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!!The [=MacPhersons=]

[[folder:Darryl [=MacPherson=]]]
A well-meaning, long-suffering father. Occasionally does something ill-advised but means well. More intelligent than the typical example, but has his foolish moments. Works in a typical office job.
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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: PlayedForLaughs. One series of strips had Darryl freaking out because Zoe (then two years old) had a crush on an "older man." Said older man was a ''three-year-old''.
* BumblingDad: Generally averted. This is a man who once changed a diaper in a mall restroom.
* GagNose: Parodied in one SundayStrip where Darryl and Wanda discuss whether to let one of their children sleep on its stomach or back. Darryl says that he always slept on his back, then the strip cuts to a baby picture of him unable to lie down for his huge nose.
* OpaqueLenses: Sometimes.
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[[folder:Wanda [=MacPherson=] (née Wizowski)]]
Darryl's wife, the mother of the strip's main family. Down to earth to the point of being a bit cynical, she nevertheless cares about her family and does her best to work with them. A stay at home mom, and heaven help you if you tell her that it's not enough work by itself.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of her sarcasm is targeted at Darryl.
* {{Housewife}}: She's a stay-at-home mom by choice. However, there are definitely times when she misses having her own career.
* MamaBear: To her own kids, and kids in general. In one series of strips, she stopped a mother who lost control and began hitting her child in a grocery store.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Rhonda's girly girl.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of snakes.
* [[{{Main/Manchild}} Womanchild]]: She has her moments of this, since when something goes really wrong, she starts [[InelegantBlubbering screaming and crying like a baby]] or willing to [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3f/e5/88/3fe58826ef1b07de5390ae22693db387.jpg sleep happily in a crib]] when there was no options left to sleep in.
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[[folder:Zoe [=MacPherson=]]]
The eldest child and older daughter. Though about 9 years old, she acts like a spoiled teenager. Frequently bratty and self-absorbed, but less likely to actually make a mess these days than her brother, preferring whining and mocking to actual destruction.
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* BadassAdorable: Cemented in the strip where Wanda goes to swap misplaced mail with a neighbor. Wanda returns to find Hammie all trussed up and Wren trapped underneath a laundry basket:
--> '''Zoe:''' I've been training for this moment my whole life!
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: Sometimes. In many strips, Zoe has taken delight in telling Hammie stories just to scare him.
%%* BrattyHalfPint
* ChildProdigy: Zoe goes to the advanced class in school and often has better grades than her brother. She's also the technology expert of the [=MacPherson=] family.
* DaddysGirl: She's got Darryl wrapped around her little finger, and is more than willing to take advantage of it. Her first word was "Da-Da" as well.
* FunetikAksent: How her baby-talk was represented.
* SuddenNameChange: Her middle name used to be "Jennifer", until a 2007 strip inexplicably changed it to "Madison".
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[[folder:Hamish "Hammie" [=MacPherson=]]]
Zoe's younger brother, the middle child, and the [=MacPhersons=]' only boy. A typical young boy, goes through the world like a hurricane, leaving broken glass and dirty fingerprints in his wake. Hammie is fond of rude noises and gross things. He enjoys annoying Zoe, but will team up with her on occasion. He doesn't really act mean to Wren because of his caring to her.
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* BigBrotherBully: He does have his moments where he's mean to Zoe but it's not as bad as when Wren's mean to him.
* BookDumb: Hammie tends to struggle with school both because he's not great with homework and his behavior problems.
* {{Gasshole}}: Mostly a belch variant.
* HeManWomanHater: Oh, yes. Save for his mother, Hammie dislikes any female on sight and goes out of his way to either annoy or avoid them. Having two sisters doesn't help.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Due to Darryl and Wanda mistakenly believing they were having a girl, he went nameless for a bit after his birth. It wasn't until after they brought him home that Darryl came up with the name "Hamish," after one of his relatives. It took their family members some time to get used to the name..
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's very rarely called by his real first name, Hamish.
* ThePigPen: He loves to get dirty and muddy.
%%* YouthfulFreckles
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[[folder:Wren "Wrennie" [=MacPherson=]]]
The youngest [=MacPherson=], she is now a toddler. May be [[OnlySaneMan the sanest of the bunch]].
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* FearlessInfant: She likes to climb on things, implying she's not afraid of heights.
* FieryRedhead: She is very hyperactive.
* {{Gasshole}}: In some comics, her flatulence is centered around this. Wren, like her brother Hammie, is mostly a belch variant, to the point where she has to belch like a man to make Hammie impressed. This is rather justified as she's a baby and babies can be pretty gassy.
* InnocentSwearing: In one strip, she heard Darryl swear and started saying, "%*@#! cramp" .
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: She's only named "Wren" because a bird flew into the window while Wanda was recovering in the hospital.
* LivingProp: Being a baby, she was this when she was first born, however, this changed when she got to be more mobile.
* TerseTalker: This is justified since she's a year and a half, but when she talks it's this. So far, she can say "Ma", "Da", "no", "up", "down", and "%*@#! cramp".
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!!Other characters
[[folder:Bunny]]
Somewhat of a cross between Martha Stewart and Barbie, she and her rarely-mentioned husband, Butch, are the overly-perfect young couple down the street. Their children include ten-year-old Bogart, one of Zoe's playmates, and infant twins named Wendell John and Wendell Jon. She is now never seen and only mentioned by Wanda and Darryl in the new comics.
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* TheDitz: She's not really bright, as demonstrated by her choices in naming her kids among other things.
* TheGhost: Doubling as DemotedToExtra, she's not seen anymore in the newer comics and is just mentioned.
* MeaningfulName: Invoked by Bunny: she named her son Bogart because he was conceived while she and her husband were watching ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''. She nixed that idea for the twins: they were watching ''Film/DumbAndDumber''.
* OnlyOneName: Her last name is never revealed.
* ParodySue: Everything she does is just ''perfect'', much to Wanda's chagrin. But it's turned up so far to the point of parody.
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[[folder:Grandparents]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Darryl gets his big nose from Mac and Rhonda and Wanda get their looks from Maggie
!!Mac and Pauline [=MacPherson=]
Darryl's parents. Grandpa Mac is a calm but sometimes the silent type, while his wife Pauline is obsessed with cleaning.
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* NeatFreak: Pauline is obsessed with keeping things neat and clean and she'll have a fit if things aren't clean enough to how she likes them.
* TheQuietOne: Mac isn't a talker, so, in the strips he's in, he doesn't usually have a line.
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!!Hugh and Maggie Wizowski
Wanda's parents. Grandpa Hugh is rather macho and fairly contemptuous of Darryl. Grandma Maggie has been portrayed as a "typical" mother of adult children; often nitpicky of how Wanda conducts her day-to-day and worrying about whether or not Rhonda will ever get married and have children of her own. Her character with regards to how she relates to her grandchildren has not been expanded on much.
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* IWantGrandkids: Maggie tends to annoy Rhonda with asking as to whether or not the latter'll have kids.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Hugh doesn't get along well with Darryl, while Maggie is just nitpicky.
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[[folder:Rhonda Wizowski]]
Wanda's little sister, who's single and sometimes babysits the kids.
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* IWantGrandkids: She gets this from her mother, Maggie, who pesters her to settle down.
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[[folder: Yolanda and Mike]]
!!Yolanda, Mike, and family
Yolanda, Mike, and their daughters Keesha and Dziko (commonly called "Dizzy") provide a TokenBlackFriend for each of the [=MacPhersons,=] except Hammie. They don't have big personality traits or provide any role bigger than being the [=MacPhersons=]' neighbors and friends.
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* AerithAndBob: Keesha and Dziko play with this, as the latter's name is a real one (as can be read [[https://www.thenamemeaning.com/dziko/ here]]) but it's not a common one.
* FlatCharacter: They don't get much characterization besides being friends or neighbors, also making them {{Satellite Character}}s.
* InconsistentColoring: Their skin tones vary in different strips.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Yolanda and Mike, like Darryl and Wanda, didn't decide on a name for their oldest daughter, Keesha, until after they brought her home.
* LivingProp: Dziko, being a baby like Wren.
* OnlyOneName: Their last name was never revealed.
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!!Exclusive to the animated series
!!!In General
* CanonForeigner: The Bittermans and Bizzy were not in the original comic.

[[folder:The Bittermans]]
The neighbor family that appeared in the animated series. Their names are Carl, Melinda, Rodney, Megan, and Shelby
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* AbusiveParents: Carl acts like this to Rodney and that usually involves giving him some threats
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Megan and Rodney, as was shown in one episode where the former seemed pretty sad that Rodney was going to stay over the Wanda and Darryl's house.
* BigBrotherBully: Rodney is this to Megan, as he picks on and taunts her. He doesn't seem to be this to Shelby - then again, Shelby would probably beat him up.
* CreepyChild: While not exactly creepy, Shelby is definitely weird with his being quiet and penchant for destruction.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Though downplayed, we know the family to be this, as their home-life is chaotic.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Rodney, combined with BrutallyHonest. Mostly toward Darryl.
* HypocriticalHumor: In one episode, when interviewed, Melinda said she was doing whatever she could to keep her kids safe, while her kids are being more destructive than usual (including one of them torching something).
* OralFixation: Well, not exactly oral but Melinda is never seen without her cigarette.
* OnlySaneWoman: Megan, in a sense, as she's the most well-behaved of the Bitterman children.
* ParentsAsPeople: Melinda, as, while she does love her kids, she wishes to have Wanda's life, or at least the life she had before she had kids.
* TheStoic: Shelby doesn't show any emotions besides usual indifference, annoyance, or a combination of the two. Similarly, his mother, Melinda is the same way except vocally (her voice always sounds tired).
* TheUnfavorite: Rodney is clearly not Carl's favorite. This was alluded to in one episode when he started hanging out at the [=MacPhearson=]s house.
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[[folder:Bizzy]]
Zoe's babysitter who appears in the series
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* BabysitterFromHell: Averted - the [=MacPhearson=]s initially thought she was this because she allowed her boyfriend over, but they were proven wrong when she showed herself to be quite responsible.
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