Butters Stotch
| Butters Stotch | |
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| South Park character | |
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| First appearance | "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" (As background character) "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" (first major appearance) |
| Created by |
Trey Parker Matt Stone |
| Voiced by |
Matt Stone Jennifer Howell ("Damien") |
| Information | |
| Full name | Leopold Stotch |
| Aliases | Professor Chaos Marjorine Mantequilla |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Student |
| Family |
Linda Stotch (mother) Stephen Stotch (father) Grandma (grandmother) |
| Relatives | (details) |
| Religion | Catholicism |
| Residence | South Park, Colorado |
Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone and loosely based on co-producer Eric Stough. He is a third- then fourth-grade student at the fictional South Park Elementary School. Butters is depicted as more cheerful, naive, optimistic, gullible, and passive compared to the show's other child characters and can becom increasingly anxious, especially when faced with the likelihood of being punished, which is usually just being grounded, of which he is extremely terrified. As a result, he is often sheltered and unknowledgeable of some of the suggestive content his peers understand. His name is a play on the confection butterscotch.
Butters debuted as an unnamed background character (for some reason even though he's a major character now) when South Park first aired on August 13, 1997; his role gradually increased, becoming one of the series' most recurring characters beginning with Season 3 (1999). Creators Parker and Stone have stated that he is one of their favorite characters.
Butters attends South Park Elementary as part of Mr. Garrison's (later Mrs. Garrison's) 4th grade class. His original name was puff puff. In "AWESOM-O", he says his birthday is September 11. He learns from his parents in "Going Native" that he was born on the island of Kaua'i. During the show's first 58 episodes (1997 through Season 4 episode "4th Grade" in 2000), Butters and the other main child characters were in the third grade. He lives in South Park as the only child of Stephen and Linda Stotch, from whom he perpetually faces the looming prospect of being grounded. When the character of Kenny McCormick was temporarily written off the show near the end of the Season 5 (2001), Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman allow Butters into their group as the "fourth friend", a role he continued to fill until midway through Season 6. During this period, the boys would often take advantage of Butters' mild temperament by making him a stooge in their own personal schemes. The three eventually ousted him in favor of Tweek Tweak.
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