34 Facts About Tommy Pickles

Tommy Pickles is the protagonist of The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats Go Wild, and a major character in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, as well as other various Rugrats-related media.

In Rugrats, Tommy is a one-year-old baby and the leader of the show's other infant characters.

Tommy Pickles is inquisitive, wants to explore everything, and often breaks out of his crib and gets himself into unusual situations.

Tommy Pickles is the eldest son of Stuart "Stu" Pickles, a self-taught inventor specializing in children's toys, and Didila "Didi" Pickles, a schoolteacher.

Tommy Pickles has a paternal uncle and aunt, Andrew "Drew" and Charlotte Angelica Pickles, by whom he has a cousin, Angelica Pickles, and a maternal uncle and aunt, Benjamin "Ben" Kropotkin and his wife, Elaine Robinson-Kropotkin, who is rarely seen or mentioned.

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Tommy Pickles is white and through his mother, Didi, Tommy is of European Jewish heritage, with her parents being born and raised in Russia and later immigrated to the United States.

Tommy Pickles is not able to communicate with his newborn brother, Dil, which frustrates him at times.

Tommy Pickles is highly inquisitive, wants to explore everything, and regularly breaks out of his crib.

Tommy Pickles often uses a plastic toy screwdriver as a tool for escaping his crib and getting into places.

Tommy Pickles is closest to Chuckie, as Phil and Lil, being twins, spend most of their time with one another and a strong familial bond.

Tommy Pickles has become less of a leader to his siblings and friends and more of an equal and while he still has a strong sense of right and wrong, he is sometimes hesitant to do the right thing for fear of being rejected or teased by peers.

Tommy Pickles has remained best friends with Chuckie throughout the years, still encouraging him to step outside of his very small comfort zone, and somewhat critical of Dil, whose abnormal tendencies sometime embarrass or confuse him.

Tommy Pickles has been featured in several other Rugrats-related works outside of the main series.

Tommy Pickles is the protagonist of The Rugrats Movie, the story of which is centered around the birth of Tommy's brother; Dil.

Tommy Pickles is featured in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, which is set in Paris and focuses primarily on the wedding of Chuckie's father, as well as Tommy Pickles's father Stu being summoned to the amusement park Reptarland to fix a malfunctioning Reptar robot.

Tommy Pickles appeared as the protagonist in the film Rugrats Go Wild, a crossover of Rugrats and the Nickelodeon animated series The Wild Thornberrys, in which Tommy Pickles and his family and friends become shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they meet the Thornberry family.

Tommy Pickles made additional appearances in the straight-to-DVD films Rugrats Tales from the Crib, which were released between 2005 and 2006.

In July 2018, it was announced that Tommy Pickles would appear in newly-planned Rugrats television series and a live-action film featuring characters rendered with computer-generated imagery.

Tommy Pickles remains the ringleader of his group of friends, though he has now developed a strong interest in filmmaking and makes movies with a camcorder.

Up until early Season 2, Tommy Pickles was either shown or mentioned as being part of the school soccer team, even trying to teach Dil how to play in the episode "Fools Rush In".

Tommy Pickles had his first kiss with Olivia in the episode "Fear of Falling".

Tommy Pickles develops a romantic relationship with Rachel, who he meets at Hebrew school in the episode "Rachel, Rachel".

Tommy Pickles was one of several characters inspired by the real-life children of the writers and creators of Rugrats at the time the show was conceived.

The last name "Tommy Pickles" was a name that Germain said "just occurred to me".

Tommy Pickles has been used in various Rugrats episodes to highlight and explore irrational childhood fears, such an episode in which he avoids using the bathtub for fear that he will be sucked down the drain.

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The voice Daily conceived for Tommy Pickles was one of a child character she had been developing since she her youth, and regularly performed to amuse her friends throughout her life.

Tommy Pickles was just sweet, and I love that I was able to bring that part to him.

Tommy Pickles has noble friend characteristics that I think are beautiful.

Cheryl Chase had auditioned for the part of Tommy and did not get it, but later became the voice actress for the character Angelica Pickles.

Tommy Pickles almost did not attend because she was having carpet fitted in her apartment and did not want to leave the workers alone, but her agent encouraged her to go.

Tommy Pickles replaced a different actress used in the pilot episode, and re-dubbed the first few episodes with her own performance.

Tommy Pickles was having contractions between takes of dialogue, and delivered the baby not long afterward.

Patti Thorn of Rocky Mountain News praised Tommy Pickles, describing him as the show's most "level-headed" character, who deals with childhood issues and fears "with heart and humor".

Tommy Pickles described him as an "appealing character" and "a kid who is sweet, brave, practical and morally engaged".