diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index 101d650a0e768..ebf00f79d6659 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.Index.str PR01,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Index.symmetric_difference PR07,RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Index.take PR01,PR07" \
-        -i "pandas.Index.to_list RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Index.union PR07,RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Index.view GL08" \
         -i "pandas.Int16Dtype SA01" \
@@ -375,7 +374,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.Series.swaplevel SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.to_dict SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.to_frame SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.Series.to_list RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Series.to_markdown SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.to_string SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.truediv PR07" \
diff --git a/pandas/core/base.py b/pandas/core/base.py
index 424f0609dd485..d716a9ffb7bcc 100644
--- a/pandas/core/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/base.py
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ def tolist(self) -> list:
         Returns
         -------
         list
+            List containing the values as Python or pandas scalers.
 
         See Also
         --------