Originally Posted by Raven
After having read that article, I'd still say that what we saw in the episode was intentional. What probably happened was, Trey and Matt pitched their conceptual idea of the episode (including the showing of Muhammad) to CC, which was turned down, so they probably did it in such a way that let everyone know that CC hadn't allowed it.
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They probably said "ok, CC won't let us show Muhammad, how can we write the episode to get around this?" They wouldn't just air the episode with a small section censored, they'd pull the entire episode, no?