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This page is a list of residents in South Park. This does not include family members, school staff, the children, minor characters or one-off characters.

Contents 1 Big Gay Al 2 Dr. Alphonse Mephisto and Kevin 3 Dr. Doctor 4 Mayor McDaniels 5 Mr. Hankey 6 Ned Gerblansky 7 Officer Barbrady 8 Priest Maxi 9 Sergeant Harrison Yates 10 Skeeter 11 Towelie 12 Tuong Lu Kim 13 References

Big Gay Al (voiced by Matt Stone) is a stereotypical homosexual man known for his flamboyant and positive demeanour. For example, he almost always responds to the greeting "How are you?" with an upbeat "I'm super! Thanks for asking!" At one point in the show, he runs an animal farm for gay animals who have been rejected by homophobic pet owners. He temporarily adopted Sparky, Stan's gay dog, who had run away from home. Later on in the episode, his large shelter vanishes, but the various animals remained, and were adopted by their former owners who had missed them greatly. Ever since, he has been a particularly good friend to Stan.

He had a minor role in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, where it is revealed he is in fact a celebrity. He was the co-host and an entertainer at the troops' USO show where he even had his own musical number called 'I'm Super'.

In the episode "Cripple Fight", he had taken up the position of the leader of a scouting troop, since he has been in the scouts since he was nine years old. However, the parents of the children are uneasy about a gay scout leader, and the club fires him. The boys rally to get him back, and Gloria Allred and others force the Scouts to reaccept him. He rejects this, saying he knows the Scout leaders are still good men, and since the scouts are a private club, they should have the right to exclude people if they chose to, just as he has the right to express himself as a gay man.

Big Gay Al eventually starts up a relationship with Mr. Slave, the former boyfriend of Mr. Garrison; the two broke up when the latter got a sex change. Soon after, Al and Slave become engaged. Mrs. Garrison swore she would stop gay marriage in "Follow That Egg!," because she wanted Mr. Slave back; when she failed, Al and Mr. Slave got married.

Based on UCLA genetics professor, Dr. Bowman, Dr. Alphonse Mephisto is a stereotypical mad scientist, who specialises in genetic engineering, and is the uncle of a boy called Terrance (not to be confused with the Terrance from Terrance and Phillip). The character is an extended reference to Marlon Brando's portrayal of Dr. Moreau in the 1996 film version of The Island of Dr. Moreau. His name is a reference to Mephistopheles. He is generally a positive, yet slightly creepy, man who always tries to help those who require his talents, but sometimes with a price. Unfortunately his experiments sometimes go wrong and put the whole town in danger.

Like Dr. Moreau, Dr. Mephisto creates strange creatures with his talents- however his creations are things like animals with multiple sets of buttocks. Mephisto believes it is for the good of the Earth, and that one-assed animals are useless and must be destroyed. He even goes as far as presenting a "seven-assed Galapagos Turtle" in an attempt to win a Nobel Prize, but loses to Randy Marsh's "Unified Theory of Fart Thing." He also performs experiments ranging from simple DNA tests to creating a genetic clone of Stan Marsh for his son's science project. Dr. Mephisto apparently has a brother who attempts to kill him every month for unknown reasons. Playing on his real-world origins, he is a member of the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes, a group not fond of "that other NAMBLA". Whenever the people of South Park need something beyond the natural, they turn to him.

Kevin, Dr. Mephisto's assistant, is described as "that little monkey guy"; he is a small little creature who dresses like Dr. Mephisto. He was created as a failed attempt to make a famous pop star. He is silent, and mostly follows Mephisto around. While his exact nature is never addressed on the show, Kevin's story is told in the song "Mephisto and Kevin" by Primus from Chef Aid: The South Park Album; he was apparently a failed attempt to create a perfect pop singer, a test tube baby created from Michael Jackson's sperm and the egg of an unspecified, musically talented female donor, brought to term inside the womb of a llama.

Dr. Doctor, is the only (and incredibly superstitious and inept) doctor in South Park and at Hells Pass Hospital. In one episode he treats the kids of South Park after bullying. In his diagnosis, he uses the kids' slang terms to describe their injuries such as "second-degree titty twister."^[1] He was voiced by George Clooney in South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut.

Mayor McDaniels is the acting mayor of South Park. She handles the various activities of town, always speaking outside of the town hall, and various complaints from the townsfolk. While acting as mayor, she often makes light of serious situations, dismissing them completely. She acts presumptuously, because, according to her, she attended Princeton University, and thinks South Park is a dump and that all of its occupants are idiots. She hates Barbrady as well, but is largely stuck with him; however, it is implied that they have had some secret, rather unusual liaisons together, at least some of which may involve the Japanese Mafia. She is always followed by her two sycophants, also known as aides. They make plans for which she inevitably takes credit. The one with a moustache is referred to as "Ted", and dies in a car crash in "Night of the Living Homeless"; "Johnson" is the other one. She attempts to commit suicide in "Die Hippie, Die" after seeing the effect of a "hippie jam band festival", which she signed the permit for; however, she is later seen inexplicably alive with a bloody bandage around her head, apparently to indicate the scene was only for drama and not meant to change her status in the series.

In the earlier seasons of 'South Park' it was implied that Mayor McDaniels was possibly a closeted lesbian or bisexual, however the idea was apparently abandoned as the series progressed. One episode, "Chef Aid", implies that she is not a lesbian, when she makes love to Chef, who was collecting money to pay for legal fees. He later uses the money to counter-sue the record company that sued him instead.

Mr. Hankey the "Christmas poo", voiced by Trey Parker, is a talking piece of feces; a scatological counterpart to Santa Claus, but with the lighthearted flair of 1960s-era Rankin & Bass holiday specials. He first appeared in the first season episode "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo". He emerges from the toilet bowl on Christmas Eve and brings presents to good boys and girls whose diet has been high in fiber. He is especially close to Kyle, consoling him during his Christmas-Hanukkah depression and generally appears to help the boys out with something or gives them advice. Mr. Hankey has appeared in at various Christmas episodes, and inspired an actual retail CD Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics in which he has his own theme song.

In his first appearance, he appeared anthropomorphic only to Kyle and Chef, symbolising that Mr. Hankey has to be believed in to exist, although he often leaves a trail behind that is attributed by the adults to antisocial behavior by Kyle. Due to his physical state, he can only emerge from the sewers during the Christmas season or he will dry up and die. John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy, threatened to sue Parker and Stone, claiming that Mr. Hankey is a facsimile of his character, Nutty the Nutmeg Poop. Trey Parker, who created Mr. Hankey, has denied it. Mr. Hankey was created, according to Trey Parker, because his father scared him into flushing the toilet as a young child or else suffer a bite from Mr. Hankey.

Ned Gerblansky (voiced by Trey Parker) and his best friend Jimbo Kern represent South Park's large population of stereotypical "hicks". They are obsessed with large trucks, beer, guns, explosions, and killing animals. They detest "liberals" and circumvent anti-hunting laws by yelling, "It's coming right for us!" before shooting any animal, thereby justifying the kill as self-defense and later, after a court ruling, shooting the animals so as to "thin out their numbers", despite the fact that they are shown shooting at endangered species when they shout this phrase.

Jimbo and Ned met while in the Vietnam War, where Jimbo was a helicopter pilot. During the war, Ned lost his right arm when a hand grenade exploded in his hand. In earlier episodes he can be seen with a skeletal, gray, prosthetic arm. Ned also lost his formerly mellifluous voice due to cancer, apparently caused by cigarette smoking, and is forced to speak with an electronic voicebox. Despite the fact that Ned lost one of his arms, he can still wield two-handed weapons, such as a flamethrower, and even an M249 SAW in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

Officer Barbrady is a police officer who is extremely incompetent at what he does and is generally a bumbling oaf, incapable of solving any of the crimes he is charged to investigate. Voiced by Trey Parker, he even unintentionally helped Mr. Garrison try to kill Kathie Lee Gifford. For whatever reason, Mayor McDaniels still often summons him, probably because he is the only cop in South Park until season seven. Despite this he actually does keep the peace in South Park, as shown in "Chickenlover" when shortly after he retired, the city fell into chaos, though this may indicate it is his mere existence rather than anything he does which keeps order in town. Barbrady is likely near deaf; he wears a hearing aid and speaks in a loud, expressionless manner. Officer Barbrady doesn't drink coffee, as seen in episode "Gnomes"; he instead prefers to get hit in the face by a cat swung by the tail. He also appears to be slightly overweight and was apparently abused as a child and, as he put it, "forced to wear a dress and ride his uncles' laps."

Barbrady was illiterate until season two's "Chickenlover". After his illiteracy was exposed, Barbrady was ordered to go to school to learn how to read by the Mayor. Chickenlover made him learn to read by leaving the notes at the crime scenes describing where he would strike next. When the arrest was finally made, Barbrady was thankful at first to Chickenlover but arrested him nonetheless for being a Gallophile (a play on Latin gallus, "chicken," and Gallia, "Gaul"/"France"). Chickenlover then gave him the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand which Barbrady thought was "a piece of shit" and made him realize reading is "a waste of his time".

In "Chickenlover" and "Spookyfish" Barbrady claims to have a wife, but she has not, as of 2007, made an appearance onscreen. In other episodes, it has been implied that he and Mayor McDaniels are in a relationship, despite her general disdain for him.

Priest Maxi (voiced by Matt Stone) is a Catholic priest who serves as the mouthpiece for South Park's Christian community. His name is a reference to West Indian reggae singer, Maxi Priest. His personality seems somewhat flexible based on the needs of the show; often he is a narrow-minded and intolerant man who is convinced of the inevitable damnation of everyone but himself. In one episode he bluntly claimed that Timmy would go to Hell, since Timmy's speech impediment makes it impossible for him to confess his sins. Despite his obvious character flaws, it was Priest Maxi who, in the episode "Red Hot Catholic Love", unearthed the massive corruption behind the many church-related sexual assaults. His character was based on Fr. Thomas Doyle, who fought to expose the corruption of the church regarding sexual molestation.

Though as a priest Maxi is supposed to be celibate, he does not seem to regularly practice this. Like most of the adults in South Park, he has had sex with Mrs. Cartman at some point in his life, and was once caught having sex with a "Mrs. Donovan" (possibly Clyde Donovan's mother) in "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?". In "Cripple Fight" he admitted to having once been homosexual but claims to be reformed; however he apparently once had a relationship with a man named Peterson whom he was supposed to be reforming of homosexuality.

In the episode "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", Maxi, in his hatred of Halloween, kills many South Park citizens in order to convince people Halloween is evil.

Sergeant Yates, voiced by Trey Parker, is an inept Irish-American police officer with the Park County Police Department. He plays the general role of an officer, taking part in various investigations and situations. He is somewhat gullible, and often wastes time by conducting extremely trivial investigations, but shows some competence on occasion, unlike Officer Barbrady. When Michael Jackson, known as Mr. Jefferson, moves into South Park, he begins to become disillusioned with the long-time police tradition of framing wealthy black men for crimes they didn't commit, but makes peace with himself before the episode's end. In season ten, he allows Ike Broflovski's kindergarten teacher to engage in sexual intercourse with him because, until learning of Ike's age, he finds the mental image attractive.

His image is inspired from Die Hard with a Vengeance character Walter Cobb, who was played by Larry Bryggman.

Skeeter is a red-haired townsperson. He first appeared in the episode "Sexual Harassment Panda". He has a southern accent, and typically is portrayed as a redneck. He hangs out at the bar a great deal, where he greets newcomers by saying, "Hey! *whatever they are*! We don't take kindly to your types around here!" This is generally followed by the bartender replying, "Now, Skeeter, he/she/they/it ain't hurtin' nobody."

He is shown leading various mobs in different episodes, or otherwise appears as a background character or regular townee. His most notable appearances include leading the campaign to "Free Hat McCullough" in "Free Hat", and as a war supporter who sings in "I'm a Little Bit Country".

He appears in an updated form in the episode "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", in which he chases after Randy Marsh for demeaning African-Americans. In subsequent episodes, he has reverted back to his original appearance.

Towelie, (also known as Toweleeie (which he once called himself when publishing a book while high) or Stephen McTowelie (the pen name he gave himself in order to disguise himself as a person so as to get his book published)), voiced by Vernon Chatman, is a talking "RG-400 Smart Towel" manufactured by Tynacorp; the exact details of his creation are hopelessly confused, but he was apparently meant to be an alien spying weapon, and was stolen by a paramilitary group before he simply "got high and wandered off" to South Park. He is 17 in "towel years" which is 4 years to each human year, making him only 4 in human years. He often speaks in a high pitched voice. He is usually seen either giving towel-related advice to the citizens of South Park or, more often, getting high on marijuana. Towelie constantly reminds other characters, "Don't forget to bring a towel!" and then, after an awkward pause, asks the subjects, "Wanna get high?"

Towelie's major appearances include appearing in a self titled episode based around his origin, and in "A Million Little Fibers", a parody where he writes a partly fabricated memoir, which gets him into trouble with his fans. After Kenny's death, the boys go searching for a replacement friend in the episode "Professor Chaos". Towelie, a possible candidate, was said to be "stoned all the time. You can't really depend on him for anything", by the boys. Nonetheless, Towelie makes it to the final round. He also makes brief cameos in "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" and "Red Man's Greed".

Tuong Lu Kim, a.k.a. City Wok Guy, is a seemingly stereotypical Chinese character (even though the name "Tuong" is actually Vietnamese and "Kim" is a Korean surname), prone to mispronouncing the word "city" as "shitty". Voiced by Trey Parker, Tuong is also known for how he says other words, such as R’s instead of L’s and the "si" sound as a "shi" sound (both are technically incorrect, as they are Japanese stereotypes, not Chinese). He is also known to pronounce the proper "sh" sound as a hard "c", e.g. shrimp as crimp. According to the DVD commentary on the episode “Jared Has Aides,” Tuong Lu Kim is based on an actual person. While working on their film Orgazmo, Parker and Matt Stone would phone a real life City Wok just to hear the man’s voice. Tuong Lu Kim’s main job is the owner of City Wok, a Chinese take out service. The shop doesn’t seem to be very popular in town, and it hasn’t been seen since season nine. He also operates the dangerous airline service City Airlines in "It's Christmas in Canada". He is an expert at building walls, a stereotypical parody of the Chinese building of the Great Wall, although his efforts are usually thwarted by a pack of Mongolians.

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Main characters (The Boys)	Eric Cartman · Stan Marsh · Kyle Broflovski · Kenny McCormick
Other major characters	Butters Stotch · Chef · Mrs. Garrison
Family members	Gerald and Sheila Broflovski · Ike Broflovski · Jimbo Kern · Stuart and Carol McCormick · Liane Cartman · Randy and Sharon Marsh · Stephen and Linda Stotch · others
Recurring characters	Jesus · Saddam Hussein · Satan · Terrance and Phillip
Others	School children · Townsfolk · School staff · Families · Minor characters · Fictional species