You can trace that development from his near-victorious Confederate Army campaign in “The Red Badge of Gayness,” but his turn isn’t completed until “Scott Tenorman Must Die,” an episode whose ending I wish I could watch with virgin eyes to experience the utter shock it caused upon first release. (He’s not in the top three.) You see where I’m going with this. Inherent in entertainment produced for the broad public eye and ear is the fact that people don’t agree on many things. "Tom's Rhinoplasty," Season 1 - Mr. Garrison takes time off for a nose job, but his substitute, Ms. Ellen, catches Wendy's attention. "Up the Down Steroid," Season 8 - Jimmy starts taking steroids for an upcoming competition but gets out of control until Timmy talks him down. Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search This wiki This wiki All wikis | Sign In Don't have an account? This is a far more quantifiable measure than the vague word “best,” and has probably been best utilized in baseball, where the WAR stat measures precisely how many wins a player has contributed to his team’s record. Lately, Kenny's back from the dead and doing well in South Park. One of South Park’s most idiosyncratic, memorable traits has been its wide variety of celebrity lampoons, and none is more memorable than the flappy-headed, Satan-abusing Saddam. Part of that is the result of the show’s audience growing up; the college-age kids and twenty-somethings who’ve been with Parker and Stone since 1997 are now about Randy’s age, and they can slide all-too-comfortably into his shoes when it comes to marital and family issues. It wasn’t until about Season 5 or 6 that Parker and Stone started giving Randy more of the spotlight, and he’s run with it, enough so that he warranted one of Paste’s lists of 20 best quotes. A 34 Year-old Asian Man Who Looks Strikingly Similar to Ricardo Montalbán, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Charlie/Marcus Andrews and his Superior Officer, Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000, DJ ("Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery"), https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Category:One-off_characters?oldid=246929. Animal species come and go. Unfortunately, when Butters didn't meet the boys' standards, Butters was fired as the new best friend. He sang songs about sex to explain to the kids, well just about everything. South Park - Mr. Mackey and Ms. Choksondik. Category:One-off characters - South Park Archives - Cartman, Stan, Kenny, Kyle. Long live online discourse. "AWESOM-O," Season 8 - Poor Butters is fooled by Eric dressed as a robot named AWESOM-O who wants to learn all of his secrets. Over the past decade or so, there’s been a pretty obvious shift in the South Park fan base’s character preference toward Randy. This might seem a tad high at first blush. "Major Boobage," Season 12 - Kenny stars on this homage to, "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo," Season 1 - Kyle meets a new. "Cripple Fight," Season 5 - Jimmy is the new kid in the scout troop, but gets on Timmy's bad side when he starts telling funny jokes. "Fat Camp," Season 4 Kenny gets his own TV show called "Krazy Kenny.". Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Serving his calling, he's always available to the children, working to figure out what's wrong with all the kids in South Park. "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls," Season 2 - The classic episode in which Chef sets up a booth to sell his famous chocolate salty balls. He has suffered a lot of heartache in the name of friendship. The Heisman Trophy is awarded to college football’s most outstanding player. Boys using the Crank Prank Time Phone Clerk (Go God Go XII) School Faculty. The primary reason that Season 19 was hailed as the show’s best in nearly a decade is that it fully embraced the serial format Parker and Stone had begun to explore in Season 18 (you know, the one where Randy is Lorde). More importantly, Butters has kept South Park’s original premise intact. 20. Though they’re unafraid to insult any given group and have seemed, at times, to mock people who care overly much about various subjects, the duo is firmly on the side of greater societal tolerance and breaking down stigmata. If this were a ranking of South Park’s most adorable characters, as I said earlier, he’d probably fall somewhere in the top three. Mr. Garrison started his life on South Park being a teacher, who was possibly gay, who had a friend named Mr. Hat, a puppet that may or may not have been alive. "Bloody Mary," Season 9 - Stan is terribly embarrassed when his drunken father visits a statue of the Virgin Mary that is supposed to bleed, thinking it will cure him of his alcoholism. This often makes him the lone voice of reason against Cartman's many schemes. Or, at least that's what Cartman would say. He dresses as a girl for a slumber party, makes friends with the girls, and then must abandon them when their plan to learn the girls' secret comes to fruition. Wendy’s been a pretty consistent, reliable, feminist voice of reason since nearly the outset of the show. Mr. Garrison also made friends with Mr. Slave, who left him after the operation. There are favorites like Towelie, Captain Hindsight, and Mr. Hankey who pop up from time to time. Most of the “Top # Characters” rankings you’ll see on the internet are pretty subjective. ), and his obsessions are almost always hilarious enough to mask their sort of depressing soul. "Woodland Critter Christmas," Season 8 - Stan helps the little animals in the woods prepare for their Savior, only to discover the Lord they serve isn't the one he thought. Jimmy’s main value to the show, though, is his unflappable optimism, which is unmatched by any of the main boys and makes him a welcome recipient of the occasional featured storyline. Timmy is in a wheelchair. Whenever you see the word “best,” mentally replace it with the phrase “most indispensable.” The sole question I’ll be asking in these rankings is this: if the character were erased from the show’s history, how much would it have suffered? "Krazy Kripples," Season 7 - Jimmy isn't happy when Christopher Reeves comes to town, stealing all the attention. "Trapper Keeper," Season 4 - Cartman's precious Trapper Keeper becomes an organism set to destroy the world. Life experience and genetically-determined personality factors determine, to a large degree, what we find funny or endearing or repulsive; since we’re lucky enough to live in a world where individual differences exist, fans of a television show or movie or book are bound to disagree on any effort to rank characters. Kenny's been killed by just about everyone on the show. But they’ve been linked as inseparable best friends from the show’s first episode, and therefore for the purposes of this list, they’re functionally equivalent.