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22 Jokes We, Personally, Wouldn’t Have the Guts to Deliver on Stage
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Alyson Lewis
July 08, 2025
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In the world of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, being a member of the McPoyle family means you’re a terrifying inbred weirdo. Yet, even in the sea of nauseating McPoyles, a good candidate for the most offensively strange is the deaf-mute Margaret McPoyle.
Played by Thesy Surface (who has neither her character’s trademark mustache nor unibrow IRL), Margaret McPoyle first appears briefly in Season Two when her brother compliments her “top-notch boobies.” She tailgates with the rest of her family early in Season Three, before wielding a shotgun at the behest of her brothers in “The Gang Gets Held Hostage.” She also first has sex with a member of The Gang, Dennis, during the same episode. Her next sexual conquest is Mac in Season Six’s “Who Got Dee Pregnant?” before making her final appearances in Seasons Eight and Eleven.
Throughout the vast history of South Park, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman have appeared in live-action form precisely three times. The very first time occurs in a Netherlands-only short from 2010, but the instance that’s probably best remembered is the 2012 episode “I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining.”
It’s a parody of the now-defunct series I Shouldn’t Be Alive, which retold people’s harrowing survival events with reenactments. For the South Park foursome, the event is a very boring ziplining adventure that takes a turn for the worse when Cartman gets explosive diarrhea. While most of the episode is animated per usual, the reenactments, which take place on a boat, are done with real actors, including live-action versions of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman. Cartman’s part is especially memorable, if only because at one point he shits off the side of the boat.
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