While Angelica's adjusting to her status as an older sister, Drew and Charlotte come to the realization that they aren't exactly the best parents ever, and end becoming more involved in not only their new baby's life, but Angelica's life as well, and start spending more time with her, which, as a result, helps Angelica become better-adjusted to being an older sister.
Also, I would imagine Angelica's sister not becoming an Angelica-clone (personality-wise), but rather more like an anti-Angelica (similar to what Susie is).
Like Gamera, Reptar started out as your standard issue Kaiju; going on a ramapage, destroying buildings, that kind of stuff. The end of "Reptar 2010" is even him being sent to outer space in a rocket ship with humanity bearing no ill will against him, similar to the ending of the first Gamera film.Reptar parodies how Gamera became a Lighter and Softer Friend to All Children. He gets his own ice show, a Disneyland-style theme park, and all kinds of kid friendly merchandise the parents buy for the kids with little trepidation. Grandpa even intends to show Tommy and Chuckie "Reptar Come Home."
This also explains Didi's pregnancy. Didi has been pregnant since the show started. The babies just didn't realize it, because why would they? They're babies! Dil's birth indicates that nine months have passed between the first episode and the first Rugrats movie. The episodes following Dil's birth up until Rugrats In Paris represent three months, thus completing an entire year. Thus, Rugrats In Paris until the show's end represents one year as well.
- Not really, you can buy thermistors ten a penny (well not literally, but they are cheap) from any electronics hobbyist shop. Infra-red cameras are surprisingly cheap as well.
- Can you get materials for hover technology from any electronics hobbyist shop? Sure we can manage drones with fans, but that hover-rama made a strange UFO sound when it lifted off.
- Maybe he just recorded a sound from Space Trek Babies or something.
- Can you get materials for hover technology from any electronics hobbyist shop? Sure we can manage drones with fans, but that hover-rama made a strange UFO sound when it lifted off.
- On the other hand, Boris does look a lot like his younger grandson. So it's possible that Minka is the adoptive parent, but by complete coincidence shares near-sightedness and curly hair with Didi's biological mother.
- In the Chanukah special, Didi alternates between calling Boris by his first name, and "Dad." This troper found that odd until reading the above theory. Most likely, Boris is the step-parent.
- Maybe Didi's birth father was Boris's brother or cousin, which would explain why Dil looks like Boris.
- A sharp-eyed viewer can clearly see Angelica start to make the 'f' sound before the camera cuts away from her when she's onstage. It's short but it's there.
- The bleeps are definitely for two syllables too, so f-ers would fit.
- When Angelica asks Drew and Charlotte what it means, they refuse to tell her. If it was "shits", they could have said, "It's a nasty grown up word for poop." But explaining the other one to a three-year-old? They couldn't tell her where babies come from in the stork episode.
- There's finally a good quality video but others are in agreement Miss Carol thinks they're all little "fuckers".
- The bleeps are definitely for two syllables too, so f-ers would fit.
- Think about it for a minute. Angelica is The Bride, Suzie Carmichael is Copperhead, Lil is Elle Driver, Kimmi is Oren Ishii, Tommy is Budd, and Dil is Bill. Angelica's crazy as it is, Kimmi's Asian and not from the US, Suzie's black, Lil at the beginning of the series was the only other female peer, and Tommy and Dil are brothers.
- The crazy 88 are the Mr. Friend dolls.
- She could have just had a miscarriage, you know.
- Maybe Angelica wasn't the only one dreaming about "Baby Damien"; that is one scary kid!
- Wasn't that Charlotte's first trip to the doctor since taking a home pregnancy test? I always just figured she'd gotten a false positive on the home test.
- False positives on home pregnancy tests are pretty uncommon. Though, given the target audience, they're probably much more likely to imply that's what happened.
- Actually, there are a few reasons you could get a false positive, such as letting it sit too well (like out of nerves), a faulty pregnancy test or even something like a chemical pregnancy.
- Not only that, the pregnancy test looked a bit fantastical. (Unless that was some common home pregnancy test in the '90s.) But still, I can attest to that, especially the whole faulty pregnancy test as mentioned below it's possible that Charlotte misread the instructions so "blue" meant "not pregnant" or "Tainted sample - please try again". I can also attest to how faulty pregnancy tests can give a false positive - when my mom gave a drug test sample at work, they were quite amused at how she was not only pregnant in her 50s but had a hysterectomy in the past two years.
- It's possible it wasn't an abortion, but this is made even more plausible when Charlotte and Drew are discussing finances, and Drew expresses concern.
- Charlotte's line, "When the baby comes, it comes," is a strong pro-life sentiment. Miscarriage makes way more sense than abortion.
- It's highly unlikely that a three-year-old, even a spoiled rotten one like Angelica, could put enough pressure on her parents to abort a baby that they both clearly wanted, especially considering the behavior of some of the real-life three-year-olds you see on shows like Supernanny. Depending on how long Charlotte had been pregnant, it's more likely she miscarried (watch Drew squeeze her hand at the end). Or, she could have misread the test instructions (as in, blue means "not pregnant," but she misread it as "pregnant.")
- One darker theory I heard coincides with this - The reason that Angelica's so spoiled is because she's a "miracle baby" - Drew and Charlotte had struggles with infertility, and the thought that Charlotte could be pregnant a second time is why they're so ecstatic, but she had a miscarriage early, and that's why she was so sad. (Charlotte probably has a lot of stress in her life and stress can cause a miscarriage in the first trimester. No idea about her caffeine consumption, but excessive caffeine consumption can also cause miscarriages.)
- Unsure about the exposure to caffeine as well, but the near-constant exposure to cell phones and computer screens cannot be good for the baby.
- Angelica also remains the lone only child throughout the series (a decade). That could be because (A) Charlotte and Drew can't have more kids (B) Charlotte had her tubes tied and/or Drew had a vasectomy, (C) Angelica was such a high-risk pregnancy that after the disappointment of "Worst Nightmare," they didn't want to risk pregnancy again, or a combined B and C.
- Also, this is sort of canon, considering the line in one episode of All Grown Up! where Lil said something along the lines of "I wonder what Dil would be like if we hadn't dropped him on his head" while Tommy was spying on them with his digital camera ( It Makes Sense in Context )
- Then again, he might have been the same if they hadn't, for Didi thinks that Dil's eccentricity is genetic and he got it from Stu.
- This makes a lot of sense if you consider the insane adventures that the babies have, mostly when Angelica's not around — they do things that would kill any normal baby, and their parents never notice they've gone missing. Imagine that the babies are toys Angelica plays with when she's at her aunt and uncle's, and when she's not there she's imagining them having crazy adventures. When she is there, she's mostly in charge of the situation.
- Also, Doctor Lipschitz and the psychiatrist the family visits in "Mama Trauma" are actually specialists helping Didi deal with the loss of her child, rather than a child psychologist. After all, a woman who is so obsessed with her child's actions that she would drag him to a shrink doesn't seem likely to let that same child wander out of her sight frequently.
- Although the Mother's Day episode implies that Chuckie's mother died of an unexplained terminal illness which doesn't explain how Chuckie died with her. It could have been a hereditary illness which was passed on to Chuckie but that's fairly unlikely.
- Angelica's manifestation of white guilt: Susie, the first black Rugrat, is, more or less, the exact opposite of Angelica.
- Alternatively, it's possible to read Angelica as a tragic figure in the grip of the dark feminine power, while Susie can be explained as the 'light alter ego' that Angelica doesn't consciously know she's lost access to. To Angelica, Susie is the kind of girl she imagines she'd be if she actually had the love and support of her family - while Angelica controls the imaginary Rugrats and attempts to dominate them, Susie is what Angelica might have been if she'd had the chance to love and be loved instead of immersing herself in make-believe.
- Damn it...
- Where do Dil and Kimi fit in?
- I read somewhere that Dil and Kimi exist, but not as you'd think. Shortly after being brought home from the hospital, Dil suffered head trauma thanks to Angelica (won't go into detail here) and is slow as a result. Kira either lost custody of Kimi to her ex-husband during their divorce, or Kira was a prostitute, and Kimi was taken away by Child Services.
- sorry to be a jerk but I need to ask if that was true than why can the Rugrats be seen without Angelica?
- Because Rule of Empathy.
- No, Tommy's obviously the main character of the show. If anything,
- What if the infamous "Rugrats Theory" was all just a dream?
- If this is true then how come, in most episodes, the parents are seen interacting with their children?
- Because Angelica recognizes that all these imaginary kids would need parents, so she gives parents to them. In the case of Stu and Didi, it actually shows Angelica is capable of empathy and not a budding sociopath, because she imagines that the child they lost is still alive and therefore "gives him back." Also, notice that all the other Rugrats' parents are loving and supportive—the kind of parents Angelica wants to have. She made up different parents with different personalities for each baby so she could experiment with the type of Mom and Dad she'd want most. It helps her deal with the pain of real life. She also somewhat exaggerates some of the parents' characteristics to be funny and give herself something light to focus on.
- On a further note: eventually, all the other babies have siblings. If this theory is true, it just makes Angelica's longing for a sibling that much more of a Tear Jerker.
- If she longed for a sibling and invented the babies, why wouldn't she invent a sibling?
- So, if counting the spin-off, did Angelica continue to imagine these until middle school?
- One version of the theory says "In All Grown Up, Angelica's delusions are exacerbated by her being addicted to narcotics. Supposedly, Angelica's biological mom died from a heroin overdose and Angelica developed problems further on as her mom took drugs while being pregnant. Angelica got hooked to these mind-altering drugs in order to continue her relationship with her "Rugrat creations," as they were the only company she'd ever really kept.Her mom was called Cynthia, which is where the doll's name stems from. Angelica mirrored her mother's image in the Barbie doll, which is why she was so attached to it. The woman shown as Angelica's mom in the Rugrats is actually her step-mom."
- Jossed by Arlene Klasky
- Also the "Chas is a nervous wreck because Melinda died" is fully jossed, even without the Chuckie part, because a Flash Back in "The Fountain of Youth" shows him being just as scaredy as a toddler.
- In psychological terms, Angelica is Tommy's id, Chuckie is Tommy's ego, and Susie is Tommy's superego. Phil and Lil represent Tommy's gender confusion, since he doesn't really have any Tertiary Sexual Characteristics and is too young for a sexuality. Dil is Tommy's inner child, his desire to be innocent and 'normal'. Kimi is his desire for real friend, shaped by Kira's appearance. The parents are just friends of Tommy's parents and any mention or talking to any other rugrats is imagined by Tommy, as are any adventures without Tommy. Tommy's just a lonely kid with loony parents.
- But, in "Piece of Cake", Tommy was not IN it. And why would Kimi feed Fifi at the beginning of "Attention Please" if she didn't exist? (at the beginning, Tommy is not there).
- Why would Angelica be thinking about those dumb babies with some of them not having herself in?
- Tommy-Betty
- Chuckie-Chaz
- Phil and Lil-Stu and Drew
The only problem I run into is that I can't find an Angelica in the parents' group.
- Charlotte?
- There was a flashback episode set in the 1950's with Stu as a baby and Drew as a toddler. Baby Stu was such an Expy of Tommy that they had the same VA. Drew, however, was more of an amalgamation of the rest of the cast.
- Not in the parents' group, but if you're looking for an adult counterpart for her, look no further than Aunt Miriam, who used to torture Grandpa in the same way Angelica tortures Tommy. If you look closely, they even have the same face.
- This doesn't work quite as well because in "A Visit from Aunt Miriam," Aunt Miriam mentions she and Grandpa used to play with kids named Bill and Jill (Phil and Lil). It's possible that instead, Stu was Tommy, Chas was Chuckie, and Betty was a combination of both Phil and Lil (kind of the same way Kath Soucie did the voice acting for both twins). If that's the case, it's quite possible Charlotte was the Angelica for the parents' group, but they don't mention it much because she also married their "Tommy's" older brother. Would've been sort of awkward to bring up childhood dynamics in that case, especially in front of Angelica. Not that she needs any more encouragement to torment the babies, but hearing what her mom used to do might make her think, "Cool; how come I never thought of that?".
- Don't forget that Betty does have a twin brother named Freddie.
- There was a flashback episode set in the 1950's with Stu as a baby and Drew as a toddler. Baby Stu was such an Expy of Tommy that they had the same VA. Drew, however, was more of an amalgamation of the rest of the cast.
- THE PLAY PEN IS HIS TARDIS!
- If he was one, he would have gone back in time instead of trying to go into Chuckie in "Inside Story".
- Yup, this one seems pretty flawless. All Growed Up is clearly a fantasy sequence seeing as it ends with them all as babies again. All Grown Up has several differences and there's nothing to indicate that we're not really in the future this time round.
- Didi is also a home economics teacher, it's just not explored much, so she probably provides stable income while Stu's inventions give them a little extra.
- If he's gay, why did he marry a woman?
- He's in the closet. Charlotte is his beard.
- Jossed. In Rugrats in Paris Stu mentions that it's a new century and it features songs from the late 90s, early 2000s. He even sets Chuckie's dad up on an internet dating site. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the passport montage, it shows that they were issued in the year 2000. Charlotte's cell phones evolve into ones from the year the episode was produced as the series go on, i.e. a brick sized one in the early 1990s, a flip phone with an antenna in the late 90s, etc. All Grown Up! may be a Time Skip or take place in the late 2000s.
- Well the wiki seems to agree with this theory. (Just look up the characters and their birth dates.)
- Actually, that's just part of being old. Granted... he does fall asleep a little too quickly.
- Possibly less noticeable in his baby days, since a lot of the traits, such as his unusual fears and attachment to comfort object Wawa, could be explained as a two-year-old being a two-year-old. However, this theory becomes more plausible in All Grown Up, when Chuckie is 12. His highly specialized interests in/obsessions with Armadillo Dave and Yu-Gotta-Go cards provide evidence, as does his increased social awkwardness, especially around girls. He also doesn't seem to have lost some of those unusual childhood fears.
- Since when are Aspies timid?
- Or maybe he was the product of a polyamory.
- Well, that explains a lot. If they're related to someone like that, no wonder Chas is a neurotic wreck and Chuckie is scared of everything from the dark to oatmeal. It's also possible that Muriel is Chas's father's sister or other relative. Notice that Chas's dad is sort of a tough guy who doesn't buy into child psychology (see "Finsterella" and "The Family Tree.") Why? Because he and Muriel grew up like that, of course.
- As Chas's character page points out, he has some Ambiguously Jewish traits and even says "Oy gevalt!" in one episode. In the Passover special he says "We're not really Jewish," but even that wording might imply that to some extent they are Jewish, just not full-fledged. Maybe Chas is half-Jewish on his father's side, which means he technically isn't Jewish according to traditional law, and has never practiced the faith and culture as much as Tommy and his family have either, but still has the heritage.
However, being babies they can't communicate to their parents just how much they hate the Dummi Bears. So the adults just assume the babies love the series as much as they do and force it upon them as much as possible. Making the babies want to see Reptar—what they prefer to watch—all the more.
- Chuckie seems to like Dummi Bears, not so much Tommy, but Kimi?
- Kimi's seen enjoying Dummi Bears too.
- It's not mind control, they're just distracted.
- You sure the "Downfall of the show" wasn't just "By the time Kimi appeared, the target demographic who was maybe 5-7 when the show started was now 14-16 and therefore much more interested in stuff like All That or the stuff on Toonami"?
- Or a brother (an illegitimate son of Grandpa Lou's?), or nephew.
- It would explain how Stu is able to afford such nice things and not have to get a "dead-end job" like Drew despite many of his inventions being hit-or-miss. That grill that Doug accidentally broke in "Doug Needs Money" may very well have been made by Stu himself.
Think about these. They both have blond hair, they are both kids, and their clothes are purple and orange. (In fact, they're similar). What if Angelica wished for her family to let her do what ever she want and her cat died? These made her very upset so much that her soulgem darkened quickly and she became the witch Albertine. Anja may represent the baby because she's naive. Think about it.
That's why he's afraid of clowns and strangers.
In the season two episode "Toy Palace," Tommy and Chuckie play with a miniature cowboys and Indians set in which a fight is reenacted at the push of a button. The Indian figurines shoot a bunch of rubber-tipped arrows, which fly into one of the teddy bears on a shelf behind the babies, therefore knocking it off the shelf. Chuckie seems almost immediately attached to the bear and never lets go of it throughout the rest of the episode. Several years later, we find him carrying around a teddy bear named Wawa. The bear is battered and presumably has a missing eye. Along with the usual wear-and-tear, some of the injuries could be because in its early life, the bear was "fixed" (as in, taped profusely) with a make-believe doctor's kit. Chaz bought the bear for Chuckie because it could no longer be sold in its current condition. Ta-da, we now have Wawa. And in case you're wondering why he wasn't seen until the series was retooled, perhaps Chuckie felt he didn't need Wawa as a comfort object again until his entire life began changing. (Note that he reassures Wawa, thus himself, that he'll always have his bear in "Changes for Chuckie.")
- Wawa's origin was already revealed during his introduction in Rugrats in Paris- he was handmade by Chuckie's mom. Also, Wawa and Toy Palace bear look nothing alike (the latter is much bigger, for one thing).
This is why he has so many childhood fears, and why he was content to be friends primarily with babies younger than himself. It's also why he didn't speak to or around the grownups until after Rugrats in Paris. He had the capability, but didn't feel ready until then. On some level, he may have felt that growing up in any way would be a betrayal to his mom, or cause him to "lose" other parts of his mother's memory. Some episodes of All Grown Up deal with versions of this theory. For example, Chuckie is completely unwilling to let go when his favorite comic book character Armadillo Dave is discontinued. His friends, including Tommy, think he's being ridiculous. Dil—the youngest of the group—gets it, explaining to Tommy that Chuckie's reaction comes from losing his mom.
In the show's pilot episode, Didi is shown talking to a couple of adults at the dinner table, but these adults don't appear in the series proper. Since Phil and Lil were also at the Pickles house, there are a couple of possibilities:
1. The more in-universe possibility is that these two adults were a couple of family friends who stopped meeting the Pickles family in person later. Betty and Howard dropped off the twins with Stu and Didi because they needed a babysitter.
- They might have moved away at some point before the series began.
2. A more meta reason: these two were the beta versions of Betty and Howard before they were changed into the characters seen in the show proper.
- The Rugrats Wiki describes them as proto-Betty and Howard.
This guess is dependent on everything in All Grown Up being Retconned, as it has been said it will be if Rugrats gets a 2015 revival. With that in mind:
- Tommy: Becomes a film director for cool, abstract indie films (kept this one from All Grown Up since it still makes sense)
- Chuckie: Becomes a child psychologist specializing in helping kids who have experienced trauma, as well as kids who are gifted, on the autism spectrum, or have other unique mental situations.
- Angelica: Mellows out as she grows up, becomes closer to Susie, and enters a serious relationship with Dean, the older kid she had a crush on in "Angelica's in Love." Becomes a high-powered CEO like her mom, but also spends time volunteering, teaching young women self-defense.
- Phil: Becomes an entomologist and discovers new medicines for various parasitic diseases. Known to make chocolate chip cookies with grasshoppers as an ingredient for coworkers at the lab.
- Lil: Spends some time as a professional athlete (perhaps even a figure skater, considering her more "girly" tendencies later in the series) and then sets up a scholarship foundation for well-rounded young women (such as girls who like "girly-girl things", but also love bugs). :)
- Kimi: Becomes a graphic designer for children's computer games. Occasionally designs costumes and sets for children's theater.
- Dil: Stars in a couple of Tommy's films, and writes a self-help book for those who believe they've been abducted by aliens.
- Susie: Briefly cracks under pressure to live up to her mother's legacy, but gets help. Post-trauma, she follows her own path and travels the world as a Peace Corp member. Known as something of a modern-day hippie.
As noted on the main page, Angelica will sometimes blame Cynthia for the things she gets herself into. This, however, is not just another example of her bratty behavior. If anything, it's a clue that Angelica does have a sense of right and wrong, as well as a sense of self-consciousness. For example, she blames Cynthia when she is sent to day camp in "Cool Hand Angelica." What she actually says is, "You always have to open your big mouth, don't you?" But Angelica is the one who bragged to Susie and the babies that she could handle camp. This signals that she regrets her actions but can't face the truth. It may also signal that she truly wanted to go to camp, but was afraid to admit it. In another incident, Angelica blames Cynthia when her crayon slips, causing her to color outside the lines. She can't admit that something startled her (thus that she was scared). She also can't admit that she made a mistake, even a small one, because...
This is fairly obvious from the way she treats the babies, but her parents also give us clues. Charlotte is unintentionally neglectful, with her cell phone practically fused to her ear. Drew tries to make up for this by buying Angelica toys and sweets, but it backfires on the occasions that he tries to stand firm and discipline her, because she gets mixed messages. Also, some of the parents' disciplinary measures are rather stern, or at least sterner than Angelica can handle, never having been disciplined before. She can't get her confidence from a healthy place because she can't sort out whether she's loved or not (her parents give her things, but rarely their time or affection). She therefore has to get confidence and self-reassurance from bullying younger kids.
Aside from the possibility of her being a Parody Sue, what if Lucy, in fact, isn't as perfect as she tries to convey? We see very little solid proof to back up her apparently extensive list of talents and accomplishments, and aside from the obvious fact that she is, in fact, a successful doctor and mother, we very rarely see her preforming any of her claimed "talents" or using any of her accumulated skills in-show. She claims to have created the replica of the Tiffany lamp, but, actually, she purchased it—something that's probably not hard to do when you're an accomplished heart surgeon and your husband is the writer of a probably world-renowned kids show. She simply didn't want to get upset in front of the new neighbors, so she quickly fabricated the ability to simply create a new one. She didn't actually guest lecture at the Cordon Bleu, and by no means did she actually create the Eiffel Tower jello mold with her bare hands; she either used a pre-made mold, or it was, in fact, given by a neighbor who actually did lecture at the Cordon Bleu; she simply loved the prestige of such a position and fibbed, hoping Didi wouldn't catch on or know who actually made the mold. Her time in the Peace Corps as well as earning her Commercial Pilot's License were just things she happened to think of and wound up sharing, despite having not done either. We did, of course, see her blues record in All Grown Up, so whereas that probably wasn't a lie, she and her husband may have exaggerated a little; after all, it's hard to be an apparently famous singer, even in the past, without any of your children knowing—there would have been interviews, songs on radio stations, gossip rags wondering "where is she now?". Plus, it's hard to believe it just never came up while Suzy was pursuing her own singing career. She probably had a small cult following and did see some success in her days as a singer, but she probably ultimately decided to become a doctor and raise her family, instead, once she'd gathered enough money from her record sales to attend college and med school. Basically, Lucy is an accomplished doctor with a history in music, but the rest of her talents? Exaggerations and lies made up to make herself seem even more amazing.
Aside from all of them being owned by Klasky-Csupo (minus Arnold), we have had canon evidence that at least Rugrats lives in the same universe as The Wild Thornberrys and Aaah Real Monsters. It's not hard to assume that the other shows are in the same world, based on the similar art styles they have. They also occur more or less in the same time period (90s-early 2000s) and their stories are pretty basic slice-of-life stuff (barring Thornberrys and Monsters, but since they're canon already, we can assume a little bit of magic also takes form in this world), minus some wacky adventures here and there. It's easy to assume at some point the characters all came to a point where they were at a similar age (at least, All Grown Up! would occur at the same time as Ginger).
- Aaahh Real Monsters is harder to accept because the trio were products of the babies' imagination in that one episode.
They sorta look alike, with the blonde banged hair and all, but also Angelica and Helga are pretty similar personality-wise. Charlotte was the older of the two sisters, and once she turned into the successful businesswoman she is she left her family behind to focus on her new life plus Drew and Angelica. Miriam had some talents here and there, but was always unappreciated by her parents, who much preferred the ambitious Charlotte. Thus, she's stuck to live a life of contempt alongside Big Bob and her "smoothies". It's a nice parallel to Olga and Helga, too.
Gizmo was based on Spike, while the bad Gremlins were inspired by Mr. Friend and the tarantula Stu bought Tommy when Spike ran away. The overall concept for the film came from his grandfather Boris’s stories of the Dybbuk.
Tommy originally had the main characters as himself and his slightly younger brother, his parents, and his friends Chuckie and Kimi. His grandparents, cousin, and aunt also appeared in the film as supporting characters.
However, this resulted in a lot of rewrites by Hollywood suits, which Tommy was not happy with. The violent draft of the film with Billy’s mother’s head falling down the stairs was actually an early, much darker REWRITE of Tommy’s film. His original vision would have been much less misanthropic or dark than even the final cut of Gremlins. The execs decided to save Tommy’s concept of a “spider-like” Gremlin for a sequel, and distorted a line that described the Gremlins as ‘evil clowns’ and made the monsters full of slapstick. The original script also had another good Gremlin inspired by Reptar, but this character was deleted. They decided the story needed a clear human antagonist, and combined Charlotte and Angelica’s worst traits to create Mrs. Deagle. Tommy felt it was not fair to make two of his relatives into a one-dimensional villain, but things got worse. Dil was aged down to become Pete, because the producers wanted a little-kid character. They decided to make Kimi white and into the protagonist’s girlfriend. Tommy balked at the execs deleting Chuckie’s character from the film, because he was supposed to undergo a lot of character development and demonstrate courage. He was also supposed to have a sensitive monologue about always being scared since his mother died… which the execs turned into a joke about the death of the love interest’s father. The last straw was when the writers whitewashed the characters he based on his grandparents, Boris and Minka, especially because he wanted a Christmas movie that showed not everyone celebrates Christmas, but it’s still a time for family. The script, written just after Boris and Minka passed away, was Tommy’s tribute to them. The Boris character was originally going to discuss the legends of the Dybbuk in the movie and compare them to stories of Gremlins from WWII. The studio felt this content made the movie “too ethnic”, would distract from the Christmas theme, and might also be too stereotypical, so the characters were reworked into the Futtermans. When Tommy was fired from the project, the Futtermans were killed off, but retconned into being saved when test audiences complained. By the time the film had been shot, the only characters who bore any resemblance to those in the original script were Billy, his parents, and Gizmo. The rest, as they say, is movie history.
- You saw how Lou was crying Manly Tears as Reptar and the reporter were getting married. Imagine how much harder he would have cried had the babies not interfered.
- Phil and Lil have twins of their own; one set is fraternal/identical while the other is non-fraternal/non-identical.
- Angelica has a kid that is more-or-less a carbon copy of his/her mother
- Tommy's kid is not as brave as his/her dad was as a baby, while Chuckie's kid is quite fearless, unlike Chuckie himself
- Dil didn't talk much in the show, so his kid could speak fluently and without difficulty when it comes to words tricky for little kids to say
- One of the Rugrats has a kid who is biracial
- Another Rugrat's kid is actually adopted
- One of the Rugrats will be in a relationship with someone else of the same sex.
- Coming to think of it, it’d also be interesting to see the Rugrats’ parents as grandparents. On a sad note, though, Lou, Boris, and Minka would probably be dead by now.
- Further supporting this theory is some dialogue from "Tommy's First Birthday"; when Stu volunteers himself and Drew to substitute for the no-show puppeteers, Lou asks them what happened the last time they put on a puppet show (which resulted in Stu having a broken arm and Drew having a black eye). Stu tells him that he and Drew were eight and nine years old at the time.
- Most likely Betty is Schaunard, since she has his brash, outgoing personality. He's the only one who decided to reincarnate as a woman. Maybe Howard is Benoit, compensating for his past-life womanizing and adultery by becoming a mild-mannered husband content to live in his wife 's shadow.
- To add to this it is shown that Dil and Tommy commonly share bottles. Newborns should never drink the same milk/formula as 1 year olds, as its too harsh on their stomachs. Didi and Stu, due to their own stupidity, are giving Dil colic by lazily giving him the same bottle as Tommy
Ectopic pregnancies result in a positive pregnancy test, but they always require surgery to remove the fetus, since they can never be viable. As such, an ectopic pregnancy generally isn't considered as sad as a miscarriage (because with a miscarriage, there had originally been a chance of a baby, whereas no such chance exists in an ectopic pregnancy).
This may also seem why Charlotte wanted to keep the baby and was disappointed that there was no baby, but Angelica still remained an only child — having one ovary removed means it's harder (though not impossible) to conceive.