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Red Green
Played by: Steve Smith
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!"
The title character of the show. He's a deadpan, gravelly-voiced everyman who's faced with all the concerns of a middle-aged man in rural Canada. Besides keeping the audience informed on what's going on at the lodge he's the head of, he offers advice to any middle-agers just like him. Played by comedian Steve Smith, who also does comedy tours as the Red Green character.
- Afraid of Blood: Faints at the sight of it as learned in Episode 170. Harold delights in finally finding something at which Red is more of a wimp than he is.
- Afraid of Needles: Red is terrified of needles, as Harold learns when Possum Lodge challenges Caribou Lodge to a blood drive.
- Book Dumb: He is, by his own admission, a high school dropout (and claims that if you only count the time he was paying attention he has no education at all).
- The Bore: In Season 1, Harold claimed that Red was this trope when he told his stories about the happenings at the Lodge. Subverted in that Red's deadpan recounting of the idiocy was actually pretty entertaining.
- Captain Crash: Often happens during the "Adventures with Bill" segments, when he drives up in the Possum Van and runs into whatever equipment Bill is setting up for his latest endeavor.
- Catchphrase: Several:
- During the intro sequence to season 6: "What you're looking at now is a bunch of segments from this particular show. The main message being: For gosh sakes, don't even think about changing the channel. I tell ya something, if you want to make sense of this program, you have to give it your undivided attention."
- Also: "Stay tuned and relax; whatever this is, we've got a lot more of it."
- "Big week up at the Lodge..."
- "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." In the same segment, after finishing a project, Red frequently says, "And it's just that easy."
- "If it ain't broke, you're not trying."
- "Remember: Any tool can be the right tool."
- "Remember, I'm pullin' for ya. We're all in this together."
- "If my wife is watching, I'll be coming straight home after the meeting..."
- "And to the rest of you, on behalf of myself, and Harold, and the whole gang up here at Possum Lodge, keep your stick on the ice."
- "...the handyman's secret weapon, duct tape."
- The Cold Open for every season 4 episode had: "It's not smart or correct, but it's one of the things that makes us what we are."
- In "Adventures With Bill", Red often says "Later that day..." when Bill and the other characters try and fail to accomplish a simple task.
- "Now, you could do (describes action) if you're absolutely made of money..."
- Cool Old Guy: Red was already a middle-aged guy when the show started, and his beard became increasingly grey over the seasons. He's also a Deadpan Snarker who regularly creates DIY Disasters with Tim Taylor Technology.
- Creator Thumbprint: Red shares Steve Smith's love of cars and beer.
- Deadpan Snarker: Always has a ready retort for the other lodge members (particularly Harold).
- D.I.Y. Disaster: One of the show's hallmarks. The "Handyman Corner" segments almost always end in this. In some cases, they actually work, although Steve Smith still advised viewers not to actually try them.
- Duct Tape for Everything: It's the handyman's secret weapon, after all.
- Embarrassing First Name: Red's first name is not "Red"; Harold finds out what it really is and understands why he uses his nickname. According to Red's biography seen online and on DVDs, Red's mother originally wanted to name him "Plaid", but his father disagreed. She got even when she bought Red his first plaid flannel shirt.
- Gadgeteer Genius: For a certain definition of the term "genius". Many of Red's creations are surprisingly creative, if impractical, and the worksmanship that goes into them - while heavy on duct tape and light on aesthetics - takes a good amount of skill.
- Generation Xerox: It was revealed in "Duct Tape Forever" that he was a shrimpy poindexter like Harold when he was his age. When seeing an old photograph, Harold thought it was him at first.
- Grumpy Old Man: A lot of his "Midlife" and "Teen Talk" segments consist of his railing against social changes and making sarcastic comments about them. He doesn't let his own generation off that much more easily, though.
- Handyman: The core of his persona. "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
- Happily Married: Red ends every show with a message for his wife, with whom he apparently has a very good relationship.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Red frequently suggested that viewers could get the parts for Handyman projects by stealing them.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: He often mocks social changes and modern trends, and doesn't care at all about being behind the times.
- Santa Claus: Red dressed as Santa in a few Christmas-themed episodes, partly because he was already an old fat guy with a white beard.
- Ultimate Job Security: He's been the Lodge Leader and Head Possum for decades, mostly because nobody else bothers to run against him in the leadership elections. When Mike and Winston ran against him, he still won due to Harold's tie-breaking vote.
- Vocal Evolution: Steve's voice for Red started out rather flat, hesitant, and monotone, but became more dynamic and higher-pitched over time. This reflects Red's character of starting as a middle-aged guy with almost no experience being on camera, before getting more practice and confidence after a couple of years.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's scared of spiders, in no small part because he's allergic to spider bites.
- You Are Fat: Harold and a few other characters regularly mocked him for his weight. Even Red occasionally did it through Hypocritical Humor.
Harold Green
Played by: Patrick McKenna
Red's nerdy nephew, and the butt of many jokes. He's also the "technical" man on the show, using a homebrew "control board" to activate the many Idiosyncratic Wipes.
- Butt-Monkey: Serves as the target for most of Red's sarcastic quips, although he frequently gives as good as he gets. Many jokes implied that Harold was also extremely unpopular at school and the Lodge, and regularly pranked and bullied by everyone from his classmates to the other Lodge members to Red.
- Cassandra Truth: He'll frequently try to warn Red that something is a bad idea, only for Red to blow him off. Hilarity Ensues when Harold is inevitably proven right.
- Catchphrase: Not as many as Red, but a few:
- "Your hero, my uncle, Red Green!"
- In the Experts segment: "Now we examine those three little words that men find so hard to say..." (audience replies: "I. Don't. Know!") When he gets ready to read the first letter, he usually says: "Dear experts, (motions to them with his hand) hwah..." (or less frequently, "La la la...")
- When the possum squeal was heard at the end of an episode: "Meeting time, Uncle Red."
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Diagnosed by the Audience: He has a number of Verbal Tics, occasionally has strange twitches, becomes a blubbering mess when talking about sexual matters, constantly repeats the same phrases several times in a row and occasionally becomes a Motor Mouth until Red tells him to shut up. - Embarrassing Middle Name: Harold Spooner Dortmund Mepps Green.
- Foil: To Red. Where Red is snarky and sarcastic, Harold is upbeat and optimistic. Where Red is a down-to-earth, Book Dumb handyman who is good with his hands, Harold is a nerdy intellectual who lacks basic life skills. This even applies to their look, as Red is a stout, middle-aged man with a thick beard while Harold is a young, clean-shaven man with a gangly build and slicked hair.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Low-level, but he did manage to create a jerry-rigged control board/switcher device which he used for every episode until he was Put on a Bus.
- Happily Married: Gets married to the love of his life in the series finale. The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue shows that they eventually have a son and a daughter together.
- Keet: His defining character trait. He is an energetic, nerdy do-gooder in sharp contrast to his Uncle Red.
- Lookalike Lovers: Eventually starts dating a girl named Bonnie, who is essentially a female version of himself (much to Red's horror). They become engaged late in the series' run and the series finale involves their wedding. This trope even applied when they both got makeovers to become more attractive to each other without the other's knowledge, and their new outfits turn out to be identical.
- Nerd Glasses: Is never seen without them.
- Only Sane Man: He is a huge geek, but often he's also the one of the lodge crowd most grounded in reality.
- Put on a Bus: After the show's eighth season, McKenna began having personal difficulties and decided to leave the show. Harold was shown getting a job in the city and was phased out of the show over the next two seasons. Once McKenna got his issues sorted out, Harold returned, having been explained as being named his company's community liaison to Possum Lake.
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Inverted. While Harold frequently mocked and complained about the Lodge members' schemes, the ensuing disasters usually proved him right.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Zigzagged. In the first season, Harold constantly interrupted Red's stories to move on to the next segment, claiming that Red's stories were boring. From the second season onward, Harold stopped interrupting Red. While he frequently mocked everything the Lodge members did, even fairly benign projects such as trying to rustproof their vehicles, he usually had a point. His mockery was usually for good reasons of safety, legality, environmental damage or just plain incompetence.
- Ultimate Job Security: Many jokes implied that Red thought Harold was incompetent and would've fired him if it weren't for the fact that Red owes Harold's father a very large sum, which he's paying back by employing Harold. Red also needs Harold to actually run the visual effects and other technical parts of the show.
- Verbal Tic: He sometimes makes a "whaaaaah" sound.
- He also frequently repeats sentences three or four times excitedly, much to Red's annoyance.
Dalton Humphrey
Played by: Bob Bainborough.
The owner of "Humphrey's Everything Store", but a rather tight-fisted individual. Also rather henpecked by his unseen wife, Anne Marie.
- Awful Wedded Life: Many of the jokes involving Dalton centered around his mutually hostile relationship with Anne Marie.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Dalton's daughter is one of the chief thorns in his side.
- Dirty Old Man: It's implied that he looks at computer porn, and he never passed up the chance to be in the company of much younger women. A lot of it comes from being married to Anne Marie.
- Henpecked Husband: He's constantly insulted and bossed around by his wife Anne Marie. In the podcast, it's revealed that Anne Marie took over the Everything Store, renaming it "Anne Marie's Mega-Mart." He's not pleased by the fact that it's doing so much better under her management than it did under his.
- Messy Hair: Keeps his hair in an unkempt tuft of fluff. It's implied he cuts his hair himself so he doesn't have to pay a barber.
- The Scrooge: He has some traits of this. Many episodes show him to be absurdly tight with a buck and rather cranky. In a Season 14 episode, the Lodge holds a leadership election where Mike and Winston run against Red. Dalton planned to run too, but changed his mind when Harold said there was a $10 entry fee.
Winston Rothschild III
Played by: Jeff Lumby
Owner of Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services. Mostly around to provide Toilet Humor and/or make cute jingles about his company.
- Alliterative Name: Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services.
- Casanova Wannabe: Winston has an active but massively unsuccessful love life, mostly because he loves his job and loves talking about it.
- Catchphrase: "Winston Rothschild here, of Winston Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services..."
- The Dandy: Somewhat surprisingly considering his line of work, he is always immaculately and spotlessly dressed. Even more amazing, he is an example of this trope even though he normally wears a plastic safety helmet and hip waders.
- Parody Commercial: A lot of episodes show him doing an ad for his septic sucking business.
- Married to the Job: He finds his line of work endlessly fascinating, and will go on at length about it at any opportunity. He was very proud of the time he managed the immensely difficult task of talking to a woman on a plane for the entire flight without mentioning sewage even once.Winston: Not even when they brought us our meals!
- Only Sane Man: In the seasons when Harold wasn't present, Winston would often play the Straight Man to Red and the rest of the cast of the lodge. Even after Harold returned, he still would have shades of this depending on how crazy the plan actually is.
- The Pig-Pen: Somewhat inevitable, given his line of work. A Running Gag is that he doesn't notice how much he stinks. (Though as noted, he always looks spotless.)
- Running Gag: Between segments, he would recite a slogan about his company (i.e., "If your nose is stinging, our phone should be ringing!", "Service with a smile — even on hot days!"). In later seasons, it appears he's increased his advertising budget, since his commercials became full-blown parodies of real-life commercials, TV shows, and movie trailers.
- Self-Made Man: He's shown to be one of the most financially successful Lodge members. Part of it comes from his enthusiasm at doing a job absolutely no one else wants to do, and part of it comes from being genuinely good at it. In one episode, he wins the Word Game when Red asks him what he called getting the contract to pump out all the septics at the Port Asbestos Prune Fair (answering "the sweet smell of success"). In a podcast episode, he's chosen to be the keynote speaker at a sewage and septic sucking convention because of his sky-high per capita numbers.
- Toilet Humor: And often.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Winston's dad always wanted him to be a lawyer, and the two still haven't worked things out.
Bill Smith
Played by: Rick Green
The subject of the black and white "Adventures with Bill" segments. He tries to show the audience various sports or elements of outdoor survival, which usually end in an Epic Fail.
- Agony of the Feet: He's dropped things on his feet, shot himself through the foot with a crossbow, hit his foot with an axe while chopping firewood...the list goes on and on. Sometimes he injures other people's feet as well, usually Red's.
- Accidental Aiming Skills: In one "Adventures with Bill" segment, he tried to shoot a pop can off a tree stump. After missing several times he got frustrated and started firing like a madman until the gun was empty. When the camera panned out, the stump had been carved into a perfect likeness of Red, but the can remained undisturbed.
- Chronically Crashed Car: A Running Gag involves Bill damaging the Possum Van in some way — most often by knocking off a side view mirror, but he's also done everything from breaking windows to puncturing tires.
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Bill's profile in The Red Green Book defines gravity as one of his "Major Turn Offs."
- Iron Butt Monkey: Even Wile E. Coyote would be amazed at how many injuries Bill sustains. There are occasional gags referring to the many bandages he wears under his clothes.
- The Klutz: One of the main reasons Bill's adventures usually end badly.
- Perpetual Smiler: Bill is almost always cheerful and friendly, mostly because he never, ever learns from his experiences.
- Put on a Bus: Green left the show for a few years to focus on his educational comedy show History Bites. Unlike with McKenna and Harold, Bill's disappearance was never explained, with the rest of the cast joining Red in the Adventure segments. When History Bites ended and Green came back, Bill returned as if nothing had ever happened.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: In the series finale, Bill gives Red a series of mementos of their adventures together, then reveals that he's taken up with a rather attractive nurse. The last "Adventures with Bill" ends with the two of them driving off into the sunset into, in Red's words, "the biggest adventure of his life."
- Too Dumb to Live: As Red once put it, you can't be concerned for other people and have Bill's behavior patterns. He's only lived as long as he has because he's Made of Iron and is always good as new by next week's show.
- Trouser Space: He fits everything in his overalls, whether putting it in or taking it out.
- The Voiceless: The only sounds in the "Adventures with Bill" segments are usually the ambient noise and Red's voiceover; this is justified by
Steve Smith, who said that the camera had a bad mic. However, there was a time when Bill could be plainly heard chattering away; turns out he's really a Motor Mouth. This is most evident in season 8, when faint vocals from Bill were added to the segments.
Ranger Gord
Played by: Peter Keleghan
A not-too-with-it forest ranger assigned to a tower, where he has been cooped up for 12 years by the time Red finds him.
- And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Parodied in the educational segments, which offered hilariously inaccurate nature lessons (e.g., that rocks are eggs).
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Implied in the setup to one his educational cartoons. Red asks in a worried tone if it's a video of Gord and small animals. Gord simply says "those aren't for company" with no further elaboration.
- Deranged Park Ranger: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. Ranger Gord is a Cloudcuckoolander with little grasp on reality, due to living alone in the ranger tower. He does sometimes get desperate for attention from Red (since Red is one of the few people who talks to him), but never resorts to anything violent or extreme. He's not a bad guy by any means, just very lonely and eccentric.
- Disco Dan: Gord was posted to his ranger station in the late 1970s and doesn't realize how much pop culture changed since then. He thinks musical acts like Captain & Tennille are still popular and TV shows like Welcome Back, Kotter are still on the air.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Particularly in the early seasons, being alone in the ranger's station for years has taken its toll on poor Gord's sanity. He's desperate for human contact and tends to burst into tears at the slightest provocation.
- Her Codename Was Mary Sue: Present in the educational segments: Gord is portrayed as a muscular, all-knowing, woman-attracting hunk and the other Lodge members are portrayed as very unintelligent Funny Animals. Hilariously, Red and Harold often give correct information in the shorts, but within the universe of the shorts, they are wrong and Gord's Cloud Cuckoolander explanations are right.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Ranger Gord's last name is "Ranger", but he prefers being called "Ranger Gord" instead of "Ranger Ranger".
- Mood-Swinger: Will often cry at the drop of a hat, though this trait was more prominent in the earlier seasons.
- Sleep Deprivation: It's implied that staying awake all night watching for forest fires is one of the reasons Gord is so crazy. One of the character bios written by co-creator Rick Green on the show's old website talked about how Gord never had more than five minutes of sleep.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Wasn't initially part of his personality (he was more needy than anything else), but became part of it over time. His animated educational films were extensions of this.
- Stepford Smiler: In the early seasons, Gord tried to hide how lonely and desperate he was for human contact only to burst into tears when he talks about how he's never gotten a paycheck, a vacation day or even a thanks from anyone. When Red thanks him for watching over the forest, Gord traps him in an Overly Long Hug.
- Stylistic Suck: The educational segments were given bad animation and voice acting (Gord did all the voices) on purpose.
Mike Hamar
Played by: Wayne Robson
A criminal, on parole from prison.
- Ambiguous Criminal History: The nature of the charge(s) against Mike are never stated, but they seem to be numerous and semi-serious in nature.
- Characterization Marches On: When he first joined the show, he was genuinely ashamed of his criminal past, and most of the gags involving him were how badly he'd react to messing up a project he and Red were working on due to Red giving him a second chance. It didn't take until the very next season for him to become the loveable kleptomaniac of the lodge he's known for.
- Disappeared Dad: Mike frequently mentions his dad... but it's usually prefixed with a day of the week ("my Friday dad... two weeks running!"). Mike's mom Really Gets Around, apparently. When Red, Mike, and Dalton are discussing what they would do with a time machine, Mike says he would go back to nine months before he was born so he could finally find out who his real dad is.
- Irony: By the end of the series, he gets a job as a police officer… but crime is super low because he now has a job.
- Keet: He gets very excited when introducing the Possum Lodge Word Game.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: To the point he may genuinely have Kleptomania. Mike will steal pretty much anything that isn't nailed down. He's able to pick pocket people's wallets while not even getting close to them.
- Limited Wardrobe: Black shirt and jeans.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: People keep bringing up his criminal past...usually because he's still committing petty crimes like stealing their wallets.
- Reformed Criminal: After the finale, he becomes a police officer. The crime rate swiftly drops to almost nothing, since he was previously responsible for almost all of it.
- Sticky Fingers: If something's gone missing, it's usually in his pockets.
Edgar K. B. Montrose
Played by: Graham Greene
A hearing-impaired explosive enthusiast. He solves everything by blowing it up.
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: The Friendly Side Of Dynamite
had Edgar giving the viewers handyman tips similar to Red's, usually involving explosives. In one segment, Edgar used duct tape as part of the scheme, describing it as "the explosive enthusiast's secret weapon." - Catchphrase: "Ka-BOOM!"
- Fingore: His hands are missing a couple of fingers thanks to his explosive hobbynote .
- I Can't Hear You: He's suffered severe hearing damage because he never seems to wear his protective headphones correctly. Whenever he plays the Possum Lodge Word Game, they don't bother to have him cover up his ears.
- Mad Bomber: Most Lodge members' "secret weapon" is duct tape. His is dynamite, although he once used duct tape in a Handyman segment, calling it "the explosives enthusiast's secret weapon." Once made Christmas crackers with mercury detonators.
- No Indoor Voice: Justified in that his line of work has done a real number on his hearing.
- Stealth Punny Name: His middle initials "K. B.". Now what could those possibly stand for? Hint: Look under Catchphrase above.
- Stuff Blowing Up: His specialty.
- Uncertain Doom: In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, Red states that no one has seen or heard from him since he tried to make a self-heating recliner using plastic explosive.
- Useless Accessory: Wears a set of hearing protectors, behind his ears.
Hap Shaughnessy
Played by: Gordon Pinsent
An old man who operates a water taxi service but is better known for lying blatantly about his entire life.
- Blatant Lies: It's not that Hap is a Bad Liar in as much as his stories are so over the top that there's no way he could've done all of it.
- Consummate Liar: Most of the time, Hap seems to either honestly believe the yarns he is spinning or does an excellent job of keeping a straight face throughout them, even as he soaks in the skepticism and annoyance of Red and the others at his lies. The only time Hap seems to acknowledge his lying is with his final line of dialogue in the series. When Red calls him the biggest liar in Canada, Hap smiles and says that calling him the biggest is an exaggeration.
- Hypocrite: He's usually the first one to call out other people for lying or exaggerating.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: And proud of it.
- The Münchausen: Hap is practically the poster boy for this trope.
- Shout-Out: Hap always wears a Royal Canadian Regiment baseball cap, a nod to the four years that Pinsent spent serving in that unit during the 1950s.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Hap claims he's done everything from found the United Nations to stand in for Keith Richards in The Rolling Stones (Band) concerts to be the heir to the Russian Empire. He'd likely call himself "the most interesting man in the world" with a completely straight face.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The podcast features the character of Hap's brother Bert Shaughnessy, who drives a land taxi instead of a water one. Bert is just as prone to tall tales as Hap, to the annoyance of Red and Dave.
Ed Frid
Played by: Jerry Schaefer
A highly paranoid animal control officer.
- Animals Hate Him: The creatures of the wild want nothing to do with Ed.
- Cowardly Lion: And how. He seems deathly afraid of most of the animals, but manages to pull through.
- Killer Rabbit: In his mind, the most dangerous animal of all is the hamster. Why? Because when he was a kid he had a pet hamster that he loved very much... so much that it made him want to get a job working with animals.
- Meaningful Name: "Frid" is "afraid" with the As removed.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Subverted; he replaced fellow animal control officer Garth Harble, who had a completely opposite personality. Probably because Ed's personality was funnier.
Arnie Dogan
Played by: Albert Schultz
An aspiring country singer and accident-prone roofer.
- Dreadful Musician: He really can't sing, and his songwriting is abysmal despite having written about 17,000 of them.
- Iron Butt Monkey: He usually has at least one limb in a cast, and is often in a wheelchair too.
- The Klutz: Implied by his constant injuries. He's often wearing casts, in a wheelchair, etc.
Young Walter
Played by: Joel Harris
Became Bill's regular replacement during the "Adventures" segments and continued to be featured on the show after Bill returned to Possum Lake.
- Iron Butt Monkey: He is on the receiving end of heaping helpings of physical abuse but none of his injuries have lasting effects.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Bill and Walter might not look anything alike, but they're both accident-prone men who dress exclusively in overalls.
- The Voiceless: Moreso than Bill. The only time he's heard making a sound is when he's breathing heavily because Red's been making him run laps without water. He also shouts "Red!" as Red is about to drive off while there's a pressure cooker full of chilli about to explode in the back of the Possum Van.
Jack Davidson
Played by: Tim Sims
A conspiracy theorist who was convinced the world was going to end, and gave up everything he had to adopt a survivalist lifestyle in an underground cave. Red occasionally visited him and tried to convince him to come to his senses, but Jack turned him down. Only appeared during season 1.
- All There in the Manual: "The Red Green Book" has a map of Possum Lake, including Jack's cave, and revealed his name as Davidson.
- Beneath the Earth: He lives in a cave and refuses to come out.
- Bourgeois Bohemian: Jack was originally an investment banker with a high-income lifestyle and family. He went off the deep end when the government introduced a capital gains tax, convinced it would destroy civilization.
- Carry a Big Stick: He carries a hockey stick to defend himself.
- Crazy Survivalist: He lives in a cave eating off the mushrooms and potatoes he grows, gets very nervous and jumpy whenever anyone visits him, and constantly rants about how civilization is going down the drain.
- The Klutz: He sometimes tripped and fell in the depths of his cave.
- Single-Issue Wonk: He hates the capital gains tax. He's so sure that it'll destroy civilization that he gave up his investment banking job and high class lifestyle and became a cave-dwelling recluse to avoid society's impending collapse.
Buzz Sherwood
Played by: Peter Wildman
A local hippie pilot. Debuted in season 3, and last seen in season 7.
- The Alleged Plane: His plane is an aerial accident waiting to happen. The instruments don't work, the propeller is usually only held on with two out of five bolts, the pontoons are full of bullet holes, the engine smokes like a forest fire, and the wing flaps are jammed.
- All There in the Manual: His profile in "The Red Green Book" further develops his New-Age Retro Hippie personality, revealing that he attended the first Woodstock concert in The '60s and dated Grace Slick in his youth.
- Captain Crash: Buzz has not only crashed multiple planes, but also several land-based vehicles too.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Frequently greeted Red and Harold (who was behind the camera) with a punch to the shoulder, which the two never looked forward to.
- Drives Like Crazy: In his plane, that is.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: He dresses in ridiculous multi-colored tie-dye shirts, attended the first Woodstock concert, loves the classic rock music of The '60s, sometimes recalls the Glory Days of protesting, peace and brotherhood, reads history books written by Joan Baez and even dated Grace Slick in his youth.
- What a Piece of Junk: Subverted. Buzz's plane looks like an unreliable, broken-down wreck, and it flies just as bad as it looks.
Garth Harble
Played by: Derek McGrath
The lesser-known of the two characters whose profession was animal control. Often got annoyed at Red, went off on tangents (so that Red had to remind him what today's topic was), and seemed to hate his profession when things went wrong. Only appeared during season 5.
- Amusing Injuries: He was constantly sporting bandages from the injuries he suffered on the job. Red would often ask him about them, and he'd get annoyed or embarassed when he explained how he got hurt.
- Catchphrase: "Garth Harble here, (salutes) animal control." And when things went wrong: "Another super day." And "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, Red", whenever Red mentioned seriously hurting or killing animals.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Surprisingly averted. When Ed Frid was introduced on the show, Red mentioned Garth as his predecessor. Ed then mentioned how Garth quit his job after he got bit by a toad and "lost his nerve."
- Iron Butt Monkey: He was constantly injured by the animals he dealt with. He was bitten by snakes, kicked by deer, maimed by a rabid cougar, had his leg maimed by a muskrat and his arm filled with porcupine quills, and accidentally swallowed a vole.
- Mean Boss: He occasionally mentioned his boss Leo, who made him do his yardwork or docked his pay or his driving privileges whenever he lost work time due to injuries. He hoped Leo died before he did.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He finally quit his job when he got bit by a toad and "lost his nerve."
Dougie Franklin
Played by: Ian Thomas
An American expatriate motorhead whose biggest love in life is his monster truck.
- Eagleland: A very patriotic American who thinks Canadians are weird.Dougie: [after failing to guess "Canada" in the Possum Lodge Word Game] What, that's still a country?!
- I Call It "Vera": He calls his monster truck "Imelda."
- Real Men Hate Affection: He once failed to guess "Love" in the Possum Lodge Word Game, then implied he knew what the word was all along, but nobody will ever be able get him to say it for as long as he lives. In a later episode, though, Red did get him to say it.
Glen Brachston
Played by: Mark Wilson
Owner of Glen Brachston's Marina. He's incredibly lazy and, whenever Red does a segment on him, coaxes Red to do all the work for him.
- Hidden Depths: He's an adept skydiver. When Red asks how someone as lazy as him can be a skydiver, he points out that all he has to do is step out of the plane and go limp.
- Lazy Bum: Somewhat justified, as he's had 3 heart attacks (5 by series' end) and can't overexert himself (that's his excuse, anyway).
- Serious Business: He's utterly obessed with his recreational vehicle (RV). Whether he's trying to get Red to go for a ride with him, planning his next vacation or ordering new parts and upgrades, Glen's pretty much dedicated his life to his RV.
- Ultimate Job Security: In one episode, Red asks Glen how someone as lazy as him has managed to stay in business. Glen replies that it's because his marina is the only one in Possum Lake.
Dwight Cardiff
Played by: George Buza
Owner of another Possum Lake marina. A replacement for Glen, and even lazier than him, if that can be believed.
Dave Smith
Played by: Dave Smith
Red's co-host of the new Possum Lodge podcast. He originally appeared in some othe very first episodes of the show as a little kid, and has come back to work with Red. Played by Steve Smith's real-life son and co-writer of the podcast.
- The Bus Came Back: An example of this trope applying after nearly three decades. The first episode of the podcast introduces Dave as one of the little kids Red worked with in the first season's "Quality Time" segments.
- Catchphrase: "You only get one ticket-enjoy the ride."
- Continuity Nod: Dave's first episode confirms that he was one of the little kids Red worked with in the very first season of the show.
- The Danza: Dave has the same name as his character.
- Deadpan Snarker: In reaction to Red's attitude on many things, as well as the antics of the other Lodge members.
- Only Sane Man: He's pretty much taken over this role from Harold. Much of his character's humor comes from his reactions to the Lodge members' bizarre antics.
- Straight Man: This is his main role on the show, reacting to Red's sarcastic comments and the idiocy of the other Lodge members. In real life, Dave Smith has commented that his father often enjoys working with someone his character can bounce off of.
