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Phillip and Lillian DeVille are a pair of twins from Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up! Frequently joining Tommy Pickles on his adventures, Phil and Lil were near-identical in both appearance and personality in the original series, to the point that even their parents had a tendency to mistake one for the other. In All Grown Up! (which takes place approximately ten years after the events of Rugrats), they evolved into two distinctly different characters. Phil and Lil were voiced by Kath Soucie, who also did the voice of their lovely tomboy mother Betty.

In Rugrats[]

In the original series, Phil and Lil are twins who are alike in every possible way, to the point that even their parents had a tendency to mistake one for the other. They were even dressed to match: They both wore pink and purple-striped shirts, and overalls with a handkerchief on the left side and a duck on the right, and both had a small amount of brown hair on top of their oddly-shaped heads. Phil wore blue shoes and shorts and was drawn (for the most part) without ear lobes (episodes from 1996 to early 1999 and The Rugrats Movie show Phil with ear lobes). Lil wore pink shoes, a pink hair bow and no shorts (exposing her diapers like Tommy Pickles), and was always drawn with ear lobes. They also shared the same interest: consuming worms (which they have often called "Chocolate Spaghetti") and toilet water. They often used their "full" names, Phillip and Lillian, especially when arguing. Their parents Betty and Howard often confused the two, despite permanent differences like the ears, as well as of course their sexes. Lil is two minutes older than Phil.

In All Grown Up![]

Before All Grown Up!, a few Rugrats stories touched on attempts to either differentiate the twins personality-wise ("Twins' Pique", 1993), or physically separate them ("Together at Last", 1992). However, separating the twins only got serious in the new spin-off. The first episode to air, "Coup DeVille", was focused on the twins. Lil strongly retaliated at being paired with Phil on a science project, as well as being treated "like a single package" with Phil, and even refused a trip to Twins Canyon with her family on that principle. This episode also repeated the "Lil is older" fact from the original series, and also revealed Lil to have an even longer name than was previously let on: Lillian Marie Jillian DeVille. Lil moved to a separate bedroom in this episode.

Since then, the twins evolved distinctly different personalities. Phil still enjoys repulsive objects (although he is beyond eating worms and insects, he once won a science fair by growing mold on cheese and socks), and has been referred to as "socially inept", while Lil is beginning to find interest in boys and become more social, and she has also picked up an interest in sports, particularly soccer. Referencing their baby days when their favorite thing was to eat worms, Phil and Lil's favorite food in All Grown Up! is spaghetti. In the episode "Susie Goes Bad Lite", it is revealed that Phil is a good cook.

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