Sheila Broflovski

Sheila Broflovski is a character on South Park. She is Kyle Broflovski's mother. She is frequently insulted by Eric Cartman, who calls her a bitch. In fact, he has even created a song about her, entitled, "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch". Her birthday is June 17th.

Appearance
Sheila wears a midnight blue dress suit with a white shirt and a violet-red skirt underneath. She also wears beige nylons, red lipstick, and gold earrings. Her hair is long, red, and put up in a beehive. She is overweight and shorter than average height. She speaks with a rather broad Brooklyn accent, although she mentions in the movie that she moved to South Park from a larger city.

Personality
Sheila is very protective about her family and has often led huge campaigns against beliefs and other such examples which she believes are unsafe. She was the cause of the America-Canada War and was the leader behind "Mothers Against Canada" (M.A.C.). She also seems to be somewhat nosy, poking into things that are other people's business. For instance, when she found out that Gerald and Mr. McCormick used to be friends in high school, she arranged a fishing date between the two (which had bad results.)

Her catchprase is the exclaimation "What-what-WHAT!" This may be a borrowing of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". Shylock says "What-what-what!" After hearing that his daughter, Jessica, has run away and taken his money. South Park often deals with stereotypes, and this reference to one of the most famous stereotypical characters in literature is ironic.

Protests
Upon hearing of anything she finds offensive, Sheila exclaims her catchphrase, and often starts something up about it. Cartman once noted this happens usually once a month, demanding to know why at the exact same time of the month, she always gets irritated by something, and he always ends up getting screwed by it. Sheila has protested against many things including:

Terrance and Philip
Her best-known protests are probably the ones connected to the Terrance and Philip show.

In "Death"
She lobbied with the other parents to have "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). Though it succeeded, a worse TV show was put on the air as a replacement. Interestingly, she was referred to as "Carol" in this episode.

In the movie
In the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" Sheila was one of the main antagonists when the boys had been "sucked in" by Terrance and Phillip's antics from their film Asses of Fire. She created "MAC" or "Mothers Against Canada" (Terrance and Phillip are Canadian). She even had a V-Chip prototype installed in Cartman to shock him whenever he swore. Sheila thought she was acting for the best, but it then lead to a war between America and Canada.

In "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"
She was angered that the school play was anti-Jewish 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 Gerald.

In "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 better).

In "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
She attempted to protest against Cartman for leading the whole school into believing her son was responsible for 9/11. However, this topic was brushed aside in favor of who defecated in the urinal at school, which happened to be Stan.

Minor protests

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

Family
Her first name, and red hair, suggest that she is of Irish or Scottish descent. However, red hair is also common in Jewish heritage. This coincides with the fact that she, and not Kyle's father, is the more stereotypical Jew in the family. It is also possible that her maiden name is Schwartz, since Kyle Schwartz is her nephew.

Similarities and Differences to Matt Stone's Family
Sheila is named after Matt Stone's own mother, and Kyle's family surname is derived from Stone's mother's original maiden name, Broslovski (which was changed to "Belasco" when her ancestors immigrated to the United States). This may explain why the family's name was spelled in various ways early on in the series (e.g., Brosloski, Brovlofski, etc.).

Even though the entire Broflovski family practises Judaism on the show, in real life, Matt Stone's mother is the only Jew in the family (and he has mentioned that he and his sister, Rachel, were brought up agnostic.) His sister is the only member of his family who isn't represented on the show. This could possibly be because Stan (and in real life, Trey Parker) has a sister and with Matt and Trey considering themselves very similar anyway, for both Kyle and Stan to have a sister would make them far too similar.

Stone claims to have learned phrases and pet names like "bubbe" from his maternal grandparents, who, like their daughter, were Jewish.

Gerald Broflovski
Main Article: Gerald Broflovski.

He is Sheila's husband. He is a lawyer. He frequently gets disturbed by Sheila's nosiness and habit of stirring up absurd protests.

Kyle Broflovski
Main Article: Kyle Broflovski.

He is her only biological son. He is also the second of the main characters. He loves her and defends her a lot, but even he finds her personality hard to bear at times.

Ike Broflovski
Main Article: Ike Broflovski.

He is Sheila's adopted son. She loves him dearly, but gets upset whenever he breaks a window after Kyle plays "Kick the Baby" with him.

Kyle Schwartz
Main Article: Kyle Schwartz.

He is Sheila's nephew. She welcomed him with open arms during his visit to South Park, and even, to make him feel a little more comfortable, promised to address him as "Kyle", and her own son as "Kyle 2".

Cleo Broflovski
She is Sheila's deceased mother, who was never seen alive on-screen. She apparently had the surname "Broflovski", as this was the name on her gravestone in the episode Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery. While this is most likely just a mistake, it seems to imply that she and Gerald had the same surname before they were married, which in turn could indicate that they were related and committed incest. Of course, it could also mean that Gerald chose to go by Sheila's name after marriage, instead of the other way around.

Eric Cartman?
Main Article: Eric Cartman.

In the episode Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut, it is revealed that Sheila had sex with Liane Cartman, Eric's biological father, making her a possible mother of Eric Cartman. It would serve as an ironic twist, since Cartman hates Jews, especially Kyle and Sheila, for her to be his mother.

Plausibility
This is a very debatable concept. On the supportive side, Cartman may have partly inherited his obesity - or whatever causes it, be it an inclination towards over-eating, a low-metabolism, or an under-active thyroid - from Sheila. Also, Kyle and Eric share a rare blood type, as evidenced by 'Cherokee Hair Tampons' when Cartman is the only viable candidate to donate a kidney to Kyle. However, if Eric and Kyle are only a few months apart by age, Sheila would have had to have been pregnant with one and then immediately after giving birth became pregnant with the other. This would have been very hard on her body, and may have resulted in serious physical changes and defaults. Of course, this might be the reason why she is overweight.

Episodes in which she is Prominent
(Her first appearance. She starts her first protest against Terrance and Phillip.)
 * Death

(She scolds Kyle for claiming that Mr. Hankey really exists. She also demands that everything relating to Christmas be banned from South Park.)
 * Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo

(She and Gerald tell Kyle that he and Ike are not biological brothers.)
 * Ike's Wee Wee

(Sheila pays Chef after he has sex with her. Gerald, for some reason, approves of this dishonesty.)
 * Chef Aid

(Sheila is frantic because Gerald can't get aroused by her.)
 * Spontaneous Combustion

(She and Gerald accompany their sons, and the Marshes, Cartmans, and Stotches to ski at Aspen, but the parents all get held back by a Timeshare meeting.)
 * Asspen


 * It's Christmas in Canada

(Sheila wants to protest about Cartman accusing Kyle of having been responsible for th 9/11 attacks. She is cut off, however, by Mr. Mackey, who is trying to find out who crapped in the urinal.)
 * Mystery of the Urinal Deuce

(She and Gerald find out from Kyle that Ike is in a romantic relationship with his teacher, Ms. Stephenson.)
 * Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy

(She tries to convince Kyle that he is not ugly, but to no avail.)
 * The List

She has had a few other minor roles.