Cody Matthews

You know what, Shawnie? I always thought that Kelsey was the one person I could never live without. But she's gone. And you're here. And I'm alive! So it must be you.|Cody Matthews

Codnelius "Cody" A. Matthews is the main protagonist and title character of Hey What's Up Boy. Cody is introduced as a witty, sporty boy with average interests but later he becomes a funnily neurotic young man with great morals and values. Throughout the series, we learn that the most important things to Cody are his love for Shawn, Kelsey, and his family.

Season 1
Cody Matthews is introduced as a sarcastic, baseball-loving slacker who has butted heads many times with his no-nonsense teacher, Mr. Feeny. The first season is characterized by many episodes where Cody seems to do something callous or dismissive, then ends up learning a lesson. Often enough, what he's learning in Mr. Feeny's class applied to his home life and vice versa. Cody understands his parents more and respects them for all that they do for him. His relationship with his older brother Eric Matthews becomes confusing as Eric's constant obsession with girls is foreign to Cody and he becomes more protective of his little sister, Morgan.

Though he hangs out with a group of friends, seemingly on rotation, in the first season, the one constant is Shawn Hunter, who would later on take the role of his sole best friend. Shawn is his partner in crime, joining in on the wisecracks in the back row of Mr. Feeny's classroom. Two other reoccurring characters are Stuart Minkus and Kelsey Lawrence. Both of them are smart outcasts, whom Cody ans Shawn poke fun at. While his relationship with nerdy Minkus remains the same, Cody gets over his "girls are gross" phase and develops some sort of affection for Kelsey by the end of the season.