

Kenny comes from a poor household, presided over by his alcoholic, unemployed father, Stuart McCormick. During the first 58 episodes, Kenny and the other main child characters were in the third grade. Kenny attends South Park Elementary as part of Mr.

Various episodes have set up the gag, sometimes presenting alternate explanations for Kenny's unacknowledged reappearances.

Since the sixth season in 2002, the practice of killing Kenny has been seldom used by the show's creators. Stan would frequently use the catchphrase "Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!", followed by Kyle exclaiming "You bastard(s)!". The character gained popularity thanks to a running gag during the first five seasons of the series, whereby Kenny would routinely suffer an excruciating death before returning alive and well in the next episode with little or no explanation. Kenny is animated by computer to look as he did in the show's original method of cutout animation. Kenny was a third, later fourth-grade student who commonly has extraordinary experiences not typical of conventional small-town life in his hometown of South Park, Colorado, where he lives with his poverty-stricken family. After early appearances in The Spirit of Christmas shorts in 19, Kenny appeared in South Park television episodes beginning August 13, 1997, as well as the 1999 feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, where his uncovered face and voice were first revealed. His often muffled and incomprehensible speech-the result of his parka hood covering his mouth-is provided by co-creator Matt Stone. Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick is a fictional character and one of four protagonists in the adult animated sitcom South Park, alongside Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman. 126 Times (episodes: Kenny Dies movies: South Park: Post Covid )
