Fred's Head

Plot

Characters

Leblanc family and neighbor

• Blaise Leblanc is a 16 year old teen and the main protagonist in the series who lives in an apartment with his family and neighbors. Fred goes to St Judes High School and has many friends. He plays on the St Judes basketball team, with his friend Benji. He has a great imagination and always has a sarcastic thought for any situation. He has had some love interests, the main one being Anette Freeze-Dright, however he also has had some real love partners which are Fanny Cotton and Tamara Hartman. Gregory-Gilbert is his best friend. Fred always looks blasé and this causes him to be followed by the psychologist Anemone Worrynaut anywhere he goes at school. He has also shown courage at some moments. He likes to help people and can do anything to help a friend. Like many teens, he is sometimes angry, easily annoyed and frustrated at his parents who sometimes consider him immature or overprotect him. He has had some jobs, one at the Clown Shop owned by the Pyrowski Family and recently at the Café. He owns a collection of useless items that includes a lime green door, a rock, dwarf ears, and Fred already tried to add a cellphone-radio-razor to this collection. Fred hates parties though he organized two, a pink party and a Halloween party, each went horribly wrong. He disliked Christmas, as proven in A Christmas Carol, but only due to getting tired of celebrating the holiday in that same episode. At the end of each episode, he tells a quote with a link to the synopsis of the episode. Sometimes other characters are part of the quote. His catchphrases are "moldy" and "I think not". At the end of the last episode, he finally succeeds to tell his love for Anette to his not-anymore-secret crush and the two end up together.
• Carol Schwartz is Fred's mother. Of an unknown age, she sometimes overprotects her two sons, Fred and Boon Mee. As a mother, she has the habit of telling Fred all kinds of tips whenever he quits home for an unknown time. She worked a long time for seniors and takes care of Madame Butterfly, the Leblanc's elderly neighbor. She is still a mother before everything, she is considered a second mother by Gregory-Gilbert Pyrowski. She also created lots of traditions for Christmas. These include the yearly turkey, elf ears and hand-made decorations. She has a sister named Monique. A typical mother, she also has a tendency to do too much for her sons, which Paul always reminds her.
• Paul Leblanc is Fred's father. Unlike his wife, he is reserved and lets Fred experience things on his own. Carol always says that Paul gave Fred a too solid shell against real problems. He gets easily angered after the Beast. When he catches a cold, he is cured by Carol. He is also very smart, even brilliant, as depicted on the websites. A typical father.
• Boon Mee Leblanc is Fred's baby brother, adopted from Thailand. He mainly spends his time in Carol's or Paul's arms. In earlier episodes, he could only cry and giggle. Now he can say many words. He can name Fred and Madam Butterfly by their names. He also shows some kind of baby smartness.
• The Beast is the Leblanc family's Brown Point Oriental Shorthair cat. A defensive, hostile, hot-headed and certainly crazy cat. He is shown to be very aggressive and territorial to people he doesn't live with, which include the homeless man, GG, Penelope and Aunt Monique. He also likes to mark his territory.
• Aunt Monique is Carol's sister. Optimistic and highly Feng Shui, it has been hinted that it may be her fault if Fred is blasé. She has appeared so far in three episodes, 1 as a cameo and 2 in a more important role. During the Christmas special, she meets the homeless man Fred brought home for the family party. They seemed to like each other, but it is not known if it went further. Monique likes the empty space, she feels alone with her feelings when she does so. She is also an adept of unbreakable plates and primal screams. Aunt Monique doesn't live with the family but really likes to visit a lot!
• Madam Butterfly is the Leblanc family's Japanese neighbor, Madam Butterfly is looks pretty much like Fred's grandmother. Now deceased, her husband was an actor of the Kabuki theater, playing a woman. She is of an advanced age, and certainly suffers from Alzheimer's. She frequently forgets her own apartment and almost lives in the Leblanc family's. She is kind of a part of the family, since the Beast never scratches her dress nor bites. Of a great Japanese sageness, she frequently tells quotations such as "the old foot knows the path, while the young foot gets lost on the way". She also follows many feng shui traditions, one of them being "no shoes on the floor". Carol is taking care of her. She also believes in spiritism and tries to talk to her dead husband. She appears once in Fred's quotes.

  Main teen

• Fabienne Lajoie aka Fab is a horror B-movie fan who studies at St Judes High School. She lives with her parents, who are never at home. Sometimes quick-tempered, she dreams of making bloody and gory horror movies. Cynical to death, she is also independent, anarchist, atypical and short fused. She hates the Hart trio and Soya and constantly makes fun of them. Penelope Truehart gets on her nerves frequently. It has been hinted that she has had a relationship with Fred and that they had their first kiss together. It has also been hinted in the same joke that she is lesbian, something that becomes clearer in the following episodes of the season. She was brown haired before turning her hair color to red, and is always wearing her signature black lipstick. Her parents never take time for her, so she learned to help herself. She hates all holidays because she never spends them with family. She discovers by herself that she is allergic to latex in the episode "So Long Worrynaut". Fabienne has one known cousin called Fatima, who was romantically involved with GG for a short period.
• Gean-Gilbert Pirowski aka GG, is Fred's official best friend who studies at St Judes High School. His family name implies that his family comes from Poland. GG is the weirdest character of the show with his unique appearance and extensive vocabulary. Round eyes and belly, strange haircut, big teeth, he is easily recognizable. GG has many dreams for his future, which he tells throughout the series: getting married, having 7 kids, breeding labradors, owning a central vacuum system and a powered car for his progeniture, a cottage, and many other things. His old sky-blue car is so old that it breaks anytime he drives it and by any means, a recurring inside-joke during the series. It has already hit a tree, a phone booth, and a surgery clinic. He works at the clown shop, a place owned by his family. He has a dead uncle named Lazlo whose body is kept under the counter at the shop. When Fred dated Fanny Cotton, he was sure that she could replace Anette. He considers Carol Leblanc like a second mother. He won the President's underwear at the school fair. At Halloween, he disguised himself as Fred and copied his catchphrases. GG fell in love with 4 girls so far in the series: Fatima, Fabienne's cousin, Clementine, a blasé girl, Sophie Goodheart, Jody's sister, and finally Beatrice, whom he met in Episode 5. Since none of these loves worked, he is still alone and desperately seeks the girl of his dreams, the one who will help him getting everything he ever wanted. In the episode "Blow Out Sale", he sings a song about his four loves.
• Benji Jean-Francois is Fred's childhood friend and studies at St Judes High School. Now a muscular and powerful teen, Fred could beat him when they were younger. He has a girlfriend, Penelope. He loves to show off his big muscles. He is also part of the school's basketball team. He loves Penelope a lot and gives her lots of small nicknames. Also, he will answer all her wishes, might it be a giant gift or a simple snack. Benji likes everything to be "simple" and thinks Fred always makes everything sound so complicated. Benji lives with his mom in the same apartment building as Fred's family.
• Anette Frette-seck is Blaise/Fred's mysterious and enigmatic dream girl and Fabienne's best female friend. She has jet black hair, piercing eyes and a royal demeanor. Her wardrobe has a definite gothic twist. She is passionate about her art, and is often seen painting or exposing her abstract pieces or self-portraits. Since she is a very quiet and un-expressive in general, it is hard to know if she notices Fred's attraction for her. They had a couple of interesting encounters that generally turned out to be somewhat catastrophic. Anette's Dad is an ambassador and her mom an ex-Bollywood star. She lives in a mansion in the upper-class part of the city and is sometimes seen going to school in a limo. Every time Fred tries to help her or express his feelings, something goes wrong and Anette leaves, angry. She had one known relationship with "William Intense", a conceptual artist with pink hair. But she broke up with him after he cheated on her with Jody Goodheart.. In the very last episode, at the end, Fred finally expresses his love for Anette without anything going wrong and it ends the season with a kiss.

  The Hart Trio

• Penelope Froncoeur is the leader of the "Hart" Trio, consisting of Penelope, Jody and Tamara, Penelope is also the dumbest and most naïve. A real airhead. She is totally in love with her "Benji-Poo" and always tries to fix Fred up with girls. Even though she always wants to be nice, she often insults people without realizing it. She lives with her mom and her stepdad. Her favorite expressions are "fizz!" and "shooty!". Penelope is also obsessed with Panouk's sexual identity.
• Tamara Vadeboncœur may be the nicest girl of the "Hart" trio, Tamara is reserved and shy. She works at the cafe where all the teenagers hang out. Her dad is Doctor Hartman. Throughout the series, it has become clear that Tamara is in love with Fred. Later in the series, Fred works with Tamara at the café where they experience mutual attraction. Their relationship continues during four episodes but soon, Fred has to choose between Tamara and his secret crush Anette. In the episode "The analgesic of apocalypse", a hospital bound Fred writes Tamara a letter telling her about his feelings for Anette. During the following episode while nursing her heartbreak she completely changes her look, however in the most recent episodes we haven't seen this new look.
• Josee Jolicoeur is the nastiest girl in Saint-Judes Highschool, Jody completes the "Hart" trio. This red haired girl is mean whenever she gets the chance, sometimes with her own friends. She is single and jealous of Penelope who goes out with the hottest guy in school. She was also extremely jealous of Tamara who dated Fred during four episodes. Jody lives with her dad and has a sister named Sophie that looks like a rock chick.

  Minor characters

• Soya Green She's the student with the biggest environmental conscience in St Judes. She's always eager to protest, demonstrate, rebuke and lecture each time someone so much as looks at a dandelion funny. That's why she tends to get on the nerves of some students, particularly Fabienne. She once organized a protest against Anemone Worrynaut's reforms for a "happier life" in the school.. Using her journalistic experience, Soya also helped Fred trap a greedy health inspector who wanted to close down the Pyrowski's Clown Shop.. She hasn't appeared since.
• Nino O'Neil This kid is trapped in a spacesuit because he's allergic to absolutely everything in the animal and plant kingdoms, including minerals. At St Judes, he is the ultimate reject. He has a little trouble making friends because he quickly becomes very invasive. One of his goals in life is to finally kiss a girl on the lips. He almost never speaks. He once became Fred's friend, though GG was jealous of this.
• Panook Titouk The school enigma! The long haired, long limbed Panook is a quiet and polite teen. One of the goals of the students at Saint Judes is to find out if Panook is in fact a guy or a girl. For most people, it could go either way, but Penelope is convinced he/she is a girl. "It" can be a boy since "it" never wears mascara and has no breasts, but "it" can also be a girl since "it" never farts and has a ponytail. If anyone would ask him/her a question to get if it is a boy or a girl, he/she might answer something that will work for both. During the most recent episode, Margot begins dating Panook.
• Yohan Chabot is not very smart and spends all his time with Manny Escobar. Like his friend, he likes to play pranks, insulting Nino, rolling on his skateboard and making other extreme sports. Along with Manny, he ruins Anette's exhibit, they roll down the school's stairs on skateboard, they arrive at the pink party with masks. He actually uses big words to describe Fred in "Fred TV", but he probably didn't know what he said. It is because of them if Fred accepts a bungee jump for the basketball team. They throw Nino in the pool in the episode "The Make-Up Sausage". They also cause a lot of trouble to Fred when he becomes counselor for a skate park.
• Manny Escobar is Yohan Chabot's best friend. Just like him, he is not smart, he likes to make trouble around him, and they are always together, just like brothers. Fred even comes to wonder if they don't share the same brain. He participated in every prank described in Yohan Chabot's description.
• Rudolph He appears in episode 14 "Fred TV". He is one of the players on the St Judes basketball team who finally gets the nerve to publicly admit that he is gay after Fred Leblanc "comes out of the closet" on TV. He falls for Fred, but is disappointed when he finds out Fred is not actually gay. He is in many episodes, but episode 14 is the only one in which he has a prominent role. His last name is not mentioned.
• Troy Philips An annoying teachers pet, who thinks he is better than everyone else. And makes sure they know it.

  St-Judes staff

• Theo Sturgeon, the principal
• Poky, Theo Sturgeon's dog
• Anemone Worrynaut, the school psychologist and the main antagonist of the series.
• Hopkins, the canary, Anemone Worrynaut's pet bird
• Viona Voula, the French teacher
• Baltasar Fairchild, the armless science teacher.
• Claude, the hairless monkey Baltasar Fairchild's monkey, also his arms and hands.
• Raouf Khandoo, the gym teacher.
• Paco Barrier
• Valfred

  Other families

• The Pyrowski family
• The Ledger family
• The Trueheart family
• The Hartman family

  Recurring characters

• Fanny Cotton Although Fred has been in love with Anette for the longest time, Fanny is Fred's first ever girlfriend. She is a beautiful redhead who likes to obsessively brush her hair all the time and leaves piles of them behind wherever she goes. A new student at Saint Judes, Fanny had a crush on Fred as soon as she laid her eyes on him. In their first encounter, Fred saved Fanny from the rampaging Claude, the science teacher's pet monkey. For her, it was love at first sight. For him, it was the start of a dilemma: Continue trying to get closer to Anette, who doesn't even notice his presence, or take a chance with Fanny, who is nice and seems pretty interested. One thing led to another, and the two of them started going out. But Fred has regretted it ever since. They broke up a week after and Fanny became completely crazy. Now, her life obsession is to get Fred back, by whatever means possible. In the episode "Within a Hair's Breath of Happiness", Fanny comes back, passing as a blond nurse, while Fred is stuck in the hospital. She has a new evil plan to get her Freddie-Poo back. In order to make him unattractive to the opposite sex, she plans on giving him the C-Baldy Bacterium that will make him lose every hair on his body. But Fabienne enters Fred's hospital room just in time and a fierce battle ensues between the two girls. Fanny ends up contracting the dreaded bacterium. Now bald and confined to a padded room in a psychiatric hospital, she still believes she can get her Fred back, planning on using a new identity the next time they cross paths.

  One-time characters

• Sophie Goodheart She appears in episode 17, "Half-Fried Herrings". Jody's older sister who comes to visit for the summer. GG spots her lounging by the pool at the Hart Trio's pool party. He immediately falls in love with her. Realizing this she uses it to her advantage to get a ride to her friends cabin in Abitibi. This is the first and last episode she appears in.
• Fatima Ledger She appears in episode 8, "Spills of the Heart". She is Fabienne's cousin. GG spots her at the party and 'falls in love'. After talking GG and Fatima realize that they are the perfect couple. They each have the same passion for meat, and share the dream of marrying each other. But when she asks him to go upstairs for some pleasure, he immediately breaks up with her because he refuses any sex before marriage. She is briefly mentioned in another episode, but does not appear again.
• William Intense A conceptual artist with pink hair. He appears in episode 8, "Spills of the Heart". In which Blaise/Fred throws a party in hopes of getting a chance to hang out with Anette. But William shows up at the party as Anette's date. But Anette broke up with him after he got caught cheating on her with Josee/Jody at the party.
• Kevin He's a 'sexy' white boy Penelope Truehart briefly falls for in episode 6 "Life is a Highway".
• George Dugan actor who plays Captain Splendid.
• The Campers of "Camp Woodsy kiddy friends"
• The Squirrels Psychotic squirrels from episode 7 "Rodent Terrors". After one squirrel eats a peanut, like an epidemic they all go rabid. And they end up attacking St Judes. At the end of the episode they are stopped by being buried alive and are presumed dead. But before the screen went dark one stuck its paw up out of the dirt. So maybe we'll see them again.
• The homeless man
• Mr. Julian owner of the Coffee Shop.
• Zoe Waters
• Nicole
• Hyacinth Sylvester runs the watermill at the summer camp.
• Margot
• Beatrice
• Clementine

  Cast

• Mathew Mackay as Fred Leblanc
• Rick Jones as Gregory Gilbert Pyrowski / Mr. Pyrowski
• Laura Teasdale as Fabienne Ledger / Anette Freeze-Drigh
• Holly Gauthier-Frankel as Penelope Truehart / Jody Goodheart
• Danny Blanco-Hall as Benji John Hooper
• Jesse Vinet as Tamara Hartman
• Justin Bradley as Manny Escobar
• Craig Francis as Johan Chabot
• Ellen David as Carol Schwartz
• Mark Camacho as Paul Leblanc
• Sonja Ball as Boon-Mee Leblanc / Madame Butterfly
• Terrence Scammell as Anemone Worrynaut / Balthasar Fairchild / Nino O'Neil
• A.J. Henderson as TV announcer
• Taylor Baruchel as Fanny Cotton
• Richard Dumont as Theo Sturgeon
• Thor Bishopric as Troy Philips
• Pauline Little as Ms. Pyrowski
• Al Goulem as Mr. Julian
• Maria Bircher as Viona Voula
• Danny Brochu as Valfred / Rudolph
• Pierre Lenoir as Dr. Hartman
• Martin Watier as William Intense

  Episodes

Reception

Awards

Actra Montreal Awards

• : Rick Jones Winner of Outstanding Voice Performance

  Gala des prix Gémeaux (Quebec's Geminy/Emmy Awards — Canada)

• : Winner of "Best animated series".

  Nominations

Actra Montreal Awards

• : Mathew Mackay nominated for Outstanding Voice Performance
• : Holly Gauthier-Frankel nominated for Outstanding Voice Performance

  Gala des prix Gémeaux (Quebec's Geminy/Emmy Awards — Canada)

• : Best script for a youth audience.
• : Best for a TV series.

  International Animation Festival in Annecy (France)

• : Official selection — Best TV series

  Cartoon on the bay: Pulcinella Awards (Italy)

• : Official selection - "TV series for all ages"