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    Phil Matibag 

Phil Matibag

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Voiced by: Ramon Lopez

A Filipino-American, self-centered jerkass who lives in Daly City with his uncle, Tito Dick.


  • Butt-Monkey: Not to the extent of Jack, but when it comes to Tito Dick, Phil can be the butt of the joke.
  • Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Jack's fat.
  • Gag Penis: As his superhero alter ago, TT Boy (from "titi" or "tite", Pinoy equivalent of "dick") where he has jizz-based superpowers. This is in direct contrast to his status as the "Choden One", where his penis comes to life and fights Jean-Claude Van Damme's chode.
  • Jerkass: His defining character trait. His character bio outright describes him as a grown up, Filipino gangsta Cartman.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: In one episode, Chita calls plastic surgery damaging for peoples' self-esteem and insists that people should appreciate their natural beauty. Phil responds by calling her a "phony-ass bitch". While undeniably rude, he's not wrong, since Chita admitted to having gotten plastic surgery in the past and fell head-over-heels for Jack after he became muscular through plastic surgery.
  • Lean and Mean: A skinny, yet mean asshole who's one of the main characters.
  • Parental Abandonment: Phil's dad is a tribal leader in the Philippines who abandoned him on the doorstep of Tito Dick for some reason.
  • Punny Name: His name is a play on the phrase "Fill my tea bag." "Matibag" is a real Filipino surname, though, and means "to fall/break apart".
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Phil has a pretty dirty mouth.
  • The Stoner: Smoking weed is another of his favorite hobbies, though he's nothing compared to Ed.
  • Teeny Weenie: He has a chode, and is the "Choden One".
  • Unexplained Accent: Despite being a Filipino-American from San Francisco, he has a Bronx-sounding accent.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He has zero social graces, is very impulsive, and is very dirty-minded.
  • Villain Protagonist: Phil is either this or a Sociopathic Hero.

    Jackson "Jack" Colero 

Jackson Colero

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Voiced by: Rex Navarette (season 1), Joey Guila (season 2)

Phil's cousin who just moved from the Phillipines to live in the United States with his cousin and uncle. Compared to Phil, he is a much nicer and level-headed person.


  • Brown Note: As Kid Utot, he has the ability to make people shit themselves violently through chanting.
  • Butt-Monkey/The Chew Toy: A lot of bad stuff happens to him.
  • Disappeared Dad: Jack mentions in "Fatherland" that he doesn't know who his father is, just like Phil. When Phil asks him why he doesn't care to find out, he responds with "Just because, Phil." Phil seems to understand.
  • Ditzy Genius: While he can invent a robot, he isn't really well-aware of his surroundings.
  • Fat and Skinny: The fat to Phil's skinny.
  • Fish out of Water: He has trouble adjusting to life in America after moving from the Philippines.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He did make a tarsier cyborg, after all.
  • Gasshole: As his superhero alter ego, Kid Utot (Kid Fart).
  • Love at First Sight: With Chita.
  • Nice Guy: Well, certainly a lot nicer than Phil, though sometimes it's clear Phil is having a bad influence on him.
  • The Other Darrin: His voice was recast in Season 2.
  • Punny Name: His name is a play on "jakolero", which means someone who masturbates a lot in Pinoy slang, the verb form "jakol" probably being a mutation of "jack off", itself from "jerk off".note 
  • Simpleton Voice: He has one, despite being smart enough to make robot body parts for Horat. He is, however, quite stupid when it comes to being Street Smart.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: With Chita.
  • Street Smart: Inverted. He's book smart, and street dumb.

    Horatio 2. 0 (Horat) 

Horatio 2.0 (AKA Horat)

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Voiced by: Jesse Hernandez

Jack's pet cyborg tarsier. He's extremely rude and foul-mouthed, much like Phil.


  • Cyborg: He's half tarsier, half robot.
  • Dung Fu: He throws his own crap at people if they annoy him.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: It really doesn't take much to set Horat off.
  • Intelligible Unintelligible: None of the characters have any problems understanding his high-pitched, robotic voice. However, viewers might have trouble understanding him due to his heavily filtered voice. This was obviously a problem, since later episodes feature subtitles for his dialogue.
  • Jerkass: When he isn't throwing poo or attacking people, he's just generally an asshole.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: He's this to Jack.
  • N-Word Privileges: He says in "Blackapino" that you don't have to be black to say it, as long as there's no black dudes around.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Much like Phil, he's got a dirty mouth, and tends to call everyone "bitch".
  • Speech-Impaired Animal: His high-pitched robotic chipmunk voice is very difficult to understand, at least for the viewers. There's a reason later episodes feature subtitles for his dialogue.
  • The Stoner: He tries to kill himself when all the world's weed disappears in "420".
  • We Can Rebuild Him: Jack apparently found Horat as he was close to death, and saved him by giving him cybernetic body parts.

    Richard "Tito Dick" Cabesa 

Richard "Tito Dick" Cabesa

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Voiced by: Rex Navarette (season 1), Joey Guila (season 2)

Phil and Jack's tito (uncle). Despite being a lot older than his nephews, he's still just as much of a party animal as Phil.


  • A Dick in Name: His name is Dick, and he's a "dick".
  • Bad Liar: He's very bad at trying to hide the identity of Phil's real father. At first, he tries convincing him that his dad died at birth. After that doesn't work, he tries to convince him that his dad's name was Milky Liquor, based on products he saw at the grocery store.
  • Big Bad: In "TT Boy and Kid Utot", where he plans to take over California and make it an annex of the Philippines with an army of Filipino children. And yes, this episode is canon and gets referenced later.
  • Cool Old Guy: He's in his sixties, but he can still party with the best of them.
    • His bio mentions he was the member of one of the first boy-bands, "The Boy Friends", and was famous in the 1970s until the band disbanded. He's now striving to become famous again.
  • Dirty Old Man: As the song says, "he raised Phil and loves the ladies!". He even has a strange fascination with Hilary Duff.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": His real name is Richard Cabesa, but he evidently doesn't like being called that. Considering what his name means, it's not hard to see why (see Punny Name).
  • Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: His gold necklace, belt buckle and wristbands are constantly sparkling. His "Evil Dick" persona adds a ruby-studded suit.
  • Fish Eyes: He seems to have some kind of problem with his eyes where they look in completely opposite directions. When he demands that Phil make eye contact with him in the first episode, Phil has no idea where to look.
  • Full-Name Basis: He's almost always called "Tito Dick", though this isn't his real name. It's an accurate portrayal of Filipino honorifics, though, since uncles and aunts are always called tito/tita (from Spanish tío/tía).
  • Jerkass: Tito Dick lives up to his name.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He is very manipulative of Phil, often guilt tripping him into doing what he wants.
  • Noodle Incident: Was arrested once for smuggling dolphins into the United States.
  • The Other Darrin: Both his and Jack's voices were recast in Season 2.
  • Punny Name: His real name, Richard Cabesa. The shortened version of Richard is "Dick", and Cabesa is Spanish for "Head", making his real name a play between languages on "Dick Head."

    Chita Custorera 

Chita Custorera

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Voiced by: Rhia Abarquez

Phil's friend who works at his favorite bar. Jack quickly develops a crush on her when he first meets her.


  • Gamer Chick: One of her hobbies is playing Xbox.
  • Hypocrite: She gives her friends crap for getting plastic surgery in "Got Surgery?", despite the fact that she had breast implants, nose-jobs and lip injections.
  • Nice Girl: She's certainly a lot nicer than Phil, but she can still have her moments.
  • Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Despite the way she dresses, she never seems to be happy when she gets attention from guys... which is understandable, considering the cast of the show. Even the creators mentioned she's made up of what they like in a woman.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: With Jack.

Supporting characters:

    Cherry Pie 

Cherry Pie

Voiced by: Rex Navarette

A Vietnamese trans woman who constantly hits on Phil, Jack, and other males in the area.


  • Abhorrent Admirer: Towards all of the men on the show.
  • Asian Speekee Engrish: English is very obviously not Cherry's first language.
  • Bad Liar: She (and the show's theme song) claims that she's still a virgin, when she once raped a police officer for confusing her for a prostitute.
  • Damsel in Distress: Kidnapped by Dwayne who was actually Willy in "Blind Dick".
  • Easy Sex Change: Her original name was Joseph Gotmytan. Apparently she doesn't want to get rid of her male genitals, though. In "Got Surgery?" she just gets breast implants as opposed to a full sex-change operation.
  • Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Wears blue and yellow feather boas.
  • Foreign Cuss Word: If she gets really angry, she'll start cussing in her native tongue.
  • Jerkass
  • Noodle Incident: Her act of rape is never actually mentioned in the show, and is only mentioned in her bio.

    Dwayne Futon 

Dwayne Futon

Voiced by: Jesse Hernandez

The landlord of the building that Phil, Jack and Tito Dick live in. He's a goofy white guy who is constantly the butt of everyone's jokes.


  • Butt-Monkey: Absolutely nobody respects him.
  • The Dragon: In the "TT Boy and Kit Utot" episode, he's helping Evil Dick take over California.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Often puts himself around the other characters, but it's clear they have no respect or tolerance for him. Him being their landlord means they have no choice but to put up with him.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: He really wants to be friends with the main cast, but he just annoys them.
  • Made of Iron: During the prologue, Horat throws him off the balcony after he tells Dick that animals are banned in the apartments. However, he seems to be fine in other episodes.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Sabotages Evil Dick's (unseen) belt buckle weapon because he "doesn't want to be anyone's bitch".
  • Nice Guy: He's probably the most overtly friendly character on the show, though his nosiness and touchiness often annoys everyone else.
  • Nosy Neighbor: He's always butting into everyone's business when they don't want him around, which is all the time.
  • Token White: He's the only white character among the main and supporting cast.

    Ed 

Ed

Voiced by: Jesse Hernandez

A stoner mechanic who works at a custom car shop with Angel.


  • Cloudcuckoolander: Being stoned out of his mind 24/7, he's obviously not all there in the head.
  • Cool Shades
  • Erudite Stoner: While Phil might be a stoner, Ed puts him to shame.
  • Grease Monkey: He runs a custom car shop.
  • Jerkass: He's not above killing people, as he joins Angel in trying to shoot Jack after a failed attempt to be gangsta. However, when he finds out it was Jack they shot at, he's at least regretful of his actions.
  • Younger Than They Look: He's only seventeen, though he could definitely pass as someone in their twenties or thirties.

    Angel 

Angel

Voiced by: Jesse Hernandez

Ed's business partner, a tough-as-nails Mexican-American.


  • Cool Car: He has a custom car shop, so this is a given. He has a low-rider car with hydraulics and flames painted on the sides.
  • Grease Monkey: He runs a custom car shop.
  • Jerkass: His response to Jack (stupidly) trying to assert his dominance over him in an attempt to be gangsta? Try to shoot him with an assault rifle. He does regret his actions when he finds out it's Jack, though.
  • Meaningful Name: Apparently, he's an actual angel according to one episode, and receives permission from God to resurrect Jack.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Possibly the worst offender on the show, and that's saying a lot.
  • Slasher Smile: His standard facial expression.
  • Tattooed Crook: He has "Mister" and "Angel" tattooed on each arm. He also has two teardrop tattoos under his left eye, implying that he's killed people in prison. He also attempts to kill Jack in one episode with an assault rifle.

    Sanjee 

Sanjee

Voiced by: Ramon Lopez

An Indian man who runs a liquor store, but also sells pornography.


    Willy 

Willy

A local homeless man who speaks entirely in gibberish.
  • Flat Character: He really doesn't have any character other than being a gross homeless man. Even the "Exposing the Nutshack" video has him called a token bum who's just there to round out the cast of stereotypical Tenderloin San Francisco residents.
  • Gasshole: In "Chode Warrior."
  • The Unintelligible: He doesn't speak coherent English. He only speaks in an incoherent mumble.

    Manu 

Manu

A large Hawaiian man with an oddly high-pitched voice.

    Jerome and Jamal 

Jerome and Jamal

Voiced by: Jerome Castro and Jamar Logan

Two hoodlum brothers who occasionally show up to antagonize Phil, Jack and their friends.


  • Hero Killer: Jerome ends up shooting Jack in the head for going over their graffiti tags with his own. Angel gets Jesus to bring him back, though.
  • Identical Stranger: Possibly. At one point in "Blackapino", Jack and Horat are watching TV, and a character called Mixmaster Nutmouth walks on stage. He looks exactly like Jerome and has the exact same lisp as him (In fact, it's worse, since his lisp causes his mouth to froth up with spit), but neither Jack or Horat ever acknowledge that he's Jerome.
  • Jerkass: In a show full of them, they're considered antagonists.
  • Speech Impediment: Jerome has a noticeable lisp. Whenever he gets really angry, he tends to burst into heavy ebonics and his lisp gets even worse. He often needs Jamal to explain to others what he's saying.

    Rainbow Scout 

Rainbow Scout

Voiced by: Jesse Hernandez

A very large and promiscuous gay man.


  • Flat Character: He's a walking gay stereotype and an excuse to make gay jokes, and that's about it.
  • Macho Camp: He's very muscular, but acts like a Camp Gay.
  • New Job as the Plot Demands: Every time he appears, he has a different job, usually one that can satisfy his lust for men, such as working as a cavity searcher at the airport, or as a doctor who gives rectal examinations.
  • Sissy Villain: Not a major villain per se, but is one whenever the plot demands such as in "Blind Dick" and "Blackapino"

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