Around Azeroth: The plan
Was all of Wrath of the Lich King designed while watching Comedy Central and Adult Swim? New death knights need to kill Mayor Quimby, some mobs drop ground gears (a probable Family Guy reference), and now the gnomes in the Borean Tundra are stealing their plans from South Park. The Wrath questlines are beginning to strongly resemble my DVD collection. Anyway, Namus of Korialstrasz noticed this master plan on the wall of an oil derrick in the geyser fields of Northrend. My question is, why do you even need Step 2? Oil rigs are a great way to profit. At least until the mechagnomes come.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
8-22-2008 @ 10:25AM
Thornz said...
All hail the underpants gnomes!!!
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8-22-2008 @ 10:41AM
Saiforune said...
"New death knights need to kill Mayor Quimby, some mobs drop ground gears (a probable Family Guy referenence), "
I'm sorry but family guy's mayor is Mayor west as in Adam west.
Mayor quimpy is a simpsons reference.
So fix please! =D
(AND WOW I DIDN'T INSULT ANYONE IN THIS POST OMG!)
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8-22-2008 @ 10:43AM
Saiforune said...
Even if you read the Wowhead link's comments it's said there.
Sorry the insult could have been a lot worse imo.
8-22-2008 @ 11:14AM
pudds said...
"New death knights need to kill Mayor Quimby, some mobs drop ground gears (a probable Family Guy referenence)"
"A probable family guy reference" refers to "some mobs drop ground gears", not Mayor Quimby.
8-22-2008 @ 11:20AM
Blackhorn said...
Nobody suggested Quimby was from Family Guy. The ground gears are. Peter had a segment on the local news called "You know what really grinds my gears?"
8-22-2008 @ 11:21AM
Cowbane said...
I think he's saying the ground gears are a probable family guy reference, not the mayor part, he even gives a link to the Family Guy episode where Peter get s a job doing a segment called "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?"
8-22-2008 @ 10:48AM
Robert M said...
I don't mind the pop culture references, but Blizz has told us this is a return to Azeroth and all it's lore. Sometimes it feels like they are so busy trying to be cute that they forget about the storylines.
Ask anyone what they rememeber about Nagrand? I'd bet most remember the Nesingwary quests and not the storylines involved with the ogres and broken even though they are more relevant to the overall storyline of the game.
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8-22-2008 @ 11:49AM
Cookie McWeaksauce said...
I willfully forgot about the Nesingwary quests as soon as I completed them.
/shudder
The ogre stuff was kinda nifty, if simple. I don't remember the Broken getting a whole lot of actual development in Nagrand, but then, they were never all that interesting to me, anyway.
8-22-2008 @ 10:49AM
Guido666 said...
1. Steal underpants.
2. ???
3. Profit.
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8-22-2008 @ 2:50PM
perseus said...
Why does every nerd in the internet say that kind of things?
8-22-2008 @ 10:49AM
Doffencrag said...
Um... the "probable Family Guy reference" is referring to the ground gears. Not Mayor Quimby. I think they added the "probably Family Guy reference" to clarify the pop culture reference of ground gears.
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8-22-2008 @ 10:50AM
Doffencrag said...
And, of course, the commenting system puts this separately, instead of as a reply to Saiforune.
8-22-2008 @ 10:53AM
Robert M said...
Ii think the commas are a way of seperating the references
"New death knights need to kill Mayor Quimby, (Simpson)
some mobs drop ground gears (a probable Family Guy referenence),
and now the gnomes in the Borean Tundra are stealing their plans from South Park."
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8-22-2008 @ 11:45AM
Raze said...
My God. The pop culture references are getting fucking WORSE.
Let's hope they realize the obnoxious fever pitch they're reaching and tone it down come next expansion.
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8-22-2008 @ 9:19PM
Balasan said...
People use pop culture references because it's funny.
So...
Get a sense of humour?
8-22-2008 @ 12:09PM
Abies said...
The concept of a list where the last-but-one step is "????" and the last one is "Profit!" is not from South Park, it is a much, much older internet meme.
It has been in use on, for example, slashdot.org for a long time.
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8-22-2008 @ 2:29PM
Nate said...
Except it is from South Park and any Slashdot, Digg, 4chan, ... references are to the South Park episode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes#The_Gnomes
8-22-2008 @ 12:52PM
Craig Ostriyznick said...
So what happens to my char named Mayorquimby... is everyone going to be trying to kill me???
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8-22-2008 @ 2:30PM
lfnotter said...
Hehe - That picture sounds like McCain's energy policy in action.
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8-22-2008 @ 9:51PM
MichelleMuhBell said...
lmao.
WIN!