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Kenny McCormick

Kenneth McCormick is a fictional character and one of the four main protagonists in the adult animated sitcom ''South Park'', alongside 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. After early appearances in ''The Spirit of Christmas'' shorts in 1992 (''Jesus vs. Frosty'') and 1995 (''Jesus vs. Santa''), Kenny first appeared on television when ''South Park'' premiered on August 13, 1997 with the episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". In the 1999 feature film ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', he revealed his uncovered face and real voice for the first time, being provided by ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' and ''King of the Hill'' Creator Mike Judge. ''South Park'' producer Eric Stough provides Kenny's unmuffled voice since then, though Judge reprises his role for the first time in 27 years in the season 29 episode "South American Biker Gangs".

Kenny is a third- and later fourth-grade student who commonly has extraordinary experiences atypical of conventional small-town life in his hometown of South Park, Colorado, where he lives with his poverty-stricken family. Kenny is animated by computer to look as he did in the show's original method of cutout animation.

The character gained popularity from a running gag during the first five seasons of the series, whereby Kenny would suffer an excruciating death before returning alive and well in the next episode with little or no explanation. Stan would frequently use the catchphrase "Oh, my god! They killed Kenny!", followed by Kyle exclaiming, "You bastard(s)!". Since the sixth season in 2002, the practice of killing Kenny has been seldom used by the show's creators. Various episodes have set up the gag, sometimes presenting alternate explanations for Kenny's unacknowledged reappearances. Provided by Wikipedia