Oh goodness, back in the 90s, Nickelodeon showed us an interesting cartoon called Rugrats. The show is about a group of babies going on wild adventures no parent would ever catch their children doing. However, when it came to the Pickles, the DeVille's, and the Finster's, these parents allowed their children to just walk away from them and do things that would be a parent's worst nightmare.
Throughout my childhood, this show would be the best cartoon in existence because it was just fun to watch. Little did I care about how babies could never do what these kids did, but as I grew older, I realized... Tommy had to have been a mistake.
Stu literally abandons him to invent toys that hardly work, and Didi constantly relies on Dr. Lipschitz whenever she has to handle Tommy's issues. She couldn't even figure out that Chuckie had chickenpox when Chaz brought him over... well, he didn't either, it was Grandpa Lou that figured that out. And what the heck is his obsession with the number fifteen? They never explained that.
Betty was the most annoying character in my opinion. I just never liked this woman. Always forcing her husband, Howard, to do everything, I felt like she was trying to be the "man" of the entire family because you always see Howard doing things you'd expect to find a woman do, such as cleaning and taking care of the children. I hardly see this woman taking care of her twins actually. But what was interesting to see is during the Mother's Day episode, you see her literally breast feeding the twins when they're telling everyone their stories about the first time they saw their moms or something that felt very special to them.
Then we come to Chuckie, who has to be the most depressing character out of the entire group. You see, Chuckie is the oldest, but he's the one that gets scared the most, and has to rely on Tommy to get him to be more encouraged to do something frightening. Chuckie also has no mother... well that is until the movie Rugrats In Paris that had the saddest beginning I've ever seen. Chuckie's mom died because she was very sick, and it wasn't until the Mother's Day episode that we actually figure out this and... it was just very sad. Chuckie stumbles upon the box that had his mom's stuff in that Chaz wanted to hide from his son, because he didn't think Chuckie was old enough to understand. And with the movie, Lou marries Lulu, a woman he meets in the later season of the series. There's a part where the children are dancing with their mothers, and of course, Chuckie has no one to dance with. Throughout the movie, he's trying to find this princess to ask her for a mother, while Chaz is drooling over a witch that could become his wife until Angelica decides to intervene, as well as Chuckie who says his first word, "no," when he barges into the ceremony.
Angelica is also another depressing character I've noticed because her parents... my god, her parents just don't really care about her. When they do, they're either buying her toys or they're screaming at her because she got in trouble again. You see, this is a child that is crying for attention because it hardly seems that she gets any at home. Her parents are both workaholics, Charlotte being the worst at it. Angelica is always picking on the babies, never sharing her toys, always acting like a boss when they play... it all seems that she was never taught any manners because her parents lack the responsibility to actually take care of their child.
There's actually a theory that's been around for a while that talks about how the show got created, and it has to do with Angelic being a schizo and imagining the babies up. Tommy was a stillborn, and because of that, Stu becomes an inventor so that he can create toys for a son that he never had. Chuckie and his mother died during child birth, and that is why Chaz is a nervous wreck. Betty had an abortion, but she aborted the child too early to tell what gender the child was, so Angelica decided to create twins out of that. Whenever Angelica got upset, the babies would go away. But, when Dil was born, Angelica couldn't tell the difference whether or not he was imaginary, so she decided to hit him hard enough to where it caused brain damage. That is why Dil becomes weird when he grows up. Suzie is a psychologist that helps Angelica out and went to Nickelodeon to pitch the idea after having various sessions with Angelica.
Yeah, they believe this is true, however, the two writers based this show on their own lives.
To be honest, the Rugrats has a lot of things I looked much deeper in as I grew older and realized how much stupidity shows with the parents. I know that this is a cartoon, it's not meant to be taken seriously, but I just cannot comprehend how the parents are so stupid when it comes to taking care of their children. You'd think after various adventures these kids went on that got the parents freaking out, they'd pay more attention to them, however, that's never the case in the next episode. I laugh still to this day at the show's comedic sense because it's a goddamn cartoon, I'm going to laugh, especially when Chuckie become a big brave dog for going down a slide. And yes, he is my favorite character, Tommy being the second runner up with his Grandpa Boris impression when he talks to a dog costume.
I freaking love the Rugrats, but taking a much deeper look as I've become older and much wiser, god, their parents are fucking assholes.
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