Mr. Mackey Jr. is a fictional character in the

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''. He is voiced by series co-creator

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and debuted in the

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episode "

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". The school counselor at South Park Elementary, he is best known for saying "m'kay" at the end (or beginning) of most of his sentences. Mr. Mackey is based on Parker's junior high school counselor Stan Lackey.

Appearance

Mackey has a disproportionately large head, which is caused by the tightness of his tie. He wears a green long-sleeved shirt, a blue tie, dark blue pants, and blue leather shoes, as well as black-rimmed glasses. He speaks with a Southern accent. Mackey has black yet thinning hair.

Character biography

Mackey is the school counselor at South Park Elementary, and occasionally teaches classes at the school. Judging from the episode " Insheeption", Mackey was most likely born in 1965, making him a member of

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. This is supported by the many 1980's references that are made involving Mackey during the episode " Back to the Cold War", such as Mackey's childhood bedroom, the

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parody, as well as Mackey dancing to Wang Chung's "

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" during a

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drill at the elementary school. This is also supported by the episode "

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", in which popular 1980s music plays from Mackey's computer on the school

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while trying to use the new ''Intellilink'' system, such as

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's "

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" and

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's " The Heat Is On" from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. Mackey taught

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with Ms. Choksondik, with whom he had a sexual relationship until her death. Following this, he took over the fourth-grade class until Mr. Garrison returned. In "

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", Mackey taught Mr. Garrison's class about

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, and

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. He was fired after marijuana he passed out to the students was stolen by Mr. Garrison. He was consequently evicted by his landlord, which caused him to fall into depression and take drugs himself. Mackey holds generally

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political views, as he protested against the

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in the season seven episode "

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". However, in the season twelve episode

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, he was shown as a supporter of

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and was shown upset that he lost. It was presumed that in "

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", the last time Mackey had sex was 21 years ago (when he mentions he was 19). In the episodes "

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" it was hinted there were bondage sex scenes with

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, where in the former episode,

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watches a tape of Mackey and Liane, where the latter is Mackey's sex slave, and drinks from a cup of her own urine, while the latter episode shows Mackey flirting with Liane. In " Insheeption" it was revealed that Mackey is a hoarder because of his troubled childhood when he was a fourth-grader in 1974. He was shown to be bullied by other children and was a fan of

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, but at the end of a field trip, the owl molested him. Later in the episode, he threatened to rape

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in the mouth if the latter threw any of the clutter in Mackey's office away. Mackey was shown in " Trapped in the Closet" as a member of the

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, though no later episodes mention this. He is fluent in

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, as shown in "

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". Unlike many of the major adult characters, his first name is currently unknown.

References

External links

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