Kenny McCormick

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Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick, voiced by Matt Stone and Mike Judge, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. He is one of the four central characters, all of whom are eight-year old boys, and is famous for dying in nearly every episode.

He is well-known for almost always wearing his orange parka. Due to his hood, which covers his mouth and nose, all of his lines are mumbled, and are often such that they'd be censored if they weren't.

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Character

Kenny has a colorful sense of humor and a perverted mind, and appears to be more sexually aware than his friends. He is frequently the only character who knows the meaning of various sexual terminology and slang, and his bedroom is decorated with posters of bikini clad women. Kenny's muffled lines in the South Park theme song refer entirely to sexual subjects:

I like girls with big fat titties; I like girls with big vaginas.

In season 3, this changed to:

I have got a ten inch penis; Use your mouth if you wanna clean it.

Kenny took a break for the 6th season but returned for the 7th with:

It took a time, but hear me talking? Lick my dick and lick it fast.

As of 2005, Kenny's opening credits phrase is:

Soon I will be old enough to stick my dick in Britney's butt.

Kenny's un-muffled voice sounds like a slightly higher-pitched version of Stan. In the movie Kenny’s voice was performed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill. In the Season 8 episode The Jeffersons, Kenny's voice was performed by Matt Stone.

Kenny's family is extremely poor, with his father an alcoholic, and his friends (especially Eric Cartman) often tease him about it. Despite these problems, Kenny is often portrayed as the hero of the group; indeed, several of his deaths have been acts of heroic self-sacrifice.

Visual appearance

Image:Kenny unhood.jpg Kenny almost always wears an orange hooded anorak with brown gloves (although he does remove it during the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and in episodes #504 "Super Best Friends", #706 "Lil' Crime Stoppers", #807 "The Jeffersons" and #905 "The Losing Edge".). Underneath his hood he has blonde hair, which looks very similar to that of another South Park character, Tweek.

Geometrically, the shape of the portion of Kenny 's face visible through his hood is almost a lens, although the arcs are either elliptical or parabolic rather than circular. This gives the face a squashed look, as does the use of an ellipse rather than a circle for the lip of the hood. The dark areas to either sides of the face are lunes.

It has not been widely noted, but it is possible that he is dressed in this way to make him appear like a vulva or venus symbol (♀). It has also been noted that his body is very similar in shape to an ankh, which goes along with the theme of reincarnation that is present in the character - see also Anorankh.

Death

Kenny is most famous for dying in nearly every episode, often followed by a cry of "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" and "You bastards!" from his friends Stan and Kyle. In the earlier seasons, usually right after his death, rats show up, start nibbling on the body and carry off body parts. In the Succubus episode #303 Kenny even dies twice: first when the boys are waiting for Chef to come play baseball, then the next day when he is squashed by the Succubus during Chef's wedding.

Matt Stone & Trey Parker tried to kill him off for a year (he died in the "Hell's Pass Hospital" of a muscle disease) and replaced him first with Butters and then Tweek. During the 2002 Christmas episode Kenny returned after being trapped inside Cartman. Cartman had mistakenly made chocolate milk from Kenny's ashes while the boys were searching Kenny's house for tickets, entrusted to Kenny, to a candy shopping spree. During the following season, he seemed to have lost his bad luck and didn't die anymore. Kenny's lucky streak ended during the 2003 Christmas episode ("It's Christmas in Canada").

Throughout the series, many of Kenny's deaths have been described as "senseless," only serving as cheap amusement until he really died in season five. Contrast that to one of the unwritten rules of Hollywood that children cannot die violently on the screen. The satire is very apparent, considering that Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 movie) would've gotten the politically incorrect X rating if the infamous girl shooting scene was not cut out. However, in the March 30th, 2005 episode, Best Friends Forever, Kenny was the first in South Park to get a Sony PSP and the first in the world to reach level sixty; he died early in the episode to command Heaven's armies in the final battle against Satan (in the episode he is frequently likened or referred to as Keanu Reeves). His death is not permanent, however, and he is revived, but in a persistent vegetative state with a feeding tube in an almost-serious spoof of the controversy surrounding the Terri Schiavo case in Florida.

Kenny's frequent deaths may be inspired by the Irish county Kilkenny, as Kenny himself is presumably Irish (or Scotish).

Ways Kenny dies

The following is a list of Kenny's deaths in each episode:

Season 1

  1. Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
    • Hit by Officer Barbrady in police cruiser chasing cows
  2. Weight Gain 4000
    • Shot by Mr. Garrison when trying to shoot Kathie Lee Gifford, which launches him into the air and is impaled on a flag pole. Ouch!
  3. Volcano
    • Shot by Ned when he drops his gun on the ground
  4. Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride
  5. An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
  6. Death
  7. Pinkeye
  8. Damien
    • Shot by Uncle Jimbo being mistaken for a rare duckbilled platypus
  9. Starvin' Marvin
    • Attacked by mutant turkeys; loses an eye in the attack
  10. Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo (he doesn't die in this episode, and in fact cheers when he sees "The End" appear onscreen with him still alive)
  11. Tom's Rhinoplasty
    • Pierced by Iraqi sword carelessly swung by Miss Ellen
  12. Mecha Streisand
  13. Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut

Season 2

  1. Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus" (doesn't appear)
  2. Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut
  3. Chickenlover
    • Crushed by falling tree during credits
  4. Ike's Wee Wee
    • Fallen into open grave and crushed by gravestone
  5. Conjoined Fetus Lady
    • Killed by overpowered dodgeball throw from Chinese opponent
  6. The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
    • Torn apart by two audience members of Jesus and Pals
  7. City on the Edge of Forever
    • Does not die in this episode, but died twice in the dream. Once he was taken away by a scary monster. Then he was killed by Fonzie motorcycle.
  8. Summer Sucks
    • Dies in a flashback when he was in preschool, holding a firecracker too long so he blows up.
    • Crushed by giant carbon pyrotechnic snake
  9. Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
    • Trampled by crowd leaving theater
  10. Chickenpox
  11. Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods
    • Spontaneously exploded due to intensity of planetarium demonstration
  12. Clubhouses
  13. Cow Days
    • Pierced by horns of the bull Cartman was riding
  14. Chef Aid
  15. Spooky Fish
    • Killed by Stan's evil fish
  16. Merry Christmas Charlie Manson
    • Shot dead by police while attempting to surrender
  17. Underpants Gnomes
    • Killed (squashed "like a bug") by a cart containing underpants
  18. Prehistoric Ice Man

Season 3

  1. Rainforest Schmainforest (he doesn't die in this episode)
    • Struck by lightning & nearly dies but is revived by his "girlfriend" Kelly. One of the only instances in the entire series where a character on the show actually attempts to help Kenny after he has died instead of simply standing and watching. In another amusing twist, before Kenny is revived, Stan and Kyle say their trademark post-Kenny-death line. Kelly, confused, asks, "Who?" (since he was struck by lightning). They sheepishly reply, "You know... they!"
  2. Spontaneous Combustion
  3. Succubus
    • 1 Dies in an unknown manner while waiting for Chef at the bus stop, miraculously revives at dawn
    • 2 Smashed to death by succubus
  4. Tweek vs. Craig
    • Caught on a drill and lands in a pile of rusty nails in crafts class
  5. Jakovasaurs
    • Killed by a bear while impersonating a deer, distracting Cartman
  6. Sexual harassment Panda
    • Pulled by magnet into giant fan
  7. Cat Orgy (he doesn't die/appear in this episode)
  8. Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub (he doesn't die/appear in this episode)
  9. Jewbilee
    • Sacrifices self to open the shell Moses is contained in; saves the Jews
  10. Chinpokomon
    • Gets a seizure from the Chinpokomon video game and spends most of the episode catatonic; explodes at the end, revealing that he was filled with rats
  11. Starvin' Marvin in Space (he doesn't die in this episode)
    • Frozen in carbonite, but isn't actually shown to die (Han Solo didn't die when frozen; it can be assumed Kenny didn't either)
  12. Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery
  13. Hooked on Monkey Phonics
    • Killed by Phonics Monkey
  14. The Red Badge of Gayness
  15. Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
  16. Are you there God - It's me, Jesus
    • Exploded due to pressure buildup from tampon stuck in ass
  17. World Wide Recorder Concert
    • Died due to massive defecation upon playing "the brown note"

Season 4

  1. Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000
    • Crushed by bricks, meant to be Cartman test dummy, after flying off sled
  2. The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000
  3. Quintuplets 2000
  4. Timmy 2000
  5. Pip (he doesn't die in this episode)
  6. Cartman Joins NAMBLA
    • Crushed by ambulance after Mr. McCormick is loaded therein
      • He is also killed in a dream, by his just born alien like brother. His parents have another child just before the credits and name him Kenny (in honour of his 'dead' brother); His father comments that this must be the 50th time this has happened (Kenny dies/another Kenny is born) his mother states this is the 52nd
  7. Cherokee Hair Tampons
    • Crushed beneath piano just after angrily leaving for home - while Stan is very upset and sobbing, because his other friend Kyle may die of kidney failure unless he gets one of Cartman's kidneys. Oops.
  8. Chef Goes Nanners
    • Explodes from gas and foam buildup when massive dose of antacid tablets (thought to be mints) is exposed to water. Everybody laughs, and Stan says,"That was a good one".
  9. Something You Can Do With Your Finger
    • Smashed by an elevator just prior to performance in the shopping mall
      • Stan's father steps in for Kenny in the performance
  10. Do the Handicapped go to Hell (he doesn't die in this episode)
    • Run over by a bus before he was able to attend confession; is revealed to be alive in next episode
  11. Probably (he doesn't die in this episode)
    • Revealed to be alive and well in Mexico; he and Cartman are left there
  12. Fourth Grade
    • Dragged and ground by Timmy's wheelchair while attempting to fix it à la Speed
  13. Trapper Keeper
    • Smashed against wall by Cartman's bedroom door. Kyle is unable to say,"You bastard" before he flees the cartman house
  14. Helen Keller - The Musical
    • Crushed by stage light, meant for Timmy's dysfunctional turkey, Gobbles
  15. Fat Camp (he doesn't die in this episode)
    • Kenny is in prison for prostitution; Cartman's replacement at fat camp takes Kenny's place and suffocates in Mrs. Crabtree's uterus. Stan:"Oh my God, they killed Kenny, sort of..."
  16. The Wacky Molestation Adventure
    • Sacrificed at "Carousel"; not shown on screen
  17. A Very Crappy Christmas
    • Run over by car
      • Death occurs in the middle of film production; Stan decides to have Kenny's character die in the film

Season 5

  1. Scott Tenorman Must Die
    • Laughs himself to death seeing Cartman's "I'm a little piggy" video
  2. It Hits The Fan
    • Vomits his intestines out just before credits. Stan: "Holy sh... poo"
  3. Cripple Fight
    • Carried off by an Eagle
  4. The Super Best Friends
    • Committs suicide by drowning himself in the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Stan says his catch phrase 3 times, using it to try and find Kyle in a massive crowd. Kyle replies twice.
  5. Terrance And Philip Behind The Blow
    • Has his arms and legs sliced off by insane Earth Day promoters, but he doesn't die
  6. Cartmanland
    • Impaled through the face with a loose beam while riding a faulty roller coaster
  7. Proper Condom Use
    • Has his face sliced in half with a boomerang by Bebe. Cartman: "Ooh, bitch!"
  8. Towelie
    • Falls into a vat of lava while trying to save the boys' Gamesphere (a parody of the Nintendo Gamecube). Kyle: "Oh my God, our Gamesphere"
  9. Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants
    • Explosion kills Kenny and his Afghanistan counterpart. Stan and Kyle's Afghan counterpart say "Oh, Allah, you killed him! You bastards!" in Farsi
  10. How To Eat With Your Butt
    • Gets run over by a motorcycle. Cartman laughs at his death
  11. The Entity
    • Shot to death by airport security for trying to board a plane with toenail clippers
  12. Here Comes The Neighborhood
    • He is seen dead in this episode, but it's never shown how he died.
  13. Kenny Dies
    • Dies of a "terminal disease"
  14. Butters' Very Own Episode
    • Kenny does not appear/die in this episode

Season 6

Since Kenny's death in 513 - Kenny Dies, he does not reappear until 617 - Red Sleigh Down (in which he is not killed).

Season 7

Since his reappearance in 617, he hasn't been subjected to dying in each episode and only dies once in season 7.

15. It's Christmas in Canada

Season 8

Since his reappearance in 617, he hasn't been subjected to dying in each episode and only dies once in season 8.

7. The Jeffersons

Season 9

Since his reappearance in 617, he hasn't been subjected to dying in each episode and has died in the two most recent episodes.

3. Wing

4. Best Friends Forever

  • He is hit by a truck and brought to heaven but is resuscitated and kept alive on a feeding tube (i.e., Terri Schiavo), which is removed and he finally dies

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