List of South Park families
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This page is a list of family members in South Park. This does also include the main characters who are situated with their family here. However this page does not include townsfolk, school staff, the children, minor characters or one-off characters.
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[edit] The Marsh family
[edit] Randy and Sharon Marsh
Randy and Sharon (originally "Carol") Marsh are the parents of Stan, and his exceptionally violent sister Shelley. Sharon Marsh is a receptionist at Tom's Rhinoplasty and Randy is a geologist for USGS.
[edit] Shelley Marsh
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| Shelley Marsh | |
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| Age: | 12 |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair color: | Brown |
| Job: | Student |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| First appearance: | "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" |
| Voiced by: | Mary Kay Bergman (1997-1999)
Eliza Schneider (1999-2003) April Stewart (2004-present) |
Shelley Marsh is Stan's older sister. The character was voiced by Mary Kay Bergman until Bergman's death, and Shelley has subsequently been voiced by Mona Marshall and then Eliza Schneider. Her new voice artist is April Stewart.
Shelley wears a white shirt and pink trousers. Her facial features are distinguished by her huge braces and headgear. She speaks with a distinctively adenoidal voice. She has long brown hair and usually has an angry expression on her face when she interacts with Stan. On some occasions, she has been seen with her pajamas on; her pajama shirt is pink. Her birthday is May 17.[citation needed]
Shelley has an extremely aggressive temper and has very little respect for Stan and his friends, usually referring to them as "turds". In "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", she physically abused him, hurled him around their house, and in the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, she demolished a wooden chair over his head. However this doesn't mean she hates her brother, as in the former episode she lies to protect him from being sent away. There have been other moments when she also seems to have superhuman strength, and once had the ability to lift a piano over her head with ease, seen during "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics". She does, however help Stan when he is in real danger, although in Pre-School" this was apparently only because she wants the privilege of beating up her brother all to herself.
In the episode "Cat Orgy", Shelley was dating Skyler, a twenty-two year old who has his own band. He pressured Shelley to have sex, and left her when she refused. She and Cartman got revenge by destroying Skyler's prized guitar and burying it in a cat litter box. When Skyler confronted them, they threw catnip at him, and in response, the cats that were following Cartman's cat, who was in heat, pounced on him in a sexual frenzy. Shelley also internet dated a boy named Amir in the episode "Over Logging" who she later met in California but could not properly look him in the eye.
In addition to the mentioned episodes, Shelley is prominent in the episodes "Chickenpox", "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer" and "Over Logging".
[edit] Grandpa Marvin Marsh
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| Marvin "Grandpa" Marsh[1] | |
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| Age: | 102 since "Death" |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Grey |
| Job: | Retired steel mill laborer; Wall-Mart attendant in Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| First appearance: | "Death" |
| Voiced by: | Trey Parker |
"Grampa" Marvin Marsh is Stan's grandfather. He is voiced by Trey Parker, who also provides the voices for both his son Randy and his grandson Stan. According to the episode "Death", Grampa is 102 years old. In the episode "Grey Dawn", he revealed that he worked 55 years in a steel mill. In World War II, he flew a Spitfire over Germany, probably a reference to one of the four groups of United States Army Air Forces stationed in England and the Mediterranean equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire, a British single-seat fighter.
At different times he has been indicated to both Stan's maternal and paternal grandfather. In later episodes, however, he is indicated to be Randy's father. He also has the same last name as Randy. This is supported by "Fantastic Easter Special', in which Randy says his family has been in a society which guards a secret about Easter for years, and Grampa is shown to be a member. While in "Grey Dawn", he is called "Dad" by Randy, in the episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", Sheila Broflovski asks Sharon Marsh "Sharon, isn't that your father?", to which Sharon replies yes. He typically gets Stan's name wrong, often calling him "Billy," as his own grandfather called him.
In his first appearance, "Death", Grandpa Marsh desperately wants to die because he is old and fed up with life. After his own failed attempt at suicide, he turns to Stan to do the job for him. Stan approaches various people for advice on the matter but all are unwilling to answer. When Grandpa Marsh eventually does convince Stan to kill him, Death's sudden appearance foils the plan (although Death was actually looking for Kenny). Death points into the light where Grandpa Marsh's own grandfather (who refers to Marvin as "Billy"), whom he had killed when he was a boy, convinces him to wait for natural causes. In the episode "Grey Dawn", South Park's elderly residents are angered when their driving licenses are taken away after their bad driving kills a number of people. He started a movement to let the elderly keep their licenses, but it ultimately failed. He was later caught driving without his license (which had been taken away) and he was arrested. However, he was soon rescued by the AARP, whom he teamed up with to start randomly killing anyone in sight. After a brief period of complete control of South Park, and plans to overtake the entire country, maybe even the world, his group was thwarted when the four boys locked them out of the Country Kitchen Buffet (their only source of food). The group eventually surrendered, and life returned to normal.
In "The Red Badge of Gayness", Grandpa Marsh is the narrator to the crowd at the Civil War reenactment, and leads the group in its attempt to stop the Southern reenactors from taking over the country. In "Quintuplets 2000", he complains that Stan and the others should not be taken to a French Canadian circus to learn about the arts, though he later has sex with the grandmother of quintuplets performers from the circus, after which (or during which) she dies. In "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", he becomes a greeter at the new Wall-Mart.
[edit] Jimbo Kern
Stan's uncle Jimbo Kern is a hunter and also hosts his own television series. He is partners with Ned Gerblansky, who is also a co-host on Jimbo's show. In "It Hits the Fan" it is discovered that Jimbo may be slightly homosexual, as he is allowed to say "fag" without being bleeped.
[edit] Aunt Flo
Aunt Flo was Sharon's aunt. Up until Spookyfish, she used to visit the Marshes every month, and stay for about five days or so. This would "turn Sharon into a total bitch". About halfway through the episode, the goldfish she had given Stan for Halloween killed her, and this upset Sharon, because now Aunt Flo could never visit her again. Her monthly routine of visiting, and the standard time her visits lasted, was a parody of menstruation, while her death parodied menopause, as the phrase "a visit from Aunt Flo" is a common euphemism for menstruation.
[edit] The Broflovski family
[edit] Gerald and Sheila Broflovski
Gerald is the father and head of the family. He used to be best friends with Kenny's father in high school, but they grew apart after Gerald went to college. His occupation as a lawyer has given him high status in profile cases such as in episodes like "Sexual Harassment Panda" and "Chef Aid".
Sheila is Gerald's wife and the matriarch of the family. She has a thick New York accent and is often noted for her strict adherence to political correctness and strong belief in moral values. Sheila often pushes her son Kyle to "always do the right thing" and abstain from immorality. Viewers can see her strong belief in her principles especially in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut". She's very protective of her family's religion, hinting that she may be a satirization of progressive Jewish feminists (such as Senator Barbara Boxer or Susan Brownmiller). On numerous occasions she has been the subject of Cartman's song "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch," which appears on the movie's soundtrack CD. She is also a huge fan of Barbara Striesand.
Gerald and Sheila are both Jewish, but in the episode "Cripple Fight" Sheila and Gerald can be seen attending Catholic church, showing that they're just as religiously open-minded as any other South Park resident.
[edit] Kyle Broflovski
Kyle is the central character in the family. He is one of the show's four main children along with Stan, Cartman, and Kenny. Kyle tends to be the most logical, intelligent, moral and reasonable boy among the four. He tends to abstains from certain fads exemplified in Chinpokomon and South Park is Gay!. Kyle is prone to agitation, particularly as a result of insults by Cartman, who is antiSemitic, as Kyle is Jewish. Like Stan, Kyle almost never takes off his trademark hat. The green Eskimo-style hat hides his extremely kinky red hair, a trait given to him by his redheaded mother. He wears an orange jacket, dark green pants, and green gloves.
[edit] Ike Broflovski
Kyle's adopted baby brother. he looks like a football and is from Canada
[edit] Kyle Schwartz
Kyle Schwartz is Kyle Broflovski's irritating, and stereotypically Jewish cousin from Connecticut. He is voiced by Trey Parker. Kyle Schwartz has a goofy looking appearance with a fat head and small mouth. He has heavy breathing due to asthma along with bad eyesight for which he has large glasses.
His first appearance was in "The Entity" when he had to stay with Kyle and his family since his mother was in the hospital.
Due to the Jewish stereotypes that he displayed, his cousin was worried about his anti-semitic friend Cartman, whom he feared would constantly make fun of him. Kyle (Broflovski) then offered Cartman $40 not to make fun of Kyle (Schwartz). Cartman initially tried to comply with the agreement, but when Cartman makes a concentration camp joke in class, he blows the deal. Kyle (Schwartz) then stated that Kyle (Broflovski) should have tried to get away with paying him $12.50. Angered by his ingratitude and personal quirks, the boys help Kyle (Broflovski) try to get rid of him. They tried to teach him to sled (they tied the sled to a bus headed for Connecticut), played hide and seek in the airport (and was put in a box and placed on a plane to Antarctica) and left in the woods. He nevertheless kept returning to the Broflovski home. In the end his mother's condition improves, and he decides to go home after receiving $5,000,000 from an investment bailout to the airlines. The boys suddenly see dollar signs and try to convince him to stay, but Kyle Schwartz replied by saying that he thought that Kyle (Broflovski), Cartman and Stan were "a bunch of jock rednecks", so Kyle (Schwartz) left.
Kyle also appears in "Red Sleigh Down", where he calculated how many presents Cartman would get for Christmas, concluding that he would still owe two presents even if he found a cure for cancer and AIDS before Christmas (ironically, in the later episode "Tonsil Trouble", Cartman did find a cure for AIDS). He also appeared in "The Losing Edge", where the boys, playing on the South Park baseball team, had to get the worst person they could find (Kyle Schwartz) to play for them because they did not want to qualify for a tournament.
His voice is based on Tony Curtis's impression of Cary Grant in the movie Some Like it Hot. Tony Curtis's real name is Bernard Schwartz, which may explain Kyle's surname.
The word schwarz means "black" in the German language, but in Yiddish it has also a side meaning of "bad luck".
[edit] Cleo
Kyle's grandmother and Sheila's mother who died three months before "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery". The boys dug her up in an attempt to scare the fifth-graders on Halloween, later on her corpse is eaten by a dog which later coughs it up at the end of the episode. Kyle often makes remarks regarding his grandmother. In the episode "A Ladder to Heaven" when the boys attempt to get to heaven, Kyle calls out to his grandma to see if they have made it yet. In the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", Kyle came to believe, through a reading by psychic John Edward, that Cleo wanted him to attend Jewleeard, a Jewish academy school, but Stan eventually convinced him that Edward was a fraud. It is also worth while to note that Cleo's last name was Broflovski although she was Sheila's mother and not Gerald's.
[edit] The Cartman family
[edit] Liane Cartman
Cartman's mom, Liane Cartman, is famous in South Park for being sexually promiscuous and has been known to sleep with many South Park residents including Chef and School Counselor Mr. Mackey. She was at one point the featured model on the cover of "Crack Whore Magazine". Young Eric denies this allegation made by Stan and Kyle in many episodes. In "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", it was revealed that she takes part in German scheisse movies. It was revealed in the episode "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut", that she is a hermaphrodite, and is actually Cartman's biological father. The identity of Cartman's biological mother has never been revealed. Cartman's Mom is very soft, and obeys anything Cartman asks, but in the episode "Tsst" Mrs. Cartman hires Cesar Milan of 'The Dog Whisperer' to teach her to control her son. It is implied that she is very lonely, and caters to Eric's every whim because she considers him her best, and possibly only, friend. She reverts to this pattern of behavior after she mistakenly believes that Milan cares about her as more than a client, and after gaining some semblance of parental authority over Eric, he immediately returns to his former ways as well.
[edit] Eric Cartman
Eric Cartman is one of the four main characters, and arguably the most well-known and recognizable one. He is extremely rude and self-centered, and constantly torments Kyle for being Jewish, Stan for being a "pussy" and Kenny for being poor. Cartman is obese, a point for which Kenny, Kyle, and Stan torment him in return. He has a blue and yellow cottonball hat, a red jacket, yellow gloves, and brown pants.
[edit] Extended Cartman Family
The extended Cartman family is shown in the episode "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!", where he and the others go on a trip to Nebraska to visit them for Christmas. Most of his relatives appear to be similar in matter to him; all fat, with the same speech impediment and catchphrases such as "Kickass!", "Respect mah authoritah!", and "No, *name* that's my pot pie. No, *name* that's a bad *name*!". The family is seen again in the episode "Cartmanland" at his grandmother's funeral, where she leaves her estate (valued at $1,000,000) to Eric, citing that all the other family members would have spent it all on crack. His grandparents' names are Harold and Mabel, has uncles' names Howard and Stinky, and a cousin named Elvin.
[edit] The McCormick family
[edit] Stuart and Carol McCormick
Kenny McCormick's parents. Carol wears a lime green T-shirt which usually reads "I'm with Stupid", with an arrow below it and mucky blue jeans. Stuart wears a greasy jean jacket, a white shirt underneath, filthy jeans, and a red cap which has "SCOTCH" embroidered on it. Stuart attended the same high school as Gerald (Kyle's father) although their relationship ceased when Gerald became a successful lawyer and Stuart become an unemployed drunk. Stuart admitted to Gerald that he was unemployed in the episode "Chickenpox".
Stuart and Carol have mixed views on each of Kenny's death. In the episodes "Best Friends Forever" and "A Ladder to Heaven", Carol and Stuart seemed destroyed by the death of their son. But in the episodes such as "The List" they do not seem surprised, and take the death lightly.
[edit] Kenny McCormick
Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick', voiced by Matt Stone (and by Mike Judge in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut), one of the four main characters. He is well-known for almost always wearing an orange parka, and for being killed in almost every episode during the show's first five seasons (although he seems unconcerned and only hates the fact that nobody cares that he dies), with only a few exceptions. Due to his hood, which covers his mouth in all but a few scenes in the show's history, his lines are muffled, though occasionally they are intelligible, and closed captioning sometimes clarifies his lines. He has only spoken without being muffled on three occasions, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and the episodes "The Jeffersons" and "Lice Capades". When Kenny is scared he tightens his hood. "Cripple Fight" seemed to indicate that the orange parka he wears is what attracts deadly accidents to him.
[edit] Kevin McCormick
Little is known about Kevin. He appears to be older than Kenny by a few years and has parted brown hair which sticks up. His voice is provided by Trey Parker and sounds like Bill, Terrance and Fosse, three of Kenny's classmates, though with a Southern Accent.
[edit] Grandfather
Kenny's unnamed grandfather appears in "Fat Camp" which has Kenny giving him a "sensual full-body massage" in front of a live audience for money. Kenny's grandfather is also mentioned in "Chickenpox", where Gerald Broflovski implicates that he was an unemployed drunk much like Stuart.
[edit] The Stotch family
[edit] Stephen and Linda Stotch
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Stephen and Linda Stotch are Butters' parents. Linda wears a maroon sweater and a calf-length purple skirt and has blonde hair, Stephen wears an olive drab shirt and a distinctive white tie, with a hairstyle similar to a grown-out crewcut.
- The Fellowship of The Ring states that Butters' father's name may also be Chris.
About 3 minutes in the episode, Sharon Marsh Says: "Oh my God, this is going to be so embarrassing. Hi Chris, hi Linda, we were just wondering if we could get our porno back." In the episode Butters' very own episode, Stephen is admitted to be a bisexual.
[edit] Butters Stotch
Leopold "Butters" Stotch (voiced by Matt Stone) has a large tuft of blonde hair on top of his head, and wears an aquamarine jacket with green pants. He speaks with a distinctive, stuttering South Carolina-esque accent, and he is secretly the evil villain of South Park, Professor Chaos. The character is loosely based on South Park director of animation Eric Stough. Butters birthday is September 11th, as he says at the beginning of episode 113 "Awesom-O". A very common theme of Butters is him getting grounded. His father grounds him in many episodes, and for what seem to be unwarranted reasons. Some reasons include his face looking funny, and him having bad dreams.
[edit] Extended Stotch family
Butters has an aunt (Nelley) and uncle living in Los Angeles as seen in the episode "AWESOM-O"
[edit] The Tweak family
[edit] Richard and Mrs. Tweak
Tweek's parents, Richard and Cindy, run a coffee shop called "Tweak Bros. Coffee". It was nearly put out of business by the new business in town, Harbucks (a parody of Starbucks). After a huge feud both businesses learned to work together. The Tweaks are their own product's most devoted fans. Even their son consumes several cups of coffee a day (despite his age), hence his constant twitching and general nervousness. They usually have heart-to-heart talks with their son in times of concern or crisis (such as child abduction or their company going out of business), but unfortunately the often oversimplify or overexaggerate the problems making Tweek's paranoia worse - generally speaking, every time Tweek has a new concern or problem his parents tend to aggravate it.
Mr. Tweak wears a maroon jumper which is his shirt for work (hence the name tag on it) and black trousers. He has a long pointed nose, which suggests Semitic ancestry, and dark curly brown hair. Mrs. Tweak wears a blue dress with a white apron, and long light brown hair. Neither parent appears outwardly responsible for their son's blond hair.
Tweek's parents have appeared in several episodes, most notably "Gnomes" and "Child Abduction Is Not Funny". Mr. Tweak is voiced by Trey Parker and Mrs. Tweak has been voiced by Mary Kay Bergman and Eliza Schneider. She is now voiced by April Stewart.
[edit] Tweek Tweak
Tweek Tweak is a hyperactive boy who is always nervous, jittery, paranoid, and usually overdosed on caffeine. He is in the boys' class. For five episodes in season six − "Simpsons Already Did It" through "Child Abduction Is Not Funny" − Tweek was the official fourth friend of the main characters Stan, Kyle, and Cartman.
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[edit] The Blacks
Token's family. The only African-American family in South Park and also the wealthiest. In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", it is revealed that Token's mother, Linda, is a chemist, and his father is a lawyer.
Cartman always makes fun of Token for being black and is very stereotypical toward him. Token's last name in the series was originally "Williams." The name 'Token' is given, due to the fact that he is the only black child in South Park.
[edit] The Donovans
The family Clyde comes from. It is unclear what the status of the nuclear family is. Clyde has stated that his father is a geologist (although Randy Marsh is considered the only scientist in South Park). However, in the episode "The List", it is said that Clyde's father owns a shoe store. It is unclear if Clyde's father changed careers or this was merely a continuity error. The family was accidentally referred to as the "Harrises" in "Lice Capades", however, this was changed back to Donovan in the later re-airings of the episode.
Some confusion comes up from times when the name "Donovan" is used in episodes not related to Clyde or his family; for example in "The Jeffersons" Stan refers to Michael Jefferson's new home as "the Donovan's old place," and Priest Maxi is found having sex with a "Mrs. Donovan" in "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" It is unclear if either of these references should be seen as related to Clyde's family, or if the show's creators merely reuse this surname, similarly to how they reuse the name "Kevin" amongst background characters.
[edit] The Testaburgers
Wendy Testaburger's family. The Testaburgers seem to be fairly well-off and fairly functional compared to most South Park families, though they seem to be less intelligent and socially aware than Wendy herself. Although, it seems that they don't pay much attention to her or listen to her; nevertheless they attempt to rein her in when she seems to be acting badly herself. Wendy's mother attempts to prevent her from getting breast implants in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", while her Dad was indignant that Wendy supposedly wanted to dress like a whore in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", though he was eventually convinced to allow it by the store's whorish clientele.
[edit] The Stevens
From what has been shown of Bebe's family, they are very stereotypical. Her mother appears in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", where it is implied that she is rather dumb and managed to get by relying on her looks. In that episode Bebe is quite smart and much more thoughtful than her mother, though she does seem more interested in make-up and boys than Wendy. Bebe's father is briefly seen in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset".
[edit] Craig's family
Little is known of Craig's family except that he has at least one sibling, and flipping each other the middle finger appear to be the family norm. Craig's family's propensity for flipping each other off has been heavily ingrained into Craig, who for the first several seasons is implied to have been sent to either the principal's or counselor's office on a daily basis. Craig's father is named Thomas, a tall, portly, redheaded, and looks similar to Skeeter, a fellow dad and one of the town's leading "rednecks".
[edit] Timmy's family
Timmy's parents are named Richard and Helen, and apparently suffer from the same form of mental retardation as Timmy himself. When they are interviewed on TV in "Timmy 2000", all they can say are their own names, just like their son.
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