Charles Norbert "Chas" Finster, Sr. (born April 26, 1957) is the father to Chuckie, to whom he passed his adenoidal whine, and husband to Kira Finster. He met, fell in love with, and married Kira in the second Rugrats movie, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. She is voiced by Benjamin Diskin Formerly a bureaucrat, he is now the co-owner of a coffee shop known as the Java Lava Coffee House with Kira. Chas is also Kimi's step-father. His first wife was Melinda Finster, but she passed away a year or so prior to Chas marrying Kira.
Description[]
Chas is Chuckie's father, Kira's husband and Kimi's step-father. Like his son, Chas also has his adenoidal whine and also seems to suffer from many types of allergies, and has asthma.
While he tends to be timid, quiet and a bit wimpy like Howard, Chas does have a much more of a speaking role. He does try to be more brave, like his son. He seems to also have a fear of clowns, Like Didi, Chas follows up on the advice of Dr. Lipschitz with caring for Chuckie, who he loves very much. However, unlike Didi, he tries doing things his own way at times. One example could be in "Down the Drain", when he uses a record and his two sock puppets to try and convince Chuckie and Tommy that they don't have to be scared about taking a bath. Despite his allergies, Chas does have a garden and a greenhouse he's working on, caring for all of the flowers that Melinda planted in their backyard to preserve her memory and love of gardening.
As revealed in "Mother's Day", Chas was worried about Chuckie's lack of a mother, as he showed signs of missing Melinda. Chas does miss her deeply, but was more worried about Chuckie and his lack of a mother. In Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, he is slowly tricked into believing that Coco LaBouche is in love with him and loves Chuckie. Believing he loves her too, he comes very close into marrying her, until he hears Chuckie's first word, "no", as he rushes into the church to him to stop the wedding. Realizing that Chuckie is terrified of Coco and after hearing Jean Claude reveal Coco had kidnapped the children and stowed them away, revealing she actually hates children, he calls off the wedding. Soon after though, he falls in love with Kira, after realizing they both have more in common such as their love for their children and a love of poetry. A while later, they get married, and Kira moves in with Chas in the United States from Paris.
As revealed in "The Fun Way Day", he is co-owner of the Java Lava Coffee House, with Kira co-owning as well. They buy the coffee shop in a previous episode, "Sweet Dreams".
In "Finsterella", Chas adopts Kimi. Chas and Kira celebrate their first Easter together in "Bow Wow Wedding Vows", celebrate their first Halloween in "Curse of the Werewuff", celebrate their first Christmas together in "" and celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary in the All Grown Up! episode "Petition This!", which Kimi and Chuckie throw a party for them.
In the Rugrats (2021 series), he is depicted as a germophobe, suspecting Betty of coming down with illness after a single sneeze.
Looks[]
Chas has peach colored skin. He has messy, uncontrollable red hair, a red mustache, and a pair of purple square-lens glasses (originally green during season one). He wears a brown and black striped shirt (originally light blue during season one), a purple bow tie (originally pink during season one), brown shoes, and green pants with green suspenders (originally brown during season one). His appearance and attitude make him come across as much younger than most of the other grown ups, despite in fact being the oldest of the parents (being just under a month older than Drew) and having known Stu, Drew, and the others for many years.
In All Grown Up!, his appearance changes the least of all the adults, and the only signs of his age is shown through constantly having back pains. He wears a light brown polo shirt, a red belt with a gold buckle, green high-waisted pants, and dark red shoes.
In the 2021 series, he wears a white striped shirt with a mustard yellow vest and lavender bow, a belt, green pants, mustard yellow socks, and white sneakers.
Relationships[]
Chuckie Finster - Chuckie is Chas' son They are very similar as they are both scaredy cats and have allergies. Chas has a very close relationship to his son and loves him very much. They both are allergic to dandelions and have red hair and glasses. They are also friendly. Chuckie is named after his father. Chas is very protective of Chuckie after the death of his wife Melinda (Chuckie's mother).
Melinda Finster - Melinda was Chas’ first wife. Chas misses Melinda deeply and they loved each other. Chas met Melinda when she was selling organic produce at a swap meet and Chas saw her face and broke out into a cold sweat that he couldn't even speak or breathe even. It turned out that Chas is allergic to the ebrici beans and his tongue became a size as a football and Melinda gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation and the rest was all history. He works hard to preserve his wife's memory and worries for his son's lack of a maternal figure in his life.
Kira Finster - Kira is Chas‘ second wife and is the mother of Kimi as well as Chuckie’s step-mother! Kira met, fell in love with, and married Chas in the second Rugrats movie, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. For the rest of the series, Chas is shown to love Kira greatly.
Kimi Finster - Kimi is Chas’ step-daughter. Though they don't interact much through the series, it is clear Chas loves Kimi like his own flesh and blood and Kimi loves him as a father figure, despite having a living dad in Japan.
Gallery[]
You can find Chas Finster gallery here.