| Andy Fox | |
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| Name | Andrea "Andy" Fox |
| Nicknames | Andy |
| Age | 42 |
| Relatives | Fox Family, Quincy |
| Gender | Female |
| Status | Alive |
| Relationship | Roger |
| Hair Color | Light Blonde |
| Born | May 22 |
Andrea "Andy" Fox (Born May 22) is the mother of Peter, Paige, and Jason and the wife of Roger. She is portrayed in the strip as a 42-year-old mother. According to the strip, she was also an English major in college. Her own love of education makes her entirely unsympathetic to her two older children's typical hatred of school and homework, which she expects them to love as much as she did. While earlier strips portrayed her as a freelance writer and columnist for a local newspaper, references to her job were gradually dropped and she has mostly been portrayed as a stay-at-home mother.
Appearances[]
In the original comics from the 1980's, her face was longer, her hair was a bit different, her ears were drawn different, and her nose also was different.
In a future comic, she then gets a different haircut. This is the one that we see today.
Later as Bill Amend's drawing style changed her design got updated to mostly the design we know today but with a slightly longer face.
Finally, her face became more straightened and she became less thin.
Relationships with other characters[]
Jason: Jason has a natural love for Andrea, being her child. However, Jason often tries to pester her for either a new computer (or a related piece of technology, like a new mouse) or a much higher allowance. While she seems to have the best relationship with Jason out of her three kids as he does well in school, even that has created some friction. Jason once received a failing grade for putting all his effort into a flashy presentation for a book report without reading the actual book, or another time he got a D on a 900-page essay as it was all junk. In both cases, Andy had no sympathy for Jason, saying his substandard grades were deserved.
Paige: Paige also has a neutral relationship with Andy. She is annoyed by Andrea occasionally, becoming very upset when her 'Backsync Boys' poster is destroyed due to her mother leaving in within Quincy's grasp.
Peter: Peter also has a neutral relationship with Andy. He does not like her cooking. Andy in turn is disappointed that Peter is not doing well in school, feeling that education is the "be all and end all" of life given her background. She has also shown concern for Peter's interest in swimsuit models, feeling that could easy cross the line into pornography and sexual addiction in his later years, but also that he is being conditioned to view women as objects while the corporate interests that sponsor the swimsuit and lingerie models are having a laugh taking Peter's hard earned money (as that of other boys his age). Despite the general friction, Andy has tried to relate to Peter on some occasions. In one story arc where Peter was annoying the entire family with his impersonations of Roy Orbinson, Bruce Springsteen, and Elvis Presley, she tries to convince Peter that musical ability and guitar skills matter most, which is what all three singers figured out.
Roger: Andy and Roger have a natural love for each other, being married, however she does get cross with him intermittently. One example is Roger's obnoxious super bowl celebrations.
Cooking[]
Andy cooks mostly using vegetables from her own garden. She usually will go by her own recipes. Roger and the kids are not big fans and try to make various excuses to not eat the things she makes!
Some foods she makes include the following:
- Ziti Nefertiti (pasta tubes stuffed with mashed eggplant and green olives)
- Tofu Burgers and Eggplant Fries
- Zucchini Pie
- Zucchini Salad
- Braised radish and beet stew served over brown rice and sesame yogurt
- Turkey in a curry-yogurt-rice-paste crust
- Lima Bean Pizza
- Tofu Casserole
- Wheat Germ Stew
- Beet and Eggplant brownies
Personality[]
Andy often prepares exaggerated vegetarian or vegan but always disgusting meals for her family (most often tofu, eggplants, spinach, beets, etc.), much to their chagrin, but she continues to try to get them to eat what she believes to be healthier meals. She often criticizes her husband and children for what she sees as their bad habits, such as procrastination and use of improper grammar. She has been known to impose her will and beliefs rather harshly on her family, including Roger, such as occasions when she refused to buy coffee because she believed him to be "addicted" to it, and instructing Jason to play video games to prevent Roger from watching Super Bowl pre-game programming. This has also shown her to be something of a hypocrite as her attempt to use a Momvo to restrict her children's shows ended when it wouldn't record her soap operas. She is shown to be easily stressed-out over such matters, and as a result highly ill-tempered at such times. Portrayed as a cheapskate, she tends to consistently keep the family's thermostat down during the winter months to save money, often cold enough to freeze hot drinks, oxygen, and several liquids in the house. In one strip it was so cold the family computer literally froze, while in another she had the thermostat at a temperature that was below 0 degrees. (In one strip, she also replaced the family's telephone with a telegraph and shut off the family's cable TV). She sometimes becomes obsessed with video games that she will not allow her children to play, such as Jason's Doomathon II game, which Jason traded for Sim-Moonwalk before Andy could even know the secret to Level 83. Andy has also been shown to obsess over certain other fads, such as "Bitty Babies" (a parody of Beanie Babies), the movie Titanic, and the Nintendo DS game Nintendogs.
Trivia[]
- The new haircut that Andy got was actually due to fans complaining that they couldn't tell her and Paige apart.
- Despite being a vegetarian, Andy has sometimes been depicted eating meat.
- Andy has made Roger play a game of chess using only his King.
- Andy has an obsession with the IFruit line of computers and accessories.
- Some of the Bitty Babies Andy owns in the June 1-6 story-line are “Cliffy the Lemming”, “Cudsie the Cow”, and “Slops the Pig”. According to one strip in the storyline, Andy purchased quite a lot of “Cudsies”.
- Andy once bought Jason "Barney" school supplies merchandise because he thought that he liked all kinds of dinosaurs.
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