Chuckie Finster

"Chuckie" redirects here. For other uses, see Chucky (disambiguation).

Chuckie Finster
Chuckie as seen in Rugrats in Paris
First appearance	Tommy's First Birthday (Rugrats, 1991)
Last appearance	Brothers Grimm (All Grown Up!, 2008)
Created by	Klasky/Csupo
Portrayed by	Christine Cavanaugh (1991-2002) Nancy Cartwright (2002-2008)
Information
Nickname(s)	Chuckie Chuckaroo (by Tommy)
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Family	Chas Finster (father) Melinda Finster (mother, deceased) Kira Finster (step mother) Kimi Finster (step sister)
Relatives	Marvin Finster (grandfather) Shirley Finster (grandmother)

Charles "Chuckie" Crandall Finster is a fictional character from the Nickelodeon animated television series' Rugrats and All Grown Up!. He is Tommy Pickles' best friend and tritagonist (originally, deuteragonist before the introduction of Dil Pickles). The character is voiced by Christine Cavanaugh. However, after she retired in 2002, Nancy Cartwright who also provided the voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, took over the role. Cartwright had previously guest-starred in the Rugrats episode "Showdown at Teeter-Totter Gulch" as the voice of the "Junk Food Kid" in 1992.

He has red hair and his two catchphrases are "Maybe this isn't such a good idea, Tommy!"^[1] and "We're doomed, doomed I tell ya!"

Chuckie is the third oldest out of the six main Rugrats at two. He is distinguished from the others by his irrational fear of particular objects, most notably the "guy on the oatmeal box" and clowns. He is also the only Rugrat who is left-handed, and the only one who has spoken an intelligible word to adults during the Rugrats series (he said "No" during the movie Rugrats in Paris).

In Rugrats

One of the original five main characters introduced in Rugrats, Chuckie first appeared in faced a face and he has uncontrollable red hair, glasses and bucked teeth, and is left-handed, as revealed in Chuckie's a Lefty (first US tx: February 19, 1999). Chuckie commonly wears a blue shirt with Saturn on it, purple square glasses, green shorts, and red shoes with untied shoelaces. He is scared easily, and at the first suggestion that he and the other babies should do something or go somewhere, he will always say, "Maybe this isn't such a good idea." All the same, he is still friends with Tommy, and the DeVille Twins. Among his fears are adventures, clowns, and the "guy on the oatmeal box with the scary hat" (a parody of Quaker Oats). He is loyal and often brave, facing his fears (albeit briefly) to come through for his friends, whenever there's a problem, Chuckie's there to help his friends get through it emotionally. Chuckie doesn't really like misbehaving, but his friends often get him into trouble. He is very close to his father, Chas, and is usually the main target of Angelica's bullying. Chuckie is the only character who does not come from a two-parent house hold (prior to Rugrats in Paris). This, however, was not an original idea for Chuckie as seen in the episode where he first appears and talks about his mother (it is mentioned by Stu in the episode "Real or Robots?" that Chuckie's "mom and dad will pick [him] up in the morning"). Also in the episode Chuckie Vs. The Potty, Chuckie refers to when his mom puts him on the bottle. Then states how not even his mom can put him on the potty. In the Rugrats Mother's Day episode, it's revealed that Chuckie's mother, Melinda, died from a terminal illness. In the episode it is apparent that he does not remember his mother, while in previous episodes he had made scant references to things she said to him. However, in the second episode of Rugrats, "Barbecue Story", while Tommy's father, Stu, starts to video tape everyone, he comes across a woman with Chuckie's father, Chas, who very much resembles Chuckie and his father. It was never confirmed that this is Chuckie's mother, but by the resemblance you could make that inference. Though, like the other babies, he cannot communicate with adults (except Angelica and Susie), since Rugrats in Paris, he has been able to say "NO", which the adults can hear. He has congestion problems. Since "Chucky vs. the Potty," Chuckie has been the only one of the original four Rugrats that has been potty-trained.

In the Rugrats films

• The Rugrats Movie – Chuckie is in a truck with the other Rugrats and he keeps bouncing in the air back and forth and he says "I don't know if I should throw up or throw down". He doesn't get saved by Tommy when he falls into the water because Tommy had to get Dil because Dil was only a baby and Tommy didn't want Dil to drown. He gets his glasses stolen by the monkeys and he accidentally steps on them a little bit when he finds them.

• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie – Chuckie is the main character with a bigger role and hero; something that had rarely happened before in the series. His heroism is shown when he leads the babies on the giant Reptar to the church to stop Coco from marrying his father, Chas. He carries a teddy bear named Wawa that his late mother made for him. Wawa is Chuckie's security blanket, attachment or travel companion, like Angelica and her doll, Cynthia. He ended up with a new mom Kira and a sister Kimi.

• Rugrats Go Wild – Chuckie gets lost in this film and runs into the Thornberry's Tarzan-like child Donnie.

In All Grown Up!

Chuckie in All Grown Up!

Since he got older, Chuckie has been wearing braces for his teeth (which is expected to be for "2.5 years", according to Chuckie's statement in the episode "Susie Sings The Blues" in All Grown Up! and before that in the episode "All Growed Up" in Rugrats). He still considers Tommy his best friend. One difference is that he is not as close to his dad as he used to be (as seen in the episode "Saving Cynthia"). Notable storylines for Chuckie include partnering with Angelica on a social-studies project (As seen in the episode "Project Chuckie"), entering the safety commissioner election against an imaginary friend, inexplicably dropped without even mentioning the final result (As seen in the episode "Izzy or Isn't He?"), and dragging in what looked like a trashed Christmas tree (As seen in the episode "The Finster Who Stole Christmas").

Love Interests

In the episodes All Growed Up! & "Susie Sings The Blues", it is mentioned that he first had a crush on Angelica Pickles's friend, Samantha Shane. He also had a crush on Nicole Boscarelli, dropped after the first season (as seen in the episodes "Chuckie's in Love" and "It's Cupid, Stupid").

References

1. ^ "Voice of Rugrats isn't the boy you think he is.". Knight Ridder. November 17, 1998. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5617229_ITM. Retrieved 2009-05-29. "He's got this red hair that's waaaaay out of control. These two front teeth that stick out kinda funny. And these big square spectacularser, spectacles that he needs to see the world. (Although the world can be a reaaaaally scary place sometimes and then he'd just as soon not see it.)"