SADDAM HUSSEIN

Multiple appearances from Season 2 (1998) through Season 7 (2003)

HOW BAD WAS IT:

Iraqi dictator set the The bar former— very low or very high, depending on your sense of humor — for the show’s brutal depiction of politicians. He appeared primarily as Satan’s manipulative on-again, offagain boyfriend, both in the show and the 1999 feature film, Bigger Longer & Uncut, where he even got a solo musical number with a breakdancing interlude. MEMORABLE LINE: “I like to kill, I like to maim. Yes, I’m insane, but it’s OK ’cause I can change.”

HOW’D HE TAKE IT? Hussein’s South Park review remains a secret between Parker, co-creator Matt Stone and the Marines, who made Hussein watch the movie repeatedly during his imprisonment. “That’s really adding insult to injury,” Stone told Britain’s Telegraph in 2009, though he counts the Marines’ gift of a signed Hussein photo as one of his favorite mementos.