Recurring South Park characters

There are many recurring characters in the animated series South Park, aside from the four main characters, Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Kenny McCormick. Butters Stotch and Tweek replaced Kenny for a half season each during the sixth season. See their respective articles for details.

Misc

Mr. Hankey

Mr. Hankey, the "Christmas Poo," is the scatological counterpart to Santa Claus but with the light-hearted flair of 60's-era Rankin & Bass holiday specials. He emerges from the toiletbowl on Christmas Eve and brings presents to boys and girls with high fiber diets. Mr. Hankey has appeared in at least three Christmas episodes, and inspired an actual retail CD (Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics) in which he has his own theme song. In one episode he departed from the Christmas theme to drive a snooty annual ('anal' according to Mr. Garrison) film festival out of town with a tornado made of sewage. His trademark line is "Howwwwww-dy ho!"

Related Topics:
Scatological - Santa Claus - Mr. Garrison

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Big Gay Al

Big Gay Al is a stereotyped gay man. He runs an animal farm for gay animals who have been rejected by homophobic pet owners. He also appeared in ', entertaining U.S. troops. He sang the song 'I'm Super' whilst the kids tried to free Terrance and Phillip. He was banned as a boy scouts leader for being homosexual, to be replaced by a 'macho man' who took nude photographs of the children.

Related Topics:
Stereotype - Gay - Homophobic - Boy scouts - Macho - Nude - Photograph

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Mr. Slave

Mr. Slave is the former gay lover and sex slave of teacher Mr. Garrison. Mr. Slave was first introduced as a replacement for Mr. Garrison's beloved hand-puppet Mr. Hat. Mr. Slave has been known to insert animals into his anus as in the episode 'The Death Camp of Tolerance' in which a gerbil named Lemmiwinks must travel through Mr. Slave's digestive system with the help of the spirits of other animals who perished there. In 'Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset', Paris Hilton suffers an identical fate. Mr. Slave is no longer Mr. Garrison's lover after episode 901 Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina, Mr. Slave states that he doesn't like vaginas because he is gay.

Related Topics:
Sex slave - Lemmiwinks - Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina

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Jimbo and Ned

Stan's uncle Jimbo Kerns (who is presumably Sharon's brother) and his sidekick Ned Gerblansky represent South Park's large population of stereotypical "hicks". They are obsessed with large trucks, beer, guns, explosions, and killing animals. They detest "liberals" and circumvent anti-hunting laws by yelling "it's coming right for us!" before shooting any animal, thereby justifying the kill as self defense.

Related Topics:
Sidekick - Hick - Truck - Beer - Gun - Hunting

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Jimbo and Ned met while in the Vietnam War, where Jimbo was a helicopter pilot. During the war, Ned lost his right arm when a hand grenade exploded in his hand. Ned also lost his voice due to cancer, and is forced to speak with an electronic voicebox.

Related Topics:
Vietnam War - Helicopter - Pilot - Hand grenade - Cancer - Electronic voicebox

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It has been implied that Jimbo is a homosexual, as he was able to say the word "fag" without being bleeped, a feat only permissible for gay characters by Comedy Central standards.

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Officer Barbrady

Until the seventh season, Officer Barbrady was the town's only policeman. Since then, he has led the South Park police force particularly ineptly. The police force motto on his squad car is, "To Patronize and Annoy." He was illiterate until forced to learn to read to solve a crime. He then read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, an experience that made him regret ever learning to read. He has a hearing aid and speaks louder than he should.

Related Topics:
Illiterate - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Hearing aid

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Mayor and aides

Mayor McDaniels is the mayor of South Park. Even though she is a Princeton University graduate, she is a largely incompetent politician and is mostly interested in getting good publicity for herself. Her two sycophantic aides usually tell her what to do.

Related Topics:
Mayor - Princeton University - Graduate - Incompetent - Politician - Sycophant

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The mayor often openly pines that she hates South Park and considers the people who live in it to be a collection of "brain-dead hicks". She hates Barbrady as well, but is largely stuck with him; however, it is implied that she and him have had some secret, rather unusual liasions together (in Pinkeye and Summer Sucks). It is sometimes implied that she is a closet lesbian.

Related Topics:
Brain-dead - Hick - Pinkeye - Summer Sucks - Lesbian

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In the episode 902, Die Hippie, Die, she attempted to commit suicide by shooting herself in the head, but was later shown in that same episode with a bloody bandage around her head.

Related Topics:
Die Hippie, Die - Suicide

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Dr. Mephisto and Kevin

Dr. Alphonse Mephisto is a stereotyped mad scientist, who specialises in genetic engineering, and like Frankenstein, proceeds to create strange creatures without stopping to consider whether he should. Dr. Mephisto is based on Marlon Brando's character in the 1996 movie version of "The Island of Dr. Moreau".

Related Topics:
Dr - Mephisto - Mad scientist - Genetic engineering - Frankenstein - 1996 - The Island of Dr. Moreau

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He often seems interested in genetically engineering creatures with more than one anus - an apparent parody of the (real world) creation of a mouse with a human ear growing from its back http://www.nyc24.org/2002/issue04/story04/page2.asp.

Related Topics:
Anus - Mouse

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He is a member of NAMBLA, the 'North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes'.

Related Topics:
NAMBLA - Marlon Brando - Look Alikes

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He is often followed by a short odd looking man/boy-person named Kevin, wearing the same clothes as Dr. Mephisto. He quietly follows Mephisto as if he is an assistant, though he rarely assists with anything, and never speaks. It was revealed in Primus's song "Mephisto and Kevin" that Kevin was an experiment to create the perfect pop star, a clone of Michael Jackson that was birthed by a llama. He has a sweet, golden voice that was never heard in the show. In the Spontaneous Combustion episode, Dr. Mephisto complains (mentioning the name Kevin) that the Nobel Prize awards were rigged when he came out 2nd, after Randy Marsh, with his genetically engineered seven-assed Galápagos turtle.

Related Topics:
Primus - Clone - Michael Jackson - Llama - Spontaneous Combustion episode - Nobel Prize - Galápagos - Turtle

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In the Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut story arc, Mephisto agrees to test several of the men in South Park to find out who Cartman's father was; both he and Kevin were actually potential fathers, along with nearly every other adult male in town.

Related Topics:
Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut - Story arc

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Towelie

Towelie is a sophisticated, high tech towel. His action is mostly limited to giving towel advice ('Don't forget to bring a towel', a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and getting high. Although proclaimed by Cartman to be the "worst character ever," he became instantly popular with South Park fans. He is often quoted, and Comedy Central was quick to release Towelie merchandise.

Related Topics:
Towel - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - High

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Quote: You wanna get high?

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Halfie

A disheveled, legless Army veteran, possibly mentally disturbed or shell-shocked. He claimed to be the man responsible for serial sexual assaults on chickens in the "Chicken Lover" episode. Mr. Garrison replied, "Oh, you can't screw anybody, Halfie; you don't have any legs!" This is also given as the reason why Halfie is one of few men in South Park who hasn't slept with Cartman's mom.

Related Topics:
Shell-shocked - Sexual assault

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Priest Maxi

Priest Maxi is a Catholic priest who serves as the mouthpiece for South Park's Christian community. He is a narrow-minded and intolerant man who is convinced most people are going to be damned to Hell, often for trivial offenses. In one episode he bluntly claimed that Timmy would go to Hell, since Timmy cannot confess his sins, as he cannot speak anything fluently.

Related Topics:
Catholic - Intolerant - Hell - Confess his sins

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Despite his character flaws, it was he who, in one episode, unearthed the massive corruption behind the many church-related sexual assaults and forced the Catholic Church to stop letting priests molest young boys, even though he performed adultery in a confession booth himself.

Related Topics:
Corruption - Sexual assault - Catholic Church - Priest - Adultery

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He also seems to know very little about religion - once, when seeing Jesus, he exclaimed "Hey, it's that guy from Public Access!"

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Much like Principal Victoria, his inverted name is a reference to singer Maxi Priest. In the Hellsing manga, the somewhat unstable leader of the Catholic secret orginization Iscariot, is named Maxwell; Maxie or Maxi is a nickname that could be related. Like many men in SP, he's a great fan of the Denver Broncos.

Related Topics:
Maxi Priest - Fan - Denver Broncos

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Terrance and Phillip

See Terrance and Phillip

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City Wok

City Wok is a Chinese restaurant, apparently the only one of its kind in South Park. The restaurant first appeared in episode #601: Jared Has Aides. The word "city" appears often in the restaurant, its entreés and in the owners' dialogue (the joke being that his accent makes the word "city" sound like "shitty").

Related Topics:
Wok - Chinese restaurant

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City Wok also doubles as the airline company City Airlines, which took Kyle and his friends to Canada (episode #715: It's Christmas in Canada) so they could retrieve Kyle's adoptive brother Ike.

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City Wok is managed and operated by Tuong Lu Kim. He has also constructed a city wall (obviously fashioned after the Great Wall of China) for South Park, per the request of parents who wanted to protect their children from being kidnapped (episode #611: Child Abduction is not Funny). Like its Chinese counterpart, the wall faced constant invasion from Mongols. He is married to a Chinese woman named Wing, fashioned after and played by the singer; she was smuggled into the country by the Chinese Mafia.

Related Topics:
Tuong Lu Kim - City wall - Great Wall of China - Kidnapped - Mongols - Wing - Chinese Mafia

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Jesus

Jesus has his own cable access show in South Park, Jesus and Pals. He has offered much sage advice to the boys, who have also discovered that all of Jesus' miracles were in fact rather clumsy sleight of hand designed to fool the gullible. However, in the sixth season Christmas episode, Red Sleigh Down, he was killed by an Iraqi soldier while protecting Santa and the boys, and has not made significant appearances since; it is unclear whether or not He was killed permanently, or simply resurrected Himself and will appear in a later episode.

Related Topics:
Jesus - Cable access - Jesus and Pals - Miracle - Sleight of hand

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Satan

In addition to Jesus, Satan the Prince of Darkness is also often seen on South Park, though he actually lives in one of the few places worse than the town (Hell). Apparently, Satan on South Park is gay, though he also has a son named Damien as well. Satan has had relationships with Saddam Hussein, most particularly in ' and the fourth-season religious story arc. He also had a boyfriend named Chris afterwards, but left both of them in an attempt to find himself. He later seemed to have a boyfriend named Kevin, but broke up with him too.

Related Topics:
Satan - Hell - Gay - Damien - Saddam Hussein - Fourth-season religious story arc

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Satan has tried on at least three occasions ("Damien," "SP:BLU" and "Best Friends Forever?" to take over Earth and/or Heaven, but has yet to succeed. Nevertheless he is often a sympathetic character, his romantic problems getting more airtime than his plans for evil. Often he seems to be playing the role of a tough guy, though in reality he is lonely and depressed inside.

Related Topics:
Best Friends Forever? - Heaven

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Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein is also a repetitive character on South Park, though his biography on the show does not parallel the real dictator's life very well---according to the show, Saddam died a while back (in "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus"; however in later episodes, different versions of his death are retold) and went to hell, where he started a homosexual relationship with Satan (see above). However, Satan, being more sensative than one would think, was hurt by Saddam's constant emotional abuse and downtalking, and Saddam was really more interested in using Satan as a way to return to Earth than in love (see '). Satan eventually killed Saddam, which of course only caused him to go back to Hell, and after some drama involving Satan's new lover, Chris (see Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?/Probably, Saddam was sent to Heaven, inhabited only by the souls of sanctimonious Mormons, which was a torture worse than Hell for him.

Related Topics:
Saddam Hussein - Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus - Homosexual - Satan - Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?/Probably - Heaven - Mormon

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When Saddam began to be in the news during the lead-up to the Second Gulf War, South Park creators had to tinker with their storyline to make a good parody. In "Ladder to Heaven", the American government suspects Saddam of making WMDs in Heaven and plan to invade; they eventually give up, yet it is revealed that actually they were right, Saddam had made a weapons factory in the sky. Finally, in "Christmas in Canada"---which originally aired only three days after the real Saddam Hussein was captured---South Park featured an episode where Saddam was found, somehow on Earth, in Canada and captured---he has not been seen since.

Related Topics:
Second Gulf War - Ladder to Heaven - WMD - Christmas in Canada

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Dr. Doctor

Dr. Doctor, the only doctor in South Park and at Hells Pass Hospital, often treats the kids of South Park after bullying. In his diagnosis, he often uses the kids' slang terms to describe their injuries such as "second-degree titty twister" (See List of school pranks).

Related Topics:
Bully - Diagnosis - Slang - List of school pranks

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He is entirely incompetent as a doctor and in the film ' he replaced Kenny's heart with a baked potato; a reference to a song in Cannibal! The Musical.

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Farmer Carl Denkins

Denkins is a farmer, who lives just outside South Park. He shot and killed Scott Tenorman's parents for trespassing on his property. In episode 605 Fun with Veal, he was known as Ranger Bob. In the early episodes, his chicken fell prey to the chicken lover, his cows were mutilated by aliens and performed a mass suicide.

Related Topics:
Farmer - Chicken - Cow - Mutilated - Alien - Suicide

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Sergeant Yates

Sgt. Harrison Yates is an inept police officer who first appeared in the 7th season episode "Christian Rock Hard", showing the boys what happens to musicians when people download music for free from the Internet. His first main role is when Michael Jackson (disguised as Mr. Jefferson) moves into South Park. Yates basically hates any black man wealthier than himself and frames him —as Mark Fuhrman was accused of doing to O.J. Simpson— but becomes freaked out when he realizes "Mr. Jefferson" is "white". He reappears in "Cartman's Incredible Gift" investigating the "serial killer" where he is the stupid cop that believes Cartman is psychic. He seemed to replace Officer Barbrady for most of the eighth season, but the other reappeared in the seventh. His wife, Maggie, speaks with an Irish accent.

Related Topics:
Police - Internet - Michael Jackson - Mark Fuhrman - O.J. Simpson - Serial killer - Psychic - Irish accent

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Skylar

Skylar is a 22 year old high schooler and a member of the group Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld (previously just the Lords of the Underworld), before leaving to form his own band called Reach For The Skylar after Timmy got all the acclaim. He has quite a high-pitched voice, is very immature for his age, and is often remarked to be a total douchebag. In one famous episode, he dates Shelly Marsh, Stan's 12 year old sister, and her revenge against him for dumping her is aided by Cartman, which brings the two as friends.

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Mr Twig

Frequenty forgotten 3rd Mr Garrison friend, replacing Mr Hat for a short time when they had a falling out. Mr Hat wasn't happy with Mr Garrison for not admitting he was gay so he changed to Mr Twig who understood him more. Mr Twig was eventually killed by Mr Hat!

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