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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