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| Kenneth \'Kenny\' McCormick | |
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| Age: | 9 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Blond |
| Job: | Student |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| First appearance: | Cartman Gets an Anal Probe |
| Voiced by: | Matt Stone Mike Judge (film)FAQ Archives. South Park Studios. Retrieved on 2008-02-09. |
Kenny McCormick, voiced by Matt Stone, is one of the five (originally four) central characters of South Park, the four others being Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and in recent seasons, Butters Stotch. He is notorious for dying and resurrecting again nearly every week during the first five seasons of the show. Since his reappearance after being "permanently dead", he dies much less often.
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Kenny wears an orange hooded parka, orange trousers, and brown mittens or gloves. He has been shown to wear a white tee-shirt under his parka. Underneath his hood he has blond hair, which looks very similar to that of another South Park character, Tweek. Kenny is also easily recognized for almost always wearing his orange hood over his head (although he does remove it during the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and in episodes, "The Jeffersons", and "Lice Capades"). He is also briefly seen without the hood in "The Losing Edge" and "Lil Crime Stoppers". He is also pulled out of his parka during the episode "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000". Also, when he is pulled out of the water in "Super Best Friends", it is revealed that he died without his parka on and his face is seen. It would seem that his parka was made from pieces of his bedroom curtains, as in the episode "Quintuplets 2000", when Kenny is practicing opera singing, we see his curtains in the background. They are of orange material, and a huge part of one is missing.
Due to his hood, which covers his mouth and nose, all of his lines are mumbled, and are usually such that they\'d be censored if they weren\'t. For example, he can be heard under his mumbling to be saying actual words, such as "I\'ve had enough of this bullshit!" after Stan pointed out that Kyle was going to die but not showing much distress when Kenny dies or exclaiming "Holy shit, her tits are fucking huge", upon seeing their new Fourth Grade teacher Ms. Choksondik in the episode "Fourth Grade". People who meet him initially have difficulty understanding what he was saying, occasionally needing his friends to translate for him, although those who know him well, such as other residents of South Park, have learned to understand him. In "Good Times with Weapons" and "Starvin\' Marvin", he has been shown to have blue eyes.
Kenny comes from a poor, violent, and alcoholized family.Kenny McCormick. South Park Studios. Retrieved on 2008-02-08. His friends, especially Eric Cartman, often tease him for his poverty.
Kenny likes toilet humor and pornography, and is more sexually knowledgeable than the rest of the boys. In the episode "Rainforest Schmainforest" (1999), Kenny has a girlfriend named Kelly.
In a running gag for the five first seasons of the show, Kenny died in almost every episode. This was often followed by the catchphrase "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" "You bastards!", usually said by Stan and Kyle, or some variation of it. He "permanently" died in the episode "Kenny Dies" (2001), and was taken off the show, with the creators confirming that they had killed the character for good.Kaplan, Don (April 8, 2002). South Park Won\'t Kill Kenny Anymore. FOX News. Retrieved on 2008-02-08. Despite of this, Kenny returned to the show less than one year later, first as a spirit possessing Cartman in "A Ladder to Heaven", then as his old self in "Red Sleigh Down". Kenny still dies in some episodes, most recently in "The List" (2007),Trechak, Brad (November 15, 2007). South Park: The List. TV Squad. Retrieved on 2008-02-08. but far less regularly than he did before "Kenny Dies".
Besides the South Park show, Kenny has made appearances in other South Park media, including the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999), and South Park videogames. Early versions of the character appeared in the Parker and Stone cartoons "The Spirit of Christmas [Jesus vs. Frosty]" (1992) and "The Spirit of Christmas [Jesus vs. Santa]" (1995).
In the book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, there is an article about Kenny, by Southern Illinois University philosophy professor Dr. Randall Auxier, entitled "Killing Kenny: Our Daily Dose of Death."Staff. "Philosophy Speaker Presents "Killing Kenny: Our Daily Dose of Death"", GMC Journal, Green Mountain College, February 5, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
Kenny\'s deaths and the "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" catchphrase is well known in popular culture, and has appeared on various pieces of merchandise, from T-shirts to guitar straps (like the one used by The Police guitarist Andy Summers), and inspired the rap song "Kenny\'s Dead" by Master P.
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| South Park characters | |
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| Main characters (The Boys) | Eric Cartman · Stan Marsh · Kyle Broflovski · Kenny McCormick |
| Other major characters | Butters Stotch · Chef · Mrs. Garrison |
| Family members | Gerald and Sheila Broflovski · Ike Broflovski · Jimbo Kern · Stuart and Carol McCormick · Liane Cartman · Randy and Sharon Marsh · Stephen and Linda Stotch · Others |
| Recurring characters | Jesus · Saddam Hussein · Satan · Terrance and Phillip |
| Others | School children · Townsfolk · School staff · Families · Minor characters · Fictional species |
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