The STRANGE Rugrats Spin-off That Kind Of Worked 

They weren't teenagers. Angelica was like twelve going on thirteen. Susie was thirteen. Chucky was like eleven, Phil, Lil and Tommy were like ten and Dill was nine.

I actually love all grown up, it's one of the best nickelodeon shows ever.

Nancy Cartwright will be the new Chuckie voice actor.

I think Stu's voice actor passed on a couple months after.

@@nernerman He did

but Nancy Cartwright is Bart simpsons voice actor.

@@yellowgooseduck3019 people can voice more than one character

I remember that. She wasn’t rebellious but anytime an adult tells a kid/teen something that sounds too good to be true, it’s a scam. Susie was just eager

That is the one ep I remember so vividly from this show.

Darker than when Tommy smeared Dil with peanut butter so chimps would eat him?

I'm surprised her sister had a thousand dollars to spare

@@spritemon98 why? she's a grown woman and her parents were definitely upper middle class

Dill always had personality ever since he was a baby, you can see it all through the movie and certain traits still stayed with him as he got older. In “All Grown Up” he had experienced life and found interest and that made his personality bigger than it was as a baby, but he’ll still give his loving older brother a tough time.

When did they age up the Powerpuff Girls? All I remember was that one clip episode where they had them briefly turned into teens, and they acted... weird... Were there times other than that?

​@@leirawhitehart1236 it was one of that clip shows that had fake flashback. Classic PPG was quite ahead at its time, and probably still now.

Dil was the best. Genius conspiracy theorist who probably was on the spectrum.

Except it didn't work. It wasn't funny and he was just weird.

@@williammccormick984 ? Just basis of opinion he was one of my favs. I still remember his pet fish belt invention and thought it was so cool.

@@williammccormick984I'm definitely biased towards Dil because I liked how his character was written. Looking back, his quirkiness and his overall character makes me think he's on the spectrum.

@@williammccormick984 nah it worked, you’re outnumbered on this one Bud

They really did a great job with the character development. It was relatable at the time. I had friends like Angelica. Not friends anymore but I still respect them.

Even though she matured, she was still kind of a brat sometimes and can still act immature. But i liked how she matured and wanted to fit in with other kids.

@@LeslieFlemons She still had her brat moments but they actually gave her more focus on showing her take on maturity and character which she never showed when younger. She becomes less of an antagonist and more of a genuine character.

As what she had said before "No one messes with my dumb babies, but me" Yes she is still a brat to her younger cousins

@@shippo008 Just not as much so.

Can you see angelica and Susie as a couple.

Exactly. And im really happy that they kept the original voice actors. It gets on my nerves when they change the voices and the entire plot

@@xiinava6418 understood

@@silversmoke4159 I don't think so.

@@rarityharrison8442 their relationship could be a little similar to Jimmy and Cindy's.

Tommy would definately be an ace detective as an adult

It would be on Paramount or Comedy Central.

is this a jab at riverdale ? if it is im all here for it

@@thegeth4293 Nah, I still wanna see Tommy in film school during college. If not already a young director for obscure shows trying to make it big towards Hollywood.

tbh the rugrats i firmly believe would just end up as a weird version of the mystery gang and tbh im here for it.

Best theme song ever!

And the concert song. _You were there for me!_

All grown up! I really wanna shout it out! 🎶🎵

@@JordanFringe94 What about What's New Scooby Doo tho?

Sometimes when I celebrate my birthday lol I’ll have the lyrics “every birthday my mom and dad would say, another year older, another year wiser” play in my mind

I can totally see Phil and Tommy doing that

I was thinking about while rewatching that movie the other day. How was that not a more famous event? Like, they steamrolled through most of Paris and damaged or destroyed several national monuments. Also, how was Stu not more famous for makin those robots? Like, looking back now it is incredibly impressive that Stu was able to make those things, even if they're made with rubber bands and paper clips. I mean he essentially made a Reptar Gundam/Zoid. How was he not getting contracts from people all over the place asking for his expertise. Like he's no Tony Stark but he had some pretty ingenious inventions

I remember in one episode Angelica told someone she had gone to Paris. But curious to know how they also didn't mention that they were all at one point stranded on a deserted island or that they got lost in the woods for days after Dil was born. Also was hoping to see an adult Eliza Thornberry as the crossover with the Wild Thornberrys happened while they were still babies.

Or "remember the time we tried dog food on my first birthday"

@@jonathanlife5304 Well they were babies and as the rugrats show was most f these adventures were just the world through the babies eyes. I think the Paris thing was probably not exactly what happened, same with the woods adventure and deserted island. Either they were too young to understand or remember it and the parent don't want to remember it or they were the exaggerated version of maybe not as crazy events. That my theory on it.

Good point! The more I think about why this show gets flack (Personally I liked it), I think this show came out at a transitional time in Nick history around that 99-01 period. Most of those “True” 90s kids already grew and phased out of watching the network and it was going from the SNICK shows of the 90s into the Teennick era of the early 00s (pretty much for Millennials kids like me). Which I why I didn’t I get why certain shows that were critically acclaimed shows at this time like Tiana got the “When this show came on, I turned the channel” treatment from those “90s kids”. But that just my opinion.

That's a problem a lot of shows involving kids have. Characters who are supposed to be elementary and middle school-aged acting more like mid to late high schoolers. Honestly, it doesn't bother me but I get why it bothers others.

@@tomhur1 looks at KHR

Oh yeah. When I was an 8 year old, this was also how I kind of saw tweenhood, if it wasn't stuff from Lizzie McGuire awkwardly carrying me through middle school...but now I look at it as way better than the CGI reboot.

If they acted like toddlers as babies, it's reasonable that they act like teens as tweens.

What's neurodivergent?

@@Mike-xh2vm It's the more politically correct and generalized way of describing people who have conditions affecting their mind (whether it's something hereditary like autism, ADHD, or OCD, PTSD, or physical brain injury, etc) without giving it an implicit moral judgement or judgement of the person's capabilities that terms like "mentally ill" and "developmentally/cognitively disabled" can - it's a term popularized in recent years, a small difference but it makes a difference to many people who are affected by these issues in their daily lives.

@@ryjelsum I see... I dissagree with that term, and to be honest I don't like and see no use in politically correct terms.

@@Mike-xh2vm I think it's supposed to be the other binary option for labelling someone's psyche as "Neurotypical" vs "Neurodivergent" by psychologists

@@user-wq4nf4dk3s What? There is no need to said that, Dil have an ambiguos condition and that's it, let's stop with the PC terms.

You wanna see Angelica and Suzy get ran through. Phil get hooked on Drugs. Kimmy soul get crushed trying to get good grades. And Tommy's heart being ripped outta his chest once he realizes how really mess up the real world actually is? Well that's what's gonna happen when they go to college.

@@GhostWulf70792 it would be different and nothing like that

I would Be crying my eyes out But I hope that happens in the future ❤️🥺

@@ThegoddaughterofprofessorSnape I know I'm just an over all terrible person. Did I ruin your childhood yet?

@@GhostWulf70792 wow youre so edgy.

Yeah the you gotta go cards.

@@waqarchughtai440 oh yes this was definitely my Teen years XD

The original rugrats at that time was on it's way out and passed its prime. Th was refreshing

I think back on that episode any time I get back into Yu-Gi-Oh! nowadays, along with a bunch of the other trading card game parodies done at the time, like that Recess episode Economics of Recess or Ajimbo. I always thought those were funny

Same plus they started off being able to talk😂

And it work because we all have to grow up

I wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the joke.

@@syabilaazri7834 It also worked because they were actually themselves grown up. most of those baby spin offs just turned them into babies and shoved their baby forms into a scenario that their real selves were never implied to be in. Like that one with the loony toons as babies being taken care of by that grandma character. Even Taz was there if I remember right.

@@metazoxan2 Or that recent We Baby Bears spinoff

There was the baby total drama island one, we bare bears, kamp koral, etc... I feel like I'm missing some but yeah.... there was a lot, lol.

That would actually be cool

this is the rugrats ending we were robbed of😅😅

If they ever do continue the series in another spinoff

I actually envision Tommy giving his son his old screwdriver and the last scene being all fantastical. Bringing it full circle!

YESSS like "the wonder years" ending where the narrertor was really kevin as an adult reminiscing about his younger days. that gets me into the feels so hard

Same

you spelled rugrats wrong its rugrats not rugrates

Ikr

I love the original more

Same

I haven't seen it. I was too young but I get it

Why did It get hated

@@roxassora2706 I can tell you from experience that before the special aired in July 2001, that the hype was unreal, there were many ads and talk about it. I remember it all, even though I was only 6 years old.

@@kristopherjones7997 well the animation community back in the early days were more negative and edgelords, I would constantly see all grown up in lists like top ten worst spinoffs or some vids claiming rugrats fell off after its 3rd season because of knowledge of the writers leaving. So all grown up kinda had a lot of haters who pretty much came from ppl who never watched it and think it was a cash grab and some who felt like it lost the creativity pf early rugrats. But im glad thats over and ppl are waking up and seeing how cool all grown up was

@@mania4270 I loved it more than the Original rugrats

hmmm j

Dang. You’re turning 30 next year…

I’m only 15, about half your age 😂

@@whyme3772 Congrats on having no rights~!

@@aliichi lol

The only thing I didn't like about it is that the *child* shouldn't be blamed for the situation. A minor can't tell if they're being groomed or manipulated, and we shouldn't be angry at them if they are. Instead, we should teach them methods of safety to prevent adults taking advantage of them and seek out law enforcement if the child ends up in a dangerous situation. PUNISH THE ADULT, PROTECT THE CHILD.

@@starsiadraws it’s not that she is the one to blame for, however if she put herself on a dangerous situation, she is putting herself on a bad situation, it’s a matter of a bad decision and making bad decisions had consequences. At the end of the day is a lesson to her, and the way her sister talked to her was the appropriate, you can feel she is concerned about what could have happened to her, the seriousness in which he talked to her was the correct, because the situation required it, if she spoke to Susie in a calm way it would have the same effect. At the end of the day her sister didn’t thrown all the blame to her, she just make her note in a serious way how dangerous was the decision she made.

@@Havs122 Yeah like, sorry that a kid needed a stern tone of voice and a reminder that what they did was foolish.

@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω I hate the real word. Just kidding 😂

@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω It's stupid on a conceptual level because it was about parenting in the early-mid 90s and its effects. Rebooting it so that the kids stay young forever but the parents are freakishly attempting to stay hip is like the *worst* direction this franchise could possibly go into - all for the sake of "we want more Rugrats!"

Its not a unique take, sush with that lol. The comments are filled with this "hot take" 😂

Not a hot take, do you know how many rugrats fanfiction is out there? And that there were writers that had me agonizing in like middle school, high school over Tommy/Kimmy or Phil/Kimmy vs Tommy/Lil vs Lil/Chuckie vs Chuckie/Angelica? (I know, I know for that one, but really good writers pulled it off! 😂😂) I never would've thought I'd have shipping wars in my head over RUGRATS

Yes!

Dang, I know the feels 😔

Same here. When this aired, I was only 6 years of age and thought that growing up was such a long time away. LOL It happens before you know it.

@Mario Walker904 I turned25 few months ago and I'm already having mid-life crisis :/

She should be lucky it was only money

Especially because I feel like Susie was always supposed to be Angelica's moral compass. She was always portrayed as a strong character with successful, happy, and normal parents with a normal home life. So it makes sense that she got swindled, seeing how she hopes for the best in everyone. Unfortunately, those types of people suffer harder, deeper, longer with being betrayed like Susie was. Susie was just trying to follow her dreams, but she is also smarter than that had she used her voice of reason on herself for once, instead of letting herself be led by blind faith like she did. Although, when we're young and we don't know better, we often have to find out the hard way. Luckily for Susie, she didn't get hurt, and she had someone she could confide in, someone who actually cares, to let her know on the real-real. Susie's smart enough for us to know that she did learn a lesson that day. And, in the future, we know she'll be much more careful about those sort of situations.

Me too but the worst part of it is dodie

I hated told by ginger..

@@SoulReaperSlayer19 I like the show but can we agree dodie's the worst

@@kelsey1467 Dodie was really starting to get on my nerves in season 2 and especially season 3

@@poopityscoop839 I mean what makes angelica better than dodie is that the show knows what angelica's supposed to be which is kind of this evil girl dodie is supposed to be gingers friend but she doesn't act like it at all

Angelica carried All Grown Up Honestly all the girls carried the show. The boys were low key lame

@DJHart their individual episodes showed their personality, Kimi, lil, Angelica, Susie Their episodes just stood out. The boys were lame outside of Dil... he was actually really good which is surprising because I hated him in the original.

@@xzginthereaper Dill and Phil were the only funny boys on the show.

I never understood why they're disliked. Looking back, for Kimi, I did appreciate adding a diverse character in the show, something I didn't pick up on as a kid. I also felt Dil was an interesting conflict for Tommy. IDK, maybe it's part nostalgia of why I didn't mind them.

@@RB01.10 Dill was added around the time that the show started to become a little bit too kid friendly and it kind of lost the satirical edge that the earlier seasons had. And Kimi wasn’t a bad character, but I found her a little too similar to Tommy in personality. She didn’t really add a whole lot in my opinion

I mean the characters are literally babies in rugrats😅

Dil was cute at the beginning, but he was crying too much (duh because he was a baby). In the spin-off series, he grew up to be more like an outcast who had a huge interest in aliens. As for Kimmi, I loved that they added an Asian character to the cast. Her personality didn't stand out much, but one of the things I just remembered is that she stood up to a kid that tried to take Angelica's doll Cynthia away and Angelica thanked her. In the spin off, she was more well-rounded. She wanted to grow up just like everyone else. I didn't like her in that one episode where she was trying to be a rebel to impress some guy, but as a growing woman, I could see that that's normal for some kids who are hitting puberty.

I think Kimi was too much like Tommy in Rugrat. In Rugrats in Paris, Chucky actually said “oh great, another Tommy”. In All Grown Up Kimi was her own person and nothing like Tommy.

True but they still had them retain some of their old traits as well which is why i felt All grown up worked so well for example Angelcia still has her moments of shallowness and ego, following the popular girls and or trying to cater to them, or gettin in over her head, while Susie still is there to take her down a peg and be the voice of reason But they also allowed moments for susie to fall through and angelic be the one to reason with her and acts more mature by circumstance it was a great way to shake up the character dynamics while not totally re-writing the characters entirely

Same for Phil & Lil

My heart really broke for Susie when that scammer took her money that was gifted to her by her sister.

And it doesn't feel out of character. Angelica still has the same problem of not looking at her surroundings and being self centered at times. Susie is still the "perfect" kid who helps everyone out and is the most put together in the room, but that's the problem. Kids who grow up like that often become blinded by the praise they get or naive to the world.

Betty & Kira actually did💕💕💕💕

I loved those episodes because of how they showed Angelica and Chuck of all people were the best suited for farm work. I also really like the roadtrip episode when Tommy has a falling out with Didi and Kira just spends the whole trip sick.

I thought that episode memory was a fever dream now I know it was not

Forgot the name of it.

@@Awaken12578 Interview with a campfire

My lil sister loved that showed. My other sister loved rocket power. None of us liked all grown up tho we stanned rugrats. Dad said weirdest thing I asked for was in 6th grade I wanted wanted talking adventure.Tommy doll from the first movie. If all growed up came out in 2001 I'd been 14 and they'd been 7 and 5. My parents took a break obviously after having me not just to gain $$$/career but trust me I was enough🤣🤣 lil devil child💀💀💀

Make your kids and or nieces/nephews watch it so you can watch it with? Or go down to an orphanage, take a TV, and do the same (its charity as long as you don't do anything illegal (maybe, I'm not a lawyer)).

I'm going to be 25 this year and I still watch and love classic Nickelodeon

Same. I’m with you.

@@jeffoldfield774 Bro there should've been a All grown up movie

@@kristopherjones7997 yes there should have been. Nickelodeon sucks now anyways. Nickelodeon is a network that Jumped the Shark in 2004.

or adult grown up with dating, drugs, and work etc...

Nah. Then they have to get married and be adults...so where does it end? Rugrats the Twilight Years?

I think Mr. Ratburn would follow Arthur through highschool like Mr. Feeny since he’s taught them for so many seasons

Well...the final episode of Arthur airs this month and it's called "All Grown Up".

Ah yes, the shipping wars.

If I remember correctly the episose in all grow up was something like this: Angelica had a bad day/something bad happended to her, and in her room while she was letting out her anger and talking to herself, she said " can you believe this Cynthia?", this was a surprise for her, because it's been years since Angelica talked or even remembered Cynthia. She starts looking for her and found out that Cynthia was sold, she goes to find her (with problems to fill the space). Angelica at the end of the episode puts Cynthia as a decoration in her room because Cynthia was an important doll when she was little and she wants to have her

@@Gemini_Blessed_Boy glad it was an actual episode, sometimes my mind just does make up episodes of a show XD

And the reboot forces them back down again.

You know, I remember missing a lot of new episode premires mainly because I had to go somewhere with my parents coincidentally. Now that I look back, it's not a big deal but watching something new on it's first night just feels like more hype.

@@TheyWantMeGone69 Oh I know that feeling. Growing up in the early to mid 2000's, you had to have a recording tape available to save the show, as I don't believe DVRs were as big, or affordable yet (at least for me). Or lucky enough to catch a re-run. How I (don't) miss those days. I remember also having to wait a while to get the episodes on DVD in order to see them. (I do actually still have many episodes of Teen Titans, Bakugan, Ben 10, and Pokémon on Maxell recording tapes) I didn't even get a DVR until 2009. LOL

@@RB01.10 Lol. Yeah I remember dvr and or vcrs. I dont think I ever got around to using them though.

I remember those days of having to have a recording VHS tape to save a program. LOL Or you had to know when it would re-air, which was much harder in the 2000's since the Internet wasn't as accessible, and watching episodes online wasn't really a thing yet as most were poor quality bootlegs (at least the ones I saw). I don't miss those days though. I do though still have the 2001 special on VHS which I got at Suncoast Video later that year. I too have many taped recordings of old shows such as Teen Titans, Ben 10, Bakugan, and Pokémon.

♡

You good? 🥺

I'm a fan of original rugrats and all grown up. As told by ginger was underappreciated at the time

@@thesegafan4472 No kidding. I watched a couple of As Told By Ginger episodes out of order like a week or two ago because NickRewind was promoting the Paramount+ app by playing episodes of classic Nick shows, and I was blown away. They played random episodes so I didn't get a lot of the context, but I remember some the show's plot from back in the day. All I can say is this show was ahead of its time. I could really appreciate everything that was being said and shown because I'm older now. I mean, this show is at least 21 years old, and it's honestly better than half of if not all of the baseless sludge they call cartoons nowadays. I usually don't resonate with slice of life stories so much, but As Told By Ginger was really good.

I don't get the Chucky comment. Very specific.

Why

Where can I see the ending

Also, It’s crazy, but at the time, I thought that they were all in either Middle School or HighSchool, but most of the characters were actually in Elementary/Grade School, except for Angelica and Susie. And I think Chuckie was also a year ahead of the rest as well. The show was so HighSchool Oriented, that it took me by surprise that Tommy, Phil, Lil, and Kimmy were only 10-11 in the series. Especially because they literally had Jobs, Kimmy had a BF and was going through her Teenage Phase, Dyl was very well spoken, they all had phones and laptops, and their school seemed more like a HighSchool or a very Advanced Private Middle School.

True but maybe it will draw in a new generation. Art is always growing and improving or changing. Not sure if I like all the new styles as much because I love traditional animation more even with all the flaws with them

@@terellmitchell918 Loud house... yeah their animation style did change. Not sure exactly why they thought that was a good idea.

Tbh why did they even have to make the reboot

on rugrats

I didn't know susie had siblings i thought she was an only child like Anjelica

@@kristopherjones7997 There was a Kwanzaa episode about Susie and her family celebrating it and she had siblings

@@m_arz Yes, they also had a few more episodes with her siblings. One where they just moved in to the neighborhood and Didi went to introduce herself you see her siblings. Also an episode where her older sister was in charge of babysitting Susie, her two brothers and Tommy for the night.

@@m_arz i didn't know she had Siblings

I barely remembered the siblings. The only one I remembered the most was her older sister. What were their names?

i would like to see engelica have a baby sister to take care of

Trust me your not alone I got goosebumps from that scene

That's the best episode!