Gerald and Sheila Broflovski | |
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South Park characters | |
Gerald (left) and Sheila Broflovski
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First appearance | "Starvin' Marvin" (Gerald) "Death" (Sheila) |
Created by |
Trey Parker Matt Stone |
Voiced by |
Gerald: Matt Stone Sheila: Mary Kay Bergman (1997–99) Mona Marshall (1999–present) |
Information | |
Aliases | S-Woww Titty Bang (Sheila) Skankhunt42 (Gerald) |
Gender |
Male (Gerald) Female (Sheila) |
Occupation |
Lawyer (Gerald) Activist (Sheila) |
Children |
Kyle Broflovski (son) Ike Broflovski (adoptive son) |
Relatives | Cleo Broflovski (Sheila's mother) Kyle Schwartz (nephew) |
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | American |
Residence | South Park, Colorado, (formerly San Francisco, California) |
Birthplace | Newark, New Jersey (Sheila) Unknown (Gerald) |
Gerald and Sheila Broflovski (sometimes spelled Broslovski, Broslofski, Brovlofski or Broflofski) are fictional characters in the animated television series South Park. The two are an upper middle-class married Jewish couple who raise their ten-year-old son Kyle and three-year-old Canadian-born adopted son Ike in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado.
In tradition with the show's animation style, they are both composed of simple geometrical shapes, and are animated with use of a computer, though they are given the impression of being construction paper cutout compositions animated through the use of stop motion, which was the technique used to animate the "Spirit of Christmas" shorts and the show's first episode. Gerald is voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone and Sheila was originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman and is currently voiced by Mona Marshall. Their first names are derived from the first names of Stone's parents, Gerald and Sheila Stone.
Though they are named for Stone's parents, Gerald and Sheila's characters are not largely inspired by the couple. While Stone's mother is Jewish, his father is a gentile of Irish descent, and Stone says they raised him in an agnostic household. Stone decided to portray the character of Gerald as recognizably Jewish, stating that doing so "creates more opportunity for comedy". Gerald grew up in South Park, and met Sheila while they attended college. The two moved back to Gerald's hometown when Kyle was younger because Sheila wanted to raise her children in a small town environment, but in Smug Alert!, the Broflovskis briefly moved to San Francisco when Gerald felt that South Park wasn't "progressive" enough. In a few instances, Sheila indicated displeasure with Gerald's indulgent and hypocritical behaviour, and Gerald occasionally displays subdued annoyance with his wife's meddling in others' lives. However, their marriage has been portrayed as more stable than those of the other prominent adult couples in the series, and the couple once overcame a temporary setback in their sex life when Gerald briefly suffered from erectile dysfunction.