Wendy Testaburger

Wendy Testaburger is a female student at South Park Elementary. She has been voiced by four people during the series' run: Mary Kay Bergman, Eliza J. Schneider, Mona Marshall, and currently April Stewart.

Concept and Creation
Her name is said to be based on "Wendy Westaburger", the wife of one of Matt Stone's friends. .

Languages
In "Tom's Rhinoplasty", it is revealed that Wendy is fluent in Arabic, as she used this language to talk to the agents she hired to shoot Ms. Ellen into the sun.

Music
In "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", she became a member of Cartman's "boy" band Fingerbang, after wowing the boys with a song similar to the popular euphemistic "Miss Susie" rhyme.

Wendy also took part in the Thanksgiving musical play in "Hellen Keller! The Musical". In "Elementary School Musical", she performed the opening song as well as several other duets with Bridon. On Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, Wendy performs a duet with Stan entitled "It Happened in Sun Valley".

Physical Strength
Wendy has shown herself to be a fairly decent fighter, beating up Cartman after he repeatedly made jokes about Breast Cancer in "Breast Cancer Show Ever". Although Cartman does manage to get in a few hits in, Wendy turns the tide of the fight after ramming Cartman's face into a metal pole multiple times, leaving Cartman lying in a pool of his own blood. The significance of this is debatable as Cartman has been shown to lose the majority of fights he gets in.

Politics
She is portrayed as very political. She has started or joined many campaigns, groups, and debates over the course of the show. She has also participated in stopping conspiracies and assassinations.

In "Weight Gain 4000", Wendy is infuriated when Cartman's report wins the school contest, instead of her report on protecting bottle nosed dolphins. After reading his essay, she reveals to the public at Cartman's presentation with Kathie Lee Gifford that Cartman had copied Walden and replaced Henry David Thoreau's name with his own. Because Kathie Lee Gifford had already left at that point, nobody cared, further annoying her. In the meantime, Wendy and Stan tried to stop Mr. Garrison and Mr. Hat from assassinating Kathie, although Mr. Hat ends up shooting at her, killing Kenny by mistake.

In "Chef Goes Nanners", she was one of a few people who realize why Chef is upset about the South Park Flag, and immediately volunteers to represent the "Flag Should be Changed" team for the upcoming debate, however, she was mortified to find out that her leading partner was Cartman. She attempts to lead the team without him, and decides not to participate in discrediting Kyle and Stan's team, who believed the flag should stay the way it was. They eventually begin to work together, and their partnership improve as they found that they had more and more things in common with each other, which leads to Wendy having a temporary crush on him. At the presentation, this attraction made it difficult for her to voice her side of the debate, causing her to kiss him. After that, she is able to concentrate, producing a well-rounded opinion on changing history.

In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", Wendy gives a speech to her class, in order to raise awareness for breast cancer during the Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October). After Cartman's repeated derogatory remarks about breast cancer, Wendy beats Cartman up in the aforementioned episode. Wendy was the class president of South Park Elementary until "Dances with Smurfs".

Voice Acting
From 1997 to 1999, Wendy Testaburger was voiced by Mary Kay Bergman. Bergman listed Wendy among her five favorite roles in South Park, (together with Liane Cartman, Shelly Marsh, Mrs. McCormick, and Sheila Broflovski); stating that she admired the character's overall sweetness and intelligence, balanced by her unpredictability. After Bergman's death in 1999, the character was temporarily voiced by Eliza J. Schneider and Mona Marshall; she is currently voiced by April Stewart.

Appearance
Wendy's hair is long and black with choppy, uneven bangs. She wears a pink beret, a light purple jacket with a dark blue collar, dark blue gloves, and yellow trousers. Under her jacket she has been shown to be wearing a light purple tank-top in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", and a white tank top with a unicorn on it in "Breast Cancer Show Ever". Wendy has only been seen without her beret in two episodes, "Chef Goes Nanners", where she took off her beret to dunk her head in her fishbowl and "Funnybot", where she was seen dressed up without her beret.

Personality
Wendy is typically portrayed as nice, feminine, and liberal in nature. In early seasons she argues with Cartman over various issues, usually providing a voice of reason and taking a liberal standpoint, much like Kyle in later seasons. She is shown to be very politically aware, writing an essay on the suffering of Bottlenose dolphins in "Weight Gain 4000", donating candy to starving children in Nairobi in "Chickenpox, being willing to give the Afghanistani children a dollar in "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants", and doing a report on the suffering of Breast Cancer patients in "Breast Cancer Show Ever". In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, her issues with Stan are credited to his lack of political knowledge. As the series in general became more political, Wendy's role as the politically-aware voice of reason shrank, and by the fifth season she was seldom seen as more than one of the female students. Wendy is generally friendly to characters aside from Cartman and seems well-liked at school. When Stan points out in "Weight Gain 4000" that they had just learned about winning not being important, she points out "but it's Cartman!" and exposes his plagiarism regardless. In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", she beats Cartman up, much to his chagrin. In South Park: Bigger,Longer & Uncut, she and Gregory both stir up the entire playground with their speeches on Terrance and Phillip's impending execution. However, she does fall into unpopularity during "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset".

Despite her generally being used as one of the female characters, she is usually portrayed good-hearted and unwilling to let herself be compromised by popularity - in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", she initially refuses to give in to the "Stupid Spoiled Whore" fad, however, she eventually conformed. Despite this, she lost all of her friendships due to her excelling in school, being "too smart", and not being spoiled due to her parents giving money to charity. Wendy is very kind, even convincing the other girls to apologize for hurting Marjorine's feelings in "Marjorine".

In "Follow That Egg!", she was shown to have an strong motherly instinct; after hearing from Bebe about the way Stan had treated their egg, she was deeply worried that Stan would damage the egg which had belonged to Kyle and herself before Ms. Garrison switched their partners. She even went over to Kyle's house, frantically asking to see the egg and hold it for a couple of minutes. Only Kyle could calm her down. After seeing how well Stan and Kyle took care of the egg, and presented it to the governor at the end of the episode, she saw how good Stan's fathering skills were, and relaxed.

She also has moments of carelessness; "Pinkeye" is an example. Prior to the beginning of the episode, she had promised Stan that she would dress as Raggedy Ann so that he could dress as Raggedy Andy so they could be a pair for Halloween. Later, she "Realized how stupid [they] would look", and dressed as Chewbacca instead, not thinking about how it would affect Stan.

She is shown to be very jealous, perhaps the most famous instance of this is her encounter with Ms. Ellen in "Tom's Rhinoplasty", where she has Ms. Ellen shot into the sun for getting between her and Stan. In the episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Wendy, along with Red, Milly, and Esther gossip about Bebe, calling her a slut as well as making up an assortment of lies about her. When it comes to her relationship with Stan, she is extremely irrational, as shown in "You Have 0 Friends". However, in other episodes, both during their relationship and during it's hiatus, such as "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" she seems to have no problem with other girls flirting with Stan. Wendy has manipulative skill on par with Cartman, outsmarting him in many of his schemes (such as in "Dances with Smurfs"). She can best be described as a good person with a strong moral center, until something stands in her way, that is.

Stan Marsh
For the first seven seasons of the series, Wendy's most notable feature was her relationship with Stan Marsh. Their relationship began in the pilot episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", where it was revealed that the two of them had been attracted for some time prior to the series. A recurring gag in the series involved Stan getting queasy from excitement whenever Wendy tried to kiss him (and in early episodes whenever she spoke to him), and then throwing up on her.

Despite Stan's continual vomiting, Wendy has so far stayed with him. She became extremely jealous when Ms. Ellen "came between them" in "Tom's Rhinoplasty". After Stan falls for Ms. Ellen and ignores Wendy's attempts to win back his love, Wendy pays a group of Iraqis a large sum of money to capture Ms. Ellen and shoot her into the sun. In the episode, "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Wendy openly insults Bebe after Stan (together with the other boys) grows attracted to her developing breasts; this jealousy later extends to the point of her undergoing breast augmentation surgery to turn Stan's attention back to herself.

Though they remained together till the seventh season, their relationship didn't seem as strong, and at times seemed strained (an example being the aforementioned "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"). On Stan's part, though, it may have largely been because his adventures throughout the seasons left him too busy to pay attention to Wendy. She broke up with him in the season seven episode, "Raisins", although the only reason given was that she wanted to date Token.

Even after she had broken up with Stan, he still showed feelings for her, and tried to win her back by playing Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" on his boombox on her lawn, though the plan failed when he saw that Token was in Wendy's room. In "Follow That Egg!", while working on the egg project, he tried to impress Wendy with his fathering abilities, and grew jealous of Kyle for working as the "father" of the same egg Wendy was the "mother" of. Near the end of the episode, Wendy complimented Stan on his "fathering" abilities, although due to Stan's bitterness, he rejected the complimenting, telling her that he "didn't care what [she] thinks". In "The List", Wendy helps Stan to discover that the girls' election of who the cutest and the ugliest boys in South Park Elementary was rigged. At the end of the episode, she admits to Stan that she enjoyed hanging out with him again, and they attempt to kiss, during which Stan throws up on her again. This is often seen as the "re-ignition" of their relationship.

This "re-ignition" was verified in the episode "Super Fun Time"; Stan pairs with Wendy on the field trip, telling the others that he is with his girlfriend, as well as fretting about the possibility of looking like a dork in front of her.

In "Elementary School Musical", Wendy gave Stan a small kiss at her locker before walking away; this is notable as it was the first time Stan did not vomit thereafter. This may have been done because Parker and Stone were getting bored of the near-constant gag, similar to how they grew tired of killing Kenny after the fifth season.

In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", when Butters attempted to recruit her into his "kissing company", Stan defended her heavily and lashed out against Butters. However, later in the playground, Wendy was yelling at Stan, possibly berating him for something he may have done. In "Dances With Smurfs", Stan heavily defends Wendy when she is being panned by Cartman. Wendy, however, seemed unfazed by Cartman, and rebuffed Stan when he let Wendy know his feelings.

Despite a rather stable relationship in later seasons, Stan has managed to irritate Wendy on occasion. In "You Have 0 Friends", Wendy tells Stan to change his profile information on his newly-created Facebook page to "In a Relationship", as she was quite upset over it being listed as "Single". Later in the episode, she jealously mistook Stan's grandmother's friend Susan, as a girl who was flirting with Stan by commenting that he looked cute in an unseen photo of a young Stan in a rabbit outfit. In "Bass to Mouth", Wendy was infuriated when she learned that Eavesdropper had revealed a private e-mail Stan sent to Kenny, in which he called another girl's butt crack "hot".

However, there have been times when Wendy supported Stan, showing that she truly cares about him. For example, Wendy helped him break his "hoarding" habit in "Insheeption", saying that it would threaten their relationship. In "Ass Burgers" Wendy approaches Kyle about Stan's new behavior problems. Wendy attempts to get Kyle's help to try and help Stan, but Kyle refuses to help due to Stan's negativity. By the end of the episode, Wendy and Stan are seen having a picnic.

Gregory
In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, she had what seemed to be a crush on a newcomer named Gregory. She apparently liked him because he was very political, and shared many of her liberal opinions. After Stan followed the Clitoris' advice and expressed confidence, she told Stan she had never really liked Gregory, even saying, "Fuck Gregory! Fuck him right in the ear!".

Eric Cartman
Wendy is one of the stronger examples of an Eric Cartman hater, but in the season 4 episode, "Chef Goes Nanners", she had a temporary crush on him while they were working together on the flag debate. She even dreamed of herself and Cartman falling in love together in a meadow. Frightened by these feelings, she consulted Bebe for help on the matter, and Bebe told her that it was probably just sexual tension caused by working for so long beside him. Upon her advice, Wendy passionately kissed Cartman at the presentation the next day. After that, she lost all her positive and negative feelings for him, even seeming to consider him a friend. Her hatred for him returned eight seasons later, in the episode "Breast Cancer Show Ever", where she fought him, and beat him up.

Token
In "Raisins", after Wendy broke up with Stan, she began dating Token Black. Their relationship likely did not last long, as Token was seen with other girls in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset". Their relationship was not expanded upon, therefore, little is known about it.

Bridon
Bridon Gueermo is a third grader who Wendy and the other girls had a crush on in "Elementary School Musical". Wendy and Bridon performed many duets throughout the episode, causing Stan to become jealous. However, Wendy assured him that she would never leave him for Bridon because he could be with any girl he wanted. It was implied that Wendy would leave Stan for Bridon, however, she thinks she is not "good enough" for Bridon, and that he wouldn't choose her over the other girls.

Bebe Stevens
Wendy's is best friends with Bebe Stevens. They have assisted each other at various times throughout the series. In "Tom's Rhinoplasty", Bebe gave Wendy a makeover to help her impress Stan, as she though Ms. Ellen was trying to take him from her. In "Clubhouses", Wendy unsuccessfully attempted to help Bebe begin dating Kyle.

Though they seem to be very close friends, they have had a fair share of issues. In "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Wendy grew jealous of Bebe because she had become popular among the boys due to her developing breasts. However, Wendy was not the only girl to grow jealous, as she was seen insulting Bebe behind her back with several other girls. Later, despite her mother's concerns, she got breast implants, presumably in order to outdo Bebe. In the episode, "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", it was Bebe who outcasted Wendy, because she wasn't enough of a "Stupid Spoiled Whore". In "The List", Bebe and Wendy break into a fight after arguing over the forged list of the cutest and ugliest boys. Nevertheless, they were shown to still be friends in "Breast Cancer Show Ever".

Other Girls
Wendy acts as the leader of the female "population". The other girls look up to her as their voice of reason, though on some occasions, they ignore her suggestions. The most notable exception however was during "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", in which Wendy, failing to grasp the trend of being a whore, was outcast from the girls. Furthermore, in "The List", Bebe threatened her with a gun after finding out she knew about the corrupt list.

Other Boyfriends
In "Clubhouses", it is suggested that Wendy had boyfriends before Stan, but the number of boyfriends or who they may have been are unknown. In the episode, after Wendy suggests coming over to play Truth Or Dare in Stan's clubhouse, Stan tells Wendy that he doesn't have a clubhouse. Wendy replies "You don't? I thought all guys had clubhouses." Stan replies "Just how many guys' clubhouses have you been in?"

Trivia

 * Wendy's personality is based off of Trey Parker's ex-fiance, Liane Adamo.
 * Wendy lost her major character status to Kyle, when Kyle's personality began resembling hers, eliminating the need for many episodes centered around Stan and Wendy.

Prominence

 * The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Santa - Wendy was seen sitting on Santa's lap.
 * "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" - Wendy's first appearance after the Christmas shorts. She and Stan become boyfriend and girlfriend in this episode. She also helps the boys to recover Kyle's kidnapped brother, Ike Broflovski.
 * "Weight Gain 4000" - Wendy is angry that Cartman won the paper contest and not her. Later, she and Stan try to stop Mr. Garrison and Mr. Hat from assassinating Kathie Lee Gifford.
 * "Pinkeye" - Wendy wins the Halloween costume contest for her Chewbacca costume, despite the fact that nearly the entire school dressed as Chewbacca. She gets turned into a zombie after Stan wishes her dead, she is later restored after Kyle kills Kenny ending the zombie curse.
 * "Tom's Rhinoplasty" - Wendy goes to drastic measures to win Stan back after he gets a crush on the substitute teacher, Ms. Ellen
 * "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls" - Wendy keeps inviting Stan to take her to see the independent films at the local film festival.
 * "Clubhouses" - Wendy tries to get Kyle to fall in love with Bebe, and has the boys build a clubhouse so they can play Truth or Dare.
 * "Chef Goes Nanners" - Wendy and Cartman are stuck working together over the flag debate, and she freaks out when she begins to have a crush on him. She eventually kisses Cartman, and afterward dissolves all other romantic feelings toward him.
 * "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" - Wendy teams up with the boys in their new boy band, and disguises herself as another boy.
 * "Helen Keller! The Musical" - Wendy is Helen Keller's mother in the school play (Helen Keller is played by Timmy.
 * During this period, Wendy took for the most part a backseat role to her female classmates, often appearing among or alongside them, with occasional individual roles.
 * "Proper Condom Use" - Wendy, along with the other girls, becomes paranoid that the boys will try to have sex with them without condoms on, after Ms. Choksondik gives them sex education. She and the girls then build an advanced fortress to protect themselves from their male classmates and does battle against the boys.
 * "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" - Wendy grows jealous of Bebe's breasts, and the male attention they bring her, so she ends up getting breast implants, despite her mother's concerns.
 * "Raisins" - Wendy breaks up with Stan, and starts dating Token.
 * "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" - Wendy avoids becoming a "whore", and tries to get the other girls not to be whores either.
 * Wendy made a brief comeback during Season 9, before taking a year-long breather.
 * "Marjorine" - Wendy and Bebe realize how hurt "Marjorine" feels after being teased by the other girls, and are the first to apologize to "her".
 * "Follow that Egg!" - Wendy is teamed up with Kyle during their egg project, which drives Stan into jealousy. She is later teamed up with Bebe. She indicates feelings of regret for breaking up with Stan.
 * Wendy made her triumphant return in the finale of the eleventh season after nearly two years as a background character.
 * "The List" - Wendy helps Stan in his investigation regarding the girl's list of the cutest and ugliest boys in school. They reconcile their relationship.
 * "Eek, A Penis!" - Seen in hallways; background only.
 * "Super Fun Time" - Wendy is Stan's partner and appears throughout the episode.
 * "Breast Cancer Show Ever" - Wendy gets into trouble after threatening to beat up Cartman. Nevertheless, She later beats up Cartman. She was also seen trying to raise breast cancer awareness.
 * "Elementary School Musical" - Wendy performed several duets with Bridon Gueermo.
 * "The Coon" - Wendy points out that Mysterion might not be a boy, causing Cartman to accuse her of being the town's hero.
 * "Eat, Pray, Queef" - Gets a girl to Queef on Butters' face and asks Stan if he wants to study with her at the beginning of the episode. Also wonders why farts are funny but queefs aren't.
 * "Fishsticks" - Wendy becomes part of Cartman's entourage in an unusual change of attitude towards him, though it was shown in Cartman's imagining of things and they're always distorted, but that could also show that he has feelings for her.
 * "Butters' Bottom Bitch" - Butters attempts to recruit Wendy into his "kissing company". Wendy tells Butters to "leave me alone", and makes Stan defend her.
 * "Dances with Smurfs" - Cartman attacks Wendy with the morning announcement, since Wendy is the president of the school.
 * "You Have 0 Friends" - Wendy gets upset over Stan's relationship status being "Single" on his Facebook page, and tells him not only to change it to "In a Relationship", but to add her as a friend as well.
 * "Insheeption" - Wendy explains Stan's hoarding has gotten out of control and she can't take it anymore.
 * "Ass Burgers" - Wendy talks to Kyle about Stan and is seen with Stan at the end.
 * "Bass to Mouth" - Wendy finds out Stan sent an e-mail to Kenny saying he saw another girls buttcrack, and that he liked it, making her furious. She later joins the group that attempts to shut down Eavesdropper.
 * "1%" - She is seen in the Physical Education uniform, telling Cartman that it is in fact his fault for making them lose their recess, so therefore, he should "shut his mouth".
 * "Reverse Cowgirl" - Seen in the background of Mr. Garrison's class.
 * "Cash For Gold" - Seen in the background on the playground.
 * "Faith Hilling" - Seen in the memeing class with the other 4th Grade students.
 * "Jewpacabra" - Seen at the Easter egg hunt.
 * "Butterballs" - Seen in Stan's anti-bullying video.
 * "Cartman Finds Love" - Seen as a member of the cheerleader squad and at Bebe's sleepover party.