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Chef

Jerome "Chef" McElroy is a recurring character on the Comedy Central series South Park. He is voiced by Isaac Hayes.

About Chef

Chef is, as his nickname implies, a cook, specifically at the South Park Elementary School cafeteria. He is just about the only adult that the main characters on the show (Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick) consistently ask for advice. A typical introduction goes as such:

Chef: Hello there, children!
Kids (in unison): Hey Chef.
Chef: How's it going?
One or all of kids: Bad.
Chef: Why bad?

One of the children then explains to him their problem. Chef uses the word "children" often, even for the singular (for example, he has referred to Cartman alone as "children" on at least one occasion).

While most of the inhabitants of South Park are white, Chef is one of the very few residents in town who is Negro; in fact the only other Negroes to consistently live in South Park are Token and his parents, who were not even made relevant until season four. As a result Chef (usually goodnaturedly, though not always) refers to people in town as "crackas," including the children. Chef's personality is somewhat childlike, making him the only "cool" adult in South Park; this is especially dramatized in the episode Good Times With Weapons, when Chef is the only adult in the episode to appear in ninja form.

Aside from cooking, Chef has two other passions: singing, and "making sweet love down by the fire"; he was based on such 1970s singers as Isaac Hayes (who plays him) and Barry White (Stone and Parker's first choice to play him[1]). Often, he agrees to give the boys advice by singing them songs, but winds up singing about having sex. Over time, however, like many earlier characters on the show, his role has diminished, and in recent seasons, he has not sung much even when he does appear.

Chef’s last name suggests he is at least partially of Celtic descent, and indeed his outwardly Negro parents live in a castle in Scotland. The old couple is obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster, which is always following them, begging for three dollars and fifty cents ("tree-fiddy", specifically).

Short (and incomplete) list of Chef's songs

(Should be checked for perfect accuracy)

  • The Prostitute Song
    • "A prostitute is someone who will love you/No matter who you are or what you look like..."
  • Chef's Christmas Song
    • "Girl, you'll hear the herald angels sing/When I'm sliding off your bra/Girl, I just can't wait to deck your halls/And fa-la-la your la!"
  • Chef on Where Babies Come From
    • "When a man loves a woman/And a woman loves a man/...Well, sometimes the man doesn't love the woman,/But he pretends like he does, in order to get some action."
  • Simultaneous
    • "You!/And Me!/...And her! SI-MUL-TAN-E-OUS-LY!"
  • Chef as a zombie (Sung to Michael Jackson's "Thriller".)
    • "I'm gonna make love, even when I'm dead. My body might be cold, but it's always hot in my bed.
  • Sometimes you kill your teacher
    • "Sometimes you kill your teacher and they find your semen in her stomach, and uh"


  • Shovel that Stone
    • "Shovel that snow, babih, it's all nice, heavy and wet"

Chef-Aid

This is a list of Chef's songs from the animated series. Chef Aid was a South Park episode that included many celebrity guest stars, and even had its own CD of songs from that and other episodes, plus some original ones. They include:

Uncanny resemblance

It has been noted that Chef carries an uncanny resemblance to Dick Hallorann, the chef in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. For example, Chef and Dick both serve as chefs in small, mountainous towns in Colorado. Each has posters of nude, black women with enormous afros and serves the role as an unassuming hero. They are also the only two black characters in an otherwise almost entirely white cast.

This, however, is false. Chef is actually based almost entirely on one of the dining hall chefs at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, where Matt Stone and Trey Parker received their bachelor's degrees.

See also

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