BABY-SITTERS CLUB Reboot Featur Trans Child, Gay Dads

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• BABY-SITTERS CLUB REBOOT FEATUR TRANS CHILD, GAY DADS
• THE BSC    THE GROUP  FIVE-TOKEN BAND: EVEN MORE THAN THE ORIGAL SERI. LIKE THE BOOKS, 1) DAWN AND KRISTY HAVE DIVORCED PARENTS, 2) STACEY HAS DIABET, 3) CLDIA IS JAPANE-AMERIN AND 4) MARY ANNE HAS A CEASED MOTHER. ADDNALLY THIS ADAPTATN, DAWN AND MARY ANNE ARE NO LONGER WHE (HISPANIC-AMERIN AND HALF-BLACK RPECTIVELY) AND DAWN REVEALS HERSELF TO BE LGBT+. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: PART OF THE REASON THEY STARTED THE CLUB AND THEY PROVE TO BE VERY VOTED AND PROTECTIVE OF THEIR CHARG. NICE GIRL: ALL OF THEM. KRISTY OCSNALLY SLIPS TO JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD, BUT ONLY WHEN SHE'S WH HER CLOSE IENDS OR HER MOM, AND SHE'S AN EXTREMELY KD BABYSTER. DAWN PECIALLY BORRS ON BEG TOO NICE AND STGGL TO ASSERT HERSELF WHEN SIMPLY BEG TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. RUNNG GAG: EVERY TIME KRISTY POTS OUT SOMETHG WHERE SHE MANDS AN ANSWER OR ACTS SLIGHTLY NTROLLG, THE CLUB (OR RATHER, THE MEMBER BEG QUTNED) WOULD ANSWER: OH, KRISTY, DON'T BE SUCH A BABY.    KRISTY THOMAS KRIST AMANDA "KRISTY" THOMASPLAYED BY: SOPHIE GRACE DUBBED BY: AMY DIAMOND (SWEDISH)THE PRINT OF THE CLUB WHO EQUENTLY LLS OUT SOCIAL JTIC. ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: SHE IS A BTE THE BOOKS, BUT HAS BURN HAIR THIS SERI. AMBIGUOLY GAY: KRISTY SHOWS CREASG DISTERT AND EXASPERATN HER IENDS' TERT BOYS AND OFF AS JEALO OF STACEY’S TERT HER BROTHER. BERSERK BUTTON: ABOUT HER FATHER LEAVG HER AND HER BROTHERS AND WHEN REMD OF HOW HER IENDS AND BABYSTG CHARG HAVE FATHERS WHO STAY VOLVED WH THEIR CHILDREN EVEN AFTER A DIVORCE AND WANTG TO SPEND TIME WH THEM. BIG SISTER INSTCT: KRISTY DISPLAYS THIS WH DAVID MICHAEL AND KAREN, ONE WHERE SHE LMS DOWN THE FORMER WHEN HE WETS HIS PANTS AND FORTS HIM THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDG (WHERE THEY LEAVE THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME) AND WH THE LATTER SHE GROWS CLOSE TO HER AND ACTS WHEN SHE NOTIC KAREN HAS GONE MISSG. SHE THEN LATER TELLS OFF THE CAMP DIRECTOR FOR KAREN NNG OFF. BLON, BTE, REDHEAD: OF HER SIBLGS (CLUDG KAREN AND ANDREW), SHE IS THE REDHEAD OF THE BUNCH WHILE HER SIBLGS ARE EHER BLON (KAREN AND CHARLIE) OR DARKER HAIRED (ANDREW, DAVID MICHAEL, AND SAM). BRATTY TEENAGE DGHTER: SHE SHOWS SHAS OF THIS "KRISTY'S BIG IA" WHEN SHE'S OPPOSED TO HER MOTHER'S RELATNSHIP WH WATSON. SHE WARMS UP TO HIM. COOL BIG SIS: SHE SERV AS THIS TO KAREN AND DAVID MICHAEL, WHO ARE PENNT AND VERY CLOSE TO HER. SHE AND KAREN GET CLOSER BEE OF THEIR RPECTIVE PREC TELLIGENCE AND GIVEN THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO GIRLS THE FAY (WH FOUR BOYS). CONTROL FREAK: SHE REALLY N'T STAND CHANGE AND SHE WANTS EVERYTHG ORRLY AND BY PROCRE, TO THE POT WHERE SHE N BE MEAN TO NEWERS VED BY OTHER MEMBERS, AND SHE HAT WHEN OTHER MEMBERS GO AGAST HER MANDS. CLDIA LAMPSHAS THIS TROPE AS TO WHY SHE HAD GROWN DISTANT OM KRISTY BY THE START OF THE SERI. DEADPAN SNARKER: HAS A KEEN AWARENS OF THE WORLD AND A DRY LIVERY TO GO WH WHEN NECSARY (CLEARLY A FAY TRA, JUDGG BY HER OLR BROTHER SAM AND HER MOTHER HAVG ).KRISTY: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU JO TWO PEOPLE, AND THEIR FAI, TOGETHER FOREVER? UNLS SOMEONE CHANG THEIR MD, WHICH THEY DO, ALL THE TIME. KAREN: WE'RE ALL CHILDREN OF DIVORCE, KRISTY, GET TO THE GOOD PART. DAVID MICHAEL: JT DO WHAT SHE SAYS. KRISTY: PREPARED FOR MARRIAGE ALREADY. DISAPPEARED DAD: HER BLOGIL FATHER, PATRICK THOMAS, ABANDONED HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN AND NEVER LLS OR WR. THIS IS SOMETHG THAT UPSETS KRISTY VERY MUCH, AND SHE RENTS HOW OTHER DIVORCED FATHERS WHOM SHE SE ARE VOLVED WH THEIR KIDS' LIV SPE NOT BEG AROUND AS MUCH AS BEFORE. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: KRISTY IS FULLY AWARE OF HOW OVERBEARG SHE IS; THE VERY FIRST SCENE SHE NARRAT THAT SHE WAS DOG ALL THE TALKG WH MARY ANNE, AS UAL, AND THAT MARY ANNE WAS DOG ALL THE LISTENG, AS UAL. FIERY REDHEAD: IN THIS VERSN, SHE IS A REDHEAD AND WHILE SHE N EXPRS TRANQUIL FURY OR BE PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE, SHE N GET EMOTNAL AND RRIED AWAY WH HER TRATNS, PECIALLY WH HER BERSERK BUTTON REGARDG FATHERS. FOIL: TO DAWN, TERMS OF BEG A FEMIST. BOTH GIRLS ARE VERY TELLIGENT AND KEENLY AWARE OF SOCIAL JTICE ISSU, PECIALLY REGARDG WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BUT WHILE KRISTY TENDS TO BE MORE JUDGMENTAL (WHEN SHE THOUGHT STACEY HAD AN EATG DISORR, SHE STATED MAY AFFECT STACEY AS A ROLE MOL RATHER THAN SEEG AS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE) AND RIGID AND A GIRL BOSS SORT; DAWN TENDS TO BE MORE FIVG OF OTHER PEOPL' FLAWS AND SHE OUTWARDLY FIGHTS ON BEHALF OF OTHER PEOPLE EVEN ISSU THAT DON'T DIRECTLY AFFECT HER (AN TERSECTNAL LENS). FRDIAN EXCE: HER DAD LEFT WHEN SHE WAS FIVE OR SIX AND IS PRETTY MUCH NEVER NTACT. KRISTY IS STILL TRYG TO AL WH HER FEELGS OF ABANDONMENT AND SECURY YEARS LATER, AND SOME OF OUT HER CONTROL FREAK OR I JT WANT TO BE LOVED TENNCI. GO-GETTER GIRL: KRISTY IS A GOOD STUNT, A RPONSIBLE OLR SISTER, AND NS A SUCCSFUL BABYSTG BS SHE STARTED. DID WE MENTN THAT SHE'S TWELVE? GREEN-EYED MONSTER: IF KRISTY ACTS OUT, 'S OFTEN BEE OF JEALOY (PECIALLY OF STACEY AND DAWN, WHO ARE NEW), BUT SHE STGGL TO BE HONT ABOUT TO HERSELF. I JT WANT TO BE LOVED: SHE GETS VERY UPSET WHEN SHE FIGHTS WH HER IENDS OR FAY AND THEN ADMS AS MUCH TO DAWN AFTER RANTG ABOUT HER PARENTAL ABANDONMENT. THGS LIKE DAWN GENTLY LISTENG TO HER OR ELIZABETH REASSURG HER SHE IS GREATLY LOVED HELP. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ONE OF KRISTY'S WEAKNS, ALTHOUGH SHE STGGL TO REGNIZE WHEN SHE'S DOG , IS TO THROW A TANTM WHEN SHE THKS SHE'S BEG IGNORED. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: SHE'S BLUNT, SHORT-TEMPERED, AND DUE TO HER HATRED OF CHANGE, SHE N BE LD OR DOWNRIGHT HOSTILE TO NEWERS (LIKE WATSON OR DAWN), BUT SHE'S NOT A BAD PERSON. SHE PROV HERSELF TO BE A LOYAL IEND AFTER SHE WARMS UP TO OTHERS, AND IS GENUELY PASSNATE TO HER LOVED ON. THE LEAR: SHE IS THE LEAR OF THE BABY-STERS CLUB BUT, AS HER MOM OBSERV, SHE ALSO REALLY LIK TO BE CHARGE AND HAVE HER OWN WAY. NICE MEAN AND IN BETWEEN: WH HER BLOGIL BROTHERS SHE IS THE "IN BETWEEN" WH HER JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD AND FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN TENNCI WHILE YOUNGER DAVID MICHAEL IS "NICE" AND OLR BRATTY BROTHERS ARE "MEAN". ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: HER REAL NAME IS KRIST, BUT SHE GO BY KRISTY. PARENTAL FAVORISM: DOWNPLAYED, BUT ELIZABETH DO TELL HER SHE IS HER FAVORE CHILD. SIMPLE, YET OPULENT: HER TASTE CLOTHG GENERAL. MARY ANNE REFERS TO KRISTY'S FASHN SENSE AS "NORMRE" AND SHE HAS SENSIBLE TAST R (SUGGTG NAVY BLUE FOR MARY ANNE'S ROOM AS HIS STAS) AND FAVORS JEANS AND ALPE SWEATERS; THIS IS HIGHLIGHTED BY HER CHOICE OF A SIMPLE, F AND FLARED BLUE GOWN OVER A TIGHT YELLOW DRS FOR HER BRISMAID LOOK. SHE CLEANS UP NICELY: SHE'S A NICE-LOOKG YOUNG GIRL WHO PREFERS TO WEAR JEANS, SWEATERS AND SWEATSHIRTS, T-SHIRTS, AND A BASEBALL P - BUT IS ENTRANCED WH HER APPEARANCE HER LIGHT BLUE BRISMAID GOWN, WH KAREN MENTG SHE LOOKS LIKE CRELLA (WH WHICH KRISTY N NCUR). SOUR OUTSI, SAD INSI: HER CONTROL FREAK TENNCI ARE A WAY OF PG WH THE LACK OF NTROL SHE FELT WHEN HER FATHER LEFT AND NEVER NTACTED THE CHILDREN AGA. OFTEN, HER SOUR TENNCI N HAVE THE EFFECT SHE WANTS LEAST: ONE WHERE HER IENDS REJECT OR GROW DISTANT OM HER (LIKE CLDIA) OR WHERE HER IENDS N GROW TRATED WH HER AND HAVE AN EMOTNAL OUTBURST THAT HURTS HER FEELGS (MARY ANNE). TH FAR THE ONLY ONE WHO SEEMS TO LM DOWN KRISTY ENOUGH TO TALK OUT HER ISSU IS DAWN. TOMBOYISH PONYTAIL: SHE WEARS HER HAIR A SIMPLE PONYTAIL AND IS A TOMBOY. TE BLUE FEMY: HER PREFERRED LOOK FOR HER BRISMAID DRS IS A SIMPLE LIGHT BLUE SILK GOWN THAT MAK HER LOOK AND FEEL LIKE CRELLA.    CLDIA KISHI CLDIA LYNN KISHIPLAYED BY: MOMONA TAMADATHE VICE-PRINT OF THE CLUB WHO HAS A PASSN FOR ART. AMBIGUO DISORR: SHE HAS ATROC GRAS BUT DISPLAYS HIGH EMOTNAL TELLIGENCE AND A PACY FOR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THGS SHE FDS TERTG, LIKE LERATURE AND BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY. IN THE EPISO "CLDIA AND THE PHANTOM PHONE CALLER," SHE SAYS THAT SHE TENDS TO SHIFT HER FOC OM SUBJECTS FOR WHICH SHE SHOWS LS APTU (MOST AMIC SUBJECTS) AND TOWARD BABYSTG AND ART (AT WHICH SHE EXCELS). SHE ALSO TRI TO TAP HER FOC ON A SPECIFIC SUBJECT FOR A TT AND EVEN WHEN SHE DO, SHE STILL FAILS THE TT, IMPLYG SHE ISN'T LAZY BUT THERE MAY BE A LEARNG DISABILY. ASIAN AIRHEAD: PLAYED WH; SHE IS BOOK DUMB BUT A TALENTED ARTIST AND VERY CLEVER. BOOK DUMB: SHE IS LS APT AMIC SUBJECTS THAN SHE IS ART AND BABYSTG BUT DISPLAYS AN AWARENS OF SOCIAL JTICE ISSU AND LOV READG LERATURE. SHE IMPROV A B WHEN SHE STARTS PRACTICG HER JAPANE LANGUAGE SKILLS AFTER MIMI'S STROKE. DEADPAN SNARKER: SHE WRYLY NOT THE ODD PARTS OF HER LIFE AND EVERYTHG AROUND HER, OM THE FAY'S TER PACKAGE TO KRISTY'S BEHAVR TO THE "DULL B" WHERE HER FAY WILL BE VATNG. AFTER SOMEONE REMDS HER MIMI WILL BE WH HER:CLDIA: MIMI WILL BE BORED TOO. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HER FIRST SPEAKG SCENE SHOWS THAT SHE STGGL AMICS (MR. REDMONT LLS OUT HER LACK OF FOC AND MENTNS POOR TT GRAS) WHILE ALSO SHOWG HER QUIRKY, ARTISTIC SI (WRG HER RPONSE TO KRISTY – A OL, GRAPHIC STYLE – ON HER SNEAKER). FEME WOMEN CAN COOK: LIKE HER GRANDMOTHER, CLDIA LISTS OKG AS ONE OF THE FEW THGS SHE IS GOOD AT (ART, BABYSTG, AND FASHN). INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: WHEN MIMI HAS HER STROKE, CLDIA IS SHOWN TO NOT KNOW THAT MIMI WAS AN TERNMENT MP AS A CHILD AND THKS "MANZANAR" IS THE NAME OF A MAKE-BELIEVE WORLD LIKE NARNIA. ONLY SANE MAN: BETWEEN HER, KRISTY, AND MARY ANNE, SHE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST SELF-POSSSED AND MATURE ONE AND IS ABLE TO SPELL OUT HER FEELGS WHOUT TRATN TO KRISTY. OVERSHADOWED BY AWOME: OFTEN FEELS NEGATIVELY PARED TO HER OLR SISTER JANE. PARENTAL FAVORISM: CLDIA IS SHOWN TO THK SHE IS MIMI'S FAVORE, AS THEY HAVE A VERY CLOSE RELATNSHIP. SHE IS SHOCKED TO SEE THAT MIMI AND JANE ARE CLOSE OTHER WAYS (JANE SPEAKS FLUENT JAPANE AND KNOWS ABOUT MIMI'S PAST). PK MEANS FEME: SHE WEARS A BOLD WHE DRS WH A PK PATTERN TO ELIZABETH AND WATSON'S WEDDG. SIBLG Y-YANG: WH HER OLR SISTER JANE. CLDIA IS OFTEN BRIGHT LORS AND PATTERNS, BOOK DUMB, IS BUBBLY AND OUTGOG, AND VERY EMOTNAL WHILE JANE N BE LD, TROVERTED, PRECISE, AMILLY CLED, AND OFTEN MORE DARK OR NTRAL TONED HER WARDROBE. SWEET TOOTH: SHE HIS JUNK FOOD ALL OVER HER ROOM AND SHE EVEN PATS PORTRAS OF FAMO NDI.    MARY ANNE SPIER MARY ANNE SPIERPLAYED BY: MALIA BAKERDUBBED BY: MIMMI SANDéN (SWEDISH)THE SHY SECRETARY OF THE CLUB. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE'S A TIMID NICE GIRL, BUT OFTEN WHEN SHE GETS TRATED, SHE HAS EMOTNAL OUTBURSTS AND SHE ISN'T AAID TO RRECT DOCTORS WHEN THEY MISGENR ONE OF HER BABYSTG CHARG AND TELL ONE OF HER IENDS WHEN THEY ARE GOG WRONG. BPECTACLED CUTIE: SHE IS SEEN WEARG HORN-RIMMED GLASS AND IS A NICE-LOOKG (ALBE SHY) YOUNG GIRL. CANNOT SP IT OUT: SHE HAS A HARD TIME TALKG TO LOGAN, HER CSH, FOR MOST OF THE FIRST SEASON. SHE GETS OVER THE FALE, ENDG UP KISSG HIM ON THE CHEEK. IN PUBLIC! DEADPAN SNARKER: SHE IS SO FAR A MASTER OF MAKG DRY MENTS REGARDG OTHERS, LIKE A MEDCRE RAP OM A BABYSTERS AGENCY'S STER'S BOYIEND OR EVEN HER FATHER STG THE DARK (FOR ABOUT AN HOUR) JT TO MAKE A DRAMATIC REACTN TO HER G HOME LATE.MARY ANNE: THAT DON'T RHYME, SIR. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: KRISTY, NARRATG, SAYS THAT SHE WAS DOG ALL THE TALKG, AS UAL, WHILE MARY ANNE WAS DOG ALL THE LISTENG, TABLISHG THAT SHE IS SENSIVE AND QUIET (AND OCSNALLY LETS HERSELF BE TALKED OVER). EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: AFTER THE CINT WH BAILEY AT THE HOSPAL WHEN MARY ANNE LEARNED TO BE MORE ASSERTIVE, SHE STARTS HAVG OTHER HAIRSTYL THAN HER UAL BRAID PIGTAILS AFTER TELLG HER DAD SHE WANTED MORE. JTIFIED AS TURNS OUT THAT HE HAS NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WH HER HAVG HER HAIR DIFFERENTLY; 'S JT THAT THE PIGTAILS ARE THE ONLY HAIRSTYLE HE KNOWS HOW TO HELP HER WH. EXTREME DOORMAT: SHE TRI NOT TO BE THIS, BUT HER IENDS STILL LL HER OUT OCSNALLY ON HER TENNCY TO FOLD UNR PRSURE. SHE GETS BETTER AFTER STANDG UP FOR HER STG CHARGE, MEETG DAWN AND TAKG CHARGE AT MP, BUT SHE IS STILL LS ASSERTIVE THAN THE OTHERS. FRDIAN EXCE: HER MOTHER ALMA DIED BEFORE MARY ANNE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE ANY MEMORI OF HER, AND 'S HAD A BIG IMPACT ON HER STRICT CHILDHOOD AND SHY, TENTATIVE RPONS TO MANY THGS. GRACEFUL LADI LIKE PURPLE: SHE WEARS A LOT OF THE LOR, IS A CHOSEN LOR FOR HER WTER AT, AND 'S THE LOR CHOSEN FOR HER GROWN UP ROOM MAKEOVER ( NTRAST TO HER PK MEANS FEME CHILDHOOD R). IT HIGHLIGHTS HER GROWTH AS A YOUNG WOMAN. JERKASS HAS A POT: MARY ANNE IS NOT A JERKASS, BUT HER BEWARE THE NICE ON AND EXTREME DOORMAT TENNCI N OVERPOWER HER FILTER WHEN UPSET, LIKE TELLG KRISTY WHEN BEG NAGGED ABOUT RICHARD'S OVERPROTECTIVENS THAT SHE KNOWS NOTHG ABOUT HAVG A NORMAL (READ: RG, OR PRENT) FATHER, WHICH MAK KRISTY UPSET NOTE AND A LATER EPISO, KRISTY DO REVEAL TO DAWN SHE LIKELY ENVI MARY ANNE FOR HAVG A FATHER WHO R ABOUT HER WHEREABOUTS AND WANTS HER AROUND HIM (AND ALL THE FATHERS OF HER IENDS AND BABYSTG CLIENTS WHO LOVE THEIR KIDS AND DO EVERYTHG TO BE PART OF THEIR LIV). LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DGHTER: MIMI AND RICHARD BOTH MENT ON HOW MARY ANNE'S SELF-POSSSN, ANIZATN, AND WILLGNS TO STAND UP FOR UNRDOGS REMDS THEM OF HER NOW-AD MOTHER. MISSG MOM: MARY ANNE'S MOTHER DIED WHEN SHE WAS A BABY. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: SHE HAS AN RMAL ONE HER NEIGHBOR, CLDIA'S GRANDMOTHER MIMI. RACE LIFT: MARY ANNE IS WHE THE BOOK SERI, AND FACT IS SO PALE SHE N'T TAN; THIS ADAPTATN, MARY ANNE IS BIRACIAL SCE HER MOTHER WAS AIN-AMERIN. SHRKG VLET: SHE STARTS THE SERI SO SHY AND MEEK THAT SPEAKG ONT OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE OR ALG WH ANY SORT OF NONTATN GETS HER UPSET. SURPRISGLY OR LS-SURPRISGLY, SHE IS HIGHLY PASSNATE ABOUT BROADWAY AND MIL THEATER, EVEN SUBVERTG THIS BY TAKG THE LEAD ROLE A PLAY. SILK HIDG STEEL: SHE STARTS TO MATURE TO THIS THROUGHOUT THE FIRST SEASON, AS SHOWN WHEN SHE STANDS UP FOR BAILEY AT THE HOSPAL. STRONG FAY REMBLANCE: SHE IS SCRIBED AS REMBLG HER LATE MOTHER ALMA LOOKS, AND DAWN EVEN MISTAK A PICTURE OF ALMA AS A BABY FOR MARY ANNE. SUGAR-AND-ICE PERSONALY: MARY ANNE IS VERY SWEET AND RG, BUT SHE N MAKE HURTFUL OR DARK REMARKS WHEN SHE GETS UPSET. TEXTILE WORK IS FEME: SHE IS A KNTER, GETTG LSONS OM MIMI KNTG, AND EVEN KNS MIMI A SRF AFTER HER STROKE. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: THROUGHOUT THE FIRST SEASON SHE LEARNS TO BEE MORE NFINT AND STARTS TAKG CHARGE, EVEN DIRECTG AND STARRG A PLAY. TE BLUE FEMY: WEARS A LOT OF BLUE THE SERI AND ED TO HIGHLIGHT HER SOFT, GENTLE, QUIET NATURE.    STACEY MCGILL ANASTASIA ELIZABETH "STACEY" MCGILLPLAYED BY: SHAY RUDOLPHTHE TREASURER OF THE CLUB WHO RECENTLY MOVED TO STONEYBROOK OM NEW YORK CY. ALL OF THE OTHER REER: AFTER SHE'S FILMED WHILE HAVG A DIABETIC SEIZURE, SHE LOS A LOT OF IENDS NEW YORK. ALWAYS SOMEONE BETTER: MARY ANNE FEELS SECURE GIVEN THAT STACEY HAS A MORE SOPHISTITED IMAGE AND PERSONALY THAN SHE BUT IS RELIEVED TO FD OUT THAT SHE'S NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL REGARDG HER PREC CSH ON STT THE LIFEGUARD, WHICH HELPS THE GIRLS GROW CLOSER BY THE CAMP MOOSEHEAD EPISOS. BETY IS NEVER TARNISHED: THE NORMALLY PRETTY STACEY AVERTS THIS TROPE WH THE HELP OF POISON IVY CAMP MOOSEHEAD. CALLG THE OLD MAN OUT: SHE DO A GENTLE VERSN OF THIS WH HER MOTHER AT THE END OF "THE TTH ABOUT STACEY" WHEN SHE RMS HER MOM SHE ISN'T HIDG HER NDN ANY LONGER AND SHE ISN'T ASHAMED OF . DEADPAN SNARKER: GENERALLY VERY NICE AND FAR LS SARSTIC THAN YOU'D EXPECT A BORN-AND-BRED NEW YORKER TO BE, BUT SHE DO IMMEDIATELY POT OUT WHEN KRISTY SEEMS TO BE NFG THE REAL MANHATTAN WH GOSSIP GIRL. GOOD WH NUMBERS: SHE'S GOOD AT MATH, SO SHE BE THE CLUB TREASURER. THE FASHNISTA: DOWNPLAYED, BUT STACEY IS SHOWN TO BE VERY TERTED FASHN AND SHE DRS PRETTY SOPHISTITEDLY FOR SOMEONE OF HER AGE. MEETG HER IS ONE OF MARY ANNE'S MA IMPULS TO START DRSG SLIGHTLY MORE MATURELY. I JT WANT TO BE LOVED: A FAR BIGGER ISSUE THAN THE BOOKS. PARTLY DUE TO BEG REJECTED AND HUIATED NEW YORK, EVEN THE PRETTY, NICE, AND FASHNABLE STACEY HAS A LOT OF ANXIETY ABOUT BEG ALONE OR NOT HAVG IENDS. I JT WANT TO BE NORMAL: DUE TO HAVG DIABET, BUT AFTER MAKG IENDS WH THE BSC, 'S DOWNPLAYED SO FAR PARED TO THE BOOKS. BEE OF ADVANC MORN MEDIL TECHNOLOGY, SHE EVEN GETS TO DO THGS LIKE (OCSNALLY) EAT REGULAR KE WH EVERYBODY ELSE, PARED TO HER BOOK UNTERPART'S STRICT NO-SUGAR DIET. INSTANT HUIATN JT ADD YOUTUBE: STACEY'S DIABET IS EXPOSED BY THE BABY-STERS AGENCY WHEN THEY FD A VIO OF HER HAVG A DIABETIC SEIZURE AND CIRCULATE TO THEIR CLIENTS. SHE MENTNS THAT THIS ALSO HAPPENED AT HER OLD SCHOOL, DRIVG HER AWAY OM ALL OF HER OLD IENDS WHO SHARED . LIK OLR MEN: OR BOYS, SHE DO HAVE A CSH ON A MUCH OLR LIFEGUARD, BUT SHE ALSO CSH ON THE MORE AGE-APPROPRIATE SAM THOMAS. NEW TRANSFER STUNT: HER TRANSFER OPENS THE SERI, AS SHE BE CLOSE IENDS WH CLDIA TO KRISTY'S ANNOYANCE (AND JEALOY). NON-IDLE RICH: STACEY OM A PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND WH PROFSNAL PARENTS AND GREW UP A APARTMENT BUILDG MANHATTAN WHERE, AS KRISTY PUTS , "MOST OF THE CHILDREN HAVE POSH NANNI" BUT STACEY HAS EXPERIENCE BABYSTG FOR CHILDREN HER OLD BUILDG WHEN THE PARENTS NEED CHILDRE DURG THE NANNI' TIM OFF. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: SHE IS PRETTY SOPHISTITED, PECIALLY PARED WH HER SUBURBAN BORN-AND-RAISED IENDS, BUT SHE IS GIVEN TO BE BOY-CRAZY AND EVEN SHIRKS HER BABYSTG DUTI TO GH OVER A LIFEGUARD. MARY ANNE EVEN LAMPSHAS THIS TROPE, TELLG STACEY SHE ED TO THK STACEY WAS OLER THAN HER AND TIMIDATED HER, BUT NOW SHE KNOWS THAT STACEY N BE AN AWKWARD DORK TOO. ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: CLDIA FALLY HER FULL NAME THE SEASON 2 PREMIERE. PK MEANS FEME: ONE OF HER FAVORE LORS, ASI OM BLACK AND WHE, AND HIGHLIGHTS HER SOPHISTITED BUT NAIVE NATURE. SMTEN TEENAGE GIRL: ONE OF STACEY'S MA TRAS IS THAT SHE'S "BOY-CRAZY", EVEN NEGLECTG MARY ANNE WHEN SHE MEETS A CUTE (AND MUCH OLR) LIFEGUARD.    DAWN SCHAFER DAWN READ SCHAFERDAWN PLAYED BY XOCHL GOMEZCLICK HERE TO SEE DAWN PLAYED BY KYNDRA SANCHEZ PLAYED BY: XOCHL GOMEZ (SEASON 1), KYNDRA SANCHEZ (SEASON 2)THE ALTERNATE OFFICER OF THE CLUB WHO RECENTLY MOVED TO STONEYBROOK OM LOS ANGEL. ADAPTATNAL ANGST UPGRA: IN THE BOOKS, WHEN THE SPIERS MOVE WH THE SCHAFERS (ON A MORE PERMANENT BASIS), DAWN'S ANNOYANCE AT HOW OPPOSE THEY ARE BEE BOTH RICHARD AND MARY ANNE ARE TOO TYPE A WHILE DAWN AND HER MOTHER LIKE THGS MSY. NOT ONLY ARE DAWN AND MARY ANNE GIVEN A ROLE REVERSAL HERE – DAWN IS A NEAT EAK WHO CLEANS UP AFTER HER MOTHER WHILE MARY ANNE IS MORE EE-SPIRED – BUT SHE ALSO HAS A LOT MORE EP ANGER OVER MARY ANNE'S RELATNSHIP WH HER MOTHER. DAWN HAS TAKEN RE OF SHARON FOR THE LAST YEAR ON THEIR OWN, WHILE MARY ANNE HAS SUDNLY E AND F RIGHT WH SHARON'S LAID-BACK WAYS. WHEN DAWN ACC MARY ANNE OF TAKG OVER HER LIFE, HER VOICE BREAKS WHEN SHE YELLS, "MY MOM!" ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: DAWN IS SCRIBED TO HAVE LIGHT BLON HAIR THE BOOKS AND IS SHOWN AS SUCH ON BOOK VERS. HERE, SHE IS LATA AND A BTE. BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: A VERY PROGRSIVELY-MD SOAPBOX SADIE SPE G OM A WELL-OFF FAY. LAMPSHAD SEASON 2:DAWN: THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT OM YOU AND ME. KRISTY: SAYS THE GROCERY STORE HEIRS. DAWN: ONE GROCERY STORE, WHICH WAS SOLD, LIKE, 20 YEARS AGO. AND I TRY TO BE THE CHANGE. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: SHE OFFERS ENTHIASTILLY TO S WH MARY ANNE, DITG HER IENDLY AND OUTGOG NATURE; SHE'S EATG A VIBRANT GREEN SALAD AND DRKG A GREEN JUICE, DITG HER LOVE OF HEALTHY, H FOOD; SHE SAYS RIGHT AWAY THAT HER FATHER IS GAY, DITG HER FORT LEVEL WH NEW PEOPLE AND HER NO-NONSENSE APPROACH TO GENR AND SEXUALY; AND JOK THAT SHE FS EVERY CALIFORNIA STEREOTYPE, DITG HER SELF-AWARENS AND FORT WH WHO SHE IS. EXTREME DOORMAT: DOWNPLAYED, SHE IS A NFINT YOUNG WOMAN WHO PREFERS TO APPROACH PEOPLE A NON-NONTATNAL MANNER. SHE NOTABLY BEARS THE VERBAL AND EMOTNAL ARROWS KRISTY SLGS AT HER AND SHE TRI TO BE ACMODATG OF NATALIE BARRETT, WHICH LEADS THE OLR WOMAN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER. FOIL: TO KRISTY, TERMS OF BEG A FEMIST. DAWN TENDS TO HAVE A OPEN-MD (AND OPEN-HEARTED) VIEW OF PEOPLE THAT N GET HER TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, FIGHTS FOR SOCIAL ISSU EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T DIRECTLY AFFECT HER, AND HAS AN TERSECTNAL LENS WHILE THE RIGID AND JUDGY KRISTY HAS A MASTREAM GIRL BOSS LENS OF FEMISM. GRANOLA GIRL: DAWN IS SHOWN TO HAVE MANY HIPPIEISH BELIEFS AND TO ENJOY ELEMENTS OF NEW AGE SPIRUALY. LIPSTICK LBIAN: DAWN SUALLY MENTNS SHE'D BE OPEN TO A RELATNSHIP WH ANYONE ON "THE GENR SPECTM" TO MARY-ANNE, WHICH DIT DAWN'S PANSEXUAL. SHE'S ALSO PRETTY FEME GENERAL. NEW TRANSFER STUNT: LIKE STACEY, BUT TAK HER A WHILE TO GET TO KNOW MARY ANNE. NICE GIRL: ALL OF THE GIRLS ARE KD, BUT SHE IS PROBABLY THE LEAST PRONE TO SNARKY MOMENTS (PREFERRG TO REACH OUT TO KRISTY WHEN SHE'S BEG NASTY RATHER THAN SNIPE BACK) AND DISPLAYS A GREAT AL OF OPEN-MDNS. PROMOTN TO PARENT: FOR HER MOM, WHO IS FLIGHTY AND FETFUL, SO DAWN TAK RE OF HER A LOT OF THE TIME. RACE LIFT: WHILE DAWN IS A LONG-BLON-HAIRED WHE GIRL THE BOOK SERI, SHE AND HER FAY ARE BROWN-SKNED AND DARK-HAIRED LATO THE ADAPTATN. SIXTH RANGER: SHE JOS THE CLUB AT THE END OF "DAWN AND THE IMPOSSIBLE THREE". SOAPBOX SADIE: SHE IS SOCIALLY NSC, ALTHOUGH HER AWARENS OUT MORE AMG QUIPS RATHER THAN TIRAS. FOR EXAMPLE, SHE PRAIS CLDIA FOR HER PICTN OF NDY, SPE BELIEVG REFED SUGAR IS POISON. IT'S MORE ON DISPLAY HER PROTT AT MP, BUT SHE'S NOT PICTED AS WRONG OR ANNOYG FOR . WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS: ALTHOUGH ALL OF THE BABYSTERS CLUB ARE TELLIGENT, DAWN IS VERY MATURE AND EMOTNALLY TELLIGENT. SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO DISPLAYS KNOWLEDGE OF TRANS EXPERIENC, AND IS ALSO THE ONLY ONE WILLG TO GIVE MRS. BARRETT A CHANCE BEE SHE KNOWS WHAT A MSY DIVORCE N DO TO SOMEONE.    MALLORY PIKE MALLORY PIKEPLAYED BY: VIVIAN WATSONA JUNR OFFICER OF THE CLUB WHO HAS SEVEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ALL GIRLS LIKE PONI: LIKE HER BOOK UNTERPART, SHE LOV HORS, WHICH IS HELPFUL WHEN SHE RTS KRISTY THROUGH THE WOODS TO FD KAREN. CHARACTER EXAGGERATN: IN THE BOOKS, SHE IS MATURE FOR HER AGE, BUT A B AWKWARD DUE TO HER SECURI. IN THIS SERI, HER AWKWARDNS IS EXAGGERATED TO THE POT THAT SHE SEEMS MUCH MORE NAIVE AND JSI OFTEN ACTS AS HER CLOUDCUCKOOLANR'S MR, SOMETHG THAT NEVER HAPPENS THE BOOKS. MASSIVE NUMBERED SIBLGS: SHE'S THE OLST OF EIGHT. NICE GIRL: SHE'S VERY HELPFUL TO THE BABYSTERS, EVEN GIVG DAWN AND MARY ANNE HER FAVORE BEDROOM AT THE SUMMER TTAGE SEA CY BEE HAS THE BT VIEW OF THE BEACH AND THEY ULD HEAR THE OCEAN AND JOG KRISTY HER SEARCH FOR KAREN. OUTDOORSY GAL: SHE POSSS AN AMOUNT OF WILRNS KNOWLEDGE THAT IMPRS KRISTY AND IS HELPFUL FOR WHEN THE GIRLS GO TO LOOK FOR A LOST KAREN. SIXTH RANGER: SHE AND JSI ARE VED TO JO THE CLUB AFTER THEY HELP LOOK FOR KAREN "HELLO CAMP MOOSEHEAD! PART 2".    JSI RAMSEY JSI DAVIS "JSI" RAMSEYPLAYED BY: ANAIS LEEA JUNR OFFICER OF THE CLUB. ADAPTATNAL EARLY APPEARANCE: IN THE BOOKS, JSI DON'T MOVE TO STONEYBROOK UNTIL AFTER STACEY MOV BACK TO NEW YORK. HERE, SHE'S AT CAMP MOOSEHEAD WH THE OTHER GIRLS. FAN GIRL: SHE IS ENTHIASTIC ABOUT JOG THE CLUB, EVEN NAMG THE CLUB BY NAME AS IF SHE WAS BEG TOLD SHE WAS JOG A PARTY FULL OF CELEBRI. NICE GIRL: SHE GO WH MALLORY AND KRISTY TO HELP LOOK FOR KAREN SPE NOT KNOWG THE YOUNGER PERSONALLY, BUT WH ENTHIASM. SHE'S EVEN QUICK TO ASSURE KAREN THAT SHE'LL BE HER IEND AND THAT SHE LIK HER. ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: HER MOTHER JANICE 'JSI' PLENTY "JSI AND THE SUPERBRAT" SEASON 2, TO MONSTRATE PARENTAL SERNS. OTHER THAN THAT, SHE'S BASILLY JSI. PK MEANS FEME: HER FIRST APPEARANCE IS SHOWG OFF HER BALLET SKILLS DURG MP DNS PASTEL PK LEOTARD AND WRAP SKIRT, WHICH ALSO HIGHLIGHTS A SWEET NATURE. SIXTH RANGER: SHE AND MALLORY ARE VED TO JO THE CLUB AFTER THEY HELP LOOK FOR KAREN "HELLO CAMP MOOSEHEAD! PART 2". ADULTS    ELIZABETH THOMAS-BREWER  ELIZABETH THOMAS-BREWERPLAYED BY: ALICIA SILVERSTONEKRISTY'S MOTHER. ADAPTATNAL NAME CHANGE: DOWNPLAYED. HER NAME IS STILL ELIZABETH, BUT SHE NOW "LIZ, PLEASE", WHICH IS NEW TO THE NETFLIX SERI. ALONE AMONG THE COUPL: AS KRISTY REMEMBERED, ELIZABETH ALWAYS LOOKED SAD AND LONELY WHEN SHE WAS AROUND MARRIED PARENTS THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR MEETGS WH SCHOOLTEACHERS. SHE HAS TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW HER MOTHER LOOKS MUCH HAPPIER AFTER GETTG WH WATSON AND SERV AFTER BEG DIVORCED AND LEFT ROMANTILLY ALONE FOR A LONG TIME. DEADPAN SNARKER: AS A MOTHER OF FOUR CHILDREN (SOON TO BE SIX CHILDREN), CLUDG A CONTROL FREAK DGHTER, A SMARTASS TEEN BOY, AND A PREC BUT SLIGHTLY ODD STEPDGHTER, 'S A HELPFUL TOOL TO HAVE. GLAMORO SGLE MOTHER: PLAYED WH. ELIZABETH STARTS OUT THE SERI A NICE SUBURBAN HOME WH A REALTOR JOB AND LOOKG AS BETIFUL AS ALICIA SILVERSTONE BUT 'S SAID THAT SHE HAD TROUBL WH HER WATER AND ELECTRIC BILLS THE PAST — GIVEN HER IRRPONSIBLE EX-HBAND, 'S PRACTILLY A GIVEN SHE HAD MAJOR ISSU WH RECEIVG HER ENTLED CHILD SUPPORT. PL SHE HAS TWO SMART-MOUTHED TEEN BOYS, A PRETEEN DGHTER WHO IS SKEPTIL, AND A YOUNG SON- SO HER LIFE IS HARDLY GLAMORO. GOOD STEPMOTHER: TO KAREN AND THE VERY SHY ANDREW. SHE'S VERY PATIENT, NSIRG ONE STEPCHILD IS SHY AND THE OTHER IS THE OVERACTIVE IMAGATIVE KAREN BREWER. INFORMED FLAW: KRISTY SAYS "KRISTY'S BIG IA" THAT HER MOTHER IS IRRPONSIBLE AND HAS LED TO THEIR POWER BEG CUT OFF. ELIZABETH NEVER REALLY SHOWS ANY DITN OF THIS FLAW THE SERI. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: SHE IS A HARD-WORKG AND PENNT FEMIST, WORKG TO STILL THE TRAS KRISTY SO SHE N BE HER OWN WOMAN AS SHE GROWS UP. BUT, HER MARRIAGE TO WATSON MAK KRISTY WORRY SHE IS SELLG OUT HER VALU, AND THIS IS LIGHTLY TOUCHED ON REGARDG THE TIARA. (SHE DO EVENTUALLY TELL KRISTY SHE N BE PENNT YET STILL OPEN HERSELF UP TO OTHERS AND SHARE HER LIFE.) IT'S ALSO POTED OUT THAT KRISTY TAK AFTER HER REGARDG HER FEAR OF CHANGE.KRISTY: AREN'T YOU A LTLE OLD TO BE WEARG A TIARA?ELIZABETH: TELL TO THE QUEEN. OPEN-MD PARENT: SHE LEARNS THAT KRISTY WAS ASSIGNED AN SAY ON M BUT TAK THE TIME TO HEAR KRISTY OUT AND BELIEV HER WHEN KRISTY IMPLI THAT HER TEACHER WAS PUTTG ON A DOUBLE STANDARD AND TELLS KRISTY TO BE MORE FIVG OF HERSELF AND OTHER PEOPLE BEE "NO ONE IS PERFECT", EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE HER. PARENTAL FAVORISM: ELIZABETH DON'T NECSARILY MONSTRATE THIS (KRISTY SEEMS TO BE TREATED MORE-OR-LS THE SAME AS HER BROTHERS AND VIEWS HERSELF AS THE SAME), BUT SHE TELLS KRISTY AN AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER MOMENT THAT KRISTY IS HER FAVORE. SGLE WOMAN SEEKS GOOD MAN: AFTER BEG LEFT BY AN IRRPONSIBLE MAN WHO DON'T BOTHER NTACTG HIS CHILDREN AFTER HIS PARTURE, THE VERY KD, FUN-LOVG AND UNRSTANDG WATSON IS QUE AN IMPROVEMENT FOR HER LOVE LIFE. STGGLG SGLE MOTHER: AT FIRST, BUT BEG A RELATNSHIP WH (THEN BEG MARRIED TO) WATSON, WHO IS EXTREMELY WEALTHY, HELPS THIS.    WATSON BREWER WATSON BREWERPLAYED BY: MARK FERSTEELIZABETH'S FIANCEE (AND EVENTUAL HBAND) AND KRISTY'S STEPFATHER. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: IN THE BOOKS, HE IS SCRIBED AS BALDG AND MIDDLE-AGED (EVEN OLR THAN ELIZABETH BY A FEW YEARS) AND SOME ILLTRATNS PICT HIM AS A PORTLY MAN OF AVERAGE LOOKS. THE SERI HAS HIM PICTED BY THE RATHER CUTE MARK FERSTE. ALL THERE THE MANUAL: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LUCIA ANIELLO ADMTED ON A PODST THAT WATSON QUICKLY TURNED TO ONE OF HER FAVORE CHARACTERS, AND SHE AND THE WRERS CID TO FLH HIM OUT TO BUILD ON HIS BOOK UNTERPART. ALTHOUGH HIS JOB IS NEVER MENTNED THE NETFLIX SERI (HE IS A CEO TO AN SURANCE PANY THE BOOK SERI), ANIELLO SAID SHE IMAGED THAT WATSON WORKS SOMETHG LIKE CY/URBAN PLANNG OR STAABILY, WHICH ALSO EXPLAS WHY HE RIS A BIKE TO WORK. WHILE PLANNG JOBS TEND TO PULL GOOD E, SHE ALSO IMAGED THAT HIS WEALTH IS MORE OM THE FACT THAT HE OM "OLD MONEY." BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: WATSON IS MDFUL REGARDG ENVIRONMENTAL ISSU (HE RIS A BIKE TO WORK)AND OM AN OLD-MONEY FAY. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: HE'S ENTHIASTIC, POSIVE AND JT A LTLE DORKY, WHICH IS WHY HE MANAG TO W OVER KIDS OF ALL AG, OM HIS FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON AND THE PRE-TEEN BSC MEMBERS TO LIZ'S TWO TEENAGE BOYS. OF URSE, THE ONE KID HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO IMPRS, KRISTY, IS HARR TO W OVER. INFORMED FLAW: KRISTY ACC HIM OF NEVER SPENDG TIME WH HIS CHILDREN BEE HE ONLY GETS THEM ON THE WEEKEND AND HAS TO GO TO WORK ON A SATURDAY. HOWEVER, HE DO APPEAR TO BE A VOTED DAD WHOSE KIDS ADORE HIM, AND 'S IMPLIED THAT KRISTY IS PROJECTG HER OWN ISSU WH HER DISAPPEARED DAD ONTO HIM. ZIGZAGGED AS WELL; KRISTY ACC HIM OF TRYG TO "BUY" THEIR FAY, ALTHOUGH WATSON DON'T SEEM TO FLASH HIS MONEY AROUND A C WAY. HOWEVER, HE IS MUCH MORE IVOLO WH MONEY THAN THE THOMAS FAY IS ED TO AND SOME OF HIS ACTNS, SUCH AS BUYG CHARLIE A BMW WHEN HE'D SAVED FOR A ED TOYOTA AND OFFERG TO BUY KRISTY A HIGHLY EXPENSIVE DRS BEE SHE DIDN'T LIKE HER FIRST ONE DO DITE THAT HE DO TEND TO E HIS WEALTH TO OCSNALLY SOLVE PROBLEMS. IN SPE OF THIS, THOUGH, HE ONLY DO TO MAKE THE KIDS HAPPY AND TO TRY TO NNECT WH THEM (WHICH SOMETIM WORKS). NICE GUY: DPE KRISTY'S SPICNS, HE'S NOTHG BUT PLEASANT THROUGHOUT THE SERI, AND EVEN FIV KRISTY FAIRLY EASILY FOR ACCINTALLY DAMAGG HIS ANTIQUE R. NON-IDLE RICH: HE'S VERY WELL-OFF AND HAS A BETIFUL HOME WH AN ANTIQUE R, BUT DO HAVE A JOB (WORD OF GOD STAT HE MIGHT BE VOLVED URBAN PLANNG OR STAABILY) THAT HE OCSNALLY WORKS WEEKENDS AT. HE RIS A BIKE TO WORK AND SEEMS TO BE A PRETTY HARD WORKER. TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: HE'S ALREADY PRETTY KD, BUT WHEN HE APPEARS TO BE READY TO GET JTIFIABLY ANGRY AT KRISTY FOR THE DAMAGE TO HIS VERY RARE R, HE SIMPLY LLS EVEN AND AGRE TO NOT TELL LIZ. ALL BEE WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAT KRISTY BE HONT WH HIM.    RICHARD SPIER  RICHARD SPIERPLAYED BY: MARC EVAN JACKSONMARY ANNE'S WIDOWED DAD. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: BOOK ILLTRATNS HAVE PICTED HIM AS A SCRAWNY, BPECTACLED, MIDDLE-AGED MAN WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED TO TWO MUCH MORE GEO WOMEN AND WAS A B OF A LOOKER AS A YOUNGER FATHER. THIS VERSN HAS HIM PLAYED BY THE ADORABLE MARC EVAN JACKSON. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: SHARON LLED HIM "RICHIE" AND "TURTLE" WHEN THEY WERE GOG OUT. ANIMAL MOTIFS: TURTL. "TURTLE" IS SHARON'S NICKNAME FOR HIM AND SEVERAL CHARACTERS PARE HIM TO A TURTLE BEE HE IS VERY SHY, RETICENT, AND APPARENTLY LD. BOYIEND-BLOCKG DAD: SUBVERTED. MARY ANNE, ANX ABOUT HER UPG FIRST DATE WH LOGAN, TELLS TO HER DAD THKG THAT HE'LL PUT HIS FOOT DOWN ABOUT (A REASONABLE ASSUMPTN GIVEN HIS PRR OVERPROTECTIVENS). IT TURNS OUT THAT HE'S NOT ONLY FE WH HER DATG LOGAN BUT SUPPORTIVE, AND EVEN READS A SPEECH HE'D PREPARED FOR THE OCSN OFF OF SOME NOTERDS. CAN'T HOLD HIS LIQUOR: AT THE WEDDG WHEN SPECULATG ABOUT HIM AND SHARON, MARY ANNE MENTS THAT HE'S HAD A THIRD OF A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AND SO "ANYTHG N HAPPEN". CUTENS PROXIMY: GIVEN HIS QUIET (AND RARE) S AT WATSON'S AND ELIZABETH'S WEDDG WHEN THE THOMAS CHILDREN AND THE BREWER CHILDREN (WHO HE DON'T KNOW VERY WELL), THE FACT CLDIA FEELS CLOSE ENOUGH TO HIM TO EMBRACE HIM, AND HIS NFLICTED FEELGS REGARDG MARY ANNE GROWG UP N BE SAID HE FEELS SENTIMENTAL ABOUT KIDS. DISTRACTED BY THE SEXY: WHEN DAWN LLS (CHARADG AS HER MOTHER), RICHARD APPEARS TO BE STGGLG TO HOLD HIMSELF TOGETHER OM GETTG TOO EXCED AT THE SOUND OF WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS SHARON'S VOICE FLIRTG WH HIM.. HE FIGUR OUT 'S DAWN DUE TO HER VG HIM FOR WE ON THE ROCKS. FIERY REDHEAD: HE HAS GGER LORED HAIR AND N GET SNAPPISH WHEN HE'S UPSET. HAS A TYPE: JUDGG BY HIS RELATNSHIP WH SHARON AND HIS LATE WIFE ALMA, HE IS ATTRACTED TO NFINT WOMEN OF LOR WH CURLY HAIR. HIDN DEPTHS: GIVEN THAT HIS WORK LLEAGUE MRS. DELVECCH WAS SISTENT THAT ONLY MARY ANNE BABYS HER TRANSGENR DGHTER. THIS HTS AT RICHARD BEG SOCIALLY PROGRSIVE REGARDG GENR EXPRSN AND INTY ( NTRAST TO THE BOOKS WHERE HE STARTED OUT ENFORCG A RATHER DATED VERSN OF FEMY SO MARY ANNE WOULD BE RAISED PROPERLY) FOR HIS LLEAGUE TO ENTST HIS RELATIVE WH HER YOUNG CHILD. THIS ULD EVEN POT OUT THAT MRS. DELVECCH FDS HIM TSTWORTHY AND THAT IS HE IS SYMPATHETIC TO HER NCERNS. OUT OF ALL THE BABYSTERS, CLDIA IS ALWAYS HAPPY TO SEE HIM, AS SHE FDS HIM TO BE A KD PERSON JT REPRSED AND GIV HIM A GLOMP WHEN HE BY WH A HEALTHY SSEROLE AFTER MIMI'S STROKE. THIS IS LIKELY DUE TO THE SPIERS AND KISHIS BEG CLOSE. JERKASS HAS A POT: TAKG AWAY MARY ANNE'S PHONE FOR HER BEG LATE IS A B HARSH, BUT SHE'S A SEVENTH-GRAR WHO WAS 20 MUT LATE OM WHEN SHE SAID SHE'D BE HOME WHILE THERE WAS A HOME VAR AT LARGE. HE'S RRECT THAT SHE SIMPLY ULD HAVE TEXTED HIM TO LET HIM KNOW SHE WAS NNG LATE (ALTHOUGH, HE ULD HAVE ALSO LLED OR TEXTED HER). NOT SO STOIC: HE APPEARS TO HAVE A STOIC IMAGE BUT HE IS SHOWN TO GET EMOTNAL TO THE POT OF TEARS WHEN REMEMBERG HIS LATE WIFE AND THE PROSPECTS OF MARY ANNE LEAVG TOWN FOR A BABYSTG GIG. O.O.C. IS SER BS: AT THE WEDDG, WHEN STRSED ABOUT SHARON'S ATTENDANCE (SHE WAS LATE), HE MENTS TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL-AGED MARY ANNE THAT HE'S GOG TO GET CHAMPAGNE AND ASKS IF SHE'D LIKE ANY. OPEN-MD PARENT: HE'S ALREADY MORE OPEN-MD THAN HE LETS ON – HE SEEMS TO BE FULLY AWARE THAT FRANCE'S DGHTER IS TRANS AND REMEND MARY ANNE TO BABYS OUT OF RPECT FOR HIS LLEAGUE. ALSO, MARY ANNE'S STRICT "DRS " MORE OM THE FACT THAT HE DON'T FEEL NFINT STYLG MARY ANNE'S HAIR, WHICH IS MUCH LIKE HER BLACK MOTHER'S. BUT HIS WHOLE ARC IS ABOUT BEG MORE OUTWARDLY OPEN-MD, ALLOWG MARY ANNE TO TABLISH HER OWN TAST AND BEE MORE PENNT. REAL MEN COOK: HE IS AN EXPERIMENTAL AND CREATIVE OK, AWKWARDLY FLIRTG WH SHARON OVER AMARANTH AND PLANNG A THEMED THANKSGIVG DNER. IN NTRAST TO ELIZABETH, WHO BRGS SEVERAL BOX OF PIZZA FOR CLDIA'S FAY, HE BRGS A HOMEMA HEALTHY SSEROLE FOR THE KISHIS AND HE KNOWS THAT ST-IRON SKILLETS NNOT BE PUT THE DISHWASHER. SHRKG VLET: HE'S VERY TROVERTED AND GIVEN SHARON'S NICKNAME "TURTLE" FOR HIM, HE LIKELY HAD VERY SHY TRAS JT LIKE HIS DGHTER. SOUR OUTSI, SAD INSI: RICHARD OFTEN SNAPS AT MARY ANNE OR SHARON WHEN HE'S UNHAPPY, BUT HE'S CLEARLY STILL GRIEVG FOR MARY ANNE'S MOTHER. THIS IS A TRA HIS DGHTER HERS OM HIM. SUGAR-AND-ICE PERSONALY: HE APPEARS TO BE UPTIGHT AND A B LD, BUT IS SHOWN AS A LOVG AND PROUD FATHER, AS WELL AS A TSTWORTHY -WORKER WH IMPLIED PROGRSIVE SOCIAL VIEWS. GENKI GIRL CLDIA FDS HIM LOVABLE. UPTIGHT LOV WILD: HE REKDL A RELATNSHIP WH DAWN'S HIPPIE, FLAKY, BUT LOVG MOTHER SHARON.     MIMI YAMAMOTO MIMI YAMAMOTOPLAYED BY: TAKAYO FISCHERCLDIA'S BELOVED GRANDMOTHER. COOL OLD LADY: SHE IS VERY ACCEPTG AND UNRSTANDG OF HER GRANDDGHTER'S DIFFERENC OM THE FAY AND IS HELD REVERENCE BY HER NEIGHBORHOOD. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: CLDIA AND MEAN JANE REVEALS THAT WHEN SHE WAS 5, HER FAY WAS FORCED TO MOVE TO THE TERNMENT MP AT MANZANAR WHERE HER FAY SLEPT HORSE STABL THAT WEREN'T CLEAN AND ATE NNED OR ROTTEN FOOD. THE MEMORI ARE THE FIRST ON THAT E UP WHEN SHE WAK UP OM HER A. FEME WOMEN CAN COOK: SHE IS A GOOD OK. CLDIA NOT THAT SHE OKS WH LOVE EVERY DISH AND SHE TEACH CLDIA TO DO THE SAME; SEASON 2 HAS HER TEACHG CLDIA HOW TO NDUCT A PROPER TEA CEREMONY. INTERGENERATNAL FRIENDSHIP: SHE HAD THIS WH MARY ANNE'S LATE MOTHER AND NOW WH MARY ANNE. LIKE PARENT, LIKE CHILD: SHE IS AS EXCABLE AND WARM AS HER DGHTER KIMIKO AND GRANDDGHTER CLDIA. NEEDLEWORK IS FOR OLD PEOPLE: SHE IS A KNTER AND THIS IS POTED OUT WHEN MARY ANNE MENTS THAT SHE IS LIKELY FASHN-WISE, "THE WORLD'S OLST TODDLER OR 'S YOUNGT SENR CIZEN", PARTLY DUE TO KNTG AND NVERSG OVER TEA WH MIMI. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: HER REAL NAME, MAKIKO, IS SPOKEN BY A DOCTOR ONCE AT THE HOSPAL; EVERYONE (CLUDG HER DGHTER AND SON--LAW, HER GRANDDGHTERS, AND THEIR NEIGHBORS) LLS HER "MIMI". OPEN MD GRANDPARENT: SHE IS VERY ACCEPTG OF CLDIA'S DIFFERENC OM THE RT OF HER FAY, PRAISG HER FOR THE SKILLS AND THE CHARACTER TRAS CLDIA EXCELS AT RATHER THAN LAMENTG WHERE CLDIA FALLS SHORT, AND DON'T SEEM ANGRY AT CLDIA WHEN THE GIRL NFS TO G STACEY'S TT AS A VER TO GO TO THE DANCE. AFTER SHE DI, JANE REVEALS THAT MIMI KNEW JANE WAS LOVE WH ASHLEY AND PROMISED HER TO GIVE ASHLEY THE CHARM BRACELET HER LATE HBAND WON FOR HER. TEXTILE WORK IS FEME: SHE IS A TALENTED KNTER AND GIV LSONS TO MARY ANNE. SEASON 2 REVEALS THAT WHEN CLDIA AND MARY ANNE WERE BABI, SHE AND THE LATE ALMA CREATED THE STUM FOR THEM TO WEAR FOR THE BABY PARA NTT AND EVEN AFTER 13 YEARS, THEY HOLD UP.    SHARON PORTER SHARON PORTERPLAYED BY: JSI ELAA EASONDAWN'S STTERBRAED MOTHER. ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: LIKE HER DGHTER, SHARON WAS SCRIBED AND SOMETIM PICTED AS A BLON WHE WOMAN. IN THIS VERSN SHE IS A DARK-HAIRED LATA. AMIBLY DIVORCED: SHE DON'T APPEAR TO HARBOR ANY RENTMENT TOWARD DAWN'S FATHER FOR THEIR SPL (ALTHOUGH SHE HAT TO WEAR A DRS THAT SHE WORE THE NIGHT THEY FALLY CID TO DIVORCE). SHE HAS LTLE ANGST ABOUT BEG NEWLY SGLE AND LEAVG CALIFORNIA BEHD, AND MALY STAYED WH DAWN'S DAD OUT OF PENNCY SPE KNOWG EP DOWN HE WAS GAY. THE BEARD: HER EX-HBAND IS GAY, SOMETHG THAT DAWN SAID THEY WERE BOTH AWARE OF BUT WERE TOGETHER BEE THEY WERE BOTH PENNT. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE'S A LOVG, SWEET WOMAN - BUT IF YOU ARE AN ADULT WHO IS PENDG ON A TEENAGER TO HELP FIX YOUR LIFE AND TAKG ADVANTAGE OF THEIR GOOD WILL, SHE WILL GIVE YOU A STHG "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH.SHARON: THIS IS DAWN'S PHONE. THIS IS HER MOTHER. I'M SORRY, DAWN NNOT E TO THE PHONE RIGHT NOW. SHE'S A KID WHO HAS HER OWN LIFE TO LIVE. SORT OUT YOURS AND THEN YOU N APOLOGIZE TO MY DGHTER. BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: SHE IS HIPPIE-ISH AND A VEGETARIAN ALONG WH BEG PROGRSIVE. SHE MENTNS HER PARENTS HAVE "LOTS OF PROPERTY" THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH AND SHE HERED A HOE OM THEM. CALLG THE OLD WOMAN OUT: SHE LLS OUT NATALIE BARRETT ON BEHALF OF HER DGHTER. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE HAS AN OPEN, LENIENT RELATNSHIP WH HER DGHTER DAWN AND IS VERY STTERBRAED, TO THE POT OF DAWN HAVG TO TAKE RE OF HER (PUTTG AWAY THGS FOR HER, SHARON N'T N A DISHWASHER, AND KEEPG APPOTMENTS) BUT SHE IS SHOCKED BY HOW MUCH MS. BARRETT'S IRRPONSIBILY HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED DAWN (TO THE POT WHERE THE GIRL IS LOSG SLEEP AND IS STRSED OUT BY A POSSIBLE KIDNAPPG) AND LLS HER OUT ON . FOIL: TO NATALIE BARRETT. BOTH ARE RECENTLY DIVORCED MOTHERS WHO TEND TO BE DISANIZED. BUT SHARON IS ALSO FULLY AWARE OF DAWN'S STCT TO TAKE RE OF THGS AND MAK CLEAR THAT SHE DON'T EXPECT THAT BEHAVUR OM DAWN, AND STOPS HER OM DOG TOO MUCH FOR HER. NATALIE, MEANWHILE, TO EXPECT DAWN TO HANDLE NOT JT BABYSTG, BUT HOEKEEPG AND FULL-ON PARENTG AT TIM. IT ALL CULMAT A PHONE NONTATN BETWEEN SHARON AND NATALIE WHICH SHARON MONSTRAT HOW DIFFERENT THEY ARE EP DOWN. MAMA BEAR: SHE IS STTERBRAED BUT SHE DON'T LIKE WHEN BABYSTG CLIENTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER YOUNG DGHTER'S TIME AND HELP, AND WON'T BE AAID TO LL THEM OUT AND NAME THEIR SS TO THEM ON THE PHONE. AS SHE PUTS : BUT I'M YOUR MOTHER AND SOMETIM I WANT TO TAKE RE OF YOU. MS. FANSERVICE: IMPLIED, PECIALLY FOR A SHOW ORIENTED FOR A G-RATED DIENCE; SHE DID WEAR A EP-PLUNGG RASPBERRY LORED DRS TO A MMENT CEREMONY WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT WH DAWN, AND GIVEN THE SCTIVE VOICE THAT DAWN PUT ON TO TRICK RICHARD TO G OVER TO SEE SHARON (AFTER HE HAD GOTTEN ANGRY THE PREV TWO EPISOS) AND RICHARD'S REACTN TO , 'S NOT FAR-FETCHED TO BELIEVE SHE ACTS OUT. OPEN-MD PARENT: DAWN IS VERY EE TO EXPRS HERSELF, AND IS EVEN ABLE TO DISAGREE WH HER MOTHER AN AMIBLE WAY. SHE ALSO ALLOWS DAWN TO E HER PHONE AT THE DNER TABLE, WHICH SHOCKS RICHARD. QUIRKY CURLS: SHE IS A HIPPIE-ISH MOTHER WH VERY CURLY BROWN HAIR, WHICH TI TO HER LOVELY AND STTERBRAED NATURE. THIS IS NTRAST WH HER STRAIGHT-HAIRED (AND ANIZED, LAID-BACK) DGHTER AND HER GELLED-HAIRED (UPTIGHT AND ANX) BOYIEND. RACE LIFT: SHE WAS WHE THE BOOKS, LIKE HER DGHTER, BUT LATA THIS ADAPTATN. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: SHE ACROSS AS A LTLE SPACEY AND MORE PERMISSIVE THAN THE BUTTONED-DOWN RICHARD, BUT SHE HAS AN OPEN AND HONT RELATNSHIP WH HER DGHTER, ALLOWS DAWN TO EXPRS HERSELF, CLEARLY KNOWS RIGHT OM WRONG (MONSTRATED HER PHONE LL WH NATALIE) AND SHOWS SOME SENSIBILY REGARDG NFLICT ROLUTN WH RICHARD. TOO DUMB TO LIVE: GETS ONE STANCE OF THIS "KRISTY'S BIG DAY" AFTER GETTG ELIZABETH AND WATSON TO AVOID G YELLOW FISH FOR THEIR WEDDG... BUT NEGLECTS TO MENTN SHE IS ALLERGIC TO TREE NUTS AND FETS HER NUT ALLERGY WHEN SHE EATS A LTLE KE WH NUTELLA. KRISTY IS CRLO ABOUT HER FETTG SUCH A UNIVERSAL ALLERGY.    ESME PORTER ESME PORTERPLAYED BY: KAR KONOVALDAWN'S SPIRUAL PRACTNER NT AND WATSON'S NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, WHOM KAREN THKS IS A WCH. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL VERSN OF "KAREN'S WCH" PICTS HER AS A ELRLY WHE WOMAN WH LONG, DISHEVELED CURLY GRAY HAIR DARK CLOTHG, LOOKG LIKE A STEREOTYPIL HAG-LIKE WCH. SHE'S PLAYED BY AN ATTRACTIVE, LATE MIDDLE-AGED LATA LORFUL HIPPIEISH CLOTHG THIS SHOW. BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: SHE LIV NEXT DOOR TO WATSON THE SAME WEALTHY AREA OF TOWN AND SHE IS A HIPPIE, FEMIST NEW AGE SPIRUAL PRACTNER. BTAL HONTY: WHILE SHE IS GENTLE WH CHILDREN (LIKE MARY ANNE, DAWN, OR KAREN SCREAMG AT THE SIGHT OF HER), SHE IS QUICK TO SHUT DOWN ADULTS WHEN THEY GET ANNOYG LIKE HER IEND BARB WHEN SHE IS ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT HER DIVORCE FOR THE NTH TIME. COOL AUNT: TO BOTH SHARON AND DAWN. SHE IS LIGHTED TO HAVE DAWN AT HER SHARE-REMONY AND WAS IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO SHARON WHEN SHE WAS GROWG UP EVEN TO THE POT SHE WAS AWARE OF HOW EP HER RELATNSHIP TO RICHARD WENT AND APPROVED. CREEPY GOOD: INVOKED. KAREN IS SRED OF HER AND THKS SHE'S A WCH, BUT ESME POTS OUT THAT PEOPLE SHOULD LISTEN TO KIDS WHEN THEY TALK. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: PLAYED WH. SHE'S NOT AS OUTWARDLY SWEET AND FULL OF SUNSHE AS WATSON IS, BUT SHE OUTWARDLY ADVOT FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE KIDS SERLY, WHICH LIGHTS KAREN. SHE ALSO FAWNS OVER DAWN AND HAS A LIGHTHEARTED APPROACH TO MARY ANNE'S BREAKDOWN AT THE SHARE-EMONY, MERELY WRG OFF AS A "SRP" TRA RATHER THAN NS. QUIRKY CURLS: HAS SHORT, CURLY BROWN HAIR THAT REFLECTS HER BOHEMIAN SENSIBILI AND NON-RMFORMIST WORLDVIEW. RACE LIFT: SHE WAS SCRIBED AS A WHE WOMAN THE BOOKS, BUT IS LATA THIS VERSN.    JOHN AND KIMIKO KISHI JOHN AND KIMIKO KISHIPLAYED BY: KEVAN OHTSJI AND DIANA BANGCLDIA AND JANE'S PARENTS (AND MIMI'S DGHTER AND SON--LAW), WHO PROFS A SIRE FOR CLDIA TO BEE MORE AMILLY CLED. ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: FOR KIMIKO. HER NAME THE BOOK SERI WAS RKO. EDUTN MAMA: BOTH OF THEM PROFS PRI JANE BEG A TEEN GENI AND HAVG STRAIGHT A'S (EVEN BUYG A HUGE TER PACKAGE FOR JANE'S PUTER ACTIVI) WHILE THEY WISH CLDIA WOULD BE MORE APT AMIC SUBJECTS. LIKE PARENT, LIKE CHILD: THEY ARE EACH LIKE THEIR DGHTERS ALBE MORE MEASURED AND MATURE. JOHN IS AS SER AS JANE WHILE KIMIKO IS AS EXCABLE AS CLDIA, AND HER MOTHER MIMI.    DEIRDRE AND FORRT PIKE DEIRDRE AND FORRT PIKEPLAYED BY: CAL HOWN AND STEPHEN WEIGANDMALLORY'S PERMISSIVE AND GOOD-NATURED BUT BELEAGUERED PARENTS RAISG EIGHT CHILDREN. ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: FOR BOTH PARENTS. THEIR NAM ARE DIANA "DEE" AND JOHN PIKE THE BOOKS. BADLY BATTERED PARENTS: AS A RULT OF RAISG THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN TO "FOLLOW THEIR BLISS" AND NOT IMPOSE ANY BEHAVRAL BOUNDARI, THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN A FULL NIGHT OF SLEEP SCE MALLORY WAS BORN AND HIRED TWO BABYSTERS TO WATCH THEIR KIDS ON THEIR BEACH TRIP, AND THE RELSNS OF ONE OF THEIR KIDS RULTS BREAKG SOMETHG AT THEIR VATN HOME.DEIRDRE: THERE GO MY AIRBNB POTS. DOTG PARENT: THEY RAISE THEIR CHILDREN TO "FOLLOW THEIR BLISS" AND NOT IMPOSE ANY BOUNDARI ON THEIR BEHAVR, EVEN WHEN THEIR PHAS GET ANNOYG, LIKE WH VANSA NSTANTLY RHYMG EVERYTHG. OPEN-MD PARENT: THEIR PHILOSOPHY OF LETTG THEIR CHILDREN "FOLLOW THEIR BLISS" WAS SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR DIVIDUALY AND SKILLS (VANSA'S POETRY, FOR ONE THG).    MREEN AND EDWARD MCGILL MREEN AND EDWARD MCGILLPLAYED BY: SHNA JOHANNEN AND PETER BENSONSTACEY'S LOVG BUT WORRIED PARENTS. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: MREEN. SHE NVC STACEY TO KEEP HER NDN UNR LOCKDOWN AND IS SO TENT ON STACEY HIDG HER SUL PUMP THAT SHE DIRECTLY HER DGHTER TO FEEL LIKE SHE'S ASHAMED OF HER. ALSO SHE EAKS OUT ANY TIME STACEY'S BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS DO SOMETHG WEIRD (EVEN IF 'S HANDLED BY THE TIME SHE FDS OUT) AND TAK HER TO THE DOCTOR FOR EXTRA TTG. SHE GETS BETTER ABOUT WHEN STACEY TELLS HER THAT SHE ISN'T ASHAMED OF HER NDN AND THAT SHE WILL STOP HIDG HER PUMP. OPEN-MD PARENT: IN NTRAST TO HIS WIFE, ED DON'T SHOW THE SAME ANXIETI AROUND STACEY'S NDN, TAK VERY WELL TO STACEY OUTG HERSELF AS DIABETIC, AND IS EVEN IMPRSED BY HER BEDAZZLG HER SUL PUMP, ASKG IF SHE N DO TO HIS PHONE. REAL MEN WEAR PK: HER FATHER LOOKS LIKE A PLETELY HETERONORMATIVE DAD, BUT ALSO ADMIR STACEY'S BEDAZZLG SKILL AND ASKS IF SHE ULD DO THE SAME TO HIS PHONE. UNNAMED PARENT: STACEY'S PARENTS ARE JT "MOM AND DAD" THE FIRST SEASON. IT'S ASSUMED THEY STILL HAVE THEIR BOOK NAM OF MREEN AND ED. WHEN YOU COMG HOME, DAD?: IN SEASON 2, WE SEE THAT THEIR MARRIAGE GETS STRAED AFTER EDWARD STARTS WORKG ON A NEW ACUNT THAT TAK HIM AWAY OM HIS WIFE AND DGHTER; THIS STRS STACEY OUT. SIBLGS

BABY-SITTERS CLUB REBOOT FEATUR TRANS CHILD, GAY DADS

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One of the characters on the show has a gay father and Facetim wh him and his signifint other.

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THE BSC    THE GROUP  FIVE-TOKEN BAND: EVEN MORE THAN THE ORIGAL SERI. LIKE THE BOOKS, 1) DAWN AND KRISTY HAVE DIVORCED PARENTS, 2) STACEY HAS DIABET, 3) CLDIA IS JAPANE-AMERIN AND 4) MARY ANNE HAS A CEASED MOTHER. ADDNALLY THIS ADAPTATN, DAWN AND MARY ANNE ARE NO LONGER WHE (HISPANIC-AMERIN AND HALF-BLACK RPECTIVELY) AND DAWN REVEALS HERSELF TO BE LGBT+. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: PART OF THE REASON THEY STARTED THE CLUB AND THEY PROVE TO BE VERY VOTED AND PROTECTIVE OF THEIR CHARG. NICE GIRL: ALL OF THEM. KRISTY OCSNALLY SLIPS TO JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD, BUT ONLY WHEN SHE'S WH HER CLOSE IENDS OR HER MOM, AND SHE'S AN EXTREMELY KD BABYSTER. DAWN PECIALLY BORRS ON BEG TOO NICE AND STGGL TO ASSERT HERSELF WHEN SIMPLY BEG TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. RUNNG GAG: EVERY TIME KRISTY POTS OUT SOMETHG WHERE SHE MANDS AN ANSWER OR ACTS SLIGHTLY NTROLLG, THE CLUB (OR RATHER, THE MEMBER BEG QUTNED) WOULD ANSWER: OH, KRISTY, DON'T BE SUCH A BABY.    KRISTY THOMAS KRIST AMANDA "KRISTY" THOMASPLAYED BY: SOPHIE GRACE DUBBED BY: AMY DIAMOND (SWEDISH)THE PRINT OF THE CLUB WHO EQUENTLY LLS OUT SOCIAL JTIC. ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: SHE IS A BTE THE BOOKS, BUT HAS BURN HAIR THIS SERI. AMBIGUOLY GAY: KRISTY SHOWS CREASG DISTERT AND EXASPERATN HER IENDS' TERT BOYS AND OFF AS JEALO OF STACEY’S TERT HER BROTHER. BERSERK BUTTON: ABOUT HER FATHER LEAVG HER AND HER BROTHERS AND WHEN REMD OF HOW HER IENDS AND BABYSTG CHARG HAVE FATHERS WHO STAY VOLVED WH THEIR CHILDREN EVEN AFTER A DIVORCE AND WANTG TO SPEND TIME WH THEM. BIG SISTER INSTCT: KRISTY DISPLAYS THIS WH DAVID MICHAEL AND KAREN, ONE WHERE SHE LMS DOWN THE FORMER WHEN HE WETS HIS PANTS AND FORTS HIM THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDG (WHERE THEY LEAVE THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME) AND WH THE LATTER SHE GROWS CLOSE TO HER AND ACTS WHEN SHE NOTIC KAREN HAS GONE MISSG. SHE THEN LATER TELLS OFF THE CAMP DIRECTOR FOR KAREN NNG OFF. BLON, BTE, REDHEAD: OF HER SIBLGS (CLUDG KAREN AND ANDREW), SHE IS THE REDHEAD OF THE BUNCH WHILE HER SIBLGS ARE EHER BLON (KAREN AND CHARLIE) OR DARKER HAIRED (ANDREW, DAVID MICHAEL, AND SAM). BRATTY TEENAGE DGHTER: SHE SHOWS SHAS OF THIS "KRISTY'S BIG IA" WHEN SHE'S OPPOSED TO HER MOTHER'S RELATNSHIP WH WATSON. SHE WARMS UP TO HIM. COOL BIG SIS: SHE SERV AS THIS TO KAREN AND DAVID MICHAEL, WHO ARE PENNT AND VERY CLOSE TO HER. SHE AND KAREN GET CLOSER BEE OF THEIR RPECTIVE PREC TELLIGENCE AND GIVEN THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO GIRLS THE FAY (WH FOUR BOYS). CONTROL FREAK: SHE REALLY N'T STAND CHANGE AND SHE WANTS EVERYTHG ORRLY AND BY PROCRE, TO THE POT WHERE SHE N BE MEAN TO NEWERS VED BY OTHER MEMBERS, AND SHE HAT WHEN OTHER MEMBERS GO AGAST HER MANDS. CLDIA LAMPSHAS THIS TROPE AS TO WHY SHE HAD GROWN DISTANT OM KRISTY BY THE START OF THE SERI. DEADPAN SNARKER: HAS A KEEN AWARENS OF THE WORLD AND A DRY LIVERY TO GO WH WHEN NECSARY (CLEARLY A FAY TRA, JUDGG BY HER OLR BROTHER SAM AND HER MOTHER HAVG ).KRISTY: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU JO TWO PEOPLE, AND THEIR FAI, TOGETHER FOREVER? UNLS SOMEONE CHANG THEIR MD, WHICH THEY DO, ALL THE TIME. KAREN: WE'RE ALL CHILDREN OF DIVORCE, KRISTY, GET TO THE GOOD PART. DAVID MICHAEL: JT DO WHAT SHE SAYS. KRISTY: PREPARED FOR MARRIAGE ALREADY. DISAPPEARED DAD: HER BLOGIL FATHER, PATRICK THOMAS, ABANDONED HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN AND NEVER LLS OR WR. THIS IS SOMETHG THAT UPSETS KRISTY VERY MUCH, AND SHE RENTS HOW OTHER DIVORCED FATHERS WHOM SHE SE ARE VOLVED WH THEIR KIDS' LIV SPE NOT BEG AROUND AS MUCH AS BEFORE. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: KRISTY IS FULLY AWARE OF HOW OVERBEARG SHE IS; THE VERY FIRST SCENE SHE NARRAT THAT SHE WAS DOG ALL THE TALKG WH MARY ANNE, AS UAL, AND THAT MARY ANNE WAS DOG ALL THE LISTENG, AS UAL. FIERY REDHEAD: IN THIS VERSN, SHE IS A REDHEAD AND WHILE SHE N EXPRS TRANQUIL FURY OR BE PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE, SHE N GET EMOTNAL AND RRIED AWAY WH HER TRATNS, PECIALLY WH HER BERSERK BUTTON REGARDG FATHERS. FOIL: TO DAWN, TERMS OF BEG A FEMIST. BOTH GIRLS ARE VERY TELLIGENT AND KEENLY AWARE OF SOCIAL JTICE ISSU, PECIALLY REGARDG WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BUT WHILE KRISTY TENDS TO BE MORE JUDGMENTAL (WHEN SHE THOUGHT STACEY HAD AN EATG DISORR, SHE STATED MAY AFFECT STACEY AS A ROLE MOL RATHER THAN SEEG AS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE) AND RIGID AND A GIRL BOSS SORT; DAWN TENDS TO BE MORE FIVG OF OTHER PEOPL' FLAWS AND SHE OUTWARDLY FIGHTS ON BEHALF OF OTHER PEOPLE EVEN ISSU THAT DON'T DIRECTLY AFFECT HER (AN TERSECTNAL LENS). FRDIAN EXCE: HER DAD LEFT WHEN SHE WAS FIVE OR SIX AND IS PRETTY MUCH NEVER NTACT. KRISTY IS STILL TRYG TO AL WH HER FEELGS OF ABANDONMENT AND SECURY YEARS LATER, AND SOME OF OUT HER CONTROL FREAK OR I JT WANT TO BE LOVED TENNCI. GO-GETTER GIRL: KRISTY IS A GOOD STUNT, A RPONSIBLE OLR SISTER, AND NS A SUCCSFUL BABYSTG BS SHE STARTED. DID WE MENTN THAT SHE'S TWELVE? GREEN-EYED MONSTER: IF KRISTY ACTS OUT, 'S OFTEN BEE OF JEALOY (PECIALLY OF STACEY AND DAWN, WHO ARE NEW), BUT SHE STGGL TO BE HONT ABOUT TO HERSELF. I JT WANT TO BE LOVED: SHE GETS VERY UPSET WHEN SHE FIGHTS WH HER IENDS OR FAY AND THEN ADMS AS MUCH TO DAWN AFTER RANTG ABOUT HER PARENTAL ABANDONMENT. THGS LIKE DAWN GENTLY LISTENG TO HER OR ELIZABETH REASSURG HER SHE IS GREATLY LOVED HELP. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ONE OF KRISTY'S WEAKNS, ALTHOUGH SHE STGGL TO REGNIZE WHEN SHE'S DOG , IS TO THROW A TANTM WHEN SHE THKS SHE'S BEG IGNORED. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: SHE'S BLUNT, SHORT-TEMPERED, AND DUE TO HER HATRED OF CHANGE, SHE N BE LD OR DOWNRIGHT HOSTILE TO NEWERS (LIKE WATSON OR DAWN), BUT SHE'S NOT A BAD PERSON. SHE PROV HERSELF TO BE A LOYAL IEND AFTER SHE WARMS UP TO OTHERS, AND IS GENUELY PASSNATE TO HER LOVED ON. THE LEAR: SHE IS THE LEAR OF THE BABY-STERS CLUB BUT, AS HER MOM OBSERV, SHE ALSO REALLY LIK TO BE CHARGE AND HAVE HER OWN WAY. NICE MEAN AND IN BETWEEN: WH HER BLOGIL BROTHERS SHE IS THE "IN BETWEEN" WH HER JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD AND FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN TENNCI WHILE YOUNGER DAVID MICHAEL IS "NICE" AND OLR BRATTY BROTHERS ARE "MEAN". ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: HER REAL NAME IS KRIST, BUT SHE GO BY KRISTY. PARENTAL FAVORISM: DOWNPLAYED, BUT ELIZABETH DO TELL HER SHE IS HER FAVORE CHILD. SIMPLE, YET OPULENT: HER TASTE CLOTHG GENERAL. MARY ANNE REFERS TO KRISTY'S FASHN SENSE AS "NORMRE" AND SHE HAS SENSIBLE TAST R (SUGGTG NAVY BLUE FOR MARY ANNE'S ROOM AS HIS STAS) AND FAVORS JEANS AND ALPE SWEATERS; THIS IS HIGHLIGHTED BY HER CHOICE OF A SIMPLE, F AND FLARED BLUE GOWN OVER A TIGHT YELLOW DRS FOR HER BRISMAID LOOK. SHE CLEANS UP NICELY: SHE'S A NICE-LOOKG YOUNG GIRL WHO PREFERS TO WEAR JEANS, SWEATERS AND SWEATSHIRTS, T-SHIRTS, AND A BASEBALL P - BUT IS ENTRANCED WH HER APPEARANCE HER LIGHT BLUE BRISMAID GOWN, WH KAREN MENTG SHE LOOKS LIKE CRELLA (WH WHICH KRISTY N NCUR). SOUR OUTSI, SAD INSI: HER CONTROL FREAK TENNCI ARE A WAY OF PG WH THE LACK OF NTROL SHE FELT WHEN HER FATHER LEFT AND NEVER NTACTED THE CHILDREN AGA. OFTEN, HER SOUR TENNCI N HAVE THE EFFECT SHE WANTS LEAST: ONE WHERE HER IENDS REJECT OR GROW DISTANT OM HER (LIKE CLDIA) OR WHERE HER IENDS N GROW TRATED WH HER AND HAVE AN EMOTNAL OUTBURST THAT HURTS HER FEELGS (MARY ANNE). TH FAR THE ONLY ONE WHO SEEMS TO LM DOWN KRISTY ENOUGH TO TALK OUT HER ISSU IS DAWN. TOMBOYISH PONYTAIL: SHE WEARS HER HAIR A SIMPLE PONYTAIL AND IS A TOMBOY. TE BLUE FEMY: HER PREFERRED LOOK FOR HER BRISMAID DRS IS A SIMPLE LIGHT BLUE SILK GOWN THAT MAK HER LOOK AND FEEL LIKE CRELLA.    CLDIA KISHI CLDIA LYNN KISHIPLAYED BY: MOMONA TAMADATHE VICE-PRINT OF THE CLUB WHO HAS A PASSN FOR ART. AMBIGUO DISORR: SHE HAS ATROC GRAS BUT DISPLAYS HIGH EMOTNAL TELLIGENCE AND A PACY FOR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THGS SHE FDS TERTG, LIKE LERATURE AND BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY. IN THE EPISO "CLDIA AND THE PHANTOM PHONE CALLER," SHE SAYS THAT SHE TENDS TO SHIFT HER FOC OM SUBJECTS FOR WHICH SHE SHOWS LS APTU (MOST AMIC SUBJECTS) AND TOWARD BABYSTG AND ART (AT WHICH SHE EXCELS). SHE ALSO TRI TO TAP HER FOC ON A SPECIFIC SUBJECT FOR A TT AND EVEN WHEN SHE DO, SHE STILL FAILS THE TT, IMPLYG SHE ISN'T LAZY BUT THERE MAY BE A LEARNG DISABILY. ASIAN AIRHEAD: PLAYED WH; SHE IS BOOK DUMB BUT A TALENTED ARTIST AND VERY CLEVER. BOOK DUMB: SHE IS LS APT AMIC SUBJECTS THAN SHE IS ART AND BABYSTG BUT DISPLAYS AN AWARENS OF SOCIAL JTICE ISSU AND LOV READG LERATURE. SHE IMPROV A B WHEN SHE STARTS PRACTICG HER JAPANE LANGUAGE SKILLS AFTER MIMI'S STROKE. DEADPAN SNARKER: SHE WRYLY NOT THE ODD PARTS OF HER LIFE AND EVERYTHG AROUND HER, OM THE FAY'S TER PACKAGE TO KRISTY'S BEHAVR TO THE "DULL B" WHERE HER FAY WILL BE VATNG. AFTER SOMEONE REMDS HER MIMI WILL BE WH HER:CLDIA: MIMI WILL BE BORED TOO. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HER FIRST SPEAKG SCENE SHOWS THAT SHE STGGL AMICS (MR. REDMONT LLS OUT HER LACK OF FOC AND MENTNS POOR TT GRAS) WHILE ALSO SHOWG HER QUIRKY, ARTISTIC SI (WRG HER RPONSE TO KRISTY – A OL, GRAPHIC STYLE – ON HER SNEAKER). FEME WOMEN CAN COOK: LIKE HER GRANDMOTHER, CLDIA LISTS OKG AS ONE OF THE FEW THGS SHE IS GOOD AT (ART, BABYSTG, AND FASHN). INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: WHEN MIMI HAS HER STROKE, CLDIA IS SHOWN TO NOT KNOW THAT MIMI WAS AN TERNMENT MP AS A CHILD AND THKS "MANZANAR" IS THE NAME OF A MAKE-BELIEVE WORLD LIKE NARNIA. ONLY SANE MAN: BETWEEN HER, KRISTY, AND MARY ANNE, SHE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST SELF-POSSSED AND MATURE ONE AND IS ABLE TO SPELL OUT HER FEELGS WHOUT TRATN TO KRISTY. OVERSHADOWED BY AWOME: OFTEN FEELS NEGATIVELY PARED TO HER OLR SISTER JANE. PARENTAL FAVORISM: CLDIA IS SHOWN TO THK SHE IS MIMI'S FAVORE, AS THEY HAVE A VERY CLOSE RELATNSHIP. SHE IS SHOCKED TO SEE THAT MIMI AND JANE ARE CLOSE OTHER WAYS (JANE SPEAKS FLUENT JAPANE AND KNOWS ABOUT MIMI'S PAST). PK MEANS FEME: SHE WEARS A BOLD WHE DRS WH A PK PATTERN TO ELIZABETH AND WATSON'S WEDDG. SIBLG Y-YANG: WH HER OLR SISTER JANE. CLDIA IS OFTEN BRIGHT LORS AND PATTERNS, BOOK DUMB, IS BUBBLY AND OUTGOG, AND VERY EMOTNAL WHILE JANE N BE LD, TROVERTED, PRECISE, AMILLY CLED, AND OFTEN MORE DARK OR NTRAL TONED HER WARDROBE. SWEET TOOTH: SHE HIS JUNK FOOD ALL OVER HER ROOM AND SHE EVEN PATS PORTRAS OF FAMO NDI.    MARY ANNE SPIER MARY ANNE SPIERPLAYED BY: MALIA BAKERDUBBED BY: MIMMI SANDéN (SWEDISH)THE SHY SECRETARY OF THE CLUB. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE'S A TIMID NICE GIRL, BUT OFTEN WHEN SHE GETS TRATED, SHE HAS EMOTNAL OUTBURSTS AND SHE ISN'T AAID TO RRECT DOCTORS WHEN THEY MISGENR ONE OF HER BABYSTG CHARG AND TELL ONE OF HER IENDS WHEN THEY ARE GOG WRONG. BPECTACLED CUTIE: SHE IS SEEN WEARG HORN-RIMMED GLASS AND IS A NICE-LOOKG (ALBE SHY) YOUNG GIRL. CANNOT SP IT OUT: SHE HAS A HARD TIME TALKG TO LOGAN, HER CSH, FOR MOST OF THE FIRST SEASON. SHE GETS OVER THE FALE, ENDG UP KISSG HIM ON THE CHEEK. IN PUBLIC! DEADPAN SNARKER: SHE IS SO FAR A MASTER OF MAKG DRY MENTS REGARDG OTHERS, LIKE A MEDCRE RAP OM A BABYSTERS AGENCY'S STER'S BOYIEND OR EVEN HER FATHER STG THE DARK (FOR ABOUT AN HOUR) JT TO MAKE A DRAMATIC REACTN TO HER G HOME LATE.MARY ANNE: THAT DON'T RHYME, SIR. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: KRISTY, NARRATG, SAYS THAT SHE WAS DOG ALL THE TALKG, AS UAL, WHILE MARY ANNE WAS DOG ALL THE LISTENG, TABLISHG THAT SHE IS SENSIVE AND QUIET (AND OCSNALLY LETS HERSELF BE TALKED OVER). EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: AFTER THE CINT WH BAILEY AT THE HOSPAL WHEN MARY ANNE LEARNED TO BE MORE ASSERTIVE, SHE STARTS HAVG OTHER HAIRSTYL THAN HER UAL BRAID PIGTAILS AFTER TELLG HER DAD SHE WANTED MORE. JTIFIED AS TURNS OUT THAT HE HAS NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WH HER HAVG HER HAIR DIFFERENTLY; 'S JT THAT THE PIGTAILS ARE THE ONLY HAIRSTYLE HE KNOWS HOW TO HELP HER WH. EXTREME DOORMAT: SHE TRI NOT TO BE THIS, BUT HER IENDS STILL LL HER OUT OCSNALLY ON HER TENNCY TO FOLD UNR PRSURE. SHE GETS BETTER AFTER STANDG UP FOR HER STG CHARGE, MEETG DAWN AND TAKG CHARGE AT MP, BUT SHE IS STILL LS ASSERTIVE THAN THE OTHERS. FRDIAN EXCE: HER MOTHER ALMA DIED BEFORE MARY ANNE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE ANY MEMORI OF HER, AND 'S HAD A BIG IMPACT ON HER STRICT CHILDHOOD AND SHY, TENTATIVE RPONS TO MANY THGS. GRACEFUL LADI LIKE PURPLE: SHE WEARS A LOT OF THE LOR, IS A CHOSEN LOR FOR HER WTER AT, AND 'S THE LOR CHOSEN FOR HER GROWN UP ROOM MAKEOVER ( NTRAST TO HER PK MEANS FEME CHILDHOOD R). IT HIGHLIGHTS HER GROWTH AS A YOUNG WOMAN. JERKASS HAS A POT: MARY ANNE IS NOT A JERKASS, BUT HER BEWARE THE NICE ON AND EXTREME DOORMAT TENNCI N OVERPOWER HER FILTER WHEN UPSET, LIKE TELLG KRISTY WHEN BEG NAGGED ABOUT RICHARD'S OVERPROTECTIVENS THAT SHE KNOWS NOTHG ABOUT HAVG A NORMAL (READ: RG, OR PRENT) FATHER, WHICH MAK KRISTY UPSET NOTE AND A LATER EPISO, KRISTY DO REVEAL TO DAWN SHE LIKELY ENVI MARY ANNE FOR HAVG A FATHER WHO R ABOUT HER WHEREABOUTS AND WANTS HER AROUND HIM (AND ALL THE FATHERS OF HER IENDS AND BABYSTG CLIENTS WHO LOVE THEIR KIDS AND DO EVERYTHG TO BE PART OF THEIR LIV). LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DGHTER: MIMI AND RICHARD BOTH MENT ON HOW MARY ANNE'S SELF-POSSSN, ANIZATN, AND WILLGNS TO STAND UP FOR UNRDOGS REMDS THEM OF HER NOW-AD MOTHER. MISSG MOM: MARY ANNE'S MOTHER DIED WHEN SHE WAS A BABY. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: SHE HAS AN RMAL ONE HER NEIGHBOR, CLDIA'S GRANDMOTHER MIMI. RACE LIFT: MARY ANNE IS WHE THE BOOK SERI, AND FACT IS SO PALE SHE N'T TAN; THIS ADAPTATN, MARY ANNE IS BIRACIAL SCE HER MOTHER WAS AIN-AMERIN. SHRKG VLET: SHE STARTS THE SERI SO SHY AND MEEK THAT SPEAKG ONT OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE OR ALG WH ANY SORT OF NONTATN GETS HER UPSET. SURPRISGLY OR LS-SURPRISGLY, SHE IS HIGHLY PASSNATE ABOUT BROADWAY AND MIL THEATER, EVEN SUBVERTG THIS BY TAKG THE LEAD ROLE A PLAY. SILK HIDG STEEL: SHE STARTS TO MATURE TO THIS THROUGHOUT THE FIRST SEASON, AS SHOWN WHEN SHE STANDS UP FOR BAILEY AT THE HOSPAL. STRONG FAY REMBLANCE: SHE IS SCRIBED AS REMBLG HER LATE MOTHER ALMA LOOKS, AND DAWN EVEN MISTAK A PICTURE OF ALMA AS A BABY FOR MARY ANNE. SUGAR-AND-ICE PERSONALY: MARY ANNE IS VERY SWEET AND RG, BUT SHE N MAKE HURTFUL OR DARK REMARKS WHEN SHE GETS UPSET. TEXTILE WORK IS FEME: SHE IS A KNTER, GETTG LSONS OM MIMI KNTG, AND EVEN KNS MIMI A SRF AFTER HER STROKE. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: THROUGHOUT THE FIRST SEASON SHE LEARNS TO BEE MORE NFINT AND STARTS TAKG CHARGE, EVEN DIRECTG AND STARRG A PLAY. TE BLUE FEMY: WEARS A LOT OF BLUE THE SERI AND ED TO HIGHLIGHT HER SOFT, GENTLE, QUIET NATURE.    STACEY MCGILL ANASTASIA ELIZABETH "STACEY" MCGILLPLAYED BY: SHAY RUDOLPHTHE TREASURER OF THE CLUB WHO RECENTLY MOVED TO STONEYBROOK OM NEW YORK CY. ALL OF THE OTHER REER: AFTER SHE'S FILMED WHILE HAVG A DIABETIC SEIZURE, SHE LOS A LOT OF IENDS NEW YORK. ALWAYS SOMEONE BETTER: MARY ANNE FEELS SECURE GIVEN THAT STACEY HAS A MORE SOPHISTITED IMAGE AND PERSONALY THAN SHE BUT IS RELIEVED TO FD OUT THAT SHE'S NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL REGARDG HER PREC CSH ON STT THE LIFEGUARD, WHICH HELPS THE GIRLS GROW CLOSER BY THE CAMP MOOSEHEAD EPISOS. BETY IS NEVER TARNISHED: THE NORMALLY PRETTY STACEY AVERTS THIS TROPE WH THE HELP OF POISON IVY CAMP MOOSEHEAD. CALLG THE OLD MAN OUT: SHE DO A GENTLE VERSN OF THIS WH HER MOTHER AT THE END OF "THE TTH ABOUT STACEY" WHEN SHE RMS HER MOM SHE ISN'T HIDG HER NDN ANY LONGER AND SHE ISN'T ASHAMED OF . DEADPAN SNARKER: GENERALLY VERY NICE AND FAR LS SARSTIC THAN YOU'D EXPECT A BORN-AND-BRED NEW YORKER TO BE, BUT SHE DO IMMEDIATELY POT OUT WHEN KRISTY SEEMS TO BE NFG THE REAL MANHATTAN WH GOSSIP GIRL. GOOD WH NUMBERS: SHE'S GOOD AT MATH, SO SHE BE THE CLUB TREASURER. THE FASHNISTA: DOWNPLAYED, BUT STACEY IS SHOWN TO BE VERY TERTED FASHN AND SHE DRS PRETTY SOPHISTITEDLY FOR SOMEONE OF HER AGE. MEETG HER IS ONE OF MARY ANNE'S MA IMPULS TO START DRSG SLIGHTLY MORE MATURELY. I JT WANT TO BE LOVED: A FAR BIGGER ISSUE THAN THE BOOKS. PARTLY DUE TO BEG REJECTED AND HUIATED NEW YORK, EVEN THE PRETTY, NICE, AND FASHNABLE STACEY HAS A LOT OF ANXIETY ABOUT BEG ALONE OR NOT HAVG IENDS. I JT WANT TO BE NORMAL: DUE TO HAVG DIABET, BUT AFTER MAKG IENDS WH THE BSC, 'S DOWNPLAYED SO FAR PARED TO THE BOOKS. BEE OF ADVANC MORN MEDIL TECHNOLOGY, SHE EVEN GETS TO DO THGS LIKE (OCSNALLY) EAT REGULAR KE WH EVERYBODY ELSE, PARED TO HER BOOK UNTERPART'S STRICT NO-SUGAR DIET. INSTANT HUIATN JT ADD YOUTUBE: STACEY'S DIABET IS EXPOSED BY THE BABY-STERS AGENCY WHEN THEY FD A VIO OF HER HAVG A DIABETIC SEIZURE AND CIRCULATE TO THEIR CLIENTS. SHE MENTNS THAT THIS ALSO HAPPENED AT HER OLD SCHOOL, DRIVG HER AWAY OM ALL OF HER OLD IENDS WHO SHARED . LIK OLR MEN: OR BOYS, SHE DO HAVE A CSH ON A MUCH OLR LIFEGUARD, BUT SHE ALSO CSH ON THE MORE AGE-APPROPRIATE SAM THOMAS. NEW TRANSFER STUNT: HER TRANSFER OPENS THE SERI, AS SHE BE CLOSE IENDS WH CLDIA TO KRISTY'S ANNOYANCE (AND JEALOY). NON-IDLE RICH: STACEY OM A PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND WH PROFSNAL PARENTS AND GREW UP A APARTMENT BUILDG MANHATTAN WHERE, AS KRISTY PUTS , "MOST OF THE CHILDREN HAVE POSH NANNI" BUT STACEY HAS EXPERIENCE BABYSTG FOR CHILDREN HER OLD BUILDG WHEN THE PARENTS NEED CHILDRE DURG THE NANNI' TIM OFF. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: SHE IS PRETTY SOPHISTITED, PECIALLY PARED WH HER SUBURBAN BORN-AND-RAISED IENDS, BUT SHE IS GIVEN TO BE BOY-CRAZY AND EVEN SHIRKS HER BABYSTG DUTI TO GH OVER A LIFEGUARD. MARY ANNE EVEN LAMPSHAS THIS TROPE, TELLG STACEY SHE ED TO THK STACEY WAS OLER THAN HER AND TIMIDATED HER, BUT NOW SHE KNOWS THAT STACEY N BE AN AWKWARD DORK TOO. ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: CLDIA FALLY HER FULL NAME THE SEASON 2 PREMIERE. PK MEANS FEME: ONE OF HER FAVORE LORS, ASI OM BLACK AND WHE, AND HIGHLIGHTS HER SOPHISTITED BUT NAIVE NATURE. SMTEN TEENAGE GIRL: ONE OF STACEY'S MA TRAS IS THAT SHE'S "BOY-CRAZY", EVEN NEGLECTG MARY ANNE WHEN SHE MEETS A CUTE (AND MUCH OLR) LIFEGUARD.    DAWN SCHAFER DAWN READ SCHAFERDAWN PLAYED BY XOCHL GOMEZCLICK HERE TO SEE DAWN PLAYED BY KYNDRA SANCHEZ PLAYED BY: XOCHL GOMEZ (SEASON 1), KYNDRA SANCHEZ (SEASON 2)THE ALTERNATE OFFICER OF THE CLUB WHO RECENTLY MOVED TO STONEYBROOK OM LOS ANGEL. ADAPTATNAL ANGST UPGRA: IN THE BOOKS, WHEN THE SPIERS MOVE WH THE SCHAFERS (ON A MORE PERMANENT BASIS), DAWN'S ANNOYANCE AT HOW OPPOSE THEY ARE BEE BOTH RICHARD AND MARY ANNE ARE TOO TYPE A WHILE DAWN AND HER MOTHER LIKE THGS MSY. NOT ONLY ARE DAWN AND MARY ANNE GIVEN A ROLE REVERSAL HERE – DAWN IS A NEAT EAK WHO CLEANS UP AFTER HER MOTHER WHILE MARY ANNE IS MORE EE-SPIRED – BUT SHE ALSO HAS A LOT MORE EP ANGER OVER MARY ANNE'S RELATNSHIP WH HER MOTHER. DAWN HAS TAKEN RE OF SHARON FOR THE LAST YEAR ON THEIR OWN, WHILE MARY ANNE HAS SUDNLY E AND F RIGHT WH SHARON'S LAID-BACK WAYS. WHEN DAWN ACC MARY ANNE OF TAKG OVER HER LIFE, HER VOICE BREAKS WHEN SHE YELLS, "MY MOM!" ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: DAWN IS SCRIBED TO HAVE LIGHT BLON HAIR THE BOOKS AND IS SHOWN AS SUCH ON BOOK VERS. HERE, SHE IS LATA AND A BTE. BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: A VERY PROGRSIVELY-MD SOAPBOX SADIE SPE G OM A WELL-OFF FAY. LAMPSHAD SEASON 2:DAWN: THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT OM YOU AND ME. KRISTY: SAYS THE GROCERY STORE HEIRS. DAWN: ONE GROCERY STORE, WHICH WAS SOLD, LIKE, 20 YEARS AGO. AND I TRY TO BE THE CHANGE. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: SHE OFFERS ENTHIASTILLY TO S WH MARY ANNE, DITG HER IENDLY AND OUTGOG NATURE; SHE'S EATG A VIBRANT GREEN SALAD AND DRKG A GREEN JUICE, DITG HER LOVE OF HEALTHY, H FOOD; SHE SAYS RIGHT AWAY THAT HER FATHER IS GAY, DITG HER FORT LEVEL WH NEW PEOPLE AND HER NO-NONSENSE APPROACH TO GENR AND SEXUALY; AND JOK THAT SHE FS EVERY CALIFORNIA STEREOTYPE, DITG HER SELF-AWARENS AND FORT WH WHO SHE IS. EXTREME DOORMAT: DOWNPLAYED, SHE IS A NFINT YOUNG WOMAN WHO PREFERS TO APPROACH PEOPLE A NON-NONTATNAL MANNER. SHE NOTABLY BEARS THE VERBAL AND EMOTNAL ARROWS KRISTY SLGS AT HER AND SHE TRI TO BE ACMODATG OF NATALIE BARRETT, WHICH LEADS THE OLR WOMAN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER. FOIL: TO KRISTY, TERMS OF BEG A FEMIST. DAWN TENDS TO HAVE A OPEN-MD (AND OPEN-HEARTED) VIEW OF PEOPLE THAT N GET HER TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, FIGHTS FOR SOCIAL ISSU EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T DIRECTLY AFFECT HER, AND HAS AN TERSECTNAL LENS WHILE THE RIGID AND JUDGY KRISTY HAS A MASTREAM GIRL BOSS LENS OF FEMISM. GRANOLA GIRL: DAWN IS SHOWN TO HAVE MANY HIPPIEISH BELIEFS AND TO ENJOY ELEMENTS OF NEW AGE SPIRUALY. LIPSTICK LBIAN: DAWN SUALLY MENTNS SHE'D BE OPEN TO A RELATNSHIP WH ANYONE ON "THE GENR SPECTM" TO MARY-ANNE, WHICH DIT DAWN'S PANSEXUAL. SHE'S ALSO PRETTY FEME GENERAL. NEW TRANSFER STUNT: LIKE STACEY, BUT TAK HER A WHILE TO GET TO KNOW MARY ANNE. NICE GIRL: ALL OF THE GIRLS ARE KD, BUT SHE IS PROBABLY THE LEAST PRONE TO SNARKY MOMENTS (PREFERRG TO REACH OUT TO KRISTY WHEN SHE'S BEG NASTY RATHER THAN SNIPE BACK) AND DISPLAYS A GREAT AL OF OPEN-MDNS. PROMOTN TO PARENT: FOR HER MOM, WHO IS FLIGHTY AND FETFUL, SO DAWN TAK RE OF HER A LOT OF THE TIME. RACE LIFT: WHILE DAWN IS A LONG-BLON-HAIRED WHE GIRL THE BOOK SERI, SHE AND HER FAY ARE BROWN-SKNED AND DARK-HAIRED LATO THE ADAPTATN. SIXTH RANGER: SHE JOS THE CLUB AT THE END OF "DAWN AND THE IMPOSSIBLE THREE". SOAPBOX SADIE: SHE IS SOCIALLY NSC, ALTHOUGH HER AWARENS OUT MORE AMG QUIPS RATHER THAN TIRAS. FOR EXAMPLE, SHE PRAIS CLDIA FOR HER PICTN OF NDY, SPE BELIEVG REFED SUGAR IS POISON. IT'S MORE ON DISPLAY HER PROTT AT MP, BUT SHE'S NOT PICTED AS WRONG OR ANNOYG FOR . WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS: ALTHOUGH ALL OF THE BABYSTERS CLUB ARE TELLIGENT, DAWN IS VERY MATURE AND EMOTNALLY TELLIGENT. SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO DISPLAYS KNOWLEDGE OF TRANS EXPERIENC, AND IS ALSO THE ONLY ONE WILLG TO GIVE MRS. BARRETT A CHANCE BEE SHE KNOWS WHAT A MSY DIVORCE N DO TO SOMEONE.    MALLORY PIKE MALLORY PIKEPLAYED BY: VIVIAN WATSONA JUNR OFFICER OF THE CLUB WHO HAS SEVEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ALL GIRLS LIKE PONI: LIKE HER BOOK UNTERPART, SHE LOV HORS, WHICH IS HELPFUL WHEN SHE RTS KRISTY THROUGH THE WOODS TO FD KAREN. CHARACTER EXAGGERATN: IN THE BOOKS, SHE IS MATURE FOR HER AGE, BUT A B AWKWARD DUE TO HER SECURI. IN THIS SERI, HER AWKWARDNS IS EXAGGERATED TO THE POT THAT SHE SEEMS MUCH MORE NAIVE AND JSI OFTEN ACTS AS HER CLOUDCUCKOOLANR'S MR, SOMETHG THAT NEVER HAPPENS THE BOOKS. MASSIVE NUMBERED SIBLGS: SHE'S THE OLST OF EIGHT. NICE GIRL: SHE'S VERY HELPFUL TO THE BABYSTERS, EVEN GIVG DAWN AND MARY ANNE HER FAVORE BEDROOM AT THE SUMMER TTAGE SEA CY BEE HAS THE BT VIEW OF THE BEACH AND THEY ULD HEAR THE OCEAN AND JOG KRISTY HER SEARCH FOR KAREN. OUTDOORSY GAL: SHE POSSS AN AMOUNT OF WILRNS KNOWLEDGE THAT IMPRS KRISTY AND IS HELPFUL FOR WHEN THE GIRLS GO TO LOOK FOR A LOST KAREN. SIXTH RANGER: SHE AND JSI ARE VED TO JO THE CLUB AFTER THEY HELP LOOK FOR KAREN "HELLO CAMP MOOSEHEAD! PART 2".    JSI RAMSEY JSI DAVIS "JSI" RAMSEYPLAYED BY: ANAIS LEEA JUNR OFFICER OF THE CLUB. ADAPTATNAL EARLY APPEARANCE: IN THE BOOKS, JSI DON'T MOVE TO STONEYBROOK UNTIL AFTER STACEY MOV BACK TO NEW YORK. HERE, SHE'S AT CAMP MOOSEHEAD WH THE OTHER GIRLS. FAN GIRL: SHE IS ENTHIASTIC ABOUT JOG THE CLUB, EVEN NAMG THE CLUB BY NAME AS IF SHE WAS BEG TOLD SHE WAS JOG A PARTY FULL OF CELEBRI. NICE GIRL: SHE GO WH MALLORY AND KRISTY TO HELP LOOK FOR KAREN SPE NOT KNOWG THE YOUNGER PERSONALLY, BUT WH ENTHIASM. SHE'S EVEN QUICK TO ASSURE KAREN THAT SHE'LL BE HER IEND AND THAT SHE LIK HER. ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: HER MOTHER JANICE 'JSI' PLENTY "JSI AND THE SUPERBRAT" SEASON 2, TO MONSTRATE PARENTAL SERNS. OTHER THAN THAT, SHE'S BASILLY JSI. PK MEANS FEME: HER FIRST APPEARANCE IS SHOWG OFF HER BALLET SKILLS DURG MP DNS PASTEL PK LEOTARD AND WRAP SKIRT, WHICH ALSO HIGHLIGHTS A SWEET NATURE. SIXTH RANGER: SHE AND MALLORY ARE VED TO JO THE CLUB AFTER THEY HELP LOOK FOR KAREN "HELLO CAMP MOOSEHEAD! PART 2". ADULTS    ELIZABETH THOMAS-BREWER  ELIZABETH THOMAS-BREWERPLAYED BY: ALICIA SILVERSTONEKRISTY'S MOTHER. ADAPTATNAL NAME CHANGE: DOWNPLAYED. HER NAME IS STILL ELIZABETH, BUT SHE NOW "LIZ, PLEASE", WHICH IS NEW TO THE NETFLIX SERI. ALONE AMONG THE COUPL: AS KRISTY REMEMBERED, ELIZABETH ALWAYS LOOKED SAD AND LONELY WHEN SHE WAS AROUND MARRIED PARENTS THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR MEETGS WH SCHOOLTEACHERS. SHE HAS TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW HER MOTHER LOOKS MUCH HAPPIER AFTER GETTG WH WATSON AND SERV AFTER BEG DIVORCED AND LEFT ROMANTILLY ALONE FOR A LONG TIME. DEADPAN SNARKER: AS A MOTHER OF FOUR CHILDREN (SOON TO BE SIX CHILDREN), CLUDG A CONTROL FREAK DGHTER, A SMARTASS TEEN BOY, AND A PREC BUT SLIGHTLY ODD STEPDGHTER, 'S A HELPFUL TOOL TO HAVE. GLAMORO SGLE MOTHER: PLAYED WH. ELIZABETH STARTS OUT THE SERI A NICE SUBURBAN HOME WH A REALTOR JOB AND LOOKG AS BETIFUL AS ALICIA SILVERSTONE BUT 'S SAID THAT SHE HAD TROUBL WH HER WATER AND ELECTRIC BILLS THE PAST — GIVEN HER IRRPONSIBLE EX-HBAND, 'S PRACTILLY A GIVEN SHE HAD MAJOR ISSU WH RECEIVG HER ENTLED CHILD SUPPORT. PL SHE HAS TWO SMART-MOUTHED TEEN BOYS, A PRETEEN DGHTER WHO IS SKEPTIL, AND A YOUNG SON- SO HER LIFE IS HARDLY GLAMORO. GOOD STEPMOTHER: TO KAREN AND THE VERY SHY ANDREW. SHE'S VERY PATIENT, NSIRG ONE STEPCHILD IS SHY AND THE OTHER IS THE OVERACTIVE IMAGATIVE KAREN BREWER. INFORMED FLAW: KRISTY SAYS "KRISTY'S BIG IA" THAT HER MOTHER IS IRRPONSIBLE AND HAS LED TO THEIR POWER BEG CUT OFF. ELIZABETH NEVER REALLY SHOWS ANY DITN OF THIS FLAW THE SERI. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: SHE IS A HARD-WORKG AND PENNT FEMIST, WORKG TO STILL THE TRAS KRISTY SO SHE N BE HER OWN WOMAN AS SHE GROWS UP. BUT, HER MARRIAGE TO WATSON MAK KRISTY WORRY SHE IS SELLG OUT HER VALU, AND THIS IS LIGHTLY TOUCHED ON REGARDG THE TIARA. (SHE DO EVENTUALLY TELL KRISTY SHE N BE PENNT YET STILL OPEN HERSELF UP TO OTHERS AND SHARE HER LIFE.) IT'S ALSO POTED OUT THAT KRISTY TAK AFTER HER REGARDG HER FEAR OF CHANGE.KRISTY: AREN'T YOU A LTLE OLD TO BE WEARG A TIARA?ELIZABETH: TELL TO THE QUEEN. OPEN-MD PARENT: SHE LEARNS THAT KRISTY WAS ASSIGNED AN SAY ON M BUT TAK THE TIME TO HEAR KRISTY OUT AND BELIEV HER WHEN KRISTY IMPLI THAT HER TEACHER WAS PUTTG ON A DOUBLE STANDARD AND TELLS KRISTY TO BE MORE FIVG OF HERSELF AND OTHER PEOPLE BEE "NO ONE IS PERFECT", EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE HER. PARENTAL FAVORISM: ELIZABETH DON'T NECSARILY MONSTRATE THIS (KRISTY SEEMS TO BE TREATED MORE-OR-LS THE SAME AS HER BROTHERS AND VIEWS HERSELF AS THE SAME), BUT SHE TELLS KRISTY AN AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER MOMENT THAT KRISTY IS HER FAVORE. SGLE WOMAN SEEKS GOOD MAN: AFTER BEG LEFT BY AN IRRPONSIBLE MAN WHO DON'T BOTHER NTACTG HIS CHILDREN AFTER HIS PARTURE, THE VERY KD, FUN-LOVG AND UNRSTANDG WATSON IS QUE AN IMPROVEMENT FOR HER LOVE LIFE. STGGLG SGLE MOTHER: AT FIRST, BUT BEG A RELATNSHIP WH (THEN BEG MARRIED TO) WATSON, WHO IS EXTREMELY WEALTHY, HELPS THIS.    WATSON BREWER WATSON BREWERPLAYED BY: MARK FERSTEELIZABETH'S FIANCEE (AND EVENTUAL HBAND) AND KRISTY'S STEPFATHER. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: IN THE BOOKS, HE IS SCRIBED AS BALDG AND MIDDLE-AGED (EVEN OLR THAN ELIZABETH BY A FEW YEARS) AND SOME ILLTRATNS PICT HIM AS A PORTLY MAN OF AVERAGE LOOKS. THE SERI HAS HIM PICTED BY THE RATHER CUTE MARK FERSTE. ALL THERE THE MANUAL: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LUCIA ANIELLO ADMTED ON A PODST THAT WATSON QUICKLY TURNED TO ONE OF HER FAVORE CHARACTERS, AND SHE AND THE WRERS CID TO FLH HIM OUT TO BUILD ON HIS BOOK UNTERPART. ALTHOUGH HIS JOB IS NEVER MENTNED THE NETFLIX SERI (HE IS A CEO TO AN SURANCE PANY THE BOOK SERI), ANIELLO SAID SHE IMAGED THAT WATSON WORKS SOMETHG LIKE CY/URBAN PLANNG OR STAABILY, WHICH ALSO EXPLAS WHY HE RIS A BIKE TO WORK. WHILE PLANNG JOBS TEND TO PULL GOOD E, SHE ALSO IMAGED THAT HIS WEALTH IS MORE OM THE FACT THAT HE OM "OLD MONEY." BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: WATSON IS MDFUL REGARDG ENVIRONMENTAL ISSU (HE RIS A BIKE TO WORK)AND OM AN OLD-MONEY FAY. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: HE'S ENTHIASTIC, POSIVE AND JT A LTLE DORKY, WHICH IS WHY HE MANAG TO W OVER KIDS OF ALL AG, OM HIS FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON AND THE PRE-TEEN BSC MEMBERS TO LIZ'S TWO TEENAGE BOYS. OF URSE, THE ONE KID HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO IMPRS, KRISTY, IS HARR TO W OVER. INFORMED FLAW: KRISTY ACC HIM OF NEVER SPENDG TIME WH HIS CHILDREN BEE HE ONLY GETS THEM ON THE WEEKEND AND HAS TO GO TO WORK ON A SATURDAY. HOWEVER, HE DO APPEAR TO BE A VOTED DAD WHOSE KIDS ADORE HIM, AND 'S IMPLIED THAT KRISTY IS PROJECTG HER OWN ISSU WH HER DISAPPEARED DAD ONTO HIM. ZIGZAGGED AS WELL; KRISTY ACC HIM OF TRYG TO "BUY" THEIR FAY, ALTHOUGH WATSON DON'T SEEM TO FLASH HIS MONEY AROUND A C WAY. HOWEVER, HE IS MUCH MORE IVOLO WH MONEY THAN THE THOMAS FAY IS ED TO AND SOME OF HIS ACTNS, SUCH AS BUYG CHARLIE A BMW WHEN HE'D SAVED FOR A ED TOYOTA AND OFFERG TO BUY KRISTY A HIGHLY EXPENSIVE DRS BEE SHE DIDN'T LIKE HER FIRST ONE DO DITE THAT HE DO TEND TO E HIS WEALTH TO OCSNALLY SOLVE PROBLEMS. IN SPE OF THIS, THOUGH, HE ONLY DO TO MAKE THE KIDS HAPPY AND TO TRY TO NNECT WH THEM (WHICH SOMETIM WORKS). NICE GUY: DPE KRISTY'S SPICNS, HE'S NOTHG BUT PLEASANT THROUGHOUT THE SERI, AND EVEN FIV KRISTY FAIRLY EASILY FOR ACCINTALLY DAMAGG HIS ANTIQUE R. NON-IDLE RICH: HE'S VERY WELL-OFF AND HAS A BETIFUL HOME WH AN ANTIQUE R, BUT DO HAVE A JOB (WORD OF GOD STAT HE MIGHT BE VOLVED URBAN PLANNG OR STAABILY) THAT HE OCSNALLY WORKS WEEKENDS AT. HE RIS A BIKE TO WORK AND SEEMS TO BE A PRETTY HARD WORKER. TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: HE'S ALREADY PRETTY KD, BUT WHEN HE APPEARS TO BE READY TO GET JTIFIABLY ANGRY AT KRISTY FOR THE DAMAGE TO HIS VERY RARE R, HE SIMPLY LLS EVEN AND AGRE TO NOT TELL LIZ. ALL BEE WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAT KRISTY BE HONT WH HIM.    RICHARD SPIER  RICHARD SPIERPLAYED BY: MARC EVAN JACKSONMARY ANNE'S WIDOWED DAD. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: BOOK ILLTRATNS HAVE PICTED HIM AS A SCRAWNY, BPECTACLED, MIDDLE-AGED MAN WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED TO TWO MUCH MORE GEO WOMEN AND WAS A B OF A LOOKER AS A YOUNGER FATHER. THIS VERSN HAS HIM PLAYED BY THE ADORABLE MARC EVAN JACKSON. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: SHARON LLED HIM "RICHIE" AND "TURTLE" WHEN THEY WERE GOG OUT. ANIMAL MOTIFS: TURTL. "TURTLE" IS SHARON'S NICKNAME FOR HIM AND SEVERAL CHARACTERS PARE HIM TO A TURTLE BEE HE IS VERY SHY, RETICENT, AND APPARENTLY LD. BOYIEND-BLOCKG DAD: SUBVERTED. MARY ANNE, ANX ABOUT HER UPG FIRST DATE WH LOGAN, TELLS TO HER DAD THKG THAT HE'LL PUT HIS FOOT DOWN ABOUT (A REASONABLE ASSUMPTN GIVEN HIS PRR OVERPROTECTIVENS). IT TURNS OUT THAT HE'S NOT ONLY FE WH HER DATG LOGAN BUT SUPPORTIVE, AND EVEN READS A SPEECH HE'D PREPARED FOR THE OCSN OFF OF SOME NOTERDS. CAN'T HOLD HIS LIQUOR: AT THE WEDDG WHEN SPECULATG ABOUT HIM AND SHARON, MARY ANNE MENTS THAT HE'S HAD A THIRD OF A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AND SO "ANYTHG N HAPPEN". CUTENS PROXIMY: GIVEN HIS QUIET (AND RARE) S AT WATSON'S AND ELIZABETH'S WEDDG WHEN THE THOMAS CHILDREN AND THE BREWER CHILDREN (WHO HE DON'T KNOW VERY WELL), THE FACT CLDIA FEELS CLOSE ENOUGH TO HIM TO EMBRACE HIM, AND HIS NFLICTED FEELGS REGARDG MARY ANNE GROWG UP N BE SAID HE FEELS SENTIMENTAL ABOUT KIDS. DISTRACTED BY THE SEXY: WHEN DAWN LLS (CHARADG AS HER MOTHER), RICHARD APPEARS TO BE STGGLG TO HOLD HIMSELF TOGETHER OM GETTG TOO EXCED AT THE SOUND OF WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS SHARON'S VOICE FLIRTG WH HIM.. HE FIGUR OUT 'S DAWN DUE TO HER VG HIM FOR WE ON THE ROCKS. FIERY REDHEAD: HE HAS GGER LORED HAIR AND N GET SNAPPISH WHEN HE'S UPSET. HAS A TYPE: JUDGG BY HIS RELATNSHIP WH SHARON AND HIS LATE WIFE ALMA, HE IS ATTRACTED TO NFINT WOMEN OF LOR WH CURLY HAIR. HIDN DEPTHS: GIVEN THAT HIS WORK LLEAGUE MRS. DELVECCH WAS SISTENT THAT ONLY MARY ANNE BABYS HER TRANSGENR DGHTER. THIS HTS AT RICHARD BEG SOCIALLY PROGRSIVE REGARDG GENR EXPRSN AND INTY ( NTRAST TO THE BOOKS WHERE HE STARTED OUT ENFORCG A RATHER DATED VERSN OF FEMY SO MARY ANNE WOULD BE RAISED PROPERLY) FOR HIS LLEAGUE TO ENTST HIS RELATIVE WH HER YOUNG CHILD. THIS ULD EVEN POT OUT THAT MRS. DELVECCH FDS HIM TSTWORTHY AND THAT IS HE IS SYMPATHETIC TO HER NCERNS. OUT OF ALL THE BABYSTERS, CLDIA IS ALWAYS HAPPY TO SEE HIM, AS SHE FDS HIM TO BE A KD PERSON JT REPRSED AND GIV HIM A GLOMP WHEN HE BY WH A HEALTHY SSEROLE AFTER MIMI'S STROKE. THIS IS LIKELY DUE TO THE SPIERS AND KISHIS BEG CLOSE. JERKASS HAS A POT: TAKG AWAY MARY ANNE'S PHONE FOR HER BEG LATE IS A B HARSH, BUT SHE'S A SEVENTH-GRAR WHO WAS 20 MUT LATE OM WHEN SHE SAID SHE'D BE HOME WHILE THERE WAS A HOME VAR AT LARGE. HE'S RRECT THAT SHE SIMPLY ULD HAVE TEXTED HIM TO LET HIM KNOW SHE WAS NNG LATE (ALTHOUGH, HE ULD HAVE ALSO LLED OR TEXTED HER). NOT SO STOIC: HE APPEARS TO HAVE A STOIC IMAGE BUT HE IS SHOWN TO GET EMOTNAL TO THE POT OF TEARS WHEN REMEMBERG HIS LATE WIFE AND THE PROSPECTS OF MARY ANNE LEAVG TOWN FOR A BABYSTG GIG. O.O.C. IS SER BS: AT THE WEDDG, WHEN STRSED ABOUT SHARON'S ATTENDANCE (SHE WAS LATE), HE MENTS TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL-AGED MARY ANNE THAT HE'S GOG TO GET CHAMPAGNE AND ASKS IF SHE'D LIKE ANY. OPEN-MD PARENT: HE'S ALREADY MORE OPEN-MD THAN HE LETS ON – HE SEEMS TO BE FULLY AWARE THAT FRANCE'S DGHTER IS TRANS AND REMEND MARY ANNE TO BABYS OUT OF RPECT FOR HIS LLEAGUE. ALSO, MARY ANNE'S STRICT "DRS " MORE OM THE FACT THAT HE DON'T FEEL NFINT STYLG MARY ANNE'S HAIR, WHICH IS MUCH LIKE HER BLACK MOTHER'S. BUT HIS WHOLE ARC IS ABOUT BEG MORE OUTWARDLY OPEN-MD, ALLOWG MARY ANNE TO TABLISH HER OWN TAST AND BEE MORE PENNT. REAL MEN COOK: HE IS AN EXPERIMENTAL AND CREATIVE OK, AWKWARDLY FLIRTG WH SHARON OVER AMARANTH AND PLANNG A THEMED THANKSGIVG DNER. IN NTRAST TO ELIZABETH, WHO BRGS SEVERAL BOX OF PIZZA FOR CLDIA'S FAY, HE BRGS A HOMEMA HEALTHY SSEROLE FOR THE KISHIS AND HE KNOWS THAT ST-IRON SKILLETS NNOT BE PUT THE DISHWASHER. SHRKG VLET: HE'S VERY TROVERTED AND GIVEN SHARON'S NICKNAME "TURTLE" FOR HIM, HE LIKELY HAD VERY SHY TRAS JT LIKE HIS DGHTER. SOUR OUTSI, SAD INSI: RICHARD OFTEN SNAPS AT MARY ANNE OR SHARON WHEN HE'S UNHAPPY, BUT HE'S CLEARLY STILL GRIEVG FOR MARY ANNE'S MOTHER. THIS IS A TRA HIS DGHTER HERS OM HIM. SUGAR-AND-ICE PERSONALY: HE APPEARS TO BE UPTIGHT AND A B LD, BUT IS SHOWN AS A LOVG AND PROUD FATHER, AS WELL AS A TSTWORTHY -WORKER WH IMPLIED PROGRSIVE SOCIAL VIEWS. GENKI GIRL CLDIA FDS HIM LOVABLE. UPTIGHT LOV WILD: HE REKDL A RELATNSHIP WH DAWN'S HIPPIE, FLAKY, BUT LOVG MOTHER SHARON.     MIMI YAMAMOTO MIMI YAMAMOTOPLAYED BY: TAKAYO FISCHERCLDIA'S BELOVED GRANDMOTHER. COOL OLD LADY: SHE IS VERY ACCEPTG AND UNRSTANDG OF HER GRANDDGHTER'S DIFFERENC OM THE FAY AND IS HELD REVERENCE BY HER NEIGHBORHOOD. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: CLDIA AND MEAN JANE REVEALS THAT WHEN SHE WAS 5, HER FAY WAS FORCED TO MOVE TO THE TERNMENT MP AT MANZANAR WHERE HER FAY SLEPT HORSE STABL THAT WEREN'T CLEAN AND ATE NNED OR ROTTEN FOOD. THE MEMORI ARE THE FIRST ON THAT E UP WHEN SHE WAK UP OM HER A. FEME WOMEN CAN COOK: SHE IS A GOOD OK. CLDIA NOT THAT SHE OKS WH LOVE EVERY DISH AND SHE TEACH CLDIA TO DO THE SAME; SEASON 2 HAS HER TEACHG CLDIA HOW TO NDUCT A PROPER TEA CEREMONY. INTERGENERATNAL FRIENDSHIP: SHE HAD THIS WH MARY ANNE'S LATE MOTHER AND NOW WH MARY ANNE. LIKE PARENT, LIKE CHILD: SHE IS AS EXCABLE AND WARM AS HER DGHTER KIMIKO AND GRANDDGHTER CLDIA. NEEDLEWORK IS FOR OLD PEOPLE: SHE IS A KNTER AND THIS IS POTED OUT WHEN MARY ANNE MENTS THAT SHE IS LIKELY FASHN-WISE, "THE WORLD'S OLST TODDLER OR 'S YOUNGT SENR CIZEN", PARTLY DUE TO KNTG AND NVERSG OVER TEA WH MIMI. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: HER REAL NAME, MAKIKO, IS SPOKEN BY A DOCTOR ONCE AT THE HOSPAL; EVERYONE (CLUDG HER DGHTER AND SON--LAW, HER GRANDDGHTERS, AND THEIR NEIGHBORS) LLS HER "MIMI". OPEN MD GRANDPARENT: SHE IS VERY ACCEPTG OF CLDIA'S DIFFERENC OM THE RT OF HER FAY, PRAISG HER FOR THE SKILLS AND THE CHARACTER TRAS CLDIA EXCELS AT RATHER THAN LAMENTG WHERE CLDIA FALLS SHORT, AND DON'T SEEM ANGRY AT CLDIA WHEN THE GIRL NFS TO G STACEY'S TT AS A VER TO GO TO THE DANCE. AFTER SHE DI, JANE REVEALS THAT MIMI KNEW JANE WAS LOVE WH ASHLEY AND PROMISED HER TO GIVE ASHLEY THE CHARM BRACELET HER LATE HBAND WON FOR HER. TEXTILE WORK IS FEME: SHE IS A TALENTED KNTER AND GIV LSONS TO MARY ANNE. SEASON 2 REVEALS THAT WHEN CLDIA AND MARY ANNE WERE BABI, SHE AND THE LATE ALMA CREATED THE STUM FOR THEM TO WEAR FOR THE BABY PARA NTT AND EVEN AFTER 13 YEARS, THEY HOLD UP.    SHARON PORTER SHARON PORTERPLAYED BY: JSI ELAA EASONDAWN'S STTERBRAED MOTHER. ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: LIKE HER DGHTER, SHARON WAS SCRIBED AND SOMETIM PICTED AS A BLON WHE WOMAN. IN THIS VERSN SHE IS A DARK-HAIRED LATA. AMIBLY DIVORCED: SHE DON'T APPEAR TO HARBOR ANY RENTMENT TOWARD DAWN'S FATHER FOR THEIR SPL (ALTHOUGH SHE HAT TO WEAR A DRS THAT SHE WORE THE NIGHT THEY FALLY CID TO DIVORCE). SHE HAS LTLE ANGST ABOUT BEG NEWLY SGLE AND LEAVG CALIFORNIA BEHD, AND MALY STAYED WH DAWN'S DAD OUT OF PENNCY SPE KNOWG EP DOWN HE WAS GAY. THE BEARD: HER EX-HBAND IS GAY, SOMETHG THAT DAWN SAID THEY WERE BOTH AWARE OF BUT WERE TOGETHER BEE THEY WERE BOTH PENNT. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE'S A LOVG, SWEET WOMAN - BUT IF YOU ARE AN ADULT WHO IS PENDG ON A TEENAGER TO HELP FIX YOUR LIFE AND TAKG ADVANTAGE OF THEIR GOOD WILL, SHE WILL GIVE YOU A STHG "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH.SHARON: THIS IS DAWN'S PHONE. THIS IS HER MOTHER. I'M SORRY, DAWN NNOT E TO THE PHONE RIGHT NOW. SHE'S A KID WHO HAS HER OWN LIFE TO LIVE. SORT OUT YOURS AND THEN YOU N APOLOGIZE TO MY DGHTER. BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: SHE IS HIPPIE-ISH AND A VEGETARIAN ALONG WH BEG PROGRSIVE. SHE MENTNS HER PARENTS HAVE "LOTS OF PROPERTY" THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH AND SHE HERED A HOE OM THEM. CALLG THE OLD WOMAN OUT: SHE LLS OUT NATALIE BARRETT ON BEHALF OF HER DGHTER. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE HAS AN OPEN, LENIENT RELATNSHIP WH HER DGHTER DAWN AND IS VERY STTERBRAED, TO THE POT OF DAWN HAVG TO TAKE RE OF HER (PUTTG AWAY THGS FOR HER, SHARON N'T N A DISHWASHER, AND KEEPG APPOTMENTS) BUT SHE IS SHOCKED BY HOW MUCH MS. BARRETT'S IRRPONSIBILY HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED DAWN (TO THE POT WHERE THE GIRL IS LOSG SLEEP AND IS STRSED OUT BY A POSSIBLE KIDNAPPG) AND LLS HER OUT ON . FOIL: TO NATALIE BARRETT. BOTH ARE RECENTLY DIVORCED MOTHERS WHO TEND TO BE DISANIZED. BUT SHARON IS ALSO FULLY AWARE OF DAWN'S STCT TO TAKE RE OF THGS AND MAK CLEAR THAT SHE DON'T EXPECT THAT BEHAVUR OM DAWN, AND STOPS HER OM DOG TOO MUCH FOR HER. NATALIE, MEANWHILE, TO EXPECT DAWN TO HANDLE NOT JT BABYSTG, BUT HOEKEEPG AND FULL-ON PARENTG AT TIM. IT ALL CULMAT A PHONE NONTATN BETWEEN SHARON AND NATALIE WHICH SHARON MONSTRAT HOW DIFFERENT THEY ARE EP DOWN. MAMA BEAR: SHE IS STTERBRAED BUT SHE DON'T LIKE WHEN BABYSTG CLIENTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER YOUNG DGHTER'S TIME AND HELP, AND WON'T BE AAID TO LL THEM OUT AND NAME THEIR SS TO THEM ON THE PHONE. AS SHE PUTS : BUT I'M YOUR MOTHER AND SOMETIM I WANT TO TAKE RE OF YOU. MS. FANSERVICE: IMPLIED, PECIALLY FOR A SHOW ORIENTED FOR A G-RATED DIENCE; SHE DID WEAR A EP-PLUNGG RASPBERRY LORED DRS TO A MMENT CEREMONY WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT WH DAWN, AND GIVEN THE SCTIVE VOICE THAT DAWN PUT ON TO TRICK RICHARD TO G OVER TO SEE SHARON (AFTER HE HAD GOTTEN ANGRY THE PREV TWO EPISOS) AND RICHARD'S REACTN TO , 'S NOT FAR-FETCHED TO BELIEVE SHE ACTS OUT. OPEN-MD PARENT: DAWN IS VERY EE TO EXPRS HERSELF, AND IS EVEN ABLE TO DISAGREE WH HER MOTHER AN AMIBLE WAY. SHE ALSO ALLOWS DAWN TO E HER PHONE AT THE DNER TABLE, WHICH SHOCKS RICHARD. QUIRKY CURLS: SHE IS A HIPPIE-ISH MOTHER WH VERY CURLY BROWN HAIR, WHICH TI TO HER LOVELY AND STTERBRAED NATURE. THIS IS NTRAST WH HER STRAIGHT-HAIRED (AND ANIZED, LAID-BACK) DGHTER AND HER GELLED-HAIRED (UPTIGHT AND ANX) BOYIEND. RACE LIFT: SHE WAS WHE THE BOOKS, LIKE HER DGHTER, BUT LATA THIS ADAPTATN. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: SHE ACROSS AS A LTLE SPACEY AND MORE PERMISSIVE THAN THE BUTTONED-DOWN RICHARD, BUT SHE HAS AN OPEN AND HONT RELATNSHIP WH HER DGHTER, ALLOWS DAWN TO EXPRS HERSELF, CLEARLY KNOWS RIGHT OM WRONG (MONSTRATED HER PHONE LL WH NATALIE) AND SHOWS SOME SENSIBILY REGARDG NFLICT ROLUTN WH RICHARD. TOO DUMB TO LIVE: GETS ONE STANCE OF THIS "KRISTY'S BIG DAY" AFTER GETTG ELIZABETH AND WATSON TO AVOID G YELLOW FISH FOR THEIR WEDDG... BUT NEGLECTS TO MENTN SHE IS ALLERGIC TO TREE NUTS AND FETS HER NUT ALLERGY WHEN SHE EATS A LTLE KE WH NUTELLA. KRISTY IS CRLO ABOUT HER FETTG SUCH A UNIVERSAL ALLERGY.    ESME PORTER ESME PORTERPLAYED BY: KAR KONOVALDAWN'S SPIRUAL PRACTNER NT AND WATSON'S NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, WHOM KAREN THKS IS A WCH. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL VERSN OF "KAREN'S WCH" PICTS HER AS A ELRLY WHE WOMAN WH LONG, DISHEVELED CURLY GRAY HAIR DARK CLOTHG, LOOKG LIKE A STEREOTYPIL HAG-LIKE WCH. SHE'S PLAYED BY AN ATTRACTIVE, LATE MIDDLE-AGED LATA LORFUL HIPPIEISH CLOTHG THIS SHOW. BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN: SHE LIV NEXT DOOR TO WATSON THE SAME WEALTHY AREA OF TOWN AND SHE IS A HIPPIE, FEMIST NEW AGE SPIRUAL PRACTNER. BTAL HONTY: WHILE SHE IS GENTLE WH CHILDREN (LIKE MARY ANNE, DAWN, OR KAREN SCREAMG AT THE SIGHT OF HER), SHE IS QUICK TO SHUT DOWN ADULTS WHEN THEY GET ANNOYG LIKE HER IEND BARB WHEN SHE IS ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT HER DIVORCE FOR THE NTH TIME. COOL AUNT: TO BOTH SHARON AND DAWN. SHE IS LIGHTED TO HAVE DAWN AT HER SHARE-REMONY AND WAS IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO SHARON WHEN SHE WAS GROWG UP EVEN TO THE POT SHE WAS AWARE OF HOW EP HER RELATNSHIP TO RICHARD WENT AND APPROVED. CREEPY GOOD: INVOKED. KAREN IS SRED OF HER AND THKS SHE'S A WCH, BUT ESME POTS OUT THAT PEOPLE SHOULD LISTEN TO KIDS WHEN THEY TALK. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: PLAYED WH. SHE'S NOT AS OUTWARDLY SWEET AND FULL OF SUNSHE AS WATSON IS, BUT SHE OUTWARDLY ADVOT FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE KIDS SERLY, WHICH LIGHTS KAREN. SHE ALSO FAWNS OVER DAWN AND HAS A LIGHTHEARTED APPROACH TO MARY ANNE'S BREAKDOWN AT THE SHARE-EMONY, MERELY WRG OFF AS A "SRP" TRA RATHER THAN NS. QUIRKY CURLS: HAS SHORT, CURLY BROWN HAIR THAT REFLECTS HER BOHEMIAN SENSIBILI AND NON-RMFORMIST WORLDVIEW. RACE LIFT: SHE WAS SCRIBED AS A WHE WOMAN THE BOOKS, BUT IS LATA THIS VERSN.    JOHN AND KIMIKO KISHI JOHN AND KIMIKO KISHIPLAYED BY: KEVAN OHTSJI AND DIANA BANGCLDIA AND JANE'S PARENTS (AND MIMI'S DGHTER AND SON--LAW), WHO PROFS A SIRE FOR CLDIA TO BEE MORE AMILLY CLED. ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: FOR KIMIKO. HER NAME THE BOOK SERI WAS RKO. EDUTN MAMA: BOTH OF THEM PROFS PRI JANE BEG A TEEN GENI AND HAVG STRAIGHT A'S (EVEN BUYG A HUGE TER PACKAGE FOR JANE'S PUTER ACTIVI) WHILE THEY WISH CLDIA WOULD BE MORE APT AMIC SUBJECTS. LIKE PARENT, LIKE CHILD: THEY ARE EACH LIKE THEIR DGHTERS ALBE MORE MEASURED AND MATURE. JOHN IS AS SER AS JANE WHILE KIMIKO IS AS EXCABLE AS CLDIA, AND HER MOTHER MIMI.    DEIRDRE AND FORRT PIKE DEIRDRE AND FORRT PIKEPLAYED BY: CAL HOWN AND STEPHEN WEIGANDMALLORY'S PERMISSIVE AND GOOD-NATURED BUT BELEAGUERED PARENTS RAISG EIGHT CHILDREN. ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: FOR BOTH PARENTS. THEIR NAM ARE DIANA "DEE" AND JOHN PIKE THE BOOKS. BADLY BATTERED PARENTS: AS A RULT OF RAISG THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN TO "FOLLOW THEIR BLISS" AND NOT IMPOSE ANY BEHAVRAL BOUNDARI, THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN A FULL NIGHT OF SLEEP SCE MALLORY WAS BORN AND HIRED TWO BABYSTERS TO WATCH THEIR KIDS ON THEIR BEACH TRIP, AND THE RELSNS OF ONE OF THEIR KIDS RULTS BREAKG SOMETHG AT THEIR VATN HOME.DEIRDRE: THERE GO MY AIRBNB POTS. DOTG PARENT: THEY RAISE THEIR CHILDREN TO "FOLLOW THEIR BLISS" AND NOT IMPOSE ANY BOUNDARI ON THEIR BEHAVR, EVEN WHEN THEIR PHAS GET ANNOYG, LIKE WH VANSA NSTANTLY RHYMG EVERYTHG. OPEN-MD PARENT: THEIR PHILOSOPHY OF LETTG THEIR CHILDREN "FOLLOW THEIR BLISS" WAS SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR DIVIDUALY AND SKILLS (VANSA'S POETRY, FOR ONE THG).    MREEN AND EDWARD MCGILL MREEN AND EDWARD MCGILLPLAYED BY: SHNA JOHANNEN AND PETER BENSONSTACEY'S LOVG BUT WORRIED PARENTS. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: MREEN. SHE NVC STACEY TO KEEP HER NDN UNR LOCKDOWN AND IS SO TENT ON STACEY HIDG HER SUL PUMP THAT SHE DIRECTLY HER DGHTER TO FEEL LIKE SHE'S ASHAMED OF HER. ALSO SHE EAKS OUT ANY TIME STACEY'S BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS DO SOMETHG WEIRD (EVEN IF 'S HANDLED BY THE TIME SHE FDS OUT) AND TAK HER TO THE DOCTOR FOR EXTRA TTG. SHE GETS BETTER ABOUT WHEN STACEY TELLS HER THAT SHE ISN'T ASHAMED OF HER NDN AND THAT SHE WILL STOP HIDG HER PUMP. OPEN-MD PARENT: IN NTRAST TO HIS WIFE, ED DON'T SHOW THE SAME ANXIETI AROUND STACEY'S NDN, TAK VERY WELL TO STACEY OUTG HERSELF AS DIABETIC, AND IS EVEN IMPRSED BY HER BEDAZZLG HER SUL PUMP, ASKG IF SHE N DO TO HIS PHONE. REAL MEN WEAR PK: HER FATHER LOOKS LIKE A PLETELY HETERONORMATIVE DAD, BUT ALSO ADMIR STACEY'S BEDAZZLG SKILL AND ASKS IF SHE ULD DO THE SAME TO HIS PHONE. UNNAMED PARENT: STACEY'S PARENTS ARE JT "MOM AND DAD" THE FIRST SEASON. IT'S ASSUMED THEY STILL HAVE THEIR BOOK NAM OF MREEN AND ED. WHEN YOU COMG HOME, DAD?: IN SEASON 2, WE SEE THAT THEIR MARRIAGE GETS STRAED AFTER EDWARD STARTS WORKG ON A NEW ACUNT THAT TAK HIM AWAY OM HIS WIFE AND DGHTER; THIS STRS STACEY OUT. SIBLGS

Establishg Character Moment: She offers enthiastilly to s wh Mary Anne, ditg her iendly and outgog nature; she's eatg a vibrant green salad and drkg a green juice, ditg her love of healthy, h food; she says right away that her father is gay, ditg her fort level wh new people and her no-nonsense approach to genr and sexualy; and jok that she fs every California stereotype, ditg her self-awarens and fort wh who she is. She has ltle angst about beg newly sgle and leavg California behd, and maly stayed wh Dawn's dad out of penncy spe knowg ep down he was gay. The Beard: Her ex-hband is gay, somethg that Dawn said they were both aware of but were together bee they were both pennt.

Teen Geni: She is a puter hacker wh an tert a large number of topics like vascular nrology, Japane, psychology, art cricism, history and speaks of the topics wh the faiary of a she's only a sophomore high school. Adaptatnal Sexualy: He was Mary Anne's vatn Love Intert the books (at least at first- by the end of the send Sea Cy book, they ci to jt be iends), but here he's eher openly bisexual or gay, and their relatnship is a iendly, platonic one om the get-go. All Gays Love Theater: He is his school's drama club and is a young gay (or possibly bisexual) boy.