Tweek Tweak

Tweek Tweak, voiced by Matt Stone, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. He is a jittery nine year old boy, addicted to caffeine.

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.

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".

Caffeine addiction
Tweek's parents own a coffe shop, called "Tweek's Coffee", and they continually supply Tweek with coffee. He has become addicted to the beverage, and has high caffeine levels in his system; making him extremely jittery and paranoid.

His parents are oblivious to the fact that Tweek is overdosed on caffeine, believing his shakiness to be brought on by Attention Deficit Disorder, although ADD would not cause shakiness, but merely a short attention span (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, would cause jitteriness). Interestingly, despite his parent's beliefs, Tweek goes with the other kids to be tested for ADD in "Timmy 2000".

Believing his parent's claims, Tweek tries to control his "ADD" with Transcendental meditation, and sees a psychiatrist, Dr. Norris, who tells him to "find his center", as a way of calming himself. However, when he expresses his stress, his parents attempt to calm him with coffee, thereby increasing the level of caffeine in his system and worsening his mental state.

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.

Family
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.

Friends
Despite having a feud with Craig in Tweek vs. Craig, the two seem to be friends. Tweek is the character who is the fourth friend in Craig's group most often. Since Clyde and Token are best friends, many fans see Tweek and Craig as being best friends as well. 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 Adeventure," where they are on the same side of the town. Tweek and Craig can also be seen sitting together at school assemblies(one exception being "Canada on Strike" ) Implying that they are, in fact, close friends.

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 thier group, Kyle and Stan defend Tweek and kick Cartman out instead. Tweek is never kicked out of the group, but he slowly shifts into Craig's group and leaves the boys behind.

Cartman has nothing against Tweek (even electing to replace Kyle instead of Tweek initally when they wanted to let Bebe in the group in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"), but Tweek seems to dislike Cartman. Presumably because in Free Hat Cartman pressured Tweek to make hats and warned him to start trying to shape up or else he would be kicked out of hanging with the boys. Later on in the ep Kyle, Stan, and Cartman are held hostage by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas-Tweek comes to save them, saying "I just want my friends back!" Cartman seems touched until Tweek adds "Except for Cartman, you can keep him."

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 episodes Simpsons Already Did It, Red Hot Catholic Love, Free Hat, Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society, and Child Abduction is Not Funny, he replaces Kenny as the fourth friend.


 * Gnomes
 * Tweek vs. Craig
 * Professor Chaos
 * Simpsons Already Did It
 * Red Hot Catholic Love
 * Free Hat
 * Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society
 * Child Abduction is Not Funny

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).
 * 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 worshiped as a deity in the episode Simpsons Already Did It, though he wasn't pleased about it.
 * 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'. However, on Tweek's father's Coffee Shop Identification badge, it reads 'Mr Tweek'.
 * At IGN.com, Tweek is ranked #8 in Dan Iverson & Brian Zoromski's "Top 10 South Park Peripheral Characters".