South Park has spent three many years establishing a deep nicely of characters. So you may’t blame the present for attempting to benefit from them — at instances even resurrecting characters who haven’t been seen because the Clinton administration. Living proof: In 2010, most South Park followers have been shocked on the return of Mecha-Streisand, final seen in 1998, and the promo for the upcoming season of South Park suggests Starvin’ Marvin’s return — despite the fact that he hasn’t appeared since 1999.
Nevertheless, not all characters are so fortunately resurrected, regardless of how memorable they might have been. Under are 5 characters who stole the present once they appeared on South Park, however haven’t been invited again since.
Scuzzlebutt
Earlier than South Park began to incorporate extra political and topical humor, the present relied on impressed silliness to generate laughs. The second episode, by which Stan’s Uncle Jimbo takes the boys looking and tenting, is an ideal instance of this. Whereas sitting round a campfire, Cartman tells the others a scary story a couple of terrifying creature with a goofy identify. “Scuzzlebutt is a creature that lives up on this very mountain and kills anyone who dares climb to the highest,” Cartman begins. “It loves the style of blood, and likes so as to add items to its deformed physique. On his left arm, as an alternative of a hand he has a bit of celery. And he walks with a limp, as a result of one in all his legs is lacking. And the place his leg ought to be, there’s nothing however Patrick Duffy. He lives alone on this mountain, and weaves baskets, and different assorted crafts.”
Later within the episode, we meet the extremely weird Scuzzlebutt, who lives as much as his identify. Whereas lots of Cartman’s particulars are shockingly right — together with the bit about Patrick Duffy — Scuzzlebutt proves to be pleasant and even makes use of his basket-weaving abilities to avoid wasting the kids from an erupting volcano.
Sadly, Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt within the head instantly afterward, making future appearances unattainable. He can sometimes be seen on the shirts of South Park residents, and within the online game South Park: The Stick of Fact, we see that Scuzzlebutt’s stuffed physique resides in Jimbo’s gun store.
Damien
Whereas Scuzzlebutt was doubtless best-served by one good episode, Damien, the son of the satan, deserved extra screentime. He arrives on the finish of the present’s first season and wreaks havoc within the faculty along with his devilish superpowers. In the meantime, a lot of the youngsters simply choose on Damien, inflicting him to bond with Pip, the most important loser at school — a pairing South Park followers beloved.
His antics all lead as much as a showdown between Devil and Jesus, whose call-in cable entry present was nonetheless a giant factor in South Park on the time. The combat ends with Jesus profitable the bout and Devil strolling away with a fortune as a result of he was the one one who guess on the scrawny son of God, thus conning the South Park residents out of their cash.
Curiously, regardless of many episodes coping with heaven, hell and faith usually, Damien by no means says one other phrase. He will be noticed within the background of many scenes, however he’s by no means once more had any influence on the plot, together with within the episodes along with his father. In fact, Pip was killed by Mecha-Streisand 15 years in the past, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not too late for Damien to return.
The Household Man Writers
Because of the looks of the Prophet Muhammad, Season 10’s two-parter “Cartoon Wars” is now on the checklist of banned South Park episodes. Regardless of this, the episode remains to be beloved for its epic takedown of Household Man, a present Matt Stone and Trey Parker are blissful to confess they hate for its lazy gag-based writing.
Within the episode, Cartman visits the Household Man writers’ room solely to seek out 5 manatees in an enormous water tank containing balls with phrases written on them. A Household Man employees member then explains to Cartman how a Household Man joke is crafted: “You see, the correct aspect of the tank is full of thought balls. Every ball has a verb, noun or pop-culture reference written on it. There’s thousands and thousands of them. The manatees select an thought ball and swim it over to the joke to mix on the opposite aspect of the tank. The thought balls drop into the joke to mix and type a part of the brand new script.”
The joke was profoundly humorous, and the Household Man-writing manatees will endlessly reside in infamy, even when we will’t really view the episode anymore.
Peetie the Sexual Harassment Panda
What does a panda should do with sexual harassment? Nothing, and that’s the central joke round Peetie the Sexual Harassment Panda, who involves South Park to teach kids about sexual harassment. Whereas a few of the characters on this checklist, just like the manatees and Scuzzlebutt, have a memorable half of an episode, Peetie takes over the entire present; he even arrives along with his personal theme track and experiences a complete character arc that takes him from a mascot about sexual harassment to 1 about frivolous lawsuits.
It’s stunning we haven’t seen him in a non-background function since 1999, however maybe Stone and Parker realized they squeezed all the things they might out of the character in his one extremely memorable look.
Evil Cartman
In Season Two’s “Spookyfish,” a portal is opened to a different dimension by which all the things is reverse. Cute, seemingly innocent creatures like goldfish are vicious killers, Stan and Kyle are evil and Cartman is unbelievably good. We see many various variations of Cartman over time, however nothing is kind of as memorable because the candy, goatee-wearing chubby child who sings this diddy:
You guys are my greatest mates
By thick and skinny, we’ve all the time been collectively
We’re 4 of a sort, havin’ enjoyable all day
Pallin’ round and laughin’ away
Simply greatest mates, greatest mates are we
