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Jelly Bean Cabin
Lazlo
Lazlo
- Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui
- The Ace: He has many talents, he’s popular with the other scouts, and he almost always gets a happy ending.
- All-Loving Hero: Shows kindness to almost everyone, and genuinely cares about Lumpus and Edward despite the fact that the two openly hate him. The only exceptions are Edward's brothers.
- Always Someone Better: The reason Edward dislikes him is because Lazlo is this.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: In real life, spider monkeys aren’t orange.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Thin to Raj's Big and Clam's Short.
- Born Lucky: Literally. As revealed in “Bad Luck Be A Camper Tonight”, all Bean Scouts roll a slot machine before they’re born to select their luck, and Lazlo hit the jackpot and was blessed with incredible luck.
- Book Dumb: "Float Trippers" suggests that while he's a skilled and devoted camper, at school he's not a very good student.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Very eccentric, but a loyal Bean Scout.
- Break the Cutie: In "Parasitic Pal", when he has to let his pet sea lamprey Lamar (Lauren) go.
- Character Catchphrase: "Yukka!", said whenever he gets an idea or inspiration.
- Cheerful Child: He's constantly cheerful, joyful, and good-natured.
- Children Are Innocent: Lazlo is oblivious to the world's imperfections and believes that nobody is a jerk.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He has pretty weird beliefs.
- Easily Impressed: He'll regularly express optimism and amazement over things his fellow campers meet with disdain and cynicism.
- Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Lazlo is a Nice Guy and an All-Loving Hero, but even he is afraid of and repulsed by Edward's brothers.
- Flanderization: His kindness, optimism, and All-Loving Hero role have been increasingly exaggerated as the show went on.
- For Happiness: Lazlo indulges in spreading joy.
- The Heart: "Where's Lazlo?" reveals just how much of this he is to the other Jelly Beans—he helped Raj come out of his shell a little, prompted Clam to undergo a Heel–Face Turn just by saying the word "adventure" and both of them are extremely broken up when he goes missing.
- Hidden Depths: Alluded to in "Float Trippers". In his "No-Good Lousy Blues" song, he sings about his apparent insecurities with his appearance and not knowing the answer when the teacher calls on him. And in "The Wig of Why", despite his Horrible Judge of Character below, Lazlo not only gets sick of the camp's antics wearing on him but also totally figures Edward would never actually smile to pay for one of his predictions. He accidentally predicts it happening in spite of the sheer impossibility, much to Edward's internal embarrassment.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Lazlo fails to see how much Edward flagrantly despises him and continues to view him as a friend. He also believes Scoutmaster Lumpus is a competent and friendly scoutmaster and is oblivious to how much of a Jerkass he really is.
- Although, if a small bout of dialogue in "Parent's Day" is to be believed, Lazlo does know that Edward doesn't like him. It's likely that he just chooses to disregard it.
- Idiot Hero: Sometimes he knows more than he lets on, sometimes not.
- Jerkass Ball: While he's generally a nice, good-natured All-Loving Hero, he has some moments in the series where he's rather rude and less sympathetic than usual.
- In "Samson's Mail Fraud", he's surprisingly one of the campers that act hostile and impatient toward Samson when he takes too long in the mail building.
- In "Cave Chatter", he acts rather rude to Samson as he keeps deliberately cutting the latter off and not letting him speak.
- In "The List", he starts being an Attention Whore when he throws a pity party after Edward was hold in a celebration for all the nice things he did on Lazlo's list and Lazlo told him to do so, and then he decides to make himself more injured than Edward who injured himself to get the attention back.
- When Lumpus says he’s right in "The Big Weigh In", Lazlo says “Of course I am”, showing a sudden ego.
- In "Camp Complain", he goes along with the other camp leaders and deliberately ignores the complaints of the other campers.
- Keet: He's a very energetic and upbeat individual.
- Loved by All: He’s got this status among Camp Kidney, as everyone except Edward and Lumpus likes him for his friendly, helpful attitude. In “The Nothing Club”, when Edward tries to organize an anti-Lazlo club and asks the other scouts to say things they hate about Lazlo, they all have nothing but good things to say about him.
- Love Freak: He's often obsessed with trying to be friends with everyone.
- Nice Guy: He's very friendly and good-natured. Rarely does he ever exhibit a mean streak.
- Oblivious to Love: Usually unaware of Patsy's advances.
- Out of Focus: Despite what the show's name may suggest, many of the later episodes tend to focus more on any of the other characters listed here with Lazlo being Demoted to Extra or even completely absent from the episode. This isn't exactly a bad thing though as that meant more Character Development for everyone else, with nearly every other major character getting at least one episode dedicated to them.
- The Pollyanna: Right up to the finale, he remains optimistic in spite of everything that happens to him.
- Silly Simian: He's the main character and an amiable monkey.
- Sleeps in the Nude: Usually he wears pajamas but in "Edward's Big Bag" he sleeps in the nude.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Being a monkey, he loves bananas and anything with bananas in them, like banana bread.
- Vibrant Orange: He's an orange spider monkey and he's usually adventurous, cheerful, and joyful.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has a phobia of clowns due to an incident in a circus in which a clown's fake nose fell off by accident. He gets better, though.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: He's needlessly optimistic and always oblivious to how harsh the real world can be.
Raj
Raj
- Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
- Beware the Nice Ones: He has quite a temper at times.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Big to Lazlo's Thin and Clam's Short.
- Bollywood Nerd: A fairly mild example. He's a pretty intelligent Indian elephant.
- Character Development: His cowardliness and nervousness have been toned down over the course of the series.
- Deadpan Snarker: Every so often, he'll make a snarky, sarcastic comment.Raj: (toward Lazlo) Excuse me, but I am busy questioning your sanity.
- Funny Foreigner: He speaks with an exaggerated Indian accent.
- Honorable Elephant: He's a pink elephant and is usually friendly and loyal.
- Idiot Ball: In "Prodigious Clamus", he apparently doesn’t even know how to open a box. This was likely done to emphasize Clam's hidden genius and make him look much smarter in comparison to Raj and the other scouts.
- He also holds it in "Cave Chatter", where he apparently doesn't know how to melt ice and says that it probably "has something to do with computers".
- Jerkass Ball: He can be a bit of an ass from time to time, usually toward Samson (not that Samson is any better).
- In "The Nothing Club", he, along with Clam, joins Edward's Anti-Lazlo club despite initially being reluctant.
- Lovable Coward: He's the most easily scared of the three main characters, but is still a relatively nice person.
- Only Sane Man: He is usually the voice of reason toward Lazlo and Clam and is more often than not much more rational and cautious than them. He's also the only camper who ever pronounces Scoutmaster Lumpus' name correctly, and one of only two people overall (the other being Slinkman).
- National Animal Stereotypes: An Indian elephant with an exaggerated Indian accent.
- Nice Guy: Not to the extent of Lazlo, but he's still pretty nice, in spite of his cautiousness and Jerkass Ball moments.
- Shrinking Violet: Started out as one, though Lazlo's influence helped him overcome it.
- Signature Laugh: A "haw haw haw" type of laugh.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He and Samson usually have petty squabbles with each other.
- Sweet Tooth: Raj loves his marshmallows.
- Token Rich Student: In "Where's Lazlo?", he mentions that his family is well-off. He's apparently pampered enough to mistake Clam for his baggage boy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He loves marshmallows.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's afraid of bugs, though he does turn over a two leaf in the course of one episode.
Clam
Clam
- Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui
- The Ace: He is shown to be a good painter, an amazing puzzle-solver, and musically inclined in "Prodigious Clamus".
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He’s a yellow rhino.
- Badass Adorable: He's small and cute, but is immensely strong and practices boulder tossing for fun.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Do not get in the way of his pancakes.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Short to Raj's Big and Lazlo's Thin.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Eccentric and quiet? Yes. Strong and smart? Also yes.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Manages to be even more eccentric and bizarre than Lazlo.
- Cuckoosnarker: He can be this on occasion. Such as the moment in "Mascot Madness" where Edward blackmails the Jellies with a drawing of them in the marshmallow shack:Raj: This is not good!
Clam: Neither is drawing! - A Dog Named "Cat": He is a rhino named “Clam”.
- Ditzy Genius: He acts like a moron, but is shown in "Prodigious Clamus" to be able to solve a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle in ten seconds, paint an exact copy of the Mona Lisa, and play beautiful music by blowing over a bottle.
- Gasshole: Is able to nearly belch the moon out of orbit.
- Hidden Depths: He has a high IQ as revealed in "Prodigious Clamus" that allows him to do many things like drawing, solving puzzles, and playing music. Also in "No Beads, No Business" he was able to be a highly efficient therapist to resolve Lazlo and Raj's differences as they argued about the camp store's business transactions.
- Hulk Speak: His complete sentences tend to leave out some things, like articles.
- I Am Not Weasel: There's a minor recurring joke about people not being able to tell what species he is. Though he doesn't seem to mind what people think he is.
- Informed Species: The two horns on his nose are his only Rhinoceros trait
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: Implied in "Where's Lazlo?". Before meeting Lazlo, he was an antisocial loner with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Nice Guy: Again, not as much as Lazlo, but still a nice guy.
- Non-Indicative Name: He's not a clam.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: It is sometimes hinted that he only acts dumb, particularly "Prodigious Clamus".
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's small and cute, but is immensely strong and practices boulder tossing for fun.
- The Quiet One: He's a man of few words other than the last word people say. In fact, Joe Murray wanted him to be totally mute, but realized it wouldn't cut out.
- Simpleton Voice: Subverted. While his voice is deep and raspy, Clam is much smarter than he appears.
- Smarter Than You Look: You wouldn't know it from talking to him, but he's hands down the most intelligent camper at Camp Kidney.
- Took a Level in Kindness: A flashback in "Where's Lazlo?" reveals that he was much less social and more aggressive and violent before meeting Lazlo.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pancakes, although in "Lumpus vs Volcano" he says it's shrimp cocktail.
- Verbal Tic: He usually speaks after a character does, repeating a key word or phrase from their sentence.
- Voice Changeling: He can copy Edward's voice perfectly.
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Edward
Edward T. Platypus
- Voiced by: Doug Lawrence
- Alpha Bastard: He will occasionally lead the other campers.
- Anti-Hero: At best, he means well, but still goes about his pursuits in selfish and callous ways.
- Attention Whore: If Lazlo tries something, Edward will stop at nothing to try and surpass it.
- Badly Battered Babysitter: In "Waiting for Edward", after being assigned to keep Chip and Skip out of trouble by Slinkman, he suffers a lot of Amusing Injuries from keeping them from hurting themselves.
- Big Bad: Quite a few episodes have him serve as the antagonist.
- Big "NO!": He says this on occasions, most notably when something bad happens to him.
- Black Sheep: He is viewed as a disappointment to his family by his brothers.
- Book Dumb: In “Waiting For Edward”, he’s shown to be the dumbest kid in camp next to Chip and Skip.
- The Bully: He often goes out of his way to torment and bully other campers, doing things such as pantsing them, intentionally interfering with Lazlo trying to go to the bathroom, throwing Clam's clothes up in a tree, and even going as far as to deliberately trip Lazlo and break his ankle.
- Bully Brutality: While a majority of his bullying is psychological and non-violent, he can occasionally resort to actually physically attacking and harming others, like when he deliberately tripped Lazlo and broke his ankle in "The List".
- Bratty Half-Pint: Boy, is he ever. He will throw tantrums when he doesn't get his way.
- Break the Haughty: Part of his Butt-Monkey role is to get his comeuppance for being an arrogant, egotistical braggart.
- Butt-Monkey: While he is usually a Karmic Butt-Monkey who gets punished for being a bully, he sometimes suffers for no reason at all. He was bullied all his life by his older brothers, and in “Valentine’s Day”, he gets beat up so bad, he’s left in a full body cast. He then lampshades that he did nothing to deserve it.
- Character Development: While he remains rather abrasive throughout the series, he mellows out over the series from a straight-up Jerkass to a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He also grows from hating Lazlo with a passion to begrudgingly liking him, though he'll never admit to it.
- Characterization Marches On: Press kits played him up as a stickler for the rules and as a malevolent person. While the entire camp did go through such a uniform phase, Edward happily flips off Lumpus and Slinkman when he sees fit, even if he's not as wild as the Jelly Beans.
- The Cynic: He is very pessimistic.
- Deadpan Snarker: Often prone to sardonic banter, especially at the expense of the Jelly Cabin.
- The Dog Bites Back: Eventually stands up to his four older brothers after years of abuse from them.
- Egg-Laying Male: One episode has him think he's laid an egg after finding one in his bed. The end of the episode revealed it was just a normal bird egg that Dave and Ping Pong put in his bed to get back at him.
- Enfant Terrible: He's the youngest member of the Bean Scouts and is easily the meanest of them all.
- Enraged by Idiocy: One of the main reasons he dislikes most of the scouts, especially Lazlo and the other two Jelly Bean scouts, is because of how dumb he thinks they are, despite the fact that Edward is dumber than them.
- He's sometimes enraged by Chip and Skip's stupidity.
- Expy: Likely of Squidward Tentacles, with the only difference being that Edward is cruel, sadistic, and picks on other campers rather than merely minding his own business while being bothered and annoyed by them, and then lashing out at them.
- And to Plankton, to an extent as both are voiced by Mr. Lawrence, both have high-pitched screams, and both are short, sadistic and ill-tempered.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He is a huge Jerkass and in "Camp Dinkey" his ideal version of a camp was one in which he was a cruel dictator ruling with an army of Chip and Skip clones. Later in the same Imagine Spot he was staying with his mother who was cuddling him like a baby and both of them said they loved each other.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: He's this in the TV special "Where's Lazlo?" where he lies about stopping the bear that attacked Camp Kidney when really Lazlo left with the bear with pine cones in it's nose, but it was all revealed a lie when the bear attacks the campers at Camp Kidney and he becomes scared when he comes face-to-face with the bear and runs off when he takes the pine cones off the bear's nose.
- Freudian Excuse: He blames his behavior on his four Jerkass older brothers.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He's jealous of the attention Lazlo gets, which frequently incites him to bully Lazlo or try to get him in trouble.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Constantly gets angry over the pettiest of things.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: It was revealed in "O Brother, Who Art Thou" that his four older brothers bullied him their who lives before he came to Camp Kidney, turning him into the jerkass he is today.
- I Am Not Weasel: He is not a duck. Or a beaver.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A worthy opponent of his scoutmaster when it comes to being assholish. He is also not above blackmailing others to get his way, like setting up a trap in the guise of a "congratulations party" at the marshmallow storage and then blackmailing Lazlo, Raj, and Clam with expulsion from camp if they did not give into his demand to let him be the camp mascot because he was bested by Raj and Clam after his Duke of Lice presentation impressed no one. Despite this and being an angry, mean, and selfish brat, he does have his moments of being nice at times:
- There are moments where he'll be happy for other characters during their accomplishments, like in "Swimming Buddy" when he cheers for Raj and "Prodigious Clamus" when he does the same for Clam.
- He'll express sympathy towards others at times, like in "Parasitic Pal" when Lazlo's mourning over the loss of the leech that was attached to his head.
- There are moments where Edward smiles or returns his hug to Lazlo after the latter gives him a hug.
- In "Tomato Paste", when he was about to leave to Tomato Camp, Lazlo gives him a goodbye letter about him staying at Camp Kidney and he cries and decides to stay with the other campers and decline going to Tomato Camp.
- In "S is for Crazy", he was actually concerned about Samson when he got stung by the orange jellyfish.
- In "Loogie Llama" he cries when Spitty has to leave, and earlier in the episode he helped try to get Spitty back from the Squirrel Scouts. He also calls Lazlo out for breaking Samson's glasses while doing his mating call.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Edwards usually suffers pain, humiliation, and other punishments as Laser-Guided Karma for bullying the other campers. Blackmailing the Jelly Beans into making him the new mascot? Miss Mucus, Acorn Flats' own mascot brutally thrashes him until the other Bean Scouts relent and help him turn the tide. Tricking the Jelly Cabin boys out of camp on Inspection Day in "The Weakest Link"? He ends up getting lost looking for Lazlo, the only one who can start a fire, and gets mauled by a hungry bear.
- Kids Are Cruel: He's an obnoxious bully who frequently goes out of his way to torment, harass, and humiliate other campers for his own amusement.
- Large Ham: He's voiced by the same guy who voices Sheldon J. Plankton. It's no surprise that he chews the scenery and has plenty of dramatic dialogue.
- Miles Gloriosus: He has a bad habit of biting off more than he can chew, and it shows whenever he looks like he's in danger.
- Mouthy Bird: He has a beak that is flat against his mouth, resembling lips, but part of the beak also resembles a nose.
- The Napoleon: The youngest Bean Scout, one of the shortest, and has the worst temper.
- National Animal Stereotypes: Averted. Edward and his family are platypuses, but none of them are portrayed as Australian and instead speak with generic American accents.
- No Indoor Voice: His anger makes him prone to exceptional yelling.
- Not So Above It All: The climax of "The Wig of Why" finally has him giving in to Lazlo's simple demand for payment of one smile for a prediction. Albeit an unhinged, crooked and rather creepy one because he too had become as obsessed with the predictions as the rest of the campers. This fulfills the impossible prediction that Lazlo thought would never happen in a million years; when Edward reads it he realizes he just fell into this trope and ends up pretending the prediction was wrong just to save face.
- Odd Friendship: Is friends with Chip and Skip in spite of having little patience for stupidity.
- Only Sane Man: He's the most rational and sensible one more often than anyone else in the camp.
- Perpetual Frowner: He's constantly frowning.
- Pride: He's pretty arrogant, although he's nowhere near as great as he thinks he is (See Small Name, Big Ego below).
- Real Men Wear Pink: Has a Barbie-like platypus doll named Veronica, but he mostly hides her away from anyone who notices.
- Sadist: He enjoys watching the suffering of others.
- In "Float Trippers", he actually took joy to the possibility of Lazlo, Clam, and Raj dying to the point of being sociopathic.
- Screams Likea Little Girl: When he screams, it tends to be high-pitched and feminine-sounding.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's definitely not as stellar as he thinks he is, but he still has a considerable ego and thinks he's better than everyone else, even when Lazlo outdoes him at something.
- Sore Loser: Edward does not take kindly to losing any challenge, especially against the Jelly Beans; from blackmailing the Jelly Bean trio even though Raj and Clam won fairly in "Mascot Madness" to losing his temper over checkers in "Temper Tee-Pee" to exploiting Lazlo's Potty Emergency and tormenting him over a lost lemonade drinking contest in "Hold it, Lazlo", his unsportsmanlike reaction to losing shines through and through.
- Straw Loser: Edward is very unpopular In-Universe and gets little respect when compared to the other scouts, which is justified by the way he bullies and insults them. Only Samson is less respected. He also tends to have terrible luck, such as getting the small trophy when he won a race while the other scouts all got bigger trophies than his, and spinning the chore wheel and having to shave Scoutmaster Lumpus' back.
- Surrounded by Idiots: He constantly calls the other scouts idiots, though he himself is much less smart than he thinks he is.
- Species Surname: He's a platypus with Platypus as his surname.
- Tsundere: Exhibits mild platonic traits towards Lazlo.
- The Un-Favourite: He's the youngest of five children and is badly mistreated by his older brothers.
- Through a Face Full of Fur: Whenever he's ticked-off, his face will turn red.
- Token Evil Teammate: He's pretty much the only camper who is an unpleasant bully while the others are pretty friendly.
- Toothy Bird: He's a platypus and he has teeth.
- Unmanly Secret: Despite insisting that being a sore loser is "macho", he owns a Barbie-like doll that he adores. When the other Beans find the doll, he is sent into a panic.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: It's implied that he didn't used to always be a bully before he came to camp and that he was driven to being a bully by his older brothers.
- Villainous Breakdown: He has one in "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp" where he realizes that he'll be in Math Camp and yells out 3 Big No's.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: At times with Lazlo; they act like friends with belligerent interactions, although most of the vitriol is from Edward only.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Downplayed, but he is indicated to be the youngest camper, yet he is often the Only Sane Man.
Chip and Skip
Chip and Skip
- Voiced by: Steve Little
- A Day in the Limelight: Both are the primary focus of several episodes as well as about half of the shorts (The shorts are appropriately titled as "A Chip and Skip Cartoon"), with "Irreconcilable Dungferrences" being the most notable.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: The largest of the Bean Scouts and the only insects among them.
- Boomerang Bigot: They both hate bugs and prefer them dead, even though they are bugs.
- The Ditz: Too stupid to know any better, but likeably goofy. They're basically two Patricks for the price of one.
- Four-Legged Insect: They each have two arms and two legs.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Skip (the oldest twin) is distinguished from his brother Chip (the youngest) by wearing a sash across his chest and his voice being a little higher.
- Informed Species: Their resemblance to real dung beetles
◊ is somewhat minimal, being more akin to purple sausages in shape. - Lethally Stupid: As demonstrated in "Waiting for Edward"; their bumbling gets Slinkman injured, and Edward suffers many Amusing Injuries trying to keep them out of trouble.
- Minion with an F in Evil: They may loyally follow Edward's orders, but aren't malicious in any way.
- Odd Friendship: With Edward, considering that Edward has little tolerance for stupidity and they're dumb as mud.
- The Pigpen: They're always surrounded by a cloud of flies and even need to be covered in filth lest they enter a century-long hibernation (This does not apply to real dung beetles who readily consume fly eggs).
- Simpleton Voice: With a heavy lisp. They have slightly different takes on this to differentiate between the two, with Chip's being a little deeper.
- Single-Minded Twins: They may as well be the same entity, given the fact that they're equally stupid and interchangeable.
- Those Two Guys: They're seldom seen apart.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: One episode implies that Skip is afraid of stuffed elephants, as he runs away screaming at the sight of a giant one.
- Yes Men: Again, to Edward.
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Samson
Samson Clogmeyer
- Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
- Ascended Extra: Though he still complains about not being all that important, he notably got a lot of episodes dedicated to him as the series went on, even getting the last line of the series in "Lumpus' Last Stand", when Lumpus gets hauled off to prison for pretending to be the scoutmaster.Samson: Okay. I think it's just officially got to the point where it can't get any weirder.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Not as much as Raj, but he keeps the mail room under very strict control and won't put up with over-excited clients.
- When it looks like S.M.I.T.S has cursed him to constantly be pelted by balls, he completely snaps and becomes the new camp bully for a day. Suffice to say he had everyone scared.
- Black Sheep: Is used by the other Bean Scouts as a measure of how uncool and low-ranking a camper can be.
- Born Unlucky: Literally. As revealed in “Bad Luck Be A Camper Tonight”, all Bean Scouts roll a slot machine before they’re born to select their luck. Samson rolled it and got three volleyballs. He kept trying again and again with the same results, making his luck even worse, until he was forcefully removed... and set it up for Lazlo to win big.
- He actually does get a second shot and he actually wins big and gets the same luck as Lazlo... before trying to go for double-or-nothing and being reduced back to a Butt-Monkey.
- Butt-Monkey: He frequently suffers misfortunes and is often ignored, disrespected, and/or mistreated by others to absurd extents.
- Cassandra Truth: In “Strange Trout From Outer Space”, he tries to warn the other scouts that a group of evil aliens is plotting to steal their cheese, but none of them believe him because he has lied before about being able to dunk a basketball, and lied that one of the camp’s latrines can be used as a time machine.
- Chick Magnet: In "Hard Days Samson", he gets chased by the Squirrel Scouts after they mistake him for the teen idol Hanley Manster in their dreamboat magazine. Though outside of that episode, no girls ever show any interest in him.
- Companion Cube: He has an abnormally close relationship to his medication.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Everyone but Lazlo either mocks him or doesn’t notice him. In “Strange Trout From Outer Space”, Edward draws a picture of Samson’s crying face on a rock, and he, Chip, Skip, Dave, and Ping-Pong all laugh and throw dodgeballs at it.
- Inconsistent Coloring: He's a dark shade of grey in the show, but the comics color him white. Joe Murray's website makes him a very light shade of brown.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Samson is sometimes shown to be desperate for friends. In “Camp Kidney Stinks”, he asks Odiferous the smell fairy if he can be his friend, and in “Strange Trout From Outer Space”, he writes in his diary that he really wants to be Lazlo’s friend, and becomes overjoyed at the idea of making three new friends.
- Informed Species: He's hardly recognizable as a guinea pig.
- Ironic Name: He shares his name with Samson, well known for being super strong and masculine, but he's a nerd and a wimp.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Creates armor out of pillows and other cushy items. It works.
- Neat Freak: Cares excessively about tidiness.
- Nerdy Inhaler: He calls it his "Asthma Buddy".
- Nice Guy: He's one of the nicer non-Jelly Bean scouts at Camp Kidney.
- Random Species Offspring: Implied to be this or Interspecies Adoption, given his parents are both jellyfish as revealed in "S is for the Crazy."
- Running Gag: Has a penchant for being hit by unexpected volleyballs.
- Sickly Neurotic Geek: Has all sorts of allergies and is a geek with glasses.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He and Raj cannot stand each other in the slightest.
- Stealth Expert: He's so unnoticeable that in one episode, when he infiltrates the Junk Food Vault of Chef McMuesli, McMuesli literally steps over him, as he's bringing out junk food from the vault, after Samson tripped the alarm, without realizing he's there.
- Straw Loser: Like Edward, he is considered a loser when compared with the other scouts due to having terrible luck.
- Took a Level in Badass: In one episode, he gets fed up with the constant assault by various sports balls and dons pillow armor that makes him safe from harm. He later uses this suit to stand up to Edward and succeeds flawlessly.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: After building said pillow armor, he then bullies the rest of camp into doing his bidding until he loses the armor the following day (because the campers led by Edward de-armed him in his sleep and proceeded to gang up on him the next morning).
Dave and Ping-Pong
Dave and Ping-Pong
- Voiced by: Doug Lawrence
- A Day in the Limelight: Their biggest role is in "Scoop of the Century", when Lazlo helps them with their newspaper.
- Deadpan Snarkers: Towards Edward.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: A mild example. Dave is a bit more sensitive and easily impressionable than Ping-Pong.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Ping-Pong is identified by being taller than Dave and having a slightly different voice.
- Informed Species: Despite being loons, they more closely resemble geese or even ostriches.
- Jerkass Ball: They can sometimes act condescending and bullying towards Samson, along with the rest of the scouts. Otherwise, they're pretty cordial.
- School Newspaper Newshound: They run the camp newspaper together.
- Sibling Team: They work together to run the camp newspaper.
- Single-Minded Twins: They're pretty interchangeable.
- Your Size May Vary: Sometimes, they're around the height of Chip and Skip (though Ping-Pong is obviously a little taller) and other times they can be taller than Lumpus himself.
Other Bean Scouts
"Harold"
"Harold"
- Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
- A Day in the Limelight: He is given more focus in "Harold and Raj".
- Accidental Misnaming: Raj called the walrus Harold in “Tusk Wizard” and it stuck, even though it's not really his name. In “Harold and Raj”, he says he goes by Harold because it’s what the cool kids call him.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He’s a blue walrus.
- Appropriated Appellation: Harold isn't his actual name. Raj called him that and it stuck for the rest of his appearances.
- Ascended Extra: Became the most prominent of the various Bean Scout extras, through more speaking roles than all the other ones. In fact, his first major role-"Tusk Wizard"-had the other extras complimenting him for becoming one after Raj invited him to hang out with him.
- The Generic Guy: He's largely a background character who isn't very distinct. Lampshaded actively in "Harold and Raj", where he only wants to do the things Raj suggests and doesn't think of doing anything for himself.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: In “Harold and Raj”, it’s revealed he secretly dreams of being a superhero.
- I Just Want to Be You: In “Harold and Raj”, he starts hanging out with Raj and copying everything he does, including wearing the same hat as Raj, and copying his laugh, Indian accent, and high-pitched voice, so he can be popular like him.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: “Harold and Raj” is about him trying to become popular.
- Nice Guy: He’s always friendly to the other scouts.
- No Name Given: "Harold" is just a nickname. One of The Stingers of "Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon" says his real name is Wally, but in a couple of episodes, he’s called Freddy, instead. It was never confirmed which of the names is his real name, if either of them are.
- Warm-Hearted Walrus: He’s a walrus and a sweet guy.
The Lemming Brothers
Larry, Louie, Leonard, and Liniment Lemming
- Voiced by: Steve Little
- Alliterative Family: All of them have names that start with "L".
- Always Identical Twins: There is no way to tell them apart.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Greenish-blue lemmings.
- Animal Stereotypes: They tend to do everything together in a single-minded manner, stemming from the misconception that lemmings all jump off of cliffs simultaneously.
- Informed Species: Their colouring makes them look more like frogs than lemmings.
- Recurring Extra: Mainly serve as background characters, especially in early episodes where there weren't any extra Bean Scouts.
Camp Kidney Staff
Scoutmaster Lumpus
Scoutmaster Algonquin C. Lumpus
- Voiced by: Tom Kenny
- Adults Are Useless: The vast majority of the time, he's either apathetic or incapable of running the camp, treating the Bean Scouts like nothing more than a nuisance.
- Bad Boss: He never pays Slinkman, blames him for any trouble going on in camp, and even expects Slinkman to do his own job as scoutmaster. If Slinkman's Imagine Spot in "Dungs in Candyland" is to be believed, he has attacked him with a salt-shaker before.
- Big Bad: As often as Edward is, he'll serve as an antagonist when the episode calls for it. The Reveal in the final episode pretty much cements him as this; as it turns out, Lumpus isn't really the scoutmaster, but some nutjob who locked away the real scoutmaster and stole his life.
- Black Bead Eyes: Mostly averted whenever his glasses come off, but played straight in an episode or two.
- The Caligula: A non-royalty example. He's the Scoutmaster and does nothing to make Camp Kidney a better place. He just likes the authority.
- Characterization Marches On: In the first few episodes he was presented as a grouchy man who just wanted his peace and quiet. Later on he'd become irresponsible and childish. Early examples from Season 1 include him accidentally leaving the Jellies at a restaurant (and not wanting to go back because he dine-and-dashed the place) and fearing that Commander Hoo-Ha would take away his "milky-wilky" if he let Edward watch a horror movie.
- The Chew Toy: Any time he suffers, it's because he deserves it.
- Depending on the Writer: Some episodes portray him as a grump who's a scoutmaster for Camp Kidney reluctantly, his poor treatment of the campers being the only levity he has. Sometimes he got his position through underhanded, if-not entirely illegal, means. Sometimes he's an irresponsible adult who makes Slinkman do his job for him, while in other episodes he had the emotional maturity of a toddler.
- Entertainment Below Their Age: He prefers to watch Mr. Cotton Goes to Bubbleland over any horror movies.
- Eye Glasses: His glasses contort with his facial expressions.
- Flanderization: His stupidity, immaturity, unkindness, apathy, and irresponsibility got worse as the series went on.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: A jerk who wears glasses.
- Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Though unlike most examples, he does this so that he can have them for himself. In "The Big Cheese" it’s shown he actively spies on what the campers receive in the mail to see if there’s anything worth taking for himself.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Inverted. He got a comet named after him for his birthday. He wanted a bicycle.
- Jaded Washout: He had a lot of dreams, but he's not happy about the way his life turned out and often complains about it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: More so in the earlier seasons, when he was minding his own business for the most part, and usually acted hostile towards others if they interfered with his plans. He shows sometimes concern for Slinkman and and admitted liking to spend time with him. He acted very loving towards the scouts after he thought his parents (in reality Lazlo and Raj in disguise) told him they love him (though that didn't last long). Let's not forget his crush on Jane Doe.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
- In "The List", it seems at first like he's about to scold or punish Edward for breaking Lazlo's ankle, but then it's shown that he's actually very happy about it.
- In "Where's Lazlo?", he seems to be concerned about Lazlo going missing at first, but then it's shown that he's actually just worried about getting in trouble with Commander Hoo-Ha for it.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Lumpus frequently abuses his power as scoutmaster to bully the other scouts, ruin any fun they may have, and squash their spirits, which makes it satisfying to see him become the unwilling target for the collateral damage caused by Lazlo, the one camper who he could never break.
- Large Ham: He's especially hammy when he gets mad over Lazlo's antics.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Not like he isn't dumb already, but his crush on Jane Doe frequently inspires him to do reckless things if he thinks it'll impress her.
- Lazy Bum: He doesn't even like his job. He committed fraud to attain this job using fake badges.
- Meaningful Name: His first name is the language in which the word "moose" originates from.
- Moose Are Idiots: Or at least incredibly immature.
- Morality Pet: Jane Doe is probably the only person he really cares about.
- Pet the Dog:
- He does so once in a while in his own, selfish way. Once Slinkman had lost all passion for his job and decided to go on vacation. Instead of letting him go, he disguised the camp as a Hawaii resort and roped all the scouts into the scheme. They do all the same activities, but with a Hawaiian spin on it that gets Slinkman to change his perspective and start enjoying the activities again.
- When Edward went around pantsing everybody, Lazlo ran to Lumpus for help. Rather than mock him or throw him out, Lumpus bitterly reveals that Edward already got him and sincerely urges Lazlo to run for his life.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: He's frequently shown to be a pretty incompetent scoutmaster, Slinkman being the only reason why the Camp hasn't collapsed entirely in on itself.
- Psychopathic Man Child: He confiscates Bean Scout toys so he can play with them himself and often throws tantrums when things don't go his way. Hell, Slinkman once told him to go to his room and think about what he did.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Finally gets married to his love interest, Jane Doe, in the penultimate episode.
- Ultimate Job Security: He's generally extremely incompetent and apathetic, and doesn't even like being a Scoutmaster. At least until the Grand Finale, where he's finally removed... because it turns out he was never actually the Scoutmaster — he'd actually locked the previous Scoutmaster (Heffer Wolfe) in a closet and stolen his job; The Reveal here gets him imprisoned as a dangerous lunatic.
- Vocal Evolution: His voice was less nasally and slightly lower pitched in earlier seasons.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: In the Grand Finale, he is revealed to be a criminal who kidnapped the real scoutmaster (Heffer) and threw him in jail, and he is committed to an insane asylum. A number of fans were displeased with this, but
Word of God says Jane bailed him out.
Mr. Slinkman
Mr. Slinkman
- Voiced by: Tom Kenny
- Affectionate Nickname: Sometimes called "Slinky" by Lumpus.
- Beleaguered Assistant: A more competent and sensible lackey to Scoutmaster Lumpus.
- Beware the Nice Ones: You don't want to make him angry.
- Characterization Marches On: He was much less expressive in the early seasons.
- The Dog Bites Back: He's gotten back at Lumpus in “Slugfest”, "Beans and Pranks", "Dead Bean Drop", and “No Place Like Gnome”.
- Expy: Of Waylon Smithers Jr. from The Simpsons (nasal voice, subdued Hypercompetent Sidekick to a Jerkass), only not so much attracted to his boss.
- Extreme Doormat: Often submissively lets himself get ordered around, though less so in later episodes. In "Slugfest", Lazlo complains he has no backbone, and Slinkman states that that’s literally true because he's a slug.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Over the course of the series, it becomes more and more apparent that he's the one who essentially runs the camp.
- Last-Name Basis: It's never revealed what his first name is—most people just call him either "Mr. Slinkman" or just "Slinkman."
- Morality Pet: He's often watching out for Lumpus in case he has an outburst.
- Nice Guy: At the very least, he's nowhere near as mean as his boss.
- Non-Mammalian Hair: Flashbacks to his youth give him a poofy orange afro.
- Only Friend: To Lumpus.
- Only Sane Man: When you're the assistant of Scoutmaster Lumpus, this is expected.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Most of the time, but when mistreated too many times he becomes ruthless.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Slinkman is very small (he's about as tall as Lazlo) and he's definitely smarter than Lumpus.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Helps that the idiot he most often has to put up with is a moose.
- Surveillance Station Slacker: He slept on duty while guarding the marshmallow inventory, and when Raj broke in and stole it all, Slinkman shut down all activities on camp as retribution.
- Vocal Evolution: According to Joe Murray, Slinkman's voice was intended to sound "like Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man." Over the process of the series, Slinkman's voice drifted away from the Rain Man and sounded more towards like Christian Slater.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: He's worn a cute maid's outfit in an episode or two.
- Yes-Man: Often agrees with Lumpus' orders without question.
Chef McMuesli
Chef McMuesli
- Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui
- Believing Their Own Lies: He genuinely believes his terrible food is healthy for the campers, but it's obvious it's no better than the junk food he confiscates and hoards.
- Berserk Button: A list of them to be specific, by episode.
- (Beans & Weenies) Being forced to run a home economics class, or in this case, putting up with Lazlo, Clam, and Raj making a mess of his vegan hot dog recipe.
- (Meatman) Making fun of his cooking and making Chef McMuesli look like a hypocrite, for example, Lazlo imagines the chef's broccoli salad as a mini forest and pretending to be the chef clear-cutting the forest.
- (Burpless Bean) Soda on the camp premises, saying soda is for losers. Yes too much soda is no good, but him being a vegan and health nut, of course, he would go to the extreme.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed. He's not actively trying to fool anybody about who he is, but he usually acts like he's a friendly, lovable chef who has the camp's interests at heart by making them delicious food (and seems to genuinely believe it). But nobody buys it since he's still a tyrannical jerk who forces disgusting food he claims is healthy on the campers, and the mask slips easily enough.
- Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Similar to Lumpus, but with junk food. He has huge stashes of junk food and soda locked up in the mess hall, which he confiscates from kids because they’re unhealthy and so they’ll be forced to eat his supposedly better food.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He erupts WAY too easily at Lazlo, Raj, and Clam having trouble getting used to his style of cooking, for one. Overall, he's prone to overreacting to opinions about his food.
- Hated by All: Everybody in camp dislikes him because of his disgusting food and tyrannical obsession with forcing people to eat healthy. Nobody batted an eye when he tied himself to the mess hall when it was being hauled away, and everybody cheered when he announced he'd be unable to make his vegan tomato paste for camp. Lumpus only regards him as the one putting his dinner on the table, and Nurse Leslie will only acknowledge his diet food actually works.
- Hidden Depths: It’s shown that his specific brand of diet food actually does work, as it’s even recommended by Nurse Leslie. It’s just most of his other vegan food is revolting.
- Jerkass: He's an overall unpleasant jerk of a person.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Deconstructed. While he's right about many foods being unhealthy, his own homemade vegan foods are clearly no better than the unhealthy foods.
- Lethal Chef: Everyone at camp finds his food disgusting. It seems he can make edible food, as many scenes have the campers and other staff members have them eating without complaint, but when he gets on his high horse about healthy eating, his skills go out the window.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: He's a stereotypical hippie.
- Not Me This Time: "Temper Teepee" actually focuses on him outside of the mess hall setting and for the only time in the series, his awful cooking has no part in the story.
- Pet the Dog: In "Temper Teepee" he does seem to be genuinely working to help Edward and Gretchen with his usual poor temper ironically being absent.
- Straw Vegetarian: His vegan dishes are portrayed as disgusting, yet he remains blissfully oblivious to the camp's dislike of his cooking.
Nurse Leslie
Nurse Leslie
- Voiced by: Doug Lawrence
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Strangely, he’s a pink shark.
- Ambiguous Gender: A deliberate depiction of the trope. While Leslie is confirmed to be male, he is pink and has a name that can be applied to males and females.
- Deadpan Snarker: He constantly speaks in a rather droning tone and often seems unimpressed.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: The episode "Nursemaster" is about him feeling unappreciated, so he decides to work at Acorn Flats instead.
- School Nurse: Or rather camp nurse.
- Stealth Pun: He's a literal Nurse Shark.
- Swivel-Chair Antics: He always gets around on his swivel-chair. In fact, one episode showed that his legs had atrophied to utter uselessness from never walking.
- Threatening Shark: Averted. The most that you can fault him for are occasional slip-ups in medicine, otherwise he's merely a snarky nurse who tries to do his job right.
The Original Scoutmaster (spoilers for finale)
"Heffer"
- Voiced by: Tom Kenny
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: While not named, he is strongly implied to be Heffer Wolfe from Rocko's Modern Life. He even has the same voice actor and prefers being called a "steer" rather than a cow. His older and shaved appearance may have been why Nickelodeon didn't threaten legal action.
- No Name Given: He isn't given a name, but as stated above in Lawyer-Friendly Cameo, it's hinted that he's an older version of Heffer Wolfe.
- Walking Spoiler: It's nigh-impossible to discuss him without spoiling the ending of the series.
The Squirrel Scouts
As a whole
The Squirrel Scouts
- The Ace: They are superior to the Bean Scouts at almost everything.
- Always Someone Better: They are shown to be more successful in their goals and are better than the Bean Scouts.
- Arch-Enemy: Towards the Bean Scouts. Though its implied this is mostly a bizarre mixture of peer pressure and group expectations they inflict on themselves to keep appearances, as many Squirrel Scouts on their own are more than willing to be friends with the Bean Scouts if another Squirrel Scout isn't around.
- Badass Adorable: They may seem like cute animals, but they are also pretty competent and tough.
- Big Bad: They'll serve as the antagonists in episodes they appear in, if they're up against the Bean Scouts.
- The Bully: Like Edward, they constantly pick on the Bean Scouts, generally as a group though. On their own, only Gretchen seems to be actively hostile, while others like Nina and Patsy like to join the Bean Scouts on the fun.
- They relentlessly torment Slinkman of all people in "Squirrel Scout Slinkman".
- Bratty Half-Pint: They often act like troublesome brats, mostly just towards the Bean Scouts. In “Squirrel Scout Slinkman”, they torment Slinkman.
- Depending on the Writer: In some episodes, they can be nice to the Bean Scouts and other times they can be as mean as they want to them. The rule of thumb is that as a whole they are antagonistic, largely since they expect each other to maintain the competition, but when they're on their own they're willing to break bread with the Bean Scouts as the pressure is dropped.
- Girl Posse: When acting as a group against the Bean Scouts.
- Girl Scouts Are Evil: They frequently antagonize the Bean Scouts for their amusement, but sometimes it depends on the writer.
- Going Commando: They wear nothing under their skirts.
- Jerkass Ball: Oftentimes, they serve as antagonists, wherein they act like smug, abusive, and snooty brats to the Bean Scouts.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Collectively speaking; despite being snobby and spiteful towards the Bean Scouts, they can be pretty nice and pleasant when they aren't fighting against them, but this is mostly on episodes where individual Squirrel Scouts are present on their own, instead of acting as a group.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: They sometimes suffer little to no punishment for their cruel treatment of the Bean Scouts. But if they push their luck too far, their actions come back to bite them in the asses.
- "Marshmallow Jones" ends with them getting stuck in sticky marshmallows and crying for help.
- In "Squirrel Scout Slinkman", they pull relentless cruel pranks on Slinkman and drive him to become a strict and mean scoutmaster towards the girls, and he puts them on a boat and sends them off far away in the ocean without a paddle where they get attacked by raining hail. Slinkman eventually saves them and they reconcile.
- In “Lazlo Loves A Parade”, they steal the float the Bean Scouts made to drive it in Prickly Pines’ parade. Once they unveil the float, it’s revealed the float is made out of things Lazlo “borrowed” from the people of Prickly Pines, who form an angry mob and chase the Squirrel Scouts.
- An example of Squirrel Scouts getting karma for bullying one of their own members: After the Wingnut Sisterhood club (Patsy, Gretchen and Toodie) harshly mock Nina for being an only child in “Step Clam” and send her running away crying twice, they end up getting completely pelted with watermelons (their weapon of choice often used against the Bean Scouts) in an ambush partially carried out by their Den Mother Jane Doe (who has a grudge against the club from her own Squirrel Scout days).
- Kids Are Cruel: On a bad day, they can rival Edward in being malicious and bullying.
- Little Miss Badass: A group of young ladies who can perform awesome stunts.
- Nice Girl: Except for Gretchen, the rest are this when they're not possessing the Jerkass Ball. This mainly happens when Gretchen and/or Ms. Mucus aren't around.
- The Rival: They serve as the Bean Scouts' main arch-rivals.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Lazlo Loves a Parade", they get accused of stealing stuff from the citizens Prickly Pines (which Lazlo did for his parade float), and they’re forced to escape the angry mob by swimming away to a wooden float.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Even though half the time they act like smug, superior Jerkasses to the Bean Scouts half the time, other times, Depending on the Writer, they are much nicer to them, especially Lazlo, Raj and Clam, wholeheartedly joining in on their fun. Patsy even helps Lazlo in one of the specials to save his camp so she doesn’t lose him.
Jane Doe
Jane Doe
- Voiced by: Jodi Benson
- Beware the Nice Ones: Edward, Samson, the dung beetles, and the loons set her off in "Doting Doe-Eyed Deerest" when they take advantage of her hospitality.
- She's also shown to be capable of holding a grudge that stems from bad childhood experiences, as her involvement in ambushing the Wingnut Sisterhood club with watermelons in “Step Clam” indicates.
- Dude Magnet: Throughout the show, Scoutmaster Lumpus, Mayor Pothole McPucker, and Manfred the Turtle all wanted to marry her.
- Dumb Blonde: She occasionally acts very scatterbrained.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: She has blonde hair and three men wanted to marry her.
- Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: She acts more like a kindergarten teacher than a scout leader.
- Morality Pet: To Lumpus. Besides Slinkman (Depending on the Writer), she's the one person he seems to genuinely care about.
- Nice Girl: Unlike Scoutmaster Lumpus, she's a sweet lady who cares about her charges.
- Oblivious to Love: She never realizes Lumpus has feelings for her until he proposes marriage.
- The Pollyanna: She's almost as optimistic and oblivious of how harsh the real world can be as Lazlo is.
- Punny Name: On a pseudonym for unidentified deceased.
- Species Surname: She's a doe, a deer, a female deer. And her last name is "Doe".
- Stepford Smiler: Implied in some episodes to only act cheerful to hide her true feelings.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Ms. Mucus' Tomboy. Jane's obsessed with femininity and Ms. Mucus is extremely rough and tough.
Patsy
Patsy Smiles
- Voiced by: Jodi Benson
- All Love Is Unrequited: She has a crush on Lazlo, but he is oblivious to it.
- Badass Adorable: She's a Greco-Roman wrestling champion, apparently.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Beauty to Nina's Brains and Gretchen's Brawn. She is shown to have beautiful pink hair and is very loving.
- Distaff Counterpart: To Lazlo, both are Wide Eyed Idealists who have a taste for adventure.
- Genki Girl: She's energetic and cheerful.
- Informed Species: She looks more like a kangaroo.
- Interspecies Romance: She loves Lazlo who is a monkey.
- Childhood Friend Romance: It is revealed in the episode "Spacemates" that Patsy and Lazlo are soulmates. They will be together forever in the future.
- Jerkass Ball: She is usually one of the nicer Squirrel Scouts, but will occasionally be mean toward the Bean Scouts should the episode's plot require it.
- Little Miss Badass: She is shown to perform amazing feats throughout the show.
- Nice Girl: When she's not holding the Jerkass Ball.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The In-Between to Nina's nice and Gretchen's mean. She's nice, but is sometimes rough around the edges.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair and is very cheerful.
Nina
Nina J. Neckerly
- Voiced by: Jill Talley
- A Day in the Limelight: "Dungmates" and "Step Clam".
- Alliterative Name: Her name is Nina Neckerly.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brains to Patsy's Beauty and Gretchen's Brawn. She is shown to be the most intelligent member of the three.
- Break the Cutie: She has a really bad one in "Dungmates" from having to deal with Chip and Skip's idiocy. She also undergoes this twice in "Step Clam" when she is discovered to be an only child.
- Distaff Counterpart: To Raj, both are intelligent, cautious, and kind-hearted.
- Gentle Giant: The tallest of the Squirrel Scouts and generally on better terms with the Bean Scouts (Clam in particular).
- Jerkass Ball: As with Patsy, she is typically portrayed as one of the nicer Squirrel Scouts, but some episodes will have her be as mean as Gretchen.
- Neat Freak: She cares excessively about tidiness.
- Nice Girl: Like Patsy, she's this (maybe even moreso) when she doesn't have the Jerkass Ball in her possession.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Nice to Gretchen's mean and Patsy's In-Between. She is the most kind-hearted Squirrel Scout.
- Only-Child Syndrome: Is revealed to be an only child, and when her fellow Squirrel Scouts find this out, they mock her for the fact that they have siblings that support them while she doesn’t. This causes her to freak out and run away in tears.
Gretchen
Gretchen
- Voiced by: Jill Talley
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Clam for a brief scene (Though she had lovesickness at the time). She's also one to Edward.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brawn to Patsy's Beauty and Nina's Brains. She is shown to be the most aggressive and hostile of the three.
- Big Eater: She has an enormous appetite.
- Distaff Counterpart: To Edward, both are short-tempered, callous bullies who like to abuse others.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: "Evil" is stretching it, but she's shown to care about her own troop members despite her grumpy personality.
- Green and Mean: She's green (alligator and all) and easily the meanest Squirrel Scout.
- Jerkass: The meanest of all the Squirrel Scouts. Unlike Nina, Patsy, or even the secondary squirrel scouts, she doesn't even try to be nice to the Bean Scouts.
- Non-Mammalian Hair: She has blonde hair.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Or rather, an alligator.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Mean to Nina's nice and Patsy's In-Between. She is extremely rude and the most unpleasant of the Squirrel Scouts.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The only reptile character and one of the least friendly characters too.
- Token Evil Teammate: Like Edward who isn't nice to the Squirrel Scouts and isn't nice like the other Bean Scouts, she never tries to be nice to the Bean Scouts, while the other Squirrel Scouts on their own are shown to be more than capable of being civil to them.
- Tomboy: When compared to the other Squirrel Scouts. She's extremely violent and hates wearing dresses.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Subtle, yet present. A closer look at the Squirrel Scouts' relationship with the Bean Scouts shows Gretchen is always present whenever they are being mean. While Gretchen stays a jerk on her own, the other scouts have all shown to be genuinely nice without her.
Almondine
Almondine
- Voiced by: Jodi Benson
- A Day in the Limelight: She is given more focus in "Call Me Almondine"
- Ascended Extra: Over the course of the show, she became the most prominent of the Squirrel Scout extras. Her first significant role was "7 Deadly Sandwiches" where she is the Squirrel Scout with Jane Doe instead of the usual trio.
- Exorcist Head: Strangely, for some reason, she can twist her head. It might be due to the fact she's an owl.
- Nice Girl: She is very harmless and soft-spoken. Like Nina and Patsy, not having Gretchen or Ms. Mucus around changes her.
Ms. Mucus
Rubella Mucus
- Voiced by: Jill Talley
- Bald of Evil: "The Wig of Why" reveals that her hair is a wig and that she's bald without it.
- Big Bad: She's the antagonist in many episodes.
- Brawn Hilda: She's pretty nasty in a brawl, as seen in "Mascot Madness".
- The Corrupter: It's not exactly hard to see where many of the Squirrel Scouts get their hatred for the Bean Scouts from.
- Does Not Like Men: Subverted, as it turns out her massive hatred for Bean Scouts is just limited to the Bean Scouts, and she reacts to The Dreaded Commander Hoo-Ha with more respect than she shows for any of the Squirrel Scouts. She also doesn't seem to mind Jane Doe and Lumpus getting married by the end of the series.
- Fat Bitch: She's a large woman who is quite dickish.
- Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Keeps a huge stash of Bean Scout toys in the back of her trailer.
- Jerkass: Loathes the Bean Scouts more than any of the Squirrel Scouts do.
- Pig Man: She is a warthog, with the temperament to match.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: While Jane Doe collects ceramic poodles and encourages the Squirrel Scouts to be proper ladies, Ms. Mucus is brash and angry.
- Would Hurt a Child: She beats the living crap out of Edward in "Mascot Madness" and "Boxing Edward".
Other Characters
Commander Hoo-Ha
Commander Hoo-Ha Smiles
- Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
- Artistic License – Military: Probably intentional in order to show how messed up the scouting administration really is, but someone as militaristic as him should know that "commanders" don't have three chevrons for their rank icon, that being reserved for Sergeants who aren't commissioned officers. Of course, he does act like a Drill Sergeant Nasty.
- Berserk Button: The man already has a dangerously short fuse but the fastest way to light it is for a boy to give any attention to Patsy. One Valentine and the commander goes full on psycho.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: To Patsy. When he discovers she made a card for one of the bean scouts, he put them all through the ringer to find out who the card was for, and then rip him to pieces.
- Brutish Bulls: He's an anthropomorphic bison who is short-tempered, intimidating, and very militant Drill Sergeant Nasty that almost everyone is scared of (especially Lumpus), and isn't above causing harm to children.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Discovers that one of the Bean Scouts gave his daughter a Valentines card despite him strongly objecting anyone giving her affection prior? Why, put the entire troop through brutal tests while making constant threats and insults in order to get the alleged writer to confess. When Patsy then reveals SHE wrote the card (meaning none of the Beans defied his order to begin with), he forces his daughter to beat up the scouts in order to weed out the recipient, all so that he can personally attack said recipient more brutally. When this plan fails he then demands Patsy give the already severely injured Beans another beating, with Patsy’s lie that she made it for him finally ending his wrath. And as a final insult to the Beans, Hoo-Ha never suffers any punishment for all this, neither at the end of the segment nor in a future episode.
- The Dreaded: Lumpus is very scared of Hoo-Ha, while also despising him immensely. Well, everyone should be scared of Hoo-Ha! He once sent a camper to Camp Skullcrush for using fake badges to get promoted.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He has the air of an ill-tempered military commander and tends to be very demanding to his charges.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: His original appearance was a bit less detailed and more angular before "Tomato Paste", where it changed to what is depicted on this page.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Usually, he is a demanding, dictator-like Drill Sergeant Nasty. But if you can meet his absurdly high expectations and impress him, he can be quite amiable. There's a reason why he likes Lazlo in several episodes.
- Karma Houdini: In “Valentine’s Day”, he spends the episode tormenting the Bean Scouts and forces Patsy to beat the tar out of them, and he receives no punishment for it.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Considering he's Lumpus' boss, it doesn't seem likely he knew Lumpus was an imposter who kidnapped the real scoutmaster. You'd think the no-nonsense administrator of all the scout organizations in the area would've vetted him, yet somehow this got past him.
- Men Don't Cry: A firm believer in this, to the point he immediately disqualifies Edward from being a Tomato Scout the moment he sees him crying, despite having seen him as a promising cadet throughout the episode.
- Misery Builds Character: The only justification that he gives for his expectations and actions is this trope, and he tolerates no displays of weakness. He firmly believes Men Don't Cry and his reward for scots that get enough badges is to send them into bitter training camps to make them tougher.
- Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Inverted, he talks to the scouts, who are all children, as if they were soldiers in the military. He'd be more at home at a boot camp drilling young adults for war.
- No Indoor Voice: He's constantly yelling his dialogue.
- Papa Wolf: Although taken to unreasonable extremes in "Valentine's Day", it's shown that he is EXTREMELY protective of Patsy.
- Punny Name: Hoo-Ha sounds like the United States Army battle cry "Hooah" (and other equivalents such as Oorah for the marines, and Ura for the Russian military), which is very fitting for a very militaristic scouting commander.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: In "A Job Well Dung", Hoo-Ha squatted at Lumpus's cabin (commandeering the entire cabin for himself) forcing Lumpus and Slinkman to sleep in Chip and Skip's disgusting, bug-ridden unsanitary beds.
- Villain Ball: His ideology is to "reward" campers with the most badges into concentration camps with harsh conditions to make them even tougher! This is why all Bean Scouts actively avoid earning even one badge.
- Would Hurt a Child: He has absolutely no problem beating the living daylights out of one of the Bean Scouts if he found out which one it was that "wrote" Patsy a valentines day card.
Mayor Pothole McPucker
Mayor Pothole McPucker
- Voiced by: Steve Little
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A fairly competent mayor for his disgusting mannerisms.
- Fan Disservice: In the last episode, he is seen in a speedo, which is an especially repulsive sight because of his obesity and ugliness.
- Gasshole: Always accompanied by the sounds of belches and farts.
- Gonk: He's so hideously ugly that everyone who sees him up close is freaked out.
- Informed Species: He barely resembles a pig, though this may be due to his ugly appearance.
- Kavorka Man: Despite being very fat and ugly, he managed to get engaged to Jane Doe.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Noticeably more detailed for extra grossness and looking more human than everyone else in the show.
- The Pigpen: He looks like he hasn't taken a bath since the day he was born.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite his abominable personal hygiene, he appears to be good at his job as mayor.
Edward's Brothers
Edward's Brothers
- Voiced by: (Cheesly and Phillip): Tom Kenny, (Alpine and Fancy Pants): Jeff Bennett
- Big Brother Bully: They are the ones who tormented him their whole lives and molded him into what he is today, making it crystal clear that they see him as nothing more than a big disappointment. In fact, when Slinkman brought them to help restore Camp Kidney to its glory in "O Brother, Where Art Thou", Edward looked ready to wet himself, and they naturally make him the first victim of their new regime.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They act all nice towards Slinkman, but when he's not around, they act like bullying jerkasses.
- The Dreaded: They are feared by Edward and the other scouts, even Lazlo. Heck, even Scoutmaster Lumpus is afraid of them.
- Evil Is Bigger: They are bigger than Edward and the scouts and are complete sadists.
- Eviler than Thou: They’re even bigger jerks than Lumpus and Edward, who both fear them.
- Greater-Scope Villain: They are directly responsible for Edward's bullying behavior.
- Hate Sink: They are cruel bullies to the scouts and aren't even remorseful for their bullying behavior towards Edward. You know they're this by default, when even Lazlo, someone who sees the positives of anyone and anything, fears and hates them.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Considering they picked on him their whole lives, they're probably even worse than Edward. They also only come to Camp Kidney when Slinkman called them to help out to bully the scouts and take control.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After years of tormenting Edward and the scouts, they get their comeuppance when they get chased out of Camp Kidney when Edward and the scouts rallied against them.
- Lack of Empathy: They show little to no remorse for their treatment towards Edward or the scouts.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They get chased out of Camp Kidney when Edward came back with two rats and he and the scouts drove their cabins around them, scaring them and making them flee in fear.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Fancy Pants' voice is a slight reminiscent of John Travolta.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Alpine hits Edward twice with a punching glove and Cheesly turns Edward into a teatherball and Phillip punches Edward, sending him flying out of camp and into a forest.
- Pet the Dog: They’re genuinely impressed by Lazlo’s performance in “Burpless Bean.”
- Sadist: They sadistically tormented Edward their whole lives and when they came to Camp Kidney, they tormented the scouts too. Even Lumpus isn't safe from them.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They make little appearances, but are the main cause of Edward's rude and bullying attitude.
- Teens Are Monsters: They are older than the scouts and are complete bullies to them.
- Would Hurt a Child: They have no qualms harming their younger brother Edward or the other scouts.
