a fudge factory. His job was to pack the fudge into boxes for distribution. I think he even had a badge that he wore with packer written on it.

[@caddyguy5369]

I believe the testing machine they use is essentially an ohm meter. It just measures electrical resistance.

[@amyjordan195]

You both got a lighthearted chuckle out of this and didn't believe a damn thing. Please realize that this is real. SP is trying to show how ridiculous it is. L.Ron Hubbard was a scifi writer who made it all up. And Scientology is powerful because they recruit famous people and rich people.

[@WelshAmethystGirl087]

Southpark warned us about r kelly before netlfix

[@wesmcinerny4524]

Speaking cult-related South Park episodes, you should also see "All About Mormons".

[@VictorLaszlo46]

Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, is also a significant Scientologist; Laura Prepron, who played Donna on "That 70's Show," was in the church but left.

[@Schacal6666]

Everything regarding ST is true in this episode.

[@traho811]

In Phoenix at Indian School Rd and 7th St, there is a sign "take your free scientology personality test".

[@daveross1638]

Fun Fact: john Travolta finally came out of the closet

[@Fat_Kids_Jiggle]

Ha I was really hoping you guys would check this episode out. It's so good

[@raphaelpaz8476]

I love the Dark Lord Xenu is a shirt you want to wear near scientology places!

[@midwestfpv4360]

Just recently discovered y'all's channel, love the content! New subscriber 👍🏼

[@DarkoGalahad]

There's a KZbin channel called Growing up in Scientology and he reacts to this episode and explains what is true and what is not. Most of what is not true is simply intentionally wrong for the sake of the joke. However, all that backstory to what the "religion" believes is almost entirely accurate but you don't learn that until you reach a certian level and poured hundreds of thousands into Scientology. So essentially people go in without knowing about Xenu and such.

[@DanielRichards644]

FYI, there is a KZbinr that was formerly part of Scientology and he watched and reacted to this episode, it's surprisingly accurate, but it's stuff you gotta be a higher level in Scientology to learn about some of.

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

The way that me and my friends see Scientology is that they're like the flat Earthers of cults.

[@justinw7323]

One of my favorite episodes even though I'm not scientology

[@dilipdas1920]

Yes south park time this is one of the hilarious episode from south park i love it please if possible keep uploading new episodes reactions daily

[@Isabella-tu9fb]

Are all your South Park episodes on Patreon?

[@TriSticle]

There were speculations that Cruise was gay. And while the episode is about Scientology, it's also a joke about that.

[@daemonredfield3211]

E-Meters actually kind of work. They measure the conductivity of your skin through perspiration; which makes it 1/3 of a Polygraph/Lie Detector machine. Polygraphs don't directly tell you if someone is lying, they just use your perspiration, heart rate and breathing to measure how nervous you are. When newcomers go to Scientology for auditing, they go through a series of questions and using the e-meter they ask you to revisit questions you were nervous about answering. (Which could be therepeautic) Eg. Earlier, when you discussed your mother, can you tell me more about her?

[@TheUncleTom]

this rpisode is the reason cheff's voice actor left the show. also i think tom cruise sued the creators over this episode or the fudge packing episode

[@rodrigogier]

This episode was responsible for the departure of Chef :/

[@Juide80]

Yes, because he was scientologist and couldn't take the joke about his beliefs eventhough he had worked for them for years while they made fun of many other religions and beliefs. He proved to be a huge hypocrite and there's no way around it. Chef was a great character because Trey and Matt made it so but the voice actor had very little to do with it. He should be forever forgotten from the comedy and entertainment world and even that would be a huge gift for him and for his family. If he was ridiculed for the rest of his life wouldn't be that wrong thing but I'd be happy with the first option.

[@rodrigogier]

@@Juide80 Indeed his ''butthurttness" was fucked up, but I loved Chef as a character. They should bring him back anyways, like they did with Kenny.

[@Tmb1112]

@@Juide80 chill. Isaac Hayes died years ago. His son claims the church of Scientology forced him to quit South Park. Either he was a man offended that his workplace was ridiculing his religion and chose to back away for it, or a man stuck in a cult who was forced to quit by his abusive cult leaders. Either way, your suggestion to ridicule him the "rest of his life" is vile. Forgetting him too. Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut.

[@MechaMonkeyy]

You should do robot chicken episodes

[@LMan86]

Hey MarioB and Nicole please do the entire fandom a favor and react to the episode “Asspen” season 6 episode 2. It’s one of the greatest episodes ever no contest

[@mhernandez1345]

Yes, it's real. Scientology uses e-meters, and theatans are 'real' etc.

[@fippywip]

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[@JayG666]

25 minutes of the same gay joke . . . 🤣

[@JanKozak-ww6zz]

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[@SwagimirPutin]

Oh my god you missed the R. Kelly joke. It's that long ass song/story he made which goes for something like 33 chapters, each a few minutes long. It's ridiculous!