Make Love, Not Warcraft/Trivia

Awards

 * This episode made #1 of the Paramount Comedy's Top 10 in May 2007.
 * This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 2007.
 * The episode also won the Creative Arts Emmy Award in September, 2007.

Trivia

 * This episode features a new remix of the theme tune, the backing music having been replaced by the track "Whamola", by Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. All the lyrics (apart from Kenny's) remain the same, as does the title sequence (apart from the clips being updated).
 * This episode was originally meant to air as episode 145, but due to a delay in the machinima animation, it was shifted to episode 147, and episode 145 was replaced with "Manbearpig", episode 146 was "Tsst".
 * Kyle says "Come on, we have to finish the quest in Stonehaven". Stonehaven is a town in North East Scotland.
 * The characters use many different words from the gaming world, such as 'R-tard', 'uber', 'pwn' and noob'.
 * This is the first time ever that Stan, Kyle and Kenny have been shown to gain weight. Cartman previously gained more weight in "Weight Gain 4000".
 * After comparing Clyde to the French, Cartman says to him "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, Clyde?" This translates into English as, "Would you sleep with me, Clyde?" and is taken from the Patty Labelle song, "Lady Marmalade".
 * Although Kenny does not die in this episode, his avatar does.
 * In the Blizzard office, an object resembling a gold record is seen hanging on the wall and it has the Forsaken emblem on it.
 * All the boys play Alliance, which fulfills the common stereotype that most Alliance players are younger children or teenagers.
 * Stan's character in the earlier part of the episode's name is "StanIsCool", seen above the health bar. But later, when the guys wanted to deliver the Sword of a Thousand Truths to Stan, they a knock at the door asking for the name 'LovesToSpooge'. Although, they could have been just referring to him by his user name, which is how Blizzard identifies most players.
 * In the episode, there are many incongruities to the actual game. For example, when Butters creates a character, his avatar is wearing plate armor, just like Cartman's. However, in the actual game plate armor is not available for characters to wear until level 40.
 * In the episode, Cartman says that half of all WoW players are Korean. This is probably a reference to the growing popularity of Starcraft, another Blizzard game, in Korea.
 * This is one of the few episodes that Cartman isn't ripping on Kyle for being Jewish. This was likely because Cartman needed every participant he could get to help kill Jenkins' character.
 * The only characters who would benefit from Kyle's Arcane Brilliance would be him and Kenny because Stan and Cartman are both Warriors and do not have mana.
 * The music that plays the first time all the boys fight Jenkins is the Orgrimmar theme.
 * Paul Stanley's song "Live to Win" plays during the leveling montage. This was the song's world premiere.
 * Not a single human female was seen involved in the game. The only female character was being played by Kyle.
 * This is the only Season 10 episode to be included in every intro song after its series.

World of Warcraft References

 * This episode features the heavy use of machinima for the scenes that show characters playing the game World of Warcraft.
 * Northrend is missing from the map of Azeroth, seen hanging in Cartman's basement. Although, when the episode was being made Northrend was not yet mapped.
 * Since the airing of the episode, the fictitious Sword of a Thousand Truths was featured in the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade beta test as a reward to the games arena system, although it did not have the same capabilities as in the show. The in-game caption read "Finely crafted to Salzman's specification". The sword was renamed to Gladiator's Slicer and the in-game graphic changed prior to the launch of the Burning Crusade. The visual used for the Sword of a Thousand Truths in the episode was the same as the already existing in-game sword The Hungering Cold . More recently, the sword has reappeared in the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion as the Slayer of the Lifeless, an entry-level raid drop that possesses the flavor text "Foretold by Salzman". Supposedly it also retained the name "Sword of a Thousand Truths" during early beta but was changed before the first drop was seen (Data Mining was what supposedly confirmed it).
 * Randy's character in the World of Warcraft is a human hunter, which was an NPC, so not possible to play as. Trey Parker and Matt Stone did this to poke fun at the game (however, this combination is available in the expansion "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm " ). His character is also weilding a shield, which hunters cannot use.
 * The area all the boys fight Jenkins in for the first time is the Arathi Highlands, a level 30-40 zone.
 * The boys would only have been able to train on boars for a short amount of time due to the fact that after a certain level they would no longer give experience, so Cartman's exploit would never work in true life.
 * An in-game achievement has been added to World of Warcraft called "Make Love, not Warcraft". In order to obtain it, a player must kill another player and emote a hug for the deceased before he has the chance to free his spirit.
 * This episode was created with the direct help of Blizzard, who offered Warcraft Alpha: Burning Crusade servers to create some parts of the episode. Blizzard member Joeyray Hall later admitted that working for Trey and Matt was fun, but intimidating because, "It was kind of like 'Oh wow, it’s Matt and Trey - you know, South Park, yay!'" Joeyray continued on by saying that it was fun to do because Blizzard members had to create the South Park kids' WoW characters. For the full interview click

Continuity

 * Posters of other games made of Blizzard are seen that were also shown in " Go God Go ".
 * When all the boys are in Cartman's basement and are about to battle Jenkins, Liane's Antonio Banderas love doll and Clyde Frog (in a box) can be seen in the background.
 * Randy's role in this episode is mentioned by Sharon in You're Getting Old

Goofs

 * After Randy's character dies, Stan's shield disappears for a short period of time, and reappears after he says "You killed my father!" It also switches from his left hand to his right hand.
 * In many episodes, it has been revealed that Cartman is terrible at math (or any other school subject) but he was surprisingly able to calculate how many boars it would take to rise up in levels and experience points. This could simply be because Cartman was extremely addicted to the game.
 * In the boardroom, a GM says the boys have gained 50 levels in 3 weeks, but Cartman told them it would take over 7 weeks to gain just 30 levels. This could either be a spoof or they just played more than they expected they would.
 * At one point during the final battle, Cartman tells the rest to target the scorpions. It is clearly visible, however, that there are no scorpions in the battle when looking at the boys screens.
 * At a meeting in Blizzard, the executives discuss how he had killed 5,000 characters in-game during the night. They then point out that there are over 7 million active players, and that they might quit all together. In the real game it would only be possible to slay everyone on one server. He might, however, have become so powerful so that his character could cross over to other servers.
 * When the camera first focuses on them in the Computer Lab, from the back Cartman is heavily obese despite the fact they have yet to become so. This may be the way that Cartman normally look like sitting, though, due to his weight problem.
 * While Cartman is defecating in a bowl his mom is holding, Stan has disappeared from his seat in front of the computer, and his videogame character is still moving.