Tweek Tweak
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| Tweek Tweak | |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Hair: | Short, Spiky, Blond |
| Age: | 9 (8 up until 4th Grade) |
| Job: | Student |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| First appearance: | Gnomes |
Tweek Tweak is a character on South Park who is voiced by Matt Stone and was introduced near the end of season 2. He is a noticeably jittery boy.
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[edit] Appearance
Tweek has blond hair that looks as if he just rolled out of bed, wears a gray shirt buttoned wrong, and blue jeans. As revealed in Tweek vs. Craig, he weighs 48 pounds.
In "Gnomes", his physical appearance was slightly different. Instead of a gray collar, he had a black one, and his trousers were also much darker than in later episodes.
[edit] Name Origin
The name "Tweek" comes from the term 'tweeker'. Tweekers are people who recreationally use crystal methamphetamines. Tweek's surname and first name were the same as one another at first, but his surname has since been changed to "Tweak", taking away the implication that he was called after his last name, similar to Eric Cartman. Most of the adults in town refer to him simply as "The Tweek-kid".
[edit] Jitters
Tweek's jitters are caused by caffeine, due to excessive coffee consumption, because his parents own a coffee shop and continually give him cups of coffee. According to Tweek's oblivious mother, he has ADD, which he tries to control with transcendental meditation. Coffee isn't the only thing he is addicted to. In Quest for Ratings, it is revealed that he fell in with a crowd of kids who were excessively consuming cough syrup. He hasn't been seen consuming it since, so he may have managed to overcome this addiction.
Mr. & Mrs. Tweak claim their son has ADD, when in fact he has a growing dependency on caffeine; Richard often preludes heart-to-heart talks with his son by saying, "Calm down, son... Here, have some coffee." The parents tend either to oversimplify or to overexaggerate large problems, leading their son to frustrated helplessness when he requires aid or to increased paranoia and fear when he's already obsessing about something. Simply put, whatever Tweek's current abnormal and/or neurotic disposition, his parents serve to aggravate it. Even Eric Cartman seems somewhat concerned about Tweek's condition; when Tweek's newest paranoia takes effect (which was being abducted by strangers) Cartman comments "God, what the hell do his parents do to him?" In "Tweek vs. Craig" Tweek even yells that his parents never tell him anything, that he hates it and that he wants it all to end while his parents ignore him.
[edit] Friends
He was chosen as the fourth friend after Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Eric Cartman kicked Butters Stotch out of the group. Now he is often part of Craig's gang, despite having had a terrible feud with Craig several seasons back. This may be why he disappeared from the others after Child Abduction is not Funny. Craig's group may have appealed to him, then he accepted, and he dumped the main characters for Craig's gang.
[edit] Episodes in Which Tweek is Prominent
[edit] Trivia
- In episode #217, Gnomes, his parents' coffee shop almost went out of business because 'Harbucks', a parody of the Starbucks coffee shop chain, opened a shop in South Park.
- Whenever Tweek is told to do something, he responds by saying, "Aaagh! Way too much pressure!" Tweek seemed to practice fatalism in episode 609 (Free Hat).
- Tweek fight with Craig in episode #304, Tweek vs. Craig.
- In the episode Gnomes, Tweek tells the other boys that he can never get to sleep. Yet he is shown sleeping in the episode Child Abduction is Not Funny. For speculation, he may have started taking sleeping pills, but this is most likely a continuity error.
- Tweek was worshipped as a deity in the episode Simpsons Already Did It, though he wasn't pleased about it.
- In Simpsons Already Did It, it is implied that he doesn't like frozen foods, as he screams at the thought of the little sea-people discovering how to freeze them.
- Tweek's surname was originally spelled 'Tweek' on the show, implying he, like Eric Cartman, was referred to by his surname. However, according to the FAQ, his surname is 'Tweak'
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