Update: By the way, Mr. Pinko is fired again. He’s the tipster on this wonderful story. Wait’ll I leave a review on his Yelp page.
San Francisco, CA — Today Yelp Inc. filed a $10 million dollar lawsuit against the creators of South Park and Comedy Central. In the lawsuit, Yelp is seeking damages caused by the latest episode of South Park which lampooned the customer review and local business rating website.
Paul Horner, who is a spokesman for Yelp, spoke with NBC News about details of the lawsuit.
“Our company, along with its millions of users, take Yelp very seriously. The South Park episode was in extremely bad taste and not funny whatsoever. To say our critics are out there trying to get free food and using racist slurs on little Mexican children is beyond ridiculous. To compare the users of Yelp to terrorists is not only cruel, but the definition of libel and slander. I believe any reasonable court in America will agree with the lawsuit and rule in our favor.”
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the popular animated series, were quick to issue a statement of their own.
“We’ve taken a hard look at the information presented to us, and after reviewing it, we have given Yelp and their lawsuit only one star. Their lawyers delivered us legal documents in a very unprofessional manner; not bothering to smile or even a quick handshake. The writing on the envelope was barely legible and in two different colors. It is our personal opinion that Yelp could do a much better job by not suing us for ten million dollars.”
No, Yelp Is Not Suing ‘South Park’ for $10 Million
http://www.eater.com/2015/10/21/9582228/yelp-not-suing-south-park-for-10-million-satire-hoax
Though this originated on what appears to be an nbc site, it’s satire! Read the entire article, and that becomes obvious.
They had me right up to Fappy. Now I’ll read the rest.
STILL…. about the only thing on TV worth watching, outside of sports and Martha MacCallum’s legs.
The new South Park “Safe Space” is worth watching. It’s about the special snowflakes getting their feelings hurt.
I wouldn’t want my kids to watch south park but I honestly have no problem with the show, despite it’s offensiveness.
Why? It’s offensive to EVERYONE and they have balls. They take their right to free speech seriously and I like that.
I still really like the old one where they find out that “the rainforest” is just a freaking miserable jungle with huge bugs and all kinds of things that want to kill you.
also it’s not on nbc.com look closely
http://nbc.com.co/yelp-sues-south-park-for-10-million-over-episode/
Yeah, I’ve seen a few URLs now with the xxxx.com.co address. All satire, but pretty well set up to catch you unaware.
It’s offensive to ALMOST everyone. They still chickened out on the muslim episode.