In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, there are six possible girlfriends Carl Johnson can date, with two of them, Denise Robinson and Millie Perkins, becoming girlfriends through the storyline.
Overview[]
Dating any of the six girlfriends is not required for 100% Completion, with the exception of Millie Perkins (although Millie can be killed during her first date).
Denise is first encountered during the mission Burning Desire, whilst Millie first appears during Key to Her Heart. The other girlfriends, who are encountered during gameplay rather than being attached to missions, are Michelle Cannes, Barbara Schternvart, Helena Wankstein and Katie Zhan. Michelle, Katie, and Helena become available to date once Flint County, Whetstone and San Fierro are unlocked (although Helena is first encountered in Red County, which is accessible from the start of the game, she does not appear until the second region is unlocked). Barbara becomes available once Tierra Robada, Bone County and Las Venturas are unlocked. However, the player can actually meet and befriend Michelle, Katie and Barbara right from the start of the game and enjoy their benefits provided that he fulfills their requirements. Michelle is the only girlfriend who is found in an interior.
| Girlfriend | Encounter | Encounter Description | Stats Required | |
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Met during Burning Desire. Lives in Ganton, Los Santos. | Muscle | No requirements |
| Fat | No requirements | |||
| Sex appeal | No requirements | |||
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Met during Key to Her Heart. Lives in Prickle Pine, Las Venturas. | Muscle | No requirements |
| Fat | No requirements | |||
| Sex appeal | No requirements | |||
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Found target practising next to the Ammu-Nation store in Blueberry, Red County. Lives on her Farm, Flint County. | Muscle | Low
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| Fat | Low
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| Sex appeal | High
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Found at the golf course near the Cobra Marital Arts Gym in Garcia. Lives in Juniper Hollow, San Fierro. | Muscle | High
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| Fat | No requirements | |||
| Sex appeal | High
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Found inside the Driving School in Doherty, San Fierro. Lives in Downtown, San Fierro. | Muscle | No requirements |
| Fat | Medium
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| Sex appeal | High
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Found at the police station in El Quebrados, Tierra Robada, where she can be taken out from. Lives at the El Quebrados police station. | Muscle | No requirements |
| Fat | High
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| Sex appeal | No requirements | |||
Dates[]
Three different activities are available during dates. These include a visit to a restaurant (including fast-food chains, diners, formal restaurants, and bars, alongside the bar in dance clubs), dancing at a dance club, and driving around. Each girlfriend has their own different tastes in the three activities, as well as Carl's physical appearance. After a certain number of successful dates, Carl may be invited back to her place for "coffee" (sex). Reaching a 35%-50% relationship status will give Carl access to the girlfriend's car as the game will mention that the girlfriend has shared her car keys to CJ, and once the relationship status is maxed, Carl will receive a unique outfit from the girlfriend.
Successful dates increase the relationship status with +5% each. One disastrous date can decrease it by -5%. Successful dates which are finished with a hot coffee increase the status with +10% each. A relationship status is maxed out if it reaches 100% where the girlfriend will give Carl a special outfit, and the relationship status will never increase again once it has reached its maximum limit.
The player can try their luck with a kiss, which will increase or decrease the relationship status by 1% depending on the current progress. Gift items including Flowers and Dildos can be picked up and gifted to girlfriends during dates to increase the relationship status by 1%.
- ✔ - Successful kiss during a date (+1% relationship status)
- ✘ - Declined kiss during a date (-1% relationship status)
- ✔ - Gift item during a date (+1% relationship status)
- ✔ - Successful date (+5% relationship status)
- ✔ - Successful date with "coffee" (+10% relationship status)
- ✘ - Disastrous date (-5% relationship status)
Availability[]
| Denise | Helena | Katie | Michelle | Barbara | Millie | |
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| Time of day | 16:00-06:00 | 08:00-12:00 14:00-02:00 |
12:00-00:00 | 00:00-12:00 | 16:00-06:00 | 12:00-22:00 |
Restaurant Preferences[]
CJ will gain weight from going on dinner dates, and in versions of the game that support them, it is possible to unlock achievements/trophies by going on a dinner date if it causes the relevant requirement to be fulfilled, such as eating eight times at Cluckin' Bell for the "I'll Have Two Number 9s" achievement/trophy.
| Denise | Helena | Katie | Michelle | Barbara | Millie | |
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 Diner
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 Bar
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Unique Dating Activities[]
Millie and Michelle have unique dating activities the other girls do not have:
For Millie, by simply appearing in a gimp suit (which will be in Carl's wardrobe after their first encounter) to pick her up, regardless of Carl's progress with Millie, she will offer to have sex with him and the progress will increase.
For Michelle, instead of driving her around, she might ask to be the one who will drive, and as long as Carl does not bail out of the car, the date will be successful.
Map[]
Note: The Amity Seafood Restaurant in Blueberry is erroneously marked as a "Bar" in-game, instead of a "Diner".
Progress[]
There are ways for a date to either turn out right or wrong. If Carl takes a girlfriend to a restaurant they like, romantic music will play and it will show the two having a good time with each other. However, if Carl takes the girlfriend to a restaurant they do not like, the girl will show displeasure with Carl, who is gobbling his food.
When dancing in a nightclub, if Carl does not score a high enough dancing score, the girlfriend will be disappointed. When driving around, if Carl insists on consistently driving in areas the girlfriend doesn't like or drives at an undesirable speed to the point that her fun meter hits zero, she will just ask to be taken home.
Hitting, punching, and shooting a girlfriend will be considered abuse, and the girlfriend will walk away and end the date. Getting in a vehicle and then driving far away, as well as jumping off a high cliff to a body of water (which means Carl will live despite jumping without a parachute) will be considered as abandoning the date, leading to a deduction from Carl's progress meter. The date can also be ruined by not taking the girlfriend home after five minutes of a date, even if the date went well. If the player has gained a wanted level of at least three stars, the date will also be ruined on the spot, and the girlfriend will ask to be taken home (however, this doesn't apply to Denise).
In order to maintain and increase the relationship status, Carl must date his girlfriend regularly, otherwise the status will decrease. However, this does not apply if Carl remains outside the girlfriend's geographic area. For example, as long as he stays outside of Los Santos, he has no obligations towards Denise and his status with her will remain static so long as he is away from the city. Once he does, he may need to date Denise at least once before leaving the city again in order to maintain his present status with her.
If the progress with a girlfriend reaches zero, the girlfriend will dump Carl. A girlfriend will also dump Carl after several dates in a row ended with abuse regardless of the progress. If a mission-found girlfriend (Millie or Denise) dumps Carl or is killed, she remains that way for the rest of the game, making it impossible to date her again without restarting. Girlfriends found during free gameplay, however, can be revived or met again if the player collects all 50 oysters.
Progress Rewards[]
| Denise | Helena | Katie | Michelle | Barbara | Millie | |
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| Anytime | N/A | Chainsaw, Pistol, Flamethrower and Molotov Cocktails available at the barn in Flint Range. | Ability to keep weapons after being Wasted. | Free respray at Michelle's Auto Repair | Ability to keep weapons after being Busted. | N/A |
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Dark Green Hustler | Bandito | White Romero | Monster | Ranger | Pink Club |
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Pimp Outfit | Rural Clothes | Medic Uniform | Racing Suit | Police Uniform | N/A |
Jealous Girlfriends[]
If certain criteria are met, there is a 50% chance that another jealous girlfriend will appear 7 seconds after CJ and his date set off to return to her house following a good date. A brief cutscene will play, alerting the player of the jealous girlfriend. After the cutscene, CJ can proceed through the date as normal, however the jealous girlfriend will pursue CJ and his date.
If CJ gets too close to the jealous girlfriend, another cutscene will play in which the two girlfriends insult each other briefly. The date will then be over, and CJ is instructed to take his date back home, and CJ will lose progress with the jealous girlfriend. Alternatively, CJ can evade the jealous girlfriend.
The criteria for having a jealous girlfriend appear are as follows:
- CJ must not go on a date with any girlfriends until he has more than one.
- He must not evade any jealous girlfriends to the point that they despawn.
- He must not get caught by any jealous girlfriends.
If any of the above criteria were broken at any point since the beginning of the game, jealous girlfriends will never appear, unless the save data is modified using external tools. Separate saves are not affected.
A date in which a jealous girlfriend appears can be seen in this video.
Oversights[]
- Sometimes a girlfriend can attack Carl when he approaches them in their meeting place. The actual cause of the glitch is unknown, but it is thought to be because of the use of the riot cheat.
- If Carl is wasted or busted during the cutscene in which the girl asks him for "coffee", when he respawns the camera will be in cutscene mode. While in this mode, Carl may interact with his environment semi-normally, but the player will notice much odd behavior; cars and pedestrians will appear and disappear, even while visible; automatic lock-on aiming works, but the crosshairs aren't visible; the mini-map and ammo displays are missing, as are mission starting points, but walking into where the red circle would normally be will still start the mission. Getting wasted or busted again will not reset the camera. A solution to this glitch is to start a new mission or start a freight mission after which everything will return to normal.
- Upon successfully completing a dating task, the player can visit a gym to reset the date and still keep their dating progress. If the date is reset within the girlfriend's available timings, she can be picked up again on the same day. This process can be done repeatedly to increase the progress meter substantially in one day/sitting. Video by ZMoonChild.
Trivia[]
- If the player collects all the oysters in the game, the various appearance demands that Carl's girlfriends make are nullified, and "coffee" is offered after every successful date. In addition, if a girlfriend dumped Carl or died, she can be found again at her original spawn location (with the exception of Millie and Denise who don't spawn in normal gameplay).
- Denise has no unique dating activity that will improve Carl's progress, however, if Ballas, Vagos, and Aztecas are present on the streets during the drive to wherever she wants to go (or if she wants Carl to drive her around), her mood will go significantly higher when she suggests to do a drive-by and manages to shoot some of the enemy gang members. Her fun meter during drives will increase faster when she is shooting gang members. However, Carl should not shoot, especially while using Denise's window, because the game will take this as shooting her, leading to considered abuse and ending the date immediately.
- After meeting a girlfriend for the first time, whether or not she asks Carl out, if the player attacks her, she will fight Carl and run after him until he gets to a far enough distance for the girlfriend to despawn out of the location. If she accepts and Carl attacks her, it will not affect the first date.
- Helena is the only exception and will not run after the player. However, because she is in an outdoor firing range when Carl meets her, if Carl attacks her, she will shoot at Carl while he is in her line of sight. She has a very good aim, and it is best to escape it as soon as possible.
- The player can notice that Carl treats his girlfriends differently based on the dialogue he uses. He can use abusive dialogue wherein he calls his girlfriend a bitch and openly acts uninterested in what the girl says. Other times, he acts like his regular self, using his ghetto accent. And at times, he acts very gentlemanly and uses a soft, gentle voice, and even sounds interested even in menial conversation lines the girlfriend says. The dialogue he uses does not affect the date, however, and the girlfriends do not react to the dialogue he uses. Like with other gameplay aspects, Carl's dialogue and voice will change when he reaches 50% fat; for instance, he will call himself "Big Daddy" when he picks up Barbara, and most of his responses will be along the lines of "This conversation is giving me an appetite".
- CJ mostly seems to use a gentlemanly voice with Michelle Cannes, as they both share a genuine passion, specifically for cars/racing, and is relatively normal compared to other girlfriends.
- Denise goes out with CJ after he rescues her, but she implies that she's very promiscuous, as she had three children in the past (possibly) due to prostitution. She's also mostly interested in looking good and wants to open a beauty shop.
- Millie only dates CJ for a sexual BDSM relationship, and because she allows him to do the Caligula heist if she gets a cut as well.
- Helena seems to be well-off; however, she seems to have a bit of emotional issues as she sometimes asks CJ in a sad tone if he "thinks she's a bitch" (implying she must have poor self-esteem) and sometimes makes threats (when ignored or during car rides) that she will kill/injure herself and/or CJ.
- Katie Zhan mostly talks about how she doesn't like living where she currently lives, likes rap music and Madd Dogg, and dislikes OG Loc's music. When CJ drives recklessly, she mentions working at the ER and how it gives her a thrill, implying she has an erotic interest in injuries.
- Barbara mentions that her first husband called her a "control freak", which isn't far off from her in-game personality, as she dislikes driving fast and is very nitpicky about certain places, and makes sarcastic comments to CJ when he drives slowly, that it's "easy to follow the law." In the beta, CJ could have been busted by her (possibly before dating her), as he has unused voicelines angrily remarking about how he "just got busted by a bitch."
- CJ mostly seems to use a gentlemanly voice with Michelle Cannes, as they both share a genuine passion, specifically for cars/racing, and is relatively normal compared to other girlfriends.
- In the remastered versions of the game across Xbox 360, PS3, Steam and mobile platforms, as well as the updated PS2 classic version on PS4 and The Definitive Edition, when Carl takes a girlfriend on a bad date, the "good date" music will play because Rockstar Games removed the bad date song, titled "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine, which originally featured on Radio X, due to expired licensing for the track. This makes it rather confusing as the date will play the romantic music, regardless if Carl's girlfriend is unpleased.
- Girlfriends are immune to damage by explosions and cannot be ran over by vehicles during dates. They will, however, start suffering damage once the date is abandoned due to abuse (which also results in a -15% progress loss, which is a heavier penalty than the normal -5% inflicted by a disastrous date). After the date is over, the girlfriend can be seen running around in panic like any other pedestrian and can be killed by CJ or other passer-by if she doesn't despawn first.
- If a girlfriend hasn't been brought home later than approximately five minutes after a date has been ruined, she will abandon Carl and start running around in the same fashion as if she had been abused. This includes bailing out of any vehicle and possibly getting herself killed if falling into a body of water or from a height (example here).