South Park episode dropped from schedule?

South Park episode dropped from schedule?

The 2005 season finale of South Park, entitled "Bloody Mary", involved a local statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding out its ass. The faithful come from miles around to be healed by the miraculous blood. Pope Benedict XVI shows up to inspect the statue, rules that the statue is actually bleeding from its vagina, and declares: "A chick bleeding out her vagina is no miracle. Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time."

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights predictably expressed outrage and called on Comedy Central to ban further showings of the episode. (The president of this alleged civil rights organization recently claimed, "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.") South Park offends some group or other nearly every episode, and the network has consistently backed the show's creators against complainants.

Until now? Comedy Central has seven episodes of South Park scheduled tonight from 9:30 to 1:00 (EST). Ads have touted this block as a mini-marathon of the show's most recent seven new episodes, from "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" (season 9, episode 8) through "Bloody Mary" (season 9, episode 14). My local TV listings follow this plan. However, the schedule at comedycentral.com shows a 1998 episode airing at 9:30, followed by episodes 8 through 13 of season 9 — with no "Bloody Mary".

Has Comedy Central caved to censorship pressure? I can't think of any other reason for "Bloody Mary" not airing tonight. This would be a very sad precedent.

FOLLOW-UP: "Bloody Mary" did not air. Bastards.

UPDATE: The MSM has picked up the story after the blogosphere broke it. Hell, even the North Koreans are pissed off. I had no idea they got South Park in North Korea.

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