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| “ | This is for what?! Arresting me for what?! I'm not allowed to stand up for myself?! I thought this was America! Isn't this America?! Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was America. | „ |
| ~ Randy's famous quote after getting arrested at Baseball games. |
| “ | Stanley, you call your friend an asshole this instant! | „ |
| ~ Randy to Stan |
| “ | You're a lousy kid! I wish Jaden Smith was my son! | „ |
| ~ Randy to Stan |
Randy S. Marsh is a major protagonist of the South Park franchise. He is the son of Marvin and Grandma Marsh, the husband of Sharon, and the father of Stan and Shelley.
Despite being a geologist with a doctorate, Randy is generally portrayed as an absent-minded idiot, driving many episode plots in the later seasons, though this was later revealed to be due to him being unhappy over his marriage. However, in earlier seasons, Randy was calmer and more level-headed, often providing advice to the boys. In "You're Getting Old", he divorced Sharon and moved away. However, in "Ass Burgers", Randy reconciled with Sharon and remarried, therefore getting their old house back. In Season 22, he founded the Tegridy Farms hemp farming business, before returning to his geologist job in South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2. As of recently, Randy works as both a geologist and a weed farmer.
His being a geologist is based on the fact that Trey Parker's own father was a geologist, who the character is named for. Randy is voiced by series co-creator Trey Parker, who also voices Eric Cartman, Scott Tenorman, Harrison Yates, Mimsy, Nathan, Barack Obama, Charles Manson, Mickey Mouse. Satan, Phil Collins, Jared Fogle, Mr. Garrison, and Mr. Hat in the same series, as well as Kim Jong-il in Team America: World Police and Balthazar Bratt in the Despicable Me franchise.
Biography[]
Randy is a former geologist and the most recurring adult in South Park, he is often childish, obsessive, and rude, embarrassing his whole family on many occasions. He is currently a weed farmer against his family's wishes.
Randy's personality has changed drastically over the years, going from a somewhat smart individual, to an immature idiot, to a full-blown terrorist, though his intentions are more often than not in the right place. However, most of the time, his obsessions get the best of him, solidifying the fact that Randy is an overgrown child.
Randy constantly causes embarrassment towards Stan and the rest of the family due to his mumbling stupidity like that time when he said the N-word on live TV, causing a big fight between Stan and Tolkien. However, he did feel remorse for this as he couldn't go to any public places as a result.
Like the Stotches, Randy sometimes grounds his son, Stan, for his troubles and intolerant mouth even he would take him to his work (though Stan if he wanted he could take advantage of his father idiocy to have Randy pardon him and lift his grounding).
Randy revealed he loves watching the Terrance and Phillip which amazed both Stan and Kyle. Randy always fights against the other dads as well he gotten arrested by the police.
Relationship[]
Family[]
- Unnamed great grandfather
- Marvin Marsh (father)
- Sharon Marsh (wife)
- Jimbo Kern (brother-in-law)
- Stan Marsh (son)
- Shelley Marsh (daughter)
Friends[]
- Gerald Broftovski
- Sheila Broflovski
- PC Principal
- Mr. Mackey
- Liane Cartman
- Stuart McCormick
- Carol McCormick
- Mr. Testaburger
- Mrs. Testaburger
- Stephen Stotch
- Linda Stotch
- Richard Tweak
- Eric Cartman
- Kyle Broflovski
- Kenny McCormick
- Butters Stotch
- Mrs. Tweak
- Thomas Tucker
- Laura Tucker
- Mr. Mackey
Enemies[]
- Mickey Mouse (archenemy)
- Terrance and Phillip (formerly)
- Saddam Hussein
- Satan (formerly)
- Other Dads in Baseball games
- Bat Dad
- Mr. Garrison
Evil Deeds[]
- A year after starting his cannabis business, Randy becomes much more arrogant, narcissistic, delusional, and entitled.
- Randy blew up multiple backyards because the people were not buying his weed, by growing their own, killing a few people in the process. In addition to this, Randy had Stan on his behalf give an inaccurate speech about the "Dangers" of homegrown cannabis prior, when Randy was clearly trying to corner the market on cannabis in his town.
- Randy was delusional in believing that people were "stealing" his idea, even when cannabis cultivation has existed for a long time, but despite this obvious fact he believed that others growing cannabis was wrong when he was merely upset that his orders were down.
- Randy became verbally abusive and hypocritical towards his children while trying to portray himself as the victim in the situation (such as accusing Stan of not caring about their family when he does not want to wear his "Tegridy Farms" t-shirt to promote the "Family Business" at a music festival he was going to perform at, while condescending Stan for not caring about the meaning of family, when Randy himself is going to China and does not care about missing Stan's performance) and would even wallow in self-pity when criticized with proper justification such as when Randy made a deal with the Chinese to sell them his cannabis and continuing to supply them knowing full well that they use it to plant on their student protestors to set them up for drug possession and imprison them, supporting government corruption (and betraying his ideals of legal cannabis).
- In "Proper Condum Use", Randy and Sharon grounded Stan for 10 months for beating off a dog in front of their friends.
- In "The Big Fix", he used Steven Black to improve Tegridy Farms' image to the black community purely for the business' survival, and when Steven left to found his own similar business, Randy declared war on him.
- Randy blew up multiple backyards because the people were not buying his weed, by growing their own, killing a few people in the process. In addition to this, Randy had Stan on his behalf give an inaccurate speech about the "Dangers" of homegrown cannabis prior, when Randy was clearly trying to corner the market on cannabis in his town.
- Fighting other team's dads at baseball games and disrupting everything as well often gotten arrested by the police. Randy's last fight against Bat Dad caused South Park team to get disqualified much of the boys' joys but the parent's disappointment.
- Murdering Winnie the Pooh to get a deal with the Chinese.
- Selling unknowing people cocaine (more harmful than weed).
- Multiple addictions/alcoholism generally make him do stuff impulsively, like buying a movie rental place and trying to murder his family.
- In the Season 13 episode "Pinewood Derby", Randy steals a superconducting magnet from Large Hadron Collider and implants it in Stan's racing cart in order to help him cheat in the pinewood derby. When what is a supposed intergalactic criminal called Baby Fark McGee-fax arrives, Randy manages to urge his son to stab the criminal, taking his "space cash". He then persuades everyone to keep quiet and divide up the money, buying the world leaders' silence by giving them shares as well. He later criticizes the Mexican government for jeopardizing the operation by building many new hospitals and water parks. Upon learning that Finland is about to tell the truth about the space cash to the Intergalactic Police, Randy has other countries to destroy it in a nuclear missile attack. Because of Randy’s actions in the episode, he ultimately caused Earth to get barred from joining the galactic federation when it turned out that the space cash served as a test and Randy caused all of Earth to fail, preventing the planet from evolving into a futuristic interstellar force.
- In the Season 15 episode "Broadway Bro Down", Randy crashes a musical that Shelly went to with her boyfriend, Feegan the Vegan, and destroys the building, by flooding it, which also kills Feegan.
- Randy chopped off "Future Stan's" arm in the episode "My Future Self n' Me" after Stan pretended to cut his hand off.
- In the episode "Bloody Mary", he drove while intoxicated along with children inside the car. To make matters worse, he made his son drive him to the Virgin Mary statue after he thinks he has a disease called "alcoholism".
- In the Black Friday Trilogy, Randy murders a security guard with a bow and arrow because the guard was deserting his post.
- Randy is responsible for bringing Coronavirus to America and indirectly causing people to contract the virus in the first place. This is due to Randy's trip to China where he and Mickey Mouse visited a red light district in Wuhan and they had sex with a bat, and then a pangolin causing Randy to become infected and due to this taking place in October before quarantine protocols in the US were enforced Randy shook off having the virus as "bad case of the flu". He then steals the pangolin from the scientific research center, before they can identify the foreign DNA in it and use it to create a vaccine denying the people of the world a cure to protect his image. Later after realizing his DNA might able to cure Randy ejaculates onto his new "Pandemic Special" strain of cannabis and distributes it to the public after it seemingly cures Jimbo of coronavirus. However it results in people getting sick again this time with facial hair that greatly resembles Randy's mustache. Later Randy finally seeing the error of his ways decides to return the pangolin he fornicated with so the COVID scientist researchers could create a vaccine. However Randy's shot at redeeming himself is lost after President Garrison shows up with a flame thrower and uses it to kill both a scientist and the animal so he can use COVID to commit the indirect mass murder of Mexican immigrants.
- During the time-skip between the "South ParQ Vaccination Special" and South Park: Post Covid after the pandemic ended Randy ended up doing irreparable damage to his relationship with Stan. Sharon finally decided to divorce Randy and wanted her half of the farm they bought together but because Sharon didn't support Randy's choice to make it a cannabis farm he deluded himself into believing that she didn't own half simply for not helping with Randy's cannabis business when they bought the property together and Sharon believed it would be run like a normal farm. Randy's refusal to hand over Sharon's half of the property rights caused constant arguments that caused severe distress to Stan. Stan finally at his limit had a breakdown and in a fit of rage burned the farm to the ground. However unbeknownst to all initially, Randy locked Shelly in the barn as punishment for not doing her "weed chores". Stan and Sharon only learned after Shelly had burned to death. Randy's actions caused Stan to unintentionally kill his sister, and Sharon in her grief, committed suicide. Years later an old and bitter Randy still refuses to take accountability for his actions and out of delusion places blame on Stan and says Shelly's "problem with Marijuana" was the reason she was locked in the barn. Randy's mental state has also deteriorated as he apparently believes that the Chinese manipulated him into starting the pandemic and somehow manipulated Stan into burning down the farm. The second part of this statement is contradictory to Randy's supposed sense of justification for his wrongful resentment towards Stan. Randy then hallucinates the "ghosts" of Shelly and Sharon who clearly represent his delusional narcissistic personality. Eventually though Randy learns to let go of his petty grudge and understands that his son was angry and emotionally drained from all of his fighting with Sharon. Things take a turn for the better when Stan, Cartman, and Kyle successfully alter the future creating a new future where Sharon and Randy reconciled and Shelly never dies due to the improvement of her parents' relationship.
- In the "South Park (Not Suitable for Children) Special", Randy creates an OnlyFans account by showing his genitalia, which his wife Sharon disapproves of. So to teach him a lesson, Sharon creates her own OnlyFans account which is much more successful than his, which enrages him, so to counter this and increase his subscriber count, Randy begins using Cred in his videos as a trending topic. Sharon becomes concerned that the views come from minors, but Randy refuses to stop. Randy then participates in an auction where influencers are auctioned off to the highest bidder in order to have sponsors help promote their products. There, he is arrested by the FBI, whose agents show him pornographic images of "miners", prompting him to cooperate.
Quotes[]
| “ | Let's move out to the country. Go back to simple living when things mattered, like hard work and 'tegridy. | „ |
| ~ Randy decides to become a Hemp Farmer. |
| “ | Because you're being grounded, Stanley. Now I don't wanna hear another word out of your intolerant mouth. | „ |
| ~ Randy taking Stan to his work while grounded. |
| “ | STAN HAD A VAPE PEN?! YOU HAD A F*CKING VAPING.?! GET UP TO YOUR ROOM RIGHT NOW!!! | „ |
| ~ Randy realizing Stan has a vape pen from a Kindergartner although he's unaware that his oldest daughter Shelly also uses vaping and he abuses substances much worst than vaping such as weed and other narcotics. |
| “ | Hey, Bat Dad... I didn't hear no bell. | „ |
| ~ Randy getting up to fight Bat Dad again. |
Trivia[]
- Randy's role in the show greatly increased over time, due to Trey and Matt beginning to relate to him, especially since season 22 when he started Tegridy Farms. The opening of season 23 changed from South Park to Tegridy Farms.
- However, in the South ParQ Vaccination Special, his role became more minor likely due to too much focus previously.
- Randy is the most recurring adult villain in South Park ahead of Mr. Garrison and Gerald Broflovksi.
- However, unlike those two Randy's actions are less heinous, or at least come from a good place if sometimes selfish and are often caused by his stupidity, his abuse of narcotics and alcohol and his obsession with futilities.
- Randy is the main antagonist of The Pandemic Special due to causing the Coronavirus in the first place. He would also later cause a new virus in the form of growing Randy's mustache.
- Randy made an appearance in the Disney film Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, as part of one of the cameos.
- Randy and his wife; Sharon, are possibly named after Trey Parker's parents.
- Just like Kyle, Cartman and Kenny (especially his son Stan), Randy is one of the rare parents who watches Terrance and Phillip on TV.
- Due to his dimwitted and naive nature, Randy is considered one of the most appreciated parents from the South Park franchise, although he didn't just do villainous acts, despite his protagonistic nature. Unlike Stephen and Linda Stotch are considered the most hated parents from the South Park franchise.
External Links[]
- Randy Marsh on the Wikipedia
- Randy Marsh on the Antagonists Wiki
- Randy Marsh on the Heroes Wiki
- Randy Marsh on the South Park Wiki
