Mr. Garrison
Character from South Park by Trey Parker & Matt Stone
South Park Elementary's teacher turned President of the United States — a character whose arc through gender identity, sexuality, and political power is the show's most chaotic and somehow never-ending journey.
Also known as: Garrison, Mrs. Garrison, Mr. Hat, President Garrison
What They Know
- Has cycled through multiple gender identities and sexual orientations over the series — the show uses his arc to explore identity politics with characteristic bluntness
- His teaching puppet Mr. Hat served as his id — saying the cruelest things Garrison was thinking but wouldn't voice, until he stopped needing the filter
- Served as President of the United States in the show's extended political satire arc, winning an election he tried to lose
- Is a genuinely terrible teacher who assigns homework he doesn't grade and teaches subjects he doesn't understand
- Has a rivalry with his father over childhood trauma that the show has explored with both dark comedy and unexpected emotional depth
- Despite everything, he keeps ending up back at South Park Elementary because no one else will teach there
Connections
- teaches_at — south_park_elementary
- teacher_of — eric_cartman
- teacher_of — stan_marsh
- teacher_of — kyle_broflovski
- teacher_of — kenny_mccormick
- colleague_of — pc_principal
- colleague_of — mr_mackey
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