Tweek Tweak

Tweek Tweak is a student at South Park Elementary. He drinks lots of coffee, which causes high anxiety, paranoia and jittery muscle spasms. Although mainly a background character, he appeared as a member of the main group for part of Season 6.

Appearance
Tweek has messy blond hair and wears an incorrectly-buttoned green shirt with blue jeans. In "Gnomes", his physical appearance was slightly different to more recent episodes; instead of a green collar, he had a black one, and his jeans were also of a darker color.

Parents
Richard and Mrs. Tweak own a local coffee shop. They supply their son with coffee, not believing it causes any of Tweek's physical and mental problems, instead blaming it on attention deficit disorder.

They aren't shown to be the best parents; in "Tweek vs. Craig", Tweek's father tries to communicate through long-winded anecdotes that "never go anywhere", while in "Gnomes" he uses flowery similes and metaphors ("A light rain in the middle of a dusty afternoon, or a hug from your dear old aunt...") that his son fails to understand. Exasperated, Tweek once exclaims "You guys never help me! Your stories never go anywhere! I hate it! I want out! I want out!"

In "Child Abduction is Not Funny", it is Tweek's parents' ham-fisted approach to parenting that almost gets him kidnapped by a child molester, precipitating the events of the episode.

Craig's Gang
Although Craig's gang only consistently includes Craig, Token, and Clyde, the fourth slot is most frequently filled by Tweek. Tweek is shown in Craig's group more than any other member, and for most of his background appearances, he can be seen with Craig and his group.

Craig Tucker
Although in "Tweek vs. Craig", the two had a conflict, the anger between them seems to have been resolved and they are assumed to be friends. Tweek and Craig can be seen standing side by side in various episodes including "Ginger Kids" where they are trapped in a cage together, and in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", where they are on the same side of the town.

They are often seen sitting next to each other in the background, in episodes like "How To Eat With Your Butt", where Craig stands behind Tweek, at Kenny's window, in "I'm a Little Bit Country" Tweek is seen working in the same study group as Craig and in "Make Love, Not Warcraft" they're playing football together along with Token, Clyde and Kevin, Tweek passing the ball to Craig, implying that they're on the same team. Tweek also hides scared behind Craig in "Marjorine", when they are all spying on the girls' house. In "You're Getting Old", they sit next to each other at Stan's birthday table.

The Boys
Tweek is shown to consider the main boys as his friends. He seems to willingly take the position of the fourth friend in the 6th season when Kenny dies. He seems to enjoy hanging out with the boys; however, it is shown that Tweek doesn't do the strange, crazy adventures the boys go on (reminiscent of Craig Tucker's attitude towards them).

Because of his unexplained absence following "A Ladder to Heaven", it is assumed that he drifted back to his old friends. However, he stays friends with the other boys too, often being invited to help with their latest schemes.

Eric Cartman
Cartman has nothing against Tweek (even electing to replace Kyle instead of Tweek initially when they wanted to let Bebe in the group in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"), but Tweek seems to dislike Cartman.

In "Free Hat", Cartman pressured Tweek to make hats and threatened him into trying to shape up, or else he would be kicked out of hanging with the boys. Later on in the episode, when Kyle, Stan, and Cartman are being held hostage by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Tweek comes to save them wielding a bazooka, saying, "All I want are my friends!" Cartman seems touched by this until Tweek adds, "Except for Cartman, you can keep him."

Social Standing In General
After the episode "Gnomes", it can be assumed that Tweek became good friends with the boys, since they choose him above all the other kids to be their fourth friend in the episode "Professor Chaos". In "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", when the boys decide they have to make room for Bebe in their group, Kyle and Stan defend Tweek and kick Cartman out instead. Tweek is never kicked out of the group as Butters was, but he slowly shifts back into Craig's group and leaves the boys behind.

Tweek is rarely seen by himself, he is almost always shown with a peer or a group of peers. He also placed in the top 10 on the girls list of cutest boys. In "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", Tweek is invited to the big party. However, his appearances have tapered off in recent seasons, and he is conspicuous by his absence from the rest of the group's slumber party in "The Last of the Meheecans".

Trivia

 * His weight was mentioned as 48lbs in "Tweek vs. Craig".
 * Tweek has been shown to pull out his own hair out of stress.
 * Tweek goes to a "Happy Place" when he wants to calm down in "Free Hat".
 * Tweek has the second smallest penis in the class, as it is 0.05 inches longer than Cartman's.
 * In episode "Gnomes", his parents' coffee shop, Tweek Bros. Coffeehouse, went out of business because "Harbucks", a parody of the Starbucks coffee shop chain, opened a shop in South Park, though his father was hired to manage Harbucks. However, Tweek Bros. Coffeeshop reappears later in the series nonetheless.
 * Whenever Tweek is told to do something, he responds by saying, "Aaagh! Way too much pressure!"
 * Tweek seemed to practice fatalism in episode "Free Hat".
 * Tweek was worshiped as a deity by the "sea people" in the episode "Simpsons Already Did It", though he wasn't pleased about it. All his followers were quickly killed in conflict with Cartman's followers.
 * Tweek apparently speaks fluent Mongolian (as do the other kids) which he puts to use when he talks to the Mongolian warriors he lives with for a short time in "Child Abduction is Not Funny".
 * In the game South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! you can see that Tweek was ejected from the group of not paying enough attention to their friends to be nervous and be hunting gnomes.
 * Tweek is an unlockable character in South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play. His special ability is running faster and killing anything that he runs into for five seconds.
 * At IGN.com, Tweek was ranked #8 in Dan Iverson & Brian Zoromski's "Top 10 South Park Peripheral Characters".
 * Although Tweek rarely speaks in-series, he's been popular with fans since his debut, and became part of the boys' group partially due to fan popularity - there was a movement for Tweek to replace Butters before "Professor Chaos" even aired. As a result, despite the temporary "fourth friend" slot normally being associated with Butters, Tweek actually filled it officially for longer.
 * At www.southparkstudios.com, Tweek can be selected from the character profiles. From there, the various features - such as popularity and number of appearances - can be accessed.

Quotes

 * "Oh man, this/that is way too much pressure!"
 * "Gah!"
 * "Oh Jesus!"
 * "Ahhh!"
 * "They're going to get me!"
 * "I'm not a chicken!"
 * "I'm not a team player!"
 * "They're taking my underpants!"
 * "They took my underpants, soon they'll want my blood!"
 * "I pulled out my hair!"
 * "Maybe they wanna kill us!"
 * "Eeek!"
 * "Jesus Christ, dude, I'm going insane!"
 * "I'm freaking out man, I'm freaking out!"
 * "Rrrrr! You guys never help me! Your stories never go anywhere! I hate it! I want out! I want out!"

Prominence
Although Tweek doesn't have as much speaking roles in an average episode as other secondary characters such as Craig and Clyde, in most of the episodes in which he is prominent, he is a major character. In the Season Six episodes "Simpsons Already Did It", "Red Hot Catholic Love", "Free Hat", "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", and "Child Abduction is Not Funny", he replaces Butters (who in turn replaced Kenny) as the fourth friend. Following the episode "Child Abduction is Not Funny", Tweek stopped appearing as the fourth friend, due primarily to Kenny's re-introduction, first as a spirit sharing Cartman's body, and later when he was brought back permanently.

Speaking Appearances

 * "Gnomes"
 * "Tweek vs. Craig"
 * "Sexual Harassment Panda"
 * "4th Grade "
 * "Proper Condom Use "
 * "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants "
 * "Professor Chaos"
 * "Simpsons Already Did It"
 * "Red Hot Catholic Love"
 * "Free Hat"
 * "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"
 * "Child Abduction is Not Funny"
 * "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers "
 * "Red Man's Greed "
 * "Quest For Ratings"
 * "Free Willzyx "
 * "Make Love, Not Warcraft"
 * "Hell on Earth 2006"
 * "Eat, Pray, Queef "