Stoked/Fin McCloud

Fin McCloud
Stoked
Actor	Katie Crown
First Appearance	1x01 - Welcome to Paradise Dudes
Last Appearance	2x26 - Grom Fest
Series Billing	Main cast
Episode Count	All episodes

Fin McCloud is a character on Stoked. Katie Crown provides her voice.

Basic Information

Fin is an employee at Surfer's Paradise Ridgemount Resort, where she works in the hotel's housekeeping services. She is one of the six main characters on the show, and one of the group of five referred to on the show as "groms" (alongside Reef, Broseph, Lo and Emma), rookie summer staff members at the hotel. She is a top-notch surfer, ranked number 56 in the world as mentioned in the pilot episode, and she is a three-time international junior surfing champion. She had originally wanted to work as the hotel surfing instructor, but that job was given to Reef and she was stuck to work as a maid instead, a job she hates. She is skilled in teaching surfing though, as she taught Emma how to surf.

The 16-year-old Fin is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia (mentioned in "Will the Real Broseph Please Stand Up", where she self-identifies as a Haligonian and a "Bluenoser", a term for a Nova Scotia native). She is pretty, with moderately-short blonde hair and a tan, she is very athletic and she is the tallest of the three main female characters. She is part of a large family also consisting of a sister, named Sam, and four brothers. The uniform she wears when working as a maid is a short-sleeved yellow dress with a purple lapel collar and the hotel's "Wipeout Whale" corporate logo on the back, along with a purple apron. When off-duty, her regular outfit is either a sleeveless top and knee-length patterned capri pants in shades of pale green or a yellow rash guard and purple bikini bottom, which she wears for surfing. She is quick-witted, laid-back and fun-loving and is very tomboyish, though she is not above doing girlish things with Lo and Emma, both of whom she shares a room with at the hotel's staff house. She also enjoys using surfing lingo in her conversations with her friends, and she is frequently the voice of reason among the gang (especially when she deals with Reef).

Fin also has a love-hate relationship with Reef dating back to the beginning of the series. They first met at Sunset Beach in the pilot episode, where the cocky Reef immediately got on Fin's bad side by condescendingly claiming that guys are better surfers than girls are, a claim which Fin has repeatedly proven Reef wrong on since then as the two became competitive toward each other. She does not put up with Reef's sexist attitude and remarks and has made her feelings about those clear more than once, usually with sardonic remarks toward him (such as calling him a "kook", a surfing slang term for a tourist or a wannabe surfer) but occasionally with physical aggression. She also resorts to good-natured teasing toward Reef, who she also sees as a vain, dimwitted pretty-boy type, sometimes by attempting to mess up his hairstyle, which she knows he prizes. She also invented the slang term "Leslie", which she uses specifically toward Reef to mean the same thing as a "kook" or a loser, after she discovers that Leslie is Reef's real first name (in "A Boy Named Leslie"). She frequently denies her friends' claims that she has a crush on him, but there have been occasions where she and Reef have admitted their feelings to one another privately.

Character History

It is revealed in Episode 2 Another Grom Bites The Dust Fin's brothers made her eat worms when she was 5 years old

Quotes

• Ripper: The fired before Labor Day rate is 42 percent. So one of you are not going the distance.
  Fin (pointing to Reef): My money's on him.
  Reef: Hey, why me?
  Fin: I'm not sure... You just have that "going to get fired" look about you.
  Reef: Well, maybe that's because you have that "I'm jealous you've got the awesome-est job here" look about you.
  Fin (sarcastically): Ooohh, good comeback.

• Emma: So where are you guys working anyway? I'm working in the dinning room!
  Johnny: DR, nice decent tip potential!
  Reef (describing his job title): You are lookin' at the head of Water Sports and Surf Instruction.
  Fin: What? That's my job!
  Reef: Uh, is your name Reef?
  Fin: No!
  Reef: Then it's not your job. (pulls out a letter) I got this in the mail last week!
  Fin (looking at the letter): Okay, there has to be some kind of mistake... (hands the letter to Johnny) They said it was practically guaranteed!
  Johnny (looking at the letter): Looks legit! They do this all the time, move staff around. You'll get used to it.
  Fin: That's so unfair! So what am I supposed to do?
  Johnny: Let me check! (pulls out his radio) Hey boss, just checking the employee posting for Fin McCloud?
  Bummer: Yeah, hold on! (reading the posting) Fin McCloud! Uh... that's housekeeping!
  Fin: A maid! No! Oh, no! Okay, I don't even clean my own room!

• Fin: Who are you?
  Lo: Your new roommate, Lo! Other room smells like skunk!
  Fin (noticing Lo's luggage): That's a lot of stuff! You lugged it all here with you?
  Lo: I only had to come from the penthouse!
  Fin: Oh, wait. You're the Lo whose huge party we spent all day cleaning up after? We didn't get to surf because of you!
  Lo: Well, that's kind of your job, isn't it?
  Fin: How long did you say you'd be staying here?
  Lo: Not very long! My dad went Outer Limits about my party and is like, trying to teach me a lesson or something. I'm totally cut off! He's actually making me work in the dining room.
  Fin: Wow, he's hardcore!
  Lo: I know, right? So it's cool if I crash here?
  Fin: Yeah, sure! Knowing you're being tortured for trashing the place kinda makes me feel better about having to clean it. (Emma sees her door and cries)
  Fin: Hey, what's wrong?
  Emma: Oh, my room has been declared an environmental hazard.
  Fin: Come on, you're officially staying with us.
  Emma: Really? (sees Lo in the room) Who are you?
  Lo: It's a long story!

• Fin (while the girls examine a hotel guest's closet): Guess what movie the Kahuna is screening?! Break Point!
  Lo: You asked him to show it?
  Fin: More like bribed, I promised I'd clean his bus.
  Lo: Wow, you're kind of obsessed with this whole Reef stealing lines thing.
  Emma: What do you care what he does?
  Fin: It's for the good of womankind.
  Lo (teasingly): Whatever, you totally looove him, you want to marry him and have, like, a hundred of his surfer baaabies!
  Fin: What, are you serious? No! He is such a tool, he's like the whole tool shed!

• Emma (at the beach, after she and Fin go off-duty): I'm so excited to be out of the DR right now, you have no idea!
  Fin: I hear ya! But we're out here and the surf's up! Okay, go for it!
  Emma: Woohoo! Yeah! (jumps off her board)
  Fin: That was awesome!
  Emma: I've decided I have to live by the beach for the rest of my life!
  Fin: I hear that!

• Fin (to Reef, behind him at a movie): Oh! Reef, look! It's Bell's Beach! Hey, didn't you surf there? How did you stay on your board, even when Boardizafa couldn't?
  Reef (curtly, sounding unimpressed as Fin grins at him): You're getting some kind of sick enjoyment out of this, aren't you?
  Fin (whispering): You have no idea!
  Reef (while Fin smirks at him): Wait! You knew Break Point was playing tonight, didn't you? (Reef gasps in realization) You got the Kahuna to run it! I am so getting you back for this!
  Fin (mockingly): I'm so scaaared! (Fin giggles)

• Emma (searching for Lo): Lo, are you in there? Kelly's looking for you. (sees Fin putting up her uniform) Oh no! Did you get fired?
  Fin: Nope, I'm the new surf instructor!
  Emma: That's great, isn't it?
  Fin: I can't teach! I taught my little my brother how to ride a bike, he's the only one in Grade Six with a limp!
  Emma: Come on, you taught me how to nose ride this monring!
  Fin: That's different, you're no pressure! What if I drown a guest?
  Emma: This is the job you came here for! You're a natural! (Fin looks sad) Or maybe Reef's just a much better surfer than you are!
  Fin: Yeah, in his dreams! Okay, there's nothing that guy can do that I can't!
  Emma: Exactly, hence?
  Fin: Okay, okay, I can teach surfing too! Thanks Emma, your lessons are always on the house.
  Emma: Sweet!

• Fin (showing Emma how to surf out on the water): Okay, just like we practiced on the sand! Cross step to the nose!
  Emma: (Gasps) I did it! I'm doing it! Whoa! (Emma wipes out)
  Fin (laughing): At least you didn't hit the board this time!
  Broseph (giving Emma a thumbs up): Nice!

• Fin (arriving at her surfing class and seeing a big hotel guest): Whoa, big class! Alright, guys! Um... Welcome to your first surf lesson! Okay, let's practice just standing on our boards like this! (demonstrates how to do it, then the big guest sinks and falls on his friend)
  Fin: Oh boy! Okay, that was good! (To the friend) Hmm, you okay under there, sir?

• Broseph (noticing a magazine in Fin's hands): Is that the new Stoked Magazine?
  Fin (holding up the magazine): Yes! Blaine Dixie scored the cover!
  Reef (taking the magazine): So, what's the big deal?
  Fin: It's a big deal because girls almost never score the cover of surf magazines.
  Emma: It's so not right!
  Reef: That's because they suck compared to guys! (the girls gasp)
  Johnny: Oh no, he didn't!
  Reef (showing the centerfold page he is looking at): Now, that I would put on the cover!
  Fin: Please tell me you'll never procreate! (motions for Lo and Emma) Come on, girls! (they walk off, noses in the air)

• Fin: Nice wipeout on that round house.
  Reef: Stick around and I'll teach you something called an aerial.
  Fin: Whatever, my grandmother gets more air than you!

• Reef (to Fin, after the morning staff meeting): So, you're still mad at me?
  Fin: Yeah, until you take back what you said about female surfers!
  Reef (patting Fin on the head): Hey, just because you can't catch the same waves as I can doesn't mean you're any less of a surfer... Oh, it does! (laughs)
  Fin: That's it! Okay, I challenge you to a surf-off right now!
  Reef (putting his hand behind his ear): I think I hear a toilet calling your name! Fin, come clean me Fin!
  Fin: Scared of getting your butt kicked by a girl?
  Reef: Hey, I'm laid-back at lunch time and aggressive at crunch time. Bring it!
  Fin: You know we'll get a strike!
  Reef: Ha! I laugh at strikes!
  Fin: Let's do this!

• Reef (after Fin gets hurt while standing in the water): What happened, get a cramp from eating to much?
  Fin: I think I got stung by a jellyfish!
  Reef: For real? Cool!
  Fin: Ow! Don't just stand there, do something? Ow, ow, ow!
  Reef: There's only one way to help a jellyfish sting, you have to pee on it!
  Fin (incredulously): What?! No way, that can't be!
  Reef: Oh, it be sister!
  Fin: If you're lying, I will kill you! I don't think I could pee on my own foot!
  Reef: A guy could do that!
  Fin: You're right! Women can create life, give birth and feed a baby... (points to her foot) and men can pee on their own foot!
  Reef: Well, if you're going to be like that, I'm not gonna help you!
  Fin: No no no, please... I can't believe I'm asking you to do this, but could you pee on my foot?
  Reef: Say pretty please!
  Fin (angrily): REEF!

• Fin (looking in a toilet she is cleaning): Ahh, I swear something just winked at me! So not cleaning this!
  Rosie: Tough luck, cleaning's our job.
  Fin: Not anymore, now that Johnny's in charge our job is to have fun!
  Rosie: Seriously? Well, in that case... (throws a pillow at Fin) Wanted to do that for weeks.
  Fin (as she starts pillow fighting with Rosie): So dead!

• Fin (to Reef, in the haunted honeymoon suite): What?
  Reef (pointing at the bed): The bed is possessed!
  Fin: It's a vibrating bed, all the VIP suites have them, chowder head.
  Reef: I am not a chowder head!
  Fin: Are too.
  Reef: Am not!
  Fin: Are too.
  Reef: Am not!
  Lo (taking out her touchscreen cell phone): I'll solve this. Ohh, great Ouija Phone, is Reef's head truly made of chowder?

• Fin (to Lo, in a guest room they are cleaning): Your turn for tub duty, Lo.
  Lo: Okay, think of the bikini, think of the bikini.
  Fin: Sorry, not following you on the bikini-tub connection.
  Lo (holding up her left leg): See this cute anklet? Bought it with my maid money. Two more shifts and I'll have enough cash for this really cute bikini in the gift shop! It's all about motivation.
  Fin: Well, what are you waiting for, girl? Scrub your way to that bikini!
  Lo: Eww, who showered here?! (holds up a brush with hair on it) Sasquatch? (looks disgusted) Oh, I miss being rich. (Lo's phone rings) Hi, Daddy!
  Mr. Ridgemount: Lauren, my office, now!
  Lo: Great! That was his "I mean business" voice. (while scrubbing the tub) Can this day get possibility worse? (holds up the brush again, now with a huge clump of hair)
  Fin: I'll take that as a big hairy yes. (Lo vomits off-camera as the scene cuts to a wide shot of the hotel)