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Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The show focuses on a group of toddlers; most prominently—Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and twins Phil and Lil, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving life experiences that become much greater adventures in the imaginations of the main characters.
The series premiered on August 11, 1991, as the second Nicktoon—after Doug and before The Ren & Stimpy Show, with an initial installment of 65 episodes spanning three seasons. Rugrats would also become the first of the “Big Three” of the Nicktoons, along with SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents. Production was then halted in 1993 with the last episode airing on November 12, 1994. In 1995 and 1996, two Jewish-themed specials premiered; “A Rugrats Passover” and “A Rugrats Chanukah”, respectively, both of which received critical acclaim. During this time, after the end of the show’s production run, Rugrats began to receive a boost in ratings and popularity due to constant reruns on Nickelodeon.
In 1996, Klasky Csupo began producing new episodes, and the show’s fourth season began in 1997. As a result of the show’s popularity, a series of theatrical films were released over the next five years: The Rugrats Movie, which introduced Tommy’s younger brother Dil, was released in 1998; Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, which introduced Chuckie’s stepmother Kira, his stepsister Kimi, and poodle Fifi, was released in 2000; and Rugrats Go Wild, a crossover film with another Klasky Csupo series, The Wild Thornberrys, was released in 2003. The final episode aired on August 1, 2004, bringing the series to a total of 172 episodes over nine seasons. The 13-year run ties Rugrats with King of the Hill as the eighth-longest-running American animated television series. The show is Nickelodeon’s third longest-running animated series, behind SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents. It is one of the longest-running animated series of all time.
On July 21, 2001, Nickelodeon broadcast the made-for-TV special All Growed Up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series. The special was a pilot for the Rugrats sequel series All Grown Up!, which aired from 2003 to 2008. It chronicles the lives of the characters after they age 10 years. A spin-off series, Rugrats Pre-School Daze, aired four episodes in 2008. Two direct-to-video specials were released in 2005 and 2006 under the title Rugrats: Tales from the Crib. Tie-in media for the series include video games, comics, toys, and various other merchandise.
Rugrats gained over 20 awards during its 13-year run, including four Daytime Emmy Awards, six Kids’ Choice Awards, and its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The series became a hit, garnering high ratings, and anchored Nickelodeon as the network’s top-rated show from 1995 to 2001. Until SpongeBob SquarePants aired its 173rd episode in 2012, Rugrats was Nickelodeon’s longest-running cartoon.
A reboot of the series executive-produced by the original creative team of Klasky, Csupó, and Germain premiered on Paramount+ on May 27, 2021.
Tommy’s house, the primary setting of Rugrats
Many of the adventures the babies find themselves in take place at Tommy’s house; the parents usually rely on Didi, Stu, or Grandpa Lou to babysit the kids while they run errands. Their address is revealed on an invoice in “Tommy’s First Birthday” (season one, 1991) as 1258 N. Highland, the original address of Klasky Csupo in Los Angeles. However, an unnamed specific city or state is never mentioned in the show. Several indicators, such as a state flag at a post office, license plate designs on the vehicles, and various trips to the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and the beach, place the characters somewhere in southern California.
The location is also hinted at during “Little Dude” (season-one, 1991) when Didi, who is a teacher, takes Tommy to her class at Eucaipah High School, referencing the city of Yucaipa, California. It has been implied that this ambiguity was done intentionally to help give the impression of seeing the world through the eyes of the babies, who would not understand the concept of location. The DeVilles live next door to the Pickles and, early in the series, the Carmichaels move in across the street.
Rugrats sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters.
The series focuses on the experiences of a courageous, adventurous one-year-old baby named Tommy Pickles and his group of playmates – several other infants and toddlers, some of whom debuted later in the series. His playmates include Chuckie, Tommy’s bespectacled, red-headed, insecure, cowardly two-year-old best friend, the twins Phil and Lil, noted for their revolting eccentricities, Tommy’s baby brother Dil, who was born in The Rugrats Movie, Angelica, Tommy and Dil’s outrageously spoiled and selfish three-year-old cousin who is a “rival” of his friends, Kimi, Chuckie’s adventurous, playful stepsister (later his adopted sister in the seventh-season episode “Finsterella”) who is introduced in Rugrats in Paris; and Susie, a good-hearted neighbor of the Pickles family.
The other characters depicted in Rugrats include the babies’ parents, grandparents, and pets. Parental figures include Didi and Stu Pickles, Tommy and Dil’s mother and father, Chas Finster, Chuckie’s stereotypically nerdy and mild-mannered father, Kira, Chuckie’s sweet-natured, kind and understanding stepmother (later his adopted mother) whom Chas marries in Rugrats in Paris, Drew Pickles, Angelica’s indulgent and doting father, Charlotte Pickles, Angelica’s workaholic mother, Betty DeVille, Phil and Lil’s kind and boisterous feminist mother, and Howard DeVille, the twins’ mild-mannered and soft-spoken father. Grandparents include Lou Pickles, Drew and Stu’s father and Tommy, Angelica, and Dil’s grandfather, Lulu, Lou’s second elderly wife that appeared in later seasons of the show, and Didi’s parents, Boris and Minka, who are Jewish immigrants. The Pickles family also own a dog named Spike and a cat named Fluffy.
In the series, babies talk to each other whenever adults are either not around, or are not paying attention. The babies have a limited understanding of the world. Toddlers Angelica and Susie talk to the babies as well but can also communicate with adults, as they act as a bridge between the two worlds.
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Nickelodeon, also known as Nick, American-based cable television channel, focused on children’s programming. It is among the top-rated networks in the history of cable television.
The channel launched as Pinwheel on December 1, 1977, originally airing educational fare from around the world for 12 hours a day, without commercials. Rebranded as Nickelodeon in 1979, the channel expanded its lineup of original programming, which eventually included the sketch-comedy show You Can’t Do That on Television. The Canadian-produced series, which had first aired on a local station in Ottawa, is notable for originating the channel’s iconic and frequent use of green slime in its early years.
Though that show became a modest success in the early 1980s, Nickelodeon as a whole suffered from dismal ratings and was largely unprofitable, which prompted the network to reinvent itself once more. In 1983 it began airing commercials, and the following year it embarked on a campaign to shed its image as a family-friendly educational network and promote itself instead as an entertainment channel devoted to the actual interests of children. Within months, Nickelodeon had gained its footing and, with the popularity of cheerfully unsophisticated programs such as the kids’ game show Double Dare, it soon became the top-rated American children’s television station. At the same time, it introduced a block of evening programming called Nick at Nite, which aired reruns of classic TV shows favoured by older viewers. By the early 1990s, the network boasted a production facility at the Universal Studios Florida theme park as well as its own magazine.
In 1991 Nickelodeon began to air original cartoons, namely, Doug (1991–94), The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991–96), and Rugrats (1991–2004). By the mid-1990s the network had become the number one cable channel as measured by total daily viewers, and later programs, such as the animated SpongeBob SquarePants (1999– ) and the live-action sitcom iCarly (2007–12), frequently ranked among the highest-rated cable programs in the United States. Nickelodeon’s offerings aimed at preschoolers, a key element of its success, included Blue’s Clues (1996–2006), Dora the Explorer (2000–14), and Go, Diego, Go! (2005–11).
Several networks have been spun off from Nickelodeon, including TV Land (launched 1996), which, like Nick at Nite, aired old broadcast-network programs; Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (1999–2007; revived as Nick Games in 2019); Noggin (1999), for younger viewers; Nicktoons (2002), which showed current and older animated series; and the N (2002), for adolescent viewers. In 2009 Noggin and the N were renamed Nick Jr. and TeenNick, respectively, after long-running programming blocks on the parent network. Nickelodeon has also lent its name and concept to numerous international versions.
Since 1995 Nickelodeon Movies has produced children’s films, many of which have been adaptations either of popular books or of the network’s television series. The Rugrats Movie (1998) became the first non-Disney animated movie to gross more than $100 million, and Rango (2011) earned an Academy Award for best animated feature film. In addition, a Broadway musical based on SpongeBob SquarePants ran from 2017 to 2018.
Nickelodeon Studios was a production studio and theme park attraction run by the television network Nickelodeon at Universal Studios Florida.
Opening on June 7, 1990, as The First World Headquarters for Kids, the studio attracted young tourists as contestants and audience members for Nickelodeon’s live-action programming. At its peak, the studio employed 400 people and was the largest production studio in Florida, bringing $110 million in business to the state by 1994.
The studio closed permanently on April 30, 2005, after much of Nickelodeon’s production had moved to Nickelodeon on Sunset. Nickelodeon Studios ended its run having produced over 2,000 episodes of original programming. After The Studio closed down permanently, they’re reopening the studio in 2023.
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