Characters / Dog with a Blog

Main Characters

Avery Jennings

Actor: G Hannelius

• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Blonde
• Characterization Marches On: On the wiki it says that in the first season, she was an insecure, uptight, and slightly awkward weirdo. By the time of season 2, she's very neurotic, stubborn, and high-strung but has grown to be a bit more confident and fun.
• Everybody Hates Math: Except her apparently. One of her likes listed in the wikia is math. Ironically she's not particularly good at it.
• Go-Getter Girl: Tends to be this, given her attitude with accomplishing achievements.
• Hidden Depths: She can sing, juggle and is a contortionist.
  • She's also become quite the fashion designer in Season 3.
• Insufferable Genius: Her entitled intelligence she presents at times.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can be arrogant, obsessive, and self-absorbed. Nevertheless is really a good person. To G. Hannelius's credit, she has played bratty characters in her childhood but Avery is the one annoying brat that's more well-developed and sweet-natured as a person.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: She's usually stubborn and pretentious, where her arrogance can make her know what she's talking about, there were times that Avery showed her weak points because of her overconfidence.
• Shorter Means Smarter: Is almost as short as Chloe and is a brainiac most of the time.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: Has one towards Karl.

Tyler James

Actor: Blake Michael

• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Brunette
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Is very lazy and a c student, but he knows a lot about math and understand culture and art.
• Butt-Monkey: He sometimes suffers from bad luck and his own family constantly mocks him for his lack of intelligence.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Has a reputation for being a player and chases a lot of girls. Nevertheless he never mistreats them, and seems to hold some genuine care for all of them.
• Deliberate Under-Performance: Tyler is revealed to secretly be a math genius, but chooses to get lower grades in school out of fear it will upset his social status.
• Everybody Hates Math: Unlike Avery, he certainly does. Which makes it the more ironic when we discover he's a math genius.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Has shorter hair as of Season 2.
• Genius Ditz: As mentioned above, he's a math prodigy and he also shows an understanding of the culture of art. Otherwise not-so-bright.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can be selfish, manipulative, deceitful, and immature. But truly loves his family and almost never does anything malicious.
• Only Sane Man: In comparison to everybody else, he has the most normal problems.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: He does this a lot.
• Supreme Chef: Sort of, he is an incredible cook as shown with his job at the food truck, never the less he rarely cooks when not at work.

Chloe James

Actor: Francesca Capaldi

• All Girls Like Ponies: She desperately wants a pony in the first episode. By the end of it, because of Stan, she actually gets one!
• Annoying Younger Sibling: To Avery and Tyler sometimes.
• Big Sister Admiration: As revealed in "Guess Who's a Cheerleader", she admires Avery.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Redhead
• Boys Have Cooties: She had this at first in the beginning of the series. She would often try to find ways to make sure boys aren't at any of her family parties. This gets subverted hard later in the series, by which she starts dating boys in her class.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Admittedly some it comes from being seven but even for a small kid she's pretty loopy.
• The Cutie: Her parents adore her, and she likes to take advantage of this at times.
• Fiery Redhead: She's pretty excitable.
• I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Smoothies, though it wasn't mentioned until "Stan Makes His Mark".
• Nice Girl: Compared to her brother and step-sister. Though not by much.

Stan James

Voiced by: Stephen Full

• All There in the Manual: His surname seen above, James, and his middle name shown below is shown in the wiki but has not been mentioned on the show. At least, not yet (although he finally confirms his full name as Stan Mordecai James in "Don't Karl Us, We'll Karl You").
• Big Friendly Dog: Stan is not dim-witted in the slightest and not that big, but friendly nonetheless.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has shades of this when put in a seemingly awkward occurrence or is playing around with others (e.g Stan pretending to talk like a stereotypical teen to see how the dim-witted Tyler would react in the second half of his "Lost in Stanslation" blog, and Stan showing his friendship with him at the same time).
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Mordecai.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can show some sass, snarks and have a bit of an ego, but is a well-meaning dog.
• Large Ham: Stan is very expressive and bursting with character, in quite an impressive way for a dog.
• Literal-Minded: This would be Played for Laughs most of the time.
• Nice Doggy: Is usually nice towards others.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Usually very comedic if not a bit silly.
• Talking Animal: A dog obviously.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Bacon And cats (bacon-wrapped ones from his blog in particular).
• Younger Than He Acts: Stan has the voice of a man, and has the mind of one along with the Amplified Animal Aptitude mentioned on the main page. Did we mention he's technically only four years old?
  • Then again, he's a dog, and being four years old should equal him being 28, and he's pretty intelligent for a dog, which can be pretty hilarious to see when he's interacting around others like him with Tyler for example or with other dogs and/or animals.

Bennett James

Actor: Regan Burns

• Beware the Nice Ones: He is usually very respectful and kind, but when it comes to him and Ellen catching their children doing something wrong, he is usually the one who sets up the punishment.
• Bumbling Dad: He can be very goofy and incompetent.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He has a few problems, but as mentioned below, he's quite intelligent and he is a Child Psychologist for a reason.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Kinda. It says in the wiki that his hair is blond, but most of the time it looks like it's either black or brown instead.
  • And in one of the pictures in the same wiki, he actually looks like a redhead!
• Only Sane Man: Although he does have his problems, he is a lot more sane and normal than his wife or most of his family. Somewhat justified though, because he is a psychologist.

Ellen Jennings

Actor: Beth Littleford

• Catchphrase: "Good One, Ellen!" whenever she makes a joke. Even if the joke isn't actually funny, which it never is.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Sort of, Ellen is somewhat loopy and is described as constantly "Freaking"
• Hypochondriac: Listed in the wiki of course that she's this. Seen in "Stan Stops Talking."
• Lethal Chef: Zigzagged. She actually is capable of making dishes that taste good, but only when she bothers to follow the measurements listed on the recipe instead of just throwing in random amounts like she usually does.
• Signature Laugh: She laughs like a donkey.
• Stacy's Mom: For Karl.

Secondary Characters

Nikki Ortiz

Actor: Denyse Tontz

• The Ace: She can do pretty much anything.
• Ditzy Genius: Her first appearance can make her seem airheaded when translating thoughts at times, but usually smarter than Tyler because of course, she is.
• Girl Next Door

Karl Fink

Actor: LJ Benet

• Embarrassing Middle Name: Leslie.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Almost everyone besides Stan and the recurring characters' parents; Bennett and Ellen see Karl out to be some kind of arch-nemesis when he means no harm.
• Parental Abandonment: His father is on a space station, and his mother trains for weight-lifting contests 24/7.
• Precocious Crush: Seems to have one on Ellen; For a time, he had gifts sent to her under the name "Walter Perkins".
• Secret-Keeper: Becomes one in "Karl Finds Out Stan's Secret."
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Avery.
• Smug Snake: While he is usually harmless and kind, he can seem like this at times when showing his malice on occasion. I mean really, when people your age always resent you and treat you like a villain all the time, can you blame him?
• Spell My Name With An S: Yes, It's spelled Karl and not Carl.

Lindsay

Actor: Kayla Maisonet

• Motor Mouth: Which sometimes rubs off on Avery.

Minor Characters

Ian Calloway

Actor: Adam Kulbersh

• Hoist by His Own Petard: A mistake on the fake backstory he mentioned manages to let Avery, Tyler and Chloe know that he's lying. Specifically, he tells Stan that if he comes back to Spokane, then he'll have a great view of the Puget Sound. Spokane is too far away from the coast to have a view of the Puget Sound, something anyone who actually lived there would know.
• I Lied: He actually wanted to take Stan back to experiment with him, NOT to take him back to his family.
• Mad Scientist
• Sadistic Choice: While not as extreme as other examples, he gives Stan one of this in the season finale: He can either come back with him to meet his family and leave the one he currently has, or stay with them, but probably never see his real family again.
  • And he does it again, only worse: Stan can either come back with him to get experimented on, or he'll experiment on Stan's puppies instead
• The Dreaded: To Stan. This little piece of dialogue should be enough proof:

  Stan: Dr. Ian Calloway, AHHHHHHH!

• Would Hurt A Puppy: Not really. Back when Stan was a puppy, he tried to get him to talk to a microphone, but that was it.
  • But then he proves he can when he threatens to experiment on Stan's puppies

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