This article is about the character. For the TV show, see Stanley (TV series).
Stanley Griff is the titular protagonist of the 2001 animated television series of the same first name. He is an imaginative young boy. He has a few pets: a goldfish named Dennis, a dog named Harry, and a cat named Elsie. He has an older brother named Lionel, who enjoys playing his electric guitar, a father who stays at home and draws cartoons, and a mother who is a dentist.
Background[]
Physical appearance[]
Stanley appears as a six-year old boy. He has light skin with freckles and brown hair (albeit only 6 strands) on the top of his head. His casual attire mainly consists of a red polo shirt, dark brown shorts and a pair of white and dark blue sneakers. During the cold winter season, he wears the same colors and shoes, but his shirt and pants have longer sleeves.
Other outfits[]
At night, he wears orange two-piece pajamas with black stripes, resembling a tiger.
His swimsuit consists of dark blue swim trunks with yellow on the hem of the sleeves and waist. In episodes like Sunburn Stanley and Pearls of Wisdom, he is also seen wearing brown sandals and a red T-shirt with a sun on it.
Powers and abilities[]
Whenever Stanley enters his book, he transforms into any animal he can change into with amazing skill and ability. Even though he can speak to animals, the animals rarely talk back, the general exception being his pets Harry, Elsie, and Dennis, with whom he converses freely. When Stanley explores animals that live underwater, he is in his scuba gear when he enters the book.
Relationships[]
Dennis[]
Dennis is Stanley's best friend and his favorite fish in the whole world. Whenever Stanley has a problem or doesn't understand something, Dennis is always there to lend a fin, whether it's giving him advice or encouragement.
Stanley first brought Dennis home from a pet store in a plastic bag filled with water, and they've been best friends ever since. Dennis often acts as the adult teacher, especially when it comes to animals. When Stanley and his friends hop into the Great Big Book of Everything, Dennis gives them info about the episode's topic animal and how it lives.
Occasionally, there are times when Stanley feels the need to help Dennis. For instance, in The Pond Couple, Stanley brought home a musk turtle named Oscar, but he and Dennis have trouble getting along. Another moment occurs in Keep ‘em Flying, in which Dennis feels discouraged that he's unable to fly.
Harry[]
Elsie[]
Lionel[]
Lionel is Stanley's older brother. As such, the two of them have a half and half relationship. Generally, Stanley gets annoyed with Lionel whenever he bothers him and messes with his stuff. On the other hand, Lionel has been seen helping him out with things, such as logging onto the computer. While they have their differences and argue a lot, they still care for each other.
In Stanley's Great Big Book of Adventure, Stanley tries to bond with Lionel by helping him write his song, but ends up losing it in the Great Big Book of Everything, resulting in Lionel taking it. This makes Stanley upset, thinking that Lionel doesn't like him or want him around. But once he finds out that Lionel fell into the book, Stanley becomes very concerned and goes in with Dennis to bring him back. In the end, the two make amends and make it back home.
Marci[]
Marci is Stanley's next door neighbor as well as Mimi's twin sister.
Usually, Stanley hangs out with the twins equally together. However, given that Marci is more of a tomboy, he tends to do things more often with her compared to Mimi. Such examples include the two playing soccer in Worms at Work and playing in the mud in Muddy Buddies.
Occasionally, while the two do have a friendly bond, there are often conflicts between them, such as when Stanley was getting annoyed by her bossiness during their game of Follow the Leader. Another moment is when he accidentally loses her soccer ball and gets scared of losing her friendship over it.
Mimi[]
Lester[]
Lester is another one of Stanley's friends. While Stanley doesn't hang out with him as much as he does with the twins, he still enjoys Lester's company and the two get along very well. However, there are times when the two boys can have their conflicts, such as when they argue over dragons being real or not or when Stanley gets annoyed with Lester copying everything he does. Regardless, they are still good friends and are always there for one another.
One great example is in Gorilla Sleepover in which Lester stays over at Stanley's house. When Lester begins feeling homesick, both Stanley and Dennis help him feel better by setting things up to remind him of home.
Disney Parks[]
Stanley appeared as a meet-and-greet character during the time of the show's release, but is now considered retired.
Stanley appeared in the stage show Playhouse Disney: Live on Stage, but was removed in 2008 during the re-imagining of the show.
Quotes[]
- Wow!
- Cool!
- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, into the book to have some fun!
- Oh no! What am I going to do?
- Gotta think. Gotta think.
- Goodnight, Dennis.
Trivia[]
- It is shown in the episode "Look Who's Helping" that Stanley has a paternal cousin named Max, who owns a Golden Retriever named Molly.
- It is also shown in the movie Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up that he has a great-uncle named Stew, who owns a dude ranch.
- In the pilot, Stanley had 4 fingers on each hand and eyebrows. In the actual series, he has 5 fingers and his eyebrows are only shown when he's either surprised or angry.
- Just like Doug Funnie (the star of another Jim Jinkins production), he has a few strands of hair on his head. His friend Lester also has very few hair as well.
- Stanley is one of fewer male characters in the series to be voiced by a female, counting a friend of his named Lester and his cousin Max.
- He has grown an estimated 1 Foot and is 3-and-a-half feet tall (not counting his hairs).
- His family name originates from the author and illustrator of the original Stanley picture books, Andrew Griffin, who was normally credited as simply Griff.
- In the original books, Stanley's PJs were patterned with red and white checkers, whereas in the TV series, they are orange with black tiger stripes.
- Stanley almost always accompanies his friends when they go inside the Great Big Book of Everything. The one instance where he didn't was in "Jackrabbit Hide-and-Seek", in which Lester goes into the book by himself with Dennis.
- He initially had a fear of singing, as revealed in "A Whale of a Song". However, after the episode, he became more comfortable with singing and does it in more episodes onwards.
- He is known to really like bananas, as much of his favorite foods are banana related, including banana whammy and dry banana chips.
Gallery[]
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