Last night, The Simpsons pulled a South Park and had a World of Warcraft themed episode. The episode starts off with Marge and Homer at a PTA meeting. When it comes time for the parents to give out their e-mails, Springfield finds out a dark secret of Marge's. She doesn't have e-mail! So from there, Marge gets a new computer and dives into the Internets.
She eventual discovers a game called Earthland Realms which is pretty much like World of Warcraft. She creates her character, goes on "epic" quests and starts to lose a lot of sleep. She soon comes across a village and discovers that most of Springfield plays the game too.
All in all, it was a really funny spoof. The second half of the episode is after the jump.
The side story of this episode has Lisa taking up soccer and Homer becoming a soccer referee. The best part of that side story is at the very beginning of the second video. Homer gets into an argument and pulls a Zidane. Sure, they were really late with that joke, but it gives me an opportunity to remind you all about these awesome
Zidane gifs we posted awhile back.
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4:47 PM on 04.23.2007
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Way to rip off everyone else Matt!
Episode was cute, packed a few smiles... but SOUTH PARK is hilarious, just like something else in the future will be funnier than SOUTH PARK... just the way things go.
the shows aren't usually made within a week(although it's probably possible), it's just that the process used to animate the show is simple enough to allow them to significantly alter episodes in as little as a week before release. the wow episode was more likely made at least a month in advance, especially since it was the season opener.
And how could you not laugh at Moe going under the bridge and saying "da da da da da da daaaaaaah." THAT was funny.
IF SOUTH PARK HADN'T DONE IT SIX MONTHS AGO.
it's time to send the Simpsons into re run land.
If ripping off shows that came AFTER it is all they can do it's time to end it all.
I hate lisa too
I'm starting to think my funny bone is broken. People tell me that Family Guy is amusing, but it gets the same amount of chuckles from me as the Simpsons does. At least Homer and co. don't interject a 30 second narrative-hijacking pop culture reference every 5 seconds like Family Guy does.
Wait a second, I just remembered that I laugh at pretty much every South Park episode. Though oddly, I didn't laugh much at the WOW episode, it felt too much like a commercial to me.
@michi: Amen. Lisa needs to DIAF, like somewhere around season five or six.
By the way: Does anyone know the song that's played when Virgin Mary fights on the field?
Southpark did do it better ("how do you kill, that which has no life"... still priceless), but i'm not sure why so many poeple were effected by it... the differences were so strong that i was barely reminded of the southpark episode
It doesn't bug me at all that southpark did it first...
@Zaron
Actually south park can be animated in a very short amount of time... including pre-production such as storyboards and scripts, i'd say it probably takes 2 weeks... Hell just recently they had a 300 parody, and the movie only came out like 1-2 weeks before that... their animation style is just that damn simple
"Why am I paying 14.95 a month for this?" because I thought the same damn thing when I played WoW. I got to lvl 30 and said "Yep. I'm gonna go do something else with my time and money."
Been clean from WoW for 5 months now. I dunno why so many people have such a problem quitting the addiction.
Now, Diablo II (and III down the road) might be a different story...
That's Barber's Adagio for Strings. <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_for_Strings_in_popular_culture" arget="_blank" class="postlink">Here's the wiki for its use in popular culture.</a>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_for_Strings_in_popular_culture
Somebody call the waaahmbulance, we've got an emergency here.
While it wasn't the best thing I've ever seen, I watched it without endlessly comparing it to South Park as most of the commentators seem to have done, and found it enjoyable. Not fantastic, but enjoyable. And that's okay.
I didn't know about the South Park one (I don't really care for it)but it did have a few LOL moments for me when Nelson went "Haha" crashed into the wall and fell into the fire... iunno maybe I like retarded stuff like that lol, the virgin mary was also pretty funny.
I'm not trying o compare but South Park's Warcraft episode was just damn sweet!
1.It's not called Soccer, it's Football.
2. Ronaldo plays for AC Milan, Not Real Madrid
3. Ronaldo is fat.
4. Free Kicks, not Direct Kicks.
Also, the storyline was retarded, Lisa gets pissed off at Homer because Homer did the right thing in sending her off ? Yeah, Smart. The WoW spoof was also the same low quality drivel you've come to expect from the Simpsons in recent times.
For Matt Groening's sake, He better be using a script from when the show was still funny for the film, or it's going to flop like a "Flopper" or what real football fans would call a Diver, ( or a Cristiano .
Try Harder Simpsons.
Umm sorry dude..I know it's called Football everywhere else in the world, but here in the states it's called Soccer. "Free kicks, not direct kicks".....? Who cares.
There were some funny gags and lines (mostly involving Moe) but it did tread a lot of old territory with Marge/Bart and Homer/Lisa. Still, if you say it's outright BAD you probably had a bias against the Simpsons in the first place.
The Simpsons are not as specific as South Park.
GERALDO FTW i think they made this episode when he was still on real madrid