Les Razmoket

I love watching THE RUGRATS. This first came on in 1991 and is still on the make, there has been lots and lots of episodes as the rugrats are likely following in the simpsons footsteps as they are also still on the make with lots and lots of episodes. The Rugrats have made 3 movies and hopefully there will be more movies to come from them. My favourite episode of The Rugrats is No More Cookies Angelica because i really love that episode where Angelica Burps. That makes me laugh. I give The Rugrats a good score 10 out 10.

I will admit there was a time when I didn't like the Rugrats that much, but now along with Wild Thornberrys it is one of my favourite shows on Nicolodean. I initially thought it was childish and not my cup of tea. How wrong I was. It manages to be both cute and funny at the same time. It is one of the shows out there that I love more than I did in childhood.

The animation is crisp and colourful, with lovely backgrounds and the character animation isn't bad at all. The episode ideas are very unique, and the show is well written and has a number of genuinely funny moments. It also succeeds in conveying good messages and family and friendship values, without preaching.

The theme tune is I suppose like Marmite, you love it or hate it. Personally I love it. It is great, memorable and reasonably catchy. The characters, without being sickly sweet, are engaging. My favourite is Angelica, although bossy and obnoxious, she is also funny and you do kind of warm to her.

And what a great voice cast. Christine Cavanaugh is the standout as Chuckie, but Tara Strong(aka Charendoff), Elizabeth Daily and Kath Soucie also bring out solid supporting turns. It is true, the show did decline in quality in the later seasons, my only criticism here.

As for the movies, I enjoyed all of them, though I will say my favourite was Rugrats In Paris. I am really sorry I misjudged this show, and it took me so long to realise that. I give it a solid 8.5/10 Bethany Cox

This show started out good, fresh and funny - with a simple premise. What life looks like through the eyes of a baby.

It had good material and fine animation,, but completely lost the plot with it's 1997 return and the two feature films.

Once upon a time I liked Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil and Anjelica, but with the new voices, and characters, I couldn't care less.

Rugrats is about a group of babies named Tommy Pickles who is the fearless leader of the group, Chucky Finster, the scaredy cat of the bunch, and a group of bickering twins named Phil and Lil. No show is complete without a nemesis, in this case it's Tommy's older cousin, Angelica who is also a spoiled brat.

I used to enjoy watching this show all the time. It's very entertaining and the stories for the cartoons were creative.

I would like to emphasize on "was my #2 show on Nickelodeon". I say that because the show, for a time was very good and entertaining and then Nick started putting out the newer episodes. Then there was the addition of Tommy's new baby brother, Dil who is now the most annoying character on the show. A lot of the humor is gone now, too. I mean most of the humor now is just stupid toilet humor or worn-out humor from the old shows. The show has since then, lost a lot of it's impact. Now the new shows are just retarded. The stories and plots now have the babies making a lot stupid decisions and getting into some pretty idiotic situations.

I give Rugrats a 10/10 for the old episodes and 1/10 for the new episodes.

When Rugrats hit the scene, I instantly loved it. I was 7 years old when the first episodes aired, and it was a great show. I couldn't get enough of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil & Angelica. It was great and had lots of good episodes. Then something terrible happened. For no apparent reason whatsoever, the creators decided it would be a good idea to give Tommy a brother and make a movie. What a horrible decision. Dill added NOTHING to the plot of the show except being ridiculously annoying and ruining all of the flow of the main characters. Also around this time, the writers decided they needed to take the more adult-type themes out of the show entirely and make this show as if it should be shown on Nick Jr. instead of Nickelodeon. I will never understand why they changed the show so dramatically towards their extremely younger demographic group. Rugrats had plenty of older kids and even teenagers and some adults watching regularly. Why pander to your youngest viewers who would watch the TV no matter what show was on? They lost me when they added Dill. However, I did view the show after the 2nd movie because my mom had in-home daycare and they would be watching it. The character of Chuckie's step sister was even worse than Dill. That series of episodes was even more unwatchable than the ones with just Dill. I was just saddened watching that and seeing how downhill Rugrats had fallen. It's a shame that Nickelodeon and their creative writers, did this to basically every show that was good in the early 90's. Am I right? Look at what happened to their best shows, they were either canceled or changed so dramatically that they no longer resembled that great show you once loved. Doug was sold to Disney and turned into crap. Hey Dude was canceled in it's prime. Rocko's Modern Life was given the boot for no reason. Angry Beavers was given the axe because of a disagreement with the creators wanting to keep the show the funny. Nickelodeon from 1990-1995 was great, then it just fell apart and we got stuck with a bunch of garbage mostly after that that has never recovered into anything watchable. I DVR Rugrats every night at 5:00 and 5:30 AM. Sometimes they are the original episodes and I love watching them now. Other times they are the newer ones and those just suck and I immediately delete those.