Summary

Butters' optimistic and naive personality shines in high-rated episodes addressing sensitive topics.
Notable moments include Butters starting a brothel, struggling with heartbreak, and stopping a suicide attempt.
Butters' innocence and kindness are constant themes throughout episodes, showcasing his character development.

One of the South Park characters who always attracts the viewer's attention is Leopold "Butters" Stotch. Butters is the most optimistic kid in school, as well as the most naive, which brings him loads of problems and puts him in tricky situations. Mostly by Cartman’s fault, but that’s beside the point.

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Fans love Butters. In fact, Butters Very Own Episode ranks 9/10 on IMDb, making it one of the highest-rated episodes in the series. The majority of the Butters-centric episodes aired between seasons five to eleven, where creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone addressed topics such as heartbreak, rejection, trauma, and sexual orientation.

This article discusses sensitive topics such as immigration, gender stereotypes, trauma, and sexual orientation/identity.

Spoilers for South Park ahead

10 Butters Bottom B*

Butters Recruiters Girls To Sell Kisses On The Playground

Episode Number: Season 13, Episode 9
Release Date: October 14, 2009

It’s so easy to love a character like Butters. He is sweet, kind, and empathetic towards everyone. That’s what viewers expect at all times, and that’s why everyone was amazed at this episode from season thirteen. Butters finds out a girl is selling kisses at school, so he runs to the queue to get one. He realizes this could be a profitable business, so he starts recruiting girls to sell kisses in the playground.

Butters proceeds to open a brothel, which draws the attention of the authorities. Concurrently, a local police officer is doing an undercover investigation and he dresses up as a sex worker, making the whole episode a hilarious mess.

9 Raisins

Butters Has A Crush On A Waitress

Episode Number: Season 7, Episode 14
Release Date: October 12, 2003

It’s not a good day for Stan — he and his girlfriend Wendy break up and viewers agree that this could be considered one of the saddest episodes of South Park because of it. Stan does all he can think of to get back together with Wendy, including taking a radio to her house to play a romantic song. However, nothing works.

Stan is struggling to get over her, so his friends take him to Raisins, a similar restaurant to the American chain Hooters, so that he can get distracted. However, Butters is the one getting distracted. He falls in love with their waitress, and later finds out she was taking advantage of him so he would tip her, buy her gifts, and be a returning customer, which absolutely shatters him.

8 Butters' Very Own Episode

Butters Is An Inspector For A Day And His Mother Tries To Murder Him

Episode Number: Season 5, Episode 14
Release Date: December 12, 2001

♫Who’s the kid with the heart full of magic? Everyone knows it’s Butters! ♫ Well, that’s Butters, and he had his very own episode in season five. It’s the one where Butters’ dad has an addiction to going into gay theaters and…experiencing new things. Meanwhile, at home, it’s Butters' parents' anniversary, so his mother asks him to be an inspector and discover the gift his Dad is giving Mommy.

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Butters’ innocence in this episode is adorable. He takes some pictures of his father stepping into the adult movie theater and public baths for bisexuals and naively gives them to his mother. His mother then goes crazy and tries to murder Butters by drowning him in the lake.

7 You Got F*d In The A

Butters Kills Someone Every Time He Practices Tap Dancing

Episode Number: Season 8, Episode 4
Release Date: April 7, 2004

In this episode, Butters enters a tap dancing competition. During his performance, one of his shoes flies off in the direction of the camera on the roof, which ends up falling, creating a domino effect and killing multiple people in the audience.

Three years later, the opportunity arises once again and Butters can’t sleep while rewinding all the traumatizing memories he has of the last time he tap-danced. He ends up joining the competition with his friends, which ends up pretty much the same way as last time, leaving Butters double-traumatized. At least this time, he won the competition.

6 Cartman Sucks

Butters Gives A Speech About Bisexuality

Episode Number: Season 11, Episode 2
Release Date: March 14, 2007

South Park fans mostly agree that Butters is the most optimistic character in the series. That said, in the second episode of season eleven, Cartman tries to prank Butters by taking a compromising "gay picture." This ends up backfiring on Cartman, but while all this mess is going on, Butters’s father enters the room and is shocked at what’s in front of his eyes — two 10-year-old kids without clothes taking pictures.

As a result, Butters is transferred to a conversion camp for "therapy." At the camp, he befriends Bradley, a kid conflicted due to his sexual orientation. He is so confused that he tries to jump off a bridge. Butter ends up stopping him by giving a speech to the camp’s workers saying that they are not confused, they are just a little bi-curious and that is okay.

5 AWESOME-O

Butters Receives A Personal Robot From Japan

Episode Number: Season 8, Episode 5
Release Date: April 14, 2004

Excited about his new home-delivered robot, Butters calls all his friends to tell them the news, making everyone jealous. As soon as the robot starts talking, fans note that it’s actually Cartman in a costume, but not Butters. Butters is unaware of what’s going on. Cartman’s only interest is to recover an embarrassing video of himself dancing to Britney Spears with a cardboard cutout of Justin Timberlake.

Butters then proceeds to tell the Japanese robot all his personal secrets, taking him out to the cinema, to a restaurant, until AWESOME-O starts getting military attention — a robot that can think and rationalize is of interest to the US Government. Cartman’s joke goes too far (again), and the military conducts tests on him, which reveals the Japanese robot is a 10-year-old kid playing pretend.

4 Majorine

Butters Infiltrates The Girls To Discover A Secret Device

Episode Number: Season 9, Episode 9
Release Date: October 26, 2005

In episode nine of season nine, Cartman claims the girls have a secret gadget that allows them to glimpse the future. Now, someone needs to infiltrate the girl’s group, and that someone is Butters. Cartman doesn’t give him a chance to say no. The three friends — Kyle, Stan, and Kenny — proceed to stage Butters’ death so they can introduce Majorine, his female version.

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Cartman’s senseless plan ends when the boys discover that the “secret device” the girls were using for seeing into the future was a cootie catcher, or a paper fortune-teller. Butters returns home to his parents and ends up grounded, again.

3 The Last Of The Meheecans

Butters Is Now Mantequilla, A Mexican Leader

Episode Number: Season 15, Episode 9
Release Date: October 12, 2011

The events of this episode all start with Cartman’s game idea where Texans can’t allow Mexicans across the border. Cartman plays for the Texans, whereas Butters plays for the Mexicans; sorry, "Meheecans". Distracted, Butters ends up getting lost in the snow. Later, he is helped by an American family while he is wearing a Mexican hat and t-shirt, leading the family to think he is a true Mexican. They eventually try to help him, but without success.

Butters, ever the optimist, enjoys being Mexican so much that he somehow ends up in a Mexican restaurant convincing all the workers to return to their country, which they all gladly do. Butters is now known as "Mantequilla" (Spanish for "butter"), the Mexican leader, yet now he wants to return to America. On his way to the border, Cartman spots him, and they begin to play the original game, for real this time.

2 The Ungroundable

No One In South Park Understands The Difference Between Vampire and Goth Kids

Episode Number: Season 12, Episode 14
Release Date: November 19, 2008

This episode starts with Cartman playing Call Of Duty on his PC while trying to get rid of Butters. Meanwhile, some goth kids are passing outside and Butters suspects they are vampires. Cartman seizes the opportunity to instruct Butters to go investigate them. Long story short, Butters decides to join the vampire kids. He suddenly gains a whole new personality, where he is ungroundable by his parents.

He becomes furious, hissing at everyone, and is not the sweet kid viewers are used to. The best part is that vampires can only feed on blood, so Butters enters Cartman’s home through the window and starts to bite Cartman’s neck, leaving him shocked, scared, and with a hickey. Tired of it, Butters returns home to tell his parents he is now groundable again.

1 Professor Chaos

Butters Becomes A Villain After Being Rejected By His Friends

Episode: Season 6, Episode 6
Release date: April 10, 2002

South Park fans likely can’t imagine an evil version of Butters. He is the kindest little kid. Yet he can get agitated. That’s what happened in this episode, titled Professor Chaos. After being rejected by his friends, Butters gains a secondary personality that’s used to bring chaos to the world. It's Butters personal type of horrible revenge.

However, the chaos Butters is bringing to the world is pranks like changing menu orders at a restaurant, destroying his clothes that are properly folded in his wardrobe, and hiding the eraser from the classroom. Professor Chaos became an iconic figure in South Park, returning in multiple future episodes and in The Fractured But Whole video game.

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