Craig Tucker

Craig Tucker is a member of the boys' fourth grade class. Craig's most distinguishing physical feature is his blue chullo hat topped with a yellow puffball. One of his traits is his compulsive tendency to flip people off, usually for no discernible reason. He leads the group known as Craig's Gang.

While eight years old in the first three seasons, he was nine years old by "Fourth Grade", and as of the Season Twelve episode "Pandemic 2: The Startling", he is ten years old, according to the candles on his birthday cake. He also speaks with a rather deep voice, which is unusual from the other children.

Appearance
Craig wears a blue jacket and a matching blue chullo hat with a yellow puffball on top. He wore yellow mittens in "How to Eat with Your Butt". In the early seasons of the series, he wore blue jeans, but in more recent seasons, he wears high-waisted black pants. The fact that his legs are longer is clearly visible in "South Park is Gay!", where he and three other boys from his class wear identical clothes, because Craig's pants appear much longer than the others.

In "T.M.I.", it's listed that he has grown the most in height out of all the boys, along with Kenny and Kyle, all three gaining 2.4 inches. This implies he may be one of the tallest (if not, the tallest) boys in the class, especially since he appeared to be taller than the others even before his growth. One of the reasons he may be tall is that both his parents are shown to be the tallest adults in the town.

In "The List" it's mentioned that to place Clyde 1st in the list, they had to move Craig to 12th place. Therefore in the real list Craig was chosen as the "cutest boy" in class.

Craig's hair is usually shown to be black, although it appeared to be brown in "The Losing Edge" and South Park: The Stick of Truth. In "Good Times with Weapons", Craig's eyes are shown to be blue. It is revealed in "Tweek vs. Craig" that he is fairly thin. His nasal voice is similar to Clyde, but was originally higher in pitch. However, in later seasons (most noticeable since "Pandemic"), his voice has been lowered to a similar pitch to Clyde.

A few times in the early seasons, he is seen wearing a green hat in the background. This has been corrected in later airings. An example that is still visible is in the episode "Fat Camp", look closely at the lunch line and you will see his hat turn green for a few seconds as the camera moves. A green-attired Craig can also be seen in "Ass Burgers", though some believe that this may be a different character entirely.

Personality
Craig seems to be one of the most cynical, stoic, deadpan kids from his class, having a darker personality than the rest of the characters, a trait exaggerated by his deeper-than-average voice. He has been described as pragmatic, monotone and ironic.

Craig is implied to have bad behavior, and is referred to as "the biggest trouble-maker" in his class by Eric Cartman in "Tweek vs. Craig". Craig has a habit of flipping people off, sometimes to express irritation, anger, or disdain towards them, sometimes as a reflex. This is a trait the official South Park website states is learned from his family, who are all seen flipping each other off in "Tweek vs. Craig". His habit of flipping people off has been shown much less in later episodes, although a later incident regarding flipping off the principal of school ended up with him in detention.

The last time where he is seen making the gesture is "Fun with Veal", where he and his parents are filmed by a cameraman, who gives them an interview. His parents are worried and talk about a serious event that occurs in town, as Craig just remains blank-faced and flips off the people who watch them on TV.

Due to his bad behavior, he is frequently sent to Mr. Mackey's office. Scenes involving a character visiting Mr. Mackey's office will often show Craig sitting in the waiting seats outside the door. Craig's most notable interview with Mr. Mackey was in "Rainforest Shmainforest", where he flipped Mr. Mackey off several times and was sent to wait outside the office again.

In earlier episodes, Craig normally has a blank face - even when flipping people off. This is seen most predominantly in "Tweek vs. Craig" when he randomly flips off his entire family while remaining a completely straight face. If his face isn't blank, he is frowning for one reason or another.

Although all the kids are violent, to an extent, Craig is implied to be the most violent one (or second most violent, after Cartman) due to the fact that he is seen to be the primary leader in every bullying that occurs at school. He is also quite aggressive because he enjoys tormenting other kids, this being one of the few reasons he smiles.

Craig is shown to be one of the most skilled fighters in the class, shown beating up Mark Cotswolds, attacks Kyle when Kyle chooses not to dress metrosexually, attacks Kenny when Cartman frames him for having lice and beats up several Ginger Kids after Cartman's speech. Contrarily, in "Tweek vs. Craig", he appears to have no idea how to fight at all and has to take lessons in sumo wrestling. He wields a katana in "Good Times with Weapons" as well and in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", wherein he manages to knock both Token and Butters unconscious, before being knocked out by Stan, when he uses a bone as a club.

Later, his negative traits are subdued, as he is inclined to remain passive and stoical to everything that happens around him, sign that he may be maturing up earlier than the other children. An early expression of this is displayed in "Red Hot Catholic Love", where he approaches his classmates in the bathroom and asks what's going on. They tell him they're waiting for Cartman to defecate through his mouth. He only answers "Oh" and leaves immediatly.

During the "Pandemic" episodes, he constantly made annoyed remarks about Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny and their habit of getting into trouble - he even walks away from them when they want to go deeper into an Inca temple. However, at the end of the episode after he accidentally walked on the platform and stopped the "Guinea Pirate", he simply let out a deep sigh and accepted his fate. Craig never once registered shock or any emotion whatsoever during this - he always said things flatly and monotonously, even when he said "Okay. Now there's sparks shooting out of my eyes."

Craig has notable leadership skills, as he is the leader of a gang who are social rivals with Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. The first appearance of the group is in "Tweek vs. Craig", and they are first acknowledged by the main characters in "How to Eat with Your Butt". The main characters are first shown viewing Craig's gang as rivals in "South Park is Gay!". Cartman frequently refers to the gang as "Craig and those guys". The group usually consists of Craig, Clyde, Token, and sometimes Tweek, Jimmy, or Jason. Craig and Clyde seem to share/alternate in leadership of their group, although, given their designation, Craig is the primary leader.

Another example of Craig's abilities in leadership occurs in "Hooked on Monkey Fonics", when he leads the male students in their plan to harm Mark Cotswolds. The episode also shows that his assertiveness can also lead to bullying.

Craig competes more with the main characters than even the rest of his gang (see below). In "Quest for Ratings", he opens a television show in the school entitled "Animals Close-Up With a Wide-Angle Lens", which rivals their news show. However, he seems quite eager to help them at other times, as in "Free Willzyx", where he is one of the boys trying to get the orca back to its "home" on the moon. Nonetheless, he rarely hangs out with the boys by himself, he's only seen with them when the rest of Craig's gang is there.

In the episode Pandemic, Stan and Kyle's parents decided that they did not want Craig to hang around with them since they had gone missing shortly after joining the usual quartet. They deemed him a "troublemaker", although the Peruvian flute band was actually the others' idea, and Craig refused to join them until he was told, "don't be an asshole."

In the episode "Quest for Ratings", Craig started his own show and caused the main characters' news show to be canceled because he took all their "ratings" (hence the title). By the end of the episode, Craig wasn't just upset that "Sexy Action School News" got more ratings than his shows; the teacher also instructed that Craig's testicles be removed (although this was never shown or referenced again).

In the episode "Tweek vs. Craig", it is shown that Cartman and Kenny think that Craig is the biggest troublemaker and make a bet that Craig could easily beat Tweek Tweak. Both ended up in the hospital. Despite trying to rest and give up fighting, both broke out again when Kyle said to Tweek, "...then Craig's family came on and said Tweek was the wuss, and then punched Tweek's mom in the hooters."

Despite his past behaviour, in recent episodes he appears to have matured, possibly due to his relationship with Tweek. In "Put it Down", Craig is shown to be Tweek's voice of reason, using logic in an attempt to convince him that they wouldn't be attacked by North Korea, although he was unsuccessful. Craig is seen calmly assisting Tweek and tolerating his paranoia while keeping his usual monotone expression. After being inspired by Heidi, Craig takes a new approach to help Tweek and talks through his emotions with him. He also helped Kyle search for Ike after President Garrison nukes Canada.

Apart from his stoicism, Craig has been shown to be a very rational thinker such as when he tried to use logic to reason with Tweek’s paranoia. In the game The Fractured But Whole Craig is seen getting increasingly more annoyed at Mephesto for his ridiculous and wasteful use of resources in trying to attach as many butts to things as possible as well as his absurdly illogical decisions and disregard for basic safety.

Craig's Grandmother
Craig's grandmother, who appears in flashbacks in "Pandemic 2: The Startling", gave Craig $100 for his birthday. She is yet to have any speaking lines as she appears only in a still picture. She appears to be a very loving grandmother.

Parents Thomas and Laura
In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", as Token is walking around South Park, looking sorrowfully at the others, he walks past the Welfare office. Craig and his parents are shown stepping out of the office at the same time. While Token may have been exaggerating in his thoughts about how poor everyone else in town is, this might imply that Craig's parents are jobless, or that their jobs don't provide enough income for them to get by on it alone.

It is hinted in "My Future Self n' Me" that he does not have a good relationship with his parents when Cartman says that he helped Craig get revenge on his parents for an unknown reason. He also states in "Tweek vs. Craig" and "The Poor Kid" that he does not care if his mother is insulted. At the same time, his parents are shown to love him deeply, as they are each openly concerned when Craig is kidnapped in "Pandemic", and are delighted to have him back at the end of "Pandemic 2: The Startling".

Tricia Tucker
The relationship between her and Craig is difficult to find out. She has apparently shared the family behavior of rudely gesturing with her middle finger or "flipping off people".

Stripe
Craig has a pet guinea pig named Stripe. His first onscreen appearance is in The Fractured But Whole. Craig has a very strong love for his guinea pig(s). He does not like it when Stripe is insulted. Knowing this, Cartman riles Craig up in "Tweek vs. Craig" by telling him that Tweek said Craig stuffs Stripe up his rectum before going to bed.

Tweek Tweak
In "Tweek vs. Craig", the main boys, on account of a bet they had made, claimed to Tweek and Craig that each had insulted the other, and convinced them to fight. When it turned out neither of them knew how to fight, they had them trained for it. Craig was trained by Cartman, in Sumo wrestling. After the fight, both boys were hospitalized, but the kids fooled them into fighting again. It is possible, however, that this fight brought the two boys closer together, as they are seen together on very many occurrences in later episodes.

In later seasons, 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.

In the episode "Tweek x Craig" the new female Asian students are drawing Yaoi pictures of Tweek and Craig in love, despite the two not being together. To stop the drawings, the two stage a "breakup" in front of the school to stop the pictures, but Tweek goes too far in his role, and makes Craig out to be a cheater by inventing a "Michael" that Craig "cheated on" for dramatic effect. This crushes the town's spirits, so the two reconcile in order to appease the town. The two are now in a genuine relationship.

In the Season Twenty-One episode, "Put It Down", Tweek stresses over the nuclear bomb threats made by North Korea. Craig suggests that he make cupcakes for them, and this worked until President Garrison insisted that Tweek had pooped in the cupcake batter. Craig tries his best to make Tweek feel better. He gives him fidget spinners to fix his anxiety, and gave him logical answers to his problem, which only made things worse. But after hearing Heidi's speech about grieving, he comforts Tweek, and talks with him about how he's feeling, helping him truly feel better.

Although their initial relationship appeared only to be in order to keep the town happy, following the events of "Tweek x Craig", the two have grown closer. In "Put it Down", Craig calls Tweek affectionate pet names "babe" and "honey", even when no one is around, implying their relationship is now genuine.

Token Black
Token has always been a member of Craig's Gang (even when Clyde isn't present) and the two are often seen next to each other. The two have only been seen talking to each other in "Jewpacabra" and "Raising the Bar". Token, however, is more connected to Clyde and Cartman somehow. It seems that Craig mostly hangs out with Token and Clyde.

Clyde Donovan
Clyde is a member of Craig's gang. Clyde sometimes leads the group which suggests that he and Craig share the spot of the leader, but the position has been confirmed to be Craig as the group is collectively named "Craig and those other guys". The two are sometimes seen standing beside each other in the background, which indicates that the two may be best friends. It seems that Craig mostly hangs out with Clyde.

Clyde and Craig are seen together in a number of episodes whether they were sitting next to each other or just talking to each other, including "Crack Baby Athletic Association", where they are seen working together for Cartman in looking for Slash, in "The Last of the Meheecans", where they are working/playing together again for Cartman by not letting any Mexican pass their border (which they, unfortunately, failed in doing), in Elementary School Musical, where they are sighted eating together side by side at the cafeteria, in "Breast Cancer Show Ever", where they are cheering and watching Cartman and Wendy's fight together, in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", where Clyde hugged Craig in reuniting their friendship once again, and in "Lice Capades", where Craig was the one who instructed Clyde to bring a bar of soap and a sock to beat Kenny up. Because of this, fans have sighted them as best friends like Stan and Kyle.

Their names are sometimes mixed up as shown in "Super Fun Time", and they have nearly identical nasally voices, which Cartman tells Craig in The Stick of Truth, but Craig disagrees.

Stan Marsh
However, Stan and Craig are somewhat both rivals in episodes Pandemic, Pandemic 2: The Startling, and South Park is Gay! as they were both fighting because Craig was upset that they took his $100 dollars. In the episode South Park is Gay!, they were both arguing that Craig was gayer than Stan, Cartman and Kenny. Stan and Craig generally do not hang out. Furthermore, Stan's parents and Kyle's parents agreed on preventing their kids from associating with Craig because Craig was seen as a big troublemaker and has a bad influence on Stan and Kyle.

Kyle Broflovski
Although Craig and Kyle don't really hang out with each other, they can often be seen sitting at the same table for lunch. The two have ended up on opposite sides of the field many times, though - they argue (with Stan, Cartman and Kenny backing Kyle up) over the Peruvian pan flute band in "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling". In "South Park is Gay!", Craig leads the school in beating Kyle up for not being metrosexual, and in "Quest for Ratings", Craig's show was in direct competition with a show Kyle was involved in. In "Raising the Bar", Craig tells Token he should tell Kyle the truth about exploiting Cartman for TV. Kyle can be seen walking with Craig and Timmy in "Cartman Finds Love". In "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus" Kyle says that he thinks that Clyde is kind of cool, but Craig is definitely cooler.

Kenny McCormick
Craig and Kenny seem to have formed a sort of friendship. In "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus" Kenny muffled: "I think Craig is a thousand times as cool as Clyde. There doesn't really seem to be a doubt". Kenny helped Craig with his show in "Quest for Ratings" (although it was induced by Cartman saying that Kenny couldn't join the school news team due to his poverty), and the two were partners in "Super Fun Time". The two have also been seen sitting next to each other, example "The List", and standing near each other on several occasions, this may however just be a coincidence. They are not otherwise shown as being close friends. In the episode "Lice Capades", he accuses Kenny of having lice. In "Pandemic 2: The Startling", Kenny is heard saying, "I fucking hate Craig!" at the end (this could have been because how Craig reacted to the situation in that episode and "Pandemic", or that Craig had just refused to fund another of their music bands).

Eric Cartman
Cartman appears to view Craig as a rival, trying to prove him that his gang is cooler than his, like in "Good Times ", where he is the one that proposes the idea of showing off his weapons to Craig. Similar to what happens in "South Park is Gay!", where he wants to prove that they're gayer than Craig's gang.

Cartman has declared his hate for Craig more than once, but despite that, he said "I think Craig is pretty cool, but I don't think Clyde is very cool" in "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus".

Craig actually hates Cartman, but he has been seen with him as a right-hand man when Cartman assembles a group of boys for his cause, like in "Lice Capades" or "Marjorine". He was also on Cartman's side of town in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", and worked for his business in "Crack Baby Athletic Association", along with Clyde, Butters and later, Kyle.

Craig is often the main rival of Cartman and the other boys, but sometimes has seemed to accept Stan, Kyle and Kenny in some episodes such as "The Death of Eric Cartman", where he declares that he also wants to ignore Cartman since he hates him. Furthermore, he is the only boy who doesn't apologize to Cartman after he saved the hostages in the Red Cross.

AIso, in the episode "Tsst", Cartman confronts Craig and asks him if he can stay at his place for a while; Craig refuses and blatantly says, "But I hate you". Sometimes this hatred isn't always against Cartman. In the episode "South Park is Gay!", Craig and his gang seem to be rivals with Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman. Craig is aware of Cartman's assertive, selfish, and manipulative nature, as well as the fact that Cartman will always get what he wants in one way or another. This is shown in "Fishsticks" where he argued to Jimmy that "You should consider yourself lucky that he (Cartman) is only asking for half." and "Just give him half." It is also shown in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" where he tells Mr. Nelson that trying to teach Cartman a lesson "it's not a good idea".

Craig is seen to be close enough to Cartman to sleep over his house for a slumber party.

They are also seen both laughing at the idea of girl's volleyball in "Cock Magic".

Craig joins Kyle, Stan, Butters, Token, Jimmy and Clyde to smash Cartman's electronics when they think he is Skankhunt42 in "Skank Hunt".

Jimmy Valmer
Jimmy has been Craig's friend on a few occasions and can be seen at times along with Craig's Gang. He has been seen hanging around Craig in the background for other episodes as well. In "Fishsticks", he claims he likes Jimmy and tries to reason with him in order to help him out. In "Ginger Kids", Jimmy is seen along with Clyde, Token and Craig bullying a ginger kid out of the school cafeteria. In "Good Times with Weapons", Jimmy rivals Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as ninjas along with Craig, Clyde, and Token. Quite often, they are seen sitting near each other in the canteen.

Timmy Burch Timmy can be seen sitting beside Craig on numerous occasions, most notably in class in Dances with Smurfs, and at Whistlin' Willy's in Margaritaville. In Cartman finds love, Timmy is seen talking and hanging out with Craig for a fair portion of the episode; suggesting a close friendship.

Jason
Jason has been in Craig's Gang on one occasion, but has not been seen with Craig since "South Park is Gay!".

Thomas
In "Le Petit Tourette", Craig meets Thomas at the end and asks if he can hang out with him and "do his laundry". However, it is unknown if the two are even friends as Thomas hasn't been seen since this episode and the two haven't been seen together on screen.

Annie Knitts
Craig and Annie could be seen walking together in a couple of episodes like the episode "Poor and Stupid". In the beginning of the episode, they were both walking together in the background when Cartman was seen crying. The two could also be seen walking in the background of South Park Elementary.

Red
Craig and Red were paired together in "Follow That Egg!", however they haven't been seen interacting since.

Butters Stotch
Craig and Butters seemed to have been friends at one time in the earlier seasons. In "Hooked on Monkey Fonics" they bully Mark Cotswolds together throughout the episode. In "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" they are at the gas station together when the couple arrives; Butters was the mechanic and Craig was playing spaceman. In "Breast Cancer Show Ever" they are again seen together urging Cartman to fight Wendy Testaburger. However later in the series, their friendship seems to have vanished; in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" Craig is the second kid to hit Butters in the head with the tether ball while he is tied to the tetherball pole. Craig is shown as being unable to remember whether or not Butters was present at dinner in "The Last of the Meheecans", noting, "Butters is one of those people who you can never remember if he was there or not." which is ironic considering the fact Craig seems to fade in and out of the show as a background character. However a benevolent situation occurred in "Bass to Mouth" where Butters was looking at the Eavesdropper tabloids with Craig and Stan; Craig was getting along with Butters.

Quotes
Stan: "Yes" Craig: "You guys took my birthday money, got me arrested and sent to Miami with no way home except to take down the country of Peru and I'm being a dick." from "Pandemic". Kyle: "Craig, if Cartman didn't do anything, then he doesn't deserve any of the credit!" Craig: "Yup, and if I had wheels, I'd be a wagon..." from "Fishsticks". Cartman: "Oh please, I don't think so, Craig! Chicks think I'm way hotter than you!" Craig: "You really don't think they'd put a fat tub of lard at the bottom?" from "The List". Kyle: "And how are you gonna do that?" Craig: "It's easy.... Watch..." [walks away] from "Pandemic 2: The Startling". Craig: "No." Mr. Mackey: "Yes you did, you just flipped me the bird! [...] Uh, there! You just flipped me off again!" Craig: "No I didn't." Mr. Mackey: "Yes you did!" from "Rainforest Shmainforest". Craig: "I do watch Red Racer every day of the week!" from "Tweek vs. Craig". Cartman: "Go play with yourself, Craig." Craig: "Yeah well, I've got an overall deal with the school, heh. They're paying me six dollars a week to come up with a new show." Stan: "Your idea took about this much thought, Craig!" Craig: (Throws the gesture back at Stan.) "This much more than you had!" from Quest for Ratings. '''Cpt. Taylor:''' "You don't understand, the plan was to have a refueling truck meet us here. We don't have enough gas to fly anyplace." Craig: "Oh, that's awesome." from "Pandemic 2: The Startling". Cartman: "Dude, it's Craig!" Craig: "What?" Kyle: "That is Craig." [Craig comes forward to look for himself. The other boys back away] Stan: "Dude, Craig, what's goin' on?" Craig: "I have no idea." Cartman: "Well do you mind tellin' us what you're doing on an ancient Incan wall, Craig?" Craig: "I don't know." from "Pandemic 2: The Startling" Cartman: "They're the new family who've just moved to South Park! We met this kid named Blanket, and he has the coolest dad in the world!" Kyle: "Mr Jefferson said we can invite all the kids in town to go play at their house!" Cartman: "They have video games, and rides, and a cotton candy machine! And in their backyard? Guess what they have in their backyard? A train." Craig: "No way!" Cartman: "Yeah way, Craig! If you don't believe in Mr. Jefferson, you can just not come!" Craig: [looking worried] "Uh, I believe in Mr. Jefferson!" from "The Jeffersons".
 * Craig: "You know what stuff happens to most kids? They fall off their bikes. They get in fights with their parents. They get swindled out of their birthday money." from "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
 * Craig: "He's the luckiest kid in the world. If I could say 'shitballs' to the principal, I would be soooo happy." from "Le Petit Tourette".
 * Craig: "I'm being a dick."
 * Craig: "[...] Well I thought I was crazy! He said my dad was going to sneak into my room naked one night and beat me up." from "Free Willzyx".
 * Craig: "See, this is why bad things always happen to you. Because when you come across an ancient, spooky ruin, you say, 'Let's check it out'." from "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
 * Craig: "Yup, nice and boring. Just the way I like it." from "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
 * Craig: "Oh yeah?! We're super-duper triple-dog gay!" from "South Park is Gay!".
 * Craig: "I'm not just gay, I'm a catamite!" from "South Park is Gay!".
 * Craig: "This ass is unlike any I've encountered, Master!" from "Tweek vs. Craig".
 * Craig: "I like you Jimmy, but you're not gonna win this. Consider yourself lucky he's only asking for half".
 * Craig: "You're just saying that because you know you're gonna be very last on the list!"
 * Craig: "Come on, fags. snaps fingers" from "South Park is Gay!".
 * Craig: "I am not following you guys anymore..."
 * Mr. Mackey: "Did you just flip me off Craig?"
 * Craig: "Look! It's the butch boy!" from "South Park is Gay!".
 * Craig: "Yeah... don't just 'Oh' me!" from "Tweek vs. Craig".
 * Cartman: "Hey, you can watch Red Racer any day of the week!"
 * Craig: "Oh hey guys. Heard about your new show being canceled."
 * Stan: "None of what that Homeland Security guy does make sense, so could you just fly us home, please?"
 * Craig: "Do you guys know why nobody else at school likes hanging out with you? Because you're always doing stuff like this. You're always coming up with some stupid idea to do something, and then it backfires, and then you end up in some foreign country, or in outer space or something. That's why no one likes hanging out with you guys." from "Pandemic".
 * Craig: "Was there ever a moment when you guys first came up with the genius plan to become a Peruvian flute band that any of you said; 'Hey, you know? This plan might backfire.'" [long silent pause] "No, that never occurred to you. Because you guys are jerks. And you never learn from your mistakes. And that's why everyone at school thinks you guys are assholes." from "Pandemic".
 * Stan: "And then the guinea pigs killing people. [they look a little lower] And then... [a boy holds a staff against a giant guinea pig]
 * Red: "The Jeffersons?"
 * Craig: "Life sucks sometimes, but it'll pass." from "Butterballs".

Reception
In his review on the South Park episode "Fishsticks", Sean O'Neal of the A.V. club refers to the character Craig as a "pragmatist", for advising Jimmy Valmer to let Eric Cartman have half the credit for the Fishsticks Joke. DC Perry of 411mania.com approved of Craig "letting the air out of the usual 'Crazy Crap Just Happens to Us' formula" used in most of the South Park storylines, throughout the episodes "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling". Perry was also pleased that the character "got to shine for more than random flip-offs" and "didn't even have to try". Travis Fickett of IGN.com described Craig's role as a supporting character in "Pandemic", as well as the character's expression of disdain for the main characters' habit of getting into "stupid schemes, without thinking twice about the possible ramifications", as being the few highlights of the episode, which he found mostly unentertaining.

Trivia

 * In "Quest for Ratings", when Craig's school program is canceled, the teacher orders him to be castrated. It is never specified whether this was actually carried out.
 * Craig likes a show called Red Racer. This is a play on the show Speed Racer.
 * Craig can be seen rioting with the children at the Nebraska mall in "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!"
 * In "Le Petit Tourette" Craig is jealous of Cartman and expresses it by saying "If I could say (whatever Cartman said before) to (whoever Cartman said it to), I would be soooooooo happy." In "Pandemic 2", Craig says "Last week was my Birthday. My grandma gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I was soooooooo happy." Later on in that episode, he says "...as for me, I was returned home by homeland security. My parents were soooooooo happy." This could be a minor catchphrase of his.
 * Craig is also a fan of Lord of the Rings as seen in the season 6 episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", where he was taking the role as Boromir from the movie, when Cartman had said that the sixth graders can't stand water, Craig thought it was stupid and decided that he would go back to the Harry Potter kids instead of play with them (along with the kindergartner Filmore who was taking the role of Gimli the Dwarf).
 * Craig's alter-ego in "South Park: The Stick of Truth", Feldspar the Thief, is a reference to the character "Craig Feldspar" from the show Malcolm in the Middle.
 * Craig might have a cat, because his sister was holding one in "Major Boobage".
 * In the episode "Lil' Crime Stoppers", one of several children playing FBI refers to himself as Agent Tucker.
 * In the episode "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)", Craig actually dies in Cartman's dream. When the bus tilts, he can't hang on and falls out, screaming. He survives in real life.
 * Craig's birthday was in the episode "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
 * Craig's yellow poof on top of his hat is the same as Cartman's.
 * Craig's tendency to flip off people is shown to stem from his family, who constantly flip each other off during dinner in "Tweek vs. Craig".
 * There is a green version of Craig waiting in line at Cartman Burger in "Ass Burgers". It's possible it's Craig wearing another set of clothes or just another character. However, it is widely believed that this is not, in fact, Craig, as a normally-dressed Craig is pictured in the previous scene. The "green Craig" is also seen eating lunch all the way back in the Season One episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty" at the South Park Elementary cafeteria.
 * Craig weighs 45lbs (20.4kg), as revealed in "Tweek vs. Craig".
 * Craig has spoken in every season since his first speaking role in Season Three.
 * Craig, along with Tweek, is the first child character in the series to be in a same-sex relationship.
 * Craig is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as seen by the poster of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) in his room in "The End of Serialization as We Know It".

Prominence
At the beginning of the series, Craig was an unnamed background character, usually seen in the playground at South Park Elementary or sitting outside Mr. Mackey's office. In season 3, he was reintroduced as a secondary character, and his first name was revealed. From the third season on, Craig's character was gradually expanded upon, and his role in the series gradually increased. The character was given his own episode/s in the two-part "Pandemic" story.
 * "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" - Craig is seen singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". He can be seen in the second row, third column.
 * "Damien" - Seen waiting outside Mr. Mackey's office. He would be seen there in every scene of the counselor's office until Season 3.
 * "Tom's Rhinoplasty" - First appearance in the third-grade classroom. A color scheme of him in green clothes can also be seen eating lunch in the cafeteria.
 * "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" - Seen waiting outside Mr. Mackey's office.
 * "Chickenlover" - Seen at the petting zoo.
 * "Ike's Wee Wee" - Seen in Mr. Garrison's classroom.
 * "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)" - Craig falls out a window of the school bus in a dream.
 * "Clubhouses" - Seen waiting outside Mr. Mackey's office.
 * "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!" - Seen in the Nebraska mall.
 * "Rainforest Shmainforest" - Craig gets sent to Mr. Mackey's office for repeatedly flipping people off. First use of Craig as a secondary character.
 * "Spontaneous Combustion" - Craig attends the church for the boys' Easter play to see Jesus Christ rise from the cross.
 * "Tweek vs. Craig" - Craig and Tweek are fooled into fighting each other.
 * South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
 * "Sexual Harassment Panda" - Craig successfully sues Wendy for sexual harassment after she apparently touches his thigh.
 * "Hooked on Monkey Fonics" - Craig, along with Butters, leads the other boys, and directs them on what to do with Mark Cotswolds.
 * "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" - Seen waiting outside of Mr. Mackey's office.
 * "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" - Craig narrowly avoids being raped by a pedophile with the other boys after Cartman invites everyone to NAMBLA.
 * "Chef Goes Nanners" - Craig says that Cartman doesn't know what he is debating about half the time.
 * "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" - Craig, wearing a spaceman helmet, directs the couple to Treasure Cove, where they'll find a phone. He also works for Mayor Cartman as a right-hand man.
 * "Scott Tenorman Must Die" - Seen at Cartman's Chili-Con Carnival.
 * "How to Eat with Your Butt" - Craig and his gang are invited over by Stan and Kyle to see the Thompsons, who have buttocks where their heads should be. First mention of Craig's gang.
 * "Here Comes the Neighborhood"- Craig is with the boys, and asks Token if he has the VHS of The Lion King and later calls him a pussy.
 * "Professor Chaos" - Craig is a candidate for the boys' fourth friend. He is eliminated in the finals.
 * "Red Hot Catholic Love" - He's one of the boys being questioned about father Maxi.
 * "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" - Craig, along with the rest of the boys, is mesmerized by Bebe's breasts.
 * "My Future Self n' Me" - Craig, along with Jimmy, Clyde and Kyle will not touch a marijuana stick, claiming that "It'll fund terrorists."
 * "Toilet Paper" - Craig is seen at detention sitting next to Annie.
 * "South Park is Gay!" - Craig and his gang are in conflict with the main characters because they insist that they're gayer.
 * "Casa Bonita" - Seen in the montage where Cartman ripped on Kyle for being Jewish.
 * "Good Times with Weapons" - Craig and his gang play "ninjas" with the main characters.
 * "You Got F'd in the A" - Seen eating at Raisins.
 * "The Jeffersons" - Craig originally doesn't believe that Mr. Jefferson is rich, but he changes his mind.
 * "Quest for Ratings" - Craig and Kenny's show, Animals Close-Up With a Wide-Angle Lens (Wearing Hats), is crushing the boys' news show.
 * "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" - Craig is at Bebe's Stupid Spoiled Whore party. He is mostly seen beside Sally. He is also seen running from a black haired girl during the party.
 * "Best Friends Forever" - Craig can be seen waiting in line to buy the new PSP.
 * "Marjorine" - Craig uses binoculars to spot Butters' progress, but is spotted by Mr. Turner.
 * "Follow That Egg!" - Craig is paired with Red for the egg sitting project.
 * "Erection Day" - Briefly (but not easily) seen in the audience in Jimmy's nightmare.
 * "Free Willzyx" - Craig and Stan go to Mexico in search of a cheap space program.
 * "Smug Alert!" - Craig, Token, and Clyde confront Cartman at his "Goodbye, Kyle" party and ask him why Kyle isn't there.
 * "Tsst" - Craig tells Cartman he hates him and slams the door in his face when Cartman comes to him for help.
 * "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - Craig helps the boys fight the rogue player online.
 * "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"- Craig is terrified about Kyle apparently causing 9/11. He looks scared and runs from Kyle.
 * "Lice Capades" - Craig works as Cartman's right-hand man in the investigation on who has lice. He also has many lines in this episode.
 * "Imaginationland" - Seen helping Cartman and several of his classmates catch a Leolion that Cartman saw.
 * "Le Petit Tourette" - Craig, believing Cartman to have Tourette's Syndrome, is miserably jealous of him because he gets away with saying terrible things about people. He is later seen asking Thomas if he can do his laundry.
 * "Guitar Queer-O" - Craig is among the boys who are in the background for the episode (his gang, Cartman, Kenny etc.).
 * "The List" - Craig is among the secondary fourth graders (Token, Clyde, Bebe, etc.) who have a small part in the episode. He was placed twelfth on the first list, but it is hinted by Bebe that he was placed very high on the real list. Fan conjecture suggests that he was placed first on the list, in place of Clyde.
 * "Super Fun Time" - Craig holds hands with Kenny on the field trip.
 * "Breast Cancer Show Ever" - Craig tells Stan not to worry about Wendy fighting Cartman, since he doesn't think is going to happen. Later he goes with Jimmy and Butters to see Cartman at detention. At the end he's one of the people who tells Cartman that they've always hated him.
 * "Pandemic" - Craig joins the boys to perform in a pan flute band to make easy money. This plan backfires, however, and the five are sent all the way to Peru. He is angry that the boys wasted his birthday money, and constantly complains about how they swindled him out of his money, which irritates the boys. However, he is the only one who can stop the Furry Death.
 * "Pandemic 2: The Startling" - Constantly complains about the situation and how the boys never learn from their mistakes. Eventually defeats the Guinea Pirate and stops the Furry Death.
 * "Elementary School Musical" - Is seen dancing with the other kids.
 * "The Ring"- Craig is seen with the other boys looking at Tammy Warner. He is also seen making a snowman and playing basketball with the boys.
 * "Margaritaville"- Craig is one of the boys moping around because their parents aren't buying fun things for them anymore.
 * "Eat, Pray, Queef" - Craig is forced out of his seat by Cartman and is later shown singing "Queef Free" with the other boys.
 * "Fishsticks" - Craig tries to convince Jimmy to simply let Cartman take credit for 50% of the Fishsticks joke.
 * "200"
 * "Insheeption" - Seen in the hallways.
 * "Crème Fraiche" - Craig is briefly shown expressing exasperation at Randy's failure to actually serve any food. First speaking role since season 13.
 * "HUMANCENTiPAD" - Tells Cartman that his iPad is fake.
 * "Funnybot" - Seen being held hostage along with the rest of the school.
 * "T.M.I." - Helps Cartman measure the boys' penis sizes.
 * "Crack Baby Athletic Association" - Works for Cartman; he, along with Clyde, tries to track down Slash.
 * "You're Getting Old" - Craig attended Stan's birthday party.
 * "The Last of the Meheecans" - Attends a sleepover at Cartman's house and plays Texans vs. Mexicans with the other kids.
 * "Bass to Mouth" - Appears as part of the group of students attempting to prevent their private information from being published on Eavesdropper.
 * "1%" - Disparagingly tells Cartman to go home and talk to his stuffed toys.
 * "The Poor Kid" - Craig was made fun of by Cartman for supposedly being the next poorest kid in school after Kenny was sent to foster care.
 * "Reverse Cowgirl" - Seen in the background of Mr. Garrison's class.
 * "Cash For Gold" - Mentioned when Cartman greets him on the playground.
 * "Faith Hilling" - Seen in the memeing class with the other 4th Grade students.
 * "Jewpacabra" - Craig was seen at the Easter egg hunt sign up line, at the church guarding the entrance with a wooden bat, and at the Easter egg hunt itself.
 * "Butterballs" - Craig is seen prominently in the school cafeteria, at the school assembly, and in Stan's anti-bullying video.
 * "Cartman Finds Love " - Seen when Butters mentioned Nichole to all the boys, standing next to Token at the basketball game, and in the boy's locker room.
 * "Sarcastaball" - A player on the South Park Cows sarcastaball team.
 * "Raising the Bar" - Craig tells Token that he should tell Kyle about his problem.
 * "Going Native" - Seen waiting for Butters outside the Boys bathroom.
 * "A Nightmare on Face Time" - Dresses as "Gangnam Style" for Halloween.
 * "A Scause For Applause" - Claimed Stan took his bracelet off and is seen in the school hallways.
 * "Obama Wins!" - Seen playing basketball with the other boys and joins Stan and Kyle in their effort to out Cartman, for rigging the 2012 presidential election.
 * "Let Go, Let Gov" - Visited by Butters and former Jehovah Witnesses who tell him about the government and the DMV. Later he joins them in their cult, and is seen singing in the DMV along with Butters and the rest.
 * "Informative Murder Porn" - Informs Stan and Kyle that his parents got past the parental block on the murder porn channels.
 * "Black Friday" - Craig was the first of the boys to announce they wanted PS4s, and called anyone else who wants one to join him.
 * "A Song of Ass and Fire" - Craig is a member of the group that wants to get PS4s on Black Friday.
 * "Titties and Dragons" - Craig was a member of the group that wanted to get PS4s on Black Friday, but apathetically got the Xbox One after watching Bill Gates kill the Sony President in the Red Robin.
 * "The Hobbit" - The boys look at the photoshopped pictures of the girls on Craig's phone on the playground.
 * "Gluten Free Ebola" - Craig and the rest of the 4th grade class ostracize the boys after they left school, told everyone to "go fuck" themselves, and started a start-up company, which eventually failed, forcing them to go back to school.
 * "The Cissy" - Seen in the school hallway.
 * "The Magic Bush" - Craig is seen in his house by a drone operated by Cartman. He is also mocked for his mother's "bush".
 * "Grounded Vindaloop" - He is seen watching Butters wander around the hallways.
 * "Cock Magic" - He, along with Cartman, laughs at the idea of girl's volleyball.
 * "Stunning and Brave"- Seen in the hallway.
 * "The City Part of Town" - Outed as the "homosexual student" by Mayor McDaniels when showing the Whole Foods representative how progressive the school is. Also give a angry look to the mayor
 * "You're Not Yelping"- Seen in the hallway.
 * "Safe Space" - Seen walking into another part of the school in the first part on cartmans song "Safe Space"
 * "Tweek x Craig" - The female Asian students at South Park Elementary draw Yaoi artwork of Craig and Tweek.
 * "Sponsored Content"-Seen in the hallway.
 * "Truth and Advertising" - Seen sitting next to Tweek in the school cafeteria.
 * "PC Principal Final Justice" - Seen walking down the school hallway with Tweek. Also seen sitting next to Tweek in the school gymnasium.
 * "Member Berries"- Seen at the school assembly.
 * "Skank Hunt" - Along with several of his classmates, he destroys Eric Cartman's electronic devices.
 * "The Damned" - On a group video chat with Kyle Broflovski, Token Black, Butters Stotch, and Clyde Donovan discussing the police's recent visit to Kyle's house.
 * "Wieners Out" - Seen participating in Butters' Wieners Out movement.
 * "Douche and a Danish" - Seen in the battle between the boys and the girls.
 * "Oh, Jeez" - Seen calling Stan Marsh a traitor at the restaurant.
 * "The End of Serialization as We Know It" - Seen in the video call with Kyle.
 * "Put It Down" - Suffers a strained relationship with Tweek Tweak due to him going crazy about North Korea.
 * "Franchise Prequel" - Informs the Coon and Friends that someone is telling lies about them on Facebook.
 * "Hummels & Heroin" - Rallies with Marcus Preston after witnessing his presentation in the school cafeteria.
 * "SUPER HARD PCness" - Seen running to the gym with Tweek.

South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
Craig plays a small role in the storyline of South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! and appears at the end of the "Stark's Pond" level to inform the player the Sixth Graders' Lair, the stage for the next level, is where they should go next. The boys who told this, which Craig claims he doesn't know, with Cartman angrily noting he sounds like Clyde, before Craig leaves them, telling them to suck his balls. In gameplay, he is of the same "Sniper" class as Kenny McCormick, Pip Pirrip and Professor Chaos, moving slowly but dealing heavy damage and with wide range. His special ability slows down all enemies for several seconds.

South Park: The Stick of Truth
Craig appears in South Park: The Stick of Truth as a supporting character and later an antagonist. Craig first appears as a member of Kupa Keep, but is in detention. The player has to break him out so he can help retrieve the Stick of Truth. Afterwards, Craig can be seen in various locations at Kupa Keep between missions. Craig joins other members of Kupa Keep in their infiltration of the Inn of the Giggling Donkey. When the player is trapped in the basement, he comes to the rescue by helping to clear the elves and unlocks the door. He briefly becomes the vendor at the Kupa Keep shop, commenting that Cartman gave him the spot because he sounds like Clyde.

Later on, Craig betrays the other kids and joins Clyde because Cartman "doesn't have authority anymore". He becomes Clyde's second on command and, while fighting through Clyde's fortress, fights the player with the help of Nazi Zombie Cows. Once he is defeated, he does not reappear anymore during the game.