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For anyone who missed the newest South Park episode on TV, they are surprised to find out that they can't watch the episode online. If you try to watch the episode “201” you instead see the message above saying Comedy Central has denied approval to stream the original version of the show and had also placed numerous audio bleeps throughout the episode. The censorship is due to the uproar of death threats towards Matt Stone and Trey Parker (the creators of South Park) after an last week's episode included an image of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit, even though they didn't actually show an image of the Prophet Mohammed. The threats warn Matt and Trey that they risk violent retribution. In “201” it was reveled that Muhammad wasn't in the bear suit, Santa Claus was in it. http://current.com/news/92387879_death-threats-for-south-park-creators-after-muh… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZbtgjx9xE0 In the episode, not only was the image of Muhammad censored, but so was the name of Muhammad. Every time someone said Muhammad, they were bleeped. Also censored was the 'lesson speech' that Kyle and/or Stan gives at the end of almost every episode about what the kids has learned during the episode. There was at least 30 seconds of audio that was bleeped out between the characters Stan, Santa Clus, and Jesus Christ. I watched this episode on television and I thought the censorship was apart of the joke, but now it looks like it wasn't a joke. This isn't the first depiction of Muhammad that South Park has done. There have been at least two prior depictions of Muhammad on South Park — one in 2001, and another in 2006 that was also censored, but can be found online. Here's another: http://current.com/entertainment/comedy/92391949_south-park-has-shown-an-image-o… If you want to see an image of the Prophet Muhammad on South Park, you can watch the “Super Best Friends” episode here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103940/ More on this story: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixtNaqRpSqti8gDHGSyN8lXBhQjAD9… added by: Future_America