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Rugrats
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving life experiences that become much greater adventures in the imaginations of the main characters. The series premiered on August 11, 1991. It is the second of the original three Nickelodeon animated series known as "Nicktoons", after '' Doug'' and before ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. The series initially lasted for 65 episodes spanning three seasons. Production was then halted around 1994, months after Germain left Klasky Csupo Inc., with the last episode airing on November 12, 1994. In 1995 and 1996, two Jewish-themed specials premiered, " A Rugrats Passover" and " A Rugrats Chanukah", respectively, both of which received critical acclaim. During this time, after the end of the series production run, ''Rugrats'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Pickles
Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" 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 1-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 preteen version of Tommy. ''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' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugrats (2021 TV Series)
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain. It has been described as a reboot of the original TV series of the same name which ran from 1991 to 2004. The series premiered on May 27, 2021, on Paramount+; it is the second Nickelodeon-based series created for the streaming service. As with previous incarnations of the franchise, the series was produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. On March 28, 2024, the series was removed from Paramount+ as part of a "strategic decision to focus on content with mass global appeal." Premieres had already moved to the Nicktoons channel on March 14, 2024. Premise Apart from the setting update of the 2020s from the 1990s, the rebooted ''Rugrats'' remains the same as the original series, as it still focuses on the experiences of a courageous, adventurous one-year-old baby named Tommy Pickles and his group of playmates and other infants and toddlers. Voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Grown Up!
''All Grown Up!'' is an American animated television series developed by Kate Boutilier, Eryk Casemiro, and Monica Piper for Nickelodeon. Produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, it serves as a sequel to '' Rugrats'', and explores the daily lives of protagonist Tommy Pickles, his little brother Dil and his childhood friends, now tweens/adolescents. The concept for the series was based on the ''Rugrats'' episode " All Growed Up", which served as the original series' 10th anniversary special and proved successful with audiences. The series ran from April 12, 2003 to August 17, 2008, for a total of five seasons and 55 episodes, and featured much of the surviving cast from the original series reprising their roles. Several episodes also feature flashbacks of the kids as toddlers. Premise The series is set ten years after the events of '' Rugrats''. Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, the twins Phil and Lil, Susie, Dil, and Kimi are now tweens/teens. Episodes often inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klasky Csupo
Klasky-Csupo, Inc. ( ) is an American animation studio located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1982 by producer Arlene Klasky and her then-husband, Hungarian animator Gábor Csupó (hence the company's name) in a spare room of their apartment and grew to 550 artists, creative workers and staff in an animation facility in Hollywood. During the 1990s and 2000s, they produced and animated era-defining shows for the children's network, Nickelodeon, such as ''Rugrats'' (which was one of the channel's original animated series, known as Nicktoons), ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'', ''The Wild Thornberrys'', '' Rocket Power'', '' As Told by Ginger'', '' All Grown Up!'', and the American dub of '' Poppy Cat''. They also animated the first three seasons of ''The Simpsons'' for 20th Century Fox Television and Gracie Films, as well as ''Duckman'' on USA Network. In 2008, Nickelodeon ended their long-running partnership with Klasky Csupo and its shows ceased production, resulting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Riley (actor)
John Albert Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016) was an American actor and writer. He is known for playing Elliot Carlin, a chronic psychology client of Bob Newhart's character on ''The Bob Newhart Show'', and for voicing Stu Pickles, one of the parents in the animated ''Rugrats'' franchise. Early life Riley was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Agnes C. Riley (née Corrigan) and John Albert Riley. After attending Saint Ignatius High School and John Carroll University, he served in the U.S. Army. After being discharged, Riley became a popular radio personality in Cleveland, along with his radio partner and "straight man" Jeff Baxter; ''The Baxter & Riley Show'' on WERE (1300 AM) featured not only music but comedy sketches and a slew of offbeat characters that Riley and Baxter voiced. Riley gave up the radio show in the mid-1960s and moved to Los Angeles, where his Cleveland friend Tim Conway helped him obtain work writing comedy sketches, which later led to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionne Quan
Dionne Quan (born October 20, 1978) is an American actress, known for her roles as Kimi Watanabe-Finster in '' Rugrats'' and Trixie Tang in '' The Fairly OddParents''. Early life Quan was born in Oakland, California to Lori and Daryl Quan, who ran a sewing machine and vacuum store in Vallejo, California. She is legally blind, having been born with optic nerve hypoplasia. Quan grew up in San Francisco, California. When she was ten, her father heard a radio interview with a teacher who instructed students in voice-over acting, and he immediately enrolled Dionne for lessons. She obtained her first voice work at the age of 14 for television commercials and acted in high school productions. Quan graduated from Benicia High School in 1998. Career Quan was cast as Kimi Watanabe in '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' (2000), her film debut. She continued playing the role on the series itself, '' Rugrats'', '' Rugrats Go Wild'' (2003) and the spinoff '' All Grown Up!''. Quan provided th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cree Summer
Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969) is an American-Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her extensive work in animation, voicing characters such as Elmyra Duff in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' and related media, Susie Carmichael in '' Rugrats'' and Lizard in '' Spirit Rangers,'' for which she won a NAACP Image Awards and received two nominations at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards. She is also known for her roles in '' Inspector Gadget'', '' Batman Beyond'', '' Horrible Histories'', ''Clifford the Big Red Dog'', '' Codename: Kids Next Door'', '' Atlantis: The Lost Empire'', '' Danny Phantom'', '' My Life as a Teenage Robot'', '' Transformers: Animated'', '' Drawn Together'', '' Gargoyles'', '' W.I.T.C.H.'', and ''Puppy Dog Pals''. In live-action, she is known for her role as Winifred "Freddie" Brooks in the NBC sitcom '' A Different World'' (1987–1993) and librarian Rosalyn Inez in the ABC sitcom '' Abbott Elementary'' since 2024. Early life Summer was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kath Soucie
Kath Soucie (, ). is an American voice actress, known for voicing Phil, Lil and their mother Betty DeVille in '' Rugrats'', Lola Bunny in the ''Looney Tunes'' franchise, Fifi La Fume and Li'l Sneezer in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', Maddie Fenton in '' Danny Phantom'', Linka in '' Captain Planet and the Planeteers'', Minx in '' Jem'', Bea in '' Mighty Max'', Dexter's Mom in '' Dexter's Laboratory'', Agent K in '' The Replacements,'' Princess Sally Acorn in ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', Cadpig and Rolly in '' 101 Dalmatians: The Series'', Kat Harvey in '' The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper'', Morgana Macawber in '' Darkwing Duck'', and Kanga in the '' Winnie the Pooh'' franchise. She also voiced Bubbles in '' What a Cartoon!'' before Tara Strong permanently took the role, Tuffy Mouse in '' The Tom and Jerry Show'', Perdita in the '' 101 Dalmatians'' franchise, since '' 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure'' (2003), Ray Ray Lee in ''The Life and Times of Juniper Lee'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Alaskey
Joseph Francis Alaskey III (April 17, 1952 – February 3, 2016) was an American actor and comedian. He was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros. Animation studio until his death. He alternated with Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Jim Cummings, Bob Bergen, Maurice LaMarche and Billy West in voicing Warner Bros. cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and Taz, among many others. He also voiced Plucky Duck on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' from 1990 to 1995. Alaskey was the second actor to voice Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon cartoon '' Rugrats'' (taking over after David Doyle's death in 1997). He voiced Lou again in the ''Rugrats'' spin-off series '' All Grown Up!''. Early life Alaskey was born in Troy, New York, on April 17, 1952 to Joseph Francis Alaskey Jr. and Domenica "Dorothy" De Sorr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Cavanaugh
Christine Josephine Cavanaugh (''née'' Sandberg; August 16, 1963 – December 22, 2014) was an American actress, who had a distinctive speaking style and provided the voice for a large range of cartoon characters. She was the original voices of Chuckie Finster in Nickelodeon's ''Rugrats'' and the Title character, titular protagonist of Cartoon Network's ''Dexter's Laboratory'', respectively, as well as the voices of Gosalyn Mallard in The Walt Disney Company, Disney's ''Darkwing Duck'', Bunnie Rabbot from DIC Entertainment's Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series), ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' television series, and Oblina in ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters''. She also voiced the title character of the 1995 live-action film ''Babe (film), Babe''. Cavanaugh retired from voice acting and public life in general in 2001, although some media with her contributions continued to be released until 2003. She died at age 51 on December 22, 2014, at her home in Cedar City, Utah. Early life Christine Josephine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Chartoff
Melanie Barbara Chartoff (born December 15, 1948) is an American actress and comedian. Chartoff first became famous for her comedy work on the ABC series '' Fridays'' (1980–1982), and in the 1990s Fox sitcom '' Parker Lewis Can't Lose''. She voiced both Didi Pickles and Grandma Minka, Didi's mother on the Nickelodeon animated series ''Rugrats'' and '' All Grown Up!''. Early life Chartoff was born on December 15, 1948, in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended West Haven High School. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts from Adelphi University. Chartoff is Jewish. Career Her first Broadway appearances were in Galt MacDermot's space opera ''Via Galactica'' (1972), directed by Peter Hall, and The Young Vic's ''Scapino'', starring Jim Dale (1974). Chartoff's first TV role came in 1976 when she played a nurse on ''Search For Tomorrow'', after which she appeared in the 1978 motion picture '' American Hot Wax''. She first became a nationally known figure on ABC's '' Fridays'', whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlene Klasky
Arlene Phyllis Klasky (born May 26, 1949) is an American animator, graphic designer, Film producer, producer and co-founder of Klasky Csupo with Gábor Csupó. In 1999, she was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Animation" by ''Animation Magazine''. She is most known for her work with Nickelodeon in the 1990s and 2000s. She, along with her ex-husband Gábor Csupó and Paul Germain, co-created the animated series ''Rocket Power'' and the series ''Rugrats'' as well as the Rugrats (2021 TV series), 2021 revival series of the same name. Career Klasky Csupo Klasky Csupo was formed with Gábor Csupó in the couple's two-bedroom Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood apartment in 1980. The company later was moved to Seward Street in Hollywood. They designed the logos for ''21 Jump Street'', ''Anything but Love'' and ''In Living Color''; produced music videos for Beastie Boys and Luther Vandross; ''The Simpsons, Simpsons'' shorts for ''The Tracey Ullman Show''; shorts for ''Sesame Street''; an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
