South Park tunes up Guitar Hero

  • By Polybren, GameSpot
  • Posted Nov 5, 2007 1:08 pm PT

It's obvious that the people behind Comedy Central's TV series South Park are gamers. The animated show, which follows the adventures of four foul-mouthed grade schoolers in a suburban Colorado town, has returned to games time and time again. In September, the episode "Make Love Not Warcraft" won...

It's obvious that the people behind Comedy Central's TV series South Park are gamers. The animated show, which follows the adventures of four foul-mouthed grade schoolers in a suburban Colorado town, has returned to games time and time again. In September, the episode "Make Love Not Warcraft" won the Outstanding Animated Program honor at the 2007 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have also targeted the PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, and Dance Dance Revolution for onslaughts of mockery.

South Park is currently on a streak of episodes tangentially tied to gaming. The October 10 episode "More Crap" paralleled the recent feature documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters in the way it followed a character's quest to hold the world record for largest bowel movement. That was followed by the three-part "Imaginationland," which featured a host of fictitious characters in pitched battle, including the Street Fighter series' Akuma, Zelda antagonist Ganondorf, Mario nemesis Wario, and the classic Pac-Man ghosts.

This weekend, South Park will once again feature games front and center. "Guitar Queer-o" will see Stan and Kyle get into Activision's Guitar Hero game, which drives a wedge between the two when Kyle can't measure up to Stan's virtual virtuosity. The episode will premiere Wednesday night at 10 p.m. Pacific, no doubt followed by a Chapelle's Show-esque barrage of repeat airings until the following week's season finale.

136 Comments

  • maccer101

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 10:22 pm PT

    this episode ruled, lol stans dad tryin to play guitar hero, haha

  • ybrik222

    Posted Jan 10, 2008 5:02 pm PT

    The episode with DDR wasn't based on it... But I don't remember an Xbox 360 one.

  • yarow12

    Posted Nov 28, 2007 3:30 pm PT

    NO!~ I Missed It! ToT

  • NotAWord

    Posted Nov 19, 2007 3:57 pm PT

    For any episode sout park,
    Check out www.Allsp.com
    Every season.
    Every Episode.
    NO COMMERCIALS

    lol.

  • CyberKillerZ

    Posted Nov 17, 2007 2:20 pm PT

    This will gonna be Great!

  • Bob11

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 6:06 pm PT

    Is it just me that's bothered by the fact that any song played during the episode was from Guitar Hero 2, a game NOT made by Activision?

  • HessenKnight

    Posted Nov 10, 2007 6:27 am PT

    Don't forget to bring a towel! While you're rocking out, the sweat could get in your face!

  • red_devil_games

    Posted Nov 8, 2007 1:00 pm PT

    Hey I'm sure its a coincidence- but this is kind or spooky eh?

    Two screen shots from the "Guitar Hero Kid Wayward Son" video and South Park

    Comparison Screens

  • waveddiamond

    Posted Nov 8, 2007 10:42 am PT

    it was an okay episode reminds me of when i go to best buy and have Guitar hero 2 and 3 wars with my fellow customers

  • tman978

    Posted Nov 8, 2007 10:21 am PT

    Okay, I watched this episode and it was boring as hell. I turned it off with 9 minutes of show time still left. The warcraft ep was way better. I need to dig that one up on youtube

  • Get_Shorty

    Posted Nov 8, 2007 9:56 am PT

    That was totally awsome! Funny as hell.

  • Chapel18

    Posted Nov 7, 2007 8:24 pm PT

    i like how the episode focused on 360 guitar hero but it was brought to you buy assassins creed and the ps3 one was shown

  • stevo_360

    Posted Nov 7, 2007 10:21 am PT

    south park is awesome

  • fohammer67

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 5:00 pm PT

    south park is agreat show.
    awesome. *slow college movie clap for south park*

  • XDaJokermanX

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 3:45 pm PT

    This should be awesome. I love Guitar Hero and South Park.

  • CaptainHerlock

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 3:20 pm PT

    I hope this inspires kids to pick up the guitar for real and start bands themselves.

  • towelie892

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 3:00 pm PT

    There's a towelie123 on here? I thought I was the only towelie! Anyway, I will definitely not be missing South Park this week. The World of Warcraft one was probably one of the best episodes ever.

  • Eai_plays_halo

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 12:49 pm PT

    hopefully they make the game look good, usually they make stuff look bad or overated, i cant wait for this episode though

    they should have made an episode based on halo 3!

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 10:18 am PT

    great show, can't wait to watch

  • lamprey263

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 10:06 am PT

    wow, so many people hate the fact someone could make fun of guitar hero that they thumb down anyone who shows support for south park, how totally lame

  • rety5

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 6:13 am PT

    Although there is not as much material to ridicule as WOW, GHIII should make for some rather funny moments. I have already thought of 2 ways they could kill kenny.

    1: An extremely difficult riff makes kennys hands actually set on fire because of the effort spreading and killing him.

    2: Cartman gets pissed off with the guitar and smashes it repeatedly around kenny's head.

  • Joemo

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 4:14 am PT

    South Park is satire done right. Definitely something to look forward to.

  • antiredcap

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 1:48 am PT

    It's always funny to see South Park making refererences to gaming, who knows they might mock us people on gamespot next!!!

  • NeoNavarro

    Posted Nov 6, 2007 1:25 am PT

    OMG this new episode is going to be hilarious!

  • instantdeath999

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 10:56 pm PT

    I wonder if "Jordan" or "through fire and flames" will be mentioned.

  • swmeek

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 10:19 pm PT

    Gotta love South Park and this no doubt will be an awesome episode! Makes you wonder what Cartman has up his sleeve this time! LMAO

  • Trindris

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 9:39 pm PT

    @icytower38
    The 360 is shown breifly in the dog whisperer episode. DDR is shown in the you got served episode.

  • Mattyrock

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 8:50 pm PT

    That has to be hilarious, Make love not Warcraft was awesome!

  • degrassirulez

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 7:51 pm PT

    HAHA win!

  • LordSpleach

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 7:46 pm PT

    There was no 360 episode!

  • playstation_wii

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 6:16 pm PT

    Warcraft one was hilarious

  • felshs

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:23 pm PT

    LOLZ..........remember how badly cartman wanted nintendo Wii........lolz

  • super_slonik

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:20 pm PT

    This is gonna be great! I love Guitar Hero and i love South park!!! cant wait...

  • Killian420

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:18 pm PT

    ohh man, i can't wait, sout park is brilliant

  • YusukeUnleashed

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:15 pm PT

    @icytower38
    the 360 was in an episode where cartman is watched over by the dog whisper, and DDR is referenced when the boys get in a dance off with some guys from a different town. They put together a new dance group and one of the kids is an asian that was really good at DDR. im pretty sure that those are the referances that GS was making

  • YusukeUnleashed

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:15 pm PT

    @icytower38
    the 360 was in an episode where cartman is watched over by the dog whisper, and DDR is referenced when the boys get in a dance off with some guys from a different town. They put together a new dance group and one of the kids is an asian that was really good at DDR. im pretty sure that those are the referances that GS was making

  • fire_tidus

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:04 pm PT

    I wanna see this episode!! I also remember the PSP episode, it was so funny, South Park is great

  • Devvy01

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:02 pm PT

    What's with all the double posts? Go cartman!

  • faceman420

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:54 pm PT

    yessss I

  • GeneralZhukov

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:54 pm PT

    I am ashamed to say I haven't seen the WoW episode... I'm going to look it up right now. Can't wait till this one either, I'm a big GH fan.

  • Mr_Doom212

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:53 pm PT

    Guitar Hero and South Park FTW

  • Mr_Doom212

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:53 pm PT

    Guitar Hero and South Park FTW

  • fire_tidus

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:44 pm PT

    I wanna see this episode!! I also remember the PSP episode, it was so funny, South Park is great

  • bardkieran

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:26 pm PT

    remember the one with the Okama GameSphere? The one when they introduced Towlie? That was a play on the Nintendo GameCube.

  • Go0pynose

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:14 pm PT

    Oh man this is going to be hilarious ;-D

  • IKKF

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:13 pm PT

    Can you say, "mom, more Hot Pockets?"

  • GameBeaten

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:07 pm PT

    Awesome.

  • GameBeaten

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:06 pm PT

    Awesome.

  • Screamteam411

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:05 pm PT

    Ooh, that sounded like a little bias there at the end. Sounds like someone's a little ticked off that South Park gets repeat airings?

    I don't really care as I don't watch the show, but it's fun to be obnoxious sometimes.

  • mushroom59

    Posted Nov 5, 2007 4:04 pm PT

    I can predict one of them is going to become a "no-life" trying to finish jordan :-)

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