Kristin sends us an excerpt from a recent TV Guide email newsletter regarding the recent departure of Chef voice Isaac Hayes from Comedy Central’s hit South Park:

THE THETAN IS ON: Comedy Central’s decision to replace a Wednesday repeat of the
Scientology- and Tom Cruise-prodding South Park episode with a Chef’s
Chocolate Salty Balls encore has fueled talk that Cruise threatened not to
promote Viacom-owned Paramount’s Mission: Impossible III if the switch was not
made. A rep for Cruise denies the strong-arming and the semiofficial “spin” is
that the Chef-centric substitute was chosen as a tribute to Isaac Hayes, who
recently quit the series… due to its Scientology riff. But South Park creators
Trey Parker and Matt Stone still cry foul, saying in a statement to Variety,
“Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for Earth
has just begun!… You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save
humanity will fail!” You gotta love those guys.

According to Netscape’s What’s New the creators of South Park signed their response, “Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu.”