Chad Laurel is a neurotic 10-year old fourth grader whose lower middle class father Parker is an overweight unemployed loser who used to be in a rock band called Parker and the Ions but now just sits around the house all day eating cheesecake, drinking Drunkenduxx brand whiskey, and saying "AUKH." Chad's own catchphrase is "What the hey?" He is obsessed with Nuclear Man comics but his dad won't buy them for him. Chad's best friend is nerdy Jewish kid Tristan Weinstein and he has a cousin Janet