Behind the scenes of “Guitar Queer-O”

South Park is gaining quite a reputation with gaming-related episodes lately. The comedy series made waves with its “Make Love, Not Warcraft” episode, featured the Wii prominently in another episode last year, and just last night, debuted “Guitar Queer-O”, which pokes fun at the wildly popular music series.

According to the South Park production blog, the show hit pretty close to home for the self-confessed “nerds” who serve as production assistants:

“Tonight’s episode is all about the game Guitar Hero, which is a subject I’ve talked about before in the production blog. For those who don’t know games or live under a rock, Guitar Hero is a video game that simulates being a rockstar, complete with guitar shaped controller and imaginary fans. GH is especially near and dear to our hearts because it:

It allows you to pretend you’re cool.

It makes you think you might actually have some skill at playing guitar.

Girls don’t hate it.”

But it gets much funnier:

“Which is why tonight’s episode is a sobering experience. After watching it come together I feel like maybe we flew a little too close to the nerdy sun with Guitar Hero. Maybe we should take a step back and look at the dark side of being a Guitar Hero:

More often than not, a dude who pulls out a guitar looks and behaves like a total douche. We’ve all seen it before: some jerk trying to impress the ladies with his badass skills banging out Coldplay as hard as he can. Ugh.

Well, imagine that douche . . . now take away the guitar and replace it with a plastic video game controller. We’re even worse than that loser, because we’re pretending to be him, all the while tapping our feet and clicking our fingers with the same proud idiocy that the real-life jerk performs with.”

Considered yourselves warned, Guitar Hero-wannabes.

Site [South Park Blog] Via [Kotaku]