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{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''South Park'' families}} |
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The following are ]s in the American animated television series '']''. |
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==The Marshes== |
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===Stan Marsh=== |
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{{Main|Stan Marsh}} |
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===Randy Marsh=== |
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{{main|Randy Marsh (South Park)}} |
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'''Randy Marsh''' is the most prominent parent on the show. He is named after the father of series co-creator ]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://southpark.cc.com/fans/faq/archives.php?id=11551| title=FAQ Archives| publisher=South Park Studios| access-date=2009-03-01}}</ref> and Parker describes Randy as "the biggest dingbat in the entire show."<ref>{{cite web| author=Jake Trapper and Dan Morris| title=Secrets of 'South Park'| work=]| date=September 22, 2006| url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Entertainment/Story?id=2479197&page=3| access-date=2009-04-18}}</ref> Randy is voiced by Parker. Randy Marsh gets into countless wacky situations through the course of the show including but not limited to, microwaving his testicles and becoming the biggest drug dealer in South Park. |
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===Sharon Marsh=== |
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{{main|Sharon Marsh (South Park)}} |
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'''Sharon Marsh''' (] '''Kimble''')<ref name="My Future Self n' Me">{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2002-12-04 |season=6 |number=616}}</ref> is the wife of Randy and mother of Stan and Shelley. She is a 42-year-old receptionist. Sharon has never been portrayed in a work capacity on the series, but was depicted as the receptionist at Tom's Rhinoplasty, a local surgical clinic, in '']'' and '']''. She has close-cropped brown hair, and wears a brown long-sleeved ] adorned with red ] at the ]s and collar, and dark blue pants. She is referred to by the name 'Carol' in the episode 'Death' when Sheila Broflovski hands her the phone at the protest with Cartoon Central. Sharon has also been represented as an overzealous parent, such as when she kidnapped ] after he came to investigate the disappearance of those Sharon had buried in her yard because she mistakenly thought they were Stan's murder victims.<ref name="fish">{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=1998-10-28 |season=2 |number=215}}</ref> |
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Sharon was originally voiced by ], later ], and is currently voiced by ]. |
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===Shelley Marsh=== |
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'''Shelley Marsh''' is Randy and Sharon's daughter and ]'s older sister. The character was voiced by ] until Bergman's death, and Shelley has subsequently been voiced by ]. Her new voice artist is ]. |
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Shelley has an extremely aggressive temper and has very little respect for Stan and his friends, usually referring to them as "]". She speaks in a slurred manner due to the fact that she wears ]. In "]", she physically abused him, hurled him around their house, and in the feature film '']'', she demolished a wooden chair over his head. This does not 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 "]". She does help Stan when he is in real danger, although in "]" this was apparently only because she wants the privilege of beating up her brother all to herself. |
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In the episode "]", Shelley was dating Skyler, a 22-year-old who has his own band. Shelley also internet dated a boy named Amir in the episode "]" who she later met in California but could not properly look him in the eye. |
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Shelley is prominent in the episodes "]", "]", "]", "]", "]", "]", "]", "]", and "]". |
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===Marvin Marsh=== |
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'''"Grampa" (Marvin) Marsh''' is ]'s paternal grandfather and Sharon Marsh's father-in-law. He is voiced by ], who also provides the voices for both his son Randy and his grandson Stan. In "]" Sharon acknowledges to Sheila that Marvin is her father (although she may just refer to her father-in-law that way). According to the episode "]", Grampa is 102 years old. It is also revealed in the episode that he helped his grandfather commit suicide. In the episode "]", he revealed that he worked 55 years in a steel mill and he flew ] fighter planes over Germany in ]. He is also familiar with typically British words as "]" and "]". Both Grampa Marsh and his own grandfather call their grandsons "Billy", even after being corrected multiple times. In "]", Grampa becomes one of many elderly citizens to be tricked into buying fake jewelry from a corrupt TV shopping channel. |
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===Jimbo Kern=== |
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'''Jimbo Kern''' (sometimes portrayed as '''Kerns''' or '''Uncle Jimbo''') is uncle to Stan. Earlier episodes indicated him to be the brother of Stan's mother ], but an interview with Stone established him as the half-brother of Stan's father, Randy,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://southpark.cc.com/fans/faq/archives.php?id=33371| title=FAQ Archives| publisher=South Park Studios| access-date=2009-01-22}}</ref> though their fraternal relationship is rarely explored on the show. According to 2020's "]", however, Jimbo is indeed Sharon's brother and is in the hospital due to COVID-19.<ref>{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2020-09-30 |season=24 |number=2401}}</ref> Jimbo is voiced by series co-creator ]. Jimbo is a Marine Corps ] ] and gun enthusiast, owning a local firearms store and leading an ] lifestyle. He is often accompanied by his war buddy ]. Jimbo frequently keeps company with the town's working-class citizens, and often expresses a blue-collar point of view during the show's frequent satire of both ] and ] politics. Jimbo and Ned were inspired by characters series co-creator ] used to draw during high school.<ref>{{cite video | people=Trey Parker, Matt Stone|date=2003|title=South Park: The Complete First Season: "Weight Gain 4000"|format=Audio commentary |medium=CD|publisher=Comedy Central}}</ref> It is hinted in the episode "]" that Jimbo is gay, as he is the only character apart from Mr. Garrison who can say "fag" without being bleeped. However, he was seen in the episode "]" peeking at the title antagonist's mother when ] saw that she was removing her ], putting his possible homosexual identity in question. |
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Jimbo is shown on numerous occasions to drive a ].<ref name="volcano">{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=] and ] |network=] |airdate=1997-08-27 |season=1 |number=103}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=1998-06-10 |season=2 |number=206}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2002-07-17 |season=6 |number=610}}</ref><ref name="smug">{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2006-03-29 |season=10 |number=1002}}</ref><ref name="summer">{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=1998-06-24 |season=2 |number=608}}</ref> He likes to place bets on local sporting events, such as elementary school football games<ref name="gayal">{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=1997-09-03 |season=1 |number=104}}</ref> and boxing matches.<ref>{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=1998-02-04 |season=1 |number=108}}</ref> Jimbo campaigned in opposition of a proposal to change the South Park flag because the flag depicted the town's racist past. As a show of friendship with ], Jimbo agreed to a compromise with supporters of the change.<ref>{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2000-07-05 |season=4 |number=408}}</ref> Jimbo has also publicly voiced his opinion on other occasions, as when he was displeased with a fireworks ban,<ref name="summer"/> and clashed with protesters of the ].<ref name="I'm a Little Bit Country">{{cite episode |title=] |series=] |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2003-04-09 |season=7 |number=701}}</ref> |
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===Aunt Flo=== |
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'''Aunt Flo Kimble''' was Sharon's aunt and Randy Marsh's aunt-in-law. She appears solely in "]" although characters mention that she used to visit the Marshes every month, and stay for about five days that turned Sharon into "a total bitch". During the episode, the goldfish she had given Stan for ] killed her, and this upset Sharon, because now Aunt Flo could never visit her again. Her monthly routine of visiting, the standard time her visits lasted, and Sharon's reaction to them, was a parody of ]. Similarly, her death parodied menopause, as the phrase "a visit from Aunt Flo" is a common ] for menstruation. Aunt Flo also had ] and sounded like ] when she spoke. |
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==The Broflovskis== |
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===Kyle Broflovski=== |
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{{Main|Kyle Broflovski}} |
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===Gerald and Sheila Broflovski=== |
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{{main|Gerald and Sheila Broflovski}} |
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===Ike Broflovski=== |
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'''Sir Ike Moisha Broflovski''' (born '''Peter Gintz''')<ref name="ike">{{cite episode |title=Ike's Wee Wee|url=https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/103560/|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=Comedy Central|airdate=May 27, 1998|season=2|number=204}}</ref> is the adopted baby brother of Kyle, born in Canada. He has appeared in the series since ]. Ike has black hair, and, like all Canadians portrayed on the series, is depicted as having small beady eyes and an ovoid head which is completely divided in two, and separates completely from the lower half whenever he talks. |
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Ike's original birth name was Peter Gintz. He was put up for adoption by his Canadian parents, Harry and Elise, after Canada had been 'devastated by the cola wars'. Although Kyle initially rejected Ike upon finding out that he was adopted, Ike idolizes his brother and Kyle watches out for him and often shows a great deal of affection towards his little brother. As seen in ] where Kyle travels great lengths to find and rescue his little brother after being taken against his and his family's will to Canada. In a recurring gag during some earlier season episodes, Kyle would exclaim "Kick the Baby!" and proceed to kick Ike like he was kicking a field goal in a football game. |
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It is revealed in season four that Ike is a genius and is sent to kindergarten a year early. At age 3, he composes sheet music, reads ] novels, and watches ''] with ]'' every night. On his first day at school, he ran for class president and won, and at ] camp, he recreates ]'s the ] using macaroni. He was ]ed in "]" after saving the Canadian Princess and was involved in ] and ]'s plans to steal the ] in "]" |
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Throughout the show's run, Ike's dialogue has consisted of sound bites provided by various small children of the show's production staff. Despite Ike being a genius, his dialogue mostly consists of toddler-like, nonsensical babble, such as "I pooped my pants" or "ring around a rosy". He also often repeats words said by Kyle, even obscene words, as shown when they watch the Terrance and Phillip Movie in the film. Later season episodes depict him as speaking more coherently. His body was temporarily taken over by the spirit of ] in the episode "]". In the episode "]" he stands out in the cold for days waiting for the strike to end. He embarked on a sexual relationship with his adult kindergarten teacher in the episode "]", which gives him admiration and envy from nearly every person in town who finds out about it other than Kyle. In the ] episode "]", Ike (voiced by ] who was credited as True List), experiencing ] due to accidentally taking steroids intended for ], becomes hostile towards Kyle, and has developed habits that include speaking of engaging in sex acts with child entertainment characters (which Ike refers to as "taming strange") and grinds on Foofa in front of the other characters and everyone in the audience and says that Foofa is an attractive woman, and should not be limiting herself to children. Foofa shocks the others when she agrees with this, saying that she wishes to play to adult audiences, and add sex appeal to her persona. The brothers eventually reconcile when Ike, after realizing that while rebellion is part of growing up, decides he would rather let it happen naturally instead of pushing it, he is also the only Canadian character to appear in stop-motion form first before switching to computers. |
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===Kyle Schwartz=== |
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{{Infobox character |
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| series = South Park |
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| gender = Male |
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| name = Kyle Schwartz |
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| family = ] (father); mother unnamed (mentioned but never seen) |
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| relatives = ] (aunt-in-law)<br />] (uncle)<br />] (not for really relation)<br />Unnamed (grandmother)<br />Unnamed (grandfather) |
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'''Kyle Schwartz''' is ]'s irritating and ] ] cousin from ], with certain mannerisms distinctly modeled after ]. Kyle Schwartz has a tiny body and large head, breathes heavily all the time due to asthma and frequently exclaims "Oh Jesus". He has poor eyesight for which he wears large glasses. As voiced by ], Kyle Schwartz sounds like ]' impression of ] in the film '']''. Curtis' real name was Bernard Schwartz, which may explain Kyle's surname. The character's first appearance was in "]" when he had to stay with Kyle and his family because his mother was in the hospital. At the end of "The Entity", Schwartz receives a $5 million check after the "IT", a vehicle he invested in, was banned and the airline companies were bailed out. Schwartz was also hired by ] as an accountant to see if his behavior throughout the year put him on Santa Claus' Nice or Naughty list in ]; he informed Cartman that if he cured cancer and AIDS, he would still owe Santa two presents. He later appears in the season 9 episode "]" as a reverse ]inger the other kids bring in to make their team lose. |
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===Cleo=== |
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'''Cleo Broflovski''' (1928–1999) was Sheila's mother, Gerald's mother-in-law and Kyle's maternal grandmother, who died three months before "]". The boys dig her up in an attempt to scare the fifth-graders on ]. The prank backfires as her body is eaten by stray dogs due to the boys having hidden the body unprotected near the harbor. |
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==The Cartmans/Tenormans== |
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===Eric Cartman=== |
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{{Main|Eric Cartman}} |
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===Liane Cartman=== |
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'''Liane Marie Cartman''', originally voiced by ] and later by ] and ], is the generally sweet-natured mother of ]. In the initial seasons, Liane and Eric's relationship is marked by her total enabling of his behavior; in the more complex characterization of later seasons, Liane is a more proactive mother who is less indulgent of Eric's disrespectful behavior and foul language. Her ], often with total strangers, was a running gag initially. Although in episode 7, she is indicated to be a "]", she says in "]" that she has not done drugs in some time, and works "two jobs." Liane's commuting from the home during normal daytime hours implies that at least one of the jobs is a traditional, non-prostitution form of employment, though the nature of this work is never specified. Despite the multiple sources of income, Eric comes to believe that he and Liane are the second poorest family in South Park (at least of those whose children attend South Park Elementary) after ]'s.<ref name="The Poor Kid">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|network=Comedy Central|season=15|number=14|airdate=November 16, 2011}}</ref> At other times, it is implied that the Cartman household's IRS-reported income mostly comes from government ] programs,<ref name="Here Comes the Neighborhood">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|network=Comedy Central|season=5|number=12|airdate=November 28, 2001}}</ref> that Liane has simply transformed her prostitution career into a better-organized, safer "escort"-style operation,<ref name="Fractured">{{cite video game|title=]|developer=]|date=October 17, 2017}}</ref> or that in fact Liane has never held a traditional job and the family is in a more precarious economic state than their depicted lifestyle indicates.<ref name="City People">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|network=Comedy Central|season=25|number=3|airdate=February 16, 2022}}</ref> As of Season 25, current continuity states that Liane has been unable to maintain legitimate employment due to constant demands on her time from Eric, and as a result of this economic stress combined with increases in ] on the family's house, the Cartmans are unable to keep up with their bills and find themselves living in an abandoned ]. Eric refuses to allow Liane to work, instead of attend to him, when he is awake even when explicitly told that this will cause financial disaster for the family, a storyline which may tie in to depictions of Cartman as ] in ]. |
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It is seemingly revealed in season 2 that Liane is a ] (and so is Eric's father),<ref name="Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|network=Comedy Central|season=15|number=14|airdate=April 22, 1998}}</ref> though in episode "]"<ref name="Episode 201">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|network=Comedy Central|season=14|number=6|airdate=April 21, 2010}}</ref> it is revealed that Eric's real father is ], the father of his nemesis ]. Jack Tenorman was a member of the ], and the ruse about her being a hermaphrodite was made up to maintain the Broncos' reputation since "they were having a good year". |
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She was named after creator Trey Parker's ex-fiancé, Liane Adamo, whom he broke up with after he discovered that she had an affair.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010670/ {{User-generated source|date=May 2022}}</ref> |
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===Jack Tenorman=== |
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'''Jack Tenorman''' is the father of ] and ]. He dies in the ] episode "]", his first appearance, when he and his wife are shot dead by a farmer who had been told by Cartman that they were going to kill a pony he owns; their bodies are then minced up by Cartman and mixed in with ] for the upcoming chili cook-off so that Scott would eat their remains. Cartman does this as the ultimate revenge on Scott. |
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===Scott Tenorman=== |
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'''Scott Tenorman''' is Jack's son, and Cartman's half-brother. Scott and Cartman have an ongoing feud with each other. In his first appearance in "]", Scott is depicted as a bully to Cartman, selling him his ], stealing his money and publicly humiliating him, and continually one-upping Cartman's attempts to get back at him. However, Cartman finally gets revenge by tricking Scott into eating chili containing his parents' remains and getting his favorite band ] to insult him. In the ] episode "]", Cartman, with help from ], attempts to officially end their feud by giving Scott a ]. It is revealed in "]" that Scott is the leader of the "]" and wants revenge on Cartman. Scott also takes glee in the facts of informing Cartman that they share the same birth-father, the fact that their father was a ginger and that Cartman already had him killed. He was the titular antagonist in the 2012 game '']''. |
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===Extended Cartman family=== |
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The extended Cartman family is shown in the episode "]", where Eric and the others go on a trip to ] to visit them for Christmas. Most of his relatives (except for his grandmother) appear to be physically similar to him; all fat (this is in direct contradiction to the episode "Fat Camp" in which Eric's mother Liane states that the Cartman extended family is in fact not genetically fat as she had led her son to believe), with the same speech mannerisms and catchphrases such as "Kick-ass!", "I'll kick you squah in the nuts", "Respect mah authoritah!", and "No, kitty, that's my pot pie. No, kitty, that's a bad kitty!". The family returns in the episode "]" at his grandmother's funeral, where she leaves her entire estate (valued at $1 million) to Eric, citing that all the other family members would have spent it all on ]. His grandparents' names are Harold and Mabel; his uncles are Howard (who is imprisoned in the Nebraska state penitentiary, and who "attends" Thanksgiving dinner every year via closed-circuit television) and Stinky. He has an aunt, Lisa, and three cousins, Fred, Alexandra (who is thin like Liane, unlike the other Cartmans), and Elvin. He also has a great-grandmother, Florence, and a relative named "Fat Bob". |
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===Future Cartman family=== |
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In the ] TV movie '']'', ] along with the rest of the ] are aged up by approximately 40 or so years. In the future, ] has switched to ], and is married to his ] wife, ]. ] and ] have three children: ] (their eldest daughter), ] (their first son, with an almost identical appearance and voice to the version of ] used in the ]), and ] (their infant child, who is like a baby version of Eric). Cartman's children (especially ]) share the same characteristics that ] had as a child, such as a strong hatred towards ], and a ]. |
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==The McCormicks== |
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===Kenny McCormick=== |
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{{Main|Kenny McCormick}} |
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===Stuart and Carol McCormick=== |
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'''Stuart''' (initially named '''Eddie''') and '''Carol McCormick''' are both alcoholics raising their son ], older son ] and youngest daughter ] under poverty-stricken circumstances. Stuart is voiced by series co-creator ] and Carol, who was originally voiced by ] and later ], is currently voiced by ]. |
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The McCormicks are one of the poorest families in the town of South Park, living in a small, dilapidated house overrun by rats. Aside from Stuart once mentioning that he was missing work,<ref name="redbadge">{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=] and Matt Stone |network=] |airdate=1999-11-24 |season=3 |number=314}}</ref> he and his wife have always been portrayed as being unemployed with little means of income; they are involved in ] production,<ref name="crimestoppers">{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2003-04-23 |season=7 |number=706}}</ref> and ] has mentioned numerous times that they are dependent on ]. |
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Stuart was childhood friends with ], and the two worked together as teenagers at a pizza store. Having been unable to hold a steady job since, Stuart later felt contempt for and had a falling out with Gerald after Gerald went on to attend college and became a lawyer.<ref name="pox">{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=1998-08-26 |season=2 |number=210}}</ref> Early in the show's run, it was revealed that the McCormicks' house was actually a play fort Stuart and Gerald built when they were young.<ref name="pox"/> The two later reconciled their differences, and Stuart has been portrayed as maintaining a friendship with Gerald and other adult characters on the show by hanging with them at a local bar. Stuart is also seen in later seasons getting off welfare and now employed at an ] fulfillment center.<ref name="unfulfilled">{{cite episode |title=] |series=South Park |credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone |network=Comedy Central |airdate=2018-12-05 |season=22 |number=2209}}</ref> |
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===Kevin McCormick=== |
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'''Kevin McCormick''' is the rarely seen eldest McCormick child. He has parted, messy brown hair that sticks up and has a messy face like his parents. He is 13 years old. He has only spoken on two occasions and was voiced by Trey Parker with a rough voice similar to the former characters Bill and Fosse, though with a ]. |
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===Karen McCormick=== |
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'''Karen McCormick''' (voiced by Celeste Javier) is 6 years old and the youngest of the McCormick children. She first appeared briefly in "]". Her first prominent role was in "]", in which she and her brothers are placed in foster care, and Kenny adopts his ] persona in order to protect and comfort her. Mysterion is also known as her guardian angel.<ref name="The Poor Kid"/> |
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=== Grandfather === |
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Kenny's unnamed grandfather appears in "]" which has Kenny giving him a "sensual full-body ]" in front of a live audience for money. Kenny's grandfather is also mentioned in "]", where Gerald Broflovski implies that he was an unemployed drunk much like Stuart. He also appears to have masturbation problems. |
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==The Stotches== |
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===Butters Stotch=== |
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{{Main|Butters Stotch}} |
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===Stephen and Linda Stotch=== |
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'''Stephen "Chris" Stotch''' and '''Linda Stotch''' are ]' parents. The couple began appearing towards the end of season 4, in correlation with their son becoming a more significant character. ], Stephen was discovered to have been frequently going to a ] ] and a ] to ].<ref name="buttersshow">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=Comedy Central|airdate=2001-12-12|season=5|number=514}}</ref> This led Linda to a psychotic break and she attempted to kill Butters by driving her car into a river. Butters survives, blissfully ignorant of everything. The couple then had to concoct a story about their presumably dead son being abducted by a "Puerto Rican man", which leads to later appearances by ] and ]. Claiming to Linda that he only did so out of curiosity, Stephen promises to suppress any future homosexual urges.<ref name="buttersshow"/> |
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Stephen and Linda were portrayed in another episode as having established a friendship with the parents of the show's other main child characters, joining them for book club meetings<ref name="condom">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=]|airdate=2001-08-01|season=5|number=507}}</ref> and vacationing with them in ].<ref name="asspen">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=Comedy Central|airdate=2002-03-13|season=6|number=603}}</ref> |
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In keeping with the show's tradition of portraying adult South Park residents as irrational, Stephen constructed a mountain bunker as a proverbial "]" to provide shelter for ] supporters who thought ]'s victory in the ] would bring about chaos and the end of civilization.<ref name="lastnight">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=Comedy Central|airdate=2008-11-05|season=12|number=1212}}</ref> Stephen adheres to a strict method of running his household, such as demanding that items in the kitchen pantry be alphabetized, noting that a well-organized pantry is "what keeps a family together".<ref name="ungroundable">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=Comedy Central|airdate=2008-11-19|season=12|number=1214}}</ref> |
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Linda, despite being a strict disciplinarian herself and rarely objecting to the punishments her husband imposes on their son, is usually shown to be a sympathetic mother towards her son. Serving on the city council as the town's treasurer, she is also an engineer.<ref name="hippie">{{cite episode|title=]|series=South Park|credits=Trey Parker and Matt Stone|network=Comedy Central|airdate=2005-03-16|season=9|number=902}}</ref> |
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Stephen and Linda exhibit somewhat extreme reactions and a notable level of selfishness in their relationship with their son, often causing them to overlook or ignore Butters' attempts to communicate. In the episode "]", both are visibly distressed by Butters' (faked) death with Stephen going so far as to attempt bringing him back to life. When Butters returns home intending to expose the hoax, both parents think he is a demon spawn and chain him up in the basement. Though disgusted and afraid to approach their son, they nonetheless lure a woman to their home and kill her in order to "feed" Butters.<ref>Trey Parker and Matt Stone (October 26, 2005). "]". ''''South Park''''. episode 909. season 9. Comedy Central</ref> They both often seem to care for Butters, but were willing to sell him to Paris Hilton in "]". Their mixed sentiments are a likely cause of Butters' anxiety and neuroses. |
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===Extended Stotch family=== |
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Butters has an aunt Nellie and uncle living in Los Angeles, as seen in the episode "]". He mentions having cousins in ] in "]", and an Uncle Bud who he admits sexually molested him in "]". He has a grandmother who suffered a stroke, the cause of which was seeing Butters on national TV with prosthetic testicles attached to his chin. A grandmother also appears in the episode "Butterballs" in which she visits the Stotch family and bullies Butters whenever his parents are not looking. |
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===The Tweaks=== |
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The Tweaks are ]'s family. Tweek's parents run a coffee shop called Tweek Bros. Coffee (a parody of ]). It was nearly put out of business by the major coffee corporation, ]. After a large 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), causing his constant twitching and general nervousness. Despite the family's passion over coffee, it is implied their product tastes unpleasant and was originally successful simply because theirs was the only coffee store in town until Harbucks moved in. 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 they often oversimplify or exaggerate the problems, making Tweek's paranoia worse — generally speaking, every time Tweek has a new concern or problem his parents tend to aggravate it. '''Richard Tweak''' wears a maroon jumper with a barista name tag and dark blue trousers. He has a long pointed nose and light curly brown hair. '''Mrs. Tweak''', whose first name has not been revealed on the show, wears a turquoise dress with a white apron, and has short, wavy brown hair. |
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Tweek's parents have appeared in several episodes, most notably "]" and "]". They play a major role in ], it is revealed they send their son to pick up a ] daily, and it is an essential ingredient in their coffee. They put Meth in Tweek's coffee with the claim that it will calm him down, but it's far more likely to be the direct cause of his paranoia and shakes, but from observing their own calm, focused natures don't seem to use it themselves. Mr. Tweak is voiced by Trey Parker and Mrs. Tweak has been voiced by ] and ], but did not speak again for over ten years until "]", when she joined the men of the town and Linda Stotch to get their crime dramas back by playing MineCraft. |
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===The Blacks=== |
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The Blacks are ]'s family. They are, as their son's name references, the "]" black family on the show, and Tolkien Black is the "token black kid" at school. As well as being the only African-American family in South Park, they are also the town's richest family. In "]", it is revealed that Tolkien's mother is a chemist (although ] is considered the only scientist<ref>(])</ref> in South Park, despite the presence of other scientists in later episodes), and his father Steve is a lawyer. They are sometimes called Bob and Linda from an ambiguous exchange in "]", but Tolkien's father is referred to as Steve in "]". |
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Cartman always makes fun of Tolkien for being black, frequently employing racist stereotypes. Tolkien's last name in the series was originally "Williams". The name "Black" is given, because he is one of the only black children in South Park. Part of the humor of Tolkien's character is that despite mostly subverting the characteristics of the traditional token black character, he sometimes unwillingly fulfills it, such as finding out he instinctively knows how to play bass guitar, which Cartman insisted all black people know, or an uncontrollable desire to pay to see ] perform comedy. |
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===The Donovans=== |
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]'s family are the Donovans, though they were also referred to as the "Harris" family in one episode. Clyde's father, Roger, has been stated in "]" to be a geologist, though the episode "]", states that Clyde's father owns a shoe store at the mall. Clyde's mother, Betsy (originally Martha) is of Dutch ancestry. Both characters come to the foreground in "]", when Betsy berates Clyde for leaving the toilet seat up. His repeated inattention to this detail eventually leads to her death when she falls in and has her organs sucked out by the toilet. A sister is mentioned in the same episode but has not been seen. Roger has continued to appear since his wife's death. Betsy Donovan was voiced by April Stewart until her final appearance, where she was voiced by Trey Parker. |
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The family was accidentally referred to as the "Harrises" in "]", however, this was changed back to Donovan in the later re-airings of the episode. |
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===The Testaburgers=== |
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]'s family are the Testaburgers. The Testaburgers seem fairly well-off and functional, although it appears they don't pay much attention to their daughter or listen to her. They do intercede when she seems to be behaving badly. Wendy's mother tries to prevent her daughter from getting breast implants in "]", while Wendy's father is indignant when she wants to dress like a ] in "]", although he was eventually convinced to allow it by the store's whorish clientele. They also refused to listen to her excuses for beating up ] in "]", and forced her to promise it wouldn't happen again. In the episode "]", it is revealed that Mrs. Testaburger is the city planner and she defends the homeless from the other council people. |
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===The Stevenses=== |
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]'s family are the Stevenses. From what has been shown of them, they are very stereotypical. The mother, Mrs. Stevens, appears in "]", where it is implied that she is dumb and managed to get by relying on her looks. In that episode, Bebe is smarter and more thoughtful than her mother, though she seems more interested in make-up and boys than Wendy. Bebe's father is briefly seen in "]". |
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===The Tuckers=== |
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The Tuckers are ]'s family. The family consists of Craig, his insanely tall, portly, redheaded father, '''Thomas Tucker''', who is balding with an orange semi-mohawk, his mother, '''Laura Tucker''', and his younger sister '''Tricia Tucker'''. Little is known of them except that flipping one another the ] appears to be the family norm. Craig's family's tendency 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 because of the habit, which has largely faded out of view since the sixth season. In the episode "]", they got into a heated argument with the Broflovskis and Marshes when their son disappeared. |
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All members of the Tucker family were first seen in the episode "]", and were not seen again in their entirety until the "Pandemic" episodes (Craig's sister only appeared in a photograph), but Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have made short cameos throughout the series. The Tucker family is featured prominently in the episode "]" as Laura's unshaved pubic hair is recorded by drone planes and becomes a viral video. |
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===The Burches=== |
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]'s parents are named '''Richard Burch''' and '''Helen Burch''', and apparently suffer from the same form of ] as Timmy himself. When they are interviewed on television in "]", all they can say are their own names, just as Timmy does. |
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===The Valmers=== |
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Formerly named '''Swanson''' (and often misspelled '''Vulmer'''), this is ]'s family. His father, '''Ryan Valmer''', dresses much like ], and apparently likes coffee and sexual-exchange talk. At the beginning of the episode "]", Mr. Valmer displays the title "Chief of Fire Department". It is unknown if being the Fire Chief is his actual job or if he volunteers for the fire department in his spare time. Very little is known about his mother, '''Sarah Valmer''', but she appears to be very emotional and caring towards him. Jimmy's parents also say (in the episode "]") that the reason Jimmy was born with a handicap was that God was punishing them for having made fun of handicapped people in high school. |
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