History Characters / SallyForthHoward

* SiblingYinYang: Ted's a FanBoy pop-culture lover; his bothers love sports.

%%'''Hilary:''' [[ToiletSeatDivorce Get into petty arguments.]] [[TriangRelations Cheat.]] I've seen a lot of [[SoapOpera bad]] [[SitCom television]].

* WriteWhoYouKnow: The writer based her son on his brother. His brother's only request was that the kid be "as insane as possible".

'''Sally Forth'''

* {{Housewife}}[=/=]WhiteCollarWorker: She successfully balances the two most of the time. Her office job is middle management in marketing at a fairly large company, but what the company does or makes is unknown.

'''Ted Forth'''

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: ''So much so.'' When Sally once asks him what he's thinking about when they're stargazing and cuddling, he admits that he was connecting the stars like connect-the-dots.

* HappilyMarried

-->'''Hilary:''' Just for the record, you do know you only have one kid, right?
-->'''Sally:''' Your dad is currently driving 80 miles to a store that still sells Quisp cereal and Astro Pops, so that number changes from time to time.

'''Hilary Forth'''

* DeadpanSnarker: How she puts up with her childish dad.
* TheEeyore: Upon realizing that yes, she's got a boyfriend:
--> '''Hilary:''' So I guess we're going to make a lot of mistakes then, huh?\\
'''Jon:''' Or we'll have a great time together.\\
'''Hilary:''' Oh. Right. I like your way of thinking much better.
And later
-->'''Jon:''' I came to cheer you on for the [softball/little league] championship.\\
'''Hilary:''' [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove Wow, is that what boyfriends and girlfriends do? Support each other?]]\\
'''Jon:''' What do you think they do?\\
'''Hilary:''' [[ToiletSeatDivorce Get into petty arguments.]] [[TriangRelations Cheat.]] I've seen a lot of [[SoapOpera bad]] [[SitCom television.]]

'''Kitty'''

The Forths' cat.

'''Jackie'''

* MayDecemberRomance / OddCouple: To Sally's horror and confusion she not only hooked up with [[spoiler: her boss Ralph]] but also seems to be quite happy with him.
** And now they're getting ''married'', which caused Sally to [[HeroicBSOD bluescreen]].

'''Laura'''

* EvilMatriarch: Is not exactly nice to Sally and loves insulting Ted.

'''Ted's family'''

* TheEeyore: Ted's mom can be counted on to find the worst in everything, even if it's not there.
--->'''Ted's Mom:''' Was the flight dreadful?\\

** Later, Sally says she doesn't want help making Christmas dinner because she wants to complain about it later.
* [[ManChild Man Children]]: All four of Ted's brothers are sports fanatics and live with or near their parents.
* SiblingYinYang(-Yang-Yang-Yang-Yang): Ted's a FanBoy pop-culture lover; his bothers love sports.

!!Sally's coworkers

'''Ralph'''

* MayDecemberRomance: Easily a generation older than Jackie.

'''Alice'''

One of Sally's co-workers and main confidante. [[spoiler:At least until she left for another job in an October, 2014 storyline.]]

* ImagineSpot: How she survives the daily grind.

* [[spoiler: PutOnABus]]

'''Jeff'''

Sally's blandly competent current boss.

'''The Art Department''' (I think)

Sally's hilariously lazy and incompetent staff when she was reassigned to Marketing. They make her yearn for Ralph. [[spoiler: She eventually fired them all.]]

!! Hilary's friends

'''Faye'''

** {{Bifauxnen}}: Has come to an early realization that short hair and dark, unfussy clothes are a good look for her.
** TheLancer: She's the character who puts up the most resistance to Hilary's whims, especially in the band. ("You're So Party Let's Go Dancey" anyone?)

'''Nona'''

** BlondeBrunetteRedhead
** CloudCuckooLander: Nona. She's basically a red-headed [[Literature/HarryPotter Luna Lovegood]].
** [[DarkAndTroubledPast Dark and Troubled Present]]: It's implied that Faye's homelife isn't pleasant which is why she hangs out with Hilary so much.
** PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: After Hilary calls Faye her best/only friend in front of Nona, Nona stops speaking to them. Wanting to give her some space (and then just being too scared to talk), Hilary and Faye wait so long to apologize they discover Nona has already found a new pair of blond and brunette friends.]]
** [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]

!! Other characters

'''Aria'''

** EveryoneLovesBlondes: Aria is/was a major temptation for Ted: not only is she young and beautiful, she's also as much of a pop-culture lover as he is and once got him something (I think it was a lunchbox) that he'd always wanted.

* GenreSavvy: Her MeetCute with Jon is so unbearably cliche that she puts a stop to it and tells him [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife what will likely happen next]] and tries to avert it as much as possible. Her parents even [[LampshadeHanging comment on how savvy she is]].

* ManChild / OneOfUs: After the writer changed Ted became very into pop-culture and a little insane. On his own website Marciuliano implies that [[PsychopathicManChild Ted takes psychiatric drugs.]]

* WhatExactlyIsYourJob: Played with. Nobody, least of all Ted, seems to know what "strategic sourcing" actually is.
* WhiteCollarWorker most of the time, with a stretch of unemployment that lasted about a year when he was downsized from his job in "strategic sourcing".

Sally's former PointyHairedBoss and currently her co-manager.

One of Sally's co-workers and main confidante.

Sally's hilariously lazy and incompetent staff. They make her yearn for Ralph. [[spoiler: She eventually fired them all.]]

Sally's hilariously lazy and incompetant staff. They make her yearn for Ralph.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He occasionally fantasizes about robot monkeys.