While South Park has wrestled with many controversies over its quarter-of-a-century run, most of them have come and gone to pass without much lingering behind.
Their famous bout with Scientology, “Trapped in the Closet,” garnered a lot of attention both positive and negative from Issac Hayes departing the show to one of the celebrity targets of that episode: Tom Cruise.
For a time the episode was not shown in reruns but now, alongside 300 other episodes, “Trapped in the Closet” is available to stream on Max.
However, there are two episodes with Tom Cruise as the antagonist that are not on Max, nor available for digital purchase on any platform.
Episodes “200” and 201,” which were supposed to be the show looking back at its legacy, were marked with the biggest controversy the show received, including episode “201” only ever airing once on television.
But their removal has only a little to do with Tom Cruise.
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