| Jonathan Kraskell | |
| Also Known As | Jonathan Kraskell |
| Gender | Male |
| Birth Date | 1954 (Rugrats 1991) |
| Age | 37 (Rugrats) 47 (All Grown Up!) |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Executive assistant (Rugrats) New CEO (All Grown Up!) |
| Interests | Unknown |
| Relatives | Unknown |
| Friends | Charlotte Pickles (1991) (employer) |
| Enemies | Angelica Pickles Charlotte (sometimes) Tommy Pickles Chuckie Finster (Once) Phil DeVille (Once) Lil DeVille (Once) |
| Voice Actor | Rene Auberjonois ("Mommy's Little Assets"; original) Dan Castellaneta ("Jonathan Babysits"-onwards; original) |
| First Appearance | "Mommy's Little Assets" (Rugrats) (Season 3) (1994) |
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Jonathan Kraskell (born 1954) is Charlotte's executive assistant/lackey at work. He is rarely seen, but is heard and mentioned constantly by Charlotte as she's almost always seen talking to him on her phone. He follows her words faithfully, often too much, such as in "Let Them Eat Cake", when Charlotte compliments Angelica on how beautiful she is. Jonathan asks if she meant him, and when she clarifies that she was talking to Angelica, he then asks "What about me?". Charlotte answers, a bit annoyed but mostly baffled, "I'm sure you look nice, too." Another example would be in "Looking For Jack", when Charlotte tells Tommy to say "Bye bye, Mommy". Jonathan repeats what she says, thinking she was addressing him. Jonathan is normally seen as a meek, but also fast talking, assistant to Charlotte. Anything she asks for, he rushes to get it. While it would appear that he has nothing against Charlotte, it's hinted he's not too fond of her daughter. In "Mommy's Little Assets", when Charlotte has to bring Tommy and Angelica to work, it's hinted that Jonathan may previously have had to watch or seen Angelica at work. While he is happy when Charlotte first introduces Tommy to him, he has a look of terror when he sees Angelica, saying "You brought her?", to which Angelica grins, saying "I told you I'd be BACK".
At the end of the episode, he's fired by Charlotte for losing Angelica and Tommy, but he's given his job back after he brings Famous Ethel to Charlotte, and Ethel announces she'll sell to Charlotte's company. Jonathan is given a promotion, to which he thinks Charlotte means Vice President. He finds to his disbelief that he will actually be in charge of the new daycare for the working parents of Charlotte's company. To "get started", he is left to watch Tommy and Angelica, while Charlotte and Drew go out to eat with Famous Ethel.
For the most part, Jonathan seems fairly loyal to Charlotte, but he's also got tendencies of being a "backstabber." An example would be in "Moving Away", when Charlotte was expected to get a new position, but she angrily finds out at the end that Jonathan has been given the job instead (at this, she calls Jonathan a "weasel"). However, for some reason, he is later seen working for her again, most likely because he either got fired or quit. In "Jonathan Babysits", tired of feeling degraded by Charlotte and being left with Angelica again, Jonathan decides to rummage through Charlotte's home to find something to blackmail her-- for that matter, anything that he can find on Charlotte, to teach her a lesson for what he's gone through. He eventually finds an embarrassing video tape of Charlotte of when she just woke up one morning. However, before he can do anything with the tape, Tommy and Chuckie unintentionally get in his way of escaping Charlotte's house. When Charlotte finds Jonathan and the babies outside, he presents her the video tape that he found. However, Charlotte ends up being impressed with the way Jonathan stands up to her and rewards him for it; she also punishes Angelica by making her clean up the babies' mess.
All Grown Up!
Jonathan's mentioned numerous times in the spin-off series, but his only physical appearance is in the fourth season episode, "Lost at Sea", in which the company that he and Charlotte worked for re-organizes, and Charlotte loses her CEO-position. Jonathan becomes the new CEO and subsequently fires Charlotte from the company.
Trivia
- Some of the babies refer to him as "Donovan."
- When we see Jonathan for the first time in "Mommy's Little Assets", his skin is an unusual purple color. In later appearances beginning with "Jonathan Babysits", his skin changes to a light brown. In "Angelica's Assistant", his skin becomes more lighter brown. He is completely white and Hispanic in the 2021 series.
- Jonathan is voiced by the late Rene Auberjonois in his first appearance. However, in all subsequent episodes of the 1991 series, he is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who is best known for voicing Homer Simpson onThe Simpsons.(Tress MacNeille, who voices Charlotte Pickles in the 1991 series and All Grown Up!, plays various regular characters on The Simpsons).
- Jonathan hates Angelica, because she's caused him a lot of trouble.
- It is assumed that Jonathan has knowledge of or was a part of all the shady and unethical practices/deals Mega Corp has done during Charlotte's tenure as CEO.