"I'M SORRY!!! I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!!!"
RANDY MARSH
Role: Dopey Dad, Fad-Obsessed Moron
PL 4 (46)
STRENGTH 2
STAMINA 2
AGILITY 0
FIGHTING 4
DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS -1
PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Deception 5 (+5)
Expertise (Geology) 3 (+3)
Expertise (Singing) 6 (+6)
Expertise (Guitar) 4 (+4)
Expertise (Security Guard) 2 (+2)
Intimidation 4 (+4)
Perception 2 (+1)
Persuasion 4 (+4)
Stealth 2 (+2)
Advantages:
Close Attack 2, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Ranged Attack 2
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Initiative +0
Defenses:
Dodge +2 (DC 12), Parry +4 (DC 14), Toughness +2, Fortitude +3, Will +2
Complications:
Relationship (Stan)- Randy loves his son very deeply, and is proud of him, yet constantly agitates Stan with a combination of reckless and needy behavior, becoming dependent.
Relationship (Sharon)- Sharon is greatly annoyed by Randy's immaturity and impulsiveness, frequently shouting at him and being unable to deal with his various obsessions. They have divorced twice, but reconciled both times after promising to share their feelings.
Relationship (Shelly)- Shelly finds her father tiresome, but Randy is quite protective of her.
Responsibility (Addictive Personality)- Randy tends to latch onto fads and crazes very quickly, becoming obsessed with them. He has spent hours caring for and protecting his record-breaking shit, become a professional house-flipper, gotten addicted to cooking of all things, and attempted to become a singing sensation more than once.
Addiction (Alcohol)- Though it is NOT a disease, Randy has problems with liquor. He would normally have been able to quit, but hearing from AA that he was helpless against his disease caused him to become a useless, helpless wreck.
Addiction (Masturbation)- Randy cannot go very long without jerking off. When America's internet went down for a period of time, he used what was left to... well, he made a mess.
Responsibility (Temper)- Randy tends to get into fights a lot.
Secret (Lorde)- Randy is actually the successful musician known as Lorde, though he requires computers to help keep up the illusion of a better singing voice. "Ya-ya-ya- I am Lorde".
Reputation ("That N***ers Guy!")- Randy gave an incorrect answer on
Jeopardy! when he bought the wrong vowel for "N_GGERS: People who annoy you". This stuck with him for some time (even after he kissed the ass of Jesse Jackson, who claims to speak for all black people), until the government made it illegal to call him taht.
Total: Abilities: 18 / Skills: 34--17 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 6 (46)
-Randy Marsh's early appearances in the show are basically as "just some guy", with him later being revealed to be Stan's dad. Initially a minor character, he only had a bit of focus here and there- less than either Kenny or Kyle's dads, actually. Which makes it all the weirder that Randy ended up being one of the show's Top Five characters.
-What Matt & Trey hit upon was Randy being an obsessive weirdo who tended to fall "all in" on things. He couldn't just drink- he had to get ANNIHILATED. If he caught onto a fad, he instantly became the most obsessive, ardent fan of it. Through him, the creators poke fun at every modern trend, like the explosion in "Food Porn" shows (Randy's cooking attempts come off like literal pornography, with him hiding away to try more and more obscure and outrageous flavor combinations). He goes crazy with
White People Flipping Houses, which cracks wise at the modern explosion of "house-flipping" shows, all of which are hosted by the whitest people ever, who always tear down the wall between the kitchen ang living room, going "for more of an open concept".
-To me, the show's funniest single moment might be the "Baseball" episode, where the boys are miserable playing this boring-ass game, while Randy (who's been getting into drunken fights with dads at every single game) is just sitting on the porch with the HAPPIEST GODDAMN SMILE IN THE UNIVERSE. I can't even explain WHY it's so funny- it's just the sheer difference between the boys' feelings and Randy's absolute pride in how this is such good, old-fashioned fun. All the dads are into the Americana and "boys playing baseball" of it all, but Randy takes it to this whole other level. He's just SO happy. All the better that he believes it's his duty to get into drunken fights with the other fathers, and treats Sharon's admonishing him as reverse psychology ("You don't HAVE to get into fights with other dads, you know?" "I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, SHARON, AND IT WON'T WORK!").
-Randy is actually a highly-skilled fighter, and can beat up dads as powerful as Bat-Dad- a legendary brawler.