SBS skips South park’s iPad episode
SBS has abandoned plans to air an episode of South Park which includes a send-up of Steve Jobs.
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SBS has abandoned plans to air an episode of South Park tonight which includes a send-up of Steve Jobs.
“HumancentiPad” parodies the 2010 horror film The Human Centipede which depicts humans attached to one another from anus to mouth. In the South Park episode, which aired in the US in April, Kyle becomes involved in a “HumancentiPad” chain.
This episode parodies reports about tracking software built into Apple’s iPads and iPhones, and the long license agreements from iTunes.
In the school playground Cartman is bragging about his iPad, but it turns out that he doesn’t really have one. Meanwhile, Kyle is kidnapped by Apple employees, who claim their actions are legal under the newest version of the iTunes terms and conditions, to which Kyle agreed without reading.
SBS will tonight move forward to the next episode in the season, “Funnybot.” It’s unclear if or when SBS will reschedule the skipped episode, following the death of the Apple boss.
October 10 “Funnybot”
October 17 “Royal Pudding”
October 24 “TMI”
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I watched this on the weekend and from memory, they don’t actually make fun of Steve Jobs personally…..Rather they make fun of Apple and the cult-like following they have
How convenient that a 6 month old South Park episode that happens to be about Apple is pulled the week Steve Jobs dies.
Sounds like a calculated and cynical publicity stunt to me.
Or am I drawing a long bow?
It’s not PC behaviour, it’s about respecting a man who gave his life to a company. That what it comes down to respect.
Typical SBS PC behaviour.
Coming from the same network that delayed this season of Swift and Shift for 3 years when their was nothing that could have offended anyone re: Indian students.
Great choice and respect from SBS.
‘Weak.’ ‘Pathetic.’ ‘Lame.’ Are you guys serious? Those words are extremely appropriate for describing this episode, but not SBS’s scheduling which is basically standard practice.
Well if they played episodes earlier like they should they would have played it.
I know its a tad morbid coz he died but come on that’s South Park at it’s best.
I agree with Sam, how is the Bin Laden thing a go but an episode making fun of Apple products is taboo? Weak.
at least they moved the new eps to 9pm so that means i can now watch them without falling asleep
at least it’s back.I was getting sick to death of those pizza episodes that go back to the last decade.
Maybe if they had been up to date they could have avoided this problem.
Pathetic.
Geeze its because Steve Job’s death isnt it? Well if it is that sux. I thought SBS would show it seeing how they arent as pc as the other networks or do they adverstise Apple products now?
@Sam – Steve Jobs was slightly less evil than Bin Laden and therefore perhaps warrants a little more respect.
Ah a network completely missing the point of the show they are airing.
Bravo SBS, Bravo!
Funny, considering SBS had no issues showing new episode “It’s a Jersey Thing” the same day Osama Bin Laden died.
This doesn’t mean that they will never play it, rather that the timing of the ep may be viewed as “too soon” by some.
Lame.. just play the episode. I’ve had enough of all this RIP Steve Jobs junk from people who Wished (for some dumb reason) they knew him