Gregory "Greg" Wuliger, portrayed by Vincent Martella and voiced by Gunnar Sizemore, is one of the main characters in Everybody Hates Chris. Greg is a Chris's only friend who goes to school with him at Corleone Junior High School and later, Tattagalia High School.
Personality[]
Greg is Chris' weird, optimistic, nerdy, and anxious best friend. He is the only kid at Corleone Junior High who doesn't hate Chris. He is about as unpopular as Chris. Chris always comes to Greg for advice, even though Greg is usually terrible at coming up with solutions. On top of being a good student, Greg also has a series of odd quirks (such as going to bed dressed as different superheroes) but considers himself cool. He has a book about almost everything in his locker. He is an only child and is of Italian and Swedish descent. His mom married his dad because she lost a bet but ran off with his uncle. After graduating from Corleone, Greg was accepted into the Bronx Academy, a prestigious prep school in The Bronx, NY. In Season 4, he attends the Bronx Academy and earns an image of being the toughest kid in school. However, in the episode Everybody Hates Cake, he gets kicked out as his tough image scares the students and it got him in trouble. He transfers to Tattagalia High School where Chris attends and the two continue their friendship and after Caruso punches him, Greg gets back up and returns to his nerdy self again. At his first day in Tattagalia in the episode Everybody Hates Homecoming, Greg has been feeling depressed for getting kicked out of the Bronx Academy. Chris convinces him to become the school football team mascot, where he gets kidnapped and forced to eat worms by the rival team, on top of that the team loses and everybody hates him causing Caruso to punch him. Greg falls deeper into depression and disappeared, Rochelle shows up at school before Chris arrives at his homecoming dance to help find him. Chris, although conflicted in standing up a cute homecoming date, immediately knew where to find him. They found him ragged and playing the harmonica in front of the Bronx Academy since that was the last place Greg was before "everything went wrong." Chris talks sense into him to dust himself off and get back up, Greg is thankful that Chris sacrificed his homecoming date for his friend's safety. From then on, Greg continues to attend Tattagalia with Chris.
Even though his father was seen in one episode his mother is never actually seen. Greg's catch phrase is "You're so in there." Greg claimed once that he saw an Italian woman naked in his kitchen, eating ice cream at midnight. Greg presumably was about the same age as Chris, meaning in the series he was born in 1969. Greg along with his father lived in Brooklyn beach, and Greg attended Corleone a bit before Chris came in 7th Grade.
Trivia[]
- Greg is based on Chris Rock's childhood friend David Moskowitz.
- Greg is portrayed by actor Vincent Martella who would later voice the title character, Phineas Flynn in the popular Disney animated show Phineas and Ferb.
- Greg is the only character outside the main family to be credited as a main character.
- Despite this, he was only absent in two episodes, making him appear in 86 out of the 88 episodes of the series.
- Greg's mother has never appeared on the show despite being mentioned multiple times in the series by Greg. She could also have traumatized Greg and is the reason for his odd behaviors and seeing a therapist.
- In Everybody Hates Corleone, when Chris was planning to drop out of Corleone, Caruso stops messing with Greg, but Greg feels lonely as no one else does either. This gets contradicted in the finale Everybody Hates the G.E.D., where Chris drops out of Tattagalia High School and Caruso now wants to be friends with Chris. When Chris asks who he is going to pick on when he leaves, he looks to Greg and punches him, implying Greg is going to be his new target.
- Greg is one of the few characters on the show who has his name on an episode, Everybody Hates Greg.
- Greg also is the only character on the show besides Chris, who gets named in the ending jingle in Everybody Hates Cake. "Everybody haaa-ates Chriiiiis...and Gregggg"