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Main cast
Sharon Spitz
Voiced by: Alicia Silverstone (Seasons 1&2), Stacey DePass (Season 3); Ilona Brokowski (German dub)
The lead character of the series. A socially awkward girl whose braces complicate things even more (especially since they got affected when a lighting storm hit while they were being fitted on her). Also a stout vegetarian, animal lover and animal activist.- A-Cup Angst: She is constantly and excessively insecure about her chest, being completely flat-chested. So much so in fact that she tried on one episode to increase her breast size with a pneumatic pump.
- Alliterative Name: Sharon Spitz.
- Always Someone Better: Genesis. Until it's revealed that Genesis feels the same way about her.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her usual outfit exposes her stomach, to characterize her as a teenage girl with typical girly interests.
- Better as Friends: She and Connor try dating early on, before realizing that they vastly prefer their dynamic as close friends than as a couple.
- Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Subverted; Sharon got off relatively easy with her braces despite the side effects they bring.
- Childhood Friends: With Connor, her neighbour and friend since they were babies.
- Commonality Connection: While they were both crushing on each other before that, one of the things that starts the spark in her and Alden's relationship is the realization that they both keep money in their shoes.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Sharon is known to be a clumsy, ditzy girl and would usually end up embarrassing herself one way or the next.
- Dub Name Change: In the Quebecois dub, her first name was changed to Charlotte.
- Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: Sharon and Nina were friends as little girls, but one day someone destroyed all of Nina's dolls and she blamed Sharon for it (despite having no proof). In the third season, Nina learned the truth and tries reconciling with Sharon.
- Friend to All Living Things: She loves animals, so much so that her family has three cats and two dogs.
- iSophagus: Her braces tend to affect the environment around her from time to time including messing with lockers, electronics, water fountains, even sometimes receiving radio signals in her mouth.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sharon makes mistakes most teenage girls make and she tends to be bratty and easily irritated, but she is not a bad person.
- Kindly Vet: In one episode, Sharon did work experience at an animal hospital and broke down in tears when a rabbit she tried to help save didn't make it.
- The Klutz: Sharon gets kicked out of a ballet class in one episode because she's a terrible dancer. When she tries baton twirling in Alden's music video, she accidentally breaks a window.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Especially when it comes to activism. She is very stubborn in insisting that her reasons are the right one and can never see things from the other person's POV most of the time. Though its this attitude that powers most of the conflicts she gets into. More often then not, she has to learn the hard way you can't always get what you want.
- Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship with Griffin, due to her father dating his mother. He describes her as his "quasi-little sister... whatever."
- Middle Child Syndrome: She's the middle child of three kids.
- Naïve Everygirl: Sharon wants everything a teenage girl wants: to be popular, get good grades, hang out with friends, and have a boyfriend. She sometimes does get into trouble and messes up like every other teen, but she always learns from her mistakes and sets things right in the end, no matter what the situation.
- Oblivious to Love: In the final episode, Sharon is oblivious to Alden's feelings for her to the point where it's ridiculous.
- Official Couple: With Alden. They initially become an official romantic couple when Alden ended up asking her out, but, one year later, Alden ended things due to Sharon's jealousy (although they agreed to stay Just Friends). In the series finale, Alden realizes that he still has feelings for Sharon, and the two ultimately end up getting back together.
- Only Friend: Griffin describes her as being his only real friend in Elkford.
- Pubescent Braces: The source of the show's title and her Embarrassing Nickname.
- Punny Name: Get it? Sharing spits?
- Shock and Awe: Sharon's braces somehow got electromagnetically charged by the lightning storm happening outside while she was at the orthodontist's office. Her braces do everything from act like magnets to open locks to make electronic devices go haywire.
- Single-Target Sexuality: As Maria once put it, "you're not boy-crazy, you're just... Alden-crazy". None of her other relationships or love interests last for more than one episode.
- Soapbox Sadie: A very stubborn one at that. She is a vegetarian and animal rights activist.
- Squee: She tends to do this when she's excited.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Sharon's face shape, eye color, and hairstyle came from her mother, while her blonde hair came from her father.
- True Blue Femininity: She wears a light blue shirt and dark blue pants in the first season, and is quite the teen girl stereotype.
Maria Wong
Voiced by: Marnie McPhail
Sharon's best friend and all around tomboy who's really into sports (especially extreme sports).
- Garage Band: She becomes the manager of Alden and co.'s.
- Hot for Teacher: Did this with a substitute in "Teacher's Pet".
- Letting Her Hair Down: From time to time—and she looks very cute too.
- Official Couple: With Brock by season three, though it takes a while as she initially just saw him as too immature. But she slowly starts to warm up to him around the second season.
- Passionate Sports Girl: She loves sports, especially extreme sports, and is always trying to get her friends to join her, but Sharon and Connor don't share Maria's thirst for danger or competitive streak.
- Tsundere: Towards Brock. She mostly drops it by the time she starts seeing him in a romantic light, but there's still a bit of it even while they're dating.
- Vetinari Job Security: Mangled Metal (and Sharon) learns the hard way how much they need Maria to function when she takes a break for a day due a lack of proper rest.
- Wise Beyond Her Years: With a few exceptions, she's usually the voice of reason for Sharon.
Connor MacKenzie
Voiced by: Peter Oldring
The initial male friend of Sharon's, who she's known virtually her entire life. Very much a nerd with every allergy under the sun but often there for his friends when needed.
- Beautiful All Along: When not sneezing and with a bit of a hairstyle change, he's pretty attractive as Sharon notes.
- Better as Friends: What he and Sharon decide early on the series, after a horrendously awkward attempt at dating.
- The Friends Who Never Hang: "The Pickford Project" and "Second Thoughts" highlight how he only really knows Alden and Brock through the larger group, which makes one-on-one interactions a bit awkward (at least from his perspective).
- Hypochondria: Mostly in the first season, but dials it down later.
- I Owe You My Life: When he sees Alyson feeling sad and alone, he makes an effort to befriend her because her father saved his life. He figures he at least owes it to the guy to try to cheer up his daughter.
- Nice Guy: Out of the main cast, he's the least likely to do something wrong or say something mean, even if he can be sarcastic at times. A key difference between him and Sharon in situations that have them call out someone is that he's never disrespectful about it and merely states the facts.
- Official Couple: With Alyson in season two.
- Out of Focus: Doesn't pop up much in season three.
- Platonic Life-Partners: He has this with Sharon particularly on his end, as he states once that she's the most meaningful person in his life after his mom and would put her above a potential girlfriend—at the same time that they're Better as Friends.
Alden Jones
Voiced by: Vince Corazza
Sharon's crush and eventually her boyfriend. A nice guy who dreams of becoming a musician.
- Commonality Connection: He and Sharon both keep money in their shoes, and the revelation of this is what helps kick off their relationship.
- Garage Band: He, Brock, and Carmen are the members of one with some fame.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Although he doesn't admit he still has feelings for Sharon until the series finale, in several episodes late in the third season, after he and Marlo have broken up, he shows uncharacteristic hostility toward any guy Sharon shows an interest in.
- Nice Guy: He is very friendly, helpful and laid back most of the time and acts like a good boyfriend to Sharon. That said, he has his limits and he tends to be snarky.
- Official Couple: With Sharon for most of the second season and the end of the third (they get back together in the series finale).
- Second-Act Breakup: Due to Sharon's actions in Dear Alden, despite her efforts to fix the problem.
- Understanding Boyfriend: Aside from an understandable bit of awkwardness, he's much more understanding about Sharon getting her period than one would expect a male of his age to be. It probably helps that he has three older sisters and likely understands the situation better.
Brock Leighton
Voiced by: Daniel DeSanto
Alden's best friend, a guy who tries to act cooler then he really is.
- Casanova Wannabe: He worked really hard at his "ladies' man" persona, but was not fooling anyone—especially not Maria.
- Class Clown: He is the kind of guy who is always trying to get attention.
- Cool Shades: Wears a pair.
- Garage Band: He, Alden, and Carmen have one.
- Insecure Love Interest: He gets increasingly antsy whenever Maria gushes over how romantic Marcello is with Sharon, due to this being his first relationship and him having no idea how to be like that.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: He loves cats and they tend to bring out his softer side. He even helps Sharon organize a protest against a cosmetics company that used animal testing to test their products’ toxicity because cats were one of the animals they used. It's one of the first things that begins to overturn Maria's initial opinion of him.
- Last-Name Basis: Usually calls Sharon (and sometimes Maria) by their last names.
- Official Couple: With Maria, though it takes much to try and woo her. He finally succeeds in the second season.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: His father is very much the "only academics matter" type and looks down on extracurricular activities, prompting Brock to want to impress him with the play he's directing to prove that it isn't worthless.
- With Friends Like These...: There are a few episodes where he can be rather antagonistic.
Nina Harper
Voiced by: Katie Griffin
Sharon's ex-best friend and now rival on the school grounds.
- Academic Alpha Bitch: Combined with Alpha Bitch—Nina's the most popular girl in her grade, and contrary to popular kids being portrayed as unintelligent, Nina's one of the top students at her school and often brags about being a straight-A student and wants to make sure everyone knows how smart she is.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The main reason that Sharon and Nina stopped being friends was because, one time when they were around seven and they were playing together at Nina's house, Nina saw that someone had ripped all the heads off of her beloved fashion dolls. Despite never having any evidence to prove it, Nina assumed that Sharon was the culprit and continued nursing a grudge against her for it even well into their freshman year of high school. It wasn't until more than halfway through the third season that both Nina and Sharon learned that the real culprit was Petra, a mean cousin of Nina's from England. And Petra doesn't even give any reason on why she did it other than simply stating, "I was a nasty little brat wasn't I."
- Embarrassing Nickname: Mr. Harper's nickname for Nina is "Popo," and he seems unaware (or possibly ignores the fact) that she finds it embarrassing.
- Evil Redhead: She's got long red hair, but isn't a natural redhead—in a flashback to when she and Sharon were in grade school, it's revealed that Nina's natural hair color is actually brown.
- Fuzz Therapy: She spends "Lorenza" looking for a dog to adopt; everyone assumes it's just for selfish reasons, but it's really because her parents are always away and the house is otherwise empty. Sharon ends up letting her keep the eponymous dog since they get along with each other so well.
- Girl Posse: Gets a new one after Alyson leaves her in Triangles.
- Heel–Face Turn: Once the truth of the doll incident is known. However...
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Through most of the series, she does occasionally help Sharon and shows some genuine kindness, showing she still somewhat cares for the friendship they once had. She also turns out to be a doting pet owner even to the mangy dog that she initially didn't want and genuinely loves Griffin, her ultimate boyfriend, despite Sharon initially being convinced otherwise.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Has one in "Clean Slate" after she discovers it was her cousin, not Sharon, who broke all her dolls, meaning she spent years tormenting her former friend over nothing.
- Nasal Trauma: In "Nina's Nose Job", she receives an injury to her nose, which Sharon assumes was the result of cosmetic surgery, a rumor that ends up spreading throughout the school. It later turns out the injury was actually due to Nina accidentally jamming her lipstick tube up her nostril.
- Nose Shove: Was the victim of this in "Nina's Nose Job", accidentally jamming her lipstick tube up her nostril.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: After finding out the truth of the doll incident, Nina makes a genuine attempt to patch things up with Sharon. However, this entails cutting her off from her other friends, forcing her to drop all her plans to hang out with her, and pressuring her into joining the cheerleading squad, even after Sharon makes clear she doesn't want to, making her actions come off more as a selfish attempt to ease her own guilt rather than actually caring about rekindling their bond. In the end, after Sharon chooses to hang out with her other friends, Nina accuses her of being ungrateful and breaks off their "friendship" once more.
- Out of Focus: She has less apperances in Season 3 than the first 2.
- Pair the Spares: With Griffin, the son of Sharon's dad's girlfriend, Lauren.
- Parental Obliviousness: To the point of negligence—while Nina's parents really do love her and also clearly spoil her a lot, they're pretty lackluster when it comes to parenting skills. For example:
- Mr. and Mrs. Harper are often away on business trips and are generally too focused on work to spend any actual "quality" time with her—in fact, from what can be gathered, the domestic staff that work for the Harpers seem to look after Nina more often than her own parents do.
- Even though Sharon and Nina stopped being friends when they were around seven and haven't really hung out since then, Mr. and Mrs. Harper (who're both shown to be very fond of Sharon) assume that the two girls are still friends.
- Rich Bitch: Nina comes from a wealthy family and is said to be one of the richest kids in school.
- Stepford Smiler: While she flaunts her wealth, fashion and social status, Nina's life isn't as a perfect as she likes to make people think it is, for a few reasons —
- 1.) Aside from her parents being oblivious to the point of negligence and being fond of Sharon (who they assume is still friends with Nina), they're also shown to be really embarrassing (see Embarrassing Nickname above).
- 2.) Despite her wealth/fashion/high social status, most of Nina's schoolmates really don't seem to like or trust her.
- 3.) Tying into the previous example, Nina seems to have little to no friends outside of Alyson (until they stopped being friends in Triangles), Griffin (her boyfriend since Griffin's Girl), Lanie and Claire (Lanie and Claire being Nina's Girl Posse since Alyson left her).
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: By the time Nina finally learned the truth about the doll incident, she and Sharon were teenaged high school students who haven't hung out together since they were around seven or so, and their interests have obviously changed significantly as they've gotten older and more mature (both physically and mentally). And in the end, Sharon realizes that she'd much rather be friends with people like Maria, Connor, Alyson and Brock, and figures that she and Nina are probably better off as enemies than friends. However, the series implies that Sharon and Nina will eventually become friends again—their relationship just needs some more time to regrow.
- We Used to Be Friends: Shares this with both Sharon and Alyson.
- Sharon and Nina were friends as little kids, but the above-mentioned doll incident ultimately ended their friendship (although the series implies that the two will eventually become friends again).
- Alyson was Nina's BFF from the beginning of the series up until the episode Triangles, which is the episode where Alyson and Connor became a couple (and when Alyson ultimately becomes friends with Sharon and Maria).
- Villainous Rescue: Rescues Sharon from going over a waterfall in "The Pickford Project".
Alyson Malitski
Voiced by: Emily Hampshire
Nina's friend throughout most of the first season. She leaves her in the second season and becomes Connor's girlfriend as well becoming friends with Sharon and Maria.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She takes to Connor in part because he offers her some friendly compassion after Nina kept barking orders at her.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Increasingly shown to be expected to tend to Nina's every need, be it her schemes against Sharon or various activities. "Triangles" is when it reaches a breaking point.
- Beta Bitch: Subverted—while Alyson was Nina's second-in-command back when they were still friends, she was never truly mean or cruel to people. Alyson just did whatever Nina told her to do because, like a lot of teenagers, she just wants to fit in and be noticed.
- The Ditz: A little simple minded, but she's not unintelligent.
- Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: Becomes this to Nina after Triangles.
- Heel–Face Turn: When she realizes that she has feelings for Connor and Nina makes her choose between her or him (and, by extension, his friends).
- Hidden Depths: A backup career of hers is to be a heart surgeon. She also coaches a children's soccer league, has taken piano lessons since she was six and is also really good at fencing.
- Innocent Beta Bitch: Was never truly mean to Sharon and the others and only did bad stuff because of her "friendship" with Nina. She even manages to find some common ground with Sharon, when they discover that they are both proponent of animal rights and share a common hatred for gym class. Later on, she actually ends her friendship with Nina after she forces her to choose between her or Connor who she started to date.
- Nice Girl: Post Heel–Face Turn, she's usually rather sweet. Even beforehand, she really wasn't mean and usually came off as being fairly nice, such as bonding with Sharon over their common hatred for gym class in the episode where Sharon gets her first period.
- Official Couple: With Connor from "Triangles" and onwards.
- Out of Focus: Just like her boyfriend and former-BFF, she doesn't pop up much in later episodes.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Early on, Sharon notes that Connor has a lot of qualities that are excellent boyfriend material, and ultimately, this seems to be what draws Alyson to him.
- Smarter Than You Look: Her demeanor can make her come off as a stereotypical Valley Girl, but, particularly after her Heel–Face Turn, she's shown herself to be one of the more sensible and level-headed characters. More than once she's managed to advise Sharon and talk sense into her.
- Stepford Smiler: "Triangles" reveals she gets depressed by Nina constantly telling her what to do. She also says she's been having nightmares about being trapped in a fire.
- Verbal Tic: Even though the show is a Canadian series that takes place in Canada, Alyson talks like your typical American Valley Girl, such as using the words "like" and "totally" a lot.
Sharon's Family
Adam Spitz
Voiced by: Dan Petronijevic
Sharon's older brother, a seventeen-year-old who had a growth spurt and appears to be around 7 feet tall.
- Aloof Big Brother: On occasion, but otherwise he'll help his siblings when he can.
- Big Brother Instinct: On occasion, most notably in "Teacher's Pet" when he thinks a teacher is hitting on Sharon.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: He practically ripped a door off its hinges once.
- Official Couple: With Hannah, his next-door neighbor.
Josh Spitz
Voiced by: Michael Cera
Sharon and Adam's younger brother, a music prodigy but still in his growing phase.
- Adorably Precocious Child: While still very much a kid, it's not uncommon for him to be the Only Sane Man among the Spitz siblings.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: He can be this at times, but most of the time, he and his siblings get along pretty well.
- Child Prodigy: A music prodigy—especially when it comes to the piano.
- Hidden Depths: Surprisingly good at handling Q & A advice columns as one episode had him helping Sharon with one for her school newspaper, going under the alias "Miss Understanding." Near the end of the episode, Sharon quits the position but allows Josh to continue on in her place.
- Precocious Crush: In an episode from the third season, he develops a crush on Alyson and thinks she might feel the same way (he gets over it though).
Helen Spitz
- Voiced by: Tamara Bernier
The mother of the Spitz children, and a divorced single mother who works as a psychologist.
- Amicable Exes: She and her ex-husband, Richard, are still on good terms—saying they're "friends" might be a bit of a stretch, but they're at least still civil to each other.
- Barely-Changed Dub Name: The Quebecois dub adjusts the spelling of her name to Hélène.
- Good Parents: To the point where Sharon's determined to be an excellent caretaker to her baby doll in one episode on account of her mother doing so well with three children.
- Parents as People: She's still definitely a good parent and Sharon loves her dearly, but there are times when her work gets in the way, or when she's understandably frustrated by Sharon's behaviour (e.g. relenting and agreeing to Sharon getting a tattoo because she's utterly exhausted from her failures in convincing Sharon otherwise).
- Parent with New Paramour: It takes a while for her kids to warm up to David, her new boyfriend.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: David's appeal to Helen is his kindness and silly nature.
Richard Spitz
- Voiced by: John Robinson
The father of the Spitz children, but divorced from Helen for the past couple of years. He works as a musician.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: What he becomes when Sharon discovers that he's taken a job as a minstrel at a medieval-themed restaurant.
- Amicable Exes: He and his ex-wife, Helen, are still on good terms—saying they're "friends" might be a bit of a stretch, but they're at least still civil to each other.
- Anger Born of Worry: When Sharon consumes alcohol at a party while visiting him, not only does he chew her out for it the next morning, he lectures her on what could've happened to her if Maria and Adam weren't there to get her safely back to the hotel.
- Good Parents: Not to Helen's extent, what with being a more minor character and not the children's usual guardian, but he loves his children and they love him back.
- Papa Wolf: When Richard finds out that one of his roadies got his daughter drunk at a party, he doesn’t hesitate to fire the roadie in question.
- Parents as People: While there's no doubt that he loves his children, he's not the most responsible (or reliable) person and it does frustrate/disappoint them from time to time.
- Parent with New Paramour: Much like with Helen's boyfriend, Sharon doesn't approve of her father getting a new girlfriend at first. Eventually, though, she's seen to be rather fond of Lauren.
- The Rock Star: His job, although by this point, his career is past its prime.
- Visit by Divorced Dad: Typically how he appears in the show.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: A variation, since he is divorced from the kids' mother and thus has reason to not constantly be around, but Sharon and her brothers tend to be disappointed whenever he doesn't stick around as long as he promises to because of work.
- You're Not My Father: At first, Griffin has this opinion of him whenever Richard tried acting like a fatherly figure to him.
Other Characters
Hannah Corbett
A girl that lives next door to the Spitzs' that Adam has taken a liking to.
- Cool Big Sis: Sharon and Hannah have a lot in common and the latter seems to look up to the former as an older sister.
- Granola Girl: She's a vegetarian and loves yoga.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her hairstyle.
- Official Couple: She's Adam's girlfriend for most of the series.
- Pink Means Feminine: She's always seen wearing a pink bandanna.
David
Helen's new (and lasting) boyfriend.
- Nice Guy: His defining trait, to the point where Sharon tries to use it as a criticism of him being too nice.
Carmen
Another friend of Alden and Brock's and a third member of their band, Mangled Metal.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's got a rather feminine-looking appearance.
- Garage Band: His role is essentially to be the third member of this.
- Satellite Character: Other than being part of Mangled Metal and a friend to Alden and Brock outside of Connor and the girls, he doesn't really add much to show's storyline.
Mark "Dion" Jones
Sharon's Big Brother Mentor once she reaches high school. A aspiring fashion designer who makes can make clothes out of practically anything.
- Always Camp: A rather flamboyant fashion designer who is eventually revealed to be gay.
- Ambiguously Brown: When he lists off ethnicities and races of Sharon's friends, he hesitates about his own race and just calls himself "adorable".
- Birds of a Feather: Subverted. Sharon tries to pair him up with someone based on this notion, but it's pointed out by the end that a handful of similarities does not necessarily make a relationship.
- Celibate Hero: Downplayed, in that he's not opposed to finding "the one" someday, but unlike most of the cast, it's not a priority for him at the moment and he's perfectly happy being single. He's of the very few notable and/or recurring characters to never be seen crushing or dating someone in the series.
- Cloudcuckoolander: His love for creativity and refusal to care about others' judgment leads to him occasionally being this (such as randomly placing a bucket of paint over his head, presumably to see if it'd make for a good fashion statement).
- Deadpan Snarker: He can have a rather dry sense of humour. His interactions with Evie are almost nothing but Passive-Aggressive Kombat.
- Eccentric Mentor: To Sharon. He's introduced as her school-mandated peer mentor, and his subsequent appearances tend to have him be a voice of reason when she's being shallow.
- The Fashionista: Dion is a budding fashion designer, and his innovative creations, usually made of stuff like dental floss or credit cards, are the hit of the school fashion shows.
- Large Ham: Mildly. He has a flair for the dramatic.
- Only Known By His Nickname: If he didn't tell Sharon his real name in his debut episode, you'd be forgiven for thinking his name really was Dion.
Lauren
- Parental Obliviousness: She apparently had no idea that Griffin was a smoker.
- Parents as People: It's noted that she tries to be a good parent but doesn't really have the strictness needed to keep Griffin in line.
- Parent with New Paramour: Griffin really didn't like her boyfriend (Sharon's dad, Richard) at first.
Griffin
- Calling Parents by Their Name: He's on a First-Name Basis with Lauren, though whether because of his rebellious attitude or because of her lax parenting style isn't entirely clear.
- Delinquent: Was this in his debut.
- I Have No Son!: To an extent. Griffin believes that the reason his dad sent him to live with Lauren was because Griffin, by getting kicked out of school, was now a stain on his reputation.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He comes across as egotistical and overly assured in his own opinion, but Sharon calls him out on it being a cover-up for how he doesn't even care about himself.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Especially in his first appearance, with more emphasis on the Jerkass part, but he still has shades of this in later appearances: while a borderline Nice Guy, there are times when it's clear he's still rough around the edges.
- Like Brother and Sister: Ends up having this relationship with Sharon, since with his mom and Sharon's dad being a "thing" (as he puts it), it essentially makes them stepsiblings.
- Pair the Spares: He ends up with Sharon's nemesis, Nina.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He reforms after his debut, presumably due to Sharon's "PSA" getting to him.
- Troubled, but Cute: His debut focuses on the "troubled" part—and he ultimately ends up becoming a couple with Nina, who seems to consider him attractive enough to want him as her boyfriend.
- What Does She See in Him?: Sharon doesn't understand what Griffin and Nina see in each other—but after realizing that they really do genuinely care about each other, she accepts it and does her best to support the relationship.
Marlo
Alden's girlfriend after he and Sharon break up.
- Always Someone Better: From Sharon's viewpoint (to an extent).
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Marlo becomes progressively clingier and more possessive of Alden during the course of their romantic relationship—it comes to a head in the final season after Alden dedicate a song to Sharon (but only on a professional/platonic level, because Sharon helped him write it). Marlo forces Alden to uninvite Sharon from a weekend trip to a lake that they were all going to take together with some other friends of theirs—Sharon didn't get the message due to her braces erasing it on her answering machine. But eventually, Alden and Marlo decide to mutually break up after realizing that it's just not going to work out.
- Properly Paranoid: She suspects that Alden's feelings for Sharon are more romantic than he lets on — which is entirely correct, as in the episode where he gets amnesia he demonstrates that he's clearly still in love with her, even actually using the word "love" for the first time, and in the series finale they rekindle their romance after he admits he still has feelings for her.
Genesis Lupinksi
The daughter of Marsha Lupinski, an old high school friend of Sharon's mom.
- Always Someone Better: How Sharon initially feels about her, until she finds out that Genesis sees her the same way.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: It's revealed that Genesis wants what Sharon has: a normal life.
- Odd Name Out: "Genesis" isn't exactly a very common name.
Petra
- Always Someone Better: Likes to claim that she has better taste in fashion than Nina does. On the contrary, Petra's taste in fashion (at least compared to Nina's) is shown to be more "gaudy" than "stylish."
- Evil Brit: She speaks with a strong British accent, refers to London as her hometown, and, as previously mentioned, is basically just like Nina, but worse.
- The Fashionista: Just like her cousin, Petra's obsessed with fashion and her appearance.
- For the Evulz: She doesn't really give a reason on why she snapped all the heads off of her cousin's dolls, other than acknowledging that she "was a nasty little brat" as a kid.
- Hated by All: No one likes Petra—Sharon and her friends greatly dislike just shortly after meeting her, and after Petra finally leaves to go back home to London, Nina and her Girl Posse have a going-away-party with a Petra-piñata to celebrate her finally leaving.
- Preppy Name: She is given a very Sloane-y first name.
- Wham Line: When Sharon remembers that she was at the Harper residence when the doll incident happened, Nina once again accuses Sharon. In response, Petra laughs at her cousin and drops this bombshell;"When did you finally figure out that I was the one who did it?"
