I worked for Blizzard back then, they kept it a secret in the company except for the few people that worked with South Park studios. But we got to see the episode in a theater before it aired that week as a surprise and we were all so thrilled. They used our QA servers to do their in game scenes.

@DareToBeDeviant

Ай бұрын

I missed the detail on that outsider on Alpha server who came out of nowhere and engaged combat. Who could that have been and how did they get in? Beta tester perhaps?

@peyton8603

Ай бұрын

i’m sure you did work for blizzard back then😂

@Collins-Elliott

7 күн бұрын

@@peyton8603 bro has had a YT account for 17 years now. - I doubt he would flex such a specific account from over a decade ago for likes- as if Blizzard hasn’t had hundreds of employees since then.

@LightsJusticeZ

19 сағат бұрын

It's unfortunate that none of the gameplay footage was recorded in HD or even widescreen at the time, but that was just the nature of media at the time.

Back when Blizzard was the cool respected company and it was a company made up of nerds and people who loved gaming truly times have changed 😢

@troperhghar9898

2 ай бұрын

the merger with Activision really screwed Blizzard up

@lhfirex

2 ай бұрын

While the games back then were fun, the lawsuits from a few years ago show that the people making them at this time were some of the monsters responsible for all the sexual harassment at Blizzard that persisted for years. Specifically a lot of the leaders at WOW.

@gracekim25

2 ай бұрын

Dang😅

@TheRamenRider

2 ай бұрын

No it was always like this you just didn’t know about what was going on

@AzerFraze

2 ай бұрын

Blizzard was already a vile studio back then, the world just wasn't aware of it

Always humbling to see a creator as skilled as Trey show some impostor syndrome for what would become such a beloved episode.

@bobkerr2755

2 ай бұрын

Wait, he begged the network to not air the Warcraft episode but he was 100% on board with the Oprah episode?

@TheDuckyDino

2 ай бұрын

@@bobkerr2755 He later agreed that that was a bad episode, but in the commentary for season 1 he brought up how most of the episodes him and Trey like aren’t liked by the fans (Like Terrance and Philip Not Without My Anus)

@bobkerr2755

2 ай бұрын

@@TheDuckyDino I wonder what other popular episodes they hate? I can't imagine anyone hating the lord of the rings episode

@TheDuckyDino

2 ай бұрын

@@bobkerr2755 Trey Pretty much hates most episode right before they release, he just hated Make Love Not Warcraft a little more than the rest.

@manicpepsicola3431

2 ай бұрын

​@@bobkerr2755 he always does stuff like this though. He was insecure about warcraft because he was actually super invested but he didnt care about the oprah episode so he didnt care what people thought. If you listen to the commentary on the episodes you can tell he just cuts off caring about certain things at certsin times.

I mean World of Warcraft is OK and all but it’s no hello Kitty Island adventure

@bernardoheusi6146

Ай бұрын

Or Roblox

@Nittle69420

Ай бұрын

​​@@bernardoheusi6146 roblox is just gambling for 7 year olds hello kitty island adventure is peak

@bernardoheusi6146

Ай бұрын

@@Nittle69420 Itis if you realize REAL adults play it and it always follow memes like ugandan Knuckles.

@d.b.1176

16 күн бұрын

Ok Butters

@gamerbronickwolf

16 күн бұрын

@@d.b.1176 oh hamburgers!

It also end with the perfect joke" "What do we do now?" "What do you mean? Now we can play the game."

@DodgeThisBam

2 ай бұрын

It's one of my all time favorites! I even made a video homage to it after spending almost a month trying to do a stupid in game challenge and upon succeeded realizing what I had become!

@Whiteythereaper

2 ай бұрын

Endgame play in any MMO in the last 20 years Edit: no joke I've played Elder Scrolls online on and off for 7 years and I'm only now hitting enough DPS to get into groups for Trial Dungeons, where you get the endgame meta armour sets that push you up to 100k DPS required for the Veteran difficulty versions. If you want to have any chance at getting the Emperor achievement in PVP, you have to have one of these sets.

@gabagool_and_psychiatry4856

2 ай бұрын

that was me in GTA ONLINE. grinding money and rep to get better guns and better health to complete the missions and hiests as easy as possible.

@momo-chanthegerbil6205

2 ай бұрын

Definitely a contrast to how the "Black Friday" trilogy ended.

@RJ_400

Ай бұрын

“How do you kill someone with no life” the writing is so good😂

How do you kill that who has no life is my friends favorite South Park quote

Few additional neat things for those who don't know: Make love, not warcraft is an in game achievement that was made because of this. The player killing everyone was modeled after a blizzard employee who's also the father of the streamer Thor of Pirate Software, who also worked for blizzard. The "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" Butters mentions was later made into an actual game. The list goes on and on lol

@gracekim25

2 ай бұрын

To add to that last point: it became real last year

@Norrieification

2 ай бұрын

They put The Sword of 1000 Truths in the game as well in TBC.

@JamesG1880

2 ай бұрын

That’s so cool they made an achievement for the episode name🤘🏼

@naydiamoore3047

2 ай бұрын

P

@rubymeaddle

2 ай бұрын

I am so mad HKIA is Apple Arcade exclusive

Truly a classic. Still crazy to me how those guys got super depressed after making this episode only for it to go absurdly viral loool

@TWHowl

2 ай бұрын

Anyone know where the audio of Trey talking about the episode comes from?

I love the small details too, like, when they're all playing in Cartman's basement, they all have lcd screens except Kenny's poor ass on his CRT monitor 😂

@d.b.1176

16 күн бұрын

That old CRT is worth more than a LCD today 💰🤪

@naturetime3823

2 күн бұрын

CRTs have better pixel accuracy and latency 😂

@teacherfromthejungles6671

Күн бұрын

a good CRT is better than any LCD

"WE CAN'T TRUST THE SWORD OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS TO A NOOB!" Something I still say all the time when I play games with my friends

I always love the aspect of showing that even though Cartman sucks, he really is a great leader when the boys have a common goal.

@weedshoes5089

Ай бұрын

He’s a little Mussolini.

@markkocsicska2590

Ай бұрын

Cartman have always been a master planner and an excelent problem solver. He is really smart and knows how to get things done. The issue is that his motivations are usually twisted.

Let's not forget this is the episode where we find out that Butters doesnt play world of warcraft, he instead plays Hello Kitty Island Adventure ™️

@jordanhanley7585

Ай бұрын

which is now a real game lol

@PFCHoppster

Ай бұрын

I read that in Butters' voice, damn this was iconic

Cartman: Mom, bafroom! Liane: What hon? Cartman: Bafroom! Liane: (Brings bedpan) Cartman: (Sharts) Liane: Oh my, what a big boy! Classic

@fury_b0wzer

2 ай бұрын

“Carpal tunnel! Carpal tunnel! It’s bad!” “Quick we need Bengay!”

@da1FranCh1zE

2 ай бұрын

You can’t go now your stacking sunder armor 😂

@richied334

2 ай бұрын

"poop socking" was a thing back then. Apparently gamers didn't want to miss any action

@caronstout354

2 ай бұрын

Cartman blowing diarrhea I in this episode has officially out-grossed Mr. Creosote as the most disgusting scene ever broadcast...

@EpicToadRage

2 ай бұрын

I laughed so fucking hard at that scene! He just... SPRAYS SHIT EVERYWHERE! 🤣🤣🤣

Early 2000s such a great time for digital media. Today Blizzard would have to ask Daddy Shareholders first if it's ok to collab with Southpark and they would've said no too risky.

This was the episode that got me into South Park. I've seen every episode at least twice now, and I enjoyed a few of them more than this one, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart as my "gateway episode"

@ImKeeby

2 ай бұрын

dude@ArianneKirylo

@Kwauhn.

2 ай бұрын

@@ImKeeby It's a bot. Just report it.

@Bobtastic22

2 ай бұрын

This episode got me into WOW lol I always watched south park but didnt have a computer to play pc games so I was the butters and had to get a computer and the game after i saw this episode or all my friends would kill me lol

@TJJ117

2 ай бұрын

This was the first South Park episode I ever saw, or at least paid attention to. Definitely got me into it

Remember people: Don't use drugs‚ specifically league of legends‚ Dota and world of Warcraft

@enriquevillalobos2084

2 ай бұрын

if youre on dota its already too late. the best course of action is a rehabilitation program and thorough therapy

@ryukami404

2 ай бұрын

And don't forget the deadliest drug of them all, OSRS

@notatallfunctional

2 ай бұрын

So many lives have been lost to Apex

@PointB1ank

2 ай бұрын

As someone with 9400 hours in Dota, probably another 5k+ in WoW, and another 10-15k hours in OSRS. This hits hard. Did I mention I'm a giant loser?

@Kibernizzle

2 ай бұрын

​@@notatallfunctionaloh sweet summer child...

RIP Jarod Nandin. 2021 took him from us but his WOW/South Park cosplay lives on as does the Sword of a Thousand Truths.

Make Love Not Warcraft is actually one of; if not my favorite episode of South Park. it had pretty much everything you coulda asked for story wise. a relatable villain, a group of adventurer's who had to become the villain in order to be the heroes, and this was easily my favorite story involving Randy. him getting absorbed into WoW was both hilarious and cute since he only wanted to spend time with his son.

I remember I showed this episode to a friend of mine who was way into WoW at the time, and he spent pretty much the whole runtime complaining about everything they got wrong about the game. I didn't care what he said, though, the Sword of a Thousand Truths was awesome.

I think something that helped with the in game footage is that the dialogue didn’t try to be like wow, its still core south park. Opening with Goldshire, but with carman saying I TOOK THE BIGGEST CRAP puts us firmly in SP territory but in a new world

One thing I love about South park and this episode in particular is the clever word play. Like the line- how do you kill that who has no life? Fucking brilliant.

Best part is it turns out that the OP player is someone who worked at Blizzard. It's loosely based on Joeyray Hall, who you may better know as PirateSoftware's (Thor's) dad

Cartman spraying diarrhea into a bedpan was the funniest thing I had ever seen up to that point in my life and it’s still in my list of favorite SP moments.

@hornymonk23

2 ай бұрын

It's burnt into my memory, from the moment he demands it "mom, bathroom!" to the end of the sequence with his mom diligently carrying the thing upstairs while covered in diarrea herself

@caronstout354

2 ай бұрын

It out-grosses Mr. Creosote by a mile...

What's funny is this is one of the first South Park episodes I ever watched (and I was just a kid lol). I didn't even know what WoW was but I never felt lost because the episode did a good job of communicating what I needed to know to understand the game for the episode and the culture that sorrounded the game. Really loved the episode. And to this day, I have never played WoW or any similar MMORPG games, but it remains a favorite episode of mine. I think that speaks to how good this episode is.

I always think of Stan and Cartman whenever I've done an inordinate amount of grinding. "I can't believe it's all over. What do we do now?" "What do you mean? Now we can finally play the game"

truly one of the Best South Park episodes ever made

@bernardoheusi6146

Ай бұрын

@@beaualoevv BS.

As someone who didn't play WoW, I remember watching this episode in High School and FLOORED they pulled this off. We saw it kind of like machinima, which was popular at the time. We were blown away by the quality and realized they must have had more help to do some of the animations.

@ImDemonAlchemist

2 ай бұрын

I mean, it was partially machinima.

You know the Twitch Streamer Pirate Softwear ? Both him and his Dad worked for Blizzard for years. The guy at the desk who kills the other players is based off his Dad just Exaggerated but he did wear the Wrist Brace and had that Desk and lamp

@TheAnonyomusGuy

2 ай бұрын

I was about to post this same thing

@giantturd5157

2 ай бұрын

That's his apartment lol

@mattstakeontheancients7594

2 ай бұрын

Me too had just watched one of his shorts right before this video.

@jessepatterson8897

2 ай бұрын

And on top of it, Thor is awesome.

@gatorhoy0420

Ай бұрын

Never heard of either of these people

I played WoW at the time this episode aired. It was such a big thing, the next day and for weeks after, hundreds of people were looking to buy "The Sword of a Thousand Truths", and confusing the hell out of the rest of the server. 😆

@gj3717

19 күн бұрын

I remember when it aired. Barrens chat was just an unreadable spam of episode quotes like a thousand echos of each line and every line, and people spamming what gear each character was wearing.

I love that you can see a drawing of Human CentiPad at 1:18 on the whiteboard

I still quote, "What do we do now? What do you mean? Now we can play the game." whenever me and friends get super far into a game.

Bathroom..BATHROOM!!

My favourite fact is that the wow guy is based off a KZreadrs dad who worked at blizzard but i cant remember his name

I do rlly like when (much like in good times w/ weapons), south park eps treat the most low-stakes matters with the utmost seriousness. like, all they had to do was find some other game to play instead of all this lol but they very literally treat it like the world--of warcraft--population is on the line here. that's why the ending when they recall they did all this just so they could play the game uninterrupted and casually get back to it always cracks me up. also the epic battle music playing over the shots of the bloated boys just sitting at their computers barely moving edit: like this is also why I love the ziplining ep

great work ! Was expecting just a video essay on the episode plot but you covered all the background, production and response too.

Okay... not saying you have to do it, but it would be AMAZING if you did a video on 200 & 201. Those 2 episodes are, without question, my favorite episodes of the entire series. And the impact those two episodes have had over South Park as a series is undeniable!

I remember when this episode aired, I was actively playing World of Warcraft, and everyone was talking about how great the episode was on chat.

I think the sense of inadequacy is a relatable trait among sincere artists. The end product of something you put a ton of work into never feels as good as it should when held to the public eye, since the experience of creating it is always much greater than the end result.

This episode is the first time I heard the song Live To Win, which I still love to this day

🎵LIVE TO WIN, TILL YOU DIE, TILL THE LIGHT DIES IN YOUR EYES!🎵

@MeatMastrAnt

2 ай бұрын

So Iconic

I remember a lot of my close friends got to work on this episode because I was a podcaster for WOW radio. It was a very cool time to be involved with the world Warcraft 😆

Hey Johnny! The bit about Randy's comedic scenes and dying in Stan's arms plays through twice. Didn't know if you knew that!

@Johnny2Cellos

2 ай бұрын

I think you may have hit the back arrow or something because it doesn't when I play it back!

I might just not be able to find it , but you should do a video about “Grounded Vindaloop” to summarize the continuitity of that episode!

This and good times with weapons

It is the episode I go to if I want to get fully absorbed. It's my favorite episode.

The sword they're after is actually a sword called "slayer of the lifeless" and it has the flavor text "fortold by salsman" ( there's a joke about salsman in accounting in the episode) though it wasn't added till the third expansion; the wrath of the lich king. I'm sure most gamers will know this, but for the few that don't it's a fun Easter egg.

Great video! I’d love to see one on Scott Tenorman Must Die and Cartman’s character arc throughout the first 4 seasons of the show leading up to it.

I don't play World of Warcraft. I play Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

Even though I have no WOW knowledge, I still respect the detail they took with using the actual in game models, music, spells, etc. I could tell it was almost all authentic. It made me wish they'd given the same or similar treatment to BG3. They made many references to it in the Panderverse, but used like no footage from it. Which was disappointing, I'd love to see the characters the boys would make.

It was so cool to imagine being one of the ingame actors, or a director trying to direct in a new world. Badass coverage of this moment in media history

Probably the first episode that comes to mind when asked "what's the best south park episode ever?". I was a WoW player in middle school and south park was my favorite show. Waiting the whole week to see the new south park episode and it opens with WoW was an unbelievable experience as a kid.

The poop bucket scene is what made the episode.

@bernardoheusi6146

Ай бұрын

Nah it was one enjoyable scene after scene

@sleazymeezy

Ай бұрын

Mom! Bathroom!

LIVE TO WIN! One of my all time favorites!

@eisenhorn5494

2 ай бұрын

Till you die!!!

man can’t believe this episode came out in season 10, it’s so fantastic. great video man

Cartman taking a shit in the bucket while Liane holds it is one of the funniest scenes in the entire series. Just full on surreal hilarity.

This episode got me into Warcraft and I’ve been playing ever since

Dude your theme song at the end is an absolute bop. Also great video as always

"The worst Blizzard can say is 'no'." - The South Park Animation Staff, I guess.

I remember my guild stopping our AQ40 run just to watch it.

This is one of my top two episodes I think. This one and All About Mormons are the episodes that made me a fan

Their use of "live to win" by Paul Stanley in the leveling up montage was perfect

This episode got me into live to win and now i play it every time when I’m working out

My god, I can't believe this episode is 18 years old...

The Blizzard of today would have never allowed collaboration like this to happen. How times have changed!

Ive played WoW since vanilla and during the time this episode came out it was all over the in game chat. People would be LTB The Sword of a Hundred Truths repeatedly filling the chat with spam.

“Let me taste your tears Scott!”

Paul Stanleys - Live to win suits it perfectly

Fun fact PirateSoftware's father is "he who has no life". ❤😅

Butters playing hello kitty island

My favourite South Park episode.

This episode was a fever dream.

this episode is how I heard about WoW for the first time but I don't I ever got around to playing WoW myself though, I was more into Runescape and Guild Wars 1 when I was younger

first episode I remember seeing of this show back when I was 8 years old; I think during a Thanksgiving at my great Aunt & Uncle's in which me and my family stayed in a house that said Aunt/Uncle had rented(?) for our stay (I guess it might've been like a B&B type thing) but yeah, I had my own room there with a TV that had lots of channels, and it happened to be on at the time (I was definitely not supposed to be watching South Park, but I was glued to the episode the whole time)

reframing (re-editing) your videos to be audio only for background use is genius. not only to broaden reach but i appreciate it since as i've gotten busier i lean more towards audio-books and video-essays as directly watching videos or reading is exclusive to total relaxing time (even then, sometimes i feel too tired to use my eyes and just listen to video-essays anyway)

For my dad, this episode helped him keep watching the show for a while longer. It was a rejuvinating oasis in what he felt was a desert.

I’m glad 2 cozy is actually your second channel cause I wasn’t sure if someone was stealing your content😭

My husband and I say “you can’t just give up on the world…of Warcraft!” All the time 🤣

Ironically, this episode made me stay *away* from WoW for two years, because I thought the Alliance races were my only choices and I never even knew of the Horde until later.

This episode is also just so unbelievably funny. Every single joke lands for me and I laugh so much.

This was the first episode of South Park I ever watched. A friend of mine had the episode on his Xbox and showed it to me and I remember being really impressed with the storytelling.

Honestly the most I can say from this all is that we're not only our worst critics, the reactions to what we create are impossible to foresee, truly.

Every time I hear a voice note of Trey,I keep thinking he's goofing around being Randy and keep saying "Can this guy stop messing around and be serious for one moment?'😂

I'll always remember playing WoW and seeing, in the comments, other players shouting that the episode was on. So many players were watching the episode and they would return during the commercials. It was so good.

i watched that episode as a child, i'm 21 now. and i think about that episode almost weekly

I cant tell how many times we watched this episode on Lanparties in WoW classic and TBC classic. I swear I have 70% of the dialogues in my head rn

Hows it possible knowing all this makes this episode even funnier than it already is??!

When cartman shits in the bucket 🪣 comedy gold

This episode was so big that the Season 10 DVD set of South Park came with a free month of a World of Warcraft subscription! I specifically remember seeing it in Walmart.

I remember my best friend’s Dad telling all of the other dads to let us kids watch this episode because we were big nerds back then. We were 10 when this episode came out, and we all were hooked. Little did they know I was watching South Park with my dad and uncle since birth lol best show ever, and this episode changed everything and made accessible to my friends.

To this day this is STILL my favorite episode, the guitar hero one is a close 2nd

It's tangentially related, but i still find it hilarious that another creator i follow, Thor from PirateSoftware, is the son of the villain in this episode. He's talked about it on stream that the no-life is based on his dad who worked at Blizzard at the time.

The moment of Randy dying in Stan's arms is an echo of the Mograine story and of Saurfang

This episode got me started on WoW... and I'm still playing it on one monitor while I watch this video on the other.

As great as this episode is, it's also been able to help people. I've read quite a few online stories about people who were way too addicted to WoW who suddenly realised this because they watched this South Park episode, and saw themselves in the shoes of the OP troll player, just mindlessly and silently clicking away at a game, wasting away. Quite a few of them said it was a wake-up call to pull themselves and their lives together, and stop playing this MMO all day.

@funnycatvideos5490

2 ай бұрын

Not many, In fact it encouraged people to be exactly like this. I mean The KZreadr didn't even talk about this Aspect of the entire episode. I'm sure Matt and Trey were scared to release that episode because of this, But people just laughed at it didn't take away the entire point of the episode! Just look at all the comments of this video

Fun fact: The guy sitting in the chair playing the character they are trying to kill was an actual person working at Blizzard, kinda famous too, forgot the name tho. He only found out after the fact and found it funny, they even partially adapted the room in his house.

I was in boot camp in the medical bay. They let us watch 30 minutes of TV. This episode of south park was on. No regrets.

oh you just KNOW the blizzard employees loved the episode

This episode is the whole reason i started watching south park.

One of my favorites of all time

Great episode, I remember when it first aired, I told my raid group (I was one of the main tanks) I was going afk for 30 minutes to watch it, they thought I was lying... I was not.