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*AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Her husband, Bebe's dad, isn't mentioned, though we'd guess he's prolly around, considering the "''Mrs.'' Stevens"
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* DirtyOldMan: He tries to goad Cartman into killing him by boasting about how he slept with his mom. Even if he was making it up, the fact that Randy is in his early 40s while Grandpa is over 100 implies he was sexually active into his 60s, while his wife would have to have been decades younger to get impregnated.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Since he gave up on life long ago, he deliberately makes himself an insufferable asshole to everyone he encounters, especially Stan. When Stan finally decides to help kill him, he doesn't give him an ounce of sympathy, instead yelling at him to cut to the chase and kill him already. He comes to a JerkassRealization later in the episode thanks to a lecture from his own grandfather's ghost.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Since he gave up on life long ago, he deliberately makes himself an insufferable asshole to everyone he encounters, especially Stan. When Stan finally decides to help kill him, he doesn't give him an ounce of sympathy, instead yelling at him to cut to the chase and kill him already. He comes to a JerkassRealization later in at the episode end of "Death" thanks to a lecture from his own grandfather's ghost.
* AbusiveMom: {{Downplayed}}. Though she occasionally raises her voice against them more than she should, she's not so much abusive as she is overly smothering and protective. However, murdering Kyle's idols in front of him in TheMovie and breaking Ike's computer in a rage in "The End of Serialization as We Know It" definitely count as this.
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* HappilyMarried: For South Park, anyway. Between Randy's neglect, Stuart's abuse, and Stephen's infidelity, Sheila got off light with a somewhat cowardly ex-drug addict for a husband. Arguably subverted during the Skankhunt arc.
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* HappilyMarried: For South Park, anyway. Between Randy's neglect, Stuart's abuse, and Stephen's infidelity, Sheila got off light with a somewhat cowardly ex-drug addict for a husband. Arguably subverted during They also have the most productive sex life and are shown to be quite supportive towards each other despite both their flaws as people. During the Skankhunt arc.arc, Gerald is clearly scared of her finding out his secret identity, but she's still the only person whose judgement he values, and is happy to return to her even after breaking the trust of his two sons.
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* AuthorAvatar: For Matt and Trey, somewhat, when Lennard accuses him of [[NotSoDifferentRemark being no better than him]] in regards to cruelly ripping on people. Gerald's response, "Because when I do it it's fucking funny!" Also serves as Matt and Trey's response to modern trolls.
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* AuthorAvatar: For A variation. Though he's not portrayed sympathetically in the slightest, he somewhat serves as this for Matt and Trey, somewhat, when Trey in the latter half of Season 20. When Lennard accuses him of [[NotSoDifferentRemark being no better than him]] in regards to cruelly ripping on people. people, Gerald's response, response is essentially "Because when I do it it's fucking funny!" funny!", which Lennart doesn't take seriously at all (since he ''also'' takes enjoyment from what he does). Also serves as Matt and Trey's response to modern trolls.
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* AntiHero: In "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig" despite being a vicious and relentless bully, Shelley puts an end to Stan's unstable clone's rampage by knocking him out, and later sticks up for Stan when his parents accuse him of being the perpetrator of the rampage.
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* AntiHero: In "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig" despite Despite being a vicious and relentless bully, Shelley puts an end to Stan's unstable clone's rampage by knocking him out, and later sticks up for Stan when his parents accuse him of being the perpetrator of the rampage.rampage in "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig".
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* AntiHero: Though they're trigger-happy poachers, they become quite useful when mutant turkeys start invading the town, and later when the Canadians launch a surprise attack them in TheMovie.
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* AntiHero: Though they're trigger-happy poachers, they become quite useful at defending the town when mutant turkeys or a giant Barbra Streisand start invading the town, and later or when the Canadians launch are launching a surprise attack on them in TheMovie.
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* HeroicDog: He doesn't do anything particularly heroic, but Stan grows out of his homophobia partly thanks to him.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: In order to "cure" his gayness, the boys get him a female poodle named Fifi. Sparky jumps onto her but only to steal her diamond-encrusted collar for himself.
* PinkIsFeminine: He's very campy and has an affinity for pink scarves, which Stan gets sick of tearing off.
* PinkIsFeminine: He's very campy and has an affinity for pink scarves, which Stan gets sick of tearing off.
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* TookALevelInKindness: ZigZagged. After Season 20, there's no indication that he regrets his actions, but at least [[KnowWhenToFoldThem he seems to be content with living a normal life after getting away with his trolling]]. In "The Problem With A Poo", he refuses to represent the similarly toxic Mr. Hankey on the grounds that it might land him in controversy, and he seems to be trying to mend his relationship with Kyle in "Help, My Teenager Hates Me!" onward.
-->'''Gerald:''' Look, I'm sorry, but I learned a long time ago that if you defend poop, you get stained.
-->'''Gerald:''' Look, I'm sorry, but I learned a long time ago that if you defend poop, you get stained.
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* BigSisterBully: To Stan, mostly in early seasons.
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* BigSisterBully: To Stan, mostly Stan. She punches him the face, throws him down a flight of stairs, flings around like a ragdoll, drops a TV on his head, throws him out a window, sets him on fire and douses him repeatedly (though that scene was deleted), and runs over with a lawnmower. This was phased out in early seasons.later seasons, though she still gives him the occasional gratuitous punch in the face every now and then.
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Misplaced Retribution: According to Stan, the reason Shelley is so harsh with him this episode is because she's upset that she got headgear at the dentist.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Even after their marriage has lost its spark and she now finds him "kind of shitty", she still has her moments with Randy, and she's always happy to please him and appreciates it when he ties to do something for her. Examples are "The Cissy", "Tweek X Craig", "PC Principal's Final Justice", a disturbingly dark version in "Dead Kids", "Return of Covid", "The Streaming Wars", "Japanese Toilet", and "Not Suitable For Children".
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Even after their marriage has lost its spark and she now finds him "kind of shitty", she still has her moments with Randy, and she's always happy to please him and appreciates it when he ties to do something for her. Examples are "Informative Murder Porn", "The Cissy", "Tweek X Craig", "PC Principal's Final Justice", a disturbingly dark version in "Dead Kids", "Return of Covid", "The Streaming Wars", "Japanese Toilet", and "Not Suitable For Children".
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In TheMovie, she describes Stan as "a picture perfect child" who is tender, mild, and with a sweet and sure heart, and an open and pure mind, which is why she trusts him to watch the ''Terrance & Phillip'' movie on his own (albeit not knowing it was R Rated). Though Stan is far from a bad kid, the movie does cause him to become more foul-mouthed and bratty than he already was, and his SkewedPriorities regarding Wendy later in the movie (only forming the resistance to impress her) show that he's not the goody two-shoes she paints him as.
* ParentsAsPeople: Though she's the mom of the century in comparison to the parents of the other main boys, she's far from perfect herself, and often makes decisions that despite being reasonable on paper, end up making things worse for Stan due to taking them to extreme levels. She also occasionally takes out her issues with Randy on the kids, and lets him call the shots a little ''too'' much. The revelation that she smokes his infamous weed in secret also adds a layer of hedonism as to why she doesn't leave Randy despite it being the best for the kids.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: She's become so accustomed to Randy's antics that she's become as apathetic as her son. Though she still shows some degree of concern over his declining sanity, her default reaction to his ComedicSociopathy is to nag at him, such as when he bombs their former neighbors' yards in "Mexican Joker" and in response she calls him a towel, which he's ''greatly'' offended by.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: She's become so accustomed to Randy's antics that she's become as apathetic as her son. Though she still shows some degree of concern over his declining sanity, her default reaction to his ComedicSociopathy is to simply nag at him, him and then move on, such as when he bombs their former neighbors' yards in "Mexican Joker" and in response she calls him a towel, which he's ''greatly'' offended by.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: He and his wife try to rescue Mr. Denkins' pony and take it to a shelter when their son informs them that it had been abused by its owner. Jack even pets it before trying to take it.
* GoodParents: He loved Scott very much and the latter completely returned the sentiment. His and his wife's brutal deaths due to Cartman's actions completely break the boy.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He always takes his son Scott at his word, despite the teenager being a callous bully and manipulator.
* GoodParents: He loved Scott very much and the latter completely returned the sentiment. His and his wife's brutal deaths due to Cartman's actions completely break the boy.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He always takes his son Scott at his word, despite the teenager being a callous bully and manipulator.
* KarmicDeath: He was indirectly killed by his bastard son whom he had by cheating on his wife and whom he abandoned despite knowing with full certainty that he was the legitimate dad since "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" at the very latest, with the town agreeing to cover up for him to avoid drama.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Trying to rescue Mr. Denkins' allegedly abused pony is what gets him and his wife killed and turned to chilli. What's worse, it was all part of Cartman's BatmanGambit against his son.
* TooDumbToLive: When Scott tells him and his wife that Mr. Denkins is abusing his pony by starving it to death, instead of asking Mr. Denkins what's going on or calling the authorities, they stupidly sneak onto Mr. Denkins' ranch to rescue the pony, with Mr. Tenorman even holding ''a flashlight''. It's really no surprise he doesn't make it three steps before he gets a row of buckshot to the face.
* NiceGirl: Despite her tough family life, she's a massive sweetheart who loves Kenny and wants to make friends with the other kids.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She's the only member of her family who isn't a foul-mouthed alcoholic or drug user, though Kenny is willing to put his hedonistic tendencies to rest to care for her.
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* AloofBigBrother: He had a laugh with Kenny on occasion but besides that he does not seem to get involved with his siblings. siblings, and unlike Kenny, doesn't seem to look out for Karen much.
* DisownedSibling: "Post Covid" seems to imply that Kenny disowned him as an adult as Kevin is shown to maintain his rugged appearance despite Kenny being a millionaire in the future, though it doesn't stop him from being first line at his funeral.
* DisownedSibling: "Post Covid" seems to imply that Kenny disowned him as an adult as Kevin is shown to maintain his rugged appearance despite Kenny being a millionaire in the future, though it doesn't stop him from being first line at his funeral.
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* HatesTheirParent: He's prone to picking fights with his dad, throwing bottles and bricks at his face several times while insulting him.
* HiddenDepths: Kevin is implied to like hockey, as he is seen wearing a Colorado Avalanche sweater during Kenny's wake and funeral in "Post Covid".
* HypocriteHasAPoint: In "The Poor Kid", he calls Stuart "a drunk piece of shit", only for Carol to point out that he's a violent alcoholic as well. However, Stuart is the bigger culprit of the two since he's Kevin's father, and thus should be responsible for what his pre-teen son is drinking. Realistically, despite the two of them exchanging equal blows during their fight, the police arrest only the parents for being "white trash".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's got quite the temper on him, and can be as trashy as his parents, but he always assists Kenny's funerals and is often distraught at his brother's many deaths.
* HiddenDepths: Kevin is implied to like hockey, as he is seen wearing a Colorado Avalanche sweater during Kenny's wake and funeral in "Post Covid".
* HypocriteHasAPoint: In "The Poor Kid", he calls Stuart "a drunk piece of shit", only for Carol to point out that he's a violent alcoholic as well. However, Stuart is the bigger culprit of the two since he's Kevin's father, and thus should be responsible for what his pre-teen son is drinking. Realistically, despite the two of them exchanging equal blows during their fight, the police arrest only the parents for being "white trash".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's got quite the temper on him, and can be as trashy as his parents, but he always assists Kenny's funerals and is often distraught at his brother's many deaths.
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* SiblingRivalry: {{Downplayed}} between him and Kenny. Though they share the occasional laugh, most of their interactions involve them fighting or being apathetic to each other's plights, and Kenny doesn't have as much sympathy for him as he does for Karen, possibly on account of his alcoholism.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Though he's likely TooDesperateToBePicky, he always insists on having the first waffle of the family, and once he gets his hands on one, he refuses to share.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Though he's likely TooDesperateToBePicky, he always insists on having the first waffle of the family, and once he gets his hands on one, he refuses to share.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Even in episodes where she holds the JerkassBall, she never sinks to Randy's lows, and oftentimes her worst moments come from agreeing with him or other characters on a particularly stupid course of action to deal with an issue.
-->'''Randy:''' ''[while banishing Stan from the town]'' This is breaking your mother's heart, Stan. [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency She couldn't even help tie you to the horse.]]
-->'''Randy:''' ''[while banishing Stan from the town]'' This is breaking your mother's heart, Stan. [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency She couldn't even help tie you to the horse.]]
* KickTheDog: In "Clubhouses", she deals with her AwfulWeddedLife by dumping it all on Stan, then lashes out at him when he asks for a cookie in turn.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Though always well-intentioned, some of her parenting actions regarding Stan can be a tad... questionable. Stark examples are: hiding several dead bodies that she thought he had murdered and then kidnapping officer Barbrady out of paranoia when he arrives at her home to investigate, helping start a war on his behalf, abandoning him to protect him from being kidnapped by either Randy or herself, and hiring a man to play as his FutureLoser self to scare him into thinking more about his future.
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* BlackComedyRape: He has sex with both a street dog named Sylvester and Clyde's dog Rex, leaving them both whimpering and yelping as they scurry away.
* LovableSexManiac: Sparky may have a tendency to hump every male dog he sees, but he's still a good boy. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as he's a dog.
* ShooTheDog: An unintentional example. In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Stan complains that he doesn't want a gay dog like Sparky, but a butch dog. Sparky overhears this outside Stan's house through his window, so he digs under the fence and runs away, sighing at how his owner rejected him for his sexuality.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He completely stops appearing with the Marshes after Season 20's "The End of Serialization As We Know It", barring a small cameo in a family photo in Season 23's "Season Finale", which implies he was brought to Tegridy Farms. However, in Season 25's "Help, My Teenager Hates Me!", Stan makes a comment about how he "had" a dog that was gay, implying he no longer lives with them.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He completely stops appearing with the Marshes after Season 20's "The End of Serialization As We Know It", barring a small cameo in a family photo in Season 23's "Season Finale", which implies he was brought to Tegridy Farms. However, in Season 25's "Help, My Teenager Hates Me!", Stan makes a comment about how he "had" a dog that was gay, implying he no longer lives with them.
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{{Jerkass}}: Since he gave up on life long ago, he deliberately makes himself an insufferable asshole to everyone he encounters, especially Stan. When Stan finally decides to help kill him, he doesn't give him an ounce of sympathy, instead yelling at him to cut to the chase and kill him already. He comes to a JerkassRealization later in the episode thanks to a lecture from his own grandfather's ghost.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Since he gave up on life long ago, he deliberately makes himself an insufferable asshole to everyone he encounters, especially Stan. When Stan finally decides to help kill him, he doesn't give him an ounce of sympathy, instead yelling at him to cut to the chase and kill him already. He comes to a JerkassRealization later in the episode thanks to a lecture from his own grandfather's ghost.
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* AntiHero: In "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig" despite being a vicious and relentless bully, Shelley puts an end to Stan's unstable clone's rampage by knocking him out, and later sticks up for Stan when his parents accuse him of being the perpetrator of the rampage.
* DisproportionateRetribution: All Stan needs to do to trigger Shelley's violent side is stare at her headgear and neck-brace respectively. Sometimes he doesn't even need to do that.
* TheDreaded: Stan is uneasy at home because of her, and his friends are also scared shitless of her, with Cartman's boastful attitude crumbling when she's within earshot, and Kenny shuddering when she appears. In "Pre-School", Stan deems her more scary and tough than Trent Boyett, who is nothing if not dreaded himself.
* TheDreaded: Stan is uneasy at home because of her, and his friends are also scared shitless of her, with Cartman's boastful attitude crumbling when she's within earshot, and Kenny shuddering when she appears. In "Pre-School", Stan deems her more scary and tough than Trent Boyett, who is nothing if not dreaded himself.
** In "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" she shows genuine hesitation when Stan tells her that he loves her in an attempt to stop her from caving his face in. It doesn't work, and a deleted scene shows that she overcompensated for this moment of weakness, but still counts. It comes up again when she sees him cry over the fear of being sent away by his parents for the destruction caused by his clone, and sticks up for him by saying that he was with her the whole time, saving him from being punished (even if she later administers him a punishment of her own).
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* KarmaHoudini: She regularly gets away with her bullying. "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" marks the only time in the show that Stan gets effective revenge on her.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In ''Stick of Truth'' where she's one of the enemies of the game which can be defeated.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In ''Stick of Truth'' where she's one of the enemies of the game which can be defeated.
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** "The Wacky Molestation Adventure"marks the only time in the show that Stan he gets effective revenge on her.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:her framed for molestation and arrested.
** In ''Stick of Truth''where she's one of the enemies of the game which can be defeated.defeated, with ''Stan'' as a companion, no less.
** She also gets this of the darkest variety in "Post Covid", where its revealed that Stan accidentally burned her alive while starting a fire in Tegridy Farms to spite Randy.
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** She also gets this of the darkest variety in "Post Covid", where its revealed that Stan accidentally burned her alive while starting a fire in Tegridy Farms to spite Randy.
Misplaced Retribution: According to Stan, the reason Shelley is so harsh with him this episode is because she's upset that she got headgear at the dentist.
* AntiHero: Though they're trigger-happy poachers, they become quite useful when mutant turkeys start invading the town, and later when the Canadians launch a surprise attack them in TheMovie.
* BookDumb: Jimbo proudly declares himself to be a South Park Elementary alum, since that was as far as most of the town got.
* TheCorrupter: Albeit unintentionally. Jimbo not only gives the boys high-power rifles for hunting, but he also gives them beer (because, after all, what's hunting without it?). He also teaches them illegal hunting tactics, including catching fish with explosives. In the end, his influence causes Stan to shoot Scuzzlebutt in cold blood.
* DreadfulMusician: Though Ned's rendition Kumbaya is enough to drive Jimbo to tears, neither of the two can hit a high F to save their lives, with Ned being particularly bad at it due to his laryngeal cancer. Ned is also quite bad at singing ''Radiohead'' songs.
* DreadfulMusician: Though Ned's rendition Kumbaya is enough to drive Jimbo to tears, neither of the two can hit a high F to save their lives, with Ned being particularly bad at it due to his laryngeal cancer. Ned is also quite bad at singing ''Radiohead'' songs.
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* HiddenDepths: As manly as he presents himself as, Jimbo openly cries at Ned's cover of "Kumbaya".
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* GoneHorriblyRight: In early seasons, Jimbo was an expert at accomplishing his goals only after he had changed his mind on them.
** He spends most of "Volcano" trying to man Stan up by taking him on hunting, constantly egging him on to shoot several forest animals, and pushing him aside in favor of Kenny when this doesn't work. This backfires on him when he befriends Scuzzlebutt only for Stan to shoot him thinking it would make him proud.
** In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", he tries to ensure that South Park beats the spread (snice he convinced the town to bet a lot of money on his nephew) by strapping a bomb to the opposing team's horse mascot, set to go off during half time when Richard Stamos hits his high F during his cover of "Loving You". Since Stamos is a DreadfulMusician, the bomb doesn't go off, but Stan beats the spread against Middle Park anyway, saving Jimbo's hide. Unfortunately, Stamos learns his high F at the end of the episode, causing the bomb to go off long after the game.
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** Ned seems to know "Radiohead", and knows their songs by heart. Pity he has laryngeal cancer.
** He spends most of "Volcano" trying to man Stan up by taking him on hunting, constantly egging him on to shoot several forest animals, and pushing him aside in favor of Kenny when this doesn't work. This backfires on him when he befriends Scuzzlebutt only for Stan to shoot him thinking it would make him proud.
** In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", he tries to ensure that South Park beats the spread (snice he convinced the town to bet a lot of money on his nephew) by strapping a bomb to the opposing team's horse mascot, set to go off during half time when Richard Stamos hits his high F during his cover of "Loving You". Since Stamos is a DreadfulMusician, the bomb doesn't go off, but Stan beats the spread against Middle Park anyway, saving Jimbo's hide. Unfortunately, Stamos learns his high F at the end of the episode, causing the bomb to go off long after the game.
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** Ned seems to know "Radiohead", and knows their songs by heart. Pity he has laryngeal cancer.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Jimbo turned out to be correct in that Stan would be the one to beat the spread against Middle Park, though he himself wasn't sure of it at first. This saves him from being beaten up by the townsfolk whom he got to bet on him.
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** Jimbo calling Stan a tree-hugger and a pansy, and Dope-Slapping him when he refuses to shoot Scuzzlebutt (actually Cartman in disguise) in"Volcano"."Volcano".
** In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Jimbo tries to ensure the victory of Stan's football team by planting a booby-trap the opposing team's horse mascot. He also casually remarks at one point that they usually kidnap said mascot during the finals, just to spite ''Middle Park''.
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** In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Jimbo tries to ensure the victory of Stan's football team by planting a booby-trap the opposing team's horse mascot. He also casually remarks at one point that they usually kidnap said mascot during the finals, just to spite ''Middle Park''.
* MusicalTrigger: In order to ensure South Park Cows beat the spread against Middle Park during a football game, Jimbo straps a bomb on the opposing team's mascot, set to go off when the high F of "Loving You" is sung during halftime. Unfortunately, the singer (John Stamos' less talented brother, Richard Stamos) can't hit the high F and the plan fails. And then at the end, after the game is over, he manages to sing the high F and the bomb goes off.
* SelfDefenseRuse: In order to get around hunting restrictions, Jimbo always shouts "It's coming right for us!" before shooting an animal.
* SmugSnake: In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Jimbo boasts about his nephews proficiency at football to the entire town, causing them to cast their vote on him. When the bucks start piling up, Jimbo starts worrying that Stan might not be as good as Jimbo claimed, and attempts a contingency plan to avoid getting the town on his ass if they fail.
* SmugSnake: In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Jimbo boasts about his nephews proficiency at football to the entire town, causing them to cast their vote on him. When the bucks start piling up, Jimbo starts worrying that Stan might not be as good as Jimbo claimed, and attempts a contingency plan to avoid getting the town on his ass if they fail.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They hunt using Napalm, bazookas, explosives, and flamethrowers.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They hunt using Napalm, bazookas, explosives, and flamethrowers. In "Volcano", Jimbo kills a deer by blowing it up with a bazooka. He also tries this with Cartman by shooting him with a pair of twin shoulder rockets, but Cartman dives out of the way.
* ToughLove: Jimbo believes that in order to man-up Stan, he needs to learn how to hunt despite his complaints, and he's quite abrasive to him when his advice is ignored. As it turns out, his influence messes up the boy in ways he couldn't have imagined, though he seems to have snapped out of it after "Volcano".
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** In "Volcano" Jimbo tries to man Stan up by forcing him into hunting. This ends up with Stan shooting Scuzzlebutt, the only creature Jimbo didn't want him to shoot, much to his horror.
** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", they are the ones who teach Cartman to aim for his target's weaknesses during his war with Scott Tenorman. [[spoiler:This costs the latter boy his parents' lives.]]
** In "Volcano" Jimbo tries to man Stan up by forcing him into hunting. This ends up with Stan shooting Scuzzlebutt, the only creature Jimbo didn't want him to shoot, much to his horror.
** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", they are the ones who teach Cartman to aim for his target's weaknesses during his war with Scott Tenorman. [[spoiler:This costs the latter boy his parents' lives.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: In Jimbo's eyes, Scuzzlebutt threads the line between human and animal because he saved their lives.
* TheWorfEffect: They're experts in reducing all kinds of animals to ashes, but when Manbearpig shows up in their hunting ground, he [[NoSell No-Sells]] Jimbo's attack and makes Ned his bitch.
* TheWorfEffect: They're experts in reducing all kinds of animals to ashes, but when Manbearpig shows up in their hunting ground, he [[NoSell No-Sells]] Jimbo's attack and makes Ned his bitch.
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* HypocriticalHumor: He gets upset when his grandfather calls him "Billy", despite having been doing the same to his own grandson for years.
* ItsAllAboutMe: All he wanted to do throughout "Death" is to die, and he didn't care how much he had to traumatize his own grandson to accomplish it. At one point he even locked him in a dark room and forces him to listen to Enya music as motivation. He also didn't show any concern for the boys' lives when they're being chased by Death, instead being mad that Death isn't coming for him. His own grandfather, who made the same mistake as him years before, calls him out on this.
-->'''Great-Great-Grandpa Marsh:''' You're so obsessed with ending your life, you're not thinking about what you're doing to his. You must wait to die of natural causes.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Throughout "Death", he needs Stan to help him kill himself because he's "too damn old" to do it himself. Being bound to a wheelchair doesn't help.
{{Jerkass}}: Since he gave up on life long ago, he deliberately makes himself an insufferable asshole to everyone he encounters, especially Stan. When Stan finally decides to help kill him, he doesn't give him an ounce of sympathy, instead yelling at him to cut to the chase and kill him already. He comes to a JerkassRealization later in the episode thanks to a lecture from his own grandfather's ghost.
* JerkassRealization: After his grandfather's ghost appears to apologize to him and help him open his eyes, he realizes how selfish he had been putting his own grandson in the traumatizing scenario of helping him kill himself, and vows to die of natural causes from then on.
* ItsAllAboutMe: All he wanted to do throughout "Death" is to die, and he didn't care how much he had to traumatize his own grandson to accomplish it. At one point he even locked him in a dark room and forces him to listen to Enya music as motivation. He also didn't show any concern for the boys' lives when they're being chased by Death, instead being mad that Death isn't coming for him. His own grandfather, who made the same mistake as him years before, calls him out on this.
-->'''Great-Great-Grandpa Marsh:''' You're so obsessed with ending your life, you're not thinking about what you're doing to his. You must wait to die of natural causes.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Throughout "Death", he needs Stan to help him kill himself because he's "too damn old" to do it himself. Being bound to a wheelchair doesn't help.
{{Jerkass}}: Since he gave up on life long ago, he deliberately makes himself an insufferable asshole to everyone he encounters, especially Stan. When Stan finally decides to help kill him, he doesn't give him an ounce of sympathy, instead yelling at him to cut to the chase and kill him already. He comes to a JerkassRealization later in the episode thanks to a lecture from his own grandfather's ghost.
* JerkassRealization: After his grandfather's ghost appears to apologize to him and help him open his eyes, he realizes how selfish he had been putting his own grandson in the traumatizing scenario of helping him kill himself, and vows to die of natural causes from then on.
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* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: After failing to convince Stan to kill him in "Death", he tries to get Cartman angry enough to kill him by taunting him about how he had sex with his mother and his dead great-grandmother.
* TookALevelInKindness: After being reprimanded by his own grandpa, though he reamained bitter and depressed, he became a lot nicer to his nephew, and got a lot closer to the "silly grandpa" image Randy and Sharon had of him.
* TookALevelInKindness: After being reprimanded by his own grandpa, though he reamained bitter and depressed, he became a lot nicer to his nephew, and got a lot closer to the "silly grandpa" image Randy and Sharon had of him.
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* WhenIWasYourAge: A particularly disturbing example. He killed his own suicidal grandfather when he was a kid, and when ''he'' started feeling suicidal, he's upset with Stan for not doing the same.
-->'''Marvin:''' What has America's youth come to? Kids won't even kill their own grandparents.
-->'''Marvin:''' What has America's youth come to? Kids won't even kill their own grandparents.
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* AccidentalMurder: In "Volcano", Ned accidentally kills Kenny when he drops his gun to the snow and the impact causes it to fire, hitting Kenny in the chest.
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* AmusingInjuries: Ned is prone to this:
** In "Volcano", he's set on fire after pouring gasoline on the campfire, "the old Indian fire trick" as Jimbo calls it. Cartman cooks his weenies on Ned as he was rolling in the ground. Two scenes later, he's completely recovered.
** In "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", he's rendered comatose when the eponymous frog (actually a fake created by the boys to prank him and Jimbo) stares at him, thinking he was going to die. Though Jimbo takes the possible loss of his friend with complete seriousness, the episode doesn't, and later Cartman hits him in the head with a chair to spice up the talk show they were in as per the producer's request. As expected, he goes back to normal soon enough.
** In "Time to Get Cereal", it's ZigZagged, as Manbearpig gorging him and carrying him away isn't played for laughs at all, with the episode never revealing if he survived. 4 episodes later, he's seen attending a bike parade, confined to a wheelchair, covered in nasty marks, and connected to an UV, but still happy to smoke some Tegridy Weed.
* BlatantLies: Their PreMortemOneLiner "It's coming right for us" before they blow the head out of any unsuspecting animal. It's so blatant that by Season 2 they can't use it anymore and can only justify their mass poaching as a pragmatic act to "thin out their numbers" (even if they're endangered species).
* ButtMonkey: As if Ned wasn't messed up enough (having a missing arm and a laryngectomy), he's set of fire, rendered comatose, and mauled by Manbearpig.
** In "Volcano", he's set on fire after pouring gasoline on the campfire, "the old Indian fire trick" as Jimbo calls it. Cartman cooks his weenies on Ned as he was rolling in the ground. Two scenes later, he's completely recovered.
** In "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", he's rendered comatose when the eponymous frog (actually a fake created by the boys to prank him and Jimbo) stares at him, thinking he was going to die. Though Jimbo takes the possible loss of his friend with complete seriousness, the episode doesn't, and later Cartman hits him in the head with a chair to spice up the talk show they were in as per the producer's request. As expected, he goes back to normal soon enough.
** In "Time to Get Cereal", it's ZigZagged, as Manbearpig gorging him and carrying him away isn't played for laughs at all, with the episode never revealing if he survived. 4 episodes later, he's seen attending a bike parade, confined to a wheelchair, covered in nasty marks, and connected to an UV, but still happy to smoke some Tegridy Weed.
* BlatantLies: Their PreMortemOneLiner "It's coming right for us" before they blow the head out of any unsuspecting animal. It's so blatant that by Season 2 they can't use it anymore and can only justify their mass poaching as a pragmatic act to "thin out their numbers" (even if they're endangered species).
* ButtMonkey: As if Ned wasn't messed up enough (having a missing arm and a laryngectomy), he's set of fire, rendered comatose, and mauled by Manbearpig.
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* DopeSlap: Jimbo gives Stan one of these in "Volcano" when he refuses to shoot Scuzzlebut (in reality, Cartman in disguise).
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* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Be it "in self-defense" or "to thin out their numbers" they always find an excuse to brutally kill wild animals in the most over-the-top ways.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Jimbo is a trigger-happy lunatic, but he has a series of hunting rules that he abides by, don't ever walk with your gun unless the safety's on, don't shoot anything that looks human, and never spill your beer in the bullet chamber. The second one also triggers a Jerkass Realization when he realizes that the creature that he was about to shoot was in actuality Cartman in disguise. In "Cow Days", he's legit horrified when the cows commit a suicide en masse.
* FireOfComfort: Jimbo is fond of these, complete with Ned's rendition of "Kumbaya". He even starts bonding with Kenny during one of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Jimbo is a trigger-happy lunatic, but he has a series of hunting rules that he abides by, don't ever walk with your gun unless the safety's on, don't shoot anything that looks human, and never spill your beer in the bullet chamber. The second one also triggers a Jerkass Realization when he realizes that the creature that he was about to shoot was in actuality Cartman in disguise. In "Cow Days", he's legit horrified when the cows commit a suicide en masse.
* FireOfComfort: Jimbo is fond of these, complete with Ned's rendition of "Kumbaya". He even starts bonding with Kenny during one of them.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Jimbo spends most of "Volcano" trying to man Stan up by taking him on hunting, constantly egging him on to shoot several forest animals, and pushing him aside in favor of Kenny when this doesn't work. This backfires on him when he befriends Scuzzlebutt only for Stan to shoot him thinking it would make him proud.
* HiddenDepths: As manly as he presents himself as, Jimbo openly cries at Ned's cover of "Kumbaya".
* HonoraryUncle: After bonding with him, Jimbo makes Kenny his "honorary nephew". At the end, however, he tells Stan that he will always be his nephew (and besides, Kenny is dead by this point).
* HypocriticalHumor: While scolding Stan for shooting Scuzzlebutt when it saved them, Jimbo also tells him that he can't just shoot at anything, despite the fact he and Ned's been doing just that whenever they come across an animal throughout the episode. Earlier, Jimbo seemed to have almost learnt this lesson after nearly shooting Cartman dressed up as Scuzzlebutt, but the volcano's sudden eruption cuts him off.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Jimbo forms one with Kenny when he proves to be the nephew he wanted Stan to be. Eventually, he confesses to Stan that it doesn't have to mean that Stan isn't his nephew anymore.
* {{Jerkass}}: In early seasons, Jimbo was one of the bigger assholes of the show, trying to force his nephew to drink alcohol and kill animals when he clearly didn't want to, laughing at his best friend Ned when he accidentally sets himself on fire, and recklessly poaches animals for sport. He has a JerkassRealization when he comes close to accidentally killing one of Stan's friends while he was disguised as a creature, and later patches things up with Stan.
* JerkassRealization: Both have one in "Volcano" after Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, and while it takes some more to fully become better people, they do mellow out a lot throughout the seasons afterwards.
** Jimbo has one when he realizes that had Stan followed his order to shoot Scuzzlebutt, Cartman would be dead. He has an even bigger one when he sees that he pushed Stan to the point where he killed the real Scuzzlebutt (who turned out to be a Gentle Giant) to make him proud, meaning that the creature's death is on him.
** Ned also has one when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, vowing to never touch a gun again in his life to prevent any more needless deaths. Unfortunately, when he drops his gun, it fires and kills a passing Kenny.
* KarmaHoudini: Though they have two separate [[JerkassRealization Jerkass Realization]] in "Volcano", Jimbo and Ned don't face any repercussions for all the animals they illegally killed, using the Self-Defense Ruse to wash their hands off the issue. Ned also doesn't face any scrutiny for accidentally killing Kenny, nor does Jimbo for endangering and corrupting his nephew and his friends by with his dangerous habits.
* KickTheDog: Jimbo calling Stan a tree-hugger and a pansy, and Dope-Slapping him when he refuses to shoot Scuzzlebutt (actually Cartman in disguise) in "Volcano".
* HiddenDepths: As manly as he presents himself as, Jimbo openly cries at Ned's cover of "Kumbaya".
* HonoraryUncle: After bonding with him, Jimbo makes Kenny his "honorary nephew". At the end, however, he tells Stan that he will always be his nephew (and besides, Kenny is dead by this point).
* HypocriticalHumor: While scolding Stan for shooting Scuzzlebutt when it saved them, Jimbo also tells him that he can't just shoot at anything, despite the fact he and Ned's been doing just that whenever they come across an animal throughout the episode. Earlier, Jimbo seemed to have almost learnt this lesson after nearly shooting Cartman dressed up as Scuzzlebutt, but the volcano's sudden eruption cuts him off.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Jimbo forms one with Kenny when he proves to be the nephew he wanted Stan to be. Eventually, he confesses to Stan that it doesn't have to mean that Stan isn't his nephew anymore.
* {{Jerkass}}: In early seasons, Jimbo was one of the bigger assholes of the show, trying to force his nephew to drink alcohol and kill animals when he clearly didn't want to, laughing at his best friend Ned when he accidentally sets himself on fire, and recklessly poaches animals for sport. He has a JerkassRealization when he comes close to accidentally killing one of Stan's friends while he was disguised as a creature, and later patches things up with Stan.
* JerkassRealization: Both have one in "Volcano" after Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, and while it takes some more to fully become better people, they do mellow out a lot throughout the seasons afterwards.
** Jimbo has one when he realizes that had Stan followed his order to shoot Scuzzlebutt, Cartman would be dead. He has an even bigger one when he sees that he pushed Stan to the point where he killed the real Scuzzlebutt (who turned out to be a Gentle Giant) to make him proud, meaning that the creature's death is on him.
** Ned also has one when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, vowing to never touch a gun again in his life to prevent any more needless deaths. Unfortunately, when he drops his gun, it fires and kills a passing Kenny.
* KarmaHoudini: Though they have two separate [[JerkassRealization Jerkass Realization]] in "Volcano", Jimbo and Ned don't face any repercussions for all the animals they illegally killed, using the Self-Defense Ruse to wash their hands off the issue. Ned also doesn't face any scrutiny for accidentally killing Kenny, nor does Jimbo for endangering and corrupting his nephew and his friends by with his dangerous habits.
* KickTheDog: Jimbo calling Stan a tree-hugger and a pansy, and Dope-Slapping him when he refuses to shoot Scuzzlebutt (actually Cartman in disguise) in "Volcano".
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* AntiVillain: In TheMovie, she refused to take accountability for letting Stan watch ''Terrance & Phillip'' movie and becoming more crude as a result, instead blaming it all on Canada for allowing such movies to be made. She then becomes an active member of M.A.C, and helps Sheila arrest the eponymous duo. However, she's horrified after witnessing the catastrophic results of her actions, and quits the group to find Stan before he gets hurt.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Even after their marriage has lost its spark and she now finds him "kind of shitty", she still has her moments with Randy, and she's always happy to please him and appreciates it when he ties to do something for her. Examples are "The Cissy", "Tweek X Craig", "PC Principal's Final Justice", a disturbingly dark version in "Dead Kids", "Return of Covid", "The Streaming Wars", "Japanese Toilet", and "Not Suitable For Children".
* BrokenBird: Shelley's death at the unwilling hands of Stan, combined with Randy's increasing [[JerkAss Jerkassery]], led to her putting a bullet in her temple a day after the former's funeral. This doesn't happen in the revised future, where Shelley is still alive and Randy is a much better husband to her.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: The sixth graders recognize Stan's mom as having "the sweetest bewbs ever" (though they must not be ''that'' impressive if they manage to mistake a picture of Cartman's ass with nipples drawn on them for a topless photo of her), and her 3,100 [=OnlyFans=] subscribers (and Butters) seem to agree. As to Randy, he's usually more interested in what she can do with her hands or her mouth, but he's still into them.
-->'''Randy:''' ''[to Stan; regarding Bebe]'' I know you think this set of boobs is important now, but those boobs will be replaced by another set of boobs. Boobs will come and go, and then, someday, ''[places his hand on Sharon's shoulder]'' you'll meet a pair of boobs that you want to marry. And those become the boobs that matter the most.\\
'''Sharon:''' I love you.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: The sixth graders recognize Stan's mom as having "the sweetest bewbs ever" (though they must not be ''that'' impressive if they manage to mistake a picture of Cartman's ass with nipples drawn on them for a topless photo of her), and her 3,100 [=OnlyFans=] subscribers (and Butters) seem to agree. As to Randy, he's usually more interested in what she can do with her hands or her mouth, but he's still into them.
-->'''Randy:''' ''[to Stan; regarding Bebe]'' I know you think this set of boobs is important now, but those boobs will be replaced by another set of boobs. Boobs will come and go, and then, someday, ''[places his hand on Sharon's shoulder]'' you'll meet a pair of boobs that you want to marry. And those become the boobs that matter the most.\\
'''Sharon:''' I love you.
* GoodParents: Mostly in comparison to the other South Park parents, but she still does her best to ensure her kids are happy and receive the attention and education they need. She's also generally stern but fair with Stan, and goes to great lengths for his safety, even covering up murders that she thought he had caused in "Spookyfish".
* HystericalWoman: Generally {{Subverted}}. While she does lose her temper on occasion, she's quite level-headed for someone married to Randy. However, Randy always dismisses her as this when she complains about something.
-->'''Sharon:''' Randy, they announced on the news there's been another school shooting in Jefferson County!\\
'''Randy:''' Okay, Sharon. Cool.\\
'''Sharon:''' What is "cool" about that?!\\
'''Randy:''' Nuh-nothing. I love you, sweetheart.\\
'''Sharon:''' GOD! ''[walks off]''\\
'''Randy:''' ''[to his friends]'' I don't know. I don't know how much more of this I can take. It's like, I turn on the TV and dread they'll say something about a school shooting because it's gonna set my wife off!
-->'''Sharon:''' Randy, they announced on the news there's been another school shooting in Jefferson County!\\
'''Randy:''' Okay, Sharon. Cool.\\
'''Sharon:''' What is "cool" about that?!\\
'''Randy:''' Nuh-nothing. I love you, sweetheart.\\
'''Sharon:''' GOD! ''[walks off]''\\
'''Randy:''' ''[to his friends]'' I don't know. I don't know how much more of this I can take. It's like, I turn on the TV and dread they'll say something about a school shooting because it's gonna set my wife off!
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: She shares Stan's emotional intelligence, tendency to get burnt out easily, desire to stay away from drama and confrontation, and a smattering of his basic habits, right down to both of them pinching their noses and shutting their eyes in frustration and Sharon vomiting all over Randy in "Splatty Tomato" similar to how Stan would do to Wendy in the earliest episodes.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: JerkassBall: Like her son, she's overall a good-natured person but has no shortage of NotSoAboveItAll moments, sometimes being as neglectful and abrasive as Randy. According to the latter, she acts bitchy and hysterical once a month when her aunt Flo drops by... or when she's on her period.
* LikeParentLikeChild: She shares Stan's emotional intelligence, tendency to get burnt out easily, desire to stay away from drama and confrontation, and a smattering of his basic habits, right down to both of them pinching their noses and shutting their eyes in frustration and Sharon vomiting all over Randy in "Splatty Tomato" similar to how Stan would do to Wendy in the earliest episodes.
* LikeParentLikeChild: She shares Stan's emotional intelligence, tendency to get burnt out easily, desire to stay away from drama and confrontation, and a smattering of his basic habits, right down to both of them pinching their noses and shutting their eyes in frustration and Sharon vomiting all over Randy in "Splatty Tomato" similar to how Stan would do to Wendy in the earliest episodes.
* MenstrualMenace: {{Subverted}} in "Dead Kids", where the town interpret her increasing and justified concerns over school shootings as her going through menopause (as they're [[CrapsackWorld such a common occurrence]] that they're baffled that she's not used to it by then). DoubleSubverted at the end, as it turns out she ''was'' having her period during that time, and the next day, she actually ''apologizes'' to Randy for being unreasonable, and when Stan gets shot at school that same day, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight she finally acknowledges that it's not the end of the world]].
-->'''Paramedic:''' You see Mr. Marsh, menopause is almost like a super period, and it's been known to last... for up to two years.\\
'''Randy:''' ''[trembling]'' Oh my God!
* NiceGirl: She's dependable and patient to a degree, and serves as the straitlaced voice of reason among her family and friends. Though her marriage with Randy is quite strained, she's usually there to rein him in when he tends toward the absurd, and really does worry about him.
-->'''Paramedic:''' You see Mr. Marsh, menopause is almost like a super period, and it's been known to last... for up to two years.\\
'''Randy:''' ''[trembling]'' Oh my God!
* NiceGirl: She's dependable and patient to a degree, and serves as the straitlaced voice of reason among her family and friends. Though her marriage with Randy is quite strained, she's usually there to rein him in when he tends toward the absurd, and really does worry about him.
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: {{Downplayed}} in early seasons, where she wasn't a housewife per se (she worked at Tom's Rhinoplasty), but had a tendency to lash out at Randy, such as when she threw a plate at him during a political argument in "Douche and Turd", or when she nagged him about fixing the sink in "Clubhouse". In later seasons, it becomes {{Inverted}}, with Randy being the entitled and obnoxious one. Despite this, Randy still sees ''her'' as this.
-->'''Randy:''' My wife is crazy. If she finds out I started the pandemic, she's gonna be a total bitch about it.
-->'''Randy:''' My wife is crazy. If she finds out I started the pandemic, she's gonna be a total bitch about it.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Though it's not her [[DemotedToExtra losing focus]] as much as it is Randy [[SpotlightStealingSquad gaining it]], her default role in the series soon settled into "Randy's straightlaced wife". In the ''Tegridy Farms'' arc, despite being a major focus throughout, she was the only member of her family to never get ADayInTheLimelight, and she rarely interacted with her children about topics other than her husband's antics.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: She's named after Parker's mom, too.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: She's Similarly to the rest of The Marshes sans Stan, she's named after Trey Parker's mom, too.family member, namely his mom.
* UglyGuyHotWife: You wouldn't guess [[InformedAttribute by looking at her and Randy]], but their competition to see who has more [=OnlyFans=] followers are all the proof one needs. It becomes more apparent when they're in their underwear, as Randy is shown to be more pudgy and unappealing.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: She's become so accustomed to Randy's antics that she's become as apathetic as her son. Though she still shows some degree of concern over his declining sanity, her default reaction to his ComedicSociopathy is to nag at him, such as when he bombs their former neighbors' yards in "Mexican Joker" and in response she calls him a towel, which he's ''greatly'' offended by.
* UglyGuyHotWife: You wouldn't guess [[InformedAttribute by looking at her and Randy]], but their competition to see who has more [=OnlyFans=] followers are all the proof one needs. It becomes more apparent when they're in their underwear, as Randy is shown to be more pudgy and unappealing.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: She's become so accustomed to Randy's antics that she's become as apathetic as her son. Though she still shows some degree of concern over his declining sanity, her default reaction to his ComedicSociopathy is to nag at him, such as when he bombs their former neighbors' yards in "Mexican Joker" and in response she calls him a towel, which he's ''greatly'' offended by.
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->''"It's coming right for us!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt Stone]] (Jimbo Kern) and [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] (Ned Gerblansky)
->'''Jimbo voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Larry Villanueva (Seasons 1-2), Miguel Paneke (Seasons 3-7), Manolo Coego (Seasons 8-16 and 2007-2011 redubs), Orlando Noguera (Season 17), Jonathan Ramírez (Season 18 onwards and 2015 redub), Fabián Hernández (''The Fractured But Whole''), Martín Soto (Mexican dub), Carlos Hernández (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Esteban Desco (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Ned voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Larry Villanueva (Seasons 1-2), Miguel Paneke (Seasons 3-5), Alexander Otaola (2011 redub), Rómulo Bernal (Season 22 onwards and 2015 redub), Alejandro Mayén (Mexican dub), unknown (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rolando de la Fuente (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
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Stan's redneck Uncle (Jimbo Kern) and his old Vietnam war buddy (Ned Gerblansky) who lost his arm due to a grenade explosion and speaks with a voice box thanks to a laryngectomy he had to have for his throat cancer. They own the local gun store and love to go hunting.
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->''"It's coming right for us!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt Stone]] (Jimbo Kern) and [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] (Ned Gerblansky)
->'''Jimbo voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Larry Villanueva (Seasons 1-2), Miguel Paneke (Seasons 3-7), Manolo Coego (Seasons 8-16 and 2007-2011 redubs), Orlando Noguera (Season 17), Jonathan Ramírez (Season 18 onwards and 2015 redub), Fabián Hernández (''The Fractured But Whole''), Martín Soto (Mexican dub), Carlos Hernández (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Esteban Desco (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Ned voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Larry Villanueva (Seasons 1-2), Miguel Paneke (Seasons 3-5), Alexander Otaola (2011 redub), Rómulo Bernal (Season 22 onwards and 2015 redub), Alejandro Mayén (Mexican dub), unknown (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rolando de la Fuente (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
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Stan's redneck Uncle (Jimbo Kern) and his old Vietnam war buddy (Ned Gerblansky) who lost his arm due to a grenade explosion and speaks with a voice box thanks to a laryngectomy he had to have for his throat cancer. They own the local gun store and love to go hunting.
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->''"It's coming right for us!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:'''
->'''Jimbo voiced
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:'''
->'''Ned voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Larry Villanueva (Seasons 1-2), Miguel Paneke (Seasons 3-5), Alexander Otaola (2011 redub), Rómulo Bernal (Season 22 onwards and 2015 redub), Alejandro Mayén (Mexican dub), unknown (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rolando de la Fuente
->'''Debut:'''
Stan's
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Both have slept with women, but had quite a few HoYay moments, especially Jimbo.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: They've been considerably more calm and level-headed in later seasons (though granted this may be partially due to being OutOfFocus and are still among [[AdultsAreUseless the mindless panicking masses]] in South Park usually).
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Until Season 22, Ned pretty much vanished off the face of the Earth.
* {{Eagleland}}: Mostly Type II.
-->'''Jimbo:''' Oh boy! Military action, Ned. Let's kill us some god damned Australians!\\
'''Ned:''' I think we're fighting Canadians.\\
'''Jimbo:''' Canadians, Australians, what's the difference?
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Though there are some questions about Jimbo...
* LivingProp: Ned usually just stands there to make short comments via his voice box and hardly contributes to the plot.
* LoopholeAbuse: They often use phrases like "It's coming right for us!" and "Thin out their numbers!" in order to get around "pussy laws" regarding hunting.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Jimbo wholeheartedly believes this, which is why he tries to have the boys go with him on a hunt during one of their field trips. When Stan finds himself unable to shoot a bunny, Jimbo is quite disappointed.
* MoreDakka: See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below.
* NiceGuy: Uncle Jimbo, which isn't to say he can't mess up or do wrong from time to time, but overall he's one of the nicest adults on the show. In later episodes one could argue he's a better parental figure towards Stan than Randy is.
* OutOfFocus: Ned hasn't had much focus in later seasons, usually appearing in crowd scenes. He has not had a speaking role in the series since "Here Comes the Neighborhood". He has, however, had lines in the video games ''Let's Go Tower Defense Play!'' and ''[[VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth Stick of Truth]]'', indicating that Trey Parker is still capable of doing the voice.
* RefugeeFromTime: Possibly the reason they are OutOfFocus. They're Vietnam vets which means that at the youngest they'd be in their mid-60s by now. It was perfectly reasonable (albeit starting to push it) for this to be the case when the show started back in TheNineties, but considering that [[NotAllowedToGrowUp nobody has been allowed to age]] for the past two decades, this emerged. Alternatively, it may have been retconned or forgotten about but it would still be unlikely.
* {{Retcon}}: Matt Stone referred to Jimbo as Randy's half-brother in an interview. Come ''Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial'', Jimbo is now confirmed to be Sharon's brother.
* SatelliteCharacter: Ned.
* SpeechImpediment: Why Ned speaks with a voicebox, as he smoked in the past (as Jimbo put it, "he smoked so much he lost his trake").
* StraightGay: Implied, in the episode "It Hits the Fan", when Jimbo wasn't bleeped when he said the word "fag" when Mr. Garrison mentions gay people's NWordPrivileges when it comes to that particular word.
* TheGambler: In the early seasons, Jimbo gambled on everything he could no matter how inappropriate it was. Kids football games, the match between Jesus and Satan and a child's spelling bee. He even tried to manipulate events to ensure he won the bet on the kids football game.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They hunt using Napalm, bazookas, explosives, and flamethrowers.
* ThoseTwoGuys: More often than not, these two aren't seen separate, however, this seems to have changed in later seasons, with Ned being OutOfFocus and Jimbo making a solo cameo appearance in "World War Zimmerman".
* TrrrillingRrrs: In "Summer Sucks", Ned can somehow do this despite speaking through his voice box.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", they are the ones who teach Cartman to aim for his target's weaknesses during his war with Scott Tenorman. [[spoiler:This costs the latter boy his parents' lives.]]
* VocalEvolution: Ned's synthesized voice in "Volcano" was a lot more authentic-sounding, as opposed to later episodes where it became a highly transparent imitation.
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[[folder:Sparky]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GeorgeClooney
-> '''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E4BigGayAlsBigGayBoatRide Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride]]"
The Marsh family's dog, who is homosexual.
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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Sparky's EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he starts humping another male dog.
--> '''Cartman:''' He's not kicking his ass but he's definitely doing ''something'' to his ass.
* {{Gayngst}}: Sparky overhears Stan complaining about not wanting a gay dog, so he dejectedly runs away from home, which is how he meets Big Gay Al.
* MachoCamp: According to Stan, Sparky is half-wolf and half-doberman. He's also got a very effeminate fashion sense, wearing a pink scarf and at one point a rhinestone collar.
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[[folder:Shelley Marsh]]
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->''"I hate marijuana!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), Creator/AprilStewart (2004-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Vivian Ruiz (Seasons 1-3), Rossana Cicconi (Seasons 4 and 7-9, and 2007 redub), María Elena Heredia (Season 6), unknown (Season 11), Arianna López (Season 12 onwards and 2011 redub), Patricia Azan (2015 redub), Creator/RossyAguirre (Mexican dub and Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Claudia Aline (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]"
Stan's bitter older sister, who bullied him to ridiculous levels in the earlier seasons.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: They've been considerably more calm and level-headed in later seasons (though granted this may be partially due to being OutOfFocus and are still among [[AdultsAreUseless the mindless panicking masses]] in South Park usually).
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Until Season 22, Ned pretty much vanished off the face of the Earth.
* {{Eagleland}}: Mostly Type II.
-->'''Jimbo:''' Oh boy! Military action, Ned. Let's kill us some god damned Australians!\\
'''Ned:''' I think we're fighting Canadians.\\
'''Jimbo:''' Canadians, Australians, what's the difference?
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Though there are some questions about Jimbo...
* LivingProp: Ned usually just stands there to make short comments via his voice box and hardly contributes to the plot.
* LoopholeAbuse: They often use phrases like "It's coming right for us!" and "Thin out their numbers!" in order to get around "pussy laws" regarding hunting.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Jimbo wholeheartedly believes this, which is why he tries to have the boys go with him on a hunt during one of their field trips. When Stan finds himself unable to shoot a bunny, Jimbo is quite disappointed.
* MoreDakka: See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below.
* NiceGuy: Uncle Jimbo, which isn't to say he can't mess up or do wrong from time to time, but overall he's one of the nicest adults on the show. In later episodes one could argue he's a better parental figure towards Stan than Randy is.
* OutOfFocus: Ned hasn't had much focus in later seasons, usually appearing in crowd scenes. He has not had a speaking role in the series since "Here Comes the Neighborhood". He has, however, had lines in the video games ''Let's Go Tower Defense Play!'' and ''[[VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth Stick of Truth]]'', indicating that Trey Parker is still capable of doing the voice.
* RefugeeFromTime: Possibly the reason they are OutOfFocus. They're Vietnam vets which means that at the youngest they'd be in their mid-60s by now. It was perfectly reasonable (albeit starting to push it) for this to be the case when the show started back in TheNineties, but considering that [[NotAllowedToGrowUp nobody has been allowed to age]] for the past two decades, this emerged. Alternatively, it may have been retconned or forgotten about but it would still be unlikely.
* {{Retcon}}: Matt Stone referred to Jimbo as Randy's half-brother in an interview. Come ''Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial'', Jimbo is now confirmed to be Sharon's brother.
* SatelliteCharacter: Ned.
* SpeechImpediment: Why Ned speaks with a voicebox, as he smoked in the past (as Jimbo put it, "he smoked so much he lost his trake").
* StraightGay: Implied, in the episode "It Hits the Fan", when Jimbo wasn't bleeped when he said the word "fag" when Mr. Garrison mentions gay people's NWordPrivileges when it comes to that particular word.
* TheGambler: In the early seasons, Jimbo gambled on everything he could no matter how inappropriate it was. Kids football games, the match between Jesus and Satan and a child's spelling bee. He even tried to manipulate events to ensure he won the bet on the kids football game.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They hunt using Napalm, bazookas, explosives, and flamethrowers.
* ThoseTwoGuys: More often than not, these two aren't seen separate, however, this seems to have changed in later seasons, with Ned being OutOfFocus and Jimbo making a solo cameo appearance in "World War Zimmerman".
* TrrrillingRrrs: In "Summer Sucks", Ned can somehow do this despite speaking through his voice box.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", they are the ones who teach Cartman to aim for his target's weaknesses during his war with Scott Tenorman. [[spoiler:This costs the latter boy his parents' lives.]]
* VocalEvolution: Ned's synthesized voice in "Volcano" was a lot more authentic-sounding, as opposed to later episodes where it became a highly transparent imitation.
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[[folder:Sparky]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GeorgeClooney
-> '''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E4BigGayAlsBigGayBoatRide Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride]]"
The Marsh family's dog, who is homosexual.
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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Sparky's EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he starts humping another male dog.
--> '''Cartman:''' He's not kicking his ass but he's definitely doing ''something'' to his ass.
* {{Gayngst}}: Sparky overhears Stan complaining about not wanting a gay dog, so he dejectedly runs away from home, which is how he meets Big Gay Al.
* MachoCamp: According to Stan, Sparky is half-wolf and half-doberman. He's also got a very effeminate fashion sense, wearing a pink scarf and at one point a rhinestone collar.
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[[folder:Shelley Marsh]]
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->''"I hate marijuana!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), Creator/AprilStewart (2004-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Vivian Ruiz (Seasons 1-3), Rossana Cicconi (Seasons 4 and 7-9, and 2007 redub), María Elena Heredia (Season 6), unknown (Season 11), Arianna López (Season 12 onwards and 2011 redub), Patricia Azan (2015 redub), Creator/RossyAguirre (Mexican dub and Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Claudia Aline (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]"
Stan's bitter older sister, who bullied him to ridiculous levels in the earlier seasons.
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[[folder:Marvin "Grampa" Marsh]]
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->''"I killed '''my''' grandpa when I was your age."''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]]
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Mario Martín (Seasons 1-4 and 11, and 2007 redub), unknown (Season 6), Guillermo Sauceda (Seasons 7-8), Manolo Coego (2011 redub), Jorge Luis García (Season 16), Orlando Noguera (Season 18), Eduardo Wasveiler (Season 19 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Stan and Shelley's grandfather and Randy's father. Calls Stan "Billy", and has been suicidal since he turned 102.
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->''"I killed '''my''' grandpa when I was your age."''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]]
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Mario Martín (Seasons 1-4 and 11, and 2007 redub), unknown (Season 6), Guillermo Sauceda (Seasons 7-8), Manolo Coego (2011 redub), Jorge Luis García (Season 16), Orlando Noguera (Season 18), Eduardo Wasveiler (Season 19 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Stan and Shelley's grandfather and Randy's father. Calls Stan "Billy", and has been suicidal since he turned 102.
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->''"It's coming right for us!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt Stone]] (Jimbo Kern) and [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey
->'''Voiced
->'''Jimbo voiced in Latin American Spanish by:'''
->'''Ned voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Larry Villanueva (Seasons 1-2), Miguel Paneke (Seasons 3-5), Alexander Otaola (2011 redub), Rómulo Bernal (Season 22 onwards and 2015 redub), Alejandro Mayén (Mexican dub), unknown (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rolando de la Fuente (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:'''
Stan
Stan's redneck Uncle (Jimbo Kern) and
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* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Well, absurdly elderly father. He's 102, while Randy is about 45, a nearly sixty year difference.
* AccidentalMisnaming: As mentioned above, he always calls Stan "Billy" for some reason. Trey Parker says his own grandfather used to do the same.
* AlliterativeName: Though he is usually just called Grampa.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:At the end of "Time to Get Cereal", it is revealed he made a deal with [=ManBearPig=] years ago for expensive cars and premium boutique ice cream. In "Nobody Got Cereal?", any respect Stan had for him goes down the drain after he finds out the truth]].
* BungledSuicide: All his suicide attempts in "Death" failed.
* CerebusRetcon: Is revealed to have Alzheimer's in "Cash for Gold", casting a slightly less comical light on some of his habits.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "(You) son of a whore!"
* CompressedVice: "Freemium Isn't Free" claims he always had a gambling problem.
* CoolOldGuy: In "Hummels and Heroin" he gets out of his wheelchair and beats the "head bitch" of the retirement home with a sack filled with her Hummel collection and in turn, takes her place at the top of the pecking order. Considering he's over a hundred years old and is almost always seen in his wheelchair, seeing him get out and stand his ground (literally) is pretty damn cool.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Death," "Gray Dawn" and "Hummels and Heroin."
* DeathSeeker: Marvin is over 100 years old, can't really do much of anything anymore, and most of his friends and loved ones are almost certainly dead. Even before the retcon revealing he had started to develop Alzheimer's, he was clearly not in good physical condition. He'd commit suicide except he's "too damn old".
* DrivenToSuicide: In "Death". Multiple times. All of them unsuccessful.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn".
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the AARP took over South Park in "Grey Dawn", he balks at [[ShootTheHostage killing their hostages]]; he [[YoureInsane openly calls out the AARP leader for possibly going senile]] when the latter explains they're gonna wipe out all people in America below the age of 65. All they brought the AARP in for was to get their driver's licenses back, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not to try and take over the USA]].
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold". By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.
* SeniorSleepCycle: Will sometimes just be sleeping in the background of the Marsh household. "Grey Dawn" also plays the elderly's tendency to wake up early for humor.
* TheUnapologetic: Although he has a knee-jerk MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction to seeing Stan getting arrested, he absolutely refuses to apologize or make amends for making [[DealWithTheDevil a deal]] with [[spoiler:[=ManBearPig=]]], insisting that his generation deserved nice cars and ice cream like everyone else.
* VeteranInstructor: The only man old enough to have actually seen the Civil War... reenactment of 1924.
* AccidentalMisnaming: As mentioned above, he always calls Stan "Billy" for some reason. Trey Parker says his own grandfather used to do the same.
* AlliterativeName: Though he is usually just called Grampa.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:At the end of "Time to Get Cereal", it is revealed he made a deal with [=ManBearPig=] years ago for expensive cars and premium boutique ice cream. In "Nobody Got Cereal?", any respect Stan had for him goes down the drain after he finds out the truth]].
* BungledSuicide: All his suicide attempts in "Death" failed.
* CerebusRetcon: Is revealed to have Alzheimer's in "Cash for Gold", casting a slightly less comical light on some of his habits.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "(You) son of a whore!"
* CompressedVice: "Freemium Isn't Free" claims he always had a gambling problem.
* CoolOldGuy: In "Hummels and Heroin" he gets out of his wheelchair and beats the "head bitch" of the retirement home with a sack filled with her Hummel collection and in turn, takes her place at the top of the pecking order. Considering he's over a hundred years old and is almost always seen in his wheelchair, seeing him get out and stand his ground (literally) is pretty damn cool.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Death," "Gray Dawn" and "Hummels and Heroin."
* DeathSeeker: Marvin is over 100 years old, can't really do much of anything anymore, and most of his friends and loved ones are almost certainly dead. Even before the retcon revealing he had started to develop Alzheimer's, he was clearly not in good physical condition. He'd commit suicide except he's "too damn old".
* DrivenToSuicide: In "Death". Multiple times. All of them unsuccessful.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn".
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the AARP took over South Park in "Grey Dawn", he balks at [[ShootTheHostage killing their hostages]]; he [[YoureInsane openly calls out the AARP leader for possibly going senile]] when the latter explains they're gonna wipe out all people in America below the age of 65. All they brought the AARP in for was to get their driver's licenses back, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not to try and take over the USA]].
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold". By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.
* SeniorSleepCycle: Will sometimes just be sleeping in the background of the Marsh household. "Grey Dawn" also plays the elderly's tendency to wake up early for humor.
* TheUnapologetic: Although he has a knee-jerk MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction to seeing Stan getting arrested, he absolutely refuses to apologize or make amends for making [[DealWithTheDevil a deal]] with [[spoiler:[=ManBearPig=]]], insisting that his generation deserved nice cars and ice cream like everyone else.
* VeteranInstructor: The only man old enough to have actually seen the Civil War... reenactment of 1924.
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* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Well, absurdly elderly father. He's 102, while Randy is about 45, AmbiguouslyBi: Both have slept with women, but had quite a nearly sixty year difference.
few HoYay moments, especially Jimbo.
*AccidentalMisnaming: As mentioned above, he always calls Stan "Billy" for CharacterizationMarchesOn: They've been considerably more calm and level-headed in later seasons (though granted this may be partially due to being OutOfFocus and are still among [[AdultsAreUseless the mindless panicking masses]] in South Park usually).
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Until Season 22, Ned pretty much vanished off the face of the Earth.
* {{Eagleland}}: Mostly Type II.
-->'''Jimbo:''' Oh boy! Military action, Ned. Let's kill us somereason. Trey Parker says his own grandfather used to do god damned Australians!\\
'''Ned:''' I think we're fighting Canadians.\\
'''Jimbo:''' Canadians, Australians, what's thesame.
difference?
*AlliterativeName: HeterosexualLifePartners: Though he is there are some questions about Jimbo...
* LivingProp: Ned usually justcalled Grampa.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Atstands there to make short comments via his voice box and hardly contributes to the end of "Time to Get Cereal", it is revealed he made a deal with [=ManBearPig=] years ago for expensive cars and premium boutique ice cream. In "Nobody Got Cereal?", any respect Stan had for him goes down the drain after he finds out the truth]].
* BungledSuicide: All his suicide attempts in "Death" failed.
* CerebusRetcon: Is revealed to have Alzheimer's in "Cash for Gold", casting a slightly less comical light on some of his habits.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "(You) son of a whore!"
* CompressedVice: "Freemium Isn't Free" claims he always had a gambling problem.
* CoolOldGuy: In "Hummels and Heroin" he gets out of his wheelchair and beats the "head bitch" of the retirement home with a sack filled with her Hummel collection and in turn, takes her place at the top of the pecking order. Considering he's over a hundred years old and is almost always seen in his wheelchair, seeing him get out and stand his ground (literally) is pretty damn cool.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Death," "Gray Dawn" and "Hummels and Heroin."
* DeathSeeker: Marvin is over 100 years old, can't really do much of anything anymore, and most of his friends and loved ones are almost certainly dead. Even before the retcon revealing he had started to develop Alzheimer's, he was clearly not in good physical condition. He'd commit suicide except he's "too damn old".
* DrivenToSuicide: In "Death". Multiple times. All of them unsuccessful.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn".
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the AARP took over South Park in "Grey Dawn", he balks at [[ShootTheHostage killing their hostages]]; he [[YoureInsane openly calls out the AARP leader for possibly going senile]] when the latter explains they're gonna wipe out all people in America below the age of 65. All they brought the AARP in for was to get their driver's licenses back, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not to try and take over the USA]].
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold". By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.plot.
*SeniorSleepCycle: Will sometimes just be sleeping LoopholeAbuse: They often use phrases like "It's coming right for us!" and "Thin out their numbers!" in order to get around "pussy laws" regarding hunting.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Jimbo wholeheartedly believes this, which is why he tries to have the boys go with him on a hunt during one of their field trips. When Stan finds himself unable to shoot a bunny, Jimbo is quite disappointed.
* MoreDakka: See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below.
* NiceGuy: Uncle Jimbo, which isn't to say he can't mess up or do wrong from time to time, but overall he's one of the nicest adults on the show. In later episodes one could argue he's a better parental figure towards Stan than Randy is.
* OutOfFocus: Ned hasn't had much focus in later seasons, usually appearing in crowd scenes. He has not had a speaking role in thebackground of series since "Here Comes the Marsh household. "Grey Dawn" also plays Neighborhood". He has, however, had lines in the elderly's tendency video games ''Let's Go Tower Defense Play!'' and ''[[VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth Stick of Truth]]'', indicating that Trey Parker is still capable of doing the voice.
* RefugeeFromTime: Possibly the reason they are OutOfFocus. They're Vietnam vets which means that at the youngest they'd be in their mid-60s by now. It was perfectly reasonable (albeit starting towake up push it) for this to be the case when the show started back in TheNineties, but considering that [[NotAllowedToGrowUp nobody has been allowed to age]] for the past two decades, this emerged. Alternatively, it may have been retconned or forgotten about but it would still be unlikely.
* {{Retcon}}: Matt Stone referred to Jimbo as Randy's half-brother in an interview. Come ''Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial'', Jimbo is now confirmed to be Sharon's brother.
* SatelliteCharacter: Ned.
* SpeechImpediment: Why Ned speaks with a voicebox, as he smoked in the past (as Jimbo put it, "he smoked so much he lost his trake").
* StraightGay: Implied, in the episode "It Hits the Fan", when Jimbo wasn't bleeped when he said the word "fag" when Mr. Garrison mentions gay people's NWordPrivileges when it comes to that particular word.
* TheGambler: In the earlyfor humor.seasons, Jimbo gambled on everything he could no matter how inappropriate it was. Kids football games, the match between Jesus and Satan and a child's spelling bee. He even tried to manipulate events to ensure he won the bet on the kids football game.
*TheUnapologetic: Although he has a knee-jerk MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction to seeing Stan getting arrested, he absolutely refuses to apologize or make amends for making [[DealWithTheDevil a deal]] with [[spoiler:[=ManBearPig=]]], insisting that his generation deserved nice cars ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They hunt using Napalm, bazookas, explosives, and ice cream like everyone else.
flamethrowers.
*VeteranInstructor: The only man old enough ThoseTwoGuys: More often than not, these two aren't seen separate, however, this seems to have actually seen changed in later seasons, with Ned being OutOfFocus and Jimbo making a solo cameo appearance in "World War Zimmerman".
* TrrrillingRrrs: In "Summer Sucks", Ned can somehow do this despite speaking through his voice box.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", they are theCivil War... reenactment of 1924.ones who teach Cartman to aim for his target's weaknesses during his war with Scott Tenorman. [[spoiler:This costs the latter boy his parents' lives.]]
* VocalEvolution: Ned's synthesized voice in "Volcano" was a lot more authentic-sounding, as opposed to later episodes where it became a highly transparent imitation.
*
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Until Season 22, Ned pretty much vanished off the face of the Earth.
* {{Eagleland}}: Mostly Type II.
-->'''Jimbo:''' Oh boy! Military action, Ned. Let's kill us some
'''Ned:''' I think we're fighting Canadians.\\
'''Jimbo:''' Canadians, Australians, what's the
*
* LivingProp: Ned usually just
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:At
* BungledSuicide: All his suicide attempts in "Death" failed.
* CerebusRetcon: Is revealed to have Alzheimer's in "Cash for Gold", casting a slightly less comical light on some of his habits.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "(You) son of a whore!"
* CompressedVice: "Freemium Isn't Free" claims he always had a gambling problem.
* CoolOldGuy: In "Hummels and Heroin" he gets out of his wheelchair and beats the "head bitch" of the retirement home with a sack filled with her Hummel collection and in turn, takes her place at the top of the pecking order. Considering he's over a hundred years old and is almost always seen in his wheelchair, seeing him get out and stand his ground (literally) is pretty damn cool.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Death," "Gray Dawn" and "Hummels and Heroin."
* DeathSeeker: Marvin is over 100 years old, can't really do much of anything anymore, and most of his friends and loved ones are almost certainly dead. Even before the retcon revealing he had started to develop Alzheimer's, he was clearly not in good physical condition. He'd commit suicide except he's "too damn old".
* DrivenToSuicide: In "Death". Multiple times. All of them unsuccessful.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn".
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the AARP took over South Park in "Grey Dawn", he balks at [[ShootTheHostage killing their hostages]]; he [[YoureInsane openly calls out the AARP leader for possibly going senile]] when the latter explains they're gonna wipe out all people in America below the age of 65. All they brought the AARP in for was to get their driver's licenses back, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not to try and take over the USA]].
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold". By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.
*
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Jimbo wholeheartedly believes this, which is why he tries to have the boys go with him on a hunt during one of their field trips. When Stan finds himself unable to shoot a bunny, Jimbo is quite disappointed.
* MoreDakka: See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below.
* NiceGuy: Uncle Jimbo, which isn't to say he can't mess up or do wrong from time to time, but overall he's one of the nicest adults on the show. In later episodes one could argue he's a better parental figure towards Stan than Randy is.
* OutOfFocus: Ned hasn't had much focus in later seasons, usually appearing in crowd scenes. He has not had a speaking role in the
* RefugeeFromTime: Possibly the reason they are OutOfFocus. They're Vietnam vets which means that at the youngest they'd be in their mid-60s by now. It was perfectly reasonable (albeit starting to
* {{Retcon}}: Matt Stone referred to Jimbo as Randy's half-brother in an interview. Come ''Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial'', Jimbo is now confirmed to be Sharon's brother.
* SatelliteCharacter: Ned.
* SpeechImpediment: Why Ned speaks with a voicebox, as he smoked in the past (as Jimbo put it, "he smoked so much he lost his trake").
* StraightGay: Implied, in the episode "It Hits the Fan", when Jimbo wasn't bleeped when he said the word "fag" when Mr. Garrison mentions gay people's NWordPrivileges when it comes to that particular word.
* TheGambler: In the early
*
*
* TrrrillingRrrs: In "Summer Sucks", Ned can somehow do this despite speaking through his voice box.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", they are the
* VocalEvolution: Ned's synthesized voice in "Volcano" was a lot more authentic-sounding, as opposed to later episodes where it became a highly transparent imitation.
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!Broflovski Family
[[folder:Sheila Broflovski]]
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->''"Whatwhatwhaaaat?!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Creator/MonaMarshall (1999-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Glenda Díaz Rigau (Seasons 1-3), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 4-16a and 2007-2011 redubs), Patricia Azan (Seasons 17 and 20 onwards, and 2012 and 2016 redubs), Arianna López (Seasons 16b and 18-19, and 2015 redub), Alicia Jiménez (Mexican dub), Magda Giner (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Vicky Burgoa (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Kyle's mom. A "big fat bitch", according to Cartman. She's proven to be one on several occasions.
[[folder:Sheila Broflovski]]
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->''"Whatwhatwhaaaat?!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Creator/MonaMarshall (1999-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Glenda Díaz Rigau (Seasons 1-3), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 4-16a and 2007-2011 redubs), Patricia Azan (Seasons 17 and 20 onwards, and 2012 and 2016 redubs), Arianna López (Seasons 16b and 18-19, and 2015 redub), Alicia Jiménez (Mexican dub), Magda Giner (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Vicky Burgoa (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Kyle's mom. A "big fat bitch", according to Cartman. She's proven to be one on several occasions.
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[[folder:Sheila Broflovski]]
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->''"Whatwhatwhaaaat?!"''
->'''Voiced
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Glenda Díaz Rigau (Seasons 1-3), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 4-16a and 2007-2011 redubs), Patricia Azan (Seasons 17 and 20 onwards, and 2012 and 2016 redubs), Arianna López (Seasons 16b and 18-19, and 2015 redub), Alicia Jiménez (Mexican dub), Magda Giner (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Vicky Burgoa (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Kyle's mom. A "big fat bitch", according to Cartman. She's proven to be one on several occasions.
-> '''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E4BigGayAlsBigGayBoatRide Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride]]"
The Marsh family's dog, who is homosexual.
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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Sparky's EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he starts humping another male dog.
--> '''Cartman:''' He's not kicking his ass but he's definitely doing ''something'' to his ass.
* {{Gayngst}}: Sparky overhears Stan complaining about not wanting a gay dog, so he dejectedly runs away from home, which is how he meets Big Gay Al.
* MachoCamp: According to Stan, Sparky is half-wolf and half-doberman. He's also got a very effeminate fashion sense, wearing a pink scarf and at one point a rhinestone collar.
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[[folder:Marvin "Grampa" Marsh]]
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->''"I killed '''my''' grandpa when I was your age."''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]]
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Mario Martín (Seasons 1-4 and 11, and 2007 redub), unknown (Season 6), Guillermo Sauceda (Seasons 7-8), Manolo Coego (2011 redub), Jorge Luis García (Season 16), Orlando Noguera (Season 18), Eduardo Wasveiler (Season 19 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Stan and Shelley's grandfather and Randy's father. Calls Stan "Billy", and has been suicidal since he turned 102.
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* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Well, absurdly elderly father. He's 102, while Randy is about 45, a nearly sixty year difference.
* AccidentalMisnaming: As mentioned above, he always calls Stan "Billy" for some reason. Trey Parker says his own grandfather used to do the same.
* AlliterativeName: Though he is usually just called Grampa.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:At the end of "Time to Get Cereal", it is revealed he made a deal with [=ManBearPig=] years ago for expensive cars and premium boutique ice cream. In "Nobody Got Cereal?", any respect Stan had for him goes down the drain after he finds out the truth]].
* BungledSuicide: All his suicide attempts in "Death" failed.
* CerebusRetcon: Is revealed to have Alzheimer's in "Cash for Gold", casting a slightly less comical light on some of his habits.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "(You) son of a whore!"
* CompressedVice: "Freemium Isn't Free" claims he always had a gambling problem.
* CoolOldGuy: In "Hummels and Heroin" he gets out of his wheelchair and beats the "head bitch" of the retirement home with a sack filled with her Hummel collection and in turn, takes her place at the top of the pecking order. Considering he's over a hundred years old and is almost always seen in his wheelchair, seeing him get out and stand his ground (literally) is pretty damn cool.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Death," "Gray Dawn" and "Hummels and Heroin."
* DeathSeeker: Marvin is over 100 years old, can't really do much of anything anymore, and most of his friends and loved ones are almost certainly dead. Even before the retcon revealing he had started to develop Alzheimer's, he was clearly not in good physical condition. He'd commit suicide except he's "too damn old".
* DrivenToSuicide: In "Death". Multiple times. All of them unsuccessful.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn".
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the AARP took over South Park in "Grey Dawn", he balks at [[ShootTheHostage killing their hostages]]; he [[YoureInsane openly calls out the AARP leader for possibly going senile]] when the latter explains they're gonna wipe out all people in America below the age of 65. All they brought the AARP in for was to get their driver's licenses back, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not to try and take over the USA]].
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold". By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.
* SeniorSleepCycle: Will sometimes just be sleeping in the background of the Marsh household. "Grey Dawn" also plays the elderly's tendency to wake up early for humor.
* TheUnapologetic: Although he has a knee-jerk MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction to seeing Stan getting arrested, he absolutely refuses to apologize or make amends for making [[DealWithTheDevil a deal]] with [[spoiler:[=ManBearPig=]]], insisting that his generation deserved nice cars and ice cream like everyone else.
* VeteranInstructor: The only man old enough to have actually seen the Civil War... reenactment of 1924.
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!Broflovski Family
[[folder:Sheila Broflovski]]
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->''"Whatwhatwhaaaat?!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Creator/MonaMarshall (1999-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Glenda Díaz Rigau (Seasons 1-3), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 4-16a and 2007-2011 redubs), Patricia Azan (Seasons 17 and 20 onwards, and 2012 and 2016 redubs), Arianna López (Seasons 16b and 18-19, and 2015 redub), Alicia Jiménez (Mexican dub), Magda Giner (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Vicky Burgoa (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Kyle's mom. A "big fat bitch", according to Cartman. She's proven to be one on several occasions.
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--> '''Cartman:''' He's not kicking his ass but he's definitely doing ''something'' to his ass.
* {{Gayngst}}: Sparky overhears Stan complaining about not wanting a gay dog, so he dejectedly runs away from home, which is how he meets Big Gay Al.
* MachoCamp: According to Stan, Sparky is half-wolf and half-doberman. He's also got a very effeminate fashion sense, wearing a pink scarf and at one point a rhinestone collar.
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[[folder:Marvin "Grampa" Marsh]]
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->''"I killed '''my''' grandpa when I was your age."''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]]
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Mario Martín (Seasons 1-4 and 11, and 2007 redub), unknown (Season 6), Guillermo Sauceda (Seasons 7-8), Manolo Coego (2011 redub), Jorge Luis García (Season 16), Orlando Noguera (Season 18), Eduardo Wasveiler (Season 19 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Stan and Shelley's grandfather and Randy's father. Calls Stan "Billy", and has been suicidal since he turned 102.
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* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Well, absurdly elderly father. He's 102, while Randy is about 45, a nearly sixty year difference.
* AccidentalMisnaming: As mentioned above, he always calls Stan "Billy" for some reason. Trey Parker says his own grandfather used to do the same.
* AlliterativeName: Though he is usually just called Grampa.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:At the end of "Time to Get Cereal", it is revealed he made a deal with [=ManBearPig=] years ago for expensive cars and premium boutique ice cream. In "Nobody Got Cereal?", any respect Stan had for him goes down the drain after he finds out the truth]].
* BungledSuicide: All his suicide attempts in "Death" failed.
* CerebusRetcon: Is revealed to have Alzheimer's in "Cash for Gold", casting a slightly less comical light on some of his habits.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "(You) son of a whore!"
* CompressedVice: "Freemium Isn't Free" claims he always had a gambling problem.
* CoolOldGuy: In "Hummels and Heroin" he gets out of his wheelchair and beats the "head bitch" of the retirement home with a sack filled with her Hummel collection and in turn, takes her place at the top of the pecking order. Considering he's over a hundred years old and is almost always seen in his wheelchair, seeing him get out and stand his ground (literally) is pretty damn cool.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Death," "Gray Dawn" and "Hummels and Heroin."
* DeathSeeker: Marvin is over 100 years old, can't really do much of anything anymore, and most of his friends and loved ones are almost certainly dead. Even before the retcon revealing he had started to develop Alzheimer's, he was clearly not in good physical condition. He'd commit suicide except he's "too damn old".
* DrivenToSuicide: In "Death". Multiple times. All of them unsuccessful.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn".
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the AARP took over South Park in "Grey Dawn", he balks at [[ShootTheHostage killing their hostages]]; he [[YoureInsane openly calls out the AARP leader for possibly going senile]] when the latter explains they're gonna wipe out all people in America below the age of 65. All they brought the AARP in for was to get their driver's licenses back, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not to try and take over the USA]].
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold". By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.
* SeniorSleepCycle: Will sometimes just be sleeping in the background of the Marsh household. "Grey Dawn" also plays the elderly's tendency to wake up early for humor.
* TheUnapologetic: Although he has a knee-jerk MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction to seeing Stan getting arrested, he absolutely refuses to apologize or make amends for making [[DealWithTheDevil a deal]] with [[spoiler:[=ManBearPig=]]], insisting that his generation deserved nice cars and ice cream like everyone else.
* VeteranInstructor: The only man old enough to have actually seen the Civil War... reenactment of 1924.
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!Broflovski Family
[[folder:Sheila Broflovski]]
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->''"Whatwhatwhaaaat?!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Creator/MonaMarshall (1999-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Glenda Díaz Rigau (Seasons 1-3), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 4-16a and 2007-2011 redubs), Patricia Azan (Seasons 17 and 20 onwards, and 2012 and 2016 redubs), Arianna López (Seasons 16b and 18-19, and 2015 redub), Alicia Jiménez (Mexican dub), Magda Giner (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Vicky Burgoa (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]"
Kyle's mom. A "big fat bitch", according to Cartman. She's proven to be one on several occasions.
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!!Randy Marsh
For Tropes related to him, see Characters/SouthParkRandyMarsh.
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[[folder:Sharon Marsh]]
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->''"It's like, [[SelfDeprecation the same shit just happens over and over]] and then in a week [[ResetButton it just all resets]] until it happens again. [[LampshadeHanging Every week]] it's kind of the same story [[RecycledINSPACE in a different way]], but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), Creator/AprilStewart (2004-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Verónica Rivas (Seasons 1-2), Omaira Coromoto Rivero (Seasons 3-4), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 5-15a and 16a, and 2007-2011 redubs), Margarita Coego (Season 15b and 2012 redub), Jackeline Junguito (Seasons 16b-25 and 2015-2016 redubs), Giset Blanco (Season 26 onwards), Patricia Hannidez (Mexican dub), Rebeca Patiño (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rona Fletcher (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]"
Stan's mom, who is much saner than her husband. Not that it says much.
For Tropes related to him, see Characters/SouthParkRandyMarsh.
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[[folder:Sharon Marsh]]
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->''"It's like, [[SelfDeprecation the same shit just happens over and over]] and then in a week [[ResetButton it just all resets]] until it happens again. [[LampshadeHanging Every week]] it's kind of the same story [[RecycledINSPACE in a different way]], but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), Creator/AprilStewart (2004-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Verónica Rivas (Seasons 1-2), Omaira Coromoto Rivero (Seasons 3-4), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 5-15a and 16a, and 2007-2011 redubs), Margarita Coego (Season 15b and 2012 redub), Jackeline Junguito (Seasons 16b-25 and 2015-2016 redubs), Giset Blanco (Season 26 onwards), Patricia Hannidez (Mexican dub), Rebeca Patiño (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rona Fletcher (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]"
Stan's mom, who is much saner than her husband. Not that it says much.
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For Tropes related to him, see Characters/SouthParkRandyMarsh.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sharon Marsh]]
->''"You're a
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* AbusiveDad: If there was any doubt before, he's become very much this of the emotional kind once the family moves to Tegridy Farms. He constantly belittles his family for not wanting to be involved in the business and ignores their own activities and needs in favour of getting high. It gets to the point where Stan and Shelley are positively gleeful about the prospect of Randy being given a lengthy prison sentence.
* AccidentalHero: In "The Losing Edge", his multiple drunken [[CockFight Cock FIghts]] with the dads of his son's opposing baseball teams end up saving the boys from having to spend the entire summer playing baseball (which they hated) when his fight with Bat-Dad gets them disqualified by proxy. This actually marks one of the few times where Stan has praised him for something.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A lot of Randy's dumbest actions come from him being completely and utterly ''wasted''. He can be pretty stupid on his own, but whenever he's drunk or high he's prone to much more self-destructive and erratic behavior. Notable instances include punching out his own boss, getting into brawls with other parents at Little League games, and being arrested at one point for driving drunk and insulting the cop who stopped him once he realized Randy was drunk.
* TheAlcoholic: Not as worse as Stuart, but he is frequently shown drunk. The plot of "Bloody Mary" focuses on him going to A.A., though they are useless, teaching him he is powerless to the "disease of alcoholism". Encouraged by Stan, he tries to learn discipline and self-control, but he continues to have unhealthy drinking habits, though he is in complete denial over having a drinking problem when confronted.
* AlcoholicParent: The whole Marsh family has been revealed to have addictive tendencies. Marvin is a gambler, though at one point Stan also called him an alcoholic – something that Randy has inherited. He is frequently seen drinking, sometimes casually, sometimes engaging in binge drinking, often leading to irresponsible and stupid behavior. In one episode he gets a DUI, has to attend AA meetings, where instead of taking responsibility and controlling his behavior, he is told he has a "disease." At the end of the episode, Stan encourages him to learn discipline and self-control, but it doesn't stick, and Randy denies having an alcohol problem at all when Stan and Sharon confront him about it in "Freemium Isn't Free".
* AllMenArePerverts: He's very into porn, masturbating and has some very disturbing fetishes.
** A major part of "Overlogging" is the fact that he wants to masturbate, but can't without ''extreme'' Internet fetish porn.
** In "Crème Fraiche", he masturbates to cooking shows. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
** In "Pandemic Special", Randy's "cure" for COVID-19 (which he unwittingly caused by having sex with a pangolin) is by jacking off into his weed and having people smoke it. However, this results in [[GoneHorriblyRight many people suddenly growing a mustache just like his.]]
** In "Spring Break", he's even surprised that his 10-year old son is NotDistractedByTheSexy when he starts bringing in strippers to the house. He later mistakes a female cop for a stripper (since he had previously brought in two escorts dressed as cops) and [[TooDumbToLive harasses her]], getting himself arrested.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The show's crowning example of this trope, when accounting for the other degrees of uselessness of the adults. Highlights include: going out of his way to pick fights at Stan's Little League games, blurting out the N-word on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', and ejaculating a gallon of semen all over a mobile computer room after watching porn.
* AngryWhiteMan: In season 26 Randy gets in the habit of using the word "woke" to describe things that don't appeal to him.
* AntiHero: Starts off as a [[KnightInSourArmor Type 2]] like his son, as he was genuinely helpful as a geologist when the town needed him but was somewhat unfazed by the chaos going on around him. Then he gradually became a [[PragmaticHero Type 3]] as he got more invested in his family's safety at the expense of the town, and his is solutions to problems became more outlandish and occasionally involved several causalities, which is highlighted in episodes parodying horror movies, such as "Night of the Living Homeless". After buying "Tegridy Farms", he started switching between [[UnscrupulousHero Type 4]] and [[NominalHero Type 5]], only trying to make things better for himself at the expense of everyone else but occasionally [[BigDamnHeroes saving everyone in the process]], as well as being the LesserOfTwoEvils compared to the episode's BigBad such as in "Bike Parade", "Post Covid: Return of Covid", and "Tegridy Farms St. Patrick Day Special". By "The Streaming Wars", he's [[HeelFaceTurn trying to go back to his origins and become a better person]].
* AscendedExtra: Originally he was just Stan's dad, but nowadays it's not unheard of to have entire episodes focused on Randy with the boys relegated to background characters.
* TheAtoner:
** Near the end of Season 19, when he finally came to realize that South Park's gentrification was doing more harm than good (with some help from a beatdown courtesy of Caitlyn Jenner), he pledged to help undo the damage he helped cause.
** In Season 23, when Towelie (and legal trouble) demonstrated how unethical his business had become, he makes some genuine efforts to return to the roots of Tegridy.
* AuthorAvatar: Trey Parker has said that Randy has become more prominent, due to the fact that he has started to get older and identifies with the character more. This is most clear during the Tegridy Farms arc, where his marijuana business is [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall often used as an allegory for the show itself]] and seems to reflect the creators' creative process (such as in "Christmas Snow" when he struggles to come up with a good product in time for Christmas).
* AxCrazy:
** In "T.M.I.", he goes insane and is the spearhead of the movement to take over the Federal Express.
** In Season 23, he becomes increasingly fixated on his Tegridy Farms profits, to the point that he starts committing murder in an effort to help boost sales.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In Season 22 Randy fancied himself and Towelie to be the sole legal drug company with integrity, and crusaders against big business. In Season 23, he becomes just as unethical as the other drug companies, if not more so.
* BecomingTheMask:
** In "Sarcastaball," he loses control over his ability to be sarcastic and can't stop doing it.
** Music/{{Lorde}} was originally just an excuse to use the girls' bathroom.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Double Subverted. In "The Pandemic Special", it initially seems like he and Mickey Mouse had caused the COVID-19 Pandemic when [[BestialityIsDepraved the two of them had sex with a bat,]] resulting in Randy becoming patient zero. Then it turns out that the actual cause of the disease was a pangolin... that they ''also'' had sex with.
* BestialityIsDepraved: During a bender in China, he had sex with a bat and a pangolin, which somehow, created the COVID-19 virus.
* BerserkButton: The multiple people he fought at every baseball game he went to are this to him.
* BigBad: Of Season 23, until he has a HeelRealization in "Season Finale". He becomes part of the BigBadEnsemble in "[[Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial The Pandemic Special]]", due to having created COVID-19 and his attempts to cure it making things worse.
* BigBadSlippage: He started off as a simple Marijuana peddler, but his greed starts consuming him making him commit unethical crimes to increase his business and effectively becomes the BigBad for Season 23.
* BigDamnHeroes: As dumb as he is, Randy has saved the town more times than any other character, starting in his debut in "Volcano". Even after resigning as a geologist and buying "Tegridy Farms" and becoming more villainous than heroic, his weed still ends up being the key to saving everyone on occasion, such as in "Bike Parade" and "Post Covid: Return of Covid".
* BigNo: Does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJAeD1f2YnI Picard's]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGI1IHuNy2Y Vader's]], with the sound taken directly from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* BigOMG: He gets two separate big "oh my god"s when he realizes every senior citizen in town is driving at the same time.
* BodyHorror: In "Medicinal Fried Chicken", he deliberately gives himself testicular cancer so he can legally buy weed, which causes his balls to swell up to such a ridiculous size he has to carry them around in a wheelbarrow. Eventually they get so big he can't even fit them through the door of the weed dispensary.
* BoisterousBruiser: Particularly when he's drunk, Randy will very loudly challenge people to fights and boast about his combat prowess. He's not joking either; he's a ''very'' competent brawler who is dangerously good at slugging it out.
* BreakoutCharacter: Randy has become increasingly more important lately due to a mix of popularity and Trey Parker identifying with Randy more as he gets older.
* BrilliantButLazy: Played with. Randy is genuinely intelligent and talented in various fields, but [[DidntThinkThisThrough he rarely thinks his actions through]] and his decisions tend to be erratic at best.
* BumblingDad: His stupidity embarrasses Stan at every turn, whether it's well-intentioned or selfishly motivated.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his obvious quirks, he is good at his job as a geologist. He also proves to be an excellent musician and agriculturist during his stints as Music/{{Lorde}} and the owner of Tegridy Farms respectively.
* ButtMonkey: Seems to have gained this status to a certain extent in Season 21, where more and more people view him with contempt and regard his antics strictly as being immature and absurd, and treat him accordingly. Sharon even seems to call him out on his selfish behavior much more often.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In the episode "Overlogging" Randy has gone for weeks without masturbating to Internet porn, eventually near the end he sneaks into the camp's computer room, looks at a bunch of perverted things, and eventually ejaculates all over the room, everyone comes in thinking he was grunting in pain and with his pants down, he tells them that he was doing that because "a ghost was attacking him and left his ectoplasm everywhere".
* CerebusRetcon: "You're Getting Old" sheds some very harsh light on Randy's zany moments. It turns out the reason he's been acting increasingly bizarre is because he's suffering depression and wants to distract himself from his humdrum existence.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "Stan? ''Staaan''?", "Hey, Sharon," "(Oh my) Gawl!", "Well, ''that'' sucks", "Score!", [[LamarckWasRight and a few of his son's]].
** In Season 23, he gains two new ones, "Hey, ''fuck you,''" and "It just so happens" when he finds a new chance to sell his weed.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** As Sharon, Stan, and Shelley grow and become more mature with every season, Randy only grows more impulsive, childish, and egotistical, to the point of becoming the WildCard of the Marshes and a BrokenPedestal for his son in particular. In "You're Getting Old", he acknowledges these changes and reveals that this is his way of coping with not being happy with Sharon anymore, since they both grew in different directions following their wild childhood days. However, Randy's inability to meaningfully change make him stay with Sharon because it's all he knows at this point (and likewise).
** Over the course of the Tegridy Farms arc, Randy becomes increasingly abrasive and immoral, having finally found something that fulfils him but which both his family and friends hate since it makes him act like a Karen. Throughout the season, Randy acknowledges this countless times but continuously chooses his weed business over his loved ones, burning the bridges he created with [[HatedByAll South Park as a whole]], his family, and his partners Towelie (albeit he's EasilyForgiven two episodes later), and Steve Black, and becomes increasingly frustrated that they can't enjoy their success as much as he does (which becomes a problem with [[HatesTheirParent Shelley]] in particular).
** After essentially having one RedemptionRejection per season starting in "Season Finale", (though in "Pandemic Special" [[HeelFaceDoorSlam it was out of his hands]]) and doubling down on his {{Jerkass}} attitude each time, he finally chooses [[MoralityChain his family and friends]] over the business for good in "The Streaming Wars" and goes back to being a geologist, deciding that the weed hasn't made him any happier.
** In Season 26, though he's still generally depicted as more of a {{Jerkass}} than before, he still has a JerkassRealization each time he falters and tries to make things right again by the end, which Sharon and Stan do seem to appreciate.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** He used to be the more laid back of the Marshes earlier on, and one of the saner adults overall. Now... not so much...
** While his political views were subject to DependingOnTheWriter (and he sometimes changed his take on a subject in the same episode [[{{Hypocrite}} after days of preaching it]]), Randy was primarily depicted as a condescending limousine liberal during the show's early seasons. Around Season 12 his views [[NeverMyFault became more of an excuse to blame politicians for every issue in his life]], and he switched from liberal to conservative consistently [[ItsAllAboutMe depending on what suited him the most]] at the time (though in Season 20 the switch occurred because he was brainwashed into supporting [[{{Trumplica}} President Garrison]] by the Memberberries). By Season 26, he's depicted as an AngryWhiteMan and an Andrew Tate fanboy who complains about wokeness.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Especially during the obsession phases, but even outside of that Randy's out there even by South Park standards. He's prone to nonsensical and poorly thought-out {{Zany Scheme}}s, has utterly bizarre fetishes (including for ''cooking shows'', of all things), and is generally completely divorced from reality on a good day.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In Season 23, after Tegridy Farms becomes a successful weed company and a major corporation, he becomes greedy and unethical, committing countless murders for Tegridy to thrive and engaging in numerous unethical business ventures, like selling vegetarian burgers made out of the unusable parts of weed to the citizens of South Park and selling weed to the Chinese government so they can plant them on student protesters to arrest them.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Randy is certainly an excellent marijuana farmer, as everyone who tries his Tegridy Farms weed loves it for being a quality product. However, it's shown that when it comes to the actual business end of the farm, he's completely incompetent as he drives up the costs with unnecessary and expensive expenditures that cut into his profits. Things get worse after Steve Black starts a competing farm, as Randy is continually outmatched by Steve's business acumen.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his dim-witted nature, he's demonstrated multiple times to be a highly competent brawler.
* DeadpanSnarker: Speeds faster than a jet in "Sarcastaball".
* DependingOnTheWriter: Randy frequently alternates between being a liberal and a conservative. He'll act smug and self-righteous about his position irregardless, but which side he's schilling depends on the plot of the episode.
* DirtyCoward: In "Fantastic Easter Special", he [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets captured and interrogated by the American Catholic League's ninjas over the location of a rabbit, which he gave to his son to hide in a good place]]. When they ask him where it is, he responds:
-->'''Randy:''' I don't know, and even if I did know then... I'd probably just tell you because I don't want to be here anymore.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Though it appears that Randy will become the BigBad for Season 23, he gets a HeelRealization in "Season Finale" where he reforms and becomes OutOfFocus for the rest of the season, while a [[TheBigBadShuffle Big Bad Shuffle]] will occur between Heather Swanson and Clark Malkinson and eventually Santa Clause becomes the FinalBoss.
* DotingParent: Even at some of his least sane moments, he absolutely adores both his kids and often goes to outrageous lengths whenever he thinks they need help, [[UnwantedAssistance even if they'd disagree,]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} usually for good reason.]]
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Randy had a different look back in Season 1, most notably in his hairstyle. He was remodeled into his permanent design come his first Season 2 episode, "Chickenlover". He also has [[NoBrows no eyebrows]] in "Volcano".
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Randy can be impulsive, but he was creeped out by Mr. Jefferson's inappropriately childish behavior.
** In "Broadway Bro-Down" (wherein musicals use heavy subtext for women to want to give men blowjobs) he ''freaks out'' when Shelley goes to see one with her new boyfriend. He is also disgusted when an elderly man says he's trying to enjoy the musical with his young granddaughter.
** Even ''he'' thinks [[AngryWhiteMan Bob White]] is a delusional blowhard that treats his kids like shit.
** He actively ignores the annoying [[{{Joisey}} Jerseyites]] like the plague, only starting to get violent with them when they mindlessly take over the country.
** Along with everyone else, he's shocked and appalled by the Japanese slaughtering dolphins and whales.
** Despite his FaceHeelTurn in Season 23, he's still shocked by some of Mickey Mouse's atrocities, such as sending him a disembodied heart to scare him or making a [[Film/Mulan2020 Mulan remake]]. He also considers the making of [[Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy Space Jam II]] to be a particular low point of humanity.
** In "The Pandemic Special", he's shocked and speechless when President Garrison burns down the pangolin carrying the cure for the pandemic, despite the action ensuring that [[MeaninglessVillainVictory Randy would get off scott-free for accidentally starting the pandemic]].
* {{Expy}}: Season 23 turns him into one of [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]], both being scientists who began selling drugs with the help of a partner and justifies it and the horrible crimes he commits to sell the drugs as providing for his family. The only difference is that the drugs Randy sells are legal, and he lacks most of the intelligence Walter has.
* FaceHeelTurn: While Randy was always something of a {{Jerkass}}, his selfishness and immaturity reach their apex in Season 23, where he becomes a monstrously self-centered asshole whose redeeming qualities are gradually outweighed by his own ambitions.
* {{Fetish}}: Randy has some really odd fetishes like Japanese girls puking on each other, bestiality, and so forth. Oh, and murder porn, but every adult in South Park seems to be into that.
* FallenHero: He went from the hero that drove [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeff Bezos]] out of South Park in Season 22, into becoming just as amoral, corrupt, and greedy as Bezos, if not more.
* FetishesAreWeird: Randy's numerous bizarre and disturbing fetishes are used to paint him as a perverted moron and deviant, and highlight how he's very much stuck in his [[ManChild teenage years]] despite being well into his middle-age.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Randy started out as one of the smartest characters on the show. His 'wild side' stemmed from a desire to connect with his son, and he simply failed to grasp the idea of fads changing rapidly, a frequent plot point in ''South Park''. As the series progresses, he evolves into a hyperactive, extremely paranoid and idiotic ManChild.
** Even within his earlier stupid bouts, he was still usually a KnightTemplarParent, genuinely having the best intentions for Stan and only spearheading the same hysteria the other parents succumbed to. From about Season 9 onward however, Randy's motives became more selfish and childish, having his family in collateral damage for whatever fad he takes to and leaving even the other brain-dead residents of South Park dumbfounded by his behavior.
** Season 23 flanderizes him again by upping his selfishness, neglectfulness, and stupidity to insane degrees, essentially turning him into the adult version of Cartman.
* {{Foil}}:
** Stan, the sanest kid, has the craziest parent.
** To his CloserToEarth wife Sharon, see MarsAndVenusGenderContrast.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: By the time of ''The Streaming Wars'' special, the entire town has become so fed up with his obnoxious behavior that they've all started calling him "[[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife Karen]]" to his face.
* GeniusDitz: He is a brilliant scientist and is capable of a lot of amazing musical feats (culminating in being Lorde), but otherwise he's an alcoholic with barely any common sense.
* GivingTheSwordToANoob: The nominal noob in "Make Love, not Warcraft", when the Blizzard board members are forced to give him the USB drive of "The Sword of a Thousand Truths" so he can deliver it to his son and defeat the griefer.
-->'''Randy:''' I have a Warcraft character. I'm a noob, but I can log on and get the sword to Stan online.\\
'''Blizzard Board Member:''' We can't trust the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a noob!\\
'''Randy:''' Sounds to me like we don't have a choice! Give me the sword.
* GoodParents: Before his level in jerkass, he was quite a DotingParent who wholeheartedly loved his kids. Later seasons depict him as emotionally abusive and cruel even to his own children, and obsessed with forcing Stan to adopt Randy's toxic masculinity.
* TheHeavy: Randy serves as this for Season 23. Most of the conflict in the season can be traced back to Randy's antics where commits more and more crimes to preserve his drug business. Even when Santa serves as the FinalBoss for the season, Randy would still be this as his decision to sell cocaine to the adults is what drives the plot for the episode.
* HeelRealization:
** While in prison for the bombings he committed, withdrawal from his weed results in him realizing he's become a monster and been a {{Jerkass}} to his family. He resolves to let himself go to prison and accept the consequences for his behavior, and even after being set free, he resolves to stick to small-scale farming.
** In ''The Pandemic Special'' it seems to have become a downplayed IgnoredEpiphany; Tegridy Farms is still a big business and he humblebrags about how the pandemic has caused his business to expand, but he made the Pandemic Special because he genuinely wanted to help people take their minds off the pandemic and give them a sense of normalcy. When he learns that he had caused the pandemic, while still covering it up, he does genuinely try to cure it.
** It's fully subverted in ''Post Covid'', which shows he doubled down on his old ways after Stan burnt down Tegridy Farms to the ground, and became fully obsessed with giving his weed back to the world. However, the boys changing the past and Stan giving him the last strain of Tegridy left in the BadFuture cause his realization to stick, and he apologizes to Sharon for being a dick.
--->'''Randy:''' Sharon, I'm sorry for the way I acted during the pandemic.\\
'''Sharon:''' You're not sorry, you're just high.\\
'''Randy:''' I'm both.
** It's finally played straight again in ''The Streaming Wars'', where after realizing he's become a Karen he gives up on Tegridy Farms and goes back to his old job.
* HiddenDepths:
** His talent as a musician is impressive as he was in a successful boy band, writes and edits his own song as Lorde, and is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY0P6o_FLEk very competent guitar player]], as seen in "Guitar Queer-O".
** As his management of Tegridy Farms shows, he's also fairly knowledgeable of agriculture as he produces a good deal of marijuana that actually becomes fairly popular. If he wasn't always blowing money on some dumb marketing gimmick, he'd likely be very rich from the farm's profits.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Season 23 shows that Tegridy Farms would be printing money were it not for Randy's insistence on throwing away money on unnecessary, expensive marketing gimmicks.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His idea to make the town more PC and get wholesale foods ended up making everything so expensive that it's no longer possible for the Marshes to live in South Park. As usual Randy blames [[NeverMyFault someone else]] until Caitlyn Jenner beats him up.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Randy is frequently the most hypocritical character in the show. Anytime he makes a political point you can bet he's going to end up resembling what he criticizes.
** He yells at Stan for having an addiction to freemium games while denying any addiction to alcohol.
** In "Goobacks", he supports the future people coming to the present and punishes Stan for calling them "Goobacks," but the second he loses his job to a time immigrant, he becomes the rednecks' de facto spokesman, blurting out the "time slur" himself several times in the process.
** In "About Last Night", Randy spends the entire episode preaching about Obama changing things for the better and assaulting everybody else across town while drunk, especially those who voted for [=McCain=]. When he sobers up the next morning and sees that his house is a wreck and his drunken antics have cost him his job, Randy immediately blames Obama and complains that he should've voted for [=McCain=] instead.
** After joining the PC frat, Randy spends most of Season 19 but especially "Stunning and Brave" harassing everyone who has mildly politically incorrect takes on subjects and accusing them of being bigoted. This is rich coming from the guy who once said the N-word on national television, and who would later go on to become an Andrew Tate-esque frat bro who complained non-stop about woke culture.
** In "Holiday Special", Randy (who used to be a huge Christopher Columbus fan) launches a one man campaign to have Columbus Day cancelled to hide his past. Later in the episode, he exploits a Native American in an attempt to forge a DNA test which he thought would help him PlayTheVictimCard, culminating in him kicking the man out of his house while screaming [[NotHelpingYourCase "get off my land, you piece of shit!"]].
** Even after his HeelFaceTurn in "The Streaming Wars", he keeps this side of him, as he distrusts Steve Black for being "a murderer" (he was framed) even though Randy himself has a body count larger than any other major character, including Winnie-The-Pooh.
* IdiotHoudini: Thus far, Randy doesn't seem to have learned any real lessons from being an idiot. He also tends to get off scot-free whenever his actions are motivated by well-meaning stupidity; it's when he's deliberately being a {{Jerkass}} that he gets struck with LaserGuidedKarma for the most part.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In Season 23, after breaking off his partnership with [=MedMen=] and the Chinese government and vowing to stop being greedy and return Tegridy Farms to its roots, the very next episode has him sell vegetarian burgers made of the unusable parts of weed (which still get people high) and run every other restaurant in South Park out of business by taking away their customers.
* InnocentBigot: If taken out of context, Randy can be seen as even more racist than Cartman.
** In "With Apologies to Jessie Jackson", Randy accidentally blurts out the N-word on ''Wheel of Fortune'', because he genuinely thought it was the correct answer to the puzzle. Stan later tells Tolkien that he wasn't being racist, just stupid.
** In "Holiday Special", while promoting the cancellation of Colombus Day he uses the word "indigenous" to refer to assholes, not knowing what the word really means. Granted, nobody actually corrects him when they hear him saying, allowing him to make an even bigger fool of himself than he already was.
* InsufferableImbecile: Despite being an educated scientist (a geologist, to be exact), he often acts like an incredibly airheaded and selfish {{Manchild}}. His tendency to impulsively engage in crazy antics to satisfy his hedonistic desires caused endless grief for his wife and children, often stubbornly and willfully ignorant to their protests.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In newer episodes, Randy is far more likely to be self-obsessed and selfish, stubbornly refusing to listen to anyone else. In Season 23, he thinks anyone who has the same business idea as him should give it up and let him reap all the profits. Also, whenever the rest of the family makes it clear they don't enjoy living/working on Tegridy Farms and want to go back to their old life, he accuses them of not caring about the family.
* JadedWashout: He was once in a boy band, got fired because he aged out at 19, and was mocked by the town once he returned. He has also had dreams of being a proper rock star that never went anywhere, at least until he became Lorde.
* {{Jerkass}}: At his worst, he can be a spoilt, irrational {{Manchild}} who often disregards his son to erupt into chaos over everything. He's at his worst throughout Season 23 up to ''The Streaming Wars'', where his increased egomania and rampant weed addiction cause his worst traits to take over.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Aside from the insane things he has been a part of, he is a normal, well-meaning father. He can be selfish but he has shown that he genuinely loves his wife and children. This fades away during Season 23, as he grows increasingly selfish and cruel, before he starts [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagging]] between being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk as he has numerous {{Heel Realization}}s, then forgets about them after a while, then has another one, rinse and repeat.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While generally a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Randy descends into this territory in Season 23. His propensity for get-rich-quick schemes and his general selfishness overwhelm his love for his family with him being downright emotionally abusive toward them at times, and most of his genuine moments of humanity are subverted by him doing something cruel and unethical. He mostly reverts back to his old self after having a HeelRealization in "Midseason Finale", but he doesn't fully get out until "The Streaming Wars".
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: While Randy was always prone to acting like a {{Jerkass}} and causing chaos through his various zany (and often illegal) antics, Season 23 sees him descent into increasingly unethical, almost Cartman-like behavior on the regular. He mostly reverts back to normal after "Midseason Finale", although he remains much more acerbic afterward for a while.
* KarmaHoudini:
** He becomes one of these in Season 23, where he gets away with selling out to the Chinese government by killing Winnie The Pooh, letting them use his weed to frame student protesters, and killing numerous homegrown weed owners to get a monopoly on the weed business, at least until [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Post Covid...]].
** Played straight and DoubleSubverted in the revised future, where everyone forgives him for starting Covid and, even at the very end of the bad future, taking credit for having sex with the pangolin in every timeline despite it absolving Clyde for being selfish and time traveling specifically to aid Randy's whims as an excuse, and making Kenny's [[EruditeStoner lucidity-induced research]] harder to fill without any bystanders other than Tolkien and Stan, effectively dooming the town even more. Had Stan not thought to do multiple {{Diving Save}}s on Kyle in each timeline while filtering (and later fully repairing) the current one through blackmailing Heather Williams and helping to "cut each other some slack", they would have been stuck there.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:
** In "Let Them Eat Goo", him unethically murdering cattle causes him to lose his customers when the Goo Man shows a video tape of it to the whole town, turning everyone against him.
** In ''Post Covid'', his dreams are destroyed when Stan burns down his barn, and he's trapped in a miserable nursing home for decades.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Randy [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level in Jerkass]] following Season 23 is accompanied by people becoming increasingly sick of his antics and him being subject to increased misfortune.
* LargeHam: Randy pretty much embodies this trope. He's prone to melodramatic fits and loud screaming at the drop of a hat.
* LethallyStupid: He even accidentally killed his daughter's boyfriend!
* {{Manchild}}: Randy has the intelligence of an adult, yet the behavior of a child.
** These traits show in his taste for children's programs: he's the only adult thinking "Terrance and Philip" is ActuallyPrettyFunny [[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death in the first season]], his son surprises him laughing at an episode [[Recap/SouthParkS2E12Clubhouses in the second]], and after having watched a single episode of [[Recap/SouthParkS3E11Chinpokomon "Chinpokomon"]], he feels the sudden urge to [[GottaCatchEmAll catch them all]].
** That being said, his taste in music is standard for someone of his generation, as he hears literal shit when listening to tween wave and doesn't badmouth music from the '70s until the kids start calling it lame.
** "You're Getting Old" gives a darker tone to it, revealing this is a response to him being unhappy with his current life.
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: With his wife, Sharon. Sharon is generally far more levelheaded and less impulsive than her husband, with a much more restrained wild side. Increasingly, she becomes the only real adult in the house, with Randy devolving more and more into a man-child.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction after realizing what an ass he's been throughout Season 23.
* NeverMyFault: While he shares this with the other adults, he's by far the worst offender. He almost ''never'' acknowledges his fault in anything, and childishly clings to his own delusions. Subverted in the midseason finale of Season 23, where he realizes that his going to prison is a consequence of his own actions, and after how much of a {{Jerkass}} he's been, he decides to face the consequences with grace. During his trial he apologizes to his family for what he's done (except Shelley, who he forgot exists), and after getting set free he resolves to stick to small-scale farming.
** In the BadFuture he blames Stan for the deaths of Sharon and Shelly, even though it was Randy's obsession with selling weed that drove the whole family towards such extreme circumstances.
* NightmareFetishist: Randy's fetishes are bizarre and disturbing at best. He's expressed a predilection for Japanese girls puking on each other, [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]], hentai, and a laundry load of others.
* NotHimself: Downplayed. Much of Randy's [[TookALevelInJerkass increasingly cruel and amoral behavior]] throughout Season 23 is caused by his rampant weed addiction severely impairing his thought process. By his own admission, a lot of it is down to his own natural egotism, but his addiction kept him from seeing how bad he'd gotten until it was nearly too late.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In Season 23 he justifies his murders and unethical and underhanded business ventures as him doing desperate things to provide for his family. However, its clear that Tegridy Farms has more than enough money to thrive and his family would be more than happy to leave, but Randy just wants to live his dream of being a weed farmer and is just greedy and wants a monopoly on the business. Also, most of Tegridy Farms' genuine money problems are caused by him spending massive amounts of money to make expensive and unnecessary advertising gimmicks, and he refuses to stop doing so after Sharon points this out to him because of his NeverMyFault tendencies.
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Randy [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level in Jerkass]] from Season 23 onwards reaches its apex in ''The Streaming Wars'', where he begins acting like and being referred to as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang) Karen]].
* OhCrap: In "Pandemic Special", when it was reported the creature responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic was a bat, he has this reaction as he remembered he and Mickey Mouse had unprotected sex with one. He has another one of these when it came out that the real creature responsible for the spread of the virus was a pangolin, which he and Mickey ''also'' had sex with.
* OldShame: InUniverse. He joined a boy band before finishing high school.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Parodied|Trope}} or {{subverted|Trope}}. A few episodes ("Spontaneous Combustion," "T.M.I.") have him take on non-geology jobs on the ground that he is a "scientist." In the first case it's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, though he actually turns out to be competent; in the latter it's not, but he does poorly. "Die Hippie, Die" has him volunteering in Cartman's plan to dig through the hippies because he is the only scientist the city has.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", he is forever known for saying the n-word on ''national television''.
* PapaWolf: In "Die Hippie, Die", "Pee", and "Broadway Bro Down".
* ParentalFavoritism: While Randy often over-involves himself in Stan's life, he has little interest in Shelley, at one point even forgetting her as he lists his family.
* ParentsAsPeople: Despite his stupidity and recklessness, he means well for both his kids.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Randy is supposed to be a geologist, but rare is the time we actually see him doing any geological work. Instead, we see him trying to set the world's record for taking the biggest crap, aiming to become a TV chef, giving himself testicular cancer so he can smoke medical marijuana, etc.
* PornStache: He has a mustache. Apparently anyone who consumes his semen will develop the same mustache. [[FridgeBrilliance This would explain why Randy can instantly recognize the taste of cum]].
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Randy is a central character in season 23, possibly the main character of the show at that season. The show shows him going from a jerkass that is trying to make a living with farm life to an outright amoral sell-out who is willing to do acts of terrorism and murder to protect his bottom line.
* PsychopathicManchild: He develops into this in Season 23. He's just as childish as ever, but also far more willing to commit acts of violence. He mellows out after "Season Finale", though he's still more of a {{Jerkass}} than he was prior.
* RabbleRouser: In a more literal case than most, he has managed to start a rabble at least once by shouting "Rabble!" a few times.
* RunningGag: His pants falling when he gets drunk. There's also him getting arrested by the cops for picking a fight with the people who root for the other sports teams.
* SadClown: As revealed in "You're Getting Old", Randy is actually a very depressed person and much of his childish behavior is his way of coping with it.
* SarcasmMode: In "Sarcastaball", he is diagnosed with a mental condition that causes everything he says to be a sarcastic comment.
* SanitySlippage:
** "A Nightmare on [=FaceTime=]" makes it very clear he's lost it.
** Season 23 shows that he's utterly lost it, with the first episode alone having him bomb homegrown weed owners in an act of domestic terrorism and seriously wondering if he is actually a towel. "Season Finale" reveals that this was partially a result of him repeatedly using his own weed, and he gets better after his HeelRealization.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Randy constantly ignores that his family is very much annoyed with his latest ZanyScheme, to the point of actively deluding himself into believing that they're totally on board with it.
* SeriousBusiness: Whatever the focus of the episode is, he's taking it waaaay too seriously.
* SignificantBirthdate: His birthday is March 1, which is also that of Trey Parker's father Randy, who he's named after and based on.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: He takes every opportunity possible to sell his weed in Season 23 no matter how unethical or counterproductive (read: expensive) it is.
* SnapBack: Quits/gets fired at least 4 times. Even his seasons-long stint as a weed farmer ends with him going back to his old job.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: So much so that he became TheProtagonist of Season 23. Even the opening theme was changed to reflect Randy and Tegridy Farms for the season's first six episodes. Randy ''finally'' took a backseat for the next three episodes, only for the season finale to focus on him again.
** He is also part of one with Butters for Season 25, being the only adult to have two episodes focused on him while the other adults (PC Principal; Liane; Mr. Mackey; Gerald) only had one episode revolving around them.
* StageNames: He performed his interpretation of Tween Wave music as "Steamy Ray Vaughn".
* StatusQuoIsGod: The Streaming Wars 2-parter made it seem like Randy would quit Tegridy Farms and go back to his geology job after realizing how far he'd sunk. Season 26 shows he's restarted the farm once more.
* TheStoner: On top of his alcoholism, later seasons have Randy develop an addiction to marijuana. Throughout his ownership of Tegridy Farms, Randy frequently samples his own supply and spends a good chunk of the time buzzed out of his mind. At least part of his increasingly {{Jerkass}} behavior throughout Season 23 is because he's utterly blitzed out on weed and not thinking straight.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: A recurring arc throughout the series is Randy feeling out-of-touch with South Park's rapidly changing culture, especially during the 2020s where he finds himself flustered with the changing definitions of masculinity.
* StrawCharacter: Randy is frequently used as a strawman to satirize political views or talking points the writers disagree with. Randy's role has shifted over the years, having evolved from a smug and preening limousine liberal into an Andrew Tate fanboy who despises "wokeness". The duality of his morals are showcased in "About Last Night" when he spends the 2008 election night singing the praises of Obama, only to instantly turn against him overnight when he doesn't magically solve all his problems and his excessive partying in his honor only get him robbed and fired.
* SupremeChef: In "Crème Fraiche", he's shown to be a very talented chef, being capable of replicating dishes he sees on cooking shows. Much to the chagrin of his family, who have to clean up the resulting massive pile of dishes. However, it's implied that his food still doesn't ''taste'' very good, and he's just imitating the flashy "gourmet" style popular on cooking shows without really understanding it.
* TooDumbToLive: Has become this post {{Flanderization}}, but his biggest moment comes in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" where he gives himself testicular cancer just to be legally qualified to have medical marijuana.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Takes a level every episode he appears in, and probably the ones where he doesn't appear, too. Given his first ever appearance showed that he didn't know how to read a seismograph, that's quite an acheivement.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** At the beginning of the series, Randy is one of the most level-headed adults and was much more laid-back than Sharon. However, he became increasingly self-absorbed and immature as he acts out over his dissatisfaction with his life, constantly rabble-rousing and dragging his family along in his own moronic efforts to go along with the newest fad.
** He takes another level in Season 23, where he becomes obsessed with [[{{Greed}} profiting off of Tegridy Farms]], and commits an act of domestic terrorism by blowing up houses with homegrown marijuana and killing numerous people to take out the competition, and brutally garroting Winnie the Pooh to curry favor with the Chinese government. He also starts to neglect his family, and even emotionally manipulates Stan into wearing a Tegridy Farms shirt at a concert in "Band in China", and accuses them of not caring about the family whenever they make it clear they hate Tegridy Farms. [[HeelRealization He realizes how much of an ass he's been]] in "Season Finale", and by "The Pandemic Special", he's mainly reverted to his old self.
** During the "Streaming Wars" two-parter Randy hits his lowest, having grown so insufferable and entitled that everyone in town starts calling him "[[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife Karen]]" straight to his face. When Randy sees a video of himself acting melodramatic, he realizes that his character has taken a turn for the worse and gives up on being a weed farmer.
* TookALevelInKindness: In "The Streaming Wars 2", after realizing how much of an ass he's been for the past few seasons and giving up on Tegridy Farms.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He's an alcoholic, and none of his friends try to keep him from getting drunk (even encouraging him on occasion).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His preferred beer brand is Pabst Blue Ribbon, and ever since [[Recap/SouthParkS18E2GlutenFreeEbola the gluten scare]], he has been exclusively drinking gluten-free beer.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Parker named Randy after his own father.
* UnfazedEveryman: His initial characterization was of a laid-back guy who reacted to the bizarre events around him with a blasé, unfazed attitude. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn This quickly changed.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Multiple times, starting in his debut in "Volcano", where even though he saved South Park from the titular volcano, he ended up accidentally getting Denver engulfed in the process. He reaches his peak in "Pandemic Special", he and Mickey Mouse unknowingly caused the spread of COVID-19 by having sex with a pangolin, which starts ''the whole'' pandemic, leading to the deaths of millions of people, the destruction of many livelihoods, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the dissolution of the boys' friendship]].
* VillainProtagonist: He would serve as this for Season 23 which mostly focuses on Randy's committing crimes to keep his business afloat.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: To Stan. Randy is an over-the-top, sex-crazed, alcoholic and drug addict, while Stan is the StraightMan who is [[WiseBeyondTheirYears wise beyond his years]].
* WhatHaveIBecome: Randy eventually realizes how low he's sunk when he sees a viral video of himself looking and behaving like a stereotypical Karen. This is the wakeup call he needs to finally liquidate Tegridy Farms and go back to his geology job.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: As revealed in "[[Recap/SouthParkS18E2GlutenFreeEbola Gluten-Free Ebola]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS18E3TheCissy The Cissy]]", he has a double life as Music/{{Lorde}}, using AutoTune to make himself sound like a teenage girl.
-->'''Clyde:''' Lorde sucks.\\
'''Jimmy:''' Yeah, she isn't as hot in person.
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[[folder:Sharon Marsh]]
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->''"It's like, [[SelfDeprecation the same shit just happens over and over]] and then in a week [[ResetButton it just all resets]] until it happens again. [[LampshadeHanging Every week]] it's kind of the same story [[RecycledINSPACE in a different way]], but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), Creator/AprilStewart (2004-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Verónica Rivas (Seasons 1-2), Omaira Coromoto Rivero (Seasons 3-4), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 5-15a and 16a, and 2007-2011 redubs), Margarita Coego (Season 15b and 2012 redub), Jackeline Junguito (Seasons 16b-25 and 2015-2016 redubs), Giset Blanco (Season 26 onwards), Patricia Hannidez (Mexican dub), Rebeca Patiño (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rona Fletcher (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]"
Stan's mom, who is much saner than her husband. Not that it says much.
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* AccidentalHero: In "The Losing Edge", his multiple drunken [[CockFight Cock FIghts]] with the dads of his son's opposing baseball teams end up saving the boys from having to spend the entire summer playing baseball (which they hated) when his fight with Bat-Dad gets them disqualified by proxy. This actually marks one of the few times where Stan has praised him for something.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A lot of Randy's dumbest actions come from him being completely and utterly ''wasted''. He can be pretty stupid on his own, but whenever he's drunk or high he's prone to much more self-destructive and erratic behavior. Notable instances include punching out his own boss, getting into brawls with other parents at Little League games, and being arrested at one point for driving drunk and insulting the cop who stopped him once he realized Randy was drunk.
* TheAlcoholic: Not as worse as Stuart, but he is frequently shown drunk. The plot of "Bloody Mary" focuses on him going to A.A., though they are useless, teaching him he is powerless to the "disease of alcoholism". Encouraged by Stan, he tries to learn discipline and self-control, but he continues to have unhealthy drinking habits, though he is in complete denial over having a drinking problem when confronted.
* AlcoholicParent: The whole Marsh family has been revealed to have addictive tendencies. Marvin is a gambler, though at one point Stan also called him an alcoholic – something that Randy has inherited. He is frequently seen drinking, sometimes casually, sometimes engaging in binge drinking, often leading to irresponsible and stupid behavior. In one episode he gets a DUI, has to attend AA meetings, where instead of taking responsibility and controlling his behavior, he is told he has a "disease." At the end of the episode, Stan encourages him to learn discipline and self-control, but it doesn't stick, and Randy denies having an alcohol problem at all when Stan and Sharon confront him about it in "Freemium Isn't Free".
* AllMenArePerverts: He's very into porn, masturbating and has some very disturbing fetishes.
** A major part of "Overlogging" is the fact that he wants to masturbate, but can't without ''extreme'' Internet fetish porn.
** In "Crème Fraiche", he masturbates to cooking shows. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
** In "Pandemic Special", Randy's "cure" for COVID-19 (which he unwittingly caused by having sex with a pangolin) is by jacking off into his weed and having people smoke it. However, this results in [[GoneHorriblyRight many people suddenly growing a mustache just like his.]]
** In "Spring Break", he's even surprised that his 10-year old son is NotDistractedByTheSexy when he starts bringing in strippers to the house. He later mistakes a female cop for a stripper (since he had previously brought in two escorts dressed as cops) and [[TooDumbToLive harasses her]], getting himself arrested.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The show's crowning example of this trope, when accounting for the other degrees of uselessness of the adults. Highlights include: going out of his way to pick fights at Stan's Little League games, blurting out the N-word on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', and ejaculating a gallon of semen all over a mobile computer room after watching porn.
* AngryWhiteMan: In season 26 Randy gets in the habit of using the word "woke" to describe things that don't appeal to him.
* AntiHero: Starts off as a [[KnightInSourArmor Type 2]] like his son, as he was genuinely helpful as a geologist when the town needed him but was somewhat unfazed by the chaos going on around him. Then he gradually became a [[PragmaticHero Type 3]] as he got more invested in his family's safety at the expense of the town, and his is solutions to problems became more outlandish and occasionally involved several causalities, which is highlighted in episodes parodying horror movies, such as "Night of the Living Homeless". After buying "Tegridy Farms", he started switching between [[UnscrupulousHero Type 4]] and [[NominalHero Type 5]], only trying to make things better for himself at the expense of everyone else but occasionally [[BigDamnHeroes saving everyone in the process]], as well as being the LesserOfTwoEvils compared to the episode's BigBad such as in "Bike Parade", "Post Covid: Return of Covid", and "Tegridy Farms St. Patrick Day Special". By "The Streaming Wars", he's [[HeelFaceTurn trying to go back to his origins and become a better person]].
* AscendedExtra: Originally he was just Stan's dad, but nowadays it's not unheard of to have entire episodes focused on Randy with the boys relegated to background characters.
* TheAtoner:
** Near the end of Season 19, when he finally came to realize that South Park's gentrification was doing more harm than good (with some help from a beatdown courtesy of Caitlyn Jenner), he pledged to help undo the damage he helped cause.
** In Season 23, when Towelie (and legal trouble) demonstrated how unethical his business had become, he makes some genuine efforts to return to the roots of Tegridy.
* AuthorAvatar: Trey Parker has said that Randy has become more prominent, due to the fact that he has started to get older and identifies with the character more. This is most clear during the Tegridy Farms arc, where his marijuana business is [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall often used as an allegory for the show itself]] and seems to reflect the creators' creative process (such as in "Christmas Snow" when he struggles to come up with a good product in time for Christmas).
* AxCrazy:
** In "T.M.I.", he goes insane and is the spearhead of the movement to take over the Federal Express.
** In Season 23, he becomes increasingly fixated on his Tegridy Farms profits, to the point that he starts committing murder in an effort to help boost sales.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In Season 22 Randy fancied himself and Towelie to be the sole legal drug company with integrity, and crusaders against big business. In Season 23, he becomes just as unethical as the other drug companies, if not more so.
* BecomingTheMask:
** In "Sarcastaball," he loses control over his ability to be sarcastic and can't stop doing it.
** Music/{{Lorde}} was originally just an excuse to use the girls' bathroom.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Double Subverted. In "The Pandemic Special", it initially seems like he and Mickey Mouse had caused the COVID-19 Pandemic when [[BestialityIsDepraved the two of them had sex with a bat,]] resulting in Randy becoming patient zero. Then it turns out that the actual cause of the disease was a pangolin... that they ''also'' had sex with.
* BestialityIsDepraved: During a bender in China, he had sex with a bat and a pangolin, which somehow, created the COVID-19 virus.
* BerserkButton: The multiple people he fought at every baseball game he went to are this to him.
* BigBad: Of Season 23, until he has a HeelRealization in "Season Finale". He becomes part of the BigBadEnsemble in "[[Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial The Pandemic Special]]", due to having created COVID-19 and his attempts to cure it making things worse.
* BigBadSlippage: He started off as a simple Marijuana peddler, but his greed starts consuming him making him commit unethical crimes to increase his business and effectively becomes the BigBad for Season 23.
* BigDamnHeroes: As dumb as he is, Randy has saved the town more times than any other character, starting in his debut in "Volcano". Even after resigning as a geologist and buying "Tegridy Farms" and becoming more villainous than heroic, his weed still ends up being the key to saving everyone on occasion, such as in "Bike Parade" and "Post Covid: Return of Covid".
* BigNo: Does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJAeD1f2YnI Picard's]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGI1IHuNy2Y Vader's]], with the sound taken directly from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* BigOMG: He gets two separate big "oh my god"s when he realizes every senior citizen in town is driving at the same time.
* BodyHorror: In "Medicinal Fried Chicken", he deliberately gives himself testicular cancer so he can legally buy weed, which causes his balls to swell up to such a ridiculous size he has to carry them around in a wheelbarrow. Eventually they get so big he can't even fit them through the door of the weed dispensary.
* BoisterousBruiser: Particularly when he's drunk, Randy will very loudly challenge people to fights and boast about his combat prowess. He's not joking either; he's a ''very'' competent brawler who is dangerously good at slugging it out.
* BreakoutCharacter: Randy has become increasingly more important lately due to a mix of popularity and Trey Parker identifying with Randy more as he gets older.
* BrilliantButLazy: Played with. Randy is genuinely intelligent and talented in various fields, but [[DidntThinkThisThrough he rarely thinks his actions through]] and his decisions tend to be erratic at best.
* BumblingDad: His stupidity embarrasses Stan at every turn, whether it's well-intentioned or selfishly motivated.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his obvious quirks, he is good at his job as a geologist. He also proves to be an excellent musician and agriculturist during his stints as Music/{{Lorde}} and the owner of Tegridy Farms respectively.
* ButtMonkey: Seems to have gained this status to a certain extent in Season 21, where more and more people view him with contempt and regard his antics strictly as being immature and absurd, and treat him accordingly. Sharon even seems to call him out on his selfish behavior much more often.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In the episode "Overlogging" Randy has gone for weeks without masturbating to Internet porn, eventually near the end he sneaks into the camp's computer room, looks at a bunch of perverted things, and eventually ejaculates all over the room, everyone comes in thinking he was grunting in pain and with his pants down, he tells them that he was doing that because "a ghost was attacking him and left his ectoplasm everywhere".
* CerebusRetcon: "You're Getting Old" sheds some very harsh light on Randy's zany moments. It turns out the reason he's been acting increasingly bizarre is because he's suffering depression and wants to distract himself from his humdrum existence.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "Stan? ''Staaan''?", "Hey, Sharon," "(Oh my) Gawl!", "Well, ''that'' sucks", "Score!", [[LamarckWasRight and a few of his son's]].
** In Season 23, he gains two new ones, "Hey, ''fuck you,''" and "It just so happens" when he finds a new chance to sell his weed.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** As Sharon, Stan, and Shelley grow and become more mature with every season, Randy only grows more impulsive, childish, and egotistical, to the point of becoming the WildCard of the Marshes and a BrokenPedestal for his son in particular. In "You're Getting Old", he acknowledges these changes and reveals that this is his way of coping with not being happy with Sharon anymore, since they both grew in different directions following their wild childhood days. However, Randy's inability to meaningfully change make him stay with Sharon because it's all he knows at this point (and likewise).
** Over the course of the Tegridy Farms arc, Randy becomes increasingly abrasive and immoral, having finally found something that fulfils him but which both his family and friends hate since it makes him act like a Karen. Throughout the season, Randy acknowledges this countless times but continuously chooses his weed business over his loved ones, burning the bridges he created with [[HatedByAll South Park as a whole]], his family, and his partners Towelie (albeit he's EasilyForgiven two episodes later), and Steve Black, and becomes increasingly frustrated that they can't enjoy their success as much as he does (which becomes a problem with [[HatesTheirParent Shelley]] in particular).
** After essentially having one RedemptionRejection per season starting in "Season Finale", (though in "Pandemic Special" [[HeelFaceDoorSlam it was out of his hands]]) and doubling down on his {{Jerkass}} attitude each time, he finally chooses [[MoralityChain his family and friends]] over the business for good in "The Streaming Wars" and goes back to being a geologist, deciding that the weed hasn't made him any happier.
** In Season 26, though he's still generally depicted as more of a {{Jerkass}} than before, he still has a JerkassRealization each time he falters and tries to make things right again by the end, which Sharon and Stan do seem to appreciate.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** He used to be the more laid back of the Marshes earlier on, and one of the saner adults overall. Now... not so much...
** While his political views were subject to DependingOnTheWriter (and he sometimes changed his take on a subject in the same episode [[{{Hypocrite}} after days of preaching it]]), Randy was primarily depicted as a condescending limousine liberal during the show's early seasons. Around Season 12 his views [[NeverMyFault became more of an excuse to blame politicians for every issue in his life]], and he switched from liberal to conservative consistently [[ItsAllAboutMe depending on what suited him the most]] at the time (though in Season 20 the switch occurred because he was brainwashed into supporting [[{{Trumplica}} President Garrison]] by the Memberberries). By Season 26, he's depicted as an AngryWhiteMan and an Andrew Tate fanboy who complains about wokeness.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Especially during the obsession phases, but even outside of that Randy's out there even by South Park standards. He's prone to nonsensical and poorly thought-out {{Zany Scheme}}s, has utterly bizarre fetishes (including for ''cooking shows'', of all things), and is generally completely divorced from reality on a good day.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In Season 23, after Tegridy Farms becomes a successful weed company and a major corporation, he becomes greedy and unethical, committing countless murders for Tegridy to thrive and engaging in numerous unethical business ventures, like selling vegetarian burgers made out of the unusable parts of weed to the citizens of South Park and selling weed to the Chinese government so they can plant them on student protesters to arrest them.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Randy is certainly an excellent marijuana farmer, as everyone who tries his Tegridy Farms weed loves it for being a quality product. However, it's shown that when it comes to the actual business end of the farm, he's completely incompetent as he drives up the costs with unnecessary and expensive expenditures that cut into his profits. Things get worse after Steve Black starts a competing farm, as Randy is continually outmatched by Steve's business acumen.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his dim-witted nature, he's demonstrated multiple times to be a highly competent brawler.
* DeadpanSnarker: Speeds faster than a jet in "Sarcastaball".
* DependingOnTheWriter: Randy frequently alternates between being a liberal and a conservative. He'll act smug and self-righteous about his position irregardless, but which side he's schilling depends on the plot of the episode.
* DirtyCoward: In "Fantastic Easter Special", he [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets captured and interrogated by the American Catholic League's ninjas over the location of a rabbit, which he gave to his son to hide in a good place]]. When they ask him where it is, he responds:
-->'''Randy:''' I don't know, and even if I did know then... I'd probably just tell you because I don't want to be here anymore.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Though it appears that Randy will become the BigBad for Season 23, he gets a HeelRealization in "Season Finale" where he reforms and becomes OutOfFocus for the rest of the season, while a [[TheBigBadShuffle Big Bad Shuffle]] will occur between Heather Swanson and Clark Malkinson and eventually Santa Clause becomes the FinalBoss.
* DotingParent: Even at some of his least sane moments, he absolutely adores both his kids and often goes to outrageous lengths whenever he thinks they need help, [[UnwantedAssistance even if they'd disagree,]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} usually for good reason.]]
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Randy had a different look back in Season 1, most notably in his hairstyle. He was remodeled into his permanent design come his first Season 2 episode, "Chickenlover". He also has [[NoBrows no eyebrows]] in "Volcano".
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Randy can be impulsive, but he was creeped out by Mr. Jefferson's inappropriately childish behavior.
** In "Broadway Bro-Down" (wherein musicals use heavy subtext for women to want to give men blowjobs) he ''freaks out'' when Shelley goes to see one with her new boyfriend. He is also disgusted when an elderly man says he's trying to enjoy the musical with his young granddaughter.
** Even ''he'' thinks [[AngryWhiteMan Bob White]] is a delusional blowhard that treats his kids like shit.
** He actively ignores the annoying [[{{Joisey}} Jerseyites]] like the plague, only starting to get violent with them when they mindlessly take over the country.
** Along with everyone else, he's shocked and appalled by the Japanese slaughtering dolphins and whales.
** Despite his FaceHeelTurn in Season 23, he's still shocked by some of Mickey Mouse's atrocities, such as sending him a disembodied heart to scare him or making a [[Film/Mulan2020 Mulan remake]]. He also considers the making of [[Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy Space Jam II]] to be a particular low point of humanity.
** In "The Pandemic Special", he's shocked and speechless when President Garrison burns down the pangolin carrying the cure for the pandemic, despite the action ensuring that [[MeaninglessVillainVictory Randy would get off scott-free for accidentally starting the pandemic]].
* {{Expy}}: Season 23 turns him into one of [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]], both being scientists who began selling drugs with the help of a partner and justifies it and the horrible crimes he commits to sell the drugs as providing for his family. The only difference is that the drugs Randy sells are legal, and he lacks most of the intelligence Walter has.
* FaceHeelTurn: While Randy was always something of a {{Jerkass}}, his selfishness and immaturity reach their apex in Season 23, where he becomes a monstrously self-centered asshole whose redeeming qualities are gradually outweighed by his own ambitions.
* {{Fetish}}: Randy has some really odd fetishes like Japanese girls puking on each other, bestiality, and so forth. Oh, and murder porn, but every adult in South Park seems to be into that.
* FallenHero: He went from the hero that drove [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeff Bezos]] out of South Park in Season 22, into becoming just as amoral, corrupt, and greedy as Bezos, if not more.
* FetishesAreWeird: Randy's numerous bizarre and disturbing fetishes are used to paint him as a perverted moron and deviant, and highlight how he's very much stuck in his [[ManChild teenage years]] despite being well into his middle-age.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Randy started out as one of the smartest characters on the show. His 'wild side' stemmed from a desire to connect with his son, and he simply failed to grasp the idea of fads changing rapidly, a frequent plot point in ''South Park''. As the series progresses, he evolves into a hyperactive, extremely paranoid and idiotic ManChild.
** Even within his earlier stupid bouts, he was still usually a KnightTemplarParent, genuinely having the best intentions for Stan and only spearheading the same hysteria the other parents succumbed to. From about Season 9 onward however, Randy's motives became more selfish and childish, having his family in collateral damage for whatever fad he takes to and leaving even the other brain-dead residents of South Park dumbfounded by his behavior.
** Season 23 flanderizes him again by upping his selfishness, neglectfulness, and stupidity to insane degrees, essentially turning him into the adult version of Cartman.
* {{Foil}}:
** Stan, the sanest kid, has the craziest parent.
** To his CloserToEarth wife Sharon, see MarsAndVenusGenderContrast.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: By the time of ''The Streaming Wars'' special, the entire town has become so fed up with his obnoxious behavior that they've all started calling him "[[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife Karen]]" to his face.
* GeniusDitz: He is a brilliant scientist and is capable of a lot of amazing musical feats (culminating in being Lorde), but otherwise he's an alcoholic with barely any common sense.
* GivingTheSwordToANoob: The nominal noob in "Make Love, not Warcraft", when the Blizzard board members are forced to give him the USB drive of "The Sword of a Thousand Truths" so he can deliver it to his son and defeat the griefer.
-->'''Randy:''' I have a Warcraft character. I'm a noob, but I can log on and get the sword to Stan online.\\
'''Blizzard Board Member:''' We can't trust the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a noob!\\
'''Randy:''' Sounds to me like we don't have a choice! Give me the sword.
* GoodParents: Before his level in jerkass, he was quite a DotingParent who wholeheartedly loved his kids. Later seasons depict him as emotionally abusive and cruel even to his own children, and obsessed with forcing Stan to adopt Randy's toxic masculinity.
* TheHeavy: Randy serves as this for Season 23. Most of the conflict in the season can be traced back to Randy's antics where commits more and more crimes to preserve his drug business. Even when Santa serves as the FinalBoss for the season, Randy would still be this as his decision to sell cocaine to the adults is what drives the plot for the episode.
* HeelRealization:
** While in prison for the bombings he committed, withdrawal from his weed results in him realizing he's become a monster and been a {{Jerkass}} to his family. He resolves to let himself go to prison and accept the consequences for his behavior, and even after being set free, he resolves to stick to small-scale farming.
** In ''The Pandemic Special'' it seems to have become a downplayed IgnoredEpiphany; Tegridy Farms is still a big business and he humblebrags about how the pandemic has caused his business to expand, but he made the Pandemic Special because he genuinely wanted to help people take their minds off the pandemic and give them a sense of normalcy. When he learns that he had caused the pandemic, while still covering it up, he does genuinely try to cure it.
** It's fully subverted in ''Post Covid'', which shows he doubled down on his old ways after Stan burnt down Tegridy Farms to the ground, and became fully obsessed with giving his weed back to the world. However, the boys changing the past and Stan giving him the last strain of Tegridy left in the BadFuture cause his realization to stick, and he apologizes to Sharon for being a dick.
--->'''Randy:''' Sharon, I'm sorry for the way I acted during the pandemic.\\
'''Sharon:''' You're not sorry, you're just high.\\
'''Randy:''' I'm both.
** It's finally played straight again in ''The Streaming Wars'', where after realizing he's become a Karen he gives up on Tegridy Farms and goes back to his old job.
* HiddenDepths:
** His talent as a musician is impressive as he was in a successful boy band, writes and edits his own song as Lorde, and is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY0P6o_FLEk very competent guitar player]], as seen in "Guitar Queer-O".
** As his management of Tegridy Farms shows, he's also fairly knowledgeable of agriculture as he produces a good deal of marijuana that actually becomes fairly popular. If he wasn't always blowing money on some dumb marketing gimmick, he'd likely be very rich from the farm's profits.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Season 23 shows that Tegridy Farms would be printing money were it not for Randy's insistence on throwing away money on unnecessary, expensive marketing gimmicks.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His idea to make the town more PC and get wholesale foods ended up making everything so expensive that it's no longer possible for the Marshes to live in South Park. As usual Randy blames [[NeverMyFault someone else]] until Caitlyn Jenner beats him up.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Randy is frequently the most hypocritical character in the show. Anytime he makes a political point you can bet he's going to end up resembling what he criticizes.
** He yells at Stan for having an addiction to freemium games while denying any addiction to alcohol.
** In "Goobacks", he supports the future people coming to the present and punishes Stan for calling them "Goobacks," but the second he loses his job to a time immigrant, he becomes the rednecks' de facto spokesman, blurting out the "time slur" himself several times in the process.
** In "About Last Night", Randy spends the entire episode preaching about Obama changing things for the better and assaulting everybody else across town while drunk, especially those who voted for [=McCain=]. When he sobers up the next morning and sees that his house is a wreck and his drunken antics have cost him his job, Randy immediately blames Obama and complains that he should've voted for [=McCain=] instead.
** After joining the PC frat, Randy spends most of Season 19 but especially "Stunning and Brave" harassing everyone who has mildly politically incorrect takes on subjects and accusing them of being bigoted. This is rich coming from the guy who once said the N-word on national television, and who would later go on to become an Andrew Tate-esque frat bro who complained non-stop about woke culture.
** In "Holiday Special", Randy (who used to be a huge Christopher Columbus fan) launches a one man campaign to have Columbus Day cancelled to hide his past. Later in the episode, he exploits a Native American in an attempt to forge a DNA test which he thought would help him PlayTheVictimCard, culminating in him kicking the man out of his house while screaming [[NotHelpingYourCase "get off my land, you piece of shit!"]].
** Even after his HeelFaceTurn in "The Streaming Wars", he keeps this side of him, as he distrusts Steve Black for being "a murderer" (he was framed) even though Randy himself has a body count larger than any other major character, including Winnie-The-Pooh.
* IdiotHoudini: Thus far, Randy doesn't seem to have learned any real lessons from being an idiot. He also tends to get off scot-free whenever his actions are motivated by well-meaning stupidity; it's when he's deliberately being a {{Jerkass}} that he gets struck with LaserGuidedKarma for the most part.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In Season 23, after breaking off his partnership with [=MedMen=] and the Chinese government and vowing to stop being greedy and return Tegridy Farms to its roots, the very next episode has him sell vegetarian burgers made of the unusable parts of weed (which still get people high) and run every other restaurant in South Park out of business by taking away their customers.
* InnocentBigot: If taken out of context, Randy can be seen as even more racist than Cartman.
** In "With Apologies to Jessie Jackson", Randy accidentally blurts out the N-word on ''Wheel of Fortune'', because he genuinely thought it was the correct answer to the puzzle. Stan later tells Tolkien that he wasn't being racist, just stupid.
** In "Holiday Special", while promoting the cancellation of Colombus Day he uses the word "indigenous" to refer to assholes, not knowing what the word really means. Granted, nobody actually corrects him when they hear him saying, allowing him to make an even bigger fool of himself than he already was.
* InsufferableImbecile: Despite being an educated scientist (a geologist, to be exact), he often acts like an incredibly airheaded and selfish {{Manchild}}. His tendency to impulsively engage in crazy antics to satisfy his hedonistic desires caused endless grief for his wife and children, often stubbornly and willfully ignorant to their protests.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In newer episodes, Randy is far more likely to be self-obsessed and selfish, stubbornly refusing to listen to anyone else. In Season 23, he thinks anyone who has the same business idea as him should give it up and let him reap all the profits. Also, whenever the rest of the family makes it clear they don't enjoy living/working on Tegridy Farms and want to go back to their old life, he accuses them of not caring about the family.
* JadedWashout: He was once in a boy band, got fired because he aged out at 19, and was mocked by the town once he returned. He has also had dreams of being a proper rock star that never went anywhere, at least until he became Lorde.
* {{Jerkass}}: At his worst, he can be a spoilt, irrational {{Manchild}} who often disregards his son to erupt into chaos over everything. He's at his worst throughout Season 23 up to ''The Streaming Wars'', where his increased egomania and rampant weed addiction cause his worst traits to take over.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Aside from the insane things he has been a part of, he is a normal, well-meaning father. He can be selfish but he has shown that he genuinely loves his wife and children. This fades away during Season 23, as he grows increasingly selfish and cruel, before he starts [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagging]] between being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk as he has numerous {{Heel Realization}}s, then forgets about them after a while, then has another one, rinse and repeat.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While generally a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Randy descends into this territory in Season 23. His propensity for get-rich-quick schemes and his general selfishness overwhelm his love for his family with him being downright emotionally abusive toward them at times, and most of his genuine moments of humanity are subverted by him doing something cruel and unethical. He mostly reverts back to his old self after having a HeelRealization in "Midseason Finale", but he doesn't fully get out until "The Streaming Wars".
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: While Randy was always prone to acting like a {{Jerkass}} and causing chaos through his various zany (and often illegal) antics, Season 23 sees him descent into increasingly unethical, almost Cartman-like behavior on the regular. He mostly reverts back to normal after "Midseason Finale", although he remains much more acerbic afterward for a while.
* KarmaHoudini:
** He becomes one of these in Season 23, where he gets away with selling out to the Chinese government by killing Winnie The Pooh, letting them use his weed to frame student protesters, and killing numerous homegrown weed owners to get a monopoly on the weed business, at least until [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Post Covid...]].
** Played straight and DoubleSubverted in the revised future, where everyone forgives him for starting Covid and, even at the very end of the bad future, taking credit for having sex with the pangolin in every timeline despite it absolving Clyde for being selfish and time traveling specifically to aid Randy's whims as an excuse, and making Kenny's [[EruditeStoner lucidity-induced research]] harder to fill without any bystanders other than Tolkien and Stan, effectively dooming the town even more. Had Stan not thought to do multiple {{Diving Save}}s on Kyle in each timeline while filtering (and later fully repairing) the current one through blackmailing Heather Williams and helping to "cut each other some slack", they would have been stuck there.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:
** In "Let Them Eat Goo", him unethically murdering cattle causes him to lose his customers when the Goo Man shows a video tape of it to the whole town, turning everyone against him.
** In ''Post Covid'', his dreams are destroyed when Stan burns down his barn, and he's trapped in a miserable nursing home for decades.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Randy [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level in Jerkass]] following Season 23 is accompanied by people becoming increasingly sick of his antics and him being subject to increased misfortune.
* LargeHam: Randy pretty much embodies this trope. He's prone to melodramatic fits and loud screaming at the drop of a hat.
* LethallyStupid: He even accidentally killed his daughter's boyfriend!
* {{Manchild}}: Randy has the intelligence of an adult, yet the behavior of a child.
** These traits show in his taste for children's programs: he's the only adult thinking "Terrance and Philip" is ActuallyPrettyFunny [[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death in the first season]], his son surprises him laughing at an episode [[Recap/SouthParkS2E12Clubhouses in the second]], and after having watched a single episode of [[Recap/SouthParkS3E11Chinpokomon "Chinpokomon"]], he feels the sudden urge to [[GottaCatchEmAll catch them all]].
** That being said, his taste in music is standard for someone of his generation, as he hears literal shit when listening to tween wave and doesn't badmouth music from the '70s until the kids start calling it lame.
** "You're Getting Old" gives a darker tone to it, revealing this is a response to him being unhappy with his current life.
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: With his wife, Sharon. Sharon is generally far more levelheaded and less impulsive than her husband, with a much more restrained wild side. Increasingly, she becomes the only real adult in the house, with Randy devolving more and more into a man-child.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction after realizing what an ass he's been throughout Season 23.
* NeverMyFault: While he shares this with the other adults, he's by far the worst offender. He almost ''never'' acknowledges his fault in anything, and childishly clings to his own delusions. Subverted in the midseason finale of Season 23, where he realizes that his going to prison is a consequence of his own actions, and after how much of a {{Jerkass}} he's been, he decides to face the consequences with grace. During his trial he apologizes to his family for what he's done (except Shelley, who he forgot exists), and after getting set free he resolves to stick to small-scale farming.
** In the BadFuture he blames Stan for the deaths of Sharon and Shelly, even though it was Randy's obsession with selling weed that drove the whole family towards such extreme circumstances.
* NightmareFetishist: Randy's fetishes are bizarre and disturbing at best. He's expressed a predilection for Japanese girls puking on each other, [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]], hentai, and a laundry load of others.
* NotHimself: Downplayed. Much of Randy's [[TookALevelInJerkass increasingly cruel and amoral behavior]] throughout Season 23 is caused by his rampant weed addiction severely impairing his thought process. By his own admission, a lot of it is down to his own natural egotism, but his addiction kept him from seeing how bad he'd gotten until it was nearly too late.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In Season 23 he justifies his murders and unethical and underhanded business ventures as him doing desperate things to provide for his family. However, its clear that Tegridy Farms has more than enough money to thrive and his family would be more than happy to leave, but Randy just wants to live his dream of being a weed farmer and is just greedy and wants a monopoly on the business. Also, most of Tegridy Farms' genuine money problems are caused by him spending massive amounts of money to make expensive and unnecessary advertising gimmicks, and he refuses to stop doing so after Sharon points this out to him because of his NeverMyFault tendencies.
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Randy [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level in Jerkass]] from Season 23 onwards reaches its apex in ''The Streaming Wars'', where he begins acting like and being referred to as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang) Karen]].
* OhCrap: In "Pandemic Special", when it was reported the creature responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic was a bat, he has this reaction as he remembered he and Mickey Mouse had unprotected sex with one. He has another one of these when it came out that the real creature responsible for the spread of the virus was a pangolin, which he and Mickey ''also'' had sex with.
* OldShame: InUniverse. He joined a boy band before finishing high school.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Parodied|Trope}} or {{subverted|Trope}}. A few episodes ("Spontaneous Combustion," "T.M.I.") have him take on non-geology jobs on the ground that he is a "scientist." In the first case it's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, though he actually turns out to be competent; in the latter it's not, but he does poorly. "Die Hippie, Die" has him volunteering in Cartman's plan to dig through the hippies because he is the only scientist the city has.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", he is forever known for saying the n-word on ''national television''.
* PapaWolf: In "Die Hippie, Die", "Pee", and "Broadway Bro Down".
* ParentalFavoritism: While Randy often over-involves himself in Stan's life, he has little interest in Shelley, at one point even forgetting her as he lists his family.
* ParentsAsPeople: Despite his stupidity and recklessness, he means well for both his kids.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Randy is supposed to be a geologist, but rare is the time we actually see him doing any geological work. Instead, we see him trying to set the world's record for taking the biggest crap, aiming to become a TV chef, giving himself testicular cancer so he can smoke medical marijuana, etc.
* PornStache: He has a mustache. Apparently anyone who consumes his semen will develop the same mustache. [[FridgeBrilliance This would explain why Randy can instantly recognize the taste of cum]].
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Randy is a central character in season 23, possibly the main character of the show at that season. The show shows him going from a jerkass that is trying to make a living with farm life to an outright amoral sell-out who is willing to do acts of terrorism and murder to protect his bottom line.
* PsychopathicManchild: He develops into this in Season 23. He's just as childish as ever, but also far more willing to commit acts of violence. He mellows out after "Season Finale", though he's still more of a {{Jerkass}} than he was prior.
* RabbleRouser: In a more literal case than most, he has managed to start a rabble at least once by shouting "Rabble!" a few times.
* RunningGag: His pants falling when he gets drunk. There's also him getting arrested by the cops for picking a fight with the people who root for the other sports teams.
* SadClown: As revealed in "You're Getting Old", Randy is actually a very depressed person and much of his childish behavior is his way of coping with it.
* SarcasmMode: In "Sarcastaball", he is diagnosed with a mental condition that causes everything he says to be a sarcastic comment.
* SanitySlippage:
** "A Nightmare on [=FaceTime=]" makes it very clear he's lost it.
** Season 23 shows that he's utterly lost it, with the first episode alone having him bomb homegrown weed owners in an act of domestic terrorism and seriously wondering if he is actually a towel. "Season Finale" reveals that this was partially a result of him repeatedly using his own weed, and he gets better after his HeelRealization.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Randy constantly ignores that his family is very much annoyed with his latest ZanyScheme, to the point of actively deluding himself into believing that they're totally on board with it.
* SeriousBusiness: Whatever the focus of the episode is, he's taking it waaaay too seriously.
* SignificantBirthdate: His birthday is March 1, which is also that of Trey Parker's father Randy, who he's named after and based on.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: He takes every opportunity possible to sell his weed in Season 23 no matter how unethical or counterproductive (read: expensive) it is.
* SnapBack: Quits/gets fired at least 4 times. Even his seasons-long stint as a weed farmer ends with him going back to his old job.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: So much so that he became TheProtagonist of Season 23. Even the opening theme was changed to reflect Randy and Tegridy Farms for the season's first six episodes. Randy ''finally'' took a backseat for the next three episodes, only for the season finale to focus on him again.
** He is also part of one with Butters for Season 25, being the only adult to have two episodes focused on him while the other adults (PC Principal; Liane; Mr. Mackey; Gerald) only had one episode revolving around them.
* StageNames: He performed his interpretation of Tween Wave music as "Steamy Ray Vaughn".
* StatusQuoIsGod: The Streaming Wars 2-parter made it seem like Randy would quit Tegridy Farms and go back to his geology job after realizing how far he'd sunk. Season 26 shows he's restarted the farm once more.
* TheStoner: On top of his alcoholism, later seasons have Randy develop an addiction to marijuana. Throughout his ownership of Tegridy Farms, Randy frequently samples his own supply and spends a good chunk of the time buzzed out of his mind. At least part of his increasingly {{Jerkass}} behavior throughout Season 23 is because he's utterly blitzed out on weed and not thinking straight.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: A recurring arc throughout the series is Randy feeling out-of-touch with South Park's rapidly changing culture, especially during the 2020s where he finds himself flustered with the changing definitions of masculinity.
* StrawCharacter: Randy is frequently used as a strawman to satirize political views or talking points the writers disagree with. Randy's role has shifted over the years, having evolved from a smug and preening limousine liberal into an Andrew Tate fanboy who despises "wokeness". The duality of his morals are showcased in "About Last Night" when he spends the 2008 election night singing the praises of Obama, only to instantly turn against him overnight when he doesn't magically solve all his problems and his excessive partying in his honor only get him robbed and fired.
* SupremeChef: In "Crème Fraiche", he's shown to be a very talented chef, being capable of replicating dishes he sees on cooking shows. Much to the chagrin of his family, who have to clean up the resulting massive pile of dishes. However, it's implied that his food still doesn't ''taste'' very good, and he's just imitating the flashy "gourmet" style popular on cooking shows without really understanding it.
* TooDumbToLive: Has become this post {{Flanderization}}, but his biggest moment comes in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" where he gives himself testicular cancer just to be legally qualified to have medical marijuana.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Takes a level every episode he appears in, and probably the ones where he doesn't appear, too. Given his first ever appearance showed that he didn't know how to read a seismograph, that's quite an acheivement.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** At the beginning of the series, Randy is one of the most level-headed adults and was much more laid-back than Sharon. However, he became increasingly self-absorbed and immature as he acts out over his dissatisfaction with his life, constantly rabble-rousing and dragging his family along in his own moronic efforts to go along with the newest fad.
** He takes another level in Season 23, where he becomes obsessed with [[{{Greed}} profiting off of Tegridy Farms]], and commits an act of domestic terrorism by blowing up houses with homegrown marijuana and killing numerous people to take out the competition, and brutally garroting Winnie the Pooh to curry favor with the Chinese government. He also starts to neglect his family, and even emotionally manipulates Stan into wearing a Tegridy Farms shirt at a concert in "Band in China", and accuses them of not caring about the family whenever they make it clear they hate Tegridy Farms. [[HeelRealization He realizes how much of an ass he's been]] in "Season Finale", and by "The Pandemic Special", he's mainly reverted to his old self.
** During the "Streaming Wars" two-parter Randy hits his lowest, having grown so insufferable and entitled that everyone in town starts calling him "[[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife Karen]]" straight to his face. When Randy sees a video of himself acting melodramatic, he realizes that his character has taken a turn for the worse and gives up on being a weed farmer.
* TookALevelInKindness: In "The Streaming Wars 2", after realizing how much of an ass he's been for the past few seasons and giving up on Tegridy Farms.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He's an alcoholic, and none of his friends try to keep him from getting drunk (even encouraging him on occasion).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His preferred beer brand is Pabst Blue Ribbon, and ever since [[Recap/SouthParkS18E2GlutenFreeEbola the gluten scare]], he has been exclusively drinking gluten-free beer.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Parker named Randy after his own father.
* UnfazedEveryman: His initial characterization was of a laid-back guy who reacted to the bizarre events around him with a blasé, unfazed attitude. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn This quickly changed.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Multiple times, starting in his debut in "Volcano", where even though he saved South Park from the titular volcano, he ended up accidentally getting Denver engulfed in the process. He reaches his peak in "Pandemic Special", he and Mickey Mouse unknowingly caused the spread of COVID-19 by having sex with a pangolin, which starts ''the whole'' pandemic, leading to the deaths of millions of people, the destruction of many livelihoods, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the dissolution of the boys' friendship]].
* VillainProtagonist: He would serve as this for Season 23 which mostly focuses on Randy's committing crimes to keep his business afloat.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: To Stan. Randy is an over-the-top, sex-crazed, alcoholic and drug addict, while Stan is the StraightMan who is [[WiseBeyondTheirYears wise beyond his years]].
* WhatHaveIBecome: Randy eventually realizes how low he's sunk when he sees a viral video of himself looking and behaving like a stereotypical Karen. This is the wakeup call he needs to finally liquidate Tegridy Farms and go back to his geology job.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: As revealed in "[[Recap/SouthParkS18E2GlutenFreeEbola Gluten-Free Ebola]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS18E3TheCissy The Cissy]]", he has a double life as Music/{{Lorde}}, using AutoTune to make himself sound like a teenage girl.
-->'''Clyde:''' Lorde sucks.\\
'''Jimmy:''' Yeah, she isn't as hot in person.
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->''"It's like, [[SelfDeprecation the same shit just happens over and over]] and then in a week [[ResetButton it just all resets]] until it happens again. [[LampshadeHanging Every week]] it's kind of the same story [[RecycledINSPACE in a different way]], but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous!"''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MaryKayBergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), Creator/AprilStewart (2004-present)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Verónica Rivas (Seasons 1-2), Omaira Coromoto Rivero (Seasons 3-4), Anna Silvetti (Seasons 5-15a and 16a, and 2007-2011 redubs), Margarita Coego (Season 15b and 2012 redub), Jackeline Junguito (Seasons 16b-25 and 2015-2016 redubs), Giset Blanco (Season 26 onwards), Patricia Hannidez (Mexican dub), Rebeca Patiño (Warner ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub), Rona Fletcher (Paramount ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' dub)
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]"
Stan's mom, who is much saner than her husband. Not that it says much.
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[[folder:Janice]]
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Kimberly Brooks
->'''Debut:''' "WesternAnimation/SouthParkNotSuitableForChildren"
Clyde's stepmother who started dating Roger after [[spoiler:Betsy's death]].
* AffablyEvil: She's a sweet girlfriend towards Roger while making a genuine effort to be a GoodStepmother to Clyde, even if she's willing to use influencers to manipulate children and later kill them off, just to get Clyde's views.
* BadBoss: After hiring Logan [=LeDouche=] to peddle and advertise Cred, she has him killed when he becomes a threat to Clyde finding out her role in the scheme. The fact that Clyde finds out soon thereafter regardless means his death was AllForNothing in the grand scheme of things, but she doesn't seem to care.
* BaitAndSwitch: At the end of the episode, Clyde asks her if he can call her Mom. She's obviously very flattered as she's spent the whole episode trying to parent him. He uses what would normally be a sweet moment in any other context to shout "Fuck you, Mom!"
* TheBadGuyWins: In the end, Janice gets exactly what she wants; getting Clyde to call her mom. The fact that Clyde is cursing at her while doing so does nothing to deter her joy.
* BigBad: She's the main antagonist of the "Not Suitable for Children" special, being the one who is responsible for the creation and distribution of Cred, while paying influencers like [=LoganLeDouche=] to peddle and advertise it, because [[WellIntentionedExtremist she wanted to try and reach Clyde and positively influence him as a mother]] but felt that she couldn't do it face to face because being a stepmother meant that she wasn't his "real mother".
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Janice is a KnightTemplarParent like Sheila Brovlofski in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', but while Sheila wanted to eliminate media she deemed a corrupting influence on children, Janice enabled BadInfluencer's to incite riots and push addictive substances on children in order to subtly influence Clyde without him knowing. Also Janice was a {{Pushover Parent|s}} who enabled Clyde's temper tantrums while Sheila is very strict and authoritative with her children.
* EasilyForgiven: Though Clyde does tell her off for orchestrating the entire fad to influence him (and then having a man KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade), he still accepts her as his new mom despite the grief she indirectly caused him. Roger also doesn't seem fazed after learning of his new girlfriend's atrocities.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Everything she does is to get Clyde's views, and she expresses to him how important they are to her. She also seen holding Roger's hand multiple times and is likely she would've done the same for him as well.
* GagLips: She's a pretty full-lipped woman.
* GoodStepmother: She at least tries to be one to Clyde, who seems to be looking out for his best interests, and explains why Clyde can't have Cred and how unhealthy it is for him. However, he behaves like such a BrattyHalfPint towards her that she's forced to use more "underhanded" methods to influence him.
* KarmaHoudini: She gets away with having Logan [=LeDouche=] KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.
* KilledToUpholdTheMaskerade: She inflicts this on Logan [=LeDouche=] via the auctioneer to maintain her identity hidden to Clyde. He still finds her out.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The one behind both Logan [=LeDouche=] and the auctioneer. With both dead, she effectively gets off scott-free for her involvement in the "Cred" infatuation.
* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: She wants Clyde call her mom/think of her as his mother. Clyde angrily points out that Janice technically isn't even his stepmom, just his dad's girlfriend. Eventually we get this exchange. She's still flattered by it.
-->'''Clyde:''' Janice, can I call you mom?\\
'''Janice:''' Of course you can.\\
'''Clyde:''' Fuck you, Mom!
* SecondLove: She's this for Clyde's father, whose previous wife died in "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E1ReverseCowgirl Reverse Cowgirl]]".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's this for Betsy. She has a similar palette scheme and hairstyle to her, to the point where you could easily mistake Janice for being an updated version of Betsy's character design. It seems like Roger wasn't quite over her yet.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: While Janice's actions in paying influencers like [=LoganLeDouche=] to hook children on the Cred craze and latter killing him off are quite extreme to say the least, her only reasons for committing such actions are to try connecting with her stepson, Clyde, and get him to view her as a mother figure.
* YouAreNotMyFather: She suffers from this from Clyde throughout the special, who keeps referring to her by her first name, and the only time he does call her "mom" is [[HatesTheirParent to insult her]].
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->'''Voiced in English by:''' Kimberly Brooks
->'''Debut:''' "WesternAnimation/SouthParkNotSuitableForChildren"
Clyde's stepmother who started dating Roger after [[spoiler:Betsy's death]].
* AffablyEvil: She's a sweet girlfriend towards Roger while making a genuine effort to be a GoodStepmother to Clyde, even if she's willing to use influencers to manipulate children and later kill them off, just to get Clyde's views.
* BadBoss: After hiring Logan [=LeDouche=] to peddle and advertise Cred, she has him killed when he becomes a threat to Clyde finding out her role in the scheme. The fact that Clyde finds out soon thereafter regardless means his death was AllForNothing in the grand scheme of things, but she doesn't seem to care.
* BaitAndSwitch: At the end of the episode, Clyde asks her if he can call her Mom. She's obviously very flattered as she's spent the whole episode trying to parent him. He uses what would normally be a sweet moment in any other context to shout "Fuck you, Mom!"
* TheBadGuyWins: In the end, Janice gets exactly what she wants; getting Clyde to call her mom. The fact that Clyde is cursing at her while doing so does nothing to deter her joy.
* BigBad: She's the main antagonist of the "Not Suitable for Children" special, being the one who is responsible for the creation and distribution of Cred, while paying influencers like [=LoganLeDouche=] to peddle and advertise it, because [[WellIntentionedExtremist she wanted to try and reach Clyde and positively influence him as a mother]] but felt that she couldn't do it face to face because being a stepmother meant that she wasn't his "real mother".
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Janice is a KnightTemplarParent like Sheila Brovlofski in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', but while Sheila wanted to eliminate media she deemed a corrupting influence on children, Janice enabled BadInfluencer's to incite riots and push addictive substances on children in order to subtly influence Clyde without him knowing. Also Janice was a {{Pushover Parent|s}} who enabled Clyde's temper tantrums while Sheila is very strict and authoritative with her children.
* EasilyForgiven: Though Clyde does tell her off for orchestrating the entire fad to influence him (and then having a man KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade), he still accepts her as his new mom despite the grief she indirectly caused him. Roger also doesn't seem fazed after learning of his new girlfriend's atrocities.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Everything she does is to get Clyde's views, and she expresses to him how important they are to her. She also seen holding Roger's hand multiple times and is likely she would've done the same for him as well.
* GagLips: She's a pretty full-lipped woman.
* GoodStepmother: She at least tries to be one to Clyde, who seems to be looking out for his best interests, and explains why Clyde can't have Cred and how unhealthy it is for him. However, he behaves like such a BrattyHalfPint towards her that she's forced to use more "underhanded" methods to influence him.
* KarmaHoudini: She gets away with having Logan [=LeDouche=] KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.
* KilledToUpholdTheMaskerade: She inflicts this on Logan [=LeDouche=] via the auctioneer to maintain her identity hidden to Clyde. He still finds her out.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The one behind both Logan [=LeDouche=] and the auctioneer. With both dead, she effectively gets off scott-free for her involvement in the "Cred" infatuation.
* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: She wants Clyde call her mom/think of her as his mother. Clyde angrily points out that Janice technically isn't even his stepmom, just his dad's girlfriend. Eventually we get this exchange. She's still flattered by it.
-->'''Clyde:''' Janice, can I call you mom?\\
'''Janice:''' Of course you can.\\
'''Clyde:''' Fuck you, Mom!
* SecondLove: She's this for Clyde's father, whose previous wife died in "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E1ReverseCowgirl Reverse Cowgirl]]".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's this for Betsy. She has a similar palette scheme and hairstyle to her, to the point where you could easily mistake Janice for being an updated version of Betsy's character design. It seems like Roger wasn't quite over her yet.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: While Janice's actions in paying influencers like [=LoganLeDouche=] to hook children on the Cred craze and latter killing him off are quite extreme to say the least, her only reasons for committing such actions are to try connecting with her stepson, Clyde, and get him to view her as a mother figure.
* YouAreNotMyFather: She suffers from this from Clyde throughout the special, who keeps referring to her by her first name, and the only time he does call her "mom" is [[HatesTheirParent to insult her]].
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[[folder:Scott Tenorman]]
For tropes related to him, see [[Characters/SouthParkAntagonistsBigBads here]].
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For tropes related to him, see [[Characters/SouthParkAntagonistsBigBads here]].
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