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* AbusiveParents: When some of the neighbors are sharing stories about their bad relationships with their fathers, Otto sadly reveals that his father ''turned him in to the Gestapo!''
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* DudeNotFunny: Like Frank and Series/MASH, Otto has this view of ''Series/HogansHeroes''. For obvious reasons.
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* GrewASpine: In the Season 3 Finale when he tells Ginny he's not romantically interested in her and throws her out of his house.
* HollywoodSatanism: Kevin and Bill thinks he's a Satanist because of his "pentagram" medallion (which is just a Star of David).
* HollywoodSatanism: Kevin and Bill thinks he's a Satanist because of his "pentagram" medallion (which is just a Star of David).
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* RichBoredom: He doesn't actually need to work anymore as he's gotten rich off his DJ work, but without his job, he doesn't really have anything to live for.
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* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Season 4 confirms he didn't survive being poisoned by Nguyen-Nguyen.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even Ben thought Philip's revenge-on-Jimmy plot was disturbing.
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* ControlFreak: Marie has a very bad case of this, something Babe blows up on her for in season 4. This might have spread over to her kids too; which would explain why Philip has been repressing his violent tendencies and why Anthony (though this might be young age) continues to be that annoying kid. Crosses over with ParentsArePeople, as Marie doesn't want to be or come across as a bad person, she just needs to let up the reins.
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* HiddenDepths: Heavily implies that the mother's death is what screwed her up.
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* HiddenDepths: While getting stoned on mushrooms, Lex mentions he scored a ''1550'' on his SAT. And is getting real attention from Stanford.
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* JerkassToOne: As a decorated military veteran and seemingly affable guy, the entire neighborhood idolizes Chet. Frank particularly so, since he sees Chet as the embodiment of all the dreams he gave up when Sue became pregnant with Kevin. Sue is much less impressed, [[spoiler:especially when she witnesses the emotional (and off-screen, possibly physical) abuse that Nguyen-Nguyen suffers from Chet,]] and Chet acts as an antagonist to Sue. Even Frank doesn't believe her at first. Once Frank finally sees Chet for who he is, Chet turns on him as well, but he continues to charm the rest of the neighborhood to the point where they turn on the Murphys. [[spoiler:At least until they learn Nguyen-Nguyen has been slowly poisoning Chet.]]
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Babe's mother is actually Nana Rose's sister, who was a nun. Nana Rose was forced to raise Babe as her son by the family to spare her sister the disgrace of breaking her vow of chastity and getting pregnant. This makes Nana Rose Babe's aunt and Philip and Anthony's great-aunt.]]
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Babe's biological mother was a nun and the sister of Nana Rose, who Babe has been raised to think of as his mother.]]
** [[spoiler:Amy, Maureen's rival, turns out to be emotionally cruel enough to make even Bridget cry by mocking her over her dead mother.]]
* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that she had a close relationship with her mother and her grief over her mother's death drives her sociopathic behavior when Maureen sees her crying over a locket with a picture of her mother and herself.
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Babe has the same face shape, skin tone, and buck teeth as his mother.[[spoiler:his aunt]].
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Philip's [[spoiler:supposed]] grandmother who also lives at home with the family. She is of Italian (Sicilian) origin. [[spoiler: In Season 4, it's revealed that she is actually Babe's aunt and Philip's great-aunt, who raised Babe as his mother because Babe's real mother was a [[NaughtyNun Catholic nun who got pregnant after an illicit affair.]] ]]
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* RacistGrandma: She's an Italian fascist who admires UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. She especially hates Jews, frequently complaining about the "Heebs" (Hebrews) in Hollywood. She also expresses her disgust towards the "Gypsies" ({{UsefulNotes/Romani}}) and the "Pollocks" (Polish).
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* RacistGrandma: She's an Italian fascist who admires UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. She especially hates Jews, frequently complaining about the "Heebs" (Hebrews) in Hollywood. She also expresses her disgust towards the "Gypsies" ({{UsefulNotes/Romani}}) and the "Pollocks" (Polish).
(Polish). [[spoiler:However, she is actually a great-aunt rather than a grandmother.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has the same face shape, skin tone, and buck teeth as [[spoiler: herson, nephew,]] Babe.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never do find out her real name. Even her birthday banner simply reads "Cutie Pie". It's implied Vic doesn't even know her real name.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never do find out her real name. Even her birthday banner simply reads "Cutie Pie". It's implied Vic doesn't even know her real name. Averted in the Season 4 finale when Vic calls her Karen, shocking even her. (Although he does point out that her name is on her hospital chart)
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* HiddenDepths: Despite his carefree lifestyle, he secretly envies Frank's family life. Vic is also aware that his Christmases are lonely affairs because everyone else is with their families. He is sincerely appreciative of Frank's invitation to join them for Christmas dinner.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite his carefree lifestyle, he secretly envies Frank's family life. Vic is also aware that his Christmases are lonely affairs because everyone else is with their families. He is sincerely appreciative of Frank's invitation to join them for Christmas dinner. In the season four episode "Bring me a tooth", he reveals that he's very lonely and miserable without a real purpose in his life, to the point where he was so happy to be working again just to give himself a purpose.
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* TookALevelInKindness: In Season 3. After Bill saved his life last season, he's somewhat more cordial with him and even admits during the season finale that he's his OnlyFriend.
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* ChurchgoingVillain: He appears to be a practicing Catholic in the same congregation as the Murphy's, he makes Jimmy be an alter boy at the church and sends him to a Catholic military school as punishment for shoplifting.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The show seems to be going this way when Vic unloads a ClusterFBomb that would make Frank blush on an uncooperative DJ who doesn't want to plug a popular pop singer, which goes directly against every other appearance he's made so far, but it turns out he just doesn't handle pressure well [[spoiler: and as season 2 shows, is more than likely caused by his drug use]].
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* BrutalHonesty: When it's ''finally'' spelled out for him just what Holtenwasser suffered through during the Holocaust, Vic is genuinely sympathetic... then bluntly tells him that he needs to try to move past his trauma, because clinging to the past isn't going to change anything, and his family wouldn't have wanted him to spend the rest of his life in misery.
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Not only is her abusive treatment of Bill worse than Jimmy's, but in general she even more of a vicious {{jerkass}} than Jimmy and possibly her own father, and both of them are afraid of her.
* {{Sadist}}: She seems to derive great pleasure at other people's suffering wether it would be abusing Bill or laughing at an ice cream truck diver suffering a car crash.
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* {{Sadist}}: She seems to derive great pleasure at other people's sufferingwether whether it would be abusing Bill or laughing at an ice cream truck diver suffering a car crash.
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* DomesticAbuse: She reveals herself to be one as she abuses Bill both mentally and physically, and whenever Bill tries to break up with her, Bridget feigns being hurt to manipulating him into taking her back and being stuck in the toxic relationship with her.
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* FreudianExcuse: During his last conversation with Frank [[spoiler:while hospitalized from the poison his wife fed him]], Chet claims he had a lousy childhood with an AbusiveDad who once cruelly [[spoiler:[[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals drowned a puppy]] that he had given to his son ''[[HarmfulToMinors as a 6th birthday present]]'']]. He eventually joined the Air Force to leave his crappy home life behind, [[WarIsHell but Vietnam certainly didn't]] [[ShellShockedVeteran improve his broken psyche]].
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The Murphy family's neighbors, friends, and enemies.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SamRockwell (English), Gerardo García (Latin American Spanish)
Frank's next-door neighbor. He's a sexually promiscuous drug addict, who works as a marketing manager for a local radio station.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Sort of. His voice actor is credited as part of the main cast, where as Haley Reinhart is not (Even the writers have stated they don't know why this is). For this reason Wiki/TheOtherWiki and some other sources list Vic as a main character and Bill as a supporting character. This was corrected in Season 2, though.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Vic's easily one of the nicest guys in the series, but when he found out that [[spoiler: Cutie Pie cheated on him with Kevin]], he ''lost it''. He came to his senses soon after, though.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: He has a noticeable bulge.
* BookDumb: He's not the brightest guy around. This may have something to do with the fact that he's constantly doing drugs.
* ChickMagnet: Rarely seen without at least one woman accompanying him.
* DumbBlonde: A male variant. He's a handsome blond man who's very oblivious due to being high on drugs most of the time.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: As far as Babe is concerned.
* {{Expy}}: He was designed after David Wooderson from ''Film/DazedAndConfused''. Sam Rockwell even voices him with his best Creator/MatthewMcConaughey impression.
* FunctionalAddict: He acts just fine even being explicitly shown that he does large amounts of marijuana and cocaine. [[spoiler:This is later subverted in Season 2, when it's revealed that he was fired from his job a long time ago, but he keeps going to work because the use of drugs cause him to forget everything.]]
* TheHedonist: Vic seems to partake in every crazy vice known to man.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his carefree lifestyle, he secretly envies Frank's family life. Vic is also aware that his Christmases are lonely affairs because everyone else is with their families. He is sincerely appreciative of Frank's invitation to join them for Christmas dinner.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: While he tries to be nice to Frank, he seems oblivious to his struggles and assumes everything he's doing is an adventure or party. He also makes an off-the-cuff remark on how he should go to Hawaii despite that any other sane person would realize Frank is far from being able to afford that. CrossesTheLineTwice in a later episode when he assumes Mr. Holtenwasser's subtle tellings of his experiences hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust was just one big party/orgy.
%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Kevin.
* JiveTurkey: His constant use of slang is just one more barrier between Frank and himself; when Vic says, "Know what I mean?" Frank's answer is, "I never know what you mean, Vic."
* KarmaHoudini: He never faces any legal consequences for shooting up his house.
* NiceGuy: He's genuinely really nice and goes out of his way to help Frank.
* PornStache: As was the look for swinging bachelors back then.
* PrettyBoy: He is handsome and good looking, much to the dismay of Frank.
* ReallyGetsAround: He has new women through his door constantly.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Vic's lifestyle revolves around women, cocaine, and music.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Although it's very much one-sided because Vic doesn't know he's the nemesis.
* TheStoner: He smokes marijuana and stashes baggies of cocaine in his cash box. [[spoiler:This ends up costing him his job at the end of Season 2]].
* TeacherStudentRomance: With Vivian Sanders when he was in high school.
* TotallyRadical: All of his dialogue.
* UnknownRival: Seems to have no idea that Frank hates him.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Gabriela Guzmán (Latin American Spanish)
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* SeventiesHair: Her hairstyle is modeled after Farrah Fawcett.
* AnythingThatMoves: Cutie Pie [[spoiler:was cheating on Vic with men, [[BiTheWay women]], midgets, a 14-year-old boy...]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems nice at first, but not only does she wind up [[spoiler:statutorily raping Kevin, she's pretty nasty to him about it too, blaming him for the incident.]]
* DumbBlonde: Not really dumb, but shallow and self-absorbed.
* GoldDigger: Possibly why she stayed with Vic after she began feeling neglected and [[spoiler:started cheating]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Has no concern for how her actions affect Vic, Kevin or anybody else around her.
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Pretty much uses the fact that [[spoiler:Kevin]] had an erection after seeing her breasts as an open invitation, even though he was actually quite distressed by this fact at the time as it had previously caused him embarrassment. Later, when she's yelling at him he points out that she was the one who came on to him, to which she blames on the fact that he had a hard-on.
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Blames Kevin for her own mistake and tells him that Vic will be mad at both of them if he finds out, in order to keep Kevin from revealing what she did.]]
* MrsRobinson : She had sex with [[spoiler:14-year-old Kevin]].
* MsFanservice: Is shown naked a lot.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Regrets cheating on Vic with 14-year-old Kevin. She even looks legitimately horrified that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy, thinking he was just short rather than underage.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never do find out her real name. Even her birthday banner simply reads "Cutie Pie". It's implied Vic doesn't even know her real name.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She high-tails it with the rest of the party guests once Vic starts shooting up his house and wisely does not go back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Vic is dismayed after finding out that she slept with [[ReallyGetsAround dozens of other people]].
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[[folder:Otto Holtenwasser]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), Pablo Sosa (Latin American Spanish)
A kindly old German-Jewish man who lives in the neighborhood. Despite his cheerfully pleasant personality, he has a very sadly traumatic past.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Subverted for laughs. The neighborhood kids are initially terrified of him, because they think he's a Nazi war criminal. In reality, he's actually a Jewish Holocaust survivor, as evidenced by the number tattooed on his arm and a Star of David necklace. However the kids believe the tattoo is actually the number of people he's killed, and they confuse the Star of David for a pentagram and start believing he's a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist]].
* BlackComedyRape: Ginny takes advantage of him when he's drunk.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII refugee whose whole family was murdered during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. Despite this, he's an awfully cheerful and optimistic person in the present day.
* TheEeyore: A small subplot in Season 3 is him realizing just how depressing he can be to hang around, and trying to ease up on discussing his past traumas.
* FriendToAllChildren: Even if the kids don't seem to return the sentiment. Though, luckily, he doesn't seem to notice their fear of him. But he does seem to [[BewareTheNiceOnes hate Jimmy]] though for being a neighborhood menace and vandalizing his house. When Jimmy hurts himself trying to explode his mailbox with a firecracker, he yells to him: "Serves you right you little [[ForeignCussWord scheiße]]!"
* GratuitousGerman: He sometimes drops a few German words in his speech, if you couldn't already tell his nationality by his strong accent.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: He proudly cheers for America while waiving a flag during the July 4th block party.
* TheLostLenore: After the war, he got married to an American nurse named Mary. It's implied that she's dead.
* NiceGuy: A very kind neighbor indeed.
* ThePollyanna: He's rather oddly optimistic for someone who survived war and genocide.
* SilverFox: Is called this by Ginny Throater when she becomes sexually attracted to him.
* StepfordSmiler: Another interpretation of his personality is that he's just trying really hard to cover up his wartime traumas. Season 3 implies this a bit more strongly.
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[[folder:Ginny and Greg Throater]]
->'''Ginny voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Claudia Contreras (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Greg voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish)
A married couple acquainted with Sue and Frank. Ginny constantly talks about her dysfunctional marriage, and is oblivious to the reason why: her husband Greg is secretly gay.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: In Season 3, Ginny winds up having a sexual relationship with [[spoiler:Otto Holtenwasser]] of all men. He only indulges her (very) reluctantly.
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Greg seems to have had numerous partners.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Greg sneaks out to have sex with men, and he hides the truth until eventually coming out during a marital therapy session.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Neither of the Murphys seem to actually like Ginny.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ginny calls Sue selfish when Sue finally blows up at her, despite the fact she spent hours talking about herself. She also immediately shuts it down when Sue tries to talk about her own problems, which Sue was too polite to do to her.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In "Pray Away", Greg decides to come out to Ginny (and everyone else in the room) after he realized how unfair to Ginny and his two sons it is to be leading a double life, saying that Ginny deserved better.
* IncompatibleOrientation: It's strongly implied that Ginny and her husband are having sexual difficulties because he's secretly gay. Confirmed in Season 2 to be true.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ginny spends her debut episode talking about her troubled marriage. When her husband begs for a divorce due to their IncompatibleOrientation, she refuses to listen.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Greg was so desperate that he had sex with a man in a department store changing room!
* PhraseCatcher: Almost every time Ginny shows up, one of the Murphys (and sometimes other characters) give an exasperated "Oh, fuck me". Ironically, Ginny herself also says these words after talking to Sue once during Season 3.
* StepfordSmiler: It's eventually revealed that Ginny wasn't just cheerfully oblivious to Greg being gay, but instead ''very'' deep in denial about it, even telling him "No, you're not!" to his face when he tries comes out to her and beg for a divorce.
* YourCheatingHeart: Greg would frequently sneak out to have sex with men. This was a constant source of anxiety and remorse for him, as he did like and care about Ginny despite lacking any sexual attraction to her.
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[[folder:Goomer and Evelyn]]
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->'''Goomer voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), David Camarillo (Spanish, Season 1) and Erick Selim (Spanish, Season 2)
->'''Evelyn voiced by:''' Eileen Fogarty
Goomer is one of Frank's friends who lives on the same street, and is a weirdo who spies on all of his neighbors. He lives with his wife Evelyn.
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* BlatantLies: Goomer lies to Evelyn when she catches him wearing Frank's clothes, claiming that they originally belonged to ''him'', and that ''Frank'' was the one who stole them (keep in mind they barely fit Goomer). Though Evelyn is gullible enough to fall for it.
* CaptainObvious: Goomer likes to show up to state what one of the Murphys is feeling at the moment.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Aside from being a PeepingTom, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Goomer likes to]] [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} smell the scent of his dog's feces]]. Also once when he broke into Frank's house, he stole Frank's clothes ''and pretended to be him''.
* {{Expy}}: Goomer is basically a less pathetic, but creepier [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Bill Dauterive]]. His voice also sounds rather similar to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin's]].
* FatAndSkinny: Goomer is rather obese, while Evelyn is rail-thin (if not underweight).
* FlatCharacter: There doesn't seem to be much more to Goomer other than him being Frank's neighbor and a creep.
* KarmaHoudini: Goomer lies to Evelyn about his actions while looking after the Murphy family's house and gets away scot-free.
* PeepingTom: Goomer has a creepy habit of spying on other people, allowing him to learn too much info on them. If you look closely at Frank's hidden stash behind the refrigerator, you can also see an IOU note from Goomer, indicating that he's broken into the Murphy house before. There's even a newspaper article about his spying habits.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Goomer peeps on all of his neighbors but he seems mostly interested in Frank. Not because he's attracted to Frank, but because he wants to ''be'' Frank.
* TragicStillbirth: Goomer and Evelyn are childless, because during the only time he got her pregnant, it ended in a miscarriage. Goomer still lies to other people that his wife just had food poisoning to spare her feelings.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. Goomer is a partially bald and obese man; and although Evelyn is a rather plain-looking and stick-thin woman, she doesn't look quite as ugly or unkempt as her husband.
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[[folder:Ben and Kenny]]
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->'''Ben voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), José Antonio Toledano (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Kenny voiced by:''' Creator/DebiDerryberry (English), Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish)
A couple of redneck brothers who are friends of Bill and Maureen. They live in extreme poverty.
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* BlindingBangs: Ben.
* DeepSouth: Both of them have this accent.
* ChekhovsGun: The guitar Ben steals from the music store Phineas crashed into really comes in handy to him later in the season.
* CheerfulChild: They're perpetually happy, despite apparently being homeless.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Both of them are pretty weird and absent-minded kids, but especially Kenny.
* DemotedToExtra: Ben has a somewhat important role in Season 3, but they both have a lot less screentime in Seasons 2 and 3 than they did in Season 1. Kenny seems to get this the most, having his role reduced even further [[PutOnABus half-way throughout the season]] [[spoiler:after getting his hand blown up at the fourth of July party]]. From there, he has even less to do, just briefly showing up in some crowd shots.
* TheDitz: Both of them are dumber than rocks, and encourage Bill and Maureen to [[TooDumbToLive play stupid, dangerous games with them]].
* DumbBlonde: Both of them are male examples of this.
* HiddenDepths: As revealed in Season 3, Ben can absolutely ''shred'' on the guitar.
* InnocentInaccurate: They frequently allude to an absolutely horrifying domestic life, without really understanding what they're describing. They heavily imply that their parents are lousy people; their mom is a heroin addict, while their dad is a UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan member who once [[DirtyCoward fled to Mexico to evade arrest for a hit-and-run killing]].
* LowerClassLout: They're stereotypical members of a white trailer trash family.
* NiceHat: Ben usually wears a green beanie, while Kenny always wears a green cap.
* OutOfFocus: They go from being regular characters in Season 1 to characters who only make cameos 1-2 times per episode in Seasons 2 and 3.
* ParentalNeglect: They frequently mention their parents, but they're implied to be deadbeats who don't really seem to care much about [[FreeRangeChildren what their sons are up to]].
* TooDumbToLive: They frequently do risky activities without any concern for their own safety.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: They aren't actively malicious, but they still encourage Bill and Maureen to do some pretty dumb things.
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[[folder:Craig (Lex) and Lawrence (Bolo)]]
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->'''Lex voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Bolo voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), Alan Prieto (Latin American Spanish)
Kevin's fellow stoner friends, with whom he forms an amateur rock band.
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* AllMenArePerverts: They're a couple of {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}s who are convinced that playing in a rock band will get them laid by girls. They even admit to just wanting to sing about dicks and sex.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Bolo is as interested in dicks as he is with girls. Lex and Kevin call him out on this occasionally. Possibly confirmed in Season 3 where he frustratingly tells Lex "I just like dicks, alright?"
-->'''Kevin:''' I'm the soul of this band!\\
'''Bolo:''' Well we're the dick and balls!\\
'''Kevin:''' Stop talking about dicks!\\
'''Bolo:''' I ''can't!''
* AlcoholicParent: When the boys are in Bolo's basement, you can see a box on the shelf labeled "Mom's Stuff", filled with nothing but liquor bottles.
* CelebCrush: Bolo has one for the former First Lady [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Jackie Kennedy]].
* CasanovaWannabe: They both see themselves as absolute lady killers for some reason, despite the fact that no girl has ever been interested in either of them.
-->'''Lex:''' "I think I hear the sound of a thousand panties dropping."
* CoolCar: Bolo's moms car he uses to drive his friends around.
* {{Delinquent}}: Bolo's name is graffiti'd on the bowling ally bathroom.
* DitzyGenius: Bolo gives Kevin the final answer on his history homework because he likes to read the presidential trivia off the "Whitehouse Beer" labels.
* DumbAndDrummer: Bolo is a drummer and a total ditz.
* FatAndSkinny: Bolo is a bit chubby, while Lex looks like he's of normal weight.
* FreudianSlip: Bolo has these sometimes. Usually in reference to dicks.
* ParentalNeglect: Bolo's mother doesn't pay much attention to him, and doesn't even know how old he is.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Bolo claims to have had a summer relationship with a girl at the lake, who happened to have died of Polio. (Which is a gateway disease to Lukemia.)
* InSeriesNickname: Their real names are Craig and Lawrence. They also tend to call Kevin "Murph".
* JewishAndNerdy: Lex.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Though, Bolo would have his friends believe otherwise (not that they buy it).
* StonersAreFunny: They often smoke weed with Kevin and Claire.
* SmallNameBigEgo: They consider themselves to be musical geniuses.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're rarely (if ever) seen apart.
* TotallyRadical: Lex. "It's like so rad to the max!"
* WithFriendsLikeThese: They had no problem abandoning Kevin to the mercy of the cops. They also make fun of Kevin when he has a regressive panic attack.
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[[folder:Claire]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Dafne Gallardo (Latin American Spanish)
Another friend of Kevin, and his (brief) girlfriend.
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* GirlNextDoor
* {{Ladette}}
* NoSympathy: Like Lex and Bolo, she teases Kevin for having a panic attack, and not in a friendly way, either.
* OneOfTheBoys
* OutOfFocus: Her role greatly diminishes after the second season.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Pink girl to Kevin's blue boy.
* ReallyGetsAround: Frank thinks she's "loose" and warns Kevin not to get her pregnant, though, in reality, she's quite reluctant to do anything beyond kissing.
* RedheadInGreen: She's a redhead who wears a green army jacket.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple
* SouthernBelle: Like some of the other Murphy's neighbors, she has a Southern accent.
* TheStoner
* SixthRanger: For Kevin's friend group.
* {{Tomboy}}
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!!Bonfiglio Family
[[folder:Babe and Marie Bonfiglio]]
->'''Babe voiced by:''' Kevin Farley (English), Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Marie voiced by:''' Jamie Denbo
Philip's parents. Babe is his father and another friend of Frank's. Marie is his overprotective mother.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Even though he's married and has two sons, Babe talks highly of Vic and constantly makes remarks about how attractive he is.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Babe has dark black hair and very tanned skin, but is still considered white. His son Phillip, however, has lighter skin and brown hair. It's later confirmed that Babe is of Italian (specifically Sicilian) descent, while his wife isn't (Philip certainly got his fair skin from her).
* BrokenPedestal: Babe appears to be over Vic at the end of the third season after he almost died in a helicopter crash piloted by a coked-out Vic. He assures Marie that he will "stop thinking about Vic in the bedroom."
* FatAndSkinny: Babe is short and thin, while Marie is very obese.
* MotorMouth: Babe can talk a lot, but was surprisingly named as "[[IronicNickname Most Quiet]]" in high school.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Babe has the same face shape, skin tone, and buck teeth as his mother.
* VocalDissonance: Babe's voice is pretty high-pitched and squeaky for a man.
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[[folder:"Nana" Rose Bonfiglio]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins
Philip's grandmother who also lives at home with the family. She is of Italian (Sicilian) origin.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: She's very rude and verbally abusive to her daughter-in-law, Marie.
* PottyFailure: Wets herself when she gets too excited. According to Phillip, it often happens when she watches ''Dialing for Dollars''. Their living room furniture is wrapped in plastic for this reason.
* RacistGrandma: She's an Italian fascist who admires UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. She especially hates Jews, frequently complaining about the "Heebs" (Hebrews) in Hollywood. She also expresses her disgust towards the "Gypsies" ({{UsefulNotes/Romani}}) and the "Pollocks" (Polish).
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has the same face shape, skin tone, and buck teeth as her son, Babe.
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[[folder:Phillip Bonfiglio]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DebiDerryberry (English), Creator/MarianaOrtiz (Latin American Spanish)
Bill's best friend, who is also a very wimpy, pathetic geek.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: If the throwaway line of "I don't remember doing any of this" when [[spoiler:Maureen finds his creepy shrine to Hobo Jojo]] is any indication, along with his NightmareFuelColoringBook and suppressed violent tendencies, it can indicate schizophrenia; as he may not really have a conscious clue of what he's doing.
* BestFriend: Of Bill.
* ButtMonkey: Much like his friend, he gets picked on by the local bully Jimmy.
* CreepyChild: He seems like a nice boy most of the time, but he keeps a journal filled with drawings of people who annoy him getting killed in brutal ways.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: He's been mistaken for a "fat little girl" at least twice.
* ExtremeDoormat: He's even ''[[UpToEleven more]]'' cowardly and spineless than Bill. It's implied that most of this is due to having an overprotective mother.
* HehHehYouSaidX: Giggles at the word "doobie", which he incorrectly thinks is a euphemism for sex. (It's slang for a marijuana joint.)
* LiteralMinded: His response to Jimmy making a crude joke about how he's gonna "fuck [Phillip's] mom" was; "My mom wouldn't do that..."
* NerdyInhaler
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: His "Kill Book".
* TranquilFury: When Bill starts spending more time with Bridget than with Phil, he gives a clenched smile and ''rips out an eyebrow''.
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[[folder:Anthony Bonfiglio]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I found a worm and I ripped him in half and I made two worms and y'know what?"]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Al Ducharme
Phillip's younger brother, who is not quite right in the head.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It's strongly implied that he has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: His hyperactivity and weirdness is a partial contributor to Phillip's gradual SanitySlippage.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Bill goes missing, Anthony tells Frank he saw where he went. Anthony then proceeds to tell Frank the most pointless details he can, which predictably causes Frank to explode at the child.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Y'KNOW WHAT? Y'KNOW WHAT?"
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: Implied to be the cause of his weird behavior, when Phillip angrily says he wishes he'd pressed ''harder'' on Anthony's fontanel when he was a baby.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: There's no telling what exactly goes on in his strange mind. He talks and rambles incoherently, eats random things he finds on the ground, and also starts humping a TV stand for no apparent reason.
* MotorMouth: He ''never'' shuts up.
* NerdGlasses: He wears a massive pair of these.
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!!Fitzsimmons Family
[[folder:Mr. Fitzsimmons]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Joe Buck
Jimmy's and Bridget's single father. He works as a janitor at the elementary school.
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* AbusiveDad: He frequently beats Jimmy to discipline him for his misbehavior, and doesn't seem to be much nicer to Bridget either.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his rudeness and abuse, he will not tolerate Jimmy shoplifting or hitting girls. Though technically Jimmy was [[FrameUp framed by Bill for the shoplifting]], and the [[DudeLooksLikeALady "girl" in question was actually Phillip]], but Mr. Fitzsimmons [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't know about either of these facts]].
* FieryRedhead: Much like both his son and daughter, he has orange hair and is very short-tempered.
* {{Jerkass}}: Who do you think Jimmy learned to be an asshole from?
* KickTheDog:
** Sprays Phillip with a cleaning product when he cheers Bill on during his fight with his son.
** Gets the whole student body to call Bill a pussy and joins in with their jeering as he's taken away to the principal's office.
* LowerClassLout: He's a blue-collar menial laborer, and very unpleasant.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He's first seen working as a janitor at the elementary school in Season 1, but is seen cleaning the public swimming pool in Season 3. Justified because it was summer and school was out.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When he sees a black character on a TV show, he expresses a desire to have him sprayed with a fire hose, much like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor Bull Connor]] would've done.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He never gives Bridget any beatings, and once scolded Jimmy for hitting Phillip ([[ItMakesSenseInContext whom Mr. Fitzsimmons]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistook for a girl]]).
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[[folder:James "Jimmy" Fitzsimmons]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Bruno Coronel (Latin American Spanish)
A local bully who harasses Bill and Phillip.
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* BringMyBrownPants: He pees his pants out of fear upon seeing Kevin in the first episode.
* TheBully: The classic schoolyard bully, who likes beating the crap out of weaker kids.
* ButtMonkey: He has his moments. Just to name a few moments: he's beaten up by Kevin; gets his clubhouse blown up; framed for a crime he didn't do; sent to Catholic military school, where he's harshly disciplined; and he's run over by Randy.
* CatchPhrase: When he's frightened or beaten, he runs off muttering "Oh man! Oh man! Oh man! Oh man!" over and over.
* CoDragons: He has two, though they turn out to be pretty useless, as they run away leaving Jimmy to be beaten up by Kevin.
* DirtyCoward: Bullies the younger Bill regularly, but pisses his pants and runs away crying when faced with Kevin.
* TheDreaded: Until he met Kevin Murphy, who's presence caused him to piss himself.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His father calls him "Jimmy James Fitzsimmons", implying his first name is Jimmy and his middle name is James....
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even a delinquent like him knows that his psycho sister is a total basket case.
* EvilCripple: Jimmy reveals that he's half-blind (due to his sister poisoning his insulin pills, he lost sight in one of his eyes).
* FieryRedhead: He's certainly rather hotheaded and aggressive.
* FrameUp: In Season 2, Bill pins his own theft of a hockey stick on Jimmy Fitzsimmons, resulting in Jimmy's angry dad sending his son to a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]]. This only [[FromBadToWorse worsens]] the preexisting conflict between Bill and Jimmy.
* GreaserDelinquents: Has the jacket and the pompadour, despite the Greaser trend being about 20 years out of date by the show's current time setting.
* HateSink: He pretty much exists just to make Bill's life miserable. This gradually wears off over Seasons 2 and 3, as Jimmy starts to develop a few sympathetic qualities.
* HiddenDepths: Despite being a typical jerkass bully, Jimmy does have a sensitive side evidenced by his room filled with stuffed animals. He's also really good at shop class and enjoys building birdhouses and marionettes.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Constantly calls Bill a pussy but is a cowardly wimp himself whenever someone bigger than him (like Kevin or Sue) takes him on.
* {{Jerkass}}: Needless to say.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most of the time he's just an asshole, but he was legitimately worried for Bill's safety when his sister started dating him.
* MissingMom: His mother is revealed to be dead.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Tries and keeps any boy from dating his sister. Though in a spin on the usual situation, he's protecting ''them'' from ''her''.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He shares the first name with the news anchor and Hobo Jojo actor James "Jim" Jeffords.
* PetTheDog: He tells Bill to stay away from his sister, but only because his sister is a massive {{Yandere}}. When Bill asks why he cares, Jimmy reveals that he now sees Bill as a friend. He also gets Bridget to reveal where Bill is when the Murphys confront them at their house as well.
* PottyFailure: Pissed himself in fear of Kevin's presence.
* RunningGag: Bill uses his name whenever he's caught with his hand in the cookie jar so that Jimmy will cop any punishment. It gets to the point where even [[spoiler: Chet]] uses his name when ratting out his neighbors.
* TheScapegoat: A RunningGag involves characters saying that they're Jimmy Fitzsimmons so that he'll be the one to take their fall for something they did.
* TroubledAbuser: Jimmy's dad beats him.
* VillainsOutShopping: In "Bill Murphy's Day Off" he's seen casually enjoying shop class without being a dick to anyone and is later shown making his own wooden puppet. This was also before he considered Bill a friend.
* VitriolicBestBuds: It's eventually revealed that he sees Bill as his best friend despite all the crap he puts him through.
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[[folder:Bridget Fitzsimmons]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DebiDerryberry
The younger sister of Jimmy, whom Bill develops a romantic crush on. She turns out to be just as foulmouthed as her brother, and possibly even crazier.
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* AxCrazy: She has quite an explosive temper, and holds a well-deserved reputation as a "psycho".
* BigBadEnsemble: With Chet Stevenson for Season 3.
* CreepyChild / EnfanteTerrible: Enough so, that her own big brother is ''afraid of her''. For context; Jimmy is fucked up because his father beats him. Bridget is evil straight out the gate.
-->'''Jimmy''': She scares me, Dad. She scares me right proper.
* DirtyCoward: When the train for Pittsburgh is about to leave the station, she chickens out at the last second and leaves Bill to fend for himself, all while stealing his bike.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She once put nail polish in Jimmy's insulin, permanently blinding him in one eye. Whatever Jimmy did, even with his current track record, it couldn't possibly have warranted that.
* TheDreaded: Both Jimmy and their dad are terrified of her.
* EvilerThanThou: Proves to be far more vicious and horrible than Jimmy could ever be.
* EvilRedhead: Has red-hair and is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] EnfanteTerrible.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She looks like an adorable little girl, but is really a sewer-mouthed, borderline-psychopathic nutjob.
* FieryRedhead: She's red-haired and quick-tempered, but legitimately dangerous.
* HateSink: Enough to make ''Jimmy'' of all people look like a sympathetic Woobie by comparison!
* {{Jerkass}}: [[UpToEleven Even more so than her brother]].
* KarmaHoudini: So far, she hasn't received any punishment for her actions.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Insulted and scared off Jeffrey when the latter called Bill a fairy.
* LackOfEmpathy: A photo from a newspaper article of a serious car crash (involving an ice cream truck that flipped over), shows Bridget pointing at and ''laughing'' at the bloody, wounded driver lying down in pain, while the other nearby kids looked horrified.
* MissingMom: She mentions that her mother is deceased.
* {{Sadist}}: She seems to derive great pleasure at other people's suffering wether it would be abusing Bill or laughing at an ice cream truck diver suffering a car crash.
* SirSwearsALot: She puts Frank to shame with how much profanity comes out of her mouth.
* TheSociopath: Bridget displays multiple signs of being one. She's extremely [[HairTriggerTemper irritable]], [[AxCrazy violent]], [[LackOfEmpathy unsympathetic to the feelings of other people]], and impulsive to the point of doing stupid things just for the thrill of it. Even though she seems to like Bill at first, her "affection" for him is very shallow, and when he tries to leave her, she uses threats of violence and emotional manipulation to force him back in line. And at the very end, she herself leaves Bill without a hint of remorse.
* {{Yandere}}: She's utterly ''furious'' at Bill when he tries to dump her, and does whatever she can to coerce him to stay with her (mostly via threats and manipulation). Though this has less to do with craving Bill's company, and more to do with her feeling offended that he tried to defy her.
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!!Stevenson Family
[[folder:Chet Stevenson]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VinceVaughn
Chet is a US Air Force officer and returning UsefulNotes/VietnamWar veteran who moves into the neighborhood in Season 3. Frank quickly bonds with Chet, though there turns out to be a much darker side to his new friend.
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* AcePilot: He's a highly decorated Air Force bomber pilot who saw plenty of action in Vietnam.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Despite his assholishness and downright malice, Chet's reward is to die alone, after being poisoned by the woman he tried to love. Even Frank, who is livid when he comes to visit him in the hospital, quiets down after seeing his ill state on his death bed.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:After the way he mistreats his wife, it's hard to feel sorry for him when she snaps and poisons him with drain cleaner.]]
* BaitTheDog: He agrees to help out Frank and Sue with building an extra room in their house for their new baby, [[spoiler:but he soon reports an anonymous tip to the authorities (it was constructed without any legal permits), just to get back at the Murphys for the July 4th debacle]].
* BigBadEnsemble: With Bridget Fitzsimmons for Season 3.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He seems like the nicest, coolest guy when hanging out with Frank and the other neighbors, but is actually a passive-aggressive {{jerkass}} who quickly turns against his own family and friends when he thinks they're not respecting him well enough.
* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:He is extremely controlling and dominating towards his wife, and is implied to get violent when she doesn't obey or respect him.]]
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:When Frank goes to visit him in the Hospital after being poisoned, Chet realizes he is fully alone and won't make it through the night. When Frank is leaving, Chet makes a joke at his expense, which seems to cement this on the stone.]]
* EvilCounterpart:
** Chet is essentially the anti-Frank. While Frank is an out-of-shape lout who communicates 99% of the time through screaming, he genuinely loves his family. Chet is a handsome, even-tempered guy, [[spoiler:who treats his wife like a slave and is implied to run around on her]].
** He also serves as one to Vic, as both are new to the neighborhood (Vic in Season 1 and Chet in Season 3), and both come off as friendly to Frank and the others around them. Vic is a genuinely good person, while Chet is most certainly not.
* {{Foil}}: Chet Stevenson serves as an adult, [[SpearCounterpart male]] equivalent to Bridget Fitzsimmons, which is fitting since they're the BigBadEnsemble of Season 3. Both characters bond and hang out with one of the Murphys; Chet forms a (very bromantic) friendship with Frank, while Bridget starts dating Bill as a couple of lovers. Both Frank and Bill respectively believe that Chet and Bridget are wonderful people at first, but it soon becomes apparent that their new friends are far more unpleasant than they think. Though Chet is more of a FauxAffablyEvil BitchInSheepsClothing who successfully pretends to be a NiceGuy until the facade slowly cracks, while Bridget is far more of an ObviouslyEvil {{Jerkass}} by comparison (due to her sharp tongue and rude demeanor, similar to both her brother and father). However, Frank and Bill are both [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter deep in denial about what's wrong with their respective buddies]] until it's too late. The eventual termination of the relationships between Frank and Chet / Bill and Bridget are both very ugly and messy though.
* FreudianExcuse: During his last conversation with Frank [[spoiler:while hospitalized from the poison his wife fed him]], Chet claims he had a lousy childhood with an AbusiveDad who once cruelly [[spoiler:[[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals drowned a puppy]] that he had given to his son ''[[HarmfulToMinors as a 6th birthday present]]'']]. He eventually joined the Air Force to leave his crappy home life behind, [[WarIsHell but Vietnam certainly didn't]] [[ShellShockedVeteran improve his broken psyche]].
* HateSink: While he seems to be a likable guy at first, he becomes much more despicable once his true nature starts to surface, [[spoiler:as he plays cruel mind games on Nguyen-Nguyen, Sue, and Frank alike]].
* MeaningfulName: Chet mentions to Frank that Nguyen-Nguyen says his name in her sleep. [[BilingualBonus "Chết" is also "die" in Vietnamese]], and Chet has seen and caused a lot of death as a soldier.
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Deconstructed. Chet, a white American serviceman, married a poor Vietnamese woman not long after being (partially) responsible for killing her family. Nguyen-Nguyen is indeed rather docile and submissive, to the point of being an ExtremeDoormat who reluctantly follows every arbitrary whim her husband forces upon her. [[spoiler:Though after putting up with Chet's DomesticAbuse for too long, Nguyen-Nguyen retaliates in a very passive-aggressive manner.]]
* PatrioticFervor: Much like Frank, he's a very proud American veteran, and looks down upon anti-war pacifists.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:While talking to Frank one last time on his death bed, Chet tells him he truly does think he was a hero, that he has it all and not to mess it up like he did.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Although he tries hiding it under a very gung-ho and patriotic exterior, it's clear that his time during the Vietnam War messed him up quite a bit.
* YourCheatingHeart: He goes behind his wife's back to screw with other women in his jet's cockpit.
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[[folder:Nguyen-Nguyen Stevenson]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Eileen Fogarty
Chet Stevenson's Vietnamese wife.
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* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Justified due to being a recent immigrant, and she was a poor peasant in Vietnam. Though her English does gradually improve throughout Season 3. She speaks more [[YouNoTakeCandle broken English]] in the first episode, but is soon speaking close to complete sentences by the season finale.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:She eventually [[TheDogBitesBack snaps from all the abuse]] her husband put her through, by poisoning his food with drain cleaner.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She lost family and friends during the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar, which she recalls while Sue is complaining about her own FirstWorldProblems, making Sue crash down realizing this.
* FunnyForeigner: Her English isn't very good, though she's learning from all the American TV shows that she watches enthusiastically.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She loves living in the United States and immersing herself in American culture.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:She says she is changing Chet from the inside when Sue tells her that she needs to beware of Chet. She later repeats this to reveal the real meaning: she had been poisoning Chet by adding little by little drain bleach in his food.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:She has described herself as "a survivor" a few times, especially when Sue tells her she is a victim of abuse. She however repeats to Sue "I'm a survivor" one last time, when they find out that she was poisoning her abusive husband.]]
* NiceGirl: She's pretty much the only woman in the neighborhood who's genuinely friendly with Sue. While the other housewives only hang out with her out of convenience and barely tolerate her hang-ups, Nguyen-Nguyen doesn't seem to find any fault in Sue.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:When she's arrested by the police for poisoning Chet, she tells them she can't speak/read English well and therefore didn't know she was putting chemicals in his meals. However, her private exchange with Sue confirms she knew exactly what she was doing.]]
* StepfordSmiler: She's always acting very sweet and friendly, [[spoiler:which only makes it more sad to see how her husband abuses her both physically and emotionally]].
* WartimeWedding: She met Chet after a fierce battle that took place in her village, which was bombed by American forces to eliminate the local Viet Cong guerrillas.
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[[folder:Victor "Vic" Reynolds]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SamRockwell (English), Gerardo García (Latin American Spanish)
Frank's next-door neighbor. He's a sexually promiscuous drug addict, who works as a marketing manager for a local radio station.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Sort of. His voice actor is credited as part of the main cast, where as Haley Reinhart is not (Even the writers have stated they don't know why this is). For this reason Wiki/TheOtherWiki and some other sources list Vic as a main character and Bill as a supporting character. This was corrected in Season 2, though.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Vic's easily one of the nicest guys in the series, but when he found out that [[spoiler: Cutie Pie cheated on him with Kevin]], he ''lost it''. He came to his senses soon after, though.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: He has a noticeable bulge.
* BookDumb: He's not the brightest guy around. This may have something to do with the fact that he's constantly doing drugs.
* ChickMagnet: Rarely seen without at least one woman accompanying him.
* DumbBlonde: A male variant. He's a handsome blond man who's very oblivious due to being high on drugs most of the time.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: As far as Babe is concerned.
* {{Expy}}: He was designed after David Wooderson from ''Film/DazedAndConfused''. Sam Rockwell even voices him with his best Creator/MatthewMcConaughey impression.
* FunctionalAddict: He acts just fine even being explicitly shown that he does large amounts of marijuana and cocaine. [[spoiler:This is later subverted in Season 2, when it's revealed that he was fired from his job a long time ago, but he keeps going to work because the use of drugs cause him to forget everything.]]
* TheHedonist: Vic seems to partake in every crazy vice known to man.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his carefree lifestyle, he secretly envies Frank's family life. Vic is also aware that his Christmases are lonely affairs because everyone else is with their families. He is sincerely appreciative of Frank's invitation to join them for Christmas dinner.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: While he tries to be nice to Frank, he seems oblivious to his struggles and assumes everything he's doing is an adventure or party. He also makes an off-the-cuff remark on how he should go to Hawaii despite that any other sane person would realize Frank is far from being able to afford that. CrossesTheLineTwice in a later episode when he assumes Mr. Holtenwasser's subtle tellings of his experiences hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust was just one big party/orgy.
%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Kevin.
* JiveTurkey: His constant use of slang is just one more barrier between Frank and himself; when Vic says, "Know what I mean?" Frank's answer is, "I never know what you mean, Vic."
* KarmaHoudini: He never faces any legal consequences for shooting up his house.
* NiceGuy: He's genuinely really nice and goes out of his way to help Frank.
* PornStache: As was the look for swinging bachelors back then.
* PrettyBoy: He is handsome and good looking, much to the dismay of Frank.
* ReallyGetsAround: He has new women through his door constantly.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Vic's lifestyle revolves around women, cocaine, and music.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Although it's very much one-sided because Vic doesn't know he's the nemesis.
* TheStoner: He smokes marijuana and stashes baggies of cocaine in his cash box. [[spoiler:This ends up costing him his job at the end of Season 2]].
* TeacherStudentRomance: With Vivian Sanders when he was in high school.
* TotallyRadical: All of his dialogue.
* UnknownRival: Seems to have no idea that Frank hates him.
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[[folder:Cutie Pie]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Gabriela Guzmán (Latin American Spanish)
Vic's girlfriend during Season 2.
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* SeventiesHair: Her hairstyle is modeled after Farrah Fawcett.
* AnythingThatMoves: Cutie Pie [[spoiler:was cheating on Vic with men, [[BiTheWay women]], midgets, a 14-year-old boy...]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems nice at first, but not only does she wind up [[spoiler:statutorily raping Kevin, she's pretty nasty to him about it too, blaming him for the incident.]]
* DumbBlonde: Not really dumb, but shallow and self-absorbed.
* GoldDigger: Possibly why she stayed with Vic after she began feeling neglected and [[spoiler:started cheating]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Has no concern for how her actions affect Vic, Kevin or anybody else around her.
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Pretty much uses the fact that [[spoiler:Kevin]] had an erection after seeing her breasts as an open invitation, even though he was actually quite distressed by this fact at the time as it had previously caused him embarrassment. Later, when she's yelling at him he points out that she was the one who came on to him, to which she blames on the fact that he had a hard-on.
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Blames Kevin for her own mistake and tells him that Vic will be mad at both of them if he finds out, in order to keep Kevin from revealing what she did.]]
* MrsRobinson : She had sex with [[spoiler:14-year-old Kevin]].
* MsFanservice: Is shown naked a lot.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Regrets cheating on Vic with 14-year-old Kevin. She even looks legitimately horrified that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy, thinking he was just short rather than underage.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never do find out her real name. Even her birthday banner simply reads "Cutie Pie". It's implied Vic doesn't even know her real name.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She high-tails it with the rest of the party guests once Vic starts shooting up his house and wisely does not go back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Vic is dismayed after finding out that she slept with [[ReallyGetsAround dozens of other people]].
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[[folder:Otto Holtenwasser]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), Pablo Sosa (Latin American Spanish)
A kindly old German-Jewish man who lives in the neighborhood. Despite his cheerfully pleasant personality, he has a very sadly traumatic past.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Subverted for laughs. The neighborhood kids are initially terrified of him, because they think he's a Nazi war criminal. In reality, he's actually a Jewish Holocaust survivor, as evidenced by the number tattooed on his arm and a Star of David necklace. However the kids believe the tattoo is actually the number of people he's killed, and they confuse the Star of David for a pentagram and start believing he's a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist]].
* BlackComedyRape: Ginny takes advantage of him when he's drunk.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII refugee whose whole family was murdered during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. Despite this, he's an awfully cheerful and optimistic person in the present day.
* TheEeyore: A small subplot in Season 3 is him realizing just how depressing he can be to hang around, and trying to ease up on discussing his past traumas.
* FriendToAllChildren: Even if the kids don't seem to return the sentiment. Though, luckily, he doesn't seem to notice their fear of him. But he does seem to [[BewareTheNiceOnes hate Jimmy]] though for being a neighborhood menace and vandalizing his house. When Jimmy hurts himself trying to explode his mailbox with a firecracker, he yells to him: "Serves you right you little [[ForeignCussWord scheiße]]!"
* GratuitousGerman: He sometimes drops a few German words in his speech, if you couldn't already tell his nationality by his strong accent.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: He proudly cheers for America while waiving a flag during the July 4th block party.
* TheLostLenore: After the war, he got married to an American nurse named Mary. It's implied that she's dead.
* NiceGuy: A very kind neighbor indeed.
* ThePollyanna: He's rather oddly optimistic for someone who survived war and genocide.
* SilverFox: Is called this by Ginny Throater when she becomes sexually attracted to him.
* StepfordSmiler: Another interpretation of his personality is that he's just trying really hard to cover up his wartime traumas. Season 3 implies this a bit more strongly.
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[[folder:Ginny and Greg Throater]]
->'''Ginny voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Claudia Contreras (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Greg voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish)
A married couple acquainted with Sue and Frank. Ginny constantly talks about her dysfunctional marriage, and is oblivious to the reason why: her husband Greg is secretly gay.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: In Season 3, Ginny winds up having a sexual relationship with [[spoiler:Otto Holtenwasser]] of all men. He only indulges her (very) reluctantly.
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Greg seems to have had numerous partners.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Greg sneaks out to have sex with men, and he hides the truth until eventually coming out during a marital therapy session.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Neither of the Murphys seem to actually like Ginny.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ginny calls Sue selfish when Sue finally blows up at her, despite the fact she spent hours talking about herself. She also immediately shuts it down when Sue tries to talk about her own problems, which Sue was too polite to do to her.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In "Pray Away", Greg decides to come out to Ginny (and everyone else in the room) after he realized how unfair to Ginny and his two sons it is to be leading a double life, saying that Ginny deserved better.
* IncompatibleOrientation: It's strongly implied that Ginny and her husband are having sexual difficulties because he's secretly gay. Confirmed in Season 2 to be true.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ginny spends her debut episode talking about her troubled marriage. When her husband begs for a divorce due to their IncompatibleOrientation, she refuses to listen.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Greg was so desperate that he had sex with a man in a department store changing room!
* PhraseCatcher: Almost every time Ginny shows up, one of the Murphys (and sometimes other characters) give an exasperated "Oh, fuck me". Ironically, Ginny herself also says these words after talking to Sue once during Season 3.
* StepfordSmiler: It's eventually revealed that Ginny wasn't just cheerfully oblivious to Greg being gay, but instead ''very'' deep in denial about it, even telling him "No, you're not!" to his face when he tries comes out to her and beg for a divorce.
* YourCheatingHeart: Greg would frequently sneak out to have sex with men. This was a constant source of anxiety and remorse for him, as he did like and care about Ginny despite lacking any sexual attraction to her.
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[[folder:Goomer and Evelyn]]
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->'''Goomer voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), David Camarillo (Spanish, Season 1) and Erick Selim (Spanish, Season 2)
->'''Evelyn voiced by:''' Eileen Fogarty
Goomer is one of Frank's friends who lives on the same street, and is a weirdo who spies on all of his neighbors. He lives with his wife Evelyn.
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* BlatantLies: Goomer lies to Evelyn when she catches him wearing Frank's clothes, claiming that they originally belonged to ''him'', and that ''Frank'' was the one who stole them (keep in mind they barely fit Goomer). Though Evelyn is gullible enough to fall for it.
* CaptainObvious: Goomer likes to show up to state what one of the Murphys is feeling at the moment.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Aside from being a PeepingTom, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Goomer likes to]] [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} smell the scent of his dog's feces]]. Also once when he broke into Frank's house, he stole Frank's clothes ''and pretended to be him''.
* {{Expy}}: Goomer is basically a less pathetic, but creepier [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Bill Dauterive]]. His voice also sounds rather similar to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin's]].
* FatAndSkinny: Goomer is rather obese, while Evelyn is rail-thin (if not underweight).
* FlatCharacter: There doesn't seem to be much more to Goomer other than him being Frank's neighbor and a creep.
* KarmaHoudini: Goomer lies to Evelyn about his actions while looking after the Murphy family's house and gets away scot-free.
* PeepingTom: Goomer has a creepy habit of spying on other people, allowing him to learn too much info on them. If you look closely at Frank's hidden stash behind the refrigerator, you can also see an IOU note from Goomer, indicating that he's broken into the Murphy house before. There's even a newspaper article about his spying habits.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Goomer peeps on all of his neighbors but he seems mostly interested in Frank. Not because he's attracted to Frank, but because he wants to ''be'' Frank.
* TragicStillbirth: Goomer and Evelyn are childless, because during the only time he got her pregnant, it ended in a miscarriage. Goomer still lies to other people that his wife just had food poisoning to spare her feelings.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. Goomer is a partially bald and obese man; and although Evelyn is a rather plain-looking and stick-thin woman, she doesn't look quite as ugly or unkempt as her husband.
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[[folder:Ben and Kenny]]
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->'''Ben voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), José Antonio Toledano (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Kenny voiced by:''' Creator/DebiDerryberry (English), Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish)
A couple of redneck brothers who are friends of Bill and Maureen. They live in extreme poverty.
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* BlindingBangs: Ben.
* DeepSouth: Both of them have this accent.
* ChekhovsGun: The guitar Ben steals from the music store Phineas crashed into really comes in handy to him later in the season.
* CheerfulChild: They're perpetually happy, despite apparently being homeless.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Both of them are pretty weird and absent-minded kids, but especially Kenny.
* DemotedToExtra: Ben has a somewhat important role in Season 3, but they both have a lot less screentime in Seasons 2 and 3 than they did in Season 1. Kenny seems to get this the most, having his role reduced even further [[PutOnABus half-way throughout the season]] [[spoiler:after getting his hand blown up at the fourth of July party]]. From there, he has even less to do, just briefly showing up in some crowd shots.
* TheDitz: Both of them are dumber than rocks, and encourage Bill and Maureen to [[TooDumbToLive play stupid, dangerous games with them]].
* DumbBlonde: Both of them are male examples of this.
* HiddenDepths: As revealed in Season 3, Ben can absolutely ''shred'' on the guitar.
* InnocentInaccurate: They frequently allude to an absolutely horrifying domestic life, without really understanding what they're describing. They heavily imply that their parents are lousy people; their mom is a heroin addict, while their dad is a UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan member who once [[DirtyCoward fled to Mexico to evade arrest for a hit-and-run killing]].
* LowerClassLout: They're stereotypical members of a white trailer trash family.
* NiceHat: Ben usually wears a green beanie, while Kenny always wears a green cap.
* OutOfFocus: They go from being regular characters in Season 1 to characters who only make cameos 1-2 times per episode in Seasons 2 and 3.
* ParentalNeglect: They frequently mention their parents, but they're implied to be deadbeats who don't really seem to care much about [[FreeRangeChildren what their sons are up to]].
* TooDumbToLive: They frequently do risky activities without any concern for their own safety.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: They aren't actively malicious, but they still encourage Bill and Maureen to do some pretty dumb things.
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[[folder:Craig (Lex) and Lawrence (Bolo)]]
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->'''Lex voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Bolo voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall (English), Alan Prieto (Latin American Spanish)
Kevin's fellow stoner friends, with whom he forms an amateur rock band.
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* AllMenArePerverts: They're a couple of {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}s who are convinced that playing in a rock band will get them laid by girls. They even admit to just wanting to sing about dicks and sex.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Bolo is as interested in dicks as he is with girls. Lex and Kevin call him out on this occasionally. Possibly confirmed in Season 3 where he frustratingly tells Lex "I just like dicks, alright?"
-->'''Kevin:''' I'm the soul of this band!\\
'''Bolo:''' Well we're the dick and balls!\\
'''Kevin:''' Stop talking about dicks!\\
'''Bolo:''' I ''can't!''
* AlcoholicParent: When the boys are in Bolo's basement, you can see a box on the shelf labeled "Mom's Stuff", filled with nothing but liquor bottles.
* CelebCrush: Bolo has one for the former First Lady [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Jackie Kennedy]].
* CasanovaWannabe: They both see themselves as absolute lady killers for some reason, despite the fact that no girl has ever been interested in either of them.
-->'''Lex:''' "I think I hear the sound of a thousand panties dropping."
* CoolCar: Bolo's moms car he uses to drive his friends around.
* {{Delinquent}}: Bolo's name is graffiti'd on the bowling ally bathroom.
* DitzyGenius: Bolo gives Kevin the final answer on his history homework because he likes to read the presidential trivia off the "Whitehouse Beer" labels.
* DumbAndDrummer: Bolo is a drummer and a total ditz.
* FatAndSkinny: Bolo is a bit chubby, while Lex looks like he's of normal weight.
* FreudianSlip: Bolo has these sometimes. Usually in reference to dicks.
* ParentalNeglect: Bolo's mother doesn't pay much attention to him, and doesn't even know how old he is.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Bolo claims to have had a summer relationship with a girl at the lake, who happened to have died of Polio. (Which is a gateway disease to Lukemia.)
* InSeriesNickname: Their real names are Craig and Lawrence. They also tend to call Kevin "Murph".
* JewishAndNerdy: Lex.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Though, Bolo would have his friends believe otherwise (not that they buy it).
* StonersAreFunny: They often smoke weed with Kevin and Claire.
* SmallNameBigEgo: They consider themselves to be musical geniuses.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're rarely (if ever) seen apart.
* TotallyRadical: Lex. "It's like so rad to the max!"
* WithFriendsLikeThese: They had no problem abandoning Kevin to the mercy of the cops. They also make fun of Kevin when he has a regressive panic attack.
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[[folder:Claire]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Dafne Gallardo (Latin American Spanish)
Another friend of Kevin, and his (brief) girlfriend.
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* GirlNextDoor
* {{Ladette}}
* NoSympathy: Like Lex and Bolo, she teases Kevin for having a panic attack, and not in a friendly way, either.
* OneOfTheBoys
* OutOfFocus: Her role greatly diminishes after the second season.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Pink girl to Kevin's blue boy.
* ReallyGetsAround: Frank thinks she's "loose" and warns Kevin not to get her pregnant, though, in reality, she's quite reluctant to do anything beyond kissing.
* RedheadInGreen: She's a redhead who wears a green army jacket.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple
* SouthernBelle: Like some of the other Murphy's neighbors, she has a Southern accent.
* TheStoner
* SixthRanger: For Kevin's friend group.
* {{Tomboy}}
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!!Bonfiglio Family
[[folder:Babe and Marie Bonfiglio]]
->'''Babe voiced by:''' Kevin Farley (English), Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Marie voiced by:''' Jamie Denbo
Philip's parents. Babe is his father and another friend of Frank's. Marie is his overprotective mother.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Even though he's married and has two sons, Babe talks highly of Vic and constantly makes remarks about how attractive he is.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Babe has dark black hair and very tanned skin, but is still considered white. His son Phillip, however, has lighter skin and brown hair. It's later confirmed that Babe is of Italian (specifically Sicilian) descent, while his wife isn't (Philip certainly got his fair skin from her).
* BrokenPedestal: Babe appears to be over Vic at the end of the third season after he almost died in a helicopter crash piloted by a coked-out Vic. He assures Marie that he will "stop thinking about Vic in the bedroom."
* FatAndSkinny: Babe is short and thin, while Marie is very obese.
* MotorMouth: Babe can talk a lot, but was surprisingly named as "[[IronicNickname Most Quiet]]" in high school.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Babe has the same face shape, skin tone, and buck teeth as his mother.
* VocalDissonance: Babe's voice is pretty high-pitched and squeaky for a man.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:"Nana" Rose Bonfiglio]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins
Philip's grandmother who also lives at home with the family. She is of Italian (Sicilian) origin.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: She's very rude and verbally abusive to her daughter-in-law, Marie.
* PottyFailure: Wets herself when she gets too excited. According to Phillip, it often happens when she watches ''Dialing for Dollars''. Their living room furniture is wrapped in plastic for this reason.
* RacistGrandma: She's an Italian fascist who admires UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. She especially hates Jews, frequently complaining about the "Heebs" (Hebrews) in Hollywood. She also expresses her disgust towards the "Gypsies" ({{UsefulNotes/Romani}}) and the "Pollocks" (Polish).
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has the same face shape, skin tone, and buck teeth as her son, Babe.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phillip Bonfiglio]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DebiDerryberry (English), Creator/MarianaOrtiz (Latin American Spanish)
Bill's best friend, who is also a very wimpy, pathetic geek.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: If the throwaway line of "I don't remember doing any of this" when [[spoiler:Maureen finds his creepy shrine to Hobo Jojo]] is any indication, along with his NightmareFuelColoringBook and suppressed violent tendencies, it can indicate schizophrenia; as he may not really have a conscious clue of what he's doing.
* BestFriend: Of Bill.
* ButtMonkey: Much like his friend, he gets picked on by the local bully Jimmy.
* CreepyChild: He seems like a nice boy most of the time, but he keeps a journal filled with drawings of people who annoy him getting killed in brutal ways.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: He's been mistaken for a "fat little girl" at least twice.
* ExtremeDoormat: He's even ''[[UpToEleven more]]'' cowardly and spineless than Bill. It's implied that most of this is due to having an overprotective mother.
* HehHehYouSaidX: Giggles at the word "doobie", which he incorrectly thinks is a euphemism for sex. (It's slang for a marijuana joint.)
* LiteralMinded: His response to Jimmy making a crude joke about how he's gonna "fuck [Phillip's] mom" was; "My mom wouldn't do that..."
* NerdyInhaler
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: His "Kill Book".
* TranquilFury: When Bill starts spending more time with Bridget than with Phil, he gives a clenched smile and ''rips out an eyebrow''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anthony Bonfiglio]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I found a worm and I ripped him in half and I made two worms and y'know what?"]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Al Ducharme
Phillip's younger brother, who is not quite right in the head.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It's strongly implied that he has some sort of developmental disability, but what he has in particular is never elaborated on.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: His hyperactivity and weirdness is a partial contributor to Phillip's gradual SanitySlippage.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Bill goes missing, Anthony tells Frank he saw where he went. Anthony then proceeds to tell Frank the most pointless details he can, which predictably causes Frank to explode at the child.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Y'KNOW WHAT? Y'KNOW WHAT?"
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: Implied to be the cause of his weird behavior, when Phillip angrily says he wishes he'd pressed ''harder'' on Anthony's fontanel when he was a baby.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: There's no telling what exactly goes on in his strange mind. He talks and rambles incoherently, eats random things he finds on the ground, and also starts humping a TV stand for no apparent reason.
* MotorMouth: He ''never'' shuts up.
* NerdGlasses: He wears a massive pair of these.
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!!Fitzsimmons Family
[[folder:Mr. Fitzsimmons]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Joe Buck
Jimmy's and Bridget's single father. He works as a janitor at the elementary school.
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* AbusiveDad: He frequently beats Jimmy to discipline him for his misbehavior, and doesn't seem to be much nicer to Bridget either.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his rudeness and abuse, he will not tolerate Jimmy shoplifting or hitting girls. Though technically Jimmy was [[FrameUp framed by Bill for the shoplifting]], and the [[DudeLooksLikeALady "girl" in question was actually Phillip]], but Mr. Fitzsimmons [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't know about either of these facts]].
* FieryRedhead: Much like both his son and daughter, he has orange hair and is very short-tempered.
* {{Jerkass}}: Who do you think Jimmy learned to be an asshole from?
* KickTheDog:
** Sprays Phillip with a cleaning product when he cheers Bill on during his fight with his son.
** Gets the whole student body to call Bill a pussy and joins in with their jeering as he's taken away to the principal's office.
* LowerClassLout: He's a blue-collar menial laborer, and very unpleasant.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He's first seen working as a janitor at the elementary school in Season 1, but is seen cleaning the public swimming pool in Season 3. Justified because it was summer and school was out.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When he sees a black character on a TV show, he expresses a desire to have him sprayed with a fire hose, much like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor Bull Connor]] would've done.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He never gives Bridget any beatings, and once scolded Jimmy for hitting Phillip ([[ItMakesSenseInContext whom Mr. Fitzsimmons]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistook for a girl]]).
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[[folder:James "Jimmy" Fitzsimmons]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Mo Collins (English), Bruno Coronel (Latin American Spanish)
A local bully who harasses Bill and Phillip.
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* BringMyBrownPants: He pees his pants out of fear upon seeing Kevin in the first episode.
* TheBully: The classic schoolyard bully, who likes beating the crap out of weaker kids.
* ButtMonkey: He has his moments. Just to name a few moments: he's beaten up by Kevin; gets his clubhouse blown up; framed for a crime he didn't do; sent to Catholic military school, where he's harshly disciplined; and he's run over by Randy.
* CatchPhrase: When he's frightened or beaten, he runs off muttering "Oh man! Oh man! Oh man! Oh man!" over and over.
* CoDragons: He has two, though they turn out to be pretty useless, as they run away leaving Jimmy to be beaten up by Kevin.
* DirtyCoward: Bullies the younger Bill regularly, but pisses his pants and runs away crying when faced with Kevin.
* TheDreaded: Until he met Kevin Murphy, who's presence caused him to piss himself.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His father calls him "Jimmy James Fitzsimmons", implying his first name is Jimmy and his middle name is James....
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even a delinquent like him knows that his psycho sister is a total basket case.
* EvilCripple: Jimmy reveals that he's half-blind (due to his sister poisoning his insulin pills, he lost sight in one of his eyes).
* FieryRedhead: He's certainly rather hotheaded and aggressive.
* FrameUp: In Season 2, Bill pins his own theft of a hockey stick on Jimmy Fitzsimmons, resulting in Jimmy's angry dad sending his son to a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic military school]]. This only [[FromBadToWorse worsens]] the preexisting conflict between Bill and Jimmy.
* GreaserDelinquents: Has the jacket and the pompadour, despite the Greaser trend being about 20 years out of date by the show's current time setting.
* HateSink: He pretty much exists just to make Bill's life miserable. This gradually wears off over Seasons 2 and 3, as Jimmy starts to develop a few sympathetic qualities.
* HiddenDepths: Despite being a typical jerkass bully, Jimmy does have a sensitive side evidenced by his room filled with stuffed animals. He's also really good at shop class and enjoys building birdhouses and marionettes.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Constantly calls Bill a pussy but is a cowardly wimp himself whenever someone bigger than him (like Kevin or Sue) takes him on.
* {{Jerkass}}: Needless to say.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most of the time he's just an asshole, but he was legitimately worried for Bill's safety when his sister started dating him.
* MissingMom: His mother is revealed to be dead.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Tries and keeps any boy from dating his sister. Though in a spin on the usual situation, he's protecting ''them'' from ''her''.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He shares the first name with the news anchor and Hobo Jojo actor James "Jim" Jeffords.
* PetTheDog: He tells Bill to stay away from his sister, but only because his sister is a massive {{Yandere}}. When Bill asks why he cares, Jimmy reveals that he now sees Bill as a friend. He also gets Bridget to reveal where Bill is when the Murphys confront them at their house as well.
* PottyFailure: Pissed himself in fear of Kevin's presence.
* RunningGag: Bill uses his name whenever he's caught with his hand in the cookie jar so that Jimmy will cop any punishment. It gets to the point where even [[spoiler: Chet]] uses his name when ratting out his neighbors.
* TheScapegoat: A RunningGag involves characters saying that they're Jimmy Fitzsimmons so that he'll be the one to take their fall for something they did.
* TroubledAbuser: Jimmy's dad beats him.
* VillainsOutShopping: In "Bill Murphy's Day Off" he's seen casually enjoying shop class without being a dick to anyone and is later shown making his own wooden puppet. This was also before he considered Bill a friend.
* VitriolicBestBuds: It's eventually revealed that he sees Bill as his best friend despite all the crap he puts him through.
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[[folder:Bridget Fitzsimmons]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DebiDerryberry
The younger sister of Jimmy, whom Bill develops a romantic crush on. She turns out to be just as foulmouthed as her brother, and possibly even crazier.
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* AxCrazy: She has quite an explosive temper, and holds a well-deserved reputation as a "psycho".
* BigBadEnsemble: With Chet Stevenson for Season 3.
* CreepyChild / EnfanteTerrible: Enough so, that her own big brother is ''afraid of her''. For context; Jimmy is fucked up because his father beats him. Bridget is evil straight out the gate.
-->'''Jimmy''': She scares me, Dad. She scares me right proper.
* DirtyCoward: When the train for Pittsburgh is about to leave the station, she chickens out at the last second and leaves Bill to fend for himself, all while stealing his bike.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She once put nail polish in Jimmy's insulin, permanently blinding him in one eye. Whatever Jimmy did, even with his current track record, it couldn't possibly have warranted that.
* TheDreaded: Both Jimmy and their dad are terrified of her.
* EvilerThanThou: Proves to be far more vicious and horrible than Jimmy could ever be.
* EvilRedhead: Has red-hair and is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] EnfanteTerrible.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She looks like an adorable little girl, but is really a sewer-mouthed, borderline-psychopathic nutjob.
* FieryRedhead: She's red-haired and quick-tempered, but legitimately dangerous.
* HateSink: Enough to make ''Jimmy'' of all people look like a sympathetic Woobie by comparison!
* {{Jerkass}}: [[UpToEleven Even more so than her brother]].
* KarmaHoudini: So far, she hasn't received any punishment for her actions.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Insulted and scared off Jeffrey when the latter called Bill a fairy.
* LackOfEmpathy: A photo from a newspaper article of a serious car crash (involving an ice cream truck that flipped over), shows Bridget pointing at and ''laughing'' at the bloody, wounded driver lying down in pain, while the other nearby kids looked horrified.
* MissingMom: She mentions that her mother is deceased.
* {{Sadist}}: She seems to derive great pleasure at other people's suffering wether it would be abusing Bill or laughing at an ice cream truck diver suffering a car crash.
* SirSwearsALot: She puts Frank to shame with how much profanity comes out of her mouth.
* TheSociopath: Bridget displays multiple signs of being one. She's extremely [[HairTriggerTemper irritable]], [[AxCrazy violent]], [[LackOfEmpathy unsympathetic to the feelings of other people]], and impulsive to the point of doing stupid things just for the thrill of it. Even though she seems to like Bill at first, her "affection" for him is very shallow, and when he tries to leave her, she uses threats of violence and emotional manipulation to force him back in line. And at the very end, she herself leaves Bill without a hint of remorse.
* {{Yandere}}: She's utterly ''furious'' at Bill when he tries to dump her, and does whatever she can to coerce him to stay with her (mostly via threats and manipulation). Though this has less to do with craving Bill's company, and more to do with her feeling offended that he tried to defy her.
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!!Stevenson Family
[[folder:Chet Stevenson]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VinceVaughn
Chet is a US Air Force officer and returning UsefulNotes/VietnamWar veteran who moves into the neighborhood in Season 3. Frank quickly bonds with Chet, though there turns out to be a much darker side to his new friend.
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* AcePilot: He's a highly decorated Air Force bomber pilot who saw plenty of action in Vietnam.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Despite his assholishness and downright malice, Chet's reward is to die alone, after being poisoned by the woman he tried to love. Even Frank, who is livid when he comes to visit him in the hospital, quiets down after seeing his ill state on his death bed.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:After the way he mistreats his wife, it's hard to feel sorry for him when she snaps and poisons him with drain cleaner.]]
* BaitTheDog: He agrees to help out Frank and Sue with building an extra room in their house for their new baby, [[spoiler:but he soon reports an anonymous tip to the authorities (it was constructed without any legal permits), just to get back at the Murphys for the July 4th debacle]].
* BigBadEnsemble: With Bridget Fitzsimmons for Season 3.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He seems like the nicest, coolest guy when hanging out with Frank and the other neighbors, but is actually a passive-aggressive {{jerkass}} who quickly turns against his own family and friends when he thinks they're not respecting him well enough.
* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:He is extremely controlling and dominating towards his wife, and is implied to get violent when she doesn't obey or respect him.]]
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:When Frank goes to visit him in the Hospital after being poisoned, Chet realizes he is fully alone and won't make it through the night. When Frank is leaving, Chet makes a joke at his expense, which seems to cement this on the stone.]]
* EvilCounterpart:
** Chet is essentially the anti-Frank. While Frank is an out-of-shape lout who communicates 99% of the time through screaming, he genuinely loves his family. Chet is a handsome, even-tempered guy, [[spoiler:who treats his wife like a slave and is implied to run around on her]].
** He also serves as one to Vic, as both are new to the neighborhood (Vic in Season 1 and Chet in Season 3), and both come off as friendly to Frank and the others around them. Vic is a genuinely good person, while Chet is most certainly not.
* {{Foil}}: Chet Stevenson serves as an adult, [[SpearCounterpart male]] equivalent to Bridget Fitzsimmons, which is fitting since they're the BigBadEnsemble of Season 3. Both characters bond and hang out with one of the Murphys; Chet forms a (very bromantic) friendship with Frank, while Bridget starts dating Bill as a couple of lovers. Both Frank and Bill respectively believe that Chet and Bridget are wonderful people at first, but it soon becomes apparent that their new friends are far more unpleasant than they think. Though Chet is more of a FauxAffablyEvil BitchInSheepsClothing who successfully pretends to be a NiceGuy until the facade slowly cracks, while Bridget is far more of an ObviouslyEvil {{Jerkass}} by comparison (due to her sharp tongue and rude demeanor, similar to both her brother and father). However, Frank and Bill are both [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter deep in denial about what's wrong with their respective buddies]] until it's too late. The eventual termination of the relationships between Frank and Chet / Bill and Bridget are both very ugly and messy though.
* FreudianExcuse: During his last conversation with Frank [[spoiler:while hospitalized from the poison his wife fed him]], Chet claims he had a lousy childhood with an AbusiveDad who once cruelly [[spoiler:[[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals drowned a puppy]] that he had given to his son ''[[HarmfulToMinors as a 6th birthday present]]'']]. He eventually joined the Air Force to leave his crappy home life behind, [[WarIsHell but Vietnam certainly didn't]] [[ShellShockedVeteran improve his broken psyche]].
* HateSink: While he seems to be a likable guy at first, he becomes much more despicable once his true nature starts to surface, [[spoiler:as he plays cruel mind games on Nguyen-Nguyen, Sue, and Frank alike]].
* MeaningfulName: Chet mentions to Frank that Nguyen-Nguyen says his name in her sleep. [[BilingualBonus "Chết" is also "die" in Vietnamese]], and Chet has seen and caused a lot of death as a soldier.
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Deconstructed. Chet, a white American serviceman, married a poor Vietnamese woman not long after being (partially) responsible for killing her family. Nguyen-Nguyen is indeed rather docile and submissive, to the point of being an ExtremeDoormat who reluctantly follows every arbitrary whim her husband forces upon her. [[spoiler:Though after putting up with Chet's DomesticAbuse for too long, Nguyen-Nguyen retaliates in a very passive-aggressive manner.]]
* PatrioticFervor: Much like Frank, he's a very proud American veteran, and looks down upon anti-war pacifists.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:While talking to Frank one last time on his death bed, Chet tells him he truly does think he was a hero, that he has it all and not to mess it up like he did.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Although he tries hiding it under a very gung-ho and patriotic exterior, it's clear that his time during the Vietnam War messed him up quite a bit.
* YourCheatingHeart: He goes behind his wife's back to screw with other women in his jet's cockpit.
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[[folder:Nguyen-Nguyen Stevenson]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Eileen Fogarty
Chet Stevenson's Vietnamese wife.
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* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Justified due to being a recent immigrant, and she was a poor peasant in Vietnam. Though her English does gradually improve throughout Season 3. She speaks more [[YouNoTakeCandle broken English]] in the first episode, but is soon speaking close to complete sentences by the season finale.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:She eventually [[TheDogBitesBack snaps from all the abuse]] her husband put her through, by poisoning his food with drain cleaner.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She lost family and friends during the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar, which she recalls while Sue is complaining about her own FirstWorldProblems, making Sue crash down realizing this.
* FunnyForeigner: Her English isn't very good, though she's learning from all the American TV shows that she watches enthusiastically.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She loves living in the United States and immersing herself in American culture.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:She says she is changing Chet from the inside when Sue tells her that she needs to beware of Chet. She later repeats this to reveal the real meaning: she had been poisoning Chet by adding little by little drain bleach in his food.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:She has described herself as "a survivor" a few times, especially when Sue tells her she is a victim of abuse. She however repeats to Sue "I'm a survivor" one last time, when they find out that she was poisoning her abusive husband.]]
* NiceGirl: She's pretty much the only woman in the neighborhood who's genuinely friendly with Sue. While the other housewives only hang out with her out of convenience and barely tolerate her hang-ups, Nguyen-Nguyen doesn't seem to find any fault in Sue.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:When she's arrested by the police for poisoning Chet, she tells them she can't speak/read English well and therefore didn't know she was putting chemicals in his meals. However, her private exchange with Sue confirms she knew exactly what she was doing.]]
* StepfordSmiler: She's always acting very sweet and friendly, [[spoiler:which only makes it more sad to see how her husband abuses her both physically and emotionally]].
* WartimeWedding: She met Chet after a fierce battle that took place in her village, which was bombed by American forces to eliminate the local Viet Cong guerrillas.
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