South Park's MIRACLE Episode
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In 2006 in their 10th season, South Park released one of the most beloved episodes in series history, Make Love Not Warcraft. This episode not only has massive critical acclaim but is ALSO adored by the South Park fandom nearly unanimously. But the MOST insane thing about this episode is the SHEER number of disparate elements that had to come together for it to work. In South Park history that has never been an undertaking quite like Make Love, Not Warcraft, and it was SO experimental that Trey Parker himself was terrified that it would RUIN the legacy of South Park. So today let’s dive into South Park’s most miraculous episode in the entire series’ history, Make Love, Not Warcraft.
Edited by Joe Murphy @nazchoz798
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South Park (1996-2023)
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Back when Blizzard was the cool respected company and it was a company made up of nerds and people who loved gaming truly times have changed 😢
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the merger with Activision really screwed Blizzard up
While the games back then were fun, the lawsuits from a few years ago show that the people making them at this time were some of the monsters responsible for all the sexual harassment at Blizzard that persisted for years. Specifically a lot of the leaders at WOW.
Dang😅
No it was always like this you just didn’t know about what was going on
It also end with the perfect joke"
"What do we do now?"
"What do you mean? Now we can play the game."
It's one of my all time favorites!
I even made a video homage to it after spending almost a month trying to do a stupid in game challenge and upon succeeded realizing what I had become!
Endgame play in any MMO in the last 20 years
Edit: no joke I've played Elder Scrolls online on and off for 7 years and I'm only now hitting enough DPS to get into groups for Trial Dungeons, where you get the endgame meta armour sets that push you up to 100k DPS required for the Veteran difficulty versions. If you want to have any chance at getting the Emperor achievement in PVP, you have to have one of these sets.
that was me in GTA ONLINE. grinding money and rep to get better guns and better health to complete the missions and hiests as easy as possible.
Definitely a contrast to how the "Black Friday" trilogy ended.
Always humbling to see a creator as skilled as Trey show some impostor syndrome for what would become such a beloved episode.
Wait, he begged the network to not air the Warcraft episode but he was 100% on board with the Oprah episode?
@@bobkerr2755 He later agreed that that was a bad episode, but in the commentary for season 1 he brought up how most of the episodes him and Trey like aren’t liked by the fans (Like Terrance and Philip Not Without My Anus)
@@TheDuckyDino I wonder what other popular episodes they hate? I can't imagine anyone hating the lord of the rings episode
@@bobkerr2755 Trey Pretty much hates most episode right before they release, he just hated Make Love Not Warcraft a little more than the rest.
@@bobkerr2755 he always does stuff like this though. He was insecure about warcraft because he was actually super invested but he didnt care about the oprah episode so he didnt care what people thought. If you listen to the commentary on the episodes you can tell he just cuts off caring about certain things at certsin times.
I worked for Blizzard back then, they kept it a secret in the company except for the few people that worked with South Park studios. But we got to see the episode in a theater before it aired that week as a surprise and we were all so thrilled. They used our QA servers to do their in game scenes.
Few additional neat things for those who don't know:
Make love, not warcraft is an in game achievement that was made because of this.
The player killing everyone was modeled after a blizzard employee who's also the father of the streamer Thor of Pirate Software, who also worked for blizzard.
The "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" Butters mentions was later made into an actual game.
The list goes on and on lol
To add to that last point: it became real last year
They put The Sword of 1000 Truths in the game as well in TBC.
That’s so cool they made an achievement for the episode name🤘🏼
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I am so mad HKIA is Apple Arcade exclusive
Cartman: Mom, bafroom!
Liane: What hon?
Cartman: Bafroom!
Liane: (Brings bedpan)
Cartman: (Sharts)
Liane: Oh my, what a big boy!
Classic
“Carpal tunnel! Carpal tunnel! It’s bad!”
“Quick we need Bengay!”
You can’t go now your stacking sunder armor 😂
"poop socking" was a thing back then. Apparently gamers didn't want to miss any action
Cartman blowing diarrhea I in this episode has officially out-grossed Mr. Creosote as the most disgusting scene ever broadcast...
I laughed so fucking hard at that scene! He just... SPRAYS SHIT EVERYWHERE! 🤣🤣🤣
How do you kill that who has no life is my friends favorite South Park quote
Truly a classic. Still crazy to me how those guys got super depressed after making this episode only for it to go absurdly viral loool
Anyone know where the audio of Trey talking about the episode comes from?
I mean World of Warcraft is OK and all but it’s no hello Kitty Island adventure
"WE CAN'T TRUST THE SWORD OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS TO A NOOB!"
Something I still say all the time when I play games with my friends
Let's not forget this is the episode where we find out that Butters doesnt play world of warcraft, he instead plays Hello Kitty Island Adventure ™️
The poop bucket scene is what made the episode.
This was the episode that got me into South Park. I've seen every episode at least twice now, and I enjoyed a few of them more than this one, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart as my "gateway episode"
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This episode got me into WOW lol I always watched south park but didnt have a computer to play pc games so I was the butters and had to get a computer and the game after i saw this episode or all my friends would kill me lol
Remember people:
Don't use drugs‚ specifically league of legends‚ Dota and world of Warcraft
if youre on dota its already too late. the best course of action is a rehabilitation program and thorough therapy
And don't forget the deadliest drug of them all, OSRS
So many lives have been lost to Apex
As someone with 9400 hours in Dota, probably another 5k+ in WoW, and another 10-15k hours in OSRS. This hits hard. Did I mention I'm a giant loser?
@@notatallfunctionaloh sweet summer child...
I always love the aspect of showing that even though Cartman sucks, he really is a great leader when the boys have a common goal.
Best part is it turns out that the OP player is someone who worked at Blizzard. It's loosely based on Joeyray Hall, who you may better know as PirateSoftware's (Thor's) dad
RIP Jarod Nandin. 2021 took him from us but his WOW/South Park cosplay lives on as does the Sword of a Thousand Truths.
Make Love Not Warcraft is actually one of; if not my favorite episode of South Park. it had pretty much everything you coulda asked for story wise. a relatable villain, a group of adventurer's who had to become the villain in order to be the heroes, and this was easily my favorite story involving Randy. him getting absorbed into WoW was both hilarious and cute since he only wanted to spend time with his son.
I love the small details too, like, when they're all playing in Cartman's basement, they all have lcd screens except Kenny's poor ass on his CRT monitor 😂
As someone who didn't play WoW, I remember watching this episode in High School and FLOORED they pulled this off. We saw it kind of like machinima, which was popular at the time. We were blown away by the quality and realized they must have had more help to do some of the animations.
Same I missed out on the WoW trend but this ep introduced me to it still never played but can appreciate it
I mean, it was partially machinima.
You know the Twitch Streamer Pirate Softwear ? Both him and his Dad worked for Blizzard for years. The guy at the desk who kills the other players is based off his Dad just Exaggerated but he did wear the Wrist Brace and had that Desk and lamp
I was about to post this same thing
That's his apartment lol
Me too had just watched one of his shorts right before this video.
And on top of it, Thor is awesome.
Their use of "live to win" by Paul Stanley in the leveling up montage was perfect
Early 2000s such a great time for digital media. Today Blizzard would have to ask Daddy Shareholders first if it's ok to collab with Southpark and they would've said no too risky.
What's funny is this is one of the first South Park episodes I ever watched (and I was just a kid lol). I didn't even know what WoW was but I never felt lost because the episode did a good job of communicating what I needed to know to understand the game for the episode and the culture that sorrounded the game. Really loved the episode.
And to this day, I have never played WoW or any similar MMORPG games, but it remains a favorite episode of mine. I think that speaks to how good this episode is.
One thing I love about South park and this episode in particular is the clever word play. Like the line- how do you kill that who has no life? Fucking brilliant.
Cartman taking a shit in the bucket while Liane holds it is one of the funniest scenes in the entire series. Just full on surreal hilarity.
I played WoW at the time this episode aired. It was such a big thing, the next day and for weeks after, hundreds of people were looking to buy "The Sword of a Thousand Truths", and confusing the hell out of the rest of the server. 😆
truly one of the Best South Park episodes ever made
Si
its a funny & good episode but not the best… just because people felt bad for Trey Parker , they just voted it as the best . south park fell off since 18th season to the newest game… downhill
I remember I showed this episode to a friend of mine who was way into WoW at the time, and he spent pretty much the whole runtime complaining about everything they got wrong about the game. I didn't care what he said, though, the Sword of a Thousand Truths was awesome.
Cartman spraying diarrhea into a bedpan was the funniest thing I had ever seen up to that point in my life and it’s still in my list of favorite SP moments.
It's burnt into my memory, from the moment he demands it "mom, bathroom!" to the end of the sequence with his mom diligently carrying the thing upstairs while covered in diarrea herself
It out-grosses Mr. Creosote by a mile...
🎵LIVE TO WIN, TILL YOU DIE,
TILL THE LIGHT DIES IN YOUR EYES!🎵
So Iconic
Bathroom..BATHROOM!!
Okay... not saying you have to do it, but it would be AMAZING if you did a video on 200 & 201. Those 2 episodes are, without question, my favorite episodes of the entire series. And the impact those two episodes have had over South Park as a series is undeniable!
I think the sense of inadequacy is a relatable trait among sincere artists. The end product of something you put a ton of work into never feels as good as it should when held to the public eye, since the experience of creating it is always much greater than the end result.
It was so cool to imagine being one of the ingame actors, or a director trying to direct in a new world. Badass coverage of this moment in media history
man can’t believe this episode came out in season 10, it’s so fantastic. great video man
I don't play World of Warcraft. I play Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
"The worst Blizzard can say is 'no'." - The South Park Animation Staff, I guess.
great work ! Was expecting just a video essay on the episode plot but you covered all the background, production and response too.
I always think of Stan and Cartman whenever I've done an inordinate amount of grinding.
"I can't believe it's all over. What do we do now?"
"What do you mean? Now we can finally play the game"
Great video! I’d love to see one on Scott Tenorman Must Die and Cartman’s character arc throughout the first 4 seasons of the show leading up to it.
I remember my guild stopping our AQ40 run just to watch it.
Peak classic South Park. They've stood the test of time and then some. It's been a pleasure growing up with South Park. I saw my first episode in 2002. I'll be 33 in February. Thank you Matt and Trey ❤
This episode is the first time I heard the song Live To Win, which I still love to this day
Probably the first episode that comes to mind when asked "what's the best south park episode ever?".
I was a WoW player in middle school and south park was my favorite show. Waiting the whole week to see the new south park episode and it opens with WoW was an unbelievable experience as a kid.
I remember when this episode aired, I was actively playing World of Warcraft, and everyone was talking about how great the episode was on chat.
This episode got me into Warcraft and I’ve been playing ever since
Even though I have no WOW knowledge, I still respect the detail they took with using the actual in game models, music, spells, etc. I could tell it was almost all authentic.
It made me wish they'd given the same or similar treatment to BG3. They made many references to it in the Panderverse, but used like no footage from it. Which was disappointing, I'd love to see the characters the boys would make.
This and good times with weapons
It is the episode I go to if I want to get fully absorbed. It's my favorite episode.
This episode got me into live to win and now i play it every time when I’m working out
I remember a lot of my close friends got to work on this episode because I was a podcaster for WOW radio. It was a very cool time to be involved with the world Warcraft 😆
My god, I can't believe this episode is 18 years old...
The sword they're after is actually a sword called "slayer of the lifeless" and it has the flavor text "fortold by salsman" ( there's a joke about salsman in accounting in the episode) though it wasn't added till the third expansion; the wrath of the lich king. I'm sure most gamers will know this, but for the few that don't it's a fun Easter egg.
Paul Stanleys - Live to win suits it perfectly
The Blizzard of today would have never allowed collaboration like this to happen. How times have changed!
My favourite South Park episode.
Si
Dude your theme song at the end is an absolute bop. Also great video as always
LIVE TO WIN! One of my all time favorites!
Till you die!!!
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I do rlly like when (much like in good times w/ weapons), south park eps treat the most low-stakes matters with the utmost seriousness. like, all they had to do was find some other game to play instead of all this lol but they very literally treat it like the world--of warcraft--population is on the line here. that's why the ending when they recall they did all this just so they could play the game uninterrupted and casually get back to it always cracks me up. also the epic battle music playing over the shots of the bloated boys just sitting at their computers barely moving
edit: like this is also why I love the ziplining ep
Butters playing hello kitty island
The moment of Randy dying in Stan's arms is an echo of the Mograine story and of Saurfang
Fun fact PirateSoftware's father is "he who has no life".
❤😅
I was in a bit of a chad group when I was younger and was the only one who played WOW, watching this with a big group of friends, I had to take twice, looking at the screen and seeing WOW but hearing my fave show South Park?!?!
Just remember feeling pure joy and going "This is actually it! Wtf Sunder armor ahaha, thats a thing. LOL OMG TOWER OF AZORA"
I remember going out after the show, everyone in high spirits, laughing and quoting the episode for a cheeky smoke and whilst passing the dutchy panny left hand side, 3-4 of my friends said they wanted to start playing and "I'm going to build a hunter, I want to play a mage" all asking questions about the game, wanting to know more about it.
To this day South Park remains one of my greatest ever shows and WOW is one of my favourite ever games.
My husband and I say “you can’t just give up on the world…of Warcraft!” All the time 🤣
Ive played WoW since vanilla and during the time this episode came out it was all over the in game chat. People would be LTB The Sword of a Hundred Truths repeatedly filling the chat with spam.
Hey Johnny! The bit about Randy's comedic scenes and dying in Stan's arms plays through twice. Didn't know if you knew that!
I think you may have hit the back arrow or something because it doesn't when I play it back!
“Let me taste your tears Scott!”
One of my favorites of all time
For my dad, this episode helped him keep watching the show for a while longer. It was a rejuvinating oasis in what he felt was a desert.
0:22 Team America Enters the chat
Fun fact: The guy sitting in the chair playing the character they are trying to kill was an actual person working at Blizzard, kinda famous too, forgot the name tho. He only found out after the fact and found it funny, they even partially adapted the room in his house.
This episode is also just so unbelievably funny. Every single joke lands for me and I laugh so much.
This is one of my top two episodes I think. This one and All About Mormons are the episodes that made me a fan
this episode is how I heard about WoW for the first time
but I don't I ever got around to playing WoW myself though, I was more into Runescape and Guild Wars 1 when I was younger
When cartman shits in the bucket 🪣 comedy gold
As great as this episode is, it's also been able to help people. I've read quite a few online stories about people who were way too addicted to WoW who suddenly realised this because they watched this South Park episode, and saw themselves in the shoes of the OP troll player, just mindlessly and silently clicking away at a game, wasting away.
Quite a few of them said it was a wake-up call to pull themselves and their lives together, and stop playing this MMO all day.
Not many, In fact it encouraged people to be exactly like this. I mean The RUclipsr didn't even talk about this Aspect of the entire episode. I'm sure Matt and Trey were scared to release that episode because of this, But people just laughed at it didn't take away the entire point of the episode! Just look at all the comments of this video
"MOM!!!!!!!!!! BATHROOM!!!!!!!!"
This was the first episode of South Park I ever watched. A friend of mine had the episode on his Xbox and showed it to me and I remember being really impressed with the storytelling.
Hows it possible knowing all this makes this episode even funnier than it already is??!
Before my middle school friend group ever knew what "AFK" meant, we had the "CLYDE".
oh you just KNOW the blizzard employees loved the episode
I’m glad 2 cozy is actually your second channel cause I wasn’t sure if someone was stealing your content😭
The episode itself was also super relatable, like the scene where they kill a bunch of boar just to level up. lol
This episode was a fever dream.
Ironically, this episode made me stay *away* from WoW for two years, because I thought the Alliance races were my only choices and I never even knew of the Horde until later.
Yeeeeees, Johnny is finally talking about my all-time favorite episode of South Park bar none, I can watch this 100 times in one sitting!!
It always got me that their keyboards are around the wrong way lol
This episode is the whole reason i started watching south park.
This is THE most iconic episode for me personally! SO nostalgic! Comforting! I re-watch it periodically.
awesome overview 🎉
To this day this is STILL my favorite episode, the guitar hero one is a close 2nd
Thanks for making this. One of my favorite episodes
my favorite part of this episode was when my wow guild leader declared his hatred of south park and commanded everyone to skip the episode to raid ZG. We did not raid that night.
I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again right after. It also had me talking to my roommate about it, and he had actually played WoW previously. Shortly after that conversation, we both got copies of Wrath of the Lich King and played through Cataclysm. That game was a ton of fun!
Thanks, Matt and Trey.
I distinctly remember playing World of Warcraft when this came on TV - opening with WoW theme song was a truly surreal moment for me. I asked the group chat - anyone watching South Park right now?
love this deeper look into the wow episode thx 4 the vid
Every time I hear a voice note of Trey,I keep thinking he's goofing around being Randy and keep saying "Can this guy stop messing around and be serious for one moment?'😂
Specifically remember the thought " oh hell yeah, South Park did a wow episode." 😂 and that shit did not disappoint😮
Fun fact after the episode came out you could and can still get stans sword in game it is called "slayer of the lifeless"