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'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" from the
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
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. Mackey holds generally
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, he was shown as a supporter of
John McCain's
presidential campaign in
2008 and was shown upset that he lost. He also signed up to
I.C.E. in "
Got a Nut", It was presumed that in "
Proper Condom Use", the last time Mackey had sex was 21 years ago (when he mentions he was 19). 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, while the latter episode shows Mackey flirting with Liane. 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. Mackey was shown in "
Trapped in the Closet" as a member of the
Church of Scientology, though no later episodes mention this. He is fluent in
Spanish, as shown in "
Rainforest Shmainforest". Unlike many of the major adult characters, his first name is currently unknown. ==See also==