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| “ | YOU ARE F**KING GROUNDED, MISTER! | „ |
| ~ Stephen Stotch to Butters |
| “ | US?! Your family always been the shifty-eyed ones! | „ |
| ~ Stephen to Richard Tweak. |
| “ | I'll say. | „ |
| ~ Stephen agreeing with Sheila Broflovski when the parents grounding the South Park Boys for defying their orders in "Fun With Veal". |
Stephen Willis Stotch, also known as Chris or Mr. Stotch, is a supporting antagonist in the animated sitcom South Park and the 2017 video game South Park: The Fractured but Whole.
He is Butters' abusive, controlling, and strict father who frequently grounds his son for little to no reason, tried to sell him to Paris Hilton for $250 million, gave him a brutal beating for cursing them out over the phone (it was actually Cartman pretending to be Butters), locked him in the basement and tried to feed him a dead woman's body. He is one of Butters' arch-nemesis, the other being Linda and he's also the oppressive patriach of the Stotch Family.
He is close to a closet homosexual who abuses and bullies his son whenever he has 'bicurious' traits (even sending him to a straight camp with a very high suicide rate). Not to mention being physically abusive, according to Linda he handles all of Butter's punishments. He often belittles him and berates him for minor offenses such as (which he probably did but blamed Butters anyway) mixing up things in the pantry, sometimes to make him receive the punishment he deserves.
There is some debate over whether Stephen really cares for his son - while he will go to extreme methods to help him, even trying to bring him back from the dead in "Marjorine". Stephen has been shown to sometimes care about Butters, but often treats him very harshly, though he claims he does this for Butters' own good. At times, though, it seems Stephen's bullying is simply a hobby he has, as seen in "The Ungroundable".
In "Fun With Veal", Stephen and the other parents grounded the South Park boys (which includes his son, Butters) for stealing baby calves and defying them when he agreed with Sheila Broflovski.
In "The Losing Edge", he is a baseball coach of the South Park Little League Baseball Team although his son, Butters and his friends hates baseballs. Butters saids Stephen always told him "it's okay to lose. But if you don't try, you're grounded, mister.".
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| “ | Detective Harris: Well, I suppose there's no need for jail, Mr. and Mrs. Stotch so long as you ground your son. Stephen: Oh, we'll ground the shit out of him alright, Detective. |
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| ~ Stephen to Detective Harris about grounding Butters for stealing jewels |
See Also[]
- Stephen Stotch on the South Park Wiki.
