im at the part where he said “i never even noticed you werent cute no more. …of course now i really see it” and oh my god i can’t stop laughing that killed me
My sis was obsessed with cheese as a kid. One day, when our mom was taking care of me, she told me sis to go outside. My sis replied "okay I'll take some cheese with me"
Rugrats actually kept pretty good consistency. That clown lamp was broken in a later episode. And we got to see Herman Shocter in the booster shot episode
The little song Didi and Stu make up for Tommy is so sweet! I grew up on Rugrats and both the dream episodes that gave ME nightmares were here: the giant baby in Angelica's dream and "I'm not Tommy/Stu!" with the freaky face/voice. Literally couldn't even look at the giant baby.
Same! Some of those moments Nickelodeon killed our childhood. That sinister baby reminds us of Edward G. Robinson, don’t ya think? 😰 And that I’m not Tommy/Stu was so extremely scary like Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventures.
In the Angelica night mare episode are we gonna ignore the fact she threw away a portable tv instead of turning it off or hanging up on the talk show doctor?
When I was little, my mom would put on cartoons shortly before waking me up for school. Rugrats would come on around that time, and I could hear the show in my sleep. I would have so many dreams about Rugrats. Dreaming entire episodes. It would still be on by the time I did wake up. It was my morning ritual to watch Rugrats while my mom helped me get ready for school.
Oh my goodness, I love this! This was my favorite show! That is so sweet that you would always wake up to the Rugrats in the morning, you are so lucky! Lol😂❤
21:09 There's always been something terrifying about that "I'm not STUUUU HEHUHUAHAHA" scene That scene always made me feel that fear of quick realization of something not being what you thought it was and feeling that sinister presence of something very boogeyman like always resonated with this scene. Still creeps me tf out haha
"if you have to ask, you'll never know" actually makes sense. She's saying if you have to ask to begin with shows that you wouldn't be able to understand it even after having it explained to you.
Love how Phil was just getting buried in sand and Lil was just eating fistfuls of sand during the whole time Chuckie is describing how he's dreaming - but it doesn't even register as unusual to anyone.
I remember an episode of this show, it was not a dream episode but it still scared me as a kid, it was the one where Tommy lose his green army man in the bath tub.
That´s one of the things I like the most about Rugrats, it can be so imaginative and surreal, and that hand-made animation takes the best of those concepts. It's amazing to remember and rewatch this episodes as an adult not just for the inherent nostalgia, but because you see a lot of things you didn't noticed before. Also, I would like to add, being fromo Mexico I watched all those episodes in spanish dub, and in the last episode, the voices that say "I'm not Tommy" and "I'm not Stu" are more adult-like and as a child I almost feel them a bit menacing haha, so they added an extra layer of creepyness to the whole stuff. Amazing work, I love your videos!
As a kid, I died laughing my ass off when Chaz woke up screaming. Whether it's losing his millions, the broken glass elephant, or the tub overflowing, everything bad happens to poor Chaz.
Dream or not Angelica is the worst child ever and shouldn't be near any babies. There's also that dream Chuckie had when he wished he was never born after Angelica took his dad's cd. That was very disturbing, Angelica for the best punishment she deserved!!!
@@DefileOdds you have good points and yeah Eric Cartman is evil I mean he pretended to be slow to be in the special Olympics, I wish Jimmy would have beat his ass
She had her good moments too. At the end of the 1st Christmas special, the end of the one where her family was gonna move away but didnt and she admits the babies are her only true friends, that one that ends where she goes this cake is on me but this cake is on chuckieeee i forget the name
The slumber party sequence always reminds me of that bit from The Simpsons when Homer falls asleep driving his car (even though I don't think Klasky-Cupo was animating Simpsons by that time).
I relate to Chuckie's dream the most. the one where his friends all get the ability to fly, but then he doesn't. I used to have dreams like that all time. Where all my friends either got cool abilities or cool gadgets or a ton of toys or something or got to go somewhere really fun or special or magical and I was always the one left out or left behind. Those were always worse than the nightmares. Because even in my own dreams, I didn't get to have any fun. I'm just left out and miserable. I think it reflected my life pretty well. I'd never been on vacations ever, was always poor, everyone got to go on out of state field trips at school, but I never got to go. Being poor absolutely sucks.
Pickles V.S Pickles is a very kafkaesque dream I really like how the judge is modelled in its likeness to that of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
I’ve been watching your videos for a while, and love how you present them. As a long time Rugrats fan myself, you picked some good ones here. I recall the first time I ever saw Pickles vs. Pickles, I turned it on in the middle of the episode when it was on TV, and grew very confused. Good picks though, and had this been a top 10 list rather than a top 5, I can think of 3 more bizarre dream sequences that could have made the list. The First Cut, where Tommy has a dream where stuffing is literally, coming out of his leg. Mr. Clean, where Chuckie is chased all over his room by germs, which seem very much like hairy scary insects in my opinion, and finally, not sure if you’ve had a chance to watch the reboot on Paramount+ yet, but in the hour long special premier, The Second Time Around, Chuckie has a dream where he’s now turned into a worm and is trying to avoid Phil who is trying to eat him. Anyway, just some other ones I thought of, but great job as always, and I look forward to checking out more of your videos in the future.
6:33 why does the pregnancy test look like she was brewing some kind of mana potion? chuckies dream issues are actually suprisingly realistic...this is most comon with vivid lucid dreamers,or those that can accurately recall thier dreams to such detail that familiar triggers of dajavu in waking life can make them question weather they are in reality or not
I think I watched the Angelica’s worst nightmare episode when I was about eight or nine, but I guess I was a pretty precocious kid, because I found it really upsetting and disturbing, because whether she understood or not, as a three-year-old child, obviously, she didn’t understand, or rather a three-year-old wouldn’t understand, but she was basically insisting that her mom have an abortion, and I knew what that was at age 9, and I found that pretty freaky. Also, the way for mom is talking the next morning, it really does sound like she perhaps, lost the pregnancy, as opposed to it, simply being a negative test result.
8:37 it seems like this dreams going for a noir feel! Just the angles the way everything is sinister the German expressionism very nourish the way the baby talks.
Im 17 years old and i have a very over active imagination. My dreams are always wild af. And even when im awake im always off in some fantasy or imagining the most bizarre things happening. Im still very afraid of the dark. And i can't watch anything thats even slightly creepy or ill be up for days. A previous video you made at least in this timeline, was the hey Arnold episode with the ghost train and me watching that video at 3 am was enough to tickle my fear.
You forgot the scary Angelica is king of the world and on a throne like a total slob, it’s the dream where Chucky’s guardian angel version of himself comes and shows Chucky what the world is like if he didn’t exist. Tommy would be a neglected street urchin, the twins would be spoiled yet dirty, Angelica would be king, Spike would be a stray, and Didi and Stu would be eating their last food crumbs and living in filth and squalor. You forgot the one where everyone is an alien and alien robots, up in space. You forgot the one where Chucky is being potty trained and his dream sequence makes Angelica into The Executioner and the toilet sucks him down. You forgot the one where Chucky and Tommy are afraid of the drain and bathtub and have a freaky dream about being sucked down the drain. Maybe one fever dream that was a fucked up episode was Moose Country, season 2 I think, somewhere sandwiched between Mr Friend, Stu Falls Off the Roof and Becomes a Baby, Mattress Boy, BBQ, and Angelica Runs Away. Don’t forget the time that was a fever dream to us but wasn’t even a dream, Chucky and Chas wind sweepstakes and suddenly they’re rich and living the lavish luxury life, a swimming pool full of jello, a rich kid daycare, and a butler and limo and big mansion. That one was weird.
I had a dream as a kid after watching Rugrats that grandpa screamed “god dammit” and cussed up a storm in the middle of an episode. I also used to have a lot of dreams about ET, still do occasionally
"If you have to ask, you'll never know" is my favorite quote ever from any person, cartoon or real. I should have used that as my final quote in high school, damn
18:26 - 18:36 - Love how Tommy, Phil, and Lil aren't creeped out by the extremely surreal twisted staircase in the Pickles' house that goes all the way up into space and they all act like it's just normal. That's the first indication that Chuckie was dreaming, yet again.
To me, in real life, the trappiest dreams are the ones you don't know are dreams until something really fricken weird happens. So Drew's dream is the best one imo. I once had a fever dream where I woke up, drove to work, was working, then my brother got in line, and asked me what I was doing in an abandon grocery store, only for me to look around and find myself inside a decrepit and completely abandoned store. To say I woke up confused and weirded out for about 3 seconds until my brain rationalized it was just a dream, is an understatement, because up until the point my brother got me, the dream didn't seem like a dream.
i knew you were gonna add the episode where stu and tommy say "i'm not stuuu" or "i'm not tommy" when that first came on when i was watching it on tv it scared the living shit out of me
I really do love Rugrats. Radio Daze being my favorite episode, introducing me to the Noir look I still love. But man, Pivkles vs. Pickles really showed Drew is the biggest pushover of a parent there's even been
I totally forgot about the butterfly episode! I loved doing that as a kid and now I remember why! ♥ It was very comforting to wrap yourself up like a burrito (it still is!) lol. It's how I sleep when its cold.
Even though Angelica has done bad, its sad to see her in "Angelica's Worst Nightmare". Fear of replacement is common amongst children(merely Only Children). Also shut off the TV during Pickles Vs Pickles, cause down right shitty is that episode. I hated it so much I didn't even watch Rugrats for a week.
5:03 It’s pretty cute how Tommy sees his parents as God like creatures from outer space when they’re just regular people. I think all babies might feel that way towards grownups at some point.
In The Dreamtime was my absolute favorite episode of Rugrats! I know everyone says Angelica’s dream of her baby brother terrified them, but I never found it terrifying.
What remains a mystery with _In the Dreamtime_ is whether Chas's dream was just the final scene or the entire episode, the latter would imply _Inception_ references.
I remember, I used to have some pretty weird dreams when I was little too, and I actually remember some Rugrats dreams that I used to have, for instance, I dreamt that the sky was the color. It is on the Rugrats, which is a purple looking color, and that the sky was falling.
With Angelica’s nightmare, I kinda thought that she’s treated like that because she thinks she’ll be forgotten. In reality, she’s too focused on herself (which is true); she awful to Tommy and friends and to her father (abusing her parents’ power) and constantly lying to keep herself from being getting punished; she’s seen as the victim of rejection and threat by the parents and new baby. To me, she sees that’s how she treats others and she was realizing that she DID needed to think of others. But she reverts back to her narcissistic ways via her parents’ sad news
Look at the sky in the episode “In the Dreamtime.” During Chuckie’s dreams, the sky outdoors (as opposed to “outer space” in a room upstairs) was yellow, but it was blue when Chuckie was awake.
Funny!! "Here I AM, SWEETHEART" ---- Almost like her dad is calling Angelica "I AM" like he is calling her God, because she's acting like God in their relationship. Kinda funny
Is it weird that I always thought it would've been better if Charlotte was the one who gave that talk to Angelica after her nightmare instead of Drew? I feel like it would've had more impact and meant more.
14:16 I know it’s a dream, but how on earth was she even allowed to do that?! 14:52 Excuse me… FLAMETHROWER?! 17:28 this may be a show about babies, but those dreams are extreme LSD trip level.
You ever notice on some of the episodes (I feel like it was Angelica's worst nightmare) but when the episode starts with the intro title when the paper like design balls back up I use to hear a more evil sounding decrescendo. (You know the noice that's sound like you rubbing a keyboard). Am I tripping or do other people know what I'm talking bout. Also Angelica was a savage damn. Lol.
