Ashley Spinelli

Ashley Funicello Spinelli is one of the main characters from the television series Recess.
==Background==
===Personality===
Spinelli is one of the six kids in The Recess Gang and T.J.'s best friend. She is a gruff, tough tomboy, and hates whenever she's referred to by her first name, due to it being associated with the local snobs of the school, the "Ashley’s", with whom she wants nothing to do with. She often tries to result in physical violence, with one of her friends usually stopping her. Despite being very violent at times, she is very kind and warm-hearted, and roots for the underdog. She and Vince are considered to be T.J.'s "right-hand men" in the show, and it has been revealed many times that she has a crush on T.J. as well. She is also an accomplished artist, as seen in the episode, "Spinelli's Masterpiece". In the episode "Parents' Night", it's shown that she has very embarrassing parents, as they arrive at the school pronouncing her friends' names wrong and also show her friends pictures of her as a baby, we also learn that they are secret agents. She also dislikes her mother's pressure on her to have more "girly" traits. Because of this, she often looks up to her teacher, Miss Grotke, as a mother figure to her. In "Weekend at Muriel's", it is revealed that her parents and her maternal grandmother, Aggie, are family friends of Miss Finster. In fact, Spinelli's grandmother used to have fun with Miss Finster in Guam back in the 1950s.
===Physical Appearance===
Spinelli is short in size and thin in weight, and before Gus’ arrival, she was the shortest of the main group and the second. She appears to be tomboyish with a petite slender model with medium-length black hair and almond-shaped black eyes with full lips and a tan skin colour. Her outfit consists of an orange beanie on her head; her hair is styled up in pigtails on either side each held by a small red scrunchie. She wears an unzipped black leather biker jacket over a short-sleeved red dress with a round neckline, brown-and-orange striped tights and a pair of grey oversized black rubber biker boots with buckles on them and explained that were hand-me-downs from her older brother.
In the original pilot version of "The Break In", Spinelli was more shorter and had her hair in multiple pigtails. She also wore a pastel yellow t-shirt, khaki overalls, and dark brown loafers. In her adult ages, she will grow up to be five feet, six inches tall.
Category:Recess
Category:Characters
Category:Animated Characters
Category:Italian-American Characters
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