Performer(s) Appeared in Stanley "Stan" Marsh is one of the four protagonists of the long-running Comedy Central show South Park, appearing in every Christmas episode of the show to date, including the original short "The Spirit of Christmas". In one such special, "A Very Crappy Christmas", he and his best friends Kyle Broflovski and Kenny McCormick, along with their frenemy Eric Cartman, attempt to put together a Christmas short to raise the town's spirits.