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In 5th season in the "Kenny dies" episode Kenny died and didnt come back. Could anyone explain it?
Normally when he dies, he is being reborn by his mother, put in his bad and wakes up the next day, but that time it was diffrent. It took him whole season to come back.
My theory is that in the end of the 5th season Kenny's mom was pregnant. She was carrying Karen(Karen hadn't been featured before, had she?), and thus Kenny could not be reborn until Christmas.
Does it make any sense? Or did someone have any better explanation?

...Matt was tired of having to voice Kenny's muffles, and they wanted to see how the fans would react if one of the boys died for good. If the fans didn't care, we wouldn't have Kenny now, and there would be no Mysterion either.

I know that, but how did they explain his absence? What happend to him when he was gone?

Well we know that cartman drank his ashes and his soul was trapped in fat-ass for a little while. Then Chef's mamma got him out of Cartman and he wound up in a pot roast that was eaten by Rob Schneider, so he then became trapped in Rob. After Rob was killed by being impaled on a flag pole, Kenny kind of got lost in the shuffle until he reappeared at the end of the season.
I like to think that when he wasn't in anyone (or thing), he was just sort of floating around waiting for something to happen.