South Park WoW episode nominated for an Emmy

Posted Jul 20th 2007 2:30PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, Blizzard, News items

Emmy nominations got released the other day, and there was a familiar face in the Animation category-- the World of Warcraft South Park episode "Make Love, not Warcraft" has been nominated as an Outstanding Animated Program. Strangely enough, while South Park has been nominated six times before, they've only won the category once, and that was for an episode based around a PSP game.

Robot Chicken, The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, and the Avatar (which is actually an amazing show-- it was recommended to me by WoW Insider's own Dan O'Halloran) are its competitors this time around, but I'm sure the various WoW mistakes in the episode (Kenny played a Hunter, among other tiny slipups) won't hurt its chances too much.

The Emmy Awards will be given away in Los Angeles on September 16th. We'll keep an eye out for a WoW-inspired South Park win.

Tags: avatar, award, blizzard, emmy, makelovenotwarcraft, mistakes, southpark, wow

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-20-2007 @ 2:38PM

Junzim said...

Avatar FTW!

Thought I'd mention that. Go watch it people!

7-20-2007 @ 2:49PM

RogueJedi86 said...

The Avatar? As in "Avatar: The Last Airbender"? That anime rip-off? Boo if it got nominated.

7-20-2007 @ 2:49PM

Urthona said...

Avatar: The Last Airbender?

The one where nearly everyone's a hairless Pandaren shaman?

7-20-2007 @ 3:25PM

Sam said...

Yay Avatar!

7-20-2007 @ 3:27PM

JournalisticIntegrity said...

And yet ANOTHER post that shows up here a day after it shows up on LJ... you guys really need to start paying these people that do your work for you.

7-20-2007 @ 3:38PM

James said...

Hairless Pandaren Shamans...now that is a guild name.

7-20-2007 @ 4:03PM

Olympus said...

This is a little note about the SP episode that won an emmy. That Episode, "Best Friends Forever" was a parody of the Terry Schiavo fiasco that occured around the time of the episode being made. Like all South Park episodes that are about current events, they use a clever medium, in this case, a PSP Game and Kenny, to convey their true message about the current event in question.

7-20-2007 @ 4:44PM

The Cannabis Connoisseur said...

How do you kill that which has no life?

7-21-2007 @ 4:00AM

Avonturier said...

The episode was funny, but I didn't find it that special. This Emmy is just part of the whole virtual worlds hype that is going on these days.

7-21-2007 @ 8:52AM

jess said...

This could be the first time Machinma ever got nominated for an Emmy. Interesting!

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