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The character was based on a boy who went to school with Trey Parker, one of the creators of the series. The boy was called Kenny, was the poorest kid in the neighborhood and wore an orange hooded sweatshirt. The clothes muffled his voice, and it was difficult to understand what he was saying.
O Kenny in real life he used to skip class and miss school a lot – it didn’t take long for the other students to wonder what had happened to him and joked that Kenny had probably died. But, of course, the boy always showed up again, very much alive.
The formula for creating the character, therefore, was ready. It is clear that the Kenny of the cartoon suffers horrible deaths – it is estimated that he has “kicked his boots” at least 100 times.
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