Tommy Pickles
| Thomas Malcolm Pickles | |
|---|---|
| File:Tommy pic.gif Tommy as seen in Rugrats | |
| First appearance | Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing (Rugrats, 1990) |
| Last appearance | Bad Blood (All Grown Up!, 2008) |
| Created by | Klasky-Csupo |
| Portrayed by | Elizabeth Daily |
| In-universe information | |
| Nickname | Tommy |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Film Maker |
| Family | Stu Pickles (Father) Didi Pickles (Mother) Dil Pickles (Younger Brother) Lou Pickles (Grandpa) |
| Relatives | Grandpa Lou Pickles (grandfather; father of Stu and Drew) Trixie McGee-Pickles (grandmother; mother of Stu and Drew; deceased) Angelica Pickles (cousin) Drew Pickles (uncle; brother of Stu) Charlotte Pickles (aunt; Drew's wife) Boris Kropotkin (grandfather; father of Didi and Ben) Minka Kropotkin (grandmother; mother of Didi and Ben) Ben Kerpackter (uncle; brother of Didi and husband of Elaine) Elaine Kerpackter (aunt; wife of Ben) Aunt Mariam (Grandpa Lou's cousin) Dylan Prescott (Didi's cousin) |
Thomas "Tommy" Malcolm Pickles is the main character from the Nickelodeon animated television series' Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!. Tommy is among the series' original characters, if not its central character.
In the two Rugrats pilot episodes, Tommy was voiced by Tami Holbrook. In the TV series, the character was voiced by E.G. Daily.
While technically being Jewish according to Jewish law (his mother is Jewish), Tommy celebrates both Jewish and Christian holidays (Hanukkah and Christmas for example). However, the only members of the family that appear to be religious at all are Tommy's maternal grandparents.
Rugrats
Appearance
Tommy's distinct features in Rugrats are a skin covered head with a few strands of hair and stubble, a sky blue shirt, a diaper, bow-legs, and pigeon-toed feet. Tommy wears a white diaper with yellow straps. Inside his diaper is a screwdriver collection, which he uses to get himself and his friends out of the play pen. He was the youngest character (although not much younger than Phil and Lil) until his younger brother Dil was born; despite that, he had a reputation for being the "bravest" baby, and would take the others along on adventures to wherever his imagination took him. These adventures of his usually involved stopping some sort of evil monster. He also stood up to his evil-minded cousin Angelica Pickles. He appeared in the most episodes of any character. In the pilot he wore a red shirt. Although every episode since he has worn a sky blue shirt.
All Grown Up!
Personality
Similar to Susie's talent for singing, Tommy also has a newfound talent: making films with his camcorder. A few episodes have been made around this fact: "Truth or Consequences" (first US tx: November 30, 2003), revealed he made his first film at the age of 37 months, then making a negative film about his friends. the main storyline of "Brother, Can You Spare The Time?" (first US tx: January 17, 2004) opened with him mentioning recently winning a young filmmaker's award; and one storyline in "Bad Aptitude" (first US tx: June 4, 2004) was about Tommy's sudden early retirement from filmmaking after making a flop and receiving an unfavorable (for his filmmaking aspirations) result on his career aptitude exam. However, he has not been seen with his camcorder since "The Big Score" (first US tx: April 25, 2005), when he was filming Lil at the soccer field.
In "Thief Encounter" (first US tx: December 6, 2003), he was discovered to be stealing goods from around the neighborhood, but that was because he was sleep walking; in "River Rats" (first US tx: December 13, 2003), he was shown to be afraid of water, stemming from an experience during a fishing outing with his grandpa; in "Dude, Where's My Horse?" (first US tx: July 16, 2005), he was the worst cowboy out of the regulars.
Up until early Season 2, Tommy was also either shown or mentioned as being part of the school soccer team, even trying to teach Dil how to play ("Fools Rush In", first US tx: June 5, 2004). Lately (more specifically since "The Big Score"), however, all the focus on soccer has involved only Phil and Lil DeVille. Also it is said that he may have feelings for his friend Kimi Finster and so does she in "TP + KF".
Appearance
Tommy now has purple hair like his father. He still keeps his screwdriver he had as a baby in his pocket. More recently, he had a keychain with a screwdriver on it.
National background
Tommy is a Jewish Christian and a Russian-American having Jewish-Russian grandparents (Boris and Minka) and an American father (Stu) also being a Christian. Tommy's Grampa Lou's mother is Scottish (as evidenced in All Grown Up! episode Bad Blood).