>>91830604Isaac Hayes left the show at the urging of The Church of Scientology after Trey and Matt ripped on that cult of lunatics. In response to Hayes's departure, the duo made "The Return of Chef", an episode where all of Chef's lines were created by splicing together audio from his work on the show's previous nine seasons. Chef was turned into a member of a pedophile group (that was a less-than-subtle potshot at The Church of Scientology), killed, and resurrected in the vein of Darth Vader. The character itself was retired after this episode, while Hayes died two-and-a-half years after the episode aired.
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