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'''Skip Broke''' is one of the pre-created, yet unplayable, [[Sim]]s featured in ''[[The Sims 2]]'' as ancestors of playable, pre-created Sims. Though deceased when the game begins, he is in the family trees of playable Sims [[Dustin Broke]], [[Beau Broke]] and [[Unborn Baby Broke]], who are his sons of him, and of his widow, [[Brandi Broke]].

During his [[adult]] lifetime, he resided in [[Pleasantview]], one of the [[neighborhood]]s that ships with ''The Sims 2''. As a child, he lived in [[Riverview]], one of the towns that is available for ''[[The Sims 3]]''. He is playable in ''The Sims 3''. He does not appear in ''[[The Sims]]'', and his whereabouts during that time period are not mentioned.

Skip Broke is a [[Child#The Sims 3|child]] living in [[Riverview]] with his parents [[Flo Broke|Flo]] and [[Flat Broke|Flat]], his older sister [[Ruby Broke|Ruby]], his uncle [[Buck Broke|Buck]], and his cousins [[Trigger Broke|Trigger]] and [[Susie Broke|Susie]]. Although he marries [[Bob Newbie#Life leading up to The Sims 3|Bob]] and [[Betty Newbie#Life leading up to The Sims 3|Betty Newbie]]'s [[Brandi Broke|child]], he is only 7 days younger than they are. This means that, for a while, Bob, Betty, and Skip are all [[teen]]s at the same time. His bio states that Skip wishes for his parents to clean up after them, but makes it clear that Skip really loves his family.

Skip's past life is explained in the family photo album. When he met [[Brandi Broke|Brandi]], he immediately fell in love with her and they were engaged (later - married). Judging by pictures in the album, it appears that they lived at the [[Newbie family|Newbies']] for some time. It's not clear whether they moved out or rebuilt [[Betty Newbie|Betty]] and [[Bob Newbie|Bob]]'s old house. When the already mentioned "suspicious pool ladder accident" happened, he left Brandi to take care of [[Dustin Broke]] and [[Beau Broke]] alone. He had taken an important part in Dustin's early life, and had taught him to walk and talk, even though he did not have the family aspiration.

In [[Brandi Broke|Brandi]]'s [[memories]] there are two Skip Brokes, but which one is real and which is not is quite debatable because one Skip appears in the family photo album, while the other one appears in the relationshipfamily tree - and is also resurrectable. However, the Skip that appears in the family photo album is not resurrectable, which means he is unplayable, unlike the resurrectable Skip.

They look alike in some ways. Both Skips wear the same jeans and a similar black and white T-shirt, albeit they aren't the same colour variant with jeansthe hidden Skip using the grey and white variant and the other Skip, the black and white. But the unresurrectable Skip has light blue eyes and thick eyebrows. The resurrectable Skip has green eyes, a narrower face and a different nose. The unresurrectable Skip is the true father of [[Dustin Broke]] and [[Beau Broke]], although they are not linked to him in the family tree. This is also proven in [[Brandi Broke|Brandi]]'s [[memories]], which show that she met the resurrectable Skip only once, and then she married the unresurrectable Skip.

When it comes to their character, both Skips have the [[Aries]] [[zodiac sign]], but unresurrectable Skip has the [[Popularity]] [[Aspiration (The Sims 2)|aspiration]] while resurrectable Skip has the [[Romance]] aspiration. The resurrectable Skip was [[voice]]d by Stephen Kearin, while the unresurrectable Skip was voiced by David Boat.<ref>Since the unresurrectable Skip can not be resurrected in-game, the only way to confirm which voice he had is by copying his hexadecimal code and pasting it over the hexadecimal code of another Sim with SimPE.</ref>

It has been noted that Skip Broke's age between the two installments of the game in which he appears fails to add up naturally. In ''The Sims 2'' he is shown to have died as an adult, presumably not too long before the start of the game, since his children are still very young. However, in ''The Sims 3'', which is set 50 years in the past, he appears as a child alongside teenagers Bob Newbie and Betty Simovitch, who canonically become the parents of his wife, Brandi. Some players have taken this to mean that Skip is in fact much older than was initially believed, that there was a significant age difference between him and his wife, and that he must have been close to the [[Elder]] life stage when he died. Others, however, have dismissed the discrepancy as an error on the part of the creators.

<blockquote class="note">The Broke family has their roots in the more rustic area of town. If you've played The Sims 2 you'll have a very interesting time telling this story. (Hint: You'll have to Skip twice for it to work.)</blockquote>

While the comment makes it clear that the producers of the game were aware of the discrepancy, the exact nature of the quote is enigmatic. Possible explanations include the Riverview Skip being the father of the Pleasantview Skip (which would place ''The Sims 3'' in an alternate timeline, since in-game both recognize Flat as their father), or Skip somehow becoming involved in time travel that allows him to 'skip' two generations in order to make the ages match - already hinted at by [[Don Lothario]]'s appearance in Riverview (as Don's bio alludes to the fact that he was involved in time travel or teleportation), and made possible in-game to an extent in ''[[Ambitions]]'' and ''[[Into the Future]]''. Other fan theories have speculated that perhaps the comment refers to Brandi, who would need to skip out and into the neighborhood in order to reach the same age as her husband. Alternatively, the comment may be taken simply as an [[Easter Egg]], referring to the fact that there are two versions of Skip Broke in ''The Sims 2''.

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