Tommy Pickles

Tommy Pickles

Thomas Malcolm Pickles is a fictional character and the protagonist of the animated children's television series Rugrats, the reboot, and its spinoff series All Grown Up!. He is also the protagonist of The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Rugrats Go Wild (2003), and a major character in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000), 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. He is inquisitive, wants to explore everything, and often breaks out of his crib and gets himself into unusual situations. Writer Steve Viksten said his adventurous personality was partially modeled after the actor John Wayne. All Grown Up! depicts a 9-years-older version of Tommy, who is now 10 years old. Rugrats co-creators Paul Germain and Arlene Klasky have both claimed to have created the Tommy character, with both saying he was based upon their real-life sons. The character's first name comes from Germain's son, and he was drawn to resemble Klasky and her then-husband, fellow Rugrats co-creator Gábor Csupó's, son. The character was voiced by E. G. Daily (1991-2008, 2021-present), who based her performance on a child character she had been developing since her youth. Daily voiced Tommy for the entire 13-year run of the Rugrats series, as well as the films, and returned to voice the older version of the character in All Grown Up! Tommy has been very well received by reviewers and fans, and as the central character on the network's top-rated program, he was considered pivotal in Nickelodeon's rise in the 1990s.

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