| Phil Fimple | |
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| Affiliation | Human |
| Occupation | Unknown |
| Weapons | None |
| Actor | Phil Hartman |
Philip "Phil" Fimple (played by late comedian Phil Hartman) is Christy and Timmy's father and Marion's husband who is the annoying obnoxious next-door neighbour to the Abernathys and specific others in their neighborhood.
Biography[]
His garden is strewn with technology and he cut down Stuart Abernathy's favourite tree to install a new satellite dish and clear its reception, much to Stuart's dismay.
While he was showing off his new satellite TV reception to Marion, the Commando Elite drugs them both by throwing sleeping tablets into their shared alcohol drink making them fall asleep, so the Commandos would avoid detection, while they were planning to use Christy as bait to trap Alan and the Gorgonites so they can destroy them. After Alan, Chirsty and Archer have dealt with the Commandos (although Chip Hazard, the leader had survived) and when they returned home, Phil, along with Marion and Timmy were at the Abernathys' house, where Phil complains to Alan's parents while he accuses Alan for kidnapping Christy, tying up Timmy, drugging him and Marion, and causing all the damage to his home, garage, property and tech gear that the Commandos had caused.
When his family got involved with a war between the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite, he was reluctant to believe Alan's story of the toys being more than just alive, using farfetched lines like "What's next, a wooden boy stops by with a talking cricket? please.", although Christy tries to convince her father that Alan's telling the truth, he carelessly shrugs it off claiming to his daughter that Alan has brainwashed her. He desires to leave with his family still refusing to listen, until the creators of the toys showed up explaining the defectiveness of the Commandos, resulting in an angry Stuart making the Commandos' creator Larry Benson apologize to his son.
Later Phil was able to see for himself how dangerous the Commando Elite were. He decided to surrender the Gorgonites to them, to which he cluelessly refers them as the "Gorgonzolas", as he decided that his family should not have to be part of what he considered "a stupid game" despite Alan's protest with Archer allowing it, feeling that the Gorgonites must lose the war and surrender themselves to keep the people safe, but the Commandos were done with making treaties with Chip claiming that all the Gorgonites, including the people, must die and nearly roasted Phil with one their weapons.
Phil helped fortify the Abernathys' house during the Commandos' attack on it. In a deleted scene, when he saw Christy sneaking back to their house with Larry and the Gorgonites' creator Irwin Wayfair to try to make an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) to overload the chips in the Commandos, he orders his daughter to come back to him, then he goes too far by punishing her for not listening to him (despite that she couldn't hear him) by declaring that she's grounded and is forbidden to use the internet, proves that he is overprotective of her. When Chip attacks him and Irene Abernathy in handmade toy sized helicopter, they both hid with Marion and Timmy inside the closet for almost the rest of the war.
After the Commando Elite were wiped out by an Electromagnetic pulse, Phil demanded compensation from the Globotech owner Gil Mars who had commissioned the toys in the first place. Mars willing did just that.
Personality[]
Trivia[]
- Phil Hartman was tragically murdered by his wife, Brynn Omdahl, before the film's theatrical debut; making this Hartman's second to last film role (his final film role being Chauncey in Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night).
- A dedication to Hartman can be seen at the end of the film's credits.
- In the original script, Phil is supposed to be a dentist.