Garrison refuses to reveal the identity of Cartmans father, and instead sends Cartman to Dr. The episode opens with Cartman, as his hand-puppet persona Mitch Conner, narrating a flashback to Connors 1972 medical discharge from his Vietnam War tour of duty in a parody of a scene from the film Apocalypse Now as the song "Time of the Season" by the Zombies plays in the background. On January 31, 2014, the original uncensored version was leaked when it was pulled from the South Park Studios servers and was posted online in its entirety without approval by Comedy Central. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by 3.5 million viewers, making it the most watched cable television program of the night. In the United Kingdom, some parts were removed, and a short on-screen message appears, stating the outline of the removed parts and "MTV on Viva" or "Comedy Central" ".has refused to air an image of Muhammad on their network". In most places the episode "Sexual Healing" was shown instead of episode 201. "201" was not shown in repeats, has not been made available on the South Park website, and has not been shown in Sweden, Hungary, Australia or the Netherlands. Critics said that the networks action would encourage further threats from radical groups. The censorship drew strong criticism of Comedy Central. Nevertheless, both "200" and "201" were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 2010. Comedy Central modified Parker and Stones version of the episode, obscuring all images and bleeping all references to Muhammad - to the effect of disruptively obscuring the entire two-minute moral conclusion of the story. Prior to the broadcast of "201", the radical Muslim organization Revolution Muslim posted a warning on their website that Parker and Stone risked being murdered for their depiction of Muhammad. Like "200", it alludes to several past storylines and controversies from previous South Park episodes, especially Comedy Centrals refusal to show images of Muhammad on the network following controversies in 20 when cartoons depicting Muhammad ran in European newspapers, resulting in riots and threats.
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The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker.
In "201", a superhero-like group of religious figures team up to save South Park from the celebrities and their monster Mecha-Streisand, while Eric Cartman learns the true identity of his father. The episode continued multiple storylines from the previous episode, "200", in which a group of angry celebrities demand South Park produce the Muslim prophet Muhammad. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 21, 2010. 201 is the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of South Park, and the 201st overall episode of the series.