Reminder: Guitar Hero on South Park tonight

by Kyle Orland { Nov 7th 2007 at 12:27PM }

If you were too busy playing Guitar Hero in your underwear on Monday, you may have missed the announcement that tonight's episode of South Park will feature the rhythm game prominently in the storyline. For those of you who just can't wait those last few hours, a Comedy Central press release reveals some more details about the impending rift between Stan and Kyle, and a short video preview shows the pair looking like total goobers while trying to look cool playing the game.

In fact, the false cockiness brought on by Guitar Hero was a major motivation for the production team. On his South Park Studios Production blog, Production Assistant Mike McMahan asks us to imagine "some jerk trying to impress the ladies with his badass skills banging out Coldplay as hard as he can." By playing Guitar Hero, McMahan says, "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." On behalf of all those proud idiots, we have just one thing to say to that ... Ouch!

We'll be liveblogging the episode right here on this very site, so come back here around 10 PM EST if you'd like some nerdy game discussion with your animated prime time TV.

Tags: activision, guitar-hero, red-octane, rhythm, south park, south-park, SouthPark, television

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

jsn @ Nov 7th 2007 12:31PM

haha, can't wait

gonk @ Nov 7th 2007 12:36PM

liveblogging the episode? do you really have nothing better to do tonight?

Kyle Orland @ Nov 7th 2007 12:51PM

Well, we'll be watching the episode anyway, so really it's just turning that time into somtehing slightly more productive. Multitasking FTW!

NATO_Duke @ Nov 7th 2007 12:51PM

I didn't understand the point of doing that either.

JL @ Nov 7th 2007 12:38PM

You didnt have to remind me...I dont miss an episode :)

Shagittarius @ Nov 7th 2007 12:41PM

I'm betting Cartman dresses up as the fat character whatever his name is.

Tiger of PTS @ Nov 7th 2007 12:42PM

Can I just take this time out of my very VERY busy day to say that my friend and I are the -only- two Guitar Hero players in the country (and we've been a lot of places to check) that play this game with even an -ounce- of coolness.

The secret is to wear thousands of dollars worth of clothes while playing.

Shagittarius @ Nov 7th 2007 12:46PM

I'm not sure what your saying, but the first indication that your not cool...is that you think you are.

Tiger of PTS @ Nov 7th 2007 12:49PM

When you get to the point I'm at, it's hard to think otherwise.

Here's a video of me playing a -real- music game for proof:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fERL0Svw8Bk

FidliousWong @ Nov 7th 2007 12:53PM

I mean, no offense but... that is like super mega gay, like a superhero gay.

I mean, I dork out to games all the time, but never do I imagine I'm looking cool while doing it. Especially in a white truckers cap and elvis sunglasses.

Tiger of PTS @ Nov 7th 2007 12:59PM

-Actually-

Those are $300 Ed Hardy limited editions.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/TigerOfPTS/glasses.jpg

And I am gay, so thanks for the compliment =)

Shagittarius @ Nov 7th 2007 12:55PM

I don't know about cool but you look really good at that game. Why couldn't Rock Band have a kit setup more like that?

x876543 @ Nov 7th 2007 1:02PM

Yep... I totally see it. You were surrounded by women tearing at your clothes, screaming at the top of their lungs. Even guys instantly became gay at how cool you were. I loved the part where people fainted at the sound of 'Stage Cleared'.

Guitar Hero and those other rhythm games are just fun to play, they don't make you cool.

Jake @ Nov 7th 2007 1:42PM

Stupid looking sunglasses make you less cool, even if they did cost $300. I feel sad for you if expensive stuff is how cool is measured in your social circles.

Tiger of PTS @ Nov 7th 2007 1:57PM

Don't feel sad.

We have a great time looking down at all of you =)

jfls @ Nov 7th 2007 2:11PM

I've been to Sunnyvale Golfland (where that video was taken) many many times, and trust me... no GF/DM players look cool. They sure think they do, though.

Predatorian234 @ Nov 7th 2007 2:19PM

But because your gay...shouldn't you be looking up at us???

OOOH! ZING!!

But stupid insults aside, it is kinda...weird...that one would consider themselves "cool" when playing a rhythm game.

Besides, whats the benefit of being cool when playing a rhythm game? I mean, its not very "cool" to begin with. So I can't imagine making it "cool" would have much of an impact.

And $300 dollars for crappy sun glasses? Does it have a frickin lazer beam attached to them?

jfls @ Nov 7th 2007 2:40PM

Here's more of how "cool" this guy is:
http://tigerkakke.livejournal.com/

Dreamcicle @ Nov 7th 2007 3:20PM

I think you mixed up "cool" with "tool".

abbazabba @ Nov 7th 2007 4:34PM

NERD ALERT!!!

Sean Newton @ Nov 7th 2007 5:26PM

Um, you paid thousands of dollars, in order to put together an outfit that looks like it cost $50 at Wal-Mart? I sure hope those weren't American dollars you were spending.

skunkworks @ Nov 7th 2007 5:26PM

but tiger the real question is do you know who the fuck ed hardy really is?

Tiger of PTS @ Nov 7th 2007 10:57PM

Yeah.

The fifth best designer of mens clothes.

skunkworks @ Nov 7th 2007 12:46PM

heheh I know just the kind of people they are making fun of. there is a local bar that does guitar hero night on Thursdays and it is full of dorks who think there is no stronger lady attractant then 5 starring a song on expert.the only thing worse are the tards at the mall stomping around on DDR like its some kind of nerd mating dance.

zlionsfan @ Nov 7th 2007 12:47PM

You say that as if DDR weren't a nerd mating dance.

Ed @ Nov 7th 2007 8:03PM

*takes out notepad*
But does it attract nerds or is it just a form of display?

FidliousWong @ Nov 7th 2007 12:58PM

Honestly, I don't know how anyone can imagine they look cool playing any game. Be it the ultra dorkfest of PIU or the super intimidating carnage of a baby shower pink shotgun in Carnevil. I play the games to have fun, that's why I try truly stupid shit. Because it's fun.

Having said that, I've been made fun of during GH sessions just because I tend to use my upper torso as a sort of metronome. Like a slight nodding or a sway, very slight, helps me keep a tempo. But I use this in my ACTUAL music playing as well. (Currently learning Guitar but usually synth, korgs, trigger fingers, and drums)

Then of course there is the now infamous incident where a friend, pissed that I finally surpassed him, made a comment about how I'm some flashy mother and he bet I couldn't play behind my back... so I tried and it's suprisingly easy.

JDuB @ Nov 7th 2007 1:07PM

No one's mentioned the episode of 'Big Bang Theory' with tons of Halo 3 referrences yet?

Neon Jebus @ Nov 7th 2007 1:39PM

I think that's because we are the only two that watch it.

Juan @ Nov 7th 2007 1:40PM

i hate this show...

Tyler Czerniak @ Nov 7th 2007 1:48PM

I DO like South Park, and the notion that you can look cool playing Guitar Hero IS ridiculous, but...

What the hell is wrong with Coldplay? :|

NATO_Duke @ Nov 7th 2007 3:33PM

Whats wrong with Coldplay? I guess that they sound like Coldplay for one.

coolforever4537 @ Nov 7th 2007 1:46PM

I'm surprised this episode hasn't been leaked yet.

License to ill @ Nov 7th 2007 1:52PM

lol I did a quote from a episode of south park about Kyle sucking cartmans balls, not realizing the writers name was kyle...

Now wonder it got deleted, sorry about that kyle.

Kyle Orland @ Nov 7th 2007 2:28PM

I actually deleted it because it was crude and added nothing to the conversation, not because it happened to include my name.

That being said, I really hate that song about Kyle's mom.

License to ill @ Nov 7th 2007 3:14PM

Crude and south park kinda go hand to hand...

kyle's mom song and uncle fucker = classic park...

colin @ Nov 7th 2007 4:59PM

you don't eat or sleep or mow the lawn, you just funk your uncle all day long

PhrawzT @ Nov 7th 2007 1:58PM

I'll have to check it out. I hate all the guys who try to impress everyone in electronics stores with their skills, only to look like complete idiots in the process.

Nintendo is smart enough not to put Wii controllers on display in most stores around here to save people the embarassment.

PhrawzT @ Nov 7th 2007 1:58PM

Also, Coldplay is terrible!

Sieged Eagle @ Nov 7th 2007 2:35PM

I might 'tube this episode tonight, as I live in Mexico, and I won't be able to see it on TV (because of the dubs and such).

...Oh wait, you're Liveblogging the episode tonight at 10PM? Nice! By the time I come here I might have finished my classes, as I come out at 9PM sharp, so a 10 minute delay from the school to back home wouldn't hurt... or would it?

Also, I'm wondering if the guy's will take on Rock Band on this season or the new yet unconfirmed one. It would kick ass, that's for sure.

kostaki @ Nov 7th 2007 2:37PM

"jews dont have rythm" ~~~cartman

p-diddy @ Nov 7th 2007 4:01PM

I think this says it all.

http://www.animationarcade.com/animation/shamoozalguitarzero.html

-p-

robotplague @ Nov 7th 2007 6:04PM

Live blogging an episode of South Park is one of the lamest ideas I've heard in a long time. Why the fuck would anyone be here and read someone live blog it when they can just watch it themselves?

Sean Newton @ Nov 7th 2007 7:17PM

It's kinda like how my friends and I used to log into the same MUD, start the same movie at the same time, and give it the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment. Only, this is with South Park and with a blog. Seems to me a chatroom would be the best way to do it, but that's just me.