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Dylan Prescott "Dil" Pickles is the younger brother of Tommy Pickles, younger son of Stu and Didi, and younger cousin of Angelica Pickles (1991) on the Nickelodeon shows Rugrats and All Grown Up!. Named after Didi's cousin, Dylan "Dil" Prescott, he was born in The Rugrats Movie. His name is a pun on. "dill pickles". He's 3-4 months old and likes to call Angelica "yucky". Dil is voiced by Tara Strong.
Dil, as seen on All Grown Up!
Description
Dil Pickles is the youngest member of the Rugrats, and because he is just an infant, his big brother Tommy feels that it's his "sponsability" to teach him about how things work in the world. Dil has a personality of a typical 3-month-old: all id. He wants everything NOW and will do whatever he can to get it. And once he does get it, he won't let go without a fight. Dil will wail inconsolably when frustrated, but he'll immediately stop crying when something else attracts his attention. While his tantrums are often annoying, he has the saving grace of all babies: he's irresistibly cute. - Rugrats Description from Klasky Csupo
Dil Pickles has grown quite a bit from the little baby we first saw in The Rugrats Movie. He is now 9 years old, and enjoys wearing bizarre outfits, talking in code and getting any information he can about alien abductions! His Principal, Mr. Pangborn, thinks Dil is a bit too strange, and almost went crazy himself trying to psychoanalyze what could be wrong with him. Could it possibly be caused by Phil and Lil accidentally dropping Dil on his head when he was a baby? Maybe... Or perhaps Dil is just one of those utterly unique individuals who doesn't try to be weird... he just is! - All Grown Up! Description from Klasky Csupo
Tara Strong, who provides Dil's voice.
Summary
Dil joined the Rugrats cast in the year of 1998. From the very beginning, Dil has had curly yet limited hair on his head and has almost always worn yellow trap-door pajamas (though in the films, his pajamas were purple). Because of his age, Dil can't say as many words as the other Rugrats. For the final 5 years of Rugrats' run, Dil had to learn how to be a Rugrat. He always wants everything at his age and will always do whatever he can to get an object. He can be as selfish as his cousin Angelica, and when he cries, he will not stop until something or someone will get his attention, but the difference being that he is a baby and will share things with Tommy and the rest of the babies. He can be naughty sometimes, though he still cares about his brother and his friends.
Most of the episodes that Dil is prominent in usually involves the rest of the Rugrats trying to make Dil more like a "big baby", teach him something, or save him from something. When Didi was pregnant with Dil, she and Stu assumed that he was going to be a girl due to a false ultrasound from Lipschitz, and had planned on naming the baby "Trixie," after Drew and Stu's late mother (although her real name was actually "Beatrix," but most people called her "Trixie"), but when the baby turned out to be a boy, they named him after Didi's cousin, Dylan Prescott.
Dil loves his brother Tommy dearly as he sticks up for him when others do not. An example is "A Step at a Time" when Tommy defends him over his walking, saying Dil will walk when he is ready. When Dil sees Tommy, he attempts to grab on to the couch and walk but just falls back down. Earlier in the episode, Tommy is shown to have started walking the exact same way but with Chuckie. When Tommy was younger, Chas brought Chuckie over for a visit. Tommy saw Chuckie and wanted to go over and play with him, so he grabbed onto the couch and started to walk over to Chuckie (who had learned to walk himself by that time). Tommy comforts his little brother, telling Dil he will walk when he is ready but until then, Tommy will get down to his level and play with him. Also, after getting their own rooms when Lou moved out, Dil called for Tommy at night as he wasn't used to having his own space at the time, which prompt his big brother to come in and sleep with him. In All Grown Up!, Dil was the only person that didn't give up on Tommy when he lost his confidences in film making as he helped him regain it.
Dil always called Chuckie "Chubbie", and in the episode "The Jungle", he refers to Phil and Lil "Philip" and "Lilip" respectively. He also refers to his cousin Angelica as "yucky", either likely due to her name being too difficult for him to pronounce or because he finds her (or at least her behavior) repulsive or both. He is a hair puller. Dil remains the same height until a season 8 episode titled "Back to School" when he, according to his father, Stu Pickles, "grew an inch".
In the episode "A Dose of Dil", Tommy feels left out as the adults are giving Dil all the attention because he got a booster shot in his finger. Tommy and the gang decide to find ways to get the attention of the adults because they believe that if they do, they will get lollipops, as Angelica shows off that she has loads of lollipops. However, by the end of the episode, Tommy realizes that he doesn't need to cry for attention anymore because his little brother Dil will always be there to listen to him.
Looks
Dil has peach colored skin and a pair of white eyes with black pupils. He has a small amount of large curly hair atop his head. The character wears yellow and orange trap-door pajamas. Other times he is wearing just a diaper.
In The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris, his pajamas were purple. In Rugrats Go Wild, they were still purple, but the border was green instead of orange, and they had a picture of a sailboat on them. In all three movies, he is even depicted with rosy cheeks and rosy ears.
In "All Growed Up", his hair is now red, just like his mother Didi's. He wore a yellow and orange striped shirt with long sleeves, blue shorts, white socks, and blue and white sneakers. In Season 1 of All Grown Up!, He wears a blue and green striped shirt, green shorts, and red sneakers. He later switches to a red and blue striped hat, a light green t-shirt over a gray long-sleeved undershirt paired with a brown striped vest, dark purple cargo shorts, and the same socks and sneakers. In Season 2, his outfits began to change more often, but he is mostly seen wearing his trademark purple, orange, and light brown striped hat with a matching vest, a green long-sleeved undershirt, dark blue cargo shorts, and orange sneakers.
Appearances
Dil has appeared in many episodes of the original Rugrats series and its spin-off series, All Grown Up! since The Rugrats Movie. He made his on-screen debut in the movie, though he was mentioned previously in "The Family Tree" (in which Didi realizes that she is pregnant). It can be also noticed that a main character has been added in the first two Rugrats movies.
Trivia
- Dil was the first of two Rugrats to debut in a film, the second being Kimi in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.
- Initially, Dil was going to be voiced by a celebrity such as Madonna, with Tara Strong only providing the temporary scratch vocals to be replaced by the celebrity. However, the crew was impressed with Strong's performance. When she started crying like a baby, a woman in the recording booth started lactating, and they ended up casting her.
- As seen in All Grown Up!, Dil has red hair, taken from Didi's side, and is known for his unusual interests, including inventing, taken from Stu's side.
- Dil is one in three of the main Rugrats characters to have the camera viewed from inside his mouth in All Grown Up!. The other two are his older cousin, Angelica, and his pet dog, Spike.
- In the All Grown Up! episode entitled "Brothers Grimm", Dil is seen writing with his left hand, which would imply he is either left-handed or ambidextrous; if he is left-handed this would also imply Chuckie is not the only Rugrat who is left-handed.
- Dil believes in aliens and doesn't think they're scary.
- As said in the All Grown Up! episode "Truth or Consequences", Dil was accidentally dropped on his head by Phil and Lil when he was a baby. It is also shown he does know about this. Despite this, Didi doesn't believe that it is the reason behind his eccentric behavior; rather, it is genetic from his father's side. Given Stu's behavior, she's probably right.
- In one All Grown Up! episode, it is said that Dil is four years younger than Tommy, this may be a continuity error, or the writers and directors forgot the Rugrats stayed the same age in the show. That would also make Dil six years old, as Tommy states he is ten.
- Though there was no episode, Dil was seen as a 1–2-year-old, and 3–4-year-old in the All Grown Up! episode "Truth or Consequences".
- During the scene of Chuckie's dream in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Dil is seen carrying a flag and running/walking even though he never walks at all in the actual TV series.
- Throughout All Grown Up!, Dil seems to have a connection to higher-power deities. He quickly became friends with Cupid in "It's Cupid, Stupid". He also seems to have connections to aliens as shown in the episode "Tommy Foolery" in the very end where he is beamed down back to Earth with a slice of pizza at 5:45 PM so he won't miss his laser tag game. And finally, he became friends with Bean, a ghost from Camp Everwood in the episode "Interview With a Campfire".
- According to the episodes "Brother, Can You Spare the Time?" and "Thief Encounter", Dil is in the fourth grade.
- In "Brother, Can You Spare the Time?", it is shown that Dil can't get along with his fellow fourth grade peers, as they find him really weird, and he tries to make them do weird stuff like him, such as somersaults and spinning to their next class.
- In "Brother, Can You Spare the Time?", it is revealed that Dil believes the Earth is triangular.
- In the episode "Ladies Man", Dil created his own language called "Dilganeese".
- In "Rachel, Rachel", Dil invented his own religion called "Dil Pickleism".
- In "Tweenage Tycoons", Dil shows that he doesn't like to let Tommy down as he continued to help him as well as their friends, by making inventions for them so they could have money to get tickets to see The Sulky Boys concert, even though Dil was running out of ideas and losing sleep over it.
- In "Golden Boy", Dil can speak to fish and leeches.
- In "Lucky 13", Dil can speak to dolphins.
- It is revealed in "Golden Boy" that Dil has a clapper switch to turn his room lights on and off.
- Like Tommy, Dil is Jewish as Judaism is spread through the mother's line. However, the family celebrates both Chanukah and Christmas, as Stu is a Christian.
- Dil is the first character to feature visible tonsils and esophagus, as shown in "The War Room".
- He was delivered by Lucy Carmichael (1991) in The Rugrats Movie.
- He, Chuckie and Susie are the only main characters to not have their birthday celebrated in an episode.
- Dil makes a cameo appearance in the Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour comic Dimension Intervention along with other Nicktoon characters.
- Krumm, Darwin and Donnie also make a cameo in the same comic but they don't count as they are only Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and The Wild Thornberrys characters
- Because of the cameo, Dill, Lou Pickles and Reptar are the only characters so far to appear outside of the Rugrats franchise. Lou makes a cameo appearance in the The Loud House episode, Linc or Swim while Reptar made a cameo in The Loud House Movie on a newspaper.
- Chuckie's Bachelor Pad, Angelicon, Cooking with Phil & Lil, Piece of Cake, Spike's Nightscare, Cuddle Bunny, The Great Unknown, Bigger Than Life, My Fair Babies, Home Sweet Home, Tell-Tale Cell Phone, Adventure Squad, Talk of the Town, A Rugrats Kwanzaa, Preschool Daze, Quiet Please, The Doctor Is In, The Big Sneeze, Angelica's Assistant, Imagine That, Clown Around, Bug Off, Starstruck, Mutt's in a Name and Hurricane Alice are the only episodes since his debut in season 6 where he doesn't appear.
- What's Love Got To Do With It?, Chuckie's in Love, Susie Goes Bad Lite, Miss Nose it All and River Rats are the only episodes of All Grown Up! where he doesn't appear.
- He, Tommy Pickles and Angelica Pickles (1991) are the only main characters to be in every crossover that isn't a part of a Nicktoon game.
- He wears two different sets of pajamas throughout the series. A set of purple pajamas in the movies, and a set of yellow pajamas in the show.
- His first word, as said during The Rugrats Movie (1998 film), was "mine".
- The only characters he knows how to properly say the names of are Tommy and Phil (who he calls by his given name Phillip).
- Dil has his name in five episode titles which are A Dose of Dil, Dil's Binkie, Dil Saver, Dil We Meet Again and Dil's Bathtime.
- Dil, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Susie, Angelica, Kimi, Didi, Harold, Stu, Drew, Lou, Charlotte, Betty, Howard, Kira, Chas, Boris, Minka, Randy, Lucy, Edwin, Buster, Alyssa, Fluffy, Spike, Fifi, Spiffy, Reptar and Cynthia are the only characters to appear in All Grown Up.
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