Kenny McCormick

Kenny McCormick, voiced by Matt Stone, 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.

Contents

1 Character 2 Visual appearance 3 Death 4 Ways Kenny dies 4.1 Season 1 4.2 Season 2 4.3 Season 3 4.4 Season 4 4.5 Season 5 4.6 Season 6 4.7 Season 7 4.8 Season 8 4.9 Season 9 4.10 Episodes in which Kenny doesn't die

Character

Kenny has a colorful sense of humor and a perverted mind, and appears to be more sexually mature 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 to help me clean it.

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

Someday I'll 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 Butthead 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

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 #706 and #807, "Lil' Crime Stoppers" and "The Jeffersons", respectively). 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 very clear 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. 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. 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.

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;
   • Impaled on flag pole
3. Volcano
   • Shot by Ned when he drops his gun on the ground
4. Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride
   • Decapitated and dismembered by three Middle Park Cowboy football players
5. An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
   • Knocked into microwave oven with chair and cooked by Big Stan
6. Death
   • Touched by Death
7. Pinkeye
   • Crushed by Mir; revived as a zombie via Worcestershire sauce
   • Cut in half by Kyle to end zombie curse
   • Crushed by an aeroplane when he tries to return from his grave
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
    • Asphyxiates self by accident with tetherball string
13. Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut
    • Dragged by go kart and crushed by a train

Season 2

1. Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus" (doesn't appear)
2. Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut
   • Sacrificial electrocution in order to turn on generator
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 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
    • Contracted fatal case of chickenpox
11. Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods
    • Spontaneously exploded due to intensity of planetarium demonstration
12. Clubhouses
    • Trampled in a mosh pit in Cartman's tree house
13. Cow Days
    • Pierced by horns of the bull Cartman was riding
14. Chef Aid
    • Decapitated by Ozzy Ozborne
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
    • Caught in the moving sidewalk in front of the prehistoric man exhibit

Season 3

1. Rainforest Schmainforest (he doesn't die in this episode)
   • Struck by lightning & nearly dies but is revived by his "girlfriend". 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, and an observer, confused, asks, "Who?" (since he was struck by lightning). They sheepishly reply, "You know... they!"
2. Spontaneous Combustion
   • Spontaneously combusts; is the first person to do so
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
    • Destroyed by snowspeeder while in robot costume
13. Hooked on Monkey Phonics
    • Killed by Phonics Monkey
14. The Red Badge of Gayness
    • Burned to death by US National Guard warning flare
15. Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
    • Crushed by chandelier
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
   • Drowned with Cement shoes in river during credits
3. Quintuplets 2000
   • Shot accidentally by police in Elián González-style raid in Romania
4. Timmy 2000
   • Smashed in the face by Cartman due to Cartman's Christina Aguilera hallucinations
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; his mother states this is the 52nd time Kenny has died
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   Kenny crushed by piano in episode 407 - Cherokee Hair Tampons
   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.
8. Chef Goes Nanners
   • Explodes from gas and foam buildup when massive dose of antacid tablets (thought to be mints) is exposed to water
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
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
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
3. Cripple Fight
   • A eagle-like bird flies down and takes Kenny away just after putting the scout leaders on stocks
4. The Super Best Friends
   • Drowned himself (presumably) in the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial
5. Terrance And Philip Behind The Blow (he doesn't die in this episode)
   • The Earth Day people cut his arms and legs off, but he doesn't die
6. Cartmanland
   • Gets impaled in the face by a beam/bar on a roller coaster (the "Ole Mine Shaft"?)
7. Proper Condom Use
   • Bebe throws a boomerang and slices his face in half
8. Towelie
   • Falls into a vat of lava
9. Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants
   • Explosion kills Kenny and his Afghanistan counterpart
10. How To Eat With Your Butt
    • Gets run over by a motorcycle toward the end
11. The Entity
    • Security guard at the airport shoots him after finding 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 (he doesn't die/appear in this episode)

Season 6

Since Kenny's death in 513 - Kenny Dies, he does not reappear until 617 - Red Sleigh Down. So he doesn't die in any of season 6.

1. Jared Has Aides
2. Asspen
3. Freak Strike
4. Fun With Veal
5. The Terrance and Phillip Moive Trailer
6. Professor Chaos
7. Simpsons Already Did It
8. Red Hot Catholic Love
9. Free Hat
10. Bebes Boobs Destroy Society
11. Child Abduction is not Funny
12. A Ladder to Heaven
13. The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers
14. The Death Camp of Tolerance
15. The Biggest Douche in the Universe
16. My Future Self n' Me
17. Red Sleigh Down

Season 7

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

1. I'm A Little Bit Country
2. Krazy Kripples
3. Toilet Paper
4. Cancelled
5. Fat Butt and Pancake Head
6. Lil' Crime Stoppers
7. Red Man's Greed
8. South Park is Gay
9. Christian Rock Hard
10. Grey Dawn
11. Casa Bonita
12. All About the Mormons?
13. Butt Out
14. Raisins
15. It's Christmas in Canada
    • Saddam Hussein, acting as the prime minister of Canada, fires some kind of ray at Kenny and he blows up

Season 8

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

1. Good Times With Weapons
2. AWESOM-O
3. Up the Down Steroid
4. The Passion of the Jew
5. You Got Fucked in the Ass (You Got Served - alternate title)
6. Goobacks
7. The Jeffersons
   • Michael Jackson tosses him into the ceiling
8. Douche and Turd
9. Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes
10. Pre-School
11. Quest for Ratings
12. Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset
13. Cartman's Incredible Gift
14. Woodland Critter Christmas

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.

1. Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina
2. Die Hippie, Die
3. Wing
   • Shot by the Chinese mafia
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
5. The Losing Edge
6. The Death of Eric Cartman
7. Erection Day

Episodes in which Kenny doesn't die

1. 110 - Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo
2. 201 - Terrance & Phillip in Not without my anus
3. 301 - Rainforest Schmainforest
4. 307 - Cat Orgy
5. 308 - Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub
6. 311 - Starvin' Marvin in Space
7. 405 - Pip
8. 410 - Do the Handicapped go to Hell
9. 411 - Probably
10. 415 - Fat Camp
11. 514 - Butters' Very Own Episode
12. 601 - Jared Has Aides
13. 602 - Asspen
14. 603 - Freak Strike
15. 604 - Fun With Veal
16. 605 - The Terrance and Phillip Moive Trailer
17. 606 - Professor Chaos
18. 607 - Simpsons Already Did It
19. 608 - Red Hot Catholic Love
20. 609 - Free Hat
21. 610 - Bebes Boobs Destroy Society
22. 611 - Child Abduction is not Funny
23. 612 - A Ladder to Heaven
24. 613 - The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers
25. 614 - The Death Camp of Tolerance
26. 615 - The Biggest Douche in the Universe
27. 616 - My Future Self n' Me
28. 617 - Red Sleigh Down
29. 701 - I'm A Little Bit Country
30. 702 - Krazy Kripples
31. 703 - Toilet Paper
32. 704 - Cancelled
33. 705 - Fat Butt and Pancake Head
34. 706 - Lil' Crime Stoppers
35. 707 - Red Man's Greed
36. 708 - South Park is Gay
37. 709 - Christian Rock Hard
38. 710 - Grey Dawn
39. 711 - Casa Bonita
40. 712 - All About Mormons
41. 713 - Butt Out
42. 714 - Raisins
43. 801 - Good Times With Weapons
44. 802 - AWESOM-O
45. 803 - Up the Down Steroid
46. 804 - The Passion of the Jew
47. 805 - You Got Fucked in the Ass (You Got Served - alternate title)
48. 806 - Goobacks
49. 808 - Douche and Turd
50. 809 - Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes
51. 810 - Pre-School
52. 811 - Quest for Ratings
53. 812 - Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset
54. 813 - Cartman's Incredible Gift
55. 814 - Woodland Critter Christmas
56. 901 - Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina
57. 902 - Die Hippie, Die
58. 905 - The Losing Edge
59. 906 - The Death of Eric Cartman
60. 907 - Erection Dayde:South_Park#Kenny_McCormick

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