Big Mouth/Characters

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Nick[]

The main character. Nick is the youngest member of the group and still hasn't reached puberty, feeling somewhat left out a bit. He is level headed, intelligent and witty, however, he does has a tendency to be a jerk sometimes, specially in relation to Andrew.

Age-Appropriate Angst: Nick struggles with being the only one in his group who hasn't reached puberty, and feels like a little kid compared to them.
All for Nothing: In the first season finale, he finally learns that he will grow and get to puberty when the time comes, and that he shouldn't push himself to grow up. By the end of the episode however, he has entered puberty, very much against his will.
Amicable Exes: With Jessi. They dated mostly for peer pressure, rather than because they wanted to date. They had a fight and broke up, but ultimately, they apologized and are now this.
Author Avatar: Nick is not only based on Kroll's own childhood and pubescent years, but is even voiced by him.

Andrew[]

Nick's best friend, a nerdy kid who's just hit puberty and exploring himself, with the often unwanted assistance of his Hormone Monster.

Affectionate Nickname: Maurice tends to call him "sweetheart". This however, tends to leave Andrew uncomfortable.
Ambiguously Bi: Is both attracted to The Rock and Missy. He's not worried about it though when he learned sexuality is just a spectrum. There are subtle hints he feels a certain level of attraction towards Nick, though they solve that issue in "Am I Gay?".
Butt Monkey: While all the kids go through at least one embarrassing thing per episode, Andrew suffers the most.
A Date with Rosie Palms: Very often, as any guy who reached puberty.
Jewish and Nerdy: Played absolutely straight, with the nerdy part increasing his appeal to Missy. Sometimes combined with Jewish Complaining, but not to anywhere near the extent that his father reaches.
Nerd Glasses: They fit his typical nerdy looks and personality.
Nice Guy: Along with Missy, he's one of the sweeter characters.

Jessi[]

Andrew and Nick's old time friend. She is a snarky, intelligent girl who recently reached puberty. She is having a hard time adapting herself to womanhood and her difficult home life with her parents always fighting.

A-Cup Angst: In "Girls Feel Horny Too", she feels jealous of Fatima's large buxom, especially compared to her unflattering bra.
Amicable Exes: With Nick. They dated mostly for peer pressure, rather because they wanted to date. They had a fight and broke up, but ultimately, they apologized and are now this.
Berserk Button: Jay's unwelcome advances are quick to piss her off. At one point, after offering to touch her boobs, she grabs him by the neck, lifts him from the floor, and chokes him against a locker.
A Date with Rosie Palms: At the end of "Girls Feel Horny Too", she learns about her own body as well as the fact that she can masturbate, implying that she is doing this after the episode.
D-Cup Distress: Following the purchase of a provocative and voluptuous red bra, Jessi manages to make her boobs look bigger. However, she soon feels overwhelmed by the attention received (including by one of her teachers), Jay throwing himself at her and begging to give her money while Devin calls her trashy and Lola gets aggressive against her. The song "Sexy Red Bra" that plays over it even mentions that she will become "an object of envy and awe".
Daddy's Girl: While she does get along with her mother Shannon (at least when not under the influence of Connie), scenes show that she's somewhat closer to her father Greg, and she feels much more sympathy towards him especially when she finds out that her mom is cheating on him.
Deadpan Snarker: She is prone to sarcastic, strong jabs towards people around her, specially when she doesn't like them. Her snarky tendencies are ramped up when she is with Matthew, who shares her witty and sarcastic sense of humor. After they make fun of Jay together, she says she feels like her most genuine self with Matthew.
Fiery Redhead: Even before she hit puberty and started following Connie's influence, Jessi's always been a feisty, quick-tempered girl.
First Name Ultimatum: Does this to her mom sometimes, specially when she is under Connie's influence.
Five Stages of Grief: It's subtle, but Jessi goes through these in Season 2 about her parent's divorce. She first runs away because she can't handle the new reality, then her anger builds up into causing her to act out by using her father's drugs and shoplifting, when that is gone, she starts blaming herself for everything and is later afflicted by the Depression Kitty. She ends the season agreeing to seek therapy as ways to process things in a more healthy manner.
It's All My Fault: At the end of an episode where Jessi tries her father's edible drugs, she is struck hard with this, blaming the divorce of her parents on herself, as well as the fact that his mother kicked her father out of the house. That's when the Shame Wizard takes her too, managing to even add an extra layer of guilt when he makes her blame herself for Trump's election because she wasn't more aggressive when volunteering for Hillary's campaign.
Jailbait: Despite just hitting puberty, she manages to attract the occasional bit of unwanted attention.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Temper and snarky remarks aside, Jessi is an overall friendly girl and a good friend who will do favors for her friends, just so long as they aren't stupid ones.
No Periods, Period: Defied. Jessi gets her period while on a school trip to the Statue of Liberty. In white shorts, no less! She starts wearing pads and at the end of the episode, she meets the Hormone Monstress.
Oedipus Complex: Starting with season 2, she hates her mother for her family's downfall, but she still loves her father, and also out of pity, because she feels he was the one screwed over by her mother.
Pet the Dog: Together with Matthew, they throw Jay a bone after they deeply hurt his feelings by using him for laughs during their science project and turning him into their project.
The Runaway: Alongside Jay at the end of season 1, she feels overwhelmed by her parents divorce and her new relationship with Jay, so they decide to run away together.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Downplayed, she wore a red bra to school at The Hormone Monstress' urging. She wasn't prepared for the mass Male Gaze, comments and hostility from Lola. After Lola hurts her, Jessi fled to the bathroom to remove it. While she felt overwhelmed by the attention, she still liked the bra.
Took a Level In Jerkass: During season 2, her parent's divorce causes her to act out violently, which includes using her father's drugs and shoplifting from a local pharmacy.
Tsundere: She's pretty chummy and chill with her friends, but she gets much more aggressive with Nick when he lies about him breaking up with her and after chewing him out in school she avoids him, but mellows out back to normal when they decide to go back to being friends. And she later acts the same with Jay when he starts hitting on her, and even when they do officially get together, she enjoys kissing him and relates to him over family issues, but his magic tricks and quoting his Dad's commercials still annoy her.
Women Are Wiser: Mostly played straight, but she isn't that much smarter when she lets Connie make decisions for her.

Jay[]

A friend of the group, who has a father with infamous quotable commercials. He seeks to be a magician and is eager to bond with his friends due to a troublesome home life. He is also known by his friends as a sex deviant.

Abusive Parents: His alcoholic mother is so neglectful she didn't notice he ran away from home for an entire week. She also forgot how old he is and served him toxic alcohol as a reward. His father is a corrupt divorce lawyer who openly mocks his hobbies in his commercials and treats him like a manservant versus his son. His brothers bully him relentlessly as well and force him to eat their jizz.
Ambiguously Brown: His nationality or race are never clearly defined, and his skin is tanner than the Caucasian and Jewish characters. He's been called Mediterranean once by Brad the couch cushion, and he also brings up a Greek food, possibly making him specifically part Greek (like his voice actor). His surname is of Armenian origin.
Bi the Way: After he makes out with Matthew during the slumber party, Jay comes to the conclusion that he is in fact attracted to guys and girls. He ends season 2 by having a threeway with a male and a female pillow.
Cargo Ship: In-Universe, he's gotten it on with a pillow and a bathmat. The pillow even gets pregnant!
The Friend Nobody Likes: Sometimes he is considered an annoyance to his own friends due to his annoying opinions and ideas, to the point he is often singled out from Andrew and Nick's friendship. At most, Jessi seems to find him an amusement rather than a friend and he never interacts with Missy.
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: In a Crosses the Line Twice sort of way.
I Just Want to Have Friends: He is well aware that he is The Friend Nobody Likes and is somewhat desperate to subvert this. When Nick and Andrew have a fallout, he desperately tries to become Andrew's new best friend and implies he is able to track them down when Andrew refuses to have him with them when they go to a camping trip. He outright mentions he craves affection in the finale.
Innocently Insensitive: Pretty much anytime he talks to Jessi, he manages to say just the right thing to piss her off.
Intergenerational Friendship: Jay and Coach Steve bond and become friends, which works since they've both led (and continue to lead) desperately sad lives and are stuffed full of delusion. Also Steve has the maturity of a child Jay's age.
Love Hungry: He is desperate for some sort of connection. He attempts to usurp Nick's place as his mother's son when he notices their fallout and how much better she is at being a mom than his own and desperately wants Jessi to be his girlfriend while admitting his neediness.
Phrase-Catcher: "Stop quoting your dad's commercials!"
Pretty Boy: A downplayed example due to the series artwork, but he doesn't have many awkward physical features other than his partial unibrow, and he could qualify for a younger version of Tall, Dark, and Handsome if only he wasn't so annoying.
The Runaway: Alongside Jessi at the end of season 1, already unsatisfied with his family life and years of hatred towards his neglectful parents and abusive brothers, but now with a new relationship with Jessi, they decide to run away together.
Running Gag: His tendency to quote his father's infamous divorce lawyer commercials, which is immediately followed by someone asking him to stop quoting them.
Stage Magician: Or more, that's what he'd like to be. Reactions to this vary from person to person, but he seems to have some real talent.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: According to Maury, the reason Jay doesn't have a hormone monster and apparently can't see any of them is that he's so knowledgeable about sex and his libido is so high that he basically is his own hormone monster. Some comments from Maury even imply that Jay knows things about sex that Maury, a 75-million year old anthropomorphic incarnation of raw sexual urges, doesn't know.

Missy[]

A shy and nerdy girl from school. Missy is sweet and kind to everybody and very interested in her studies and is very clearly harboring a crush on Andrew. She also has a condition that makes her over active if she consumes sugar.

Adorkable: A shy, meek and somewhat awkward girl trying to deal with puberty and her crush on a boy.
Ambiguous Disorder: She has various symptoms of ADHD, specially her Motor Mouth (common with girls who have ADHD) and becoming easily over-active when having even a bit of sugar (a single coke is hallucination inducing to her).
Black and Nerdy: She is the nerdiest character in the show, even surpassing Andrew due to her love of science and history and she is also the darkest skinned main character.
But Not Too Black: Technically literal. She's bi-racial, with a white mother and black father.
Celebrity Crush: For Nathan Fillion, whom she describes a Hunk. This seems to come from a love of Firefly and Castle, both of which he plays the main character.
A Date with Rosie Palms: Starting in Season 2, she's shown to have a habit of masturbating using a worm plush she has in her room. After feeling embarrassed about it, in the season finale she embraces this and starts embracing her sexuality.
Fangirl: For both Castle and Firefly, which star her Celebrity Crush.
G-Rated Drug: Sugar (in a particular case, coke), causes her to see things that aren't there, become overactive and become even aggressive for no particular reason.
Motor Mouth: She likes to talk a lot.
Nice Girl: One of the kindest and sweetest characters in this whole series.
Parental Substitute: Like Jessi, she shares Connie as her Hormone Monstress, but the two very rarely interact with each other. Instead, Missy's imaginary version of Nathan Fillion tends to represent her sexual urges instead.
Self-Deprecation: In season 2, she starts having severe body image issues and starts to try to hide her body with baggy clothes and is pestered by an evil version of herself that keeps shaming her.

The Hormone Monsters[]

A species of monsters of the ancient ages that accompany children going through puberty.

Allegorical Character: They're one for puberty as a whole, and represent the teenage's Id and most base instincts of fighting and screwing.
Anti-Mentor: Pretty much every Hormone Monster depicted so far is one of these. While they encourage sexual activity, they also tend to try to push their kids to become juvenile delinquents. Nick, Andrew and Jessi in particular are prone to complain that their Hormone Monsters are more of a hindrance than a help.
Anything That Moves: Both of them find everything sexual and seem to be attracted to all genders. Maurice openly acknowledge he finds tomatoes and sneezes sexy things.
Even Evil Has Standards: Their whole purpose is to lead people to embrace their basic emotions, usually encouraging extreme selfishness and downright immoral behaviour in name of sex, violence or attention. Yet, even they have lines they won't cross, like porn addiction.
Fat Bastard: Maurice and Connie both have noticeably big guts, although Mo's is more of a beer belly while Connie is just curvy.
Horned Humanoid: Maurice has one horn on the top of his head, while Connie has two.
Long-Lived: Maury claims to have come into existence when life first developed on Earth and Connie mentioned they used to live on the ancient continent, Pangaea.
Not-So-Imaginary Friend: It varies, but they seem to be at least partially real, or at least real to the ones they are dealing with, with Nick being able to talk with Maurice when he wants to be talked to. It's known that Matthew is good friends with Maurice and that the special kid in school is capable of seeing Maurice and that he knows his name. Similarly, Lola at one point appears to answer to Connie's passionate Rousing Speech with an amen.
Toxic Friend Influence: Zigzagged. Sometimes, they are a grounding presence in the kids' lives, but they also often push them to embrace their nastier instincts, like their hedonistic tendencies, and in Jessi's case even shoplifting.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: If their make out on "Head Pusher" is anything to go by, they still have feelings for each other and are clearly attracted to each other despite their troublesome past. As seen in the finale, Maurice still has a tattoo of Connie's name on his forearm.
Working with the Ex: Connie and Maurice dated back when Pangaea was still around, but broke up due to issues. They still have to work together as they have to deal with children who are involved with each other, specially in regards to Missy and Andrew's romance.

Maury[]

The monster that guides men through puberty.

Connie[]

The monster that guides women through puberty.

Rick[]

An unwashed, beaten up male hormone monster with some, er, unique ideas on how human interactions and relationships work. He appears to be Coach Steve's personal Hormone Monster, which explains a lot.

But Now I Must Go: He chooses to retire after Coach Steve finally has sex.
Catch-Phrase: "What are you gonna do?"
Elderly Immortal: Looks far older than both Maurice and Connie, despite all of them being presumably ageless beings as old as life on Earth itself. Then again, his signs of "age" might actually just come from a rougher life.
- One possible reason he's aged so badly is that he's been waiting 30 years for Coach Steve to lose his virginity.
Expy: Of Gollum.
Fun with Subtitles: In season 2, he gets automatic subtitles due to being The Unintelligible.
Hidden Depths: Apparently, he helped Maurice abandon for a short while, at least his Lovable Sex Maniac ways, off-screen. How he did that, being as perverted as your average hormone monster (just in a really awkward way), is a mystery. Of course, since most of the episode in which this occurs turns out to be a dream, this may be subverted.
Nice Guy: While like all hormone monsters he condones violence and perversion he is overall a friendly, forgiving guy.

Tyler[]

A younger and very naive newbie hormone monster that is assigned to Nick.

Ass Shove: Gavin likes to put cigarettes up his butthole.
Baby Talk: He often does this in an attempt to defuse Nick's anger at him by pretending to be cute.
Beleaguered Assistant: To Gavin.
Body Horror: The way his horn grows is shown to be quite painful.
Fetish: He shows signs of having a mommy kink, constantly mentioning Nick's mom, calling Connie a "strong mommy" and even calling Elliot a "tiger mommy" when impressed with him.
It's All About Me: Nick calls him out on the fact that his advice is only for his own pleasure, which benefits neither of them.
The Mole: He is actually working for the Shame Wizard, believing him to be an actual nice guy and feeding him information.
Too Kinky to Torture: Enjoys it when the Shame Wizard starts hitting him with a newspaper.
Naïve Newcomer: Unlike the other Hormone Monsters, Tyler is a full newbie that has no prior experience before taking over as Nick's Hormone Monster and has very little knowledge of everything related to puberty.
Youthful Freckles: He has a smattering of them to emphasize his youth and inexperience.

Gavin[]

An "alpha male" Hormone Monster.

The Bully: He enjoys kicking the shit out of Tyler both physically and emotionally.
Jerkass: He's an aggressive, swaggering asshole.
Testosterone Poisoning: He's jacked and has a violent streak, hinting at steroid abuse.

Other Creatures[]

The Shame Wizard[]

Anti-Villain: By the end of season 2, Andrew admits that shame is a part of life all need to deal with and may teach them to be better people, which is the Wizard's goal. Once the Shame Wizard drops his more villainous traits, he is able to work together with Andrew.
Big Bad: He's the driving negative force of Season 2, and all characters start to have to deal with them as their actions call him forth.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: He talks directly to the audience over the "to be continued" screen at the end of "Dark Side of the Boob".
Casting a Shadow: the Shame Wizard is able to teleport and manifest himself by using shadows in a given room.
Catchphrase: "Shaaame..."
Collector of the Strange: His hobby is collecting vintage Nazi dildos.
Color Motif: While he doesn't wear green, he's connected to the color. Many of his appearances, especially when he is at his most threatening, have the whole show tinted in a green shade. Even the trial he puts Andrew through is in an entirely green court.
Dastardly Whiplash: Has a pencil-thin moustache, large hooked nose, hunched posture and dark robes.
Disc-One Final Boss: Despite being the Big Bad for most of Season 2, he gets defeated in the penultimate episode allowing Kitty to take over as the Final Boss.
Evil Brit: He has a British accent.
Evil Laugh: On occasion, he releases a pretty masterful one.
Foil: To the Hormone Monsters. While the Hormone Monsters represent the teenage Id, the Shame Wizard represents the teenage Superego.
Forehead of Doom: He's got a weird eggplant-shaped head with a large amount of space between his hairline and eyebrows.
Friendly Enemy: Despite being the antithesis to the hormone monsters, he's able to converse with them on a casual basis.
Hidden Depths: Likes Nazi dildos and did a cover of A Ha's "Take on Me".
Humanoid Abomination: Not only does his appearance look slightly abnormal (elf ears and sharp teeth), but he can manifest through shadows and create countless doppelgangers of himself.
Insane Troll Logic: Much how shame actually works, the Shame Wizard finds ways for people to feel guilty about things they shouldn't or that don't even have any way to be blamed for, which includes making Jessi feel like she was the cause for Trump's election as she was not sufficiently aggressive as a Hillary supporter.
Knight of Cerebus: The show never had an antagonist or Big Bad prior to him coming along, and it shows that the second season, in part thanks to his antics, is much darker.
Manipulative Bastard: As the embodiment of shame, he whispers in everyone's ears and makes everyone act against each other's, and their own, best interests.
Mismatched Eyes: He has one hazel eye and one blue eye. There is a large scar over the hazel eye,suggesting it may be a replacement.
Mommy Issues: He has a tense, troubled relationship with his mother.
Necessary Evil: Sees himself as this, and is later agreed to be this. Yes, shame might be a bad feeling to have, but feeling shame will teach you to not do something again and without it, as he mentions in his song, humanity could revert to a depraved state of hedonism, which actually happens in the sleepover.
Parental Abandonment: His father abandoned him, leading to severe issues in his adult life.
Villain Has a Point: Although he takes things too far, he's right that an unrepentant human race devoid of guilt would not be a good thing.
Villain Song: He gets a show-stopper worthy of Disney in "Dark Side of the Boob".

Depression Kitty[]

A creature from the depression department. She has been a outside consultant in Jessi's case, and tries to take over Jessi's guidance when she and Connie have a fallout.

Allegorical Character: Of depression. She isolates Jessi from her friends and family and tries to keep her in a constant state of lazy indisposition. Even when she is defeated, Jessi still admits she needs to see a therapist.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She shows up as disarming and even somewhat pleasant and friendly, but once that Jessi is under her thumb, she shows herself controlling and very antagonistic.
Cats Are Mean: Doesn't get more mean than to basically trying to drive someone to suicide.
Final Boss: She is the last threat faced in Season 2, well after the Shame Wizard had become weaker and sympathetic.
Foil: To the Shame Wizard, who was the Big Bad for most of Season 2, Kitty was introduced right at the end and serves as a sort of Final Boss for the same season. Where as the Wizard starts as a fully evil and antagonistic being, he ends as a sort of Anti-Villain that not only has a sympathetic backstory and understandable motives but is ultimately able to befriend both Andrew and Maurice, Kitty is much more apparently nice and pleasant, her suggestions to Jessi make her feel instantly comfortable, but she is much more devious, wanting Jessi to lose connection to her friends, family and goals and instate depression on her, and all the kids and monsters run away from her, as Jessi seeks help in therapy to get rid of her fully.
Knight of Cerebus: Like the Shame Wizard, every of her appearances makes the show darker.
Shout-Out: Bears a striking resemblance to the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, specifically it's Disney's incarnation, down to a similar color palette and fur pattern. As well as the way she first approaches Jessi: suddenly appearing behind her.

The Students[]

Matthew[]

An openly gay classmate of the main characters. He's the bitchy host of the school morning news who loves to fuel the fires of personal drama to everybody.

Backstory: He mentions this by name in season 2, saying that he used to be cyberbullied in Texas and called the Steer Queer.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: In Season 2, he gains some of this with Jay of all people near the end as Matthew frequently pokes fun of him and Jay often quickly retorts in annoyance even when Matthew tries to offer some friendship to him, and when Jay rejects him Matthew responds with his typical name-calling. But during the slumber party they end up making out after the Smooch or Share game led to their first kiss (Matthew's at least and Jay's first boy kiss). And although Matthew brushes him off the next day, it's highly implied that Jay is still attracted him.
Camp Gay: Perhaps the first animated depiction of a bitchy gay friend, as he's very catty and sassy.
Closet Key: During the sleepover, Matthew and Jay kiss during a spin the bottle game. When they talk about it again, they make out. This later leads Jay to realize he is bisexual.
The Dandy: Is always well dressed. At one point, he also wears a cowboy costume for no apparent reason.
Gay Best Friend: Claims this role for Jessi in the very first episode. They seem to have a somewhat nicer relationship than with others and he appears to enjoy her wittiness. This gets deconstructed in Season 2; girls don't really see him as a boy and other boys isolate him because they see him only as a gay guy and in part because of his bitchy personality. At the end of the day, he feels somewhat stuck in a role he has to play to maintain his girl friends and doesn't quite feels he fits in any group.
Everyone Has Standards: Sure he enjoys picking on people and fueling drama, but just like everyone else in the party, he is disgusted with Daniel when he learns that he forces girls to give him blowjobs and slut shames them when they don't comply to his demands, even calling Daniel a "busy little asshole".
Hidden Depths: Matthew has a hard time fitting in on school when he isn't being a bitchy gay guy. When he tries to become nicer and let his guard down, the Shame Wizard shows up to reveal he feels that he doesn't quite fit in anywhere, since the girls don't actually acknowledge him as a guy and he has little in common with other guys his age, who actively avoid him, either due to his unpleasant personality or due to being gay.
Ink-Suit Actor: He looks like a cartoon version of his actor.
Jerkass: He genuinely enjoys playing hurtful pranks and making fun of others while fueling any drama that might happen around him and takes pleasure on calling people names.
Karma Houdini: He is never called out or receives any sort of punishment for his various endeavors in playing with people and his terrible personality.
Karma Houdini Warranty: THOROUGHLY played in Season 2. After meeting an older gay man, he starts realizing that his crassness has left him alone and miserable and we even see him at one point huddled sadly in the teachers lounge. The Shame Wizard even CALLS him "A lonely little queer."
Pet the Dog: Together with Jessi, they throw Jay a bone after they deeply hurt his feelings by using him for laughs during their science project and turning him into their project. Matthew adds that they don't want to be blamed for his suicide.
School Newspaper Newshound: He takes his role as the school morning news host very seriously.

Lola[]

Voiced by: Nick Kroll

Devin's close friend and her right hand man. She is always following Devin and hates when she hangs out with other people or seek other friends.

Ambiguously Bi: Despite being clearly interested in boys, she shows a degree of attraction towards Devin. When their friendship crash and burns, in the middle of her anger and rant, Lola kisses Devin before unfollowing her in all social media they have.
Ax Crazy: Lola is essentially Devin's attack dog, and she's prone to violence. She even sprains Andrew's wrist.
Beta Bitch: Takes pride in this position. At one point, Devin outright calls her a beta bitch during Jessi's sleepover.
Clingy Jealous Girl: To anyone who talks to Devin.
The Dog Bites Back: Devin clearly holds no respect for Lola and often humiliates her when bored, which Lola takes in stride. After the sleepover, however, she can no longer handle Devin's treatment and abandons the position of Beta Bitch, unfriending and unfollowing her in all social media sites.
Freudian Excuse: It seems that a lot of her anger issues and insecurity stems from her unstable home life.
Kill and Replace: She has a bizarre desire to someday kill Devin, wear her skin as a human jumpsuit and take her life. Devin actually finds that very flattering.
Odd Friendship: She and Gina bond over their heartbreak and Devin's meanness. At the end of the sleepover, they turn their backs on the people who hurt them and seem to have forged an awkward though healthy friendship.
Vocal Dissonance: She has a rather deep voice for a little girl and is clearly voiced by a man.

Gina[]

A classmate who developed earlier than the other girls.

Gainaxing: Her first ever scene focuses on her generous bust bouncing around as she runs.
Male Gaze: The boys initially only see her as a pair of boobs until being told by Nick's family that they need to see her as a person.
Odd Friendship: After Gina gets her heart broken by Nick and Lola gets the same treatment from Andrew, and both are on the receiving end of Devin's bitchiness, they find a lot of common ground to become friends. Gina also feels sorry for how Devin mistreats Lola and she thinks that this treatment is perfectly ok.
Remember the New Guy?: Lampshaded by Jessi. She's been in the kids same class since 1st grade, but the boys never noticed her until she grew breasts.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Her development has made her feel bad about herself since the boys objectify her and the girls give her a hard time.

Families[]

The Birches[]

Nick's family, consisting of his father Elliot, mother Diane, older sister Leah, and older brother Judd.

Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Nick often feels this way, and for good reason. Elliot and Diane are quirky to put it mildly, and they openly display that quirkiness around Nick's friends. Elliot even dropped his pants at an amusement park to show solidarity with Nick when the latter got pantsed while hanging from a zipline.
Good Parents: While embarrassing, Elliot and Diane have done a good job raising Nick. The Shame Wizard mentions that it's harder to get to Nick because his parents gave him a notably high self-esteem.
Happily Married: Diane and Elliot are still very much in love and have an active sex life still. They often mentioned how their sex life is going great.
My Beloved Smother: Diane and Elliot both are touchy-feely with Nick, but she's especially attached, saying she wants to "put him back up there" ("there" being her womb) and giving him lip kisses when he's already 12. She also gets sad over the fact that she'll soon have an empty nest.

Elliot Birch[]

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Elliot is pretty strange, but he's a highly competent doctor and is probably the most well-adjusted character in the entire cast.
Camp Straight: He's rather flamboyant and kind of a weirdo, but has a passionate sex life with his wife, to whom he's Happily Married.

Diane Birch[]

Mama Bear: When the normally sweet Diane finds out that Jessi dumped Nick she is enraged and snarls that she wants to rip her to pieces.

Leah Birch[]

Cool Big Sis: Leah is helpful, friendly and open minded. She likes to help Nick both in his relationships and understanding a lot of things about teens and puberty.

Judd Birch[]

Emo Teen: Mostly wears black and acts kind of angry and creepy, like countless other teenagers. But he doesn't actually behave violently towards people, unlike Jay's older brothers.

The Gloubermans[]

Andrew's family, consisting of his father Martin and mother Barbara.

Awful Wedded Life: It varies, but his father describes himself as an "angrily married man". He does genuinely loves Barbara and she reciprocates, but they easily get into each other's nerves.
Sexless Marriage: Not entirely, but they are practically this in comparison to Elliot and Diane.

The Glasers[]

Jessi's family, consisting of her father Greg and mother Shannon.

Awful Wedded Life: Greg and Shannon's marriage devolved into this. They often jab at each other for no reason, fight all the time and clearly dislike each other at this point. Played for Drama, as the two of them are incredibly miserable and Jessi's home life becomes worse and worse because her parents' hatred for each other sometimes get in the way of the fact they both genuinely love her.
Celebrity Resemblance: They have a dog that looks like (and is later voiced by) Nathan Fillion.
Dead Sparks: They used to be happy and in love, but now their relationship is this.
Happily Married: They were this, a long time ago. Over the years, they drifted apart due to Shannon's advancing career and Greg's stagnation, becoming continuously lazy and high all the time.

The Bilzerians[]

Jay's family, consisting of his father, mother, and two older brothers.

Big, Screwed-Up Family: Their home is more akin to a cave of feral animals than a surburban dwelling. Val and Kurt are sadistic, bullying little beasts, Jenna is sunk-deep into alcoholism and Guy is the worst of them all: a misogynistic, sleazy creep who doesn't possess a shred of remorse for his horrid actions.

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