Edwina and William Smith (Kate Ashby)

Edwina and William Smith are Kate Ashby's parents who were first introduced in Kate Ashby, they have more introduction and personality in a spinoff series called Little Kate Ashby

Both

 * 1) As usual with many Kate Ashby characters, they treat Kate Ashby very badly.
 * 2) Both of their character designs are terrible, as usual with many Kate Ashby characters as they look more like cereal boxes.
 * 3) * Additionally, their newer character designs are clearly recycled from Little Kate Ashby, in which the only change is their face having wrinkles to show that they are older than Kate. The creator could have also given them grey hair, as it will make their elderly designs somewhat more realistic.
 * 4) They are voiced using TTS voices, which is a lazy way to provide voice acting.
 * 5) They are considered to be Karma Houdinis, as they don't get any punishment for abusing Kate Ashby.

Both

 * 1) They are typical GoAnimate/Vyond parents, as they ground their daughter Kate for various nonsensical reasons. Additionally, they repeat the word "grounded" when grounding Kate Ashby, and ground her for a unreasonable amount of time.
 * 2) * Ironically, the creator of the Kate Ashby series hates the Vyond Community. Yet he makes Kate Ashby's parents act like typical GoAnimate/Vyond parents.
 * 3) They do not help Kate Ashby (who is referred to as Kate Smith) improve her behavior, in which it worsens their daughter's behavior, and it results in their daughter doing crimes and going to jail for 25 years.
 * 4) They have terrible parenting, in which they tend to spank her (which is illegal in certain parts of the world) and they do not consider helping Kate calm down.
 * 5) Like Horrid Henry's parents, they tend to only approve of their younger daughter Lucy Smith, but worse than Horrid Henry's parents.
 * 6) They do not lock away their weapons in a safe place so Kate cannot get to them, this explains how Kate is able to use a gun and a knife. Meaning they should be arrested as well, for their part.

Edwina

 * 1) In "Little Kate Ashby Breaks The Vase" instead of being nice to Kate and letting her off with a warning, considering it was an accident, she grounds her for 2 months, for something that was a complete accident.
 * 2) In "Little Kate Ashby refuses to go to school" she allows Kate to skip school, rather than forcing her to go to school, which could result in her and her husband to get arrested by the police for child neglect.