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[[folder:Rebecca Nora Bunch]]
!Actress: Creator/RachelBloom
!!!Younger Rebecca: Ava Acres
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-->''To be clear,''\\
''I didn't move here for Josh, I just needed a change,''\\
''Cause to move here for Josh, now that’d be strange,''\\
''But don't get me wrong, if he asks for a date,''\\
''I would totally be like, "That sounds great."''\\
''Did it sound cool when I said, "That sounds great?"''\\
''Okay, how about now: "That sounds great."''

Rebecca was a hard-working, driven young lawyer working in New York City when she happened to run into Josh Chan, her ex-boyfriend from summer camp ten years ago. Seeing him reminded her of just how happy she was back then (and how in love she was with Josh), so she quit her job and moved to West Covina, where Josh lived. But she didn't move there for Josh, [[BlatantLies nope.]]

* AbusiveParents: Rebecca's mother is extremely controlling of her and blames her for her father walking out on them.
* {{Adorkable}}: Her younger self. Her older self is generally too much of an emotional wreck to qualify, but it still occasionally shines through.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Consistently outperformed Audra Levine throughout their lives. Audra only achieved her high-powered junior executive position at her firm because Rebecca opted out of it to travel to West Covina.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Rebecca in particular has serious problems with dealing with other people as Lampshaded by herself and everyone in the show.
** While the show has literally stated that some of her issues remain undiagnosed, it is very clear about her anxiety and depression, making this a subversion.
-->'''Darryl's ex-wife''': What the hell is wrong with you?!\\
'''Rebecca''': Off the top of my head? I'd say low self-esteem, a lack of maternal affection and a genetic predisposition for anxiety and depression.
* AmbiguouslyBi: parodied with the song 'Feeling Kinda Naughty', where Rebecca isn't quite sure whether she has a crush on Valencia or is just insanely jealous of her. She even tries to kiss her!
** This wouldn've been taken UpToEleven had the producers gone with the original title of the song; 'I Want To Grow a Dick and Fuck You with my Jealousy Dick'.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Played for laughs. Rebecca [[{{Squick}} squicks out]] Paula by casually mentioning that one of the reasons she doesn't have much of a family is that she ate her twin in the womb.
-->'''Paula''': You ate your twin?
-->'''Rebecca''': I mean, medically speaking, I didn't "eat" it, I just metabolised its body parts for my own use.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Subverted. She spends massive sums of money at least OnceAnEpisode throughout most of the first season, seemingly without any sort of financial trouble, until she eventually comes to the realization that all of her big spending has left her broke. This leads to a small scale ContinuityCavalcade as every time she spent a large amount of money earlier in the season is brought up.
* BettyAndVeronica: Played with. While Rebecca has the typical traits associated with a Betty, being the more "plainly pretty" "girl next door" type in contrast to the striking and icy Valencia, she is also an ivy league graduate who Josh only knew for a summer and is incredibly conniving, making her have qualities of a Veronica.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Rebecca is generally nice and pleasant, but she is also extremely manipulative. She has a HeelRealization late in the first season when she realizes her status as this.
* BrainyBrunette: Rebecca is a brunette with considerable intelligence.
* BrokenAce: Rebecca is a great lawyer, a graduate of Harvard and Yale, and knows Mandarin. She was going to be made partner in her old, prestigious law firm. However, inside, she is a mass of self-doubt, self-hate, anxiety, and depression. When she screws things up with Josh, she ends up singing the song "You Stupid Bitch" to herself, even saying that she's done this ''a lot''.[[note]]This aspect of Rebecca's character is so foundational to the show that WordOfGod says that when Rebecca finally achieves happiness, the show will end.[[/note]]
* BuxomIsBetter: Several people have commented on Rebecca's large bust, even Valencia has complimented Rebecca on her appearance. Averted with the song 'Heavy Boobs' where Rebecca deconstructs this trope.
* CheerfulChild: Flashbacks show that she was this until she started to get the impression that nobody loved her. Even when puberty hands her massive frizzy hair, a dental retainer and acne:
-->'''Silas Bunch''': What happened to your hair?
-->'''Young Rebecca''': Oh, certain hormonal changes have occurred. It's unfortunate, but such is life.
* DCupDistress: The theme of "Heavy Boobs." Her large bust causes her all kinds of problems.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Dream Ghost Dr. Akopian''': What were your other relationships like after that?
-->'''Rebecca''': With other men? Oh, my god, they were fantastic. They were beautiful, filled with respect and mutual orgasms. [''withering stare''] What do you think? They were disasters.
* DisappearedDad: Rebecca's dad left them when she was a teenager. She still tries to have a relationship with him, even though he's a complete deadbeat. [[spoiler:She finally tells him to fuck off in the season two finale.]]
* DitzyGenius: Despite being an Ivy League graduate and a genius lawyer, Rebecca tends to make hasty, careless and downright idiotic decisions in her day to day life.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Paula has to talk her off a cliff at the end of season two. Fortunately, Paula succeeds.]]
* ExpositoryHairStyleChange: While in New York, Rebecca's hair was straight and perfectly groomed. When she settles into West Covina, she wears it in its natural curls, showing how much happier and more open she is in her new life.
* TheFakeCutie: Likes to portray herself as a bubbly [[TheIngenue Ingenue]], but, while genuinely a pretty nice person, she is in actuality far more savvy, manipulative and vindictive than she lets on.
* FalseFriend: Becomes Valencia's best friend for a period of time in order to become closer to Josh. Rebecca herself denies it throughout the episode that it happens in, only to finally acknowledge it in the end, completely destroying her relationship with Valencia in the process.
* GenkiGirl: Rebecca is the grown up version of this; she tends to start things out innocently enough but tends to take things way too far.
* HeelRealization: Rebecca isn't necessarily a bad person but her actions can be very harmful to herself and others. She occasionally has moments of clarity where she realizes just how badly she hurts other people. [[spoiler: This is explored in the song "I'm a Villain in My Own Story" where she comes to see herself as a VillainProtagonist.]]
* HelloAttorney: When Rebecca's in court on TV because she's fighting the water case, and the others are watching, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer even Heather murmurs]] "I'd bang that gavel."
* HopeBringer: Becomes this to Josh over time, as her unyielding love and belief in him fills him with feelings of confidence in himself for the first time in his life. It leads to him entering a HeroicBSOD after she tries to move on from him.
* ImprobableAge: While it's not ''impossible'' for a person to be offered the position of junior partner at a high profile New York law firm in their mid-twenties, it is certainly uncommon. This is one of the earliest indicators of Rebecca's exceptional intelligence, as well as her excessive devotion to things that interest her.
* IrrationalHatred: Rebecca is pretty clearly shown to possess a thinly-veiled disgust of White Josh for no clear reason. In particular, she mentions that she finds his shirtless physique disgusting and compares his face to a chipmunk. This is especially confusing given that one of White Josh's defining character traits is his uncanny resemblance to Josh, the person who Rebecca is obsessed with.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Rebecca is very impulsive and will do almost anything to be with Josh, without taking into consideration how others might feel about her behavior.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Rebecca graduated from Harvard and Yale. Justified, in that she's repeatedly shown to be both incredibly hard-working (when she's motivated to be) and prodigiously gifted as a lawyer.
* JewishAmericanPrincess: She has the upbringing of one, at least. She even gets involved in a "JAP battle" with her lifelong rival and fellow Jewish American Princess.
* JewishAndNerdy: A gifted lawyer with an Ivy League pedigree as well as Jewish heritage.
* MsFanservice: The concept of {{Fanservice}} in general is parodied by her several times during musical numbers, which show her in provocative outfits only to juxtapose it with something decidedly unsexy, such as having to be helped on with a pair of Spanx.
* NiceGuy: While she's a highly flawed, manipulative person who is far less bubbly and carefree than she tries to appear to be, Rebecca is nonetheless incredibly friendly, helpful and supportive to almost everyone she meets and genuinely always wants to do the right thing, even when her actions don't. On the occasions when she realizes just how harmful she can be to others, she lapses into a HeroicBSOD.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: She was already a pretty big fish in New York, where she was offered a junior partner position at a prestigious law firm in her mid-twenties, with her employers showing a willingness to out-bid competitors to keep her under them. In West Covina, though, she's unquestionably the best lawyer in town. Even her boss hires her to represent him in his custody case. And she's in ''real estate''.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Implied from the title, but ultimately averted. Rebecca may be pretty fixated on Josh, but her problems with needing to be liked go back much further. If it wasn't Josh, it would have been something else.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: When told that no matter how much she donates to Josh's camp program, she will never get a position as a camp counselor, Rebecca writes a cheque and hands it to the camp director, who stares at it wide-eyed for a moment and then says "This'll do. Welcome aboard."
* SelectiveObliviousness: This is how Rebecca's AmbiguousDisorder most prominently manifests. She constantly denies that she moved to West Covina to date Josh or that she even wants to date Josh, before running across town to "spontaneously" bump into him at a location he checked into on Facebook.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She's shown to have been awkward and dorky as a teenager, whereas she's more or less universally seen as beautiful as an adult. This only applies to looks, however, as she still has a lot of mental growth left to do.
* StalkerWithACrush: Our main character. Although she insists that she ''didn't'' move to West Covina to be near Josh, she just wanted a change.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Has been on the receiving end of this from several characters who get fed up with her antics. Including an epic one from herself.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Season 2 generally portrays her as being much more self-absorbed, abrasive and whiny than she was in season 1. Justified, as it's suggested that she's always been like this and the audience is only now seeing it as a result of the ProtagonistCenteredMorality that surrounded season 1 starting to slip away.[[note]]For example, season 1 has more songs and most of them are from Rebecca's POV, whereas there are fewer songs in season 2 and more of them are sung from the POV of other characters.[[/note]]
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Deconstructed with extreme precision. Much of the show is from Rebecca's POV, so she sees herself as the romantic heroine who just wants to find love, and to whom bad things happen because other people are mean to her. Increasingly, as the show goes on, she is shown to be her own worst enemy, not because she's a villain, or even all that unsympathetic, but because she has serious personal problems that regularly cause her to behave like an asshole towards the people around her. She is intermittently aware of this, but one of her problems is self-hatred, so she's a poor judge of when she's doing the right thing and when she isn't. Even when she is being nice, it's implied that she is doing so for the wrong reasons (see WellDoneDaughterGirl).
* WeightWoe: She is self-conscious about her weight, to the point of calling herself "fatty" whenever she falls into one of her bouts of self pity. This is suggested to be the result of her mother's overly-critical parenting style.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Rebecca always tries to impress her mom. Paula calls her a "level-5 mom pleaser".
* WomanChild: It's implied that Rebecca hasn't matured much past her teen years.
* [[spoiler: YourCheatingHeart: as of season 2 episode 11]].

[[folder:Joshua "Josh" Felix Chan]]
!!Actor: Vincent Rodriguez III
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-->''But recently someone said something to me, I don't want to say who...Greg. On one level, I didn't think it was true, but on another level, it is true. So there are, like, two things going on in my brain right now.''

Josh Chan was Rebecca's summer camp boyfriend back in 2005, but broke up with her on the last day of camp because she was "dramatic and weird." Ten years later, he is moving back to West Covina from New York when he ran into Rebecca again. It turns out that he has a small circle of friends in West Covina (including Greg, Hector, and White Josh) and a long-term girlfriend (Valencia).

He's also not the brightest person, described by the creators of the show as an "Asian bro."

* AmbiguousDisorder: Rebecca comments that he might "be on the spectrum" and in season 2 we find out that he suffers from intrusive thoughts, as sung about in ''Thought Bubbles''.
* AsianAirhead: A rare male example of this (and inversion of AsianAndNerdy). He's not an idiot, but he tends to be slow on the uptake.
* BettyAndVeronica: Played with. While he is the "prize" that Rebecca is attempting to be with, he is also far more good-natured, open and friendly with her than Greg is, making him a Veronica with the qualities of a Betty.
* BrainlessBeauty: Downplayed. He's good looking but is also pretty oblivious and naive about most things outside of his comfort zone.
* BrokenAce: Handsome, popular and genuinely kind and friendly, but also believes himself to be unprepared for adult life and has surprisingly low self-esteem as a result.
* ChickMagnet: He's been popular with women since high school, and is considered the ladies' man of his friend group. He's able to remain in denial about how serious Rebecca's feelings are for him because, in his words, "most chicks I know are a little into me."
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Greg have known each other since they were five.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He and Valencia have been dating since they were eleven, and have likely known each other for even longer than that.
* CommitmentIssues: Josh is reluctant to settle down with Valencia due to her controlling tendencies and his unresolved feelings for Rebecca.
* DumbJock: Josh isn't very smart, but he is incredibly athletic, has several black belts and is a very good dancer.
* FullNameBasis: Because his name is so simplistic and the existence of "White Josh," he gets called "Josh Chan" a lot.
* FutureLoser: Downplayed. He is suggested to have been the BigManOnCampus during high school, and while he's still generally popular and happy in the present, he does not appear to have any real plans for his future and is content with keeping his life as close to how it was in high school as possible.
* HatesBeingAlone: The season 2 song "Thought Bubbles" is about how Josh finds it very difficult to be alone with his thoughts, which explains why he is so sociable and outgoing but which also implies that he's not nearly as happy and content as he (and everyone else) likes to think he is.
* HenpeckedHusband: A non-married example towards Valencia. She has an iron grip on his friendships and controls almost everything he does. Played with later on as it reveals that ''he'' has inadvertently been the one straining their relationship due to his refusal to take the next step in their relationship.
* HopeBringer: Regardless of how their relationship is interpreted, Josh's reappearance in Rebecca's life is what caused her to abandon her career in pursuit of genuine happiness, and his presence serves as a constant source of inspiration for her not to give up.
* ItsAllAboutMe: While he's not exactly domineering, he is used to being the center of attention. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by White Josh in Season Two, where Josh's main reaction to other people's problems is to be relieved that he's not the immediate cause of them.
* LastNameBasis: Is called "Chan" semi-regularly, likely due to being close friends with another Josh.
* LovableJock: He is genuinely happy and unassuming most of the time, and it takes a lot to shake his resolve.
* ManChild: Josh has had a hard time growing up and getting a job.
* AManIsAlwaysEager: When he was in a bad mood, he turned down Valencia's advances. He genuinely didn't even know it was possible for a man to turn down sex.
* MrFanservice: Due to Rebecca's obsession with him, his good looks are talked about constantly. After his chiseled physique is steadily hyped up throughout the first season, he is finally given an extended ShirtlessScene during the finale.
* NiceGuy: Even though Josh is handsome and popular, he's also shown to be nice and kind to pretty much everyone. His ability to consistently provide Rebecca with unabashed kindness and support is what causes her to continue to obsess over him.
* ObliviousToLove: The dude simply cannot understand Rebecca's feelings. After finding out Rebecca [[spoiler: is moving back to New York immediately after he decides he can't be with her, he's still wondering "why would she leave?"]]
* OddFriendship: He and Greg couldn't be any more different from each other, but have remained strong friends for over two decades.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever he's not cheerful and happy, it's a sign something is wrong. This is commented on InUniverse.
* ThePollyanna: He's usually happy. Darryl even calls him "the happy man" and considers it particularly worrisome if Josh isn't happy.
* [[spoiler: SexyPriest: Left Rebecca at the altar to enter a seminary. Time will tell if he goes through with it.]]
* WhatIsThisFeeling: After seeing Rebecca [[spoiler: with Greg]], he gets really angry and since he's ThePollyanna, he has no idea why or even what he's feeling. It would be IsThisWhatAngerFeelsLike but the concept is so foreign to him that he doesn't even know it's anger.

[[folder:Greg Serrano]]
!!Actor: Santino Fontana
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-->''Hey, West Covina,''\\
''Why won’t you let me break free?''\\
''Am I doomed to stay here,''\\
''Pouring my high school friends beers,''\\
''For the rest of eternity?''

Greg Serrano is Josh Chan's best friend since childhood. He works at the Home Base, a baseball-themed bar/restaurant that's right next to a baseball field, so it mainly gets drunks and eleven-year-olds. He's bitter about his mother leaving him when he was younger and longs to quit his job and go back to college, but still needs to earn money to pay for his dad's emphysema treatment.

He also has an unrequited crush on Rebecca, although he realizes that she's not a good person.

* BettyAndVeronica: Played with. While he's the less-idealized more down-to-earth option that Rebecca could "settle for", he is also callous, antisocial and has severe CommitmentIssues, making him a Betty with the qualities of a Veronica.
* BrilliantButLazy: Deconstructed. He's certainly smart, but his refusal to apply himself out of a combination of indifference and a fear of failing leads to him being much less intelligent and capable than he could be. This is illustrated very well in the song 'But I Could If I Wanted To.'.
* ChildhoodFriends: Has known Josh since they were five.
* CommitmentIssues: Greg is afraid to fully commit because he fears having his heart broken.
* DeadpanSnarker: One of his main roles in the group dynamic.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Pretty much a deconstruction - Greg likes Rebecca and tries to go on a date with her, but when goes home with someone else, he realizes that she's ''not'' a good person and has lots of problems, so he decides to stop trying. He still has ''feelings'' for her, but he tries to avoid them.
* DrowningMySorrows: Greg tends to use alcohol to mask his problems.
** In Season 2, [[spoiler: he's forced to confront the fact that he's TheAlcoholic, and he starts making a real effort to get sober.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Clearly harbors some resentment towards Josh for always being more popular and outgoing than he was throughout their lives, which is only magnified once Rebecca enters the picture.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In the first season finale he [[spoiler: disappoints Rebecca so she can seek happiness with Josh]]. Something of a deconstruction, showing there can be a thin line between this and plain old self-sabotage.
* InformedAttractiveness: Played for laughs. Paula constantly raves about his good looks, and later episodes reveal that ''all'' middle aged women find him irresistible. To all other people, while he's noted to be a pretty good looking guy, he's never treated as remarkably handsome like Josh is.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Snarky, mean-spirited and apathetic, but also a genuinely caring guy who appreciates both his friends and family.
* MissingMom: Deconstructed with Greg's mom: she left him and his dad and married someone else. However, she ''wanted'' to take Greg with her, but he was determined to stay with his dad. [[spoiler:Greg realizes just how shitty he is treating his mom because of his own decision and decides to be nicer to her.]]
* OddFriendship: He's a cynical asshole with a HiddenHeartOfGold while Josh is a kind-hearted {{Pollyanna}}. Despite this, they've been friends for most of their lives.
* OnlySaneMan: Greg often plays this role, commenting on the bizarre behavior of everyone around him, especially Rebecca. Of course, as the show goes on, it becomes clear that he's got his own problems.
* PutOnABus: In the fourth episode of season two,[[spoiler: Greg tells Rebecca he loves her and then boards a plane to start school at Emory University.]][[note]]This is permanent; Santino Fontana only signed a contract for one season and he wanted to go back to New York to be with his family.[[/note]]
* StepfordSnarker: Greg is rather bitter about how his life has turned out and this shows in his sarcastic demeanor.
* TheSnarkKnight: Greg feels like an unappreciated sane person who's doing uncharacteristically bad in a backwards town. It takes [[spoiler: Heather]] of all people to make him realize his standards are way too high.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Has all the classic traits of this.

[[folder:Paula Proctor]]
!!Actor: Donna Lynn Champlin
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-->''I perioded on an ultra suede settee in 1987 at Roberta Janatelli's condo and I gotta tell you it was still a great party. I wrapped a sweater around my waist, then hooked up with Bobby Henderson anyway! And I started the whole sweater-around-the-waist trend! So, you're welcome.''

Paula Proctor is the head paralegal at Whitefeather and Associates, the law firm that Rebecca joins when she moves to West Covina. Paula is instantly suspicious of Rebecca's motives for moving there and quickly figures out that it was due to Josh Chan, but instead of revealing this, she becomes Rebecca's friend and confidant, helping her in her schemes to get closer to Josh.

She is married, with two children, although her marriage is on the rocks.

!! Tropes:
* AlliterativeName: '''P'''aula '''P'''roctor.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Paula is married to Scott, but there are numerous problems with their marriage (apparently, she hasn't had sex without the TV on for ten years). It starts to get better when they go to marriage counseling, and bond over [[ItMakesSenseInContext throwing a rock through Rebecca's window]].
** By Season 2's "When Will Josh and his Friend Leave Me Alone?", Paula and Scott's marriage is positively heartwarming. [[spoiler: Then in "Who is Josh's Soup Fairy?" he confesses to having had sex with Tanya, and Paula immediately boots him out of the house.]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Daryl and the other lawyers in the office. Rebecca accidentally mistakes her for [[MistakenForServant her new secretary]]; Paula has to point out that she's head paralegal, which is very different.
* TheConfidant: Becomes the only person in West Covina who Rebecca is willing to confide her most personal feelings with by the end of the first episode.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead: She's a redhead and has a tendency to become extremely fired up when planning ways for Rebecca to become closer to Josh.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. She gets one, and it's treated as a smart, responsible choice, albeit a very difficult one.
* HeelFaceTurn: While never evil, she goes from antagonistic towards Rebecca to her best friend over the course of the first episode.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Paula is extremely adept at gathering intel about Josh, as well as formulating strategies to get closer to him on the fly. Played with, in that she frequently does these things expressly against Rebecca's wishes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's rude, pushy, scheming, manipulative, conniving... and she genuinely loves Rebecca with all her heart.
* LikeASonToMe: Blurts this out about Rebecca from time to time. Never having had a daughter of her own is a huge motivator for Paula to meddle in Rebecca's life.
* TheNicknamer: Paula is this only with regard to Valencia, who at various times she has referred to as "Venezuela", "Valderrama", "Vaseline" and "Velveeta". Also refers to Rebecca occasionally as "Cookie".
* OnlySaneEmployee: Her and Mrs. Hernandez, anyway.
* ParentalSubstitute: While it's mostly the other way around, she eventually becomes a motherly figure for Rebecca, who even calls her "Mama" at least once.
* PoisonousFriend: She'll do anything for Rebecca. Even when Rebecca expressly doesn't want her to do it. If she thinks it'll help Rebecca get closer to Josh, it'll get done.
* RedHerring: Set up as Rebecca's SitcomArchNemesis throughout almost all of the first episode, acting highly suspicious of her and snooping in on her personal life. By the end of the episode, she ends up becoming Rebecca's closest friend and confidant, as well as her sole ally in her pursuit of Josh.
* SecretChaser: Served as this towards Rebecca throughout the first episode, only for Rebecca to admit her intentions, causing Paula to instantly become her most loyal ally.
* SheCleansUpNicely: She's stunning when she slips into something other than her usual office-wear. Her red dress in "His Status is Preferred" is a particular standout for how sexy Paula can actually be. No wonder Calvin was interested!
* ShipperOnDeck: ''Massive'' shipper for Rebecca and Josh, she'll do anything to get them together.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:She has to stop Rebecca from jumping off a cliff after Josh abandons her at the alter.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Becomes even more devoted to getting Josh and Rebecca together than Rebecca herself is in a very short amount of time.
* VicariouslyAmbitious: She ''really'' wants to see Rebecca get together with Josh, in part because of her own romantic failings. In the pilot, she stated that she ''wished'' she were as brave as Rebecca, throwing everything away for love, so it's clear that at least part of the reason she is helping Rebecca is to live vicariously through her.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She wants Rebecca to be happy, but, through a combination of her WrongGenreSavvy idea about relationships, as well as her desire to vicariously live out her unfulfilled dreams through Rebecca, only succeeds in helping Rebecca's unhealthy fixation with Josh grow.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Paula assumes that Rebecca pursuing Josh is like a romantic comedy and she gives her advice similar to the romantic comedies she's seen. She is, of course, ''completely wrong''.
* YourCheatingHeart: She almost cheats on her husband with Calvin. Rebecca intervenes and stops her from going through with it, and she and her husband go to counseling instead.
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[[folder:Darryl Whitefeather]]
!!Actor: Pete Gardner
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-->''‘Cause I love my daughter, but not in a creepy way,''\\
''Though I realize father/daughter love comes off that way.''\\
''I just love my daughter—but again, not in a creepy way.''

Darryl Whitefeather is the head lawyer at Whitefeather and Associates. He is 1/8th Chippewa and asks to be called "Chief" by his employees (although nobody does it). He hires Rebecca after she moves to West Covina and is frankly astounded that anyone of her skill level would work there. He also asked her to represent him in his divorce case, because he was worried that his ex-wife would get full custody of his daughter.

* AmicablyDivorced: While he was initially on fairly bad terms with his ex-wife, Rebecca eventually succeeds in making them reconcile with each other.
* BadassMustache: White Josh says that it makes him look like Tom Selleck.
* BenevolentBoss: Although he can be a bit of a BunnyEarsLawyer, he is still a good boss to his employees, giving them "Weekend Tuesdays" and such.
** Comically averted with his treatment of Maya, the new administrative assistant. In the staff meeting which he's called to announce that he's bisexual, he interrupts her attempt to introduce herself with "Maya, this is not the time! This is not about you, okay?". He later gets over his hatred of Maya in season 2, when he admits that he sees her as the embodiment of everything he hates about himself, finally making him a completely benevolent boss.
* BetaCouple: Eventually with White Josh
* BiTheWay: Officially calls himself this as of "Josh and I Go to Los Angeles!"
* BumblingDad: Averted. Despite being a bumbler most of the time, he's actually a much better parent than his ex wife and is extremely attentive and affectionate towards his daughter.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: An odd case. While he actually ''is'' a lawyer, and is very eccentric, there's no indication that these two qualities intersect at all. We don't get to see much actual legal work being done at the office, but when we do, we see him acting reasonably professional while Rebecca, who is much more concerned with her personal problems than her work, is the one making a scene.
* {{Camp}}: He's extremely effeminate and flamboyant. Many of his employees assumed he was a closeted gay man before he came out as bisexual.
* CoolLoser: Darryl is usually portrayed as being a bit of a joke, yet he's the head of his own legal firm, a good parent, a forgiving and friendly ex-husband and has an incredibly strong relationship with a young, attractive and caring boyfriend. He's pretty much the only character anywhere near close to having his act together.
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: Eventually, with Maya the administrative assistant.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Desperately wants to be acknowledged by Rebecca and Paula as a close friend, and while they mostly seem to like him, they're also generally indifferent to his presence. This poor treatment is reflected in his treatment of Maya, who he admits to seeing a lot of himself in.
* GoodParents: He's an incredibly loving father who bursts into tears at the thought of losing custody of his daughter.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Darryl has been rather lonely since his divorce. He's willing to do pretty much anything for the change to have friends.
* MayDecemberRomance: Downplayed. He's somewhere in his forties while White Josh is 26.
* NiceGuy: Boundlessly optimistic and nice. (Except to Maya the administrative assistant. [[spoiler: And even then he ends up admitting to her that he's being a dick to her because she reminds him of everything he doesn't like about himself.]])
* NoBisexuals: Discussed and defied in his solo number "Getting Bi", where he acknowledges the common belief that all bisexual men are simply gay and in denial about it, only to firmly reject it as being untrue.
* ParentalIncest: Subverted but played for laughs. He deeply loves his daughter and isn't shy about saying it, but is ''very'' prone to moments of ThatCameOutWrong that cause him to sound as if he is attracted to her.
* ParentalSubstitute: He takes Nathaniel under his wing pretty soon after his arrival at the firm, and is one of the only people who can make him relax.
* PluckyComicRelief: While Darryl has his own problems, and the rest of the cast are all funny in their own ways, his conflicts tend to be resolved fairly easily, and he is otherwise around mostly as a source of humor.
* PointyHairedBoss: He runs the office... interestingly. He once called a meeting just to announce to his staff that he was bisexual. He started an event called Weekend Tuesdays where everyone puts on fun hats and drinks on a Tuesday.
** He doesn't seem to have thought through the whole Weekend Tuesday concept, though:
--->'''Bill''': Um, since it's Weekend Tuesday, um, can we just go home?
--->'''Darryl''': See, it's Weekend Tuesday, but it's not the ''real'' weekend. Now, look, Bill, why don't you put on that sombrero and then head on back to work?
--->'''Bill''': ...Right.
* SweetTooth: Repeatedly shown to love candy, and has a complete meltdown when Nathaniel bans sweets from the office.

[[folder:Heather Davis]]
!!Actor: Vella Lovell
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-->''What time should I come over? Not to party or anything but just like…to watch you. I kinda think you’re fascinating actually. And I’m taking abnormal psych at the JC and I think you would make like a really good paper.''

Heather Davis is a psychology student at the local Junior College and Rebecca's neighbor after she moved to West Covina. She likes to observe other people's behaviors and this is initially what drew her to Rebecca. She did an entire paper and presentation on Rebecca, calling her "bonkerballs," but eventually realized that she would rather befriend Rebecca than study her.

She eventually begins to date Greg Serrano during the Christmas episode, but breaks up with him when she realizes he has feelings for Rebecca.

!! Tropes:
* AdvertisedExtra: In season 1, at least. While she is treated as a main cast member by the opening credits, she doesn't appear until the fourth episode of the series, has no major ties to the plot [[spoiler: besides briefly dating Greg]], frequently is absent from episodes entirely and in general only contributes about as much as supporting characters such as White Josh do. This is lessened in season 2, where she becomes Rebecca's roommate, though she is still generally much less of a presence than the rest of the main cast.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Heather has dated guys, but she has also remarked that she finds Rebecca dressed in a lawyer outfit hot.
-->'''Heather:''' Man, she looks hot in her little legal outfit, right? I'd pound that gavel.
* BrutalHonesty: Has no problem delivering crushing truths to Rebecca about her behavior.
* CharacterDevelopment: She seems at first to be a stereotypical slacker student, but in Season 2's "When Will Josh and his Friend Leave Me Alone?" it emerges that she still lives with her parents, who adore her and encourage her no matter what. When Heather [[spoiler: almost inadvertently becomes the face of "Miss Douche"]], she realizes that her parents "reward failure", and she resolves to get her own place [[spoiler: with Rebecca as her roommate.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Sarcasm is her go-to response to almost everything.
* EmotionlessGirl: She barely displays any emotion at all. Even on a sugar rush.
-->'''Heather''': [''absolutely deadpan]''] I like you a lot, Greg.
-->'''Greg''': [''smiling''] That's--that's funny.
-->'''Heather''': [''still absolutely deadpan''] Yeah, no, I'm, like, excited about this. I have butterflies.
* HappilyAdopted: Seems to be the case for Heather, considering that she is of Indian descent, yet she has a black father and a white mother.
* HiddenDepths: Heather is actually very observant and sensitive to the feelings of others.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Heather's sarcastic, blunt, and unemotional, and... actually pretty nice, once you get to know her.
* NotSoStoic: Heather breaks down and almost cries when she confronts Greg about rushing off to LA to admit his feelings to Rebecca. She's also visibly panicked when [[spoiler:Rebecca nearly throws herself off a cliff at the end of season two]].
* OutOfFocus: She doesn't get written out so much as just not having much to do with the plot in the latter half of the first season. However, she comes back into focus in Season 2, with she and Rebecca becoming roommates.
* TheStoic: She rarely shows her emotions outwardly.
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[[folder:Valencia Perez]]
!!Actor: Gabrielle Ruiz
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-->''We're in a yoga class''\\
''Now is the time to let your mind go blank''\\
''And focus instead''\\
''On how awesome the yoga teacher is.''

Valencia Perez is Josh Chan's long-term girlfriend. They have been going out since high school, although they did have a small break when Josh went to summer camp (and dated Rebecca) ten years ago. Valencia is a yoga instructor and very vain. She doesn't like other women and she thinks ghosts are obsessed with her. While initially Rebecca befriended her, the friendship soured and Valencia came to dislike and distrust Rebecca.

!! Tropes:
* ACupAngst: She's jealous of Rebecca's... talents, and even thought of getting implants at one point. Considering how proud she is of her looks, that says a lot.
* {{Adorkable}}: Not often, but she has her moments. Her victory dance after Josh tells her he wants to propose definitely qualifies.
* AlphaBitch: she has no GirlPosse to speak of as she can't help rivaling and intimidating other women. Josh's (mostly male) friends can barely put up with her.
* BettyAndVeronica: Played with. While she's the strikingly beautiful ice queen in contrast to the more plain-looking and friendly Rebecca, she is also Josh's childhood friend who has earnestly waited her entire life for him to propose to her, giving her traits of both a Veronica and a Betty.
* BigBad: Played with. She's Rebecca's primary obstacle in wooing Josh, but her status as a villain is completely dependent on the assumption that Rebecca is "meant to be" with Josh, something that the show repeatedly addresses. One episode even has Rebecca come to the realization that ''she'' is more of the villain of the story than Valencia is, due to being largely responsible for most of the conflicts of the series.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Combined with SelectiveObliviousness, gives the following:
-->'''Josh''': [''after the gang has been to a movie about a cancer patient''] I totally relate to Chad, the sensitive jock who eats clean and journals hard.
-->'''Hector''': Yeah, and I'm so the bad-boy rich kid who sleeps with that hot girl in remission.
-->'''Valencia''': And I am so exactly like that caring nurse who donated her bone marrow.
-->'''Greg''': You didn't feel any connection to the vain yoga instructor?
-->'''Valencia''': [''stony stare''] She was fat.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She and Josh have been together since they were eleven, and have likely known each other for even longer.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Forbids Josh from having female friends due to a fear of having them try to steal him from her. She's actually not wrong, since that's exactly what Rebecca is trying to do.
* DefrostingIceQueen: [[spoiler: Starting in Season 2, Episode 5, she starts bonding with Rebecca and she becomes friends with her and Heather.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Rebecca can't help but acknowledge her beauty and sex appeal. It's one of the many reasons why she hates her.
* FemaleMisogynist: Valencia sees other women as competition who are just jealous of the attention she gets from men. "Women Gotta Stick Together" is almost nothing but her insulting or berating other women.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Subverted. None of Josh's friends really like Valencia because they can see how self-centred she is. She in turn doesn't have female friends, because she feels threatened by them. By season 2, she has realised this about herself and is doggedly trying to become friends with Rebecca and Heather.
* HappyDance: After Josh tells her he's ''finally'' going to look for an engagement ring. Valencia does a good job at staying calm and subdued in her happiness... until Josh leaves the room. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xYhgv1P7g See for yourself]].
* HateSink: Deconstructed. Her unlikable personality makes it much easier for the audience to take Rebecca's side in their feud when, in reality, Rebecca is the sole person responsible for their feud existing at all. By season 2, she's mellowed out somewhat and has become much more sympathetic.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: After her broken engagement with Josh she buries her pain in pastries. She gains a tiny amount of weight but for her that's a big deal.
* HiddenDepths:
** Is steadily revealed to genuinely love Josh, and, despite appearing to be the domineering one in their relationship, has actually been patiently allowing him to string her along for years out of a hidden desire to get married to him.
** [[spoiler: After breaking up with Josh]] she becomes lonely, depressed and binges (in a small way) on comfort food, and then is persuaded by Rebecca that they are both the victims of Josh's exploitation, whereupon she becomes friends with Rebecca.
** The extent to which she put up with Josh's basic lack of care for her comes out in a throwaway remark in season 2, when she is disgusted to see that Josh has bought his new girlfriend flowers. She might have been rather pushy and controlling in season 1, but Josh was hardly a model romantic partner either.
--->'''Valencia''': The only time he got me flowers was prom night. Blue carnations from a gas station. From a bucket. In return, I gave him my virginity.
* IAmNotPretty: After she's turned to baked goods [[spoiler: in the aftermath of her breakup with Josh]], she believes herself to have become grossly overweight. Immediately [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:
-->'''Valencia''': Okay, can you stop talking about my weight? I get it, I'm a ginormous 6, junior 5/7, so just shut up about it.
-->'''Rebecca''': Okay, fine. Just a fun fact, the national average size is actually a 12, so, you know, you're -- you're very petite.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Horrendously self-centered. She tried to get Josh to propose at his sister's wedding specifically to steal some of their thunder. [[spoiler: Josh actually realizing how she never listens or cares about anyone else makes him break up with her]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Generally a mean-spirited and self-centered person who looks down on everyone, her boyfriend included. Her more humanizing moments make her actions more relatable, but no more sympathetic. Season Two is slowly phasing this out, making her pitiable and more three-dimensional.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** For all of her horrible qualities, she's completely right to suspect Rebecca of wanting to steal Josh for herself.
** She's also right that Josh's refusal to choose a direction for their relationship is pretty ridiculous considering how long they've been together. By the end of the first season, you sort of want to shake him and say, "Propose to her or break up with her, already!"
* LeanAndMean: She's model thin in contrast to the noticeably curvy Rebecca. The show repeatedly emphasizes her smug sense of superiority about being thinner than other women as one of her many negative traits.
** She seems to have been taking Josh's breakup badly, given her return in Season 2's "When Will Josh and His Friend Leave Me Alone?": Rebecca is stunned to see Valencia buying a donut in public and stuffing it into her mouth. In mid-munch, she catches Rebecca's eye, and her "Oh, FFS" look is priceless.
* MsFanservice: Her gorgeous looks and fantastic body are constantly the center of attention, both due to her love of showing off and Rebecca's jealousy.
* NoSenseOfHumor: When Rebecca makes a joke in an attempt to endear Valencia to her, Valencia is at first confused, then says "Oh, you were making a joke...Yeah, I think you did that once before. Sorry, I don't like humor."
* TheRival: Passive aggressive competition becomes a common occurrence between her and Rebecca over time.
* SecretChaser: Gradually becomes more intent on exposing Rebecca's desire to have Josh for herself over the course of the first season.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Provocatively struts around in a skimpy bikini for no reason beyond making Rebecca self-conscious.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: She's notably absent from the opening sequence of season one despite being one of the most important characters in the series, to the point of having two solo musical numbers all to herself. Justified in that she's the closest thing the show has to a consistent antagonist in season 1, and would thus be out of place as one of Rebecca's cartoon "new friends".
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Valencia gets really sick of people making passes at her and actually feels hurt [[spoiler: when Rebecca does it.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: She did "hand stuff" with her English teacher when she was in high school. ''She'' claims it was no big deal and it was apparently consensual, but Rebecca is understandably freaked out by this, [[RealityEnsues and points out that this was not only not okay for her teacher to do, but also may have been statutory rape, depending on how old Valencia was at the time]]. She then asks if he was ever fired or if Valencia knows if he had relations with any other students. Valencia, for her part, honestly doesn't seem to get why Rebecca's making a fuss.
* VillainyFreeVillain: Valencia's alleged crimes include pressuring her boyfriend of fifteen years to marry her, being good at yoga, and calling out Rebecca's schemes. On the other hand, she is shown to have a highly unpleasant personality, being controlling and generally unfriendly, and as "Women Gotta Stick Together" shows, she can be a malicious hypocrite who pays lip service to feminism while undermining and insulting every specific woman that she meets.
** In season 2, [[spoiler: having broken up with Josh]], she is no longer configured as a villain but is a sadder and lonelier character who is keen to make some genuine friendships with women she would previously have regarded as rivals, so this trope is averted.
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[[folder: Nathaniel Plimpton III ]]
!!Actor: Scott Michael Foster

Nathaniel is [[spoiler: the new boss at Whitefeather and Associates in season 2]], a ruthless and money-minded lawyer who reminds Rebecca of all she tried to escape in New York.

!!Tropes

* AbusiveParents: Of the mental and verbal sort, probably not physically abusive. Nathaniel says in one episode that his father used to take him over his knee and not do anything - just to scare him. Nathaniel's father was a firm believer in "All work and no play," and believed things like sick days and naps to be for weaklings. He instilled this intense sense of drive in Nathaniel, who to this day does everything he can to please his father.
* BeautyIsBad: Nathaniel is attractive, suave, and possibly a sharkier lawyer than the ones in New York.
** Lampshaded heavily; Paula remarks that "a man with a face that perfectly symmetrical has no soul", and Maya describes him as "suspiciously good looking in ways that normal people are not!"
* BelligerentSexualTension: with Rebecca.
* BrokenAce: A handsome Stanford graduate who is already in charge of his own law firm in his twenties... and has a crippling fear of letting his father down.
-->''"It's over. Get out of the pool, wash off the chlorine, and apologize to your father!"''
* CardCarryingVillain: downplayed. Is proud to call himself a Slytherin (see ClosetGeek ).
* ClosetGeek: read all the Harry Potter books in one week and regards them as modern classics.
* {{Cyborg}}: Played for laughs, in that he has a glucose monitor embedded into the soft flesh of his abdomen. A very impressed Darryl duly hangs a lampshade on it:
-->'''Darryl''': You're a ''machine''.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: went to Stanford- which while not an Ivy League - still continues the trend of successful characters going to very prestigious universities.
* {{Jerkass}}: From what we've seen of him so far, he generally acts condescending towards everyone he speaks to and doesn't bother remembering the names of anyone who he considers below him. He also regularly mocks Josh for looking like a water cooler for no other reason than to mess with Rebecca.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, he does have some humanizing moments, mostly centered around the impossibly-high standards he holds himself to in order to make his father proud. The biggest moment is probably when [[spoiler:he flies Rebecca's dad in on his private jet for her wedding to Josh]].
* OnlySaneMan: frequently lampshades how cartoonish the rest of the firm are.
* PreppyName: "Nathaniel Plimpton III" is about as preppy as they come.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Nathaniel's family is highly successful (known as the 'perfect Plimptons') and it's obvious he's under a lot of pressure from his dad to live up to their reputation. Lampshaded by Rebecca.

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!Supporting Cast

[[folder:Mrs. Hernandez]]
!!Actor: Gina Gallego
-->''...''

Whitefeather and Associates' Communications Director (a joke, since she never speaks). She is friends with Paula.

!! Tropes:
* HiddenDepths: Mrs. Hernandez is surprisingly athletic, engaging in parkour/freerunning on her nights off.
* TheSilentBob: Characters (and subtitles!) react to her as though she's speaking. [[spoiler: Averted in Episode 8 of season 2, where she suddenly shouts at Rebecca to shut up.]]
* TheVoiceless: Mrs. Hernandez. As soon as she starts to say something, someone always interrupts. In "Josh and I Are Good People!," she even gets a ''voiceless reprise''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Naomi Bunch]]
!!Actor: Tovah Feldshuh
-->''By the way, you're looking healthy,''\\
''And by healthy, I mean chunky,''\\
''I don't mean that as insult, I'm just stating it as fact.''\\
''I see your eczema is back.''

Rebecca's mother. She lives back in New York, but calls her daughter and visits during Hannukah.

!! Tropes:
* AbusiveParent: Not intentionally, but the way she treated (and still treats) Rebecca is just ''not okay''.
* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Well, to prevent her heart from breaking further. Rather than let Rebecca know her dad didn't want to spend time with her, she allowed Rebecca to think it was all her doing.
* CharacterDevelopment: After Rebecca stands up to her, Naomi's relationship to her changes, leading her to become a case of AmazinglyEmbarassingParents. Her snipes are Rebecca still continue, but this time in a joking manner.
* CrazySurvivalist: Not a typical one, but she's dead convinced that "the Cossacks" are coming and thus she's very harsh on Rebecca so she can fight back when the time comes.
* EducationMama: Pushed Rebecca into becoming a lawyer.
* JewishComplaining: Her entire first scene is her complaining about everything from the traffic to Rebecca's life choices. In song.
* JewishMother: Her entire character runs on this trope, so much so that she has an entire song about it.
* ToughLove: Deconstructed. She loves Rebecca, and her primary reason for being so stern was to teach Rebecca to stand up for herself and be tough, but her methods often border on emotional abuse, and it's clear a lot of Rebecca's mental problems are at least partly Naomi's fault.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Josh "White Josh" Wilson]]
!!Actor: David Hull

One of Josh's friends. He works at a gym, walks around shirtless a lot, and is gay.

!! Tropes:
* AscendedExtra: Initially just another one of Josh and Greg's interchangeable bro friends, but goes on to be a major supporting character and Darryl's primary love interest.
* BetaCouple: He and Darryl become one.
* BrainlessBeauty: Subverted. Initially he comes across as even more of a space cadet than Josh Chan, and he's just as good looking, but he's not stupid. He's talented at plumbing, he immediately suspects that Rebecca deliberately clogged up her garbage disposal, he know so much about physical training that he's actually boring on the subject, and he's aware enough of Greg's flaws to warn Rebecca about the dangers of getting involved with him.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: His obsessions with working out and eating protein are somewhat questionable, but he remains one of the most competent characters on the show despite them.
* ClosetKey: He makes Darryl realize his bisexuality.
* FormerlyFat: He was a fat kid growing up before resolving to get in shape. An exaggerated example, as he made the decision to get in shape when he was only ''seven years old''.
* GymBunny: Obsessed with fitness, and is almost always in the middle of working out when he appears.
* HiddenDepths: Comes off as nothing more than a muscle-headed surfer bro initially, but is steadily revealed to be a mature, intelligent and empathetic guy, as well as the show's primary OnlySaneMan.
* InSeriesNickname: "White Josh" itself is one. In season 2, he begins going by "Whijo" as well.
* MayDecemberRomance: Downplayed. He's 26 while Darryl is in his forties.
* MellowFellow: He's chill at all times and acts with calm nonchalance during even the most stressful situations.
* MrFanservice: He's in great shape and is constantly shirtless. Ironically, despite looking very similar to Josh, Rebecca finds his body unsightly.
* NiceGuy: He's not a walkover, but he's friendly and kind, and he gently warns Rebecca about the potential danger of getting too involved with Greg.
* OneSteveLimit: The aversion of this trope is the source of his nickname.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Since he has the same name as Josh, everyone calls him "White Josh."
* OnlySaneMan: Much more so than even Greg. He's generally a friendly, mature sensible and caring guy, but he also isn't the slightest bit afraid to call out even his closest friends when they're in the wrong. He is guaranteed to serve as the voice of reason to anyone he is sharing a scene with.
* StraightGay: All his friends know he's gay, though, so he doesn't feel the need to tell anyone.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: He's shirtless ''a lot''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Hector]]
!!Actor: Erick Lopez

Another one of Josh's friends.

!! Tropes:
* BasementDweller: Still lives at home with his mother.
* TheDitz: Takes him a couple of tries to realise that AA members shouldn't use alcohol to solve their various problems.
* DumbassHasAPoint: He's not too bright, but his confusion about why everyone's falling in love with Rebecca is ''very'' welcome and justified.
* {{Flanderization}}: Him living with his mother is only shown once in the first season. By the second, his almost improbably close relationship with his mom has become his defining character trait.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Toasts Greg's decision to quit drinking... with a mug of beer in his hand.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Generally selfish and stupid, but comes off as a well-meaning friend most of the time.
* ManChild: He still lives at home with his mom, which wouldn't be a bad thing in and of itself if it weren't for the fact that she still takes care of him like she did when he was a kid (doing his laundry, making him meals, etc.), and he doesn't seem to see anything wrong with it.
* MommasBoy: Seems very attached to her, up to and including recording a regular podcast with her.
* ParentalIncest: Not ''quite'' the case, although Hector's childish closeness with his mom frequently borders on being incestuous now that he's an adult. He compares other women to her when evaluating their looks and sleeps in the same bed as her whenever he has a nightmare.
* SatelliteCharacter: One of Josh's three most present friends, but isn't as developed as White Josh or Greg.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Very pointedly questions why all his heterosexual friends are in love with Rebecca.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scott Proctor]]
!!Actor: Steve Monroe

Paula's husband with whom she's been having marital problems.

!! Tropes:
* ACappella: Is in a barbershop quartet. Ironically, while he's the only character who appears to be into performing music in the "real world", he hasn't had a song yet, outside of an in-universe performance with his group at an office party.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Although it's getting better.
* CharacterDevelopment: He has steadily become a more attentive and caring husband since the beginning of the series. By season 2, he's become her strongest form of support and advice.
* TheConfidant: More or less becomes Paula's Paula by season 2.
* GuysAreSlobs: He's not particularly adept at housework or organization.
* LazyHusband: This and his barbershop quartet are basically his only defining character traits when the series starts. As he and Paula start to reconnect, he gradually grows out of it, to the point of taking on most of the work around the house when [[spoiler:Paula starts law school]].
* NiceGuy: While he's initially presented as being a lazy, oblivious husband, he reveals himself to be an open-minded and supportive guy once he and Paula finally start to bond again.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Paula invites Scott along on one of one of her [[ZanyScheme Zany Schemes]] involving faking a break in at Rebecca's apartment. [[spoiler: Scott has to throw a rock through the sliding glass door, but ends up choosing a decorative rock from inside the house. Josh discovers this and Rebecca's plan is ruined.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: He sleeps with Tanya some time between episodes 7 and 8 of Season 2, and confesses it to Paula, whereupon she kicks him (not literally) out of the house.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Father Brah]]
!!Actor: Rene Gube

A priest at Josh's church, he counsels both Josh and Paula and her husband through any problems.

!! Tropes:
* {{Asexual}}: Implied. When talking about his entering priesthood, he states that "it really balances the fact that I don't bone."
* BrutalHonesty: Part of why he gives such good advice. He's not afraid to call it like it is.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Apparently, he once lied and told his family that his brother had killed the class bunny instead of him. This was the first step in his brother getting addicted to drugs and joining a cult...which Father Brah was later able to help get him out of. (All of this was revealed is a [[HypocriticalHumor stoned]] monologue.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His name is actually Father ''Joseph'', but Josh called him "Father Joe" and then "Father Bro" and then "Father Brah." It stuck.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even though church officials are usually portrayed as stern, Father Brah is actually laid back and pretty helpful. He councils Paula and her husband to have dinner and work out their problems and he tells Josh that he has to confess to Valencia about kissing Rebecca.
* SophisticatedAsHell: He's very smart and gives ''awesome'' advice, such as, "You're being a little bitch," and, "If Rebecca seems happy, you gotta bow out, dawg."
* TheStoner: He has a bad back. It's awesome.
* YouKnowImBlackRight: After turning down sex from Valencia, Josh Chan tells FB he didn't even know guys could turn down sex. This gets an exasperated look from Father Brah, since he's, you know, celibate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dr. Noelle Akopian]]
!!Actor: Michael Hyatt

Rebecca's therapist. She tries oh-so very hard to create a healthy dialogue between her and Rebecca - it's too bad Rebecca hardly ever listens to her.

!! Tropes:
* BigNo: [[spoiler:When Rebecca and Josh get engaged, mainly because Rebecca was so, ''so'' close to actually confronting her problems. Poor Dr. Akopian looks like she wants to cry when Josh shows up and proposes.]]
* HelpfulHallucination: A more vibrant "dream ghost" version of her appears when Rebecca falls asleep on a plane to New York, seated next to the real Dr. Akopian. She even gets her own song lampshading the trope, funnily enough called "Dream Ghosts." Ironically Rebecca actually listens to this version's advice, most likely because she is probably a figment of Rebecca's subconscious.
--> ''"It's not clear if I'm hallucinated,''\\
''Or actually magic,''\\
''Let's [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane leave it vague]], it's [[LampshadeHanging more interesting that way]]."''
* IgnoredExpert: Very correctly points out that despite what Rebecca thinks, she is not in a love triangle with Greg and Josh because neither man is offering her a relationship. She dispenses a lot of sensible and sound advice, not that it is ever put to good use.
* NiceGal: While she's understandably frustrated by Rebecca's cluelessness and inability to acknowledge her issues, Dr. Akopian ''does'' want to help her, and is ''thrilled'' when it looks like Rebecca may actually be ready to start truly trying to heal. [[spoiler:And she's devastated when Rebecca gets engaged to Josh ten seconds later, sending her back to square one]].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Not initially, but come season 2 she realizes that Rebecca is a lost cause, and that she herself is only letting her make appointments in order to save up for a new kayak.
* OnlySaneMan: She's ''completely'' detached from the Rebecca/Josh debacle and all the insanity that comes with it, and is one of the few people able to be completely objective about it.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She agrees not to press charges against Rebecca and Heather after they broke into her office (while stoned), on the condition that Rebecca attends therapy.
* TheShrink: Has the qualifications, gives the sage advice and compassionate enough to be the Awesome Shrink, but more often than not ends up as the Ineffective because Rebecca is too self-centered to take said advice.
* SurvivalMantra: "The kayak, Noelle, remember the kayak..."
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted: she ''is'' the therapist. However, Rebecca never listens to her, so it's almost like she's not there.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Karen]]
!!Actor: Stephnie Weir

A case assistant at Whitefeather and Associates. Commonly referred to as "Weird Karen" around the office.

!! Tropes:
* AmbiguouslyBi: She's in a relationship with an incarcerated convict, but marvels at Rebecca's breasts when the Santa Ana winds blow her blouse open.
--> '''Karen''': Wow, those are ''beauts''!
* BestialityIsDepraved: But then again, she might have other interests, as heavily implied with her extremely unhealthy attachment to her pet snake Long John Slither.
* ButtMonkey: Not as bad as George, but Karen is riddled with numerous body problems, is told to shut up by numerous people and usually has something calamitous happening in her life.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oh, is she ever. Amongst other off-putting quirks, Karen has an alias in the form of Eva Longoria (Darryl immediately pointed out that's already a real person), once started a finger-painting business on impulse (during a song!) and is in a love triangle with her boyfriend and her snake.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Safe to say, not many of the people at Whitefeather are fond of her company. While Paula was already having a terrible girl's night with Rebecca, Heather and Valencia, she drew the line at having to be friends with Karen.
* SexierAlterEgo: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with her "friend" Angelique, a French, leather-wearing purveyor of sex toys.
* TooMuchInformation: Prone to sharing her various bodily issues unprompted, much to her co-workers' disgust.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maya]]
!!Actor: Esther Povitsky

An administrative assistant at Whitefeather and Associates.

!! Tropes:
* {{Adorkable}}: Her enthusiasm and slightly nerdy looks give off this vibe.
* BiTheWay: As revealed in her first episode, when Darryl comes out, she, too, is bisexual.
* ButtMonkey: At first, with Darryl picking on her for no apparent reason. Averted in season two, where she calls him on it and he apologizes and begins treating her better.
* FireForgedFriends: Appears to be this with Darryl as of Season 2 Episode 10: she's so overworked that she regretfully has to cancel "Shirley Temples and karaoke".
* GrewASpine: At first, she just took Darryl's constant berating of her without comment. Understandable, since back then she was a new hire. By season two, she's willing to stand up for herself.
* {{Meganekko}}: She wears a huge pair of glasses, but if anything, they make her prettier.
* NiceGirl: She seems to be a sweet, friendly girl for the most part.
** She's so nice that when Nathaniel has stomach trouble from eating unwashed kale and keeps breaking wind, and then not-so-subtly orders someone else to claim that they did it, Maya steps up even though everyone in the room can see it's not true. She does it again, unprompted, when he loses control of his bowels.

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[[folder:George]]
!!Actor: Danny Jolles

An employee at Whitefeather and Associates, whose name nobody can remember.

* ButtMonkey: Has been fired, reinstated and fired again. When he finally gets a VillainSong, it cuts to black halfway through the third line.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When Rebecca and Nathaniel get stuck in a lift, George says he'll let them out if they can remember his name. They can't, so he leaves them in there for (as far as he's concerned) the entire weekend. Averted when Nathaniel remembers George's name on Monday, tells him that he's finally made his mark, and fires him.
* TheGenericGuy: He is this to the point that nobody can remember his name. Nathaniel tells him it's because he hasn't made his mark.

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* NotSoStoic: Heather breaks down and almost cries when she confronts Greg about rushing off to LA to admit his feelings to Rebecca.

* DisproportionateRetribution: When Rebecca and Nathaniel get stuck in a lift, George says he'll let them out if they can remember his name. They can't, so he leaves them in there for (as far as he's concerned) the entire weekend.
** Averted when Nathaniel remembers George's name on Monday, tells him that he's finally made his mark, and fires him. (Because, to be fair, refusing to help your boss and your co-worker out of a stuck lift, just because you're annoyed with them, at least ''ought'' to be a fireable offence.)

* TookALevelInJerkass: Season 2 generally portrays her as being much more self-absorbed, abrasive and whiny than she was in season 1. Justified, as it's suggested that she's always been like this and the audience is only now seeing it as a result of the ProtagonistCenteredMorality that surrounded season 1 starting to slip away.[[note]]For example, sseason 1 has more songs and most of them are from Rebecca's POV, whereas there are fewer songs in season 2 and more of them are sung from the POV of other characters.[[/note]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Subverted. None of Josh's friends really like Valencia because they can see how self-centred she is. She in turn doesn't have female friends, because she feels threatened by them. By season 2, she has realised this about herself and is doggedly trying friends with Rebecca and Heather.

!Actress: Rachel Bloom

* MixedAncestry: She's half black on her dad's side.

* {{Adorkable}}: Her younger self.

* ChickMagnet: He's been popular with women since high school, and is considered the ladies' man of his friend group. He's able to remain in denial about how serious Rachel's feelings are for him because, in his words, "most chicks I know are a little into me."

* BetaCouple: Him and Darryl become one.

* OutOfFocus: One of Josh's three most present friends, but isn't as developed as White Josh or Greg.

* AbustiveParents: Of the mental and verbal sort, probably not physically abusive. Nathaniel says in one episode that his father used to take him over his knee and not do anything - just to scare him. Nathaniel's father was a firm believer in AllWorkNoPlay and believed things like sick days and naps to be for weaklings. He instilled this intense sense of drive in Nathaniel, who to this day does everything he can to please his father.

* NotSoStoic: Heather breaks down and almost cries when [[spoiler: she confronts Greg about rushing off to LA to admit his feelings to Rebecca.]]
* OutOfFocus: She doesn't get written out so much as just not having much to do with the plot in the latter half of the first season.
** She comes back into focus in Season 2, with she and Rebecca becoming roommates.

* DisappearedDad: Rebecca's dad left them when she was a teenager.

* ChickMagnet: He's been popular with women since high school, and is considered the ladies' man of his friend group.

* DreadfulMusician: In her fantasy numbers, Rebecca is a great singer who can expertly carry off any style she attempts (from Broadway to Creator/NickiMinaj via gangsta rap and torch song) but in real life, she's pretty terrible.

* TheNicknamer: Paula is this only with regard to Valencia, who at various times she has referred to as "Venezuela", "Valderrama", "Vaseline" and "Velveeta".

* [[spoiler: YourCheatingHeart: as of season 2 episode 11 ]].

* OnlySaneMan: Greg often plays this role, commenting on the bizarre behavior of everyone around him, especially Rebecca.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. She gets one, and it's treated as a smart, responsible choice.

* HateSink: Deconstructed. Her unlikable personality makes it much easier for the audience to take Rebecca's side in their feud when, in reality, Rebecca is the sole person responsible for their feud existing at all.

** The extent to which she put up with Josh's basic lack of care for her comes out in a throwaway remark in season 2, when she is disgusted to see that Josh has bought his new girlfriend flowers:

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: She's notably absent from the opening sequence of season one despite being one of the most important characters in the series, to the point of having two solo musical numbers all to herself. Justified in that she's the closest thing the show has to a consistent antagonist, and would thus be out of place as one of Rebecca's cartoon "new friends".

* ACappella: Is in a barbershop quartet. Ironically, while he's the only character who appears to be into performing music in the "real world", he hasn't had a song yet.

* GuysAreSlobs
* LazyHusband

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Paula invites Scott along on one of one of her [[ZanyScheme Zany Schemes]] involving faking a break in at Rebecca's aprtment. [[spoiler: Scott has to throw a rock through the sliding glass door, but ends up choosing a decorative rock from inside the house. Josh discovers this and Rebecca's plan is ruined.]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Safe to say, not many of the people at Whitefeather are fond of her company. While Paula was already having a terrible girl's night with Rebecca, Heather and Valencia she drew the line at having to be friends with Karen.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: where the Sexy Getting Ready song is about how much pain women go through to look sexy, Trent's stops after 30 seconds due to the pain of him cutting himself.

* SexGod: [[spoiler: When Rebecca allows him to have sex with her to get him to leave her alone, she's shocked to find out that he's the best lay she's ever had by a long shot. Not only that, but it was his first time, too.]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: where the Sexy Getting Ready song is about how much pain women go through to look sexy, Trent's stops after 30 seconds due to the pain of him cutting himself.]

A former law school student who went to law school at the same time as Rebecca, who Rebecca and Paula decide to use as her fake boyfriend.

** [[spoiler: ComicallyMissingThePoint: where the Sexy Getting Ready song is about how much pain women go through to look sexy, Trent's stops after 30 seconds due to the pain of him cutting himself.]]
* GirlfriendInCanada: He is Rebecca's "boyfriend" from law school to through Valencia and Greg off from investigating her. [[spoiler: It just goes a little too well.]]

* [[spoiler: PsychoExGirlfriend: A gender flipped version of this to Rebecca ]]

* [[spoiler: SpearCounterpart: He is a spear counterpart to Rebecca, right down to trying the same tricks that she does but to lesser effect. Even has his own "Trent is Getting Ready Song" counterpart to the "Sexy Getting Ready Song".]]

* StalkingIsFunnyIfItsFemaleOnMale: Played with. His obsession with Rebecca isn't all that different from the one that Rebecca has on Josh, but is portrayed as being much more overtly creepy. It helps that our view of him isn't painted by ProtagonistCenteredMorality.

** [[spoiler: ComicallyMissingThePoint: where the Sexy Getting Ready song is about how much pain women go through to look sexy, Trent's stops after 30 seconds due to the pain of him cutting himself.]]
* [[spoiler: PsychoExGirlfriend: A gender flipped version of this to Rebecca ]]

* ImprobableAge: While it's not ''impossible'' for a person to be offered the position of junior partner at a high profile New York law firm in their mid-twenties, it is certainly uncommon.[[note]]It's implied that Rebecca is about 26 at the start of the show, since she fell in love with Josh when she was 16, ten years earlier. Rachel Bloom was 28 when the first season was being filmed.[[/note]] This is one of the earliest indicators of Rebecca's exceptional intelligence, as well as her excessive devotion to things that interest her.

* AdvertisedExtra: In season 1, at least. While she is treated as a main cast member by the opening credits, she doesn't appear until the fourth episode of the series, has no major ties to the plot [[spoiler: besides briefly dating Greg]], frequently is absent from episodes entirely and in general only contributes about as much as supporting characters such as White Josh do. This is seemingly no longer the case in season 2, as she is now Rebecca's roommate.
* CharacterDevelopment: She seems at first to be a stereotypical slacker student, but in Season 2's "When Will Josh and his Friend Leave Me Alone?" it emerges that she still lives with her parents, who adore her and encourage her no matter what. When Heather [[spoiler: almost inadvertently becomes the face of "Miss Douche"]], she realises that her parents "reward failure", and she resolves to get her own place [[spoiler: with Rebecca as her roommate.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Much more so than even Greg. He's a generally friendly, mature sensible and caring guy, but he also isn't the slightest bit afraid to call out even his closest friends when they're in the wrong. He is guaranteed to serve as the voice of reason to anyone he is sharing a scene with.