Why South Park Stopped Killing Kenny McCormick
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Why did South Park Stopped Killing Kenny McCormick? Kenny dies in almost every episode of South Park, until the Season 5, Episode 13: Kenny Dies. In which Kenny was off the show for an entire season. He returned in season 6, and since then creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have stopped killing Kenny.
In this video I'll be going through the complete South Park evolution of Kenny, from season 1 to the South Park movies. I talk about Kenny's friendship with Kyle, Stan and Eric Cartman. I also dicuss Kenny's alter egos: Mysterion from the Coon Saga, and Princess Kenny. And break down his role in the South Park games, South Park: The Stick of Truth and The Fractured but Whole.
I will also answer the question: How many times does Kenny McCormick die in South Park?
Written by Michael McCarrick & Lydia
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Oh my god, they stopped killing Kenny!
You Bastards!
You bastards !😂😂😂😂😂😂.
You bastards!!! (But in a good way)
You’re not bastards!
You, bastards?
The same reason they stopped having Stan vomit every time Wendy showed up, the joke stopped being funny, so they stopped doing it.
I do like when they bring it back in The List many years later
It's not because it stopped being funny, it's because it stopped their freedom of creativity to write in different directions.
unfunny directions. Randy directions.
@skidooshlayman12 they stopped killing off Kenny long before that and Kenny doesn't have anything to do with randy and his farm lol
Except for if he dies in Fractured But Whole he comes back as a ghost and can still attack enemies, his ultimate also brings him back to life
Kenny was always my favorite character. I don't know, the fact he died horrible deaths all the time, but still got up every morning to live his best life. Not to mention, some of his deaths were for the greater good. It just kind of makes the character feel heroic.
I honestly wonder how Kenny never figured out how to profit from his own death. Dying rich people will pay a lot of money to live, and Kenny could theoretically illegally sell them his organs and simply come back the next day having had the money paid to his family.
For the greater good?
Greater good.....lol....killing me
@@kentkearney6623 Yes there are a couple of episodes in which Kenny sacrifices himself for others, in the episode jewbilee he saves the jews by destroying the conch shell moses is trapped in, killing himself in the process, in the episode Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut, he sacrifices himself to restore electricity to a hospital by starting a generator by making his body the conductor between live wires.
@@hellishhybrid1839 just take out a life insurance policy.
There's also an episode where Timmy tries to kill someone by giving them Kenny's hoodie, and a bunch of random deaths almost happen, demonstrating that Timmy knows what's going on with Kenny.
I don’t remember that one. What episode is that?
That episode was Cripple Fight. He gives it to Jimmy.
@@craigspartonyes because Timmy was trying to kill Jimmy
His reality wraping mind powers must make him immune to Kenny's mind wipe
TIMMAY!
I think the joke just got old for Trey and Matt. I'd still like to see a classic Kenny death every now and again, though. Maybe once per season.
Me too, I think it's a Stewie situation where it just got to the point where it was like how long can this really go on
Meh, I think they should move passed it by now.
Was an old joke kids at treys school used to tell when their poor friend Kenny didn't show up to school, guess the old joke got old
Even in seasons when Kenny doesn't die, there's usually a reference to him 'dying'. Like in the Warcraft episode, Kenny's character dies and Stan and Kyle say their catch phrase.
I feel like the reason Trey Parker and Matt Stone stopped killing him off, is because they themselves said that they were running out of ideas after a long period of time.
I noticed that you called Kenny "The Cruelest Joke" like your videos on Klaus and Meg. Personally, I would not place Kenny in the same category as Meg and Klaus; his deaths were not caused by hatred from others, unlike Meg. Also, he was liked and respected by his peers. In summary, I would not classify as a "punching bag" in comparison to other characters like Meg or Klaus. In my opinion, I would argue Butters to be South Park's "cruelest joke".
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@@insertname4532"I'm Scott Malkinson, I have diabetes"
@@DrDipsh1t and a lisp.
Isint that cruel though? He’s the most selfless person who’s always getting punished
Both of them are.
Kenny is my Favorite South Park character. I just love the fact that he actually really cares for his sister and that he often acts extremely selfless. He would have been justified in being cynical and mean to everyone and hating the world, after all he is poor, constantly made fun of and treated in the most abusive way by pretty muh everyone including his parents, but he still wants to do the right thing (most of the time). In a way he seems like a representation of hope, because at times it might seem like hope is dead but in the end it can't truly die.
:)
They loved Kenny. He was designed to be the character that died every episode and that was the joke. What I think they didn't expect after the year 2000 was an actual following and love for Kenny so they were like Oh shit. Ok. Then killed him "for real", gave him a season break for audience space/exposure, and when he came back it was a big deal even when the show depicted it like it wasn't.
He does still die sometimes just rarely. And its still funny when it happens
Imagine how sad it would be if Kenny had stayed dead even after Season 6. He would have an even more depressing legacy than Pip. He'd be remembered as the kid whose family is dirt poor, died in every episode, and then died for real because Trey and Matt got bored of him. I can't think of a more cursed existence.
At least with Kenny coming back, he got to become more of a character and only die very rarely. He's gotten to live his life. We now know Kenny as the superhero Mysterion, the loving and protective older brother to Karen, the master of strategy games like Heaven vs. Hell and Magic The Gathering, and the millionaire scientist surrounded by hot women.
He’s too iconic of a character for them to permanently remove
I like that episode where Kyle kept thinking Kenny was going to die and he got mad because he couldn’t say his “they killed Kenny” line
What that's sad, Kenny is starting to have a character arc, and it would be great if suddenly he magically made Stan and Kyle remember the pain of his past deaths and they apologize for being clueless. Or maybe a truth bomb where his parents secretly used his constant deaths to get money and cover them up with funerals.
In Season 26, not only did Kenny not die, but I don't think a single other character died.
if we ignore the giant shoot out that happend in the Finale on Tegridy Farms
@@silverstone9836A female cop got shot in the shoulder and landed on Randy. We all know the golden rule in media. If a character gets shot in the shoulder or arm, they survive!
@@alexvaughan1013a cop in s9e13 of South Park gets shot in the shoulder and dies
I must admit, the one where the boys are standing at the bus stop then Kenny burst open with rats coming out of him is pretty funny.
Mysterion is a badass character! He shows Kenny has a heart, and cares about people.
I've often wondered if the character of Mysterion is actually a reference to the immortal villains from the Gerry Anderson puppet show Captain Scarlet, The Mysterons.
Kenny surviving the Christmas episode is a context bit. In the original airing, later that night Comedy Central did a live new years countdown where he died anyways
I knew someone at the time who was actually upset he didn't die, said it wasn't a real South Park episode if he didn't die. God forbid comedy not be formulaic every time.
The funny part is that in killing Kenny off so often it became a staple of the show and something we began to look forward to making him a very important character after all.
So my favorite Kenny death might be a technical glitch but apparently in one version of South Park's Pinkeye episode (edited to be "clean") Cartman needs help to defeat Zombie Kenny. So the core 4 collectively kill Kenny & a say together "Oh my god WE killed Kenny! We're Bastards!" And the funniest part is that because it was on television, the evidence was probably edited out before the audience could claim collective guilt for killing him! 😂
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There was also an episode where either Kyle accidentally offs Kenny, to which Cartman responds with “whoa, that’s pretty messed up.”
In cartmans silly hate crime 2000 they kill Kenny with bricks and say the "oh my God WE killed Kenny! We're bastards!"
Brought back some good memories of early South Park. I think "Oh my god they killed Kenny, You bastards!" has to be one of the greatest catchphrases of all time. That bit in the rainforest episode too "Who?! Who killed him?!" "They did... They're bastards"
Here's a question - when Kenny's mom says how many times he's died when she's birthed the newest Kenny, is the count accurate at that point?
not rlly, she said it was the 52nd time that happened when by that point in the show it was just 30-40 times I think. but ig they were counting times from earlier in kenny's life? lol
@@tiablue9106 Thanks!
I love how after a season of him staying dead he just comes back and theyre like "oh hey"
"OH MY GOD THEY KILLED KENNY"
"Who killed him?!"
"They did"
"Who's they???!!!"
"You know.. they're bastards"
My own headcanon in-continuity explanation for why Kenny stopped dying so much: before he died of the illness in “Kenny Dies,” all prior deaths were something that had been _done to_ him. This one was his 1ˢᵗ death of _completely natural_ causes, _not_ caused by any action by anyone (other times he did die of some infection such as herpes, but the boys deliberately gave themselves that).
Until then, he’d return when his parents did the nasty and produced his new body. He never knew that part because he was in Hell (usually) or Heaven (rarely) when that happened, and didn’t realize that he was back until his new newborn body had swiftly, over the course of a single night, grown back to his current age, and he woke up that morning (his one simple fade-in re-appearance resurrection was a special case).
He would’ve stayed dead forever after the natural causes death if Cartman hadn’t drank his ashes as a milkshake, which yanked his soul out of Hell and caused him to possess Cartman for a few episodes. Then, when Kenny’s soul was exorcised by Chef’s parents, Kenny’s soul drifted about (possessing an actor briefly). Then, when Jesus was killed and resurrected towards the end of that season, since He shares the power of resurrection with Kenny, He met Kenny’s soul and pointed him back to South Park where his friends were, and regenerated his body without his parents having to rebirth him the usual way (the only other time this happened since the Cartman’s Mom is Still a Dirty Slut reappearance). Rather than fade-in on-frame like he did in the Carman’s Mom two-parter, he simply walks in from out-of-frame.
His extended death and Cartman’s meddling combined to weaken his Cult-of-Cthulhu-obtained curse (Kenny sort of became the son of Cthulhu because of that), so now he still comes back when he dies and his parents rebirth him a body each time, but he no longer _attracts_ death like he used to so he doesn’t die _nearly_ as often (only when the plot requires it).
(I have a related headcanon about who does, and who doesn’t, know about Kenny’s deaths-and-returns, and why. I’ll post it only if someone asks.)
It might have taken a while, but id do love headcanons, so id love to hear yours =]
@@marsh1159 Darn it, I’d started typing up a lengthy reply, then accidentally hit a key that sent the browser tab to another video before sending it. 😦
It’s part of a headcanon I came up with several years ago for a series finale for _South Park._ Since then they did the Tegridy Farms thing which would’ve made the setup I had planned a little harder to work in, but that could be worked around. Only one character is my own creation, and he only appears in the first part. Among other things, this not only reveals who knows about Kenny’s deaths and resurrections, but it answers an even _bigger_ mystery about life in that small mountain town that its residents have been dealing with all along, yet nobody (including Kenny) noticed.
I’ll type the rest up in Notepad so I don’t risk losing it again, then post it to you when I get a chance.
@@COMALiteJ Sounds mighty interesin' so far, looking forward to it!
@@COMALiteJbeen a month....
@@ofangelsflipzWell, if _two_ people are interested in this, I might just have to post at least a summary here, and maybe put at least the first act up on a website somewhere.
I actually worked at the escape room ( 18:48 )where cartman’s escape room is hosted and I can confirm that is how you kill Kenny
Kenny has and always will be my favorite character of the entire series
The problem with killing Kenny every episode is it went from being fun to being a chore. As such, Kenny only dies when it benefits the plot.
I literally never could tell Kyle & Stan apart.
I thought Butters was supposed to replace Pip.
My favorite episode after they had Kenny die for most of season 6 was My Future Self and Me it really shined the light on how Butters could both be extremely naive&innocent and also be extremely not when Stan and Butters found Cartman's parent revenge company listen to Butters read the newspaper advertisements after the parent revenge bit he reads aloud a bunch of stuff that will be removed from RUclips
Kenny was one of my fav characters from the early seasons.
He died so much that I had fun trying to predict how he would be killed each episode when they first aired and see if I was right.
Sometimes I was close to predicting it, that was how fun it was to watch South Park as a teenager at the time.
I really like how you have avatars for any show you talk about. A small but cool detail.😊
Always appreciate it when someone puts in so much effort and research into videos like these. You can tell they're passionate about what they're covering.
Kenny's reaction to surviving for the first time in an episode is my favorite joke of all of Season 1😂
There is only two charaters i love from South Park and its Butters and Kenny
I use to be so sad when he would constantly die
I always thought that nobody caring or remembering when Kenny dies was a commentary on callousness of society when it comes to poor people. We saw a mass example of this callousness during the pandemic, where all the middle and upper class stood with big pharma to shutdown everything without any regard for how that will affect poor people and daily wage earners.
Here in India, millions of poor people working daily wage jobs in cities had to walk, yes walk, hundreds of kilometers back to their villages when everything was shutdown suddenly and given that they had moved to cities because of lack of resources in the villages in the first place, god only knows how they survived in the villages when everything was shutdown.
Experiments have shown that people have no qualms about physically hurting or even torturing other people when some authority figure gives them the authority to do so, now during the pandemic when the authorities threw a lot of fear into the mix as well, people had no problem throwing billions of poor people out in the cold with nothing to survive on.
No, it was based on there poor friend who skipped class.
They joked he was dead again.
Don't over think comedy.
It's not an analogy it's just funny.
Based India!
Wow! That's terrible....but I think you're right. Here in the US, only me & the impoverished kept the stores open. Yeomen's work...with little reward.
the whole shutdown is part of agenda 2030 2045 2050 to kill 90% and the rich fuckers get to now live as poor fuckers while rest get to die.
@@markfoster1520 walmart stayed open while mom and pops were forced to close. and stores that were not closed mom and pop restrooms were closed while walmarts 1000s peaople day restrooms were wide open! if anything this lockdown SPREAD IT more than STOPPED IT!
I loved how Trey and Matt always found a way to work this in as something else equally as hilarious and creative as the political and social satire they were focusing on 😂
There's also the time Kenny died during a Jeff Dunham special on Comedy Central, though we have no idea how he dies as the South Park reference was while the "typical old man Walter" puppet was staring into the camera and telling us what he saw.
Legends know this is a reupload
Although it has added content.
With 5 minutes added + an extra kill I missed :)
The rule is, unless they say OMG they killed Kenny, Kenny is not dead. So they count as one death.
Good video mayne ! Kenny is a good fella. I like how butters gives him props in that one episode where he calls everyone selfish, fake & stuck up except Kenny he’s the only kid w any sense of dignity
The way they treated characters like Pip and Butters was a lot crueller in my opinion.
I loved it when Pip loses his shit when the chinese team continually call him frenchie in the episode DODGEBALL.
I really appreciate the immense amount of careful observation and hours of tv-watching-research that went into this! I would not be mad about watching that much South Park!
Fun fact:Kenny’s death in the movie was a reference to Trey’s other movie cannibal the musical! Where one of the song lyrics in the movie was about a heart being replaced with as baked potatoe!
"I'm pretty tired guys. I think I'm gonna take a nap." *Gunshot*
Great video Lydia keep up the great work! Love the South Park version of you😊
I think the best pronunciation I ever heard for it was Wash Yer Sister Sauce.
Still cracks me up every time I hear the word because I think of that pronunciation.
Omg this was extremely thorough, thank you! I love your South Park character!
I love these styles of videos and I just so happened to stumble upon your channel!
You earned a sub and a like from me! 💖👍🏻 Keep up the amazing work! 😉
P.S. I really love your voice and accent! 🥰 It really makes listening to these sorts of videos that much better in all honesty... 😌 Not to mention South Park is one of my all time favorite shows IF NOT just my MOST FAVORITE SHOW! 🤩 So thank you very much for this upload Lydia! 😄
I better not put off watching this, just in case RUclips decides to nuke another one of your Kenny videos.
Kenny's my favorite character, he's a pervert, but he's got a good heart.
See? Even the English can't pronounce worcestershire sauce. So I decree from now on we call it "Mega Ketchup".
I call it tasty.
Kenny didn't really die in the season 5 episode Earth Day. He just had his arms and legs cut off.
the reason kenny dies so much is because when trey and matt were kids there was a kid in a orange parka which muffles his voice and he was the poorest kid and he rarely came to school which made the class make a joke that he died
Do The Compmete Rapunzel Tineline next, Lydia!
5:00
I do want to say, it has been implied kenny has multiple methods of coming back to life, he just always will, but not necessarily the same way every time (this explains all the inconsistentcys regarding that)
0:24 best death scene, Cartman's shocked and confused reaction is priceless. lol
3:16 You're Right. Everyone Loves Zombie Apocalypses, But Not It's Gore.
6:29 Kenny's Friends Being Fake Is Confirmed.
I wish I could get a drawing of myself as a South Park character. Nice video.
this is so simple on why they stopped this running gag in south park. because they were getting tired of the joke and wanted more character development for kenny. trey and mat parker even said that themselves.
@9:58 he may have been unsuccessful, but the horrors Kenny’s dad and his balls and anus went through. I felt sorry for the man
Is it just me who was genuinely really sad when Kenny died in season 5 I was bawling cause Kenny was my favourite character
Is this a re-upload? Awesome video 😊 Going to watch it today in all of amazingness. Just feels familiar?
Hey Matt! Yes it is a reupload, the original was only up for 24 hours. But I added about 5 minutes or so to it, plus an extra kill I missed :)
@@LydiaLovesTimelines I watched and enjoyed this version too 😊
Kenny is the cutest character in south park because he hides his face and always comes back to life. I do love your animation south park character.
re-upload?
I feel like I've watched this before
Is it just Me, or does the Video end EXTREMELY abruptly for everyone?
Maybe cartman can remember because during the succubus episode he had Kenny's eyes transplanted and those give him the ability to remember because he is seeing the death because of those eyes.
Imagine if "Kenny Dies" was the first episode of South Park you ever saw
I'm rather curious how many times we had seen him die when his mom mentioned he's been reborn 51 times (she says 52, but his first birth isn't a rebirth).
The creators ran out of ideas to kill Kenny
On a somewhat unrelated note, I just love how well Lydia's self-toon adapts to the IP at hand. Her South-Parkified avatar here is particularly adorable! Maybe it's just the pink earmuffs. 🤗
Love your videos!
I love your videos so much keep up the good work woman
Kenny is the GOAT of the show!!! 😊
You forgot the time where Kenny got run over by a car in their merchandise commercial it can be found on RUclips ☠️
Its crazy, I remember staying up till 11 as a kid waiting for the premiere, and I was obsessed with this show since, but I remember being so excited to see how Kenny dies in every episode, and when that Mr Hankey ep aired, I was so devastated that there was no Kenny Death, as I've aged, I still loved the Kenny deaths but I was more invested in the comedic brilliance of everything, and then when they explained Mysterions power
It was so nice to have an actual explanation to the years of pointless death 😅
He also did in a paramount+ ad
I wish I was watching the series when season 6 was still airing. I’d imagine it was quite surprising but neat whenever Kenny ended up dying like 1-3 times a season if at all.
I only got into watching the show when season 17 was airing, by then his deaths were very far and few in between.
I loved the Kenny dying in the movie one. He's so CUTE!
His super attacks with the rats and unicorn are really powerful in SOT. Not to mention he's the only ally that has a chance to resurrect on his own, making him invaluable in tough fights.
My name is Kenneth and everyone always called me Kenny. Back in elementary school through graduation. Every conversation attempt ended with “oh my god they killed Kenny” I didn’t understand till I actually watched South Park and saw why it was a saying. That alone made it very hard to make friends as a kid everyone said it constantly. Even when my name was called in the mornings every day.
I think she shows got it’s moments of being hilarious.
But this show actually impacted my childhood negatively. No hate on the show but yeah. Stumbling across this made me think about it.
Jesus Christ, but "Kenny Dies" broke me the first time I saw it.
As weird as this sounds, as someone who was pretty much born with IBS, my favourite Kenny death comes from the Brown Sound episode where the boys try to get revenge on a bunch of kids from New Jersey.
5.13 was really painfull to watch.
@18:49 I can vouch for that. I've done that escape room in NYC
Oh, my god. They killed the outro.
like Lazarus it has returned from the dead
How was this 4 hrs ago when I watched this exact video like a week ago?
Borderlands has the final day on video game deaths: it only counts if it happens in a cut scene
Is this a reupload or am I losing it
Your South Park style avatar is adorable.
That was a classic moment when Kenny dies over and over again.
Wait south park has 25 seasons, I thought it has 8 seasons. That's when the last time I seen South Park season 8.
even hearing Butters' name makes me smile. Such a great character.
Kenny Mccormick: Good thing I signed the contract, to spare my life with the black lantern Corp.
While Grim reaper helped me with my unwanted death. :/
I feel like I'm having deja vu. I swear I have seen this video already. Is this a reupload or did someone just so happen to make something similar? I'm not trashing on this video, it's obviously very well made. I'm just saying it feels like I have seen it before.
Hey, it is re-upload 🙂 It was originally only up for 24 hours about 2 weeks ago but I took it down. But changed it a little, added about 5 extra minutes and included an extra kill
@@LydiaLovesTimelines Ah, cool. Thank you for the explanation.
2:51 the correct pronunciation is wash your sister sauce 🤣🤣🤣
I never made the connection that "They" were the creators of south park lmao
is this a re-upload? I already see it a few weeks ago?
Always brighten my days greetings from Ecuador
Keep the south park videos up
I watched the original version many times and I gotta say this one is better!
Am I the only one crying about the teddy bear that looks like it was clinging to the blanket?