| Name | Context | Season/Episode |
|---|---|---|
| Adolph Stepp | A dance instructor as well as the most handsome and eligible bachelor in town. He married Olga Fetchik after she got plastic surgery. The two moved to Norway to become the hit Norwegian dance team “Stepp n’ Fetchik”. | GG S02/E20 |
| Beatrice Ljungqvist | The wife of Gustav Ljungqvist. One day, Gustav became ill. Believed that he died they prepared to bury him. However, after recovering from his illness, Gustav awoke in the coffin and yelled out, “We never paid our ’78 through ’86 income taxes,” and Beatrice heard him. At the cemetery, Beatrice kept screaming, “He’s alive, he’s alive! I can hear him from the grave!” Everybody thought it was the hallucinations of a grieving widow, so they sedated her. When Beatrice recovered from her sedation, she convinced everyone to return to the cemetery and dig up Gustav’s coffin. However, they discovered that Gustav had suffocated. | GG S05/E01 |
| Bergstrom | Gustav Ljungqvist’s business partner. After becoming ill, they thought Gustav had died and was buried alive. Gustav awoke in the coffin and yelled out, “We never paid our ’78 through ’86 income taxes,” and Beatrice heard him. Beatrice convinced everyone to return to the cemetery and dig up Gustav’s coffin. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service were present at the cemetery during the disinterment. In order to avoid the IRS, Bergstrom grabbed Sheriff Tokvisten’s gun and shot himself. Bergstrom was buried with Gustav, since everyone was already at the cemetery and there was a coffin available. They later unfortunately learned that Bergstrom had wanted to be cremated. | GG S05/E01 |
| Big Gustav | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| Big Lars | Was supposed to be on the hayride with Sonia on their wedding day. However, Little Lars ended up on the wagon with her. | GG S03/E25 |
| Bridget Knudenspringle | Opposite to her husband Ollie. She was thin, sloppy, short, and extravagant. They sang together at St. Olaf’s annual talent show. | GG S04/E14 |
| Claire Osterhaus | Rose’s best friend. She claimed she got pregnant while her husband was stationed in France during WWII. Claire’s explanation that sperm swam across the Atlantic, though Rose believes it likely came by mail. | GG S05/E03 |
| Clergy of St. Olaf | When girls get thoughts about having sex, the clergy would have them pave the little dirt road outside the church until the thoughts just went away. That little dirt road is now known as the Minneapolis turnpike. | GP E23 |
| Dr. Sigmund Sturgeon | A controversial psychologist from known for his radical theory that pulling out girls’ front teeth would reduce their attractiveness and promiscuity. | GP E16 |
| Elsa Yuderruden | Stayed awake for 17 days during a rocking chair marathon. Supported by her family—and a cattle prod. | GG S03/E08 |
| Elsie Holdenfelder | Her story is a long sad story, a story of love, a story of deception, a story of a fool. | GG S06/E23 |
| Emma Immerhoffer | Fellow nominee for the 1988 St. Olaf Woman of the Year. Known for her significant charitable work, including running the orphanage, taking in the homeless, and running soup kitchens. Disqualified due to Mr. Immerhoffer’s skeleton being found in her closet. | GG S04/E04 |
| Engmar Spangenhausen – The Herring King | Rose recounts the “Great St. Olaf Herring Scare of ’49.” The legend involves Engmar Spangenhausen devising a scheme to spin herring into gold. It was successful until people started questioning why their watches smelled like fish. | N S01/E09 |
| Erik the Red | Was accused of being a coward and called yellow by Lars Svensson. | GG S03/E14 |
| Eskimo family | When the Eskimo family moved to St. Olaf, they struggled to fit in. They sawed a hole in the local ice rink to go salmon fishing, gave out whale blubber for Halloween, and borrowed all of the ice trays in town to build an addition on their garage. They ended up the most popular family in town after their house melted during The Drought of ‘49 keeping the town from dehydrating. | GG S03/E20 |
| Fat Jerry | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| Finneas Wigler | The Wiglers were a revered family, until the scandal. The Navy came to town to take bids for a big submarine contract. They said they wanted three submarines built for a million. Finneas said he could make 100 for half the money. So, of course, he got the contract. When the Navy came to check on the progress, six months later, they discovered there’d been a misunderstanding. Finneas had made 100 hoagie heroes for $500,000. He claimed the reason they were so expensive was he used all imported meats and cheeses. | GG S03/E12 |
| Franz Thurman | The son of Ingrid Thurman and twin brother of Hans Thurman. After giving birth to Hans, Ingrid stopped pushing. He stayed in the womb for so long, he and his brother Franz ended up a year apart in school. | GG S05/E01 |
| Fricka Nibelung | Nils’ daughter. She won red ribbons at all the county fairs, usually as runner-up to the pig. One April, Nils decided to breed Brunhilde, and he chose April because that’s when pigs are at their most beautiful and desirable. Unfortunately, so was Fricka. So while Brunhilde was doing her thing, Fricka and the local pig breeder were doing theirs. When Nils heard about it, he banished Fricka from his house and his life forever. After a while he lost interest in the pig’s company and he ate her, and he died St. Olaf’s loneliest man. | GG S05/E13 |
| Fritz Fenderhoven | The owner of the St. Olaf Motorcoach Company. He built the Fenderhoven Rocket, which had eight wheels due to Fritz’s double vision and ran on cow manure. However, the car never got off the ground due to poor marketing. A lot of people were turned off by the ad, which was a cow sitting on the gas tank reading The Farmer’s Almanac. | GG S04/E08 |
| Gretchen Lillehammer | The winner of the 1987 St. Olaf Woman of the Year, who won for saving all three books from a fire at the public library. | GG S04/E04 |
| Gunilla Bjorndunker | She was St. Olaf’s tallest woman, but no one made fun of her for that. When Old Space Needle was in high school, she drank some cherry herring and made love with her boyfriend, Yutz Hernsberg, in the backseat of a Fjord Fjairlane. She ended up knukendup und schvingle, and Yutz had to marry her. After 38 years of marriage and a painful divorce, Yutz became sucessful and wanted Gunilla back. But Skylab fell on her. | GG S06/E03 |
| Gunilla Ulfstadder | St. Olaf’s very own angel of death. She was a nurse at Cedars of St. Olaf Hospital. One night she was taking care of Sven Bjornsson, and he asked her if she would get him some more mouth moisteners and then kill him. Gunilla brought the mouth moisteners right away, but the killing thing seemed to go against everything she’d been taught. He begged and he begged, and by her coffee break, she couldn’t stand it anymore, so she pulled the plug and he died. Well, she was racked with guilt that night. Not only had she parked her car in a doctor’s spot, but she was never sure whether Sven’s pleading was the pain talking, or the medication talking, or the guy in the next bed talking! The guy in the next bed was Ingmar von Bergen, St. Olaf’s meanest ventriloquist. Sven came back to haunt Gunilla. Since then, every Tuesday night at ten, nine, central time, she hears noises. Some say it’s the wind, but some say it’s Sven’s voice whispering back from the other side. | GG S05/E07 |
| Gustav Ljungqvist | Gustav became ill one day. He was so ill that he was pronounced dead. However, he recovered from his illness, and woke up in the coffin. Upon waking he yelled out, “We never paid our ’78 through ’86 income taxes,”. Beatrice heard him and was screaming, “He’s alive, he’s alive! I can hear him from the grave!” Everybody thought it was the hallucinations of a grieving widow, so they sedated her. When Beatrice recovered from her sedation, she convinced everyone to return to the cemetery and dig up Gustav’s coffin. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service were present at the cemetery during the disinterment. In order to avoid the IRS, Bergstrom grabbed Sheriff Tokvisten’s gun and shot himself. They were too late, they discovered that Gustav had suffocated. Bergstrom was buried with Gustav, since everyone was already at the cemetery and there was a coffin available. They later unfortunately learned that Bergstrom had wanted to be cremated. | GG S05/E01 |
| Hans Christian Lukerhüven | Credited as St. Olaf’s greatest author. He wrote “Hansel and Hansel,” & “Tales of Toonder the Tiger and His Friends”. | GG S04/E16 |
| Hans Fliegelfleister | A story that Rose thought was impotant to share, but Blanche wouldn’t let her tell it. | GG S05/E21 |
| Hans Gluckenflunken | St.Olaf’s greatest explorer. He set out for Florida to find the Fountain of Intelligence. Unfortunately, when he got to Duluth, he took a left instead of a right and he wound up back in St. Olaf. That’s how he got his nickname, Wrong Way Gluckenflunken. Well, when he got back, it was the dead of winter. Tired and hungry but still clinging to his belief that he would find the Fountain of Intelligence, he saw the miracle water trickling out of the ground, and he fell to his knees and tasted it. Unfortunately, it was a broken sewer main. Two days later, he died of cholera. His dying words were, “I think I’ve learned something from this.” | GG S05/E14 |
| Hans Thurman | Rose compares herself to Hans the Plate Spinner while telling multiple stories at the same time. | GG S06/E05 |
| Heidi Flugendugelgurgenplotz | St. Olaf’s most famous matchmaker. She successfully matched a bull with a duck, and their daughter was a bull duck who ran a small tattoo parlor in Carmel. | GG S06/E05 |
| Heinrich von Anderdonnen | Heinrich von Anderdonnen, a Norwegian immigrant, was the founder of St. Olaf, and the first man to can tuna in its own natural juices. Every year, the town holds a parade to honor him in which the townspeople dress up as tuna and jars of mayonnaise. | GG S01/E24 |
| Henrik Felderstuhl | St. Olaf’s half-man, half-grasshopper. When he rubbed his legs together, you’d swear you were on a camping trip. | GG S06/E15 |
| Henry Fjord Jr | The son of Henry Fjord, disappointed his father by not wanting to follow in his footsteps, thinking “scum was beneath him.” | GG S02/E16 |
| Henry Fjord Sr | A man who dedicated his life to eliminating pond scum from Lake St. Olaf. Revered as a saint in the town for eliminating all of the pond scum from Lake St. Olaf. Rose helped to start the Fjord Foundation in his name. | GG S02/E16 |
| Herder Schornborscht | St. Olaf’s most famous shepherd. He used to say, “You could have a hundred sheep and if one goes astray, that’s the one you look for. Especially if it’s the best-looking one.” | GG S05/E09 |
| House call Doctor | When growing up in Minnesota, the doctor made house calls all the time for the family and the livestock. Worked out fine until the doctor started drinking hog liniment and tried to neuter the Swensen brothers.” | GG S01/E05 |
| Ilse Frickadeller | The woman that went with Canute Trollsted to Smooch Point to play hide the fingerborg. Ilse sat on his compass, causing them to get so lost that they ended up walking to Finland. Canute famously said “You can’t go home again.” | GG S05/E06 |
| Inga Engstran | A resident of St. Olaf who was tried for dismembering her husband. During the trial, she married her late husband’s brother, Lars Engstran. She was convicted of the killing and hanged. | GG S05/E08 |
| Inga Lundqvist | A neighbor of the Lindström family. Ingrid backed over her husband, Joe, with a combine but didn’t know she had done so until she found little bits of his plaid shirt, overalls, and arm in the corn. She never remarried and lived a happy life baking, sewing, gardening, and tending animals. | GG S01/E15 |
| Ingmar von Burgen | St. Olaf’s meanest ventriloquist. He was in the hospital and sharing a room with Sven Bjornsen when Gunilla pulled the plug. He might have thrown his voice to convince nurse Gunilla Olfstatter that Sven wanted to die. | GG S05/E07 |
| Ingrid | Rose’s childhood best friend. Rose has fond memories of them hanging out together in a treehouse. | GG S04/E04 |
| Ingrid Thurman | A woman who stopped giving birth partway through delivering her twins, Hans and Franz. After giving birth to Hans, Ingrid decided to simply stop pushing. Franz was born significantly later, resulting in the brothers being a year apart in school. | GG S05/E01 |
| Joe Lundqvist | A neighbor of the Lindström family. Joe was backed over by his wife who was driving the combine. | GG S01/E15 |
| Karl Nickerson | Was teaching his German shepherd to bury a herring bone just outside of town, when they discovered dinosaur bones. | GG S03/E12 |
| Knut Trollstead | The woman that went with Canute Trollsted to Smooch Point to play hide the fingerborg. Ilse sat on his compass, causing them to get so lost that they ended up walking to Finland. Canute famously said “You can’t go home again.” | GG S05/E06 |
| Lars | Lars was a man who froze solid in the middle of a lake. The town fathers of St. Olaf mistook him for Max Brinker, the inventor of Herring Krispies. | GG S04/E02 |
| Lars Engstran | Inga Engstran’s brother-in-law and second husband. He married Inga while she was on trial for the murder of her first husband. | GG S05/E08 |
| Lars Erikson | Lars Erikson owned the Drugstore and Tackle Shop. There was a soda shop/ ice cream parlor in the shop. | GG S01/E20 |
| Lars Frudenstoyfer | Pierre Frudenstoyfer’s father. Had a herring factory. | GG S06/E05 |
| Lars Svensson | Accused Erik the Red of being a coward and called him yellow. | GG S03/E14 |
| Leon Truedenstuter | Rose did not get the opportunity to talk about Leon | GP E20 |
| Little Gustav | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| Little Lars | Was on the hayride with Sonia instead of Big Lars. Upon realizing the mistake, Sonia yelled and jumped off the wagon. | GG S03/E25 |
| Little Yimminy | A boy raised by a wild moose. That moose didn’t just raise little Yimminy, he put him through medical school. | GG S05/E20 |
| Lucky Gunther | In St. Olaf, the mother was always with the daughter when she gave birth. And if the mother was out of town, then the mother of the father was there. And if she was out of town, then they’d call Lucky Gunther. After the thresher accident, Lucky’s arm was replaced with a forceps. He was in charge of delivering babies and handing out corn at the Rotary picnics. Rose was at a picnic when she delivered Kirsten. Lucky Gunther already had boiling water in his corn pot. | GG S06/E01 |
| Mary Jane von Helfenpfelfer | She took a vacation to Mexico and she found this poor, scrawny, helpless little Chihuahua puppy on the street. She brought it home to St. Olaf with her, and she nursed it back to health. She loved it. She took it to bed with her. She taught it to fetch. She’d throw a ball, and he’d bring it back, and she’d throw a ball, and he’d bring it back. When she took the puppy to get his shots, the vet told her the bad news. He told her that it wasn’t a Chihuahua, it was a rat. | GG S06/E15 |
| Max Brinker | The inventor of Herring Krispies, a dish that pairs well with borscht. | GG S04/E02 |
| Melville Dewey | The founder of the Dewey Decimal System. Ran for a political office and Rose worked on his campaign. | GG S03/E07 |
| Miss Maggie | You know, back home, we didn’t have a community organization for females. Unless you count Miss Maggie’s house on the hill. Those girls would stand on their heads for you.”Miss Maggie’s house on the hill was the only community organization for females, and those girls would stand on their heads for you. | GG S03/E01 |
| Miss Sigerson | A school teacher known for being an expert lip reader. She would read the dialogue for movies in the town theater, which was never wired for audio. On some occasions she became confused, however. Most notably, during Citizen Kane, everyone thought that Charles Foster Kane was looking for a “rowboat.” | GG S04/E13 |
| Molly-Jane Doe (Stettlenmeier) | Molly-Jane Doe was the town manicurist, known for offering “extra services” for $5 during the Depression. While auditioning for a play at the St. Olaf Community Playhouse, Molly-Jane fell in love with town mayor Ollie Stettlenmeier, and the two got married the next day. They were married to Ollie for the next twenty-five years. | GG S02/E06 |
| Mr Vigotter | Mr.Vikbotter had a dog named Gretchen. She had this thing for Buddy, but Mr. Vikbotter didn’t approve. He did his best to keep them apart. One day he came home early and found Gretchen and Buddy in the front yard in a most indelicate situation. He yelled at them to stop, but they wouldn’t, so he turned the hose on them. Mr.Vikbotter wasn’t too happy when he ended up with a litter of schnalmatians. | GG S03/E23 |
| -Gretchen | Mr. Vigbotter’s dalmatian that had a romantic entanglement with a schnauzer named Buddy. She later gave birth to a litter of schnalmatian puppies. | GG S03/E23 |
| -Buddy | A schnauzer who got involved with Gretchen the dalmation resulting in a litter of schnalmatians. | GG S03/E23 |
| Mr. Hickenlooper | A member of the St. Olaf volunteer fire brigade, he makes a siren sound through his nose. | GG S02/E25 |
| Mr. Immerhoffer | His wife was a nominee for the 1988 St. Olaf Woman of the Year. She was disqualified when Mr. Immerhoffer’s skeleton was found in her closet. | GG S04/E04 |
| Mr. Ingrid | Had been using moose for as long as Rose could remember. Of course, it’s his own professional secret which part of the moose he uses. It will keep your hair in place in winds up to… (implying extreme sturdiness). | GG S05/E16 |
| Mrs. Gunderson | The nicest woman you’d ever want to meet, but as the years went by, she got her facts a little confused. In biology class, she told students that the human body was 80% Ovaltine. While studying World War I, she told students that mustard gas was something you got from eating too many hot dogs. Thats why, to this day St. Olaf celebrates the Fourth of July by eating a thin omelet on a bun. | GG S03/E04 |
| Mrs. Ingovar | It was Mrs. Ingovar’s monkey that somehow got hold of a typewriter, and typed out the self-help book called “Healing the Monkey Within”. He was found guilty of intelligence. So the townspeople shaved him. It turned out ok, though. She became rich passing him off at carnivals as a man from mars. | GP E05 |
| -Big Monkey | Mrs. Ingovar’s monkey. He got hold of a typewriter, and got a little lucky. He typed out a self-help book called “Healing the Monkey Within”. After that he was put on trial for Intelligence. They were able to find a jury of his peers, or they would have convicted the wrong big monkey. He was found guilty of intelligence. So the townspeople shaved him. After that Mrs. Ingovar started taking him to carnivals and would pass him off as a man from mars. | GP E05 |
| Ned the Town Idiot | Inspired the town’s motto “Better Ned than red”. | GG S05/E21 |
| Nils Nibelung | A farmer with a pig named Brunhilde who won all the blue ribbons at all the county fairs. He also had a daughter named Fricka, and she won red ribbons, usually as runner-up to the pig. One April, Nils decided to breed Brunhilde, and he chose April because that’s when pigs are at their most beautiful and desirable. Unfortunately, so was Fricka. So while Brunhilde and the pig were doing their thing, Fricka and the local pig breeder were doing theirs. When Nils heard about it, he banished Fricka from his house and his life forever. After a while he lost interest in the pig’s company and he ate her, and he died St. Olaf’s loneliest man. | GG S05/E13 |
| Brunhilde | A pig who won all the blue ribbons at all the county fairs. One April, Nils decided to breed Brunhilde, and he chose April because that’s when pigs are at their most beautiful and desirable. Unfortunately, so was Nils’ daughter. While Brunhilde and the pig were doing their thing, his daughter and the local pig breeder were doing theirs. When Nils heard about it, he banished his daughter from his house and his life forever. After a while he lost interest in Brunhilde’s company and he ate her. | GG S05/E13 |
| Old Johannson | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| Old Man Smith | The town florist, blacksmith, and the only black man in St. Olaf. When he moved in, the town council gave him a traditional Scandinavian welcome gathering (singing songs, dressing in bedsheets). Coming from Chattanooga, he wasn’t familiar with the custom and had a heart attack and spent most of the summer in the hospital in intensive care. | GG S03/E25 |
| Old Silver | The horse who brought the news to St. Olaf that the British had no intention of coming. | GG S05/E24 |
| Olga Fetchik | The town beautician, and “one of God’s ugliest creations since the aardvark”. She squirreled away money for plastic surgery. When she returned she was beautiful and every man wanted her. She eventually settled on Adolph Stepp, the local dance instructor. After they married, they moved to Norway where they became the hit Norwegian dance group “Stepp n’ Fetchik”. But her leaving led to what would be known as the Beautician Crisis of the’70s. | GG S02/E20 |
| Olga Larsen | Has a nephew. | GG S04/E09 |
| Olga Larsen’s nephew | People called him homosexual ’cause he wore paisley clogs and gave out puff pastry on Halloween’. | GG S04/E09 |
| Ollie Knudenspringle | Opposite to his wife Bridget. He was fat, neat, tall, and cheap. They performed together at St. Olaf’s annual talent show. | GG S04/E14 |
| Ollie Stettlenmeier | The most respected citizen in St. Olaf, Ollie was the mayor before becoming the Artistic Director of the St. Olaf Community Playhouse. He lived with his mother for 52 years before meeting Molly-Jane Doe. While overseeing auditions one day, he fell in love with Molly-Jane Doe, the town manicurist, and the two got married the next day. They were married for the next twenty-five years. | GG S02/E06 |
| Pierre Frudenstoyfer | Worked in his father’s herring factory. | GG S06/E05 |
| Pigpen Johannsen | In 1955, Pigpen (Johannsen) had just turned eighty and he was required to leave his job teaching driving at the high school because the town bylaws required him to wear a shirt while driving, which he refused to do. After he left his teaching job, the town fathers tasked him with putting up the “Welcome to St. Olaf” sign on Miller’s Lane. That same year on Founders’ Day, the governor was coming to St. Olaf. Unfortunately, Johannsen forgot to put up the sign and the governor drove straight through town without ever realizing he was in St. Olaf. Johannsen’s failure to put up the sign ruined Founders’ Day. As a result, the town fathers took down his picture from where it had always hung in the St. Olaf auto shop. | GG S04/E02 |
| Shepherd Boy | A shepherd boy who tended his flock on the hill above the town. A wolf kept coming down and stealing his sheep, but the boy never caught him doing it. Because he never saw it happening, he became known around St. Olaf as the boy who didn’t cry wolf. Anyway, one day the townspeople heard the boy on the hill yelling, Wolf, Wolf! Well, they all figured, if the boy never cried wolf when the wolf was there, if he yelled wolf now, it stood to reason the wolf wasn’t there. It was a bear. A huge, ferocious, grizzly bear. He became known as the boy who cried continuously. | GG S05/E22 |
| Sheriff Tokvisten | The sheriff who was at the cemetery for Gustav Ljungqvist’s exhumation. It was his gun that was used by Bergstrom to commit suicide during the chaotic scene at the cemetery. | GG S05/E01 |
| Sigmund and Roy Freud | St. Olaf’s most famous psychotherapists, the Freud brothers, Sigmund and Roy. You may have read their bestseller, If I Have All the Cheese I Want, Why Am I Still Unhappy? | GG S07/E06 |
| Sonia Jungenfraulichsteinerbrau | Rose was a flower girl when Sonia married Big Lars, a distant cousin of Anna Egerman. She was supposed to be on a hayride with Big Lars, but somehow Little Lars was there instead. Upon realizing the mistake, she yelled, “Whoa!” and jumped off the wagon. | GG S03/E25 |
| St. Olaf Slasher | He terrorized St. Olaf for months. In the dark of night, he’d sneak into an unsuspecting farmer’s field and mercilessly slash his scarecrow to shreds. He was also suspected in the disfigurement of several whisk brooms. Rose was so scared that she’d sleep in the closet. | GG S02/E17 |
| Sven and Ingrid Blood Monster | After meeting a gang member named Blood Monster Rose relates his name to “Sven and Ingrid Blood Monster”, explaining that they pronounce their name “Blood Monster.” | N S01/E09 |
| Sven Bjornsson | A patient at Cedars of St. Olaf Hospital. One night he was being taken care of by Gunilla Ulfstadder. He asked her if she would get him some more mouth moisteners and then kill him. Gunilla brought the mouth moisteners right away, but the killing thing seemed to be a problem for her. He begged and he begged, and by her coffee break, she pulled the plug and he died. Only Sven knows whether Sven’s pleading was the pain talking, or the medication talking, or the guy in the next bed talking! The guy in the next bed was Ingmar von Bergen, St. Olaf’s meanest ventriloquist. Sven came back to haunt Gunilla – every Tuesday night at ten, nine, Central. Some say it’s the wind, but some say it’s Sven’s voice whispering back from the other side. | GG S05/E07 |
| Swensen Brothers | Victims of the doctor that would make house calls for families and their livestock. The doctor started drinking hog liniment and tried to neuter the Swensen brothers. | GG S01/E05 |
| Sylvia Butell | Count Bessie’s owner. She once believed Milton Berle sent her secret messages through her dentures. | GG S02/E19 |
| -Count Bessie | Count Bessie was a showbiz chicken that could play the piano. | GG S02/E19 |
| The Mayor of St. Olaf | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| The Mayor’s Wife | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| The Stringmeyer Twins | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| Ulf Horvald | Was on the high school student council a couple of years back-to-back. | GG S07/E17 |
| Uma Van Hefflan | Used to drive the turnip truck, and collected string. | GG S06/E05 |
| Vidal Sassbogadotter | After Olga moved to Norway with Adolph, Vidal Sassbogadotter was looking to relocate. He was Oslo’s most famous hairstylist, and chose St. Olaf due to the town’s favorable tax laws. With the population in a steep decline, the town would have gone under if were not for his arrival. Soon men were returning home to their wives and the population started to go back up, saving the town. | GG S02/E20 |
| Young Johannson | Attended Rose’s graduation. | GG S03/E05 |
| Yurgin Shtultvinbrudengurder | He was the class magician in the third grade. He performed a magic trick on Rose, where you put a nickel in one ear and pull it out the other? Well, somehow the nickel got lost between her ears. She’s never been able to get that nickel off her mind. He wanted so much to be a magician. Rose thinks she ruined his life. | GP E13 |
| Yutz Hernsberg | St. Olaf’s only bald high school student, was dating Gunilla Bjorndunker. One day they made love in the backseat of a Fjord Fjairlane. She ended Knukendup und schvingle, so Yutz had to marry her. After 38 years of marriage and a painful divorce, he finally came back, having invented Hernsberg’s Press-on Warts (popular with Hags). He was successful and he wanted Gunilla back, but Skylab fell on her. | GG S06/E03 |
| Peg-legged Pig | When talking to her roommates, Rose clarifies that it was a possum that exploded, not the peg-legged pig. | GG S02/E02 |
| Possum Explosion | When talking to her roommates, Rose clarifies that it was a possum that exploded, not the peg-legged pig. | GG S02/E02 |
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