

Aided by her intelligent pet chimp, Darwin, she often sets out to assist or meet countless differing animals. Eliza has the power to communicate with wildlife and she often employs this skill when embarking on explorations through the wilderness, traveling around the world with her parents, or encountering different wild creatures.She is forced to keep her gift secret from her family, having been warned that she will lose her powers if she tells anyone about them. She is intelligent, true-hearted, fearless, and good-natured, but she can also be very stubborn. It premiered in September 1998, and was the first Nicktoon to exclusively use 22-minute stories (episodes of other Nicktoons usually featured two 10 - 11-minute stories, using 22-minute stories only on occasion).Eliza is the younger daughter of the Thornberry family.
Cautious by nature, he is almost always hesitant to follow her plans in response, she accuses him of cowardice, once calling him a "crybaby in a tank-top" for his hesitancy. He tries to be the voice of reason to Eliza, however she rarely takes his advice. He speaks with a distinct upper-class British accent. He usually wears a tank top with horizontal blue and white stripes (used to be Debbie's lucky tank top) and blue shorts. She is also a scuba diver.Darwin is a chimpanzee who travels with the family and is a loyal companion to Eliza.
Rugrats Animal Rescue Series Eliza Gives
Before the Thornberrys officially adopt him, it is revealed that Nigel and Marianne knew his parents as they had met them while Donnie's parents were on their honeymoon. One day, however, she comes across the Thornberrys and decides to give Donnie to them so he can have a human family.She watches tearfully along with her son as he is welcomed into their family as their own. Out of gratitude and love, the mother orangutan took Donnie and raised him as a son. One night, it is revealed, two poachers attacked a pair of orangutans, intending to harm or kill the mother and sell the baby on the black market.Donnie's parents managed to save them but are killed for interfering, much to the horror of the orangutan mother and the local villagers who came to know about their deaths. His real parents, Michael and Lisa, were naturalists who loved and protected animals with their hearts. His name is most likely a reference to Charles Darwin, though within the series Eliza gives him the name Darwin after Lenny Darwin, her cousin who looks like a monkey (is never shown in the series).Donnie is a feral boy who (as revealed in the 2001 4-part TV movie, "The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie") was raised by orangutans in Borneo.
She is often annoyed that Eliza embraces the family's lifestyle, and Eliza is mutually annoyed by Debbie's apathy. Captivated with fashion and music, Debbie is portrayed as considerably more self-absorbed than her sister Eliza and tends to whine and complain, particularly over her family's nomadic way of life and her desire to lead an average life. Nevertheless, this proves Donnie's intelligence - something which the audience sees further evidence of in a drawing he does of his parents alongside the orangutan family that raised him.Donnie is voiced by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Debbie is the eldest child of the Thornberrys, depicted as a typical teenage girl. We only see him sign one word (family), and it is unclear how much he knows. It is revealed that he was able to pick up sign language from watching his parents teaching it to orangutans. Donnie is 4, turning 5 in "The Origin of Donnie", and it is presumed he does not know what happened to his parents.
He may be inspired by Sir David Attenborough and speaks with a nasally RP English accent. Born in Britain himself, he travels around the world with his own family making wildlife documentaries. Debbie dresses in grunge clothing and sports a distinctive peekaboo hairstyle.Nigel is the child of Radcliffe and Cordelia Thornberry (Lynn Redgrave), an aristocratic British couple.
Strawberry").Marianne Hunter Thornberry, The Lady ThornberryMarianne is Nigel's wife, daughter of Frank ( Ed Asner) and Sophie Hunter (Betty White). In the series, Nigel is a supporting character, but in the film Rugrats Go Wild, Nigel plays a much larger role as he is idolized by Tommy Pickles (who usually refers to him as "Mr. He is an expert zoologist, as well as naturalist, traveler and survivalist and is quite caring and logical though Nigel often otherwise appears absent minded or naive.


Season 3 was released on Jas a Shout Select title. Season 2, Part 3 was released on January 15, 2013, as a Shout Select title. Season 2, Part 2 was released on April 24, 2012.
