Mayor McDaniels
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| South Park character | |
|---|---|
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| Mayor McDaniels | |
| Gender | Female |
| Hair | Turquoise-blue |
| Age | Late 40's to early 50's |
| Job | Mayor of South Park |
| Religion | Presumably Roman Catholic |
| Voiced by | April Stewart |
| Appearances | |
| First | Weight Gain 4000 |
Mayor McDaniels is a character in the series South Park. She is the mayor of the town.
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[edit] Character
[edit] Appearance
She wears a blue jacket and green trousers. She also wears gold earrings. Her hair is turquoise-blue, and her lips are rather thinnish.
[edit] Personality
The Mayor acts like she is better than everyone else (because she attended Princeton University) and thinks South Park is a dump. She tries to show that she has changed the town around although she hasn't done much. Though she occasionally seems like a relatively normal politician, she was happy to join Mr. Garrison, Jimbo, et al in cannibalism by eating Eric Roberts ("...of course, because nobody gives a shit about Eric Roberts!!") and the rest of a cast and crew from Hollywood who came to film a re-enactment of the shooting of Dr. Mephisto and got stranded in South Park during a severe snowstorm.
She once left the microphone on when Kathie Lee Gifford was giving out the prize for the best environmental essay and was overheard shouting she was "stuck in this stupid town with all these rednecks". Highly ambitious, it has been suggested she only became Mayor as a gateway to higher political office in Colorado.
[edit] Attempted Suicide
After the Die Hippie, Die music festival got out of control the Mayor said "What have I done?" and pulled out a gun. Her shadow on the wall showed her collapsing at a gun shot. Later in the same episode she was seen alive with a bandage around her head stained with blood. (indicating she had little or no brain to speak of).
[edit] Creation and development
When Trey Parker and Matt Stone idealized the character of Mayor McDaniels, they wanted her to be a sophisticated and egotistical person.[1]
[edit] Relationships
In the earlier seasons of the show, it was implied that Mayor McDaniels was either a closeted lesbian or bisexual. In Spontaneous Combustion, she was seen at home in bed wearing a mudpack while reading a porn magazine called "Jugs", which had naked women on the cover. As the series progressed, the concept of bisexuality became more likely, as she has had a few relationships with women and men.
[edit] Jerome "Chef" McElroy
Main Article: Chef
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.
[edit] Officer Barbrady
Main Article: Officer Barbrady
In "Starvin' Marvin" she acted sarcastically towards Dr. Mephisto when he explained to her about the rampaging turkeys. She was also very sarcastic to Chef when he told her about the zombie epidemic in the episode "Pink Eye".
In both episodes, in the same scenes, she was seen with Officer Barbrady, and her aides (see below) were nowhere to be found. This implies that, while she may have really been skeptical about their stories, she probably just wanted to get rid of them so she could resume being alone with Barbrady. It is implied in "Pink Eye" and in "Summer Sucks" that the two of them are having sexual intercourse, as in the former episode, Barbrady is seen in women's lingerie looking out from behind the desk; both of them look very haggard while the mayor is listening to Chef, and a huge pile of cash is on top of the table (apparently, whatever they were doing had no involvement with the Japanese mafia). In "Summer Sucks", it was shown that Barbrady was performing oral sex on her.
Furthermore, in several episodes, most notably "Chickenlover", it is mentioned that Officer Barbrady is married, but no wife has yet been seen, unless he and the mayor are secretly married, and are keeping it a secret from the public. All the same, she has expressed extreme dislike for him at times in the past.
[edit] Liane Cartman
Main Article: Liane Cartman
Mayor McDaniels has apparently had sex with Liane Cartman, like many other men and women have. This is revealed at the end of "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut", when the overhead speaker says "Who is Eric Cartman's mother? Is it Mrs. Broflovski? The mayor? Mrs. Crabtree?" Cartman rejects having this knowledge revealed, so the possibility remains that his mother is the mayor.
[edit] Omnipresent Sycophants
The Mayor is always followed by her two aides. They make plans for which she inevitably takes credit. One is referred to as "Ted" in Volcano. "Johnson" is the non-moustached one (as seen in Episode 417 A Very Crappy Christmas).
In Night of the Living Homeless, Ted helps the boys to escape from the homeless people when they get too needy, but during an accident, he is killed. So far, Ted has not been replaced, so Johnson is now McDaniels' only aide.
[edit] References
- ↑ Trey Parker, Matt Stone. (2003). South Park: The Complete First Season: "Weight Gain 4000" (Audio commentary) [CD]. Comedy Central.
