Editing The Wonder Years (section)

==Cast==
{{Main|List of The Wonder Years characters}}
[[File:WonderYears.jpg|thumb|Paul, Kevin, and Winnie]]

* Kevin Arnold ([[Fred Savage]]): Character born March 18, 1956, Kevin grew up in the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref>{{cite news|title= A Sitcom 70's Child Grows Up to Be an Alter Ego|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date=January 19, 2006|url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07EEDB153FF93AA25752C0A9609C8B63|access-date=2010-08-11|first=Felicia R.|last=Lee}}</ref> The voice of Kevin as an adult (and the show's narrator) is supplied by [[Daniel Stern (actor)|Daniel Stern]] ([[Arye Gross]] in the original broadcast of the pilot).
* John "Jack" Arnold ([[Dan Lauria]]): Character born on November 6, 1927, died in 1975. Jack was a gruff, [[laconic]] man and a [[Korean War]] veteran; he grew up during [[the Great Depression]], served in the [[US Marine Corps]], and is seen in photographs wearing the uniform of a [[First Lieutenant]]. He works at NORCOM, a large military defense corporation, in a [[middle management]] position he loathes. Later, he starts his own business, building and selling handcrafted furniture. The series' last episode reveals that he dies in 1975 near the end of Kevin's freshman year of college&nbsp;– that is, two years after the time of the show's finale&nbsp;– although in a previous episode, an adult Kevin says Jack would later be the grandfather of Kevin's sons. Jack represents the viewpoint of the "[[Silent Generation]]" that grew up during the Depression and came of age during the [[Second World War]]; it was confused and angered by the rapid changes taking place in the 1960s. He is described as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who voted for [[Richard Nixon]] twice in the presidential elections of [[1968 United States presidential election|1968]] and [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]].
* Norma Arnold (née Gustavson) ([[Alley Mills]]): Character born March 22, 1930, Kevin's housewife mother. Unlike her husband, Norma is friendly and upbeat. She also tries to be a peacekeeper in family clashes (mostly between Jack and Karen). She met Jack as a college freshman. When he graduated, she moved across the country with him and did not finish college. She eventually gets her degree late in the series and begins work at a software startup called Micro Electronics. Although she came of age at the same time as her husband Jack, she is less conservative than her husband and increasingly yearns to break out of her homemaker role, reflecting the rise of [[feminism]] in the 1960s.
* Karen Arnold ([[Olivia d'Abo]]): Character born circa 1952, Kevin's hippie, but mature older sister. Her free-spirited ways clash with her overbearing father Jack's conservatism, and she depends upon her mother Norma as a mediator. When Karen moves in with her boyfriend Michael ([[David Schwimmer]]) during her freshman year of college, she has a falling out with her father. The pair marry one year later and move to [[Alaska]], where Michael has secured a good job. Karen ultimately accepts some of her parents' viewpoints and has a baby, while Michael learns to support Karen and their son.
* Wayne Arnold ([[Jason Hervey]]): Character born April 6, 1954, Kevin's annoying older brother. Wayne enjoys physically tormenting Kevin and Paul, calling Kevin "[[wikt:butthead|butthead]]" or "[[scrotum|scrote]]". He ultimately takes over the family furniture business, after his father Jack dies. (Wayne attempted to follow in Jack's footsteps by joining the military, but [[psoriasis]] kept him out.) Wayne is usually portrayed as a loser in romantic relationships. For a time, he dated a girl named Dolores ([[Juliette Lewis]]), but that was more casual than serious. In later seasons, Wayne matures. In the final season, he begins a serious relationship with a divorcée named Bonnie Douglas ([[Paula Marshall]]), but is left heartbroken when she reconciles with her ex-husband James.
* Paul Joshua Pfeiffer ([[Josh Saviano]]): Character born March 14, 1956, Paul is Kevin's long time best friend, a bright and excellent student, and an allergy sufferer. He is also Jewish and in one episode celebrates his [[Bar Mitzvah]]. Although Kevin and Paul are best friends in the series' early seasons, their relationship becomes somewhat strained later. Kevin begins to spend more time with Chuck Coleman ([[Andy Berman]]) and Jeff Billings ([[Giovanni Ribisi]]), causing tension with Paul. Paul also attends a private prep school for one season, leaving Kevin alone to start public high school. In another episode, Kevin is frustrated and conflicted with Paul after the latter loses his virginity before him. In the final episode, it is revealed that Paul eventually attends [[Harvard]] and becomes a lawyer (in real life, Saviano quit acting, went to Yale, and became a lawyer).
* Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper ([[Danica McKellar]]): Winnie is Kevin's main love interest and neighbor. Her older brother Brian ([[Bentley Mitchum]])'s death in the Vietnam War plays a big part in the pilot. In another episode, Winnie's parents Jim ([[H. Richard Greene]]) and Evelyn (first played by [[Lynn Milgrim]] and then Anne Cooper) separate in grief over Brian's death. In the epilogue of the final episode, Winnie travels overseas to study art history in [[Paris]]. Kevin and Winnie write to each other every week for eight years until she returns; in the concluding moments of the finale, Kevin says that when Winnie returned to the States, Kevin met her accompanied by his wife and first child, despite the hope among ''Wonder Years'' fans that Kevin and Winnie would themselves marry. Kevin says at the end, "things never turn out exactly the way you plan them." As suggested in an episode entitled "The Accident" and in the final episode of the series, every important event in Kevin's life has somehow involved Winnie.