Make Love, Not Warcraft/Trivia

Trivia

 * This episode features a new remix of the theme tune, the backing music has been replaced by the track "Whamola", by Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.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".
 * The basketball court was last seen in "Manbearpig".
 * 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 properly translates into English as "Do you want to sleep with me, Clyde?" and is taken from the Patty Labelle song, "Lady Marmalade."
 * Posters of other games made of Blizzard were also shown in Go God Go.
 * In the Blizzard office, an object resembling a gold record is seen hanging on the wall and it has the Forsaken emblem on it.
 * Randy's character in the World of Warcraft is a human hunter, which was a character not possible to play as. Trey Parker and Matt Stone did this to poke fun at the game. (This combination will be available in the expansion World of Warcraft: Cataclysm). His character is also wearing a shield, which hunters cannot use.
 * Northrend is missing from the map of Azeroth hanging in Cartman's basement although when the episode was being made Northrend was not yet mapped.
 * The area all the boys fight Jenkins in for the first time is a level 30-40 zone, the Arathi Highlands.
 * All the boys play Alliance, which fulfills a common stereotype where most Alliance players are younger children or teenagers.
 * 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 plan would never work.
 * 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).
 * 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.
 * 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 knocked at the door, and ask for the name 'LovesToSpooge'. This user name is a euphemism for loving to masturbate (spooge). 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 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
 * This is one of the few episodes that Cartman isn't ripping on Kyle for being Jewish. This may have simply happened because of the quest to kill the nerd's character and Cartman needed every boy he could get, which may explain Butters being in the assembled strike force to attack the nerd even though Cartman rips on Butters constantly next to Kyle.
 * When all the boys are in Cartman's basement about to battle Jenkins, Liane's Antonio Banderas love doll and Clyde Frog (in a box) can be seen in the background.
 * 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. (During the episode Cartman is actually a rogue. See Goofs.)
 * 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 songs world premiere.
 * This could be technically one of the many times the boys have saved the "world".
 * 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 it's series.
 * In the video game store, you can see three more Blizzard games, Diablo, WarCraft (Not the same as the episode) and StarCraft. StarCraft is an RTS game, and the fourth most best selling games on the world. Diablo is an RPG like WoW, but Hack n' Slash type. WarCraft you see on the store is actually WarCraft III, and unlike WoW, it is an RTS game like StarCraft.

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 this episode.
 * 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.
 * The boys' love of Warcraft is never mentioned again despite their addiction to the game. They could've just drifted from playing the game.
 * After the episode, in the next episode, the boys are back to their original body sizes instead of being morbidly obese and pimple faced.
 * 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.
 * If you look closer in the episode when they are killing boars, the camera is from Cartman's view, if you look at his action bar, he has rogue abilities, and under his health bar, he has energy.
 * When the boys are having their final battle with the nerd, Cartman can talk to Stan, and Stan can talk to Randy in the game. However, in the real world, none of the boys are seen wearing their MMORPG headsets.
 * The boys have a slower speech pattern when they talk outside of the game, most likely due to their obese state and the stress it is to speak, but when they talk to each other on the game, they talk at their normal talking pace.