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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.
y and Sharon (née Kimble) Marsh are the parents of Stan and his exceptionally violent sister, Shelley.
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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.
The Marsh family
Stan Marsh
Randy and Sharon Marsh
Randy and Sharon (née Kimble) Marsh are the parents of Stan and his exceptionally violent sister, Shelley. Sharon is a receptionist at Tom's Rhinoplasty, and Randy was a geologist for USGS until he was fired for verbally and physically abusing his boss.
Shelley Marsh
Shelley Lynn 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 (most recently Pandemic, in which Randy told her to get back to her room, and Pandemic 2: The Startling where she was running from the effective "Guinea Empire" with her parents throughout the episode), she has been seen with her pajamas on; her pajama shirt is pink.
Shelley has an extremely aggressive temper and has very little respect for Stan and his friends (except for Cartman), 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. Skyler is also seen with his band in the episode "Timmy 2000". 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.
Shelley is prominent in the episodes "Chickenpox", "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer","Cat Orgy", "Over Logging", "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
Grandpa Marvin Marsh
"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 Spitfire fighter planes over Germany.
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. It is possible she refers to her father-in-law as her own father. 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 attempts at suicide, he turns to Stan to do the job for him. Stan approaches various people, including Jesus, for advice on the matter but they are all unwilling to answer. When Grandpa Marsh eventually does convince Stan to kill him, Death's sudden appearance foils the plan (although it turns out 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.
Randy apparently videotaped him in the bathtub in his video camera obsession.
Jimbo Kern
Jimbo Kern is Stan's uncle. He is Randy Marsh's half brother and is a hunter who hosts his own television series entitled "Huntin' and Killin'" with his war buddy Ned Gerblansky. Jimbo was a considerably prominent character in early episodes, but hasn't appeared quite as frequently in recent seasons. He is voiced by Matt Stone.
Aunt Flo(deceased)
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.
The Broflovski family
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.
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 abstain 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 anti-Semitic. Like Stan, Kyle almost never takes off his trademark hat. The green Eskimo-style hat hides his red Jewfro/Isro hairstyle, a trait given to him by his redheaded mother. He wears an orange jacket, dark green pants, and green gloves.
Ike Broflovski
Kyle's adopted baby brother. Due to his Canadian origins, his head resembles that of a football, as do the heads of all Canadians in the South Park universe. Despite the fact he is only in kindergarten, he is still able to sound out words far beyond his age(despite them being in baby garble). Ike was elected class president of his Kindergarten class when Mr. Garrison was the new teacher. Later, Ike had an affair with his female teacher who then committed suicide. He has fought Kyle for the television in order to watch politically-themed programming.
Kyle Schwartz
Kyle Schwartz is Kyle Broflovski's irritating, and stereotypically Jewish cousin from Connecticut, with mannerisms distinctly modeled after Woody Allen. 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.
He is voiced by Trey Parker. 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.
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), they played hide and seek with him in the airport (and was put in a box and placed on a plane to Antarctica) and they left him 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 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 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.
The word schwarz means "black" in the German language, but in Yiddish it has also a side meaning of "bad luck".
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.
The Cartman family
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 intersexual (called a hermaphrodite in the show), 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.
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.
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!", "I'll kick you squah in the nuts", "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, his uncles' names are Howard and Stinky. He has an aunt, Lisa, and three cousins, Fred, Alexandra, and Elvin. He also has a great-grandmother, Florence, and a relative named Fat Bob.
The McCormick family
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) and they were said to be best friends 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 "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" they do not seem surprised, and take the death lightly, although later mention they were upset.
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.
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.
Karen McCormick
Kenny supposedly has a little sister, who made small cameos in Best Friends Forever. Nothing is known about her, other than being a small girl, looking about four or five years old, has brown hair, and that Matt Stone once referred to her as Karen. It is possible that she is a cousin of Kenny and Kevin, and was visiting during the episode.
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. He also appears to have masturbation problems.
The Stotch family
Stephen and Linda Stotch
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. They are very strict with Butters, often grounding him for petty reasons and things that are out of his control. In Butters' Very Own Episode and Cartman Sucks, it is strongly hinted (and shown) that Stephen is bisexual. Stephen is also referred to as "Chris" in some episodes (see main article).
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.
Extended Stotch family
Butters has an aunt and uncle living in Los Angeles as seen in the episode "AWESOM-O". He also mentions he has cousins in Florida in "Major Boobage" and an Uncle Bud who he admits sexually molested him in "The Return of Chef". This means that either or both Stephen and Linda have siblings.
The Tweak family
Richard and Mrs. Tweak
Tweek's parents 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.
Richard 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 and dark curly brown hair. Mrs. Tweak, whose first name has not been revealed on the show, wears a blue dress with a white apron, and long light brown 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 has not spoken or made an appearance since the South Park is Gay! episode, which aired under the latter voice actress's tenure. She would now voiced by April Stewart or Mona Marshall if she had a speaking role in recent episodes.
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. In the episode "Free Hat," a security guard at George Lucas's house referred to him as "that kid with the cocaine addiction.
List of other families
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 'Black' is given, due to the fact that he is the only black child in South Park. Some of Cartman's racist comments include that Token has a bass guitar in his basement and that he knows how to play it, both of which turn out to be true. Cartman bases these assumptions about Token and his family on nothing more than the stereotype that "You're black. You can play bass."
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.
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. They also refused to listen to her excuses for beating up Cartman, and forced her to promise that it wouldn't happen. (They failed to prevent the fight, however.)
Mr. Testaburger is voiced by Matt Stone.
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".
The Tuckers
The Tuckers are Craig's family. The family consists of Craig, his portly redheaded father Thomas, his mother, and his younger sister. Little is known of them except that flipping each other the middle finger 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. In the recent episode "Pandemic", neither Craig or anyone in his family flipped anyone else off, even when they got into a heated argument with the Broflovskis and Marshes, but this is possibly because they only do it in each other's company.
All members of the Tucker family were first seen in the episode "Tweek vs. Craig", and were not seen again in their entirety until the "Pandemic" duology (Craig's sister only appeared in a photograph), but Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have made short cameos throughout the series.
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.
The Vulmers
This is Jimmy's family. His father Ryan dresses much like Butter's dad Stephen, and apparently likes coffee and sexual exchange talk. Very little is known about his mother Sarah. They also say the reason Jimmy was born as a handicap because they made fun of handicaps in high school as said in the episode "Krazy Kripples".
The Jeffersons
The Jeffersons' only appearance was in the episode, "The Jeffersons". The family consists of Michael Jefferson, and his son Blanket. Throughout the episode Blanket is forced to wear some form of mask over his face at all times. Mr Jefferson has a very childish and irresponsible personality. Such examples of his personality include:
- Building an arcade, amusement park and even a small zoo in his house.
- Denying a real childhood.
- Dancing.
Mr.Jefferson also forms a friendship with Cartman. Mr Jefferson acts immaturely because he had missed out on his own childhood, and learns at the end of the episode that he needs to "grow up" and act as a father to Blanket. The family was forced to move to South Park under an assumed name because of harassment from police officers, such as Sergeant Harrison Yates, who are obsessively jealous of "rich, black men".
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