American Dad! Characters - Pearl Bailey High School

Pearl Bailey High School

• Superintendent Ellen Riggs (voiced by Anjelica Huston) - The superintendent of Pearl Bailey High School. In "A Ward Show," Roger ends up getting Ellen to fire Principal Brian Lewis when it came to him using Steve for his accounting and other things. In "The Worst Stan," Stan ends up having to hook up Ellen with Principal Brian Lewis in marriage so that he can be Brian's best man.

• Principal Brian Lewis (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) — The principal of Pearl Bailey High School which Steve and his friends attend. Portrayed as an aggressive borderline psychotic with a checkered past, he's displayed a multitude of violent tendencies and a flippant attitude, and his actual dedication to the school is somewhat questionable. When Steve is the Student Body President, he commandeers Principal Lewis' office, as the student body president is entitled to secure any school grounds he needs. Lewis did not mind, since in doing this Steve proved that he could read, and that the system worked. He later allows Stan to teach a "morally upright" sexual education class, but only Steve is signed up for it. He is a member of the "Illuminutty" - an organization revolving around a supposed conspiracy involving the invention of peanut butter. When presented with a tip that Steve is in possession of narcotics, he displays detailed knowledge of the source and method of cutting said drugs, and concluds that a specific drug lord named Esteban Montilla is back in business and tells Steve to tell him that El Lobo Negrón (which translates to "The Black Wolf") sends his regards. He is the father of Steve's classmate Janet, but rarely acknowledges this. When Steve discovers this and asks him why he never mentioned it before, he says that he is "ashamed of her for more reasons than you can imagine". He keeps $500 hanging out of his pocket to make the students think he is rich. Lewis has taken part in war reenactments and is "killed" during a Vietnam War reenactment (partly because Steve falls asleep during watch duty allowing the Viet Cong to attack the American camp). In "Bully for Steve," it is shown that Principal Lewis has his lunch near the basketball court. Both times during the episode, a werewolf janitor snatches a student causing Principal Lewis to quote "Oh ****." In "100 A.D.," Principal Lewis is among the characters that pursues Hayley and Jeff for the bounty that Stan offered. In "You Debt Your Life", he explicitly states that he used to run cocaine; unfortunately this statement is accidentally made over the school PA system. Lewis' family was apparently the inspiration for the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, according to the episode "The Worst Stan" when Stan plans to hook Brian up with Superintendent Ellen Riggs so that Stan could be his best man.

• Schmuley “Snot” Lonstein (voiced by Curtis Armstrong) - is Steve's mustached and acne-covered Jewish friend. He is physically modeled after his voice actor's character's appearance from the movie Revenge of the Nerds, as Dudley "Booger" Dawson. He speaks Klingon, and can read Quenya. Like Steve, he has a fetish for octogenarian women. His parents are poor, as they could not afford a bar mitzvah celebration, although Steve pays for one in an attempt to apologize when he is falsely accused of theft. His parents have him see a therapist who is implied to engage with him inappropriately and romantically. Steve reveals that his father left Snot's family and may have been abusive towards his mother. He is generally considered Steve's best friend but is quite fickle in this role, having cheated with Steve's girlfriends and pelted him with apples during a period where Steve was in a brace for scoliosis in order to gain social acceptance. When Snot and Steve were younger, they solved mysteries together. He refused to help Steve figure out the mystery, as he quit when "the case of the missing bike horn turned into a double rape homicide". Snot appears to be the least eccentric member of Steve's clique. It is also revealed in the episode "Wiener of our Discontent" that he can somewhat understand Toshi. Toshi exclaims "Oh, my God", and Snot replies "I think you mean 'oh, my Godzilla'."

• Barry (voiced by Eddie Kaye Thomas) - Steve's obese friend. Stan hates him, often yelling insults about his weight at him, but does not know why. Like Snot, he can speak Klingon, and seems to be able to read Quenya. He apparently has a fetish for Miss Piggy. His normally quiet, border-line mental retardation, innocent personality is the result of powerful anti-psychotic pills. After stopping his medication regimen, Barry turns into a deranged mastermind, speaking in a low voice "like Gary Oldman", framing Steve for the destruction of Stan's beloved commemorative plates in an attempt to replace Steve. His madness grows worse over time, culminating with Barry trying to eliminate everyone that might get between himself and Stan. Steve tricks Barry into taking his medication, reverting him back to his usual self. This facet of his personality is hinted at when he helps Snot and Toshi beat up a drugged Steve and screams that they should kill Steve's whole family. Barry describes his parents as ignorant and implies that they engage in bondage sex play and smoke pot. Other statements about his parents imply that they abuse him or are negligent, making him sleep in their basement and often forgetting he is their son (and that they even have a son).

• Toshi Yoshida (吉田 慧, Yoshida Toshi?) (voiced by Daisuke Suzuki) - Steve's Japanese American friend. Though he can understand English perfectly, he always speaks Japanese with subtitles. A recurring joke is that everyone assumes Toshi has said something completely unrelated or opposite to what he has actually said. Toshi studies Russian in order to impress an attractive mail order bride named Svetlana in "Of Ice and Men". He is mischievous, and sometimes, cruel and anti-American. Toshi has expressed the desire to kill Steve as his greatest wish, and he claims to have killed before. Toshi used a katana to kill a group of serial murderers who were chasing the Smith family in "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls". Toshi has demonstrated that he is the only character outside the Smith family able to see through Roger's disguises, describing him as "the alien in the wig". Toshi has a sister named Akiko, who acts as a translator. Despite his apparent inability to speak English, his sister, mother and father speak excellent English. Toshi spoke English for the first time in the series in the episode "A Pinata Named Desire" after Snot angrily smacked him and demanded that he learn English. He attempted to say "Eat my balls." but his heavy accent resulted in it sounding like "Eat my bowls." which was reflected in the subtitles. He later sung part of "Yah Mo B There" by James Ingram and Michael McDonald on the episode "Home Wrecker".

• Akiko Yoshida (吉田 暁子, Yoshida Akiko?) (voiced by Grey DeLisle in 2009, Grace Park in 2010–Present) - Akiko is Toshi's older sister. She first appears in "American Dream Factory" as a young child with no dialogue when Toshi brings her to audition as a drummer for Steve's Band "The Asstones" but on her next appearance in "Weiner of Our Discontent", she is a teenager, presumably in the same grade as Toshi and Steve. She refereed the hot dog eating contest between Toshi and Steve in the same episode. She speaks perfect English and occasionally translates for Toshi. Akiko dressed as Chun-Li from the video game series Street Fighter for Halloween in "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls". When Steve develops a crush on Akiko, they are forced to flee from Toshi until Steve convinces him he being too possessive of her. Thinking he can open up to Akiko, Steve is stunned when she announces she has a crush on a nine-year old named Doug because he is a great dancer.

• Debbie Hyman (voiced by Lizzy Caplan) - An overweight goth girl who Steve dates. When she and Steve begin dating it causes Stan to become anorexic because he is disgusted by her obesity. Steve breaks up with her after he realizes she is causing it, but they reunite when he realizes it did not help. Stan accepts her after she demonstrates prowess with firearms. Debbie appears in "Iced, Iced Babies", though she reportedly breaks up with Steve by the end. She and Steve get back together in "Escape from Pearl Bailey", where Steve gets Debbie to run for Student Council President against Lisa Silver. Debbie loses when an insulting page of her on the Internet is shown around school. Steve, thinking that Lisa and her friends did it, gets revenge on them. When he tells Debbie she breaks up with him, as she does not believe in vengeance, it turns out that Steve's friends made the slam page because they view her as monopolizing his time and everyone in the school goes after them. They are caught by Debbie's clique, who tells them to let Steve go and makes up with him. She tries to get Steve to come with her, but he says he wants to stay by his friends. Debbie lets them all go while she and the other goths distract the student body. In "Bar Mitzvah Shuffle", Debbie falls for Snot's Bar Mitzvah study buddy Etan because she says he is more mature than Steve. Steve sabotages Etan's Bar Mitzvah, hoping to prove that Etan is less mature than she thinks he is. However, Snot is blamed for the sabotage. When Steve admits to sabotaging the party before the Jewish Court, Debbie is also displeased with this.

• Lisa Silver (voiced by Carmen Electra in the pilot, Elizabeth Banks in later appearances) - Head cheerleader and most popular girl in school. She first appears in the pilot episode, where Steve tries to ask her out but she rejects him. When Steve becomes Student Council President they date, but she dumps him when he tries to kiss her, and Stan has her family deported. She reappears when Steve successfully asks her out to the prom after his confidence is boosted by the appearance of his first pubic hair. She later wins re-election as Student Council President, defeating Debbie, and Steve infects her with oral herpes, believing her responsible for a slam page that cost Debbie the election.

• Lindsey Coolidge (voiced by Terri Lyn Rodriguez) - One of several girls that Steve tries to impress. In her first appearance she remarks that Steve is more fun to be around than she expected. However, she discovers Roger's secret identity as an alien and has to have her memories wiped by Stan. Later, Lindsey states that she likes guys who engage in risky behavior, resulting in Steve accidentally blowing his thumb off with a firecracker. After the accident she lets Steve touch her breast, but when he says he cannot feel anything due to the anesthesia in his hand she storms off. Steve learns to play the cello in an effort to impress Lindsey, who he describes as "a cello slut". Steve is successful, but brushes Lindsey off after a recital to attend to an injured cat. Lindsey makes several cameo appearances in later episodes.