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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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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.
Stanley "Stan" Marsh is the first in line of the four (then five) central characters. He is particularly close to Kyle, and is the second most rational, logical, and mature character in the group. He almost never takes off his signature blue and red "puffball" hat, revealing his black hair. He wears a brown jacket, red gloves, and dark blue pants.
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| Shelley Marsh | |
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| Age: | 13 |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair color: | Brown |
| Job: | Student |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| First appearance: | "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" |
| Voiced by: | April Stewart |
Shelley Marsh is Stan's teenage 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 may be 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 an angry expression on her face. On some occasions, she has been seen with her pajamas on; her pajama shirt is pink. Her birthday is either May 17 or November 24.
Shelley is violent, has an extremely short temper, and usually vents her anger out on Stan, especially in "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", where she slammed him off the walls of their house and into a cabinet. She also has given Stan a black eye. 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 surprising ease, seen during "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics". She has shown on numerous occasions her contempt for Stan's friends, as well, and frequently refers to them as "turds". She has however helped Stan when he is in real danger. However, whenever Stan tells his parents that she is bullying him, they do not believe him.
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 eventually got fed up and left her. Shelley was upset, so while babysitting Cartman she got revenge. Cartman got her to smash up Skyler's prize guitar and bury it in a cat litter tray. He returned angry but they threw catnip at him and the cats that were following Cartman's cat, Mr. Kitty (who was in heat), pounced on him in a sexual frenzy.
Shelley loves watching television. Her favourite shows include "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Friends". She is also a fan of Russell Crowe, but all these things fall short of her favourite pastime: making Stan suffer. She also enjoys listening to Britney Spears records.
In addition to the mentioned episodes, Shelley is prominent in the episodes "Chickenpox", "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer", and "Pre-School".
| Marvin "Grampa" Marsh | |
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| Age: | 102 since "Death" |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Grey |
| Job: | Retired but Wall-Mart worker 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 presumed 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.
He has been referred to as Stan's grandfather on his mother's side and on his father's side. In more recent episodes, however, he is implied to be Randy's father. He also has the same last name as Randy. This is backed up in "Fantastic Easter Special', where 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 grandfather called him.
In his first appearance, "Death", Grampa Marsh desperately wants to die because he is bored 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 Grampa 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 Grampa 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", Grampa 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, and has sex with the quintuplets' grandmother, during which she dies. In "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", he becomes a worker at the new Wall-Mart.
Stan's uncle Jimbo Kern is a hunter, and also hosts his own television series.
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.
Visit of aunt Flo is a common euphemism of menstruation.
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.
Kyle is the central character in the family. He is one of the show's four main children along with Stan, Cartman, and Kenny (though Butters is currently elevated to main character status since Butters' Very Own Episode). Kyle tends to be the most logical, intelligent, moral and reasonable boy among the four. He often abstains from certain fads exemplified in Chinpokomon and South Park is Gay!. Kyle and Stan are usually the leaders of the group, and sometimes they switch leadership. He is constantly fighting with Cartman and many episodes include their hatred of each other (eg. cartoon Wars Part II where they have a fight scene). Most of the feuds have to do with the fact that Cartman hates Jews, while Kyle belongs to the Jewish religion. 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 reheaded mother. He wears an orange jacket, dark green pants, and green gloves.
Ike Broflovski is Kyle's adopted baby brother and a Canadian, indicated by his trademark flapping ovoid head. Ike speaks in baby talk, but sometimes speaks profanely, often due to the influence of his brother. Such as when Kyle says, "Kick the baby!", Ike will reply with, "Don't kick the goddamn baby!", at which Kyle will actually kick him. Another reoccurring thing he says is "cookie monster". Ike watches "The McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" weeknights from 10-11 pm and reads John Steinbeck novels contributing to his status as a genius. While in kindergarten Ike lost his virginity to his teacher in the episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy".
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 & 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), and "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.
Word schwartz means "black" in German language, but in Yiddish it has also a side meaning of "bad luck".
Kyle's grandmother and Sheila's mother who died three years before "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery". The boys dug her up in an attempt to scare the fifth-graders on Halloween. 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. Cleo also wanted Kyle to attend Jewleeard, a Jewish academy school as it was pointed out by John Edward in the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe".
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 Counselour 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.
Eric Cartman, voiced by Trey Parker, is a fictional character in the animated series 'South Park'. He is one of the four central characters. Cartman is arguably the most well-known and recognizable character of 'South Park'. He is extremely rude and self-centered and constantly torments Kyle for being Jewish and Kenny for being poor. Cartman is overweight, or "fat", which is always a way for Kenny, Kyle, and even Stan to torment him back. He has a blue and yellow cottonball hat, a red jacket, yellow gloves, and brown pants.
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 impedement 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.
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.
Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick', voiced by Matt Stone (and, on one occasion, Mike Judge in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut"), is a fictional character in the animated series 'South Park'. He is one of the four central characters, all of whom are nine-year old boys(though they were eight in the earlier episodes).
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.
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.
In "Best Friends Forever" a young girl was seen with the McCormick family visiting Kenny in the hospital. She has no lines and no explanation has ever been given regarding her identity.
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.
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.
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".
Butters has an aunt and uncle living in Los Angeles as seen in the episode "AWESOM-O".
Tweek's parents, who 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. Mr. & Mrs. Tweak claim their son has ADD, when in fact he has a growing dependency on caffeine; Richard often preludes heart-to-heart talks with his son by saying, "Calm down, son... Here, have some coffee." The parents tend either to oversimplify or to overexaggerate large problems, leading their son to frustrated helplessness when he requires aid or to increased paranoia and fear when he's already obsessing about something. Simply put, whatever Tweek's current abnormal and/or neurotic disposition, his parents serve to aggravate it. Even Eric Cartman seems somewhat concerned about Tweek's condition; when Tweek's newest paranoia takes effect (which was being abducted by strangers) Cartman comments "God, what the hell do his parents do to him?"
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.
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 − "Professor Chaos" through "Child Abduction Is Not Funny" − Tweek was the official fourth friend of the main characters Stan, Kyle, and Cartman.
Token's family. The only African-American family in South Park and also the wealthiest. 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 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 considers himself 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 the same surname too much.
They have a daughter named Wendy, who had a relationship with Stan Marsh and is very logical. In the episode "Raisins" Wendy breaks up with Stan to later date Token. Stan and Wendy started their relationship in the very first episode of South Park entitled "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe" and ended it in the season seven episode, though it may have restarted as of the end of season eleven.
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; 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.
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".
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 apparently somewhat influential man in the South Park community; he is often depicted to counterpoint Randy Marsh's stances when Jimbo Kern or another character is otherwise indisposed.
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, all they can say are their own names, just like their son.
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| Main characters (The Boys) | Eric Cartman · Stan Marsh · Kyle Broflovski · Kenny McCormick |
| Other major characters | Butters Stotch · Chef · Mrs. Garrison |
| Family members | Gerald and Sheila Broflovski · Ike Broflovski · Jimbo Kern · Stuart and Carol McCormick · Liane Cartman · Randy and Sharon Marsh · Stephen and Linda Stotch · others |
| Recurring characters | Jesus · Saddam Hussein · Satan · Terrance and Phillip |
| Others | School children · Townsfolk · School staff · Families · Minor characters · Fictional species |