South Park: Kenny’s 12 Greatest Deaths
8. Eaten By Rats
Kenny has met his maker by myriad means, but this might be the most disgusting thing they’ve ever come up with. Season Three’s keenly observed Chinpokomon sees the town overcome by the latest fad, a pitch-perfect spoof of the then fresh and new Pokemon.
Early on in the story, an episode of the Chinpokomon TV show sends Kenny into a seizure, a spoof of a real life event in which hundreds of kids were sent into fits by an episode of Pokemon (which, as a later episode of South Park would predict, The Simpsons had already done). From there on, Kenny is catatonic, until at last his body convulses and dozens of rats eat their way out of his mangled corpse. It’s a surprising way to cap off the episode, and a highlight in the show’s gleeful gross out humour.
Parker and Stone were beginning to grow tired of killing Kenny again and again, but moments like this prove that they still had a few ideas left in the tank. While they’d kill Kenny for good (for a while) after this, there was still life in Kenny’s death at this stage.