History Characters / HangTime

* TheLeader

* CountryMouse

* BigFun

* NaiveEverygirl

* GenkiGirl

* TheAce: Shares this with Michael Manning starting in season three.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: After receiving attention for being the first girl on Deering's boy's basketball team in the season one episode "Full Court Press".

* CloserToEarth: Compared to most of the other characters after season one.

* HeroesWantRedheads: He liked Kristy the first time he met her ("there's something special about a girl who tells you to lick a cow!").

* CatchPhrase: "Ooh, I could just shake my finger at [him/her]," when a character does something bad or mean.

* LastNameBasis / FirstNameBasis: Most of the characters call Nick by his last name, Hammer. The only main characters to have called him "Nick" on at least an alternating basis are Coach Katowinski and Mary Beth.

* CatchPhrase: "Aw, geez," something he utters OnceAnEpisode, usually whenever he experiences misfortune, is asked to talk about another character's relationship or sees something he wishes he hadn't.. However, in the season five finale "My Family," he (and his daughter) say it in unison after being complemented by Kristy. Mary Beth points out how weird that was.

* TeensAreShort: Played straight and subverted, James Villani, who played Rico Bosco in season four, was the shortest of any of the 20 cast members in the series. Which says a lot considering most of the actors were close in height, with the sole exceptions of Reggie Theus, Dick Butkus, Kevin Bell and Robert Michael Ryan, who were relatively taller.
* WackyGuy

* YouKnowImBlackRight: The focus of the season two episode "Just One of the Guys". As much as Julie tried to prove she can be just as good a player as the guys can when she first joined the Tornados, Julie becomes self-conscious when Mary Beth and Amy break to her that she needs to act more feminine. Her attempts to impress Josh by acting more like a [[GirlinessUpgrade girly girl]] (as part of an UnnecessaryMakeover, complete with a BareYourMidriff top) fail. She then decides to quit the team, out of concern that Josh won't notice her until a talk with Olympic track-and-field legend Florence Griffith-Joyner (arranged by Coach Fuller) sets her straight that she can be an athlete and still be a woman.

* SheCleansUpNicely
* ShesGotLegs
* StatuesqueStunner

* AngryBlackMan: In season two, he would sometimes yell at his players for doing something stupid or in one instance, after he was able to yell again at the end of a sacrifice challenge in "When Loss is Gain," well... "because I can!"

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Come on, you'd probably like to have Rico Bosco as your name.

* TheCheerleader: Mary Beth was the head cheerleader in season one. She exhibits some of the cheerleader stereotypes, including being spoiled, but is not dumb and not necessarily mean-spirited. However, she does have jealousies toward Julie early in the season.

* TheCheerleader: Literal but subverted. Amy may be on peppiness overdrive, but she is not necessarily dumb, just pretty naive and not even close to mean ("The Sure Thing" even states that she doesn't like to hurt other people's feelings).

* TheCheerleader: In the literal sense, but subverted personality-wise. Kristy is depicted as nice, smart and almost Kelly Kapowski-level squeaky clean, however very minor traits of the Mary Beth of that period do rub off on her later in the series.

* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know I'm a Girl, Right?]]: The focus of the season two episode "Just One of the Guys". As much as Julie tried to prove she can be just as good a player as the guys can when she first joined the Tornados, Julie becomes self-conscious when Mary Beth and Amy break to her that she needs to act more feminine. Her attempts to impress Josh by acting more like a [[GirlinessUpgrade girly girl]] (as part of an UnnecessaryMakeover, complete with a BareYourMidriff top) fail. She then decides to quit the team, out of concern that Josh won't notice her until a talk with Olympic track-and-field legend Florence Griffith-Joyner (arranged by Coach Fuller) sets her straight that she can be an athlete and still be a woman.

* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: With Kristy, beginning with season three.

* ParentalAbandonment: In season two's "Superman Brodis," Teddy meets the father who left him and his mother as a little kid to pursue his basketball career. Teddy is disappointed to find that Theodore, Sr. is strict and critical, and even evokes YouAreNotMyFather in one scene ("you may be my father, but you are not my dad!"). Theodore, Sr. later attends a free-throw competition his son is participating in to make amends and forge a relationship with Teddy, who decides to give it a shot.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Person]]: Played with. Kristy questions whether she is this in "A Whole New Ballgame," only for a student in a werewolf mask to ask her for directions to the drama club, she then to says to herself that she really needs to get out of Deering.

* [[RememberTheNewGuy Remember the New Girl]]: Kristy is introduced as head cheerleader in the season three premiere "Team Captain"; the characters got along with her as if she had been there the whole time, and there's no indication she had replaced Amy. She's the only prominent main character not to get a proper introduction in any of the season premieres.

* [[StraightMan Straight Woman]]: To Mary Beth. However, she does suffer at times from their wacky schemes.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: With Mary Beth, beginning with season three.

* [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Expecting Someone Shorter]]: "The Tall and the Short of It" involves Rico dating a girl several inches taller than him (played by Creator/BreeTurner (later of ''[[Series/GRIMM GRIMM]]'' fame)).

* QuirkyCurls: Although depicted as a normal girl, Kristy's only defining quirks are her HollywoodNerd aspects and her tendency to get in misfortunate situations.

* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know I'm a Girl, Right?]]: The focus of the season two episode "Just One of the Guys". As much as Julie tried to prove she can be just as good a player as the guys can when she first joined the Tornados, Julie becomes self-conscious when Mary Beth and Amy break to her that she needs to act more feminine. Her attempts to impress Josh by acting more like a [[GirlinessUpgrade girly girl]] (as part of an UnnecessaryMakeover, complete with a BareYourMidriff top and a DangerouslyShortSkirt) fail. She then decides to quit the team, out of concern that Josh won't notice her until a talk with Olympic track-and-field legend Florence Griffith-Joyner (arranged by Coach Fuller) sets her straight that she can be an athlete and still be a woman.

* [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Expecting Someone Shorter]]: "The Tall and the Short of It" involves Rico dating a girl several inches taller than him (played by Bree Turner (later of ''[[Series/GRIMM GRIMM]]'' fame)).

!!Mary Beth Pepperton (Megan Parlen)

!!Chris Atwater (David Hanson)

!!Michael Maxwell (Christian Belnavis)

!!Earl Hatfield (Robert Michael Ryan)

!!Sam Morgan (Hillary Tuck)

!!Vince D'Amata (Michael Sullivan)

!!Josh Sanders (Kevin Bell)

!!Amy Wright (Paige Peterson)

!!Kristy Ford (Amber Baretto)

!!Kenny "Silk" Hayes (Danso Gordon)

!!Eugene Brown (Phillip Glasser)

!!Bill Fuller (Reggie Theus)

!!Mike Katowinski (DickButkus)

!!Antonio Lopez (Jay Hernandez)

!!Julie Connor (Daniella Deutscher)

* FunnyAfro: He had a close-cropped Jewfro in seasons and two.

* LatinoIsBrown

!!Danny Mellon (Chad Gabriel)

!!Theodore "Teddy" Brodis, Jr. (Anthony Anderson)

!!Michael Manning (Adam Frost)

!!Rico Bosco (James Villani)

!!Nick Hammer (Mark Famiglietti)

* {{Adorkable}}: How he was characterized in season one.

* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware the Nice]]/[[BewaretheSillyOnes Silly Ones]]: Danny may be a good guy jokester, but when he learns martial arts in "Fighting Words"... well, his bully in that episode, Tony, gets ''really'' scared at the end of their bout. Imagine what would have happened if Danny didn't show restraint when it looked like he was going to hit Tony. The entire scene and the speech that follows:

* {{Adorkable}}

* {{Adorkable}}