Kenny McCormick

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*South Park* character
Kenneth 'Kenny' McCormick

Gender:	Male
Hair:	Blond
Age:	9
Job:	Student
Religion:	Roman Catholic
First appearance:	The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Frosty)

Kenneth 'Kenny' McCormick, voiced by Matt Stone (and, on one occasion, Mike Judge), is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. He is one of the four central characters, all of whom are nine-year old boys.

He is well-known for almost always wearing his orange parka, and for being killed in nearly every episode during the show's first five seasons. Due to his hood, which covers his mouth in all but a few scenes in the show's history, his lines are muffled, though occasionally they are intelligible, and closed captioning sometimes clarifies his lines. He has only spoken without being muffled on two occasions: the movie [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]] and the episode "The Jeffersons". When he is frightened, Kenny will tighten his hood, which hides his face and muffles his speech to an even greater extent.

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Character

Kenny's unmuffled voice sounds like a slightly higher-pitched version of Stan Marsh. In the [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut|movie]], Kenny's voice was performed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill. In the Season 8 episode "The Jeffersons", Kenny's voice was performed by Matt Stone. Generally speaking, people who haven't been with him for a while have trouble understanding what he's saying.

Although this has not been confirmed, due to his surname, he is likely of Irish or Scottish descent. Kenny's family is extremely poor. His father, Stuart McCormick, is an alcoholic, and his friends (especially Eric Cartman) often tease him about it. Kenny has two siblings: Kevin McCormick, and a little girl who seemingly has no name and apparently did not exist until the episode "Best Friends Forever". Because Kenny's family is so poor (they are on welfare, although the officer in "Lil' Crime Stoppers" says the McCormicks run a meth lab), they eat frozen waffles with no side dishes for dinner and bread sandwiches for breakfast. Despite these problems, Kenny is often portrayed as the hero of the group; indeed, several of his deaths have been acts of self-sacrifice (and besides this, he can be seen using his body as a shield for Kelly in Rainforest Schmainforest) - not always willingly.

Since Kenny's parka covers his mouth, his voice is muffled. Because of this, Kenny swears a lot and says words that would normally be censored out. In the intro, people believe he says "I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with big vaginas" although the ends of both are considered to be interchangeable.

As a result of being poor (most likely), he is somewhat unscrupulous about getting money/food at times.

Visual appearance

Kenny "revealed" from ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

Kenny almost always wears an orange hooded parka with brown gloves (although he does remove it during the movie [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]] and in episodes #504 "Super Best Friends",#402 "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", #706 "Lil' Crime Stoppers", #807 "The Jeffersons" and #905 "The Losing Edge"). In these episodes he would usually have some type of accessory accompanying him such as a colourful bird mask in #807 "The Jeffersons" and a red baseball hat in #905 "The Losing Edge". Underneath his hood he has messy blonde hair. In the season 8 episode, "Good Times With Weapons", his anime self is shown to have blue eyes.

Kenny's appearances without his parka

#	Episode	Circumstances
402	The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000	He loses his parka, but is only shown from behind.
504	Super Best Friends	He has shaved hair and wears the same uniform as everybody around him, so it remains unclear which one he actually is.
801	Good Times with Weapons	When the boys "transform" into their anime-style versions, Kenny wears only a scarf over his face. However, this is a greatly exagerated version and doesn't necessarily match the real world.
706	Lil' Crime Stoppers	He takes off his parka for the shower, but is only shown from behind.
807	The Jeffersons	A boy is accidently killed by Martin Jefferson (actually Michael Jackson, renamed to avoid lawsuits). The boys reply with "Oh my God, he killed Kenny!" and "You bastard!" when it becomes clear that the boy was actually Kenny.
905	The Losing Edge	He wears a baseball-uniform and looks like the other children. He can however be recognized because of his hair, his spot next to the other boys and his number, the unlucky 13.
	[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]	Right at the beginning Kenny can be seen from behind before he slips in his parka. At the end Kenny reveals his face to say good bye.

Relationships

Kenny is generally held in high regard as a friend by Stan and Kyle, despite their occasional teasing of him about his family being poor. Cartman generally tolerates Kenny, although he regards him as being lesser than him because he is poor, and can even at times be seen to treat Kenny as sort of a general laborer/servant. However, Cartman does appear to consider Kenny as his best friend out of the other three boys, although he is not above exaggerating the depth of their friendship in order to achieve or obtain something he wants, usually after Kenny dies or is incapacitated, such as in the episode "Best Friends Forever". In the same episode, Kenny described his general attitude towards his friendship with Cartman as his feeling sorry for him, because everyone else hates him. Depending on how much of an idiot Cartman is being in an episode, Kenny will go along with either Cartman if he talks about something he agrees on, or Kyle and Stan if he gets really annoyed by Cartman's attitude.

Kyle's and Kenny's dad used to be best friends before they fell out with each other. This is evidenced in the episode "Chickenpox".

Kenny briefly had a "girlfriend" named Kelly (in "Rainforest Schmainforest"), who actually came to his aid during one of his famous "death" scenes. In the episode spontanious Combustion he spends a lot of time at a new girlfriends house but you never see her.

Family

Kenny seems to have a large but poor family. As seen in some episodes, he has a mom and dad. Aside from a mom and dad, Kenny is the middle child, he has a little sister (who is currently unnamed), and an older brother named Kevin. In one episode ("Chickenlover") when Cartman is a police officer he knocks on the McCormick's door and asks them what they are doing and who is in the house, when Cartman says this Kenny's father responds "What? Just me and my wife and my brother. And my wife's cousin and his son and my brother's girlfriend and our two kids, and my brothers girlfriends mother and this guy Bob I met last year." Cartman then interrupts and says to the camera (because he is on COPS) "Poor people tend to live in clusters". (Despite his family's financial status, Kenny appears to nonetheless have access to somewhat pricey objects, such as the ED-209 costume and a PSP.)

Talents

Music

Kenny has a very good singing voice (after taking lessons), as seen in "Quintuplets 2000", and additionally plays drums in "Christian Rock Hard".

Arts

In the episode "Jewbilee", Kenny was shown to possess some degree of talent as a sculptor. While waiting in line to leave soap sculptures for Moses, Kenny quickly whittled a soap sculpture of himself.

Headbutt

For whatever reason, Kenny appears to 'use his head' more often than someone in his position ought to, breaking open a conch and freeing Moses in Jewbilee, and using a headbutt in The Return of Chef.

Death

Kenny is most famous for dying in nearly every episode of the first five seasons, often followed by a cry of "Oh my God, you/they killed Kenny!" and "You bastards!" from his friends Stan and Kyle, respectively. It would usually vary depending on who killed Kenny. On one occasion (Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods), Stan and Kyle accidentally killed Kenny in which Stan cried out "Oh my God, we killed Kenny." In a somewhat nonchalant way to which Kyle replied "We killed Kenny?" and Stan says "Yeah we killed Kenny; we're bastards. In the earlier seasons, usually right after his death, rats show up, start nibbling on the body and carry off body parts. In "The Succubus", this is parodied: he is "killed" and rats gather on him 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. Also in the episode "Pink Eye" Kenny dies three times. First he is crushed by a satellite. Then he is cut in half as a zombie. Then, when trying to come out of his grave, an angel statue falls. Kenny even dies in a flashback to kindergarten during the episode "Summer Sucks", when a firecracker he is holding explodes and blows him to pieces.

In the episodes "Fat Camp", "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", and "Cripple Fight," it is suggested that Kenny's wardrobe plays a role in his many deaths. In "Fat Camp" Kenny is never actually killed, although a boy dressed up as Kenny dies in the end; to which Stan replies, "They killed Kenny!...sort of." In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe," Rob Schneider is killed while wearing Kenny's outfit and In "Cripple Fight" Timmy tried to have Jimmy killed by giving him a parka that resembles one Kenny would wear. Jimmy is seen walking down a street, narrowly escaping death with every step.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker tried to kill him off for a year at the end of season five with the episode "Kenny Dies" (he died in the "Hell's Pass Hospital" of Muscular Dystrophy) and replaced him first with Butters and then Tweek during the sixth season. A story arc that occurred during the second half of the season involved Cartman being possessed by Kenny after accidentally drinking his ashes (which he thought was chocolate milk mix). Kenny's soul was trapped inside Cartman's body until it was exorcised into a pot roast, which was eaten by Rob Schneider, who subsequently died. At the end of the 2002 Christmas episode, Kenny returned, stating that he had been "over there," as he points to his right. 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"), and now only dies once or twice a season.

In the March 30 2005 episode, "Best Friends Forever", Kenny was the first in South Park to get a Sony PSP (in spite of the fact that his family is poor) 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. This episode won South Park its first Emmy.

Kenny's deaths and series canon

While the series usually maintains an expanding continuity, it is a running joke that Kenny's deaths from episode to episode are treated in a highly inconsistent fashion.

Early-season deaths are usually treated as "non-canon", in that they are not acknowledged as having happened at all. In the clip episode "City on the Edge of Forever", while relating stories of previous episodes, Cartman mentions how Kenny died in one such incident, to which Stan and Kyle protest, "That doesn't make any sense; Kenny died a few hours ago, how could he have died then?"

In later seasons, the other characters do occasionally seem aware of Kenny's many deaths but usually fail to find them a source of concern. In "Cartmanland", the McCormick family sues Eric Cartman for Kenny's wrongful death, and Cartman protests, "Kenny? Kenny dies all the time!" When Kyle is suffering potentially fatal kidney troubles ("Cherokee Hair Tampons") and Stan tells Kenny several times that he's worried his friend might die, Kenny responds with irritation and mumbles his own muffled version of Cartman's catchphrase "Screw you guys! I'm going home!", implying that he is aware of and considerably irked by the other kids' apathy towards his own previous deaths.

In "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut", the second part of a two-part episode, Kenny materializes next to Stan, who merely acknowledges him with "Oh, hey, Kenny."

Kenny himself seems to be somewhat aware of his own recurring death. In the first season's Christmas special, he cheers when he realizes he hasn't died at the end. In "Tweek vs. Craig", Kenny avoided shop class fearing the dangers of the many hazardous tools.

In "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", Kenny spends most of the episode upset that his mother is having another child, and continually tries to find ways to abort the fetus. Near the end of the episode, Kenny is unexpectedly killed by being backed over by an ambulance. In the final scene, Kenny's mother and father fawn over the infant she has just given birth to. Kenny's father, struck by how much the new child resembles their deceased son Kenny (including orange parka), decides to name the new baby boy Kenny in his brother's memory, to which Kenny's mother declares "Yes! A brand-new Kenny!" The final punch line of this gag comes when Kenny's father says "God, this must be like the 50th time this has happened," to which his mother corrects, "52nd." (Arguably, this is indeed the 52nd incarnation of Kenny). These events suggest that all the Kennys are different children, but that the other boys are unaware of it and treat them all as the same person. This does not explain how and why the Kennys gestate and age so quickly, or why they all have the same personality; it is possible that Kenny's soul is reincarnated into each new body. However Kenny's mother's explanation is likely not canon and just there for the humor.

The gag of Kenny dying in almost every episode was dropped with the airing of "Kenny Dies", in which Kenny's death is treated with more weight; in particular, the other boys are somehow able to sense that it would be more permanent (though it should be noted that in a few episodes---for example "Pink Eye"---they treat his death as if permanent [ironically, since Kenny comes back to life twice in that episode]). Since then, Kenny has usually only died when the plot of an episode requires it.

Generally speaking, when Kenny's death is quick, the other boys treat it lightly ("Oh my God, they killed Kenny, You bastards!"), but when his suffering is drawn out (arms ripped off, dying, vegitative state, etc.) they take it seriously.

Season 7-Present

Some fans have noted that since being brought back to life in "Red Sleigh Down," Kenny's role on the show has been greatly diminished. This is most notable in the 9th and 10th seasons, where in some episodes--for example, "Smug Alert!"--he is completely absent with no explanation. Another episode, "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow," showed him in the TV preview of the episode, but in the same scene from the episode--and the whole episode, as a matter of fact--he was not to be found. Kenny's only notable appearance since his return is the Season 9 episode "Best Friends Forever".

This downsizing is somewhat understandable, one could say, as what can probably called the biggest facet of his character--that is, his constant dying--is no longer regular and occurs in only a few episodes. It can also be noted that, with his inability to be easily understood, he was the main protagonist of only a few episodes, usually just accompanying his friends in episodes where they did most of the action. Another reason for his decline as a character may be because Butters, the first of his two replacements, grew as a character after his death--though he was only an "official fourth friend" for five episodes, his personality--and fan base--grew enough that Butters still appears and stars in many episodes, even while not being one of the main four. It could even be argued that Butters--who has starred in such recent episodes as "Marjorine" and "The Death of Eric Cartman"--is now a bigger character than Kenny is. (The Butters Phenomenon did not occur, however, with Kenny's second replacement, Tweek.)

Ways Kenny Dies

Kenny has died 78 times since Season 1 through Season 9. The following is a list of Kenny's deaths in each episode:

Kenny born for the 52nd time in Cartman Joins NAMBLA

Season 1

#	Episode	Description
101	Cartman Gets an Anal Probe	Blasted by an alien space ship, trampled by a herd of cattle, then run over by Officer Barbrady's Police Cruiser. His body gets whacked by Stan and he gets his head pulled off by Kyle. His body is then eaten by rats.
102	Weight Gain 4000	Shot by Mr. Garrison when trying to shoot Kathie Lee Gifford, which launches him into the air and is impaled on a flag pole.
103	Volcano	Shot by Ned when he drops his gun on the ground.
104	Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride	Decapitated and dismembered by three Middle Park Cowboy football players.
105	An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig	Knocked into microwave oven with a chair and cooked by a mutant clone of Stan.
106	Death	Touched by Death.
107	Pink Eye	Crushed by Mir at the beginning of the episode. Revived as a zombie via Worcestershire sauce embalming. Cut in half with a chainsaw by Kyle to end zombie curse. Rises from his grave again at the end of the episode, but is immediately crushed by a falling angel statue and then by a crashing aeroplane. If killing a zombie counts as "death," this would make "Pink Eye" the most fatal of all of Kenny's episodes.
109	Starvin' Marvin	Attacked by mutant turkeys; loses an eye in the attack.
110	Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo	Doesn't die. He Cheers when he sees "The End" appear onscreen with him still alive. Stan also said to Kyle that he felt something was missing.
108	Damien	Turned into a duckbilled platypus by the antichrist and then shot by Uncle Jimbo.
111	Tom's Rhinoplasty	Pierced by an Iraqi sword carelessly swung by Miss Ellen.
112	Mecha-Streisand	Asphyxiates himself by accident with tetherball string while fleeing Mecha Streisand.
113	Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut	Dragged onto train tracks by a go kart and crushed by a train.

Season 2

#	Episode	Description
201	Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus	(doesn't appear)
202	Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut	Self-sacrificial electrocution while turning on a hospital generator
203	Chickenlover	Car tipped upside-down and crushes him, but the sunroof was open and he steps out; Flies off swing into brick wall, but survives; Gun misfires and shoots Kenny's arm, but narrowly misses him and gets his sleeve; During the parade in the credits, a tree falls and crushes Kenny, killing him
204	Ike's Wee Wee	Falls into an open grave and is crushed by a gravestone
205	Conjoined Fetus Lady	Killed by an overpowered dodgeball throw from a Chinese opponent
206	The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka	Torn apart by two audience members of Jesus and Pals
207	City on the Edge of Forever	Killed by a "big, black, scary monster" Run over by a motorcyle
208	Summer Sucks	In a flashback to when he was in preschool, blown up by a firecracker he held for too long Crushed by giant carbon pyrotechnic snake
209	Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls	Trampled by a crowd leaving a theater. Stan and Kyle are not present; instead, a moviegoer says, "Oh my God, I found a penny!" His friend replies, "You bastard!"
210	Chickenpox	Contracted a fatal case of chickenpox
211	Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods	Head explodes due to the intensity of a planetarium demonstration when Stan and Kyle examine the control booth. Stan: "Oh my god! Uhh...we killed Kenny!" Kyle: "We're bastards!"
212	Clubhouses	Trampled in a mosh pit in Cartman's tree house. In a special twist, Cartman was the one who said the first part of the trademark post-Kenny-death catchphrase, then Kyle passed by the same treehouse, stopping only to say the second part before moving along.
213	Cow Days	Pierced by the horns of the bull Cartman was riding
214	Chef Aid	Ozzy Osbourne bit his head off. However, he is spontaneously revived moments later and can be seen standing next to Stan and Kyle in the crowd. Whether this is his immortality coming into effect sooner than usual or just a continuity error is open to debate.
215	Spookyfish	Drowned by Stan's evil goldfish
216	Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!	Shot dead by police while attempting to surrender
217	Underpants Gnomes	Killed (squashed "like a bug") by a derailed mining cart containing underpants. Amusingly, the boys don't seem very saddened by his death, saying "It happens all the time".
218	Prehistoric Ice Man (South Park episode)	Caught in the conveyor belt in front of the prehistoric man exhibit

Season 3

Kenny struck by Lightning in "Rainforest Schmainforest".

# Episode Description
301 Rainforest Schmainforest
Struck by lightning & nearly dies but is revived by his girlfriend Kelly. This is 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 ("Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You Bastards!"). Kelly, confused, asks, "Who?" (since he was struck by lightning). They sheepishly reply, "You know... they...they're bastards."
302 Spontaneous Combustion
Spontaneously combusts at the beginning of the show due to withheld flatulance
303 The Succubus
Dies in an unknown manner while waiting for Chef at the bus stop, but miraculously revives at dawn
Smashed to death by succubus
304 Tweek vs. Craig
Caught on a Circular saw and lands in a pile of rusty nails in crafts class, though he said "I'm okay."
305 Jakovasaurs
Killed by a bear while impersonating a deer, distracting Cartman
306 Sexual Harassment Panda
Pulled by a magnet into a giant fan.
307 Cat Orgy (he doesn't die/appear in this episode)
308 Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub (he doesn't die/appear in this episode)
309 Jewbilee
Sacrifices himself to open the conch shell Moses is trapped in, saving the Jews.
310 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
311 Starvin' Marvin in Space
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)
312 Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery
(In the credits) Destroyed by a snowspeeder while wearing an ED-209 costume
313 Hooked on Monkey Phonics
Beaten against everything in Cartman's bedroom by Phonics Monkey
314 The Red Badge of Gayness
Burned to death by a US National Guard warning flare
315 Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
Crushed by a chandelier
316 Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus
Exploded due to the pressure buildup from a tampon stuck in his anus
317 World Wide Recorder Concert
Died from massive defecation after playing "the brown note"

#	Episode	Description
301	Rainforest Schmainforest	Struck by lightning & nearly dies but is revived by his girlfriend Kelly. This is 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 ("Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You Bastards!"). Kelly, confused, asks, "Who?" (since he was struck by lightning). They sheepishly reply, "You know... they...they're bastards."
302	Spontaneous Combustion	Spontaneously combusts at the beginning of the show due to withheld flatulance
303	The Succubus	Dies in an unknown manner while waiting for Chef at the bus stop, but miraculously revives at dawn Smashed to death by succubus
304	Tweek vs. Craig	Caught on a Circular saw and lands in a pile of rusty nails in crafts class, though he said "I'm okay."
305	Jakovasaurs	Killed by a bear while impersonating a deer, distracting Cartman
306	Sexual Harassment Panda	Pulled by a magnet into a giant fan.
307	Cat Orgy	(he doesn't die/appear in this episode)
308	Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub	(he doesn't die/appear in this episode)
309	Jewbilee	Sacrifices himself to open the conch shell Moses is trapped in, saving the Jews.
310	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
311	Starvin' Marvin in Space	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)
312	Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery	(In the credits) Destroyed by a snowspeeder while wearing an ED-209 costume
313	Hooked on Monkey Phonics	Beaten against everything in Cartman's bedroom by Phonics Monkey
314	The Red Badge of Gayness	Burned to death by a US National Guard warning flare
315	Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics	Crushed by a chandelier
316	Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus	Exploded due to the pressure buildup from a tampon stuck in his anus
317	World Wide Recorder Concert	Died from massive defecation after playing "the brown note"

Season 4

Kenny crushed by piano in Cherokee Hair Tampons.

# Episode Description
401 Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000
Crushed by bricks, meant to be a Cartman test dummy, after flying off a sled
402 The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000
Shown with Cement shoes in river during credits, however the river is too shallow for him to sink, so he begins hopping toward the shore. After a few hops, he fall into a concealed trench in the water and drowns
403 Quintuplets 2000
Shot accidentally by police in Elián González-style raid in Romania.
404 Timmy 2000
Bashed in the face with a frying pan by Cartman due to Cartman's Christina Aguilera hallucinations
405 Pip (he doesn't appear in this episode)
406 Cartman Joins NAMBLA
Crushed by an ambulance after Mr. McCormick is loaded therein
He is also killed in a dream by his newborn alien-like brother.
His parents have another child just before the credits and name him Kenny (in honour of his 'dead' brother); His father comments that this must be the 50th time this has happened and his mother specifies that it's the 52nd
407 Cherokee Hair Tampons
Crushed by a piano just after angrily leaving for home while Stan is very upset and sobbing because Kyle may die of kidney failure unless he gets one of Cartman's kidneys.
408 Chef Goes Nanners
Explodes from gas buildup when a massive dose of antacid tablets (thought to be mints) is exposed to water. Everybody laughs, and Stan says,"That was a good one".
409 Something You Can Do With Your Finger
Flattened by an elevator just prior to performance in the shopping mall
410 Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?
Appearing to have been run over by a bus before he was able to attend confession, he is revealed to have survived in next episode
411 Probably
Revealed to be alive and well in Mexico; he and Cartman are left there
412 4th Grade
Dragged to death by Timmy's wheelchair while attempting to fix it à la Speed. Stan: "Well, who didn't see that coming?" Yet near the end, he makes a cameo appearance and then disappears before the scene ends.
413 Trapper Keeper
Smashed against a wall by Cartman's bedroom door when Cartman bursts out of his bedroom. Kyle is unable to say, "You bastard" before he flees the Cartman house
414 Helen Keller! The Musical
Crushed by a fallen stage light meant to kill Timmy's dysfunctional turkey, Gobbles
415 Fat Camp
Kenny does not die because he is in prison for prostitution (whored himself to Howard Stern for ); Cartman's replacement at fat camp takes Kenny's place and suffocates in Mrs. Crabtree's uterus. Stan: "Oh my God, they killed Kenny, sort of..."
416 The Wacky Molestation Adventure
Sacrificed at "Carousel"; not shown on screen
417 A Very Crappy Christmas
Run over by car. Kenny's death occurs while the boys are in the middle of producing The Spirit of Christmas, so Stan decides to have Kenny's character die in the film so they won't have to reshoot anything

#	Episode	Description
401	Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000	Crushed by bricks, meant to be a Cartman test dummy, after flying off a sled
402	The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000	Shown with Cement shoes in river during credits, however the river is too shallow for him to sink, so he begins hopping toward the shore. After a few hops, he fall into a concealed trench in the water and drowns
403	Quintuplets 2000	Shot accidentally by police in Elián González-style raid in Romania.
404	Timmy 2000	Bashed in the face with a frying pan by Cartman due to Cartman's Christina Aguilera hallucinations
405	Pip	(he doesn't appear in this episode)
406	Cartman Joins NAMBLA	Crushed by an ambulance after Mr. McCormick is loaded therein He is also killed in a dream by his newborn alien-like brother. His parents have another child just before the credits and name him Kenny (in honour of his 'dead' brother); His father comments that this must be the 50th time this has happened and his mother specifies that it's the 52nd
407	Cherokee Hair Tampons	Crushed by a piano just after angrily leaving for home while Stan is very upset and sobbing because Kyle may die of kidney failure unless he gets one of Cartman's kidneys.
408	Chef Goes Nanners	Explodes from gas buildup when a massive dose of antacid tablets (thought to be mints) is exposed to water. Everybody laughs, and Stan says,"That was a good one".
409	Something You Can Do With Your Finger	Flattened by an elevator just prior to performance in the shopping mall
410	Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?	Appearing to have been run over by a bus before he was able to attend confession, he is revealed to have survived in next episode
411	Probably	Revealed to be alive and well in Mexico; he and Cartman are left there
412	4th Grade	Dragged to death by Timmy's wheelchair while attempting to fix it à la Speed. Stan: "Well, who didn't see that coming?" Yet near the end, he makes a cameo appearance and then disappears before the scene ends.
413	Trapper Keeper	Smashed against a wall by Cartman's bedroom door when Cartman bursts out of his bedroom. Kyle is unable to say, "You bastard" before he flees the Cartman house
414	Helen Keller! The Musical	Crushed by a fallen stage light meant to kill Timmy's dysfunctional turkey, Gobbles
415	Fat Camp	Kenny does not die because he is in prison for prostitution (whored himself to Howard Stern for ); Cartman's replacement at fat camp takes Kenny's place and suffocates in Mrs. Crabtree's uterus. Stan: "Oh my God, they killed Kenny, sort of..."
416	The Wacky Molestation Adventure	Sacrificed at "Carousel"; not shown on screen
417	A Very Crappy Christmas	Run over by car. Kenny's death occurs while the boys are in the middle of producing The Spirit of Christmas, so Stan decides to have Kenny's character die in the film so they won't have to reshoot anything

Season 5

#	Episode	Description
501	Scott Tenorman Must Die	Laughs himself to death after seeing Cartman's "I'm a little piggy" video
502	It Hits The Fan	Vomits his intestines out just before credits. Stan: "Holy sh... poo"
503	Cripple Fight	Carried off by an eagle
504	Super Best Friends	Drowns himself in the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial as part of a cult's mass suicide. Stan says his catch phrase 3 times, using it to try and find Kyle in a massive crowd a la the game Marco Polo. Kyle replies twice.
505	[[Terrance and Phillip: Behind The Blow]]	His arms and legs were sliced off by insane Earth Day promoters, but he doesn't die (although interpretation means he could have bled to death)
506	Cartmanland	Impaled through the face with a loose beam while riding a faulty roller coaster
507	Proper Condom Use	His face was sliced in half with a boomerang thrown by Bebe. Cartman: "Ooh, bitch!"
508	Towelie	Falls into a vat of lava while trying to save the boys' Gamesphere (a parody of the Nintendo Gamecube). Kyle: "Oh my God, our Gamesphere"
509	Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants	Explosion kills Kenny and his Afghan counterpart. Stan and Kyle's Afghan counterparts say "Oh, Allah, They Killed Keyvan! You bastards!" in Dari
510	How to Eat with Your Butt	Gets run over by a motorcycle. Cartman laughs at his death
511	The Entity	Shot to death by airport security for trying to board a plane with toenail clippers
512	Here Comes the Neighborhood	He is seen dead in this episode, but it's never shown how he died.
513	Kenny Dies	Permanently dies of a "terminal disease" (until "Red Sleigh Down" (617)).

Season 6

Since Kenny's death in Kenny Dies (513), he does not reappear until Red Sleigh Down (617) (in which he is not killed as he is only in the final minute of the episode), but "dies" at least once this season in:

The Biggest Douche in the Universe, where Rob Schneider eats a roast beef joint containing Kenny's recently-excorcised soul (Kenny possessed Cartman's body for a few episodes this season) and dies when Rob Schneider gets impaled by a flagpole in a movie trailer (in reference to one of Kenny's death in Weight Gain 4000)

When Kenny returns, Stan is the first to notice him: "Oh hey Kenny. Where've you been?" To which Kenny replied: (muffled) "Hey, I was just over there."

Season 7

Kenny dies once in season 7.

# Episode Description
715 It's Christmas in Canada
Shot by Saddam Hussein, posing as Prime Minister of Canada, with a ray gun

#	Episode	Description
715	It's Christmas in Canada	Shot by Saddam Hussein, posing as Prime Minister of Canada, with a ray gun

Season 8

Kenny dies once in season 8.

#	Episode	Description
807	The Jeffersons	"Mr. Jefferson" tosses him into the ceiling. This episode is also significant for the fact that it is one of only two times in which Kenny speaks without his voice being muffled by his jacket: the other being [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]

Season 9

Kenny dies twice in season 9. But he also "dies" in the opening theme:

Opening Theme: When the man (probably one of the show's creators) builds Kenny with the bits of paper, he cuts his head off with some scissors (no blood shows)

#	Episode	Description
903	Wing	Shot by the Chinese mafia
904	Best Friends Forever	He is hit by a truck and brought to heaven but is resuscitated and kept alive on a feeding tube (à la Terri Schiavo), which is removed and he finally dies. It's worthy to note that this is one of the very few times (including the movie) that Kenny continues to appear on-screen and play a significant part even after he was killed.

Season 10

Kenny has been in the background for the first seven episodes so far. At the same time, however, in "The Return of Chef" and in "Manbearpig", he had appeared throughout both shows and even had some lines but was not subject to dying. He is completely absent from "Smug Alert!" and aside from the «Previously on South Park», he does not appear in the fourth episode, "Cartoon Wars, Part II". (Though Kyle and Cartman are the only recurring characters to appear in the latter.)

The Spirit of Christmas

Episode Description
Jesus vs. Frosty
Cartman is referred to as Kenny in this short. However, this does not matter as both are caught in Frosty's tentacles and thrown to their deaths.
Jesus vs. Santa
Santa's psychic attack misses Jesus and hits Kenny, throwing him into a statue. Six other children are crushed to death, either by Jesus's attack on Santa's grotto or the aforementioned statue.

Episode	Description
Jesus vs. Frosty	Cartman is referred to as Kenny in this short. However, this does not matter as both are caught in Frosty's tentacles and thrown to their deaths.
Jesus vs. Santa	Santa's psychic attack misses Jesus and hits Kenny, throwing him into a statue. Six other children are crushed to death, either by Jesus's attack on Santa's grotto or the aforementioned statue.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (Movie)

Suffers third degree burns when he attempts to light his fart on fire, but is ultimately killed by the ER doctors who replace his heart with a baked potato, which explodes and splatters some of his remains across the hospital room.

It has been noted that he perhaps "dies again" when he makes his unselfish wish that sends him temporarily back to hell, before he is sent to heaven. However, this is questionable, because it is unclear in what form he appears when he climbs out of Hell after Satan invades earth. It isn't treated as a true "resurrection," and he may have only appeared in "spirit form." The fact that he fades away may in fact back up that he was an apparition, and was not truly "alive" again.

Kenny's Most Popular Deaths

Whilst Kenny is well known for dying, some his deaths alone are more popular than others. His most popular deaths seem to be the ones from the first season especially the deaths in 'Pinkeye' and 'Cartman Gets An Anal Probe'. They are so popular that they are featured on several types of merchandise:

Several posters and a jigsaw puzzle titled "The Many Deaths of Kenny" show pictures of his deaths.
He is seen on several cards when he is in his stitched form in 'Pinkeye'.
He is seen on several bric-a-brac when he is dead from 'Cartman Gets An Anal Probe'.
On some cards he suffers the same death he did in Weight Gain 4000lb, when he is impaled through the ears on a flagpole (though the flag says, "Welcome To South Park" rather than "Welcome Kathie Lee".)
On some Bric-A-Brac, he is frozen is after he died in 'Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut'.

Trivia

According to the [South Park Calendar], Kenny McCormick's birthday is March 22.
Kenny's muffled speech has, on occasion, allowed the creators to sneak profanities past the censors. For instance, in the episode "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", after being shown Kyle's box with a lump of poo in it, Kenny can be clearly understood saying "that is the sickest thing I have ever fucking seen." And in "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants", Kenny at one point clearly says "No fucking way, dude." In fact, Most of the time, nearly everything he says contains the word 'fuck.'
Kenny has a special attack move which he uses against the Super Adventure Club in The Return of Chef. Cartman calls it the "Spin Blossom Nut Squash". Kenny leaps forward head first spinning in a corkscrew fashion. The attack ends as Kenny headbutts his victim in the crotch.
Kenny's last name was spelled "McKormick" in the opening to the "Fourth Grade" episodes (the second half of season 4 and all of season 5).
Kenny has an obsession with Womens breasts and is seen drawing or fantisizing about them on several episodes.
In the Lil' Crime Stoppers Episode, it is said by the Mafia that the McCormicks make their drugs to ship out.
Kenny has said "Oh my god they killed (someone)" on at least two occasions and "You bastards!" on at least one occasion.
In the Japanese language dub of South Park, Kenny is voiced by Mitsuru Ogata

External links

[Repository of translated Kenny-isms]

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