It sounded weird to begin with, as it was Guitar Hero, not Rock Band, as the subject of an entire South Park episode in season 11. But Rock Band is an MTV Game, and Comedy Central is part of Viacom, which also owns MTV. So, maybe someone went rogue, made up some tracks for a competing game because that's what was used in the show, and got shot down. Or, as Xbox 360 Fanboy speculates, retailers said "Rock Band" meaning "Guitar Hero," the same way I still hear old people still say "Sega" when they mean "any console you plug into a TV." (Yes, "Sega." It was in the grocery store about 10 days ago. I know, I know.)

Who knows. Bottom line, you're not getting any South Park Rock Band tracks. Cartman thinks your tears are yummy and sweet.

Important Update About Rock Band Bonus for South Park [TV Shows on DVD, via TV Squad]

Later this year, folks who buy the South Park season 11 DVD set will be treated to a trio of unspecified Rock Band tracks alongside top shelf poop and dick jokes. Details? Scant! All this cross selling makes us wonder: Could Rock Band be the greatest cross promotion tool ever to grace the video game medium?

Best Buy Promoting Exclusive Rock Band X360 DLC; Tracks Will Be Publicly Available in June [Shacknews]
South Park - Interesting Bonus Item, Early Box Art forThe Complete 11th Season: Uncensored [TV Shows On DVD]

Hit the jump for an entry from South Park's production blog about the experience of making the episode.

...tonight's episode is a sobering experience. After watching it come together I feel like maybe we flew a little too close to the nerdy sun with Guitar Hero. Maybe we should take a step back and look at the dark side of being a Guitar Hero:

More often than not, a dude who pulls out a guitar looks and behaves like a total douche. We've all seen it before: some jerk trying to impress the ladies with his badass skills banging out Coldplay as hard as he can. Ugh.

Well, imagine that douche . . . now take away the guitar and replace it with a plastic video game controller. We're even worse than that loser, because we're pretending to be him, all the while tapping our feet and clicking our fingers with the same proud idiocy that the real-life jerk performs with.

Mike McMahan, Production Assistant: The Long And Nerdy Road [southparkblog]

Eat it, world. Mario is as big as Mr. Clean.

Mario on South Park [gonintendo]

Reader Sylient points out that the South Park homage to World of Warcraft, Make Love, Not Warcraft, won the 2007 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour). As a fellow Coloradoan and gamer let me be nowhere near the first to congratulate Trey Parker, Matt Stone and his team for the much deserved award.

Hit up the exclusive snippet of Make Love Not Warcraft commentary in the clip above to get a taste of how the creative process worked in the now award-winning episode.

The South Park gang was kind enough to shoot us this exclusive early look at some of the commentary included in the Make Love Not Warcraft episode. I also had a chance to watch through the gaming episodes and listen to the commentary. Pretty interesting stuff in there.

The guys said they had been thinking of doing a WoW episode for quite awhile, mostly because nearly everyone on their team plays the game. Though one of the guys, it's hard to tell who was talking, said that he played it for about hours and then got sick of it... that's exactly what WoW was like for me too. How weird. They go on to talk about making the episode and some funny problems they ran into.

More interesting, I thought was their discussion about the Wii episode which lead to, they say, both of them getting free Wiis from Nintendo. One of the guys says that during the lead up to Nintendo's new console like "95 percent of my day was the Wii. I'd been waiting for it to come out for five months and at the end of the day that's what I was concerned about."

He said that's a good explanation of his religious beliefs too and his take on atheism. "You can argue and you can get upset at these people and they can get upset at them, but the fucking Wii is coming out."

The shows themselves are, of course, hilarious, so the gaming connection, and that free WoW trial, are just the cherry on top.

The DVD collection goes on sale August 21 for a manufacturer suggested price of $49.99, but can be had for far less at the right retailers. No word on when Blizzard will finally seal that deal with God himself to imprint trial versions of WoW on our DNA. Keep reading for an extremely rare press release.

COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment(R) Releases 'South Park: The Complete Tenth Season' DVD to Hit Stores on Tuesday, August 21

Bonus Material Features Mini Audio Commentaries on All 14 Episodes by Creators Trey Parker and Matt StoneMemorable Tenth Season Includes the Emmy-Nominated Episode, 'Make Love, Not Warcraft,' 'Tsst' and 'Cartoon Wars Parts I & II'Free 14-Day Trial Edition 'World of Warcraft' DVD-ROM Included With Purchase

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ — In the tenth season of "South Park," Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny band together to defeat a virtual villain, witness the death of their beloved Chef and are enlisted by former Vice President Al Gore to help search for the elusive Manbearpig. Released via COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, "South Park: The Complete Tenth Season" DVD arrives in stores nationwide on Tuesday, August 21 and will also be available at http://shop.comedycentral.com.

"South Park: The Complete Tenth Season" DVD is an exclusive three-disc collector's edition comprised of all 14 legendary episodes. In addition to the Emmy-nominated episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft" (original air date: October 4, 2006), a free 14-day trial edition of the "World of Warcraft" DVD-ROM is included with the purchase of the DVD set. This unforgettable compilation also features the episode "Tsst" (original air date: May 3, 2006) in which Cartman's Mom seeks the help of Cesar Millan, the "Dog Whisperer," to gain control of her son. The bonus material contains five-to-seven minute mini-commentaries on all 14 episodes by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Launched in 1997, "South Park" remains the highest-rated series on COMEDY CENTRAL. The animated series was honored with the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in the 65th Annual Peabody Awards competition and has been nominated for seven Emmy Awards, winning the Emmy in 2005 for Outstanding Animated Program (less than an hour). Trey Parker and Matt Stone are co- creators and executive producers of "South Park," with Anne Garefino also serving as executive producer.

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The Make Love, Not Warcraft episode of South Park received an Emmy nomination today for outstanding animated program (less than one hour). And it better win it, the outstanding show is up against Avatar, Robot Chicken, SpongeBob and The Simpsons. OK, I do LOVE Robot Chicken, but that South Park episode was brilliant.

The winners will be announced during a live event broadcast on Fox on Sept. 16. Good luck South Park.

Primetime Awards [Emmys, thanks Phil]

Dancing or not, Rock Man (AKA "Mega Man") so makes everything better. Yes, even South Park. Works especially well seeing how the cartoon has referenced Power Ranger-type "Mega Man" toys in the past. Brian Ashcraft

Fan Made Wallpaper Here [*108 Yuuyaku ni Maketa...orz]

Chris Kohler over at Game|Life is reporting that the first South Park episode ever to be presented in HD will be an Xbox Live exclusive. Starting Tuesday, March 6, the episode, Good Times With Weapons, will be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace free of charge for the first two weeks. Then, from March 20 to April 3, Best Buy will be giving away free copies of the episode on HD-DVD with the purchase of an Xbox 360 or it's HD-DVD player.

In case you're like me and episode titles mean nothing to you, Good Times With Weapons is one where the boys acquire ninja weapons from the county fair. The bulk of the remainder of the episode is presented in letterbox format and animated in a great spoof of anime style. If you haven't seen it, I would highly suggest checking it out as it is (in my opinion anyway) one of the ten best South Park episodes ever made. You get ninja weapons, dead on anime style animation, Butters as Professor Chaos and Cartman's genitals. Who could ask for anything more? Flynn De Marco

First HD Episode of South Park Exclusive to Xbox 360 [Game|Life]

Ya know, it's just not funny in simi-realistic 3D. At all. Brian Ashcraft

South Park Sims [The Last Boss]

Wow. I don't even know what to say after watching this one. It's in turns terrifying, disgusting and downright hilarious. This goes beyond the normal mash up, this is like a mash up on acid. A semi-pornographic Zelda parody done in South Park animation style using the voice tracks from the Zelda cartoon. And to top it all off , it shows the original cartoon the voices come from in the lower left corner. Amazing job by Robotbling! I'm speechless... Flynn De Marco

South Park - Twilight Princess [GameTrailers NSFW]

For a (fascinating) behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind the South Park meets World of Warcraft episode that aired in September of this year, check out the full, very long write up at Machinima.com.

You'll see just how involved Blizzard was in the creation of the episode, giving the South Park production staff a spot on a Burning Crusade alpha server, letting WoW fans on the crew get a sneak peek at the expansion.

The Blizzard team gave us a special "friends and family" server to play on. Every once an a while a strange player would walk by and check out group the filming. The programmers could instantly kill a player that got in the way of filming. There's a player out there wondering what they had stumbled upon just before they were wiped from the location.

Slash-laugh. While I'm not a fan of either property, per se, even non-fans should appreciate what went into this. Michael McWhertor

"Make Love, Not Warcraft"
World of Warcraft Meets South Park: The Complete Episode [Kotaku]

And the wonderful conclusion of South Park's double homage to the Nintendo Wii, the Colorado school system and gay monkey frog sex. Brian Crecente

South Park 1013 [DailyMotion, via Destructoid]

The funniest next-gen console commercial out there. Brian Ashcraft

South Park Gets A Wii [Wiki, Thanks Sinner!]

This screenshot was found on a WoW forum and precariously claims to display the Sword of One Thousand Truths which will be winnable in arena matches in the Burning Crusade.

Some problems with the legitimacy of this claim, besides the obvious, are that the weapon model is exactly the same as another well-known sword, the Hungering Cold, and that the text kerning or ligature or whatever is all funked up in the item description.

Photoshop?! Can it BEEEE? Eliza Gauger

Gotta love the sword [WorldofWarcraft.com, via Digg, pic from GayGamer]

Previously on Kotaku: World of Warcraft Hits Southpark

I personally loved the South Park episode of World of Warcraft, but it looks like the WoW hardcore, i.e. the real-life, chip-eating shirtless guys, are picking the show apart in a Wiki article.

The fanboys have listed all of the inconsistencies from the show in a series of streaming, savant-like diatribes. Some examples:

"He [Randy] incorrectly suggests that he is a hunter."
...
"Cartman's character is the main tank and wields an Unyielding Maul. He is the leader of the boys' group and is always the last killed. His armor color is the same as his jacket. He is a warrior, but when you see his actionbar, it looks like a Rogues actionbar (It has Eviscrate and Stealth)."
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"Trailers for this episode show Stan and Kyle in what appears to be the Undercity, right after Kenny is killed. In the airing of the show, they were in Goldshire."
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"This guy's character is shirtless and wears a helmet, boots and gloves. EDIT: He is seen casting Fire Blast and Arcane Explosion in Westfall(mage only spells). However, summoning scorpions is not possible with a Mage."

Now Matt Stone and Trey Parker get to taste what William Shatner has been putting up with for most of his life. Brian Crecente

World of Warcraft comes to South Park [ Wikipedia, via 1Up ]

First it's South Park doing World of Warcraft, now The Office is doing Call of Duty. I'm delighted to see the mainstream media "discover" computer games but I won't rest until Saturday Night Live does Okami. Brian Crecente

On the off chance you missed South Park being sucked into World of Warcraft last night, Google Video is hosting (doubtlessly with a healthy slathering of copyright infringement) the full episode of the latest episode. Watch it before it gets pulled!Florian Eckhardt

South Park keeps on keepin' on, entering its 10th season (!!!) and kicking it off World of Warcraft style. Check the preview for a sneak peek at Wednesday's upcoming ultimate crossover for night elves and the boys who love them. Michael McWhertor

World of Warcraft Comes to South Park

Achtung! Bitte! If you're in an office, do not hit that play button. Do not pump up the volume, call your boss over and tell him you're just about to watch some awesome Kotaku video for the first time. Does he want to sit on your lap and watch it with you? Unless he wants to fire you, no, he doesn't.

This is totally not work safe, not for any egregious on-screen penetration or promiscuous mammarian flashing. Instead, it's not work safe because it's one minute and twenty one seconds worth of shrill, loud swearing. Specifically, it is the South Park 'Uncle Fucka' song musically transcribed to Dance Dance Revolution.

Don't say we didn't warn you. Florian Eckhardt

Louder Better than munching Cheesy Poofs, the South Park kids have been getting their 360 on. In the latest episode, Cartman and co. even play the next-gen console on a "Fony" TV.

Fony?! OMG, they killed Sony!

Crecente, Is Colorado Really Like This? [Comedy Central] Thanks, Justin!