Gobbles (South Park)
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Gobbles is the pet turkey of Timmy, the handicapped, allegedly mentally disabled kid on South Park, who can only say his own name ("TIMMAAAY!"). Upon getting Gobbles, Timmy has the ability to scream his name too (pronounced somewhat like "Gobbers!"). In kind with his master, Gobbles is also "physically challenged", with his head dragging on the floor as he walks. In the German synchronisation, Timmy can be heard shouting "Goebbels", which could be a reference to Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany.
Gobbles got his fifteen minutes of fame in episode 414: Helen Keller! The Musical when he got the part of Helen Keller's pet turkey, alongside Timmy as Keller, in a play produced by Eric Cartman. Cartman then sets about trying to get the turkey killed, so that he can have a turkey which can "jump through a ring of fire" as Keller's pet. But, as usual in South Park, Cartman's plan doesn't work. However, the trick performing turkey's trainer tricks Timmy into releasing Gobbles. After discovering that he was deceived, Timmy finds Gobbles and saves him by taking a bullet fired at the turkey by Stan Marsh's ultra-hunter uncle, Jimbo. Timmy then gets Jimbo and his friends to kill the trained turkey, named Anastasia, allowing Gobbles to go onstage and surprise everyone by leaping (although somewhat clumsily) through the ring of fire, to rabid applause by the audience.
Gobbles has not been seen since.
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