Linda Stotch

Linda Stotch is a character in South Park. She is Leopold "Butters" Stotch's mother. She was originally named Carol, as shown in "Super Best Friends", though her name was changed to Linda in "Butters' Very Own Episode".

Appearance
Linda wears a maroon sweater, a calf-length purple skirt and black shoes. She has shoulder-length blond hair, and a long, slim face. Her breasts are lopsided, with her right breast being noticeably larger than her left.

For special occasions, she wears a red dress, as seen in the award ceremony in The Death Camp of Tolerance.

Characteristics
Linda is shown to be a quiet, submissive woman. She is often seen reading or cleaning the house. She also seems to be much more sympathetic and tender to Butters than Stephen. She is shown to care a lot about Butters as in Marjorine. She seems to only go along with Stephen's methods of raising Butters because she feels he knows more about it than she does. Indeed, she has shown on a couple of occasions that she has low self-esteem, such as Butters' Very Own Episode. She is revealed to think more highly of Stephen's anniversary gifts than hers. She is also shown to be quite sadistic in this episode. she also seems to be very mentally unstable, going insane when she find out her husband is bisexual.

Relationship with Butters
While she is a lot nicer to Butters than Stephen, and hugs and kisses him a lot, but like his father she has punished him and abused him absurdly before. In How to Eat With Your Butt, she grounds Butters and keeps him confined to his room for supposedly making silly faces for his school picture (But that's actually how he looks).

The most significant thing Linda ever did to Butters would have to be in Butters' Very Own Episode. After she asked Butters to spy on Stephen, and find out what he was giving her for their anniversary, Butters told her that he had gone to a strange bathhouse, and was doing something weird with his genitals when he saw him. This caused Linda to go temporarily insane, and she drove Butters into the lake, and left him there to drown, in an act similar to murderess Susan Smith.

Skills and Occupations
In Die Hippie, Die, she is revealed to be an engineer. She also serves on the City Council as the treasurer.

In Butters' Very Own Episode, she is shown to have at least some skill in wall painting. When she goes temporarily insane, she spends all day painting coat after coat of paint on the walls in her house. Indeed, Butters even says that his father should get her a larger paintbrush for their anniversary.

Family and Friends
Linda's name indicates that she may be of Scottish and German descent.

Stephen Stotch
Stephen Stotch is Linda's husband.

Leopold "Butters" Stotch
He is Linda's son. She loves him dearly, and is relatively tender to him. She does get angry or annoyed by him on occasion, though, and has abused him in the past.

Friends
She seems to hang out with the other mothers in South Park a lot. She and Stephen seem closest to the Marshes, Broflovskis, and the Cartmans. Perhaps this is because their son was the fourth friend of the main characters for a while in Season Six, and has become a fifth friend since seasons 9.

Episodes in which She is Prominent

 * The Wacky Molestation Adventure - First appearance. She does not even speak.


 * How to Eat with Your Butt - Linda grounds Butters for supposedly making a silly face for his school picture.


 * Butters' Very Own Episode - Linda goes temporarily insane after she finds out from Butters that Stephen is bi-curious.


 * Jared Has Aides - Linda and Stephen ground Butters for having a liposuction surgery performed in their house.


 * Asspen - Linda and her family accompany the Marshes, Broflovskis, and Cartmans to Aspen.


 * Freak Strike - Linda and Stephen ground Butters for putting fake testicles on his chin.


 * The Death Camp of Tolerance


 * My Future Self n' Me


 * Raisins


 * Casa Bonita


 * Die Hippie, Die


 * AWESOM-O


 * Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset


 * The Death of Eric Cartman


 * Marjorine - Linda is heartbroken after she thinks her son commit suicide.


 * Night of the Living Homeless - Linda and Stephen are trapped on the roof of the building with all the other townspeople hiding from the homeless people.


 * Eek, a Penis! - Linda is horror-struck to see Mr(s). Garrison's "penis" running around her kitchen floor.


 * Pandemic - Is one of the townspeople fleeing a giant guinea pig


 * About Last Night - Linda and Stephen were McCain supporters and helped build and managed "The Ark."


 * The Ungroundable - Butters becomes a vampire "ungroundable" makes Linda very worried for her son