Mitchell Family

The **Mitchell** Family are the family of Carl Mitchell, and some of the main characters in the *Carl* series. They are a small family based in Toad Town, and consist of Carl himself, his mother Linda, his step-father Calvin, his half-sisters, twins Carrie and Sally, and step-brother Logan, though the latter moved out of the family home in *Logan's New Place*. A few recurring family members have also appeared throughout the show, including Calvin's parents, John and Sheila Mitchell, and Linda's father, Michael Wattson.

## History

### Backstory

Calvin was born in 1972 to Sheila and Johnathon Mitchell. At some point, his parents divorced due to their unhappy marriage. Linda was born in 1976 to Michael and Jessica Wattson. Michael is a former member of the Koopa Troop.

Calvin and Linda first met at Mushroom City and had a friendly interaction with each other. Calvin advises Linda that they need to stop worrying about what people think, the words which Linda cherishes to this day. Due to not getting each other's names, they still remain oblivious to their first encounter.

At some point, Linda gives birth to Carl but his father blocked contact of her. She later moved to Toad Town. Calvin had Logan with his first wife Anetta Strickland but she left him with a scuba instructor. Calvin then met a woman named Elaine who then became his fiance but ran off in their wedding day with Calvin's best friend Warren. Much later, Calvin and Linda meet and went on a date. They then moved to a house at the east side of the town in 2009 after Calvin saved enough money and got married, having twin daughters Carrie and Sally a year later.

### Season 1

Carl's family is introduced in the first episode of the series. Calvin is first introduced when he wakes up Carl for school. In the Classic, he appears to be cruel and pessimistic, insulting him when he is hesitant to get out of bed and threatening to burn his bed. He also kisses Linda in front of Carl and Logan, to which the latter shows disgust to. In the Remaster however, Calvin appears to be more strict but more professional when he interacts with Carl and Logan but does complain about today's kids.

Logan is sent by Calvin and Linda to walk Carl to school but abandons him as he gets far. In the Classic, he abandons him as soon as he leaves the house, rejecting Linda and Calvin's request. In the Remaster, Logan does walk Carl to school but leaves him to walk on his own as soon as he finds out Kenny is in town. In addition, Logan is established as a dropout at the start of the Remaster, therefore the scene where he witnesses Carl talking to Grace and Talia at school was omitted.

Carl is invited to a party hosted by Talia but is insisted to stay home by Linda and Calvin to look after his half-sisters Carrie and Sally whilst Logan is working on his career. In the Classic, it was because Calvin and Linda went on a normal date but this was changed to a date to celebrate Calvin's twenty year anniversary on the force. During the night, Carl stays at home with Carrie and Sally for a temporal time. Carrie is shown to be more crueler and spoiled in the Classic but this tone was reduced in the Remaster. Carl sneaks out with Boo to the party (whilst Carrie and Sally become tired in the Remaster) but are followed by Carrie and Sally. The twins come to the party themselves and Carrie has an encounter with Mary Lynn (along with Sally in the Classic) and is bullied by her whilst Sally starts socialising with the teenagers in the party. Carl then has encounter with Gooper and his gang (after they started picking on Carrie and Sally in the Classic) and proceeds to have a fight against them. A scene is added in the Remaster where Carl, Carrie and Sally get scolded by Calvin and Linda for going to the party, and get grounded for two weeks.

Carl is given the task to look after Grace's pet (Pidgey in the Classic and Blitty in the Remaster) named Steven while she is off visiting her family member for the weekend. Carl later informs his mother Linda about this to which she then teases him about. When Grace brings Steven to his house, it catches the attention of Carrie and Sally, with the former demanding to play with it. While Carl is asleep, Carrie and Sally sneak the bird cage to their room. Carrie then lets Steven out of his cage, getting attacked by him as a result. Carl wakes up and finds Steve missing but then finds it attacking Calvin in the bathroom, to which he attempts to attack back despite Carl pleading him not to do so. Steven however attacks Calvin again and evolves into Pidgeotto and flies out of Logan's window. Carl then loses the bird when it flies from Goomburger but Linda buys another Pidgeotto from the pet shop only for Grace to notice that Steve has female characteristics and say that she didn't know birds can change genders.

In The Great Race, Carl becomes one of the racers and his family comes to watch him race with Blooper accompanying them. In Motorhome Trip, Calvin drives Carl to Dry Bones and asks him why he brought Marvin with him to which Carl answers that he wants to give him time out in the open to have fun. The three meet Dry Bones and then his father and grandfather who then proceeds to insult Dry Bones, making Calvin feel uncomfortable.

In Logan's New Girlfriend, Calvin shows his pessimism to Logan's goal of being a rapper, in addition to him hanging out with Kenny, a former prisoner who escaped prison. Later, Logan meets Mary-Lynn and Kenny drops them to Mary-Lynn's house, which Liam eavesdrops on. This results in Carl getting beaten up by Gooper out of nowhere, who then says "Screw your family". Carl later spots Logan and Mary-Lynn together, shocking him and worrying him of Logan bringing Mary-Lynn to their house. Carl informs Calvin and Linda, with Linda being optimistic about it. Calvin however, believes she sounds like trouble. Logan later comes with Mary-Lynn, boasting about her being his girlfriend and mocking Carl for not having any. Calvin and Linda meet Mary-Lynn and Linda offers her to join them for dinner. Mary-Lynn then proceeds to advise Calvin in cutting meat from his diet, which makes Calvin feel insulted and leave the table, going to his room and ranting about Mary-Lynn to himself. Linda tries to calm Calvin down but Calvin still continues to rant about Mary-Lynn. Linda states that Logan is happy but Calvin insists on splitting them up, to which Linda goes against as it would turn Logan against him. Linda advises Carl to talk to Logan as he knows Mary-Lynn better than they do but Carl tells her that she's pure evil and uses guys to get back at Gooper but decides to talk to him after Linda pleads.

Carl proceeds to talk to Logan about Mary-Lynn, explaining that she isn't the kind of person he should get attached to, but Logan claims she has changed. Carl however, explains that she fights with Gooper all the time and has done this with lots of guys but Logan claims he knows her for who she really is so Carl gives up. Logan meets Mary-Lynn but he finds that she got back with Gooper and is left heartbroken. Carl meets Logan in his room and says he has came to apologise but Logan says he doesn't care about her apology but just Mary-Lynn so Carl says she isn't worth all this and that Logan did nothing wrong. Carl then tells Logan that Mary-Lynn does not care if he's upset and that he needs to prove that she made the wrong choice, insisting him to continue with his rap career with Kenny and make more money than Gooper ever could. Logan them comes to the conclusion to make a diss track.

In Halloween Party, Carl asks Linda to buy him a halloween costume for a halloween party at school while she is planning dinner. Linda accepts the request so Carl pleads her to not buy him a dorky animal costume. The next day, Linda attempts to find a store with a halloween costume in tire and gets a call from Calvin who says that he picked up a revealing costume for her, making her feel uneasy about it. She explains to him that she's trying to find Carl a costume for his halloween party and asks Carl to tell the kids she might be a little late. Linda then parks at the Bass Station and talks to K. Rool, explaining that she has been looking for a halloween costume for her son so K. Rool gives her a trash bag containing a spare costume. Linda then thanks K. Rool and comes home to show Carl the costume, to which he questions the costume but decides to be grateful and thank Linda. Later, Linda in her outfit given by Calvin, greets Carl's friends and surprises them with her outfit. Carl arrives to meet his friends and Linda informs that she will be trick-or-treating with the girls and gives Carl a kiss. When Carl is intimidated by Gooper and his gang, he is saved when the Koopatrol burst in and check the gang for alcohol. Carl thanks Calvin, who then explains that he was on duty tonight and thought of getting free beer. He then tells Carl that he believes there's a girl that he's supposed to talk to.

When Carl was skipping school with his three friends, they take Logan's fire flowers and proceed to smoke them. Later, Calvin catches him who intimidates Carl and friends that he will tell their parents until Blooper points out that Calvin and his colleagues are also skipping work and thus Carl threatens to tell Linda about him skipping work. Logan arrives and leaves almost immediately after seeing them.