Guitar Queer-O

"Guitar Queer-o" is the thirteenth episode of the eleventh season of South Park.

Synopsis
Stan and Kyle are hooked on Guitar Hero. But Stan's superior skills on the video game damages his friendship with Kyle.

Plot
At Stan's house, Stan and Kyle are playing Guitar Hero to the admiration of Cartman, Butters, Kenny and the majority of the other male fourth grade students. Randy sees this and asks Sharon what the boys are doing, suggesting they learn a real instrument. Trying to show them how to play a real guitar, Randy is shunned away by the boys who do not want to learn how to play a real guitar.

At night, Randy goes to attempt Guitar Hero himself but does appallingly bad, and "You suck!" flashes up on the screen.

The next day, Stan and Kyle are playing again with the boys watching again. They manage to reach 100,000 points and suddenly the doorbell rings. Stan answers it to find a man called Charles Kincade of the Kincade Talent Agency. He asks to be Stan and Kyle's manager which they gladly accept.

The manager of the agency is impressed upon hearing how well Stan and Kyle did and signs them to a one year contract and invites them to a party at his house.

At the party, the boys encounter a number of local celebrities (including Ron Zappolo, Jake Jabs, Jay Cutler, and Tom Shane) who all respect the boys upon hearing their achievement. The manager explains that the two of them are going to break one million points.

Next day, Stan and Kyle are practicing. Finishing the song, Charles tells Kyle that there's a controller that might work better for him in his car and sends Kyle off with his assistant Jim to find it. With Kyle gone, Charles tells Stan he's better off working with different people for Kyle is dragging him down. Stan reluctantly agrees realizing he doesn't want to throw his chance of one million points away for his friend's feelings.

At Café Monet, Charles introduces Stan to Thad who does backing to many people who have played Guitar Hero and can play the music with just a controller, not even plugged in.

At his house, Stan practices with Thad but Kyle walks in and learns what is happening. Both of them argue but Stan tells him he can't break one million points playing with Kyle who says he didn't know it was "just about the points" and leaves. Stan and Thad return to practicing.

Stan goes to the games store where he tries to purchase game guides, but the shop assistant tells him he should get Heroin Hero for it relieves you of stress: there's no score or time limit, you just chase a pink dragon around but you never catch it.

Stan tries the game which he believes to be awesome.

At a practice in the video arcade, Stan begins to muck up and Thad questions if he's been practicing. Stan is angered at this yelling that he has and that he wants to play a different song. Thad says he can't play the song and after Stan yells he is in charge Thad quits. Charles then comes across Heroin Hero and lectures Stan about it and that he needs to pull his act together.

At the bowling alley, Kyle is playing Guitar Hero on his own. He leaves after two boys ask him why he isn't playing anymore. Nic, the barman gives Kyle a job at playing Guitar Hero of a night.

Charles arrives at Stan's who is about to play to break one million at the arcade but he has fell asleep playing Heroin Hero. Charles ends up dragging Stan out.

Due to his "addiction" Stan mucks up at Guitar Hero and ends up being booed off by the crowd (in-game).

Stan returns to the games store and is offered Rehab Hero which is vice versa of Heroin Hero but Stan turns it down and gets a racing game.

While playing his racing game, Stan overhears a song on the radio which the announcers notes is the song played by Stan and Kyle on Guitar Hero and that they both seem to have given up.

Stan visits Kyle who is playing at the bowling alley. Stan manages to convince Kyle to play with him again. Nic tells him he should go and play with Stan instead of playing there.

Stan and Kyle decide to both try and get one million points at Stan's house. Randy is playing Heroin Hero which Stan turns off. Which Randy starts screaming "NO! NO, I SAID! I AM YOUR FATHER! PUT IT BACK ON!". Stan calls Sharon to get Randy out of the living room.

Butters rushes over to the basketball court where Cartman is arguing with Craig while playing basketball and tells them and the others that Stan and Kyle are going to try and reach one million points.

The boys rush over and witness Stan and Kyle reach one million, but then "YOU ARE FAGS!" flashes up on the screen. Both of them are distraught and give up, walking off. Cartman and Butters decide to play the game, with Butters saying he wants to be the one to betray Cartman after the sex and drugs party.

Featured songs

 * Carry On Wayward Son
 * Surrender
 * Cherry Pie
 * Jordan
 * John the Fisherman
 * I Wanna Be Sedated
 * Every Rose Has Its Thorn
 * Pretty Vacant
 * I Remember You
 * Woman

Trivia

 * Although Randy is shunned for trying to teach the boys how to play an actual guitar, the boys are seen playing instruments in various episodes in the series.
 * This episode parodies the history of bands splitting up and reforming.
 * Other episodes to feature gaming are "Best Friends Forever" and "Make Love, Not Warcraft".
 * The console the boy's play Guitar Hero appears similar to a Nintendo Wii but the controllers they use are modeled after an Xbox 360.
 * "Chasing the dragon" in Heroin Hero is a reference to the phrase of the same name.
 * The song playing on the radio in Stan's driving game is the song that plays during the episode Spontaneous Combustion while Randy is trying to fix the problem of people spontaneously combusting.
 * In real life, the songs the boys play in this episode are from Guitar Hero II
 * This episode's name is a pun on "Guitar Hero".
 * There is one game on all the shelves in the game shop, and they all have the art work of Capcom game Ōkami
 * On the cover of Rehab Hero you can see Paris Hilton.
 * When Thad quits at the video arcade after an argument over which song to play, he begins snapping and singing "I quit" repeatedly - this may be a reference to the ending of the movie That Thing You Do!.
 * When Stan messes up after playing heroin hero he throws up and everything starts to shake giving the same effects as actually smokeing heroin.
 * At the Game store magazines show Optimus Prime on the cover.