Rugrats: Encyclopedia II - Rugrats - Characters

Rugrats - Characters

Rugrats - The children

• Tommy Pickles (voiced by E.G. Daily, and Tami Holbrook in the unseen pilot): The most adventurous baby, always getting the group into trouble. Generally considered the babies' leader. Tommy is named after the first son of Paul Germain, one of the show's creators.
• Dil Pickles (voiced by Tara Strong): Tommy's younger brother, a true baby (i.e. not a toddler like the other children). Introduced in the first Rugrats movie.
• Angelica Pickles (voiced by Cheryl Chase): Tommy and Dil's cousin who always bosses the "babies" around, being the oldest (about 3 or 4 years old). Enjoys lying to the toddlers, distorting their perception of reality. Acts perfect towards the adults but is generally mean to the babies.
• Chuckie Finster (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh up to 2002, Nancy Cartwright since): Tommy's loyal sidekick. Afraid of everything, especially clowns and the guy on the Oatmeal box.
• Phil & Lil DeVille (Both voiced by Kath Soucie): Fraternal twins (boy and girl) that have everything in common. Both enjoy playing in mud and like to eat worms and insects.
• Kimi Finster (voiced by Dionne Quan): Chuckie's younger step-sister, introduced in the second Rugrats movie, Rugrats in Paris. Kimi is a very happy girl who is always smiling.
• Susie Carmichael (voiced by Cree Summer): A neighborhood friend who is about Angelica's age. When around, Susie often stands up to Angelica when she taunts the young toddlers. She also has two older brothers, Erwin and Buster and older sister Alisha.

Rugrats - The adults

• Stu Pickles (voiced by Jack Riley of The Bob Newhart Show fame): Tommy and Dil's father and brother of Drew. Absent-minded toy inventor. Married to Didi.
• Didi Pickles (nee Kerpackter) (voiced by Melanie Chartoff): Tommy and Dil's mother. A part-time schoolteacher and married to Stu.
• Lou Pickles (voiced by David Doyle from 1991, until his death in 1997, and Joe Alaskey; 1997-Series End) Tommy, Dil and Angelica's grandfather and Stu and Drew's father. Lived with Stu's family for the first few seasons and often babysat the children.
• Lulu Pickles (voiced by Debbie Reynolds): Lou's second wife; he met her in the hospital where she works as a nurse. Also Tommy, Dil, and Angelica's step grandmother and Stu and Drew's stepmother.
• Drew Pickles (voiced by Michael Bell): Angelica's father and Stu's brother. An investment banker married to Charlotte.
• Charlotte Pickles (voiced by Tress MacNeille): Angelica's workaholic mother. CEO of her own company and married to Drew. She tries to be a good mother, but is usually sidetracked by business interests. Is often shown talking on her Mobile phone to "Jonathan", who was shown several times during early episodes of the series.
• Betty DeVille (voiced by Kath Soucie): Phil and Lil's mother. Quite the jock and women's-libber. Married to Howard. Helps operate the Java Lava Coffee House with Chaz Finster.
• Howard DeVille (voiced by Philip Proctor, formerly of The Firesign Theatre): Phil and Lil's mild mannered father. Often overpowered by and cringing towards his wife, Betty.
• Chaz Finster (voiced by Michael Bell): Widower; Chuckie's father, from whom he inherited his adenoidal whine. Married Kira in the second Rugrats movie. Kimi's step-father. Runs the Java Lava Coffee House.
• Kira Finster (voiced by Julia Kato): Kimi's mother and Chuckie's step-mother. Married Chaz in the second Rugrats movie. Operates the Java Lava Coffee House with her husband.
• Lucy Carmichael (voiced by: Cheryl Carter (1992, 1997-Series End), Lisa Dinkins (1993), Hattie Winston (The Rugrats Movie): Susie's mother and Randy's wife. She is a Harvard-educated "wonder mom" and does a lot of cool things. She is also a Doctor. She delivered Dil.
• Randy Carmichael (voiced by: Ron Glass): Married to Lucy Carmichael & is Susie's father. Randy is a writer for the famous Dummi Bears Show.
• Boris and Minka Kerpackter (voiced by Michael Bell and Melanie Chartoff), Didi and her brother Ben's Jewish parents. Eastern European immigrants who are always complaining that it wasn't this way in the "Old Country".
• Aunt Miriam (voiced by Andra Martin), Lou's cousin and Angelica,Tommy, and Dil's great aunt removed
• Shirley and Marvin Finster (voiced by Miriam Margolyes and Stacy Keach), Chaz's parents

Rugrats - The pets

• Spike (not voiced in the TV show, but voiced by Bruce Willis only in Rugrats Go Wild!): The Pickles' brown hound dog. Tommy deeply admires him. (Spike was once voiced in a very old Rugrats episode in which Chuckie had a dream that he and the other babies went into Spike's doghouse. In the doghouse, Spike was drinking tea and spoke with a British accent.)
• Fifi (Voiced by Grey DeLisle): Purple poodle, who was orignally a Parisian stray which Spike fell in love with in the second Rugrats movie. Now, lives with the Finsters.
• Spiffy and Sparky (not voiced): Purple and brown (respectively) puppies adopted by the Stu Pickles and Chaz Finster households. The offspring of a union between Spike and Fifi. (Note: In US showings of "Mutts In A Name", Sparky's identified as "Pepper", as a result of a viewer poll.)
• Fluffy (not voiced): Angelica's cat who Angelica loves dearly, but who always causes trouble for the others, particularly Spike.

Rugrats - Fictional TV Characters

• Reptar (not voiced): A big green dinosaur reminiscent of Godzilla. Tommy and the other Rugrats love him; Reptar products such as cars, clothes and candy are frequently seen on the show. Reptar was a main character in Rugrats in Paris and had his own theme park called Euro Reptarland. There was a giant Reptar robot there too, which the babies piloted and fought against Jean Claude.
• Robosnail (not voiced): Reptar's arch enemy. Robosnail is an mechanical snail with snapping pincers. He made a special guest appearance in Rugrats in Paris, controlled by Jean Claude. Robosnail and Reptar fought throughout Paris and he wound up falling into a river.
• Dactar: a big Pterodactyl who fights Reptar on TV. He Resembles Rodan from Godzilla.
• Captain Blasto (Adam West): From the early seasons of the show. A spaceman who hosts his namesake show, a low budget locally made kids program that is reminiscent to the Captain Video series of the 1950's. In Super Hero Chuckie, Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, Stu and Drew go to see the show made at the television studio, where they learn the secret about how Captain Blasto flies (a cable that attaches to his costume).
• The Dummy Bears: A cartoon watched by the babies. It is a spoof of the Care Bears. Suzy's father Randy Carmichael was a writer for the show, and in one episode, the babies are taken to a movie theater to see the Dummy Bears movie(they escape from their parents to go see the reptar movie, and cause havoc in the movie theater)
• Alan Quebec: Voiced by Alex Trebek, he hosted "Super Stumpers," the fictitious game show on which Didi Pickles appears in the episode "Game Show Didi."

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