History WesternAnimation / KevinSpencer

** And then there's Pete Wilcox, a towering mental patient who's so messed up he makes Kevin look normal. Pete has dissociative personality disorder, resulting in alters such as [[FanDisservice a teenage stripper named Brandy Love]], a sheepdog, a John Deere tractor (among many other things), and also believes that Kevin is Jesus. He's also the closest thing Kevin has to a friend, besides Allen and Bull the legless and armless junkie he met at Ward 9.

With its simplistic art style (and in season one, narration), season one played out like someone narrating a very twisted children's book. The second season altered this to present-day storytelling with less narration (the narrator would tell the audience what Kevin "says", as well as explaining certain plot elements to the audience), constant swearing (including an uncensored "fuck"), and full half-hour episodes. The stories were often vulgar and crass with low-brow humor, but would jump into philosophical, intelligent and surrealistic events.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Percy and Kevin constantly suffer what the narrator describe as "strokes". What they actually suffer are heart attacks.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: They routinely fight with and cheat on each other, but Percy and Anastasia still express love (or at least lust) for each other. They also get extremely jealous when the other cheats--Anastasia gets pissed off when Percy hires prostitutes, while Percy will cheerfully attempt to kill anyone who does his wife besides him.
* AuthorAvatar: Rick Kaulbars is pretty much the only other writer the show ever had besides Greg Lawrence. Along with Lawrence (see HerCodenameWasMarySue, below), Kaulbars also inserted himself into the episode "Air Show" as a drugged-out writer who desperately needed to come up with a script for the season's final episode. Kaulbars also includes Lawrence in this episode-Greg mentions that he would have written the script himself, but he was tied up looking after all the teenage runaways at Camp Whosyourdaddy.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Anastasia is so offended by Percy taking her and Kevin to "Boobies", a WritingAroundTrademarks version of the real-life Hooters chain, that she and her lesbian mistress Vivica decide to show Percy up by starting their own restaurant called "Peckers" that only employs handsome young men. The restaurant is a success...but Anastasia doesn't really get back at Percy because Peckers' clientele is all gay men.

** And then there's Pete Wilcox, a towering mental patient who's so messed up he makes Kevin look normal. Pete has multiple personalities, [[FanDisservice one of which is a teenage stripper named Brandy Love]], suffers periodic delusions of being everything from a sheepdog to a John Deere tractor, and believes that Kevin is Jesus. He's also the closest thing to a friend Kevin has, besides Allen and Bull the legless and armless junkie he met at Ward 9.

* [[DumbMuscle Crazy Muscle]]: Pete Wilcox is completely insane, built like a Sherman tank, and completely obedient to Kevin. He's served as Kevin's bodyguard in prison, dug escape tunnels for Kevin to escape from jail, and [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow given Percy a visit from "Mistress Esmerelda" whenever Kevin wants to see his father suffer.]]

** Percy also attempts to shove one of Kevin's video games up her ass.[[spoiler: He shoves it up Marty the bartender's ass. Then Anastasia finds out what he wanted to do and throws a toilet seat at him.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the later seasons of Kevin Spencer, season one played out like someone narrating a very twisted children's book with its simplistic art style and narration, also there in the same season, Charlie Plunt does not have his French Canadian accent that he has from season two onwards. It was until season two that Kevin Spencer shifted towards present day storytelling but still keeping its edgy humour and also adding some social commentary along the way.

** In "The Cruise" Kevin is clearly afraid of the Widow Coulson because he believes she is much crazier than him, even Allen agrees with Kevin and can be seen by her as well.

** In "Runaway", a man gives him money when he finds out Kevin was a runaway. Due to being a Sociopath, Kevin's response to this is to violently attacks the man and steals the money anyway. Allen the Magic Goose is actually shocked by this and mused that the kindness of others could put his faith back in humanity.
** There are times Kevin gets turned off by the sociopathic behavior of his love interest Shauna. He even displays shock over the fact that Shauna murdered her own mother in "Mother's Little Helper", as he never took a life before.

* GrandFinale: The last couple of episodes can be seen as an extended finale. Characters like Charlie Plunt and Porn Man are KilledOffForReal, Jimmy permanently closes his pawn shop, and in the final episode all the Spencers die before Allan wakes up and realizes the entire series was AllJustADream.
* HandsOffParenting: Percy and Anastasia pretty much define this trope. The main reason they keep Kevin around is because the childcare support checks they get for him are a major source of booze and smokes. They're also extremely neglectful, not worrying at all when Kevin disappears for months at a time. They explain that the boy always comes home eventually...and oddly enough, they're actually right.

** Kevin himself may be a drunken sociopath, but one of his most sincere wants is to be popular...and to have a hat with a weapon on it.

* ImaginaryFriend: Allan the Magic Goose. That said, they constantly argue and fight, and Kevin's psychiatrist sees it as less a friendship and more a master/slave relationship. Allan occasionally threatens to let the "Axe Monkey" off its leash if Kevin doesn't do what he says.
** [[spoiler: Everybody ''but'' Allen: the characters are all part of Allen's mind, according to the series finale.]]

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: A couple of episodes imply that Allan is some sort of spirit/demon entity that simply lives in Kevin's head. When Kevin temporarily dies from a heart attack, Allan returns to the "Imaginary Friends Galactic Headquarters" to be reassigned, while in another he becomes fed up with Kevin and tries to find another head to live in, interacting with several other characters.

** In the End of "Runaway", a inmate who may or may not be Slappy Bigelow threatens to make Percy his bitch for lying about having no smokes after he is caught smoking.

** "Allen the Magic Goose" has Kevin ordering Pete Wilcox to give Percy a "visit" from one of his multiple personalities, a cross-dressing dominatrix named "Mistress Esmerelda".

* PromotedToOpeningCredits: Besides the main family and Allan, various side characters like Marty and Charlie will take turns in the opening credits, depending on the season.

* SchoolIsForLosers: Percy firmly believes this, and thinks Kevin reading or trying to learn things is a sign of his becoming "fruity."

* SilentBob: Kevin "speaks", and the other characters react to what he "says", but the audience never hears it. Instead, the narrator tells us what Kevin "said". The only times Kevin actually verbally speaks are either in hallucinations or dreams, and in one episode where he told someone else to "fuck off".
* SpearCounterpart: Anastasia is so offended by Percy taking her and Kevin to lunch at "Boobies" (A WritingAroundTrademarks version of Hooters) that she and her lesbian mistress Vivica decide to start "Peckers", a restaurant that employs handsome young men as servers. The restaurant is a success...but the clientele is exclusively gay men, which undermines the point Anastasia wanted to make to Percy.
* StartMyOwn: Anastasia is so annoyed by the success of "Boobies", a restaurant chain that only employs attractive young women, that she decides to start her own version of the restaurant called "Peckers" that only employs attractive young men. The restaurant is a success, but not quite in the way Anastasia expected, since its patrons are all gay men.

''Kevin Spencer'' (1998-2005) was a Canadian animated series that aired on Creator/TheComedyNetwork and was based on an online Flash cartoon created by Creator/MondoMedia in the late 90s. Kevin was a silent, sociopathic juvenile delinquent who was born without the ability to feel emotions, was addicted to cough syrup and cigarettes, and spoke to an imaginary friend, Allen the Magic Goose, who always gave him horrible advice. His parents were fat, abusive alcoholics, who spent most of their time swearing at each other and committing illegal acts. ''Very'' dark and cynical, the show made light of the Canadian justice system and the nation's disadvantaged.

* ArchEnemy: Slappy Bigelow was a prison inmate who only appeared in the first season and one episode of season two. He was Kevin's main rival for control of the contraband black market in prison.

* HiddenDepths: Anastasia at least attempts to provide a good life for Kevin, and tries to get close to Percy. Also, in the episode "Dogfight" when a frat boy tricks her into attending a party so he can enter her unknowingly in an "ugly date" competition, she gives a surprisingly good breakdown of how cruel a prank it is and makes a mature and dignified exit. (she drives a bus into the frat house five minutes later, but it's hard to think the fratboys didn't earn it)

* INeverSaidItWasPoison:
-->'''Anastasia Spencer:''' ...busting into the welfare office, stealing the car, and framing me.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Percy and Anastasia have a couple of prank wars, and Anastasia takes just as much punishment as Percy.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the later seasons of Kevin Spencer, season one played out like someone narrating a very twisted children's book with its simplistic art style and narration, also there Charlie Plunt does not have his French Canadian accent that he has from season two onwards, it was until season two that Kevin Spencer has a more slice of life storytelling like feel but still keeping its edgy humour and also adding some social commentary.