Characters / Life's a Zoo

Jake

Voiced by: Kurt Firla

A Canadian pig with extremely perverted tendencies, an affinity for scheming, and a distorted perspective of himself. He fancies himself as a reality TV mastermind and a hit with the ladies, but the truth is that not only is he incredibly pathetic and incompetent, not a single one of his housemates admires or respects him.

The sixth and last housemate to be eliminated, being voted out unanimously by the other losers in the finale. However, Chi Chi forfeits her prize, making Jake the technical winner. Unfortunately, he blows the house up after the original winner was announced, losing his prize.

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• All Men Are Perverts: The most prominent male character and by far the most lustful character.
• Animal Stereotypes: Fat, lecherous, and disgusting in about every way. He's more than faithful to people's perception of his species.
• Bad Liar: Couldn't make up a good excuse if his life depended on it.
• Basement-Dweller: He admits to still living with his mother in one episode.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He tries to position himself as the "villain" of the show's contestants, but his ineptness ensures he never achieves much.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: If Morreski’s off-handed comment while Jake is getting beat up by Minou at the end of "Self Helpless" is any indication, Jake is at least fairly endowed.
  Morreski: "Huh, almost as big as mine."
• Blatant Lies: A lot of his confessionals are about his supposedly grand accomplishments that are obviously made up. The most glaring example of this, however, is in “Chi’s Having a Baby”, where he admits to having sex with Chi Chi “many times, and in many positions”. While Ray and Morreski’s confessionals showed footage of them being intimate with Chi Chi, Jake’s footage is of him humping the couch in his room.
• Body Horror: Performs liposuction on himself with the help of Ray and Morreski in “Live and Let Diet”, and the results are predictably disgusting. Claude even calls him a loser.
• Butt-Monkey: Is the subject of many beatdowns, gets made fun of at every turn, and just can't seem to catch a break.
• Casanova Wannabe: He frequently tries to flirt with the female contestants (mainly Minou) and often boasts about his sexual encounters, but not only are all his stories completely made up, but the women he does meet despise him for his disgusting behaviour towards them.
• Caught with Your Pants Down: In “Ray Against the Machine”, Chi Chi accidentally spots him masturbating twice.
• Companion Cube In “You Snooze, You Lose”, he wins a papaya after a sleepless contest and due to sleep deprivation, he falls in love with it and calls it "Juanita".
• Dub Name Change: The only character to go through that in the French dub. He is renamed "Jacques" to reflect the translation narrowing his roots to Quebec specifically.
• Everything's Messier with Pigs: Jake's character design is nauseating and not helping is the fact that we see him do all sorts of disgusting things including having sex with a papaya.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Gets these in “You Snooze, You Lose” after not sleeping for six days.
• Extreme Libido: To the point where his sex doll is the vice Claude confiscates in “Self Helpless”.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Calling him a “friend” is really stretching it, but no one respects him, not even the hosts, to the point where everyone votes for Chi Chi in the finale. Morreski, Doctor D, and Rico cast their votes by either brutally insulting Jake, or saying that Chi Chi “must” win.
• Genre Savvy: Believes himself to be this due to his presumed experience with reality shows, claiming to have seen Series/Survivor in one of his first confessionals. While he proves himself to be a capable contestant at times, his ego inevitably leads to his downfall.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: He once saw a movie with “intergalactic lesbians”, and when Minou and Chi Chi were fighting in “Random Acts of Niceness”, Jake tells them to pour themselves with oil and set up a wrestling ring, all while rubbing his nipples.
• Gonk: Although pigs aren’t the most naturally beautiful creatures, Jake goes beyond typical pig looks with his moles, obesity and visible humanlike nipples.
• Harmless Electrocution: In “Truth or Consequences”, the lie-detecting chair zaps him after he defecates on it, and he responds “no” after Bobbie asks him if he is going to the bathroom on the chair. Obviously, he’s completely fine after getting shocked.
• Hidden Depths: In "Dr. D Plays House", it's revealed during the talent show that he's a pretty decent singer. It's just a shame that the song he decided to sing wasn't very... family-friendly, to say the least.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: His ego is massive, but unanimously losing to Chi Chi in the finale makes him sob and scream that "he just wants to win something for once", indicating that for all his boasting, he is very aware of his unsuccessful life and feels horrible about it.
• Intercourse with You: His song in “Dr. D Plays House” is, unsurprisingly, sexually explicit lyrically.
• Irony: After refusing to bail a caged Ray out in “Random Acts of Niceness”, the latter defends himself by saying that at least he “doesn’t pretend to like everyone”. Jake retorts by saying that just because Ray blew his chances at being rich, it doesn’t mean he has to be a crybaby about it. In the series finale, Jake ends up in the final two, but receives no votes from the eliminated houseguests, and his response is throwing a giant temper tantrum and blowing the house up. For even more irony, Ray becomes rich once Chi Chi forfeits the house because Jake’s new victory meant that Ray’s ridiculous bet made him a millionaire. Unfortunately for Jake, he blew up the house, and Ray rebuilt it and now owns it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Emphasis on "Jerk", but he does get a few moments where he gets to show that he's not completely irredeemable.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: However, he's still worse than all the other houseguests and planned to blow up the mansion with Chi-Chi in it because he lost the show.
• Lust: His defining trait.
• Male Frontal Nudity: In one of the clips on the long-defunct website, he claims that he's fully open and willing to do full-frontal nudity, just as he exposes his genitals to the camera.
• Moose and Maple Syrup: Not a stereotype, but him being Canadian is the first thing we learn about him. Jake also has a notable accent when he says “about” and “sorry”. The French dub translates this by making him speak with a very thick Quebec accent, making him stand out from the other characters that still speak regional variations of French, but their accents are either from France or non-French speaking cultures entirely.
• The Napoleon: He is the tiniest contestant and by far the most manipulative and dominative.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: “Rayland” ends with him being on the receiving end of one of these. The person beating him up? Every other houseguest.
• Parental Neglect: It's revealed in "Truth or Consequences" that no one wanted to own up to raising Jake when Bobbie failed to find any parents of his for an interview, leading him to sadly groan about his mother.
• Perverted Pig: One thing that can be said about him is that he is Sleazy with a capital "sleaze". He regularly hits on Minou (though to no success), and is revealed in "Self Helpless" to have a blow-up sex doll that he named "Nina."
• Signature Laugh: Has a distinct, high-pitched laugh that he usually only busts out when he's having too much fun, or when he gets a bit crazy.
• Sleep Deprivation: The start of “You Snooze, You Lose” starts at his victory in a sleepless contest, while the rest of the episode shows how it caused him a mental breakdown.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Probably his other defining trait aside from his perversion. He thinks of himself as a multitalented ladies’ man, although not only does no one actually like him, but it’s implied that he’s still a virgin and lives with his mother. The narration of a video he made to convince the eliminated houseguests to vote for him in the finale summarizes his delusions pretty well:
  Jake (in the narration): "Jake Oswalt. Philanthropist. Socialite. Table Tennis Champion 2003. But who is the legend behind the legend? And what is the legend of this legend’s behind?" (The video then plays obviously edited mashups of Morreski, Ray, and Minou’s confessionals that “tell” how much of a hero and good lover Jake is)
• Smug Snake: As a parody of reality TV villains, Jake attempts to present himself as a master of alliances and manipulation who wins over others with his charisma, but instead, usually ends up screwing himself over, humiliating himself, and dismissed by his housemates.
• Sore Loser: When he loses to Chi Chi, he has a meltdown, expressing his hatred for the other characters, crying in the confessional and installing explosives to the mansion so he could blow it up
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Due to being the biggest jerk in a cast of jerks.
• Villain Protagonist: While the whole cast is very flawed, Jake is the closest to being an outright villain. He frequently puts himself above others, never hesitates to sabotage or backstab his fellow houseguests, and his attitude towards Minou is flat out sexual harassment.
• Villainous Breakdown: His response to losing to Chi Chi in the finale is throwing a temper tantrum, telling the rest of the cast that he hates them, bawling in the confessional, attempting to steal the others’ personal belongings, and installing explosives to blow the mansion up.

Ray

Voiced by: Mike Rowland

An orangutan with the mind of a perpetual teenager and a love for partying, cartoons, video games, and rock and roll. He's far from the brightest of the bunch and tends to act on impulse (usually to engage in idiotic stunts) - tendencies doubtlessly worsened by his not-unsubtle love for marijuana.

The fifth housemate to be eliminated, losing the semifinals to Jake after hilariously failing to beat the pig at a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Often calls Bobbie other names, like Brenda, Bethany and Beverly. Although the misnaming can sometimes be intentional, like when he calls her "Boobie."
• Amusing Injuries: All of his injuries are Played for Laughs.
• Anal Probing: Believes that aliens do this to people they abduct.
• Animal Stereotypes: Has a fun, playful personality, and is also incredibly reckless and messy.
• Big Fancy House: Ultimately wins the mansion, since Chi Chi (the original winner) forfeited it, and Jake (the runner-up) blows it up. After betting 100 dollars (with the odds being 48,000 to 1) on Jake winning, and becoming rich, Ray rebuilds the mansion and hires Jake as his servant.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: In the episode "It’s Not Easy Being Chi Chi", Jake steals a recording of Ray and Chi Chi having sex for two hours and while nothing is shown to the audience we hear Jake yelling in surprise before being cut off by a scene transition that Ray has a massive penis.
• Blatant Lies: Saying that getting electrocuted didn’t hurt that much in “Truth or Consequences”. Also in the same episode, saying that asking if he destroyed a television is like asking if Jake had a threesome. The lie-detecting chair is quick to interrupt that second lie and electrocute Ray.
• Butt-Monkey: An appropriately simian pain magnet.
• Cartoony Eyes: Ray has bulging, buggy, bloodshot eyes that reflect his goofiness and affinity for marijuana.
• The Ditz: Let's just say he's far from the brightest of the bunch.
• Flipping the Bird: Does this several times, most notably in “You Snooze, You Lose” and “Random Acts of Niceness”.
• Fratbro: He can be obnoxious, doesn’t take anything seriously and often wants to party.
• Gaslighting: In “You Snooze, You Lose”, he makes Jake believe his papaya can speak, making his sleep deprivation induced mental breakdown even worse.
• Harmless Electrocution: In “Truth or Consequences”, the lie-detecting chair shocks him four times, but he’s completely fine by the end of the episode.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: He does this a couple of times, including in one of his first scenes in “Welcome to the Jungle”:
  Rico: Margarita?
  Ray: Uh... that’s a bit fruity for me, dude. You got any beer back there?
  Rico: Oh, I see. I guess there’s something wrong with—
  Ray: No, hey, hey, fruity’s good too, dude. It’s just that I’m not, you know, into fruity. You know, what I’m saying? Dude? Dude?
  Rico: I understand. You don’t have to —-
  Ray: It’s not that I would never drink a margarita, it’s just that I would never “drink” a margarita, you know?
• Hippie Parents: His dad is definitely a stereotypical hippie, and considering he said that both he and Ray’s mom share the “peace and love thing”, she probably behaves similarly.
• How Many Fingers?: When Chi Chi wakes up with amnesia in the finale, Ray asks her how many fingers he is holding. Said fingers happen to both of his middle fingers.
• Hypocritical Humor: In “Chi’s Having a Baby”, he tells his egg “son” to never do drugs, and then proceeds to smoke his bong.
• Interrupted Intimacy: While he and Chi Chi are having sex, Doctor D barges into their room and starts beating Ray up, thinking that Ray was attacking Chi Chi.
• Interspecies Romance: He’s an orangutan, and dates Chi Chi (a panda), in “It’s Not Easy Being Chi”.
• Karma Houdini: While “You Snooze, You Lose” ends on Jake falling from fatigue and being beaten down by the houseguests, Ray got easy with it despite being the one responsible for making Jake believe his papaya was sentient.
• Manchild: He’s in his twenties, and is the most immature houseguest by far.
• Mr. Vice Guy: He is nicer than most of the houseguests, but he is still lazy, a bit lecherous, as well as a regular drinker and marijuana smoker.
• Next Thing They Knew: A minute of flirting with Chi Chi led to her jumping on him and them having sex.
• Nice Guy: Friendly enough, especially compared to the others (aside from Chi Chi), despite being insensitive at times.
• The Power of Rock: Loves rock and roll, and prepares a rock concert for the challenge in “Dr. D Plays House”. In "The Breakfree Club", he tells Bobbie, word for word, that she doesn't know the "power of rock and roll", and snaps the other houseguests out of their brainwashed state by playing loud rock music on a portable radio.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: In “Rayland”, he stages a coup to overthrow “King” Rico.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Subverted. He’s in every episode, never gets extincted during Claude’s run, and while he ended up placing third during Bobbie’s run, he gets the mansion anyway.
• The Stoner: As evident by his bloodshot eyes and possession of a bong, he loves weed and frequently smokes it.
• That Came Out Wrong: He has a habit of saying inappropriate or homoerotic innuendo when talking to Rico.
• Time-Passes Montage: After Chi Chi gets herself extincted in episode 4, Ray lays down on a couch and stays there until he grows a beard though later we learn from Morreski that it's only been 10 minutes and Chi Chi came back.
• Token Good Teammate: Not as much as Chi Chi but he's nicer than most of the others.
• Too Dumb to Live: Some of his highlights include lighting a fart on fire off-screen and burning a huge portion of his fur, trying to call the phone company after learning that the phone line was cut off, and what ends up getting him extincted: losing to Jake in a game of rock-paper-scissors. Keep in mind that Jake is a pig, so he has hooves and can only play ‘rock’. Ray manages to be baited into playing ‘scissors’ three times.
• Trekkie: “Truth or Consequences” reveals that he used to dress up as Spock every Halloween, Christmas, and Friday nights. He ends up wearing his Spock costume in the second half of the episode.
• Verbal Tic: Likes to call everyone and everything “dude”.

Chi Chi

Voiced by: Stephanie Jung

An overweight Chinese panda and fifth grade teacher with a sweet demeanor and a voracious appetite. Although her weight and kindhearted nature means that the others rarely take her seriously as a threat in the competition, Chi-Chi is by far the most moral and well-meaning of the cast... although not for long.

She wins the competition after the first five losers unanimously vote for her to win the mansion after she and Jake reach the final two. However, after realizing how much the show has corrupted her, she forfeits the mansion.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Unless the situation calls for it, she only wears a flower on her head.
• Action Girl: Apparently knows Martial Arts.
• Amnesiac Hero: Gets amnesia in the finale and spends most of it binge-watching the rest of the series to restore her memory.
• Animal Stereotypes: Likes eating, usually peaceful but can get aggressive, adorable, definitely a Panda.
• Bears Are Bad News: Only when she's angry though.
• Beary Friendly: She’s a type of bear, and is without a doubt, the show’s nicest character.
• Beware the Nice Ones: See Action Girl above.
• Big Eater: One of her defining traits.
• Break the Cutie: She's so horrified by all the unpleasant things she had to do on the show that she chooses to forfeit the mansion after winning the competition to return to China and rediscover herself.
• Ethical Slut: Has slept with half the cast, and has been in pornographic works before, but she remains the character with the biggest moral compass.
• Gasshole: Introduced as being sickly and frequently having to puke. While that part of her character is quickly dropped, her “pregnancy” in “Chi’s Having a Baby” turns out to be a deeply held fart, and when Chi Chi unleashes, the stench goes across the entire mansion, and destroys the houseguests’ eggs.
• Good Bad Girl: She's nicer than most of the others and has had sex with about half of the cast.
• Interrupted Intimacy: While she and Ray are having sex, Doctor D barges into their room and starts beating Ray up, thinking that Ray was attacking Chi Chi.
• Interspecies Romance: She’s a panda, and dates Ray (an orangutan) in “It’s Not Easy Being Chi”.
• National Animal Stereotypes: She is a panda, and is predictably from China.
• Next Thing They Knew: A minute of flirting with Ray led to her jumping on him and them having sex.
• Nice Girl: She’s easily the nicest of the cast.
• Really Gets Around : Has sex with Doctor D, Morreski, and Ray.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In “Random Acts of Niceness”, after enduring an entire day of the houseguests faking niceness to win gold (and getting called “Miss Butterballs” by Rico), she snaps at the entire cast:
  Chi-Chi: Why you call me... Butterball? I’m more sexy than you [Rico] and skinny bitch [Minou] together! I am nicest of all you miserable fuck-fucks! Hope you die until you dead and then explode into shit! I will kick you in the testicles and then punch you in the ass! Kiss my dirty bum! You can eat my shit for breakfast! All of it! (she charges towards Minou and starts attacking Rico)
• Sole Survivor: The winner of Life’s a Zoo.tv. However, she forfeits her prize.
• Token Good Teammate: By far the nicest person on the show especially compared to the others.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Always aims to see the best in people and be nice to them, even when “they’re stupid idiot”.

Morreski

Voiced by: Stephen Kishewitsch

An elderly alcoholic Russian bear who is always carrying a bottle of vodka and can always recall stories about his homeland. His long and storied life has given him a great deal of wisdom and numerous odd skills, but they are frequently hampered by his advanced age and excessive dependency on alcohol.

The third housemate to be eliminated, after crushing his egg as soon as the parenting competition started, and crushing several other eggs throughout the day.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Only wears a fez most of the time.
• Accidental Misnaming: He tends to call Jake “James.”
• Accidental Pervert: In the first episode when he uses the key he hid from Jake to open his room only to find out it's also Minou's and she was taking a shower.
• The Alcoholic: Loves Vodka a lot.
• Ambiguously Bi: He is obviously attracted to women, considering he had a wife and had sex with Chi Chi. However, he has fallen for Rico (albeit when he mistook him for a woman) and according to Rico, his wife had “quite the package.”
• Bears Are Bad News: Although generally laidback, he has threatened and/or beaten up half of his fellow houseguests (Ray, Jake, and Doctor D) out of anger.
• Bedmate Reveal: Twice. In “Random Acts of Niceness”, he wakes up with Rico cuddling up to him. In “Scared Shirtless”, the person that cuddled him was Doctor D.
• Cool Old Guy: At the age of 62, he is the oldest character, and he is definitely someone you would not want to piss off.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is drunk most of the time, and barely remembers anything because of his excessive drinking, but he is capable of being cunning and ruthless if he wants to.
• Dirty Commies: He sometimes talks about capitalists in a derogatory way like a stereotypical communist, and when Bobbie asks him if he was ever or currently is a member of the Communist Party in “Truth or Consequences", Morreski responds with “Da."
• Expansion Pack Past: Because he's the eldest contestant, he had multiple jobs which made him develop multiple talents. After his extinction, he revealed to have occupied four different jobs in three weeks.
• Funny Foreigner: Has a thick Russian accent and is a constant source of comedic relief.
• Genius Bruiser: Has a plethora of skills due to his countless occupations, and is by far the strongest character physically.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: While not as often or as frequent as Rico is with his Spanish, he does let out the occasional "Da" (Russian for "yes") every now and then.
• Hidden Depths: Always drunk, but is also quite wise and has many talents, from medical to culinary. In “Truth or Consequences", he also claims "having destroyed many things in his life".
• Leitmotif: A stereotypical Russian-sounding accordion track that plays during his confessionals.
• Major Injury Underreaction: In “Random Acts of Niceness”, he lies down on a bunch of heated rocks to help Rico (who Morreski was attracted to at the time) in the obstacle course. Although his back is completely fried, Morreski gets up nonchalantly and effortlessly completes the obstacle course.
• Momma's Boy: He is very close to his mother, and any attempt to insult her is a surefire way to make his blood boil.
• National Animal Stereotypes: A grizzly bear from Russia that wears a fez and constantly drinks vodka.
• Technicolor Eyes: Has yellowish sclera, possibly representing his alcoholism.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Vodka especially "Vodka Stovinov without Stovinov".
• Unishment: In the first episode, he's rigged into believing he has a messy room with view on a power plant. He still thinks of it as a comfy room until he falls into Minou's bathroom while she's taking a shower. Earlier, he was the only one who was not bothered about living in a rigged house before Claude reveals the mansion.
  • In “Truth or Consequences", while the other contestants try to hide their shameful pictures, he proudly show his to everyone. Their disgusted reaction says it all.
• Vodka Drunkenski: In case you haven't figured out yet.

Minou

Voiced by: Bridget Ogundipe

A Jamaican black panther and glamorous former supermodel who vainly expects the camera to be on her on all times and to ultimately win the mansion. She is the classic reality show primadonna, the object of affection for many of the male contestants, but also far too snobby to consider any of her admirers worth her time.

The first housemate to be eliminated, after Ray accidentally pushes the wheelchair she was sitting on when Bobbie asks the housemates if anyone wanted to forfeit, making her elimination non-consensual.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Technically, since her hair is just a collection of wigs.
• Bandage Mummy: After she falls off an airplane.
• Butt-Monkey: Minou is frequently pursued by most of the men, especially Jake, much to her annoyance despite her massive ego. She gets eliminated in the first season during a weight loss challenge that ended with her gaining weight instead. When the eliminations become permanent, she suffers severe injuries after jumping out of a real plane with no parachute, gets covered in bandages that prevent her from speaking coherently, and ends up being the first housemate to leave the competition for good after Ray accidentally pushes her into a path that launches her out of the mansion.
• Cats Are Mean: Especially towards Jake, although not without justification.
• Deadpan Snarker: Will usually snark at the others idiocy and misfortune.
• The Diva: Very much inspired by instances of this character archetype in reality TV.
• Ms. Fanservice: In-Universe, she's mentioned several times to be this.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: When Bobbie took over, Minou was the first houseguest to be extincted, but she was only eliminated after Ray accidentally tapped her wheelchair, which led to it rolling down the stairs and out of the mansion, which, to everyone else, represented Minou leaving the show.
• Once an Episode: She has a different wig for every episode.
• Precision F-Strike: Her very first line.
  Minou: "When he told us to jump out of the airplane, I just kept my composure, took a deep breath, and calmly thought: YOU'VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!"
• The Primadonna: Very much so. Vain, demanding, arrogant, and a source of much attraction and attention from others on account of being an ex-model.
• Rich Bitch: Rich and most definitely a bitch. Case in point, she's so used to having so many commodities that even when she manages to get the best room in the mansion, she still complains that it's lacking so many things that she's used to. And that's just the start.
  Minou: "Oh, my God! My room is appalling. No satin sheets, no rose petals, no little chocolates, no champagne?!"
• Sacrificial Lion: On an almost literal level. In the first challenge with Bobbie, Minou jumps out of the plane without a parachute and is left with dramatic injuries, revealing that the plane was real this time. She is also the first one to get eliminated, and she doesn’t come back until the finale, showing that Bobbie is serious when she says that being extincted is a permanent consequence with her.
• Sex Sells: Presumably why she’s a contestant and why she was brought back after getting extincted in “Live and Let Diet”.
• Sexy Cat Person: An anthropomorphic feline and a constant source of lust for most of the men.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: She never has the same wig twice.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: When the houseguests have to jump out of a plane again in “The Breakfree Club”, Minou assumes that it’s fake, like with Claude , so she jumps out without a parachute. Unfortunately for her, Bobbie’s version of the challenge involved a real plane.

Doctor D

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Voiced by: Joseph Motiki

An aggressive and ill-tempered penguin who walks and talks like a stereotypical rapper from the ghetto. He constantly brags about his rough-and-tough life in the 'hood and his experiences with gang wars and street crime, but rarely ever walks the talk when challenged to prove it.

The second housemate to be eliminated, after failing to accept Bobbie outing his true identity during the truth or dare challenge: he is actually Dewey Dewson, a nerdy and respectful former shoe store worker that comfortably grew up in the suburbs and never fought or killed anyone.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Shirtless and lacks pants, but has a cap, shades, bling, and shoes. Symbolically, they come off when he’s revealed to not be who he says he is.
• Achievement In Ignorance: Sleeping during “You Snooze, You Lose” allowed him to avoid Jake's mental breakdown and Ray's shenanigans.
• Alliterative Name: Speaks for itself. Also applies to his real name, Dewey Dewson.
• Bedmate Reveal: In “Scared Shirtless”, he wakes up cuddled up with Morreski, and is noticeably shocked.
• Becoming the Mask: Even after his true identity is revealed, he still acts like his rapper persona when he's annoyed.
• Butt-Monkey: Misses an entire episode due to heavily sleeping, accidentally stabs his own flipper, loses to Chi Chi in a rap battle, gets beaten up by Morreski, attempts to have sex with Chi Chi in the dark but ends up having sex with an unconscious Morreski, and his elimination results into him being outed as a fraud and getting slapped by his mother, who then drags him away.
• Casanova Wannabe: Not as much as Jake but his advances are shot down by Minou just as quickly as Jake's and he only managed to have sex with Chi Chi because she was unaware.
• Character Focus: Gets notable attention in “Dr. D Plays House” and “Truth or Consequences”.
• Clothing Reflects Personality: As rapper Doctor D, he wears a cap backwards, shades, loads of bling, and sneakers. As geeky Dewey Dewson, his attire comprises of glasses and a more appropriate shirt.
• Cool Shades: He wears whites ones that completely hide his eyes.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Morreski beats the ever living hell out of the doctor in “Random Acts of Niceness” after he took one step too far by insulting Morreski's mother. His loss against Chi Chi in “Dr. D Plays House” is pretty much a verbal equivalent once she gets the upper hand.
• Deep Sleep: After six days, he’s the last contestant to fall asleep in “You Snooze, You Lose” and only wakes up when the credits roll.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma!: A non-kissing, accidental example. He unknowingly has sex with a sleeping Morreski in “Scared Shirtless" that he mistook for Chi Chi.
• Feathered Fiend: While non-lethal despite what he tells people, he can be particularly aggressive and confrontational at times.
• Foreshadowing: There are some hints that Doctor D is a poser even before Bobbie outs him in “Truth or Consequences”:
  • In “Live and Let Diet”, he stabs himself with his switchblade after spending almost the entire episode threatening Ray with violence, hinting that he is not very skilled with weapons.
  • In “Dr. D Plays House”, despite being supposedly talented at rapping, especially freestyle, he loses a rap battle to Chi Chi, the last person that one would picture beating a gangsta at rapping.
    • In the same episode, he also nearly cries when Minou slams the door in his face, causing a wound on the side of his face. While he does manage to recover relatively quickly, this does hint that he's not good at handing himself in a fight.
  • In "Scared Shirtless”, he, a supposedly sexually experienced gangsta, fails to woo either Minou or Chi Chi. Although in the latter’s case, Doctor D is unaware that the person he had sex with in the dark isn’t her.
  • In “Random of Acts of Niceness”, he is utterly powerless when Morreski beats him up. He is left with a swollen eye, broken shades, and a bloody body overall. Although it’s natural that a grizzly bear would easily overpower a penguin, when both animals are anthropomorphized, one would expect the supposedly rough street thug penguin to at least put up a fight against the elderly bear.
• Given Name Reveal: In “Truth or Consequences”:
  Bobbie: Two can play this game, Doctor D. Or should I say, Dewey Dewson?
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: As Dewey Dewson, he wears a shirt but no pants.
• Harmless Electrocution: In “Truth or Consequences”, the lie-detecting chair zaps him thrice. While the shock makes his bling evaporate and burns his shades, Doctor D himself is left unharmed.
• Hidden Depths: In “Big Brother, Where Are Thou”, he completely breaks character and begins breaking down in tears due to being alone for an extended period of time.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A non-villainous example. His attempts at giving Bobbie a taste of her own medicine and hiding his true identity in “Truth or Consequences” work out at first. He destroys the TV before his mom shows up and reveals Bobbie’s real name, age, as well as the amount of plastic surgeries and divorces she’s had. However, Bobbie reveals his secret anyway, he admits to breaking the TV, his mom scolds him on live television, and he ends up being the second houseguest to get extincted.
• Impaled Palm: When threatening Ray in “Live and Let Diet”, he accidentally stabs his own flipper with his switchblade.
• Jive Turkey: A walking stereotype.
• Manly Tears: In “Big Brother, Where Are Thou”, he records himself crying and saying that he wants to see his “homies” again. In “Truth or Consequences”, he tears up when being called out by his mother and during his elimination.
• Momma's Boy: Turns out he is one. He's actually a polite shoe store worker named Dewey Dewson who is very obedient towards his mother.
• More than Meets the Eye: Doctor D only acts like gangsta to promote his rap album, and is actually a passive and polite individual in real life.
• The Napoleon: The second shortest contestant after Jake, barely reaching five feet, with an appropriately hotheaded demeanor that only Minou can compete with.
• Nerd Glasses: When he goes back to being Dewey, he wears large, black glasses with tape around the bridge.
• The One Who Wears Shoes: The only character that is not barefoot , aside from his mother. Must be a penguin thing.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: “Doctor D” is obviously not his real name, but everyone called him that until “Truth or Consequences."
• Out of Focus: The least focused on member of the cast and the second to get extincted.
• The Reveal: Doctor D is not a street-smart, violent rapsta that grew up in the “hood”, but rather an obedient, nerdy former shoe store worker named “Dewey Dewson” that grew up in a comfy suburban town and was Employee of the Month fifteen consecutive times at the shoe store he worked at.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: While none of the houseguests (even Chi Chi) have a particularly clean vocabulary, Doctor D has by far the foulest mouth, which fits his rap star persona.
• Smoking Is Cool: He smokes cigars, presumably to enhance his tough guy image. “Self Helpless” declares his love for stogies as a downright addiction.
• Too Dumb to Live: In “Random Acts of Niceness”, he angers Morreski by saying that Rico is so ugly that he makes Morreski’s mother look like a “motherfucking prom queen." Morreski tells him to not insult his mother, but Doctor D keeps provoking him, resulting into Morreski snapping, losing the niceness challenge, being forced into the cage Doctor D’s in, and beating him up.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without acknowledging that his personality for most of the show is a masquerade.

Rico

Voiced by: Francisco Trujillo

A Colombian crocodile that embraces every gay stereotype in the book, from his voice to his mannerisms to his fashion sense. A fashion designer by trade, he's as snappy, fussy, sassy, and dandy as they come, with all the flamboyance and passion one would expect from a Camp Gay like him.

The fourth housemate to be eliminated, after Chi Chi jumps on his neck and catches the bouquet in the wedding challenge, which leads to Rico getting hospitalized.

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• Abusive Parents: Rico's dad tricked him into coming out of the closet so he could beat him.
• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Only wears a red scarf.
• Animation Age Ghetto; In “2D or Not 2D”, he chastises Ray for watching cartoons, which he claims are for “children and thirty-something losers that still live with their parents”. When the cast turns into cartoons, Rico is the most openly displeased.
• Becoming the Mask: His accent and campiness were faked for their show, but Rico embraces these traits as part of the real him.
• Camp Gay: A walking gay stereotype. Subverted later on when it is revealed that he's actually a Straight Gay who was asked by the producers to act stereotypical for the show.
• Covert Pervert: In "2D or Not 2D", he is clearly giddy and excited upon seeing Jake's newly-drawn genitalia, and tries to sneak several peeks at it while he's not looking.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially when Minou isn't around.
• Fauxreigner: He fakes his accent and shoehorns Spanish words into his vocabulary for the sake of the show.
• Four Is Death: He was the fourth one eliminated in both seasons, and had to be hospitalized after his elimination in Bobbie’s run.
• Funny Schizophrenia: When stuck alone in the maze in “Big Brother, Where Art Thou”, he starts talking to himself.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He sometimes says Spanish terms to replace their English counterparts when he speaks.
• Large Ham: As part of his campy and passionate personality, he is probably the most emotional member of the cast.
• Must Have Caffeine: Apparently addicted to coffee and goes nuts when he's forced to lay it off for a day.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Went mad with power in "Rayland" and is the self proclaimed bitchy one when Minou isn't around.
• Queer People Are Funny: His humour mostly revolves around how stereotypically gay he can get.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The show’s only reptilian character, and he can be particularly snappy at times, most notably in “Rayland” when the power that comes with being a king corrupts him.
• The Reveal: Rico’s real voice has a "standard" American accent and he used to not have any stereotypical mannerisms. However, the producers asked him to be campy and speak with “an exotic Latino accent” for the show.
• Straight Gay: Was this before he joined the show.
• Technicolor Eyes: Has khaki green sclera.

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