Thursday, November 8, 2007

Guitar Hero Rocks South Park



In last night’s episode of South Park, called “Guitar Queer-o”, Stan and Kyle both put money to buy Guitar Hero. They play co-op and totally kick ass, scoring over 100,000 points. Word of this gets out and soon a music agent contacts the boys and offers them fame and fortune if they can beat 1,000,000 points in a live performance at the local arcade. It turns out Stan is the better player, and the agent convinces Stan to ditch Kyle in favor of another kid, Thad, who is so good at Guitar Hero he can play the songs without even hearing the music or watching the screen.

The episode was not as funny as I had hoped, but it was good nonetheless. It focused on Stan’s rise and fall in the “music” industry. Stan loses his cool and becomes addicted to another game, “Heroin Hero”, where you chase a magic dragon around, but are never able to catch it. Stan’s dad tries to be cool in front the kids by playing the game’s music on a real guitar, but is considered gay by everyone. The ending made me laugh a lot, so it was all worth it.

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