Butters Stotch

Leopold "Butters" Stotch, voiced by Matt Stone, is a fictional character in the animated TV series South Park. His nickname is a play on the word butterscotch.

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Matt Stone - South Park - Nickname - Play on the word - Butterscotch

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Butters has been in the show since the beginning, though initially only as a background character who never spoke and was refered to in scripts as "Swanson." He was renamed and properly introduced in the Season 3 episode Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub. He was later adopted by Stan, Kyle and Cartman as their fourth friend when Kenny died permanently in the sixth season. Later, the three boys decided that they didn't like Butters very much and chose Tweek to "fill the void" instead (ultimately, Kenny was "resurrected" by the end of the season, and re-claimed his place amongst his friends).

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Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub - Stan - Kyle - Cartman - Kenny - Tweek

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Butters is generally much nicer, more innocent and more gullible than the four main characters; unlike nearly all South Park characters, he rarely curses, but instead uses words that sound like curse words ("Aw, hamburgers!" or "Son of a biscuit!", for example). He has a bit of a stutter and a southern accent. He is an only child and his parents, Chris (or Stephen; various names are used) and Lynda Stotch, are very strict. This has evidently affected poor Butters as he often tells himself off when his parents are not around to do it ("Why, I oughta learn to control my behavior! I should be ashamed of myself.") He is scared of his father, whom he is obliged to respectfully refer to as "Sir", in contrast to the other unruly children, such as Cartman, who give their parents little or no respect.

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Stutter - Southern accent

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The South Park creators have been quoted as enjoying the subtle interactions between Butters and Cartman as their favourite part of the show. From the Casa Bonita episode where Cartman convinces our hero that a meteor is about to hit the Earth just so he (Cartman) can go for dinner, through to the much more intricate "AWESOM-O" and The Death of Eric Cartman situations...

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Cartman - Casa Bonita - "AWESOM-O" - The Death of Eric Cartman

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Butters' alter ego is Professor Chaos, a Doctor Doom style supervillain/mad scientist he became when the boys dumped him. He spreads chaos with his sidekick General Disarray and his minions (his pet hamsters). Butters' Professor Chaos costume is construted mostly of lightly crumpled aluminum foil. In "Good Times with Weapons," we can see that he visualises the costume as being much more impressive.

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Alter ego - Doctor Doom - Supervillain - Mad scientist - Sidekick - Hamster - Aluminum foil - Good Times with Weapons

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Early in his career as Professor Chaos, Butters was successful at bringing chaos to his fourth grade classroom when he stole the erasers from the chalkboard. During the process of changing into his Professor Chaos costume Butters was discovered by Dougie. Dougie chose to join Butters as his sidekick, General Disarray, after being eliminated in the boys' quest to find a new fourth member. Together, Professor Chaos and General Disarray hatched evil plots that included trying to flood the world with a garden hose and destroying the ozone layer with aerosol spray.

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Flood - Ozone layer - Aerosol

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Butters has a tuft of yellow hair, and wears a light blue jacket with green pants. His birthday is on September 11. He is loosely based on South Park director of animation Eric Stough.

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September 11 - Eric Stough

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Despite always being picked on by the other boys, (mostly Eric Cartman), and his bad luck, Butters keeps a generally optimistic attitude toward life. This may be because he acts very naïvely. However, Butters delivers a rather convincing speech on why he loves life in episode #714, "Raisins". Though it seems no good can ever come to Butters, some poetic justice finally occurs when Eric Cartman is forced to keep himself disguised as a robot in an attempt to retrieve a video Butters has of him dressed like Britney Spears (episode #802, "AWESOME-O"). Enduring life with Butters is complete torture for Cartman, who had originally planned to use his disguise to exploit Butters' gullibility. Cartman is ultimately unsuccessful, when he exposes himself by farting, and Butters shows the video to everyone. A similar cliched "young boy-strange friend" parody occurs in the episode "The Death of Eric Cartman," where both Cartman and Butters believe Cartman has died and is a ghost that only Butters can see; at the end of the episode, when Cartman discovers that he is alive and others were actually just ignoring him, he freaks out and screams at Butters, swearing revenge for what was in no way the poor boy's fault.

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Episode #714 - Britney Spears - The Death of Eric Cartman

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Butters is, or at least was, quite a talented tap dancer, but his fondness for dancing was cut short at the State Tap Dancing Championships when Butters tap dancing set off a chain of reactions leading to the death of nine people. This freak accident has left Butters quite scarred, although this isn't immediantly apparent. In the same episode he is furtherly terrified as his tap shoe once again shot and lead to the death of five people.

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A common running joke is the song Butters sings, "Loo loo loo, I've got some apples, Loo loo loo, You've got some too." Butters is usually interrupted before he can continue the song, but when he does get the opportunity to finish the song, he continues with either, "Loo loo loo, Let's make some applesauce, Take off our clothes and Loo loo loo," or alternatively, "Loo loo loo, Let's get together, I know what we can do, Loo loo." He also seems indordinately fond of the Chicago song "If You Leave Me Now." Another of his frequent catchphrases is an exclamation of "aw, hamburgers!" to signify defeat.

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In the episode "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", Paris Hilton offers Butters's parents $200 million for him, because all of her pets have committed suicide. She passes out on Butter's bed while the two of them wait for Butters' parents' decision and Butters again shows his naïveté by touching Hilton's vagina, believing it to be an animal that lives down her pants.

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Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset - Paris Hilton - Vagina

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"Butters' Very Own Episode" was focused on Butters' home life, and included its own theme song dedicated to Butters. Butters follows his father one night when he presumes that his dad is purchasing an anniversary present for his mother, Lynda. Instead, his dad is seen entering a gay bathhouse. Butters tells his mother, who is driven insane from the shock and subsequently tries to kill Butters by submerging her car with Butters still inside. Butters, oblivous to her intentions, sails downstream in the car, exits, and makes his way to South Park encouraged by the fact that he and his family are going to Bennigan's on the following night to celebrate his parents' anniversary. He prompts his parents (who had covered up Lynda's mistake by claiming Butters was kidnapped by some Puerto Rican guy) to tell the truth and so they reveal to the press Butters' dad's homosexuality and her intentions to murder Butters. Butters, not realizing this, is scarred even further, despite eating dinner at Bennigans that night.

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Butters' Very Own Episode - Theme song - Gay bathhouse - Bennigan's - Puerto Rican

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In "The Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers" episode, which parodies The Lord of the Rings, Butters takes on the role of Gollum. When he inadvertently views a pornography tape and the South Park kids take it away , he refers to the tape as "precious," and chases after the tape the way Gollum chased the One Ring. Eventually he falls into a box of video tapes going after the "precious", as Gollum fell into the fires of Mount Doom (though Butters, of course, survived).

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The Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers - The Lord of the Rings - Gollum - One Ring - Mount Doom

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