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The following article provides a list of Kenny's deaths in South Parkepisodes as well as in the animated shorts, show-related media, other TV shows/events:
In season one, Kenny doesn't die in the theme song.
From seasons two to four (up to Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?), Kenny is killed by a grim reaper representation of Death who touches Kenny upon finishing singing his lines. Although he doesn't look dead because he blinks and looks up as he dies.
From the rest of season four to season five (up to Kenny Dies), he goes through many clip deaths. He gets electrocuted (Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut), he explodes from the antacid tablets he ate and water he drank (Chef Goes Nanners), he gets struck by lightning (he doesn't actually die) (Rainforest Schmainforest), he gets shot to death by a patrol (Quintuplets 2000), and his body bursts (rats crawl out of his body) (Chinpokomon).
Season six, which has a completely different look, does not feature Kenny getting killed since he is "permanently" dead. Instead, Timmy sings without getting killed.
From season seven onwards, Kenny sings his lines while being assembled by animation director Eric Stough, he accidentally "kills" Kenny by cutting his head off rapidly with scissors. Each season has the background tweaked with a new clip.
During the sydication opening, he is killed by the grim reaper by his "touch of death" and is reduced to a skeleton.
Season 1
(Stan is the one who says "Oh my God, they killed Kenny." Kyle says "You bastards")
Blasted by an alien space ship, trampled by a herd of cattle, then run over by Officer Barbrady's Police Cruiser. (Kenny was still alive after being shot and trampled, it was Barbrady who delivered the killing blow.) His body gets whacked by Stan and he gets his head pulled off by Kyle. His body is then eaten by rats. After Kenny's body is eaten, Kyle says "Rats." In the unaired version of the episode, Kenny shows up alive at the end of the episode, after Kyle says that they are running out of friends.
Crushed in the School Play by the Native American Hut. Most likely he "died" in the play.The next reply was from the Mayor, "Oh my God.." but the rest of the saying wasn't said.
Shot by Mr. Garrison when trying to shoot Kathie Lee Gifford, which launches him into the air and is impaled on a flag pole. The "Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards!" line is said entirely by Kyle in this episode, as Stan is not present.
103
Volcano
Is apparently crushed by a large volcanic bomb ejected from the volcano, Kyle says the "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" line in this episode, but Kenny comes out from behind the volcanic bomb and says he's okay, only for his arm to catch fire and the volcanic bomb to apparently roll over him; is later seen alive after the lava travels through the trench, only to be shot by Ned when he drops his gun on the ground. The "You bastards!" line is not said at any point in this episode.
Arms ripped off and head is tackled off by three Middle Park Cowboy football players. The "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" line is said by Kyle in this episode.
Knocked into microwave oven with a chair and cooked by a mutant clone of Stan. Kyle says the "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" line to the mutant clone, and then he screams "You bastard!" at the microwave.
106
Death
Touched by Death. The "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" line is said by Kyle in this episode. Coincidentally, Kenny's father died as well.
107
Pink Eye
Crushed by Mir at the beginning of the episode. Revived as a zombie via Worcestershire sauce embalming.
Cut in half with a chainsaw by Kyle to end the zombie curse. The "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" line is said by Kyle, though "they" is changed to "I", reflecting the fact that it is he who kills Kenny this time. Kyle says to himself "You bastard!" when he should've said "I'm a bastard!" Interestingly, this is the same episode where Stan says the line as usual (when the Mir space station crashes upon him earlier in the episode) making this the only time both Stan and Kyle have said the line in the same episode.
Rises from his grave again at the end of the episode, but is immediately crushed by a falling angel statue and then by a crashing aeroplane. Stan and Kyle are not there to say their usual lines, as they had left with Cartman to enjoy their Halloween candy. If killing a zombie counts as "death", this would make "Pink Eye" the most fatal of all of Kenny's episodes.
108
Starvin' Marvin
Attacked by mutant turkeys; loses an eye in the attack.
110
Damien
Turned into a duckbilled platypus by the antichrist and then shot by Jimbo after Jesus and Satan's match.
While Mecha-Streisand is wrecking the town, Kenny dodges several things that would be the perfect cause for his death. Instead, it comes when he finds himself in a playground and begins to play tetherball with himself. He is tied to the pole and asphyxiated.
Dragged onto train tracks by a go kart and crushed by a train. Traditionally, Stan exclaims, "Oh My God, they killed Kenny!" and Kyle chimes in with "You bastards!" Later, a video of the incident is shown on America's Stupidest Home Videos. Stan: "Oh my God, they video taped killing Kenny!" Kyle: "You bastards!" Note that Kenny would appear again in "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut," only to be killed by electrocution.
Car tips upside-down and crushes him, but the sunroof is open and he steps out; flies off swing into brick wall, but survives; gun misfires and shoots Kenny's arm, but narrowly misses him and gets his sleeve; during the parade in the credits, a tree falls and crushes Kenny, finally killing him. The first two times that Kenny is thought to have been killed, Stan says, "Oh my god, they killed..." They then show Kenny still alive and Stan finishes with, "Oh, never mind." The third time, however, he says, "Goddammnit!" Nothing is said when the tree falls on Kenny during the ending credits.
Falls into an open grave and is crushed by a gravestone. Kyle says "You bastards" line without a care, due to the revelation that his brother, Ike, was adopted and Canadian. Then after Ike's bris Kenny is in the classroom, in his seat, but after Garrison talks Kennys seat is empty
Trampled by a crowd leaving a theater. Stan and Kyle are not present; instead, a moviegoer says, "Oh my God, I found a penny!" His friend replies, "You bastard!"
210
Chickenpox
Close to the end of this episode he is laughing with everyone, but he flatlines due to a contracted fatal case of chickenpox.
Head explodes due to the intensity of a planetarium demonstration when Stan and Kyle examine the control booth. Stan: "Oh my god! Uhh...we killed Kenny!" Kyle: "We're bastards!"
212
Clubhouses
Trampled in a mosh pit in Cartman's tree house. In a special twist, Cartman is the one who says the first part of the trademark post-Kenny-death catchphrase, then the second part is added by a passing Kyle before moving along.
Ozzy Osbourne bites his head off. The regular post-death line is changed to "Oh, my God, Ozzy Osbourne bit Kenny's head off!". However, he is spontaneously revived moments later and can be seen standing next to Stan and Kyle in the crowd. Whether this is his immortality coming into effect sooner than usual or just a continuity error is open to debate. This is a reference to when Ozzy Osborne bit the head of a real live bat in concert.
Killed (squashed "like a bug") by a derailed mining cart containing underpants. Amusingly, the boys say their usual speech rather quickly and emotionlessly (The speech comes out "ohmygodyoukilledkennyyoubastards.") and don't seem very saddened by his death, since all they cared about was finishing the paper for the Prop 24 meeting. As Stan and Kyle continue the UnderpantsGnomes look in awe at what just happened and interrupt the boys speech with "Holy shit I think we just killed your friend!"
218
Prehistoric Ice Man
Caught in the conveyor belt in front of the prehistoric man exhibit. Stan says the first line as per usual, but Kyle does not say his line and instead says, "What? I'm not talking to you," since they are fighting over the man's name.
Season 3
Episode #
Episode Title
Description
302
Spontaneous Combustion
Spontaneously combusts at the beginning of the show due to withheld flatulance.
Dies in an unknown manner while waiting for Chef at the bus stop, but miraculously revives at dawn.
Smashed to death by succubus. (Cartman: (eyes bandaged due to a botched eye surgery) "What? What happened you guys? Is Kenny okay?") His corpse is later taken to Cartman's optometrist at the end of the episode, claiming that Kenny is an organ donor and wants to donate his eyes to Cartman.
Sacrifices himself to open the conch shellMoses is trapped in, saving the Jews. The usual post-death lines are not said, partially due to Stan being absent in this episode.
Beaten against everything in Cartman's bedroom by Phonics Monkey. Stan says "Oh my God, the monkey killed Kenny!" Instead of Kyle's "You bastard!" line, Cartman says, "You're damn straight he did."
Burned to death by a US National Guard warning flare. However, Stan's grandfather says "You bastard!" instead of Kyle, to which Kyle angrily shouts "Hey!"
Dies from massive defecation after playing "the brown note". He appears at the end on the bus - whether this is a continuity error or intentional is up for debate.
Crushed by bricks, meant to be a Cartman test dummy, after flying off a sled. Stan says "Oh my God we killed Kenny," and Kyle replies "We killed Kenny?" Stan replies in a businesslike manner "Yep, we killed Kenny. We're bastards."
Shown with cement shoes in a river; however, the river is too shallow for him to sink, so during the credits, he begins hopping toward the shore. After a few hops, he falls into a concealed trench in the water and drowns. The lines of Stan and Kyle are not heard but Timmy does ride past saying "timmeeehhhhh" in his usual fashion.
Bashed in the face with a frying pan by Cartman due to Cartman's Christina Aguilera hallucinations. Stan and Kyle deliver the catchphrase in an unusually relaxed soothing manner due to having overdosed on Ritalin.
Crushed by an ambulance after Stewart is loaded therein.
He is also killed in a dream by his newborn alien-like brother. His father says "Oh my God, it killed Kenny!" and his mother shouts "Bad baby."
His parents have another child, which is born dressed in an orange hoody, just before the credits and name him Kenny (in honour of his 'dead' brother); his father comments that this must be the 50th time this has happened and his mother specifies that it's the 52nd which is a surprise because this is the 52nd time Kenny has died.
Crushed by a piano just after angrily leaving for home while Stan is very upset and sobbing because Kyle may die of kidney failure unless he gets one of Cartman's kidneys. Before leaving he says in his muffled way: "You never give a crap when I die!" After Stan cries some more and talks about how Kyle is going to die, Kenny says, "Now that's it! I have had just about enough of this bullshit. Screw you guys, I'm going home!" a line which is usually delivered by Cartman.
Explodes from gas buildup when a massive dose of antacid tablets (thought to be mints) is exposed to water. Everybody laughs, and Stan says, "That was a good one."
409
Something You Can Do With Your Finger
Flattened by an elevator just prior to performance in the shopping mall.
412
4th Grade
Dragged to death by Timmy's wheelchair while attempting to fix it à la Speed. Stan: "Well, we saw that coming." Yet near the end, he makes a cameo appearance and then disappears before the scene ends.
413
Trapper Keeper
Smashed against a wall by Cartman's bedroom door when Cartman bursts out of his bedroom. Kyle is unable to say, "You bastard" (saying "You ba---") before he flees the Cartman house.
Run over by car. Kenny's death occurs while the boys are in the middle of producing The Spirit of Christmas, so Stan decides to have Kenny's character die in the film so they won't have to reshoot anything.
Laughs himself to death after seeing Cartman's "I'm a little piggy" video. His spirit is then seen coming out of his body, still laughing (similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit). (When the episode is first aired, his spirit was not shown.)
Although he survives the plague from which he is suffering (brought on by the volumous amount of the word "shit"), he vomits his intestines out just before the credits just after it is remarked that he didn't die. Stan: "Holy shi...! Poo."
Drowns himself in the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial as part of a cult's mass suicide. Stan says his catch phrase 3 times, using it to try and find Kyle in a massive crowd a la the game Marco Polo. Kyle replies twice.
Explosion kills Kenny and his Afghan counterpart. Stan and Kyle's Afghan counterparts say “Ya Allah! Koshtaen Keyvano! Tol dayoos!”, which translates to “Oh God, they killed Keyvan! You bastards!” in Persian .
Shot in the head by the airport security. The trademark post-Kenny-death catchphrase is not said. Instead Kyle's Jewish cousin "Kyle" yelled "Oh Jesus!"
He is seen dead in this episode, but it's never shown or mentioned how he died. One possibility is that he died after being hit in the crotch too many times.
Permanently dies of a "terminal disease" (until "Red Sleigh Down". Also the first to be mourned over (617)).
Season 6
Since Kenny's death in "Kenny Dies" (513),his soul was inside of Cartman when he mistook Kenny's ashes for Chocolate milk mix. Stan said his usual phrase but instead of "killed" he said "You drank Kenny". He does not reappear until "Red Sleigh Down" (617) (in which he is not killed as he is only in the final minute of the episode), but "dies" at least once this season in:
Rob Schneider eats a roast beef joint containing Kenny's recently-exorcised soul (Kenny possesses Cartman's body for a few episodes this season) and dies when Rob Schneider gets impaled by a flagpole in a movie trailer (in reference to one of Kenny's deaths in "Weight Gain 4000").
When Kenny returns, Stan is the first to notice him: "Oh hey Kenny. Dude, where've you been?" To which Kenny replied: (muffled) "I've just been hanging out."
The usual lines said whenever Kenny dies are still said in this season, but only when Jesus is killed in "Red Sleigh Down", thus the line is changed to reflect that he is the one who dies.
Zapped by Saddam Hussein, posing as Prime Minister of Canada, with laser eyes causing him to explode.
Season 8
Kenny dies once in season 8.
Episode #
Episode Title
Description
807
The Jeffersons
"Mr. Jefferson" tosses him into the ceiling. This episode is also significant for the fact that it is one of only three times in which Kenny speaks without his voice being muffled by his jacket: one other being South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. He also speaks in "Lice Capades", though this is unintelligable over the shouting of the mob Cartman orgainized. This death is also the third death of Kenny without his hood on, if you include him fading away in the movie (the first was Super Best Friends).
Season 9
Kenny dies two times in season 9. In the episode Ginger Kids, he is also taken off to some unknown fate and never seen again for the rest of an episode, though this doesn't count as an official death.
Episode #
Episode Title
Description
903
Wing
Shot by the Chinese mafia. Unlike his previous deaths his death now really moves Kyle to tears who also hugs him. "You didn't die for nothing. We're gonna get Wing back as our client and... and make a ton of money! I swear it to you!"
He is hit by an Ice cream van and brought to Heaven but is resuscitated and kept alive on a feeding tube (à laTerri Schiavo), which is removed and he finally dies. It's worthy to note that this is one of the very few times (including the movie) that Kenny continues to appear on-screen and play a significant part even after he is killed.
The line is referenced twice in the episode. Outside the hospital where Kenny is in a vegetative state, Kyle leads a call/response protest where Kyle shouts, "Don't kill Kenny!" while the crowd responds, "You bastards!" The second is when they finally decide to let Kenny die after disrespecting his wish from his will of not being seen in a vegetative state on TV. His spirit returns to heaven, the archangel Michael responds gleefully, "Oh my god, they killed Kenny!" before returning him to lead the armies of heaven.
Season 10
Kenny does not die in season 10. The traditional catch phrase is used the first of two times Kenny's World of Warcraft character is killed by a griefer in the episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft". The phrase is also used in a slightly modified form when Chef is killed in "The Return of Chef". This is the first and only season in which Kenny doesn't die.
Season 11
Kenny dies once in Season 11.
Episode #
Episode Title
Description
1114
The List
Shot in the head in his house by Wendy Testaburger's stray bullet shot accidentally from the school roof; no lines are said for his death, though two Pop Tarts pop out of the toaster seconds after Kenny is shot.
A boy resembling Cartman referred to as Kenny in this short, while an unnamed character has an appearance similar to Kenny. Both of these characters are caught in Frosty's tentacles and thrown to their deaths.
Santa's psychic attack misses Jesus and hits Kenny, throwing his head into a statue of Orgazmo. Kenny isn't the only one to die as six other children are crushed to death, either by Jesus's attack on Santa's grotto or the aforementioned statue.
Opening sequence — Head bitten off by the Iguana Entertainment logo.
Operation: Turkey Butt — Squished by a door while chasing a giant turkey. If the player was using Kenny they change to Cartman for the rest of the fight.
A Clone of Your Own — Does not die.
Close Encounters of the Bovine Kind — Does not die.
Something Wicked This Way Clunks — After the boys save Jimbo and Ned from the robots, Kenny gets himself crushed by a falling robot head.
Some Disassembly Required — At the end of the game, Chef is congratulating them and a padlock safe falls on Kenny. Chef: "Oh my god, they killed Kenny!" Kyle: "Dude, who's they? A safe fell on him." Stan: "Well, we always say 'they'. We always say 'they' killed Kenny." Kyle: "Doesn't make any sense, though." Stan: "Oh yeah."
Opening credits - Runs out of gas on the train track, gets crushed by a train, and his head goes flying off and hits the South Park sign. This is a reference to "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" (Kenny even drives the same go-kart).
South Park (pinball)
If the player manages to activate and win the "Kill Kenny Bonus" (earned by knocking the pinball into Kenny's slot three times, then one more time) Kenny (on the screen) is gunned down by an unknown assailant, while the Kenny figure just falls over.
List of manners of death in other media
This is a short list of deaths that are authorized by the creators. These do not include bootleg parodies.
Episode Title
Description
Jay Leno Short
Jay Leno's chin bumps into a flagpole in the classroom, which knocks a bust of George Washington onto Kenny's head. Stan: "Oh my God! Jay Leno's chin killed Kenny!" Kyle: "You bastard!" Leno: "Oh, who cares? He dies in every damn episode! Look, I'm outta here!"
Dead Parrot Parody
Kenny plays the part of the dead parrot in this parody of the Monty Python sketch. Cartman is also killed when the Monty Python foot lands on him.
Gladiator Parody
Maximus stabs Kenny with his sword. Stan: "Oh my God, Russell Crowe killed Kenny!" Timmy: "Timmy!"
1997 New Year's Countdown
After the count down, the "7" falls down, revealing an "8" for 1998, and crushes Kenny.
The 12th Annual American Comedy Awards
Gets electrocuted while adjusting the TV reception. Stan: "Oh my God, the American Comedy Awards killed Kenny!"
51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999)
After the "We Remember You" song, the boys realize they shouldn't stand next to Kenny. They move away, and a giant Emmy falls and crushes him.
Deaths on film
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Suffers third degree burns when he attempts to light his fart on fire, but is ultimately killed by the ER doctors who replace his heart with a baked potato, which explodes and splatters some of his remains across the hospital room.
It has been noted that he perhaps "dies again" when he makes his unselfish wish that sends him temporarily back to Hell, before he is sent to Heaven. However, this is questionable, because it is unclear in what form he appears when he climbs out of Hell after Satan invades earth. It isn't treated as a true "resurrection", and he may have only appeared in "spirit form". The fact that he fades away may in fact back up that he was an apparition, and is not truly "alive" again.
Episodes in which Kenny survives
Kenny doesn't die
Season 1 Episode 10 - Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo
Season 2 Epiodes 1 - Terrance & Phillip in Not without my anus
