This is a list of all of Jerome "Chef" McElroy's alter egos and other costumes.
Main Alter Egos[]
These are alter egos that have appeared in more than one episode.
Apronless Chef[]
Apronless Chef is Chef's appearance without his signature white apron, first appearing in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", and in most of his concurrent episode appearances.
Chef, without his apron, is first seen greeting The Boys at the Bus Stop, asking them if they had seen the alien spaceship that passed by South Park. He appears later in the episode but wearing his apron. Chef is seen in many episodes afterward, such as "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty S***", where he assists the boys and staff of Hell's Pass Hospital during the snowstorm, and in "Cancelled", where, after realizing he is reliving the events of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", helps the boys in uncovering the truth behind the mysterious repetition of events.
Apron Less Chef wears the same outfit as regular Chef: a red short sleeve shirt, blue pants, black shoes, and a white toque on his head that he rarely took off. He wore this outfit for most of his appearances up until his death.
Young Chef[]
Young Chef is Jerome's appearance as a young man through the 70s and 80s before being employed as chef of South Park Elementary. Young Chef is seen first in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty S***".
In a flashback sequence, it is shown that Jerome arrived in South Park intending to open a restaurant. However, on his first night in town, he slept with Liane Cartman. It is unknown why Jerome never opened his restaurant, as he is later hired by the school. Jerome appears once again in "Chef Aid'. Taking place before his arrival to South Park, it is shown that a young Jerome helped the failing careers of Elton John and Meat Loaf, among other artists.
Young Chef wore a black jacket, his signature red shirt and blue pants, a pair of black platform boots, and sported an afro. He frequently carried a hair comb with him.
Alter Egos From Season One[]
Football Coach Chef[]
Football Coach Chef is Chef's alter ego when he goes out coaching the South Park Cows Football Team in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride". With Chef being a supportive and fair coach, he is sometimes distracted with his sexual fantasies with the footballs. When he hears that Middle Park is willing to win a game, he is in deep thoughts. Even when Stan tells him his dog's gay, he replies, "You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks".
Chef wears a red t-shirt with the school's mascot, a cow, along with the words: GO COWS!, and blue pants. It is likely that he decorated his formal red shirt.
Evel Knievel Chef[]
Evel Knievel Chef is Chef's Halloween costume from the Season One episode "Pinkeye". He is dressed as the famous American stunt performer and is actually the first time he is seen without his toque.
During the events of the episode, Chef can first be seen at school, during lunchtime in full costume. He is initially outraged by Cartman's Adolf Hitler costume, and then is later the first to realize that the pinkeye epidemic has also risen the dead. He harbors the boys during the breakout and tells Cartman to, "remind me to whoop your ass good the next time I see you", after seeing Eric's replacement "ghost" costume. He survives most of the episode until he is overrun and bitten by zombies at the Morgue. He reverts to normal once the boys save the day.
The Evel Knievel costume was a little different than the one the real-life stunt performer wore, with Chef donning a white jumpsuit with a large collar, a white belt that had a blue and white star emblem on it, red and blue striped pant legs, and arm sleeves, long red gloves, and a white helmet with red and blue stripes going down the center, and three white stars running down the blue stripe.
Thriller Chef[]
Thriller Chef is Chef's first zombie alter ego, appearing only in "Pinkeye". His outfit is an homage to the outfit Michael Jackson wore in his hit single "Thriller".
Chef, after being bitten by zombies at the Morgue, is instantly transformed into an undead version of himself. Unlike the other pinkeye victims, he does not attack the boys and instead chooses to sing and choreograph a dance with the zombies. The song is reminiscent of "Thriller", but is naturally spliced in with Chef's trademark dirty lyrics. After the song ends, he can be seen sitting down and reading an issue of Crack W**** Magazine.
Thriller Chef, like other zombies, has pale green skin, red eyes, black rings around his eyes, sunken cheeks, and black moles on his face. He wears an outfit almost exactly like Michael Jackson did in the eponymous video: A red suit with large shoulder blades and black stripes running down the torso, long white socks, black shoes, and curly hair. Chef wears a gray shirt underneath, as opposed to Jackson's black, and still sports his toque.
Braveheart Chef[]
Braveheart Chef is Chef's alter ego parodying Mel Gibson's 1995 film Braveheart, appearing only once in the episode "Starvin' Marvin".
After Dr. Alphonse Mephesto unwittingly unleashes an army of mutant, evil turkeys on the town, the citizens band together to defend South Park from being overtaken. Chef, now in full warpaint and armor, leads the assault against the enemy turkeys. After a climactic battle against the mutant army, he is one of the citizens who see Starvin' Marvin off.
Chef's appearance in this alter ego is similar to the eponymous film's main character, William Wallace. The costume gives Chef warpaint, with blue paint on the right side of his face, and white paint on his left. He holds a large, circular wooden shield in his left hand, and wears a yellow toga top over his red shirt, and a traditional plaid kilt that reaches down to his feet. Retroactively, Chef is given Scottish heritage, though it is unknown if this alter ego was considered in revealing that part of the character.
Alter Egos From Season Two[]
Dodgeball Coach Chef[]
Dodgeball Coach Chef is Chef's alter ego when he goes out coaching the South Park Cows Dodgeball Team in "Conjoined Fetus Lady". Along with his Football appearance, Chef is supportive of his team, even if they try winning or getting out. He helps motivate and lift their spirits more than using advice on women. Even when he sees his team were losing to the Chinese, he realizes what he did and forfeited the game after Pip Pirrip won for them.
Chef wears a t-shirt, either gray or red, blue pants, and a whistle around his neck.
Alter Egos From Season Three[]
Wedding Chef[]
Wedding Chef is a formal alter ego of Chef that appeared only in the episode "The Succubus". It appeared during Jerome's wedding day.
After Chef's relationship with Veronica's blossoms into intimacy, the boys attempt to stop her from driving Chef away from them. Mr. Garrison advises the boys after class that Veronica is most likely a succubus. Alarmed, they go to Chef's house to warn him. At his house, Chef is seen being fitted for a tuxedo (without pants). Thomas and Nellie McElroy reveal to the boys that he has proposed to her and that they are set to wed soon. At the wedding service, Chef is fully dressed in his new tux, and after the boys play the Succubus's song backward, she is defeated and returns to Hell. With the wedding ruined, Chef leaves the service with the boys, promising them ice cream.
Wedding Chef has Jerome wear a seafoam green tuxedo, with a matching bowtie, a purple boutonniere, and a ruffled white shirt underneath. Chef does not remove his toque in this outfit, even during his service, which took place at the church.
Alter Egos From Season Four[]
Kid Chef[]
Kid Chef is Chef's second flashback alter ego, and appeared only in "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000" during a story Chef told the boys.
After the boys become involved in Loogie's tooth trade, they quickly become affluent and begin wearing expensive clothing to school. During lunchtime, Chef gets an eyeful of them, and comments "Well! Look at you cute little crackers!". He mistakenly believes that the boys are dealing drugs, then begins to tell them a story about how he was offered drugs. In the flashback, a young Jerome is walking with his then-girlfriend Amanda and is approached by 3 other boys, who offer him some pot. As a response, kid Chef breaks out into a musical number, singing I Can't Wait Until I Grow Up, which of course, has nothing to do with the situation and is about sex. The flashback is interrupted and Chef is corrected in his assessment of the boys dealing drugs.
Kid Chef looks nearly identical to his adult counterpart, still wearing his red shirt (Now long-sleeved), blue pants, and black shoes. He is the same height as the Fourth Grade children, and, despite not being employed as a chef yet, is seen wearing his signature hat.
Abdul Mohammed Jabar Rauf Kareem Ali[]
Abdul Mohammed Jabar Rauf Kareem Ali is Chef's alter ego after converting to Islam in "Chef Goes Nanners". This alters ego only appeared in that episode.
Feeling the most passionate about the decision that South Park's flag should be changed, Jerome converts to Islam and changes his name to Abdul Mohammed Jabar Rauf Kareem Ali, deciding that Jerome McElroy and Chef are his slave names. He becomes increasingly inflamed regarding the issue to the point where he quits his job, changes his outfit, and even sets a monk ablaze, reflecting the self-immolation Thich Quang Duc committed in protest of the Vietnam War in 1963. After the debate at the school, Chef realizes that getting wound up over racism almost made him racist. The flag is later changed to its current one, and Chef converts back to Christianity, returns to his job, birth name, and regular clothes.
As Abdul Mohammed Jabar Rauf Kareem Ali, Chef wore a yellow and orange dashiki with a rhombus and zig-zag motif, the bottom part of it has a strip of magenta with another zig-zag pattern, and its collar was light blue and yellow. His toque was replaced with a matching yellow and orange kufi that had traditional black markings on it.
Alter Egos From Season Six[]
Pajamas Chef[]
Pajamas Chef is Chef's sleepwear alter ego. Its first and only appearance is in "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer".
Chef, in his nightwear, appears during one of the multiple attempts The Boys make in trying to view the trailer for Asses of Fire 2. Jerome welcomes the group into his house, showing off his newly purchased plasma television. However, he notes that he has no clue how to actually work the device. Incidentally, while attempting to turn on a feature that allows 3 channels to be played at once, he accidentally activates the "H.E.M" (Human Eradication Mode), which brings the TV to life on a murderous rampage. What is seen of Chef for the remainder of the episode are his attempts at stopping the sentient TV by contacting customer support.
Pajamas Chef is dressed very differently from another robe he wore, seen in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". This outfit is a one-piece lavender robe that is tied together by an off-color pink waistband. The collar of the robe and the ends of the sleeves match the waistband, and Chef wears two darker colored purple slippers. Interestingly, Jerome's toque is a part of this nighttime outfit.
Simpsons Chef[]
Simpsons Chef is Chef's alter ego as a Simpsons character during Butters' hallucination in "The Simpsons Already Did It". It only appears in that episode.
Following a series of failed plans due to comparisons to plotlines featured on The Simpsons, Butters, as Professor Chaos, begins to have a mental breakdown and daydream that the people of South Park are characters from The Simpsons. Chef is among the first two people (the other being Mr. Garrison) to be seen as a Springfield resident in Butters' eyes. Near the end of the episode, Chef helps Butters realize that it does not matter if The Simpsons has already done an idea; Pointing out that the Treehouse of Horror VII segment, "The Genesis Tub", was a rip-off of an earlier segment of The Twilight Zone: "The Little People". Simpsons Chef disappears after Butters regains his grip on reality.
Simpsons Chef does not directly resemble any character from The Simpsons, dissimilar to how Mr. Garrison or Liane Cartman closely resemble Waylon Smither or Lunchlady Doris respectively. Rather, he still possesses the signature overbite and separated eyes that make characters of The Simpsons unique. He appears the same as an Apronless Chef and has slightly less pronounced facial hair in comparison to his regular design, which can be attributed to the angle at which Chef faces in this alter ego.
Alter Egos From Season Eight[]
Anime Form Chef[]
Anime Form Chef is Chef's alter ego animated in an Anime form at a brief scene in "Good Times with Weapons" when The Boys were searching for Butters.
While they try to find Butters, the boys find Chef walking towards them in an Anime form. They ask him if he has seen Butters, he answers with a "no". He then says that the weapons they are holding could hurt someone if they do not play safely, he then returns walking to the Fairgrounds.
Chef is animated differently in an Anime style, like the boys in the same episode. He is seen with visible muscles and his eyes are glowing yellow. He wears a large red tank top, an apron worn on his waist instead of his neck, blue pants, black shoes with a yellow bottom. His toque is made by a wrapped bandage and wears a round pink bracelet.
Alter Egos From Season Nine[]
Hippie Exterminator Chef[]
Hippie Exterminator Chef is Chef's alter ego during a suicide mission to exterminate the Hippies in a festival. He came as help as a black man to willingly sacrifice himself if things go wrong, he did not agree to do this but goes anyways. When the Tonka RC Bulldozer was overheating, he came out to activate the lever outside. After the hippies leave, Chef is seen alive from his "sacrifice".
He wears an orange exterminator suit that is also worn like to Cartman, Randy and Linda's. Lots of belts and buckles are seen, including a decal of the Flag of the USA on his left arm.
Alter Egos From Season Ten[]
Darth Chef[]
Darth Chef is Chef's alter ego when he is suddenly revived by the Super Adventure Club in "The Return of Chef", which is also his last appearance in the show.
After Chef was suddenly killed by numerous killings and being held at his funeral, the Super Adventure Club brings him back to life as "Darth" Chef at the end of the episode. The cult forms him into an ICU suit. After he has been operated on, he is in a different attitude. Mr. Connolly asks him a question about a desert mentioned, he meant to suck his testicles.
His appearance is similar to Dark Vader's, but his ICU suit is shaped by his original attire, wears a black cape, a button pad is on his chest, and holds his spatula as a red lightsaber.
Alter Egos From South Park: The Stick Of Truth[]
N*** Zombie Chef[]
N*** Zombie Chef is Chef's alter ego appearing when he is brought back to life as a zombie by Clyde using the green goo on him around the end of the main quest Beat Up Clyde. He breaks out of his coffin and is then fought by the player.
At the end of the battle, Chef is ignited by Clyde throwing a burning bottle at him, causing to run towards the player, who catches fire and dies due to burning damage if they don't defend themselves with a fart, which causes Chef to be killed again.
He has the same green-greyish skin color the other N*** Zombies have and also wears a red armband with the swastika on it. His clothes are torn, and his skin is covered by various scars. His voicelines are consisting out of old recordings from previous episodes of the show and excepts of Hitler recordings.