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High-Ranking Scientologist Reveals the Memo the Church Sent Out After ‘South Park’ Poked Fun at Tom Cruise

Scientologists have a series of acronyms and codes to refer to the various threats to their plans for world domination, with the kind of “joking & degrading” featured on shows like South Park shortened to “J&D.” Gotta protect the head FP somehow.

When Trey Parker and Matt Stone first started taking shots at the aggressively litigious and rapidly growing religious and political organization the Church of Scientology in the classic South Park Season 12 episode “Trapped in the Closet,” they unintentionally sparked one of the show’s most disappointing controversies that led to beloved series regular Isaac Hayes leaving the show for good, shortly before his death.

Outraged ‘Psycho’ Fans Call for a Return to Physical Media After AppleTV+ Ruins Final Scene With a Preview for ‘The Big Bang Theory’

We all go a little mad sometimes, but the UX designer at AppleTV+ responsible for this classic cinema catastrophe is more psycho than Norman Bates.

Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn’t seen Psycho but who thinks that they might stream it at some point — or, better yet, they might buy a physical copy of the film. Alfred Hitchcock fans will recall with photographic memory the iconic closing moments of his 1960 masterpiece Psycho when the camera slowly zooms in on Norman, captured in a police station and his personality permanently evacuated by the constructed alter ego of his mother, as Norma’s voice echoes in his head. In the penultimate shot of the movie, Norman slowly looks up and stares into the camera, grinning menacingly, before the film cuts to his final female victim’s car and her remains getting pulled out of the swamp.

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