The Kelley Family
Ian Kelley
- Voiced by: Richard Ian Cox
The titular character. He's an imaginative, 12-year old boy who aspires to become a film director. Unfortunately, his family is indifferent to his dreams.
- Author Avatar: Ian is basically what series creator Ian James Corlett was like as a kid.
- Butt-Monkey: Almost every episode shows Ian always getting in trouble or humiliated in any way, shape or form, whether he deserves it or not.
- Dub Name Change: His name is changed to João (the Portuguese equivalent to John) in the European Portuguese dub.
- Eye Glasses: When wearing his glasses, they act like this.
- Fanboy: Of movies, to the point where he inspires to become a director.
- Goal in Life: Ian wants to be a famous movie maker, since he daydreams parodies of different movies, or tries filming an adventure on a certain basis.
- Growing Up Sucks: In the episode "What's Combover You?", Ian fears growing up he learns from both of his grandmothers from each side of the family every terrible trait that could happen to Ian as he gets older, like being bald, hunchback, pigeon toed, and so on, making him act like an old man to prepare for the inevitable.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Tyrone.
- It's All About Me: Downplayed. While Ian still cares about his friends and family and is willing to help out, he has his moments where he thinks very highly of himself. This is especially shown in some of his imagine spots.
- Mr. Imagination: He's shown to be very imaginative and daydream a lot, with his Imagine Spots often being parodies of famous movies.
- Nice Mean And In Between: He's the Nice to Kyle's Mean and Korey's In Between.
Kenneth "Ken" Kelley
- Voiced by: Louis Chirillo
The father of Ian and the owner of the family owned business, Kelley's Keyboards. While a nice caring father, he can be pretty clumsy and clueless.
- Abandoned Catchphrase: He used to say "Holy Moly Ravioli" whenever he saw something shocking. After season 1 however, it was dropped. He did however have similar lines in later seasons.
- Aging Would-Be Hipster: He often tries to be seen as cool and hip, which fails most of the time.
- Baldness Angst: In "What's Combover You?", he tried covering his baldness by combing over it with his hair.
- Bumbling Dad: While he cares about his family, he's shown to be pretty clueless and lax.
- Butt-Monkey: Not as much as Ian, but he still has moments of this, most notably in "Planet Of The Imps" where he receives a lot of slapstick while trying to keep the house in shape.
- Disappeared Dad: His father is never seen or mentioned in the series.
- Dub Name Change: His name is changed to Charles in the French dub.
Victoria "Vicky" Kelly
- Voiced by: Patricia Drake
The mother of Ian and wife of Ken. She's very caring and loves her family, but can be short-tempered when things don't go her way. She has a love for cooking organic foods.
- Animal Lover: As seen in "Animal House", especially when they are animals with disabilities.
- Disappeared Dad: Just like Ken, her father is never seen or mentioned in the series.
- Granola Girl: She is known to have an appetite for certain types of health bars, but every dish she makes has low fats, no sodium, meat free health foods, which the Kelley kids and Ken find disgusting.
- Housewife: When not doing work at the piano shop, she does work around the house.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While she's obsessed with health, even she believes Ian went too far with his brief obsession with being healthy (to the point were he removes almost all of the food in the house) in "Health Nut".
- Moral Guardian: She takes this role in "Doofus" where she's shown to hate TV shows like "The Wedgienator" believing they're bad influences on youth.
Kyle Kelley
- Voiced by: Ty Olsson
The oldest child of the Kelley family. He's a laid-back teenager who's seen as lazy most of the time. He loves to pull pranks on Ian and mess around with him.
- Big Brother Bully: To Ian, alongside Korey.
- Dub Name Change: His name is changed to Colin in the French dub.
- Hidden Depths: In "Spells Like Teen Spirit", it's shown he's good at spelling and can memorize entire science books.
- Jerkass: He is the worst offender of them all, alongside Grandma Kelley and Korey. He always treats Ian like a doormat and nothing else.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Kyle's a huge jerk to Ian, he does have a point to him on how his parents would not let him skip school to see a movie in "Ian Kelley's Day Off".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed but he does have fleeting moments where he treats both of his younger brothers with respect.
- The Prankster: He alongside Korey love to pull pranks on Ian.
- Nice Mean And In Between: He's the Mean to Ian's Nice and Korey's In Between.
- Pet the Dog: Despite being a Big Brother Bully he's not above having moments of kindness from time to time.
Korey Kelley
- Voiced by: Matt Hill
The middle child of the Kelley family. He's quite eccentric and naive. Just like Kyle, he often messes around and pulls pranks on Ian (although he's a bit more nicer to him).
- Annoying Younger Sibling: He can be this to Kyle at times.
- Big Brother Bully: To Ian, alongside Kyle. Although sometimes he can be nice to him.
- Butt-Monkey: He can be one just as big as Ian at times. "Midnight Madness" is a good example of this, as he spends half of the episode failing to put on his rat costume. Even after he finally gets his costume on, he gets attacked by people who believe he's a giant mutant rat.
- Childish Older Sibling: He's shown more reckless when compared to Ian.
- The Ditz: Downplayed. He's not a full blown idiot, but out of the Kelley boys he's shown to be the least intelligent.
- Dub Name Change: His name is changed to Clovis in the French dub.
- Geek: He's shown to be into nerdy things like roleplaying games and sci-fi media.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Like Kyle he does have a heart of gold Despite being an obnoxious Big Brother Bully to Ian.
- Nice Mean And In Between: He's the In-Between to Ian's Nice and Kyle's Mean.
Grandma Eleanor Kelley
- Voiced by: Tabitha St. Germain
Ken's Scottish mother, who's very patriotic towards her home country. She's very grouchy and can take on any member of the family at ease.
- The Dreaded: Everyone else is terrified of her. The opening even makes fun of this when Ian sees his family as movie monsters and she looks almost exactly the same.
- Foil: To Grandma Menske.
- Grumpy Old Women
- Never Mess with Granny: You do not want to mess with her.
Grandma Mary Menske
- Voiced by: Christina Jastrzembska
Vicky's Polish mother. Compared to Grandma Kelley, she's more kind and pampers her family constantly.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She can pretty odd and erratic.
- Foil: To Grandma Kelley.
- Hidden Depths: In "Hockey Night at Burnaby" she's shown to be a very good hockey player, easily beating Kyle and Korey.
Choplin
The family dog that Ian got as a young kid, who's missing one of its hind legs.
- A Day in the Limelight: He gets a more major focus in "Everykid 13" compared to other episodes.
- Out of Focus: The least focused out of the Kelley family. They're mainly used for visual gags.
Classmates
Tyrone "Ty" Washington
- Voiced by: Dexter Bell
Ian's best friend since childhood. A cool kid who enjoys sports and is very athletic. He sometimes joins in on Ian's plans.
- Black Best Friend: Ian's best friend who is African-Canadian.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: He's seen as more cool compared to Ian, especially to the other kids at school. Despite this, he and Ian are still good friends.
- Dub Name Change; His name is changed to Tom in the French dub.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Ian.
- Only Sane Man: Often plays this role alongside Sandi, though there are exceptions in some episodes.
Sandra "Sandi" Crocker
- Voiced by: Tabitha St. Germain
Another one of Ian's friends. She's pretty short tempered and can get annoyed by Ian's antics, but they're still good friends together. Just like Ty, she's also pretty athletic.
- Deadpan Snarker: She often gives comments like this to several of Ian's plans.
- Fiery Red Head: Has ginger hair and a fiery temper to match.
- Implied Love Interest: Several early episodes imply Ian has a crush on her. However as time went on, this became less noticeable and by season 3 it was dropped all together.
- Only Sane Man: Often plays this role alongside Tyrone, this is especially shown in "O Brother Where Art Thou".
- Passionate Sports Girl: She is the most athletic out of the trio.
- Tomboy
Grace Lum
Dennis
Others
Odbald
- Voiced by: Ian James Corlett
A Dutch immigrant and Ken's right hand man working at the piano store.
- Clashing Cousins: This ends up happening to him with his cousins in "Ken Kelley and the Keyboard Factory" when they start doing all the work at the piano store.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Snow Fun", he predicts that there would be a snow storm through his "weather nose", which Ken dismisses. But then a snow storm actually happens, but Ken still insists that it's still warm.
- Funny Foreigner: Provides a lot of the humor by not understanding the cultural norms of Canada.
Principle Bill
Mr Greeble
