Stephen Stotch

Character from South Park by Trey Parker & Matt Stone

Butters' dad — grounds his son for everything, hides his own secrets behind rigid parenting, and represents suburban fatherhood at its most suffocating.

Also known as: Mr. Stotch, Chris

What They Know

• Grounds Butters for virtually anything — the punishment is disproportionate and reflexive, the show's primary running gag about bad parenting
• Has repressed personal secrets that the show explores through periodic breakdowns and near-confessions
• Married to Linda Stotch — their marriage is built on maintaining appearances at any cost, including their son's emotional health
• Works in an office job that he takes far too seriously relative to its actual importance
• His parenting is the show's most sustained critique of suburban emotional abuse disguised as discipline

Connections

• father_of — butters_stotch
• married_to — linda_stotch

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