Dickie is married to Babs and loves her completely, but his innate laziness and impulsive ideas do less than impress. As a result his marriage is crumbling around him. Sex is the one thing he is really good at, and the one thing that keeps Babs coming back for more.

Dickie is not really a dad to Gina, more a laid back older brother with a carefree attitude to parenting.

Essentially, Dickie is a big, muscular lay-about. His easy charm is mostly employed to give him an easy life.

Dickie infuriates Babs because he has spent every penny he has ever earned on... stuff. Stuff with no use to anyone. Loveable Dickie has bankrupted the whole family in an entirely unlovable way.

His great (though sedentary) passion in life is the interwebulator (internet). But he's the world's least successful web designer. He has a stunning talent for clicking and dragging, married to an unerring ability to seek out what is least commercial and dedicate himself to it.

Dickie creates the sites that interest him with no thought given to those that might interest other people. And yet... there's always the chance that one of his ideas will turn out to be an accidental home run...