Tommy Pickles

Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles is the main protagonist of the Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!. He is clad in only a T-shirt and a diaper and is bald with big, blank eyes. He translates everything adult into baby gibberish. Arlene Klasky said that she based the character of Tommy on her own son.

In the Rugrats pilot episode, Tommy was voiced by Tami Holbrook. In the TV series, the character was voiced by E.G. Daily.

His main catchphrase was "a baby's gotta do, what a baby's gotta do!"

Having a Jewish mother and a Christian father, Tommy celebrates both Jewish and Christian holidays (Hanukkah and Christmas for example). In such episodes where a Jewish festival is celebrated, his grandfather Boris tells the related Bible story to Tommy and his friends.

Appearances
Tommy's distinct features in Rugrats are a mostly-bald 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, which sometimes sags or falls off. In certain episodes he wore a red shirt with overalls, like in the second pilot "Tommy's First Birthday". Although every episode since he has worn a sky blue shirt. He has no visible teeth in the front of his mouth, but he has one tooth on the right side of his jaw when seen from the inside.