I think the Stotches are probably the most fucked up family I've ever seen.
The Stotches are a family in South Park, Colorado. They're the fifth main famly, behind Marshes, Broflovskis, Cartmans, and McCormicks.
The story behind the Stotches is morbid. At first, they seem like gag characters who just ground their son. In reality, they run deep.
How did the Stotches become like this? Well, according to Butterballs, Butters' grandma is a cruel bully. Keep in mind, this is the mother of either Linda or Stephen.
This means that they likely delt with this crulety in their youth. Futhermore, in Fractured But Whole, Stephen has a nightmare about his mom's cruel treatment, which is similar to the abuse Stephen inflicts onto his own son.
In the present, the Stotches seem to be a happy family. That is, until Stephen began a series of affairs with other men behind his family's back. This act of adultery causes Linda to snap, which puts the family into jeopardy.
Linda nearly took her own life, and drown her own son, because of Stephen's actions. But why did Stephen commit these acts? Stephen is clearly either bisexual or a closest homosexual, who appears to be unsatisfied with his marriage. The family seem to have recovered from this tragic event, but it is frequently implied that Stephen continues his infidelity.
In TFBW, Linda reads a magazine; "Dealing with your gay husband". A side quest in the game also involves New Kid breaking into Stephen's safe and finding a photo of him engaging in a sexual activity with a man. "DikinBaus Hot Dogs" heavily leans towards this, where he accuses Butters of attending gloryholes and using affair websites, but quickly leaves to what he says to provide for the family, but its heavily implied that Stephen is doing the things he accused Butters of.
Stephen is worried that his son might turn out the same way as him. In "Cartman Sucks", Stephen sends Butters to a camp that "prays the gay away". When he saw Butters getting sexually assualted by Cartman unknowningly, Stephen is genuinely worried of Butters. He doesn't want him to repeat the same mistake.
It's plausible that Stephen also has OCD. In "The Ungroundable", he goes into a fit when Butters misplaced everything in his pantry. He also becomes weary since the pandemic strikes. All this points to Stephen having a compulsive disorder.
Linda seems to be insecure and weak-willed. She is usually quiet, sobs frequently, is prone to muderous tendecies, and gets envious of others. We know less about Linda than we do about Stephen, but her few major appearances imply an inferior complex. She thinks of her own gifts as lacking compared to Stephen's. Linda also has issues with her body, seen in "End of Obesity" and "Turd Burgulars".
Linda is violent. In "Butters' Very Own Episode", she tries to kill her own son after finding out his husband commited adultery. She and the other moms also attacked the Queer Eyes guys for turning their husbands into "whiny little wusses" in "South Park is Gay". Linda and her mom friends also robbed a bank, beat up a truck driver, and chased the main characters over Ozempic drugs.
Suprisingly, the Stotches are complex. They all need help.
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