Ike Broflovski

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*South Park* character
Ike Moisha Broflovski (born as Peter Gints)

Gender:	Male
Hair:	black
Age:	3
Job:	Kindergarten student
Religion:	Jewish
First appearance:	"Cartman Gets An Anal Probe"
Voiced by:	Various

Ike Moishe Broflovski (born as Peter Gints) is a fictional character on the animated series South Park. He first appears in South Park's first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe."

Ike is Kyle Broflovski's adopted younger brother from Canada. Ike's voice has been provided by various children, usually relatives of show personnel due to the "small window when children sound adorable before they sound like little assholes" described during the commentary of Trapper Keeper.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Personality
2 Accomplishments
- 2.1 Background
- 2.2 Present

[edit] Personality

Ike is a quite unusual child. He follows examples set by his brother and other residents of South Park, often repeating their words and actions. Despite his extreme intelligence, he often replies to people with random answers, such as "Cookie Monster!"

Ike appears to idolize his older brother. He has often tried to follow him to school as shown in the first episode. He often copies the words Kyle has said, even obscenities. Conversely, one of the few examples of Ike getting angry at Kyle occurred when Kyle interrupted Ike's news program and changed the channel. Kyle has a superficial malice towards Ike, but in several episodes, most notably "Ike's Wee Wee" (#204), it's shown that Kyle does indeed love his brother. In Season 10's "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", Ike was angry with Kyle because Kyle tried to break up his affair with the Kindergarten teacher; in fact, he is clearly heard saying "You are dead to me, Kyle!"

Ike often tries to pronounce words, but fails. After trying to say "donkey-raping shit eater", he ends up saying "dopey wayping sheedeeder." However, in the episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina", he can say "penis" and "vagina" quite clearly. Often, he'll just utter random statements. Some of Ike's frequent utterances are "Cookie Monster", "No", "Ring Around the Rosy," "Kookenbaker", "I pooped my pants", " ice cream... and chocolate" and various nonsensical burbling. Statements like these tend to serve as catch-all phrases and non sequitur answers to questions Ike is asked. (In "Ike's Wee Wee", when he shows Kyle the family photo album, he says "Cookie Monster, 2 3 4 5." In "Jewbilee", when asked where a missing Squirt is, Ike replies "No"). Even in a heated argument with Kyle in Season 10's "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy," Ike can clearly be heard saying "Ring around the rosey!" in an angry tone (although in the same episode he clearly told Kyle "you are dead to me" as well as "I love you!" to his mother).

In the fourth season, it is revealed that Ike is a genius, and is sent to kindergarten early. Proof of Ike's genius is visible in many later episodes. He composes sheet music, reads John Steinbeck, and watches The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer every night. In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut he expertly played the harmonica when Kyle hid him in the attic, and in the season 10 episode "Smug Alert", Ike finished several of Kyle's sentences when the boys tried to tell their father that he is becoming alienated from his friends. (In the same episode, when offered LSD, Ike asked for "3 hits".) He also once made a perfect replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper out of macaroni as a project for his Jewish camp, Jewbilee, which completely offended his unimpressed troop leader.

In Stanley's Cup, the South Park Pee-Wee hockey team hires Ike to join their team based solely on the fact that he is Canadian. To the other members of the South Park Pee-Wee team, Ike seems to be a very good player, due to the fact that he can hit pucks into the goal, while the other members can't.

Ike is at times very aware of things going on around him—from trying to reconcile with his brother to auditioning for Cartman's boy band, flipping Cartman off when he doesn't make the cut. Ike was also aware of how unpopular he initially was with his kindergarten classmates, who were jealous of the fact that he was admitted at only age three, although he rallied enough support to force a tie in the election for class president, finally winning when his opponent (who was fed up with all the negotiations and meddling by his aunt Rosie O'Donnell) conceded defeat.

[edit] Accomplishments

[edit] Background

Ike was adopted by Sheila and Gerald Broflovski. Ike's birth parents, Harry and Elise Gints, (who had christened Ike "Peter") gave him up for adoption because Canada had been "devastated by the Cola Wars" and they were thus unable to raise a child.

This fact was introduced after the flappy heads and beady eyes were established as Canadian traits in the world of South Park. Since Ike was designed with both, the creators decided to make Ike adopted and Canadian by birth.

In "Stanley's Cup", Ike's Canadian heritage is cited as an explanation for his marginally superior hockey skills compared to other members of his Pee Wee team.

[edit] Present

Kyle is known to kick Ike like a football after saying "Kick the baby!", to which Ike responds, "Don't kick the baby". Ike has even once said "Don't kick the damn baby." Inexplicably, Sheila blames Ike for the windows broken when Ike is kicked through them, not taking into account that Ike is only a baby and thus unable to actually throw himself through the window with enough force to break the glass.

Because he's a genius, Ike was accepted into kindergarten early. There, he is forced to stand for class president and the vote is tied — except that a little classmate of theirs named "Flora" (spoofing Florida's role in the 2000 US Presidential Election) can't make up her mind and Rosie O'Donnell shows up to demand justice. Eventually, Ike's opponent gives up, and Ike becomes class president (to which he can only exclaim (quite proudly), "I pooped my pants!").

Ike had an affair with his kindergarten teacher Ms. Stevenson

At one point, Ike has an affair with his kindergarten teacher, Ms. Stephenson, during which he lost his virginity. They planned to run off to Milan (to which Ike replies, "Yay, Mulan", confusing Milan with the Disney character Mulan). Before they left, Kyle helps him come back to his senses. As Ike and his teacher are on the roof of a hotel, they both run to the edge, but Ike skids to stop. Ms. Stephenson doesn't, and leaps to her death.

In a plot involving his Canadian heritage, the Canadian Prime Minister, with the help of the Canadian critic (and Terrance and Phillip nemesis) Scott, passed a new law forcing Canadian parents to take back children they put up for adoption, including Ike's birth parents Harry and Elise Gints. However, when the Prime Minister was revealed to be Saddam Hussein, his new laws were repealed, and Ike went back to his adopted family.

In the latest episode, Ike is on a peewee hockey team coached by Stan Marsh. The team was forced to play in place of the Colorado Avalanche, and Ike, along with the other children, was injured badly by the Detroit Red Wings.