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Super Best Friends

Super Best Friends is a 2001 South Park episode later pulled from streaming. Through 2023 the opening said this happened following Islamist death threats over the episode "201," as South Park Studios stopped streaming it in April 2010. Today the opening makes no mention of Islamist death threats or the removal, and the word appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns the episode's plot and not why it was pulled from streaming.
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Super Best Friends " is episode 68 of the Comedy Central series South Park , aired on July 4, 2001. The episode depicts several religious figures including Muhammad , which, at the time of its original airing, caused little or no controversy.1 However, following Islamist death threats over the episode " 201 ", as of April 22, 2010 the South Park Studios website no longer streams "Super Best Friends".2

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Then

episode 68 of the comedy central series south park

Now

third episode of the fifth season of the american animated television series south park and the 68th episode of

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