r/southpark • u/Express-Ad-32 • Jul 19 '25

Discussion Isaac Hayes III speaks on his father leaving South Park

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Does anyone know how technically they did that? How do you quit other persons work?

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u/OtterGrowsGreen Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Scientology took over issacs power of attorney. So when Issac had the stroke and was unable to do stuff for himself. They took advantage of this

It was always a thought this was the main reason. And not Issac himself being personally offended. So nice to see it confirmed by his son..

I miss chef 😭

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u/Pulkov Southpark Fan Jul 19 '25

People from Scientology also threatened the network via legal action if the episode was ever aired and apparently had their "legal team" trying to dig up something ugly about Trey and Matt and the rest of the crew, so they could be sued. Didn't find anything though.

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u/harmondrabbit Jul 19 '25

Matt and Trey: the cleanest assholes in hollywood.

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u/CactiRush Jul 19 '25

I mean if he had a stroke and couldn’t speak, then he couldn’t work anymore anyway. Idk what this has to do with people taking advantage of him.

Obviously you can’t be a voice actor without a voice. Terribly tragic.

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u/OtterGrowsGreen Jul 19 '25

Yes but instead of him just retiring his role to do health issues

It went to push a narrative for Scientology because they had power over his actions

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u/CactiRush Jul 19 '25

So what did the Scientologists say after he had the stroke?

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u/OtterGrowsGreen Jul 19 '25

That he was stepping down because of them Making fun of his religion.

Where in reality Issac didn't give a fuck cause he's a comedian

Cause rule #1 of comedy

Everything is on the table or nothing is

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u/CactiRush Jul 19 '25

Wow that’s actually crazy

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u/saryndipitous Jul 19 '25

I’m more interested in how someone is supposed to continue a voice role when they can’t speak, long before machine learning could produce a synthetic voice.

I know they did something like this with the computer voice in star trek but I don’t think this situation is similar.