South Park never pulls its punches when it comes to hot-button topics such as religion, politics or economics: and this episode did exactly that back in 2005, when Tom Cruise was in the middle of promoting Mission Impossible III. Trapped in the Closet is the world's greatest expose on the world of Scientology, from Lord Xenu himself to John Travolta's questionable sexuality (also taking jabs at Cruise himself) and how religion's become a hot-spot for financial exploitation and administrative corruption and deception.
This destroys Scientology in beautiful ways only South Park can. It's an honest deconstruction of the planet's stupidest belief system and shows that faith in what's right (i.e. REAL science and knowledge) ultimately wins the day. Though not everyone gets their happily ever-after in this episode, Stan's all the wiser having in on the church's asinine policies and beliefs it uses to exploit their followers, but at least HE has closure if no one else does in this episode, and we the viewers are in his shoes.
This episode is brilliant, self-deprecating in its criticism of an American-born institution and 110% accurate in capturing the essence of its subject matter.
This episode's a television masterpiece.
This destroys Scientology in beautiful ways only South Park can. It's an honest deconstruction of the planet's stupidest belief system and shows that faith in what's right (i.e. REAL science and knowledge) ultimately wins the day. Though not everyone gets their happily ever-after in this episode, Stan's all the wiser having in on the church's asinine policies and beliefs it uses to exploit their followers, but at least HE has closure if no one else does in this episode, and we the viewers are in his shoes.
This episode is brilliant, self-deprecating in its criticism of an American-born institution and 110% accurate in capturing the essence of its subject matter.
This episode's a television masterpiece.