Linda Stotch

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Linda Stotch is a character in South Park. She is Butters Stotch's mother and Stephen's wife. She was originally named Carol, as shown in "Super Best Friends", though her name was changed to Linda in "Butters' Very Own Episode".

Appearance
Linda wears a maroon sweater, a calf-length purple skirt and black shoes. She has shoulder-length blonde hair, and a long, slim face. Her breasts are lopsided, with her right breast being noticeably larger than her left. She also wears red lipstick.

For special occasions, she wears a red dress, as seen in the award ceremony in "The Death Camp of Tolerance".

In "It's a Jersey Thing", Teresa Giudice from The Real Housewives of New Jersey said she had yellow teeth.

Although she is thought to be friends with the other boys' moms, Sharon Marsh said that she was sometimes annoying in "Crème Fraiche".

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, 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. She also seems to be very mentally unstable, going insane when she find out her husband is bisexual.

Relationship with Butters Stotch
While she is a lot nicer to Butters than Stephen, and hugs and kisses him a lot, but like his father she has punished him and abused him absurdly before. In "How to Eat With Your Butt", she punishes 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 strange 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 temporarily 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 American descent.

Stephen Stotch
Stephen Stotch is Linda's husband. They normally appear to be a sweet and loving couple, who are often on the same wave-length regarding each other and their raising of their son Butters. However, their marriage suffered a painful shock when Linda discovered that Stephen was having homosexual affairs, which drove her insane and she attempted to kill Butters and later herself. While attempting to cover-up her supposed murder of their son, they created an elaborate lie regarding "Some Puerto Rican Guy". However, the lie soon became too complicated and they fought constantly over how to keep the story straight, until at last confessing the truth. They seems to have recovered from that incident, and have never discussed it again.

Leopold "Butters" Stotch
Butters 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. In "Jared Has Aides" she is shown abusing him, however only because Cartman posed as Butters and insulted her.

Friends
She seems to hang out with the other mothers in South Park a lot. She and Stephen seem closest to Shelia and Sharon. Perhaps this is because their son was the fourth friend of the main characters for a while in the sixth season, during Kenny's semi-pernament death.

Episodes in which She is Prominent

 * The Wacky Molestation Adventure - First appearance (background character).
 * Super Best Friends - First speaking role. David Blaine is performing magic for her at the beginning of the episode.


 * How to Eat with Your Butt - She grounds Butters for supposedly making a silly face for his school picture.


 * Butters' Very Own Episode - Linda goes temporarily insane after she finds out from Butters that Stephen is bi-curious.


 * Jared Has Aides - Linda and Stephen ground Butters for having a liposuction surgery performed in their house.


 * Asspen - Linda and her family accompany the Marshes, Broflovskis, and Cartmans to Aspen.


 * Freak Strike - Linda and Stephen ground Butters for putting fake testicles on his chin.


 * The Death Camp of Tolerance


 * My Future Self n' Me


 * Raisins


 * Casa Bonita


 * Die Hippie, Die - Engineer for Cartman's drill crew.


 * AWESOM-O


 * Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset


 * The Death of Eric Cartman


 * Marjorine - Linda is heartbroken after she thinks her son commit suicide.


 * Night of the Living Homeless - Linda and Stephen are trapped on the roof of the building with all the other townspeople hiding from the homeless people.


 * Eek, a Penis! - Linda is horror-struck to see Mr(s). Garrison's "penis" running around her kitchen floor.


 * Pandemic - Is one of the townspeople fleeing a giant guinea pig


 * About Last Night - Linda and Stephen were McCain supporters and helped build and managed "The Ark."


 * The Ungroundable - Butters becomes a vampire "ungroundable" makes Linda very worried for her son
 * In "City Sushi" she and her husband take Butters to therapy because he has multiple personality disorder.

Linda Stotch