On your left! Busy inventor coming through!
Guy-Am-I, (alternatively spelled Guy Am-I), is a main character and deuteragonist, turned protagonist in the 2019 Netflix series Green Eggs and Ham. Guy is an anthropomorphic Knox who hates the titular food green eggs and ham, the food brought by Sam I-Am for him to persuade into eating. He is voiced by Michael Douglas.
Personality[]
Guy is shown to be pessimistic. His failures made him have a more negative outlook on life than others around him, which impacts his socialization skills with others. He does care for others, often being protective of his friends when they act recklessly or are otherwise in danger. This is shown when he is easily annoyed by Sam, but teams up with him to return the chickeraffe to the zoo when he had gotten stranded in the desert. At first, he says that he hates green eggs and ham in the first part of the series, thinking that he will not like them, even though he had never had them before. However, in the Season 1 finale, "Anywhere", once he finally gives them a try, he likes them, and declares that he will eat them with anyone and anywhere. He also has a crush on Michellee, and has tried talking to her multiple times.
History[]
Season 1[]
Guy Am-I is a frustrated failed inventor whose inventions always explode, resulting in his frustration. He presents his invention, a self-flyer, to representatives for SnerzCo so that he can win a ticket to Meepville; however, his invention malfunctions and fails, being rejected as competing inventors managed to get tickets. Dispirited and frustrated, Guy decided to cease becoming an inventor and instead be a paint watcher (a job he deduced as boring, but had no option for). He meets Sam at Donna's Diner, who orders green eggs and ham. Despite voicing his distaste for the dish, Sam orders it for everyone in the diner; Guy ends up leaving, but accidentally takes Sam's identical suitcase with him. He later rented for a room at a motel and, when trying to settling down, Guy finds to his horror that Sam's suitcase contains the Chickeraffe. They begin traveling together and form a friendship, until Guy discovers that Sam is a con artist, making Guy get angry with him and even say that he did not fit anyone, not even his own mother. This line makes Sam upset with Guy, until the latter decides to eat Green Eggs and Ham by his own volition to show how much he cares for Sam. Like in the book and special, Guy ends up loving the dish, and says that he will eat with all the animals and in all the locations he has been offered throughout the series.
Season 2[]
This finicky inventor (whose creations often seem to blow up in his face) isn’t always the friendliest person. It takes him a while to warm up to people. But once he does, Guy Am-I lights up any room he walks into. As a loyal friend to Sam I-Am, Guy joins in the search for Sam’s mother, which takes them on the journey of a lifetime.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Guy's mother and father[]
Many years ago, Guy disliked his parents since he thought that they hated them and believed he was a failure, he left the house. Fast forward about 10 years, Guy comes back to Stovepipe Junction with Sam and they meet his family, after a while he re-bonds with his parents who are glad to see him back.
Michellee Am-I[]
She is Guy's wife and at first, the two disliked each other as Michellee was Guy's judge leading to Guy's failure as an inventor. They then meet up back at the fair and Guy almost kills Michellee and E.B. and other people on a ride since he didn't know how to operate the ride, Michellee screamed at Guy. Eventually after a few episodes, they fall in love and Michellee marries Guy at the end of the first season. Then in the second season, they all go to Yookia and Zookia since Pam works there as a spy. They lived with the Zooks until war began, the Zooks pressured Guy to create an invention but Michellee delays by distracting Guy Watcher into being a portrait and becoming pregant so that Guy could dismantle his invention. Then Guy and all his friends convince everyone that the way butter on bread isn't worth fighting about. Then the two cities unite and Guy Jr. is born.
E.B. Weebie[]
She is Guy's stepdaughter and at first, she loved being with Guy and Sam in the first season, they helped save Mr. Jenkins and had a happy ending. In Season 2, E.B. gets mad at Guy as he won't let her meet with Looka Ba-Dooka, her boyfriend and they two get into a fight and she calls Guy the worst dad ever since he put Looka in jail. After she gets arrested for trying to free Looka, she is disappointed to see Guy but luckily he brought a key and rescues her and Looka, reedeeming himself. They then help re-unite Yookia and Zookia into Ookia and the two sides are are at piece, and E.B.'s half-brother, Guy Jr. is born.
Guy-Am-I Jr.[]
He is Guy's son and Guy loves him deeply. He was born in "The Mom Who Loved Me", he is the newest member of the Am-I family.
Friends[]
Sam-I-Am[]
In the beginning, Guy hated Sam and just wanted to be left alone, after a few episodes involving the Chickeraffe, B.A.D. G.U.Y.S., the two become good friends. Eventually he realizes that Sam was trying to steal Mr. Jenkins (the Chickeraffe) and then he got mad at Sam and broke their friendship. Eventually Sam redeems himself and the two become good friends again. Guy didn't see Sam for some of the second season but they come back together and are good friends in the end.
Mr. Jenkins[]
He is the Chickeraffe he and Sam tried to protect. At first he wanted nothing to do with Mr. Jenkins but eventually he takes care of him along with Sam. When Sam was found guilty, Guy got mad at him and took Mr. Jenkins for himself, eventually the two friends came back together and they were able to save Mr. Jenkins and put him safely in the zoo.
Michael[]
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Squeaky[]
One day, Guy and Sam landed in prison and they met Squeaky. They asked Squeaky how he got in jail and he was trying to get bread for his family but he was caught and arrested. Luckily the trio were able to escape through the sewer system by being pursued by the B.A.D. G.U.Y.S. and he thanks Guy and Sam deeply for that.
McWinkle and Gluntz[]
They were his enemies at first as he thought they were the bad guys allying with Snerz and the Goat to steal the Chickeraffe, in "Boat", it becomes clear that they are only the good guys and then they save the Chickeraffe from Snerz and the Goat. They then have a happy ending.
Dookess[]
When he first came to Zookia, the Dookess welcomed Guy and his friends and made him invent for Zookia. Eventually things got tough as he had to invent something but he was on a time-limit and didn't know what to do. Then after the two sides unite, Guy is no longer worried.
Pam I-Am[]
At first he hated Pam since Pam didn't care about her son and didn't give enough attention. She got mad at Guy telling him not to get in the way, after Pam and her son re-bond, Guy is ok with that.
Enemies[]
Hervnick Z. Snerz[]
He and Guy denounced Snerz as he wanted to capture the Chickeraffe. At the end of the first season, they give Snerz a chance to redeem himself who disagrees. He then flies off on a balloon and gets arrested and is on the newspapers.
Goat[]
He was a bounty hunter trying to hunt down Guy and Sam and the two were scared for their life when he physically ripped apart a house that Michellee and E.B. found, he then pursues them but gets stuck in a mountain and gets captured by the B.A.D. G.U.Y.S., he is later arrested.
Physical appearance[]
Guy is a tall man covered in orange fur with a patch of yellowish-beige around his neck. He wears a tall brown hat, much like Sam's red one. His ears resemble dog ears.
Appearances[]
Season 1 episodes | ||||||
Here | Car | Train | Fox | Dark | Box | |
Mouse | Rain | Goat | House | Boat | There | |
Anywhere |
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Despite being a grumpy and pessimistic character, he is good-hearted and apologizes for his actions.
- Speaking of which, he lightens up as the story continues emotionally and he becomes less pessimistic and more confident in himself.
- He is never afraid to help Mr. Jenkins get back to his home.
- His hatred, later love for Green Eggs and Ham fits the series because in the book he is supposed to hate them in the beginning, and eat them in the end. Which shows how faithful he was to the original counterpart when it comes to personality.
- He's like Mr. Krupp from The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants with a side of Grumpy from Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs and a touch of The Grinch from How The Grinch Stole Christmas in a nutshell.
- Like Sam I-Am, he has a tragic backstory on why he is grumpy, because he was once an inventor whose inventions keep exploding.
- Speaking of which, he uses that tactic pretty well at the end as he was improving with his talents.
- His relationship with Michellee is emotional, relatable, and cute at times.
- Also, he has a strong relationship with Sam I-Am and works well of each other.
- His design is pretty faithful to his book counterpart, but with different colors.
- His voice actor, Michael Douglas, fits his character.
- He was given a name since it's obvious he didn't have one in the original book.
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