Trapped In The Closet came out in 2005 so the internet wasn’t as vast in information yet or as available. Not even most Scientologists knew the truths of their teachings. So how did Matt and Trey get such in-depth info on the subject?
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the scientology papers were all over usenet, the ‘church’ had been suing anyone who hosted them, but they weren’t hard to find, if you knew how to look. But south park distilled the idiocy down to a easily understandable mush, and for that they should be hailed.
I will always love southpark for trapped in the closet, all about mormons, and red hot catholic love, if for no other reason. (and there’s lots of other reasons to love south park)
Books, magazines, newspapers, and TV shows really did exist prior to the internet. Hard to believe, but true.
The internet was still vast in 2005. It just wasn’t in everyone’s pockets.
I watched TAM5 the other day. They explained putting “this is what Scientologists actually believe” as a caption. Even with that I thought they were making it up and were just being mean.
The show is produced in LA, where several Scientology centers are located, where all the Scientology celebrities are, and at times random people would be followers as well (they would let you know, just like a vegan would).
Issac was told to bring Matt and Trey in because of their reach.
They denied him, did their reaseach with the writers room, the rest is history
They answered this in a 2006 interview with Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller. Penn had complained (a few years earlier) to them that Showtime pulled the production of a Scientology based episode of Bullshit! Trey and Matt said “Give us your information because we’ve always wanted to do an episode of how Tom is in the closet”. The baton was passed (so to speak) and the result was Trapped In The Closet.
Bullshit was such a great show.
2005 wasn’t the Stone Age, the internet ran quite well and operation clambake originated in 96.
Where are you getting this from? There was no lack of online information about Scientology in 2005.
No secrets were revealed. Everything was common knowledge.
alt.religion.scientology was a thing on usenet newsgroups
Being in Hollywood they knew the people who were involved with that.
I feel like all the crazy beliefs of scientology were pinging around pop culture by the early 90s at least.
Before the internet there were still magazines and tracts for and against scientology.
Sounds like a case for the Hardly Boys
They got it from a spurned journalist who critiqued Scientology in the late 90s. They (Scientology) got all in his ass trying to publicly defame and embarrass him. He somehow had access to the info and provided it to Trey & Matt.
This was a segment on the Leah Remini Scientology expose show. There’s an ex high ranking scientologist on the show who was trying to get the episode banned before it aired and coercing Comedy Central. Didn’t work.
What the fuck are you talking about? Honestly the internet was a lot more open in 2005 then it is today. Today everything is filtered and sanitized through algorithms and search engines like google. 2005 wasn’t the dark ages, I had a fucking MySpace account in 05. Also, the “secrets” of Scientology were more of open secrets. It’s a big ass cult created by a satanic pedophile.