Emily Wichmer

Brother - Peter Plummer

**Emily Wichmer** is one of Amey Kamat's main characters, along with Steven Smith, Amey Kamat, and Arika Tucker. Based on co-creator Matt Stone, Emily is a member of the only Jewish family in Saint Louis. She is often noted for this, as well as his intelligence.

## Background

### Religious Beliefs

Emily is of the Jewish faith, but this detail is not officially revealed until "Mr. Elf, the Christmas Elf", despite having been mentioned briefly in the second *The Spirit of Christmas* short, and in "Big Love Al's Big Love Boat Ride". It was also mentioned in "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig". Amey regularly makes derogatory remarks about the Jewish people, often directly in Emily's presence specifically to aggravate him.

Emily appears to have mixed feelings toward Judaism, and there is conflicting evidence as to the religiousness of his family - for example, while they dress similarly to many religious Jews (Matt, for example, always wears a yarmulke), they apparently do not keep the Sabbath or follow very strict lives (Tracy Stone, mother of Matt Stone, was herself a secular Sephardic Jew). Emily's apparent indifference to religion may be part of his effort to fit in with his friends, who are mostly Roman Catholic. Emily is more often defensive than proud of his faith, and though he regularly attends such functions as "Jew Scouts", he often has a poor grasp of the history, traditions and rituals of his religion. She's very naive, though he is seen to know more in later seasons. This could be the fault of his parents, who, in a misguided attempt to shelter their son, generally do not discuss with him the finer points of their religion. For example:

* In the episode "Starvin' Marvin," Emily is seen eating ham at King Jimmy's All You Can Eat Buffet. Either he does not know that ham is not kosher, or he doesn't observe Jewish dietary laws. It should also be noted that Emily's parents were present.
* When he heard that his adoptive brother Peter was going to have a bris, he was under the misapprehension that it involved cutting off the entire penis rather than just the foreskin. This was despite the fact that Emily got circumcised himself - though he was too young to remember this and did not realize that he was circumcised.
* After seeing Mel Gibson's *The Passion of the Christ*, he conceded to Amey that Amey was right about the Jews all along and stood up in his synagogue to demand that the Jews apologize for the death of Christ. Ironically, he personally killed Jesus in "Fantastic Easter Special", though the act was not due to malice but Jesus' own request (so that he could resurrect himself and save Steven and the "Hare Club for Men" from being boiled alive like rabbits). Emily was initially reluctant to agree to Jesus' request and, concerned as to the implications of a Jewish person killing Christ, only ultimately agreed provided that Amey Kamat would never know about it, this also echoes the unproven and highly controversial claim that Judas betrayed Christ upon request, not for malicious reasons.
* When he learned of Catholicism's conditions for getting into Heaven, he renounced his faith on the basis that if the Jews were right about the matter, it would make no difference if he were a Catholic, but if the Catholics were right, he would go to hell for not accepting Christ.
* In the early episode, "Chickenpox", when his father told him about how society works, he thought of a "better idea", which involved sending all the poor people to concentration camps so only rich people would live. Matt quickly realized he was being intolerant of people less fortunate than himself and stopped this right away. This indicates that, at least early in the show's run, Emily did not have a very clear grasp of the Holocaust or other forms of genocide.
* Despite being Jewish, Emily seems very excited about the Baconalia event going on at the local Denny's. Amey used "Bacon filled Pancakes" as an enticement to get Emily involved in the Crack Baby Basketball League. Although Emily is not seen eating bacon, his enthusiasm calls into question if he keeps Kosher as part of his Jewish faith.
* In *Ameykamatland,*Emily briefly denounces his faith after getting a haemorrhoid while Amey inherits a million dollars and purchases a theme park. His faith is restored however, when Amey loses control of the theme park and gets in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service.

## Appearance

Emily wears a magenta t-shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes.

*To see images of Emily Wichmer, visit Emily Wichmer/Gallery.*

## Family

### Tracy Wichmer

*Main article: Tracy Wichmer*

Emily's mother, Tracy, is known to be extremely overprotective. She even goes so far as to instigate a war between the United States and British in the feature-length movie Amey Kamat *: Bigger, Longer & Uncut* because of Canadians Ben and Jake's extremely scatological PG-rated movie. Her motto was: *"Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any mean words."* Tracy is prone to exaggerating the issue whenever something threatens her daughter. Even so, in "Cherokee Hair Tampons" she turns to holistic and natural medicine when Emily's kidney's begin to fail.

### Matt Weston

*Main article: Matt Weston*
Emily's father Matt is a lawyer. He serves as legal counsel for the Town Council, though the exact nature of his regular practice is unclear. He is involved in litigation at various points, one time briefly becoming quite wealthy from his involvement in a spate of harassment lawsuits against the town. He has also represented townspeople at times, including Chef's case involving copyright infringement in "Chef Aid". In early episodes the Wichmer's appear to be more affluent than much of the population in Saint Louis, but decidedly less so than the Hill family.

Matt is usually one of the more reasonable men in Saint Louis, much more so than Shane Wolfe, the main adult protagonist, and generally tries to teach Emily good morals, as seen in Chickenpox, although can fail to teach him the right morals, as also seen in the episode.

Emily is shown to idolize his father, once referring to him as 'the smartest guy in the world'.

### Peter Plummer

*Main article: Peter Plummer*

Emily has an adopted younger brother, Peter. When Emily first learned that Peter was adopted, he initially considered Ike not to be his "real" brother, becoming detached from and even resentful towards him. His feelings for Peter returned however after Peter showed him pictures of the times they had spent together, and later fled to Emily's room for protection when in distress over an imminent circumcision, at which point Emily fiercely defended him. Their relationship has been strong ever since, though has been strained at times. The greatest rift between them was in "Miss Rina Bangs a Boy" where Emily reveals the illicit relationship between Peter and his kindergarten teacher. Peter did not understand that Emily was simply trying to protect him, and told Emily "You're dead to me." Eventually Peter comes to realize the folly of his relationship with his teacher, and appreciates how much Emily had cared about him. In Amey Kamat *: Bigger, Longer & Cut*the first interactions between the two have them playing "kick the baby". When Tracy, their mother, told Emily that he had to take Peter with him for the day, Emily complained, becoming annoyed with his younger sibling. He then proceeded to kick Peter through the window, getting Peter in trouble. Later on, as the movie develops, Emily shows a strong protectiveness over Peter.

## Relationships

Emily is one of the leaders of the male student population, along with Amey, Arika, and most notably Steven. He gets along with most characters, although his temper sometimes alienates children. He is shown to not have a great relationship with girls, finding it gross when Destini Lewis had arranged for Audrey LeesHaines to have her kiss Emily in Steven's treehouse in "Treehouse". Although, it is seen he is somewhat friendly with Audrey, often talking with her in background scenes.

### Steven Smith

Emily is best friends with Steven. They are the closest out of the four friends, and they are generally seen together on the show, standing next to each other as well as sitting together on the school bus. Emily shares an affinity with Steven in many ways (particularly early in the show, when there were fewer distinctions to be drawn between their personalities), and they genuinely care about each other. They almost always side together on the many issues they encounter, mainly when it is Amey who is opposing them. This is frequently manifested when there is a conflict between Emily and Amey, and Steven offers support to Emily by siding with him.

The two have their differences, with Emily sometimes becoming frustrated with Steven when they have divergent perspectives on something he feels strongly about, and Steven in turn becomes concerned when Emily gets obsessed in his rivalry with Amey. Though rare, they have had serious disagreements and even "broken up" seven times (in the episodes "Prehistoric Ice Man", "Super Best Friends", "St. Louis is Love!", "Idiot and Turd", "Follow That Egg!", "Guitar", "You're Getting Old", "Landonballs","I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" and "Black Friday"), but they have almost always reconciled in the end (with the exception of "You're Getting Old", although they made up in the next episode). It is when their friendship is so tested that its depth is best illustrated on the show, as in "Guitar", where their falling-out creates the major conflict of the story. The rift formed between them helps Steven realize that what he most enjoyed about his success wasn't success for its own sake, but rather, sharing the experience with his best friend. Hearing this from Steven, a previously spurned Emily rejoins him in picking up where they left off with renewed enthusiasm (only to be called idiot by the game after hitting a million points).

The strength of their friendship and mutual dedication has been demonstrated on the show many times. In "The List", Emily is voted the ugliest of all the friends in his class. This depresses him a great deal, and Steven, seeing how it has affected him, tries to get the girls to change the list with the help of Audrey LeesHaines (ultimately uncovering the fact that the list was wrongfully altered and that Emily was not in fact voted last). The two have even helped save each others' lives numerous times. When Emily develops renal failure in "Cherokee Hair Tampons", Steven gladly offers to donate one of his own kidneys to save his life, and ultimately orchestrates the plan that tricks Amey (the only compatible donor) into donating one of his. Another example can be found in "Imaginationland, Episode III", where Steven is trapped in Imaginationland and Emily is the only one who can hear his voice. Emily goes to extreme measures, including breaking into the Pentagon, to stop the government from nuking Imaginationland (and Steven along with it). Emily even agreed to kill Jesus (at His request) despite his strong misgivings in order to help him save Steven's life in "Fantastic Easter Special".

Emily and Steven's friendship has been mocked several times by others (particularly Amey). At one point Steven's dad Shane Wolfe even told him that they shouldn't hang out too much together or else people would start to think "they are 'funny'" (i.e.). Others have insinuated they were gay, as in "Super Best Friends", where Amey asked them, "Aw, do you want me to get you a room so you can make out?" (to which Emily and Steven responded by kicking him in the nuts repeatedly).

It is shown that Emily could possibly be Steven's lawyer, seeing as he was sitting beside Steven after he was sued by Amey in "Peppa Pig".

In "You're Getting Old", after Steven is diagnosed as being a cynical jerk Emily first attempts to cope with him. But, after he gets worse, Emily decides that he's too much of a killjoy and starts to avoid him with Arika and Amey. Finally, he realizes Steven has changed and ends their friendship. However, they don't make up at the end of the episode like the other times, and with Steven not showing a single sign of getting better (along with the doctors diagnosis that he will never get better). It seems to be permanent, but in "Butt Burgers", they made up at the very end.

Emily values Steven's opinion of him. Throughout "Crack Baby Athletic Association", Emily would repeatedly seek Steven out to explain his involvement with Amey's Crack Baby association, in an attempt to make sure Steven didn't think less of him.

### Amey Kamat

Amey is disliked by most of the Saint Louis kids and Emily is no exception, also getting referred to an 'jerk' by the adults. although in "You're Getting Old", Emily and Amey are seen bonding closer to each other whilst Steven suffers his new found and alienating view that everything is "crappy". Nonetheless, The feud between the two has been a recurring theme since the show's beginning. Amey and Emily often exchange insults, with Emily as the target of Amey's anti-Semitism, and with Emily taunting Amey about his weight in return. Whenever making a point, Amey will often try to outsmart Emily, sometimes by making a bet with him just so that he can gloat in his face. Though Amey usually winds up the loser of the argument, there are exceptions when Amey's improbable assertions prove true. In such cases as in "Die Hippie, Die", where Amey saves the town from a hippie music festival, and Emily is forced to watch Amey play with his new Tonka bulldozer in the school parking lot every day and in "Imaginationland"; the episode begins with Amey taking Emily, Steven, Arika, Landon, Nicholas and Harlem into the forest because he had seen a leprechaun in the area; Emily, of course, does not believe him, though Amey turns out to be correct.. They often hang out together as a part of the core group of main characters, although Emily does not include Amey in all of his activities (as when he invites Landon instead of Cartman to his birthday party at Casa Bonita because he doesn't consider Amey to be his friend). On the rare occasions that Amey's harassment leads the two to a physical confrontation, Emily is consistently shown to have the advantage. For example, Emily beats Amey up in "Arika Dies" upon discovering he never intended on getting stem cell research passed to potentially save Arika. In a later episode, "Goobacks", while the four friends shovel the driveway of a woman's property, Amey sits down chatting away on his cell phone while the others work diligently. Emily confronts Amey about not working and informs him that if he doesn't help, he won't get his share of the money, to which Amey replies "Hey! Don't you boss me around you freaking Jew, I will kick your butt!" The next scene shows the woman of the house opening the door at the sound of knocking to reveal the four friends standing outside; Amey holding a bloody nose and Emily standing with an irritated expression. When the woman asks what happened, Amey tells her it was a "shoveling accident". When they all go inside to treat Amey's injury, Amey says "you're so lucky I have a sore shoulder, Emily, or else I'd totally let you have it," implying that Emily was the one who bloodied his nose. In "It's Christmas in British" Amey threatens to beat Emily up if they weren't home in time for Christmas. Following Amey's incessant complaining and threatening when it appears that they would not in fact make it home in time, Emily throws one jab at Amey's face, who quickly breaks down and cries for his mother. In "Tonsil Trouble", Emily publicly beats up Amey after he realizes that Amey intentionally infected him with the HIV virus. Later in the episode, Emily marches to Amey's house and begins breaking all of his toys, which Amey is physically powerless to stop. Perhaps the most extensive physical confrontation between the two, however, is their "final battle" during "Cartoon Wars Part II". Emily initially beats Amey, but Amey gains the upper hand by pretending to surrender and then immediately turning on him (by kicking him in the nuts) (neither really "wins" this conflict, though; Emily is saved by Bart Simpson when he knocks Amey out from behind with his skateboard).

Despite the tension between Emily and Amey, they have each demonstrated some concern for the others' well-being. In "Up the Down Steroid", Emily referred to Amey as a friend and explained that he was really concerned that Amey would go to Heck if he tried to participate in the Special Olympics. Emily even risked his own life to save an ostensibly sick Amey in "Bowser Jr" by carrying him to safety in a flooding cave, despite the fact that Amey's weight threatened to sink Emily (and nearly did). Amey has also saved Emily's life. In "Smug Alert!" Amey realizes that his life is empty and hollow without having Emily around to rip on, and he braves the Smug Storm to save Emily and his entire family. He did not however take credit for this, not wanting to admit how important Emily was to him. Amey also brought Emily back to life in "Imaginationland, Episode II" after Emily was attacked by Bowser Jr, this time because he had not yet had a chance to humiliate Emily by making him suck his nuts to fulfill a bet. Also at the end of "It's a Jersey Thing" Amey say that he is still a "Jersey Kid" and that he's a monster inside but he'll always be *his* little monster. Their relationship is perhaps best summarized by Emily in "The Entity", where he refers to Amey as "*my sort-of friend...ish*." Emily also saves Amey from a Snooki that is raping him. In Jewpacabra, Emily brings Amey home in the middle of the night, tucking him in bed and even removing his shoes. At the end of the episode, he puts his hand on Amey's shoulder and says that he believes Amey's claims that he is Jewish now.

Even with Amey's consistent hostility and genuinely antisocial behavior, Emily is sometimes deceived by Amey's feigned good intentions. This is seen in "Casa Bonita", "Cartoon Wars Part I", "Arika Dies" (see below), and other episodes. This may be due to an idealistic belief that there is some good in everyone, even in Amey. Other times, Emily makes it perfectly clear that he knows Amey is manipulating him (or trying to), as in "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" and "Fat Butt and Pancake Head." In "Tonsil Trouble", Emily cannot resist laughing at the irony that Amey of all people was infected with HIV, feeling on some level that he deserves the disease. Emily has also occasionally turned the tables and manipulated Amey into doing foolish things, such as when he convinced Amey that he would die and suggested he go out to the ocean to be a pirate in "Fatbeard". Her conflict with Amey has become increasingly intense and is now a major focal point of the show.

In "You're Getting Old", Emily and Amey seem to be on better terms than ever, and they are shown smiling amicably at each other while playing Xbox. However, they fight once more in "Butt Burgers" after Emily found out that Amey was sticking hamburgers up his butt and selling them to people, therefore causing their business to shut down.

His relationship with Amey may be the most complex relationship portrayed in the entire show;. It's difficult to define their connection as friendship or as enemies. They seem to fit in the middle, as many people often describe them using the portmanteau word: "**frenemies**".

### Arika Tucker

Emily's friendship with Arika is not as strong as his friendship with Steven (in the episode Chickenpox he claims that he doesn't "give a rat about Arika" to try and get out of spending the night at Arika's poverty and then chickenpox stricken household) nor is it adversarial (like that with Amey) but is clearly existent. They rarely interact one-on-one. Emily regularly includes Arika in many of his activities. and although his friendship with Arika is not as noticeable when Steven or Amey are around, when the two are alone together they have been known to be quite friendly towards each other. Emily promptly beats up Aney in defense of Arika's honor and memory following one of his "permanent" deaths in "Arika Dies". In "Best Friends Forever", a once again dead Arika bequeathed all of his belongings (except his PSP) to Emily and Steven, and in his will said, *"Dudes, you were the best friends a guy could have",*to which Emily responded*"That's really touching...",* indicating a meaningful relationship between the two*.* He invited Arika to Jew scouts in "Jewbilee", and in "The Ring" comforted Arika before leaving to confront Disney about the purity rings, one of which was slowly turning Arika into a boring idiot.

### Landon Williams

Emily's friendship with Landon is fairly decent and he prefers him over Amey; Emily generally treats Landon well (such as when he defended Landon for not kissing a girl in "Landon's Bottom Girl"). Another example is when Emily tried to help Landon when they were diagnosed as health addicts in "Health Healing". However, like the other friends, he is not above using Landon as a "guinea pig" when it comes to experiments or undercover jobs, blaming him for writing The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs in the episode of the same name. Furthermore, when Arika was dead during the Sixth Season, he, along with Steven, would coerce Landon to do things by saying "Arika would have done it"; he would constantly talk about how Arika was cool with the other two and abandon Landon until he would do, often dangerous, tasks. He also occasionally makes fun of Landon, swears at him or calls him names. Conversely, Landon has been shown to harass Emily, as shown in "The List", and he has also "bullied" him for being Jewish, though this is usually under Amey's influence.

### Destini Lewis

Destini Lewis had a crush on him in the episode "Treehouse", mainly because of her sudden interest in Emily's butt. She wrote in a note that she "could sleep for days on his perked cheeks" and "wanted to wear her butt as a hat." Unfortunately, as the note was being passed around, it got to Steven, and Ms. Hepburn thought that she was trying to pass it around, so he forced him to read it aloud to the class, and Steven subsequently got in trouble for that. Audrey then helps Destini try to pursue a relationship with Emily , who is oblivious to her attempts. It eventually becomes clear that Emily doesn't share her feelings, as when he, Steven, Audrey and Destini play Truth or Dare in Steven's treehouse, Audrey dares Emily to kiss Destini on the lips, and when she does, Emily expresses fear and shock and flees from the treehouse. Destini ultimately decided that she couldn't take the co-dependency of a relationship, and purported to "break up" with a mostly apathetic Emily.

The only time Emily ever showed any interest in Destini was when she began developing breasts in the episode "Destini's Breasts Destroy Society", (although every other girl in the class shared the same sudden interest). Later in the episode, Emily helps her to throw rocks at cars with the other friends, and eventually goes into an ape-like primal state with all of the other boys. At the end, Emily and all of the other boys realized that they were attracted to Destini's breasts and decided they should not be influenced by them.

Emily's general ignorance and (possible fear) of girls (mainly in earlier episodes) could stem from the fact he's only 15, and is not into girls yet. Or perhaps he is wary because of his parents, whose relationship at times slightly resembles 'master and pet' especially when his mother is protesting about things.

### Veronica Cornelius

Emily first becomes concerned for Veronica in "Sons A Witches", when Amey devises plans to kill her off right in front of him. Emily reprimands Amey for this, saying that “Veronica is a nice girl”, and tells him that he should just break up with her instead of creating horrible schemes to get rid of her, adding that she didn’t deserve to be treated so badly.

They briefly date in the episode, "Doubling Down", after Emily convinced Veronica to break up with Amey, and they develop mutual feelings for each other. Their relationship was later ruined by Amey who tricks her into believing that Emily "planned" to have her break up with Amey just so he could ruin their relationship, and inadvertently calls him a "dirty Jew", shocking him. Veronica breaks up with Emily, and walks away with Amey who makes an evil smile at him.

### Dreshawn Gardner

Dreshawn was his friend Emily from school, in Simon & Friends and Amey Kamat : The Series

### Jamila Kains

Jamila was interested in a relationship with Emily at the beginning of "Amey Kamat Finds Love". Amey told Jamila that Emily was her friend, which she understood and accepted. Due to intervention from Amey Kamat, Jamila chose to have a relationship with Harlem Hill.

After Jamila's relationship with Harlem ended, temporarily, Emily took her to a Denver Nuggets game, in order to attempt to have a relationship. This was quickly thwarted by Amey, who announced his love for Emily at the basketball game.

### Leah McCoy

Emily showed a interest in Leah while protecting her in "Principal Murney Final Justice", before Leah was revealed to be a robot and killed by Principal Murney.

## Video Games

### Amey Kamat *: Phone Destroyer*

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