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{{notability|date=April 2025}} 
{{Infobox character
| name = Mr. Mackey
| series = [[South Park]]
| image = Mr. Mackey.png
| image_size = 150px
| first = "[[Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo]]" (1997)
| creator = [[Trey Parker]]<br />[[Matt Stone]]
| designer = Trey Parker<br />Matt Stone
| voice = Trey Parker
| alias = Fireman Tom
| gender = Male
| occupation = [[United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]] agent, South Park Elementary [[school counselor]] (formerly)
| family = Mrs. Mackey Sr. (mother)<br>Mr. Mackey Sr. (father; deceased)
| lbl23 = Residence
| data23 = [[Colorado|South Park, Colorado]], United States
| significant_other = [[List of South Park characters#Diane_Choksondik|Diane Choksondik]] (girlfriend; deceased)
}}

'''Mr. Mackey Jr.''' is a fictional character in the [[adult animation|adult]] [[animated television series]] ''[[South Park]]''. He is voiced by series co-creator [[Trey Parker]] and debuted in the [[South Park (season 1)|season one]] episode "[[Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boone |first=Brian |date=December 3, 2020 |title=The Untold Truth Of Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo |url=https://www.looper.com/288832/the-untold-truth-of-mr-hankey-the-christmas-poo/ |access-date=July 26, 2022 |website=Looper.com |language=}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=<nowiki>South Park – Season 1 | Commentary by Trey Parker & Matt Stone</nowiki> |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExNoeefVVMs&t=3h1m36s |access-date=18 May 2023 |website=YouTube | date=22 September 2021 |publisher=CommentaryCentral}}</ref>

==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 American English|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 [[Generation X]]. 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 [[WarGames]] parody, as well as Mackey dancing to [[Wang Chung (band)|Wang Chung]]'s "[[Dance Hall Days]]" during a [[duck and cover]] drill at the elementary school. This is also supported by the episode "[[Taming Strange]]", in which popular 1980s music plays from Mackey's computer on the school [[intercom]] while trying to use the new ''Intellilink'' system, such as [[Lionel Richie]]'s "[[All Night Long (All Night)]]" and [[Glenn Frey]]'s "[[The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey song)|The Heat Is On]]" from the [[Beverly Hills Cop (soundtrack)|Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack]].

Mackey taught [[sex education]] 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 "[[Ike's Wee Wee]]", Mackey taught [[Mr. Garrison]]'s class about [[drugs]], [[smoking]], and [[alcoholic drink|alcohol]]. 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.<ref name="Ike's Wee Wee">{{cite episode |title=[[Ike's Wee Wee]]|series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=May 20, 1998 |season=2 |number=203}}</ref>

Mackey holds generally [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] political views, as he protested against the [[Iraq War]] in the season seven episode "[[I'm a Little Bit Country]]". However, in the season twelve episode [[About Last Night... (South Park)|About Last Night]], he was shown as a supporter of [[John McCain]]'s [[John McCain 2008 presidential campaign|presidential campaign]] in [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]] and was shown upset that he lost.

It was presumed that in "[[Proper Condom Use]]", the last time Mackey had sex was 21 years ago (when he mentions he was 19).<ref name="Proper Condom Use">{{cite episode |title=[[Proper Condom Use]]|series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=August 1, 2001 |season=5 |number=507}}</ref> In the episodes "[[Something You Can Do with Your Finger]]" and "[[Cat Orgy]]" it was hinted there were bondage sex scenes with [[Liane Cartman]], where in the former episode, [[Eric Cartman]] watches a tape of Mackey and Liane, where the latter is Mackey's sex slave, and drinks from a cup of her own urine,<ref name="Something You Can Do with Your Finger">{{cite episode |title=[[Something You Can Do with Your Finger]]|series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=July 12, 2000 |season=4 |number=409}}</ref> while the latter episode shows Mackey flirting with Liane.<ref name="Cat Orgy">{{cite episode |title=[[Cat Orgy]]|series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=July 14, 1999 |season=3 |number=307}}</ref>

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 [[Woodsy Owl]], but at the end of a field trip, the owl molested him. Later in the episode, he threatened to rape [[Stan Marsh]] in the mouth if the latter threw any of the clutter in Mackey's office away.<ref name="Insheeption">{{cite episode |title=[[Insheeption]]|series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=October 20, 2010 |season=14 |number=1409}}</ref>

Mackey was shown in "[[Trapped in the Closet (South Park)|Trapped in the Closet]]" as a member of the [[Church of Scientology]], though no later episodes mention this.<ref>{{cite web |title=South Park Scriptorium – "Trapped in the Closet" |url=http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season9/E912script.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124231837/http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season9/E912script.htm |archive-date=November 24, 2005 |access-date=July 7, 2010 |publisher=Spscriptorium.com}}</ref> He is fluent in [[Spanish language|Spanish]], as shown in "[[Rainforest Shmainforest]]".<ref name="Rainforest Shmainforest">{{cite episode |title=[[Rainforest Shmainforest]]|series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=April 7, 1999 |season=3 |number=301}}</ref>

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

==See also==
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*[[South Park (Park County, Colorado)]]
*[[South Park City]]
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==References==
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==External links==
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