Monday, April 23, 2012

Good Luck Charlie - Main Characters

Good Luck Charlie is an original Disney Channel television sitcom, which premiered April 4, 2010. The series was created by Phil Baker Drew Vaupen, who wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, as opposed to children only. It revolves around a Denver family, the Duncans, as they try to adjust to the birth of their fourth child, Charlotte "Charlie" Duncan (Mia Talerico). In each episode, Teddy Duncan (Bridgit Mendler) creates a video diary containing advice for Charlie about their family and life as a teenager. Teddy tries to show Charlie what she might go through when she is older in the video diaries for future reference. Each video diary ends with Teddy (or someone else from the family, even Charlie) saying the eponymous phrase, "Good luck, Charlie."



Teddy R.Duncan (Bridgit Mendler) is the protagonist of the series and Charlie's older and only sister. Feeling that she will not be around as much when her baby sister Charlie is grown, she produces and directs video diaries for her, hoping that it will give her advice that will help her be successful as a teenager. Her best friend is Ivy Wentz. She is usually a straight A student. It was mentioned in "Sun Show part 1" that her parents were expecting a boy, despite her usually boyish name "Teddy". She dated Spencer Walsh in season one but they broke up after she caught him hanging around with a pretty, dim-witted brunette named Skyler, breaking her heart. She and Skyler later become friends despite Teddy and Ivy being annoyed by her at times because of her dumbness but they get used to it, as it is her nature. She and Skyler also compete in a Battle of the Bands contest, but when Skyler and PJ get together, they combine the two bands together, winning the contest. She and Spencer later get back together in season two, where Spencer kisses her and says that hurting her was the stupidest thing he's ever done. Throughout the show Teddy has had numerous boyfriends including Derek, a very relaxed guy with a motorbike who has not much interest in Teddy, and Evan, a boy that Teddy once liked until she realized that he was into Pokio a little kids card game and dumps him because of this in a larp (live-action role play) in the park. Teddy shows a lot of care towards her brothers, as demonstrated when she saves PJ from falling out of a tree house window on the condition of him needing to drive her where ever she wanted for a month, or when Gabe gets a black eye from Jo and Teddy offers to help him with his problem. Teddy is known as a "goody-goody" (GG) from her best friend Ivy. It is revealed in "Bye Bye Video Diary", that the reason she wants Charlie to have video diaries with advice in them because she wants Charlie to grow up a good girl.


PJ Duncan (Jason Dolley) is the oldest of the Duncan siblings. He and Teddy often fight, although they care about each other, and he usually gets along well with his younger brother, Gabe. He often appears awkward, absent-minded and childish, but has shown on numerous occasions to be resourceful, creative and intelligent. Also, he has also been shown to be a good cook. He and his best friend, Emmett, have their own band entitled "PJ and the Vibe". PJ occasionally uses his younger sister, Charlie, for his personal gain like in when he uses her to make big tips by saying that his Amy was ill in the hospital when really she works there. He dated Teddy's friend and ex-girlfriend of Spencer Walsh, Skyler, who has the same type of scatterbrain he has, but they broke up in "PJ in the City" when Skyler had to move to New York because of her father's new job. When he dated Skyler, he became concerned when her ex-boyfriend kept texting her to get back together, he tells him to leave Skyler alone. He was originally supposed to be named after his great-grandfather Patrick John, but Bob was nervous when writing on his birth certificate, resulting in the legal name "Potty John" instead, which was changed to "PP" John in season 2.


Gabriel "Gabe" Duncan (Bradley Steven Perry) is the younger brother of Teddy and PJ and older brother of Charlie. It is demonstrated early in the series that Gabe does not approve of Charlie's arrival and takes the longest, of all the Duncans, to get used to her. However, he often reluctantly assists with taking care of his younger sister and is gradually beginning to demonstrate more fondness of her. He is a prankster, and a troublemaker, often sarcastic and lazy, but can also be dutiful and determined at times. He is front-man when it comes to the Duncans' running rivalry with Mrs. Dabney, the Duncans' neighbor, who is often the target of Gabe's pranks and cracks, which is the only time the family doesn't mind them. He is the only Duncan to have short brown hair, unlike the rest of his family, who are blond. One time he has been in a commercial with a fake mom where he claims "she looks more like my mom than my real one." A running gag in the show is that he insults his father because of his weight and baldness, his mother's cooking, PJ being a goofball, Teddy being a "goody-goody", and occasionally Charlie. Whenever there is a special occasion, he wants to skip the ceremony and get to the cake.

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