8. Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski South Park
A big fat turd, or a stupid douche- which do you like best? Its no secret that Stan and Kyle are the surrogates of South Park co-creator Trey Parker and Matt Stone. What is a little more elusive is the political affiliation of these two men (and by extension, these surrogate characters), especially if you are under the false impression that politics breaks into only two distinct groups. Since they are, for Hollywood, uncommonly critical of the left, they have often been mistaken for conservatives (a book, South Park Conservatives, has even been written on this subject) but, their liberal stances on homosexuality, religion, immigration, censorship and drugs make them strange bedfellows with the right. The truth is, they are neither, and made this perfectly clear in the episode when they equated the election between George W. Bush and John Kerry as being like choosing between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. This irreverence has been mistaken for nihilism by some, but when pressed, Trey Parker has reluctantly admitted in interviews he is a card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party; and I posit that this confession makes Stan and Kyle little future libertarians.