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*South Park* character
Gerald and Sheila Broflovski

Gender:	Male and Female
Hair:	Gerald: brown, Sheila: red
Age:	(Unknown)
Job:	Lawyer
Religion:	Jewish
First appearance:	"Death" (Sheila) Starvin' Marvin (Gerald)
Voiced by:	Matt Stone(Gerald) Mona Marshall (Sheila)

Gerald and Sheila Broflovski are fictional characters in the animated series South Park. They are the parents of Kyle Broflovski and Ike Broflovski (adopted). Gerald is voiced by Matt Stone and Sheila has been voiced by Mary Kay Bergman and currently by Mona Marshall.

1 Gerald
2 Sheila
3 Episodes in which Gerald and Sheila Broflovski are prominent
4 Trivia

[edit] Gerald

[edit] Appearance

Gerald wears a pink yarmulke, a beige jacket and forest green trousers. He has brown hair and a beard.

[edit] Personality

Out of all the parents in South Park, Gerald appears to be the most caring and rational father. He teaches Kyle on important morals and appears to be more concerned with the environment and current events than most South Park residents.

He is a kind, amiable person, though he can be obnoxious and stubborn once in a while. He does, however, have gambling problems and is sometimes too obsessed with money. Mostly, though, he is seen as a responsible and caring father, sometimes to a fault.

[edit] Occupation

Gerald is a lawyer. He has handled legal matters including:

Getting Chef's name put on the album "Stinky Britches" in Chef Aid.

Helping Cartman sue Stan after Stan called him an ass-sucker in Sexual Harassment Panda.

In Sexual Harassment Panda, Gerald helped the other children sue each other after various forms of name-calling were classified as sexual harassment. This led to the case of Everyone vs. Everyone, which was dropped when Sexual Harassment Panda changed his name to Don't Sue People Panda.

[edit] Sheila

[edit] Family

Her dead mother, Cleo Broflovski, was born in 1928 and died in 1999 - as mentioned in Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery. She was also mentioned in The Biggest Douche in the Universe.

[edit] Appearance

Sheila wears a midnight blue suit with her red hair in a beehive. She appears to be overweight. Curiously for a resident of Colorado, Sheila speaks with a rather broad Brooklyn accent (although it is mentioned in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut that she moved to the town from a large city).

Her first name, and red hair, suggest Irish ancestry.

[edit] Protests

Sheila has protested against many things including:

[edit] Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo

Sheila and her family apparently comprise the entire South Park Jewish community. She was angered that the school play was anti-Jewish in Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo and forced the play to adopt a non-religious theme, ultimately provoking a riot in which she beat up Priest Maxi as he was restrained by her husband.

[edit] Death

She lobbied with the other parents to have the show-within-a-show "Terrance and Phillip" taken off the network (much like the controversy and the protests against the TV show "Beavis and Butthead" who Terrance and Phillip are based on), which succeeds, but only until a worse TV show was put on the air as a replacement.

[edit] Conjoined Fetus Lady

She was annoyed by the boys making fun of Nurse Gollum because she had the fictional disease "conjoined twin myslexia" so she taught them about the disease, but the boys started trying to split their heads open with ice picks to get supposed fetuses out (except Kyle and Kenny, who probably knew the disease didn't really exist, because Kenny laughed after hearing the lecture and Kyle didn't get very scared). When Stan's irate mother told Sheila "Next time you want to scare the hell out of my son, go sit in the road until a truck runs you over!" she angrily protested to have a "conjoined fetus week" that was dedicated to Conjoined Twin Myslexia and South Park's only sufferer (the school nurse, Nurse Gollum). She got really annoyed (especially when unwanted pictures were taken), and she angrily said at the end of it that the week was the last thing she wanted. Principal Victoria and Sheila just declared her "an ungrateful bitch."

[edit] Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina

Sheila pokes her nose into many other people's business and doesn't like her family (or anyone else in fact) discriminating others. In Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina she was a hypocrite in telling Kyle that Mr. Garrison's vaginoplasty was okay because it makes him feel how he is on the inside, but then denied Kyle a negroplasty, until of course, her husband got a "dolphinoplasty".

[edit] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

In the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Sheila was one of the main characters when the boys had been "sucked in" by Terrance and Phillip's antics from their film Asses of Fire.

In fact it led to Kenny copying Terrance lighting his fart on fire killing Kenny. Kenny is famous for dying however. Sheila then created "MAC" or "Mothers Against Canada" (Terrance and Phillip are Canadian). She even installed a V-Chip in Cartman to shock him whenever he swore.

Sheila thought she was acting for the best but it then lead to America-Canada war. Then Satan and Saddam Hussein used this to invade Earth. Satan's armies were fended off by Cartman's malfunctioning V-Chip and Satan killed Saddam who had been irritating Satan for a while after Kenny's spirit (who went to Hell) convinced him to end it. Satan then took Mr. Hat to Hell with him and gave Kenny one wish for helping him. He said he wanted everything back to normal even though it meant he (Kenny) would have to go to Hell. Kyle then said that in the end Cartman's swearing saved everyone. Sheila realized and since then has cut down on her protesting.

[edit] Mystery of the Urinal Deuce

She attempted to protest against the Cartman family for leading the whole school into believing her son was responsible for 9/11, but was brushed aside by Mr. Mackey, who was trying to find out who did the urinal deuce.

[edit] Others

Sheila has been in protests against the Iraq War in I'm a Little Bit Country and various others.

[edit] Kyle's Mom is a Stupid Bitch

This is a song sung by Cartman in two episodes, Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (in which towards the end of the song Sheila was actually standing behind Cartman, who proceeded to sing the song to the end before looking behind him and exclaiming "Aw, fuck!"). Of course, given the way she tends to act, Cartman could be right.

[edit] Episodes in which Gerald and Sheila Broflovski are prominent

Death - Protest Terrance and Phillip.

Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo - Tells Kyle off for claiming Mr. Hankey is real.

Ike's Wee Wee - Tell Kyle Ike was adopted.

Chef Aid - Gerald represents Chef in a court case over who made the song "Stinky Britches." And Sheila gives Chef money after he has sex with her, which is for some reason, approved by Gerald (most likely because he doesn't want to look like a bad lawyer by having a client going to jail).

Spontaneous Combustion - Gerald cannot get an erection with Sheila, yet he gets turned on by three young women who want to sue Randy for getting skin cancer. This implies that due to her behavior, or more likely her appearance, he finds Sheila unattractive.

Sexual Harassment Panda - Helps people sue each other for name calling which is classed as sexual harassment.

Asspen - Goes with the other parents to Aspen but get stuck in a Timeshare meeting.

It's Christmas in Canada - Gerald and Sheila have to give Ike back to his birthparents.

Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina - After Kyle is convinced surgery is okay (after Mr. Garrison's sex change) Gerald goes to complain to the doctor there. The doctor then convinces Gerald to have surgery to make him a dolphin.

Smug Alert! - Gerald becomes snobbish after buying a hybrid car. He then makes the family move to San Francisco after he feels that nobody in South Park cares about the environment as much as he does.

Mystery of the Urinal Deuce - Complain about Kyle being blamed for 9/11 by Cartman.

Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy - They discover Ike is having a sexual relationship with his kindergarten teacher.

[edit] Trivia

Gerald and Sheila are the names of Matt Stone's own parents.
Stone claims to have learned names like "bubbe" from his maternal grandparents, who, like Sheila, were Jewish.
The surname "Broflovski" is derived from Broslovski, the maiden name of Matt Stone's mother (changed to Belasco when an ancestor immigrated to the United States). Early in the series the family's last name was represented in many variants, such as Brovlofski, etc.
In "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery," Sheila's deceased mother's gravestone has the last name "Broflovski;" while this is most likely just a mistake, it seems to imply that she and Gerald had the same last name before they married, or that Gerald assumed Sheila's name.
While the entire Broflovski family is portrayed as Jewish on the show, Matt Stone's real-life father is not Jewish, only his mother is (and Stone has mentioned that they were always non-practicing).
Of the real Matt Stone's family, the only member who is not represented on the show is his sister, Rachel Stone.