Characters / Doug

This is a character sheet for Jim Jinkins's well-known series, Doug, broadcasted on Nickelodeon and later, ABC (as "Disney's Doug", originally known as "Brand Spanking New Doug").

Spoilers below, honk honk.

Doug's Family

Douglas Yancey "Doug" Funnie

Voiced by: Billy West (Nickelodeon), Thomas McHugh (Disney), Masako Nozawa (Japanese dub), Sérgio Rufino (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Fábio Lucindo (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Carlos Macedo (European Portuguese), Humberto Ramírez (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Benjamín Rivera (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon, one episode), Enzo Fortuny (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

The main character of the show, Doug is the Ridiculously Average Guy who moved to a new town and is trying to make new friends.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: He's fairly mature for a preteen, being able to travel across town without getting into trouble.
• Author Avatar: Doug's personality and life experiences was based on Jim Jinkins' experience as a grade schooler.
• Bad Boss: In the "Doug's Inc." episode where he overworked his friends during their business just so he could earn enough money to pay his friends for their work and purchase a skateboard at the same time. Subverted in the end when he realizes what he's become and instead uses all the money to take his friends to FunkyTown.
• Badass Adorable: In his Quailman fantasies. He can be this outside his fantasies whenever he pulls a Moment of Awesome.
• Badass Pacifist: He doesn't like to fight and will try and solve all his conflicts without lifting a finger if he can. In "Doug To The Rescue", he was able to win a fight with Roger just by psyching him out.
• Bad Liar: He's one to try saying "I Have This Friend" when he wants to ask for advice about something that's bothering him. But the way Doug talks about it, people in-universe can tell right away that Doug's talking about himself.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's usually mild mannered, but when others push him too far, he lets them know when enough is enough. Larry, of course, learned that the hard and painful way in "Doug's Big Brawl".
• Book Dumb: Downplayed as he isn't a straight-A student, but he isn't failing his classes either. He does seem to struggle with math though.
• Born Lucky: Everything works out for him. Sometimes even better than he expected it to! Usually because he was making a larger deal out of it in his head than the situation actually was, but also because he tends to work hard to resolve conflicts rather than letting them escalate.
• Boyish Shorts: Naive, imaginative, and almost always wearing shorts with a sweater vest.
• Break the Cutie: During the Nickelodeon Christmas special when he believed Porkchop was going to be put down.
• Butt-Monkey: Is often the subject of jokes and mockery from Roger.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Goes the entire series without being able to reveal his feelings towards Patti...until Patti asks Doug to go on a "date-date" with her, revealing her feelings.
• Captain's Log: His journal, which forms the basis of his narration throughout the series. It's usually done just to open an episode and end it, reflecting on An Aesop.
• Character Development: He becomes less shy in the Disney series and gets more of a backbone as the series goes on.
• Charlie Brown Baldness: Made odder by the fact that he needed to get a haircut in one episode, and in another episode, worried that he was going bald. However, most fan art and the live stage show made him a brunette.
• Clear My Name: Doug's had a few incidents where he's been framed for something he didn't do and tried to figure out how to fix it. A lot of times, though, something else went and fixed it for him.
• Clear Their Name: "Doug's Christmas Story" and trying to save Porkchop from being put down.
• Corrupt the Cutie: "Doug's Big Comeback" from the Disney series.
• Deadpan Snarker: Occasionally gets sarcastic towards Roger and Judy.
• Does Not Like Spam: Has a pointed hatred of Liver and Onions.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Yancey. He tells the school guidance counselor that he hates it; the counselor responds by equating the name with Doug's inherent goodness and telling him to embrace it.
• The Everyman: He's an all-around average guy living with a mostly average family. That said, he does show some adept artistic abilities in both writing and drawing. One episode in the Disney run had Judy getting accepted into Vole University when the admittance board thought she drew one of Doug's pieces. The head of the board later told Doug to apply for Vole when he's old enough.
• Everyone Has Standards: Doug doesn't like being bullied by anyone including by Bone and Roger, but have someone, like the latter, getting it in returns for too long is taking it too far for him.
• First Kiss: With Beebe, though she makes it clear she has no interest in him.
• Guile Hero: Both as Quailman, and in real life. Doug often uses his wits to come out on top, such as in "Doug's Big News", when Roger tricks him into saying that Mr. Bone wears pink underwear, Doug gets back at him by tricking Roger into giving a present to Mr. Bone. Roger then takes the present claiming he got it for Mr. Bone; but the present ends up being pink underwear getting Roger into trouble.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Skeeter.
• I Have This Friend: He tends to ask for advice this way, always adding "It's not me!" after the Trope Namer phrase. However, everytime he tries, it's pretty transparent to people in-universe who he's talking about.
• The Illegible: His handwriting can be most favorably described as "chicken scratches". This works to his favor in "Doug's Runaway Journal", where he loses his journal and finds it in the hands of Roger. He naturally fears the worst, but Roger can't make out anything written and just hands it back.
• Insistent Terminology: It's a journal, not a "diary".
• Jerkass Ball: While normally a Nice Guy, a few episodes have Doug act more insensitive than usual; though he ends up easing up at the end of the episode.
  • The biggest example in the Nick series is probably in "Doug's Brainy Buddy," where he gets jealous of Skeeter's genius IQ. Doug belittles Skeeter throughout the episode and almost ruins their whole friendship before his Jerkass Realization at the end.
  • In "Doug's Fan Club". Todd become an annoying fanboy of Doug. Instead of cutting it nice and quickly he lets it grow to unsupportable levels. What's the result? Doug says some harsh words to him, making Todd run away and hide in a tree in the middle of a storm. He apologizes to Todd afterwards, though, and both become friends again.
  • In "Doug's Pet Capades," his first reaction to Porkchop wanting to enter the titular Pet Capades was apathy, then to laugh insensitively. He entered Porkchop in the show only after he found out that Roger was entering Stinky, and proceeded to devise the entire act himself, not giving Porkchop any say in it at all. Not until the day of the show, when Porkchop refused to go on, did Doug realize the error of his ways.
  • In "Doug's Inc.", he becomes a Bad Boss to Skeeter, Porkchop, Al and Moo just in order to buy a new expensive skateboard. In the end Doug gives up buying the skateboard and spends the money with tickets for all in an amusement park.
  • In "Doug Ripped Off!" he suspects one of his friends stole his bike, and when he sees Al and Moo with it, he takes it back without listening to their side of the story. As it turns out, his parents donated it to a thrift store because they were getting him a new bike as a surprise, and Al and Moo bought it from there.
  • In "Doug's Bad Trip", he and Judy almost ruin the dream trip which his dad planned.
• Jerkass Realization: Unlike many characters who hold on to the Jerkass Ball in certain aspects, Doug always concedes the errors in his ways and does whatever he can to own up to his jerkish ways and make up for it.
• Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Despite claiming to be a relative fan of them, scary movies often traumatize him.
• The Klutz: At times.
• Limited Wardrobe: Well, actually, this applies to all the characters, but Doug lampshaded it by showing everyone else that his wardrobe is filled with multiple identical sets of his outfit.
• Love at First Sight: Loves Patti since the first time he saw her.
• Mr. Imagination: His fantasies often play into the show.
• Naïve Newcomer: The first episode of the Nick series revolves around him moving to Bluffington and meeting all the other major characters.
• Nervous Wreck: At times he tends to imagine the situation he's in as much more intimidating than it actually is.
• Nice Guy: While he has a few jerkish moments, he's usually a good-natured person.
• Oh, Crap!: Every moment when he gets in trouble. Gives a big one two times in "Doug's Big News", the first one for getting caught by Mr.Bone criticizing his TV program and second just after he reads "Mr.Bone wears pink underwear".
• Ridiculously Average Guy: He's not really Book Dumb, but also not a straight-A student, he's not very handsome, but not ugly (he's cute, though), he's not much of an athlete, but not terrible in athletics. He even described himself as being "painfully average". It culminates in the second-to-last season where finds out that his permanent record just says "average" in all the fields. He does have some areas where he excels though, like the arts (it must run in the family), as he's shown to be skilled in writing, drawing, and music.
• Secret Diary: His Journal.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Doug's an average nice guy to Roger's troublemaking bully.
• Shrinking Violet: Sometimes has trouble fitting in to new social situations.
• Southpaw Advantage: Doug is left-handed. Patti realizes this at a critical moment during a baseball game and shows him how to bat appropriately.
• Superpowered Alter Ego: Quailman, and his companion Quaildog. Also, Doug often imagines himself in various other hero roles such as Smash Adams and Race Canyon. In "Doug's Christmas Story" all three of his alter egos appear at once.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Doug to the Rescue," he was able to win in a fight against Roger... without lifting a finger.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Patti since he Cannot Spit It Out his feelings despite being implied during the show she has feelings for him too.
• Vocal Evolution: In the "Doug Can't Dance" pilot, his voice was more high-pitched and nasal compared to his voice in every other episodes of the Nick series. Then during season four of the Nick series, his voice started to get lower. It lowered even further when Thomas McHugh replaced Billy West as his voice actor in the Disney series. Possibly justified, since he's on the verge of puberty.
• Wise Beyond His Years: A rather downplayed example. For someone his age Doug is remarkably apt at actually thinking his problems through and finding an effective resolution to them rather than getting in over his head and needing a guiding hand to help him out. But it's always clear that he is still a preteen who is coping with all the problems that entails.

Porkchop

Voiced by: Fred Newman

Doug's pet and Non-Human Sidekick.

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• Cartoon Dog Breed: He's a little gray dog of indeterminate breed, with pricked ears and a light gray belly.
• Dub Name Change: His name in the Spanish ("Chuletas") and Brazilian Portuguese ("Costelinha") dubs are literal translations of his English name.
• Expy: Of Snoopy.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: In "Doug's Christmas Story", he tries to save Bebe from the thin ice, but the people end up thinking he was attacking her.
• Non-Human Sidekick: Specially when Skeeter is out of focus.
• Superpowered Alter Ego: Quaildog, Quailman's companion.

Judith Anastasia "Judy" Funnie

Voiced by: Becca Lish, Letícia Quinto (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Raquel Marinho (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Yuriko Yamaguchi (Japanese dub), Marina Huerta (Latin American Spanish)

Doug's Beatnik older sister.

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• Artsy Beret: Almost never seen without her Beatnik-inspired beret and circular shades. Her defining character trait is that she's a snobby artist who goes to a private high school dedicated entirely to the arts and theater, so the creators made sure she looked as stereotypically "artsy" as possible.
• Beatnik: She always wears a beret and sunglasses and uses the arts to rebel against mainstream culture.
• Big Sister Bully: To Doug if he provokes her.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: At her worst. When she's in a bad mood, she considers her family unbearably dull, especially her brother. In one episode of the Disney run she got especially pissed at her parents and accusingly asked if they bought her from Romani. While, in another episode, she's so embarrassed about introducing her new boyfriend Kyle to the family that she has them put on an over-the-top performance at dinner to hide their normality. It, of course, backfires.
• Cloudcuckoolander: A Shakespeare-obsessed Large Ham who treats her whole life like a theatre production, in the middle of a ridiculously average family.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Doug Loses Dale", Judy's advice is to think like a child. This turns out to be the only advice that is actually helpful to Doug.
• Cool Big Sis: At her best. When she's in a good mood, she's more than happy to give Doug advice on whatever problem he's currently dealing with. This is best exemplified in the Disney episode where she sucks up to actress Gwen Gauntlet (who keeps calling her "Jenny Penny") in order to get a recommendation to Vole University. What causes Judy to finally snap is when Gwen starts being horrible to Doug (after Doug brought Gwen's dry cleaning that Judy forgot at home) and tells her to back off. Even when Gwen explains she yelled at Doug because she thought he was just a delivery boy and wouldn't have snapped if she'd known he was Judy's brother, Judy exasperatedly states that even if Doug wasn't her brother he's still a human being who deserves common courtesy and respect.
• Cool Shades: Pretty much her only piece of outfit that doesn't change between the shows.
• Deadpan Snarker: When she's not being melodramatic, she's this, especially toward Doug.
• Dreadful Musician: Undeniably. And yet (actually, because of her "style"), she manages to launch the Plastic Judy Band together with Flounder. They play only one gig from which everybody in the audience escapes except for the Funnies.
• Fangirl: In-Universe, she's a big fan of William Shakespeare. Also, some figure-skater named Derrick Derrickson (who tends to perform Shakespeare's works as part of his figure-skating act).
• Large Ham: Proud to put the "drama" in "drama queen".
• Leitmotif: A smooth and jazzy flute number often plays whenever she appears, representing her hyper-dramatic beatnik sensibilities perfectly. Her occasional freak outs also have their own flute-driven "whomp whomp whoooooooomp" melody.
• Meaningful Name: As mentioned above, she's a huge Shakespeare fangirl, and something of a drama queen. Appropriately, she's named after Judith Quiney (née Shakespeare), the Bard's daughter.
• Sunglasses at Night: She does take them off every now and then, but not often.

Phil Funnie

Voiced by: Doug Preis, César Arias (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon first episodes), Jorge Roig (Latin American Spanish, most of the Nick run and Disney)

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• Actual Pacifist: "Show me a guy who resorts to violence and I'll show you a guy who's run out of good ideas."
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: From Doug and Judy's point of the view for being a ridiculous average father. Although this sounds pretty hypocritical from Doug since he is a Ridiculously Average Guy too.
• Bumbling Dad: Heavily downplayed. He's a little naive at times, but for the most part, he's a competent and supportive father to his children.
• Camera Fiend: He's a professional photographer.
• Good Parents: To Doug and Judy.
• Happily Married: With Theda.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out he used to be the drummer of the legendary Psychedelic Fuzz. Turns out The Beets look up to the Fuzz. Phil even ends up standing in for "Chap" Lipman on a new Beets album.
• Only Sane Man: Compared with other parents and other adults in the show, he is the most sane alongside Chad. He's more sane than Doug too.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: To the point where in "Doug Flies a Kite," Doug starts to wonder if it would be better to be the son of the other dads in Bluffington.
• Standard '50s Father: He dresses like this.
• Start My Own: Left a department store's photo studio to start his own business, but ultimately returned to the department store after discovering running a business was too physically demanding of him.

Theda Funnie

Voiced by: Becca Lish, Rocío Garcel (Latin American Spanish)

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• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Although she's less dorky than Phil, she still sometimes embarrasses Doug and Judy by being too affectionate or fussy in front of their friends or by treating them like they're still little kids.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Does it a few times to Doug, especially in the Disney series.
• Good Parents: Like her husband, though she's a bit stricter than he is.
• Happily Married: With Phil.
• Hidden Depths: Is shown to be very knowledgeable about computers in "Doug's Adventures On-Line", which stems from her using one while working at Bluffington's recycling center.

Cleopatra "Dirtbike" Funnie

Doug's baby sister.

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• Aerith and Bob:
  • The siblings' first names are Judith, Douglas, Cleopatra.
  • They're called Judy, Doug, Dirtbike.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Nice try. At least she's less annoying than Dale Valentine.
• Cousin Oliver: She's introduced early into Disney's Doug as if the show didn't introduce enough new characters. What makes matters worse is that Theda Funnie doesn't show any hints of pregnancy until very shortly before the baby is born. Also, Dirtbike doesn't really play any significant role beyond finding a name for her.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Doug tries to hide his Christmas Wishlist after realizing the impending baby means the family can't afford such extravagant things and tries to explain its just a list of baby names, Judy reads off "Dirtbike" and sarcastically suggests she would prefer "Cleopatra". Phil and Theda take this interaction at face value and decide to use both of their "suggestions" to Doug and Judy's initial shock. Worse yet, only Judy calls her "Cleopatra", everyone else calls her "Dirtbike".

Doug's best friends and schoolmates

Mosquito "Skeeter" Valentine

Voiced by: Fred Newman, Carlos Falat (Brazilian Portuguese), Rui Paulo (European Portuguese), Masami Kikuchi (Japanese dub), Carlos Íñigo (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Eduardo Garza (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

Doug's best friend.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Skeeter.
• Alliterative Name: His own Quailman incarnation is named Silver Skeeter.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While Skeeter rarely gets truly angry, he can hold a grudge if he's pushed too far. This was rarely seen in the Nickelodeon version, but had a few moments in the Disney version.
• Boyish Shorts: As a Cloudcuckoolander and freewheeler, he's almost always wearing shorts.
• Charlie Brown Baldness: Like Doug, Skeeter has only a dearth of hair on his head. Although, if viewed from above, the two boys are shown to have more hair than appears from the usual camera angles.
• Chick Magnet: Loretta LaQuigley. The girl who dressed like him. Muffy Silverson. Finally, Beebe Bluff. In one episode, Doug mentions them all in one go, so there's no denying this.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Tends to space out very often and make odd sounds every now and then.
• Dub Name Change: He's known as Stique in French and Tito in Spanish.
• Foil: He shares many of the same traits and interests as Doug, but he has much more self-confidence. Generally, he's much more likely to shake off an embarrassing incident or stand up to Roger. "Doug Grows Up" highlighted this, as well; while Doug angsts about being teased for being in the "childish" Bluff-Scouts and tries to change to fit in, Skeeter openly carries on with an activity he still enjoys.
• Genius Ditz: He's kooky, but in "Doug's Brainy Buddy" he gets a perfect score of 1000 on an intelligence test (see "Hidden Depths" below) much to Doug's surprise. This makes him eligible to attend college, and Doug has to deal with the possibility of losing his best friend. In the Disney version, he only earns his first ever F after creating a robot that does literally everything except what it was assigned to do.
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": In one episode, he writes himself as the Silver Skeeter, effortlessly defeating all obstacles with New Powers as the Plot Demands. This annoys Doug, whose Quailman as a Guile Hero who gets by using his wits.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Doug.
• Hidden Depths: After scoring 1000 on the aforementioned intelligence test, he gradually reveals to Doug that, in spite of his love of comic books and rock music, he's actually quite well read.
• Improbably High I.Q.: There is no such thing as a "perfect" IQ of 1,000.
• The Lancer: As Doug's more eccentric best friend.
• Meaningful Name: His name basically spells out how much of a Chick Magnet he is.
• Nice Guy: Skeeter is for the most part a good friend and all-around pleasant person to be around.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Despite having a ridiculously high IQ, he never really shows it.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: It's rare that anyone calls him by his name, even his parents and the school calls him Skeeter. In the Nickelodeon premiere, he explained it was a family name.
• Shout-Out: Silver Skeeter is one to Silver Surfer.
• Smarter Than You Look: He always seemed to be easily confused and was, at times, rather goofy. It's later revealed, much to Doug's surprise, that he has a genius IQ. His intellect was played up more in the Disney episodes - in fact, Doug arguably displays more Cloudcuckoolander tendencies than Skeeter in some Disney episodes.
• Verbal Tic: "Honk honk!"
• Vocal Evolution: His voice was more nasal earlier on.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: It's explained in the first episode that "Mosquito" is a family name.

Patricia "Patti" Mayonnaise

Voiced by: Constance Shulman, Eleonora Prado (Brazilian Portuguese), Konami Yoshida (Japanese dub), Patricia Acevedo (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Rossy Aguirre (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

Doug's Love Interest, Patti is an athletic, tomboyish girl.

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• Academic Athlete: She's athletic and also a top student.
• Affectionate Nickname: Patti
• Boyish Short Hair: Her hair is fluffy yet short in the Nickelodeon version and trimmed down even shorter in the Disney version.
• Damsel in Distress: Her first and most long-standing role in Quailman was this, just to swoon over Quailman whenever he saves the day and/or her.
• Edible Theme Naming: Her name is based on parts of a burger.
• The Heart: She's often the one that supports the main cast, especially Doug.
• Her Codename Was Mary Sue: Invoked and exaggerated by Doug when he creates her third role in Quailman: Supersport. Doug piles all kinds of powers and traits upon her and deliberately makes his own poor and immediately lovestruck Quailman look almost powerless in comparison to her. This was his reaction upon her beating him in several sports disciplines, making it seemingly impossible for him to impress her.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: In the Disney version.
• Homeschooled Kids: In the first episode of the Disney version, she tells Doug that she's only going to be in middle school for a couple of hours in the afternoon and would be home-schooled with her dad. Eventually ends up back in public school full-time after her dad gets a teaching position.
• Jerkass Ball: While Doug holds the Jerk Ball for a considerable number of the episodes, Patti rarely gets it, maintaining her nice girl status but a notable exception is in "Doug Clobbers Patti". She gets angry with Doug just because he started to defeat her in everything. There's also "Doug Rocks the House," where she spends the episode angry with Doug for destroying her old house with a rock, but never even tells him it was her house.
• Lethal Chef: In "Doug's Cookin'" she is horrible at cooking. Expected since she is a tomboy. She eventually makes a successful pizza with Doug, though, and in the Disney series is shown to make a decent meatloaf.
• Magic Skirt: Never showed her panties despite being an athletic girl.
• Master of the Mixed Message: She tends to leave Doug unsure of whether she returns his feelings or views him as just a friend, probably because she and Doug are Twice Shy.
• Missing Mom: Patti's mom died in a car accident (which may or may not be connected with her father being in a wheelchair).
• Nice Girl: She is very nice with her friends.
• Only Sane Woman: She tends to be one of the saner members of Doug's circle of friends.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She loves sports and is pretty good in all of them, hence her final Quailman incarnation named Supersport.
• Start My Own: When Coach Spitz refuses to let her join the Honkers baseball team because she's a girl, she starts her own team, the Pulverizers.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Beebe's Girly Girl when they hang out together.
• Tomboyness Upgrade: She's a Tomboy with a Girly Streak in the Nickelodeon version, but part of the girly streak is removed in the Disney version, in which she cuts her hair short by choice and starts wearing pants.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: In the Nickelodeon version, she loves sports and hangs out with boys as much as girls, but always wears a skirt and is embarrassed when her hair is cut too short.
• Tsundere: In the movie. She gets angry when she sees Doug hang out with other girl (who is a monster in disguise).
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: It's implied at certain points during the show's run that Patti has feelings for Doug too, but nothing happens since Patti is unaware of Doug's feelings... until the last episode of the Disney series, when she finally asks him out.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice was a little bit lower in the pilot.
• You're Not My Mother: She yells this at Miss Kristal in "Patti's Dad Dilemma". She quickly feels guilty about being so horrible, however.

Roger Klotz

Voiced by: Billy West (Nickelodeon), Chris Phillips (Disney), Marcelo Campos (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Marcelo Pissardini (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Akio Suyama (Japanese dub), Benjamín Rivera (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Alfonso Obregón Inclán (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

Doug's rival and school bully, he is mostly a jerk towards others, albeit with some Hidden Depths.

See here for his Self-Demonstrating page.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Straddled the line in the Disney series as he picked on Doug far less often, but when he does he's much more cruel.
• Alpha Bitch: A Rare Male Example. He's not athletic enough to be a Jerk Jock, and tends to rely on alpha bitch tactics like manipulation, Malicious Slander etc.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Believe it or not, he's on the receiving end of this trope. When he was 13 years old, his grandmother made him participate in Kiddie Corral, a TV show aimed at preschoolers, because she still thinks he's perpetually two years old.
• Annoying Laugh: See Evil Laugh below.
• Anti-Role Model: Was used as this in the Nick series, less so in the Disney series.
• The Bully: Though he relies on manipulating others, rather than physical violence.
• Butt-Monkey: When he's not on the giving end, he's on the receiving end of constant Laser-Guided Karma.
• Character Catchphrase: "Joeycookamonga!" became his catchphrase in the Disney series, although he DID say it just one time in the Nick series too, in "Doug's in the Money". Another one that came up more often was "Sayonara, suckers!"
• Character Development: Roger goes from being the stereotypical bully in the Nick series to a Sixth Ranger member of Doug's group in the Disney series.
• Characterization Marches On: In "Doug Can't Dance", he's implied to have a crush on Patti and acts as a romantic rival against Doug. In later episodes, though Doug often worries the contrary, Roger is never depicted as having an interest in Patti and Patti is consistently shown to dislike him.
• Daddy Didn't Show: In one Nickelodeon episode, Roger wanted his father to come to a wheelbarrow race, but his dad never bothered to show up. So Roger sabotaged the race because if he couldn't race, he didn't want anyone else to.
• Disappeared Dad: His parents are divorced. Mr. Klotz moved out when Roger was just a baby and lives in nearby Bloatsburg, but never comes to visit.
• Dub Name Change: In the Spanish dub, his name is Rufo.
• Evil Laugh: Not really evil, but he has a very obnoxious bully laugh.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Roger may be a bully but he often uses verbal rather than physical threats since any form of the latter is taking it too far. Same goes if it's a threat.
  • He's forced to think about this when he issued a fight but only to back down after getting freaked about Doug's tactics, which didn't involved a single hit.
  • In "Doug Saves Roger", Roger, who's been on the recieving end of the even harsher bullying from Mr. Bone's nephew, Percy Femur, isn't about to stand by and allow Percy to go after anyone else, including Doug.
  • In "Doug's Minor Catastrophe", he tries to make money by selling Nic-Nacs to his classmates for 40 cents more than they're sold at stores. He even manipulated Principal White into stating Nic-Nacs aren't meant for kids, knowing that'd get everyone to want them more. By the end of the episode, once Doug reveals Nic-Nacs contain chemicals that can cause paralysis and nerve damage, Roger not only stops selling Nic-Nacs but wants absolutely nothing to do with their Suspiciously Similar Substitute. He might be out to make a fast buck, but he's not gonna endanger anyone's health to do it.
• Freudian Excuse: He sabotages a Father/Son wheelbarrow race because his own father refused to show up (and it's implied that wasn't an isolated incident).
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's more or less part of the main group of kids, but it's pretty obvious that none of the others like him.
• Gang of Bullies: His gang which consists of him, Boomer, Ned, and Willie.
• Green and Mean: He's a bully with green skin.
• Hate Sink: Early on, he was mostly just an unlikable, two dimensional bully whose main role is to punch Doug down so that we have all the more reason to root for him, and even genuinely nice characters like Patti and Skeeter can't stand him. Later episodes brought him out of this trope by showing his Hidden Depths.
• Held Back in School: It's eventually revealed at the end of the Nickelodeon series that he spent three years in the sixth grade out of fear of the changes he'd potentially experience upon entering junior high.
• Hidden Depths: In "Doug Wears Tights", Roger demonstrates some surprisingly good dance skills. He actually played the Rat King in the town's amateur production of The Beetcracker. Between his dance skills, his acting turn as the "Pot Roast of Hospitality" in "Doug's on Stage", his painting ability (which was illustrated in the Disney series), and his guitar playing one could say that Roger is a bit of a renaissance man.
• It's All About Me: He often thinks himself this tough guy, and the big man on campus in one episode.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a jerk on most days but at times he can be quite sweet, especially in the Disney series.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: The times he's on the receiving end of humiliation is more of a result of him taking his bullying towards the others (especially Doug) to immoral methods that often come back to bite him in a karmic way.
• Kavorka Man: Believe it or not, but he has a ton of fangirls.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: While he falls a little short of "kind-hearted," he certainly loves his cat. In fact, he utterly freaks out when Doug tries to tell him that he might have killed his cat when Stinky was actually pregnant. It was probably the only time where Roger was very tempted toward physical violence.
• Large Ham: One of the biggest in the show, especially in the Nick version.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Boy, does he ever get hit by this, often in hilariously embarrassing ways (predominantly in the Nick series).
  • In "Doug Didn't Do It", Doug takes the blame for Mr. Bone's stolen trophy and has to polish his other trophies as punishment. When Roger enters the assistant principal's office, he brags about how he framed Doug for the crime, oblivious to the fact that he has set the loudspeaker on the desk so that Mr. Bone can hear him. This results into Roger taking Doug's punishment while the latter is let off the hook.
  • In "Doug Gets His Ears Lowered", Roger makes fun of Doug for being afraid of receiving a haircut from The Fluke and gets her to cut his hair. He eventually learns the hard way why The Fluke should be avoided when he ends up with a highly embarrassing haircut.
  • In "Doug Saves Roger", Roger is prepared to bully Mr. Bone's nephew Percy with water balloons. Turns out Percy is much bigger and tougher and far less inclined to refrain from physical violence than Roger, who then gets an experience on what it's like to be bullied. (Although admittedly, Percy did go very far on his act.)
  • In "Doug's Big News", Roger tricks Doug by changing the heading of the script "Mr. Bone wears pink underwear", which Doug unwillingly reads, causing the assistant principal to kick off everyone who isn't Roger off the show. Roger finally pays the price when Doug offers him a gift for Mr. Bone, who receives a pair of pink boxers and punishes Roger by having him write otherwise on the board in detention.
  • In "Doug's Dental Disaster", Roger takes the opportunity to demoralize Doug when the latter plans to go to the dentist to get his cavity fixed. After Doug does so, he hears a patient screaming. And who was the screaming patient? Roger! Ironic, isn't it?
    • Between this and the haircut, among other similar events, one wonders if Roger is masking his own hidden insecurities by projecting them onto Doug.
  • In "Doug's Lucky Hat", Roger steals Doug's hat and decides to keep it after "passing" his biology test (he got a D minus, which is apparently the highest grade he's ever got). When Roger brags about it, the hat blows off his head due to a gust of wind and he ends up chasing after it.
  • The biggest one of them all is in "Doug Throws a Party", where Roger dares Doug to pull off Connie's hat to reveal her bad haircut to everyone. When Doug refuses, Roger does it himself...and receives a huge punch from Connie as a result.
  • Zigzagged in "Doug's Derby Dilemma". Initially subverted when Roger succeed in sabotaging Doug's car but played straight when Doug managed to build a better car and when Roger tried to wreck Doug's car in the beginning of Mt. St. Buster Downhill Speed Race but ended taking himself out of the race. Subverted again in the end of the race when Roger managed to win the race fixing his car. Played straight in the end again when the prize of winning the race is writing letters for Major White supporters for one week.
  • In "Quailman Takes the Blame", during a game, he fakes an ankle injury and guilts Doug into doing things for him. When Doug finally stops feeling sorry for himself, Roger gets caught faking, only to slip, fall, and bust his ankle for real. The last scene shows him hobbling on crutches and falling again. (Doug takes at least some pity on him for this moment, but everyone else just ignores him.)
• Laughing at Your Own Jokes: Has a tendency to do this when he's insulting someone. Doug calls him out on it once saying he wouldn't need to laugh at his own jokes if he was actually funny. He quickly shuts up after that.
• Noodle Incident: According to his voice actor, Roger is a grown man who is currently in jail. The reason why is unknown.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Doug's Fat Cat", he comes very close to actually threatening physical violence on Doug when he thinks he got Stinky sick. And this is after he cries and begs to know where Stinky is at the vet's office.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In some episodes he has a slight New York accent, but in others he doesn't.
• Pet the Dog: He's gotten a couple of these moments. For example, in "Doug vs. the Klotzoid Zombies" when he hosts a party to celebrate the first anniversary of Doug moving to Bluffington.
• Phrase Catcher: Frequently gets an unamused "Very funny, Roger" from Doug.
• Rags to Riches: He and his mother become millonaires in the Disney series when Mr. Bluff buys their land from them to put the new Middle School.
• Rich Bastard: Retooled into this trope in Disney's Doug. In the original series, he was dirt poor and lived in a trailer (although this wasn't initially established in "Doug Bags a Neematoad", where he actually briefly mentioned having new shoes).
• Screams Like a Little Girl: A few times, like when he makes Doug say that Mr. Bone wears pink underwear. Doug has him give Mr. Bone a present and he lets out a hilarious screech when Mr. Bone opens it to see pink boxers. In the Disney series, "Disney's One Too" had a segment called "Roger Klotz's Scream Theater" where Doug would show a clip of Roger screaming like a girl.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Roger's a troublemaking bully to Doug's average nice guy.
• Teens Are Monsters: In his worst moments, since Roger is 14-15 years old, Held Back in School, and the leader of a Gang of Bullies.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He's decidedly nicer to Doug as the Nick series progresses, and in the Disney series he becomes a full-on Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Troubled, but Cute: In spades. He may be the school bully in Bluffington, and he certainly has given Doug and his friends a hard time, but he's also one of the poorest kids in school, and he at least has enough empathy to know when to leave Doug alone.
• Vocal Evolution: In "Doug Can't Dance", his voice was considerably more shrill and screechy, and he didn't have an indoor voice.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Literally. One episode shows him afraid of an innocuous snake.

Beebe Bluff

Voiced by: Alice Playten, Márcia Regina (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Adriana Pissardini (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Rossy Aguirre and later Dulce Guerrero (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), María Fernanda Morales (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

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• Alliterative Name
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Though she's nowhere near as bad as her father can be.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Strangely, both moments occur when her parents are being mean to Doug.
  • She has a more subdued version when she finally confronts her mother for being a Stage Mom while Mrs. Bluff is blaming Doug for Beebe's horrible ballet audition. Beebe explains she messed up on purpose because her mother wouldn't listen to the many times she told her she didn't want to be the star.
  • She has a rather spectacular moment in the movie when she catches her father threatening to destroy Doug and Skeeter's lives and orders him to back off and leave them alone.
    Beebe: DADDY! KNOCK IT OFF!
• Daddy's Girl: At times, while there are several episodes where her father inadvertently embarrasses her in front of her classmates, she still deeply loves him.
• Fallen Princess: In the episode "Beebe Goes Broke," when her family goes bankrupt. In the end the get their money back, but she still learns An Aesop about enjoying things that aren't expensive.
• Fiery Redhead: A bit of a hothead; fitting for her purple-reddish hair.
• Little Miss Snarker: Has her moments.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Despite being filthy rich and her family owning the whole town, she's usually quite nice.
• Rich Bitch: When the plot calls for it, she can be an annoying snob.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: At times, like in one episode where she doesn't even know what the term "broke" (as in, bankrupt) means.
• Shout-Out: Her Quailman incarnation is named Material Girl, another sign of Jim Jinkins' Author Appeal.
• Spoiled Sweet: While she can be really snobbish, most of the time she can be really nice.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Patti's Tomboy.
• Tsundere: Towards Skeeter. She is quick to deny her crush with him in public, but when they're alone, especially in the Disney episodes, she's more open about her feelings for him.

Connie Benge

Voiced by: Becca Lish, Cláuda Carli (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Fernanda Bullara (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Mónica Estrada (Latin American Spanish)

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: It was revealed in a 1999 Disney Adventure's comic that Connie has a crush on Roger, though it was previously hinted that she had one on Doug in the Nick series.
• Ascended Extra: She's given a much bigger role in Disney's Doug.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Roger learned this the hard way in "Doug Throws a Party." Very hard.
• Butt-Monkey: Connie is mocked by Roger almost as much as Doug.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Played with. In one episode during the Nick series, "Doug Throws a Party," Roger tried to humiliate Connie by exposing her bad haircut at a party Doug was hosting. While Roger laughed his ass off, Connie responded by slugging him in the gut and taking her hat back. While the show had dropped An Aesop in "Doug's Big Brawl," about not resorting to physical violence during arguments, Connie comes across as more justified, in that in "Doug's Big Brawl" Doug got in a fight over a misunderstanding (and only fought back after being hit first), while Roger's intentions were deliberately to invade Connie's personal space and shame her as sick amusement.
• Fanservice Pack: Connie is kind of chubby and otherwise unremarkable in the Nick show. She spends the summer holidays (the time between the two shows) at a beauty farm with her mother and comes back such a hottie that Doug fails to recognize her when he visits her in the first Disney episode.
• Formerly Fat: In-between the Nick and Disney series she slimmed down, apparently having spent the summer at a Fat Camp. Many people were shocked when the new Connie arrived back to town.
• Gossipy Hens: She became this in "Doug's Bloody Buddy," having taking up a hobby of spreading rumors ranging from ridiculous to downright mean. She eventually learns her lesson after getting nearly everyone to think Skeeter's a vampire. It's mentioned she got punished by the school for one of the rumors she spread, so she avoided becoming a Karma Houdini.
• Out of Focus: She doesn't have as much focus as other members of Doug's group, Roger included.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Went away one summer and came back slimmed down, more 'developed' and with a slightly different hairstyle.

Chalky Studebaker

Voiced by: Doug Preis, Mauro Eduardo Lima (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Vagner Fagundes (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Carlos Hugo Hidalgo (Latin American Spanish)

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• Academic Athlete: He's an athletic and smart over-achiever.
• The Big Guy: The most athletic and strongest of Doug's friends.
• Big Man on Campus: Fits Chalky to a T!
• Broken Ace: Shown three times. The first time it's shown the kind of pressure he's under to live up to the example set by his brother, Cliff who's Always Someone Better, the second time it's shown that for all his skills he's a really lousy artist. Also, when he is chosen to sing "Pomp and Circumstance" at their graduation, he's obviously Hollywood Tone-Deaf.
• Demoted to Extra: In the ABC/Disney version.
• Foil: Chalky is essentially what Doug often imagines himself to be: the popular jock with good grades rather than the clumsy artist with average grades.
• Innocently Insensitive: He can hurt Doug's feelings on occasion, but he never means to act like a jerk.
• Lovable Jock: Unless he lets his competitiveness get the better of him, he's really nice.
• The Perfectionist: Chalky often works hard hoping to be good at everything, mostly so he can keep up with his brother.

Willie White, Boomer Bledsoe, and Ned Cauphee

Voiced by: Doug Preis, Billy West (Nickelodeon series only)/Chris Phillips (Disney series only), and Fred Newman respectively, Jorge Roig Jr (Willie, Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Rubén León (Willie, Latin American Spanish, Disney), Carlos Henrique Bonilla (Boomer, Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Hunberto Ramírez (Boomer, Latin American Spanish, Disney) Carlos Íñigo (Ned, Latin American Spanish, Disney)

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• Alliterative Name: Willie White and Boomer Bledsoe.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Boomer in "Doug on Stage" when playing the role of a tree.
• Cowardly Sidekick: Applies to all. Especially Boomer and Willy!
• Even Evil Has Standards: In the movie, Boomer actually tells Roger he has second thoughts about using a fake monster to scare Skeeter because he claims "Isn't that a little mean?". Also helps that of the gang he's the only one who is not that mean to Doug.
  • In the scouting episode, all three are actually willing to turn on Roger and help Doug and Skeeter out behind his back. Sure, Roger did tell them not to let anyone go look for Mr. Dink, but they all find a loophole.
• Gang of Bullies: The gang are often seen hanging out with Roger.
• Hidden Depths: Ned is an excellent pianist, but never really played because either his siblings or his friends would pull the bench out from under him. Doug's grandma encourages him to play, and it motivates him to join the school marching band. ^note  with two band members lugging him and a grand piano on a cart.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Ned has twelve siblings (ten brothers and twin sisters), and they're all terrible kids.
• Only Sane Man: Ned to an extent, he's considerably more intelligent than the rest.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Boomer. When not accompanied by the others in his gang, he's actually quite civil and friendly to Doug. Furthermore, many times he's shown to be the least antagonistic to him and to the other children overall. He demonstrates respect for Doug on some occasions as well - when Roger was jealous of Doug and Patti's popularity as news anchors in "Doug's Big News," Boomer outright stated that he thought Doug and Patti made a great team. Also, it's worth noting that he and his cohorts weren't involved in Roger's scheme to take over the newscast, and appeared just as gleeful as everyone else when Roger got his comeuppance.
• Toxic Friend Influence: In the Disney episode "Doug's Big Comeback", Doug starts making comebacks to Roger's insults, causing the trio to start hanging out with Doug instead of Roger. However, Doug finds himself having to constantly make harsh jokes about everyone (even using an insult comic as inspiration) for the sake of keeping them amused. Doug eventually develops too much regret to continue, so Willie, Boomer, and Ned go back to hanging out with Roger.
• Upper-Class Twit: Willie. He is the mayor's son, after all.
• Verbal Tic: Willie's DUUUH!
• With Friends Like These...: While all three of them follow Roger's lead in tormenting Doug, they are at best his fair-weather friends. In "Doug on the Trail," Willie, Boomer and Ned allow Doug, Skeeter and Porkchop to take the canoe to find Mr. Dink despite Roger's rule that only he can use the canoe, and they even lead the revolt against Roger as head Scoutmaster. And whenever Roger gets some kind of comeuppance for his bullying (such as when he's bullied by Percy Femur or when Connie slugs him and calls him a big baby), they seem to enjoy it as much as everyone else. And it's more than just one-sided; when Roger needs someone to babysit Stinky, it's Doug he turns to and not one of his own gang, suggesting that Roger himself knows his own gang are only fair-weather friends whereas Doug will always do the right thing (or try to).

Al and Moo Sleech

Both Voiced by: Eddie Korbich, Hermes Baroli (Brazilian Portuguese), Raúl Aldana (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Carlos Enrique Bonilla and Moisés Iván Mora (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

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• Abhorrent Admirer: In one episode, one of the brothers strikes up an online relationship with Judy who is completely enamored with him.....until she sees who it really is when they meet, music, flowers and all.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Played with. A lot of the kids think their dad's some sort of insane and amoral Mad Scientist that Al and Moo hardly try to deny, and in fact act afraid about any of the kids meeting him. However, when we meet the man he's... a donut maker. Granted he builds his own equipment, but hardly the sort who conducts 'strange experimentations.'
• Commuting on a Bus: In Disney's Doug, the Sleech twins don't go to the same middle school as the rest of the group but instead go to the Moody School for the Gifted (Judy's school).
• Dub Name Change: In the Latin American dub, they're called Ciro and Blas.
• Full-Name Basis: They typically refer to Doug by his full name.
• Gadgeteer Genius: They're both very skilled inventors. For example, they have developed a pair of automatic dancing shoes with voice control to overcome their own dancing inabilities as revealed in "Doug's Midnight Kiss". They even manage to sell the prototypes to Buddy Dink.
• Hidden Depths: Although their interest largely fall within what's expected of geniuses like them, "Doug's Garage Band" reveals that their favorite instrument is the air guitar. Besides, they seem to have enough theoretical knowledge about dancing to be able to program an arbitrary number of dances into their dancing shoes.
• May–December Romance: Both have crushes on Judy.
• The Smart Guy: Two genius twins who are also in Doug's group of friends.

Guy Graham

Voiced by: Guy Hadley, José Antonio Macías (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

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• Alliterative Name
• Character Catchphrase: "BANG!", "BIG BIG BIG", "MONDO", and "That's HOT"!
• Disco Dan: Guy's favorite kind of music.
• The Dragon: To Bill Bluff in The Movie.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Guy with Mr. Bluff. Especially since Guy's parents are never shown and Mr. Bluff is the closest thing to a parent he has on the show.
• It's All About Me: Guy surely thinks so, at least to a mild extent.
• Jive Turkey: Guy should be the Trope Namer of this trope, seriously! EVERYTHING that comes out of his mouth is either this or Totally Radical.
• Motor Mouth: When Guy talks, you might feel like you need a nap.
• The Rival: He's this to Doug, at least when it comes to romance; Guy's after Patti, too.
• Small Name, Big Ego: And since his name is "Guy", it's literally a small name.
• Too Dumb to Live: He's a vocal advocate for consuming Nic-Nacs, which ends up biting him in the ass when it causes him to suffer jaw paralysis for an entire day. Despite that, he still tried to support Klankeroos, the Suspiciously Similar Substitute created by Bluffco after Nic-Nacs were banned. Predictably, this time his entire body gets paralyzed.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He's an obnoxious egotist but not really that much of a jerk in the show at all, as stated below. The Movie, however, inexplicably takes his negative qualities to the extreme and turns him into an outright villain.
• Unknown Rival: Guy doesn't realize how much a burden he is on Doug.

Skunky Beaumont

Voiced by: Doug Preis, Benjamín Rivera (Latin American Spanish)

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• Cloudcuckoolander: To some extent, yes. He's implied to actually know more than he lets on.
• Embarrassing First Name: Walter. Coach Spitz is the only one to ever call him that, though.
• The Ghost: He wasn't seen until Disney's Doug, but was very much mentioned.
• Living Legend: In a minor sense, he's one of the most talked about students until he's actually shown.
• Shrouded in Myth: He was apparently responsible for a lot of pranks in the Nickelodeon version and got a lot of detention because of it. When he finally appears in Disney's Doug, everyone whispers in shock at actually seeing him in person.
• Surfer Dude: At least he talks like it.
• Unseen No More: He goes from The Ghost in the Nickelodeon cartoon to a recurring character in the Disney version.

Sally

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• Betty and Veronica: Sally is the Betty out of the eighth graders, and Cassandra Bleem is Veronica.
• The Mentor: Essentially is this to Doug when Guy sends him out to do an investigative report for the school newspaper. A Running Gag throughout the episode was her advice being proven wrong mere seconds after she gives it to him.
• No Hugging, No Kissing: Guy and Sally work together, but yet as much time they spend with each other, there's absolutely no romance between them.
• Plot Allergy: In one of the "Doug" books, we find out Sally's allergic to chalk. Due to the fact, Doug is trying to find out who drew on the wall with chalk.
• Women Are Wiser: Than Guy, considering how loud and egotistical he is. Sally's more level-headed.

Fentruck Stimmel

Voiced by: Fred Newman

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• Foreign Exchange Student: He's the foreigner of the class moving from Yakistonia.
• Funny Foreigner: He's unfamiliar with most of how America works and his culture seems to clash with the rest. Interestingly, this is played with when he first appeared as Mr. Bone instructed the student to dress up in "traditional Yakistonian apparel" to greet him. Fentruck shows up in class wearing regular clothes, and actually finds it confusing and a bit funny that Mr. Bone had everyone wear such outdated attire.
• Ruritania: Yakistonia.

Cassandra Bleem

• Beautyis Bad: "The Prettiest Most Popular Girl in School" aswell as being an Extreamly unpleasant person
• Jerkass: She's one of, if not the biggest jerks on the whole show...even worse than Roger and Mr. Bluff by a landslide.
• Hate Sink: Probably the most obvious example of the series
• Valley Girl: Her voice surely applies, even if she's not The Ditz by any means. She's just Book Dumb at times.

The A/V Nerds

Larry

Voiced by: Chris Phillips.

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• Butt-Monkey: Has one of the targets of Roger's bully antics. He was knocked out by Doug too.
• A Day in the Limelight: In the "Doug's Big Brawl" episode when he and Doug have a fight.
• Sinister Schnoz: Not as big as Lincoln, but still big.

Brian, Elmo and Lincoln

Voiced by: Doug Preis, Alice Playten and Tom McHugh respectively.

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• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Brian has one.
• Flat Character: Almost no personality and only appears as a background character.
• Funny Afro: Brian has a funny orange one.
• Nerd Glasses: Elmo and Lincoln have one.
• Sinister Schnoz: Brian and Lincoln.

School Staff

Lamarr Bone

Voiced by: Doug Preis, Carlos Silveira (Brazilian Portuguese), Herman López (Latin American Spanish)

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• 0% Approval Rating: He isn't exactly well liked among the students at Bluffington School due to his overly strict tendencies and obnoxious hobbies, such as yodeling. Roger even screamed in horror when it was announced that he would be the new Vice principal of Bebe Bluff Middle School.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: As "The Quizzler", he reveals that the reason he always has trouble operating the ship is because he cheated in "The Supervillain Academy" and never actually learned anything.
• Dean Bitterman: Although he will loosen up if you push all the right buttons.
• Dub Name Change: Severo Moño in the Latin American dub.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Lamarr Bone has made himself known, especially towards Doug and company, he's the one person that often enforced the rules on them if denied a chance to explain but he can be overruled by anyone at a higher position than him and one person has that power... Principal Buttsavitch.
  • He won't put up with students being in fights, that includes Percy Femur... yes, family members are fair game.
  • While Bone loves to cite rules or make them up on the spot, when someone created a "supernova" firework for a science fair, Bone said "the number's not important; it's just the rule! No supernovas!" to put it out before it caused any damage.
• Faux Horrific: Despite being such a strict teacher and nigh-unbreakable wall, he was reduced to hysterics and childish denial when faced with an impending surgery to remove a small wart from his finger.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He's such a Rules Lawyer that Doug and the other students are able to point out when he broke one of his own rules, the punishment for which is Saturday detention. He takes it seriously enough where he's willing to go through with it until he and the students compromise to just eliminate Saturday detentions as a punishment entirely.
• Jaded Washout: The episode "Doug's Shock Therapy" suggests that, as a kid, he was actually very well liked (though probably not to the extent that his flashback suggests), and that his general nastiness is at least partly due to job dissatisfaction and loneliness in his personal life. This is further proven when he goes on a date with the similar-minded Mrs. Stinson in "Doug's Babysitter" as both of them become significantly more pleasant when in each other's company.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Most of the time, he's a mean Dean Bitterman that lives to enforce the school rules, but he can be bargained with if he knows it's fair.
• Lawful Stupid: He makes arbitrary rules, which he himself admits are "silly and pointless" if he's pressed enough on them. One episode reveals that he has over a million rules for the school on the books, the punishment of which is usually a Saturday in detention.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice is an impression of Don Knotts.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Very often, his beliefs on how to run the school often conflict with the students. And he's a firm believer on that rules were not made to be broken.
• Pet the Dog: When Doug negotiates something with him as the Student Charity Person, Bluff is willing to listen. He doesn't like the Beets, but Doug and the students agree to let his band be the opening act, so he relents.
• Sadist Teacher: At his worst. Sometimes, he'll take a little too much pleasure in punishing students.
• Stern Teacher: At his best. He once expelled his own nephew when he caught him bullying Doug.
• Supervillain: He represents many of Quailman's villains, all of which satirize certain characteristics of his. For instance, "The Rulemeister" is based upon his Obstructive Bureaucrat tendencies, while "Robobone" is based upon his stubbornness and Sadist Teacher attitude. "The Quizzler" on the other hand, a villain who wants steal all the information in the world so he won't have to take the time to learn it himself is based upon Doug's temptation to open a secret file containing test information that he came across.

Mayor (later Principal) Bob White

Voiced by: Greg Lee, Muybo Cury (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Gileno Sandoro (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney)

Bluffington's ex-mayor, who lost reelection to Tippy Dink shortly near the end of the Nickelodeon run. In the Disney run, he becomes Principal of the middle school.

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• Character Catchphrase: "Vote for me!"
• Corrupt Politician: He's contributed more problems for the city than solved. He's only interested in being mayor for being the mayor's sake, nothing more. Tippy Dink exploited this to win the election.
• Inelegant Blubbering: He's shown crying like a baby when his eagerness to have his son elected class treasurer costs him his own election and that of his son.
• It's All About Me: His entire personality boils down to being an obnoxious Attention Whore who uses his role as the mayor to boost himself up. And when he loses that, he spends all his time as middle school principal reminding people he was mayor and trying to get them to re-elect him into office.
• Jerkass: He has polluted Bluffington in a campaign to get reelected, spread lies about Porkchop to make him look like a vicious monster, gotten an English teacher fired because she didn't vote for him, and overall does very little to help the citizens.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: As far he's concerned, his only job as mayor is "being the mayor."
• Underestimating Badassery: Thought Tippy Dink had no chances against him talking like he had won before the start. In the end, he lost the election and his son lost the treasurer election on the same day too.
• Unknown Rival: For Tippy Dink at least.
• Verbal Tic: Very prone to saying his catchphrase.

Ms. Wingo

Voiced by: Doris Belack, Maximira Figueiredo (Brazilian Portuguese, Nickelodeon), Helena Samara (Brazilian Portuguese, Disney), Guadalupe Noel (Latin American Spanish)

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• Cool Teacher: Has her moments, such as in "Doug Meets Robobone," when she's jamming with the class to The Beats.
• Demoted to Extra: Replaced by Emily Kristal in the ABC/Disney version and made only small cameos after that.
• Stern Teacher: A mild example. She's generally friendly, but doesn't have much tolerance for poor behavior in her class. Still, she always has her students best interests at heart.

Emily Kristal

• Cool Teacher: She acts out the various books or plays she reads.
• Fired Teacher: In "Doug Get His Wish". She is reinstated at the end.
• Good Stepmother: She doesn't become Patti's stepmother until the series finale, but judging by her kind nature, there's no doubt she's good to her stepdaughter.
• Happily Married: To Chad Mayonnaise in the series finale.
• Second Love: To the widowed Chad Mayonnaise.

Chad Mayonnaise

• Cool Teacher: He eventually becomes the school's history teacher.
• Handicapped Badass: He's every bit as athletic as his daughter despite being in a wheelchair.
• Parent with New Paramour: When he begins dating and eventually marries Miss Kristal.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: In "Doug's on First," he's the only parent who says that the kids should just continue playing the way they were since they were winning before the other parents meddled in.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He's basically an adult, male version of Patti.

Coach Spitz

Voiced by: Jeff Bergman, Alejandro Villeli (Latin American Spanish)

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• Hoist by His Own Petard: His team was beaten by Patti and her friends after mocking her for being a girl.
• Jerkass: He's needlessly rude to anyone and everyone who doesn't meet his standards. He's sexist, as illustrated when he won't let Patti join the baseball team just because she's a girl. And he shows no regard for his athletes' well-being, of which perhaps the most disturbing example is when he refuses to step in to stop Patti's starving herself in the Disney "eating disorder" episode even after she's already fainted due to malnutrition because "thinner athletes run faster." He's willing to endanger his athletes' health and welfare as long as they can still perform, which arguably puts him above even Percy Femur as the worst jerk of the series (as Spitz is not only an adult but an authority figure and should know better, whereas Percy is still a kid).
• Perma-Stubble: Always sports a heavy five o'clock shadow.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He excluded Patti from his team just because she is a girl.
• Sadist Teacher: A rather abusive coach.

Cecelia Newberry

• Horrible Judge of Character: An irredeemably horrible one at that, being totally convinced all the way to the end of her first and only appearance that Roger's a sweet, innocent angel and Doug's a rotten little troublemaker. Even after Doug tries to talk some sense into her, all he really ends up convincing her of is that he has a Hidden Heart of Gold, which prompts him to pretty much give up on her.
• Hot Teacher: Not only a beautiful teacher but one of the most beautiful characters of the cartoon.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While often too quick to judge Doug on his actions, she is rightfully upset when Doug forgets to do his report by devoting his time to make a card saying "Best Sub" for her.

Principal Buttsavitch

• The Ghost: Often mentioned in the first seasons but never appears in the screen. Doug even tries to sneak into his office through the school's air vents to see him before graduating, only to find Roger in his place — and to learn later on that Principal Buttsavitch was on stage during the graduation ceremony while Doug was in his office.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: At the end of "Doug's Cartoon," he resolves all the conflict by calling Mr. Bone, telling him he liked Doug's cartoon that made fun of the cafeteria's "magic meat", and insisting that he give the students back their school newspaper. He subsequently has magic meat removed from the school menu too.

Mr. Shellacky

• Adults Are Useless: Is never shown to be helpful.
• Hippie Teacher: Has the appearance and sentimental nature of a stereotypical hippie.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Assumes Doug is a bad kid in "Doug's New Teacher."
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Uses childish phrases like "Mr. Computer had a little tummyache."

Doug's friends' families and other characters

Bud Dink

Voiced by: Fred Newman, José Luis Orozco (Latin American Spanish)

Doug's next door neighbor.

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• Character Catchphrase: "Very expensive!"
• Cloudcuckoolander: A bit on the nutty side. In "Doug's First Movie", for example, he buys a Virtual Reality helmet that replicates being in his living room...and sets it up in his living room.
• Cool Uncle: Acts like one for Doug.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Made his living writing ad jingles for Bluffco. When he quits due to not wanting to sell a dangerous product to kids, he planned on writing a book but found he could only write in short, poppy blerbs. Eventually he finds work as the headline writer for the local newspaper.
• False Teeth Tomfoolery: "Doug's Dental Disaster" reveals that he wears dentures due to him prematurely losing his real teeth 12 years ago, a fact which he blames on his drinking too many chocolate milkshakes.
• Friend to All Children: Despite having no children of his own, he's extremely fond of them, acting as a Voice of Reason to Doug and is the local Scout Master.
• Happily Married: With Tippy.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Asks for Doug to punch him to measure his strength in "Doug's Big Brawl". Doug gives him a big punch in his stomach, almost knocking out Bud.
• The Hyena: Bud laughs of everything.
• Informed Ability:
  • Claims to be a professional writer in "Doug Bags a Neematoad." This is never mentioned again.
  • This is later expanded upon in the Disney series, where it turns out he wrote ad jingles for Bluffco and later headlines for the town newspaper.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Mr. Dink is at least middle-aged and someone Doug sometimes goes to for help.
• Leitmotif: A kooky little tune usually plays whenever he appears, with a goofier rendition often playing during his more comical scenes. "Doug's Huge Zit" introduces a third version, which is only used in that one episode.
• Like a Son to Me: He once said this about Doug.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: Bud's newest purchase was always "very expensive."
• Meaningful Name: The acronym DINK stands for "Double Income, No Kids" which quite accurately describes the Dinks. It's probably why he has so much money to throw around on all that "very expensive" gear.
• New Tech Is Not Cheap: Invokes this trope frequently saying his new high-tech gadgets were very expensive.
• Nice Guy: To the point where he's actually moved to tears when he learns that Doug and Skeeter have been working to replace the grill they accidentally broke - he's just so touched that they would do that for him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Doug's Minor Catastrophe" the normally jovial Mr. Dink becomes very upset to the point of quitting his job after he learns Bluffco is marketing Nic-Nacs to children.
• Rage Quit: As mentioned above, Bud angrily quit his job at Bluffco out of disgust when he learned they wanted him to create advertising for Nic-Nacs in ways that'd get kids to buy them (despite it being illegal).
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: A Gender flipped example. Bud is the energetic man.
• Shout-Out: When he gets himself a wearable set of five robotic arms, it prompts Doug to add him to Quailman as the supervillain Squintguili who takes the Doctor Octopus motif Up to Five.
• Speech Impediment: Talks with a lisp, which "Doug's Dental Disaster" reveals to be caused by his false teeth and which disappears when he takes them out.
• Uncle Pennybags: Downplayed, considering that Mr. Dink can afford all the new gadgets that are "very expensive".
• Violence Really Is the Answer: In the episode "Doug's Big Brawl", Bud incentives Doug to use violence against his enemies in the school, to Phil's dismay.

Tippy Dink

Voiced by: Doris Belack, Magna Giner (Latin American Spanish)

Bud Dink's wife, who eventually becomes mayor.

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• Adults Are Useless: Averted, especially in the Disney series.
• Ascended Extra: She's got a rather prominent role in the film, as she and Mr. Dink are made aware of Herman's existence by Doug and Skeeter.
• Apathetic Citizens: Averted. She was a city councilwoman for years and eventually got fed up with Mayor White's refusal to do anything about civic infrastructure, so decided to take matters into her own hands by running for mayor and winning.
• Deadpan Snarker: In the Nick series.
• Genre Savvy: Gives wise advice to Doug and won the major election knowing the weak points of Bob White.
• Happily Married: She's amused (if occasionally frustrated) with Bud's antics, and she genuinely loves and cares about him.
• Meaningful Name: The acronym DINK stands for "Double Income, No Kids" which quite accurately describes the Dinks.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When she becomes elected as mayor of Bluffington, and she's very dedicated to improving the city and keeping BluffCo in check.
  • One example involved her bluntly informing Bob White he couldn't fire Miss Kristal just because she didn't vote for him (especially considering punishing anyone for how they vote is very illegal).
  Tippy Dink: You can't fire someone for the way they vote, Bob.
  Bob White: I CERTAINLY CAN...can't I?
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: A Gender flipped example. Tippy is the Savyy woman.

Joseph "Joe" Valentine

Voiced by: Fred Newman, Alejandro Mayén and later Alfonso Mellado (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon)

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• Buffy Speak: Resorts to this when he can't remember a word.
• Forgetful Jones: Rarely finishes a sentence as he usually forgets the last word of them, leading to fan speculation that he has early onset Alzheimer's.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Gets angry pretty easy. His face even turns red.
• Ungrateful Bastard: When Doug and Skeeter were attempting to raise money to replace Mr Dink's grill, which they accidentally broke, he offers to pay them to rake the leaves in his yard. However, as they're about to collect, Dale jumps into their leaf pile and begins to make a new mess and Joe decides that since his other son has made a new mess, the boys don't deserve to get paid for hours of work they already put in.

Ruby Valentine

• Good Parents: She's sweet, soft-spoken, and much calmer than her husband.

Dale Valentine

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Voiced by: Fred Newman, Patricia Acevedo (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon)

• Annoying Younger Sibling: He can get a little on Doug and Skeeter's nerves.
• Hidden Depths: He's actually very intelligent for a toddler. For example he was the only person to recognize Doug in the Hamburger Boy costume, luckily Skeeter just thought he was being silly.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's terrified of clowns. Doug learned this the hard way when the episode he babysat Dale.

Mrs. Mayonnaise

• Posthumous Character: Patti's mom died before the beginning of the cartoon.

Edwina Klotz

• Action Mom: She drives monster trucks!
• Amicable Exes: Averted. The only time she's seen with her ex-husband was during a flashback when Roger was a baby, and she's arguing with Roger's dad over who's supposed to keep a plastic cow they owned. Given that Mr. Klotz hardly sees Roger (and may be a factor in his meaner traits) this might be why.
• Nice Girl: For as nasty as Roger can be, his mom's very nice and affable to everyone, especially Doug.
• Parents as People: Somewhat. She's a good person and clearly loves Roger, but it's clear she doesn't exactly have a handle on Roger's nastier tendencies and it might be because she works full time so she doesn't notice.

Stinky

Voiced by: by Fred Newman

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• Cats Are Mean
• Demoted to Extra: Stinky accompanied Roger quite often during the Nickelodeon run, often taunting at Porkchop. While this continues to the Disney run however, sightings of her become more seldom, despite accompanying the Klotz family when they move into their new mansion upon becoming rich.
• Morality Pet: As nasty as Roger can be there is no doubt about how much he loves his cat. Check out "Doug's Fat Cat" where Roger actually breaks down in tears when he thinks Stinky is sick.
• Right-Hand Cat: To Roger.
• Samus Is a Girl: Thought to be a boy until she had kittens.
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Much to Roger's surprise.

William "Bill" Bluff III

Voiced by: Doug Preis, Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon), Roberto Molina (Latin American Spanish, Disney)

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• Alliterative Name: Bill Bluff.
• Big Bad:
  • In the TV series, there were episodes where his company was marketing Nic-Nacs to children with his knowledge, and where he tried to kill a dog for saving his kid from falling through the ice (on Christmas).
  • According to the Disney Wiki, Bluff has also done many illegal things such as rig a contest, get government agents to go inside a house without a search warrant, torture, and bribe authorities. This doesn't seem too far-fetched, seeing as The Movie makes him into an almost James Bond 007-level villain.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: More so in the Disney episodes and movie.
• Heel–Face Turn: Whenever he's in a more villainous role (namely "Doug's Christmas Story" and the movie), he always turns around at the end and does the right thing, albeit sometimes being forced into doing it.
• Knight Templar / Well-Intentioned Extremist: In "Doug's Christmas Story".
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: While the "Justice" part varies, he's got a pretty impressive chin.
• One Judge to Rule Them All: In Doug's New School. After Principal (formerly Mayor) White holds a contest to name said new school, Mr. Bluff names it the "Beebe Bluff Middle School" after his daughter, making the whole contest (and conflict of the episode) pointless.
• Papa Wolf: Very protective of his beloved daughter Beebe. When it seems that Porkchop has attacked her in Doug's Christmas Story (when he was really trying to save her from thin ice), Mr. Bluff's actions border on Knight Templar Parent. He strong arms then-mayor White into forcibly incarcerating Porkchop in the county's toughest, meanest dog pound, starts a public smear campaign against Doug and his family simply because they protested Porkchop's harsh treatment, and blatantly attempted to rig Porkchop's trial by overdramatizing Beebe's injury (the leg cast was clearly fake).
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: In one episode, he tries to "inspire" Doug with the story of how he started his bumper sticker business all by himself... before he remembered he was filthy rich and hired people to do all the hard work for him.
• Riches to Rags: In the episode, "Beebe goes broke", where he makes a large investment in a product that fails miserably, bankrupting him. Though he takes it a lot better than Beebe does.
• Southern Gentleman
• Upper-Class Twit: More of this than a Corrupt Corporate Executive in the Nickelodeon episodes.

Barbara "Betty" Bluff

• Alliterative Name
• I Reject Your Reality: She sees her daughter acting like a total maniac on stage with Doug obviously trying to make her stop, and Barbara's response is to ask why Doug is trying to ruin Beebee's audition.
• Stage Mom: She owns the Bluffington Ballet, and in the episode "Doug Wears Tights," she plans to use her clout to have Beebe cast as the Sugar Beet Fairy in The Beetcracker, even though Beebe is a mediocre dancer and would rather work on costumes anyway. Beebe eventually calls her out on this.

The Beets

All members

• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Being British, they're mainly a parody of The Beatles.
• Put on a Bus: They disband in the Disney incarnation multiple times due to an undisclosed feud between them, much to Doug's dismay.

Flounder

• Cool Shades: He wears them all the time.
• Hiding the Handicap: Nobody outside the band knows that Flounder is illiterate until late into the Disney show.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Flounder" is unlikely to be his real name, but we don't get to know him by any other name.
• Shout-Out:
  • His name may be one to Fish.
  • And then there is the musical project he starts with Judy, the Plastic Judy Band.

Monroe Yoder

• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Inspired by John Lennon and Roger Daltrey.

Clyde "Chap" Lipman

• Cool Shades: He, too, is never seen without them.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Inspired by Ringo Starr.

Wendy Nespah

• No Celebrities Were Harmed: A bald female musician? Remember that Doug started the year after Sinéad O'Connor had her big hit with "Nothing Compares 2 U".
• The Smart Guy: It turns out she's the smartest member of the band, having a law degree. This meant she was the only one who read her recording contract before she signed it, so she's not stuck in debt like the rest of the Beets.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female member of the Beets.

Minor characters

Percy Femur

Voiced by: Billy West (Nickelodeon series only), Octavio Rojas (Latin American Spanish, Nickelodeon series only)

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• The Brute: He's very muscular for an elementary school student bully.
• The Bully: Mainly towards Roger.
• Charlie Brown Baldness: With a rat-tail hairstyle.
• Eviler than Thou: Percy is so cruel and brutal that Roger seems like a saint next to him.
• Hate Sink: He's made extra unlikable so that Roger will be more sympathetic by comparison.
• Heel–Face Turn: Not fully, as he remains a bully, but he is convinced to stop being The Mole for a rival sports team and play on Doug's team for real in his sole appearance in the Disney show.
• Jerkass: Arguably the biggest jerk on the whole show. Plus he had a bit of a sadist streak towards those he picked on.
• Jerk Jock: In "Doug's Big Feat."
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When he promises to stop picking on Roger, he decides that he'll just go after Doug. Though Mr. Bone, his own uncle, makes him stop before he can even begin.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the Disney show, even he seemed to be touched by Doug's Rousing Speech, at least enough to actually cooperate with him on the basketball team. Going as far as to express Tears of Joy, and only hurting him by accident when he meant to hug him. It might be the one Pet the Dog moment he has in the entire series.
• Kick the Dog: See above.
• Knight of Cerebus: He's much more threatening and played a lot more seriously than the other antagonists.
• Laser-Guided Karma: When Mr. Bone sees him bullying Doug, he pulls him by the ear and takes him back to military school.
• Manipulative Bastard: He was somehow able to manipulate "Uncle Lamar" into thinking that he was a good kid (for a while anyways).
• Meaningful Name: His last name is Femur, he's Mr. Bone's nephew and he's very large. The femur, or thigh bone, is the largest bone in the human body.

Mr. Swirly

• Failed a Spot Check: Somehow never realized that his own "Booster Bars" were being mixed with cement.
• Honest Corporate Executive: He cares deeply about the quality of his company's products. For example, when he discovers the inedible booster bars the Bluff Scouts have been selling are made by his company, he declares an emergency and hurries to the factory with Doug alongside him to figure out what's going on. After discovering the booster bars really were made with cement (due to accidental tampering from a nearby construction site), Swirly shut production down and, as thanks to Doug and to make it up to the Bluff Scouts, he donates them a whole shipment of new chocolate for free.

Todd Bentley

• Attention Whore: That's why he wants Doug to do magic tricks every time.
• Bratty Half-Pint: An unintentional one. He constantly invades Doug's privacy and blabs his secrets to his friends, much to Doug's dismay. He gets better by the end, though.
• Loony Fan: Follows Doug everywhere after becoming his fan. Doug obviously doesn't like it.

Roger's Dad

Voiced by: Chris Phillips

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• Abusive Parents: Subverted. The Nickelodeon series built him up to be neglectful, considering Roger's general character and the fact that he left his family years ago and doesn't visit very often. But when he finally does appear in the Disney version, while a little dim and terrible at jokes, he seems to be a loving father to Roger and a very friendly person.
• Bumbling Dad: Hardly surprising, given he's a clown by profession.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: Nice guy, but his jokes are horrendous
• Daddy Didn't Show: In "Doug and Patti P.I.", he doesn't come to the father-son wheel barrow race, with Edwina saying he couldn't make it but might be able to come next year. This prompts Roger to sabotage the race in spite.
• Disappeared Dad: He got divorced from Mrs. Klotz when Roger was very young and doesn't visit Roger that often.
• Good Parents: Sure he dumped his family and relinquished full custody of his son to his wife, but he's overjoyed to see Roger when he comes in the Disney version and seems to have his best interests at heart, as shown with him refusing to allow him to see a new violent movie called "Targetman", since he does not want him exposed to the violence.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While hesitant to take Roger to see the new movie "Targetman", he agrees to preview the movie himself before reaching conclusions about it, and decides he was right about his instincts.
• Unseen No More: He never appears in the Nickelodeon series, but in the Disney series he finally does, and turns out to be a surprisingly decent parent.

Smash Adams

• Put on a Bus: Not technically, but Doug is no longer a fan of him in the Disney version due to the character being played for comedy rather than drama.
• Tuxedo and Martini: Inspired by James Bond.

Ronald Wisenheimer

Voiced by: Billy West, Roberto Carrillo (Latin American Spanish)

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• The Ahnold: His first name is even a Significant Anagram.
• Large Ham: He even squashes the mayor's (admittedly fake) muscles to show off his strength.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Take a wild guess who he's based on.

Stanley Steel

• Alliterative Name
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Inspired by Stan Lee.

Mrs. Stinson

• Babysitter from Hell: Zigzagged. She's not physically abusive, but she's so obnoxious and chock full of incredibly strict rules, she almost makes Mr. Bone look nice.
• Batman Gambit: Judy and Doug pull one towards her. Once they've reached their wits end with Mrs. Stinson, they finally realize the reason why she's constantly butting into their social lives: She has none of her own, so what else does she have to do? So they trick her into thinking they're sneaking out to city hall, so she'll go there to catch them like usual, on a day that Mr. Bone just happens to be making a presentation. When she meets him, it's love at first sight, and she stops pestering the kids.
• Birds of a Feather: She falls in love with Mr. Bone and the two become a couple.
• Expy: Imagine if Mary Poppins was elderly and had no magical powers or any likability.
• Freudian Excuse: She pesters Doug and Judy since her husband passed away and she has no life otherwise until they hook her up with Mr. Bone.
• Hypocrite: According to the lyric in her song According to the Rules, "Animals live outdoors". Yet here she is, bringing her talking parrot indoors.
• Innocently Insensitive: She takes her babysitting job so seriously, that she suffers from this frequently. For instance, when Doug is about to get a lunch from cafeteria, she comes and stops him, declaring aloud that his parents would never forgive her if she didn't make sure he had a nutritious lunch, causing everyone in the cafeteria to laugh at him. Later in the episode, when she discovers Judy has snuck out to go to the movies, she calls the police and has them stop the movie and ask aloud in the theater is Judy Funnie is present.
• Lethal Chef: She serves Doug and Judy disgusting meals, like cooked prunes.
• Polly Wants a Microphone: She has a talking parrot whom she uses as a spy to make sure Doug and Judy obey her rules.

Herman

Voiced by: Frank Welker

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• Ambiguous Gender: Doug and Skeeter largely treat Herman as male. However Herman blends in ridiculously well disguised as a human girl and develops a bit of a crush on Porkchop.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Roger falls for Herman when he's disguised as "Hermione."
• Extreme Omnivore: Herman's name came from their attempt to eat Skeeter's copy of Moby-Dick and Doug and Skeeter have to stop them from eating random objects several more times. Herman does manage to eat a coffee mug once.
• Fish People: He fits this trope to a tee habitat-wise while looking more like a reptile. One could assume that he mutated from a lizard under the influence of Bluffco's toxic waste in the lake, but it is that very toxic waste that drives him out of the lake.
• Instant Expert: When he emerges from the lake, it isn't even clear at first glance if he's sapient, but it only takes him a few days to learn how to speak English well enough to pass for an exchange student.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: For some reason, it's enough for Herman to wear clothes in order for everyone except Doug and Skeeter not to see that he isn't even human.
• Stock Ness Monster: Herman is actually the Lucky Duck Lake Monster mentioned in the second Nickelodeon episode.
• Unseen No More: The Lucky Duck Lake Monster is only ever talked about in both shows but becomes a character, named Herman by Doug and Skeeter, in the movie.