Kyle Broflovski

Kyle Broflovski, voiced by Matt Stone, is a fictional character on the animated series South Park. Matt Stone has said that Kyle was loosely based on himself when he was younger. His most notable catch phrase is to exclaim "You Bastard(s)!" following Stan's catch phrase "Oh my god, they killed Kenny!"

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Matt Stone - Fictional character - Animated series - South Park - Catch phrase - Bastard

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He wears a bright green ear-flapped cap (or ushanka), a bright orange jacket with black-edged pockets with a dark green collar, dark green pants and lime-green mittens. He is rarely shown without his cap, but without it he has a bright red-to-auburn jew-fro, a hairstyle which he seems to resent.

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He and Stan Marsh alternate as leader of their group/voice of reason. Kyle is quite witty. Unlike his best friend Stan, however, he tends to be quite cautious and is less likely to want to get involved in uncertain situations. He sometimes exhibits better moral standards than the others. Kyle is a constant target of his friend Eric Cartman's anti-Semitic abuse and is frequently singled-out and taunted by Cartman. (Example: Kyle: "Cartman can I please have some candy?" Cartman: "Nope, sorry, I don't have any Jewish candy".) However, Kyle seems to be unafraid of physical confrontation and has attacked Cartman several times. As the show's writers seem to be careful to treat Cartman's attitude with contempt, it seems reasonable to assume that Kyle will always be able to beat him up.

Related Topics:
Stan Marsh - Eric Cartman - Anti-Semitic

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His mother, Sheila, is very overprotective: she instigates a war between the USA and Canada in the feature-length movie ' because of (Canadian natives) Terrance and Phillip's extremely scatological R-rated movie. Mrs. Broflovski is very prone to "making a mountain out of a molehill" whenever something threatens her son. Even so, in the Cherokee Hair Tampons episode she turns to holistic and nature medicine when Kyle almost dies of kidney failure due to diabetes. Stan is very upset about the possible death of Kyle (much more than about the deaths of Kenny), and ultimately saves him by tricking Cartman into donating one of Cartman's kidneys to Kyle (Cartman had flatly refused to voluntarily do so).

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Overprotective - USA - Canada - Terrance and Phillip - Scatological - R-rated - Holistic - Nature medicine - Kidney - Diabetes - Donating

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Kyle's father Gerald is a lawyer, but Kyle reiterates that despite his father's profession, they are not as wealthy as Token Williams, whose father is also a lawyer. Kyle has an adopted younger brother, Ike whose birth parents are Canadian and a cousin (also named Kyle) who is a Woody Allen-like Jewish stereotype.

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Token Williams - Adopted - Ike - Canadian - Woody Allen

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Kyle is evidently the only Jewish kid in town (of Eastern European ancestry), although South Park does have a synagogue and, given his father's conservative observance, it is most likely within walking distance of his home. Kyle's last name has been alternately given as Broslovski, Broflofski, Broflovski, and Brovlofski in the series, although the characters say "Broflovski" or "Broslovski." In the Spontaneous Combustion episode (#302) there is a shot of Kyle's father Gerald's law office - on the façade it says 'Brovlofski'. In the Sexual Harassment Panda episode his name is shown as 'Broflofski'. The various spellings may be due to some confusion in trying to transcribe the Russian name ?????????? into the Latin alphabet; the letter ? is normally transcribed "v" but when voiceless is often written as "f" in English, like in the name "Rachmaninoff". (The normal Russian "f", ?, is only found in words and names of non-Russian origin.) Most likely, however, it is because Trey and Matt couldn't honestly care less (SMM).

Related Topics:
Jew - Spontaneous Combustion episode - Façade - Russian - Rachmaninoff

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Kyle appears to be very ambivalent about his Judaism. Although his parents are very observant, Kyle is far more secular. This is most likely part of his effort to fit in with his friends, who are Roman Catholic. Kyle is often more defensive than proud of his Judaism, and although he regularly attends such functions as Jew Scouts, he often has a poor grasp on the history, traditions and rituals of his religion. This could be the fault of his parents' general refusal to discuss with Kyle matters they feel uncomfortable with when Kyle expresses his natural curiousity. For example;

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Secular - Roman Catholic - Jew Scouts - History - Rituals

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• when he heard that his brother Ike was going to be circumcised, he was under the misapprehension that it involved cutting off the entire penis rather than just the foreskin. This was despite the fact that Kyle has also been circumcised.
• after seeing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, he told Cartman that Cartman was right about Jews all along and stood up in his synagogue to demand that Jews apologize for the death of Christ.
• 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. See Pascal's Wager

Kyle also expresses feelings of self-loathing. Kyle is always saying that Jews are just like everyone else, and is often distressed when they display behaviour that is stereotypically Jewish. He is often brought to anger by Jews who conform to such stereotypes, such as his cousin (also named Kyle) from New York City who, to put it charitably, could be described as a hypochondriac with good business sense.

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In the Emmy-nominated season three episode, "Chinpokomon," Kyle is the only kid in South Park who tries to resist the Pokemon-based fad, Chinpokomon.

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Chinpokomon - Pokemon

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Kyle nearly dies of a hemorrhoid when Cartman gets his own theme park in "Cartmanland."

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In the season eight, Kyle was the center on one episode- "The Passion of the Jew"- which parodied the controversy surrounding The Passion of the Christ. In the episode, he sees The Passion because of Cartman's continuing use of it as an excuse to pick on Kyle more than usual. Kyle was also featured prominently in the episodes "Cartman's Incredible Gift" and "Woodland Critter Christmas." In the former, he attempts to convince the local police that Cartman's "psychic powers" are entirely false; at the end of the episode, it is implied that Kyle has real psychic powers. In "Woodland Critter Christmas," the Satanic woodland animals attempt to use Kyle as birth vessel for The Antichrist because he's a "heathen" and is not baptized because he's Jewish. Stan attempts to stop this by teaching young mountain lions to give abortions, but Christmas is eventually saved by Santa Claus, who shoots all of the critters with a shotgun. However, the enitre "Critter" episode is really just a story written by Eric Cartman, which ends with Kyle dying of AIDS.

Related Topics:
The Passion of the Christ - Satanic - The Antichrist - Heathen - Baptize - Jewish - Abortions - Santa Claus - Shotgun

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In the October 27, 2004 election-based episode, "Douche and Turd," Kyle leads the campaign for Giant Douche to be elected the new school mascot at South Park Elementary after PETA leads a campaign against Mooey, the cow.

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October 27 - 2004

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In the March 9, 2005 episode, Kyle wanted to play basketball for the all-state team, but couldn't because the coach said he wasn't built for the game because he's Jewish, so he got a "negro-plasty," to make him black & tall. However, it didn't work out since the surgery was purely cosmetic.

Related Topics:
March 9 - 2005 - Basketball

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In "South Park is Gay" his friends make his over into a metrosexual, as being metrosexual was the "cool" thing to do. Kyle then decides to not conform with the rest of South Park and goes back to dressing normally, despite teasing from his schoolmates. After Kyle gets beat up by the boys in his class and is rejected by his friends, he travels to New York with Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave to kill the Queer Eye For The Straight Guy guys. They then discover that the Queer Eye people are actually crab people in disguise that are trying to take over the world.

Related Topics:
South Park is Gay - Queer Eye For The Straight Guy

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