'South Park' WoW Parody Is Scary Accurate - 7.10.06

The folks behind “South Park” have done it again. This time, they’ve set their lampooning sights on the World of Warcraft and MMORPGs in general. The result is a scary accurate look at the extreme side of online gaming.

The episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” pokes fun at “no life” gamers, Blizzard and online games in general.

In the episode, the “South Park” four find themselves enjoying all WoW has to offer casual players until an uber, no life gamer who has figured out every exploit in the book goes around killing newbies where they stand. Slaughtering in the thousands, the rouge player sets into motion a series of events that are hysterical.

Rather than quit playing WoW (as the folks at Blizzard fear players will do), Cartman and the guys opt to become uber players themselves to take down their foe – an overweight, 30-something who plays around the clock.

To beat their foe, who is so adept he escapes banning, they become what they fight – overweight, around-the-clock players.

In the end, the boys are successful thanks to the “Sword of A Thousand Truths,” a player item that was taken out of the game because it was too powerful. Blizzard execs deliver it to the boys via Stan's dad, who is a pathetic newbie player.

The really scary thing about the episode is that I think I know the rouge player. He used to kill newbies outside of the Qeynos gates in EQ back in the day. Or, maybe that was his brother?

At any rate, the episode’s right on the mark when it comes to those MMORPG gamers who take everything so seriously they lose sight of the fact they’re just playing a game. It also does show how easy it is to get sucked into titles like WoW. It does go a wee bit over the top in showing gamers as drooling nuts who won't even get up to go to the bathroom, but I'd be willing to bet there's someone out there somewhere who has wished at least once during a raid for Cartman's mom and her bed pan. Yuck!

The episode seems to be ringing true with other gamers, too. Its popularity is so high, there’s even a fan site just for it. The episode's not out on iTunes just yet, but I suspect it will be in a few days.

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