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Susanna Yvonne [citation needed] "Susie" Carmichael is a a main character in Nickelodeon's 2021 animated TV series Rugrats. Susie is excitable and eager to follow Tommy's lead, and she offers up some rambling ideas of her own, culled from tidbits she picks up as an actual "early reader." Whatever Susie can't read, she makes up, often with fanciful results. Susie stands up for the babies against Angelica, but she's too small to be a real threat and unable to inform the adults of Angelica's schemes.[1]
Description
Susie is excitable and eager to follow Tommy’s lead, though she offers up some rambling ideas of her own, culled from tidbits she picks up as an actual “early reader.” What Susie can’t read, she makes up, often with fanciful results. Her vivid imagination is stoked by magical ideas about animals and undersea life, her favorite animal being the narwhal, or, as she calls them, “the unicorns of the sea.” Susie has a large toy narwhal collection which Angelica considers with outward disgust but inward envy.
Looks
Like her 1991 counterpart, Susie is a girl of African American descent with black eyes and mascara around each eye. Her hair is braided and tied up in three ponytails with gold yellow hair ties along with red flower barrettes. She wears a yellow dress with purple wavy lines on it, purple leggings, and red flats.
In the episode "Bottles Away": Susie as a 1-year-old wearing only a long sleeve yellow shirt and a diaper with no socks or shoes. The rest of her appearance remains the same.
Appearances
So far Susie has appeared in every episode of the 2021 series except for the following episodes:
Relationships
Trivia
- Susie and her parents, Randy and Lucy, are much more prominent characters in the reboot than they were back in the original series, appearing right away in the first episode and with Susie appearing in almost every episode alongside the other kids (and in the first episode of the reboot, it's implied that Randy has known Stu and Chas since middle school). Susie's also part of the reboot's intro, although she was included in the intro for the original series starting with the episode "Angelicon." Some other changes to Susie's character for the reboot are:
- 1.) She's made to be the same age as Chuckie instead of being the same age as Angelica, thus making Tommy's cousin the oldest of the main group of kids.
- 2.) She was the youngest of four kids in the originally (having two older and an older sister), but for the reboot, Susie appears to be an only child.
- In the 2021 series, she's revealed to have an alien doll that she refers to as a "Debbie-doll." She appears to have eventually lost interest in playing with it prior to it being taken by Lady De-Clutter (who's later revealed to be a scam artist), and when she gets it back, she appears to be a little creeped out by it. Susie ends up giving the doll to Lil, who loves it (although even she ends up feeling creeped out by it by the events of "Chuckie vs. the Vacuum").
- In an interview regarding the 2021 series, showrunner Eryk Casemiro stated that one of the reasons Susie's age was changed is that it was often an impediment to the story that Susie could speak to the adults because she was as old as Angelica. This meant that if Susie was aware of a plan Angelica had hatched, she could just tell it to the parents, and it would be over. Making her around Chuckie's age meant that she could be used a lot more in the series.[2]
- She has been seen as a 1 year old for the first time across any iterations of the Rugrats franchise in the 2021 series episode "Bottles Away" when she tells Tommy about the time she gave up her bottle.
References
| Characters |
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| Main Characters |
| Tommy Pickles • Chuckie Finster • Angelica Pickles • Phil DeVille • Lil DeVille • Susie Carmichael • Spike |
| Recurring Characters |
| Stu Pickles • Didi Pickles • Dil Pickles • Drew Pickles • Charlotte Pickles • Kimi Finster • Kira Finster • Lucy Carmichael • Randy Carmichael • Betty DeVille • Chas Finster • Lou Pickles • Boris Kropotkin • Minka Kropotkin |
| Supporting Characters |
| Barry • Eve • Begley • Daxton • Foster • Celeste • Graham • Bob Brine • Josh • Pierce • Tia Esperanza • Gabi • Mr. Garth • Ms. Marjorie • Jonathan Kraskell • Calamine • Fluffy |
| Minor Characters |
| Rusty • Lord Crater • Judith • Julian • Simon • Edwin Carmichael • Buster Carmichael • Nina • Pierce • Piper • Aaron • Zelda • Mayor Brooks • Miss Mellie • Clompers • Clover • Copy • Silver Beagles • Jake |