Characters from the Goosebumps novel My Hairiest Adventure.
Larry Boyd
Portrayed By: Aaron Bartkiw (TV)
The protagonist, who begins growing hair in odd places after exposure to the expired Insta-Tan lotion.
- Butt-Monkey: Downplayed, but he does seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order among his friend group.
- Does Not Like Spam: In the TV episode, he claims to HATE tapioca when Lily offers him some.
- Embarrassing Nickname: The others often tease him and call him "Hairy Larry".
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Given how he obsesses over his hair, is rather shy, and tends to be quite meek, he sure fits this trope.
- Ironic Name: His last name is "Boyd", as in "human boy". At the end of the book, it's revealed that he is NOT in fact a human boy.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Is the Feminine Guy to Lily's Masculine Girl. He tends to be mellow, sensitive, and likes to tend to his hair, while Lily likes playing electric guitar, doing races, and is tough even to the point of shooing away a pack of wild dogs.
- Mistaken for Badass: At the battle of the bands, when Larry's band comes up after a more successful band, Larry unknowingly starts to transform while the audience watches him play. This causes them to all start cheering, thinking they're amazing "special effects," and this causes his band to win first place and the trophy even though their musical performance was lousy.
- Nobody Touches the Hair: He obsesses over making sure his hair is perfect most of the time, and whenever it gets messed with, he gets quite embarrassed.
- The Perfectionist: He admits in his narration that he is this when it comes to his band's performance, making sure there is no error (which there are plenty). This irks his bandmates.
- Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: He gets tired very easily, and Dr. Murkin checks on him frequently to make sure he's doing well. That would be because he's a dog who's not supposed to be a human, and he's starting to change back. And when he DOES change back, he becomes as energetic as a dog is supposed to be.
- Tomato Surprise: He's not a human. He's a dog.
- Vanity Is Feminine: Gender-Inverted Trope: He's kind of vain, particularly about his hair, as such when he starts growing hair in weird places for no apparent reason he's afraid his friends will tease him about it if he tells them.
- You Are What You Hate: He's always being chased by dogs who seem to dislike him for some reason. It turns out he IS a dog who has been turned into a human through mad science-y medicine, and the dogs can presumably smell that he's not really human.
Lily Vonn
Portrayed By: Courtney Greig (TV)
Larry's best friend
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the book, her eyes are both blue and green. In the episode, her eyes are blue and brown. However, the makers of the episode should probably be cut some slack, as people with heterochromia are INCREDIBLY hard to come by, and it's perhaps lucky that an actress with this condition (as well as the fact that she otherwise pretty much fits the description of Lily in the book) was cast.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the TV episode, her last name is Turnbull instead of Vonn.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Her hair in the book is chin-length with bangs that go straight across her forehead. Her hair in the episode reaches past her shoulders and is the same length all around with no bangs.
- Commonality Connection: When she starts growing hair just like Larry, she stops making fun of him, and looks at him sympathetically.
- Deadpan Snarker: She is shown to have quite a dry wit.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite lightly picking on Larry like the rest of their bandmates, she is shown to still sympathize with him, especially when she undergoes the same transformation that he goes through.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: She's the leader of the band and their social group in general, and while she teases Larry a lot it's clear she really does care about him. She turns out to be a literal example of this trope: she's a female dog who, like Larry, was turned into a human with some weird serum.
- One of the Boys: Is this in the TV episode, being the only girl with boys in a band. Averted in the book, in which there was one other girl (Kristina).
- Outdoorsy Gal: She enjoys the outdoors very much. She even writes long poems about nature, which make her more appreciative of her surroundings.
- Shared Unusual Trait: She has mismatched eyes that Larry has never seen before. That is, until she disappears and a dog with her mismatched colored eyes appears following him...
- Unperson: After Lily turns back into a dog, her parents pretend that they never had a daughter, and move away as soon as possible. Poor Lily just whimpers and cries as she sees this happening before her eyes.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: She has one blue eye and one green, and Larry (who seems to have a bit of a crush on her) finds them pretty.
