Rodney J. Squirrel

**Rodney J. Squirrel** is the main protagonist of *Squirrel Boy* and one of the main protagonists of *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Meets Squirrel Boy.* He is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz and is Andy Johnson's best friend and current pet. He is a dimwitted squirrel who lacks good judgment and often finds himself in many problematic situations due to his stupidity.

## Appearance

Rodney is a small red squirrel with buck teeth, a light orange stomach and mouth, and a red nose. His species appears to be a red squirrel.

## Personality

Rodney is full of crazy ideas. His low intelligence makes him a frequent victim of exploitations of his weakness. This was best seen in "Born to Be Mild", in which he causes a house fire simply from trying to use a can opener. Rodney lacks common sense and tends to jump to the most asinine of conclusions. In "A Line in the Sandwich", he assumes his and Andy's increasing business profits are due to the tacky pirate hat Rodney is wearing rather than the quality of their sandwiches, when in reality it's Andy's Secret Sauce that is attracting customers. This episode also cements an arrogant side to him, as he brags about his attention and puts his affairs above his best friend, a trait of his that carries on later in the series. As part of his stupidity, he acts on eccentric impulses in the name of attention.

He exhibits frequent impulsiveness, craves attention, does not handle the truth very well, uses many manipulation tactics, and concocts the most ridiculous of plans in pursuit of his ideals, which usually backfire on him. He is quite clumsy, as seen when he knocked down Mr. J's entire collection of ceramic clown statues by simply turning around at the end of "The Big Haggle Hassle". Rodney exhibits little strength and is rather cowardly. In "Born to Be Mild", he goes on an adventure with Leon to perform many increasingly risky stunts, which Rodney screams at the sight of.

Rodney is rather condescending and purposely irksome to his acquaintances, mainly because he loves provoking others and seeing the looks on their faces. He lacks manners and tends to act before thinking, which is best exhibited with his devours of food samples in "The Big Haggle Hassle" and "Screw-Up in Aisle Six". In the latter, he is responsible for Andy bloating up as an allergic reaction since Rodney didn't read the ingredients of the Nugget Nuggets prior to Andy's consumption of them.

Despite his stupidity, Rodney occasionally makes intelligent observations. For example, in "Harried Treasure" he instantly recognizes the Johnson house on the Puffy Pirate Shirt Puffs Cereal map, whereas Andy couldn't, even with two magnifying glasses. In "Stranger Than Friction", Rodney detects Salty Mike's ulterior motive behind his newfound friendship with Andy and points out to the latter that he's being used so Salty and Kyle can pull a prank on Andy, which Andy doesn't seem to realize.

Underneath all his flaws, Rodney has a good heart and cares for his family and friends. He is in fact the character most subject to the receiving end of the episode's morality tale, be it having to open his eyes to see the truth or suffering some form of karma. He has shown many acts of selflessness over the course of the series, ranging from trying to make up for forgetting Andy's birthday in "Birthday Boy", trying to prevent Andy from getting in trouble for something he didn't do in "The Rod Squad", trying to cure Mr. J of his severe illness in the short "Bedside Matters", and willingly fixing the latter's broken clown statue in "The Big Haggle Hassle". This reaches its epitome in "Be Careful What You Fish For", in which Rodney is motivated by a talking fish decoration in Mr. J's office to do good deeds for others, ultimately warping his personality into nothing but helpfulness. Although, he returns to his mischievous ways in the end after his newfound kindness weighs in on Andy.