South Park "Jared Has Aides" no longer banned?

The reason it was banned was that Comedy Central didn't like how Butter's parents beat him up in the ending, so they took it off of rotation and told Matt and Trey to never end a show like that again.

Wonder why it's back now.
 
Of ALL the things that poor Butters has been put through (Getting violated in Awesome-O; The Ninja Star incident in Good Times With Weapons, etc), THAT'S the thing Comedy Central gets riled about?
 
They ended an episode by having his parents tie him to the basement floor and try to feed him people.

They ended another one by feeding a kid's parents to the kid.

This is a very strange line Comedy Central has chosen.
 
It's probably because both of those examples were over-the-top and played for humor while the joke about child-beating hit too close to home.
 
That makes sense, but im sure that theyve had child abuse jokes on some of CC's live action material. Heck, when they had the rights to snl they showed buck henry's "uncle roy" sketches which are 10 times more disturbing than a cartoon character getting beaten up.
 
If that was the case, I'm surprised Matt and Trey DIDN'T end more episodes like that if CC told them not to do something like that again.

I will admit, I'm the person who draws the line of humor at child abuse (which, regardless of the circumstances is rarely ever funny), but I do have to question why this episode -of all the things they've done on this show- would be banned. Huh.
 
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