"Bloody Mary" is episode 914 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 7, 2005. In the audio commentary, Trey Parker admits to somewhat regretting making this episode even more than Trapped in the Closet, due to the excessive controversy the episode made. is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mr. ... Die Hippie, Die is episode 902 of Comedy Centrals South Park. ... Wing is episode 903 of the Comedy Central animated series South Park. ... Best Friends Forever (also known as Kennys PSP) is episode 904 of the Comedy Central series South Park paralleling the Terri Schiavo controversy. ... The Losing Edge is episode 905 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... The Death of Eric Cartman is episode number 906 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Erection Day is episode 907 in the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow is episode 908 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Marjorine is episode 909 of Comedy Centrals South Park. ... Follow That Egg! is episode 910 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Ginger Kids aka Gingervitis is episode 136 (Season 9 episode 11) of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park, originally aired on November 16, 2005. ... Free Willzyx is episode 913 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Good Times with Weapons is episode 801 of South Park. ... The Return of Chef episode 140 of Comedy Centrals animated series South Park and aired on March 22, 2006. ... The following is an episode list for the Comedy Central animated television series South Park. ... Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel in the United States. ... This article is about the TV series. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park. ...

Plot

The boys, Kyle, Cartman and Stan (minus Kenny, plus Ike) attend karate class while Stan's dad goes for a couple of drinks. After class, Randy drives the boys home. Randy needs to urinate after the evening of drinking. Randy decides to urinate in a beer bottle, as opposed to stopping on the side of the road. Randy asks Stan to steer while he tries to urinate in a beer bottle. The resulting swerve gets the attention of a police officer, and he gets pulled over for drunk driving. Randy is ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, where he is taught that he is powerless to control his drinking and that alcoholism is a "disease." He does not believe his son, who just tells him that he just has no "disaprin". Randy, who Stan describes as a “hypochondriac,” then begins to, ironically, drink more, since he has decided that he is in fact powerless to control it and cannot stop. Around this time, a statue of the Virgin Mary begins to bleed – out of its anus – and people begin to flock around it to find a cure for their diseases. Randy believes it can heal him of his disease. Drunk driving (drink driving in the UK) or drinking and driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol (i. ... Logo for AA Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal society for recovering alcoholics. ... For other uses, see Discipline (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hypochondria (or hypochondriasis, sometimes referred to as health anxiety/health phobia) refers to an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. ... The term Virgin Mary has several different meanings: Mary, the mother of Jesus, the historical and multi-denominational concept of Mary Blessed Virgin Mary, the Roman Catholic theological and doctrinal concept of Mary Marian apparitions shrines to the Virgin Mary Virgin Mary in Islam, the Islamic theological and doctrinal concept... Female Human Anatomy Male Human Anatomy This article is about the bodily orifice. ...

Randy has Stan drive him to the church where the statue is, and – after cutting in line, arguing his ‘disease’ is worse than that of others – he is drenched in the holy blood, and then jumps up, declaring he will not drink anymore (ostensibly because the bleeding statue is his "Higher Power"), and abstains from alcohol for five days. Alcoholics Anonymous uses the term A Power Greater Than Ourselves also referred to as The Higher Power when used by recovered alcoholics who have experienced the magic worked by the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. ...

The new Pope Benedict XVI comes to investigate, and discovers that the blood is not actually coming from the statue's anus – but its vagina. Since "chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time," this is no miracle, and Randy, realizing this, suddenly realizes God did not heal him. He at first declares himself powerless again, but then Stan makes him realize that if God did not help him, he must have done it himself. Randy then declares that he will never drink again, but Stan objects to this too, saying that if Randy completely avoids drinking, drinking is still controlling his life, and that true discipline involves figuring out how to live in moderation; nothing, he says, is actually easier than some. The two then walk home, Randy asking Stan how much drinking would be proper. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The Pope (from Latin... This article is becoming very long. ... The vagina, (from Latin, literally sheath or scabbard ) is the tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female placental mammals and marsupials, or to the cloaca in female birds, monotremes, and some reptiles. ... Menstrual cycle The menstrual cycle is a recurring cycle of physiological changes that occurs in the females of human beings and other great apes. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...

Controversy

The episode was aired on December 7, 2005, which is the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Catholic observance related specifically to the Virgin Mary. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights condemned this episode for its treatment of the Virgin Mary. They demanded an apology to Roman Catholics and that the episode "be permanently retired and not be made available on DVD." In particular they also demanded that Joseph A. Califano, Jr., a member of Viacom's (the parent of Comedy Central) board of directors and a practicing Catholic, issue his own statement of condemnation.^[1] Califano did later release a statement calling the episode an "appalling and disgusting portrayal of the Virgin Mary," and pledged to have it reviewed by Viacom's president and CEO, Tom Freston. Bishop William Skylstad, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter to Freston saying the network showed "extreme insensitivity" when it aired the episode.^[2] When Comedy Central re-aired all the episodes from South Park's Fall 2005 season on December 28, 2005, "Bloody Mary" was noticeably absent from the broadcast. Comedy Central responded to e-mail inquiries about the fate of the episode with the assurance that "Bloody Mary" has not been retired and would not be pulled from the DVD release.^[3] However, still missing are screen captures from the episode on Comedy Central's press site and the South Park section of comedycentral.com.^[4] At the time, South Park had already stirred controversy two weeks earlier after the "Trapped in the Closet" episode. This created a further blow to the show's producers and directors. is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Feast of the Immaculate Conception Originally called the Conception of Mary; under the name of Immaculate Conception, the observance in the West celebrates the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Joseph A. Califano, Jr. ... Viacom (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIAb) is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios). ... Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel in the United States. ... Thomas E. Freston (born 22 November 1945) is an American television executive most recently serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of the newly-split Viacom, until his resignation on September 5, 2006. ... William Stephen Skylstad (born 2 March 1934 in Omak (Methow) in Okanogan County, Washington) is an American Roman Catholic Bishop. ... The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (also known as the USCCB) is the official governing body of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. ... is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park, originally aired on November 16, 2005. ...

In February 2006, leaders from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference, the Council of Christians and Muslims, and other religious groups together lobbied media conglomerate CanWest to stop a planned airing of the episode in New Zealand on the music channel C4. The network rejected the plea and said the episode would air as planned.^[5][6] Leading Catholic bishops then called for a boycott of C4 and its sister network TV3. CanWest again resisted and decided to air the episode sooner than planned to take advantage of the media attention. New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark issued a statement saying the episode sounded "revolting," but that the network was free to air it. One advertiser, who is a non-practicing Catholic, withdrew his ads from CanWest's networks. Catholic group Family Life International set up a website for boycotting CanWest's other advertisers.^[7][8] Another company named C4 Productions, which has no links to the C4 music channel, applied for a court order on the eve of the airing to stop the episode citing damage to its business because it thought people would link it to the channel. The judge ruled against the order.^[9] C4 aired the episode on February 22, 2006 and drew 210,000 viewers, six times South Park's normal audience for the channel.^[10] After receiving 102 formal complaints from viewers, the network issued a statement a month later saying "…C4 acknowledges the strength of feeling in relation to the programme, and we sincerely apologize for any offence taken."^[11] Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CanWest Global Communications Corp. ... C4 is a music television station operating in New Zealand and owned by Canwest MediaWorks NZ, a company 70% owned by Canadian broadcasting conglomerate Canwest. ... Look up Boycott in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... TV3 is a commercial television station in New Zealand. ... The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealands head of government and is the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand. ... For other persons named Helen Clark, see Helen Clark (disambiguation). ... Family Life International is a conservative Catholic anti-abortion organisation based in Auckland New Zealand, which is a subsidiary of a larger conservative Catholic transnational NGO, Human Life International, based Maryland, USA. FLI provides a pro-life perspective to people of New Zealand, and Polynesia opposing abortion, contraceptives, sterilisation, and... is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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In June 2006 complaints received by New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) were rejected: The airing of the show was found to not be in breach of broadcasting standards. According to the BSA, "[b]ut showing disrespect does not amount to the sort of vicious or vitriolic attack normally associated with the denigration standard." They also said the episode was "of such a farcical, absurd and unrealistic nature that it did not breach standards of good taste and decency in the context in which it was offered".^[12] New Zealand Catholic bishops have decided to appeal the decision.^[13] Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ...

In February 2006, Archbishop Denis Hart in Melbourne, Australia wrote to television network SBS asking them not to air the episode. The network's programming director originally rejected the request, but later decided to postpone the episode citing the controversy over the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons.^[14] SBS ended up showing "Christian Rock Hard".^{[citation needed]} SBS will be showing the episode in late 2006, before screening starts of Season 10. The episode was, however shown on The Comedy Channel, on August 30th 2006, one reason for this was that they could advertise that they had shown an Australian premiere South Park before SBS did. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is located in Victoria, Australia. ... Denis James Hart is the current (as at 2005) Archbishop of Melbourne. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is one of two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ... The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after twelve editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 2005-09-30. ... Christian Rock Hard is episode 709 of Comedy Centrals South Park. ... The Comedy Channel (promoted on air as comedy) is an Australian subscription television channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television. ...

In late March 2006, Rob Corddry, reporting on Comedy Central's own The Daily Show said: Rob Corddry (born on February 4, 1971 in Weymouth, Massachusetts), born as Robert Cornelius Corddry, is an American comedian known best for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and as the main character in the FOX sitcom The Winner. ... The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning American satirical television program produced by and airing on Comedy Central. ...

…Christianity has evolved and matured. No longer do they stone people to death for blasphemy. Now they write a lot of letters to advertisers. Even a secular, atheistic, morally bankrupt entity like Comedy Central can be affected. Just ask Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park, whose recent episode entitled "Bloody Mary" was pulled after a single airing. Now obviously [we at] Comedy Central can't show you that offensive material…

The South Park clips shown while Corddry spoke included plenty of offensive material (fornicating cats, a man vomiting and then falling in his own vomit, Butters viewing his parents having sex, etc.) but there was nothing from the "Bloody Mary" episode. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Like the Trapped in the Closet episode, Bloody Mary did return to the air on August 2, 2006 at 10 P.M. Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park, originally aired on November 16, 2005. ...

Trivia

• This episode marks another occasion in which Stan is shown to be able to drive. Another example of this is Towelie (South Park episode).
• When asked if he knew anything about the Twelve step program, Stan responds by saying "Yeah, and I also know a thing or two about cults; i was the leader of one for a while." This is a reference to when he became the leader of Scientology in the episode Trapped in the Closet (South Park). Similarly, this episode was also controversial in its approach to religion, and ultimately was the cause of Isaac Hayes leaving the show.
• For a second when Stan is trying to convince his father to not drive an alien can be seen in a reflection in the window.

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