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Dave

Voiced by: Adam de la Peña

One of the star programmers of Game-A-Vision. Close friend and co-worker of Jerry, and favorite employee of Larrity.


  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Dave gets bored very easily.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Dave barely tries at his job and he's recognized worldwide for his programming abilities. Imagine if he cared enough to actually put effort into his job.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He WILL betray you if he has something to gain from it and thinks he can get away with it. Mary suffers this in Season 2 more than anyone, though Jerry comes close second.
    Dave: All right, let that be a lesson to you all: Never trust me, ever!
  • Companion Cube: Wrath of Bong (aka the Dagobong), Dave's massive bong.
  • Continuity Snarl: He once said his dad was apparently killed in the Vietnam War (said to a Vietnamese masseuse/bride Todd had bought via mail); he then later called his mom for weed on 420, and his dad is alive, but offscreen (though we can hear his voice). It could be possible that he lied though. See below for another similar snarl.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He usually derides his co-workers and almost everyone and everything around him with much ease.
  • Jerkass: Dave freely admits he is a major one, he just doesn't care much.
    • Moreover, you can just tell that Dave has no other friends apart from Jerry. Strangely enough, neither does Jerry, but it could be somewhat justified since their relationship is one of the few on the show that isn't at best Vitriolic Best Buds.
  • Did Not Think This Through: In "Stonervision", he and Jerry left Game-A-Vision and started his own company with their first game, but he never thought that getting a loan from a drug lord was a terrible idea, or splurging on meaningless stuff before the game went to market, or expecting his boss to sabotage his plan. It landed him and Jerry into serious debt and it took a sting operation from the FBI to take care of it.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Comes up with crazy ideas to get away with crazy shenanigans, especially when he's stoned.
    • He once paid for breast implants so he can relish in them for free instead of frequenting to a strip club, and exploit them in ways that would otherwise belittle the likes of Clare and Mary. While he loses them in the end, he technically dates the buxom Dolly Parton who sympathies his motives.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Once in a while, he will perform a good deed here and there.
  • Karma Houdini: Gets in trouble a lot, but is lucky enough to get away with it without consequence. Usually. See below.
    • "Leveled" up in season 2 where Jerry or, to a greater extent, Mary, suffers the consequences for his mischief.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: Frequently flirts, hits on, or harasses woman in and out of work for sex. Success varies.
    • He also goes to the local strip club more than anyone else.
  • Manipulative Bastard: His most grievous offense is when he gets completely trashed at an office party, blames Jerry for his wrongdoings, and cons him out of his two-week paid vacation to Hawaii.
    • However, he gets his comeuppance at the end when he gets drugged, kidnapped and likely raped by the KITT Expy.
  • Naked People Are Funny: Is often shown with his pants down.
  • Noble Bigot: Frequently uses "gay" as an insult and makes fun of anyone who is even remotely gay or queer, including his friend Jerry, who shows some signs of queerness at times. Clarence seems to be the exception to this, being an actual gay man, though it's sometimes to use to his advantage. Overall, however, he never attacks anyone falling into that category.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "IPO", he planned to borrow from the company's stock like everyone else and buy porn-related products. He decides, instead, to short his stock before the value dropped. Mary and others are surprised he did something not completely reckless.
  • Opportunistic Bastard: Is quick to take credit for other people's achievements, and is equally quick to pin the blame for his own misdeeds on someone else, usually Mary.
  • The Sociopath/Sociopathic Hero: Downplayed for his general behavior and unlike Mr. Larrity or Clare is basically The Hedonist. While most of the time his behavior is annoying it's relatively harmless. However there were times he left his supposedly best friend Jerry to a horrible fate without batting and eye or even concern later after Jerry somehow manages to get out the situation he was in. He almost never doesn't anything for altruistic or moral reason and will backstab anyone if he feels he can get something out of it.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Considers himself one of the best programmers, though some luck and skill do allow him to back it up at times.
  • The Stoner: A standout case when we later find out most of the cast are stoners. One of his popular titles is called "Wrath of Bong", and modded his computer as a bong hybrid.

Jerry

Voiced by: Matt Mariska

One of the star programmers of Game-A-Vision. Close friend and co-worker of Dave, and second favorite employee of Larrity.


  • Ambiguously Gay/Ambiguously Bi: His hero-worship of various gaming icons has been called out on reaching homoerotic creepiness levels, and his infatuation with Mary has crossed into Sweet on Polly Oliver. However, he has had hetero-sex several times.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: When he's pushed too far, Jerry is not one to be taken lightly. He had snapped and beat up Dave for his antics on more than one occasion.
  • Bring My Brown Pants: Jerry wets himself whenever he's really excited, nervous, or scared. Usually happens when his life is threatened.
  • Butt-Monkey: Whether he or Todd has it worse depends on the episode.
  • Death Is Cheap: Jerry "dies" Mega Man-style on two occasions, but is revived.
  • Decoy Protagonist: At first, he seems like main character potential. He's somewhat more sane and well liked by the rest of the cast, compared to Dave. However, more A-plots and interactions revolve around Dave.
  • Extreme Doormat: Stands up for Dave frequently and tries to be friends with everyone, but is overly gullible/naive and sensitive to the point of crying.
  • Loony Fan: Gets really excited for celebrates or directors like Steven Spielberg, or inspiring programmers like Howard Scott Warshaw. For the latter, it got to the point of Jerry becoming a creepy stalker, forcing Warshaw and his family to move away.
  • No-Respect Guy: Can subvert when he and Jerry work together.
  • Only Sane Man: He's the only one in that company besides Mary who cares more about his job than whatever goofy events are happening around him. And unlike Dave, he takes things more seriously.

Bob "Big T" Larrity

Voiced by: Andy Sipes

The Owner and CEO of Game-A-Vision after Steve Wozniak sold the company to him. Cares more about making money than games, especially since he knows very little about the concept. Owns a novelty company after the death of one of his previous wives.


  • Abusive Parent: While he cares about Dean a bit, he frequently spites him for his stupidity. More neglectful than abusive to Benny, but treats him much better despite confining him in small spaces or cages.
  • Bad Boss: He doesn't care much for Game-A-Vision unless it makes money, frequently shutting down game ideas from visiting programmers that can put it on the map. Less caring to the workers, especially with Mary and Clare.
    • He returned to his old novelties company after closing Game-A-Vision due to the game crash. He eventually destroyed it because he was expected to change his attitude.
  • The Bluebeard: A particularly psychotic example. Married eight times, with all his spouses meeting "mysterious" deaths like being thrown down a well. Some of them he's had stuffed.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Expect "?????" to pop up on the bottom of the screen whenever Larrity starts rambling. He also nearly sabotaged his own mission to rescue Benny all for the sake of "Always keep 'em guessin'."
  • Cool Car: Drives "Big Red", a Cadillac convertible with giant bullhorns on the hood, an Ejector Seat, and a smokescreen.
  • Cool Old Guy: Has his moments that earn some respect from his employees.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: He cares about money more than products he's in charge of, and will go through insane, barely legal (or very illegal) lengths to get more at Game-A-Vision's expense (and the employees' dignity).
  • Crazy-Prepared: Wearing a bulletproof vest is one thing, but how many people bulletproof the glass to a vending machine? Also he keeps a Hitler Clone in the break room freezer as "insurance".
  • Deep South: Among other things, he wears a ten-gallon hat.
  • Dirty Old Man: Harasses woman, a lot.
  • Eagleland: A very straight Type 2.
  • Executive Meddling: In-Universe. His business decisions are usually only made by what interests or is most profitable to him. How does the company turn any kind of profit with Mr. Larrity's business-making decisions? By him having rare moments of epic success.
  • Gambit Roulette: Larrity creates a series of overly ridiculous plans that make no sense whatsoever, like in "E.T". Scary thing is, they always work.
  • Gold Digger: How he started his personal fortune.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bad as he is, Larrity does have his moments. He will praise his employees when he feels they've done a good job, and he usually thinks of Benny like a son.
  • Laughably Evil: Let's be honest, Larrity is a terrible, terrible human being, but his antics are so over-the-top that they loop back around to being hilarious.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: More "lovable" in the sense that he's hilariously inept at courting women than heroic. Like Dave, he hits on or harasses younger women.
  • Metaphorgotten: Expect him to go on a really weird tangent whenever he tries to make a comparison.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: He may be insane, but he's not a moron. He knows nothing about video games, but he knows how to make profit. In "E.T.", he changed the company label on the E.T. games because that's how bad it was, shifting the blame to Bellecovision.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Larrity Got Back", returning from "butthole cancer" surgery had him becoming unusually nice to everyone. He becomes so horrified that he had to get an "ass transplant" to fix this.
    • After the ass transplant goes south later in the episode, he briefly enters Sincerity Mode, telling Dean "Tough men do perish, Dean...tough men do perish."
  • Papa Wolf: He at least cares about Benny, enough to travel to Japan when he's abducted by Protendo.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain/Hero: Plays straight as an old-fashioned, all-American Eaglelander, but zigzags all over the place depending on the plot.
    • Doesn't take to kindly to gay/queer people. Hates the Camp Gay Clarence, or at least doesn't care for him. But not enough to fire or attack him.
    • Very little respect for women, and doesn't consider Mary to be a real programmer due to her gender.
    • His level of racism zigzags. He has plenty of respect for Black Steve (for their love of firearms) but not enough to put him in charge simply because he's black.
    • Subverted because of his hatred for Nazis. For some reason, however, he likes the idea of playing as one in video games, which was why he rejected one game that shoots them and almost invested everything on a game centered around a playable Adolf Hitler. He is grateful that the Fuhrer killed himself, but keeps a clone of him for "insurance".
  • Racist Grandpa: Usually, but he can subvert this too, as he usually gets along with Black Steve.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: Mr. Larrity has a very chauvinistic attitude towards women, particularly Mary and Clare. Not to mention he refers to his many ex-wives as "Mrs. Larrity Number X".
    • However, he does refer to Mary and Black Steve as the only responsible adults in the building, and does show an appreciation for Clare's skill at manipulation. Then again, he refused to released "Mitch's" game when he learned Mitch was Mary, admitting that he would rather go broke than sell a game with a woman's name on it.

Black Steve

Voiced by: Tony Strickland

Game-A Vision's accountant and token black character in the staff in charge of overlooking finances, occasially dabbles in making games of his own. Ivy League graduate. Racist to all things white.


  • Berserk Button: Even the most subtle hints of racism can set him off.
  • Bob from Accounting: Discounting the "Black" part, he would be "Steve from Accounting". As such, he is in charge of handling financial issues.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's been called "Black Steve" his whole life, whether or not there's any other Steve. It is revealed in "Psychological Problems" that his name isn't even Steve.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Gets angry very easily and is capable of shooting anyone, even his co-workers. Usually if there is any sign of racism.
  • Hidden Depths: Probably the biggest source of this (did you know he used to be a pro wrestler, and is fluent in Japanese and (conversational) Arabic?) Likely played for comedy against his stereotypical angry black man personality. Also, accounting moves him.
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Apart from being exceptionally talented as an accountant, he can also program games on par with the rest of the cast (the first thing we know about him), is a(n under)world renowned fighter, and is almost as talented at killing people as Mr. Larrity. He also is usually able to sidestep most of the problems that befall the rest of the cast.
  • Ivy League for Everyone: Went to Dartmouth.
  • Noble Bigot: Friends or acquaintances with everyone at Game-A-Vision, virtually all of them white, but is racist to everyone or everything white (including animals and chalk), especially those who wrongfully label him with black stereotypes.
  • Refused by the Call: Larrity sometimes denies him a chance to shine because he's not sure what to do with him. At least one point was because of his race.
  • Token Minority: The only black man on the team.
  • Verbal Tic, you ignorant white bitch.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Larrity. Two opposing racist caricatures bonding over their love of shooting everything.

Benny

Voiced by: Dana Snyder

A Korean child adopted by Larrity around the time he purchased Game-A-Vision. Appointed beta tester for all games. Hooked on cigarettes and candies, all to keep him young, short and hyper.


  • Bratty Half-Pint: Manipulates Game-A-Vision's employees into getting what he wants in exchange for approving video games, whether or not they're crappy.
  • Competence Zone: Subverted. Benny is the youngest character at 7, and knows a lot more than most kids should know his age.
    • He potentially has connections to some kind of organized crime circles too.
  • Ethnic Menial Labor: Supposedly as befitting an Asian/Korean, he's the company's game tester. Game-A-Vision is family to him, though Jerry is the first to question the legality of Benny's role due to his age.
  • From the Mouths of Babes: A total smart-mouth, and smarter than he looks. Even Larrity knows it. If he was older, Larrity would have picked him over Dean as a temporary CEO while he recovered.
  • G-Rated Drug: Zigzagged. He smokes cigarettes like anyone else, but is more addicted to sugar and candy.
  • Keet: Well, he is a kid and he ingests sugar, cigarettes and other bad stuff all day. Larrity admits to invoking this on him to keep him a Bratty Half-Pint.
  • Only Sane Man: Apart from the addictive personality to things normal people get addicted to, he's more well adjusted than most of the cast. Which is actually more jarring considering his Competence Zone.
  • Spoiled Brat: Being showered with candy and cigarettes from Larrity made him super bratty, but will at least sit still if you bribe him with the same. Dave and Jerry at one point do this to get their games approved quickly.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "Benny's Birthday", Bunny turns 7. As he has allegedly become too old for Game-A-Vision's age demographic, Larrity tries to have him re-adopted or kicked out. In the end, Larrity learns that their demographic is actually 17, allowing Benny to stay for the next 10 years (or however long Game-A-Vision thrives).

Clare

Voiced by: Suzanne Keilly

Game-A-Vision's secretary. Often at odds with Mary and Todd.


  • A-Cup Angst: Hates Mary for this. Extremely jealous at Dave when he paid for fake breasts.
  • Brainless Beauty: In "Psychological Evaluations", when interviewed by the psychologist the only thing that's on her mind is shoes.
  • Casual Kink: BDSM
  • Daddy Issues: Subtlety hints that her relationship with her dad isn't in the best of terms.
    Clare: Take that, dad! I mean, Mary!
  • Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: A running gag is built around her drugging, abducting and date raping men in the second season.
  • Informed Attractiveness: Since the characters are 16-bit sprites, the audience only has the other characters' word about her attractiveness.
  • Manipulative Bastard: When Dean temporarily assumed control of the company, she played upon his want for sex to run the company herself, pretty much; Mr. Larrity quickly put a stop to it (although, admiring her skill at this, gave her a raise).
  • Really Gets Around: She gets forced into prostitution in one episode, and as it turns out she quite enjoys it. In the episode "Super Prison Breakout", she volunteers for conjugal visits. Though she didn't know what she was getting into at first, by the end of the episode it's clear that she again quite enjoyed the experience.
  • Sassy Secretary
  • Sexy Secretary: Or at least wants to be.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The latter to Mary's former.
  • You Are Fat: Pretty much the only interaction she has with Todd is calling him fat.

Clarence

Voiced by: Lionel Tubbins

Game-A-Vision's sound producer. Promiscuously homosexual, though has some advantages to it.


  • All Gays are Promiscuous: He's said outright that there's not a single guy he wouldn't sleep with. In "IPO", he wants to use his stock money to have anonymous sex with different men every night.
  • Ambiguously Brown: He's tan, but whatever his ethnicity, it wasn't referred to.
  • Camp Gay: Clarence sings everything he says (he is the music designer), constantly glitters, floats instead of walking, and constantly talks about how much he loves sex with other men and praises about how gay he is.
    • He can also phase through doors using "gay magic", which allowed him to escape a Nazi seminar in "Third Reich's The Charm".
  • Everyone Has Standards: Subverted. The moment he suggests there's a guy he wouldn't sleep with, Dean for example, he immediately changes his mind, "because that's how gay I am!"
  • Flamboyant Gay: He also has more on-screen sexual contact than the rest of the cast combined. Most of that was in one episode.
  • Magical Queer: Was formerly the trope's picture, and can often resolve problems with his wisdom and "gay magic".

Dean Larrity

Voiced by: Andy Sipes

Bob's birth son. Appointed Head of Development and former college student (likely dropped out). Also serves as the muscle to deal with any issues, usually involving burning. Incredibly dumb to the point of having a mental disorder.


  • Dumb Muscle: Very strong, but very dumb. He can sometimes only count to 4.
  • Jerk Jock: Bullies nerds like Todd.
  • Kill It with Fire: Often ordered by his dad to dispose of dead bodies by burning them.
  • Klingon Promotion: In "Dean's In Charge", he was picked by his dad to run Game-A-Vision while he recovers from getting shot in the face (Dean himself shot him, but he couldn't trust anyone else, not even Dave or Benny). Dave and almost everyone else took advantage of his idiocy while pretending to make a "brottasic" game called "Bros". However, once all of the power goes to his empty head, and by greater extension Clare's head, Larrity returned to retake the company.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Though officially he's the head of development and the programmers' supervisor, he never does anything relating to this, since he's Dumb Muscle and functions as his dad's lackey.
  • Verbal Tic: Dude, bro! No way! What's up!
  • Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: "Aww, dude, bro! This one time at college, bro..." His obnoxious frat brothers (from the Alpha Sigma Sigma frat) showed up when he took charge of the company (he had accidentally shot his dad in the face) and things promptly went to hell. Thankfully Mr. Larrity bested the fratboys and shot Dean (who was being manipulated by Clare) and promptly took back the reins.

Mary

Voiced by: Gretchen McNeil

Game-A-Vision's token female programmer and feminist, always fighting for gender equality.


  • Fiery Redhead: She's got red hair and is quite the hothead. Then again, she is surrounded by some really obnoxious coworkers.
  • No Respect Girl: Has to deal with Dave's idiocy and, to a greater extent, Mr. Larrity's views and treatment towards women. Often talked down or ignored by the latter, and she is frequently mistaken for a man in season 2.
  • Only Sane Woman: Discounting a recurring dream where she slaughters her co-workers, Mary is the only one with any common sense.
  • Plucky Office Girl: Life is very unfair to her despite her general competence, but she fights through it regardless.
  • The Scapegoat: Becomes a frequent victim if this by Dave throughout season 2.
  • Straw Feminist: Abrasive for female equality and a lot of her games center around this, though justified as she has to put up with the likes of Dave and Larrity. Since this series takes place in the 80s, it's not uncommon for women to deal with discrimination and harassment in a workplace.
  • Sweet Polly Oliver: In "Just One of the Gamers", Mary cross-dresses as Mitch at to get her game approves after Larrity belittles her. When she is exposed, Larrity cancels the game, willing to let the game fall instead of having a woman's name on it.

Todd

Voiced by: Dana Snyder

One of the star programmers of Game-A-Vision, though he considers himself the best. Role-playing fanatic of Dungeons and Dragons. Has a disturbing relationship with his Lettuce Patch Dolls and his mother.


  • A God Am I: Todd sometimes claims to be a god. This exchange, for example:
    Dean: Listen up! Either you, Dave or Jerry is a thief.
    Todd: Mere mortals steal, but I, a god, can only create!
    • Usually, this revolves around his abilities at anything. Most of which are lacking.
  • Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Todd expected to be raped while he and the staff were in a penitentiary. Not because that's what [some] inmates generally do, but because he believes he's so "good looking". Too bad the serial killer he and Mary were housed with didn't see that.
  • Attention Whore: Loves to be the center of attention, to the point that he doesn't care if it's negative.
  • Butt-Monkey: Though he usually deserves it.
  • Companion Cube / Cargo Ship: His dolls, especially Tiffany, who has more control over him than he does. Also, that little orange computer/robot thingy that is stored in his front shirt pocket and occasionally makes comments, but doesn't play a large role.
  • Fat Bastard/Fat Slob: The most overweight, though he sometimes denies it.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Well, that would imply he has friends, but he's treated similarly.
  • Horrifying the Horror: Between his ego issues and his general creepy nature, he once drove a serial killer to suicide and disturbed/annoyed John Hinckley (the attempted assassin of President Reagan).
  • Jerkass: Even more so than Dave.
  • Kevlard: His extra layer of fat has saved him more than once. He survived Black Steve shooting at him and stuck in his burning van, and made it out alive.
  • Lost in Character: Todd is a Dungeons & Dragons fanatic, to the point where he falls into this trope more than once.
    • In "Todd Loses His Mind", the rejection of his game pitch leads him to take on a new persona named "Pardue" as he enacts revenge on Game-A-Vision and treats everything like an RPG. He does have enough sense to recognize the D&D creator Gary Gygax, and actress Molly Ringwald.
    • While creating "Cock Goblin" in the episode "Psychological Problems", he becomes so caught up in his vision, he becomes the character, especially while wearing a costume Dave made for him.
  • Mommy Issues: Talks about his mother more than necessary. He claims that his father's death is one of the greatest moments in his life as he can be much closer to her.
    • For all the times that he claims to love her, he [sometimes] imagines killing her at her most vulnerable, or having some awareness that their relationship did a number on his mental state.
  • Noodle Incident: How he got kicked out of a local D&D group is anyone's guess.
  • No Sympathy: His co-workers rarely give him a break, which can be justified given his jerkass attitude. When his cooler brother Chris came to visit, he asked the crew to go easy on Todd since his relationship with his mother psychologically damaged him. Dave only promises to make Todd's life an even bigger hell because he respects Chris too much to make false promises.
  • Oblivious to Hints: Spends the entire episode "Psychological Problems" as this, not once realizing his "Cock Goblin" game project was openly mocked by everyone except for Larrity. It took some intense shock therapy for him to finally get the message.
  • Oblivious to Hatred: All of Game-A-Vision hates him to various degrees, but his obliviousness also varies at times. He is at least aware as long as people still pay attention to him.
  • Parental Incest: Whether it's Played for Laughs is up to viewer interpretation. Everyone in the show is outright disturbed over how much he claims to love his mother.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: While pretty much everyone else has shown more talent than him, he somehow has the biggest office (when including the dungeon) that doesn't belong to Clarence or Mr. Larrity, so maybe he has some competence.
  • Sanity Slippage: At one point, Tood loses his mind in... "Todd Loses His Mind". Being screwed out of his game pitch for Jerry's (which was made three weeks earlier) led to him going insane, more so than usual, plotting to destroy Game-A-Vision, and seemingly succeeding (if the cartridge playing the episode didn't glitch and force the "player" to reset).
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Nachos and nacho cheese, to the extreme. He claims to eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snacks. He sometimes sees nacho cheese as both a "lubricant" and the secret behind of the Fountain of Youth.

Guest Star Party Members

Steve "The Woz" Wozniak

Former owner and CEO of Game-A-Vision. Left to pursue his dreams of creating home computers leading to founding Apple.


"That one Asian looking employee with what looks like dreadlocks"

An employee that often appears in Game-A-Vision. Occupation unknown.


  • Action Survivor: Unlike most unnamed characters, and even most named characters, nothing bad ever seems to happen to this guy.
  • Living Prop: Lampshaded when one scene transition actually has him standing in the middle of a "Game-A-Vision Yard Sale" wearing a price tag.
  • No Name Given
  • Only Sane Man: Considering how generic he is, he comes off as more normal than the rest of the group. Then again, the same could usually be said about Clare.
  • Recurring Extra: Of all the employees of this supposedly quite large company, he makes by far the most appearances, and appears in most board room scenes. (Wendy the Hot Intern, as well as an unnamed blue-haired guy, a red-haired guy, and a guy with overalls and a mustache make appearances from time-to-time.)

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