10 Most Underrated South Park Characters

This peculiar little guy stood out like a sore thumb in the early days of South Park, and that seemed to be a deliberate effort from the creators. His British accent and a rather pathetic personality made him an instant target for ridicule, and this was practically all he existed for. However, other characters like Butters quickly took over in this position, and as such, Pip faded into irrelevance.

The character was heavily inspired by the protagonist of the same name in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. This literary connection was funny but did make him feel thoroughly out of place in a mean-spirited cartoon. As we've already noted, he was always treated poorly, and that was particularly evident in his demise which saw him crushed by Mecha-Streisand in episode "201".

By the point of his death, he had already fallen out of the recurring cast, and had simply become an unimportant relic of the show. But Pip was still an amusing character and an early example of the more mature and informed comedy that Parker and Stone would bring to the series later on.

He even took the leading role in the episode Pip that parodied the book he is based upon, a real outlandish move for this silly cartoon.