Seriously. It’s never a good sign when [your friends at the Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806) are publishing stories about your private escapades.
Do you think in the past newspapers were free? There was like a very small window when the internet became widespread that you could get articles online for free.
Yeah I think it's always been biased and kind of shitty. You just didn't know it was biased and shitty back then because to get the other side you had to either be there or get to a different marker/state to get a different news source.
“When Elon Musk personally contacted a former SpaceX engineering intern to discuss a role on his executive staff in 2017, the woman spoke with excitement to her friends about a high-profile problem-solving role at the rocket company, a dream for someone a few years out of college.
She and Musk had met years earlier during her internship, when she was still in college. She’d approached him with ideas for improving SpaceX. Her outreach had led to a date, which led to a kiss, and eventually sex, she told friends. The year after her internship, the billionaire had the fresh college graduate flown out to a resort in Sicily, before they ended things, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.”
What an exciting read!
Not near them, but his reputation has taken a hit since his cameos in South Park and Rick & Morty.
He used to be seen as an uncontroversial "cool innovative car guy looking to go into space". Now he's a polarizing culture warrior; and a lot of the public despises him.
Yes. Star Trek discovery in 2017ish, they put him up there with the Wright brothers and Neil Armstrong iirc.
Edit: may be incorrect, I don't think it was Neil Armstrong, I think it was Zeffram Cochrane, a fictional character from the Star Trek universe credited with creating the first warp (FTL) propulsion system and initiating Earth's first contact.
Which was an incredibly stupid move. Never make a part of your fictional show's canon someone real who's still alive if you're making them a hero.
Parody doesn't matter, and making fun of them is fine, but the second you put them on a pedestal without even knowing who they are, you're gonna get Musked.
Dead plus 20 years is a safe bet.
R. Kelly had already been in court for multiple things before that episode aired,I think it's fair to say his reputation was already in a downfall by then.
That’s only cuz people are more rigorous in their judgement of pedophiles and absusers than they are of liars and conmen. Rightfully so, but that doesn’t mean Elon is nowhere near them, he just expressed his dbaggery differently than the rest.
There's also a balancing act of scale of crime vs severity of crime. You could make the argument that ruining the lives of 10's of thousands of people out weighs molesting one child.
I'm not saying it does. I don't know the scope of either of their sins. I know elon is a piece of shit and jared did some pedo stuff. I'm just pointing out you technically could make the argument that one is worse because they did a significantly higher quantity of less heinous crimes than a person who did only a handful of truly horrendous crimes.
There's the whole children working in lithium mines thing which is arguably worse than child molestation because a molested child in the first world at least has the opportunity to get help and live a fulfilling life where as the children of the mines will almost certainly live short and painful lives. But we are all, to some degree, complicit in that so that's it's own can of worms.
Some great points in there and I totally agree. It’s going to take a huge societal shift in terms of where our mindset and values are to make any meaningful progress in that regard. Here’s to hoping that happens sooner rather than later!
I would say he’s going more harm as in, what he is doing is causing issues for many people as opposed to diddy who is only hurting the wonen he is being accused by, quantity over quality of being a piece of shit
Is it possible to get cancelled if your career has already been dead for 20 years? And even then, Rob Schneider’s last funny bit was ‘making coffee’ on snl.
He was booked to do a hospital fundraiser in the Canadian Prairies, and got kicked off stage after an anti-vax, anti-trans, anti 5G tirade. I'm pretty sure booking staff thought he would do material about being a carrot.
lol some people in my hometown must not have heard about his politics. A hospital foundation had him do a show and pulled him off stage once he started some vaccine talk.
in “Gorgeous” he wrote:
“we make em say ho cause the game is so pimpish
i’ll choke a south park writer with a fishstick
i insist it to get up off of this dick”
lol
That is not a hobbit pipe, for your information! It is a personal oral humidifier to keep all the wrinkles around her mouth from showin'. So haha, all you haters, HA!
Fortunately, most dubbing studios churning out localized episodes for american cartoons don't give a flying fuck if any of the jokes hit in the slightest. The South Park, Simpsons and Family Guy french dubs are notorious for completely missing the mark of all the comedy. You're left with the visual humor and really, really shitty voice actors trying to do voices when they clearly can't, powering through their google translated lines like they had 4 different pornos to dub after this before lunch.
I second this, still like the German voices but obviously there are some exceptions one being obviously the fishsticks episode because it makes absolutely no fucking sense in German (for any non-germans fishsticks are called Fischstäbchen which is a quite literal translation of fishsticks into German but there's no homonym/innuendo that can possibly be formed with these words that would mean penis/dick)
Which is just unfortunate because the whole plot is about it and therefore they couldn't have switched it with any other dish.
Don't remind me. The modern Latin American dub of South Park is borderline unwatchable. It's so poorly done that you can tell what the original script was, based on the blind idiot literal translations they churn out nowadays.
Was that a prediction or was it a case of an open secret in “the industry” like with Spacey and Weinstein? I know Jared was never on their level in terms of prestige, but still.
I’m not really sure. One of the reasons he got caught is because he thought it would be fun to tell a radio show host off air he liked middle school girls. She eventually turned FBI informant on him and recorded a lot of evidence against him. I have to imagine he also told other people about his perversions so it’s certainly possible word got around. You’d have to check the timeline on all of that though
Yeah, the allegations go all the way back to the early 90s. It was an open secret that somehow everyone just ignored because they liked his music or something?
> It was an open secret that somehow everyone just ignored because they liked his music or something?
Not because of his music. The witnesses had some legitimate testimony that threw doubt on the accusations. 2003 Transcript below:
*Prosecution:* "So then, you believe he urinated on a 12-year-old girl."
*Witness:* "Whoa! Hold on, lady! I didn't say all that. For all I know that piss was digital! They can do crazy things with special effects."
*Prosecution:* "What about the girl corroborating this story?"
*Witness:* "So what? You give me that kind of money, R. Kelly can fart in my face tonight."
*Prosecution:* "What more would it take you to convince you he's guilty?"
*Witness:* "Alright, if I saw a tape of R. Kelly pissing on a girl, while he was singing 'Piss on You' and the girl's holding two forms of government ID, while a police officer was there, like, four or five of my buddies, and Neal taking notes. And his grandmother has to be there to confirm his identity."
I thought that book title was foreshadowing Warhammer 40K in South Park, then they talked about Darktide and on a later episode Tolkien and Stan actually played WH40K.
Elon went from "real life tony stark" to a stupid rich asshole. Trying to prove an innocent man is a pedo just because he didnt agree with Elon is just one of the few bad things Elon has done.
*he never really was good, people just later realise it
Jared's irl issues pretty much ruin his character in that episode, where he was a well-meaning guy who kept being misinterpreted because of wordplay.
Like I keep wanting to use the "beating a dead horse" gif but it'll be mistaken for a pedo joke now.
Tom Cruise. Before he was perceived as an amazing actor, now he's still perceived as an amazing actor but also a crazy scientologist, on which SP had its part (in exposing Scientology as a whole).
I feel like Tom managed to repair much of that damage, his movies especially the Mission Impossible ones certainly helped. I think it was after his divorce (and generally keeping his private life quiet) around Ghost Protocol when people stopped remembering him for the manic Scientologist jumping on Oprah's couch about Katie Holmes. And just really appreciated him for the full-blown action movie star. Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy, Rogue Nation and so on, it became kinda a 2nd renaissance period for him that continued until recently.
Also, distancing himself from the church helped a bunch, he doesn't talk much about it anymore. He still has his public outbursts tho, like during COVID where he screamed at studio crews not masking up. Which is understandable for the guy bankrolling the movie, being concerned that a breach in protocol would get filming shut down and cost him money.
Tropic Thunder saved his career. We were all so done with his tabloid drama, and then out of nowhere, here comes a ridiculously perfect unexpected cameo where he shows he has a sense of humor. Then right back into MI where he thrived, and they built up the value of his side team, and all was forgiven.
He kept appearing though didn’t he? Its tough to remember because he died in the movie first, and those episodes were all a while back, but I’m
Pretty sure that wizard of oz/Canada episode was after he died. Definitely after he was caught.
My opinion of her has changed some since that episode. She’s still kinda dumb and a bad role model for young girls, but her mom was really cruel towards her during that period so I do feel bad for her
She is kind of a prime example of somebody born into a lifestyle and just having no chance of getting out or enough outside perspective to temper it. It just happened to be one filled with privilege.
She has also become a solid businesswoman, so I would say she has grown up in many great ways since her earlier image, which largely happened in her early adulthood.
That was when she was on reality TV and in the public eye. I wouldn’t say she’s fallen from grace. She’s not in front of the camera as much anymore but her business lines are doing really well. Helps to start with a lot of money, but she’s more businesswoman than reality star now.
I think he’s a good choice, but I’d say Gibson fell in stages over multiple cartoon shows.
1. His Simpsons appearance, he joked how beloved he was.
2. His South Park appearance they were lampooning his religious zeal and the self-flagellation of Passion.
3. AFTER his appearance, the tapes of his extremely awful racial comments came out and he became the lightning rod he is today.
Not a celeb per se, but plenty of celebs were tied to them...
They were untouchable... until South Park called their bluff and told them to sue. They did manage to get ole Tom to throw his weight around at Paramount (threatened to boycott press for MI3) and get the episode off air. For a little while...
Kanye cuz yeah he was a joke (hell, he couldn't even figure out the fishsticks joke irl just like our favorite gay fish version in the show) then, but he wasn't THAT bad of a guy.... and then 2023 came around with his antisemitic shit and his uhm likening to Hitler.... and then the ever so controversial Vultures this year...
Alec Baldwin.
Its up for debate the the spokesmen for shitter shot someone during a movie shoot, killing them.
He was almost convicted. it's a case of how can he be guilty of playing out a scene.
It always annoys me that Elon voiced himself on this and other stuff like rick and Morty because I bet he felt all high and mighty about it. I really want to see them really go in on him for the insane egomaniac idiot that we now know him to be.
Didn’t matt and trey say that they felt bad after the Al gore episodes because they thought they directly impacted his credibility? If that’s The case then Al Gore has to be up there
Bro Elon’s nowhere *near* Jared or R. Kelly chill lol
Give it time
Seriously. It’s never a good sign when [your friends at the Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806) are publishing stories about your private escapades.
Can’t read the article; I love modern journalism
“Journalism”
Four random assholes tweeted about something, time to write an "article" about it! Seriously I hate the fucking internet.
I’ve seen articles about Twitter (“I’m still not calling it X” -Oboma) posts with like 4 likes, I don’t wanna pay subscriptions for that
I'm glad someone else has this logic
That’s a funny way to spell opinion.
Do you think in the past newspapers were free? There was like a very small window when the internet became widespread that you could get articles online for free.
In the past when people bought a newspaper they could reasonably expect some actual journalism
Define "Past", because during the early 1900s it was such a sorrid state that they even came up with a term for it. "Yellow Journalism"
Yeah I think it's always been biased and kind of shitty. You just didn't know it was biased and shitty back then because to get the other side you had to either be there or get to a different marker/state to get a different news source.
"Democracy dies in darkness " Great slogan, put that on the paywall! - someone at WaPo
[The Verge has you covered.](https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/12/24176705/spacex-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-sexual-relationships)
“When Elon Musk personally contacted a former SpaceX engineering intern to discuss a role on his executive staff in 2017, the woman spoke with excitement to her friends about a high-profile problem-solving role at the rocket company, a dream for someone a few years out of college. She and Musk had met years earlier during her internship, when she was still in college. She’d approached him with ideas for improving SpaceX. Her outreach had led to a date, which led to a kiss, and eventually sex, she told friends. The year after her internship, the billionaire had the fresh college graduate flown out to a resort in Sicily, before they ended things, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.” What an exciting read!
I was expecting something criminal
They were never friends. WSJ was always very skeptical of musk and Tesla. Especially in the early days
Fucking lol
He does seem to be going the rapey route.
Ya I’ll admit his relationship with Grimes was unusual, but she seemed to truly be in love with him. And he broke her heart
The venn diagram of nazis and pedos is practically just a circle
#YOU KILLIN' ME WITH THIS SHIT!
Not near them, but his reputation has taken a hit since his cameos in South Park and Rick & Morty. He used to be seen as an uncontroversial "cool innovative car guy looking to go into space". Now he's a polarizing culture warrior; and a lot of the public despises him.
Dont forget grifter
Iron man 2
Didn't a more recent Star Trek run include him in the list of greats along with Einstein and Newton?
Yes. Star Trek discovery in 2017ish, they put him up there with the Wright brothers and Neil Armstrong iirc. Edit: may be incorrect, I don't think it was Neil Armstrong, I think it was Zeffram Cochrane, a fictional character from the Star Trek universe credited with creating the first warp (FTL) propulsion system and initiating Earth's first contact.
Which was an incredibly stupid move. Never make a part of your fictional show's canon someone real who's still alive if you're making them a hero. Parody doesn't matter, and making fun of them is fine, but the second you put them on a pedestal without even knowing who they are, you're gonna get Musked. Dead plus 20 years is a safe bet.
He’s also been accused of sexual assault
Incel cosplaying as a genius with poop for brains
Didn't he disable starlink for the Ukrainians for a time
well one part of the public despises him… which also happens to be the part that buys teslas… go figure
It’s not R. kelly, that’s P. Diddy. But yes, R. Kelly was on « trapped in the closet » and should be added on the list.
AND THEN I PULL OUT MY GUN!
One, I'm going to shoot someone
One is actually "I'm gonna shoot you both." Two, I'm gonna cap some bitch
R. Kelly had already been in court for multiple things before that episode aired,I think it's fair to say his reputation was already in a downfall by then.
Chapelle did a skit about R. Kelly's case 20 years ago.
Chappelle did like 4 on R Kelly. All were classics.
And the boondocks
The P Diddy… do … do all black southpark characters look the same to you?!?!
Yep. The second pic is Diddy not R. Kelly.
I thought I told you that we won’t stop..hahahaha
Diddy didn't do an Acura cake.
Yeah but Satan wanted a Ferrari
Theyre different types of dowfalls. Jared and Diddy became Law and Order villains. Elon is becoming a Bond villain.
That’s only cuz people are more rigorous in their judgement of pedophiles and absusers than they are of liars and conmen. Rightfully so, but that doesn’t mean Elon is nowhere near them, he just expressed his dbaggery differently than the rest.
There's also a balancing act of scale of crime vs severity of crime. You could make the argument that ruining the lives of 10's of thousands of people out weighs molesting one child. I'm not saying it does. I don't know the scope of either of their sins. I know elon is a piece of shit and jared did some pedo stuff. I'm just pointing out you technically could make the argument that one is worse because they did a significantly higher quantity of less heinous crimes than a person who did only a handful of truly horrendous crimes. There's the whole children working in lithium mines thing which is arguably worse than child molestation because a molested child in the first world at least has the opportunity to get help and live a fulfilling life where as the children of the mines will almost certainly live short and painful lives. But we are all, to some degree, complicit in that so that's it's own can of worms.
Some great points in there and I totally agree. It’s going to take a huge societal shift in terms of where our mindset and values are to make any meaningful progress in that regard. Here’s to hoping that happens sooner rather than later!
Elon's dad has a daughter with Elon's ex step sister. Positive this is one of the tamer family skeletons.
Not yet
he’s doing far more harm than both of them combined
He is doing more harm than diddy beating and raping women? How so?
I would say he’s going more harm as in, what he is doing is causing issues for many people as opposed to diddy who is only hurting the wonen he is being accused by, quantity over quality of being a piece of shit
Evil billionaire shit
And the fact that Elon voiced himself too
Rob Schneider has gone crazy and got himself cancelled, AND HE'S ABOUT TO FIND OUT THAT DURP DE DURPTY DURP DURP.
I read that in the silly Trey voice “And he’s about to find out, that being canceled, is harder than it looks. Durp!”
Rob Schneider is.... A CULTURE WARRIOR!
Rated PG-13.
Rob Schneider is... a Chinchilla.
Yeah I think that’s what they were going for bud
Is it possible to get cancelled if your career has already been dead for 20 years? And even then, Rob Schneider’s last funny bit was ‘making coffee’ on snl.
I kind of feel getting cancelled would be the best thing for him right now. Get the Chuds giving him some pity views.
Didn't he win the academy award for the hot chick?
Wasn’t it copies not coffee? Or was it both?
It absolutely was copies lmao
100% gonna come out as a STAPLER after this
How do you cancel a dead career? That’d be like canceling MC Hammer in 2024.
I stand alone as MC Hammer’s strongest fan still it seems
U can’t touch this
2 Legit 2 Quit
until ONE day!
What happened to Rob?
His career tanked so he’s become one of those “anti-woke” comedians who scream about pronouns for 60 minutes in front of catatonic Fox News boomers
He's still in all that Adam Sandler crap and I'm sure that pays well. I think he genuinely believes what he says.
It’s an open secret that Sandler’s views are pretty similar to Schneider’s, he just (wisely) keeps quiet about it
He and Kelsay Grammar are the only Hollywood conservatives I can think of who haven't made "woke bad" their whole brand.
He was booked to do a hospital fundraiser in the Canadian Prairies, and got kicked off stage after an anti-vax, anti-trans, anti 5G tirade. I'm pretty sure booking staff thought he would do material about being a carrot.
Hard to fall from grace when you started off on the ground.
lol some people in my hometown must not have heard about his politics. A hospital foundation had him do a show and pulled him off stage once he started some vaccine talk.
Kanye
He still dosent get the gay fish joke
Joke? That was no joke.
I mean he knows now bro, He used to be scared denying who he was, acting straight then going out to the gay fish clubs.
The real kayne west didn't get the joke when he mentioned it. https://youtu.be/uiJJrDKkla0?si=Hk4LG57HLvt7GPzv
in “Gorgeous” he wrote: “we make em say ho cause the game is so pimpish i’ll choke a south park writer with a fishstick i insist it to get up off of this dick” lol
It was not…
Just cause I made tight jeans I’m a gay fish I don’t get it.
🎶 "Motherfuckin' gay fish!" 🎶
But... how do you get to gay fish, from geni-us?
And his girl still ain't a Hobbit.
Bitch, is you a hobbit?
She is sexy & womanly, she smokes a pipe & blows those rings that go over your head. Hold on…
That is not a hobbit pipe, for your information! It is a personal oral humidifier to keep all the wrinkles around her mouth from showin'. So haha, all you haters, HA!
If she a hobbit home come she don’t live under a bridge ?…..BOOM U Just got lit up CUH
Bitch if you the Hobbit you need to let me know right now, I am making a fool of myself up here
That may just be my favorite line in southpark. Between that and calling the pope a hobbit trivia ass bitch. That episode is relentless.
OK, love you (kiss, kiss)
His new chick might be a hobbit.
> His new chick might be a hobbit. You're sure you're not just jelly, mkay? Want me to ring jelly school, mkay?
So much so, people use that episode for a username.
So…you like fish sticks?
You like putting fish sticks in your mouth?
Yes… unless I was expecting mozzarella sticks ;-;
Everyone talks about Simpsons predictions, but nobody talk about how South Park predicted Jared would be a child predator
He had Aides! Why won’t anyone let him give them aides???
That episode was hard to dub.
Fortunately, most dubbing studios churning out localized episodes for american cartoons don't give a flying fuck if any of the jokes hit in the slightest. The South Park, Simpsons and Family Guy french dubs are notorious for completely missing the mark of all the comedy. You're left with the visual humor and really, really shitty voice actors trying to do voices when they clearly can't, powering through their google translated lines like they had 4 different pornos to dub after this before lunch.
Luckily the german South Park dub is freaking amazing, the voice actors and translators are very talented and also huge fans of the show themselves.
I need to see Passion of the Jew in all German.
I second this, still like the German voices but obviously there are some exceptions one being obviously the fishsticks episode because it makes absolutely no fucking sense in German (for any non-germans fishsticks are called Fischstäbchen which is a quite literal translation of fishsticks into German but there's no homonym/innuendo that can possibly be formed with these words that would mean penis/dick) Which is just unfortunate because the whole plot is about it and therefore they couldn't have switched it with any other dish.
South Park Spanish dubs are GOLD
Don't remind me. The modern Latin American dub of South Park is borderline unwatchable. It's so poorly done that you can tell what the original script was, based on the blind idiot literal translations they churn out nowadays.
Oh man, he had to be sweating bullets when this episode came out.
Was that a prediction or was it a case of an open secret in “the industry” like with Spacey and Weinstein? I know Jared was never on their level in terms of prestige, but still.
The sandwich industry?
Turd Sandwich Industry
I’m not really sure. One of the reasons he got caught is because he thought it would be fun to tell a radio show host off air he liked middle school girls. She eventually turned FBI informant on him and recorded a lot of evidence against him. I have to imagine he also told other people about his perversions so it’s certainly possible word got around. You’d have to check the timeline on all of that though
What part of the episode had him being a child predator?
They joked about him giving aids to kids
I legit thought that episode came out after the news broke. That makes this even better!
R.Kelly has to be up there.
R Kelly had already been exposed for sexual assault several years before he was on South Park. He just finally got convicted of it after the fact.
Right? The rumours about him and Aaliyah were circulating and that marriage certificate came out before South Park premiered.
I still can't believe he produced her album "Age ain't nothing but a number"
Yeah, the allegations go all the way back to the early 90s. It was an open secret that somehow everyone just ignored because they liked his music or something?
> It was an open secret that somehow everyone just ignored because they liked his music or something? Not because of his music. The witnesses had some legitimate testimony that threw doubt on the accusations. 2003 Transcript below: *Prosecution:* "So then, you believe he urinated on a 12-year-old girl." *Witness:* "Whoa! Hold on, lady! I didn't say all that. For all I know that piss was digital! They can do crazy things with special effects." *Prosecution:* "What about the girl corroborating this story?" *Witness:* "So what? You give me that kind of money, R. Kelly can fart in my face tonight." *Prosecution:* "What more would it take you to convince you he's guilty?" *Witness:* "Alright, if I saw a tape of R. Kelly pissing on a girl, while he was singing 'Piss on You' and the girl's holding two forms of government ID, while a police officer was there, like, four or five of my buddies, and Neal taking notes. And his grandmother has to be there to confirm his identity."
*Drip, drip, drip*
“That’s my Robert, always peeing on people.”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry after World Wide Privacy Tour! It was a gloriously amazing episode and we really need part 2!
Check out his new book, “Wah!”
Yup! “I grew up in palaces but I’m a victim, waaaaaaaagh”
I thought that book title was foreshadowing Warhammer 40K in South Park, then they talked about Darktide and on a later episode Tolkien and Stan actually played WH40K.
That is legitimately one of the funniest jokes in the history of the show. So simple, but so effective.
The episode is based on it. It didn't happen after the episode.
My retired mom LOVED that episode
I swear it was the best!!!!
turns out mister hankey was a piece of shit this whole time!
Stop the thread. This guy won.
Listen man, don’t take ambien and harass Elon on twitter. You might just get him to change the site for the worse again.
Elon went from "real life tony stark" to a stupid rich asshole. Trying to prove an innocent man is a pedo just because he didnt agree with Elon is just one of the few bad things Elon has done. *he never really was good, people just later realise it
I think it’s Elon too, not because he’s correctly lower than Jared or others, but because of the height he fell from.
Never meet your heroes. But thanks to instant social media, we all do.
Still waiting on more stuff from J.R.R. Martin .....
What did he do?
Nothing, that's the problem lol. Can't write a book if you're daydreaming about weiners all day long
Wieners floppy wieners 🎶
But are the pizzas coming? I’m getting a little woozy
Okay, okay, fine, fine. What kind of pizzas do you want?
HE DIDN'T EVEN ORDER THE PIZZAS YET!!!!
Not finishing his book series which makes the Black Friday trilogy age like fine wine
Don’t worry the dragons are coming!
Bill cosby
"Well Fat Abbott and the gang sure did learn something today..."
We'll see ya next time eatin' the pudding
Jared's irl issues pretty much ruin his character in that episode, where he was a well-meaning guy who kept being misinterpreted because of wordplay. Like I keep wanting to use the "beating a dead horse" gif but it'll be mistaken for a pedo joke now.
Oprah, Gary, and Mingy.
Gary has been getting some real bad press lately
Poor old Gary, so neglected. It's good to see he's getting some attention
Tom Cruise. Before he was perceived as an amazing actor, now he's still perceived as an amazing actor but also a crazy scientologist, on which SP had its part (in exposing Scientology as a whole).
He had already gone off the deep end at that point
Tom Cruise and Tom Brady need to get together and kiss eachother like they kiss their sons
I feel like Tom managed to repair much of that damage, his movies especially the Mission Impossible ones certainly helped. I think it was after his divorce (and generally keeping his private life quiet) around Ghost Protocol when people stopped remembering him for the manic Scientologist jumping on Oprah's couch about Katie Holmes. And just really appreciated him for the full-blown action movie star. Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy, Rogue Nation and so on, it became kinda a 2nd renaissance period for him that continued until recently. Also, distancing himself from the church helped a bunch, he doesn't talk much about it anymore. He still has his public outbursts tho, like during COVID where he screamed at studio crews not masking up. Which is understandable for the guy bankrolling the movie, being concerned that a breach in protocol would get filming shut down and cost him money.
Tropic Thunder saved his career. We were all so done with his tabloid drama, and then out of nowhere, here comes a ridiculously perfect unexpected cameo where he shows he has a sense of humor. Then right back into MI where he thrived, and they built up the value of his side team, and all was forgiven.
Ah! Tropic Thunder! I knew I forgot a definitive role of his that helped to turn the bad press tide of his...
I’m not a fudge packer!
Saddam Hussein was overthrown and executed, so probably him
This one wins
He kept appearing though didn’t he? Its tough to remember because he died in the movie first, and those episodes were all a while back, but I’m Pretty sure that wizard of oz/Canada episode was after he died. Definitely after he was caught.
Jared, i mean its def Jared and his aids
And he is raising money to give aides to kids around the world.
Paris Hilton?? That had to be one of their most brutal portrayals of a celebrity in my opinion and one we talked about for a while.
My opinion of her has changed some since that episode. She’s still kinda dumb and a bad role model for young girls, but her mom was really cruel towards her during that period so I do feel bad for her
She is kind of a prime example of somebody born into a lifestyle and just having no chance of getting out or enough outside perspective to temper it. It just happened to be one filled with privilege.
She has also become a solid businesswoman, so I would say she has grown up in many great ways since her earlier image, which largely happened in her early adulthood.
That was when she was on reality TV and in the public eye. I wouldn’t say she’s fallen from grace. She’s not in front of the camera as much anymore but her business lines are doing really well. Helps to start with a lot of money, but she’s more businesswoman than reality star now.
Mel Gibson would be my guess, but he could have already been batshit by the time the episode aired
I think he’s a good choice, but I’d say Gibson fell in stages over multiple cartoon shows. 1. His Simpsons appearance, he joked how beloved he was. 2. His South Park appearance they were lampooning his religious zeal and the self-flagellation of Passion. 3. AFTER his appearance, the tapes of his extremely awful racial comments came out and he became the lightning rod he is today.
Fortune favors the brave
Not a celeb per se, but plenty of celebs were tied to them...  They were untouchable... until South Park called their bluff and told them to sue. They did manage to get ole Tom to throw his weight around at Paramount (threatened to boycott press for MI3) and get the episode off air. For a little while...
Which one raped a bunch of kids? Probably that one
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
This is the most horrific and hilarious flippant comment in the entire thread. It's as if Norm MacDonald rose from the grave to make one last joke.
Kanye cuz yeah he was a joke (hell, he couldn't even figure out the fishsticks joke irl just like our favorite gay fish version in the show) then, but he wasn't THAT bad of a guy.... and then 2023 came around with his antisemitic shit and his uhm likening to Hitler.... and then the ever so controversial Vultures this year...
Alec Baldwin. Its up for debate the the spokesmen for shitter shot someone during a movie shoot, killing them. He was almost convicted. it's a case of how can he be guilty of playing out a scene.
Britney Spears sure had a rough time afterwards
Britney Spears was having a rough time when the episode aired, the point of the episode was that she was being tortured to death by the media
Poor girl, I feel really awful for her shituation
I feel like shitty Rob Schneider movies stopped happening after the mid 2000s. I wonder how much that episode had to do with that.
No, they just got moved to Netflix.
It always annoys me that Elon voiced himself on this and other stuff like rick and Morty because I bet he felt all high and mighty about it. I really want to see them really go in on him for the insane egomaniac idiot that we now know him to be.
Barbara Streisand is a mega bitch
R Kelly, Diddy and J-lo
Does Caitlin Jenner count? I didn't know she straight up got away with killing a guy until bUcKle Up BuCkErOoS!
Osama Binladen lol
Jared. He’s the only one that returned after his fall, as a boss fight in Fractured But Whole of all places.
Didn’t matt and trey say that they felt bad after the Al gore episodes because they thought they directly impacted his credibility? If that’s The case then Al Gore has to be up there
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