hi

It's like: they basically aren't friends. Kenny takes time to invite Butters to hangouts. He thinks he's a pain. They're business partners and the only two from the main group who kept in contact post-Covid. Kenny shot out his eye and didn't care. "Kenny's the only kid in school I actually like" "I'm not his best friend". They play super heroes together. They're besties. They may as well have never interacted. Everything that makes a sitcom work-- how it all resets and characters are malleable just enough to keep the plot moving, is the same thing that makes them work. Especially as two characters who function almost exclusively as plot devices. It makes them both versatile and extremely difficult to see getting together compared to almost every other pairing. That's why I like them. Because they are a challenging pairing to write and portray, but with a really rewarding goal-post if you get it right.