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1991

Dylan Prescott Pickles
Also Known As Dil Pickles
"D" (by Tommy in All Grown Up!)
Drooly (by Angelica Pickles (1991) in Rugrats)
Dilly (by Tommy)
"DP" (by Charlotte in All Grown Up!)
Gender Male
Birth Date August 28, 1991 (Rugrats 1991)
Age 4 weeks (The Rugrats Movie)
3-4 months (Rugrats)
9 ("All Growed Up")
10 (All Grown Up!)
Race Human
Interests Pulling things, including hair (Rugrats)
Grabbing items (Rugrats)
Eating (Rugrats)
Hitting people on the head with various objects (Rugrats)
Aliens (All Grown Up!)
Laser tag (All Grown Up!)
Playing with his brother.
Relatives Tommy Pickles (older brother)
Didi Pickles (1991) (mother)
Stu Pickles (1991) (father)
Lou Pickles (1991) (paternal grandfather)
Trixie Pickles (paternal grandmother; deceased)
Lulu Pickles (paternal step-grandmother)
Boris Kropotkin (1991) (maternal grandfather)
Minka Kropotkin (1991) (maternal grandmother)
Ben Kropotkin (maternal uncle)
Elaine Kropotkin (maternal aunt by marriage)
Drew Pickles (1991) (paternal uncle)
Charlotte Pickles (paternal aunt by marriage)
Angelica Pickles (1991) (paternal cousin)
Dylan Prescott (Didi's cousin)
Bucky (first cousin once removed)
Friends Tommy Pickles (brother)
Chuckie Finster
Phil DeVille
Lil DeVille
Kimi Finster
Spike
Susie Carmichae
Vice Principal Pangborn
Angelica Pickles (sometimes)
Lil'Q
Bean Mattson
Enemies Angelica Pickles (1991) (sometimes)
Coco LaBouche
Jean-Claude
Spine Snapper
Z (once)
Voice Actor Tara Strong
First Appearance The Rugrats Movie
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Dil Pickles

Dylan Prescott "Dil" Pickles is the younger brother of Tommy Pickles, younger son of Stu and Didi, and younger cousin of Angelica Pickles (1991) on the Nickelodeon shows Rugrats and All Grown Up!. Named after Didi's cousin, Dylan "Dil" Prescott, he was born in The Rugrats Movie. His name is a pun on. "dill pickles". He's 3-4 months old and likes to call Angelica "yucky". Dil is voiced by Tara Strong.

All Grown Up Dil

Dil, as seen on All Grown Up!

Description

Dil Pickles is the youngest member of the Rugrats, and because he is just an infant, his big brother Tommy feels that it's his "sponsability" to teach him about how things work in the world. Dil has a personality of a typical 3-month-old: all id. He wants everything NOW and will do whatever he can to get it. And once he does get it, he won't let go without a fight. Dil will wail inconsolably when frustrated, but he'll immediately stop crying when something else attracts his attention. While his tantrums are often annoying, he has the saving grace of all babies: he's irresistibly cute. - Rugrats Description from Klasky Csupo

Dil Pickles has grown quite a bit from the little baby we first saw in The Rugrats Movie. He is now 9 years old, and enjoys wearing bizarre outfits, talking in code and getting any information he can about alien abductions! His Principal, Mr. Pangborn, thinks Dil is a bit too strange, and almost went crazy himself trying to psychoanalyze what could be wrong with him. Could it possibly be caused by Phil and Lil accidentally dropping Dil on his head when he was a baby? Maybe... Or perhaps Dil is just one of those utterly unique individuals who doesn't try to be weird... he just is! - All Grown Up! Description from Klasky Csupo

Tara Strong

Tara Strong, who provides Dil's voice.

Summary

Dil joined the Rugrats cast in the year of 1998. From the very beginning, Dil has had curly yet limited hair on his head and has almost always worn yellow trap-door pajamas (though in the films, his pajamas were purple). Because of his age, Dil can't say as many words as the other Rugrats. For the final 5 years of Rugrats' run, Dil had to learn how to be a Rugrat. He always wants everything at his age and will always do whatever he can to get an object. He can be as selfish as his cousin Angelica, and when he cries, he will not stop until something or someone will get his attention, but the difference being that he is a baby and will share things with Tommy and the rest of the babies. He can be naughty sometimes, though he still cares about his brother and his friends.

Most of the episodes that Dil is prominent in usually involves the rest of the Rugrats trying to make Dil more like a "big baby", teach him something, or save him from something. When Didi was pregnant with Dil, she and Stu assumed that he was going to be a girl due to a false ultrasound from Lipschitz, and had planned on naming the baby "Trixie," after Drew and Stu's late mother (although her real name was actually "Beatrix," but most people called her "Trixie"), but when the baby turned out to be a boy, they named him after Didi's cousin, Dylan Prescott.

Dil loves his brother Tommy dearly as he sticks up for him when others do not. An example is "A Step at a Time" when Tommy defends him over his walking, saying Dil will walk when he is ready. When Dil sees Tommy, he attempts to grab on to the couch and walk but just falls back down. Earlier in the episode, Tommy is shown to have started walking the exact same way but with Chuckie. When Tommy was younger, Chas brought Chuckie over for a visit. Tommy saw Chuckie and wanted to go over and play with him, so he grabbed onto the couch and started to walk over to Chuckie (who had learned to walk himself by that time). Tommy comforts his little brother, telling Dil he will walk when he is ready but until then, Tommy will get down to his level and play with him. Also, after getting their own rooms when Lou moved out, Dil called for Tommy at night as he wasn't used to having his own space at the time, which prompt his big brother to come in and sleep with him. In All Grown Up!, Dil was the only person that didn't give up on Tommy when he lost his confidences in film making as he helped him regain it.

Dil always called Chuckie "Chubbie", and in the episode "The Jungle", he refers to Phil and Lil "Philip" and "Lilip" respectively. He also refers to his cousin Angelica as "yucky", either likely due to her name being too difficult for him to pronounce or because he finds her (or at least her behavior) repulsive or both. He is a hair puller. Dil remains the same height until a season 8 episode titled "Back to School" when he, according to his father, Stu Pickles, "grew an inch".

In the episode "A Dose of Dil", Tommy feels left out as the adults are giving Dil all the attention because he got a booster shot in his finger. Tommy and the gang decide to find ways to get the attention of the adults because they believe that if they do, they will get lollipops, as Angelica shows off that she has loads of lollipops. However, by the end of the episode, Tommy realizes that he doesn't need to cry for attention anymore because his little brother Dil will always be there to listen to him.

Looks

Dil has peach colored skin and a pair of white eyes with black pupils. He has a small amount of large curly hair atop his head. The character wears yellow and orange trap-door pajamas. Other times he is wearing just a diaper.

In The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris, his pajamas were purple. In Rugrats Go Wild, they were still purple, but the border was green instead of orange, and they had a picture of a sailboat on them. In all three movies, he is even depicted with rosy cheeks and rosy ears.

In "All Growed Up", his hair is now red, just like his mother Didi's. He wore a yellow and orange striped shirt with long sleeves, blue shorts, white socks, and blue and white sneakers. In Season 1 of All Grown Up!, He wears a blue and green striped shirt, green shorts, and red sneakers. He later switches to a red and blue striped hat, a light green t-shirt over a gray long-sleeved undershirt paired with a brown striped vest, dark purple cargo shorts, and the same socks and sneakers. In Season 2, his outfits began to change more often, but he is mostly seen wearing his trademark purple, orange, and light brown striped hat with a matching vest, a green long-sleeved undershirt, dark blue cargo shorts, and orange sneakers.

Appearances

Dil has appeared in many episodes of the original Rugrats series and its spin-off series, All Grown Up! since The Rugrats Movie. He made his on-screen debut in the movie, though he was mentioned previously in "The Family Tree" (in which Didi realizes that she is pregnant). It can be also noticed that a main character has been added in the first two Rugrats movies.

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