Make Love, Not Warcraft
"Make Love, Not Warcraft" is the eighth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park.
[2] A griefer repeatedly kills Cartman, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny's characters in the online game World of Warcraft.
The boys phone their annoyance to Blizzard, but the company executives cannot remove the griefer from the game because his ridiculously high level blocks even their ability to do so.
Cartman, convinces Stan, Kyle, and Kenny to keep playing, and calculates exactly how much time it would take for the four of them to gain as many experience points as the griefer.
The boys' characters earn experience points so quickly that the Blizzard executives, who have also been monitoring the griefer, take notice and believe they might have a chance.
With Cartman making casual suggestions to boost their characters, the boys begin playing the game as they originally intended.
[3] South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone collaborated with Blizzard Entertainment to craft the machinima used in the episode.
Blizzard also gave the producers permission to use the alpha server of the expansion pack World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade on which to shoot the scenes.
"[4]As a reference to the episode, certain South Park Season 10 DVDs include a 14-day free trial for World of Warcraft.
[3] The regular South Park animation was created simultaneously, with all the other non-machinima episodes of the series routinely finishing within 12 hours of their airing as well.
[9] The then-fictitious video game played by Butters in this episode, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, was referenced in a 2008 April Fools' Day joke by the official Sanrio blog.
[13] The United in Stormwind expansion of Hearthstone added "Elwynn Boar" and "Sword of a Thousand Truths" cards with abilities referencing the events of the episode.
[19] "Make Love, Not Warcraft", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's tenth season, was released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on August 21, 2007.
