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.

Butters has been in the show since the beginning, though initally only as a background character. He was later adopted by Stan, Kyle and Cartman as their fourth friend when Kenny died (semi-)permanently. Later, the three boys decided that they didn't like Butters very much and chose Tweek to "fill the void" instead.

Butters is generally much nicer, more innocent and more gullible than the four main characters. He has a bit of a stutter and a southern accent. He is an only child and his parents, Chris 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.

In his own episode (simply titled Butters' Very Own Episode), Butters discovers that his father is a closet homosexual who has been visiting gay bath houses and having sex with random men. When Butters' mother finds out she goes mad and, after painting the entire house (and Butters) green, she plots to kill Butters and then herself. Throughout the whole of this, Butters is entirely oblivious to things, even when his mother locks him in the car and rolls it into a lake in an attempt to drown him à la Susan Smith.

Butters is easily tricked and was once persuaded to purchase tampons for Stan's sister Shelly by losing a game called "If your name is 'Butters', you have to go".

Butters was often referred to as "a little pussy" and the boys get him to do anything for them—often getting Butters grounded in the process. The boys made him go on the Maury Povich show with fake testicles attached to his chin.

Butters was the first to mature and give a "semen sample."

Butters' alter ego is Professor Chaos, a supervillain or mad scientist he became when the boys dumped him. He spreads chaos with his sidekick and his minions (his pet hamsters).

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 choses 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.

In episode #607, "Simpsons Already Did It", Butters devises a series of supposedly original evil plots, only to abandon each of them after General Disarray informs him that they have already been used on The Simpsons. He is later consoled by the reassurance this is only because the show has run so long, not his own lack of creativity.

In the episode episode #801, "Good Times with Weapons", Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny acquire ninja weapons at a fair. They are then turned into anime-style ninjas. Butters wants to play with them, but they don't allow him to. Butters then becomes Professor Chaos and has a "ninja fight" with the gang. Kenny throws a ninja star into Butters' eye.

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.

Butters was previously a tap dancing champion, but quit after his dancing caused a freak accident resulting in the death of eight audience members (11 if you count the pregnant woman's baby and the two familial suicides). After a two-year hiatus, he tries again, killing six more.

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 naïve. 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.

A common running joke is the song Butters sings, "Lu lu lu, I've got some apples, Lu lu lu, You've got some too." Butters is usually interrupted before he can continue the song. Another of his frequent catchphrases is an exclamation of "aw, hamburgers!" to signify defeat.es:Leopold "Butters" Stotch