ehhh it wasn't that good...kinda shows a point on that all people who play WoW are morbidly obise shut-ins.

YES! I love that episode.

It was damn funny... :)

@GreatNocturn:
It wasn't making a point as much as it was parodying it. There's plenty of MMO players who are fit.

greatnocturn:

it wasnt that good yet it shows you what you mentioned, which is frikin hilarious and true..

sounds like your one of em to me...

Glad it won, great episode.

That seriously is the best representation of gaming in the main stream media I've ever seen thus far. I'm surprised that it garnered an Emmy. It just goes to show how far along the industry has come over the years. I don't play WoW but have been that obsessed with a few games in the past(I played through FF Tactics 12 times easily racking up over 1,000 hours on it). Great episode and they deserve the recognition for it for sure.

best episode ever.

"How can you kill that which has no life?"

It's become sort of a catch-phrase at my work (not because we're all gamers, but because with 80 hour weeks, we have not lives).

It just shows how great things can happen when you mix up two creative IPs and just set them loose :D. Kudos for Blizzard for even thinking about working with teh Southpark guys :D

I don't think the episode was trying to say all WoW players are like that, just that anyone you meet online COULD be like that. It's an brilliant episode and any hard-core gamer can relate to it.

Ha! I loved that episode, through truth be told, I was kinda hopeing Avatar would win.

The funniest thing I've heard about this episode is how some WoW players complained not about how they might be seen and labeled as obese shut-ins but the fact that the South Park kids wore gear either not available for heir class or their race. I mean these people really knew what was more important and their image was not it.

The only complaint I have about the episode is... no HORDE. It was total discrimination I tell you.

Well deserved; that episode was hilarious!

I don't even watch it, EVER, but I had to take the time to watch this one. Well done, and congrats. Even Timberlake's "Box" video won an Emmy. Good year.

@GreatNocturn:

I personally know two guys who are WoW junkies that both probably weigh 130 pounds soaking wet. One is 24 and the other is 20.

@Providence: That's quite true. I know at least three guys that wont stop playing WoW and all pratice sports seriously (and are quite good!)

@GreatNocturn:

and you're point? :D

Good news. Machinima first emmy! :D
Now go celebrate this and watch again Blahbalicious!
[www.machinima.com]

The internet is an MMO--in a sense. I see people fighting all the time (PvP~!) on the message boards. Wonder who wins the internet?

I've played WoW and I like South Park and I found barely any of it funny. It just seemed to be a load of warcraft references with a stock south park episode formula. The machinima was quite impressive though.

That episode got me into playing world of warcraft, yet i still retained a life.

It was a good episode, but not some super-amazing episode. Then again, like most things that catch on within the internets, it's funny the first time but really drops off after that.

It's some of the dialogue that makes this episode Emmy worthy.

'Mom, Bathroom!'

@GreatNocturn: sorry too many people disagree... It was great!

I thought they did the episode perfectly. The introduction of this popular gaming title into the world Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been sculpting for years is just awesome. I mean yeah some people complain about the mechanics of the episode not matching up with the game (i.e. you can't spec improved pyroblast to reduce the casting time, you can't be a human hunter, etc) however this was all done on purpose. The style of South Park makes a parody of anything and everything while also taking stereotypes to the extreme in every episode. Sure there are some gamers that act and look like that, but there are also many who don't. Now I don't usually watch South Park, but I watched this episode, in fact I watched it while playing World of Warcraft. I was both entertained and amazed at how the episode was composed and I'm glad it won an emmy.

It was one of the funniest South Park episodes for me and I still think Avatar should have won.

sure it was fun, but an emmy ? bs

I thought the episode was kind of lame, myself. They just plugged the South Park kids into every possible joke about gamer stereotypes. Oh, and at one point Cartman sprays his mom with feces. Fantastic.

Thats one of my all time favorite episodes I laughed so hard I couldn't breath for awhile

That is the purpose of mockery! and entertainment.
This episode is really the only south park episode where i fully understand how south park runs their program, all the other eps i get clueless on their jokes and idiocracy.
Brilliant episode, its for entertainment purpose,if you get offended then there is something wrong with you and you should yourslef quit playing games and go out and find somthing productive to do.(there isn't much out there ><)

Me and my old coworkers waited for that episode and found it funny, though none of us matched the look of Stan and the gang being overweight (we're all pretty active and I'm a lil' girl with a love for steaks trying to put a pound or two on this skinny frame anyhoo).

Like most parodies, you just don't take it seriously seeing as it's created with the intent of making fun. It poked at just the right things to make it laughable.

But yes... no love for the horde. *sniffle*

@GreatNocturn: I'm a fit WoW player

What the fuck just happened in the last two comments.

I love this episode. It's just so great.

And the kids are pretty much normal (Cartman is already obese) until they start taking the game way too seriously. I think the episode's message is that it's just a game, and while it's perfectly fine to play it for fun, you shouldn't take it too seriously. That and griefers have no lives.

Wasn't the emmy all an elaborate and staged publicity stunt?

Don't get me wrong, this episode was damn funny but the two Cartoon Wars episodes were lightyears better. How often does a show force a network into questioning its freedom of speech? I have a feeling this was less an award given for writing an excellent episode and more an award to acknowledge the online community as a whole