Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick is a fictional character and one of the four main characters in the adult animated sitcom South Park along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman. His often muffled and incomprehensible speech—the result of his parka hood covering his mouth—is provided by co-creator Matt Stone.
Notice we only hear what he says without muffles during the episodes in which he is in a mask. This is to symbolize that the lower class must disguise to grab attention from the upper class. The coon and friends episodes also shock us in that we do not even realize Kenny is mysterion until it is said so by Stan.
But usually, his face is slightly obstructed, or his hair is covered, or you only see him from behind, etc. As of now, there's no episodes that show him totally, completely, face-and-hair-fully-out and voice unmuffled. (For that treat, you need to check out the South Park Movie: “Bigger, Longer, and Uncut”).
It was just a gag, and after each episode the show was returned to a status quo. In the 14th season of the show however it is revealed that in actuality Kenny is born again after each of his deaths and quickly grows to a 10 year old form, and the rest of the town has no memory of his death.
To his dismay, the government puts a ban on stem cell research immediately afterward. Meanwhile, Kenny is diagnosed with what is presumably muscular dystrophy, and his friends and family are told that he will probably die.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. But mostly they don't remember, like in The Coon trilogy you see that Kenny/Mysterion dies right in front of Stan and the others, when he woke up on his bed the next morning Stan and the others said that he ran away.
In the 'Coon and Friends' trilogy, a parody of superhero film franchises, it was confirmed that Kenny's immortality is a result of his parents formerly attending Cthulhu cult meetings: every time he dies, his mother rebirths him and he quickly grows back to the same age.
Kenny McCormick is the poor member of the Four Boys. Almost all of the time, Kenny wears a hood that muffles his speech. Kenny being muffled is how he gets away with inappropriate and vulgar speech without having to be bleeped out or censored. Kenny is also shown to enjoy getting high.
A grave for South Park character Kenny McCormick appeared at a housing project in central Russia, apparently as a promotional stunt for the project, which is also named South Park. The fake gravestone installed at the entrance to the residential complex in Kazan read, “Kenny McCormick.
The daily deaths continued until season five when Stone and Parker, growing sick of the character, decided to kill him off permanently in an episode appropriately titled “Kenny Dies.” But the little Coloradan proved too important to keep away and was inexplicably resurrected again in season six.
His unique muffled voice is accomplished by his voice actor Matt Stone, speaking into his cupped hand. He speaks clearly and without his hood in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", "The Jeffersons", "Lice Capades", and "Mysterion Rises" with proper, unmuffled lines.
However, Kenny always returns alive and well the next episode, and his death is rarely addressed, but there's one character who seems to be aware of how his friend with the orange parka always dies: Cartman.
Kenny's concealed nature as a pedophile was without a doubt his darkest secret and one that could very well ruin his life and tarnish his reputation if revealed to the world; accordingly, he went to great lengths in order to keep this aspect of his personality concealed, including implementing a lock on his bedroom ...
The nickname "Butters" evolved from Parker and Stone calling Stough "little buddy" for about three years.
Season 14 explains that everyone fails to remember that Kenny has died whenever he does (see below) but one episode shows that Cartman is aware of Kenny's constant deaths, but it is possible that he does not find them to be a source of concern.
Mackey's head is so large because he wears his tie too tight. Without it on, his head is the size of Timmy Burch's.
Kenny's deaths are well known in popular culture, and was one of the things viewers most commonly associated with South Park during its earlier seasons.
Everyone in the hospital room agrees with Kyle and quietly leaves, allowing Kenny to die. Kenny returns to Heaven just in time to command the angels to victory using a golden PSP.
Kenny's Tombstone
It reads: "Sleep well, little child. The Lord holds thee now."
The muffled-voiced, parka-wearing kid of the group died in every episode until his "permanent" death in season five. While the character has reappeared since and still dies occasionally, the joke is no longer a staple of every episode. The reason why is quite simple -- the show's creators got sick of killing Kenny.
In the 14th season of the show however it is revealed that in actuality Kenny is born again after each of his deaths and quickly grows to a 10 year old form, and the rest of the town has no memory of his death. This is because his parents were members of a Cthulu cult and practiced dark rituals.
In the episode "Kenny Dies", Kenny dies after developing terminal muscular dystrophy, while Parker and Stone claimed that Kenny would not be returning in subsequent episodes. The duo insisted they grew tired of upholding the tradition of having Kenny die in each episode.
After Kenny's semi-permanent death near the end of Season 5, Butters became the replacement Kenny, until this episode, where he is fired for simply being too lame.
The muffled-voiced, parka-wearing kid of the group died in every episode until his "permanent" death in season five. While the character has reappeared since and still dies occasionally, the joke is no longer a staple of every episode. The reason why is quite simple -- the show's creators got sick of killing Kenny.
In a 2020 and 2021 interview, Fujimoto revealed that Power's personality was inspired by Eric Cartman from South Park and Walter Sobchak From The Big Lebowski.