>show about toddlers goes on for 10+ seasons, 3 movies, and a CGI reboot series
I seriously don’t understand this. What’s the appeal of Rugrats?
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How is this supposed to appeal to people older than bluely and barney target audience?
This
The Ren & Stimpy Show was pure Kino
It was mid it was just the best one of the three
This.
R&S only had a handful of legitimately good episodes and the soundtrack was the only true kino part, doug is pure pigshit with no value whatsoever (wanting to frick the fat girl doesn't make the show good).
Pre-movie Rugrats was like Bluey in that the parents were fun characters in their own right. Also, just as many "Babies get into mundane dangerous adventures thanks to adults being neglectful" stories as there were "Babies on imaginary adventures" if not more of them in the early seasons before again, things started to shift more in the imaginary adventure side of things after the movies.
Im so glad that people like you are a silent minority, it must be hard
easily, rugrats isn't preschool, at best it's preschool "adjacent" due to being the show before nick jr as a block. It's clearly more of a Y7 writing-wise, and it isn't comparable to Bluey at all (at least early seasons)
I never really got the appeal myself
I have never understood that like as a kid I always put it at the same level as like Dora or something so like why the hell did this show appeal to so many people hell how was Nickelodeon even able to appear to people in the early 90s when all of the first three nicktoons sucked
>I always put it at the same level as like Dora or something
And there was your mistake. The show teaches nothing and anyone under 6 or so wouldn't get even half the jokes.
A lot of the humor is contextual, your own experiences and knowledge are what inform you of why the babies' antics are funny. The older you are the more context you can see, even realizing the absurdity in the parent's opinions and actions if you're old enough.
The original run really was well written to be entertaining and memorable to young audiences but also funny to parents who have the experience of raising a child letting them see more of the faults.
Later seasons and the movies were terribly profit driven, much more phoned in and generic.
All the tie in material and games produced by Nickelodeon were pretty souless
This thread seems to be full of people that either watched it too young or are too autistic to have an adult perspective.
Hey it’s not my fault I’m autistic and just happened to be born in 2003 so I only ever saw the post movie stuff rerun a couple times and knew it as “that show my brothers watched as toddlers”
>The older you are the more context you can see, even realizing the absurdity in the parent's opinions and actions if you're old enough.
Name two instances of this ever being the case in rugrats
Grandpa Lou talking about watching a vhs tape about sexy space vixens after the kids fall asleep from watching their Reptar (or Dummy Bear) movie and Drew recieving a package from a "lowly pathetic employee" that I think was censored later on.
>Drew recieving a package from a "lowly pathetic employee"
What was that joke?
>Drew recieving a package from a "lowly pathetic employee" that I think was censored later on.
I don't remember that one.
I think its from the episode where Chuckie and Angelica got hand cuffed together.
Getting quack parenting advice from a man who has no children named Lipshitz is a good one, Phil and Lil's parents being gay as another, majority of anything Grandpa Lou says, Drew and Stu having arguements about hand me downs and sharing underpants.
Betty isn't gay
>Phil and Lil's parents being gay as another,
The whole point of Betty and Howard was to defy stereotypes of what men and women should do or be like. Betty was headstrong, and had an active lifestyle; Howard was a borderline spineless wuss.
If this was true, Why doesn't Howard exist in the reboot?
Because as is all too common, modern writers only care about pushing "the message" while missing the point of the the works they are handed. What makes this particular case funny, though, is that by making Betty a lesbian, the writers have achieved the opposite effect they were going for, and that the original writers were going for. They've turned Betty into a butch lesbian stereotype, probably without even realizing it.
>writers have achieved the opposite effect they were going for
Lol. Just like feminism.
>Entire episode where Tommy was kidnapped by israeliteel thieves who thought he was Donald Trump’s son, only to return him because he was too much to handle
>Angeles saying “Aunt Deedee, what’s disco?” And Deedee saying “Nothing, it happened a long time ago and it’s never ever coming back.”
>Deedee’s parents complaining about how awful carrot cake is and why what ever happened to regular chocolate cake
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Autocorrect. Sorry for being a filthy phone poster
she's watching a war movie and laughing at the people dying and fighting in it
>she's watching a war movie and laughing at the people dying and fighting in it
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wait that isnt normal child behaviour?
most normal children aren’t even allowed to watch that stuff in the first place
You know
You gotta know
i havent seen this shit in about 24 years, but wasn't it just babies facing adult dilemmas?
For me it was the parents.
this looks neat:
give me a Rocko or Angry Beavers game like this and my ass will be seated
that music is very comfy.
they *really* need to make the pupils bigger, other than that it looks good
I see a lot of the Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario World, and Megaman influence. Probably other SNES games but I never played many of that generation.
Tommy's sprite kinda feels like something out of Bonk's Adventure.
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It had something for everyone. Kids between the ages of 4 and 13 could enjoy it, for different reasons depending on their age. It was even clever enough for the adults.
Well the first 3 seasons have fun misadventures with the kids that are amusing as well as the ineptitude of the adults. A lot of adult humor sneaked in and the vivid backgrounds and strange worlds via the babies’ imaginations are nice too. How do you not like Tommy and Chuckie being in a toy store that has an actual time machine and a giant gorilla?
autists ITT
How was All Grown up?
The original movie that spawned it was a decent “what if they were tweens” thing, but it’s ultimate problem as a show was that none of the babies had strong enough personalities to carry a show revolved primarily around tween drama.
Original first three seasons was like Peanuts Gang for the 90's. After Dil was born, it went full baby mode.
He did nothing wrong.
I liked Angelica's relationship with the others. Yes, she was an evil child, but sometimes she would be part of the crew and join them on their adventures.
I think part of it was how surreal it was before the first movie. It's not the funniest show but somehow it always kept my attention growing up. People say Klasky style is ugly but my mom and grandma liked the show a lot. I watched it from such a young age that the show looked normal to me.
Back during the 90's there was an extreme push for gross out humor, where things being ugly or gross was part of the appeal for whatever reason. Especially in regards to Nickelodeon since it was trying to appeal to young boys.
Isn't the idea of both Monsters Inc and Ahh Real Monsters that they need to scare children in order to survive? Sounds like the Nickelodeon monsters are doing a better job at trying to be scary then the CGI Muppets did.
I've always liked Rugrats. To me the appeal is a few things, the idea of taking something normal like going to a movie theater or going through the backyard and either doing mass chaos or pretending it's the jungle really works and makes it a fun thing to see how the imagine their trips. The parents on the show were also interesting, they easily could have done it Peanuts' style and just had them be kind off the side, but they were all interesting. I think Chaz was the best of the parents, in terms of how much he cared for Chuckie as a single dad, and that Chuckie is my favorite of the bunch. It took a simple thing and worked with it well.
I'm pretty sure the idea behind Monsters Inc designs were the fact that children could've actually drawn them like Boo does multiple times in the film
as a kid, it was a comfy watch. Parents with children could identify with the parents in the show. Kids identified with the babies finding adventure in the normal world. The characters had strong personalities so everyone had their favorite. there's always room for cartoons like this for Parents and their kids.
Difference is one was made during the 90's where everything had to be hardcore or gross, while the others were made with mass market appeal. Ickus was the only decent looking monster, while Krum was just a naked turkey holding eyeballs, it only appealed to young boys, monsters inc designs got a more universal look where the whole family can enjoy something about it.
>half of the posts are deleted
why
Remember TommyPicklesFan?
Was he the guy who believed he was Tommy told his GF of a year about it and she just ghosted him IRL?
linework looks too clean to be klasky cuspo
It's from Rugrats go wild.
What?
This
grandpa
You wouildn't understand. You weren't there. I sometimes don't quite get it either, but it just happened.
My mom loved it.
>Lil can I ask you a question?
What was the question?
You have to be 18 to post here kiddo.
Does it have any good music?
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I'll always regret how most of my exposure of Rugrats was from the really mediocre later seasons because I grew up in the early 2000's, around the time SpongeBob was starting to replace Rugrats as Nickelodeon's biggest moneymaker.
It’s worst when you realize that whenever Nick reruns the show it’s always has been the later seasons.
That Amanda Bynes character was so painful and they forced her into so many episodes.
Wild thornberries was better