Robert Scucci | publishing
South Park Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have always tended to compare their characters to people they know in real life, and the increasing number of Leopold “cream” stotch is no exception. If you have enough interviews, you will find the school’s mentor, Mr. McKee is based on Parker’s high school counselor Stan Lackey, who is known for his iconic slogan “M’Kay.”
Even Kenny McCormic's death in each early episode is based on a childhood friend of the same name, the poorest child in the school, dressed in an orange parka, muffled his voice and often skipped classes, which made his classmates joke that he might have died, just to let him show up at school the next day.
Butter, on the other hand, is actually inspired South Park His own animation director – now producer – Eric Stough, who was behind Parker and Stone, realized that he would make great roles for the show because his innocence and reputation were so “Goody Goody”.
From Eric to Butter
Although starting from the first episode, the character design of butter is shown on the screen South Park“Cartman Gets Anal Investigation” and he didn't officially become famous until the episode of Season 3 “Two Guys Are Naked in a Hot Tub”. South Park: Larger, longer and uncut I saw the premiere of the drama. In fact, before formally naming, the character was simply called “Puff” and “Swanson” and these names were interchangeably dedicated to the script and storyboard until he played a more important role in season three, and was called Butter.
So, how butter becomes South Park The characters we know and love today?
Eric Stough, South Park The animation director at the time was a wholesome freak of the Supreme Order, causing Parker and the Stone to tear him apart, often introducing him to their little friends. As time passed, they began to call him their little boy, saying “Who is our little boy?” and “Who is the good butter?” all the way under his skin. This playful ribs become mature character development when Stough goes against Parker’s wishes Star Wars: Phantom Threat It's also in a positive attitude when creators are relentlessly shooting their feature films as well as Season 3.
Formal introduction
Their animation directors were upset with the fact that they jumped on the show’s playback and the key points of filmmaking, and they decided to bring his personality to the show to continue tearing him down. Only three weeks later Larger, longer, uncut Butter made his first “official” appearance in the premiere South Park In the iteration we are familiar with. Inspired by Steve's unwillingness to offend, his overall wholesome bread was introduced to South Park As a permanent character, Matt Stone goes forward.
Known for his everlasting innocence and naive feeling, he would say swearing like “Oh, Hamburger” and “Ji Hui”, like the kids characters in sitcoms in the 50s who wanted to express frustration without saying anything blasphemy.
It wouldn't be until Season 5's finale, “Butters' Very Own Episode,” that we'd catch a better look at the character's family life, explaining his sheltered disposition thanks to his overbearing parents when his mother, Linda, tried to throw him by crashing her car into a lake after finding out that his father, Stephen, was going to questionable massage parents under the guise of searching for a wedding anniversary To this day, the plot of “Butter” is South Park The darkest entry, even after the ordeal, butter is still elated, is clearly a continuation of the joke, and Eric Stough is just a lovely fool who often finds himself in extraordinary circumstances beyond control.
What's left is history
As South Park The creators would later learn that Butters became the perfect foil for Eric Cartman, a textbook that Parker often records, noting that the plot involving the adventures of the two episodes together was his favorite plot because of the personality conflict between the two characters. From “The Death of Eric Cartman” and “Super Fun Times” to the legendary “Casa Bonita”, Casa Bonita and Butters often have butt heads, Cartman manipulates the narrative while dragging the little butter as a participant who is reluctant to participate, who is rooted in his adventures with fear and fear, his parents do join him carefully in his own hands.
As South Park Near the 27th season, the Butters are a series of midstream platforms, and it’s hard to imagine without his sunny character and disgusting sweet personality, which is usually a sound of rationality when he’s on track in a hilly town. Think about it, Eric Stough’s fee was three years of jokes, and then he ended up being one of the most popular characters in the series.
