Susie Carmichael (1991)

Susie Carmichael
Name	Susanna Yvonne "Susie" Carmichael
Gender	Female
Birth	April 9, 1988
Voice	Cree Summer
Interests	Singing, pretending, imagining
Relatives	Randy (father) Lucy (mother) Alisa (sister) Edwin & Buster (brothers) Auntie T (great-aunt) Charles (great-uncle)
Friends	Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, Dil Harold Wayne Frumpkin, Spike, Fifi, Spiffy, Pepper
Enemies	Angelica, Fluffy
First Appearance	Meet the Carmichaels (Rugrats, 1993)
Last Appearance	Finders Kreepers (Rugrats Pre-School Daze, 2008)

Susanna Yvonne "Susie" Carmichael is a main character from the Nickelodeon TV series "Rugrats" and "All Grown Up!". Susie was brought in as a "foil" to Angelica, as she is Angelica's biggest rival and helps the babies to stand up to the mean-spirited toddler, acting like a deuteragonist to them. For the most part, Susie is seen wearing a yellow dress with purple wavy lines, purple leggings, frilly white socks and red ballet flats. Although despite the rivalry, she does try to get along with Angelica and tries to befriend her. Like Angelica, she has many toys, even some that Angelica doesn't have, much to Angelica's personal annoyance. Susie was 2-4 years old in Rugrats, 11 years old in All Growed Up, and 12 years old in All Grown Up.

Description

Susie made her first appearance in "Meet the Carmichaels", where she and her family moved into Tommy's neighborhood. Susie is a very beautiful, cute, sweet, bright, friendly, kind, compassionate, trusting, athletic, competitive and fun-loving tomboy. She loves adventure and like the babies has a very active imagination. She is also a very supportive child, such as in "The Slide" as she tries to help Chuckie get over his fear riding down slides and also ends up winning two fudge pops (from a bet with Angelica) once he overcomes his fear. Susie is also shown to have a mean-side, such as in "The Tricycle Thief" when she believes Angelica stole her tricycle (however, for once, Angelica did not and just had a identical one). To punish her, she decides to tie Angelica's doll Cynthia to Chuckie's balloon and send it off, much to Angelica's personal horror, even though a low-flying airplane popped the balloon sending Cynthia falling back down. When they find out her father just put it under the porch, Susie asks for forgiveness. To which for once, Angelica just wants to forget it and race with her for fun.

Susie also gets a much better understanding of how adults are, such as in the "Dummi Bear Dinner Disaster" she began to realize that her father's boss would give the family money to move (although it was obvious that he was doing it to get him to write better material for the Dummi Bear show) and cries when she realizes he was enjoying himself. Also in "The Stork" she explains to Angelica where babies really come from, her knowledge presumably because her mother, a doctor, felt that Susie should know the truth and not silly lies. It is hinted that Susie is not a very good cook. It has also been hinted that Chuckie has a crush on her and she might return it. A possible sign is in "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie" when she is seen dancing with him.

In "Be My Valentine" Susie shows a romantic interest in Timmy McNulty and even makes a valentine for him. However, Timmy being too naive throws her valentine away only wanting the button on it. Susie is seen only briefly in the Rugrats Movie at Dil's baby shower, having a singing competition with Angelica. As she sings good things about a baby, Angelica loudly and rudely sings only bad things about a baby, which eventually triggers Didi's contractions. And is seen in "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie", at the wedding reception of Lou and Lulu, dancing with Chuckie and again for Chaz and Kira's wedding reception and joins in on the cake fight. She is given a larger role in "Rugrats Go Wild", as she tags along with the others and uses her video camera to record their adventure.

Susie is shown to be very intelligent, as in "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie", she is clearly fluent in French. She learns very quickly how to be a toy doctor in "Doctor Susie". She is also a talented tap dancer, and is shown to be quick to her feet in situations. An example would be in "And the Winner Is..." after she discovers Angelica stole her tap shoes on purpose, she realizes although she can't tap dance, she could still win by turning her act into a comedy.

All Grown Up!

When Susie sang at Didi's baby shower in the first movie, it was the first time that she displayed her talent for singing, a talent that would later become the most important part of her character.

But in 2003, when the spin-off All Grown Up! was put into production, a press release for the show announced that "smart, spunky Susie (Cree Summer), still a crusader for what's right, upstages Angelica as a singer with real talent", which implied an increased role for Susie in the new spin-off. Besides her singing talent, it was revealed that she also knows ten languages, as shown in the episode "Runaround Susie".

The very first episode of the regular run, "Susie Sings The Blues" (first US tx: November 29, 2003), concerned Susie and her singing talent. Since then, she has appeared in a majority of the episodes (although still in less than the other characters). This may be explained by the fact that by the time All Grown Up! premiered, Summer had less regular roles on other shows.

Also, while Susie and Angelica are still rivals (especially at singing, see Susie Sings The Blues and It's Karma, Dude! for cases in point), the two have more of a friendship than in the original series, with Susie being one of Angelica's few real friends. Susie even helps Angelica find her doll in "Saving Cynthia".

Looks

Susie has dark skin, as she is African-American, and a pair of white eyes with black pupils. She has brown hair and three eyelashes on each of her two eyes. The character has red lipstick on her lips and is often shown wearing a yellow dress with purple wavy lines on it. She also wears purple leggings, frilly white socks and red slippers.

Appearances

Susie has appeared in many episodes of Rugrats. Her first appearance was in Meet the Carmichaels.

Gallery

"You can find Susie Carmichael gallery here."

Trivia

• Susie is usually voiced by Cree Summer, however, two episodes had Cree Summer unable to voice Susie, so E.G. Daily (who also voices Tommy Pickles) had to fill in for her.
• She is the kindest main character who is a toddler that the babies like due to her kindness.
• She is the only female Rugrat to wear lipstick.
• Out of all the children, Susie has the most siblings.
• Like Lil, Susie only had the camera viewing from inside her mouth once in Dummi Bear Dinner Disaster.
• Though she wasnt in the game she is a playable character in mini golf in the Rugrats Search for Reptar activities.