@@ddjsoyenby Or was until the later seasons, granted you can only hang around Cartman for so long without being influenced by him, i feel Jimmy and Tweek are less terrible, but that could be said about every other secondary kid solelt because they lack appearances compared to Butters
All his friends, people in South park and even his own parents, including his grandma are all bad people. I feel bad for him because he really has no one to protect him or no one who can really help him or even anyone who he can tell these things to, except his alter ego, who can barely do anything even slightly "evil". He is like the only sheep surrounded by bunch of wolves, there's no one to help him. No one listens to him, except us.
I love Butters, he's the only nice character in the show besides Kenny. His parents are real psychopaths like his mother tried to kill him and they ground him to for no reason.
I get butters being nice but Kenny? Lol. He's just on par with Stan and Kyle. What seems to be a sweet young kid in the outside is actually a sick pervert on the inside. Same with Kyle being the voice of reason yet being the impersonation of overreaction, Stan being the compassionate one yet when he does something that is praised he lets pretentiousness, cynicism, and arrogance cloud his mind and Cartman being.. Well, Cartman. Maybe Cartman is just the embodiment of all the boys' traits. But I'm not too sure about Kenny's perversion tho. Maybe the creators will explore his sick mind even more.
It's all right there in 'The Butters Show' theme song, "Who's the boy who can laugh at a storm cloud? Turn a frown into a smile for free? Who's the kid with the heart full of magic? Everyone knows it's Butters! Who's the boy with the eyes full of wonder? Thinks being yourself is the best thing to be? Who's that rascal with the tweezers in his pocket? Everyone knows it's Butters! Who's the tyke with the cutest little dimples, Battin' his eyes at every puppy he sees? If you look inside yourself, you might be surprised, when you find a little boy, named Butters!"
Honestly in both South Park games I've ALWAYS had Butters with me because of how he contrasts the other characters humor in equally delightful ways. He's just a sweetheart even when he's trying to be Professor Chaos. Lol
I always have Craig for similar reason. He plays a straight man to the rest of the characters in a way I enjoy, where he's dismissive of and off-put by their antics instead of just confused lol
at the end of fractured but whole when your parents still... well... y'know.... when professor chaos pops up behind you and is like chaos is still all around us mwahahahh I was like NOOOOOO BUTTERS NOOOOKKO
same! i don't have the heart to switch him out until i need another character's ability...and then immediately put him back afterwards 😂 he's just a great morale booster
I feel like a small defining moment that shows how different Butters is from everyone else is the beginning of Dances with Smurfs when a ginger kid is being beaten and murdered over the intercom. Everyone either looks indifferent or mildly concerned, like huh or woah, probably cause this sort of thing just always happens in this world. Meanwhile Butters is the only one who’s reacting realistically.
I've always felt the same, for the same reaaons. I watched the show as a kid, and it was NOT the best influence, but Butters stood out because he was the moral guide through the show. He is just so pure and his naive innocence is what makes him so loveable and the jokes more funny.
Butters is representation of a victim of child abuse.. everyone see's it in action but everyone just ignores it. That's why everyone relates and that's why everyone is sympathetic towards him. Let that sink in.
I love the episode where butters learns the government watches people, so he talks to the dmv to feel better about the bad stuff he did , and basically started a cult of people telling the horrible stuff they did to the dmv employees.
Butters' heartfelt speech about how the church is confused rather than the kids who are exploring and learning about their own sexuality, leading the bisexual kid to stop himself from literally jumping off a bridge, is one of the harder hitting moments of the show.
South Park is that type of show that showcases how chaotic, idiotic, cruel and unfair the world around you can be. (in a comedic fashion of course.) And Butters showcases that even if the world is complete bonkers doesn't mean you have to be. You can still be true to yourself and to others and do what you think is the right thing to do. if you know what i mean.
One of the most underrated characters in South Park. Despite his naive look of life he always had that pure intention to help and give advice to people. He always push forward with positivity despite his shitty parents and his bully grandma. Impossible to hate Butters.
@@eternalroots6753 🎶 a prostitute is someone who loves you no matter who you are or what you look liiiiiiiiiike. A prostitute isn't someone you pay to stay no you pay for her to leave afterwaaaaaards. AND THATS WHY I PAY A LOT FOR PROSTITUTES 🎶
Man, when I got watching Raisins, I first thought it was an okay episode. Then, when I wasn’t feeling that great emotionally, I went back to the episode and now it’s my favourite episode, without any contest.
I think it's really telling that in the few times Butters lashes out and becomes Professor Chaos; he considers really evil shit to be basically switching soup orders, he's too pure for the world of South Park
Same! When I first was kinda getting curious about the show I kept repeating to myself (Oh c'mon, this show looks kind of dumb, who would even watch this) in my head and then I watched the first ep and here I am having watched every single season and having the ps4 game. Altough, The first Ep was kind of confusing to me, I quickly learned how it works lol!
People hate on it nowadays, but it's a genius satire. Such a short turn around per episode, means they're such a quick reflection of events, but they always go for the joke first.
I came here to learn how a consistently naive and innocent kid surrounded near daily by some of the most condensed forms of trauma imaginable adds comedic and narrative purpose to a complete nonsense show, not to discover a deep and meaningful life lesson that I severely needed to hear at the time of watching. How fitting. Thank you Butters, never change.
My favorite Butters moment is when he summons the spirit of Biggie Smalls, delivers on his promise to get him to Satan's party in LA, and they both have a great time.
the thing about butters is that he’s not actually all that naive or sheltered. like this kid gets goes through a lot of trauma through pure acceptance in a way the other kids can’t. butters gets constantly grounded by his parents, has been his entire life, so he’s used to being suddenly getting “benched”, for arbitrary reasons, and he’s learned acceptance of himself and sudden, unpredictable periods of being forced to focus on himself. the problems the gang gets into nearly always involve someone experiencing something that challenges their view of who THEY are, like when Cartman makes Kyle question his sense of moral superiority, or pretty much any time Randy does anything. Butters has become accustomed to being BY himself, but also WITH himself, and as such his dark side is mostly just a mischievous scamp doing a cartoon cackle; there’s not much about Butters that he’s afraid to acknowledge, to the point that his primary anxieties are about his personal potential to disrupt routines (while having no particular concept of the relative importance these routines have, bc of the constants arbitrary grounding). Butters knows himself, accepts himself, and so he can experience deeply traumatic situations without leading to these elaborate ego-death-and-spiritual-resurrection internal dramas (expressed through outward scenarios that are impossibly outrageous bc cartoon) that afflict his peers. butters has a different kind of trauma, and a differently mapped brain, and it leads him to focus on different facets of his experience. tldr hey he not dumb he’s just like my little guy, he’s cool he’s like this little guy,
I think both Cartman and Butters are the best well written and most important characters in the show and we can all agree that the cartman and butters episodes are the best. Butters getting dragged alone with cartmans craziness is just perfect and always well written. Definitely the best characters on the show. They both have a rick and morty kind of friendship.
That episode where hitters got dumped was quite literally life changing for me, the quote of having to feel what happiness is in order to know what sadness is like is fucking profound
"potentially turn him into the most troubled kid imaginable, yet he keeps at least part of it together by sheer ignorance" oh boy...... the new special poor butters but anybody is surprised by that outcome
Butters getting mistreated makes the show really hard to watch at times. These characters and their fates rarely change. I was very optimistic and sweet as a kid and was abused a lot and it can be hard watching the same gag over and over again. Obviously it's just a cartoon but sometimes these wild characters truly act like how actual kids would. I'm always like this with punching bag character tropes lol
Butters is just all around my favorite character. Obviously all the main boys are great too and some of their friends and family has their shining moments like Tweak and Craig, but I feel the main reason why I attach to Butters so much is how despite how realistically and unrealistically awful his situation is, he still stays a nice, caring, and happy person. He does have his moments where he lashes out and is understandably fed up with how people treat him, but for the most part he stays a genuinely nice and loving person despite his situation. Abusive parents, bullies at school, even his friends don't really treat him all that great, toxic extended family, gets constantly used and stepped on by others, almost killed, was abandoned at on point because they were playing hide and seek and couldn't find him, and he even got put into a gay conversion camp by his awful parents poor judgement. And yet he's still just your everyday loveable Butters. And I feel that's something that everyone can strive to be. To keep your sense of self despite all the bullshit we get put through.
Something that happened in the later seasons of South Park is that Kenny was slowly fazed out of the show outside of a couple smaller B plots and he was replaced with Butters. The main reason I believe is because Matt and Trey both agreed that Kenny dying every episode became an old played out joke that has no more comedic value. To make things worse you can't understand the majority of what Kenny says which limits their jokes with that character even more. So they often just replaced Kenny with Butters, who is one of the most varied characters in South Park which allowed them the freedom to write much more complex and funny jokes.
I’m so happy you made this, Butters has always been my absolute favorite and I’ve held this same view. My favorite episode (although it’s tied with the Imaginationland episodes) is the one where he starts a “kissing company” and becomes a pimp, “do you know what I am saying?” haha-Thanks for sharing! I subscribed.
I'm bit disappointed because Beavis and Butthead wasn't used as an example of a great show with terrible leads because Beavis and Butthead was the major influence for both South Park and Rick and Morty. Otherwise, this video is perfect and Butters is hands down one of the best South Park characters.
The two charaters that bes represent me in the show are Kenny and my boy Butters, he's a true CHAD in his own right, the capacity to remain inocent and thoughful in a world where everyone's an a-hole to him is just admirable
This made me think of the Subway episode when Cartman cussed out Butters’s parents and they came back home and horribly beat Butters even though he didn’t say it. I legit don’t like watching the end of the episode for that reason. Also I do think that one character who is the closest to being another straight man in the series is Stan’s mom, Sharon. However, she doesn’t shine much she’s just a regular mom.
Your writing is seriously incredible. You got everything across so well, you put thoughts I didn’t even realize I had into words. I never noticed why a lot of the episodes I like include Butters, but this is probably why. He is seriously a very realistic portrayal of a kid his age and I guess I never realized that his upbringing is the reason why he is so naive. Again, your writing is incredible. I’m definitely going to subscribe to you and you can bet that I’ll tune in for another in the future.
You should read and watch Berserk. I'd really like to hear your piece on it. Warning: it delves into the depths of human depravity and gets really dark, but it's done well. It's not just shock value. The opening arc can be a bit deceiving, though.
It's crazy that i was born when "It's a Butters Show" Epiosde debut. December 12 2001. His one of the best characters,and i related to his character from my school experience.
Butters the kid that came out of nowhere and took control of the show and became a lead. Butters a background character who became a main character. Butters who made the South Park Four into the South Park Five. Butters steals the show with magic in his heart and a tune in is head and he'll sing it while skipping down the street and putting a smile on everyone's face. Butters is what a kid thrust into the crap the other four get into would be like. Butters who until this day while being more of a lead than Kenny yet hasn't been used in the opening. PUT THIS MAN IN THE OPENING.
Lol butters wanted to become a pimp one time, and the other pimps took him in and treated him like their own. One even took to lifting him up so he could be at the same height as them to listen to what they had to say
I love the raisings episode because of Butters. The ending really stuck with me since the first time I watched it and it's one of the reasons why I love South Park so much
i’m obsessed with this video and every word you said basically!!! it gave me the language for a concept i only thought of in passing. my heart hurts for butters every time i see him. he is THE cutest little thing 😭 so innocent. i love him. great video bud
Watching this video makes me realise just how much more tragic Butters's fate is in Post Covid-special. Like, what was the thing that finally broke him?
I love butters. And I always felt so damn sorry for him. He's adrift in a world of pure chaos, trying hard to be a good, honest, sensible, loyal little child.... But it's hard to be good when the world around you is tainted and smeared by angry people who believe in nothing but hate. When his granny was beating his Ass in that one episode it hurt. When he was accused if being a confused bisexual it hurt. When he wrote scrottie mcboogerballs and got the Kardashians brutally murdered.... That really hurt. I just want him to be happy.
That's an easy one. Its because he's the only one who acts his age and is very innocent and naïve. I think the episodes where his father (who isn't exactly straight himself) sent him to straight camp. Poor thing didn't know he was their the entire time or what being bi-curious is. I absolutely agree his existence is vital to the heart of what South Park is really about.
He's the kid with a heart full of magic. So of course he's essential.
he's one of the few actually good people in south park.
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@@ddjsoyenby Or was until the later seasons, granted you can only hang around Cartman for so long without being influenced by him, i feel Jimmy and Tweek are less terrible, but that could be said about every other secondary kid solelt because they lack appearances compared to Butters
He can turn a frown into a smile for free.
Yes
Butters deserves better parents :( He’s such a ray of sunshine.
I agree.
That's it, you are grounded young person!
he deserves Cartmans mom she’s the nicest
The joke is that his parents are pieces of shit that think are doing things right. It's been the joke for decades
Ikr
I unironically feel bad for Butters. I really do. I just, I wanna give him a hug, you know?
All his friends, people in South park and even his own parents, including his grandma are all bad people. I feel bad for him because he really has no one to protect him or no one who can really help him or even anyone who he can tell these things to, except his alter ego, who can barely do anything even slightly "evil". He is like the only sheep surrounded by bunch of wolves, there's no one to help him. No one listens to him, except us.
Butters deserves the world
same.
Shit yeah, that includes even kenny because no one cares about his death. I mean they sometimes do, but not really due to Kenny's Curse.
starjumper I’ll
I love Butters, he's the only nice character in the show besides Kenny. His parents are real psychopaths like his mother tried to kill him and they ground him to for no reason.
Didn't she try to kill him because she was going insane though? After the fake suicide?
I get butters being nice but Kenny? Lol. He's just on par with Stan and Kyle. What seems to be a sweet young kid in the outside is actually a sick pervert on the inside. Same with Kyle being the voice of reason yet being the impersonation of overreaction, Stan being the compassionate one yet when he does something that is praised he lets pretentiousness, cynicism, and arrogance cloud his mind and Cartman being.. Well, Cartman. Maybe Cartman is just the embodiment of all the boys' traits. But I'm not too sure about Kenny's perversion tho. Maybe the creators will explore his sick mind even more.
@@g0bas535 Well he actually protects and loves his young sister because once he gave her a doll for a present.
@@oreo_toons yeah but other than that hes still a sex crazed kid
@@g0bas535 His character was changed during the modern seasons and was more inappropriate in older seasons of the show.
It's all right there in 'The Butters Show' theme song,
"Who's the boy who can laugh at a storm cloud?
Turn a frown into a smile for free?
Who's the kid with the heart full of magic?
Everyone knows it's Butters!
Who's the boy with the eyes full of wonder?
Thinks being yourself is the best thing to be?
Who's that rascal with the tweezers in his pocket?
Everyone knows it's Butters!
Who's the tyke with the cutest little dimples,
Battin' his eyes at every puppy he sees?
If you look inside yourself, you might be surprised,
when you find a little boy, named Butters!"
I love this song. It’s so cute
"That's me"
Tweezers?
@@Gesuselsaviour I say this in his voice to my husband and he laughed so hard the first time
Can't believe Just Stop dropped before Donda.
Donda?
@@Defectum138 Donna these nuts
@@hollidurr Its spelt "Donda"
before deez nutz
Yo its LEGO JESUS!
Earthbound review WHEN!!
Honestly in both South Park games I've ALWAYS had Butters with me because of how he contrasts the other characters humor in equally delightful ways. He's just a sweetheart even when he's trying to be Professor Chaos. Lol
That Professor Chaos ultimate of his was so cool
I always have Craig for similar reason. He plays a straight man to the rest of the characters in a way I enjoy, where he's dismissive of and off-put by their antics instead of just confused lol
at the end of fractured but whole when your parents still... well... y'know.... when professor chaos pops up behind you and is like chaos is still all around us mwahahahh I was like NOOOOOO BUTTERS NOOOOKKO
same! i don't have the heart to switch him out until i need another character's ability...and then immediately put him back afterwards 😂 he's just a great morale booster
That and he was the cleric in the first game so his healing abilities are incredibly useful
Finally a video giving Butters the appreciation he deserves.
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@Nyla Ikeh what did you just say 😃
I think we can all agree Butters is one of the top two most lovable characters in the entire show.
Yea he’s right behind ike
@@bigboyblackie6373 Ike is supposed to be loveable?
@@bigboyblackie6373 what about my man kenny
Butters and Chef
Big Gay Al is pretty loveable too.
Welcome to the family son
Butters
Oh shit waddup
Jack Baker
I feel like a small defining moment that shows how different Butters is from everyone else is the beginning of Dances with Smurfs when a ginger kid is being beaten and murdered over the intercom.
Everyone either looks indifferent or mildly concerned, like huh or woah, probably cause this sort of thing just always happens in this world. Meanwhile Butters is the only one who’s reacting realistically.
Or when he's when one of the few people who act realistically after Stan blew up at everyone out of nowhere
butters is innocent while the others are numb to the many plights and tragedies of humanity
Seeing Butters miserable genuinely makes me sad
It makes me happy.
I've always felt the same, for the same reaaons. I watched the show as a kid, and it was NOT the best influence, but Butters stood out because he was the moral guide through the show. He is just so pure and his naive innocence is what makes him so loveable and the jokes more funny.
Butters is representation of a victim of child abuse.. everyone see's it in action but everyone just ignores it. That's why everyone relates and that's why everyone is sympathetic towards him.
Let that sink in.
Nooo…
I love the episode where butters learns the government watches people, so he talks to the dmv to feel better about the bad stuff he did , and basically started a cult of people telling the horrible stuff they did to the dmv employees.
Butters' heartfelt speech about how the church is confused rather than the kids who are exploring and learning about their own sexuality, leading the bisexual kid to stop himself from literally jumping off a bridge, is one of the harder hitting moments of the show.
They better not get rid of Butter Scotch. He's the reason why I laugh in the show.
Oooh trust me, they won't.
@@iwantedtobethatanomaly2270 They should. He's terrible.
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South Park is that type of show that showcases how chaotic, idiotic, cruel and unfair the world around you can be. (in a comedic fashion of course.) And Butters showcases that even if the world is complete bonkers doesn't mean you have to be. You can still be true to yourself and to others and do what you think is the right thing to do. if you know what i mean.
One of the most underrated characters in South Park. Despite his naive look of life he always had that pure intention to help and give advice to people. He always push forward with positivity despite his shitty parents and his bully grandma. Impossible to hate Butters.
Butters is definitely not underrated
Butters is my favorite character, with the kinda parents he has, you really feel for the kid.
The only character as nice as butters is token
hb the honey boo boo ep tho?
@@g0bas535 he made that because he realised that society was messed up
@@josephnewsome2935 it's still pretty immoral if you ask me. Kind of Cartman like for him to profit off of people's misfortunes
@@g0bas535 it’s profiting off cartman how is that evil
@@josephnewsome2935 even Kyle was against it smh. And he's Cartman's number one enemy lol.
My most favorite character in South Park is, and always will be, Chef
I lost my shit when Chef started singing about prostitutes out of nowhere in one episodes 😂
@@eternalroots6753 🎶 a prostitute is someone who loves you no matter who you are or what you look liiiiiiiiiike. A prostitute isn't someone you pay to stay no you pay for her to leave afterwaaaaaards. AND THATS WHY I PAY A LOT FOR PROSTITUTES 🎶
@@eternalroots6753 lost my shit so hard i memorized the lyrics 😂
Ew
@@eternalroots6753 Lmao, when the principal is there.
"THE CHILDREN TRICKED ME"
I mean, he basically saved all of imagination. He was essential at least once.
Man, when I got watching Raisins, I first thought it was an okay episode. Then, when I wasn’t feeling that great emotionally, I went back to the episode and now it’s my favourite episode, without any contest.
I think it's really telling that in the few times Butters lashes out and becomes Professor Chaos; he considers really evil shit to be basically switching soup orders, he's too pure for the world of South Park
Huh, never thought I'd hear butters is better then Jesus.
He’s the only one thing will indulge Cartman’s nonsense.
Gotta say, I'm really liking your new Videos now
I think quitting Commentary helped your Channel a lot, even tho your Commentary was really good
South Park was always that show which looks really stupid but ends up being amazingly written with valuable life lessons
Same! When I first was kinda getting curious about the show I kept repeating to myself (Oh c'mon, this show looks kind of dumb, who would even watch this) in my head and then I watched the first ep and here I am having watched every single season and having the ps4 game.
Altough, The first Ep was kind of confusing to me, I quickly learned how it works lol!
People hate on it nowadays, but it's a genius satire. Such a short turn around per episode, means they're such a quick reflection of events, but they always go for the joke first.
I came here to learn how a consistently naive and innocent kid surrounded near daily by some of the most condensed forms of trauma imaginable adds comedic and narrative purpose to a complete nonsense show, not to discover a deep and meaningful life lesson that I severely needed to hear at the time of watching.
How fitting. Thank you Butters, never change.
The one where he accidentally becomes a pimp is probably my favorite episode of the whole show. Butters is an international treasure.
Don't forget that Butters is also the best and most innocent character
@Cannie UwU Well yeah but there are very few episodes where Pip has a role.
@Cannie UwU poor pip
2:10 I don’t know about that, Stan and Kyle could be really damn cruel in the first few seasons, before Cartman was made to be the stand out worst.
kick the baby!
Thanks for blessing us with this banger
Butters has officially replaced Chef as the heart and soul of South. If only he could stay clear of Cartman's influence.
The best Butters episodes are in flat character arch episodes, "Raisins" is the perfect example.
“Even fucking Jesus” my favorite line in the whole video
Great video. Longtime South Park fans know that Butters is really the only 'kid' among the cast.
”Edgy without a punchline isn’t funny” Depends, sometimes It’s so unwaranted and unexpected that it doesn’t need one.
Butters monologue in the rain after being dumped is my favorite scene in the entire show.
I would be okay if instead focusing on randy they focused on butters
My favorite Butters moment is when he summons the spirit of Biggie Smalls, delivers on his promise to get him to Satan's party in LA, and they both have a great time.
butters' hair makes him look like a tomato
He does
Butters is actually my dad’s favorite character from South Park
In the group of boys we do have a non douche character, though. Kenny.
Yeah I definitely think Butters (and Kyle+Stan, at times) really help to make the show feel more than just “hahahaha bad thing happen funny”
Butters is such a nice kid, he reminds me slot of the kids I’d babysit! Very sweet with a imagination of gold
I think Butters' parents and grandma being as fucked up as they are makes this all the more fun because then Butters is like Jesus' son by comparison.
the thing about butters is that he’s not actually all that naive or sheltered. like this kid gets goes through a lot of trauma through pure acceptance in a way the other kids can’t. butters gets constantly grounded by his parents, has been his entire life, so he’s used to being suddenly getting “benched”, for arbitrary reasons, and he’s learned acceptance of himself and sudden, unpredictable periods of being forced to focus on himself. the problems the gang gets into nearly always involve someone experiencing something that challenges their view of who THEY are, like when Cartman makes Kyle question his sense of moral superiority, or pretty much any time Randy does anything. Butters has become accustomed to being BY himself, but also WITH himself, and as such his dark side is mostly just a mischievous scamp doing a cartoon cackle; there’s not much about Butters that he’s afraid to acknowledge, to the point that his primary anxieties are about his personal potential to disrupt routines (while having no particular concept of the relative importance these routines have, bc of the constants arbitrary grounding). Butters knows himself, accepts himself, and so he can experience deeply traumatic situations without leading to these elaborate ego-death-and-spiritual-resurrection internal dramas (expressed through outward scenarios that are impossibly outrageous bc cartoon) that afflict his peers.
butters has a different kind of trauma, and a differently mapped brain, and it leads him to focus on different facets of his experience.
tldr hey he not dumb he’s just like my little guy, he’s cool he’s like this little guy,
There's a reason Butters is the creators' favorite character.
I think both Cartman and Butters are the best well written and most important characters in the show and we can all agree that the cartman and butters episodes are the best. Butters getting dragged alone with cartmans craziness is just perfect and always well written. Definitely the best characters on the show. They both have a rick and morty kind of friendship.
Butters was always my favorite character. He was like me growing up: sheltered, naive, and lovable.
That episode where hitters got dumped was quite literally life changing for me, the quote of having to feel what happiness is in order to know what sadness is like is fucking profound
"potentially turn him into the most troubled kid imaginable, yet he keeps at least part of it together by sheer ignorance" oh boy...... the new special poor butters but anybody is surprised by that outcome
We dont need to talk about that we already know he is the best and most important
He outshines the darkness of the many jokes in the show
Butters getting mistreated makes the show really hard to watch at times. These characters and their fates rarely change. I was very optimistic and sweet as a kid and was abused a lot and it can be hard watching the same gag over and over again. Obviously it's just a cartoon but sometimes these wild characters truly act like how actual kids would. I'm always like this with punching bag character tropes lol
Ok, but didn't Butter sink a boat full of passengers by hitting a golf ball straight to the captain's eye in Hawaii?
He also worked as a Pimp, so not everything he's done has been spotless.
Of course. Even the most naive kids make some stupid decusions, but should you blame them?
Exactly why I'm so eager to see what they do with butters in the Paramount+ specials.
Butters is just all around my favorite character. Obviously all the main boys are great too and some of their friends and family has their shining moments like Tweak and Craig, but I feel the main reason why I attach to Butters so much is how despite how realistically and unrealistically awful his situation is, he still stays a nice, caring, and happy person. He does have his moments where he lashes out and is understandably fed up with how people treat him, but for the most part he stays a genuinely nice and loving person despite his situation. Abusive parents, bullies at school, even his friends don't really treat him all that great, toxic extended family, gets constantly used and stepped on by others, almost killed, was abandoned at on point because they were playing hide and seek and couldn't find him, and he even got put into a gay conversion camp by his awful parents poor judgement. And yet he's still just your everyday loveable Butters. And I feel that's something that everyone can strive to be. To keep your sense of self despite all the bullshit we get put through.
Butters replaced Pip and serves the same role Pip was supposed to have except without a Brittish accent and with more innocence
Something that happened in the later seasons of South Park is that Kenny was slowly fazed out of the show outside of a couple smaller B plots and he was replaced with Butters. The main reason I believe is because Matt and Trey both agreed that Kenny dying every episode became an old played out joke that has no more comedic value. To make things worse you can't understand the majority of what Kenny says which limits their jokes with that character even more. So they often just replaced Kenny with Butters, who is one of the most varied characters in South Park which allowed them the freedom to write much more complex and funny jokes.
Butter is the butter on the burnt toast that is South Park
I’m so happy you made this, Butters has always been my absolute favorite and I’ve held this same view. My favorite episode (although it’s tied with the Imaginationland episodes) is the one where he starts a “kissing company” and becomes a pimp, “do you know what I am saying?” haha-Thanks for sharing! I subscribed.
Jimmy - Why did you come?!
Butters - Because I said I would?!
My favourite parts of South park is when they are just acting as friends at least between them, Even Cartman and Kyle sometimes get along.
Butters is a gift that keeps on giving
I'm bit disappointed because Beavis and Butthead wasn't used as an example of a great show with terrible leads because Beavis and Butthead was the major influence for both South Park and Rick and Morty.
Otherwise, this video is perfect and Butters is hands down one of the best South Park characters.
This video was wonderfully written. Can’t wait to see more from you
The two charaters that bes represent me in the show are Kenny and my boy Butters, he's a true CHAD in his own right, the capacity to remain inocent and thoughful in a world where everyone's an a-hole to him is just admirable
Absolutely!
This made me think of the Subway episode when Cartman cussed out Butters’s parents and they came back home and horribly beat Butters even though he didn’t say it. I legit don’t like watching the end of the episode for that reason.
Also I do think that one character who is the closest to being another straight man in the series is Stan’s mom, Sharon. However, she doesn’t shine much she’s just a regular mom.
One of the best scenes is when he's telling everyone off while going in and out of the bathroom - Too funny
Your writing is seriously incredible. You got everything across so well, you put thoughts I didn’t even realize I had into words. I never noticed why a lot of the episodes I like include Butters, but this is probably why. He is seriously a very realistic portrayal of a kid his age and I guess I never realized that his upbringing is the reason why he is so naive. Again, your writing is incredible. I’m definitely going to subscribe to you and you can bet that I’ll tune in for another in the future.
Butters is my favorite, hands down. He's just super refreshing to watch. Wholesome kiddo 10/10
Butters, Kenny, Heidi, and Token are the nicest characters on the show. Granted Cartman has gotten each to do horrible things but still
Nice choice of background music with the slow jazz version of Departure. It fits a video about Butters so well.
Butter's speech in Raisins really shows how much of a good character he is
You should read and watch Berserk. I'd really like to hear your piece on it. Warning: it delves into the depths of human depravity and gets really dark, but it's done well. It's not just shock value. The opening arc can be a bit deceiving, though.
It's crazy that i was born when "It's a Butters Show" Epiosde debut. December 12 2001. His one of the best characters,and i related to his character from my school experience.
Butters the kid that came out of nowhere and took control of the show and became a lead.
Butters a background character who became a main character. Butters who made the South Park Four into the South Park Five.
Butters steals the show with magic in his heart and a tune in is head and he'll sing it while skipping down the street and putting a smile on everyone's face.
Butters is what a kid thrust into the crap the other four get into would be like.
Butters who until this day while being more of a lead than Kenny yet hasn't been used in the opening. PUT THIS MAN IN THE OPENING.
Lol butters wanted to become a pimp one time, and the other pimps took him in and treated him like their own. One even took to lifting him up so he could be at the same height as them to listen to what they had to say
We sort of Stan butters don't we
The episode where Butters gets bullied by his grandma was brutal but loved how he destroyed her with his kindness in the end
I love the raisings episode because of Butters. The ending really stuck with me since the first time I watched it and it's one of the reasons why I love South Park so much
Lu-lu-lu I’ve got some apples lu-lu-lu you’ve got some too!
There's no other character on South Park that makes me laugh as easily as Butters.
i’m obsessed with this video and every word you said basically!!! it gave me the language for a concept i only thought of in passing.
my heart hurts for butters every time i see him. he is THE cutest little thing 😭 so innocent. i love him. great video bud
he ended up being the most important character in the post coivd specials
Watching this video makes me realise just how much more tragic Butters's fate is in Post Covid-special. Like, what was the thing that finally broke him?
At first it was about Stan and his friends. Now it turned into Randy and Butters show.
Randy, Butters and Cartman.
And then he became an NFT salesman :P
Butters accidentally becoming a pimp is definitely my favorite!
The older I am, the more I appreciate characters like Butter.
To think he became an NFT shill in an alternate timeline.
“Essential”
Was literally introduced in the 3rd season
May we never lose Butters and his heart of gold.
I love butters.
And I always felt so damn sorry for him.
He's adrift in a world of pure chaos, trying hard to be a good, honest, sensible, loyal little child.... But it's hard to be good when the world around you is tainted and smeared by angry people who believe in nothing but hate. When his granny was beating his Ass in that one episode it hurt.
When he was accused if being a confused bisexual it hurt.
When he wrote scrottie mcboogerballs and got the Kardashians brutally murdered.... That really hurt.
I just want him to be happy.
Butters is the most innocent kid in South Park
That's an easy one. Its because he's the only one who acts his age and is very innocent and naïve. I think the episodes where his father (who isn't exactly straight himself) sent him to straight camp. Poor thing didn't know he was their the entire time or what being bi-curious is. I absolutely agree his existence is vital to the heart of what South Park is really about.
Honestly with everything Butters went though it explains why he’s where he is in the Post Covid Special