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"Cartoon Wars Part II" is the fourth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series ''South Park'', and the 143rd episode of the series overall. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 12, 2006. The episode is rated TV-MA L. It is the second part of a two-episode story, which focuses on Cartman's efforts to get the TV series ''Family Guy'' cancelled, by exploiting fears of retaliation by Muslims to an impending, fictitious ''Family Guy'' episode in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad will appear, in violation of some interpretations of Muslim law. Kyle instead urges the president of the network airing ''Family Guy'', Fox, to air the episode in an exercise of free speech, arguing, "Either it's all okay, or none of it is." The episodes were inspired by the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons controversy, which began in response to a Danish newspaper's printing of cartoons depicting Muhammed in early 2006, leading to worldwide protests and occasionally violent demonstrations and riots. It also comes from ''South Park'' creators Parker and Matt Stone's general dislike of ''Family Guy'', which they viewed as overly reliant on cutaway gags as humor and less on story. During production, the duo ran into reluctance from Comedy Central and parent company Viacom, who felt their insistence to depict Muhammad disregarded concerns for public safety. Parker and Stone argued that the network were giving in to hypothetical violence, labeling them hypocrites due to their satirizing of other religions in the past. The network interference was written into the episode's plotline. Comedy Central eventually aired the episode with a black title card during the Muhammad sequence, censoring the depiction. While the episode's censorship did attract headlines, it received more attention for its lampooning of ''Family Guy''. The episode received positive reviews from television critics. ==Plot== In a reference to the episode "Not Without My Anus" interrupting the show's first 2-part special, the beginning of this episode is jokingly interrupted by a "Terrance & Phillip" episode entitled "Mystery At The Lazy J Ranch". In the beginning of the "episode", Terrance and Phillip are seen on horses at the Lazy J, when Muhammad appears, with his image replaced with a black square saying "IMAGE CENSORED BY CBC". The duo are then seen complaining to the network president, who tells them about a little boy (Cartman) heading to Los Angeles to stop "Family Guy" from showing Muhammad uncensored. This leads into the episode itself. Eric Cartman has an intense dislike for the television program ''Family Guy'', due to what he regards as subpar writing. When he learns that an episode of the show is to feature a depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, he exploits fears of retaliation to urge Fox, the network on which Family Guy airs, to pull the episode. Kyle, meanwhile, is a fan of ''Family Guy'', and follows Cartman in his efforts to pull the show, which involves riding their toy bikes to the Fox lot in Los Angeles. Cartman pretends to be a sickly Danish kid with a broken leg, telling the Fox executives that his father was killed by terrorists during the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons controversy and pleading that they pull the ''Family Guy'' episode. His story touches the executives, who encourage him to try to persuade the writers to yield. Kyle arrives at the Fox Studio to foil Cartman's plans, but is knocked unconscious by an ally of Cartman's, a kid resembling Bart Simpson who, also wanting to destroy ''Family Guy'', restrains Kyle in a supply shed. Cartman is introduced to the ''Family Guy'' writing staff, who turn out to be a group of manatees. The staff, who live in a large tank, pick up "idea balls" from a large pile of them, each of which has a different noun, a verb or a pop culture reference written on it, and deliver them, five at a time, to a machine that then forms a ''Family Guy'' cutaway gag based on those ideas. The manatees refuse to work if any idea ball is removed from their tank, making censorship an unfeasible practice with them. In addition, Fox staff person tells Cartman, they are the only mammals unaffected by terrorist threats. Cartman secretly removes a ball from their tank, causing them to stop working, and then convinces the Fox president that the manatees are spoiled, and abusing the executives' generosity. Cartman convinces the president that they need to show them who's boss. The president decides to pull the new ''Family Guy'' episode shortly before airtime. Cartman feels victorious, but Kyle shows up, saying he convinced the Bart-like kid to set him free. After a physical altercation between Cartman and Kyle, they both go to the Fox president's office. Kyle tells the president that Cartman has duped him into pulling the episode, and despite Cartman's brandishing of a gun, Kyle implores the president not to censor the episode. The network president ultimately decides, in spite of threats of violence from both Cartman and Islamic terrorists, that ''Family Guy'' should be aired, and without censorship. The ''Family Guy'' episode airs, and features Muhammad in a cutaway gag, handing Peter a "salmon football helmet", but the scene with Muhammad was cut by Comedy Central, and is replaced by a black screen and a title card reading, "In this shot, Mohammed hands a football helmet to ''Family Guy''. Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Mohammed on their network." Despite President Bush's observation that the use of Muhammad was not inflammatory, terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, reminding America that it was warned not to show Muhammad, initiates Al-Qaeda's retaliation — a crudely animated video depicting President George W. Bush, Carson Kressley, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Jesus Christ defecating on each other and the American flag. At the end of the video, al-Zawahiri declares victory over the United States, asserting that the video was "way funnier than ''Family Guy''." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cartoon Wars Part II」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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