Post by Felix Falora on Dec 21, 2007 22:56:28 GMT -5
Full Name: Kyle Broflovski
Nicknames: N/A
Age: 8
Height: ?
Weight: ?
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Colorado
Franchise: South Park
Physical Description: He wears a bright green hunting cap (or ushanka), a bright orange jacket with black trimmed pockets and dark green collar, dark green pants, and lime green mittens. He is rarely shown without his cap, but underneath it, he sports an auburn, curly 'Jew-fro', first seen in the episode "How to Eat with Your Butt", a hairstyle which he seems to resent (he is later seen again without his cap in "Lil' Crime Stoppers", "Quest for Ratings" and "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina"). This is a nod to Stone's character in Cannibal! The Musical in which he wears the same style hat with an afro underneath. A photorealistic version of Kyle's appearance was produced as a police artist sketch for the episode "Free Willzyx"; however, his mother, Sheila, comments that it is "kinda a bad drawing". In "Pre School" and "Make Love, Not Warcraft", Kyle's curly hair hangs out below his hat. In "The List", Kyle was voted ugliest boy in class, out of sixteen students. Kyle lets this debilitate his confidence, as he stoops down to the level of the misfit ugly kids at school. Eventually it was found out that the list was a compromise, technically relieving Kyle of his place of ugliest kid. His actual ranking is unknown.
Weapons: None
Abilities/Powers: None
Skills: Crying out You/Those/We're Bastards when Kenny dies
Personality: His most notable catch phrases are "You/those bastard(s)!", usually (following Stan's "Oh my God, you/they killed Kenny!"), as well as "I've learned something today" (usually before the end of an episode). And, on occasion, he questions, "Really?" as seen in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Kyle's character is Jewish, a fact that was not officially revealed until "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", despite having been mentioned briefly in the second The Spirit of Christmas short (which pre-dates the television series), and in Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride. His classmate Eric Cartman often makes defamatory remarks about the Jewish people, making comments such as "Shut your Gosh Darn Jew mouth!" or "Give me your Jew gold". When angered or frustrated, Kyle has a tendency to clench his fists and growl or yell angrily. Kyle and Eric Cartman (usually referred to by his classmates simply as 'Cartman') share the AB negative blood type, as revealed in the episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons". It was also revealed in this episode that Kyle is a diabetic.
He regularly shows his disdain for Eric Cartman, calling him names such as "fatass" and the like. This, in return, only fuels Cartman's need to call Kyle out as well, taunting him about Kyle's religion.
Kyle typically displays the highest moral standards of all the boys. Even though he lies as seen in Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus. Kyle also usually gets higher grades than his associates, and often provides the sober thought to plans or ideas made by the other boys.As Kyle is the most rational of his peers, he is usually put in the shoes of the protagonist to Eric Cartman's antagonist. Kyle is on better terms with Stan Marsh, although their friendship stops for a time in "Prehistoric Ice Man", when they argue over the name of the ice man, and in Super Best Friends when Kyle decides to stay in a cult, and Stan escapes. Apart from Butters, Kyle is the most caring and compassionate of the boys. It is also revealed that he has no rhythm in "Rainforest Schmainforest"
History: Relationships
Kyle was born on May 26 and is the youngest of the four boys. While most of the South Park kids dislike Cartman, Kyle particularly dislikes him; the feud between the two has been a recurring theme. Cartman and Kyle often exchange insults, with Kyle the target of Cartman's antisemitism, and, in return, Cartman being taunted about his weight. Whenever making a point, Cartman will often try to outsmart Kyle but usually winds up the loser of the argument. There are exceptions, in "Die, Hippie, Die", Cartman saves the town from a hippie music festival, and Kyle is forced to watch Cartman play with his new Tonka bulldozer in the school parking lot every day. In "Smug Alert" it was revealed that without Kyle to irritate, Cartman's life is empty to the point that Cartman actually goes and saves Kyle and his entire family from the Smug Storm. In "Kenny Dies", Kyle seemed to show empathy towards Cartman, suggesting that despite being easily angered by Cartman's teasing, he still considers him a friend. However, at the same time, he does not invite Cartman to his birthday party at Casa Bonita because he naturally doesn't consider Cartman to be a friend. He does, though, state that Cartman is his friend in "Up the Down Steroid," and he refers to Cartman as "my sort-of friend...ish," in the episode "The Entity."
Despite his obvious outrage towards Cartman, in an episode, Up the Down Steroid, Kyle would sometimes show some empathy in Cartman's disturbing behavior, by saying that he's really concerned about him going to hell if he goes to the Special Olympics. However, Kyle's hatred of Cartman is often shown to be extremely intense due to Cartman's continual abuse, and is sometimes shown to have adverse effects on Kyle, such as exhibiting an obsession with defeating Cartman, sometimes when it is not necessary, which leaves Stan and Kenny in confusion at his seemingly unfounded need for revenge, angering Kyle still further. His compulsive need to defeat Cartman is sometimes ironically similar to Cartman's obsession with making Kyle miserable, often making Stan worry about the soundness of Kyle's judgement. In the episode Ginger Kids, when the three boys knock Cartman out with a bat while he is sleeping, Kyle begins to uncontrollably beat Cartman, first with the bat and then with his fists, until Stan drags him away, scandalized. Although, there is much hatred between the two, Kyle has saved Cartman's life once, in Manbearpig where Cartman, swallowed fake treasure and became ill, as they were stuck in a cave. The last scene of them in the cave is, seen: Kyle swimming to shore with Carman on his back telling him to swim. But Cartman also saved Kyle's life in Imaginationland Episode II when Kyle was attacked by Manbearpig, Cartman brought him back to life simply so that Kyle could suck his balls.
Kyle's friendship with Kenny is not as strong as his friendship with Stan, nor is it adversarial (like that with Cartman) but is clearly existent, as he invites him to various arrangements of his and promptly beats up Cartman in defense of Kenny following his "permanent" death. Kyle has trouble accepting that Cartman is never sincere and keeps falling for Cartman's seemingly good intentions time and time again. This is seen in Casa Bonita, Cartoon Wars Part I, Kenny Dies, and other episodes. Kyle also seems to have the highest respect for Butters,he invites him to his birthday in Casa Bonita. Perhaps it is Kyle's idealistic optimism that there is some good in everyone, even in Cartman. Sometimes, in episodes like Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes and Fat Butt and Pancake Head, Kyle will make it very clear that he knows Cartman is manipulating before finally giving in.
Kyle also becomes sick more often than any of the other boys, possibly due to his diabetes. He experiences a painful infectious hemorrhoid when Cartman inherits $1 million dollars from his grandmother and uses it to buy his own amusement park in Cartmanland. He also needed a kidney transplant (that only Cartman could provide) in Cherokee Hair Tampons. In the episode Guitar Queer-o, sickness apparently prevents Kyle from practicing playing Guitar Hero as much as Stan does. However, in the episode Chickenpox he is the only person in his class who does not easily catch chickenpox, even after playing a game in which Kenny (who had chickenpox) spat into his mouth and he had to swallow it while saying something like "ookymouth" (an activity suggested by his mother in hopes that her son would catch chickenpox). He does catch it in the end, collapsing onto the ground melodramatically, though this only occurs after prolonged exposure to the sick Stan and Cartman.
Kyle, unlike Stan, has shown little interest in girls or dating. In the episode "Clubhouses" Kyle is dared to kiss Bebe, however, after kissing Bebe he leaves spitting and cursing. The only instances where he has shown any kind of emotion or attraction to girls occurred in the episodes "Tom's Rhinoplasty" where he was attracted to Ms. Ellen and "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" where he developed a crush on Rebecca Cuttswald,but, the crush ended at the end of the episode. He also responds to Bebe's breasts in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" the same way that all the boys in the class did.
[edit] Friendship with Stan Marsh
His friendship with Stan is very strong, and has been asserted on the show many times. He's had his life saved by Stan three times, however he did help to save Stan's life in Fantastic Easter Special. Though they have broken up or had serious fights six times (in the episodes "Prehistoric Ice Man", "Douche and Turd", "Super Best Friends", "South Park is Gay!", "Follow that Egg!" and "Guitar Queer-o"), they have always reconciled in the end. He sometimes becomes angry with Stan because of differences in belief, mostly due to outside influence, or to Kyle's rivalry with Cartman, which Kyle often becomes preoccupied with, worrying Stan. The depth of their friendship is taken into account on several occasions, arguably most so in "Guitar Queer-o", where their falling-out creates the major conflict of the story. Generally, they are seen together on the show, standing next to each other as well as sitting together on the school bus. In the episode The List, he is voted on a "corrupted" list ugliest. This depresses him a great deal and even inspires him to turn to arson, but Stan, seeing this, tries to get the girls to change the list. In Imaginationland Episode III, Kyle goes to various extreme measures, including breaking into the Pentagon, to stop the government from nuking Imaginationland, being the only one to hear Stan inside it.
[edit] Religious Beliefs
Kyle is one of the few Jewish kids in the town. Kyle's last name has been alternately given as Broslovski, Broflofski, Broflovski, and Brovlofski in the series, though the characters say "Broflovski" or "Broslovski" the most often. The name comes from the maiden name of Matt Stone's mother, Sheila Belasco (Broslovski had been changed to Belasco when her ancestor immigrated to America). In "Spontaneous Combustion" there is a shot of Kyle's father Gerald's law office - on the façade it says 'Brovlofski'. In "Sexual Harassment Panda" his name is shown as 'Broflofski'. The various spellings may be due to some confusion in trying to transcribe the Cyrillic surname Бровловский into the Latin alphabet; the letter в is normally transcribed "v" but when voiceless is often written as "f" in English, like in the name "Rachmaninoff". Parker and Stone have confirmed that Kyle's last name is indeed Broflovski, which is also the spelling used in the "4th Grade" intro, seen in episodes 412 to 513. [1]
Kyle appears ambivalent toward his Judaism, and there are conflicting clues as to the religiosity of his family---for example, while they dress similarly to many religious Jews (Gerald, for example, always wears a yarmulke), they apparently do not keep the Sabbath or follow very strict sexual lives (Sheila Stone, mother of Matt Stone, was herself a secular Sephardic Jew). Kyle's basic indifference to religion may be part of his effort to fit in with his friends, who are Roman Catholic. Kyle is often more defensive than proud of his Judaism, and though he regularly attends such functions as "Jew Scouts", he often has a poor grasp on the history, traditions and rituals of his religion. This could also be the fault of his parents, who, in a misguided attempt to shelter their son, generally refuse to discuss with him the finer points of their religion. For example:
When he heard that his brother Ike was going to have a bris, he was under the misapprehension that it involved cutting off the entire penis rather than just the foreskin. This was despite the fact that Kyle got circumcised himself.
After seeing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, he told Cartman that Cartman was right about Jews all along and stood up in his synagogue to demand that Jews apologize for the death of Christ. Ironically, he killed Jesus personally in a later episode, though the act was not due to malice but Jesus' own request, so that he could resurrect himself and save Stan and the "Hare Club for Men" from being boiled alive like rabbits, but this act, at the request of Kyle, was only done because Jesus promised to never let Cartman know about it.
When he learned of Catholicism's conditions for getting into heaven, he renounced his faith on the basis that if the Jews were right about the matter, it would make no difference if he were a Catholic, but if the Catholics were right, he would go to hell for not accepting Christ (see Pascal's Wager).
In "Chickenpox", when his dad told him about how society works, he thought of 'a better idea', send all the poor people to concentration camps so only rich people would live. Kyle's father promptly realised he was being intolerant of people less fortunate than himself and stopped this. He therefore at least in this episode did not have a very clear grasp of the Holocaust or other forms of Genocide .
Kyle also sometimes expresses feelings of self-loathing. Kyle is always saying that Jews are just like everyone else, and is often distressed when they display behavior that is stereotypically Jewish. He is often brought to anger by Jews who conform to such stereotypes, namely his cousin (also named Kyle) from Connecticut who has hypochondriac tendencies, is very good with money, and is a poor athlete.
Also, Kyle seems to use the phrase "Jesus Christ!" more than most Jews, and sometimes even more than his Catholic friends. He has, of course, also met Jesus Christ (who lives in South Park), though for some reason seeing him perform miraculous feats before his eyes has never triggered any crisis of faith in Kyle (or, for that matter, had an effect on most other characters' faiths).
He and Stan alternate as leader of their group/voice of reason (while their fathers are normally the leaders/instigators of mass hysteria in the town). Kyle is witty, but unlike his best friend Stan, he tends to be cautious and is less likely to want to get involved in uncertain situations.
As revealed in the episode commentary for the episode "Kenny Dies", Stone and Parker were going to kill off Kyle for a whole year instead of Kenny but decided not to.
In Season Eight, Kyle was the center on one episode—"The Passion of the Jew"—which parodied the controversy surrounding The Passion of the Christ. In the episode, he sees The Passion because of Cartman's continuing use of it as an excuse to pick on Kyle more than usual. It was also revealed in this episode that Kyle is afraid of Alan Alda, the reasons for this are unknown. Kyle was also featured prominently in the episodes "Cartman's Incredible Gift" and "Woodland Critter Christmas". In the former, he attempts to convince the local police that Cartman's "psychic powers" are entirely false; at the end of the episode, it is implied that Kyle has real psychic powers. In "Woodland Critter Christmas", the Satanic woodland animals attempt to use Kyle as birth vessel for The Antichrist because he is a "heathen" and is not baptized because he is Jewish. Stan attempts to stop this by teaching young mountain lions to give abortions, but Christmas is eventually saved by Santa Claus, who shoots all of the critters with a shotgun. However, the entire "Critter" episode is really just a story written by Eric Cartman, which ends with Kyle dying of AIDS.
In the October 27, 2004 election-based episode, "Douche and Turd", Kyle leads the campaign for Giant Douche to be elected the new school mascot at South Park Elementary after PETA leads a campaign against Mooey, the cow.
In the March 9, 2005 episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina", Kyle wanted to play basketball for the all-state team, but could not because the coach said he was not built for the game due to fact he is Jewish. Frustrated, Kyle gets a "negro-plasty," to make him black and tall. However, the surgery is a failure, as it was only purely cosmetic; after trying to perform a slam dunk, Kyle's knees explode as the plastic surgeon had made his knee joints out of Mr. Garrison's former testicles.
In "South Park Is Gay!" Kyle's friends make him over into a metrosexual, as being metrosexual was the "cool" thing to do. Kyle then decides to not conform with the rest of South Park and goes back to dressing normally, despite teasing from his schoolmates. After Kyle gets beat up by the boys in his class and is rejected by his friends, he travels to New York with Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave to kill the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys. They then discover that the Queer Eye people are actually crab people in disguise that are trying to take over the world.
In "Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow", Cartman seemingly knew that Kyle, and all Jews for that matter, carried Jew gold around their necks (as well as a Jew gold decoy bag). Ironically, Kyle actually did have such a bag (presumably filled with the gold), which he tosses away in order to escape Cartman, who holds him at gun point over it.
In "Fantastic Easter Special", Kyle had to kill Jesus because his superpowers only work when he is dead. Kyle was very reluctant, saying "I'm a Jew. I have a few hang-ups about killing Jesus." However, Kyle does eventually kill Jesus saying "Eric Cartman can never know about this." Jesus then immediately resurrected himself.
Other: Cute little Jew when he's drawn right in the anime format.
Picture:
Don't I look cuter now?
YAYZ!
DAMNIT! Right back to where I started.
Nicknames: N/A
Age: 8
Height: ?
Weight: ?
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Colorado
Franchise: South Park
Physical Description: He wears a bright green hunting cap (or ushanka), a bright orange jacket with black trimmed pockets and dark green collar, dark green pants, and lime green mittens. He is rarely shown without his cap, but underneath it, he sports an auburn, curly 'Jew-fro', first seen in the episode "How to Eat with Your Butt", a hairstyle which he seems to resent (he is later seen again without his cap in "Lil' Crime Stoppers", "Quest for Ratings" and "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina"). This is a nod to Stone's character in Cannibal! The Musical in which he wears the same style hat with an afro underneath. A photorealistic version of Kyle's appearance was produced as a police artist sketch for the episode "Free Willzyx"; however, his mother, Sheila, comments that it is "kinda a bad drawing". In "Pre School" and "Make Love, Not Warcraft", Kyle's curly hair hangs out below his hat. In "The List", Kyle was voted ugliest boy in class, out of sixteen students. Kyle lets this debilitate his confidence, as he stoops down to the level of the misfit ugly kids at school. Eventually it was found out that the list was a compromise, technically relieving Kyle of his place of ugliest kid. His actual ranking is unknown.
Weapons: None
Abilities/Powers: None
Skills: Crying out You/Those/We're Bastards when Kenny dies
Personality: His most notable catch phrases are "You/those bastard(s)!", usually (following Stan's "Oh my God, you/they killed Kenny!"), as well as "I've learned something today" (usually before the end of an episode). And, on occasion, he questions, "Really?" as seen in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Kyle's character is Jewish, a fact that was not officially revealed until "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", despite having been mentioned briefly in the second The Spirit of Christmas short (which pre-dates the television series), and in Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride. His classmate Eric Cartman often makes defamatory remarks about the Jewish people, making comments such as "Shut your Gosh Darn Jew mouth!" or "Give me your Jew gold". When angered or frustrated, Kyle has a tendency to clench his fists and growl or yell angrily. Kyle and Eric Cartman (usually referred to by his classmates simply as 'Cartman') share the AB negative blood type, as revealed in the episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons". It was also revealed in this episode that Kyle is a diabetic.
He regularly shows his disdain for Eric Cartman, calling him names such as "fatass" and the like. This, in return, only fuels Cartman's need to call Kyle out as well, taunting him about Kyle's religion.
Kyle typically displays the highest moral standards of all the boys. Even though he lies as seen in Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus. Kyle also usually gets higher grades than his associates, and often provides the sober thought to plans or ideas made by the other boys.As Kyle is the most rational of his peers, he is usually put in the shoes of the protagonist to Eric Cartman's antagonist. Kyle is on better terms with Stan Marsh, although their friendship stops for a time in "Prehistoric Ice Man", when they argue over the name of the ice man, and in Super Best Friends when Kyle decides to stay in a cult, and Stan escapes. Apart from Butters, Kyle is the most caring and compassionate of the boys. It is also revealed that he has no rhythm in "Rainforest Schmainforest"
History: Relationships
Kyle was born on May 26 and is the youngest of the four boys. While most of the South Park kids dislike Cartman, Kyle particularly dislikes him; the feud between the two has been a recurring theme. Cartman and Kyle often exchange insults, with Kyle the target of Cartman's antisemitism, and, in return, Cartman being taunted about his weight. Whenever making a point, Cartman will often try to outsmart Kyle but usually winds up the loser of the argument. There are exceptions, in "Die, Hippie, Die", Cartman saves the town from a hippie music festival, and Kyle is forced to watch Cartman play with his new Tonka bulldozer in the school parking lot every day. In "Smug Alert" it was revealed that without Kyle to irritate, Cartman's life is empty to the point that Cartman actually goes and saves Kyle and his entire family from the Smug Storm. In "Kenny Dies", Kyle seemed to show empathy towards Cartman, suggesting that despite being easily angered by Cartman's teasing, he still considers him a friend. However, at the same time, he does not invite Cartman to his birthday party at Casa Bonita because he naturally doesn't consider Cartman to be a friend. He does, though, state that Cartman is his friend in "Up the Down Steroid," and he refers to Cartman as "my sort-of friend...ish," in the episode "The Entity."
Despite his obvious outrage towards Cartman, in an episode, Up the Down Steroid, Kyle would sometimes show some empathy in Cartman's disturbing behavior, by saying that he's really concerned about him going to hell if he goes to the Special Olympics. However, Kyle's hatred of Cartman is often shown to be extremely intense due to Cartman's continual abuse, and is sometimes shown to have adverse effects on Kyle, such as exhibiting an obsession with defeating Cartman, sometimes when it is not necessary, which leaves Stan and Kenny in confusion at his seemingly unfounded need for revenge, angering Kyle still further. His compulsive need to defeat Cartman is sometimes ironically similar to Cartman's obsession with making Kyle miserable, often making Stan worry about the soundness of Kyle's judgement. In the episode Ginger Kids, when the three boys knock Cartman out with a bat while he is sleeping, Kyle begins to uncontrollably beat Cartman, first with the bat and then with his fists, until Stan drags him away, scandalized. Although, there is much hatred between the two, Kyle has saved Cartman's life once, in Manbearpig where Cartman, swallowed fake treasure and became ill, as they were stuck in a cave. The last scene of them in the cave is, seen: Kyle swimming to shore with Carman on his back telling him to swim. But Cartman also saved Kyle's life in Imaginationland Episode II when Kyle was attacked by Manbearpig, Cartman brought him back to life simply so that Kyle could suck his balls.
Kyle's friendship with Kenny is not as strong as his friendship with Stan, nor is it adversarial (like that with Cartman) but is clearly existent, as he invites him to various arrangements of his and promptly beats up Cartman in defense of Kenny following his "permanent" death. Kyle has trouble accepting that Cartman is never sincere and keeps falling for Cartman's seemingly good intentions time and time again. This is seen in Casa Bonita, Cartoon Wars Part I, Kenny Dies, and other episodes. Kyle also seems to have the highest respect for Butters,he invites him to his birthday in Casa Bonita. Perhaps it is Kyle's idealistic optimism that there is some good in everyone, even in Cartman. Sometimes, in episodes like Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes and Fat Butt and Pancake Head, Kyle will make it very clear that he knows Cartman is manipulating before finally giving in.
Kyle also becomes sick more often than any of the other boys, possibly due to his diabetes. He experiences a painful infectious hemorrhoid when Cartman inherits $1 million dollars from his grandmother and uses it to buy his own amusement park in Cartmanland. He also needed a kidney transplant (that only Cartman could provide) in Cherokee Hair Tampons. In the episode Guitar Queer-o, sickness apparently prevents Kyle from practicing playing Guitar Hero as much as Stan does. However, in the episode Chickenpox he is the only person in his class who does not easily catch chickenpox, even after playing a game in which Kenny (who had chickenpox) spat into his mouth and he had to swallow it while saying something like "ookymouth" (an activity suggested by his mother in hopes that her son would catch chickenpox). He does catch it in the end, collapsing onto the ground melodramatically, though this only occurs after prolonged exposure to the sick Stan and Cartman.
Kyle, unlike Stan, has shown little interest in girls or dating. In the episode "Clubhouses" Kyle is dared to kiss Bebe, however, after kissing Bebe he leaves spitting and cursing. The only instances where he has shown any kind of emotion or attraction to girls occurred in the episodes "Tom's Rhinoplasty" where he was attracted to Ms. Ellen and "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" where he developed a crush on Rebecca Cuttswald,but, the crush ended at the end of the episode. He also responds to Bebe's breasts in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" the same way that all the boys in the class did.
[edit] Friendship with Stan Marsh
His friendship with Stan is very strong, and has been asserted on the show many times. He's had his life saved by Stan three times, however he did help to save Stan's life in Fantastic Easter Special. Though they have broken up or had serious fights six times (in the episodes "Prehistoric Ice Man", "Douche and Turd", "Super Best Friends", "South Park is Gay!", "Follow that Egg!" and "Guitar Queer-o"), they have always reconciled in the end. He sometimes becomes angry with Stan because of differences in belief, mostly due to outside influence, or to Kyle's rivalry with Cartman, which Kyle often becomes preoccupied with, worrying Stan. The depth of their friendship is taken into account on several occasions, arguably most so in "Guitar Queer-o", where their falling-out creates the major conflict of the story. Generally, they are seen together on the show, standing next to each other as well as sitting together on the school bus. In the episode The List, he is voted on a "corrupted" list ugliest. This depresses him a great deal and even inspires him to turn to arson, but Stan, seeing this, tries to get the girls to change the list. In Imaginationland Episode III, Kyle goes to various extreme measures, including breaking into the Pentagon, to stop the government from nuking Imaginationland, being the only one to hear Stan inside it.
[edit] Religious Beliefs
Kyle is one of the few Jewish kids in the town. Kyle's last name has been alternately given as Broslovski, Broflofski, Broflovski, and Brovlofski in the series, though the characters say "Broflovski" or "Broslovski" the most often. The name comes from the maiden name of Matt Stone's mother, Sheila Belasco (Broslovski had been changed to Belasco when her ancestor immigrated to America). In "Spontaneous Combustion" there is a shot of Kyle's father Gerald's law office - on the façade it says 'Brovlofski'. In "Sexual Harassment Panda" his name is shown as 'Broflofski'. The various spellings may be due to some confusion in trying to transcribe the Cyrillic surname Бровловский into the Latin alphabet; the letter в is normally transcribed "v" but when voiceless is often written as "f" in English, like in the name "Rachmaninoff". Parker and Stone have confirmed that Kyle's last name is indeed Broflovski, which is also the spelling used in the "4th Grade" intro, seen in episodes 412 to 513. [1]
Kyle appears ambivalent toward his Judaism, and there are conflicting clues as to the religiosity of his family---for example, while they dress similarly to many religious Jews (Gerald, for example, always wears a yarmulke), they apparently do not keep the Sabbath or follow very strict sexual lives (Sheila Stone, mother of Matt Stone, was herself a secular Sephardic Jew). Kyle's basic indifference to religion may be part of his effort to fit in with his friends, who are Roman Catholic. Kyle is often more defensive than proud of his Judaism, and though he regularly attends such functions as "Jew Scouts", he often has a poor grasp on the history, traditions and rituals of his religion. This could also be the fault of his parents, who, in a misguided attempt to shelter their son, generally refuse to discuss with him the finer points of their religion. For example:
When he heard that his brother Ike was going to have a bris, he was under the misapprehension that it involved cutting off the entire penis rather than just the foreskin. This was despite the fact that Kyle got circumcised himself.
After seeing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, he told Cartman that Cartman was right about Jews all along and stood up in his synagogue to demand that Jews apologize for the death of Christ. Ironically, he killed Jesus personally in a later episode, though the act was not due to malice but Jesus' own request, so that he could resurrect himself and save Stan and the "Hare Club for Men" from being boiled alive like rabbits, but this act, at the request of Kyle, was only done because Jesus promised to never let Cartman know about it.
When he learned of Catholicism's conditions for getting into heaven, he renounced his faith on the basis that if the Jews were right about the matter, it would make no difference if he were a Catholic, but if the Catholics were right, he would go to hell for not accepting Christ (see Pascal's Wager).
In "Chickenpox", when his dad told him about how society works, he thought of 'a better idea', send all the poor people to concentration camps so only rich people would live. Kyle's father promptly realised he was being intolerant of people less fortunate than himself and stopped this. He therefore at least in this episode did not have a very clear grasp of the Holocaust or other forms of Genocide .
Kyle also sometimes expresses feelings of self-loathing. Kyle is always saying that Jews are just like everyone else, and is often distressed when they display behavior that is stereotypically Jewish. He is often brought to anger by Jews who conform to such stereotypes, namely his cousin (also named Kyle) from Connecticut who has hypochondriac tendencies, is very good with money, and is a poor athlete.
Also, Kyle seems to use the phrase "Jesus Christ!" more than most Jews, and sometimes even more than his Catholic friends. He has, of course, also met Jesus Christ (who lives in South Park), though for some reason seeing him perform miraculous feats before his eyes has never triggered any crisis of faith in Kyle (or, for that matter, had an effect on most other characters' faiths).
He and Stan alternate as leader of their group/voice of reason (while their fathers are normally the leaders/instigators of mass hysteria in the town). Kyle is witty, but unlike his best friend Stan, he tends to be cautious and is less likely to want to get involved in uncertain situations.
As revealed in the episode commentary for the episode "Kenny Dies", Stone and Parker were going to kill off Kyle for a whole year instead of Kenny but decided not to.
In Season Eight, Kyle was the center on one episode—"The Passion of the Jew"—which parodied the controversy surrounding The Passion of the Christ. In the episode, he sees The Passion because of Cartman's continuing use of it as an excuse to pick on Kyle more than usual. It was also revealed in this episode that Kyle is afraid of Alan Alda, the reasons for this are unknown. Kyle was also featured prominently in the episodes "Cartman's Incredible Gift" and "Woodland Critter Christmas". In the former, he attempts to convince the local police that Cartman's "psychic powers" are entirely false; at the end of the episode, it is implied that Kyle has real psychic powers. In "Woodland Critter Christmas", the Satanic woodland animals attempt to use Kyle as birth vessel for The Antichrist because he is a "heathen" and is not baptized because he is Jewish. Stan attempts to stop this by teaching young mountain lions to give abortions, but Christmas is eventually saved by Santa Claus, who shoots all of the critters with a shotgun. However, the entire "Critter" episode is really just a story written by Eric Cartman, which ends with Kyle dying of AIDS.
In the October 27, 2004 election-based episode, "Douche and Turd", Kyle leads the campaign for Giant Douche to be elected the new school mascot at South Park Elementary after PETA leads a campaign against Mooey, the cow.
In the March 9, 2005 episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina", Kyle wanted to play basketball for the all-state team, but could not because the coach said he was not built for the game due to fact he is Jewish. Frustrated, Kyle gets a "negro-plasty," to make him black and tall. However, the surgery is a failure, as it was only purely cosmetic; after trying to perform a slam dunk, Kyle's knees explode as the plastic surgeon had made his knee joints out of Mr. Garrison's former testicles.
In "South Park Is Gay!" Kyle's friends make him over into a metrosexual, as being metrosexual was the "cool" thing to do. Kyle then decides to not conform with the rest of South Park and goes back to dressing normally, despite teasing from his schoolmates. After Kyle gets beat up by the boys in his class and is rejected by his friends, he travels to New York with Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave to kill the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys. They then discover that the Queer Eye people are actually crab people in disguise that are trying to take over the world.
In "Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow", Cartman seemingly knew that Kyle, and all Jews for that matter, carried Jew gold around their necks (as well as a Jew gold decoy bag). Ironically, Kyle actually did have such a bag (presumably filled with the gold), which he tosses away in order to escape Cartman, who holds him at gun point over it.
In "Fantastic Easter Special", Kyle had to kill Jesus because his superpowers only work when he is dead. Kyle was very reluctant, saying "I'm a Jew. I have a few hang-ups about killing Jesus." However, Kyle does eventually kill Jesus saying "Eric Cartman can never know about this." Jesus then immediately resurrected himself.
Other: Cute little Jew when he's drawn right in the anime format.
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Don't I look cuter now?
YAYZ!
DAMNIT! Right back to where I started.
