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Mohican Airways / Alahican Airways
Chauncey "Rosie" Roosevelt
Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson (English), Eduardo Fonseca (Latin American Spanish)
A friend and coworker of Frank Murphy, and a member of the baggage handler union at the airport. In Season 4, he is elected as an alderman for the Rustvale city council.
- A Day in the Limelight: Rosie stars in his own episode ("R is for Rosie") during Season 4, which even comes with a unique opening sequence featuring him instead of Frank.
- Ascended Extra: Especially in the last two seasons, Rosie comes pretty close to being the series Deuteragonist along with Frank, with his story arc in season 5 running more or less independently of Frank's. Since Rosie took the buyout offer from Alahican to devote himself full-time to being an alderman and stopping Tangenti, Rosie and Frank don't interact with one another at all after the season 5 premiere episode, giving Rosie's story a chance to stand entirely on its own. He's also the only character besides Frank who gets his own episode, complete with his own theme song.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's got a very quick-witted sense of humor.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Mayor Anthony Tangenti has been arrested and forced to resign after his connections with the Mafia are uncovered during Louis Gagliardi's attempted murder of Bob Pogo, the Twelfth Ward, including Rosie's home, has been saved from demolition, and Rosie's family is having a happy Christmas.
- Embarrassing First Name: He hates being called by his real name Chauncey.
- Expy: Rosie bears a striking similarity to the late Patrice O'Neal, a stand-up comic who was a good friend of Bill Burr.
- Family Relationship Switcheroo: Rosie has an illegitimate son whom he conceived when he was 17. For years, he has been passing him off as his younger brother to his kids (and by extension, pretending he was the kids' uncle rather than their half-brother). However, the ruse failed, as not only does his family know (Darryl calls him Uncle Rosie Jr., implying that his name is Chauncey Roosevelt, Jr.), but his youthful indiscretion is also used against him by his political rival, Teddy Morewill, and is even brought up by the person hosting a political debate, who is clearly biased against Rosie. This is despite Morewill having done something far worse than a youthful fling, namely bestiality.
- Foil: To Frank. In the first season, with the Mohican strike looming, Frank is the primary management representative while Rosie is the union steward representing and leading the frontline workers. Both men are loving but stressed-out fathers trying to feed their families while having to deal with adversity at work, Frank dealing with his bosses' indifference and incompetence while Rosie battles government corruption and institutional racism. Both Frank and Rosie have a tendency to minimize each other's problems, with Rosie pointing out to Frank that with the great racial disparity that exists, what counts as poor for him is still better than the lives of a lot of Black people. However, when he becomes an alderman, Rosie's idealism meets with the cold hard reality of dealing with government corruption, leaving him feeling frustrated, and he gets a taste of Frank's frustrations as manager in not being able to make positive changes for Mohican's workers. By the fifth season, Rosie's story arc runs completely independent of, and parallel to, Frank's story as Rosie has left Mohican and is now devoted full-time to saving his neighborhood from being destroyed by a tollway that is being deliberately run through Rosie's ward to displace its residents.
- Gender-Blender Name: Averted; his real name is Chauncey, which he hates. His nickname comes from his last name, Roosevelt.
- Internal Reformist: Rosie was inspired to run for alderman by his wife after complaining about the neglect of his neighborhood by the municipal government of Rustvale and being told to do something about it instead of complaining.
- Inherent in the System: Unfortunately, Rosie's aspirations for change hit a brick wall when he realizes how deeply entrenched systemic racism and cronyism are in the city government. By the end of Season 4, it's implied that he's learning how to play the game. This would make him an Internal Reformist, Type 1.
- Rosie is successful in exposing Mayor Tangenti's corruption, forcing him to resign and saving Rosie's neighborhood from being demolished to build a new turnpike.
- "Not So Different" Remark: After becoming alderman for his neighborhood, he finds himself struggling to keep the promises he made to his neighbors thanks to the corruption in the system and they begin to resent him. Rosie then realizes that what he's going through is not that different from Frank's situation as the airline baggage manager.
- Poor Communication Kills: Rosie counts on Frank's support for the union's demands. After Frank inadvertently meets the owner of the Airlines at a ball game that was offered to him by Bob, tension build between him and Rosie as he starts to suspect that Frank will choose his own job over their need for better pay, prompting him to continue with his plans to strike.
- Repetitive Name: "Rosie" Roosevelt.
- Sell-Out: Rosie's constituents refer to him as this when he admits that he may have promised more to them during his campaign than he could deliver.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Rosie is deeply disgusted by the political corruption in the city government, and refuses to accept any offers of bribes from the mayor.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Pogo passes him up for a promotion (Giving both positions to Frank) he finally has all he can take and quits. Eventually throwing his hat into a race for the district Alderman. He does come back, using his accumulated paid time off to take a three-month leave of absence to get his political career going while agreeing to also come back on a part time basis and attending the X-ray training in Cleveland. In season 5, he accepts the buyout package from Mohican and leaves the airline for good.
- Token Minority:
- One of the few black employees at the airport. In fact during a Memorial Day parade, Bob Pogo has Rosie placed on a Mohican Airways float, just so he can boast how their company makes their token black guy "so happy and well-fed". Rosie is not amused nor flattered.
- Invoked by Mayor Tangenti at Rosie's inauguration with Rustvale's otherwise all-white city council.
Tangenti: Heeeeeey! Look at us, even-ing things out over here!
Carl and Red
Carl voiced by: Kevin Farley (English), Carlos Hernández (Latin American Spanish)
Red voiced by: Trevor Devall (English), Eduardo Ramírez (Latin American Spanish)
Two slacker baggage handlers at the airport who participate in the strike, and briefly hung out with Kevin.
- A Day in the Limelight: Red gets two episodes by himself when he joins Frank, Bob and Rosie in Cleveland.
- All Men Are Perverts: Their favorite topic of discussion is their planned porno, "Fuck School". They take their buyout in season 5 to get a career as porn directors in Chatsworth, California. In the season 5 finale where they show everyone watching Buster jump, they are making a movie.
- Ambiguously Brown: Red. Though, his nickname may suggest he is Native American.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Red is usually very laid back, but don't even think of trying to boss him around, or he'll explode with rage.
- The Corrupter: They encourage Kevin to quit school and do drugs.
- Deep South: Red's accent.
- The Ditz: While they are both pretty dumb, Red actually thought a good plan to get rid of Scoop would be to create an exact replica of the airport with cardboard cutouts of all the employees to send him to work at instead of the real thing.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: They finally get Fuck School made and are shown to be working on their next pornographic movie at a studio in California.
- Freudian Excuse: Red fought in Vietnam, and his experiences in the army, not to mention going through training, has caused him to develop an intense sense of resentment against authority, which is the reason for why even the slightest attempt at discipline causes him to lash out.
- Gag Penis: As seen when Bill accidentally screens Fuck School to the neighborhood kids, Red is packing downstairs.
- Lack of Empathy: Besides laughing at Ed's death tape, if you look closely you can actually see that Red laughs in the tape. As in, as Ed dies in front of him.
- Professional Slacker: They spend more time talking about porn and goofing around than actually working. In Season 5, Carl even admits without a union they'd probably be in jail.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Red is a Vietnam veteran. His drug use and behavioral issues are implied to be a response to the emotional trauma he suffered during his service.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Alaquippa imposes a bunch of changes, Carl and Red are ready to walk only for Frank to calm them down telling them it could always be worse... like working for Bob Pogo. Then their new boss, Burke, introduces himself and says not to call him Burke but President Of Ground Operations aka Pogo. Red, furious, storms off with Carl following him.
- Those Two Guys: They're never seen without each other. Until Season 4 where Red joins Bob, Rosie, and Frank on a trip to Cleveland for a seminar on baggage X-ray machines. It's a possibility that Carl was intended to go as well but couldn't because he was injured by the X-ray earlier. They even go to Chatsworth together to start their careers directing porn.
- Ultimate Job Security: Both are incredibly unprofessional, are very open about how little they care about their work, but by far the worst; they constantly steal from the customers, taking valuables and medication from the luggage, and have even built what is essentially a clubhouse out of stolen bags and luggage in one of the store rooms. Carl even admits during season 5 that they'd be in prison if it wasn't for the union.
Robert "Bob Pogo" Pogrohovich
Click here to see "a brand new me!"
"The M stands for MY GOD!"Voiced by: David Koechner (English), Dafnis Fernández (Latin American Spanish)
Frank's boss, the morbidly obese manager of the baggage department at the airport. in season 5, Bob accepts a generous buyout offer from Alaquippa and uses the money to open his dream restaurant, one that sells only chicken skin.
- Asshole Victim: In his last scene in the series finale, he gets shot by "Snub-Nose" Louie Gagliardi while trying to save his own skin by turning on Rosie, who he had promised to help expose both the mayor and the mafia. However, he has a last moment redemption when he does a Diving Save on Rosie just as a scaffolding loaded with equipment collapses. From Rosie's dialogue, it is implied he has a spinal cord injury and is a paraplegic. However, considering that means he will be confined to a wheelchair, given Bob's laziness and distaste for standing, this could be considered a darkly comedic case of Earn Your Happy Ending for Bob, as his greatest wish is to be able to do nothing but sit.
- Bad Boss: He often mistreated his subordinates and ignored their demands. He betrays Frank when Dunbarton fired Frank. Even worse, in season 5 he casually admits to encouraging Mrs. Dunbarton into selling Mohican to Alaquippa. He tells Red, Carl, Rosie and Frank this at Frank's dad's funeral, after being asked how he's going to fund his chicken skin restaurant! He even casually admitted he got the money to do this "Through treachery". He smiled at the four, talking about how much they lost from the deal. When they were justifiably pissed, he didn't understand and focused on him.
- To make matters even worse, his firing of Frank on Dunbarton's orders eventually costs Frank a seniority-based severance package when Alaquippa buys Mohican, leaving Frank feeling trapped in a bad situation. In a way, Bob Pogo managed to screw Frank over twice. It's no wonder Frank never has any contact with him again in the series after his father's funeral.
- Berserk Button: In keeping with his Big Eater and Manchild tendencies, he has little tolerance for frustration and an explosive temper. He throws a tantrum when he thinks a chicken restaurant shorted him a biscuit. He also gets upset when the animatronic bear band unexpectedly starts playing during union talks at Captain Chucklecrust's.
- Big Eater: Even in union negotiations, he always talks about food, and is always eating copious amounts of fattening food. When he tries to eat better in Season 2, he switches to gorging on buckets of cottage cheese and handfuls of diet pills.
- Call-Back: In season one, Bob Pogo says that someone should open a chicken restaurant that serves nothing but chicken skin, because everyone would eat it. In season 5, he buys Captain Chucklethrust from the mafia with the money he makes from the sale of Mohican to Alaquippa and turns it into a restaurant, Skinneee's, which serves nothing but fried chicken skin. Bob finds out the hard way that he is likely the only person that would actually eat at a restaurant serving nothing but chicken skins, which leads him into being unable to pay his debts to the mafia.
- Character Development: Though he still remains something of a racist, a Dirty Coward, and a Fat Slob throughout the run of the series, there are still signs that Bob is trying to change. One of the big catalysts for Bob's change is Rosie saving his life when he had a heart attack at the end of Season 3. At the end of Season 5, he tries to make up for a Dirty Coward moment by saving Rosie from being killed by a falling platform only to be pinned under it himself.
- Cosmetic Horror: While not surgical, Bob lost a lot of weight while recovering from his heart attack at the end of Season 3, but he had a LOT of excess skin, which now hangs off of him in flaps.
- Didn't Think This Through: He opens a restaurant that serves only chicken skins before realizing that nobody would want to eat just chicken skins.
- He also spent so much money on relatively inconsequential things for his restaurant, including a giant chicken suit that isn't made very well and buying whole chickens just for the skin and throwing away the rest of the carcass, that he didn't have enough money left over to protect his investment by buying insurance on it. He definitely regrets it when Mayor Tangenti sling-shots a turkey through his restaurant's window during an argument, sparking a grease fire that destroys the whole building.
- Diving Save: Bob saves Rosie from being killed by a collapsing scaffold, at the cost of becoming permanently disabled.
- The Dragon: For Roger Dunbarton before Scoop replaced Frank.
- Enemy Mine: In Season 2, he teams up with Frank and his other coworkers to take down Scoop Dunbarton, even though they really didn't get along in the past.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He seems to be shocked by Scoop's erratic behavior and racism.
- Evil Former Friend: Not exactly EVIL, but it still fits. With how often Bob shows up in flashbacks with Frank, it can be assumed they were good friends with Bob even saying that Frank has a family at his job. Compare that same Bob and Frank relationship to the present...
- Fat Bastard: He looks to be well over 300 pounds, and has a very unpleasant demeanor.
- In Season 4, he loses a lot of weight recovering from his heart attack, but it does not improve his appearance or health. If anything, he's in even worse health than before, as his voice is much more hoarse and he gets short of breath more easily. Nor has his weight loss improved his demeanor or his more unpleasant tendencies towards anger or occasional prejudice.
- Fat Slob: His car and office are filled with lots of food lying around.
- Formerly Fat: In Season 4, after he returns from recovering from the heart attack he had in the Season 3 finale, it's revealed he lost a lot of weight, but still has the excess skin from his former morbid obesity, leaving him look like a deflated version of himself with huge rolls of loose skin. Eating a single M&M is enough to make him fall off of the diet wagon, and he admits he will eventually be morbidly obese again. As season 5 progresses, he gradually begins to fill out. By the end of the season, and the series, he is still not quite at his debut weight, but he's getting there.
- Formerly Fit: A flashback to circa 1958 shows that he used to be much more slim. But his Big Eater tendencies caught up to him with age. Also in Season 3, it's mentioned that he used to participate in dancing competitions. Usually if Bob is in a flashback, he will be gorging himself and commenting on other's diets. Even stuffing his face at Frank's wedding while belittling Sue for stress eating!
- Getting High on Their Own Supply: It turns out that the only person who is actually interested in a restaurant selling only chicken skin is Bob himself, and he boosts the customer count by a considerable degree when he starts stress-eating his own product after a disastrous first day of business.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Of the evil variety.
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Towards the end of the second season when Scoop makes his life hell. Bob sincerely apologizes to Frank and tries to be a friend. He never remotely stops being a thorn in Frank's side after the weight loss and uses multiple opportunities to screw him and anyone else over, but he is shown to have some human decency and genuinely does try to be a better person. This does not stop him from convincing Dunbarton's widow to sell Mohican Airways through what he outright states as "treachery" so he can bank on his dream of a chicken skin restaurant, making everyone's lives even worse.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Bob saves Rosie from a platform that is about to collapse on top of him, but gets trapped under it himself. He becomes a paraplegic as a result.
- I Call It "Vera": He nicknames the immense amount of loose abdominal skin he has from his weight loss "Gordon." He even uses this name when he gets shot in the stomach by Snub-Nosed Louie during the Series Finale.
- Jabba Table Manners: He was shown eating in a disgusting manner in his office, and his car is filled with fast food bags and cups.
- Jerkass: He's a racist Mean Boss who dismisses and mistreats his subordinates.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He does mellow out in Season 3 and becomes a little nicer towards Frank and Rosie. He even tries and fails to throw a lifesaver to Bill during the Season Finale climax.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After saving his and everyone's job at the airline, Frank is fired by Dunbarton and attempts to talk down on him as a failure for not standing his ground against the Union's Demands. Before he is able to drive away however, Frank yanks the keys from the ignition gives Bob a much deserved chewing out and drops the keys between his legs leaving him stuck in the parking lot by himself.
- Insults the mayor during the Thanksgiving parade which causes him to fire a Turkey at him from the float he is on, but it misses and lands inside Pogo's restaurant, causing a chain reaction which leads to it catching on fire and burning down.
- In the series finale, when he and Rosie are confronted by "Snub-Nose" Louis Gagliardi and Mayor Tangenti at the airport, Rosie stands up to the mobsters, but Bob tries to pretend he's on the mobsters' side to save his skin and suggests they shoot Rosie. Gagliardi doesn't buy it and shoots Bob "right in the Gordon." However, when Bob sees the scaffolding collapse, he finds the strength to jump and push Rosie out of the way. In Bob's final scene, he is being put on an ambulance, where Rosie's dialogue suggests that Bob will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury, and Bob vowing to Rosie that he will become a better man.
- The complete failure of Bob's restaurant and Bob's resultant troubles with the mafia could be seen as a case of this considering that he financed the restaurant in part with money he made by talking Brandy Dunbarton into selling Mohican to Alaquippa, resulting in Frank and other Mohican employees having to take a pay cut to stay employed.
- Lethal Eatery: Aside from the fact that literally every item on the Skinneee's menu is made from chicken skins, it's also clear that sanitation was not one of Bob's priorities. The one potential customer who actually comes into the restaurant is so grossed out that he decides he'd rather defecate in his own car than use Bob's restroom.
- Manchild
- My God, What Have I Done?: Bob's usual alibi after making an ass of himself is to blame a Puerto Rican. After an actual Puerto Rican gets arrested despite being innocent, Bob is visibly remorseful.
- Never Gets Fat: This used to apply for him, back during his younger days in the Air Force. A flashback showed him with Frank, who expressed amazement at how much Bob could eat without gaining weight, while he had to work like hell to keep his weight down. Bob claimed it was because of his high metabolism. In the series itself, which is set about 20 years later, it's clear that Bob never adjusted to his metabolism slowing down as he aged, as he's now a Fat Bastard Mean Boss who needs a scooter to get around. Part of his character development is him trying to eat healthier and slim back down again. Let's just say it's a work in progress.
- Never My Fault: His go-to excuse is to blame a non-existent Puerto Rican whenever he gets into a bind. We later find out that some random Puerto Rican guy actually was getting the blame for all this, and is understandably pissed off about it.
- Pet the Dog:
- In "Landing the Plane", Bob pours his heart out to Frank, telling him that he wants to be his friend.
- In the Season 3 Finale, he attempts to save Bill from being carried away by the river he fell in by throwing a life ring at him, and only fails due to suffering a heart attack at the worst possible moment.
- In the series finale he literally takes a bullet for Rosie to save him from the mafia. It’s implied this act caused him to become a paraplegic, but he views it as a beautiful dream; since he gets to remain chair bound.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Rosie believes that Bob Pogo is biased against him for being black, and he may be right to an extent; when Bob argues with Rosie in a (mostly black) bar, he outright calls Rosie "uppity" before realizing where he is. And as mentioned above, he likes to blame a Puerto Rican whenever something goes wrong for him.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Being stuck with Scoop for several weeks really humbled him. Starting in season 3, Pogo is little bit less of a Jerkass then before.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A flashback to 1958 during his and Frank's late teen / early adult years while working at Mohican depicts him as a kinder, more supportive friend to Frank.
- We Used to Be Friends: He served with Frank in the military and worked with him during the airport's early days. They seemed to have gotten along much better back then.
Edward "Ed" Murtaugh
Voiced by: N/A
Former baggage manager at Mohican Airways. He was killed on the tarmac when his necktie got caught in a moving propeller. Frank was promoted to his position shortly after his death.
- Asshole Victim: According to Frank, "he was kind of a dick".
- Death by Irony: Frank tells an anecdote involving Ed bragging about his new tie. His tie is what later caused his death.
- The Ghost: He was never physically seen alive in the series, only mentioned and appears once on video.
- Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Averted. Frank was more happy about his promotion than upset about Ed's death. When Sue calls him out on this, he responds with "Yeah, but he was kind of a dick."
- Off with His Head!: Had his necktie caught in a moving propeller, resulting in him getting decapitated. As a result, Mohican placed a rule that its workers can only wear clip-on ties.
- Posthumous Character: Dies in the first episode.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Believe it or not, his demise inadvertently led to most of the events of Frank’s problems at the airport throughout the show
Alaquippa Ed
"For you, Frank, I have two. I was just listening to Harmo-Nation."
Voiced by: Joe Pera
Mid-level manager of Alaquippa Airlines who Frank meets during X-ray training in Cleveland. He becomes Frank's boss after Alaquippa absorbs Mohican in season 5, replacing Bob Pogo.
- Did Not Think This Through: Was part of the team in charge of the commercial announcing the merger between Mohican and Alaquippa, which resulted in a horrific nightmare ad showing two planes colliding in mid-air (complete with passengers screaming in the background), and the tag line "Alahican- We're On Fire!'' Unsurprisingly, it sent the company's profits plummetting.Ed: In retrospect, giving Mr. Stanley Kubrick full creative control was a mistake.
- Exact Words: When Frank threatens to quit by demanding the same severance deal his co-workers got, 1 week of pay for every year of service, Ed reminds Frank that his current term of employment began the previous April, when he was rehired after having been fired for almost four months, negating the 20 years he had spent with the company up until then.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: His Trademark Favorite Food is carrot soup and milk, and he's a fan of marching band music.
- Jerkass: More from Frank’s perspective than any actual jerkass behavior. To add insult to the injury of Frank having lost 20 years' of tenure to count towards a buyout package through no fault of Ed or Frank’s, Ed offers to pay Frank's severance out of his own wallet with a single fifty dollar bill, for which he asks if Frank has change. All while maintaining his calm demeanor. Frank is, of course, left feeling deflated and emasculated as he realizes he's made a threat that he can't back up, and retracts his resignation.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While far more polite and soft-spoken than Bob ever was, Ed saddles Frank with all kinds of restrictions and rules, but most of them are completely understandable; Mohican went under because management refused to properly discipline their employees, many of whom are childish and incompetent, and protected by union rules even when they shouldn't be. Really, Ed is only a Jerkass from Frank’s perspective of the situation. All things considered, Ed is a nice guy.
- Meet the New Boss: Despite Alaquippa Ed's milder demeanor compared to Bob Pogo, Frank finds out that Alaquippa's leadership, Ed included, is just as unfair and incompetent as Mohican under the leadership of the Dunbartons.
- Minnesota Nice: He has a very distinguishable Minnesotan accent and is a very chill guy.
- Nice Guy: He might be as strict a boss as Pogo, but Ed is a mostly amiable and friendly fella.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: In Season 5, it's revealed he served in Korea like Frank, but was captured by enemy forces and spent years undergoing horrific torture, with at least some of his current behavior being a response to trauma.
- Stepford Smiler: He always maintains a bland, usually smiling demeanor even when reprimanding his employees. However, he can be seen quietly crying from loneliness while eating his Thanksgiving dinner, a turkey TV dinner eaten in the employee break room at the airport.
Dunbarton Family
Roger Dunbarton
Voiced by: Gary Cole (English), Óscar Gómez (Latin American Spanish)
The owner of the Mohican Airways airline.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Despite being a Corrupt Corporate Executive and an atrocious boss, everyone is still horrified at the sight of his death. Rosie even takes his hat off in respect.
- Asshole Victim: Along with Scoop. Nobody on the scene is even particularly upset by their rather gruesome deaths via luggage bomb.
- Bad Boss: When one of his employees is killed on the job, he is more concerned with replacing the propeller than anything else.
- Berserk Button: Talking to him as an equal. Frank learned this the hard way.
- Back for the Dead: His only significant scene in Season 2 happens moments before his death.
- Big Bad: He's this for Seasons 1 and 2. As the owner of Mohican Airways airline all the problems that occurs at the Airport Franks works can be traced back to him.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's definitely a very ruthless and cold-hearted business tycoon.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He gets his throat cut open by Scoop's laminated newspaper, which was sent flying as shrapnel from an explosion.
- Dirty Coward: Rather than firing Frank himself, he lets Bob tell him instead.
- Dirty Old Man: "You think I'd fuck someone [Brandy] as old as my daughter?!"
- Disproportionate Retribution: Firing Frank for talking to him as an equal.
- Faux Affably Evil: He can act nice and friendly enough when things are going his way, but he quickly reveals a nastier side just underneath the surface.
- Foreshadowing: His discussion with Frank about his predecessor and how he views their job is warning of how he and Bob view Frank and the rest of their employees.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses, and is also a Corrupt Corporate Executive who treats his employees like dirt.
- Hate Sink: Along with his nephew Scoop, he's an insufferable asshole meant to make us root for Frank and all the other employees they've screwed over.
- It's All About Me: After all the painstaking labor negotiations with the union during season 1, Dunbarton almost derails the whole thing because Frank wouldn't give Brandy one of the pens used to sign the deal, being so much of an egomaniac he'd rather cause a massive strike on Christmas. Even when Frank's impassioned plea seems to sway him, he secretly told Pogo to fire Frank out of spite, for daring to talk to him like an equal.
- Jerkass: Next to his nephew Scoop, he's one of the most unsympathetic jerks on the show.
- Jerkass Has a Point: It stands to reason he'd be pissed at Frank and his team for drugging his nephew Scoop, intolerable asshole or not, and stowing him away on a plane just so Frank could get his job back. While threatening to put Frank's family in prison was going too far, Roger would have been justified in solely having him and his co-workers arrested for the blatant felony they committed.
- Karmic Death: Has his neck sliced open by a laminated newspaper featuring his simpleton nephew, killing him in "Landing the Plane".
- Precision F-Strike: He swears right before he drops dead.(about his nephew) "Fucking idiot!"
- Profane Last Words: "Fucking idiot!"
- Slashed Throat: When Scoop accidentally blows himself up by stepping on the explosive suitcase, his laminated newspaper flies right into Roger's throat and slices it open. Roger lives just long enough to realize what just happened and curse his nephew's idiotic actions before dying from his wound.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: He agrees to the signing of the contract, but fires Frank.
Scoop Dunbarton
Voiced by: John DiMaggio (English), César Garduza (Latin American Spanish)
Mr. Dunbarton's nephew and replacement for Frank Murphy in Season 2.
- Accidental Hero: After waking up, he's the one who takes out the BLABLA members and foils their hijacking and hostage situation.
- Asshole Victim: He was a racist, abusive, and insane jerk who turned out to be major liability for the workers. Along with his uncle Roger from a flying framed newspaper to his neck, the explosion from the suitcase bomb showed relief for everyone.
- Ax-Crazy: The man's a complete maniac.
- Bad Boss: Even Bob Pogo is afraid of him. And with very good reason.
- Berserk Button: There’s very little that doesn’t set him off, but he seems to particularly hate when people touch his “me paper,” the laminated news article about his head injury that he carries around.
- Body Horror: He's missing half of his brain after getting kicked in the head by a horse.
- Career-Ending Injury: A kick by a draft horse on his head didn't bode well for his baseball career, as well as his sanity.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's very erratic and unpredictable because of his brain injury.
- Curbstomp Battle: He makes very short use of the BLABLA members.
- Evil Cripple: He suffers from severe brain damage, but it makes him no less of a supreme Jerkass.
- Eviler than Thou: He's a worse boss and person than Bob Pogo could ever be.
- Evil Versus Evil: He fights the BLABLA members once he wakes up.
- Hate Sink: Possibly the least likable character in the series, and has zero redeeming qualities. He's loud, egotistical, rude, racist, and is too stupid to even be working at an airport, let alone managing one. Probably the only good thing that can be said about him is that he single-handedly thwarted the terrorist group's plans to hijack a plane... just moments before he accidentally killed himself and his uncle with their suitcase bomb.
- The Heavy: Of season 2. He may be appointed as the boss by his uncle but its him that's causing all the problems in the airport, which causes all the employee to try getting rid of him.
- Jerkass: He's extremely bigoted, and a complete prick to all of his employees and customers.
- Large Ham: He's usually shouting all of his lines.
- Laughably Evil: As assholish as he is, his erratic behavior provides some of the best laughs in Season 2. Being voiced by John DiMaggio certainly helps.
- Ludicrous Gibs: He died from the explosion when he stepped on a bomb in his cheering run. In addition, his uncle Roger was killed from the framed newspaper flying to his neck.
- Nepotism: How he got his job despite his mental incapacity from the horse kick to his head, much to dismay of his coworkers.
- No Indoor Voice: Not unusual for a character voiced by John DiMaggio.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He's extremely racist; back when he was a baseball player, he wanted to re-segregate the sport. Now at Mohican Airways, he decides to sort passenger luggage by race; and not by the passenger's race, bur rather by the luggage's "race", meaning he sorts the bags by if it's black or white, while yelling out "Go back to Africa!" at a black piece of luggage.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He behaves like a spoiled,angry brat. Bob Pogo refers to him as a "6 Foot 2 Inch toddler.".
- Self-Disposing Villain: He accidentally steps on the suitcase containing the bomb which not only blows him up, but also causes his laminated newspaper to impale his uncle's throat.
- Too Dumb to Live: While he was drunk, he tried to carve his initials onto a live horse; guess what that earned him. And he later obliviously steps on a suitcase that was known to contain a bomb.
Brandy Dunbarton
Voiced by: Mo Collins (English), Analiz Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)
Mr. Dunbarton's trophy wife. She becomes the owner of Mohican Airways in Season 3, due to her husband's death last season.
- '70s Hair: Has a Farrah Fawcett haircut, similar to Cutie Pie.
- Big Eater: She defiantly eats a large sandwich despite her husband warning that she'll get fat.
- Brainless Beauty: She's very attractive but just as airheaded.
- Fiery Redhead: She's shown to be this whenever she's not around Dunbarton at least.Brandy: Fuck him! I'll eat what I want!
- Pointy-Haired Boss: She gets Roger Dunbarton's job of running Mohican Airways after he dies. It goes as well as you'd expect. Seems to be a figurehead position, as most of the problems Mohican faces in Season 3 are not directly due to her mismanagement.
- Pet the Dog: When Frank says he doesn't want to go to the seminar to be there for Sue during her pregnancy, she actually agrees and says she's proud of him for sticking by her, as well as telling Bob off and saying that, now that he's not fat, he doesn't have an excuse to be an ass anymore.
- Put on a Bus: She isn't seen at all in Season 5. Bob Pogo reveals that she sold Mohican to Alaquippa on Bob's advice. She took the money and ran, since she didn't want to be an airline CEO to begin with.
- Sell-Out: It's revealed she is looking to sell Mohican Airways, which would result in most of the staff being laid off. This revelation comes at the end of the season with Frank, Bob, and Rosie vowing to save Mohican, setting up a plot line for a possible Season 5. But in the Season 5 premiere, it's revealed that she went ahead and sold the airline under a deal brokered in part by Bob Pogo.
- Trophy Wife: Clearly why Dunbarton married her.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She just wanted a fancy pen, but her request for one lead to the union deal falling apart, the airline nearly going under, and Frank losing his job.
Plast-a-Ware
Vivian Saunders
Voiced by: Mo Collins (English), Paulina Soto (Latin American Spanish)
Sue's main supervisor at the Plast-a-Ware company.
- Child Hater: She's not fond of children at all.
- Cool Car: Is very proud of her lime green lady Lincoln.
- Ephebophile: Back when she was a school lunch lady, she was sleeping with Vic while he was a student at the school.
- Family Versus Career: Vivian had no problem choosing a career over children. Mainly because she seems to dislike kids, especially Sue's.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Ends up dropping her partnership with Sue and returning to her old job at Plast-a-Ware when it becomes clear that Sue's Forkoontula isn't going to be a winning idea.
- Jerk Witha Heart Of Gold: She's rather icy and aloof at first, but becomes more friendly to Sue when the two work together on her inventions.
- Mean Boss: She usually has a barbed comment for Sue when they meet.
- Mrs. Robinson: Had a sexual relationship with a student (Vic) when she was working as a lunch lady at a school.
- Necessarily Evil: "Evil" might be too strong a word for it, but a lot of her meanness seems to stem from dealing with the deceptively unpleasant working environment at Plast-a-Ware, and a bunch of ridiculously misogynistic, asshole bosses. In fact, she warms up quite a bit once Sue transfers to corporate, going from catty and vaguely contemptuous of Sue to the being the only boss at Plast-a-Ware who's actually in Sue's corner and affords her any real respect.
- Out of Focus: Despite being a major character for the first two seasons, Vivian has a considerably diminished role after Sue's Forkoontula gets hostile reviews during focus-testing with Sue's neighbors in Season 3. In Season 4, her only major appearance is at Sue's baby shower, and in Season 5, she's limited to one throwaway line during the stunt show at the airport.
- Stepford Smiler: You can hear the fakeness dripping in her voice.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: When she drops the faux-cheerfulness, her actual personality is fairly blunt and sarcastic at best, but she's not a bad person deep down, and helps Sue to develop her Salad Tosser invention because she thinks it's a great idea and genuinely wants Sue to succeed.
- Teacher/Student Romance: She wasn't actually a teacher (she worked in the cafeteria), but she had a sexual relationship with Vic, who was a student then.
Tracey, Gene, and Dana
Tracey voiced by: Keith Ferguson (English), Mauricio Pérez (Latin American Spanish)
Gene voiced by: Kevin Farley (English), Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish)
Dana voiced by: David Koechner (English), Jesús Cortez (Latin American Spanish)
Three businessmen whom Sue works for as their secretary.
- Ambiguously Brown: Gene, who has tan skin and jet-black hair.
- Bad Boss / Mean Boss: They treat Sue with absolutely zero respect. Slightly played with since they WELCOME Sue laying into them just as well.
- Closet Gay: Gene's last appearance is when Sue catches him in the parking lot of a gay bar, making out.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even pigheaded assholes like them have a limit.
- Fat Bastard: Gene being on the heavy side doesn't make him any less of an asshole than his associates.
- Gender-Blender Name: Their names are meant to intentionally mislead the audience into thinking they are women.
- Hate Sink: They're completely repulsive and insufferable due to their treatment of Sue and Vivian.
- Jerkass: Them being horrible bosses to Sue can qualify them as this.
- Porn Stache: Gene sports one of these along with an Afro.
- Samus Is a Girl: Inverted. When Sue goes to apply for their secretary, she's expecting Tracey to be a woman rather than a man.
- Straw Misogynist: All of them pass the time with crude, sexist, and perverted jokes about their female coworkers.
- Teeny Weenie: According to Gene, Vivian, and his ex-wife, Tracey has one of these.
Henrietta van Horne
Voiced by: Allison Janney (English), Magda Giner (Latin American Spanish)
The founder and owner of Plast-a-Ware.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems supportive of Sue's enthusiastic ideas, but has no problem with plagiarizing them.
- Collector of the Strange: She collects severed monkey paws.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She publicly takes sole credit for the salad tosser that Sue had invented.
- Evil Old Folks: She's a woman in her sixties who steals Sue's Salad Tosser idea.
- Hate Sink: Her betrayal of Sue sets her up to be one hell of an unlikable, backstabbing bitch.
- Karma Houdini: She gets no comeuppance for successfully plagiarizing Sue's invention.
- Rags to Riches: She remarks that she used to be an "ordinary housewife" a long time ago. Now she's wealthy and has a mansion with butlers and maids to do all her chores.
- Rich Bitch: Not only does she steal Sue's invention, she also mistreats her staff and nonchalantly calls Sue fat.
- Teen Pregnancy: Implied.Henrietta: "I'll tell you what I told my high school choir teacher. I'm keeping this baby and I'm gonna sell this baby!"
Ben Schrider's Sporting Goods Store
Ben Schrider
Voiced by: Trevor Devall
An irritable sporting goods store owner with a dismembered left leg who becomes Bill's rival after he robs him in a season 2 episode. Later, he manages to bury the hatchet with Bill.- Actually Pretty Funny: When he learns who Bill really is, he is quite amused at Bill for making Jimmy take the fall for him.
- Ambiguously Jewish: He speaks in a Yiddish-tone.
- An Arm and a Leg: He lost his left leg in an incident with a station wagon and a dumpster. During Big Bill's funeral, he reveals Big Bill would have given Ben one of his legs when Bill died. It wouldn't work, but Ben was touched by the sentiment.
- Everyone Has Standards: He may be a crass man, but he is quite taken aback when Big Bill nearly uses physical violence against his grandson all because he knocked down a few baseball bats.
- Failed Attempt at Drama: In the third season premiere, he tries to intimidate Bill (who he still thought was Jimmy at the time) by showing his new muscular fake leg. The drama is taken away given the fact that it's made for a negro.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Yes he was quite crass about it, but anyone would be upset about being robbed.
- No Sympathy: He mocked Bill when the latter tried to explain that he lost the money needed to pay for the hockey stick.
Sawitzki and Son
Richard "Dick" Sawitzki
Voiced by: Kevin Farley
The owner of a TV store. His son Chuck is the manager of said store. He was friends with Frank’s dad.- Armor-Piercing Response: When Frank asks how hard it is not to be an asshole to your own kid, Dick points out Frank doesn't have much of a right to ask that question by saying "Well, you're here drinking on Christmas, so you tell me". This causes Frank to pause and realize how much he messed up, leading to him apologizing to his family. And if the way season 5 ends is any indication, this change is going to stick.
- Ascended Extra: He receives more characterization and screen time in the fifth season.
- Best Friend: The way he talked about Big Bill and the stories seemed to imply he was particularly close with Big Bill, if not his best friend.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: If Frank just called Dick or one of Big Bill’s friends, the whole box 16 plotline would have been resolved quickly. But this ties into Frank’s complexity addiction and hatred of getting others to help him.
- Everyone Has Standards: While it’s implied he was not a great parent, he was shocked and disgusted when Big Bill threatened to hit Bill in front of him.
- Eyes Always Shut: He has his eyes concealed with his bushy eyebrows most of the time. But when he sees the color televisions in the store all not working, due to Bill, they briefly go up in shock to reveal them.
- Get Out!: On the receiving end. In the final episode it’s revealed he was kicked out of his kid’s house for cursing at his grandkid (due to losing a game of eucre to her). Where he meets Frank at the bar.
- Nice Guy: Other than him snapping at Christmas, he seems to be a pretty amiable guy. He was Big Bill’s friend and was shown to be very nice and appreciative of Frank giving Bill a nice funeral. He also gave Frank some advice and doesn’t mess with him.
- Parental Neglect: Odd case in that during the condolences montage during Big Bill's funeral, his son Chuck refers to Big Bill Murphy as more of a father to him than Dick was. With Dick nodding in agreement!
- Poor Communication Kills: Not him, but Frank. If Frank contacted him about “Box 16”, Dick would have told him what it means and saved Frank tons of time and grief.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's more-so this than his son is.
- Small Role, Big Impact: A rather minor character who only appears a handful of times, but his appearance in the finale pretty much solidifies Frank's character development and resolves the last loose end of the series.
Charles "Chuck" Sawitzki
Voiced by: Justin Long
The manager of Sawitzki and Son and Mr. Sawitzki's son.- Abhorrent Admirer: He is this to his employee Doreen.
- Bad Boss: He forces Kevin to stay behind to sell 2 small trees in the season 1 finale, most likely to avoid paying him.
- Casanova Wannabe: He constantly tries to hit on his co-worker Doreen, with no success at all.
- Get Out!: Chuck does a more tame variation of this when Frank goes ballistic at him when complaining about the television they brought when Bill broke it.
- Hate Sink: He's an obnoxious, immature, cruel man who is not above belittling his potential customers.
- Jerkass: He is a smug snob to both Frank and Bill when they complain about the TV. He’s also one to Kevin when he becomes his boss to sell Christmas trees.
- Lame Comeback: He delivers one of these when his Doreen rejects his advances and says that he has a Teeny Weenie.Chuck: If it's so small, why are you driving away from it?
- Manchild: Kevin has more maturity than him.
- No Sympathy: When Bill was forced to admit what happened to the television Frank and Sue bought from the store, Chuck just mocks him.
Doreen
Voiced by: Mo Collins
An employee at Sawitzki and Son.- Deadpan Snarker: Is this to Chuck when he hits on her.
Champagne Chariot Vending Services
Smokey Greenwood
"1, 2, 3, baby... baby, baby, baby..."
Voiced by: Michael Kenneth Williams (English), Daniel del Roble (Latin American Spanish)
A friend of Rosie's who runs a business that delivers vending machine goods by van. He hires Frank after the latter lost his job at Mohican Airways.
- An Arm and a Leg: In season 5, when Kevin has to work with him, he says he is going to lose a foot due to gambling debt... only to say that this foot has been dead for years because of diabetes.
- Ascended Extra: Had decreased screen time in Season 3 after Frank stopped working for him, but was given a somewhat expanded role in the following seasons as he helped Rosie fight Tangenti's political machine and continued to offer emotional support to the Murphy family.
- The Cameo: Has a non-speaking cameo in "The Stinger" sitting on the toilet at the bar.
- Career Versus Family: Smokey put his career first. And while he's a successful businessman, he's also a bitter, lonely wretch with a cheating wife.
- Deadpan Snarker: Much like Rosie, he's quite a smartass.
- Dysfunctional Family: Smokey's anecdotes reveal that his family life is far worse than Frank's. He had an unfaithful wife who Really Gets Around, and is troubled by deep remorse over leaving behind his albino baby.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Despite his abrasiveness, he's the one who convinces Rosie to use the experience he's had of sucking up to white people throughout his life to actually be able to do his job as alderman.
- He does the same for Frank in season 5 helping him come to grips with his obsession over his late fathers words. That compared to how Smokey screwed up his life? Frank at least has people who care about him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is nice to Frank but he tends to be lax on business standards, such as poking holes in condoms and taking no liability for them. Unfortunately, Frank happened to take one of them in the Season 2 finale. As the seasons go on, it's quite common to see him shed his tough exterior to show the caring and loving, but broken down by life, man underneath.
- Like a Son to Me: He tends to treat his employees, even Frank, like sons he never had or abandoned. He tends to call them Larry at first, the name of his albino son, but still seems to remember their name to some degree. He takes quite well to Frank and Kevin Murphy, crying and admitting he loves Frank while they worked together. With Kevin, in season 5 when Kevin works with Smokey for the day, it starts with Smokey trying to dismiss Kevin's pain and problems and ends with him bawling his eyes out in sympathy and empathy to Kevin's situation. Frank and Kevin both like him a lot, so the feeling is kind of reciprocated.
- Mean Boss: He's decent enough once you've gotten on his good side, but otherwise, he's a real jerk. Nuber starts working for him in season 4, and is constantly verbally abused and humiliated.
- Meaningful Name: His last name may possibly be a reference to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, once known as "Black Wall Street" due to its prosperity, which was destroyed in the 1920 Tulsa race riot. Smokey is by all appearances a successful businessman in spite of the overt racism prevalent at the time.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After taking Kevin on as a punishment from Frank in Season 5 and talking to him about his problems, Smokey is suddenly overcome with remorse about his habit of poking holes in condoms.
- Parental Abandonment: Sold his infant albino son to the circus "because that's what you did back then", and despite regretting this, he still refuses to see his now adult son again due to his dislike of albinism.
- Self-Applied Nickname: Makes Kevin call him "Black God" when Frank makes Kevin ride with him for a day as a punishment.
- Self-Made Man: Well, sort of. He started out as just another driver for Champagne Chariots back in the 40's, and worked his way up to outright buying the business, which is impressive, but he never replaced the aging trucks, or hired much new staff, meaning they're stuck with the same broken-down, vandalized vans, and he still has to make deliveries in person.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By carelessly poking the condoms he was selling, he was indirectly responsible for Frank impregnating Sue, and thus half the problems that arose during Season 3.
- In the series finale it's heavily implied Kevin would have done the same to Alice if he didn't "miss". He is also hinted to have caused a surge of pregnancies in the population, including people like Vic and his friends. To further emphasize this when Vic mentions they all had kids around the same time, it cuts to Smokey poking holes in condoms.
