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1! The Film:
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3!! The Lone Rangers:
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5!!! Chaz Darvey
6->Played by: Creator/BrendanFraser
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8!!! Rex
9->Played by: Creator/SteveBuscemi
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11!!! Pip
12->Played by: Creator/AdamSandler
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14!! KPPX "Rebel Radio"
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16!!! Ian "The Shark"
17->Played by: Creator/JoeMantegna
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19!!! Milo
20->Played by: Creator/MichaelMcKean
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22* JustFollowingOrders: Milo attempts to rationalize his changes to the station [[note]]switching the format to easy listening and firing most the staff, ''including'' the secretary who was having sex with him to keep her job[[/note]] as this, but Ian doesn't buy it for a second.
23-->'''Milo:''' This came from above. I fought this thing kicking and screaming.\
24'''Ian:''' You've only begun to start kicking and screaming!
25!!! Marcus
26->Played by: Creator/RegECathey
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28!!! Suzzi
29->Played by: Creator/NinaSiemaszko
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31!!! Carter
32->Played by: Creator/DavidArquette
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34!!! Yvonne
35->Played by: Michelle Hurst
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37!!! Doug Beech
38->Played by: Creator/MichaelRichards
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40!! LAPD
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42!!! Sgt. O'Malley
43->Played by: Creator/ErnieHudson
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45!!! Wilson
46->Played by: Creator/ChrisFarley
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48!!! Carl Mace
49->Played by: Marshall Bell
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51!!! Chris Moore
52->Played by: Creator/HaroldRamis
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54!! Other characters
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56!!! Kayla
57->Played by: Creator/AmyLocane
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59!!! Jimmy Wing
60->Played by: Creator/JuddNelson
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62! The Web Series:
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64!! The Central 12
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66!!!Julia Lind
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68* AllLoveIsUnrequited: with Seth, who broke her heart in season 1 once he started dating a girl named Vanessa.
69%% * AloofDarkHairedGirl
70%%* BabiesEverAfter: with Chris in her distant future.
71%% * BeYourself
72* BewareTheNiceOnes Dear god; never, ever be insulting or develop a bad attitude around Julia Lind. She’ll literally eat you alive.
73* TheBigDamnKiss: After 2 seasons of Will they or Won’t They?, Julia and Chris finally share their first real kiss in season 3.
74* BilingualBonus: she fluent in both English and Spanish and has developed an interest in learning French as well.
75* BrainyBrunette: arguably the smartest among the female cast after Elly.
76* CloudCuckooLander: As a child and occasionally during the earlier seasons.
77* CuteBookworm: she’s never seen without a book, and it is hinted that her previous attraction to Seth was due to a mutual passion for reading.
78* DressHitsFloor: she deliberately slipped off her nightgown moments before her first sexual encounter with Chris.
79* ForcefulKiss: Gives one to Chris during a study session to get rid of some of her Unresolved Sexual Tension.
80%% * FourTemperamentEnsemble: the Phlegmatic.
81* GeekyTurnOn: she mainly seems attracted to nerds and intellectual loners and doesn’t particularly seem to be a fan of jocks.
82* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Lydia and arguably Claudia.
83* HiddenDepths: she’s very prone to deep reflective thought beyond her quiet demeanor, yet randomly voices her insights at the most unexpected moments.
84* HotLibrarian: later in the series.
85* LethalChef: she tries to prepare a meal for Chris for a picnic without her mother’s assistance, which of course ends up disastrous.
86* LongDistanceRelationship: tries to maintain one with Chris during the time she spends in Italy.
87* LoveHurts: she takes being rejected by Seth hard, considering that she’d been crushing on him for months before the incident, and only finally begins getting over him and moving on emotionally after about a month of moping.
88* MeetCute: Chris and Julia first met near a dumpster.
89* MorningSickness: develops a terrible case of this late into her pregnancy with Edwin.
90* MyOwnPrivateIDo: she and Chris have a private wedding with a small, select group of friends toward the end of the series.
91%% * NerdsAreSexy
92%% * OddFriendship: WithElly.
93* OldFriend: she was very close with Lucy throughout middle school, back when they were both considered semi-popular, and have still remained good friends despite somewhat drifting apart.
94* OnlyFriend: She once considered Lydia her only friend, and for a while, Julia was hers.
95%% * OnlySaneMan
96%% * PairTheSmartOnes: with Chris.
97* PutOnABus: to Italy to study abroad for a year after graduating high school, which devastates Lydia, who was hoping she and Julia could study at Berkley together.
98%% * QuirkyCurls
99%%* RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Lydia’s and Lucy’s Red.
100* SelectiveObliviousness: Julia is in constant denial of the feelings she’s always had toward Chris, even throughout the period she was crushing on Seth Oliver, although she finally comes to terms with them * the day she and Chris are coincidentally trapped together in the school’s library, which allows some Unresolved Sexual Tension to surface.
101* SharedFamilyQuirks: both she and her mother pinch their noses when they smell trouble coming up and share a love of languages and literature.
102%%* SheCleansUpNicely
103* TheBusCameBack: she became homesick during the time she spent studying in Florence and fell into a depression, which led her to move back to the states shortly after her first semester.
104%% * TheConfidant: to pretty much everyone, especially Lydia.
105%% * TheConscience
106* TheHeart: often seen as the glue that pretty much holds the cast together.
107* ThePhilosopher: she’s silent and reflective and arguably the most independent-minded of the teens in the series.
108%% * TheQuietOne
109* TheSmartGirl: Julia is generally seen as among the most studious of the teenage cast and is often remarked as having “her head always tucked in a book.”
110%%* TheirFirstTime: with Chris.
111%% * TwiceShy: again, with Chris
112* UnderwaterKiss: shares a rather passionate one with Chris once everyone’s left the school’s pool after swimming practice.
113%% * VitriolicBestBuds: With Pandora.
114* WeightWoe: she suffered from bulimia during her eight grade year and spent much of her summer and freshman year in therapy.
115* WiseBeyondTheirYears: To the extent of having much of the main cast approach her for advice at one point or another.
116* StupidestThingIveEverHeard:
117** Lydia: Don’t you get it, Jules? We’re seventeen years old, and prom is only about two months away. If I’m unable to finally find a date that genuinely cares enough to take me, I might as well just crawl back under the rock I came from and classify myself a hermit. I’m sick of being so goddamn… frumpy…and unlovable. Can’t you understand that?
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119** Julia: …Well, that’s just about the stupidest thing I’ve heard yet. You’re seriously beating yourself up over some stupid onetime event that involves dressing yourself in some itchy, overpriced gown to go with a horny idiot and stand around in some clammy ballroom eating stale potato chips while swaying halfheartedly to bad music from a random garage band nobody’s even heard of? Please.
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121!!! Lydia Calandra
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123* AllLoveIsUnrequited she’s hopelessly in love with Keegan, who sadly doesn’t reciprocate.
124%% * AloneAmongTheCouples: at the school’s prom in season 4.
125* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther! : And sometimes they even show it, too!
126%% * BrainyBrunette
127* BrilliantButLazy: she’s very intelligent and perceptive, but procrastinates on long term assignments and has severe test anxiety, mainly because she doesn’t study sufficiently.
128%% * ButtMonkey: sadly, yes.
129%% * Cloudcuckoolanders Minder: sometimes, to Rebecca and Julia.
130* CovertPervert: she seems pretty knowledgeable in the area of sex and sometimes lectures Julia over all the secret details involved in it.
131%% * {{Dandere}}
132* DesperatelyCravesAffection: she feels perpetually starved of genuine affection and intimacy and sometimes wishes she could relate more to her peers and even family members.
133%%* {{Determinator}}
134* DidYouThinkICantFeel : Dear lord, never ignore Lydia’s feelings or let her work go unnoticed.
135* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: she’s a member of the school’s student council, volleyball team, and choir.
136%% * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic.
137* GarageBand: she becomes the main vocalist for “The Rummikins” in the school’s battle of the bands.
138%% * GrammarNazi: And how!
139* HairTriggerTemper: when you get this girl angry, run!
140%% * HeterosexualLifePartners: with Julia.
141* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: she cares way, way too much over what people think of her and tends to put people into boxes, which has led to plenty of misconceptions throughout the series.
142* IAmNotPretty: She considers herself unattractive by comparison to Rebecca and Abigail.
143* InLoveWithLove: she’s quite the romantic and is desperately seeking a boyfriend for much of the series.
144%% * InnocentBlueEyes
145* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: her knowledgeableness and sometimes overly expansive vocabulary sometimes puts her at odds with her peers.
146%% * JustFriends: again, with Keegan.
147%% * DeadpanSnarker: to her siblings, anyway.
148* LoveHungry: she desperately wants to be in love and claims at one point that she wants to experience the same feelings Julia and Chris do whenever they’re together, yet is continually either flat-out rejected by boys or left victim to unrequited love.
149%% * MiddleChildSyndrome
150* OnlyFriend: she considered Julia to be her only friend at one point during their childhood, and vice versa.
151* %% OnlySaneMan: often switches this role with Rebecca.
152* PlatonicLifePartners: with Keegan, to the extent of constantly being mistaken for dating him.
153%%* RavenHairIvorySkin
154* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Responsible to Abigail’s Foolish.
155* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness she has a somewhat more advanced vocabulary than many of her same-aged peers, which occasionally surfaces and tends to confuse the people around her. This trait character trait however is most evident when it comes to her writing.
156%%* SelfDeprecation
157* SheCleansUpNicely: she grows into quite the beauty as the series rolls on and is the object of Julia’s jealousy at the school’s prom.
158%% * SheIsAllGrownUp
159* ShrinkingViolet: becomes this around most boys.
160* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers : she starts to abandon her narrow view of the world and care less about what others think once she starts interacting more Julia and other people her age.
161* SurroundedByIdiots: she implies this several times throughout the series.
162* TheEeyore: her siblings occasionally call her this throughout the series, due to her moodiness and self-esteem issues.
163%% * TheReliableOne: among her siblings.
164%% * TheSpock
165%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: with Keegan.
166* YouSayTomato: she speaks with a slight lisp and occasionally stumbles over certain words.
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168!!! Claudia Malave
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170* AllergicToLove: she faints at the mere prospect of writing someone a love letter and still can’t quite get over Jordy’s suicide.
171* BookDumb: she hates to study and earns mediocre grades at best, but is actually quite smart and capable when she sets her mind to it. She’s arguably one of the more levelheaded cast members as well.
172* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Toward Sylvia at the start of the series, although their relationship gradually improves.
173* BrokenBird: becomes this as she tries to cope with having been sexually abused as a child, and later with Jordy’s suicide.
174* ButICantBePregnant: Claudia’s secretly deals with a pregnancy scare about a week after sleeping with Gabriel, after missing her period and feeling nauseous during a class presentation.
175%% * ClassicalAntiHero
176* DefrostingIceQueen: a major portion of her Character Development revolves around this.
177* DoesNotLikeMen: she seems this way at the very beginning of the series, although most of it is rooted from a very traumatic experience she underwent in her childhood.
178* DontYouDarePityMe : Claudia struggles considerably with the suicide of her close friend and presumable crush Jordy, and is rather reluctant to accept people’s comfort when she becomes stoic and withdrawn.
179* EatingLunchAlone: she usually takes advantage of sitting alone at the school’s steps working on her artwork during her lunch period.
180* FriendToAllChildren: she loves babysitting her younger cousins and seems to have a special fondness and talent with children in general.
181%% * FourTemperamentEnsemble: the Melancholic.
182* HeterosexualLifePartners: she’s extremely close with her cousin, Julia, who she treats like a sister.
183%% * HiddenHeartOfGold
184* HugeSchoolgirl: she towers over much of the school’s male population at 5 ft. 11.
185* ItsNotPornItsArt: she’s very fond of sketching the male and female physique, which earns her disapproval from her elders.
186%% * LikeBrotherAndSister: with Chris.
187* LimitedSocialCircle: she doesn’t seem to hang around much of anybody outside her small group of friends.
188%% * MamaBear: towards her cousins and friends.
189* MoodSwinger: she was diagnosed as bipolar when she was 12 after a scarcely mentioned NoodleIncident.
190* NiceGirl: she really is, beneath her aloofness.
191* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: she claims to once have been rejected by a guy simply because she was too tall.
192* PlayingHardToGet: initially with Gabriel, although her true feelings eventually unwind.
193* ReclusiveArtist: she’s gets very engrossed in her artwork and often spends long periods sketching away in remote corners.
194* SexForSolace: with Gabriel at one point in the series, when a heart-to-heart during a painting session leads to a night of erm, lust.
195%% * SheCleansUpNicely
196* ShesAllGrownUp according to Marisa, toward the end of the series, seeing as she becomes significantly more open, sociable and optimistic around others in later seasons.
197%% * StepfordSnarker
198* SugarAndIcePersonality: she’s very cold, sarcastic, and distant around those she doesn’t know well due to trust issues, but has a sweeter, softer side for the people she truly cares about.
199%% * TheOphelia
200* TrueArtIsAngsty: In-universe. Her mother states that even as a young child, Claudia would’ve rather “drawn a witch under the moonlight than a princess.”
201* UptightLovesWild: Gabriel is a spontaneous free-spirit and dancer with a wry sense of humor who just doesn’t give a damn what people think of him, while Claudia is a brooding, cynical artist who knows little about life outside her traumatic past.
202%%* VitriolicBestBuds: with Cassandra.
203%% * WithFriendsLikeThese
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205!!! Elly Ohlenberger
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207* AcademicAthlete: She’s salutatorian in her junior class and a top athlete when it comes to track and soccer as well.
208%% * ACupAngst: In the earlier seasons.
209* BadLiar: always collapses in laughter whenever she has to tell in a lie.
210%%* BigOlEyebrows
211%%* BrainyBrunette
212%%* CoolBigSis: To Clare and Katie.
213%% * CountryMouse: when she first moved to California.
214* DreadfulMusician: do not let Elly put her hands on a musical instrument.
215* DudeMagnet: half of the male cast has felt some sort of interest in or attraction toward her at some point.
216* EmbarrassingNickname: her family calls her “Wiggler”.
217%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
218%% * GirlNextDoor: to an extent.
219%% * GoodWithNumbers
220%% * HatesSmallTalk: Especially with guys.
221%% * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Renee.
222* HotForTeacher: she becomes attracted to Caleb, a childhood friend working as a student teacher at one point, which leads to their near engagement in a Student-Teacher Romance.
223* MissingMom: her mother is implied to have passed away a few years before the start of the series.
224%%* NiceGirl
225%%* OddFriendship: with Julia.
226%% * OutdoorsyGal: TropeCodifier indeed.
227* PassionateSportsGirl: Practices a wide variety of sports throughout the year besides soccer, including skiing, surfing, snowboarding, and cross country running.
228* PluckyGirl: she faced her sister’s cancer diagnosis, the death of her mother at a young age, her best friend’s dealing with anorexia, the suicide of another close friend, her father’s suffering a heart attack, and almost getting involved in a car accident with bravery and a smile.
229* SmallTownBoredom: subverted, considering that she disliked the small town she grew up in back in Maine as a child and constantly dreamed of visiting the big city, namely Los Angeles.
230* StrongFamilyResemblance: The spitting image of her mother.
231* SweetTooth: Her favorite foods include cinnamon rolls, blueberry biscuits, and peach cobbler.
232* TeenGenius: she often has a quick grasp on things and is an ace when it comes to her schoolwork, so much that it earns her the title of the senior class's valedictorian.
233%% * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak
234%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: with Demetri.
235%% * WiseBeyondTheirYears
236%% * WrenchWench
237%% * YouthfulFreckles: her defining feature.
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239
240!!! Renee Mariani
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242* AbusiveParents: she has a distant relationship with her mother, whom she quarrels frequently and interacts with minimally.
243* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: her cheerleading social status, as well as her inexplicably large bust attracts a lot of unwanted popularity and male attention.
244%%* AllWomenLoveShoes: And Renee loves them more than all.
245%%* BewareTheQuietOnes
246* ClingyJealousGirl: becomes this very often with both friends and crushes alike.
247* CutenessProximity: leaving a cute baby animal of any sort in sight will temporarily make her IQ shoot down a couple of points.
248* DrivenByEnvy despite their deep friendship, she is implied to continuously feel second best to Elly, who she strives to outdo both academically and athletically.
249%%* EmptyShell she feels this way quite often.
250%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: the Melancholic.
251* FreakyIsCool she claims she’s really fond of awkward, quirky people, hence the reason she became attracted to Demetri.
252* FunSize: she stands at merely 4 ft. 11 without high heels.
253%%* GirlNextDoor
254%%* GossipyHens
255%%* GranolaGirl: Oh so very much.
256%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Elly.
257%%* HormoneAddledTeenager
258%%* HotBlooded: Very.
259* HugeGuyTinyGirl: she’s only about 5 ft. 1 with high heels compared to Demetri, who’s 6 ft. 1.
260* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: she’s occasionally a little shy, but very smart and reflective, which sometimes brings her difficulty in relating to her peers.
261* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: the light to Angie’s dark.
262* LivingEmotionalCrutch: she claims at one point that her friendship with Elly is the only thing that keeps her sane.
263* MotherNatureFatherScience: gender reversed, in that while her mother is a rational, no-nonsense physician who leads a steady job working long-shifts at a nearby hospital, her biological father is a flighty and easygoing, if overly-emotional wildlife biologist who’s engaged in constant travel.
264* MsImagination: quite the storyteller when she wants to be, and it doesn’t hurt to keep in mind her tendency to exaggerate scenarios.
265* MyBelovedSmother: her mother is very controlling and overbearing.
266%%* NaiveEverygirl
267* NakedFreakOut: a group of rowdy boys pull down her yoga pants in season 1, mortifying her and exposing the fact that she chose to wear a thong underneath.
268%%* NatureLover
269* NaughtyByNight: as a freshman, she was a sweet, calm and collected girl by day, yet a sex vixen by night.
270%%* NervousWreck: whenever something doesn’t go her way.
271%%* ParentalNeglect: suffers from this.
272%%* RavenHairIvorySkin
273* ReallyGetsAround: it is hinted that she had a very promiscuous past.
274* ShrinkingViolet: She was implied to be quite the wallflower during her early elementary school years, yet gradually came out of her shell with the encouragement of Elly.
275%%* ShyFingerTwiddling: particularly when nervous.
276* SoapboxSadie: in the early seasons, although this character trait eventually faded away with time.
277* StepfordSmiler she’s popular and attractive, yet is extremely unhappy with her life and suffers from low self-esteem.
278* TheBGrade: she’s a self-proclaimed straight A student and earning a grade below a 90 frightens her.
279* ThePerfectionist: to the point of developing an addiction to painkillers to avoid being kept

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