South Park is pretty notorious for coming down to the last minute on the production schedule. This enables them to do two things:
1. Add last-minute changes in dialogue, etc., that can refer to very, very recent events
2. Prevent the show from having too much time in the hands of network censors, allowing more things to get "out"
Even if they did scale back on the episode, I thought they did a fine job with it. Like the whole dialogue in episode 200, where they explored the limits of what should and should not be an acceptable portrayal of Mohamed. For example: is it OK if he's in an animal suit but you can see his eyes still? OK, how about if he's in the back of a U-Haul truck?
It begged the silly question about where do you draw lines. e.g., "Should I blow up Stone & Parker if he's represented in a giant animal costume and I can see his eyes, but I will call off the death threat if I can't see his eyes and he doesn't speak?" When is it death-threat worthy, when is it not, and how silly is it to have to ask these questions in the first place?
And the other part of genius in the show was representing Mohamed in a giant, silly bear costume. The point there was as if to ask, "What is more degrading and disrespectful: Showing the face of the Prophet, or hiding his face behind a giant goofy bear mask?"
It forced a lot of absurd, subtle questions about how people treat Mohamed in modern society.
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I think that's a little of the point -- or at least my last one.
