Enter, what are you doing? Enter: "Making a rugrats review" It's 4'oclock in the morning, why on earth are you making a Rugrats review? Enter: "Because I've lost control of my life"
Probably even more so than they relate to Squidward, doesn't help that everyone (including me) are as retarded as Stu (who's so dumb that he loses his kids in every episode). Wait...
@Luquinhas Santos I'm guessing it got worse as time went on for you though (the ones in the mid 2000s being 1-15% worse than the ones in the early 2000s, and the ones in the 2010s and late 2000s being way worse than those)?
@@HD_Segal Ironic that you mention Family Guy, because I feel that, much like another commenter said, that what Enter said happened to Rugrats, has happened to Family Guy after the Life of Brian incident. You barely hear anyone mention, or talk about the show anymore, and if you do, it's not in the most positive light, and it's usually fodder for memes these days.
Honestly I think FoP have gone far beyond Rugrats I love Rugrats and have a soft spot for post-Dil episodes, but Fairly Odd Parents? Watching any of that would be hell on Earth
Fun fact: They intended for the babies to be ugly because they did not want to appeal to the pre-school audience. The series from the start was meant for older children, therefore they did not want to make them look "cutesy."
Which reminds me, that episode fits perfectly with that video Mr. Enter did recently on swearing (his first, and still thus far only, episode of Mixed Messages). Even though this video points out that Angelica's the antagonist, I nevertheless gotta pity how she gets so much shit in that episode. I mean, her parents punish her because she can't even say the swear in the context of "which word is the bad one?" And then, because they unfairly punished her only to have a change of heart, they arrive at the studio just late enough to miss the REAL catchphrase being reviewed, and with the other auditionees failing spectacularly, it all makes for a pretty head-banging moment. And of course, as Mixed Messages goes over, it falls into the usual bullshit trapping of never actually explaining WHY the swear is bad, aside from "muh hurt feelings", and even THAT couldn't be simply explained to Angelica until the very end of the episode (though said ending also implies that, Angelica being Angelica, she really couldn't give a fuck).
yes. he at least ahs the excuse of being a bit absent minded and is at least often busy making toys for his children, while his wife spends too much time reading a book written by some dude to pay attention to actualy caring for her sons
Weird that you say that nobody cares about Rugrats anymore because every time that I go out in public I see at least a few people in their 20s wearing Rugrats shirts
Bring Back Kim Possible, Animated Obviously Yeah, I feel like people around me are constantly bringing up Rugrats and wearing the merch all the time lol
well its all relative, especially in regards to say anime that has Genma Saotome from Ranma 1/2 (who routinely lies and cheats and uses his son to get away with his shit) and Big Mom from One Piece (who once ate one of her own children in a psychotic fit and teaches her children that murdering each other is okay) but the parents in Rugrats are realistically awful at parenting and not entirely terrible people
Yeah that took me off guard. I can think of way worse parents and these are just from the top of my head Peter and Lois Griffin Norman Osborne from The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Shredder (2012 Version), Hubert Test, Darth Sidious (Star Wars: The Clone Wars established he was the one who raised Darth Maul) Dr. Doofensmirtz’s parents, Flint And Lola from Pokémon (Brock’s parents), and Timmy Turner’s Parents
Perhaps the worst parents who are meant to be "normal." We're meant to believe they love their kids, and you could run into them at the grocery store. Even the parents from Fairy Odd Parents are far worse that the Rugrats parents, but then the Turners are honestly too stupid to be alive, and the entire premise of the show hinges on them being terrible. When the babies crawl away in a public space for the 100th time, we're supposed to think this totally happens with all babies all the time, and the parents just don't realize it, and that's ok.
I feel like Kimi should have been introduced earlier, definitely moreso than Dil. She actually had a place in the show. Think about it: what girls were there in the show? Lil and Angelica... One was just one half of twins, and the other was the antagonist. You can say Susie, but she was more of a guest character, not one of the main cast. Kimi was the first actual independent girl character on the show.
@@wanderinghuntress8645 Yes, exactly! My problem with Kimi is that she didn't have her own character, and she was the second girl character after Lil (not counting Angelica).
I always felt bad for Kimi because she had a great personality and would have fit in the main cast but, by the time she was introduced, Rugrats had already run dry of good plot ideas and she ended up adding as much nothing as Dil (who, after the movie, had no purpose beyond - "hey, look! that's Dil in the background!")
I'll spare you a lecture on why diversity quotas are bullshit and token characters often do more harm than good. But really, looking back, I probably didn't have much of a problem with Kimi..... other than the fact that they tried cramming her down our throats as much as possible right after being introduced. Seriously, how could Nickelodeon do a "Gimme Kimi" marathon practically every fucking month when she'd only appeared in like five episodes up to that point? Combine this with constant marathons of Rocket Power (which itself only had one or two seasons), and I think this was probably the point where I just dropped Nickelodeon.
Adored by the Network: From 1995 to 2003, this show was pretty much the forerunner of Nickelodeon back in the day until SpongeBob SquarePants came along, and even then when his show premiered in 1999 they focused mainly on this and other Klasky-Csupo shows.
I remember referring to this show as a kid around my parents and would mention the name Lipschitz my parents told me not to say that word and as I got older I realized why. I’m pretty sure they knew Lipschitz was a real name but they didn’t want people think I was saying the S-word.
I skimmed an article I read some time ago that the art style for the Klasky-Csupo oeuvre is inspired by Eastern European animation, which has somewhat of a scratchy and surreal feel to it.
Wow that makes so much sense actually. Soviet cartoons of the past few decades really were just as 'ugly' in exaggerated nightmare anatomy and murky in color palettes. They often had a low budget atmosphere effects and a scratchy line style and yet, in spite of these trademarks they often had fluid and even 1930s Fleischer era surreal layers of movement and extra smooth graceful flow...it gives these old USSR cartoons which were of often grim or black humor nature already this very "nasty bad sleep paralysis fever dream" appeal. You often got characters with large teeth and huge eyes or wonky shaped heads and long legs stuck on stumpy bodies....I cannot honestly think of nearly any USSR shorts, save for things made specifically for tiny babies, that in any way try to look generically 'cool' or cute or appealing to an adult or teen audience. Everything in older soviet era cartoon stuff tends to have an uncanny valley vibe to the style. Usually it wants to be either 'zany and outrageously abstract' or 'clearly expressive highbrow art meant as serious nightmare fuel for adults. Or some layers of both at once, like how shows like Flapjack and Zim did more recently. Thanks for opening my eyes to this insight!
0:38 At least all of 3 Rugrats movies tried to keep the same animation as the series. Which is more than what I can say about the SpongeBob movies, especially with the third movie, Sponge on the Run, being entirely CGI.
To be fair, Dill PROBABLY could've worked if they just didn't have that musical number with the newborns. I mean, it had been suggested a bit earlier in the series that newborns in The Rugrats really do seem to function like actual newborns (case in point, Angelica's flashback of her first time seeing a cookie, or Chuckie's faint memories of his mom).
The thing that I always liked about Rugrats when I was a kid was that almost anything could turn into an adventure. They could suddenly be climbing huge icy glaciers and nearly falling down into cavernous pits or be coming up with ways to get around the house without touching the floor for fear of dust bunnies getting them. It's kind of like one of the aspects of Courage the Cowardly Dog that I like, being in the middle of nowhere or being babies in a play pen, things that should lead to nothing happening, instead become a 99 instead of a -1 in terms of what can happen.
@@sarafontanini7051 Oh and the one where they're stuck in the toy store and then start getting chased by the King Kong like toy, going inside Chuckie's body, when they thought the sky was going to fall and imagined a Mad Max like world afterwards. They really got to draw a lot of varied locations for a show about babies.
I remember this article that was circulating around that speculated on what the Rugrats would be like as actual adults. The one thing I would change is Chuckie. I always thought that Chuckie would become a horror writer. He reminds me of RL Stein.
H.P. Lovecraft was plagued by horrible nightmares as a kid and even as an adult he was afraid of germs, foreigners, working class people, Jewish people, and black people.
Oh wow, he is like Stine! Stine was apparently a quiet wimpy kid. He described himself as being similar to Evan, his (over-hated) Monster Blood protagonist.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 I heard something similar about Trent Reznor. While he didn't have a bad childhood, he always felt bored growing up in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, getting his info of the outside world from TV and movies and wanting some of that life.
"That thing would be singing Witch Doctor all fucking night until you threw it out the window." I love how that has absolutely nothing to do with the show itself, he just goes on a tangent about yeeting it out the window.
though granted maybe it should've ended at that film since that was like a pretty good finale to the series. a huge change to the status quo AND the most overtop story in the series
I really hated the first Rugrats movie, so I went into Rugrats In Paris with guns blazing. I was shocked when I thought it was really good. Then the opposite happened with Rugrats Go Wild, which was almost as lousy as the first film.
@@MrJoeyWheeler true...the film was great and then they went mecha and caused so much damage and death that i could not believe the family did not get charged to pay for it all...they just walked away?
Okay, so I hope no one minds me rambling about a few thoughts: First, the moment you pronounced Csupo, I knew I was going to cringe the rest of the review. I know Hungarian names can be tough for people of non-Hungarian background (hell, I'm part Hungarian and I still struggle with pronunciation) but literally every episode of every Klasky/Csupo show ended with their names (which I swear they did to prevent this happening lol) So it's actually pronounced "chew-po" Second, I honestly think Klasky/Csupo is underrated (just not for Rugrats). They usually treated their audience with intelligence and respect and produced cartoons that were unforgettable both visually and story-wise. Just my opinion, but I had to state it. Third, their lumpy style was actually 100% intended - to the point that, in animation notes, the babies in Rugrats had to look lumpy and cells where they looked "too cute" would get sent back to the animators. And, honestly, I feel like one of the few people who didn't mind Klasky/Csupo's style. It looked like nothing out there at the time and it didn't rely on characters being "cute" and I appreciated that. (Okay, Ginger is kind of the exception...*shivers* but.....) Fourth, to me, the true genius of Rugrats (okay, EARLY Rugrats) rested in its background visuals. I don't know how many kids remember being babies/toddlers, but I remembered it as a small kid first seeing this show and I remember it now and the wide angle lens effect used to make all the rooms look so much bigger to the babies in early episodes is exactly how it looked. Fifth, I seriously disagree that Rugrats has lost any of its fanbase or nostalgic appeal. I see way too many people still clinging to Rugrats as a show that could do no wrong. Sixth, that said, the above saddens me. I love Rugrats, but it wore out its welcome and pretending everything it shat out is perfect just because of nostalgia isn't good. I adore the Wild Thornberrys. It still had one of the worst episodes I've seen of a good Nicktoon (Monkey See, Monkey Don't) and an insultingly bad finale. Rugrats was good when it was good, but it isn't perfect because you loved it as a kid. Seventh, to me Phil and Lil's personality was that they argued with each other despite basically acting like the same person and if you look at it like someone arguing with themself, it's funny as hell. Eighth, I agree about Angelica - and, funny enough, she was supposed to always get away with it, but the animators/writers started to hate her so much that they HAD to make her lose sometimes, so they did. Ninth, the parents in Rugrats were kind of a commentary on modern (particularly yuppy) parents - those parents that ran for Dr. Spock every time their kid fart, but half the time didn't know where the kid was. Lipschitz himself was a straight up jab at Klasky's over-dependence on Dr. Spock and other child psychology books. Tenth, I sincerely hope it doesn't look creepy if I comment on each of these Nick-O-Rama videos, but I'm a cartoonist and I grew up with Nickelodeon, so it's nice to have some relevant platform on which to express my thoughts about each individual show. Okay, I'm done. (I swear I'm done editing this now. lol)
I've watched Klasky Csupo shows my whole childhood and never once picked up that it wasn't pronounced /ksupo/. And the "ch" sound is even very common in my native language.
@@fernandobanda5734 I blame the logo at the end because it sounds like it's pronouncing it "k-sew-ko", but that might be the robot effect they used to pull it off.
I always imagined what it would be like if Angelica told Tommy’s parents what he was saying, because she can talk to both the babies and the adults. That would have been interesting.
Originally, Rugrats was supposed to end production in 1994. But Viacom in 1995 after buying 100% Stake in Nickelodeon, fired Paul Germain, Andy Houts and hired a new team of writers. Which resulted in the Brand Jumping the Shark.
I actually really liked the parents in Rugrats. They were just as developed as the baby characters personality-wise, and the great number of them being available for a wide variety of plots was interesting. Given how many shows I've watched where the kids were raised by a single parent so the writers didn't have to make two distinguishable parents, seeing a show where every character had both parents, and even multiple grandparents, each of which were meaningfully distinct in character, was something that gave the show a unique charm.
I liked the second Movie, Chuckie dealing with the fact he is the only one without a mother is a believable issue for a character. And Kimmy was a better addition than Dill was as she acted as her own character instead of a baby's baby. Also the climax was a giant robot battle. I would have never expected that from a show about babies misunderstanding the world.
Season 1 - 4 ~ Genius writing, memorable character's, dialogue and great voice acting all round Season 5 - 9 ~ Cute saccharine crap (Diaper changed to Diapee)
finally someone who freaking understand that the season 4 is just as good as season 3 and the show did not went bad until season 5. Vast majority of people keep saying that it when paul germain left at the end of season 3 that the show stopped being good, when in reality the show was just as good in season 4.
Rugrats holds a special place in my heart. It was the first show I really remember watching with my older sister. As it happens, The Rugrats Movie was one of the first movies I saw in a theater, so it has a certain charm. I actually enjoyed Dil. I felt that he actually served a rather interesting purpose for Tommy's character development. Dil was somebody for Tommy to not just protect--as he did with Chuckie--but teach things to.
@@HD_Segal well despite it being original, I never watched rugrats nor jimmy neutron as a kid because I didn't like the visual style... I still dislike it
@@HD_Segal I dunno. Jimmy Neutron has less visual appeal to me than Reboot. Or Veggietales. Something about Jimmy has aged worse than two shows older than it. As for Hungarian animation, I'd rather watch Willy the Sparrow.
honestly dislike the art style of ren and stimpy more. for some reason I jus found it...too OFF for my tastes and would stick into my imagination making it difficult for me to imagine anything in other style
After revisiting this show again recently I never realized how incredibly dark this show got at times, like in the episode where Tommy and Chuckie imagine themselves as adults Angelica is depicted as the literal Devil!!! And the place where Tommy and Chuckie have to work is literally hell!!!
Am I the only one who liked the addition of Dill? He's very important to the progression of the story, as he marks a turning point in the babies life. Because of Dill, Tommy is now responsible for something for the first time in his life, his introduction is a great way of showing that the babies are growing up.
Dil had exactly one good thing going for him: his later appearance in All Grown Up. While the series itself was all kinds of flawed, Dil was the most likable character in it to me. Especially in the episode where everyone kept pressuring him for more of his creative ideas until he burned out.
From what I remember, I find myself seeing the adults a bit more entertaining then the baby’s. It’s like two shows happening at the same time. One is about a baby’s going through life, and one is about adults struggling with what it means to be parents.
8:56 From what I've heard and looked up Dr. Lipschitz was the writers's jab at Arlene Klasky nagging them about any little thing when it came to her problems with the direction the show was taking (for instance believing the babies were acting too old for their age, going too far with Angelica's brattiness, or the parents being too oblivious). Csupo would often mediate between the writers and Klasky. Strangely enough the other writers typically won out but I suppose it was necessary for there to be a show at all.
you made some things up didn't you? I never heard she complained that the parents were too oblivious. That's probably a lie from you sir as I read the big 1998 article in which the writers talked about all this debacle and that was never mentioned. You don't need to make things up to make your point.
@@lazaroiu.iulianlazaroiu.iu6330 It was just one point I read about 2+ years ago. Though to be fair it didn't appear nearly as often as the other two points mentioned (the babies acting older than their age and Klasky feeling they were going too far with Angelica's brattiness at times)
I loved this show, I watched every episode as a kid and look back on it All Grown Up (Pun intended) . And even I can admit it's art style was too weird. Thankful it improved over time in later seasons, do it's weird how Klasky Csupo's later shows ended up looking bad. And I can agree that while I used to hate Angelica, looking back now and how her parents raised her I kinda do feel a bit sorry for her at times. And that goes to that I hate her parents even more. I don't really have a problem with the other parents, especially Stu, he is one of my favorite adult characters on the show.
I overall like this show better when it was about babies sneaking out of their playpen, causing mayhem, going completely unnoticed until they go back to where they were supposed to be. And if they kept them as unseen, unwitting agents of chaos, then arguably you could cut the parents some slack because for all they know the kids are playing happily in their little playpen.
Um no, Drew does not let Angelica get away with murder. There are quite a few episodes where Drew is seen actively reprimanding and even punishing Angelica. The dream trial episode comes to mind.
Drew is the best parent out of all of them, given he does double duty (because Charlotte wants nothing to do with her family), disciplines Angelica & has shown to love her so much that he was ready to kill his little brother for losing her .
Dr. Lipschitz was apparently meant to make fun of Arlene Klasky when the writers and animators felt that she was being too bossy, especially when it came to Angelica who she didn't like.
This show is very interesting. It’s the middle man of the three initial cartoons, and it’s fascinating how such a simple show achieved such popularity and success.
In my opinion the show should have ended with the second movie. You get Chuckie getting a happy ending by getting a stepmom and a step sibling. And even got grandpa Lou a happy ending with a new wife.
Seriously, even as someone who thinks Rugrats is an overrated franchise just like most other Nickelodeon shows, that sounds like the perfect way to end the franchise since RRIPTM (Rugrats in Paris: The Movie) is a “good moment from a bad franchise”.
@@Showtunediva I remember literally nothing about that movie except for the little scratch and sniff card they gave us at the cinema that we could scratch at various points in the movie.
People don't understand that Angelica had her good, sweet moments deep down, even in the early episodes. Especially for Chuckie. When he was crying in Rugrats Paris because he wanted a real mom who would love him, she sat down next to him and said, "Come on Finster, don't cry." And she actually got a lot nicer as the series went on. In that famous "chocolate pudding" episode where Angelica fakes breaking her leg, she actually greets Tommy very pleasantly and asks if he wants to play.
@@billybarnett9518 what do you disagree on? You take a show like spongebob, fop, or Danny Phantom and anyone on the internet will name you 5 quotes or 5 episodes, with the names. Rugrats is more remembered for it's characters and art style. Just like Bravo is remembered for his appearance and catchphrases than episodes.
"The most famous child psychoanalysist was Benjamin Spock" Well, I have a Bachelor degree in social work, which also has elements of psychology, and I've never heard that name before. Freud, on the other hand, heard about him waaaay to often. So for me, a kinda professional, it totally makes sense.
Enter, just to clarify, Dr.Lipschitz was meant to be a way for the writers of the show to poke fun at Arlene Klasky (the wife in the Klasky-Csupo production duo), as she was notorious to reading self-help books on chid-rearing from quack scholars. Lipschitz sounding like he was full of shit was part of the joke, plus his name was a way for the writers to call him "dipshit", while not pissing off the censors. I'm sure his similarity to Freud was also intentional to drive home him being full of shit. Just saying this cause it sounds like you werent privy to this info, Enter.
Fun fact: The writers of the early seasons of Rugrats were famously at odds with Arlene Klasky, on numerous occasions, over what direction to take the show. One example is that Alrene actually hated Angelica and didn't want her in the show at all, while the writers did. Fortunately, Gabor Csupo usually sided with the writers and saved a lot of the better elements of the show, like Angelica. ......that all changed though when the original, early season writers left and Arlene got her way more in the newer seasons with new writers (mostly post 1st movie, if I remember correctly). Check this video from SaberSpark for more on the topic: th-cam.com/video/yLuFBWLHEsk/w-d-xo.html
These reviews have been great so far! I do remember watching Rugrats a lot as a kid and even really liking Kimi a lot funny enough. But I doubt it's something I'd ever seriously go back to other than to just see what it's like watching it as an adult.
I feel nostalgic for this show watching it as a kid, and I still remember it fondly. But I do agree that most of the parents suck. Examples: >Didi relying on a child psychologist instead of thinking of a parenting style >Stu cares more about his awful inventions >Drew spoils Angelica and never disciplines her >Charlotte focuses on work even while watching the kids, leaving her to be a negligent parent (although work is always a good thing there's a balance, and I still consider Charlotte to be the worst character on the show) >Every parent on the show lose the children easily In real life they would lose custody easily.
Apparently, Doctor Lipschitz was a sort of straw man for the creators to counter the argument about what the babies did. And there's a well known by now split between the two creators over the direction of the show, which played a part in its falling apart.
4:41 My personal head canon for Dil not being really able to communicate the same way as other babies in this show do is that Didi's premature labor due to Angelica's atrocious singing kinda screwed up Dil's brain and Phil and Lil dropping him on his head (as implied by All Grown Up) didn't help.
Enter, what are you doing?
Enter: "Making a rugrats review"
It's 4'oclock in the morning, why on earth are you making a Rugrats review?
Enter: "Because I've lost control of my life"
At first I through that Enter was talking to himself which made your comment even funnier.
That's okay, Mr. Enter. I'm not interested in Rugrats anymore.
@@MisterVercetti AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
enter forgot klasky csupo animated early first 3 seasons of simpsons even the shorts on tracey ullman so their first hit was not rugrats
The scene where Stu makes chocolate pudding should go down in history.
Hugo Segal I’m talking historic like Looney Toons or The Flintstones.
Hugo Segal Worthy of being played in national museums.
I never got it I don't get it
That scene is included on the Rugrats Season 3 DVD.
It's abstract art that represents the millennial generation depression, it should be looped constantly in museums.
Back then everyone related to the babies. Nowadays, everyone relates to Stu Pickles.
Probably even more so than they relate to Squidward, doesn't help that everyone (including me) are as retarded as Stu (who's so dumb that he loses his kids in every episode).
Wait...
WeegeeSlayer IKR?!
Making chocolate pudding at 4 am and having someone twist your nipples with a monkey wrench
Yeah sounds about right.
@Mario Salinas Are you a WW2 vet?
Stu Pickles kickstarter projects he cant make real
"Fairlyoddparents, this is your future." Future? It's their present.
I'm pretty sure he was talking about them when they first aired saying that their future would turned out like that.
@Luquinhas Santos I'm guessing it got worse as time went on for you though (the ones in the mid 2000s being 1-15% worse than the ones in the early 2000s, and the ones in the 2010s and late 2000s being way worse than those)?
Don't you mean their past seeing as the show has been buried. Or did someone at Nickelodeon decide to play at being Frankenstein.
@@HD_Segal Ironic that you mention Family Guy, because I feel that, much like another commenter said, that what Enter said happened to Rugrats, has happened to Family Guy after the Life of Brian incident. You barely hear anyone mention, or talk about the show anymore, and if you do, it's not in the most positive light, and it's usually fodder for memes these days.
Honestly I think FoP have gone far beyond Rugrats
I love Rugrats and have a soft spot for post-Dil episodes, but Fairly Odd Parents? Watching any of that would be hell on Earth
"They cut my cord."
"Consider yourself lucky."
Oh my god😂😂😂😂
I think they changed that line in different regions. I remember them saying something along the lines of "Oh so that's what that looks like" instead.
ROFL 🤣
That's nothing. One of the songs in the first movie has the lyric "So fast the wind'll blow dry your asshole."
Did the baby who said "consider yourself lucky" get circumcised? Is that the dirty joke we are missing here?
@@Felodontis I heard both on the netflxi version
Fun fact: They intended for the babies to be ugly because they did not want to appeal to the pre-school audience. The series from the start was meant for older children, therefore they did not want to make them look "cutesy."
Still looks better than a bunch of adult shows.
They failed *horribly* once they add Dill.
It really was a big contrast to how sanitized the cartoons in the 80's looked. I can't imagine Rugrats coming out in any other decade than the 90's.
I always thought of Tommy's head as a peanut. Even as a child.
@@ThatDragonGuy Even though that’s where it got even worse, they failed all the time including to begin with.
_"After a lifetime of acting like a chicken, I'm finally turning into one."_
*~ Chucky Finster (Rugrats)*
Mr. Friendship ... your name is too close to Mr Friend.
Or should I say Mr Fiend.
TheWolfkit The Fiend Bray Wyatt wouldn’t approve
rip christine
Pfft Stu takes better care of Angelica than his own damn sons when she has a cast on. Smh.
because if he didn't his brother lord it over him forever
I enjoyed Rugrats but Nick definitely milked the hell of it.
True
@Shaman Xeed Yeah
Specialy when they became Teenagers, I mean wasn't that bad the first 2 or 3 season but after that became annoying.
They sure did
Agreed.
Angelica: "She thinks we're all little-" *jackhammer sounds*
Charlotte: *screams*
Also Dr. Lipschitz was voiced by Tony Jay. And that ruled.
To complete your sentence, “lipschitz.”
Which reminds me, that episode fits perfectly with that video Mr. Enter did recently on swearing (his first, and still thus far only, episode of Mixed Messages). Even though this video points out that Angelica's the antagonist, I nevertheless gotta pity how she gets so much shit in that episode. I mean, her parents punish her because she can't even say the swear in the context of "which word is the bad one?" And then, because they unfairly punished her only to have a change of heart, they arrive at the studio just late enough to miss the REAL catchphrase being reviewed, and with the other auditionees failing spectacularly, it all makes for a pretty head-banging moment. And of course, as Mixed Messages goes over, it falls into the usual bullshit trapping of never actually explaining WHY the swear is bad, aside from "muh hurt feelings", and even THAT couldn't be simply explained to Angelica until the very end of the episode (though said ending also implies that, Angelica being Angelica, she really couldn't give a fuck).
Yo I was dying from laughter when I saw that scene as a kid!
Dear Lord, that's the loudest profanity I've ever heard!
...Oh wait, wrong show. D'oh!
wait he's MEGABYTE?!
One of my teachers at my old school didn’t like Rugrats because they look like potatoes. Lol.
Lol
Because potatoes
I always thought that for Tommy xD
I bet Mr. Enter was your teacher! #iluminanticonfirmed
I mean...the show was ugly as heck not even uncanny valley but uncanny hell
Stu’s the only likable parent tbh. Also finally someone points out the Dr.’s name lol
yes. he at least ahs the excuse of being a bit absent minded and is at least often busy making toys for his children, while his wife spends too much time reading a book written by some dude to pay attention to actualy caring for her sons
Chaz too, he was a very caring father.
Ryuseii I’ll give you Chaz, he’s not too bad either
I always hear about the dr's name. Someone in my class wasn't allowed to watch Rugrats because the name offended her mom.
EndlessBeat _ aside from Drew and Lou, the parents are not bad in the personality department.
Weird that you say that nobody cares about Rugrats anymore because every time that I go out in public I see at least a few people in their 20s wearing Rugrats shirts
Bring Back Kim Possible, Animated Obviously Yeah, I feel like people around me are constantly bringing up Rugrats and wearing the merch all the time lol
@@galaxysnot6276: Can I ask you a question?
Z2Pooky4you O sure
@@galaxysnot6276: What do you think more people would know and why?
Sonic the hedgehog or rugrats
@Bridget Driscoll: I agree, thank you for answering.
I think every anime fan just got collective whiplash when Enter said ”the worst parents in animation”
well its all relative, especially in regards to say anime that has Genma Saotome from Ranma 1/2 (who routinely lies and cheats and uses his son to get away with his shit) and Big Mom from One Piece (who once ate one of her own children in a psychotic fit and teaches her children that murdering each other is okay)
but the parents in Rugrats are realistically awful at parenting and not entirely terrible people
Wolf 80207 hell I think the avatar fandom got whiplash as well (*cough* Ozai *cough*)
I immediately thought of Shou Tucker.
And then there's his wife from the 4-Koma Theater short, lol
Yeah that took me off guard. I can think of way worse parents and these are just from the top of my head
Peter and Lois Griffin
Norman Osborne from The Spectacular Spider-Man,
The Shredder (2012 Version),
Hubert Test,
Darth Sidious (Star Wars: The Clone Wars established he was the one who raised Darth Maul)
Dr. Doofensmirtz’s parents,
Flint And Lola from Pokémon (Brock’s parents),
and Timmy Turner’s Parents
Perhaps the worst parents who are meant to be "normal." We're meant to believe they love their kids, and you could run into them at the grocery store. Even the parents from Fairy Odd Parents are far worse that the Rugrats parents, but then the Turners are honestly too stupid to be alive, and the entire premise of the show hinges on them being terrible. When the babies crawl away in a public space for the 100th time, we're supposed to think this totally happens with all babies all the time, and the parents just don't realize it, and that's ok.
And my personal favorite lonely space vixens but that’s after you go to bed
I would like this comment, but it has 69 likes, which is appropriate.
I feel like Kimi should have been introduced earlier, definitely moreso than Dil. She actually had a place in the show.
Think about it: what girls were there in the show? Lil and Angelica...
One was just one half of twins, and the other was the antagonist. You can say Susie, but she was more of a guest character, not one of the main cast.
Kimi was the first actual independent girl character on the show.
And she was mostly girl Tommy
@@wanderinghuntress8645 Yes, exactly! My problem with Kimi is that she didn't have her own character, and she was the second girl character after Lil (not counting Angelica).
Also, Susie was not introduced until Season 2.
I always felt bad for Kimi because she had a great personality and would have fit in the main cast but, by the time she was introduced, Rugrats had already run dry of good plot ideas and she ended up adding as much nothing as Dil (who, after the movie, had no purpose beyond - "hey, look! that's Dil in the background!")
I'll spare you a lecture on why diversity quotas are bullshit and token characters often do more harm than good.
But really, looking back, I probably didn't have much of a problem with Kimi..... other than the fact that they tried cramming her down our throats as much as possible right after being introduced. Seriously, how could Nickelodeon do a "Gimme Kimi" marathon practically every fucking month when she'd only appeared in like five episodes up to that point? Combine this with constant marathons of Rocket Power (which itself only had one or two seasons), and I think this was probably the point where I just dropped Nickelodeon.
Rugrats: Aka Nick's biggest hit prior to Spongebob.
Considering how big SpongeBob got, Rugrats pales in comparison.
@@TheArceusftw lol
Adored by the Network: From 1995 to 2003, this show was pretty much the forerunner of Nickelodeon back in the day until SpongeBob SquarePants came along, and even then when his show premiered in 1999 they focused mainly on this and other Klasky-Csupo shows.
Well, the name Lipschitz is also used in the musical “Chicago” during the song “Cell Block Tango”, so maybe it IS an adult joke, but who knows.
An adult joke that carries into real life ô.ô
I always found that name Lipschitz hilarious
The musical is from the 70s, so maybe it was a more innocent time.
I remember referring to this show as a kid around my parents and would mention the name Lipschitz my parents told me not to say that word and as I got older I realized why. I’m pretty sure they knew Lipschitz was a real name but they didn’t want people think I was saying the S-word.
Why do their heads look like potatoes? BECAUSE POTATOES.
I skimmed an article I read some time ago that the art style for the Klasky-Csupo oeuvre is inspired by Eastern European animation, which has somewhat of a scratchy and surreal feel to it.
Maybe it should be called the "ant-capitalism style" or the "Worker and Parasite" style.
@@handsomebrick What the hell was that?
That's true; I think the couple originally came from Hungary
Wow that makes so much sense actually. Soviet cartoons of the past few decades really were just as 'ugly' in exaggerated nightmare anatomy and murky in color palettes. They often had a low budget atmosphere effects and a scratchy line style and yet, in spite of these trademarks they often had fluid and even 1930s Fleischer era surreal layers of movement and extra smooth graceful flow...it gives these old USSR cartoons which were of often grim or black humor nature already this very "nasty bad sleep paralysis fever dream" appeal. You often got characters with large teeth and huge eyes or wonky shaped heads and long legs stuck on stumpy bodies....I cannot honestly think of nearly any USSR shorts, save for things made specifically for tiny babies, that in any way try to look generically 'cool' or cute or appealing to an adult or teen audience. Everything in older soviet era cartoon stuff tends to have an uncanny valley vibe to the style. Usually it wants to be either 'zany and outrageously abstract' or 'clearly expressive highbrow art meant as serious nightmare fuel for adults. Or some layers of both at once, like how shows like Flapjack and Zim did more recently. Thanks for opening my eyes to this insight!
Fun fact: The song Who Let the Dogs Out originated from the Rugrats in Paris soundtrack
Spencer Erb I thought it was the other way around.
I’ve could of sworn that song was out way before Rugrats in Paris
"Who Let the Dogs Out?" is a song performed by the Bahamian group Baha Men. Originally released by Anslem Douglas (titled "Doggie") in 1998.
That's not where it originated, but it's certainly how it got popularized.
Actually, its a Sanitized version of a Calypso song called "Doggie" from 1997 by Anslem Douglas.
Unpopular opinion: The parents of the show made it more interesting, and often their plots were more interesting than the plots of the babies.
0:53
DAMN MAN, you gotta put up a warning before dropping nostalgia like that!
Haven't seen that ad since I was four...
I remember that USED to scare me and made me uncomfortable (I think it still does today)
0:38 At least all of 3 Rugrats movies tried to keep the same animation as the series. Which is more than what I can say about the SpongeBob movies, especially with the third movie, Sponge on the Run, being entirely CGI.
To be fair, Dill PROBABLY could've worked if they just didn't have that musical number with the newborns. I mean, it had been suggested a bit earlier in the series that newborns in The Rugrats really do seem to function like actual newborns (case in point, Angelica's flashback of her first time seeing a cookie, or Chuckie's faint memories of his mom).
The thing that I always liked about Rugrats when I was a kid was that almost anything could turn into an adventure. They could suddenly be climbing huge icy glaciers and nearly falling down into cavernous pits or be coming up with ways to get around the house without touching the floor for fear of dust bunnies getting them. It's kind of like one of the aspects of Courage the Cowardly Dog that I like, being in the middle of nowhere or being babies in a play pen, things that should lead to nothing happening, instead become a 99 instead of a -1 in terms of what can happen.
the episodes where the fought the clown robot, the horrible goose and the multi-part reptar movie episode were the best ones in my opinion
@@sarafontanini7051 Oh and the one where they're stuck in the toy store and then start getting chased by the King Kong like toy, going inside Chuckie's body, when they thought the sky was going to fall and imagined a Mad Max like world afterwards.
They really got to draw a lot of varied locations for a show about babies.
I remember this article that was circulating around that speculated on what the Rugrats would be like as actual adults. The one thing I would change is Chuckie. I always thought that Chuckie would become a horror writer. He reminds me of RL Stein.
H.P. Lovecraft was plagued by horrible nightmares as a kid and even as an adult he was afraid of germs, foreigners, working class people, Jewish people, and black people.
Oh wow, he is like Stine! Stine was apparently a quiet wimpy kid. He described himself as being similar to Evan, his (over-hated) Monster Blood protagonist.
that's a pretty interesting idea
you could even see it as him attempting revenge on Angelica for her constant attempts to abuse his fears
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 I heard something similar about Trent Reznor. While he didn't have a bad childhood, he always felt bored growing up in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, getting his info of the outside world from TV and movies and wanting some of that life.
"That thing would be singing Witch Doctor all fucking night until you threw it out the window."
I love how that has absolutely nothing to do with the show itself, he just goes on a tangent about yeeting it out the window.
How does he know it did that?
“Both of the movies signalled points where the show jumped the shark.”
But I loved Rugrats in Paris. How dare you Mr. Enter.
though granted maybe it should've ended at that film since that was like a pretty good finale to the series. a huge change to the status quo AND the most overtop story in the series
Austin Reed Does your movie have...
REPTAR-BOT?!
I really hated the first Rugrats movie, so I went into Rugrats In Paris with guns blazing. I was shocked when I thought it was really good. Then the opposite happened with Rugrats Go Wild, which was almost as lousy as the first film.
he meant the show jumped the shark after those movies not the movies themselves
@@MrJoeyWheeler true...the film was great and then they went mecha and caused so much damage and death that i could not believe the family did not get charged to pay for it all...they just walked away?
I don't mind the art style of this show. I've definitely seen more ugly and terrifying art styles in cartoons.
he forgets its abstract and came from two people from europe...it was unique...
Worse art styles thank Klasky Csupo? Like what?
rugrats could be terrifying at times, i couldnt watch it for years after that one scene with tommy's legs leaking plush stuffing or whatever that was
"EVeryBodY's goTTA Go SoMEdaY WAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA" *cue nightmare face*
that fucking robot clown
"All of the characters in that how look like vacuum cleaners"
I freaking laughed to the point of coughing.
Same.
Okay, so I hope no one minds me rambling about a few thoughts:
First, the moment you pronounced Csupo, I knew I was going to cringe the rest of the review. I know Hungarian names can be tough for people of non-Hungarian background (hell, I'm part Hungarian and I still struggle with pronunciation) but literally every episode of every Klasky/Csupo show ended with their names (which I swear they did to prevent this happening lol) So it's actually pronounced "chew-po"
Second, I honestly think Klasky/Csupo is underrated (just not for Rugrats). They usually treated their audience with intelligence and respect and produced cartoons that were unforgettable both visually and story-wise. Just my opinion, but I had to state it.
Third, their lumpy style was actually 100% intended - to the point that, in animation notes, the babies in Rugrats had to look lumpy and cells where they looked "too cute" would get sent back to the animators. And, honestly, I feel like one of the few people who didn't mind Klasky/Csupo's style. It looked like nothing out there at the time and it didn't rely on characters being "cute" and I appreciated that. (Okay, Ginger is kind of the exception...*shivers* but.....)
Fourth, to me, the true genius of Rugrats (okay, EARLY Rugrats) rested in its background visuals. I don't know how many kids remember being babies/toddlers, but I remembered it as a small kid first seeing this show and I remember it now and the wide angle lens effect used to make all the rooms look so much bigger to the babies in early episodes is exactly how it looked.
Fifth, I seriously disagree that Rugrats has lost any of its fanbase or nostalgic appeal. I see way too many people still clinging to Rugrats as a show that could do no wrong.
Sixth, that said, the above saddens me. I love Rugrats, but it wore out its welcome and pretending everything it shat out is perfect just because of nostalgia isn't good. I adore the Wild Thornberrys. It still had one of the worst episodes I've seen of a good Nicktoon (Monkey See, Monkey Don't) and an insultingly bad finale. Rugrats was good when it was good, but it isn't perfect because you loved it as a kid.
Seventh, to me Phil and Lil's personality was that they argued with each other despite basically acting like the same person and if you look at it like someone arguing with themself, it's funny as hell.
Eighth, I agree about Angelica - and, funny enough, she was supposed to always get away with it, but the animators/writers started to hate her so much that they HAD to make her lose sometimes, so they did.
Ninth, the parents in Rugrats were kind of a commentary on modern (particularly yuppy) parents - those parents that ran for Dr. Spock every time their kid fart, but half the time didn't know where the kid was. Lipschitz himself was a straight up jab at Klasky's over-dependence on Dr. Spock and other child psychology books.
Tenth, I sincerely hope it doesn't look creepy if I comment on each of these Nick-O-Rama videos, but I'm a cartoonist and I grew up with Nickelodeon, so it's nice to have some relevant platform on which to express my thoughts about each individual show.
Okay, I'm done. (I swear I'm done editing this now. lol)
about point 8: when you make an antagonist do their job so well even you end up agreeing with the fans
I've watched Klasky Csupo shows my whole childhood and never once picked up that it wasn't pronounced /ksupo/. And the "ch" sound is even very common in my native language.
@@fernandobanda5734 same lol
@@fernandobanda5734 I blame the logo at the end because it sounds like it's pronouncing it "k-sew-ko", but that might be the robot effect they used to pull it off.
@@CidSilverWing Yeah, the robot voice didn't help make it clear at all.
I always imagined what it would be like if Angelica told Tommy’s parents what he was saying, because she can talk to both the babies and the adults. That would have been interesting.
Rugrats was the SpongeBob for Nickelodeon before SpongeBob existed!
True
And Blue's Clues was as popular as Dora at the time.
Originally, Rugrats was supposed to end production in 1994. But Viacom in 1995 after buying 100% Stake in Nickelodeon, fired Paul Germain, Andy Houts and hired a new team of writers. Which resulted in the Brand Jumping the Shark.
@@Tornado1994 You know, some people say Nickelodeon started going downhill by 1996-1998. If it did, then at least we know why.
I actually really liked the parents in Rugrats. They were just as developed as the baby characters personality-wise, and the great number of them being available for a wide variety of plots was interesting. Given how many shows I've watched where the kids were raised by a single parent so the writers didn't have to make two distinguishable parents, seeing a show where every character had both parents, and even multiple grandparents, each of which were meaningfully distinct in character, was something that gave the show a unique charm.
Weird, Rugrats is still one of my favorite Nicktoons.
still is to me as a 26 year old adult
Anyone notice that some Rugrats parts were like completely muted? Or at least hard to hear?
yeah same
Either a glitch or audio set off a copyright flag
He always does that.
Viacom.
All Grown Up and that preschool spinoff will be fun to get to...
Yup...
At least the preschool spin-off is a very short show with only 4 episodes.
I actually think you can watch up to Kimmy’s first full season. The series didn’t start to get outright terrible until after that
Is the second Kimmy season the one with the babysitter?
If you mean Taffy, then yes.
I liked the second Movie, Chuckie dealing with the fact he is the only one without a mother is a believable issue for a character. And Kimmy was a better addition than Dill was as she acted as her own character instead of a baby's baby. Also the climax was a giant robot battle. I would have never expected that from a show about babies misunderstanding the world.
ImaNerdANDaGeek ikr
true...also hes a cute character...a female more naive more risky tommy in a way
Lou Pickles was my favorite character, he was actually a decent parent figure most of the time he just slept a lot due to his advanced age.
Season 1 - 4 ~ Genius writing, memorable character's, dialogue and great voice acting all round
Season 5 - 9 ~ Cute saccharine crap (Diaper changed to Diapee)
finally someone who freaking understand that the season 4 is just as good as season 3 and the show did not went bad until season 5. Vast majority of people keep saying that it when paul germain left at the end of season 3 that the show stopped being good, when in reality the show was just as good in season 4.
Can’t wait for him to talk about All Grown Up.
1:18-1:22 Am I the only one who thought the Grandpa was actually driving the boat in the street as a kid?! LOL!
Rugrats holds a special place in my heart. It was the first show I really remember watching with my older sister.
As it happens, The Rugrats Movie was one of the first movies I saw in a theater, so it has a certain charm.
I actually enjoyed Dil. I felt that he actually served a rather interesting purpose for Tommy's character development. Dil was somebody for Tommy to not just protect--as he did with Chuckie--but teach things to.
also, i agree with the art style of these shows, they didn't appeal to me when i was a kid either, even less so now as an adult
@@HD_Segal well despite it being original, I never watched rugrats nor jimmy neutron as a kid because I didn't like the visual style... I still dislike it
@@HD_Segal well, jimmy neutron's style was awkward and weird but it wasn't as ugly as Klasky Csupo so it never gained as much hate
@@HD_Segal I dunno. Jimmy Neutron has less visual appeal to me than Reboot. Or Veggietales. Something about Jimmy has aged worse than two shows older than it.
As for Hungarian animation, I'd rather watch Willy the Sparrow.
honestly dislike the art style of ren and stimpy more. for some reason I jus found it...too OFF for my tastes and would stick into my imagination making it difficult for me to imagine anything in other style
@@sarafontanini7051 same, not a big fan of that art style either
Not gonna lie the mother's day episode definitely gives you the feels, especially since we feel bad for Chuckie since he never knew his mother.
After revisiting this show again recently I never realized how incredibly dark this show got at times, like in the episode where Tommy and Chuckie imagine themselves as adults Angelica is depicted as the literal Devil!!! And the place where Tommy and Chuckie have to work is literally hell!!!
Am I the only one who liked the addition of Dill? He's very important to the progression of the story, as he marks a turning point in the babies life. Because of Dill, Tommy is now responsible for something for the first time in his life, his introduction is a great way of showing that the babies are growing up.
Just for future reference, Csupo is pronounced "CHEW-poe".
I actually grew up liking Angelica's character back then as well. I was never a bratty kid either, I just liked Angelica as an antagonist.
Dil had exactly one good thing going for him: his later appearance in All Grown Up. While the series itself was all kinds of flawed, Dil was the most likable character in it to me. Especially in the episode where everyone kept pressuring him for more of his creative ideas until he burned out.
Baffle Blend That’s because he had a personality. and was his own character as opposed to the “baby”.
From what I remember, I find myself seeing the adults a bit more entertaining then the baby’s. It’s like two shows happening at the same time. One is about a baby’s going through life, and one is about adults struggling with what it means to be parents.
I always found it weird that we never really saw Charlotte's side of the family I hope that a future reboot or spin-off may address this
@marianne mccrank I think Angelica only mentioned getting a birthday card from her grandmother whom was Charlotte's mum
We also didn't see any more of Phil and Lil's family, did we?
@@fernandobanda5734 we saw Betty's brother Freddy and her distant british cousins Headley and Smedley
I laughed so hard at the nipple scene at the beginning of the video. Major props for reminding me of that scene.
8:56 From what I've heard and looked up Dr. Lipschitz was the writers's jab at Arlene Klasky nagging them about any little thing when it came to her problems with the direction the show was taking (for instance believing the babies were acting too old for their age, going too far with Angelica's brattiness, or the parents being too oblivious). Csupo would often mediate between the writers and Klasky. Strangely enough the other writers typically won out but I suppose it was necessary for there to be a show at all.
Klasky was only like that during Germaine and Houts' tenure.
@@Tornado1994 Well after their departure it was a running joke .
you made some things up didn't you? I never heard she complained that the parents were too oblivious. That's probably a lie from you sir as I read the big 1998 article in which the writers talked about all this debacle and that was never mentioned. You don't need to make things up to make your point.
@@lazaroiu.iulianlazaroiu.iu6330 It was just one point I read about 2+ years ago. Though to be fair it didn't appear nearly as often as the other two points mentioned (the babies acting older than their age and Klasky feeling they were going too far with Angelica's brattiness at times)
0:53 That took me back 15 years. Damn. My childhood!
As George Santayana once said " Those who don't learn from History, are Doomed to Repeat it." Little did people know he was talking about this
I abandoned a kids guide to the internet for this video.
On your mark
@Minekiller go!
@Minekiller It's all at your fingertits.
Rugrats to me brings back a lot of found memories.
@Stu Pickles It's one of my favorite Cartoons.
Oh my god 0:55 just hit me so hard in the nostalgia department-that commercial used to be on my Blues Clues video tapes
Story Time
Arts and Crafts
Blue’s Big Birthday
I loved this show, I watched every episode as a kid and look back on it All Grown Up (Pun intended) . And even I can admit it's art style was too weird. Thankful it improved over time in later seasons, do it's weird how Klasky Csupo's later shows ended up looking bad. And I can agree that while I used to hate Angelica, looking back now and how her parents raised her I kinda do feel a bit sorry for her at times. And that goes to that I hate her parents even more. I don't really have a problem with the other parents, especially Stu, he is one of my favorite adult characters on the show.
@@HD_Segal That's probably what happened. Digital does clean out the frames properly.
Clearly a diehard fan.
The worst is that weird 2000s Canadian animation style seen in Total Drama Island and Clone High.
I personally liked how the earlier episodes looked far more than the later ones.
Love how you open with a clip from my favorite episode. This is one show I associate with my childhood. I love those orange tapes!
Orange tapes were awesome, makes me miss tapes. I think there were some blue ones too.
Angelica is my favorite character and I enjoy the Dil seasons just as much as the ones that came before. The Kimi seasons did kinda lose me though.
LOL
4:38 There was a joke about Dil being dropped on his head by Phil and Lil in All Grown Up as babies. Maybe that was why he was stunted.
Actually they reference a actual scene in the first rugrats movie where they drop him on his head. It's a blink and you miss it type of thing
@@forestreflection2066 what?
@@Neku628 ya it's true it's the scene where they are attacked by monkeys. It's a blink or you miss it cause it happens quickly.
and usually its angelica who ruins everything!
That makes way too much sense.
Since this was the very first Nicktoon I have ever seen, you can tell I was going to be gushing with nostalgia in a matter of minutes.
"All of the characters in that show look like vacuum cleaners."
Congrats. You made me laugh.
Grandpa Lou was such an awesome character though and definitely my favourite out of all the adults if I had to pick just one!
5:06 Was that part muted because of copyright claims?
Edit: 5:54 There it is again!
Put on headphones you can hear it then
The name Lipschitz reminds me of Ms. Chokesondik from South Park haha.
I overall like this show better when it was about babies sneaking out of their playpen, causing mayhem, going completely unnoticed until they go back to where they were supposed to be.
And if they kept them as unseen, unwitting agents of chaos, then arguably you could cut the parents some slack because for all they know the kids are playing happily in their little playpen.
The first 3 years were great. The later seasons were abysmal.
Um no, Drew does not let Angelica get away with murder. There are quite a few episodes where Drew is seen actively reprimanding and even punishing Angelica. The dream trial episode comes to mind.
Drew is the best parent out of all of them, given he does double duty (because Charlotte wants nothing to do with her family), disciplines Angelica & has shown to love her so much that he was ready to kill his little brother for losing her .
Rugrats is the original SpongeBob
0:53 ~ That trailer scared me when I was little.
Wow. Enter it wasn’t too long ago you released your review of Doug. You’re just powering through this month.
He does have around 50 shows to review, so we'll probably see at least one update per day.
I always thought the chinless alien monsters of As Told By Ginger looked like bizarre humans from an alternative evolutionary pathway.
The Simpsons are similar.
Dr. Lipschitz was apparently meant to make fun of Arlene Klasky when the writers and animators felt that she was being too bossy, especially when it came to Angelica who she didn't like.
So she was basically Charlotte
This show is very interesting. It’s the middle man of the three initial cartoons, and it’s fascinating how such a simple show achieved such popularity and success.
Why did the studio behind Rugrats' animation style keep getting work?
Because Potatoes!
Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels the adult scenes have aged better than the rest of the show.
In my opinion the show should have ended with the second movie. You get Chuckie getting a happy ending by getting a stepmom and a step sibling. And even got grandpa Lou a happy ending with a new wife.
Seriously, even as someone who thinks Rugrats is an overrated franchise just like most other Nickelodeon shows, that sounds like the perfect way to end the franchise since RRIPTM (Rugrats in Paris: The Movie) is a “good moment from a bad franchise”.
I totally agree. The crossover movie with Wild Thornberries was incredibly unnecessary.
@@Showtunediva I remember literally nothing about that movie except for the little scratch and sniff card they gave us at the cinema that we could scratch at various points in the movie.
They literally named a character Dill Pickles you can not convince me Lipschitz wasn’t a joke
0:56 Oh I remember seeing this as a kid. It really scared me the first time.
People don't understand that Angelica had her good, sweet moments deep down, even in the early episodes. Especially for Chuckie. When he was crying in Rugrats Paris because he wanted a real mom who would love him, she sat down next to him and said, "Come on Finster, don't cry."
And she actually got a lot nicer as the series went on. In that famous "chocolate pudding" episode where Angelica fakes breaking her leg, she actually greets Tommy very pleasantly and asks if he wants to play.
That teaser trailer for the rugrats movie was very traumatizing!
9:20 That's a bit sad considering Stu's voice actor passed away.
It's fair to say that Rugrats suffers from Johnny Bravo syndrome, where the characters are super iconic, but the episodes aren't so much.
100 percent disagree
@@billybarnett9518 what do you disagree on? You take a show like spongebob, fop, or Danny Phantom and anyone on the internet will name you 5 quotes or 5 episodes, with the names. Rugrats is more remembered for it's characters and art style. Just like Bravo is remembered for his appearance and catchphrases than episodes.
@@hbmento8102 There are plenty of episodes of both shows that I remember fondly.
Dr. Lipschitz. So technically Rugrats said shit on TV before South Park LOL.
Were some of the clips muted for y'all too? I assumed because of The Algorithm, but other clips aren't muted.
its becuase he lost control of his life and thus the clips too
Art style of the show reflects a metaphor of relationship with their casts and relationships
The rap at the end is on par with Pumpkin Rapper in quality
For some reason, the audio for some of the Rugrats clips are non-existent on mobile devices.
"The most famous child psychoanalysist was Benjamin Spock"
Well, I have a Bachelor degree in social work, which also has elements of psychology, and I've never heard that name before. Freud, on the other hand, heard about him waaaay to often. So for me, a kinda professional, it totally makes sense.
Enter, just to clarify, Dr.Lipschitz was meant to be a way for the writers of the show to poke fun at Arlene Klasky (the wife in the Klasky-Csupo production duo), as she was notorious to reading self-help books on chid-rearing from quack scholars.
Lipschitz sounding like he was full of shit was part of the joke, plus his name was a way for the writers to call him "dipshit", while not pissing off the censors. I'm sure his similarity to Freud was also intentional to drive home him being full of shit.
Just saying this cause it sounds like you werent privy to this info, Enter.
Fun fact: The writers of the early seasons of Rugrats were famously at odds with Arlene Klasky, on numerous occasions, over what direction to take the show.
One example is that Alrene actually hated Angelica and didn't want her in the show at all, while the writers did. Fortunately, Gabor Csupo usually sided with the writers and saved a lot of the better elements of the show, like Angelica.
......that all changed though when the original, early season writers left and Arlene got her way more in the newer seasons with new writers (mostly post 1st movie, if I remember correctly).
Check this video from SaberSpark for more on the topic: th-cam.com/video/yLuFBWLHEsk/w-d-xo.html
I still love Rugrats. It is so Nostalgic for me
These reviews have been great so far! I do remember watching Rugrats a lot as a kid and even really liking Kimi a lot funny enough. But I doubt it's something I'd ever seriously go back to other than to just see what it's like watching it as an adult.
I feel nostalgic for this show watching it as a kid, and I still remember it fondly. But I do agree that most of the parents suck.
Examples:
>Didi relying on a child psychologist instead of thinking of a parenting style
>Stu cares more about his awful inventions
>Drew spoils Angelica and never disciplines her
>Charlotte focuses on work even while watching the kids, leaving her to be a negligent parent (although work is always a good thing there's a balance, and I still consider Charlotte to be the worst character on the show)
>Every parent on the show lose the children easily
In real life they would lose custody easily.
Apparently, Doctor Lipschitz was a sort of straw man for the creators to counter the argument about what the babies did. And there's a well known by now split between the two creators over the direction of the show, which played a part in its falling apart.
This show can be creepy at times like Mr Friend and I’m not Tommy
4:41 My personal head canon for Dil not being really able to communicate the same way as other babies in this show do is that Didi's premature labor due to Angelica's atrocious singing kinda screwed up Dil's brain and Phil and Lil dropping him on his head (as implied by All Grown Up) didn't help.