Happy Hanukkah, Jordan Fringe! You're the best RU-vidr on Earth! But, maybe, I can't wait to watch Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia on Crunchyroll on Christmas Day.
This sounds like a rather special episode that would hit close to home, kind of like how the original episodes did when I was much younger. I have a dad who's jewish and a mom who's christian, so grew up with both holidays. I'll have to check this out, thanks Jordan for showing this!
One thing that a few kids shows liked to do was show the other sides of the Holidays, and I think Rugrats did a great job. As a kid you might hear about Hannukah but if you aren't Jewish, you probably only know about the menorah and dreidels. Before watching that Rugrats special as a kid, I really had no idea what it was about. I remember Arthur and Blues Clues also showing off Hannukah, but Rugrats was the only one with a big focus on it. I'm really glad to see that they've continued to show off the non-Christmas Holidays in the reboot.
I have a friend that celebrates Hanukkah and we have been doing this for a couple years where I’ll send her a message wishing her a happy Hanukkah and she will wish me a merry Christmas. I know it’s a small thing but I like doing stuff like this.
I don't have Paramount+ so I haven't seen the new "Rugrats" yet but I think this new holiday episode is beautiful. Something else I've always loved about every version of "Rugrats", especially now that I'm older, is that the parents and other adult characters aren't just feeding the babies and changing diapers every time they appear on screen. They all have their own lives and personalities and situations going on. TBH, I think Didi looks more like her mom here than she did in the original version of "Rugrats".
I don't either, it's called the internet, you can easily find it to watch. And I was SUPER skeptical about the show at first but y'know? It's an amazing reboot and I thought the 3D would bother me but the funny thing is I adore it since now I'm a 3D artist myself so it feels like the show grew up with me. It's a little jarring at first but after like 3 episodes you sorta even forget its 3D. Specificaly the Jurrasic Bark-esque episode is where it picks up.
Sounds like this was a pretty solid modern holiday special! It's great that Rugrats seems to have been able to maintain that trajectory in the same way that the original series did. I appreciate hearing that. Great video and breakdown of the 2021 Rugrats holiday special!
Same. The original shows art style was unique, such as the animators using a forced perspective in the drawings to convey things from a child's pov. That just seems lacking in this style, it looks more like a PlayStation cutscene
@@MrOrcshaman I think this looks unique in it's own way, particularly compared to other CG shows, since it has a smulty atmosphere most other CG shows don't (Think Tim Burton, except it's not stop-motion), and the claymation esthetic appears how a child would envision the world. So, it does capture that charm but in a different light. Making the Rugrats CG was always going to be something that divides people (Even Blue's Clues and You has some detractors, even if it's a generally well received reboot), but it is a big upgrade from the old Playstation games. We're all nostalgic for those, but the babies looked super weird, and those models wouldn't age well if those games were being made today.
We never really celebrated christmas beyond having presents on the 24, cause we always traveled to visit family on the 25, so we really never got too exited, but the last 2 years since we have a little cousin we really hype things up again for her, that really helps bring back the holiday spirits for everyone
Funny enough I enjoyed the countdown from December 1st til Christmas Day. To this day I still buy those cheep chocolate count down Callander’s you see at the grocery store. A fun tradition I do each December
@@the-nina-beans88 Advent Calendars! Never really got into them myself; we never "observed" Advent growing up (evangelicals). But I became Episcopalian in my late 20s and now have and Advent wreath.
I haven't seen much of the Rugrats reboot since I don't have Paramount+, but tacking multiple holiday traditions in one episode is an interesting approach. Having multiple episodes on different holidays might have been more ideal as a way to provide insight into different cultures and traditions, but there are plenty of people who do celebrate different holidays and want to honor different family traditions, so showcasing the stress and struggle to find a balance to make everyone happy is a relatable conflict too.
It's nice to see they made a good Rugrats reboot episode, especially being holiday themed. I'll have to check it out! I always really enjoyed the Rugrats Christmas episode, I saw it quite a bit as a kid. Great video as always!
Werewolf Hunter was also a good first holiday themed episode for the reboot series and, this is going to be controversial, but WAY better of a Halloween episode than the original series’ first one Candy Bar Creep Show.
The most impressive holiday special the Rugrats ever did was the one for Passover! I have literally never seen another show address the most important Jewish holiday. Would love to see what you think of it! For comparison, it covers the same plot as The Prince of Egypt.
okay now I'm confused about Grandpa Lou's past, I thought in the reboot he was supposed to be a hippy and spent the 60's in a band and going to woodstock, but in this episode he's clearly wearing Military Fatigues as pants while going to chop a tree, so is Lou a Hippie or a Vietnam Veteran? edit: upon looking at his overall character design he seems to wear those pants a lot in the reboot, so maybe they didn't completely ditch the War Veteran aspect of his character, maybe we'll see a veterans day special featuring some of his stories.
I remember in one episode he had a flashback that established that he broke his leg after tripping over his own mattress so he never actually went to the battle field. It was the episode Stew wanted to get rid of his father's old matress but he refused because he treasured it for that reason. It's an old episode but I vaguely remember it.
I grew up watching the original Rugrats and now watch the new series with my two year old. I don’t think I’ve ever related to a tv character as much as I relate to Didi in this new series. Motherhood is insanely stressful with a lot of unneeded pressure, not just from those around us, but ourselves and I feel like the Rugrats nailed the pressures of millennial motherhood through Didi.
I agree, this seems the most like how Rugrats made me feel growing up. ❤️ I think they did a great job. (Though I'm forever salty they didn't have Rugrats be Tommy's gen as parents. Having Stu and Didi as millennials is just so, so weird. Also feels odd not having Phil and Lils dad around, given that he never seemed like a bad guy even if he was forgettable.)
I still really enjoy the reboot as it is, but I think it would be super cool to have the OG characters as the parents and have their kids be the new generation of Rugrats. I'm hoping they somehow also decide to make an All Grown Up reboot and do that as the concept 😂 I'd personally love to see Angelica as an adult since she developed into a much nicer character in All Grown Up and see if she's actively trying to make her children better than she was or if she turned into Charlotte caring more about work than her kids
Betty being a Latina was a surprise to me, also I didn't know about Posadas, I'm from Nicaragua where some Catholics just put Nativities in their houses, but it's no longer a common tradition, I guess all this Posadas stuff is from Mexico. I just feel sad about what happened with Howard, and Betty being lesbian it doesn't feels right, Betty was a mentally and phisically strong woman, a real feminist, it wasn't necessary to make her a lesbian, actually now it feels kinda like a stereotype. Also it feels rare Lou being a Boomers and former hippie now, cuz in the Original was a Conservative WW2 veteran. But the new series is kinda funny so I'm gonna give it a chance.
I honestly had no idea about this reboot even being a thing. (Literally just discovered it through this video.) But if they had done a new Rugrats with the kids as adults with a new generation of Rugrats that would have been amazing. It'd be so cool to see the kids all grown up and how they've developed and the possibilities of what their kids could be like are limitless.
@@loganarnoldkicks4321 I hope she doesn’t turn into another Charlotte. Charlotte was already a neglectful parent in the original series and also a bad influence on her daughter. I mean, where else did Angelica get her demanding and bossy behavior towards her cousins and his friends? I’m surprised Drew put up with her considering they’re married in All Grown Up. If I had been Drew’s position, I can guarantee our marriage would have only last for 3 or 4 years.
Hi Greatness Jordan! Ah my goodness, whoa good work and it is nice watching original Rugrats in NickelodeonRewind. Tomorrow is my birthday. I hope you have a Wonderful Happy Thursday! :)
Great video Jordan. Keep up the great work. Love your videos. Your dedication and hard work that you put in your videos doesn't go unnoticed. We all appreciate it.
Why does this feel episode feel like its more so for an older audience who might be juggling these actual situations versus the original one which focused more on easily teaching kids about the holiday? I could be wrong but I actually prefer the original one since I think teaching the kids about other holidays is better than just say me seeing a situation I could be in in a reboot of a show I watched when I was a kid.
This episode sounds really dumb. Why would it be Didi's responsibility to include Betty's tradition in HER HOME when she's already juggling 2 holiday celebrations and entertaining her parents (who she rarely gets to see). If Didi is clearly overwhelmed, why wouldn't Betty just do it at her house or ask someone else to help her?
As a Latino I really really don't like that Betty is a Latina now, I don't want established characters to change for the sake of my representation. New characters that represent me is much better. Why did Betty need to be Latina? Can't Phil and Lil's Latina aunt be enough? She could easily have been written as someone who married into their family. The more I learn about this reboot the least I want to support it in any way tbh...
So i wasn't crazy when i heard that...-sigh- Why do they keep making changes to betty? Nothing about her says ''latina.'' She's as white as DD lol, n' literally based on the 80s work out mom stereotype. JUST MAKE NEW CHARACTERS.
@@tubguinace Their last name is DeVille in the reboot, and I'm sure they'll have original characters of various ethnicities as it goes along. It's only 14 episodes in, and there's a gameplan to introduce new characters, as well as preexisting ones. I think most of the changes were presented out of context by the media, to make them seem like they're confusing, and came out of nowhere (Kimi's reveal, and Howard's whereabouts). There is a gameplan to reintroduce fan favorite characters, and dynamics that people loved about the old show. They're just going about it a different way, since despite having the same production team, it is set in an alternate continuity, and they don't want to rehash what's already been done in the original show. This doesn't mean Kimi won't be Chuckie's stepsister, for example, but they're taking it one step at a time.
Other than doing Betty stuff (like running through walls) most of the time she's chilled out and telling jokes to Didi. She's relaxed vs Didi's anxious
I have seen the new Rugrats ep Traditions and it was wonderful and heartfelt and I love the moment with Didi tells her parents that she wants to do her traditions and not her parents and I love this scene 🎄❤️ but this holiday episode was just amazing wonderful feels just as classic as the classic Rugrats holidays specials, I highly recommend this new holiday episode of Rugrats
The blending of all these holidays is great, but the Rugrats Hanukkah special was the only special I grew up with that related to a religious holiday that I celebrate.
I'm glad they did well with this episode. It would be difficult to showcase so many holidays in one episode without it feeling rushed or incomplete. I remember being interested in the Hanukkah episode as a kid because it taught you about the holiday, like really dedicated itself to sharing the story behind the holiday as well as the customs that people observed today when celebrating
Yup I watched the Angelica birthday episode as a pregnant adult and understood and felt the scene where drew got sentimental with Angelica turning 3 and saying “my girl is growing up”. Now officially having an infant daughter myself, I feel that so much. Whereas, I couldn’t get why he got like that watching as a kid thinking it’s just a birthday party.
I love the Rugrats reboot show. I cried when Tommy said to Dil, "I'm your big brother and we're going to go on lots of adventures together!" after he was born!
I just got done watching the episode and my God it was so sweet. Also it seems like because Boris and Minka live farther away the two sides of the family don't see each other as much
I always thought the Rugrats had the best Holiday specials growing up. My favorites were the Hanukkah special and the gift switch episode from a later season.
I can’t help but wonder if the reason so many of us that grew up with the original rugrats don’t like it is that when we watch the original because of the date the grownups still seem old but in the new the parents are literally our age and it puts on display the fact we are now our parents age
I was just about to finally ask "or else what?" if I don't follow you on Twitter, which I already do. Then you finally followed up on the "or else." LOL. Great video, bro. This seems like it was a really nice episode of the new Rugrats. Haven't watched it at all, because I don't subscribe to Paramount+, but I'd actually like to watch this episode some time.
Running through some of your Christmas special summaries about the new Rugrats one and Fairly Odd Parents actually has me a little teary-eyed. I always really enjoyed christmas and these holiday specials. (the Eve is still my favorite day of the year since both sides of my family come over my parents house for 1 jam-packed house of cousins). I always felt the Rugrats did an AMAZING job on all of their holiday specials including, Passover, and they were pretty much the basis of my knowledge of Jewish holidays. Your videos reminded me how much I cherished this time of the year as a kid, and while there are still good times to be had, nothing is quiet as great as Christmas as a kid (With these awesome Nickelodeon specials PLUS.. you should totally do some of Cartoon Network's specials like the one with all of the Hanna Barbara characters like Flintstones and Yogi Bear)
I haven't gotten to see the new Rugrats mostly cuz Paramount plus subtitles sucks lol I loved the Kwanzaa special tho so much (honestly they're all amazing the Hanukkah special too)
I totally agree with your assessment. I do enjoy the reboot even if it isn't the original. It does lack what the original had, but this holiday special really does a good job in giving us perspective from both a child's and adult's POV. My favorite episode by far is the Hanukkah episode. I'm not Jewish, but as someone who is Protestant, I wanted to better understand my Judeo Christian roots because it all began with the Jewish people. I really adore it because I think it explains it better than any other special out there, even the Bump in the Night one.
Funny thing is I'm a Christian but learning about Hanukkah and other religions is interesting too especially with cartoons I do love learning about religions in a special format
same here, As a Christian I am faithful to my belief's but I am interested in other religions so that I could learn to understand them. Especially since it would help me connect to people of those faiths
Ok, cool special, very inclusive. This was the first episode of the reboot I watched so all the changes were very jarring, the new VA are pretty good, not as bad as some of the episodes made them seem And what a moral at the end, Whatever your religion, color, or who you choose to be your partner (and they panned RIGHT at Betty and Chaz.) was awesome. Man this shows gonna take some getting used to
Most definitely! As a much younger kid I was a tad confused since, as a Christian, some of the celebrations touched on in the Rugrats specials fit in my understanding of stories in the Old Testament (I remember my mom having a hilarious time having to explain to me how, yes, while the Bible has the story of Moses and whatnot, we do not celebrate Passover lol) looking back retrospectively I love the insight these varied traditions have given me while reflecting on the holidays in present day. While Christmas is still the main holiday I celebrate at this time of year, I love learning about and growing an understanding of other holidays and celebrations, or variants of these celebrations, and finding ways to help my friends celebrate them.
I have good news for you, the newest Disney Cartoon, The Ghost and Molly Mcgee, has a holiday special where each 11 min segment is centered on both hanukkah and Christmas. And it's funny. In general check out the show, it's hilarious.
As someone who grew up with both Christmas and Hannaka my mom managed to do both simultaneously with no problem. Also it was so cool to get presents for 2 different Holliday at the same time
I just watched this episode! I agree, I thought it was extremely well done. There were some great callbacks (that one kid being handed over to Santa reminded me of "Jimmy" from the episode Babies in Toyland-same character design and the reference to him having wet himself). I've said it before, Rugrats has a very special place in my heart as I grew up with it and it was a huge part of my childhood. I make it a point to watch the specials every year, including the Halloween and Thanksgiving ones. Same with All Grown Up (and Hey Arnold!). I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of this episode; it seemed way better than the others in this season so far, and I'm really looking forward to how they do the rest of the season. Also a big fan of how they made Betty and the kids Latino.
From what I gathered about this episode, while it does not change my opinion about the reboot (I still hate it), I will give it credit for at least making the effort to recapture the spirit from the various holiday episodes the original series had, even if it is still mostly just a rehash of stories that the original series did better.
This is where I'd say the new series finds it's legs. The first two batches were fine, but by this episode, and the episodes that follow it, it picks up, and goes in a direction more akin to the original series. Alot of veteran writers have written the last 10, and Rescuing Cynthia is classic Rugrats to a T.
I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I wouldn't have had any idea what Hanukah was if it weren't for the first Rugrats special. Or Kwanza for that matter. I grew up not knowing anyone who wasn't some form of practicing or non-practicing Christian. Eventually, I turned to Paganism to find my true core set of beliefs. But no one who raised me ever thought to mention that other religions existed. So I'm glad Rugrats could convey that in a meaningful way that stuck with me.
I don't know if you would do any suggestions but I do remember there being a Christmas/ Hanukkah ep with Pepper Ann call A Kosher Christmas. I remember it being pretty good with some heavy 90s things.
rugrats being jewish is literally so important to me. they’re the only ones in a vast sea of christmas episodes and vague. the thoughtfulness and sense of wonder and willingness to question “authority” (big kids) always resonated with my own idea of judaism. every time i watch a video about judaism from an outside perspective there’s also some horrific shit about the diaspora and blood libel and something something tinfoil hats in the comments. media like that is so important. even if it looks awful now i’m glad they kept their story straight there. Dead End Paranormal Park is the only other example of an explicitly jewish cartoon character being treated like a human being, they’re also trans btw : )
I don’t know where exactly the orginal Rugrats location was but in the first Christmas special they were clearly in a area where there was no snow but in the blizzard Episode there was snow. Funny how they rented a cabin with snow to have a white Christmas. And I can’t recall if babies in toy land episode if they had snow ( except that wonder land like place the babies were at with artificial snow) Even in the all grown up spin off they don’t have snow for Christmas LOL If the reboot is finally making it so they have snow for a white Christmas well about time
It would have been interesting to see if they could have squeezed prep for Kwanza in there as well since that starts the day after Christmas and it would also be a nice little nod to the one special they did ages ago on it. Other then that it does encapsulate the holiday stress to a crazy degree rather nicely. Even if you only celebrate one holiday during this time of year that constant stress to make it a good one can eat at people (at least when kids are involved, when their all grown it tends to be more lacks at least in our family).
I think she's biracial cause she has a niece on the show who's darker than her, and her voice actress is Cuban. Yeah this season you don't learn alot about Betty most of the time she's chillin' and saying one-liners. Except when she's breaking through walls lol
So watching this I excited to hear your take on the Rugrats Hanukkah special because to me that one along with the Passover one hits home. I am a Jewish American, similar to Didi my ancestry came from the Shtetl in the Pale region of Russia/ Poland but my relatives came more prior to World War 1 and thus only distant relatives were caught up in the Holocaust. So to see media growing up that was not related to the Holocaust was a treat because I saw myself in Tommy even though he's only have Jewish and I am full. I my not be practicing but being a Jew is much apart of my identify as anything else.
Why does Susie know about Hanukkah but Tommy doesn't? They're the same age. in the old series it would make sense for Susie to know because she was three. But now that she's the same age as Tommy and not Jewish. It comes off kind of Mary Sueish that she knows what Hanukkah is but Tommy dosent.
Completely understand, my sister and my brother-in-law are young parents they’re about 25 mostly balancing work, Kids and the holidays is always difficult even when you have two or one tradition for even more even Waukee competition soup to make the greatest pie for Thanksgiving, or making a carrot cake on Easter or heaven a wacky or we are gives fun Christmas Eve to bring a little joy or a laugh for my family so it’s understandable to see yourself as the young parents trying to I was trying to figure things out in my life and being an uncle at the same time and try to Talk to you or have fun with my niece and nephew
One of the highlights of the original 1991 version of Rugrats was its racial diversity, having specials for Hanukkah, Passover, and Kwanzaa in addition to Christmas. The 2021 reboot has followed in its older brother's footsteps by celebrating Los Posadas in addition to Christmas and Hanukkah, due to Betty being of Latina descent. Now, I personally do still prefer the holiday specials from the 1991 series, but after having seen the disaster that was A Loud House Christmas, I hoped that Rugrats (2021) could make a better holiday special for Nickelodeon, and fortunately for me, it did. While A Loud House Christmas depicted Lincoln as a Christmas humbug who sabotaged his family's plans so he could get his way and caused thousands of dollars' worth of property damage when he tried to make things right, this special depicts Angelica as someone who truly cares about her baby cousin, going as far as to save him from a goat when she makes him return the Baby Jesus that she had mistaken for her Christmas present to the Nativity scene to save Los Posadas, saying she owes him for it.
My family was religious when I was growing up, (still are, but they're chill about it) but we never really celebrated Christmas like lots of other people did. We had Nikolaus instead, since my mom's side of the family is VERY german, so we'd leave our shoes out and either of my parents would put small things like candy or small toys in them. My Opa, (still on mom's side) is Jewish. We didn't find that out recently, so we never celebrated Hanukkah, but as a kid seeing the original rugrats holiday specials was really cool to me, because I thought that Nikolaus and Hanukkah were similar. I think a handful of the kids in my neighborhood celebrated kwanzaa, and I know a lot of them celebrated Los Posadas, since I remeber standing on my apartment's porch when I was five and watching people walk by.
I have a Jewish friend who voiced that he was disappointed that the only Jewish patriarch was stripped of the things that showed his heritage before his American life as a Jew. The original could have done better of course, but this new version of grandpa is disappointing. These are my friends words and I've heard other Jewish people say similar things. Edited to give my friend credit for their words.
I miss the old designs for Didi's parents, as well as their voices and mannerisms, but I understand that they don't translate as well to this new animation style and things needed up be updated accordingly. I like the message behind this one, but I still can't get behind this reboot Doesn't feel right, and I can't put my finger on it as to why.
