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Savannah and Friends
Savannah Reed
“This is going to be the start of my new life.”
Click here to see her pre-makeover. The protagonist of the series. Savannah is a Montanan girl who’s recently moved to California, where she wants to reunite with her long-lost friend Brooke. However, upon seeing that Brooke has changed into a popular mean girl, she strives to take her popularity away from her.
- Beautiful All Along: Savannah gets this kind of makeover early in the series.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: When Brooke slashes Savannah with her claws and leaves three big marks on her face, they are visibly seen in the season one finale. However, by season two, it’s mentioned that she has scars, but they can no longer be seen.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Is worried she’s being one when Brigitte moves in with Sage.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: She, a naturally brown dachshund, gets called a “wiener dog” by Brooke, a pale blond cat with blue eyes. Everyone treats this as a slur and Genevieve can only say it in a whisper.
- Fantastic Racism: Brooke tells her that her dachshund body is inferior to other species.
- Fantastic Slur: She gets called a “Weiner dog” by Brooke. Everyone treats this as a horrible insult.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: As part of her makeover, Savannah gets rid of her glasses.
- Good Parents: Savannah’s parents, especially her mother, care about her very deeply.
- Informed Attribute: Her scars in season two.
- In-Series Nickname: Her friends call her ‘Savvy’ and ‘Sav.’
- Kick the Dog: When Savannah arrives at Orange County Day, she’s excited to reunite with her best friend, Brooklyn...only to learn that Brooklyn (who now goes by Brooke) is a cruel, narcissistic girl who brutally tells her she does not want to be associated with Savannah and later goes out of her way to humiliate her. Even when Savannah finds peace and happiness, Brooke uses her wealth to make her life miserable.
- Love Triangle: Savannah is part of two.
- The main one is Savannah and Brooke against Sage. Savannah wins.
- The second most prominent one is Tom and Sage against Savannah. Sage wins.
- Official Couple: Savannah has been in two official couples.
- Savannah and Tom became official in episode twelve.
- Savannah and Sage was implied in episode fifteen but became official in episode eighteen.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Savannah and Brooke have this in episode twenty-two.
- The Rival: She has this with Brooke.
- We Used to Be Friends: The entire plot starts when Savannah, excited to reunite with her long-lost friend, coldly rejects and humiliates her.
- Your Makeup Is Running: Happens to her in the season one finale after she sees her boyfriend making out with Brooke.
Angelina Davis
”I’ll never understand choosing some dumb guy over your best friend.”
Click here to see her pre-makeover. One of Savannah’s best friends.
- Ambiguously Gay: Angelina’s never had a boyfriend, or any kind of relationship besides kissing a boy once at a party, and doesn’t seem to be too interested in getting one either. She doesn’t understand why her friends want a boyfriend so bad, and when Savannah tells her she has a crush, her first reaction is to ask if it’s a boy.
- Beautiful All Along: She gets this type of makeover.
- In-Series Nickname: Angelina is occasionally called Lina.
Genevieve Ryan
”Years. Years I’ve wanted this. Can you blame me for being a little excited?
Click here to see her post-makeover. One of Savannah’s best friends.
- Beautiful All Along: She gets this type of makeover.
- Beta Couple: Genevieve and Nathan are this until episode twenty-seven.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: She only allows herself to say “wiener dog” in a whisper because everyone treats it as a slur.
- In-Series Nickname: Genevieve is frequently called Genny.
- Love Triangle: Genevieve has a Beta Couple example of this with Rachel for Nathan. Genevieve wins.
- Official Couple: Rachel is this with Nathan until episode twenty-seven.
- Spell My Name With An S: Her In-Series Nickname begins with a g, not a j. Justified, however, as it’s a shortened version of Genevieve, which starts with a g, instead of the more common Jennifer.
Brooke and Friends (The Barbie Dolls)
Brooklyn Hayes
“I want Sage.”
Click her to see her as a preteen. The antagonist of the series. She moved from Montana to California as a kid, and eventually became a popular mean girl. When her long-lost friend Savannah Reed learned this, she tried to take Brooke’s popularity away from her.
- Aborted Arc: Brooke was mentioned to be “captain of the cheerleading team” in episode two, but this has not been brought up since then.
- Abusive Parents: Brooke has one of these.
- Break the Haughty: Brooke gets this one hard. In one night, Brooke loses her boyfriend, her popularity, her friends, and her dignity.
- Cats Are Mean: Brooke is a cat and the antagonist of the series.
- Disappeared Dad: Brooke’s father is revealed to be dead.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: She, a pale blonde cat with blue eyes, calls Savannah, a naturally brown dachshund, a “wiener dog.” Everyone treats this as a horrible slur.
- Fantastic Racism: She tells Savannah that her feline body is naturally skinner and better than Savannah’s dachshund one. However, given that Brooke is bulimic, she may not actually believe that and was just trying to make Savannah jealous and hate her body.
- Fantastic Slur: Brooke calls Savannah a “Weiner dog,” which everyone treats as a horrible insult.
- Hidden Depths: Brooke first comes off as a cruel narcissist, but it’s revealed that she’s a bulimic, insecure girl with a dead father and a mother who doesn’t care that she exists.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Brooke treats Gigi like how her mother treats her: neglecting her, caring about her outward appearance more than her well-being, and believing that buying expensive toys equates to love.
- Love Triangle: Brooke is in one with Savannah against Sage.
- Manipulative Bitch: Many examples.
- Brooke had an old video of her kissing Tom and says she’ll frame it as cheating if she doesn’t make him do her bidding.
- She cries crocodile tears when trying to convince Sage that Savannah is a terrible person.
- In season two, she digs her claws into Savannah. When Savannah acts back as a self-defensive reflex, she threatens to sue Savannah, and won’t only if Savannah breaks up with Sage.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Brooke almost quotes this word for word when she realizes she made her pet run away.
- Obfuscating Disability: Around her mother, she pretends her concussion is much worse than it actually was so her mother would be more willing to make Savannah pay.
- Official Couple: Brooke was this with Sage.
- Operation: [Blank]: Brooke calls her plan to humiliate Savannah “Operation: Fry the Sausage.” In episode twenty-eight, she forms another one called “Operation: Barbecue the Sausage.”
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Exchanges this with Savannah in episode twenty-two.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: She shames Savannah for her natural body type, calls her breed-based slurs, and says that cats are naturally skinnier and therefore better than dachshunds.
- Rage Against the Reflection: Brooke swats at a mirror when she sees her makeup smeared face after she loses her boyfriend, friends, and popularity.
- The Rival: She has this with Savannah.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: While she seems like an arrogant bully, it stems from the fact that she's really insecure and struggles with her neglectful mother and eating disorder issues.
- Stripperiffic: An in-universe example. Despite the fact that she lives in a world with anthropomorphic animals that don’t wear clothes most of the time, Sage identities her outfit at the party to be “skimpy.”
- We Used to Be Friends: Brooke used to be best friends with Savannah.
- Wild Teen Party: Brooke throws one of these.
- Your Makeup Is Running: Happens to her in the season one finale. She had a Rage Against the Reflection moment because of it.
Rachel Rivera
”No one almost kills my BFF and lives to tell the tale.”
The second most popular girl at school who's friends with Brooklyn Hayes. She abandons Brooke in the season one finale, but rejoins it in episode twenty-four.- Alliterative Name: Her first and last name start with an R.
- Ambiguously Brown: She has blond hair and blue eyes, yet has a Hispanic last name.
- Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Rachel was Brooke’s best friend for presumably years, but Brooke planning to ruin Savannah’s fur and humiliate her is what finally pushes Rachel over the edge. She refuses to go along with Brooke’s plan, and later exposes her.
- Beta Bitch: Rachel is this to Brooke.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite being a generally rude person and going along with Brooke’s mean plans before (such as spraying ink on Savannah,) Rachel has a Heel–Face Turn when Brooke plans to permanently ruin her rival’s fur.
- "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: She abandons Brooke in the season one finale. But after Savannah attacks Brooke, she rejoins her, forgetting every lesson she learned about how selfish and cruel Brooke was.
- Girl Posse: Rachel was this with Alicia and Brooke. They abandoned it in the season one finale, but as of episode twenty-four, they seem to be in the same Girl Posse they were before.
- Kick the Dog: When Rachel goes against Brooke’s plan, she viciously insults her. Then, when she sees Rachel’s boyfriend making out with someone else, she just has to take another shot at her.
- Love Triangle: She is in a Beta Couple one with Genevieve for Nathan. Genevieve wins.
- Popular Is Dumb: Played with. Rachel, at the height of her popularity, is portrayed as quite stupid. However, as she rejects Brooke she noticeably gets much wiser, although at school she still retains her popularity.
Alicia Hamilton
”You have to LEARN to be nice?!? I’ve never taken that class!
The third most popular girl at school who's friends with Brooklyn Hayes.- Beta Bitch: She and Rachel are this to Brooke.
- Characterization Marches On: It didn't seem like she was intended to be stupid in the first few episodes, and she also lacked her trademark high-pitched voice.
- The Ditz: Alicia isn’t very smart.
- Dumb Is Good: Alicia is The Ditz and the sweetest of the Barbie Dolls.
- Girl Posse: She, Rachel, and Brooke are this. Rachel had a brief fallout, but returned to the Girl Posse in episode twenty-four.
- Popular Is Dumb: She's The Ditz and part of Brooke's Girl Posse.
- Precision F-Strike: In episode two, she says the word retarded. It’s a bit of Early-Installment Weirdness, because words like this are never used in the rest of the series.
Love Interests
Sage Bond
”Looks might catch my attention...but it’s who you are inside that won my heart.”
The ex boyfriend of Brooklyn Hayes who Savannah has a crush on. In season two, Sage has broke up with Brooke and got into a relationship with Savannah. However, in episode twenty-eight, Savannah was forced to break up with Sage.- Hidden Depths: In episode six, he claims to have these by saying that just because he’s captain of the football team, that doesn’t make him a stereotypical jock.
- Love Triangle: He is in two of these.
- The main one is Brooke and Savannah for him. Savannah wins.
- The second most prominent one was him and Tom for Savannah. Sage wins.
- Official Couple: He and Brooke are in season one. In season two, it’s him and Savannah. However, Brooke forced Savannah to break up with Sage in episode twenty-eight.
- Satellite Love Interest: Sage, despite him being a result for most of the conflict of the series, isn’t given that much depth.
- Two Girls to a Team: Inverted. He and Tom are the only two male main characters in LPS: Popular.
Tom Dawson
”Everyone knows your name Savannah. It’s a fact of life when you’re one of the hottest girls at school.”
Savannah’s ex boyfriend. When Savannah breaks up with him, he is so heartbroken he moves to France.- Foreign Exchange Student: He becomes this in season two as he moves to France.
- Kick the Dog: Poor Tom is used as a pawn in Brooke’s plan where she blackmailed him for something that wasn’t even true. Later, Brooke forcibly kisses him, which Savannah sees and is so upset about that she breaks up with him, even after learning that it wasn’t consensual. Savannah breaking up with him hits Tom hard, because he’s so heartbroken he moves to France just to get away from everyone he knows.
- Love Triangle: He’s in one against Sage for Savannah. Sage wins.
- Official Couple: He is this with Savannah until season two. As of episode twenty-nine, he’s started dating Violette.
- Romantic False Lead: Tom is mainly introduced to be an obstacle between Sage and Savannah.
- Two Girls to a Team: Inverted. He and Sage are the only main male characters in LPS: Popular.
Other Characters
Brigitte Le Blanc
”Oh! I am so sorry. I forget you are...in love together.”
Brigitte is a Foreign Exchange Student from France. She moves in with Sage in season two and is a little too close with him for Savannah’s liking. However, so far it has been left ambiguous what Brigitte’s exact intentions are.- Alliterative Name: Her name has two Bs in it.
- Beta Couple: She is this with her boyfriend Phillipe.
- Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Brigitte is French and considered to be very attractive.
- Foreign Exchange Student: She is from France.
- Girlfriend in Canada: Subverted. When Sage mentions that Brigitte has a boyfriend in France, one may think this is a lie so Savannah would be less suspicious, but in episode 23 we see a boxer in France named Phillipe, implying that this is Brigitte’s boyfriend.
- Hidden Depths: There have been hints that Brigitte’s kind and innocent persona is a facade. It’s important to note this has not been confirmed yet, however.
- Innocently Insensitive: Brigitte, who has lived in France her whole life, doesn’t understand that kissing someone on the cheek isn’t a thing friends do in America.
- Kick the Dog: When Sage comes in angrily telling her Savannah just dumped him, she gives a big "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Justified, however, as Sage was unreasonably accusing her of being the reason why Savannah broke up with him.
- Love Triangle: She’s in one with Savannah against Sage. However, it’s unclear if the love triangle is just from Savannah’s perspective.
- Official Couple: She is this with Phillipe.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Brigitte gives a big one to Sage after he unreasonably accuses her of being the reason why he and Savannah broke up.
- Romantic False Lead: Brigitte’s role in the series has been being an obstacle in Savannah and Sage’s relationship.
- Satellite Character: We don’t know much about her. Her only role in the series is making Savannah worried that Sage will choose him over her.
Gigi/Mimi
- Abusive Parents: Her caretaker, Brooke, didn’t care about her existence until she disappeared. Even then, she was just a prize to be won.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She makes brief appearances in season one.
- I Am Not Weasel: Her model is clearly an LPS caterpillar but is often referred to as a cricket.
- Kick the Dog: An almost literal example. She’s treated so badly by Brooke she runs away. She finally finds some peace and happiness with Savannah, but then she’s forced to return to her miserable old life.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: She’s so cute, Brooke almost sent the Reed family into bankruptcy to get her back.
Violette
”Don’t waste my time if you’re going to break my heart.”
A French girl who later becomes Tom’s girlfriend.- Beta Couple: She and Tom are this.
- Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Like Brigitte, she’s French and attractive.
- Hidden Depths: She appears sweet and kind, but the end of episode twenty-nine shows her feeling bitter and spiteful towards Savannah.
- Love Triangle: An unusual variation: she’s in one with Savannah against Tom, but Savannah seems to have forgotten Tom’s existence. Rather, she’s in a love triangle against Tom’s feelings towards Savannah.
- Official Couple: She becomes one with Tom.
- Walking Spoiler: It’s hard to say anything about her without revealing A) Tom becomes a Foreign Exchange Student in France and B) she becomes Tom’s new girlfriend.
The Lawrence twins
Left to right: Lana and Josh
- Lana: We have to keep our secrets, Josh. Paw promise?Josh: Paw promise.
- Alliterative Name: Lana Lawrence.
- All There in the Manual: It’s only stated they’re twins in the Youtube description of their debut appearance.
- Brother–Sister Team: They’re twins and have a very close relationship. They also live together alone.
- Dark Secret: Lana insists their secrets must be kept in order to have any chance at a normal high school life. Interestingly, they each have their own secrets. Josh even got mad at his sister for treating them too similarly.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: At least for Lana; she tells her brother he can’t mess anything up as this is their one chance at a normal life.
- It's All My Fault: Lana claims their situation is pretty much her fault.
- Mysterious Past: God, where to begin? They come right out of nowhere in episode twenty-three, and every time they return, they raise far more questions than they answer. But just to start: they each with their own Dark Secret and enroll at Orange County for their “one chance at a normal high school life.” They live alone and have to pay rent by themselves because their parents-or any legal guardians-are out of the picture. Lana doesn’t have any easily traceable records, and it’s implied that Brooke recognizes her.
- Parental Abandonment: According to Lana, their parents don’t care about them and are out of the picture. She and her brother live alone and have to pay rent by themselves.
- Pinky Swear: They share a “paw promise” about keeping their secrets in episode twenty-three.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Downplayed. They have their similarities, but certain traits are conflicting; Josh is sensitive and wants to get to the roots of problems, while Lana is The Stoic who gets straight to the point. She’s also overworking hours while Josh can’t get enough. In other words, if one of them has a weakness, their twin makes up for it. This makes them a very good Brother–Sister Team.
- The Stoic: Lana. Her brother teases her with a playful surprise for showing emotion at one point.
