Line #9 Characters/TheRedGreenShow


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3	[[folder:Red Green]]
4	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/18535296_web1_190912_nbu_red_green.jpg]]
5	->'''Played by''': Steve Smith
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7	->''"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!"''
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9	The title character of the show. He's a deadpan, gravelly-voiced everyman who's faced with all the concerns of a middle-aged man in rural Canada. Besides keeping the audience informed on what's going on at the lodge he's the head of, he offers advice to any middle-agers just like him. Played by comedian Steve Smith, who also does comedy tours as the Red Green character.
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11	* AfraidOfBlood: Faints at the sight of it as learned in Episode 170. Harold delights in finally finding something at which Red is more of a wimp than he is.
12	* AfraidOfNeedles: Red is terrified of needles, as Harold learns when Possum Lodge challenges [[TheRival Caribou Lodge]] to a blood drive.
13	* BookDumb: He is, by his own admission, a high school dropout (and claims that if you only count the time he was paying attention he has no education at all).
14	* TheBore: In Season 1, Harold claimed that Red was this trope when he told his stories about the happenings at the Lodge. Subverted in that Red's deadpan recounting of the idiocy was actually pretty entertaining.
15	* CaptainCrash: Often happens during the "Adventures with Bill" segments, when he drives up in the Possum Van and runs into whatever equipment Bill is setting up for his latest endeavor.
16	* CatchPhrase: Several:
17	** During the intro sequence to season 6: "What you're looking at now is a bunch of segments from this particular show. The main message being: For gosh sakes, don't even think about changing the channel. I tell ya something, if you want to make sense of this program, you have to give it your undivided attention."
18	** Also: "Stay tuned and relax; whatever this is, we've got a lot more of it."
19	** "Big week up at the Lodge..."
20	** "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." In the same segment, after finishing a project, Red frequently says, "And it's just that easy."
21	** "If it ain't broke, you're not trying."
22	** "Remember: Any tool can be the right tool."
23	** "Remember, I'm pullin' for ya. We're all in this together."
24	** "If my wife is watching, I'll be coming straight home after the meeting..."
25	** "And to the rest of you, on behalf of myself, and Harold, and the whole gang up here at Possum Lodge, keep your stick on the ice."
26	** "...the handyman's secret weapon, duct tape."
27	** The ColdOpen for every season 4 episode had: "It's not smart or correct, but it's one of the things that makes us what we are."
28	** In "Adventures With Bill", Red often says "Later that day..." when Bill and the other characters try and fail to accomplish a simple task.
29	** "Now, you could do ''(describes action)'' if you're absolutely made of money..."
30	* CoolOldGuy: Red was already a middle-aged guy when the show started, and his beard became increasingly grey over the seasons. He's also a DeadpanSnarker who regularly creates {{DIY Disaster}}s with TimTaylorTechnology.
31	* CreatorThumbprint: Red shares Steve Smith's love of cars and beer.
32	* DeadpanSnarker: Always has a ready retort for the other lodge members (particularly Harold).
33	* DIYDisaster: One of the show's hallmarks. The "Handyman Corner" segments almost always end in this. In some cases, they actually ''work'', although Steve Smith still advised viewers not to actually try them.
34	* DuctTapeForEverything: It's the handyman's secret weapon, after all.
35	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Red's first name is not "Red"; Harold finds out what it really is and understands why he uses his nickname. According to [[AllThereInTheManual Red's biography seen online and on DVDs]], Red's mother originally wanted to name him "Plaid", but his father disagreed. She got even when she bought Red his first plaid flannel shirt.
36	* GadgeteerGenius: For a certain definition of the term "genius". Many of Red's creations are surprisingly creative, if impractical, and the worksmanship that goes into them - while heavy on duct tape and light on aesthetics - takes a good amount of skill.
37	* GenerationXerox: It was revealed in "Duct Tape Forever" that he was a shrimpy poindexter like Harold when he was his age. When seeing an old photograph, Harold thought it was him at first.
38	* GrumpyOldMan: A lot of his "Midlife" and "Teen Talk" segments consist of his railing against social changes and making sarcastic comments about them. He doesn't let his own generation off that much more easily, though.
39	* {{Handyman}}: The core of his persona. "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
40	* HappilyMarried: Red ends every show with a message for his wife, with whom he apparently has a very good relationship.
41	* KleptomaniacHero: Red frequently suggested that viewers could get the parts for Handyman projects by stealing them.
42	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He often mocks social changes and modern trends, and doesn't care at all about being behind the times.
43	* SantaClaus: Red dressed as Santa in a few Christmas-themed episodes, partly because he was already an old fat guy with a white beard.
44	* UltimateJobSecurity: He's been the Lodge Leader and Head Possum for decades, mostly because nobody else bothers to run against him in the leadership elections. When Mike and Winston ran against him, he still won due to Harold's tie-breaking vote.
45	* VocalEvolution: Steve's voice for Red started out rather flat, hesitant, and monotone, but became more dynamic and higher-pitched over time. This reflects Red's character of starting as a middle-aged guy with almost no experience being on camera, before getting more practice and confidence after a couple of years.
46	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's scared of spiders, in no small part because he's allergic to spider bites.
47	* YouAreFat: Harold and a few other characters regularly mocked him for his weight. Even Red occasionally did it through HypocriticalHumor.
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50	[[folder:Harold Green]]
51	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oqfy7tibb9hxrgtwvfnu75s_kyfxvquxgzlrqvrlloi.jpg]]
52	->'''Played by''': Creator/PatrickMcKenna
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54	Red's nerdy nephew, and the butt of many jokes. He's also the "technical" man on the show, using a homebrew "control board" to activate the many IdiosyncraticWipes.
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57	* ButtMonkey: Serves as the target for most of Red's sarcastic quips, although he frequently gives as good as he gets. Many jokes implied that Harold was also extremely unpopular at school and the Lodge, and regularly pranked and bullied by everyone from his classmates to the other Lodge members to Red.
58	* CassandraTruth: He'll frequently try to warn Red that something is a bad idea, only for Red to blow him off. HilarityEnsues when Harold is inevitably proven right.
59	* CatchPhrase: Not as many as Red, but a few:
60	** "Your hero, my uncle, Red Green!"
61	** In the Experts segment: "Now we examine those three little words that men find so hard to say..." (audience replies: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "I. Don't. Know!"]]) When he gets ready to read the first letter, he usually says: "Dear experts, ''(motions to them with his hand)'' hwah..." (or less frequently, "La la la...")
62	** When the possum squeal was heard at the end of an episode: "Meeting time, Uncle Red."
63	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: He has a number of {{Verbal Tic}}s, occasionally has strange twitches, becomes a blubbering mess when talking about sexual matters, constantly repeats the same phrases several times in a row and occasionally becomes a MotorMouth until Red tells him to shut up.
64	* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Harold Spooner Dortmund Mepps Green.
65	* {{Foil}}: To Red. Where Red is snarky and sarcastic, Harold is upbeat and optimistic. Where Red is a down-to-earth, BookDumb handyman who is good with his hands, Harold is a nerdy intellectual who lacks basic life skills. This even applies to their look, as Red is a stout, middle-aged man with a thick beard while Harold is a young, clean-shaven man with a gangly build and slicked hair.
66	* GadgeteerGenius: Low-level, but he did manage to create a jerry-rigged control board/switcher device which he used for every episode until he was PutOnABus.
67	* HappilyMarried: Gets married to the love of his life in the series finale. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue shows that they eventually have a son and a daughter together.
68	* {{Keet}}: His defining character trait. He is an energetic, nerdy do-gooder in sharp contrast to his Uncle Red.
69	* LookalikeLovers: Eventually starts dating a girl named Bonnie, who is essentially [[OppositeSexClone a female version of himself]] (much to Red's horror). They become engaged late in the series' run and the series finale involves their wedding. This trope even applied when they both got makeovers to become more attractive to each other without the other's knowledge, and their new outfits turn out to be identical.
70	* NerdGlasses: Is never seen without them.
71	* OnlySaneMan: He is a huge geek, but often he's also the one of the lodge crowd most grounded in reality.
72	* PutOnABus: After the show's eighth season, [=McKenna=] began having personal difficulties and decided to leave the show. Harold was shown getting a job in the city and was phased out of the show over the next two seasons. Once [=McKenna=] got his issues sorted out, Harold returned, having been explained as being named his company's community liaison to Possum Lake.
73	* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Inverted. While Harold frequently mocked and complained about the Lodge members' schemes, the ensuing disasters usually proved him right.
74	* TookALevelInKindness: Zigzagged. In the first season, Harold constantly interrupted Red's stories to move on to the next segment, claiming that Red's stories were boring. From the second season onward, Harold stopped interrupting Red. While he frequently mocked everything the Lodge members did, even fairly benign projects such as trying to rustproof their vehicles, he [[JerkassHasAPoint usually had a point.]] His mockery was usually for good reasons of safety, legality, environmental damage or just plain incompetence.
75	* UltimateJobSecurity: Many jokes implied that Red thought Harold was incompetent and would've fired him if it weren't for the fact that Red owes Harold's father a very large sum, which he's paying back by employing Harold. Red also needs Harold to actually run the visual effects and other technical parts of the show.
76	* VerbalTic: He sometimes makes a "whaaaaah" sound.
77	** He also frequently repeats sentences three or four times excitedly, much to Red's annoyance.
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80	[[folder:Dalton Humphrey]]
81	->'''Played by''': Bob Bainborough.
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83	The owner of "Humphrey's Everything Store", but a rather tight-fisted individual. Also rather henpecked by his unseen wife, Anne Marie.
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86	* AwfulWeddedLife: Many of the jokes involving Dalton centered around his mutually hostile relationship with Anne Marie.
87	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Dalton's daughter is one of the chief thorns in his side.
88	* DirtyOldMan: It's implied that he looks at computer porn, and he never passed up the chance to be in the company of much younger women. A lot of it comes from being married to Anne Marie.
89	* HenpeckedHusband: He's constantly insulted and bossed around by his wife Anne Marie. In the podcast, it's revealed that Anne Marie took over the Everything Store, renaming it "Anne Marie's Mega-Mart." He's not pleased by the fact that it's doing so much better under her management than it did under his.
90	* MessyHair: Keeps his hair in an unkempt tuft of fluff. It's implied he cuts his hair himself so he doesn't have to pay a barber.
91	* TheScrooge: He has some traits of this. Many episodes show him to be absurdly tight with a buck and rather cranky. In a Season 14 episode, the Lodge holds a leadership election where Mike and Winston run against Red. Dalton planned to run too, but changed his mind when Harold said there was a $10 entry fee.
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94	[[folder:Winston Rothschild III]]
95	->'''Played by''': Creator/JeffLumby
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97	Owner of Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services. Mostly around to provide ToiletHumor and/or make cute jingles about his company.
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100	* AlliterativeName: Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services.
101	* CasanovaWannabe: Winston has an active but massively unsuccessful love life, mostly because he loves his job and loves talking about it.
102	* CatchPhrase: "Winston Rothschild here, of Winston Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services..."
103	* TheDandy: Somewhat surprisingly considering his line of work, he is always immaculately and spotlessly dressed. Even more amazing, he is an example of this trope even though he normally wears a plastic safety helmet and ''hip waders''.
104	* ParodyCommercial: A lot of episodes show him doing an ad for his septic sucking business.
105	* MarriedToTheJob: He finds his line of work endlessly fascinating, and will go on at length about it at any opportunity. He was very proud of the time he managed the immensely difficult task of talking to a woman on a plane for the entire flight without mentioning sewage even once.
106	-->'''Winston:''' Not even when they brought us our meals!
107	* OnlySaneMan: In the seasons when Harold wasn't present, Winston would often play the StraightMan to Red and the rest of the cast of the lodge. Even after Harold returned, he still would have shades of this depending on how crazy the plan actually is.
108	* ThePigPen: Somewhat inevitable, given his line of work. A RunningGag is that he doesn't notice how much he stinks. (Though as noted, he always ''looks'' spotless.)
109	* RunningGag: Between segments, he would recite a slogan about his company (i.e., "If your nose is stinging, our phone should be ringing!", "Service with a smile -- even on hot days!"). In later seasons, it appears he's increased his advertising budget, since his commercials became full-blown parodies of real-life commercials, TV shows, and movie trailers.
110	* SelfMadeMan: He's shown to be one of the most financially successful Lodge members. Part of it comes from his enthusiasm at doing a job absolutely no one else wants to do, and part of it comes from being genuinely ''good'' at it. In one episode, he wins the Word Game when Red asks him what he called getting the contract to pump out all the septics at the Port Asbestos Prune Fair (answering "the sweet smell of '''success'''"). In a podcast episode, he's chosen to be the keynote speaker at a sewage and septic sucking convention because of his sky-high per capita numbers.
111	* ToiletHumor: And often.
112	* WellDoneSonGuy: Winston's dad always wanted him to be a lawyer, and the two still haven't worked things out.
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115	[[folder:Bill Smith]]
116	->'''Played by''': Rick Green
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118	The subject of the [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]] "Adventures with Bill" segments. He tries to show the audience various sports or elements of outdoor survival, which usually end in an EpicFail.
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121	* AgonyOfTheFeet: He's dropped things on his feet, shot himself through the foot with a crossbow, hit his foot with an axe while chopping firewood...the list goes on and on. Sometimes he injures other people's feet as well, usually Red's.
122	* AccidentalAimingSkills: In one "Adventures with Bill" segment, he tried to shoot a pop can off a tree stump. After missing several times he got frustrated and started firing like a madman until the gun was empty. When the camera panned out, the stump had been carved into a perfect likeness of Red, but the can remained undisturbed.
123	* ChronicallyCrashedCar: A RunningGag involves Bill damaging the Possum Van in some way -- most often by knocking off a side view mirror, but he's also done everything from breaking windows to puncturing tires.
124	* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Bill's profile in ''The Red Green Book'' defines gravity as one of his "Major Turn Offs."
125	* IronButtMonkey: Even Wile E. Coyote would be amazed at how many injuries Bill sustains. There are occasional gags referring to the many bandages he wears under his clothes.
126	* TheKlutz: One of the main reasons Bill's adventures usually end badly.
127	* PerpetualSmiler: Bill is almost always cheerful and friendly, mostly because he never, ''ever'' learns from his experiences.
128	* PutOnABus: Green left the show for a few years to focus on his educational comedy show ''History Bites''. Unlike with [=McKenna=] and Harold, Bill's disappearance was never explained, with the rest of the cast joining Red in the Adventure segments. When ''History Bites'' ended and Green came back, Bill returned as if nothing had ever happened.
129	* ThrowTheDogABone: In the series finale, Bill gives Red a series of mementos of their adventures together, then reveals that he's taken up with a rather attractive nurse. The last "Adventures with Bill" ends with the two of them driving off into the sunset into, in Red's words, "the biggest adventure of his life."
130	* TooDumbToLive: As Red once put it, you can't be concerned for other people and have Bill's behavior patterns. He's only lived as long as he has because he's MadeOfIron and is always good as new by next week's show.
131	* TrouserSpace: He fits ''everything'' in his overalls, whether putting it in or taking it out.
132	* TheVoiceless: The only sounds in the "Adventures with Bill" segments are usually the ambient noise and Red's voiceover; this is justified by [[WordOfGod Steve Smith]], who said that the camera had a bad mic. However, there was a time when Bill could be plainly heard chattering away; turns out he's really a MotorMouth. This is most evident in season 8, when faint vocals from Bill were added to the segments.
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135	[[folder:Ranger Gord]]
136	->'''Played by''': Creator/PeterKeleghan
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138	A not-too-with-it forest ranger assigned to a tower, where he has been cooped up for 12 years by the time Red finds him.
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141	* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Parodied in the educational segments, which offered hilariously inaccurate nature lessons (e.g., that rocks are eggs).
142	* BestialityIsDepraved: Implied in the setup to one his educational cartoons. Red asks in a worried tone if it's a video of Gord and small animals. Gord simply says "those aren't for company" with no further elaboration.
143	* DerangedParkRanger: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs. Ranger Gord is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with little grasp on reality, due to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation living alone in the ranger tower]]. He does sometimes get desperate for attention from Red (since Red is one of the few people who talks to him), but never resorts to anything violent or extreme. He's not a bad guy by any means, just very lonely and eccentric.
144	* DiscoDan: Gord was posted to his ranger station in the late 1970s and doesn't realize how much pop culture changed since then. He thinks musical acts like Music/CaptainAndTennille are still popular and TV shows like ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' are still on the air.
145	* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Particularly in the early seasons, being alone in the ranger's station for years has taken its toll on poor Gord's sanity. He's desperate for human contact and tends to burst into tears at the slightest provocation.
146	* HerCodenameWasMarySue: Present in the educational segments: Gord is portrayed as a [[ParodySue muscular, all-knowing, woman-attracting hunk]] and the other Lodge members are portrayed as very unintelligent {{Funny Animal}}s. Hilariously, Red and Harold often give ''correct'' information in the shorts, but within the universe of the shorts, they are wrong and Gord's CloudCuckoolander explanations are right.
147	* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Ranger Gord's last name is "Ranger", but he prefers being called "Ranger Gord" instead of "[[RepetitiveName Ranger Ranger]]".
148	* MoodSwinger: Will often cry at the drop of a hat, though this trait was more prominent in the earlier seasons.
149	* SleepDeprivation: It's implied that staying awake all night watching for forest fires is one of the reasons Gord is so crazy. One of the character bios written by co-creator Rick Green on the show's old website talked about how Gord never had more than five minutes of sleep.
150	* SmallNameBigEgo: Wasn't initially part of his personality (he was more needy than anything else), but became part of it over time. His animated educational films were extensions of this.
151	* StepfordSmiler: In the early seasons, Gord tried to hide how lonely and desperate he was for human contact only to burst into tears when he talks about how he's never gotten a paycheck, a vacation day or even a thanks from anyone. When Red thanks him for watching over the forest, Gord traps him in an OverlyLongHug.
152	* StylisticSuck: The educational segments were given bad animation and voice acting (Gord did [[ActingForTwo all the voices]]) on purpose.
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155	[[folder:Mike Hamar]]
156	->'''Played by''': Creator/WayneRobson
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158	A criminal, on parole from prison.
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161	%%* AmbiguouslyBi
162	* AmbiguousCriminalHistory: The nature of the charge(s) against Mike are never stated, but they seem to be numerous and semi-serious in nature.
163	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When he first joined the show, he was genuinely ashamed of his criminal past, and most of the gags involving him were how badly he'd react to messing up a project he and Red were working on due to Red giving him a second chance. It didn't take until the very next season for him to become [[KleptomaniacHero the loveable kleptomaniac of the lodge he's known for]].
164	* DisappearedDad: Mike frequently mentions his dad... but it's usually prefixed with a day of the week ("my Friday dad... two weeks running!"). Mike's mom ReallyGetsAround, apparently. When Red, Mike, and Dalton are discussing what they would do with a time machine, Mike says he would go back to nine months before he was born so he could finally find out who his real dad is.
165	* {{Irony}}: By the end of the series, he gets a job as a police officer… but crime is super low because he now has a job.
166	* {{Keet}}: He gets ''very'' excited when introducing the Possum Lodge Word Game.
167	* KleptomaniacHero: To the point he may genuinely have Kleptomania. Mike will steal pretty much anything that isn't nailed down. He's able to pick pocket people's wallets [[ImpossibleTheft while not even getting close to them]].
168	* LimitedWardrobe: Black shirt and jeans.
169	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: People keep bringing up his criminal past...usually because he's still committing petty crimes like stealing their wallets.
170	* ReformedCriminal: After the finale, he becomes a police officer. The crime rate swiftly drops to almost nothing, since he was previously responsible for almost all of it.
171	* StickyFingers: If something's gone missing, it's usually in his pockets.
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174	[[folder:Edgar K. B. Montrose]]
175	->'''Played by''': Creator/{{Graham Greene\|Actor}}
176
177	A hearing-impaired explosive enthusiast. He solves everything by blowing it up.
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180	* BorrowedCatchPhrase: [[https://redgreen.fandom.com/wiki/The_Friendly_Side_of_Dynamite The Friendly Side Of Dynamite]] had Edgar giving the viewers handyman tips similar to Red's, usually involving explosives. In one segment, Edgar used duct tape as part of the scheme, describing it as "the explosive enthusiast's secret weapon."
181	* CatchPhrase: "Ka-BOOM!"
182	* {{Fingore}}: His hands are missing a couple of fingers thanks to his explosive hobby[[note]]This is applied a bit inconsistently, however, as Graham Greene occasionally forgets to keep his fingers folded[[/note]].
183	* ICantHearYou: He's suffered severe hearing damage because he never seems to wear his protective headphones correctly. Whenever he plays the Possum Lodge Word Game, they don't bother to have him cover up his ears.
184	* MadBomber: Most Lodge members' "secret weapon" is duct tape. His is dynamite, although he once used duct tape in a Handyman segment, calling it "the explosives enthusiast's secret weapon." Once made Christmas crackers with mercury detonators.
185	* NoIndoorVoice: Justified in that his line of work has done a real number on his hearing.
186	* {{Stealth Pun}}[[PunnyName ny Name]]: His middle initials "K. B.". Now what could those possibly stand for? ''Hint:'' Look under CatchPhrase above.
187	* StuffBlowingUp: His specialty.
188	* UncertainDoom: In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, Red states that no one has seen or heard from him since he tried to make a self-heating recliner using plastic explosive.
189	* UselessAccessory: Wears a set of hearing protectors, ''behind his ears''.
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192	[[folder:Hap Shaughnessy]]
193	->'''Played by''': Creator/GordonPinsent
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195	An old man who operates a water taxi service but is better known for lying blatantly about his entire life.
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198	* BlatantLies: It's not that Hap is a BadLiar in as much as his stories are so over the top that there's no way he could've done all of it.
199	* ConsummateLiar: Most of the time, Hap seems to either honestly believe the yarns he is spinning or does an excellent job of keeping a straight face throughout them, even as he soaks in the skepticism and annoyance of Red and the others at his lies. The ''only'' time Hap seems to acknowledge his lying is with his final line of dialogue in the series. When Red calls him the biggest liar in Canada, Hap smiles and says that calling him the ''biggest'' is an exaggeration.
200	* {{Hypocrite}}: He's usually the first one to call out ''other people'' for lying or exaggerating.
201	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: And proud of it.
202	* TheMunchausen: Hap is practically the poster boy for this trope.
203	* ShoutOut: Hap always wears a Royal Canadian Regiment baseball cap, a nod to the four years that Pinsent spent serving in that unit during the 1950s.
204	* SmallNameBigEgo: Hap claims he's done everything from found the United Nations to stand in for Music/KeithRichards in Music/TheRollingStonesBand concerts to be the heir to the Russian Empire. He'd likely call himself "the most interesting man in the world" with a completely straight face.
205	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The podcast features the character of Hap's brother Bert Shaughnessy, who drives a land taxi instead of a water one. Bert is just as prone to tall tales as Hap, to the annoyance of Red and Dave.
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208	[[folder:Ed Frid]]
209	->'''Played by''': Jerry Schaefer
210
211	A highly paranoid animal control officer.
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214	* AnimalsHateHim: The creatures of the wild want nothing to do with Ed.
215	* CowardlyLion: And how. He seems deathly afraid of most of the animals, but manages to pull through.
216	* KillerRabbit: In his mind, the most dangerous animal of all is the hamster. Why? Because when he was a kid he had a pet hamster that he loved very much... so much that it made him want to get a job working with animals.
217	* MeaningfulName: "Frid" is "afraid" with the As removed.
218	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Subverted; he replaced fellow animal control officer Garth Harble, who had a completely opposite personality. Probably because Ed's personality was funnier.
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221	[[folder:Arnie Dogan]]
222	->'''Played by''': Albert Schultz
223
224	An aspiring country singer and accident-prone roofer.
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227	* DreadfulMusician: He ''really'' can't sing, and his songwriting is abysmal despite having written about 17,000 of them.
228	* IronButtMonkey: He usually has at least one limb in a cast, and is often in a wheelchair too.
229	* TheKlutz: Implied by his constant injuries. He's often wearing casts, in a wheelchair, etc.
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232	[[folder:Young Walter]]
233	->'''Played by''': Joel Harris
234
235	Became Bill's regular replacement during the "Adventures" segments and continued to be featured on the show after Bill returned to Possum Lake.
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238	* IronButtMonkey: He is on the receiving end of heaping helpings of physical abuse but none of his injuries have lasting effects.
239	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bill and Walter might not look anything alike, but they're both accident-prone men who dress exclusively in overalls.
240	* TheVoiceless: Moreso than Bill. The only time he's heard making a sound is when he's breathing heavily because Red's been making him run laps without water. He also shouts "Red!" as Red is about to drive off while [[ItMakesSenseInContext there's a pressure cooker full of chilli about to explode in the back of the Possum Van.]]
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243	[[folder:Jack Davidson]]
244	->'''Played by''': Tim Sims
245
246	A conspiracy theorist who was convinced the world was going to end, and gave up everything he had to adopt a survivalist lifestyle in an underground cave. Red occasionally visited him and tried to convince him to come to his senses, but Jack turned him down. Only appeared during season 1.
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249	* AllThereInTheManual: "The Red Green Book" has a map of Possum Lake, including Jack's cave, and revealed his name as Davidson.
250	* BeneathTheEarth: He lives in a cave and refuses to come out.
251	* BourgeoisBohemian: Jack was originally an investment banker with a high-income lifestyle and family. He went off the deep end when the government introduced a capital gains tax, convinced it would destroy civilization.
252	* CarryABigStick: He carries a hockey stick to defend himself.
253	* CrazySurvivalist: He lives in a cave eating off the mushrooms and potatoes he grows, gets very nervous and jumpy whenever anyone visits him, and constantly rants about how civilization is going down the drain.
254	* TheKlutz: He sometimes tripped and fell in the depths of his cave.
255	* SingleIssueWonk: He ''hates'' the capital gains tax. He's so sure that it'll destroy civilization that he gave up his investment banking job and high class lifestyle and became a cave-dwelling recluse to avoid society's impending collapse.
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258	[[folder:Buzz Sherwood]]
259	->'''Played by''': Peter Wildman
260
261	A local hippie pilot. Debuted in season 3, and last seen in season 7.
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264	* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Plane]]: His plane is an aerial accident waiting to happen. The instruments don't work, the propeller is usually only held on with two out of five bolts, the pontoons are full of bullet holes, the engine smokes like a forest fire, and the wing flaps are jammed.
265	* AllThereInTheManual: His profile in "The Red Green Book" further develops his NewAgeRetroHippie personality, revealing that he attended the first Woodstock concert in UsefulNotes/TheSixties and dated [[Music/JeffersonAirplane Grace Slick]] in his youth.
266	* CaptainCrash: Buzz has not only crashed multiple planes, but also several land-based vehicles too.
267	* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Frequently greeted Red and Harold (who was behind the camera) with a punch to the shoulder, which the two never looked forward to.
268	* DrivesLikeCrazy: In his plane, that is.
269	* NewAgeRetroHippie: He dresses in ridiculous multi-colored tie-dye shirts, attended the first Woodstock concert, loves the classic rock music of UsefulNotes/TheSixties, sometimes recalls the GloryDays of protesting, peace and brotherhood, reads history books written by Music/JoanBaez and even dated [[Music/JeffersonAirplane Grace Slick]] in his youth.
270	* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Subverted. Buzz's plane looks like an unreliable, broken-down wreck, and it flies just as bad as it looks.
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272
273	[[folder:Garth Harble]]
274	->'''Played by''': Creator/DerekMcGrath
275
276	The lesser-known of the two characters whose profession was animal control. Often got annoyed at Red, went off on tangents (so that Red had to remind him what today's topic was), and seemed to hate his profession when things went wrong. Only appeared during season 5.
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279	* AmusingInjuries: He was constantly sporting bandages from the injuries he suffered on the job. Red would often ask him about them, and he'd get annoyed or embarassed when he explained how he got hurt.
280	* CatchPhrase: "Garth Harble here, ''(salutes)'' animal control." And when things went wrong: "Another super day." And "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, Red", whenever Red mentioned seriously hurting or killing animals.
281	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Surprisingly averted. When Ed Frid was introduced on the show, Red mentioned Garth as his predecessor. Ed then mentioned how Garth quit his job after he got bit by a toad and "lost his nerve."
282	* IronButtMonkey: He was constantly injured by the animals he dealt with. He was bitten by snakes, kicked by deer, maimed by a rabid cougar, had his leg maimed by a muskrat and his arm filled with porcupine quills, and accidentally swallowed a vole.
283	* MeanBoss: He occasionally mentioned his boss Leo, who made him do his yardwork or docked his pay or his driving privileges whenever he lost work time due to injuries. He hoped Leo died before he did.
284	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He finally quit his job when he got bit by a toad and "lost his nerve."
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286
287	[[folder:Dougie Franklin]]
288	->'''Played by''': Ian Thomas
289
290	An American expatriate motorhead whose biggest love in life is his monster truck.
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293	* {{Eagleland}}: A very patriotic American who thinks Canadians are weird.
294	-->'''Dougie:''' [after failing to guess "Canada" in the Possum Lodge Word Game] What, that's ''still'' a country?!
295	* ICallItVera: He calls his monster truck "Imelda."
296	* RealMenHateAffection: He once failed to guess "Love" in the Possum Lodge Word Game, then implied he knew what the word was all along, but nobody will ever be able get him to say it for as long as he lives. In a later episode, though, Red did get him to say it.
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298
299	[[folder:Glen Brachston]]
300	->'''Played by''': Mark Wilson
301
302	Owner of Glen Brachston's Marina. He's incredibly lazy and, whenever Red does a segment on him, coaxes Red to do all the work for him.
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305	* HiddenDepths: He's an adept skydiver. When Red asks how someone as lazy as him can be a skydiver, he points out that all he has to do is step out of the plane and go limp.
306	* LazyBum: Somewhat justified, as he's had 3 heart attacks (5 by series' end) and can't overexert himself (that's his excuse, anyway).
307	* SeriousBusiness: He's utterly obessed with his recreational vehicle (RV). Whether he's trying to get Red to go for a ride with him, planning his next vacation or ordering new parts and upgrades, Glen's pretty much dedicated his life to his RV.
308	* UltimateJobSecurity: In one episode, Red asks Glen how someone as lazy as him has managed to stay in business. Glen replies that it's because his marina is the only one in Possum Lake.
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310
311	[[folder:Dwight Cardiff]]
312	->'''Played by''': Creator/GeorgeBuza
313
314	Owner of another Possum Lake marina. A replacement for Glen, and even ''lazier'' than him, if that can be believed.
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319	[[folder:Dave Smith]]
320	->'''Played by''': Dave Smith
321
322	Red's co-host of the new Possum Lodge podcast. He originally appeared in some othe very first episodes of the show as a little kid, and has come back to work with Red. Played by Steve Smith's real-life son and co-writer of the podcast.
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325	* TheBusCameBack: An example of this trope applying after nearly ''three decades''. The first episode of the podcast introduces Dave as one of the little kids Red worked with in the first season's "Quality Time" segments.
326	* CatchPhrase: "You only get one ticket-enjoy the ride."
327	* ContinuityNod: Dave's first episode confirms that he was one of the little kids Red worked with in the very first season of the show.
328	* TheDanza: Dave has the same name as his character.
329	* DeadpanSnarker: In reaction to Red's attitude on many things, as well as the antics of the other Lodge members.
330	* OnlySaneMan: He's pretty much taken over this role from Harold. Much of his character's humor comes from his reactions to the Lodge members' bizarre antics.
331	* StraightMan: This is his main role on the show, reacting to Red's sarcastic comments and the idiocy of the other Lodge members. In real life, Dave Smith has commented that his father often enjoys working with someone his character can bounce off of.
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