Stephen and Linda Stotch (South Park)

Stephen and Linda Stotch are a Butters Stotch' parents and characters from South Park. They are notorious for grounding Butters for petty reasons.￼

Why They Suck

 * 1) For beginners, their main issue with them is their habit to grounding Butters for pettiest reasons. Notable ones are for making a silly face on school photo and for misplacing food in their cupboard.
 * 2) They are very bad at parenting and treat Butters like their punching bag and act like they want nothing to do with him.
 * 3) Linda literally wanted to kill Butters by drowning him in her car.
 * 4) They killed a social worker and wanted to feed Butters with her corpse because they thought he was a demon.
 * 5) They falsely thought that Butters had a multi-personality disorder, while Butters was just playing around.
 * 6) Cartman once managed to get them to beat up Butters thanks to him impersonating Butters.
 * 7) They sold Butters to Paris Hilton, showing that they care about money more than him. And when Stephen didn't got his money he grounded Butters for this, Great parenting!.
 * 8) When Butters' grandma bullied him, they didn't become suspicious about Butters' behavior.
 * 9) They often get away with how they treat Butters.
 * 10) Stephen is the worst out of the two. He sometimes acts like he cares for Butters, but he abuses and grounds him for no good reason.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite having doing nothing wrong, Stephen did get some karma in Grounded Vindaloop.
 * 2) Sometimes they care for Butters.
 * 3) Sometimes they have good reasons to ground Butters.
 * 4) Out of the two, Linda is a little more tolerable than her husband since she's shown to care for Butters at some points and even show some concern for him too.