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Towelie Towelie, voiced by Vernon Chatman of electro-rock band/art collective PFFR, is a talking "RG-400 Smart Towel" manufactured by Tynacorp. The exact details of his creation are hopelessly confused, but he was apparently meant to be an alien spying weapon, and was stolen by a paramilitary group before he simply "got high and just sort of wandered off" to South Park. He often speaks in a high pitched voice. He is usually seen either giving towel-related advice to the citizens of South Park or, more often, getting high on marijuana. Towelie constantly reminds other characters, "Don't forget to bring a towel!" Then, after an awkward pause, he asks the subjects, "You wanna get high?" Towlie always uses marijuana as a motivater to find ideas in his towel like brain. These ideas usually turn out really bad for the self thinking towel.

Towelie first appeared in the fifth season episode "Towelie", which the boys run into him after he flees a paramilitary group and aliens. After Kenny's death, the boys went searching for a replacement friend in the sixth season episode "Professor Chaos". Towelie, a possible candidate, was said to be "high all the time" and undependable by the boys. This episode also stated that Towelie is 17 years old in towel years. Nonetheless, Towelie makes it to the final round. He also makes brief cameos in "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" and "Red Man's Greed". He starred as the main character in "A Million Little Fibers", a parody of the controversy that surrounded James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces on The Oprah Winfrey Show, after it was discovered to have been partially fabricated.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone explained on the DVD commentary for "Towelie" that the character was conceived as a joking reference to the overmarketing of characters in the wake of the series' success. In the episode, Cartman describes Towelie as the "worst character ever".