| Tommy Pickles | |
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| Name | Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles |
| Gender | Male |
| Birth | June 11, 1990 (age 25) Rugrats: 1 (Pilot), 1 (Season 1-9) All Grown Up: 11Pilot, 10 (Season 1-5) |
| Voice | Tami Holbrook (Pilot) E.G. Daily (1991-2008) |
| Interests | Exploring, discovering new things, playing with his brother and his friends |
| Relatives | Stu Pickles (father) Didi Pickles (mother) Dil Pickles (brother) Lou Pickles (paternal grandfather) Trixie Pickles (paternal grandmother; deceased) Lulu Pickles (paternal step-grandmother) Drew Pickles (uncle) Charlotte Pickles (aunt) Angelica Pickles (cousin) Dottie Pickles (aunt) Hugh Pickles (uncle) Edie Pickles (aunt) Mackie Pickles (uncle) Timmy-Ray Pickles (cousin) Tammy-Faye Pickles (cousin) Emmet Pickles (cousin) Tony Pickles (cousin) Boris Kropotkin (maternal grandfather) Minka Kropotkin (maternal grandmother) Ben Kropotkin (uncle) Elaine Kropotkin (aunt) Aunt Miriam (Grandpa Lou's cousin) Dylan Prescott (cousin) Bucky (cousin) |
| Friends | Chuckie Finster Lil DeVille Phil DeVille Susie Carmichael Dil Pickles (Brother) Kimi Watanabe-Finster (Crush) Angelica Pickles (occasionally) |
| Enemies | Angelica |
| First Appearance | Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing (Rugrats, 1990) |
| Last Appearance | Golden Boy (All Grown Up!, 2008) |
| “ | A baby's gotta do, what a baby's gotta do! | ” |
Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles is the main protagonist as well as the center character of Nickelodeon's animated TV series Rugrats (and all films except Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, in which he is a supporting character) and its spin-off All Grown Up!. He is clad in only a T-shirt and a diaper, and is bald with big, blank eyes. He translates everything adult into baby gibberish, like most babies. Arlene Klasky said that she based the character of Tommy on her own son. Tommy does not wear shoes.
Description
Tommy is part Christian and part Jewish, and the former born head leader of the babies. He is like twins with Angelica, and is always ready for adventure with courage to spare. Sometimes he leads the babies into trouble (usually as a result of one of Angelica's lies), but he always manages to lead them back out again. He is a loyal friend and always ready for action. Tommy is the best friend of Chuckie Finster, who is the exact opposite of him (except for the fact they are both friendly). He has a younger brother, Dil, who often gets in the way, but Tommy still loves him and is very protective of him. He is the main character in the series and appears in almost every single episode. He also appears to be the smartest of the babies.
Looks
In the first series, Tommy is only a 1-year old baby toddler, but his catchphrase to Chuckie Finster makes him call himself a toddler when he tells Chuckie not to be such a baby. He plays with air popped popcorn booth at the movie theater. He has a large, bald head with a few hairs on it, and large, round eyes, with a thin neck, round ears, and a bit of a belly on him. Tommy's outfit consists of a sky-blue shirt that shows his belly-button, and a white, baggy diaper with yellow straps on it. He walks around barefoot and seems to be a bit pigeon-toed, as both of his feet face inwards.
In All Grown Up!, Tommy is now about 11 years old. He is of average height, with straight white teeth, and spiky, light purplelishly blue colored hair (since season 2). Though, his outfit changes often now, his usual attire is a striped shirt, brown pants, red and white hi-top sneakers, along with a greenish-brown backpack. In this series, he is in fact much wiser and doesn't go on much adventures. Most of the time, he is either not focusing on the same problem with the group, and instead dealing with his own problems, but sometimes he's with the group and helping with their problems. All the time, he'll be with Chuckie and Dil.
Personality
Tommy is best known for his bravery and adventure-seeking attitude. He is very playful and will do anything to have an adventure. Tommy is also very loving and protective towards his friends, especially his younger brother, Dil Pickles. He is very caring and kind-hearted, and will never let his friends down. Tommy is extremely brave and is very rarely seen afraid of anything, only on a few small occasions.
He is also shown to be a natural leader and is looked up to by the other babies, coming up with the most ideas to get his friends and himself out of trouble. However, Tommy does have his faults, he can be a little short-tempered at times, sometimes act stubborn, a little smug if he lets his older cousin Angelica influence him, and can be rather naive at times because he is a baby. Overall, Tommy is brave, adventurous, selfless, and caring.
Appearances
Tommy appears in all but 4 episodes of Rugrats. He also appears in most episodes of All Grown Up!, as he is the main character of each series. His first appearance was in the unaired Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing. His last appearance was in Golden Boy from All Grown Up!.
Relationships
Didi Pickles - Didi is Tommy's mother
Stu Pickles - Stu is Tommy's father
Lou Pickles - Grandpa Lou is Tommy and Dil's grandpa, and is someone who Tommy loves very much. Many of Tommy's adventures come from the stories that Grandpa told to Tommy and the other babies. When Grandpa moved out of the Pickles' home in Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts, Tommy was upset because he thought Reptar was the cause of Grandpa's sudden urge to leave and tried to get rid of everything Reptar hoping he would come home. However, after Lou and Lulu got married, Lou stayed in the retierment home with Lulu but still comes to visit Tommy and Dil. In All Grown Up! Lou is much older and when taking a class field trip in the episode The Old and the Restless Tommy snaps at him because Lou was embarrasing him, was tired of hearing the war stories, and wanted him to move faster. In the end though, after Tommy, Sean, and Sean's friend got stuck in the broken heart of the exhibit, it was Lou who came to Tommy and his friends rescue and Tommy said he was glad that Lou had told him all the stories.
Dil Pickles - Dil is Tommy's younger brother who he loves to play with and teach how things work to. They had a bit of a bad start after he was born, but after getting lost in the forest Tommy and Dil get along much better.
Angelica Pickles - Angelica is Tommy's mean three year old cousin who causes Tommy and the other babies to get into trouble with her lies. Tommy however looks up to Angelica sometimes and helps her whenever she's needs it.
Chuckie Finster - Chuckie is Tommy's best friend, they met when Tommy was only eight days old. Chuckie is the reason Tommy took his first steps and they've been friends ever since. The two friends however have had their small arguments but made up in the end as they become friends again. In All Grown Up they ended their friendship for a brief amount of the episode TP+KF because Chuckie thought Tommy had a crush on Kimi. In the end they became friends again.
Kimi Finster - Tommy and Kimi met in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie when Kira brought her along. Kimi is, what Chuckie describes as, "another Tommy" in which Kimi's adventrous personality has her planning adventures and wanting to go on adventures just like Tommy. In the All Grown Up! episode TP+KF Kimi mentioned that she had a crush on Tommy after they all found Tommy and Kimi's initals carved in the wall. Tommy and Kimi claimed that they weren't into each other but at the end it was hinted that they both have a crush on each other.
Phil DeVille - Phil, just like Lil is one of Tommy's friends who are always ready to go on an adventure with Tommy
Lil DeVille - Lil, just like Phil, is one of Tommy's friends who are always ready to go on an adventure with Tommy.
Trivia
- Tommy is based on Arlene Klasky's son.
- In the pilot episode, Tommy was voiced by Tami Holbrook. In the series, he is voiced by E.G. Daily.
- Tommy's birthday is presumably August 11, considering the fact that the episode focusing on his birthday was officially created August 11 1990 and then the episode was aired August 11 1991. However, this could be wrong as a Fourth of July episode took place as the second episode after his first birthday.
- Tommy appears to have blue eyes, as seen in a close-up of him during the pilot episode, although this may not be true.
- Tommy was probably born premature, as he is seen in an incubator in the episode Mother's Day.
- Tommy, up until Dil was born, was the smallest and youngest main character of Rugrats at the age of 1, tied with Phil and Lil who are also 1.
- He is the first son of Stu and Didi.
- Tommy may be ambidextrous. He has showed in numerous occasions that he can use either hands to do tasks (i.e. bowling, eating, and using glue with his left hand when he is right handed). The cause of this may be because two prominent figures in Tommy's life, his brother Dil and his best friend Chuckie, are left-handed. Therefore, by using his left hand while doing certain tasks in their presence, Tommy has made tasks such as eating easier for them.
- Originally, Tommy's shirt would be red in Season 1. This can be shown in the pilot when he is wearing red aprons while sleeping, and in the test pilot when he was wearing an orange-red T-shirt.
- In season 1, he was underweight like the rest of the boys, but gained weight along with them (except for Dil, who apparently is actually the right weight). This has only happened in All Grown Up!
- In Rugrats, Tommy is skinnier since he looked at 10 (he should be that age in 5th grade), but this is baby skinny.
- Tommy is revealed to be a really early walker (5-6 months, when 10 months is the average baby) in A Step At A Time.
- Tommy has been seen as a 6 year old in the episode Back To School (in Didi's imagination), and 2 year old in All Grown Up!.
- Tommy is sometimes a singer like Angelica and Susie are.
- In All Grown Up!, Tommy has different colored hair in season 2. It is a dark purplishly type in season 1 and in season 2, it is light purplishly blue.
- In At the Movies he played with the popcorn booth.
- In the Invader Zim episode "Plague of Babies", Tommy was going to be the leader of the aliens who disguised themselves as human infants, and he would have been voiced by his official voice actress, E.G. Daily. Due to copyright issues, Nickelodeon wouldn't allow it and this plan was scrapped; despite this, the character that replaced him, Shnooky, still resembles Tommy.
- Through out the entire series Tommy is seen wearing an orange shirt 3 times in the episodes Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing, Tommy's First Birthday, and Real or Robots?, and a red shirt two times in the episodes Tommy's First Birthday, and Real or Robots?. His shirt is blue all the other episodes of Rugrats
- It is revealed in a nick magazine that Phil and Lil's birthday is March 31st and are 15 months, when Tommy is 1, making them 3 months older than Tommy. Which means that Tommy is as possibly born in June, other info that could prove this is that it is said that Tommy was born 2 months premature. This could mean his actual birth was suppose to be August 11 but was born June 11 (2 months earlier) which would make him 3 months younger than Phil and Lil. Plus the fact that a fourth of July episode appeared after the episode Tommy's First Birthday it would make more sense logically.
- At the beginning of the All Grown Up opening theme, when the 4...3...2..1.. is said, it's in Tommy's voice.
- Tommy is one of the only four characters that appear in the series finale episodes of both Rugrats and All Grown Up!, the other three being Dil, Stu, and Didi.
- Tommy spoke the last line in the Rugrats telivision continuity. The line being "Gotcha!" in the All Grown Up! episode, Golden Boy.
- Tommy overall wore shoes seven times throughout the entire series in episodes: Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup , Beauty Contest , Let Them Eat Cake, Miss Manners, Heat Wave , Snow White , and Three Jacks and a Beanstalk of Rugrats and Rugrats: Tales From The Crib but Heat Wave was the only episode Tommy wore shoes with his normal attire.
- He carries one of Stu's screwdrivers, which he calls a Studriver.
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