This is the worst episode of South Park in recent memory. And the Heroin Hero joke doesn't really pay off until the Rehab Hero joke comes in. +1 for Stan's Dad, who should have his own tag.
The heroin hero joke pays off with the dragon in the forest. rehab hero and the rockstar lifestyle pastiche sucked. this episode was awful, but stan's dad's yell in this scene evoked a nostalgic longing for the time when my dad was still alive and lounging in the den in his tightey whiteys full of fury. he was full of fury, i never inquired what the tightey whiteys were full of.
The whole episode was basically one joke about video game simulations substituting real life. But I thought it was a *funny* joke. + 1 star because I found myself saying "Chase me! Chase me!" in the high pitched dragon voice a few days after the episode aired... er, in private.
I have a feeling the haters of these jokes are guitar hero players or fans who felt this episode struck a little too close to home (and will probably have a fallout similar to that which the WoW episode produced).
I love WoW. I loved the WoW episode. I thought it was extremely clever and well done.
I also love Guitar Hero. I hated the Guitar Hero episode. I thought it was a sloppy out-of-ideas episode with a central joke ("Kids play Guitar Hero and go through all the fame, drugs and internal strife as real musicians!") that wasn't too funny to begin with, then stretched on for twenty minutes longer than the time I could justify cracking a weak smile.
If you don't think this was simutlaneously an advertisement for Guitar Hero and an episode specifically targeting die-hard Guitar Hero episodes you have another thing coming.
"a fallout similar to that which the WoW episode produced"? Are you dumb? They advertised the south park episode on the WoW website. They sell the southpark DVD through the WoW website. WoW players were quoting this episode non-stop for over a month.
I hate south park but I watched this episode because there was nothing else on. It was tolerable because it wasn't chock full of Libertarian pretensiousness, but mostly not funny. I laughed at the beginning when Stans dad played the real guitar, and the end when the game called them fags for getting such a high score.
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