Linda Stotch

Linda Stotch is a character in South Park. She is Leopold "Butters" Stotch's mother.

Appearance
Linda wears a maroon sweater and a calf-length purple skirt. She has shoulder-length blonde hair, and a long, slim face.

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, like her son, 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.

Treatment to her son
While she is a lot nicer to Butters than Stephen, and hugs him and kisses him a lot, 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 trange 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 temprorarily 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 Chris Stotch
He is Linda's strict, authoritarian husband, and the patriarch and leader of the Stotch residence. He cares about his wife and son very much, but he treats Butters very harshly all the same, and seems to have intimidated Linda, as she seems to cling to his arm much of the time, goes along with all of his parenting techniques, and basically sticks to cleaning the house, or attending council meetings.

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 as of seasons 9 thrugh 11.

Episodes in which She is Prominent

 * The Wacky Molestation Adventure


 * How to Eat with Your Butt


 * Butters' Very Own Episode


 * Jared Has Aides


 * Asspen


 * Freak Strike


 * 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


 * Night of the Living Homeless

Various other cameos.