Super Best Friends: what Wikipedia removed
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.
The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| islamist | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The opening’s original identification of the episode as number 68 of the Comedy Central series, reworded in the current opening.
- The account of Islamist death threats leading South Park Studios to stop streaming the episode, dropped from the opening entirely.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 370849953):
Television episode ” 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. 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”. The episode is replaced on the website with the notice: “We apologize that South Park Studios cannot stream this episode.” ^ http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103940/
2025 (revision 1296549672):
For the story by Lauren Faust, see DC Nation Shorts § Super Best Friends Forever . 3rd episode of the 5th season of South Park South Park season 5 List of episodes ” Super Best Friends ” is the third episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series South Park and the 68th episode of the series overall. This episode is not the third of Season 5, but rather the fourth, per the production order. In the United States, it debuted on Comedy Central on July 4, 2001. Stan , Kyle , Cartman , and Kenny decide to join magician David Blaine ‘s cult , the Blaintologists, after seeing him perform in South Park. Stan tries to persuade the others that they have been indoctrinated after…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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