Carol McCormick
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| South Park character | |
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| Caroline McCormick | |
| Gender | Female |
| Hair | Red |
| Age | 25 |
| Job | Unemployed |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Voiced by | Mary Kay Bergman |
| Appearances | |
| First | "Starvin' Marvin" |
Caroline "Carol" McCormick is a character on South Park. She is Kenny McCormick's mother. Her first name is actually uncertain, but fans have derived the name "Carol" from a conversation her husband had with another man in "Cripple Fight". Her birthdate is possibly April 16. She's in the first episode in Season 9 "Halli's Party".
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[edit] Character
[edit] Appearance
Carol wears a lime-green T-shirt which usually reads "I'm with Stupid", and dark blue jeans. The arrow is supposed to point at Stuart, but she is usually standing on the wrong side of him, so it points off in some other direction. Her hair is red, and similar in style to that of little Bertha's, but her bangs go in the same direction as Wendy Testaburger's. She has a shadowy patch on her right cheek, which may be a bruise, or simply filth.
In "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", her shirt had an American flag embroidered on it, accompanied by the phrase "God Bless". When the McCormick's went on the John Denver experience, however, it appeared as a solid green T-shirt.
For special occasions, Carol wears a fake fur coat with a red bathing suit top underneath and a red miniskirt. It is unknown why she wears this for those special occasions.
[edit] Personality
Carol, like her husband, Stuart, is drunk more often than not (though she does seem a lot more controled with her drinking). She and Stuart are usually fighting and bickering, with Carol saying that if Stuart would stop drinking and being lazy, and get a job, they might not be so hungry and poor. Like Stuart does to her, she sometimes beats him physically, once giving him a black eye.
Carol does care for Stuart deep down, though, as she was concerned for him when he went ill after consuming a drink mixed with abortion medication, got his nose broken on the John Denver experience, and was molested by the entire NAMBLA Society in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA".
Carol seems to think that the McCormick residence primarily belongs to her, as in "Chickenlover", she says (regarding Stuart's possible brother): "I want him out of my house! He ain't worth a shit! He can't even hold a fuckin' job!" and yells a similar phrase at him in "Best Friends Forever". However, Stuart and Gerald built that same house when they were teenagers, as revealed in "Chickenpox".
[edit] Religion
Carol's family seems to be fairly religious (Roman Catholic, like most of the townspeople). Carol yells at Kenny for wanting to miss church in "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut", and Stuart stood up for the Church in "Red Hot Catholic Love", where they seem to have been one of the few families in town to have not converted to atheism. The family is sometimes shown praying before their meals, which is meant to be ironic, since their poverty means they eat little or nothing. They also continue to pray after Kenny has died on a few occasions, and Kenny's funerals, when they occur, are always religious in nature.
After Kenny's "permanent" death in "Kenny Dies", Kenny is cremated. Though traditionally cremation is not approved by Christian churches, many Christians do it anyway.
[edit] Interests
Carol seems to like knitting. In "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", she is seen knitting when Kenny tells her that he made her favorite drink. She also says that making a sweater is better than molesting children in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure".
[edit] Voice acting
From 1997 to 1999, Mrs. McCormick was voiced by Mary Kay Bergman. Bergman described the character as one of her five favourite voice roles in the series (together with Liane Cartman, Sheila Broflovski, Wendy Testaburger, and Shelley Marsh), also mentioning that she based the voice of the character on a "female version of Bill Clinton".[1] After Bergman's death, the character was voiced by Eliza Schneider, from 1999 till 2003. From 2004 till present, Mrs. McCormick's voice has been provided by April Stewart.
[edit] Family
Carol's name (and hair color) suggests that she has Irish/Scottish heritage.
[edit] Stuart McCormick
Main Article: Stuart McCormick.
Stuart is Carol's husband. With Carol being twenty-five years old, and Stuart being around Gerald Broflovski's age, there is approximately eight years between them.
[edit] Kevin McCormick
Kevin is Carol's eldest son and child. He has not had many speaking roles, but when he does talk, he often repeats himself, implying that he is not very intellectual. There is a goof in the episode Quintuplets 2000 with Kevin he is with the boys in the beginning of the episode but when grandpa Marsh comes into the room he is gone with grandpa Marsh covering his spot.
[edit] Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick
Main Article: Kenny McCormick.
Kenny is Carol's second child and youngest son. She apparently had him when she was only sixteen. If Kevin is about thirteen, judged by his height, then she had him when she herself was twelve. This small age difference has yet to be explained.
[edit] Daughter?
Main Article: Karen McCormick.
Carol supposedly has a daughter, as there was a small girl seen with the McCormick family when they visited Kenny in the hospital in "Best Friends Forever". Where she came from is uncertain; she appears to be as old as Dougie. No information has ever been given on her. She is known to be called Karen by Matt Stone.
[edit] Father?
It is unclear if Kenny's grandfather, seen in "Fat Camp", is Carol's father or Stuart's, as his name was not given. However, Gerald mentions in "Chickenpox" that Stuart's father was an unemployed drunkard like Stuart; what can be taken from this is ambiguous.
[edit] Episodes in which she is Prominent
NOTE:Carol makes cameos in lots of other episodes
(Carol's first appearance. she and Stuart cheer Kenny on while he's fishing for a can of preserved food.)
(Carol and Stuart are shown to be fighting when Cartman, as a police officer, investigates on them.)
(Carol demands information from Stan in a near drunken tirade when Kenny doesn't come back home.)
(Carol makes Kenny give the other boys chickenpox.)
(Carol cries when she reads that Kenny had died again.)
(Carol travels with Kenny.)
(Carol and Stuart are trying to have another baby.)
(Carol and Stuart are proud that Kenny has his own live TV show.)
(Carol and Stuart are arrested for child molestation along with all the other adults in South Park.)
(Carol and Stuart sue Cartman because Kenny died on one of the rides in his amusement park. They are only mentioned and don't actually appear in this episode.)
(Carol and Stuart get Kenny to apologize to the Thompsons, when he unintentionally tricked them into thinking that their lost son had been discovered.)
(Carol, Stuart, and family mourn Kenny's semi-permanent death. They may not appear in this episode, either.)
(Carol breaks down when she and Stuart show Kyle, Cartman, and Stan the urn in which holds Kenny's remains.)
(She and Stuart fight to have Kenny's feeding tube put back in)
(She is shown eating cereal and Pop-tarts for dinner, with the rest of her family, and is shocked and horrified when Kenny is shot with Bebe's bullet)
[edit] Trivia
- At the end of "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", after Kenny gets run over by the ambulance taking Stuart to the hospital, Carol gives birth to a baby who looks just like Kenny (parka and all). When Stuart says that this is the 50th time it's happened, she tells him it's the 52nd. This initially indicates that every time Kenny dies, he returns to Carol's body, takes the form of another fetus, is reborn, and then grows to be eight (then nine) within a week's time. However, because in the second half of the story arc, ""Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut"/"Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut"", Kenny materialized out of thin air after dying in the previous part, this is most likely a cutaway joke. Oddly, Matt Stone and Trey Parker claim that this is the canon explanation.
- Ironically, the McCormicks are among the much better parents in South Park, apparently because they don't have jobs and thus can spend more time with their children. Despite Carol and Stuart consistently beating each other, they are never seen harming their own sons or their possible daughter.
- While Stuart has a good eight years on her, Carol is seen winning nearly every fight they have: In the Chickenlover episode, Carol gives him a black eye and ends up being injured by Eric Cartman, much to the amusement of Kenny and Kevin. In the Make Love, Not Warcraft episode, Carol is seen slapping Stuart in the face while Kenny plays his game.
[edit] References
- ↑ "The Babes of South Park". www.wackyvoices.com. Retrieved on April 25th, 2009.
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