Regarding South Park, I can help you out on the nitpicks.
1. Regarding Kenny. When he first started out, he was merely the punchline of recurring deaths. He was inspired by a poor kid of the same name, that Trey Parker and Matt Stone new and often joked that whenever he was absent in class, that he might have died. As the show went beyond even what they expected, they started running out of creative ways to kill him. So they initially decided to kill him off permanently. The episode in which that happened, also doubled as a challenge for them to try to make an all drama episode, with only few jokes. That said there are stories centred around him after season ten, but I won't say since I don't want to spoil it for you.
2. While I won't say where, Mr. Hankey does come back in later episodes.
3. The characters do age, but often their age gets mentioned in a prominent moment of the show.
4. Art Budget aside, they wear winter clothes because South Park is located in the mountains of Colorado. There have even been episodes on how they handle seasons outside of Winter. As for them being unrecognizable without them, they used that as a joke on Super Best Friends. Don't know if you seen it yet, but it's a banned early season episode.
5. This will be the one time I will spoil an episode, because said episode is a two parter and is banned anyway. Unlike Super Best Friends, these ones are so hard to find, that you can literally only find them on Youtube. In the episodes 200 and 201, Mecha Streisand goes on a rampage and Pip is one of the people killed in the crossfire. So ya, he's dead. And unlike Kenny he isn't coming back.
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Regarding South Park, I can help you out on the nitpicks.
1. Regarding Kenny. When he first started out, he was merely the punchline of recurring deaths. He was inspired by a poor kid of the same name, that Trey Parker and Matt Stone new and often joked that whenever he was absent in class, that he might have died. As the show went beyond even what they expected, they started running out of creative ways to kill him. So they initially decided to kill him off permanently. The episode in which that happened, also doubled as a challenge for them to try to make an all drama episode, with only few jokes. That said there are stories centred around him after season ten, but I won't say since I don't want to spoil it for you.
2. While I won't say where, Mr. Hankey does come back in later episodes.
3. The characters do age, but often their age gets mentioned in a prominent moment of the show.
4. Art Budget aside, they wear winter clothes because South Park is located in the mountains of Colorado. There have even been episodes on how they handle seasons outside of Winter. As for them being unrecognizable without them, they used that as a joke on Super Best Friends. Don't know if you seen it yet, but it's a banned early season episode.
5. This will be the one time I will spoil an episode, because said episode is a two parter and is banned anyway. Unlike Super Best Friends, these ones are so hard to find, that you can literally only find them on Youtube. In the episodes 200 and 201, Mecha Streisand goes on a rampage and Pip is one of the people killed in the crossfire. So ya, he's dead. And unlike Kenny he isn't coming back.
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