The Making of the South Park WoW Episode 70
Via GameSetWatch, an interview with South Park Producer Frank Agnone, Tech Supervisor J. J. Franzen, and Director of Animation Eric Stough. The discussion, on the Machinima.com site, goes into a lot of detail on how the South Park WoW episode was made, their rationale for doing it, and the amount of assistance they received from Blizzard. From the article: "Q: How long did it take to capture, puppeteer, and edit all the WOW footage? JJ: Uhm... A really really long time. We decided early on to treat the in-game capture sessions as regular film shoots. Our 'set' ended up being the lobby of the studio we produce South Park in. We rented 12 PCs, set up a bunch of folding tables, and were basically good to go. I decided that it would be best to capture on a Mac, since we would be able to capture directly to a quicktime file, which would make getting the captured footage onto the editing system a lot quicker. So, I hauled my shiny new MacPro out into the lobby and spent the next two weeks in a much bigger, if less private, new office. We had 5 'shoot' days, the first on the 20th of Sept. which lasted about 3-5 hours. The next was on the 26th of Sept. which also lasted about 4-5 hours., and then we shot almost every other day up to the last few days of production Monday and Tuesday were full days, with the last day going from 10am Tuesday morning to around 3am Wednesday morning the 3rd of Oct,, the day the episode aired."
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That's cutting it really close. Anyone know if that's usual for the production of an South Park Episode?
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
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My god, why?
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
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What, are you so unmotivated that you can't make one intuitive leap for yourself? Are you so retarded that you cannot grasp a simple punchline without having it stuffed in your face?
-spoilers-
Stan was obviously in a movie - the twist was he was in the WRONG movie. The losing team in a sports movie is always a shallow group of assholes
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Yes, for instance the "Passion of the Jew" episode was aired very shortly after the Passion of the Christ movie was released in theaters, and its controversy as being allegedly anti-semitic and unnecessarily graphic was very, very fresh in people's minds.
Their response time allows them to be very brilliant with excellent timing.
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> was released in theaters, and its controversy as being allegedly anti-semitic and unnecessarily graphic was very,
> very fresh in people's minds.
Sure, but that's a terrible example. The Passion of the Christ was known to be coming out for months before it was actually released, and any show could easily have scheduled their parody to air within days of it's release.
See elsewhere in this
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I think its a good thing too.
Who can forget Saddam in the spider hole at the end of Christmas in Canada, just days after he was captured...
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So they can sneak in topical humor. I remember a spoof of the infamous Elian Gonzales picture within a week of it actually happening.
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From TFA: "We have been producing our episodes in this fashion for years, routinely finishing within 12 hours of the episode going on the air."
So yes, that is usual for a South Park episode.
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How they did it: (Score:4, Funny)
2. Add a couple of toilet jokes.
3. Profit!
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2. ?
3. Mod points!
- John
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2. Add a couple of toilet jokes.
3. Profit!
I have to agree (before you get modded down as the dirty troll you are!).
I don't play WoW, but I've been a gamer since I was 10 years old (which was before you were born, whoever you are). I understood all the jokes and even knew enough about WoW to appreciate that it was right on the money.
Also, the way that they talked was hilarious--the sort of condescending borderline malaise in the vocal commands from Cartman to the other 3--that was spot on.
All in all, though... It just wasn't... that
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Mom?! Bathroom!
What hun?
Bathroom! BATHROOM!!!
*********
Oh, that's a big boy, isnt he!
That wasnt enough for you?
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010. Add a couple of toilet jokes.
011. ???
100. Profit!
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That episode was fairly good... (Score:2)
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(I say the following as a big fan of South Park, still.)
That episode is like a ill-proportioned clay ash tray made by a retarded kid, and given to you as a gift. At first you say "WTF?" But then you think about all the heart in it, and how hard he tried...
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What South Park does is makes us all look at the inane things we do, and in the process, at least for those of us that are reflective, gives us the opportunity to look at these things from the perspective of others. It is high end requirement for enjoying such a low brow show, but hey, that is why South Park is not Family Guy.
As has been mentioned on numerous occasions, the show does not in particular hate anyone, except for Barbara Steisand, and has no problem with anyone, except for pompous actors, politicians, and other persons. And the one thing we have seen this season, if we can't make fun of everyone, then we shouldn't make fun of anyone.
My solemn hope is that the WOW folks, and other folks who take video games so seriously that they have become so myopic that they cannot phantom anything outside of the game, will complain so much that we have an even more scathing episode, a la Sally Struthers or Scientology. We call it '40 years old and living in your moms garage.'
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No, I've seen some that are really funny. But they were made years ago, and they came up with funny stories and good jokes. This episode is just pandering to fanboys by throwing out as many references and injokes as they could in 30 minutes.
Like that closeup of the keyboard with the key permanently pressed in. I don't play world of warcraft so don't know what that's referencing, but I can just picture a million nerds ejaculating when they saw that.
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Definitely a 5-point post, but I think the word you're looking for in the last paragraph is fathom. Which, in addition to being a unit of nautical measurement equal to six feet, is also a verb meaning to penetrate the truth, to comprehend, to understand.
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Me too.
Mpphhff mmmfp
Everyone equip healing potions to the hotbar if you haven't already. Uh, Kyle, go ahead and cast Arcane Brilliance to raise our intelligence.
Hang on, I'm chaining my fire spells for max range.
Nice. Stan, what enchantment does your Cloak of the Tiger have?
+15 agility
Give the cloak to Kenny: he needs the agility boost for bow attacks.
'K.
Hold on, this fight could last more than twelve hours. What if we run out of food?
Don't worry, I have that covered. [presses intercom button] Mom?
Ye
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I mean, haha, yeah, that's funny, haha...
One of the funniest... (Score:1)
Stan's dad, "I'm not an R-tard." LOL
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I suppose the warcraft players were creaming themselves in awe that their game was on TV, but if you look at it from a non-fanboy perspective it was a pretty crap episode, with a rather uninteresting plot and not many jokes.
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"This could be the end of the world... of Warcraft!"
"You can't just give up on the world... of Warcraft!"
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I pine for the days when South Park, Family Guy, the Simpsons etc were still actually funny, but that era ended years ago. Now they just live off reputation, with fanboys fawning over every crap predictable joke.
Dude, your LSD is wearing off. (Score:3, Insightful)
Might be a good episode idea about fanbois who no longer find things funny, and act all wholey.
Why do people still listen to Rolling stones or Beatles or anything? Because OBVIOUS REPEATED stuff thats has ZERO PREDICTABILITY
often is ENJOYABLE for ever. And not just once. Its like wow, this beer does the same predictable thing it did yesterday, but
why do I still drink it...
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I think you're doing it wrong.
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Why is it geeky to repeat lines over and over? Because it reflects a desire for predictability, control, and safety. Instead of this vague "sense" of humor that seems abstract and fleeting, you have humor-as-algorithm. It is a reliance on the cliche in place of immediate experience. Two of the more interesting 20th century writers about aesthetics - Adorno and Deleuze - describe the cliche as the enemy of authentic experience.
There is no discovery when you repeat a joke. When something is found funny the first time, it is partially because it uncovers some absurdity or twist in the world.
Sex is different. Very different. And if one isn't careful, it too can become a cliche.
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Personally I repeat jokes that may be obscure and before the time of some of these newer geeks, in the hope that they will ask "Hunh?" and try to discover the source of the material for the first time.
That being said the 1. 2. 3.Profit meme does not hold that possibility.
It is the geek version of the arist0crats. But you have to put in your own funny bits. If you are not going to make it clever then why bother?.
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"In related news, drsquare has become the new lead joke writer for South Park"............
But yeah, that episode wasn't anything special. Funny, but no more funny than the other South Park episodes... I don't see why this is getting any special attention, I somehow doubt pokemon.com had a thread about that episode way back in the early days about the pokemon episode, because it wasn't anything special, just like the WoW episode.
You must be the fun guy parties then. (Score:2, Interesting)
your sad analyzation to your self. Sometimes mixing lots of predictable and obvious things together in a funny setting, can be truely
even more funny. If something is not predictable and not obvious then its probably weird alternative art that gets ZERO ratings.
SP is not for boring people but for a quick 20 min viewing, either while drinking beer, or other non-government approved narcotics banned
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I was trying to figure out why they would make a WoW expansion based on South Park.
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"the red dog's collar" may mean "the collar belonging to the red dog", or "the collar (which is red) belonging to the dog".
So "the dog's red collar" is more clear.
How about "The Making of the WoW Episode of South Park". That's much less ambiguous.
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Family Guy did it! (Score:3, Interesting)
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I think SP has been going downhill for a while, not because of reliance on fanboy references (because that is EXACTLY what the target audience wants, if you don't
American Dad did it! (Score:3, Insightful)
Ahhh, so it was. It's basically the same people making it anyway, isn't it?
Even so, while the episode was hilarious and had a true RPG moment ("The Castle Roodpart? Who comes up with these names?"),
It's "trapdoor" spelled backwaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
it wasn't WoW and didn't have Blizzard's backing and support. The South Park episode did.
I think it was a reference to WoW. After all, it is the most popular MMORPG around, and had a very similar style. As for it n
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