Chuckie Finster - in Rugrats

In Rugrats

One of the original five main characters introduced in Rugrats, Chuckie sports 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 T-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, Chaz, 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? (first US tx: January 5, 1992) that Chuckie's "mom and dad will pick up in the morning"). Also in the episode Chuckie vs. The Potty (first US tx: September 13, 1992), 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 Mother's Day (first US tx: May 9, 1997) episode, Chuckie finds a box filled with some of his mother's things, including a picture of her which he shows to Chaz. Chaz then decides that it's time for Chuckie to know about his mother. He also reads to him her diary and the last page she wrote before she died was a poem for Chuckie, explaining that she's never far from him and is everywhere he looks. However, in the second episode of Rugrats, Barbecue Story (first US tx: August 18, 1991), while Tommy's father, Stu, starts to video tape everyone, he comes across a woman with Chaz who very much resembles him and Chuckie. 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.