Platonic friends don't exist or at least they don't stay that way for long. Stories never get much more complex than girl lusts for boy and that causes problems with the boy's girlfriend. Felicity looks like a multifaceted and truly troubled character compared to these cutouts. To avoid wasting precious time, the characters are all archetypes. There is the slacker, the scrub, the conniving vixen, and the peppy athlete or candidate for school office.
Names appear but they are largely irrelevant.
The most that viewers will remember is the type of character that was involved in a particular escapade. To its credit, the series does regularly include gay characters but this is also the most problematic aspect of Undressed . In contrast, it was a source of great conflict between two gay male lovers when one suspected that the other was bisexual. The gay men also occupy a quite limited space. They are, first of all, usually put in a story line separate from the straight and curious characters.