"Make Love, Not Warcraft" is episode 147 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park which first aired on October 4, 2006. This episode is a parody of the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, and on gamers themselves. The episode was announced by Comedy Central on September 30, 2006 and was advertised as the tenth season second half premiere.[1]
In 2007 the episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).[2]
Plot
A griefer named Jenkins (in reference to Leeroy Jenkins)[3] repeatedly kills the South Park boys' characters in the online game, World of Warcraft. The griefer, an obsessive player, is said to have been playing nearly every hour of every day for a year and a half, and has advanced through many levels, allowing him to disobey Blizzard Entertainment's rules and kill players as well as Game Masters and Administrators at will. Randy, Stan's dad, becomes interested in the game, but does not survive long before being killed by Jenkins.
Cartman gathers all the boys of South Park to plan a retaliatory attack on the griefer, conspiring to all log in simultaneously and attack him. However, once the battle begins, the griefer summons scorpions and easily dispatches the boys' characters. Afterwards, the defeated players give up and find other interests. The executives at Blizzard then realize that many players will soon become too frustrated from being killed every time they log on, and will quit playing altogether, which would very well cause "the end of the World... of Warcraft". However, Cartman isn't ready to give up, and convinces Stan, Kyle, and Kenny to keep playing. For the next two months, they play the game for twenty-one hours a day, killing boars in the game's forests to gain experience points (very slowly), and hiding from Jenkins. In the process, the boys become lazy, long-haired, and grossly overweight. Cartman refuses to leave the game to the extent that his mother has to hold out a bedpan when he needs to use the bathroom. They also become acne-ridden from eating mainly Hot Pockets and Rockstar energy drinks during their crusade. In addition, the boys develop large Internet vocabularies, using terms such as "über" and "pwned" and "r-tard" in daily conversation. The boys' characters grow so quickly that the Blizzard executives take notice, realizing that the boys have no personal lives at all. They see this as chance to stop the griefer since he will end Warcraft's popularity if he's not stopped. However, they calculate that the boys have a 90% chance of death.
Determined to help the boys slay the evil griefer, the executives decide to give the boys the Sword of a Thousand Truths, a weapon so powerful (120 damage per second, instant mana burn, stamina plus 80) that it was removed from the game and stored on a 1 GB flash drive. However, "Salzman from Accounting" foretold that it would eventually be put to use. Unaware of the plan, however, the boys have already initiated what becomes a seventeen-hour crusade against the griefer, which the executives predict to be unsuccessful without the aid of the powerful sword. The executives arrive at Stan's house with the flash drive, unaware that the boys are actually at Cartman's house. Randy tells the executives that although he is a "noob", he can log in with the sword and give it to the battling boys' characters online. The executives then eventually, though reluctantly give Randy the sword, initially stating that, "We can't trust the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a noob!" Eventually logging onto a Warcraft demo at Best Buy, Randy gives Stan the weapon, but Randy's character is mortally wounded by the griefer in the process. Angered, Stan attacks the griefer with the sword, completely draining his mana, leaving him unable to use his shields. Taking advantage of Jenkins' weakness, Kenny shoots him with his bow followed by Kyle hitting him with a fire spell. He falls to the ground and Cartman crushes his head, moments before Randy's character finally dies.
As the World of Warcraft players celebrate his demise, Cartman declares that the boys can now "finally play the game".
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