Gaming has featured in quite a few episodes ofSouth Park, with the PSP, Wii,World of Warcraftand of courseChinpokomonall making appearances. Parker and Stone are set toreturn to gamingin a new episode from season 11 which featuresGuitar Hero.
Considering the popularity of Red Octane’s musical franchise, it’s hardly surprising that theSouth Parkteam would eventually jump on it, cannibalizing yet another fragment of popular culture for its social satire. In the episode entitledGuitar Queer-O, Stan and Kyle become addicted to the game, but Stan’s l33t guitar skills cause tension between them. Cue a message about how apathy is the best way forward and how everybody is stupid. Seriously,South Parkis better than everything else on American TV that isn’tDrawn Together.
As if I needed any more reason to hail Parker and Stone as veritable Gods of social commentary, the fact that they might very well know their videogames just sweetens the deal. Hopefully this turns out to be one of the better episodes, the gaming ones are usually spot-on.
