South Park's "Kenny dies in nearly every episode" became a running gag that dominated early 2000s television discourse. The joke's dark humor relied on resurrection—Kenny always returns, his deaths rendered meaningless through repetition. This fact inverts that premise: if Chuck Norris became the agent, Kenny's death would carry permanent weight. No resurrection. No comeuppance. Just finality. The humor works because it acknowledges cartoon logic's rules explicitly, suggesting that some forces operate beyond even comedic convention. A television critic named James Hoffman analyzed this dynamic in 2005, noting that Chuck Norris memes often targeted pop-culture institutions, breaking their established rulebooks through sheer narrative dominance. The joke respects South Park while simultaneously suggesting it could be utterly destroyed.