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James "Jim" Jeffords (Hobo Jojo)
Voiced by: Phil Hendrie (English), Dafnis Fernández (Latin American Spanish)
Jim Jeffords is a TV news reporter, anchorman, and talk show host who covers various then-current events. He also plays a clown named Hobo Jojo as the host of a kids' show on the same TV channel.
- Ambiguously Jewish: When he stole all of the prizes from the game in his Hobo Jojo show, his co-entertainer mentions that he used them to give to his second family for Hannukah. Whether this means he himself is Jewish or not is never made clear.
- The Alcoholic: He once got in trouble for drunk driving, but the police arrested the bartender who served him instead. Oh, and he mentions all of this while doing a news report about his own drunken shenanigans in third-person.
- Following his termination, he spends pretty much all of his time in a state of disheveled public drunkenness, landing himself in jail on at least one occasion.
- Black Like Me: He once disguised himself as a black man asking for help with car trouble, whom Frank drove away from in fear of being mugged. This all turned out to be part of an undercover story about racism.
- Depraved Kids' Show Host: As the host of Hobo Jojo, he's a total creep who picks audience contestants for the in-show game depending on whether or not their accompanying parent is pregnant, which he finds incredibly arousing (but only if they're white). He also stole all the prize toys from the game to use as Hannukah gifts for his second family, and rigged the game so no one will find out.
- Dodgy Toupee: The hair on the crown of his head is noticeably different from the hair on the sides, and in one scene in Season 5, we see that he has advanced male-pattern baldness with a comb-over.
- Expy: The Hobo Jojo character is an even more degenerate version of Krusty the Clown.
- Fetish: He is very attracted to pregnant women, to the point that he always attempts to hook up with pregnant mothers of kids who appear on his show. He also has great trouble with not staring at Sue Murphy while she was expecting her fourth kid.
- Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: He has no love for the children that appear on the Hobo Jojo show. All he wants is the opportunity to get laid by the kids' moms.
- Intrepid Reporter: He reports on various political topics, including feminism and racism.
- Insistent Terminology: Keeps refering to his indefinite leave as a "pre-planned vacation".
- Kent Brockman News: He's the main face of the local news.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In "R is For Rosie", his actions were caught on camera. As a result, he was placed on a "vacation", or indefinite leave.
- Nice Character, Mean Actor: As Hobo Jojo. When Maureen came close to winning a prize that he'd already embezzled, he rigs the game so that she loses.
- Noble Bigot: Though he reported on issues like racism and feminism, he did spout some negative if sarcastic comments on them to the dismay of the interviewees. He gets increasingly racist as the series progresses to, to the point that Rosie becoming Alderman in season 4 is seen as "America dying" by him.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares the same first name and a shortened nickname as Jimmy Fitzsimmons.
- Put on a Bus: After the events of "R Is For Rosie", he's put on indefinete leave after his racist behavior was caught on camera.
- The Bus Came Back: It's revealed he's become a disorderly alcoholic during his hiatus. His last scene in the series shows that he got his news anchor job back after he took incriminating footage of Mayor Tangeti during the Mafia's attempt to murder Rosie and Bob Pogo.
- Redemption Promotion: he happens to be filming Mayor Tangenti and Louis Gagliardi attempting to murder Rosie and Bob Pogo at the airport. The footage is enough to get him his job back as a co-anchor with Curtis Higgins. Higgins is not thrilled to be working with Jeffords given the latter's past racist comments and behavior.
Reid Harrison (Colt Luger)
Voiced by: Phil Hendrie (English), Armando Coria (Latin American Spanish)
Reid Harrison is a Hollywood actor who stars as the titular protagonist of Colt Luger, which is Frank's favorite action show on TV.
- Acrofatic: Sort of. Despite having a huge beer belly and not much muscle, Reid still plays an action hero on TV. Though he drunkenly admits that a Chinese stunt double performs most of the feats for him on his show.
- The Alcoholic: Reid seems to like his booze, which leads to some embarrassing outbursts with the media.
- Bad "Bad Acting": Reid Harrison doesn't seem like he deserves to win an Emmy Award any time soon.
- Catchphrase: Colt Luger often says, "Sometime's a man's gotta do... what a man does."
- He frequently threatens his adversaries by threatening to send them to "the San Cortez Regional Correctional Institute... for MEN!" Or in the case of one female villain, "for broads!"
- Celebrity Cameo: Colt Luger appeared as a Special Guest in a cartoon that was a spoof of The Harlem Globetrotters.
- Cowboy Cop: Colt Luger is an exaggerated parody of these kind of characters. In fact, he has no problem with roasting criminals to death with a flamethrower.
- Formerly Fat: After spending most of season 4 in a Tijuana jail, he returns looking a lot slimmer.
- Hellhole Prison: He spent part of season 4 in jail in Tijuana. When he is released and his show resumes production, he looks like he is ill or has been drinking heavily. When Bill remarks on this, Frank angrily demands that Bill show him some respect as he's spent a couple of months "shitting in a coffee can."
- Horrible Hollywood: Implied, as Reid Harrison seems to be a rather miserable drunkard of a celebrity who commits adultery.
- In season 4, his show is put on hiatus while he is in jail in Tijuana, upsetting Frank.
- Hypocrite: Harrison hosts an annual charity for sick children, but he recoils in disgust when a boy tries to hug him.
- Nice Character, Mean Actor: Subverted; he's a racist, sexist Nominal Hero in the TV show he stars in, and is only marginally worse in real life.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He appears to be a pastiche of Charles Bronson.
- Noble Bigot with a Badge: Aside from the white biker gang he fights in his initial appearance, every other time we see Colt Luger he's fighting stereotypical black, Asian, and Hispanic gangsters. In Season 2, he's seen fighting a white hippie woman, so this may be a case of Hates Everyone Equally.
- Reid himself shows a bit of racial insensitivity when he says that his stunt double is a "Chinaman" with an unpronounceable name.
- Punny Name: Colt and Luger are both names of handguns.
- In one episode, a stereotypical Asian villain calls him "Colt Ruger!" Ruger is the name of another brand of handgun.
- Serial Spouse: True to his depiction as a washed-up Hollywood actor, he has been married and divorced multiple times.
- Show Within a Show: Colt Luger is based on (very cheesy) action/cop shows from The '70s.
- Testosterone Poisoning: Even though Colt Luger isn't a particularly impressive character or show, Frank seems to hold him up as an ideal example of a real "man".
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: In-universe with his show. It's a violent crime show that airs on prime time, but an animated Colt Luger appears as a celebrity guest in a children's cartoon, and there's also a Colt Luger themed board game aimed at kids. Bill and Maureen are also fans of the show, the former having posters in his room and the latter wanting to dress as him for Halloween.
Father Pat
Voiced by: Bill Burr
A local Catholic priest.
- Cure Your Gays: Takes Greg Throater to a Bible Cruise to try to "cure" his homosexuality. It doesn't work.
- Jaded Professional: By season 4, he shows signs of this. It's not hard to understand why, given the bizarre and often horrific confessionals he has to hear from Rustvale's imperfect Catholics. Frank's loud, profanity-laced tirade at the end of his shift doesn't help matters either, especially given that Frank confesses to seldom attending mass because he feels that attending Mass is too much trouble. In season 5, after being questioned about church doctrine by several people, he finally snaps. The series finale shows he's left the priesthood and renounced his vow of celibacy.
- Nice Guy: He's one of the nicer characters on the show. Subverted in Season 5, where he explodes into a tantrum laced with profanities that would make Frank wince, and reveals that he is frustrated by the celibacy that the Church requires of him as a priest. In his final appearance, as part of the montage of characters watching Buster Thunder, he is relaxing at a Caribbean resort with a shapely bikini-clad woman.
- Perpetual Smiler / The Pollyanna: He has a rather absurdly cheerful demeanor. As the series progresses, it becomes more and more evident that he is possibly a Stepford Smiler.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Not DOOM per se, but his totally socially unaware monologue about Big Bill's suffering helps lead Maureen down her satanism path during season 5. He also does this with Bill, telling Bill that everything he does will be forgiven if given last rites by a priest, leading him to go even further down a dark path during season 5.
Louis Gagliardi
Voiced by: Joe Buck
A labor union boss (and also apparently a mob boss) who is the president of the International Brotherhood of Baggage Handlers, Skycaps, Roadies and Circus Roustabouts. He is an associate of Rosie, Carl and Red who helps them out with negotiating their strike at Mohican Airways.
- Ambiguously Gay: He is possibly sleeping with a man based on this dialogue exchange:Louis: I'm due back in Indiana, gotta be in Gary by midnight.
Roger: Well I want to be in Brandy by midnight.
Brandy: [giggles] I'm Brandy!
[a man emerges from Louis' limo]
Gary: And I'm Gary! - Big Bad Duumvirate: He’s this with Mayor Tangetti in the second half in Season 5.
- Expy: In terms of physical appearance and mannerisms, he's very heavily based on Vito Corleone, along with having some features of Paulie Gualtieri.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He is killed by a collapsing scaffold that he ordered his men to build without nuts in order to cut corners and skim money off the top, just after he shoots Bob Pogo.
- The Mafia: It's very unsubtly implied that he's an Italian-American mob boss, and he clearly isn't afraid to get his own hands dirty.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Given his ties to organized crime, it's not really surprising. He carries a concealed pistol, casually "kills" an animatronic robot bear at a pizzeria, and also suggests killing Scoop Dunbarton (which Frank rejects).
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares the same first name with Sue's unseen brother.
- Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: In Season one he was an ally to Rosie and was willing to negotiate with Pogo. In Season 5, he has resorted to trying to kill both of them.
- Weird Trade Union: He represents a rather diverse variety of labor interests, including airport baggage handlers and circus performers.
International Touch
Voiced by: ???
A local pimp who works around the shadier parts of town.
- Everyone Has Standards: He tries to get a girl to work for him and not the man whom he assumes is the girl's pimp. When he's told the "girl" (Kevin) is actually the man's (Frank's) son, just wearing his mother's blouse, International Touch had this to say:International Touch: Damn. (to Frank) You sir, have failed as a father.
- Mean Boss: Being a pimp after all, he constantly berates his prostitutes.
- Pimp Duds: Has the hat and the tailored white suit for the job, though he is a somewhat more downplayed example in keeping with the tone of the show.
Janet Vanderheim
"SUCK JOBS!"
Voiced by: Mo Collins
A morbidly obese prostitute who works for International Touch.
- Ascended Extra: First appears briefly in the second season when Kevin and his friends mistakenly think they've bought cocaine from International Touch instead of hiring Janet for sex. The season 3 premiere is the debut of her Catchphrase, and from there her further appearances delve further into her personal life and reveal that despite her stigmatized line of work, she's a fully participating member of the community who does her job for the same reason Frank does his. She supports her community in her own way, exemplified by her trying to help Sue get to the hospital when everyone else refuses to help. She's arguably one of the more memorable supporting characters in the show.
- Bail Equals Freedom: While she's often arrested, International Touch always bails her out and she's back on the streets offering blowjobs.
- Catchphrase: "Suck jobs!"
- Deadpan Snarker: Has her moments, one example being when Frank asked her how she got over her dad's death and she looks at him with a raised eyebrow, not saying anything.
- Gonky Femme: Exaggerated; she is extremely obese and ridiculously ugly. However, this doesn't stop her from attracting some occasional clients.
- Hidden Depths: She gives Frank advice for dealing with his grief at Big Bill's funeral, having had her own father die when she was young.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She does deeply care for her son Quincy, who's in Maureen's computer club. She's also friends with Sue and takes her to the hospital. And when the bus driver refuses to take Sue because of lack of funds, Janet threatens him by starting to reveal his personal details (as he is one of her clients). Janet is quite caring towards the Murphys, giving Frank advice on how to deal with grief, is quite nice to the Murphy kids, and even told off her own pimp when he considered trying to make Sue one of his prostitutes.
- Single Mom Stripper: She keeps her son Quincy ignorant about what she actually does for a living, but does warn him to not kiss her lips.
Randy
Voiced by: T.J. Miller (English), Eduardo Ramírez (Latin American Spanish)
Bill's boss for his paper route. He's also a drug dealer who convinces Bill to deliver weed on the side.
- Accidental Hero: He accidentally runs over Jimmy Fitzsimmons right when the latter was about to slash Bill and Phillip with a switchblade.
- AM/FM Characterization: Played with, he's your typical 70's rocker but once his favorite rock station sells out and starts playing teen pop, he switches to blaring Polka music instead. He stated himself that he thinks that "The music sucks, but at least they're honest."
- Ax-Crazy: He's pretty quick to jump to threats.
- Brutal Honesty: He admits to Bill that not everyone will pay what they owe for the morning paper.
- Demoted to Extra: After Season 2, he only gets a handful of scenes throughout the rest of the series, with most of them having him being silent. This may be due to the controversies his voice actor got into.
- Dirty Coward: He non-fatally injures Jimmy Fitzsimmons in a hit-and-run incident. And he implies that this wasn't even the first time he accidentally ran over a kid.
- Drives Like Crazy: Possibly because he's stoned all the time.
- Fiery Redhead: A red-haired ball of fury.
- Jerkass: He can come off as this at times.
- Karma Houdini: He doesn't receive any punishment for running over Jimmy or the other unnamed kid before the former.
- Mean Boss: While not as bad as Dunbarton or the Plast-a-Ware executives, he can still be a huge Jerkass at times.
- Meaningful Name: "Randy" can be a loose term used for someone who's rude and aggressive, which is what he can be at times.
- Pet the Dog: He scares off Jimmy when he was mugging Bill, and calls Phillip out for not helping him.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He calls Phillip out on him not helping Bill out when the latter was being mugged by Jimmy Fitzsimmons.
- Would Hurt a Child: Or at least threaten to do so.
Jefferson Davis (Tecumseh X. DuBois)
Voiced by: Phil LaMarr (English), Roberto Carrillo (Latin American Spanish)
A radical leftist militant who leads the Black Liberation Alliance for Black Liberation.
- "Angry Black Man" Stereotype: He's based on black nationalist leaders of the '60s and '70s.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Just look at the name of his organization.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He makes a brief debut being interviewed by Jim Jeffords on his show just before the Season 2 finale.
- Expy: of Donald DeFreeze, the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
- Freudian Excuse: He was wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, but then became a real criminal, wishing to get revenge on American society for the racial injustice he suffered.
- Ironic Name: He hates his birth name of Jefferson Davis (calling it a "slave name", not to mention whom that name invokes). It's no surprise why he really doesn't want to be associated with one of the greatest proponents of black slavery and white supremacy in American history.
- Meaningful Name: However, his alias of Tecumseh X. DuBois is based on two historical black civil rights figures; Malcolm X and W.E.B. DuBois
. The first name might possibly be a reference to Tecumseh, a Shawnee Indian chieftain who led a few Native American rebellions, which is rather fitting for a non-white militant who wants to violently resist the US government. - Western Terrorists: He's a domestic terrorist, specifically a radical black nationalist. He kidnaps a rich white college student named Danielle Kerrynote and forcibly recruits her for his cause. His group later carries out an attack on the local airport, taking Frank and his ex-co-workers as hostages, while attempting to hijack an airplane with a suitcase bomb.
Scott Ichikawa
Voiced by: Debi Derryberry
A Japanese-American boy in Maureen's class.
- Asian and Nerdy: Subverted. Frank and Sue are summoned by Maureen's schoolteacher, who claims that she cheated on a math test by copying Scott Ichikawa, due to believing that a white girl couldn't get a better score than an Asian boy. Scott eventually breaks down and tearfully confesses that he copied off Maureen, revealing that he's not even good at schoolwork and prefers sports.
- Book Dumb: Despite being of Asian descent, he admits to being bad at math and doesn't really like being in school. He'd rather prefer to get involved in bicycle sports.
- Informed Judaism: His father could be seen at the synagogue, implying that they’re Jews.
- Large Ham: As part of the computer club on the parade float, he pretends to be an astronaut on a spaceship. And when Maureen opens the door to it, he acts as if she breached the airlock and pretends to die, with the other members of the club following suit. And when he gets into the school play as a star, he overacts even offscreen, such as pretending his "creation" was destroyed when Maureen uses the prop to beat up Amy.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Voiced by: Aly Ward Azevedo
An obnoxious little boy who enjoys annoying other people. He's the son of a local police officer.
- Bratty Half-Pint: He usually shows up to be an asshole to Frank or Bill.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and he's a huge Jerkass.
- Jerkass: Whenever he shows up, it's just to harass one of the Murphys for his own amusement.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Yes, he does in fact share his name with◊ the real-life Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Though for now, this is just an (in-universe) coincidence. Also, the real Dahmer would be Kevin's age in the year 1974, rather than Maureen's age.
- There's also the fact that Dahmer's father in real life was a chemist, not a police officer. And while this kid seems to be outgoing and antagonistic to people, the real Jeffrey Dahmer was very antisocial and quiet as a kid.
- And then there's this exchange:
Kevin: Eat me!Jeffrey: Maybe I will... - Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: For Frank. Even taking Frank's temper into account, Jeffrey's dickish behavior must push him pretty hard for Frank to try and beat him up.
- Young Future Famous People: If one interprets this kid as being this show's in-universe version of the real Jeffrey Dahmer.
Nuber, Nikki, and Morehead
Nuber voiced by: Matt Jones
Nikki voiced by: ???
Morehead voiced by: ???
A trio of delinquents whom Kevin befriends in summer school.
- '70s Hair: They all sport this, with Nikki having an afro and both Morehead and Nuber having shoulder-length long hair.
- Accidental Hero: An odd variant of this. By putting Mr. Durkin's car on the train tracks of the train to Pittsburgh, Bill never would've been able to get off the derailed train and try to make his way back home. The problem is that he still had to face a shit load of obstacles and nearly died.Bill: I was trying to thank you!
Nuber: Fuck you and you're welcome! - Carpet of Virility: Morehead has a very hairy body, which is attributed to his Greek heritage.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Nikki disappears after Season 4.
- Delinquents: They commit pretty crimes and hooliganism just for fun.
- Easily Forgiven: Kevin doesn't really hold any hard feelings against them after they bullied him on his first day of summer school.
- Everyone Has Standards: They'll crash parties, but they'll still have the decency to bring their own booze (or at least steal some from somewhere else).
- Last-Name Basis: Nuber and Morehead's first names are never revealed.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Nuber tries to be this when he is working for Smokey despite being warned to keep his mouth shut earlier, in an attempt to support Smokey and Rosie in their campaign to take down Tangenti. The look on Smokey's face shows that he's clearly not amused, and the scene cuts to Nuber being dumped from the snack truck in the middle of the street with no ride home. Despite this, however, Smokey says Nuber was still the best "Larry" he ever had as he drives away.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Season 5, Nuber quits his job working for Smokey Greenwood and could be seen at the bus station, trying to leave Rustvale.
- Smurfette Principle: Nikki is the only female member of the group.
- Token Minority: Nikki is a black girl hanging out with two white boys (or three when Kevin joins them).
- Toxic Friend Influence: They easily convince Kevin to do bad things, up to and including stealing a crate full of liquor for them. They even lampshade how they're such a gleefully corrupting influence on him.
- Two Guys and a Girl: Whenever Kevin doesn't hang out with them.
- We Used to Be Friends: Subverted. Kevin thinks this is the case when he meets back up with them in the "Bill Murphy's Night Out," only for them to get confused at this.Kevin: Look guys, I know we had a falling out, but-
Morehead: We had a falling out? - Younger Than They Look: They're all around the age of fifteen-years-old, but they look like they can pass for college students. Morehead being hairy can help him look older than he already is when he goes to purchase alcohol for the gang.
Mr. Durkin
Voiced by: Phil Hendrie
Kevin's abusive summer school teacher.
- The Alleged Car: Thanks to his money problems, his car is a junkheap where two (later three, thanks to Kevin) of the windows are replaced with garbage bags. It's later completely destroyed when Nuber, Nikki and Morehead leave it on the traintracks.
- Butt-Monkey: Basically nothing good ever happens to him. Given his nature, that isn’t much of a surprise.
- Divorce Assets Conflict: The reason he's so strapped for cash is that he has to pay substantial allimony to his ex-wife, who apparently left him for another woman.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Gets one thanks to Kevin. When he introduces himself to the class, he says nothing rhymes with his last name. This comes back to bite him in the ass. The end result is him now being stuck with the nickname "Mr. Jerkin."
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Him wearing glasses doesn't make him less of a Jerkass. Somewhat subverted when he hears Kevin discuss how much his grandpa dying upset Frank and the family in general, crying when Kevin was finished talking.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's an abusive teacher who claims that he's only hard on his students because he cares, but he's really only a teacher because he needs the money.
- Sadist Teacher: He's a huge hardass on his students.
- Save Our Students: Subverted. While he claims he's taken the job because he cares, the reality is that he's Only in It for the Money.
- Double Subverted in season four, when he's brought to tears at the sight of Kevin doing his math homework correctly.Durkin: Finally. I've reached one.
- Double Subverted in season four, when he's brought to tears at the sight of Kevin doing his math homework correctly.
- Stern Teacher: Subverted. He claims to care for his students deep down, but in reality, he's only concerned with his paycheck.
- Straw Loser: His life makes Frank's life look like paradise in comparison.
- Perpetual Poverty: Has worse problems than even the Murphy family during Frank's unemployment.
- Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: To earn more money, he's seen moonlighting as both a sporting goods clerk and a pizza guy.
Julie
Voiced by: Mo Collins
An obnoxious Plast-a-Ware customer in Ryetown. Sue is often sent to deal with her tantrums.
- Crazy Cat Lady: Her house is filled with cats, they freely spray urine everywhere in her house, and she uses her Plast-a-Ware tubs to store their feces in.
- Death as Comedy / Undignified Death: Not only does she die alone with only her cats as witnesses, by the time we see her corpse it has been left rotting undiscovered for ages, surrounded by her cats' excrement and is serving as their only supply of food.
- Fat Bitch: While certainly not on the same level as Bob Pogo, Julie is visibly overweight, bitter, and abuses whatever Plast-a-Ware sales agent, usually Sue, who has the ill fortune to be assigned to deal with her tantrums.
- No Dead Body Poops: Downplayed, we thankfully only see that she wet herself upon death.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Though an Old Maid rather than a housewife, she still counts, being a shrill, Unsatisfiable Customer who only seems to invite Plast-a-Ware employees to verbally abuse them for not making products exactly to her liking.
- The Pig-Pen: Her house is a mess, she has poor hygiene, Vivian implies strongly that she has eczema (which wouldn't be helped and in fact may be caused or exacerbated by the ever-present cat dander), her clothes are dingy, disheveled, and are likely covered with cat hair and smell of cat urine and feces. In Season 3, Bill walks in on her in a bathroom stall while checking on Maureen, where he gets an eyeful of her bush and a bright red rash on her buttocks when she jumps up in shock. Cue Bill's thousand-yard stare and the accompanying music.
- Unsatisfiable Customer: She constantly calls to complain about her Plast-a-Ware merchandise, and Sue spends a great deal of her time dealing with her complaints. She berates Sue in person, saying that she's "a charter member of the Platinum Lid Club" and is "entitled to signature white-glove service." Sue eventually gets tired of it and tells Julie off about it.
Corey Mars
Voiced by: ???
A bubblegum pop star who experiences a meteoric rise to fame, and an equally fast fall, once his stardom has run it's course.
- Blatant Lies: After he's arrested for drug possession, he claims the jacket they were found in belonged to an older aquintance of his. The jacket that looked exactly like the one he usually wears, and has the name "Corey" stitched on the front.
- Dumb Blonde: Has blonde, feathered hair, and it's implied he doesn't have much going on upstairs.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Goes from being one of the most popular pop stars in the country, to being utterly abandoned once he hit puberty and lost his singing voice, to the point that the record store tries to sell his former hit single in batches of 10 for 1$, for skeet shooting!
- Replacement Goldfish: Once his career flopped, his parents began grooming his younger brother Rory Mars as his replacement.
- Take That!: A rather mean-spirited parody of 70's teen heartthrob Donny Osmond, a DJ even disdainfully refers to Corey as having "fallen out of Donny Osmond's pussy".
"Irish" Mickey Ireland
Voiced by: ???
A professional boxer and heavyweight title contender (as well as Frank's favorite boxer), who's biggest claim to fame is his rivalry with the champion Haywood "Big Skillet" Shavers.
- The Alcoholic: Showed up drunk to his first fight against Shavers in Sweden, which Frank claims is the reason he lost, instead of him bleeding like a stuck pig.
- Bloody Hilarious: He's at the point in his career where even the most minor of injuries will make him gush blood. During his rematch against Shavers, he starts to bleed as soon as the bell rings, and during the season 3 opener, he starts bleeding from his ear just by swatting a fly on his cheek.
- Brick Joke: Seemed to be a one-shot character in the very first episode of the series, only to make a return in season 3 as the guest of honor of the Memorial Day parade.
Beatrice
Voiced by: Debi Derryberry
A belligerent nurse at the local hospital, who is openly antagonistic towards Frank. The feeling is mutual.
- Battle Axe Nurse: She does not like any challenges to her authority, and is particularly antagonistic towards the Murphys. When she finds herself unable to intimidate any of the Murphy family in the season 4 finale, she becomes depressed. She also believes copious amounts of morphine are the answer to every problem and gets angry at anybody who suggests otherwise. According to her, it is a nurse's job to pass judgement on her patients.
- Fat Bitch: Borders on being a female version of Bob Pogo.
- Female Misogynist: Has a condescending attitude towards female patients. Refuses to let Sue go home until a male relative comes to get her and keeps her in a room with other women awaiting male relatives.
- Jaded Professional: Years of working with belligerent patients in an underfunded hospital under doctors of questionable competence have definitely taken their toll on any idealism she may have had. However, the practices that she and her colleagues employ, while abhorrent by today's standards, were much more acceptable in the era the show is set in.
Gertrude Gurski
Voiced by: Debi Derryberry
Sue's college roommate who is at first seen only in flashbacks. She shows up at Sue's baby shower, having become a successful and famous attorney.
- Brick Joke: Was shown as Sue's less attractive, somewhat bitter roommmate. When she actually shows up, she has become famous and wealthy, which depresses Sue.
- Does Not Like Men: She is always warning Sue about peeping Toms.
- Expy: She appears to be one of Gloria Allred.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In-Universe. When Gertrude's boyfriend breaks up with her in college, Sue advises her not to let romantic partners stand in the way of her dreams. When Sue, depressed and anxious over a fourth unplanned pregnancy and an uncertain future, sees her now-successful roommate at the baby shower, having given up her own dreams to raise a family with her college sweetheart, this definitely comes back to haunt her.
Mayor Antonio "Anthony" Tangenti
Voiced by: Will Sasso
The mayor of Rustvale who serves as Rosie's primary antagonist.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: He’s this with Lou Gagliardi in the later half of Season 5.
- Corrupt Politician: He's a classic Tammany Hall-style politician who shamelessly enriches himself on public money and gets away with it by buying the public off with cheap favors.
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: When Bob Pogo throws one of his frozen turkeys back onto his parade float that hits one of his campaign girls, Tangenti yells that nobody can hit his girls, except for him, before launching a turkey into Pogo's restaurant.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His involvement with the mafia is made public thanks to the efforts of Rosie and Jim Jeffords. His last scene shows him announcing his resignation as mayor, after which it is reported that he has been arrested for attempted murder and accepting bribes.
- The Mafia: He uses his Mafia connections to facilitate his graft. This leads to his downfall when he is seen with "Snub-Nose" Louis Gagliardi in the series finale while the latter is trying to murder both Rosie and Bob Pogo.
- Meaningful Name: "Tangenti" is Italian for "bribes."
- One-Steve Limit: Averted with Anthony Bonfiglio.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Many of his schemes involve recklessly destroying the primarily Black Twelfth Ward, which Rosie represents as an alderman. Some of his schemes include tearing down the library to replace it with a dog track, and rerouting a planned expressway through the Twelfth Ward, which would result in the displacement of the residents there.
Buster Thunder, Jr.
Voiced by: Chris Edgerly
A hugely popular daredevil hired for a publicity stunt by Alaquippa.
- The Alcoholic: He drinks to the point of blackout. It is implied that he drinks to excess to calm his nerves about the dangerous stunts he performs.
- Captain Crash: Apparently he's been having trouble actually landing properly after his stunts in recent years, resulting in several bad injuries and hospitalizations.
- Celebrity Paradox: Despite being an Expy, as mentioned below, Knievel himself still exists, as he's mentioned in the first episode after Frank falls asleep in front of the new TV.
- Dented Iron: He moves pretty well for someone who's had multiple broken bones and was in traction just a few months ago, but he's missing several teeth and is completely deaf in one ear.
- Expy: Of Evel Knievel, who was a hugely popular icon of 1970s America.
- Really Gets Around: Buster's parting shot to Rustvale is that he claims to sleep with at least one married woman in every town he performs in.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After successfully completing his jump over an Ala-hican airliner to the adoration of thousands of fans he delivers a profanity-laced tirade on live TV where he calls out the town for expecting him to risk his life for their entertainment. In particular, he singles out Frank for hiring him in the first place and begging him to go through with the stunt even though Buster didn't feel confident he could do it safely. As he claims to be one-fourth Native American, he also calls out Alaquippa's appropriation of Native American imagery and use of stereotypes in its advertising, while the Alaquippa executives who authorized the expenditure for the show look on. As a result of the bad publicity for Alaquippa, Frank not only loses the Christmas bonus he'd hoped to get, he is demoted with a steep pay cut.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Almost cancels the whole stunt when he finds out that Alaquippa expects him to jump the whole length of the plane rather than just across it, just so their logo will be shown to the cameras. The only reason the stunt had been cleared was because Busters manager is his ex-wife, who couldn't care less about his safety.
Amy Jenkins
Voiced by: Aly Ward Azevedo
Student at Alfred P. Southwick Elementary and a classmate and nemesis for Maureen and Bridget.
- Alpha Bitch: Even at the age of ten, she is like an animated Regina George, and leads her friends in humiliating Maureen and Bridget.
- Butt-Monkey: Throughout the series, she gets traumatized by Frank and Mr. Holtenwasser's war stories, gets her lunch poisoned by Bridget to the point where she loses a leading part in the school play, and gets crushed by Phineas, resulting in her having to wear a neck brace.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Is on the receiving end of this from both Maureen and Bridget.
- When Amy leads the other girls in humiliating her at a Honeybee meeting, Maureen retaliates by having Mr. Holtenwasser tell the troop horror stories about his time in Nazi concentration camps as well as his first years in the US dealing with the Ku Klux Klan as part of a history presentation. By the end of the meeting, the girls are pretty traumatized by what they've heard.
- Bridget gets back at Amy for her teasing and for sabotaging Maureen's audition by contaminating her lunch with a dead goldfish. When Amy ends up too sick to perform, Maureen gets the lead role in the play.
- Played with in the last season at Fort Rustland. Maureen and Bridget had been performing an occult ritual to wish Amy harm by using a glass eye and soda with traces of her saliva in it. The morbidly obese Phineas, working as a tour guide, is kicked by a donkey and falls on Amy, injuring her neck and requiring her to be in a neck brace for the rest of the series. The actual incident is set into motion by a fight between Bill and his friends and the rival Stoughton hockey team, with no direct involvement by the girls, so this could be seen as a coincidence. Still, it convinces Maureen and Bridget that their occult rituals actually work.
- Early-Bird Cameo: First appears in "A Girl Named Sue" as a member of Maureen's honeybee troop. Her rivalry with Maureen is established later that season when she leads a chant of "Maureen is boring!" at a Honeybee meeting over her presentation on computers.
- Eviler than Thou: When you can reduce Bridget Fitzsimmons to tears, you've reached a whole new level of bullying.
- Malicious Slander: She bullies Maureen and Bridget by spreading rumors about them, Maureen by implying her mother helped Nguyen-Nguyen kill Chet, and Bridget by saying her mother abandoned her. At a field trip, Amy sprays mustard on the seats of their dresses and claims they have diarrhea.
- The Rival: To Maureen for the lead in the school play. She sabotages Maureen's script by smearing it with tater-tots, making it unreadable and taking Maureen out of the running for the part.
Samantha
Voiced by: Amy Sedaris
A hippie woman who introduces Sue to the Lamaze method.
- Does Not Like Men: She not only tells Sue she doesn't need a man, but that men will eventually be obsolete. Sue is horrified, as she just wants Frank to support her, not to get rid of him.
- Granola Girl: Wears a headband, an ankle-length dress, and uses a lot of New Age lingo that eventually becomes some rather... radical ideas, to say the least.
- Hypocrite: Despite her preaching female empowerment, she is just as demanding that Sue's childbirth experience goes the way she wants as Beatrice. Sue calls both of them out about it.
- Jerkass Has a Point: As rude as she is to Frank about his discomfort with intimacy, she is right when she points out that his difficulty with intimacy stems in part from a lack of affection from his parents.
- The Rival: To Beatrice regarding Sue's pregnancy (see below.)
- She Who Fights Monsters: Sue initially is attracted to her and her ideas because she preaches power and independence. By the end of her appearance, Samantha is as hell-bent upon getting her way with regards to how Sue's delivery will be handled as Beatrice, the belligerent hospital nurse who believes in heavy use of medications during deliveries, with an equal lack of regard to what Sue herself wants.
- Straw Feminist: Eventually turns into this.
Georgia Roosevelt
Voiced by: Nia Renee Hill
Rosie's patient, long-suffering wife.
- Almighty Mom: Much like the Murphys, Nia and Darryl mind her better than they do Rosie.
- Behind Every Great Man: She always stands behind Rosie, but sometimes feels the need to give him a verbal kick in the ass to motivate him. When she gets tired of him complaining about the city's neglect of their neighborhood, she tells him to run for alderman and do something about it; he does. When Rosie becomes frustrated over his inability to bring meaningful change for his family and friends, she reminds him that he ran for office because he knew how corrupt Tangenti was; Rosie eventually listens.
- Only Sane Woman: Rosie definitely does better when he listens to Georgia.
- Small Role, Big Impact: We don't see much of Rosie's family in the show, but Georgia is the one who talks Rosie into mounting his successful campaign for alderman, which leads to him leaving Mohican, and becoming the Deuteragonist of the series.
Phineas
Voiced by: Justin Long
A local circus worker and union member, who later gets a job as the tour guide at Fort Rustland.
- Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Complains that he is no longer legally allowed to hit elephant with shovels, resulting in him being laid off from the circus. In a later episode, he hits an elephant with a shovel. The elephant responds as you might expect.
- Call-Back: His appearance in the parade during the season 3 premiere, and his resulting injuries, is a callback to him both mentioning Parade Day in season 1 and his appearance in season 2.
- The Cameo: Appears in one episode per season.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The above incident results in the elephant in question throwing him through a store window, after which he ends up in the hospital.
- Put on a Bus / The Bus Came Back: He suffers serious injuries after an angry elephant hurls him through a window in the season 3 premiere. He didn't appear again until he was in the hospital in the season 4 finale, leading to speculation that he'd died from his injuries. Though he does appear alive and fully healed by Season 5.
- Running Gag: Whether it's elephants or donkeys, Phineas has a bad tendency to get hurt around large animals. This could also be seen as a commentary on the American two-party political system.
- Verbal Tic: He frequently punctuates his conversations with Frank by saying Frank's name, which annoys Frank to no end. Frank quickly gets tired of it.
- Weird Trade Union: He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Baggage Handlers, Skycaps, Roadies, and Circus Roustabouts along with the Mohican ground crew, which is how he knows Frank so well. He appears at the meeting between Mohican management and the union demanding that Parade Day be counted as a working day, which prompts Frank to remind him that "that's a circus thing."
