Kenneth “Kenny” McCormick, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman, remains one of the most famous characters of the show South Park that is created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Kenny was featured in the short films “The Spirit of Christmas” both in 1992 and 1995 for the very first time. Mike Judge voiced this character when he appeared in the “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” film, and following that, some other people also voiced his character in various episodes.
Kenny’s had a recurring role, he eventually gets killed in every episode and comes back in the following episode as if nothing had happened, and he was not just killed in the previous episode. As the show creators teased Kenny, a poor imaginary boy, they made this his uniqueness, and his being killed in every episode till the five seasons of South Park has itself made him a well-known character from the viewers’ point of you.
Kenny is easy to identify as he always wears a hood. To be more precise, Kenny always wears his orange parka or always hides his face beneath something. Because of something always covering Kenny’s face, his voice comes out muffled every time. Kenny is a boy from the poorest household in south park. Both of his parents have issues being alcoholics and drug users.
Keeping that aside, Now let us dig into the times Kenny was not wearing his hood and when revealed his face was. In addition, we shall also discuss the number of times he was killed in the entire show. Scroll down to learn more.
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What Episode Does Kenny Reveal His Face? Detailed.
Kenny, for the first time, appeared unhidden by the hood of his orange parka in “South Park: Bigger, Longer&Uncut” in 1999. Here Kenny revealed his blonde hair. Other than this, he was seen without his orange parka in a few more occasional episodes like “The Losing Edge,” ” The Jeffersons,” and “You’re Getting Old.”
After ten whole years, Kenny again exposed his face in the show. The fifth episode, called “DikinBaus Hot Dogs,” left the audience in utter shock. This episode is about Kenny planning to open a restaurant along with Cartmans’.
A patchwork of this duo playing together as the two read the potential designs thoroughly. Fans got to take quick glance at the exposed Kenny’s face. He wore a t-shirt that spelled “restaurant owner,” but he wore a sunglass that covered his cartoon eye.
Kenny’s voice also sounds unmuffled in a few episodes during some instances while Eric Stough, the case co-producer, voices Kenny’s character. He also got a major speaking role for the first time as the Mysterion character during the episodes of “The Coon” in seasons thirteen and fourteen. Kenny is also fluent in Romanian and a little bit of Spanish, as implied in the episode “W.T.F..”
In the franchise, Kenny has been dead and comes back to life 120 times which includes in the series 103, in early shorts animation 2, in T.V. parodies for 6, in video games 6, and the balance 3 in movies.
Despite him being killed in every episode of the first five seasons, he did manage to survive in a few episodes like: ” Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo,” ” City On The Edge of Forever,” “Rainforest Shmainforest,” “Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?”, “Probably,” “Fat Camp,” “Terrance and Phillip: Behind The Blow,” “Cripple Fight,” “Starvin’ Marvin In Space,” “ChinckenLover,” etc…
Apart from getting killed, Kenny did not make an appearance in some episodes; thus, they cannot be added to this account.
Just like most of the characters in the show South Park, Kenny’s character is also based on a real-life character, Trey Parker’s Childhood friend, whose name is also Kenny. Parker, in an interview in 2000, confessed the truths behind Kenny’s real-life character as he said that the kid Kenny was the poorest in their neighborhood.
The real-life Kenny used to wear an orange parka, so whatever he said was difficult for anyone to understand because of the parka. Parker also mentioned that in real life, Kenny would often not come to school, which made others mock him for being dead. After a few days, he would come to school and attend classes again.
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