Characters from What's with Andy? if you're looking for the character sheet for the literature series it's based on, see here.
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Andrew "Andy" Larkin
Voiced by: Ian James Corlett
The main character of the show and the self-proclaimed world's greatest prankster. Clever and confident, he seeks to express himself though the art of practical jokery, using East Gackle and its hapless citizens as his canvas... even if things don't always go his way- Adaptational Intelligence: His counterpart in Andy Griffiths' Just Series was very daft and Book Dumb, often coming up with stupid ideas and lacking the wits and charisma needed to pull of his schemes. In contrast, Andy Larkin is a Brilliant, but Lazy Brainy Brunette whose failures usually result more from bad luck or unforeseen consequences than any incompetence on his part.
- Adaptation Personality Change:
- While still an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist who infuriates everyone around him with his mischief, he's depicted more as a self-expressing trickster who treats each prank as a work of art rather than the manic brat of Andy Griffiths' Just Series.
- Owing to the heavy use of grossout comedy in the books, he was a big Nightmare Fetishist in Andy Griffiths' Just Series, often writing disturbing stories to amuse himself. While the show still retains some grossout humor, he's not distinctively noted for his obsession with.
- Age Lift: Changed from a preteen in Andy Griffiths' Just Series to a teenager.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Jen sure thinks so.
- Anti-Hero: While he likes to stir the pot, Andy isn't villainous or malevolent, but merely a mischievous trickster.
- Berserk Button: Messing with Lori is a surefire way to end up on the receiving end of his pranks.
- Big Eater: Downplayed, but he still eats quite a bit.
- Brainy Brunette: May not be a good student but his pranks prove he is quite intelligent, and he does have dark hair.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: When he narrates, he addresses the audience.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: As he acknowledges in "The Answers," if he dedicated his brainpower to studying in school as much as he did to pranking, he'd get straight A's and be in college the next year.
- Butt-Monkey: Quite often, his pranks go awry in a way that ends with him being completely humiliated. Even when his pranks do succeed, he gets caught and punished anyway. If anything, it seems karma is the one thing he can never outsmart.
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin': He's almost always punished anytime he pranks someone even if said prank was harmless.
- The Cassandra: Andy's lengthy history of pranking often leads people to not trust him, even when he's being sincere and telling the truth.
- Catchphrase: "Check, Please!"
- Character Narrator: Sometimes he narrates to the audience.
- Child Hater: He doesn't hate children, but at first he didn't like the preschoolers he had to share with in "The Show Must Go On", as he thought it was undignified for him to socialize with children who had "just recently learned to go to the bathroom in a toilet instead of in their pants." However, when he stood up to a kid who was bullying them, they all became friends.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: Quite often he loses or tears his pants.
- Deadpan Snarker: Particularly when Jen is around. Also sometimes says things like "kill me now" if he's bored, however, it's a downplayed example as he's not that snarky.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: While the show itself doesn't dive into it (it is a kids show after all), many episodes highlight that Andy's status as The Prankster alienates him from his family, his classmates, basically the entire town of East Gackle and especially his Love Interest Lori. Lori states on a number of occasions that she actually does like Andy and would probably date him if he stopped being a prankster. There are also a few episodes that also show that Andy is failing in school due to his consistent focus on pranks rather than his studies. Additionally, for all his skills as a prankmaster, Andy is a massive Butt-Monkey who constantly falls victim to karma, with nearly every episode seeing him get caught and punished for his mischief in the end.
- Disguised in Drag: In "Just Stuffing" when he was copying Jen and "Emergency Spew Relish" when he was pretending to be a "granny" as well as dressing up as his crush Lori during " She Pranks Me, She Pranks Me Not".
- Faking the Dead: In "Playing Dead", he pretends to be dead to get out of being used in a dunk tank.
- Flaw Exploitation: Part of what makes Andy such an effective prankster is that he knows his targets and how to use their personality traits to his advantage. In one episode he baits Jen into thinking he's pulling pranks on his parents only for her to find out the way hard way that he hadn't actually done anything, effectively exploiting her paranoia regarding his constant pranking.
- Hated by All: Is hated by pretty much everyone in East Gackle with the notable exceptions of Danny, Mush and sometimes Lori.
- It Runs in the Family: His grandpa is a prankster, and his dad used to be one.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While mostly Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist trickster, he has his Pet the Dog moments, particularly towards his friend Danny and his crush Lori.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Master prankster he may be, but karma always catches him at the end of the day, and nearly every episode ends with him being punished in some way for his pranks, regardless of whether his pranks succeed or not.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He often gets his karma when his pranks backfire on him.
- Limited Wardrobe: Mainly wears blue jeans and a white T-shirt with red trim.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: In "What's With Jean-Thomas?", he's trying to say "If you practice, you could win the Stanley Cup" in French. What he says is French, but it actually translates to "Your ears are so big that you look like the Stanley Cup".
- Not Me This Time: Is often accused for bad stuff happening even if he hasn't done any pranks or mischief.
- Playing Sick: In "Gooey Chewies", Andy pretends to have caught Lori's "cold". There was also his You Don't Want to Catch This moment in "Emergency Spew Relish".
- Potty Dance: In "Busting". He even says "Hold it in. Do a dance, that's the way to keep dry pants."
- Potty Emergency: In "Busting", he has to pee while at a mall.
- Prank Injuries: Fakes a broken leg in "Nurse Jen".
- The Prankster: The cornerstone of his character. He considers himself the greatest prankster in the world, and some of his pranks are extremely elaborate, with most episodes focused entirely on him working to pull them off.
- Punny Name: His last name is "Larkin" and he's a prankster.
- Serious Business: For him, pranks are much more than cheeky tomfoolery, but rather an art form that he constantly seeks to outdo himself.
- Sibling Rivalry: With Jen, normally he is cheeky to her and they squabble.
- Stock '90s Bad Boy: Much like its source material, Andy Larkin fits this trope to a T. He is a teenage prankster who is Brilliant, but Lazy, wears baggy jeans, occasionally wears sunglasses, and regularly defies authority and conformity. However, it is also deconstructed to a degree, as for all his "bad boy"-ness, Andy is also a Butt-Monkey who constantly gets caught and punished for his mischief, regardless of whether his pranks succeed or not, on top of also being disliked by most of the townspeople.
- Time Stands Still: When he narrates.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Burgers.
- The Trickster: He serves this role to East Gackle, turning the town upside-down through his pranks.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He's a rebellious trickster who lives to infuriate his town with elaborate and wild pranks, being hated by pretty much all of East Gackle and constantly getting hit by Laser-Guided Karma for his actions, but his personality and antics are entirely Played for Laughs.
- You Don't Want to Catch This: Fakes a made-up ailment in "Emergency Spew Relish".
Daniel "Danny" Thaddeus Pickett
- Voiced by: Bumper Robinson (Season 1), Daniel Brochu (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Adaptational Intelligence: His counterpart in Andy Griffiths' Just Series was a bungling moron, but the Danny of this show is quite clever and insightful.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In Andy Griffiths' Just Series, Andy and Danny's friendship was a dysfunctional mess based entirely on the fact that Danny wasn't smart enough to realize Andy was a bad influence and Andy simply not having anyone else who liked him. The show makes their friendship much more genuine, with the two being on a more equal footing in some ways.
- Black and Nerdy: He's dark-skinned and wears glasses.
- Black Best Friend: Andy's best friend who happens to be dark-skinned.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has moments of this, especially when he's bored or Andy is doing something he doesn't agree with.
- Disguised in Drag: While pretending to be Andy's girlfriend in What's With Jean-Thomas?, and while pretending to be a "granny" in Emergency Spew Relish.
- Hey, You!: A Running Gag throughout the series is other characters referring to him as "Andy's sidekick" or other such terms. At one point Danny gets asked if he even has a name.
- I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea: He is definitely a prankster, but sometimes he thinks one of Andy's pranks is going too far.
- The Lancer: Andy thinks of him as his "sidekick".
- Only Sane Man: He sometimes thinks so.
- The Prankster: Not as much as Andy, but he's definitely a prankster.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: When Andy wants him to come with him in "The Toilet Paper Fiasco", he says "But I haven't even finished my sandwich".
- Where da White Women At?: He gets a crush on a white girl in "Romancing the Prank".
Lori Mackney
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name was Lisa Mackney in Andy Griffiths' Just Series.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She may be nice and very patient when it comes to Andy's behavior but despite this even she has moments where she calls him out when he goes too far with his pranks.
- Birthday Episode: In "Gooey Chewies", she has her birthday.
- Book Smart: Lori is a straight-A student.
- Brainy Brunette: She has flowing dark hair and is an A student.
- Cringe Comedy: She and Andy often get into awkward situations.
- Love Interest: Andy has a crush on her. It's shown mostly in season 1 that she likes him in return but cannot commit while he's still a prankster.
- Morality Pet: To Andy sometimes when he is prevented from doing something bad.
- Nice Girl: Normally, she is very polite.
- Playing Sick: In "Gooey Chewies", it turns out she was faking her cold.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: Downplayed, but she wears open-toed flip-flops 99% of the time, while all the other characters opt for closed-toe footwear.
- The Smart Guy: A very intelligent student.
- Title Drop: She asks Danny "What's with Andy?" in "What's With Jean-Thomas?".
- Trickster Girlfriend: Sometimes she gets back at Andy for his prankster tendencies and plays jokes on him:
- In "Gooey Chewies", she fakes having a cold as a part of an April fools joke, and then pretends that she's mad at Andy for ruining her birthday party, while she actually isn't.
- In "The Buck Stops Here", when Andy cheats to win the competition and get kissed by the Rodeo Queen (who he assumed was Lori), she deliberately doesn't tell him that the Queen is actually her ugly friend Hazel.
- Tsundere: In general Lori is pretty sweet on Andy but he tends to provoke her with his incessant pranking. Lori all but says she'd likely date Andy for real if he ever stopped being a prankster.
Alfred "Al" Larkin
- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (Season 1), Arthur Holden (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Canadian Equals Hockey Fan: Andy mentions he's a big Edmonton Oilers fan.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: In the flashback in "Weight to Go, Andy", his pants fall down.
- Does Not Like Spam: Apparently he hates burgers.
- Limited Wardrobe: Mainly wears brown pants, a yellow shirt and a tie.
- Not So Above It All: While Andy’s pranks usually drive him insane, he’s left in awe when Andy pulls off the Lambchop Caper prank he couldn’t pull off back then, calling it the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.
- The Prankster: Used to be a practical joker, but has outgrown it.
- Team Dad: Literally. He is a grumpy parental figure and a dad.
- Weight Woe: In "Weight to Go, Andy", he starts to worry about fatness because he was about to have an interview with a health nut.
- You Are Grounded!: Along with his wife, he grounds Andy in "What's With Jean-Thomas?".
Freda Larkin
- Voiced by: Cathy Cavadini (Season 1), Susan Glover (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Limited Wardrobe: Mainly wears a pink shirt and purple pants.
- Weight Woe: In "Weight to Go, Andy", she worries about her weight because she's afraid to be unpopular.
- You Are Grounded!: Along with her husband, she grounds Andy in "What's With Jean-Thomas?".
Jen Larkin
- Voiced by: Jenna von Oÿ; (Season 1), Jessica Kardos (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Alpha Bitch: She's the most popular girl in school and has a very bad temper.
- Big Sister Bully: Sometimes she is mean to Andy.
- The Bully: Sometimes. She calls Andy names a lot.
- Fiery Redhead: Has red hair and is pretty grumpy.
- Girls Love Chocolate: She loves chocolate, and Andy thinks it's because she's a girl.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She is easily the grumpiest in the Larkin clan.
- Jerkass: A Big Sister Bully who goes out of her way to insult her younger brother which results in him pranking her as payback.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Constantly gets ranked on by Andy but deserves it for being a Big Sister Bully to him.
- Large Ham: Andy calls her a "drama queen", and she can be quite dramatic.
- Laser-Guided Karma: She often gets her comeuppance whenever she goes too far with her antagonism on Andy.
- Little Miss Snarker: A snarky teenage girl.
- Sibling Rivalry: With Andy, her being the more antagonistic.
- Sweet Tooth: Sometimes.
- Tsundere: Typically in harsh tsun mode, but Craig brings out the sweet in her when she tries to woo him. Of course since Craig is also a Dumb Jock, he tends to earn Jen's ire whenever he does something she doesn't like.
- Weight Woe: Frequently, most notably in "Weight to Go, Andy", she worries about being fat.
- You Are Fat: In "Weight to Go, Andy", when Andy says he's on a roll, she says "looks like the roll is on you. Roll of fat, that is."
Peter Lik and Andrew Leech
- Lick is voiced by: Danny Cooksey (Season 1), Mark Hauser (Seasons 2 and 3)Leech Voiced by: Scott Parkin (Season 1), Craig Francis (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Baby Talk: They sometimes tease Andy by talking to him in baby talk.
- The Bully: Their main trait is their bullyish nature.
- Butt-Monkey: They're Andy's most common targets when it comes to his pranks.
- Catchphrase: Leech: "Yeah, like, y'know..."
- Even Bullies Have Standards: They'll happily pound and wedgie Andy and Danny, however in the episode "Nurse Jen", they back off when they think they've seriously hurt Andy and are disgusted with Jen when she kicks her brother after believing he faked his injury.
- Fat and Skinny: Andrew Leech fat boy, Peter Lik skinny.
- Hypocritical Humor: In "Weight to Go, Andy", both of them make fun of Andy for putting some pounds on, despite the fact that Leech is way fatter.
- Jerkass: Two bullies who go out of their way to bully anyone they come across.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Like Jen, they often get pranked by Andy, but deserve it for being antagonistic to him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They usually get their comeuppance whenever they go too far with their bullying.
- Last-Name Basis: They are known as Lik and Leech, and call Andy by his last name.
- The Rival: To Andy.
- Those Two Guys: Always seen walking around together.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Best friends, but can sometimes be mean to each other.
- You Are Fat: In "Weight to Go, Andy", they say that they had never seen so much "puppy fat" and had better leave before "Larkin starts barkin'". Danny thought this was Actually Pretty Funny, which made Andy cross.
Teri
- Voiced by: Cathy Cavadini (Season 1), Holly Gauthier-Frankel (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Accidental Misnaming: Principal De Rosa sometimes calls her "Perry" or "Kerry".
- The Confidant: Jen goes to her for advice in one episode.
- A Day in the Limelight: "Scary Teri" is the only episode that focuses on her.
- Girls Love Chocolate: Andy sure thinks so, and this is based off Jen and Teri.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Sometimes angers easily, but less so than Jen.
- Satellite Character: Is mostly seen interacting with Jen.
- Token Black Friend: A secondary character who is black and is Jen's best friend.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Caramel pudding.
- Sweet Tooth: Likes not only chocolate but caramel pudding.
Jervis Coltrane
- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (Season 1), Bruce Dinsmore (Seasons 2 and 3)
- The Bully: Not so much as Lik and Leech, but pretty jerky.
- Jerkass: A snobby rich kid who tries to compete with Andy in order to win Lori's affections.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Like the other antagonistic characters he often gets pranked on by Andy but deserves it for being antagonistic to him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Gets his karma anytime he antagonizes Andy.
- Rich Jerk: Is wealthy and rude.
- The Rival: To Andy and Danny.
Martin Bonwick
- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (Season 1), Michael Yarmush (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Beware the Nice Ones: Sometimes even he gets fed up with Andy's jokes and takes full satisfaction in getting revenge at him. In "The Answers," he helps the school bullies in hanging him and Danny by their underwear from shower heads and throwing water balloons at them.
- Brainy Brunette: Has dark hair and is a science nerd.
- Butt-Monkey: One of the most unluckiest characters in the show due to being a cowardly nerd who often gets bullied or pranked.
- Nice Guy: One of the more nicer characters in the show despite his Butt-Monkey status.
- Shrinking Violet: Is a bit shy at times.
- The Smart Guy: For being nerd, he has good notes and he is intelligent. However, he is also naive.
Principal De Rosa
- Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (Season 1), Terrence Scammell (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: In "101 Underpants".
- Dean Bitterman: Hates main character? Check. Does he often treat him unfairly? Check. Is he more concerned about the school's opinion? Check.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Easily the most easily annoyed out of the adults.
- Jerkass: A sadistic principal who's obsessed with punishing Andy and Danny.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Gets pranked on by Andy but deserves it for being a sadistic principal who's obsessed with punishing Andy.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He gets his comeuppance whenever his sadism goes too far.
- Neat Freak: Danny calls him a "clean freak" in one episode.
- Sadist Teacher: He's always trying to punish Andy and Danny.
- Skewed Priorities: Yes, Andy's constant pranks are an issue, however these seem to trump Lik and Leech's bullying (which is a huge issue in real schools), and De Rosa even employs the two to keep a watch on Andy sometimes.
Craig Bennet
- Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui (Season 1), Matt Holland (Seasons 2 and 3)
- Attractive Bent-Gender: When Andy is disguised as 'Andrea' in "Just Stuffing", he crushes on "her".
- The Bully: Like Lik and Leech he goes out of his way to bully Andy.
- Dumb Jock: Jen likes him for his looks, not for his brains.
- Jerk Jock: Plays a lot of sports but is not above cheating at them.
- Love Interest: To Jen, and sometimes Teri, who both have crushes on him.
Spank
Andy's overweight, flatulent dog.
- Adaptation Name Change: He was called Sooty in Andy Griffiths' Just Series.
- Gasshole: He farts a lot.
- Lazy Bum: Likes to lay around.
Mrs Weebles
An old lady.
- Berserk Button: Peeing dogs.
- Neat Freak: Doesn't like dogs as she thinks they will pee on her park.