"So MAYBE when you get upset at someone, don't try to get a bunch of monkeys to commit murder for you!" Life lessons with Maggie Mae Fish (Like the Animal)
The Tommy, Dill scene from The Rugrats Movie was heartbreaking. "Remember how there was a time when you didn't have all the answers? So maybe, when you get upset at someone, don't try to get a bunch of monkeys to commit murder for you."
One subtle but interesting arc I saw in the earlier seasons was Chuckie slowly getting tired of Tommy's selfishness towards him, dragging him into schemes and shrugging off his fears, leading to occasions he finally snapped at Tommy and their friendship was on the line. Since Tommy is relatively less inconsiderate and MUCH more protective of Chuckie afterwards this actually makes a decent build up to Dil coming and Tommy becoming a more caring brother figure.
As the eldest sibling, I felt like the Rugrats Movie was written specifically at me. I cried so much at that scene where Tommy is about to pour the bananas on Dil. I once got so angry at my baby sister, I tried to flush her down the toilet.
Rugrats in Paris hit me the most. I had just lost a parent the year before. Chuckie's experience of not being able to dance with his mom like everyone else is exactly what I felt (and still feel sometimes) when I hear others talk about their fathers (because mine died). Rugrats always had a way of reaching because it didn't shy away from reality.
I kinda wish you had delved a bit more into Angelica's complexity, because she does on occasion stand up for the babies. There's the one episode when an older boy "befriends" the babies, then begins to abuse them to the point of threatening to jump on them from a swing. Angelica steps in with her water balloon catapult, and chases the boy off, protecting the babies. And then there's the second movie where she has an entire arc of betrayal and redemption, and getting the last word on Coco by ripping her wedding dress, exposing her underpants.
Rugrats is one of those shows that will always be remembered for a very long time. I love the insane world you discover if you string all the adult subplots together and look at all the stuff in the backgrounds going on.
I liked what you said about Angelica’s nastiness being important. I really dislike it when adults act like girl characters should only be “good role models” instead of interesting characters that have flaws. Stories need female villains! (Also, I’m curious if you have any thoughts on All Grown Up?)
Any not only that, most of these criticism openly ignore that the shows themselves do not make it ambiguous that these characters are meant to be the bad guys or at least not be looked up to. Like Maggie said, Angelia DOES get punished a lot of the times, and even when she's not, the show makes it clear that it has negative consequences. It reminds me of when people say that South Park doesn't make it clear enough that Cartman is supposed to be evil when a). yes the do and b). he's a spoiled eight year old repeating terrible things he hears adults say, so he can't be anything BUT a sociopath. Or even Johnny Bravo, to a certain extent: the show makes it perfectly clear that he's an idiot and a chauvinist, and the kids are smart enough to know to laugh AT him, not WITH him.
Yeah this is something even many adult shows struggle to get a grip on, a female character that is not only an antagonist but a charismatic antagonist. Sure we have shows that convey women as cliche bitchy but they're always a second banana to a more integral male foil and usually their nastiness has no consequences besides quick gags (Lois is FAR more dull and undeveloped than Brian or Peter in Family Guy for example despite arguably being just as repugnant a human being). Angelica meanwhile stole the show as things went along, being a jerk, even a villain, but a pitiful, humorous and sometimes even identifiable one (we all get jealous or obsessed with attention sometimes). I'm kinda glad they didn't go with the original idea of her just being this force of evil that always gets away with it to show life is unfair. Yeah it's a meaningful lesson at times, but too many shows shove that in your face endlessly rather than moderately, ruining the whole broth with their insistently one-note cynicism.
I read criticism that "Girl Boss" wasn't feminist because she's, well, a terrible person. To which I say, women can be terrible people and stories about them can be very entertaining. And making all female characters good role models is extremely limiting and puts a lot of unhealthy pressure on girls and women to be perfect. All. The. Time. (Especially when in the majority of shows that perfect woman finally cracks in a very unhealthy way).
5:44 "The show is like one giant well meaning web of miscommunication." I think this something that always adds appeal to this show. They could have easily just had a one note formula where the babies act like destructive nuisances and the parents just act comically neglectful like say later Nick shows like Fairly Odd Parents, but the secret sauce is these two herds of characters trying to 'get' one another and do what's best for them in spite of this crippling language barrier.
Such a great show, and wonderful analysis. I love that the show offers even physical perspectives of what it is to be a baby, everything is big, sometimes scary or sometimes wondrous from down where the babies exist. This video nails the emotional aspect of the writing too and was super enjoyable to watch, thanks Maggie.
To quote a certain dog, I have just met you and I love you. I always love when I can find a youtube personality who can properly articulate things I would say myself. I especially love what you say about Angelica, she's a much better anatomist that people give her credit for and does NOT set a bad example.
I remember years ago hearing you narrate a video called 107 facts about Rugrats on ChannelFrederator, so recently it was suprising when I heard your voice in a ContraPoints video. I then discovered your channel and I love the content you make! I've heard MCNs like ChannelFrederator can be difficult and even hostile to work with, so I'm glad you've been finding success on your own. But seriously, you make some of the best content on TH-cam.
I love how Didi was something of a parody of Arlene Klasky, who apparently was very reliant and adamant about those "Baby Help Books" that were considered to be BS
Maggie Mae! I can't believe I didn't know about this channel until your episode on Tales from the Pit was released. These vids are super thoughtful, and listening to good people talk about stuff they love is always a fun time. Ur da cuulesssst!
It was equal parts amusing and heartwarming to hear Maggie lament on how another TH-camr that she's acting envious of has 100,000 subs. T'was a neat little reminder that even a channel as quality as this (which at time of writing is at roughly 166,000 subs) has to start from 0.
It's heavily implied that Angelica is a jerk more so because her father lets her get away with so much rather than because of her mother's personality. The strongest example of this is in the halloween episode when we see how Angelica's father disciplines her for sneaking candy by himself vs. when her mother's watching him.
Rug rats was a horrific entity. Essentially all of nickelodeons content is bizarrely subversive & has tons of grotesque hidden meaning laced throughout its hideous & nauseating animation. As a European, seeing the heIIscape that murican children are/were subjected to is unsettling to the core. It’s no wonder that area of the world is such a dystopian frightmare. I feel sorry for anyone who had their child brain muddled by the creeps at freaking Nickelodeon
What a fantastic analysis of a great show. I loved it growing up and I'm really happy that my kids seem to enjoy it just as much as I did. The climb to 100k subscribers starts here!
It's amazing how the first video I watched in your channel was a sheer dismantling of my favorite childhood director's work (Tim Burton), but it was so well done (even if I disagree) that I started watching all your other videos and now I've subscribed to your channel and am a huge fan of yours! Good job, Maggie, your videos are always insightful and interesting.
Wonderful analysis. I never enjoyed Rugrats as a kid, something about how the babies were drawn always put me off, but I've gotten some new appreciation for it. Thanks!
I was a huge fan of Rugrats when I was in grade school, but over the decades I forgot why I liked it in the first place. Thanks for helping me remember, even if I wasn't thinking in such lofty terms at that age.
I'm late to the party as usual but I've been bingeing the things animation taught us playlist for hours now. I tell you this so I can congratulate you on having the most touching response to Mikey's callout. He does tearjerkers and yours was uplifting. Thanks so much for this.
I liked how they flushed out chuckys mom and the complexity of loss for a young child’s mind. I just cry in that movie when there is a mother and son dance and chucky feels left out.
Awesome video! Rugrats never really appealed to me, but maybe it deserved more of a chance than I gave it. I'm so glad "Lessons Animation Taught Us" brought me here. I'm looking forward to checking out more videos from this channel.
I enjoyed the arc Angelica has in later seasons, as she has Hector as a friend, and the relationship they have in All Grown up, to show how shes softened over time.
Maybe I need to rewatch that show. When I was younger I was really put of by the art style and the dub. Now that my English is better I should try it again. Anyway, thanks, that was very educative and fun to watch :) And now I've found a new youtuber I like, so thanks for that too
First thing I've seen of yours and I thoroughly enjoyed what you've presented. I love the Rugrats and your analysis was great. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Great video! We need more shows like Rugrats in today's world. A big reason why I grew up with it is because of the lack of choice in terms of shows for children(Cartoon Network and nickelodeon), but with the internet it is so easy for parents to give kids unfiltered video without thinking about the long term effects of their media consumption. This was such a powerful show and I am so happy I was able to grow up with it and learn from it to help mold my childhood empathy and understanding. I am curious to know if there is something equivalent for kids today.
I'm watching the backlog of your videos belatedly whenever I have time to concentrate and to savour them and this, too, was fantastic watching. I remember Rugrats only faintly though I can't have been terribly young when it aired. I just know all the important stuff you mention here flew over my head back then, or at least I wasn't conscious of any of it! I want to think maybe it did teach me something important about empathy, though, but I feel like I struggled with my Angelica-phase way longer than is in any way defensible. I can remember empathy-teaching fiction from later in life that clearly made me reflect upon my own behavior though. I can also remember lots of fiction from back then that just rubbed me the wrong way and that I still think were bad influence on me, even when the author might have had good intentions. Writing stuff for kids is not easy, I guess!
When I was little, I was always taught by my friends and their parents that Angelica was so awful because her Mom didn't pay enough attention to her, because she put her job before her child....I wish I hadn't always thought that growing up. It's hard to re-think the situation now, as a grown woman and Mom myself. Does anyone else get what I'm trying to say here? :/
I get that. I got that with Miss Piggy from The Muppets, from one particular "auntie" for a few years. I was watching some animated version and was like, "hold up" she's not being evil or whatever. Then I asked my parents, and they set me straight and - turns out we never had that "auntie" over again! I know I was lucky. But they didn't bother to tell me until I asked about it like 15 years later - and I wish they had! I would've definitely benefitted emotionally, and probably my critical thinking skills too 😅 *sigh *
I saw a clip of your show on Mikey's episode on Infinity War and had to come find your channel, and I am sure glad I did! ❤️ Please make more videos to fill the hole in my heart left by having binge watched movies with mikey twice and not having any left to watch 😂
You know your a 10/10 youtuber when you got no dislikes. Your crush on the Mikey bit is just adorable from one analyst person to another respect ✊🏻.Amazing work on my childhood. ..Bad ass video as always.
Never realized how much that show influenced me, and I was smack in the age to understand both the baby and grown up perspectives being 5-6 when it was on.
I cry every time I see Tommy and Dil's dramatic scene from the movie... but I also remember my favorite line "ANNNNND THE MONKEYS WANT THE NANNERSSSSS!"
Second video of yours I've seen and love it! A lot of this went over my head, but it does explain why it's so much easier for me to grow and be caring over my peers who would become nasty prices of work.
Today Rugrats is a cultural phenomenon, for a number of reasons as stated in this vid. But I'm not sure if people who didn't grow up in the 90's know just how much of an impact this show had on us. Tommy, Chuckie, Phil & Lil and Angelica weren't just characters on a show, they were our best friends. And when they weren't our best friends anymore, that's how we knew we became adults.
Fun fact! The Rugrats Movies is one of the few movies that can make me consistently tear up, and it does it twice: Once when Tommy almost goes to pour the banana goo on Dil, then when they think Spike has fallen off the bridge. How's THAT for some empathetic storytelling?!?!
Oh God I hadn't thought about the Rugrats movie since I was a kid. That's really bringing back some memories. Where these themes okay for a kids movie? I can still remember crying at so much of this, life was hard enough and it didn't get much better. :(
This is good!! I loved the Rugrats growing up but in my high school years I thought I was above it because the animation wasn’t typical but this brought me back to loving it!!
2 days in and still zero thumbs down. See internet you aren't always terrible. This is just another terrific vid from Maggie and I am sure many more will follow.
This was good breakdown of showing with great writing, fully 3 dimensional characters animation can do wonders. As always amazingly put together video.
Loving your conent so far! The video on Fight Club as Cultural Fascism and the appropriation of victimhood really helped me articulate what I was feeling. Can't wait to see more!
@Maggie Mae Fish - If it makes you feel any better, Tomi Lahren is scheduled to debate Ana Kasparian at Politicon 2019. Expect Ana to hold out Tomi's spine at the end.
15:19-15:22: You're slightly incorrect. Angelica was based on co-creator *Paul Germain's* childhood bully, not Gabor Csupo's. In fact, both Angelica and Chuckie were pretty much last minute additions to the cast by Germain soon after "Rugrats" was greenlit.
I DID THAT WARHEADS THING TOO Seriously you could see each individual taste bud on my tongue because they were all dead and grotesquely enlarged, I was miserable for WEEKS but I destroyed all challengers. It very, very much wasn't worth it and sort of informed my life moving forward. Taught me winning was less important than not being fuckin' miserable. The purple ones hurt the most.
The mirror stage is not outdated. It's a theory developed by Jacques Lacan to describe the formation of the ego in an individual as a representation of their formed identity separate from themselves, and separate from everyone else. It's not necessarily a defined stage at any set point in development, but rather a process that we all undergo. Understanding this ego we construct from others around us is distinct from what we could call out "authentic self"
I challenge you to be my best friend, Maggie Mae! But seriously, this is great work. I loved this show as a kid, but haven’t thought about it in eons (and never so well or thoughtfully) Thanks for reminding me the lessons of this animated wonder!
Watching this video in 2022 at age 38 and still totally cried at Tommy and Dill's fight. No, my relationship with my older brother is great, why do you ask?
Sweet bird shirt
It's a dress AND IT HAS POCKETS !
Put a bird on it
@kara delbridge it looks like the pocketed bird dress I got from eshakti
God I want it
I always liked that the doctor who talked the most clinical child nonsense was literally called *Lip Shits*
@Thomas Suel Pepper Tony his voice was South African but had british citizenship
I remember quoting the show to my dad and he got mad at me for swearing and I didn't understand why!
@@Itugen88 omg that's hilarious!
"So MAYBE when you get upset at someone, don't try to get a bunch of monkeys to commit murder for you!" Life lessons with Maggie Mae Fish (Like the Animal)
Ohhh bollocks, now I have to figure out OTHER ways of solving my life problems.
Really wish I had learned that lesson earlier, Mr Bubbles is still at large!
@@eliamagrinelli517 you Need one trained Monkey to stab them while they are asleep- life lessons with Malcolm in the middle
I wish I could have known that 4 years ago.
The Tommy, Dill scene from The Rugrats Movie was heartbreaking.
"Remember how there was a time when you didn't have all the answers? So maybe, when you get upset at someone, don't try to get a bunch of monkeys to commit murder for you."
One subtle but interesting arc I saw in the earlier seasons was Chuckie slowly getting tired of Tommy's selfishness towards him, dragging him into schemes and shrugging off his fears, leading to occasions he finally snapped at Tommy and their friendship was on the line. Since Tommy is relatively less inconsiderate and MUCH more protective of Chuckie afterwards this actually makes a decent build up to Dil coming and Tommy becoming a more caring brother figure.
As the eldest sibling, I felt like the Rugrats Movie was written specifically at me. I cried so much at that scene where Tommy is about to pour the bananas on Dil. I once got so angry at my baby sister, I tried to flush her down the toilet.
Rugrats in Paris hit me the most. I had just lost a parent the year before. Chuckie's experience of not being able to dance with his mom like everyone else is exactly what I felt (and still feel sometimes) when I hear others talk about their fathers (because mine died). Rugrats always had a way of reaching because it didn't shy away from reality.
I kinda wish you had delved a bit more into Angelica's complexity, because she does on occasion stand up for the babies. There's the one episode when an older boy "befriends" the babies, then begins to abuse them to the point of threatening to jump on them from a swing. Angelica steps in with her water balloon catapult, and chases the boy off, protecting the babies.
And then there's the second movie where she has an entire arc of betrayal and redemption, and getting the last word on Coco by ripping her wedding dress, exposing her underpants.
Rugrats is one of those shows that will always be remembered for a very long time. I love the insane world you discover if you string all the adult subplots together and look at all the stuff in the backgrounds going on.
I liked what you said about Angelica’s nastiness being important. I really dislike it when adults act like girl characters should only be “good role models” instead of interesting characters that have flaws. Stories need female villains!
(Also, I’m curious if you have any thoughts on All Grown Up?)
Any not only that, most of these criticism openly ignore that the shows themselves do not make it ambiguous that these characters are meant to be the bad guys or at least not be looked up to. Like Maggie said, Angelia DOES get punished a lot of the times, and even when she's not, the show makes it clear that it has negative consequences.
It reminds me of when people say that South Park doesn't make it clear enough that Cartman is supposed to be evil when a). yes the do and b). he's a spoiled eight year old repeating terrible things he hears adults say, so he can't be anything BUT a sociopath. Or even Johnny Bravo, to a certain extent: the show makes it perfectly clear that he's an idiot and a chauvinist, and the kids are smart enough to know to laugh AT him, not WITH him.
Yeah this is something even many adult shows struggle to get a grip on, a female character that is not only an antagonist but a charismatic antagonist. Sure we have shows that convey women as cliche bitchy but they're always a second banana to a more integral male foil and usually their nastiness has no consequences besides quick gags (Lois is FAR more dull and undeveloped than Brian or Peter in Family Guy for example despite arguably being just as repugnant a human being). Angelica meanwhile stole the show as things went along, being a jerk, even a villain, but a pitiful, humorous and sometimes even identifiable one (we all get jealous or obsessed with attention sometimes).
I'm kinda glad they didn't go with the original idea of her just being this force of evil that always gets away with it to show life is unfair. Yeah it's a meaningful lesson at times, but too many shows shove that in your face endlessly rather than moderately, ruining the whole broth with their insistently one-note cynicism.
I read criticism that "Girl Boss" wasn't feminist because she's, well, a terrible person. To which I say, women can be terrible people and stories about them can be very entertaining. And making all female characters good role models is extremely limiting and puts a lot of unhealthy pressure on girls and women to be perfect. All. The. Time.
(Especially when in the majority of shows that perfect woman finally cracks in a very unhealthy way).
"Like the Internet! If the Internet had a shred of empathy!"
Oh Maggie. You ARE the shred.
No pressure!
My gay friend and I just started reminiscing over how progressive Rugrats is, and he immediately remembered the dress episode fondly.
My favorite character is the feminist mom being a loud mouth
The original movie holds up really well and your breakdown of it made me cry. So thanks for that.
5:44 "The show is like one giant well meaning web of miscommunication."
I think this something that always adds appeal to this show. They could have easily just had a one note formula where the babies act like destructive nuisances and the parents just act comically neglectful like say later Nick shows like Fairly Odd Parents, but the secret sauce is these two herds of characters trying to 'get' one another and do what's best for them in spite of this crippling language barrier.
Such a great show, and wonderful analysis. I love that the show offers even physical perspectives of what it is to be a baby, everything is big, sometimes scary or sometimes wondrous from down where the babies exist.
This video nails the emotional aspect of the writing too and was super enjoyable to watch, thanks Maggie.
To quote a certain dog, I have just met you and I love you.
I always love when I can find a youtube personality who can properly articulate things I would say myself. I especially love what you say about Angelica, she's a much better anatomist that people give her credit for and does NOT set a bad example.
In seriousness though, this vid following your epic Daddies Duology really makes me excited to see the broad spectrum of your content!
I remember years ago hearing you narrate a video called 107 facts about Rugrats on ChannelFrederator, so recently it was suprising when I heard your voice in a ContraPoints video. I then discovered your channel and I love the content you make! I've heard MCNs like ChannelFrederator can be difficult and even hostile to work with, so I'm glad you've been finding success on your own. But seriously, you make some of the best content on TH-cam.
I love how Didi was something of a parody of Arlene Klasky, who apparently was very reliant and adamant about those "Baby Help Books" that were considered to be BS
Maggie Mae! I can't believe I didn't know about this channel until your episode on Tales from the Pit was released. These vids are super thoughtful, and listening to good people talk about stuff they love is always a fun time. Ur da cuulesssst!
Hahaha, I love your profile picture! All hail Bubz!!!
The blanket bit at the end of this vid still gets me, every time.
So many memories of Rugrats. Just the sound effects you used gave me flashbacks
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It was equal parts amusing and heartwarming to hear Maggie lament on how another TH-camr that she's acting envious of has 100,000 subs. T'was a neat little reminder that even a channel as quality as this (which at time of writing is at roughly 166,000 subs) has to start from 0.
It's heavily implied that Angelica is a jerk more so because her father lets her get away with so much rather than because of her mother's personality.
The strongest example of this is in the halloween episode when we see how Angelica's father disciplines her for sneaking candy by himself vs. when her mother's watching him.
touche!
I mean, you're right that she does copy behaviour from her mother, but it's mainly her father's fault she's a jerkface.
Rug rats was a horrific entity. Essentially all of nickelodeons content is bizarrely subversive & has tons of grotesque hidden meaning laced throughout its hideous & nauseating animation. As a European, seeing the heIIscape that murican children are/were subjected to is unsettling to the core. It’s no wonder that area of the world is such a dystopian frightmare. I feel sorry for anyone who had their child brain muddled by the creeps at freaking Nickelodeon
i never really thought about it, but when i look back, rugrats really did teach me a lot about empathy, too. thanks for the great videos
You have a great way of presenting and the expressiveness of your face is delightful.
That BA BAAAAA in the transitions unlocks something primal in me
Throw shade at Tomi, get a sub. It's that easy, it's true.
For real, i saw that and immediately minimized the video so i could make sure i subscribed.
What a fantastic analysis of a great show. I loved it growing up and I'm really happy that my kids seem to enjoy it just as much as I did. The climb to 100k subscribers starts here!
She's almost there! 97k!
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It's amazing how the first video I watched in your channel was a sheer dismantling of my favorite childhood director's work (Tim Burton), but it was so well done (even if I disagree) that I started watching all your other videos and now I've subscribed to your channel and am a huge fan of yours! Good job, Maggie, your videos are always insightful and interesting.
Wonderful analysis. I never enjoyed Rugrats as a kid, something about how the babies were drawn always put me off, but I've gotten some new appreciation for it. Thanks!
I feel that way about Rick and Morty's art style. For some reason it makes me feel queasy.
Rugarts used to my childhood.
Yay! New video. It sucks what happened to you'll at Cracked but the stuff coming out from the alumni is so much better.
I was a huge fan of Rugrats when I was in grade school, but over the decades I forgot why I liked it in the first place. Thanks for helping me remember, even if I wasn't thinking in such lofty terms at that age.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much. Sorry I didn't watch it much sooner, but I'm delighted I have now and can pass it on other folks.
I'm late to the party as usual but I've been bingeing the things animation taught us playlist for hours now. I tell you this so I can congratulate you on having the most touching response to Mikey's callout. He does tearjerkers and yours was uplifting. Thanks so much for this.
I liked how they flushed out chuckys mom and the complexity of loss for a young child’s mind. I just cry in that movie when there is a mother and son dance and chucky feels left out.
I didn't have a parent as a kid and was a dork. Chuckie gives me the feels.
This is why I look forward to these videos. Excellent video, as per usual.
live action reboot! man i hope it has the rock, could you imagine the rock saying "sometimes a babies gotta do what a babies gotta do"
Awesome video! Rugrats never really appealed to me, but maybe it deserved more of a chance than I gave it. I'm so glad "Lessons Animation Taught Us" brought me here. I'm looking forward to checking out more videos from this channel.
I enjoyed the arc Angelica has in later seasons, as she has Hector as a friend, and the relationship they have in All Grown up, to show how shes softened over time.
Maybe I need to rewatch that show. When I was younger I was really put of by the art style and the dub. Now that my English is better I should try it again.
Anyway, thanks, that was very educative and fun to watch :) And now I've found a new youtuber I like, so thanks for that too
I already watched Won't you be My Neighbor this week. Too many feels about my childhood!
First thing I've seen of yours and I thoroughly enjoyed what you've presented. I love the Rugrats and your analysis was great. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
This was a great video, a lot of heart and thoughtful content. THANKS!
Finally subscribed. I should have done it after your "Daddy" videos. Great work! :D
This was a stellar video!! Super happy to have found your channel!!!!
Spectacular analysis of a series near and dear to my heart. Wonderful work.
Great video! We need more shows like Rugrats in today's world. A big reason why I grew up with it is because of the lack of choice in terms of shows for children(Cartoon Network and nickelodeon), but with the internet it is so easy for parents to give kids unfiltered video without thinking about the long term effects of their media consumption. This was such a powerful show and I am so happy I was able to grow up with it and learn from it to help mold my childhood empathy and understanding. I am curious to know if there is something equivalent for kids today.
omg i've been binge watching you all saturday. this is *q u a l i t y* girl
I'm watching the backlog of your videos belatedly whenever I have time to concentrate and to savour them and this, too, was fantastic watching. I remember Rugrats only faintly though I can't have been terribly young when it aired. I just know all the important stuff you mention here flew over my head back then, or at least I wasn't conscious of any of it! I want to think maybe it did teach me something important about empathy, though, but I feel like I struggled with my Angelica-phase way longer than is in any way defensible. I can remember empathy-teaching fiction from later in life that clearly made me reflect upon my own behavior though.
I can also remember lots of fiction from back then that just rubbed me the wrong way and that I still think were bad influence on me, even when the author might have had good intentions. Writing stuff for kids is not easy, I guess!
When I was little, I was always taught by my friends and their parents that Angelica was so awful because her Mom didn't pay enough attention to her, because she put her job before her child....I wish I hadn't always thought that growing up. It's hard to re-think the situation now, as a grown woman and Mom myself. Does anyone else get what I'm trying to say here? :/
I get that. I got that with Miss Piggy from The Muppets, from one particular "auntie" for a few years. I was watching some animated version and was like, "hold up" she's not being evil or whatever. Then I asked my parents, and they set me straight and - turns out we never had that "auntie" over again! I know I was lucky. But they didn't bother to tell me until I asked about it like 15 years later - and I wish they had! I would've definitely benefitted emotionally, and probably my critical thinking skills too 😅 *sigh *
Fantastic video. Thank you for making it.
maggie, these vids are AMAZING.
behind the bastards brought me here, and im oh so glad it did.
new sub, kudos!
When your real life Angelica gave you a wedgie while you were wearing Rugrats underwear ..with Angelica on them...Peak irony.
Thank you for this. Incredible work.
I saw a clip of your show on Mikey's episode on Infinity War and had to come find your channel, and I am sure glad I did! ❤️ Please make more videos to fill the hole in my heart left by having binge watched movies with mikey twice and not having any left to watch 😂
As somebody who really doesn't care for babies at all, it's a testament to the show's greatness that it was one of my favorite shows when it was on.
You video showed up on my feed and now I'm hooked. :)
As always, awesome video
Save Martha to you
You know your a 10/10 youtuber when you got no dislikes. Your crush on the Mikey bit is just adorable from one analyst person to another respect ✊🏻.Amazing work on my childhood. ..Bad ass video as always.
:-D
We love it Maggie! Awesome video💖
You and Mikey both rock in your own way 🙂
Never realized how much that show influenced me, and I was smack in the age to understand both the baby and grown up perspectives being 5-6 when it was on.
Congratulations you have over 100K subscribers.
I cry every time I see Tommy and Dil's dramatic scene from the movie... but I also remember my favorite line "ANNNNND THE MONKEYS WANT THE NANNERSSSSS!"
Wow... I appreciate Rugrats even more now that I'm older.. Nice video!
You now have 100k subs! Yay!
You've gained a subscriber! Great video!
Always look forward to your videos, funny and interesting.
So excited! Been waiting for another vid from you. And a reference to MWM in the title..?
Second video of yours I've seen and love it! A lot of this went over my head, but it does explain why it's so much easier for me to grow and be caring over my peers who would become nasty prices of work.
Excellent analysis👍
Wonderful video! I never appreciated Rugrats this much before. Also, it's really helpful for writing empathetic characters and their emotional arcs
I feel ya on the warheads. My friend Chris did the same thing to me back in the day, but it was a horrible gin, pain contest that he cheated
Today Rugrats is a cultural phenomenon, for a number of reasons as stated in this vid. But I'm not sure if people who didn't grow up in the 90's know just how much of an impact this show had on us. Tommy, Chuckie, Phil & Lil and Angelica weren't just characters on a show, they were our best friends. And when they weren't our best friends anymore, that's how we knew we became adults.
this is great! thanks Ms Fish!!!
Fun fact! The Rugrats Movies is one of the few movies that can make me consistently tear up, and it does it twice: Once when Tommy almost goes to pour the banana goo on Dil, then when they think Spike has fallen off the bridge. How's THAT for some empathetic storytelling?!?!
Oh God I hadn't thought about the Rugrats movie since I was a kid. That's really bringing back some memories. Where these themes okay for a kids movie? I can still remember crying at so much of this, life was hard enough and it didn't get much better. :(
This is good!! I loved the Rugrats growing up but in my high school years I thought I was above it because the animation wasn’t typical but this brought me back to loving it!!
2 days in and still zero thumbs down. See internet you aren't always terrible. This is just another terrific vid from Maggie and I am sure many more will follow.
*knock on wood [my own skull]*
This was good breakdown of showing with great writing, fully 3 dimensional characters animation can do wonders. As always amazingly put together video.
Found you from your behind the bastards guest spot and love your stuff, keep it up!
Loving your conent so far! The video on Fight Club as Cultural Fascism and the appropriation of victimhood really helped me articulate what I was feeling. Can't wait to see more!
@Maggie Mae Fish - If it makes you feel any better, Tomi Lahren is scheduled to debate Ana Kasparian at Politicon 2019.
Expect Ana to hold out Tomi's spine at the end.
15:19-15:22: You're slightly incorrect. Angelica was based on co-creator *Paul Germain's* childhood bully, not Gabor Csupo's. In fact, both Angelica and Chuckie were pretty much last minute additions to the cast by Germain soon after "Rugrats" was greenlit.
touche
Your style is charming and your delivery is awesome and I'm subscribed now.
I DID THAT WARHEADS THING TOO
Seriously you could see each individual taste bud on my tongue because they were all dead and grotesquely enlarged, I was miserable for WEEKS but I destroyed all challengers. It very, very much wasn't worth it and sort of informed my life moving forward. Taught me winning was less important than not being fuckin' miserable.
The purple ones hurt the most.
Awesome as always
Yay!!! I was needing a new content creator to watch, see ya at each new upload!
That robot on the shelf !!!!! Wow had this as a kid !!!! Was called Nono the robot in Quebec...
The mirror stage is not outdated. It's a theory developed by Jacques Lacan to describe the formation of the ego in an individual as a representation of their formed identity separate from themselves, and separate from everyone else. It's not necessarily a defined stage at any set point in development, but rather a process that we all undergo. Understanding this ego we construct from others around us is distinct from what we could call out "authentic self"
You’ll definitely be as good as Mikey if you keep making great videos like these!!!
I loved every bit of this.
I challenge you to be my best friend, Maggie Mae! But seriously, this is great work. I loved this show as a kid, but haven’t thought about it in eons (and never so well or thoughtfully) Thanks for reminding me the lessons of this animated wonder!
I heard the reboot of Rugrats is coming to Nickelodeon this fall and I’m so excited for the reboot of one of my favorite Nicktoons
This is my favourite video!
Ohh Susie was one of my favorites too, I would like to hear more of your thoughts on that character
Watching this video in 2022 at age 38 and still totally cried at Tommy and Dill's fight. No, my relationship with my older brother is great, why do you ask?