Recurring South Park characters

There are many recurring characters in the animated series South Park, aside from the four main characters, Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Kenny McCormick. Butters Stotch and Tweek replaced Kenny for a half season each during the sixth season. See their respective articles for details.

Family members

Gerald, Sheila and Ike Broflovski

Kyle's family is Jewish. His mother Sheila is involved in the community and his father Gerald is a lawyer who once made large amounts of money suing literally everyone in the town for sexual harassment. Because of his father's job, Kyle's family is the most well-off of the four.

Related Topics:
Kyle's - Jew - Lawyer - Sexual harassment

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The Broflovskis also adopted a Canadian baby and named him Ike Moisha Broflovski. In the movie ' this becomes a matter of concern when Ike is persecuted by the US, not for being Jewish, but for being Canadian. In the movie, Sheila became enraged that a Canadian film had introduced Kyle to "naughty language", and sparked a war between the United States and Canada.

Related Topics:
Adopted - Canadian - Ike Moisha Broflovski - Naughty language - United States

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In the "It's Christmas in Canada" episode of season 7, Ike is reunited with his birth-parents for a short time.

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Sheila has lead protests/boycotts/changes of the following (listed by episode):

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• 106: Against the airing of Terrance and Phillip
• 110: Against the nativity/Christmas in the school play
• 205: Educating the general public about "Conjoined Twin Myslexia," a disorder which results in siamese twins being born with one of the twins already dead.
• 507: Sex education needs to be taught at a younger age
• 614: The children are intolerant of Homosexuality

Kyle's cousin from New York, Kyle Schwartz, is the epitome of a Jewish stereotype. He is terrible at sports (so much so that the boys have him join their little league baseball team to help them lose in The Losing Edge), is notoriously cheap, and has a variety of medical conditions, although he has shown to be quite resilient. He wants to be an investment banker when he's older.

Related Topics:
Stereotype - The Losing Edge

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It is revealed in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" that Mr. Broflovski was one of Cartman's possible fathers; in another episode (Chef Aid) Mrs. Broflovski has sex with Chef (see below) with Gerald's knowledge. One could speculate that this implies the two have an open marriage, however this cannot be confirmed.

Related Topics:
Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut - Cartman - Chef Aid - Open marriage

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Randy and Sharon Marsh, Shelley and Grandpa

Randy and Sharon Marsh are the parents of Stan, and his exceptionally violent sister Shelley.

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Randy is a geologist, the only scientist in SP aside from Dr. Mephisto, but during his younger years was a member of a briefly successful boy band. He occasionally shows a penchant for singing and dancing.

Related Topics:
Geologist - Scientist - Boy band

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In the "Spontaneous Combustion" episode, Randy is awarded a Nobel Prize for finding the cause of the spontaneous human combustion of some SP persons. He won the prize in favor of Dr. Alphonz Mephisto and a 'real scientist' who found the grand unification theory. It turned out the spontaneous combustion was caused by people holding in their farts and explosion of the accumulated methane (or marsh gas) in their guts. Kenny was the first to die as he fell in love with a girl and did not want to fart in her presence.

Related Topics:
Spontaneous Combustion - Nobel Prize - Spontaneous human combustion - Grand unification theory - Fart - Methane

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In the little league episode Randy would constantly get into fights with other fathers. He would always take off his shirt and say "what you gonna do?" after normally winning the fight the police would take him away with his underwear show and saying things such as "I thought this was America? During the Bat Dad fight he has visions just as Rocky did in Rocky V including Mickey telling him to get up.

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Shelly is a violent teenager with an awkward set of headgear braces. She enjoys dating older men, beating up Stan, and calling him and his friends "turds". Despite the mutual dislike between Shelly and most of the boys, she and Eric Cartman formed a mutual cease-fire in the episode Cat Orgy after they get back at Shelly's boyfriend, Skylar, who is twenty-two years old only dating her for sex.

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"Grandpa" Marvin Marsh is the elderly father of Randy or Sharon, it is unknown for sure, and lives with the Marsh family. He is over 100 years old and confined to a wheelchair. His thoughts and actions are typically very Perverted. He is very senile and calls Stan "Billy". On episode 106, "Death", Grandpa constantly demands that "Billy" euthanize him. In "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", he is employed as a greeter at the newly-constructed Wall-Mart store. He features heavily in another episode, where the Senior citizens lose their car licenses.

Related Topics:
Senile - Episode 106, "Death" - Euthanize - Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes - Wall-Mart

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Lianne Cartman

Cartman's mom is famous in South Park for being sexually promiscuous. In South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut it was revealed that she takes part in German 'scheisse' movies and Kyle and Stan often attempt to alert Cartman to his mother's sexual deviancy which, contrary to evidence, he emphatically denies. In fact, it was revealed that, as a hermaphrodite, Lianne could not possibly be Cartman's mother and is, in fact, his father. The identity of Cartman's real mother is unknown.

Related Topics:
Cartman's - Scheisse - Hermaphrodite

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Lianne often does whatever Cartman tells her to do. She waits on him as if she were his slave while he watches television. She also perpetuates the belief that Cartman is not fat but "big boned".

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Lianne is the name of a much-despised former girlfriend of Trey Parker's, who also gave this name to his ill-fated horse in Cannibal! The Musical.

Related Topics:
Trey Parker - Cannibal! The Musical

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The McCormicks

Kenny's family, the McCormicks, are exceptionally poor, and represent stereotypical "white trash". A typical daily meal in this family would consist of frozen waffles with no side dishes ("are we to understand that there will *be* no side dishes with our frozen waffles?" - Cartman) Kenny's father, Stuart, was a high school friend of Gerald Brovlovski. He is an alcoholic, a fact that Cartman never lets Kenny forget. Kenny's mother, who is only about sixteen years older than him, usually wears an "I'm With Stupid" T-shirt, but has on occasion been shown with a "God Bless America" shirt instead.

Related Topics:
Kenny's - Poor - White trash - Waffle - Alcoholic

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The McCormicks have been through a lot of grief over the course of the series, in large part due to the many deaths of their son. In episode 406, "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", shortly after Kenny dies Mrs. McCormick gives birth to a baby named Kenny, and states that this is the 52nd time Kenny has died, implying that the McCormicks give birth to a new Kenny after nearly every episode (which of course does not explain how the Kenny is eight in every episode).

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Chris and Linda Stotch

Chris (called Stephen in recent episodes) and Linda Stotch are Butters' parents. They are extremely naive and seem oblivious to many aspects of their son's life. At the same time, they are extremely domineering, punishing him (usually by grounding him for weeks) for minor incidents, while terrifying him about apocryphal threats, such as "Super-AIDS." Their lack of parenting skills may well explain Butters' nervous disposition.

Related Topics:
Butters' - Naive

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Mr. Stotch is apparently a closet homosexual, as Butters once followed him to a gay bath house. In response, Mrs. Stotch tried to kill Butters by drowning him in a lake and, when she believed she had successfully carried out the murder, attempted to cover up the death with her husband's help. It turned out Butters didn't die after all and had only floated off in the car.

Related Topics:
Homosexual - Gay bath house

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Tweek's Parents

Tweek's parents own a coffee shop. They believe that Tweek has ADD,

Related Topics:
Tweek - Coffee shop - ADD - Underpants Gnomes

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Timmy's Parents

Timmy's parents are apparently afflicted with the same disorder which affects Timmy. While the disorder itself is unknown, it results in all three members of the family being confined to an electronic wheelchair, and unable to verbalize anything except their own first name. Timmy's parents are named Richard and Helen.

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