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definitely pudding the rugrats is no stranger to being discussed here on the channel from the
strange variety of spin-offs to the new version of the rugrats to even darker theme episodes of the
show but today i wanted to take a deeper look into the rugrats in general and how it used some rather
terrifying visuals to portray various feelings and understandings of the world as you grow up
basically how some average or everyday things we may understand is commonplace now but how it may
have felt to try and understand them as a kid but here through the eyes of babies in a cartoon now
not all of these moments were meant to represent a lesson or something yourself have gone through it
could literally be based around just leaving you with something utterly demonic to now keep you up
at night so let's take a trip down memory lane to see how the rugrats played around with their
visuals to not just traumatize you for life but sometimes imprint these lessons and values upon
you or give you a weird way to relate to something you dealt with beforehand also thanks so much for
watching make sure to hit that like button as it truly helps out the video and i promise i will
make another rugrats video next month i honestly don't even know where to start with this video
there are so many moments to choose from that to make some sort of order of things wouldn't
really help out going over at all so let's just dive into this head first and hope we don't hit
our head at the bottom okay yeah oh okay ah all right why don't we start here slumber party a very
very early on episode of the rugrats that helped set the weirdest stage possible for the series
in fact a lot of early episodes did this as well something about the early animation of
season 1 makes everything feel creepier than it should be as well as how it played more
into the perspective of how a baby or kid would see everyday things like furniture
and the hype perspective from their point of view this episode has angelica sleeping over
with tommy who when opening the window at night causes tommy to get sick and spend the next day
feeling ill and when he's put back down for bed things start to get weird tommy's crib and the
room morph and stretch as tommy's toys and items around his room start to come alive and it all
seems bad until this moon-shaped mom picks him up and the world returns back to normal
it seems but as quickly as everything got back to normal it all goes wacky once again as stu
drew lou and angelica enter the room as a cloud a star a plane and cupid just like the mobile
around his bed that triggered the hallucinations in the first place while not super scary and more
just on the weird side of things this episode was a great way to show how this show may not just be
the regular baby-based show that some thought it was when it premiered or whatever that means dust
bunnies during a major cleaning session by dede she mentions that if they don't clean the house
that dust bunnies will take over the house and thanks to angelica once again and i think you'll
notice that theme throughout this video she ends up scaring the babies with a story of the dust
bunnies capturing and dragging them down to their caves and eating them it's a quicker visual moment
towards the start of the episode that really leaves this eerie feeling of chucky being captured
by some horrifying dust-based bunny and dragged into this allergen filled lair at least this
episode teaches you that you should dust your room every once in a while yes i'm talking to you steve
from south dakota down the drain another short one but one that definitely left its mark on many the
bathtub seems safe right you fill it up with water but once you're done bathing you have to
open the drain and nothing will happen because you're an adult but never turn your back anyway
tommy takes a bath and is fine with the drain inside that is until his toy soldier gets sucked
down the drain causing him a fear of being sucked in as well when spending the night
over at chucky's house chucky actually used to have the same fear but got over it thanks to the
he tries to help tommy until angelica tells them the story of the random neighborhood kid who was
literally eaten by his bathtub it's kind of nice though seeing chucky being the brave one for all
of two minutes because that story broke everything he believed in and is once again scared right
alongside tommy i feel a lot of kids probably even myself at one point weren't comfortable
knowing that there was a hole in the tub and at that time only saw it as this dark vortex of evil
rather than an interconnected network of pipes that drain your water but later on angelica has
her cynthia doll accidentally flushed down the toilet which is a different fear altogether is
this foreshadowing who knows under chucky's bed beds who uses them i prefer to stand up and lean
against the wall chucky however has to use one once his dad thinks he's too old for his crib
he felt safe and secure in his crib and is now quite scared within his bed and more importantly
what's under it during the middle of the night he hears a voice and that not only freaks him out but
continues his curiosity of what is under there the voice says he's the monster under his bed
and then tries to trick him to go under the bed to see because of candy alright creep relax all
of this is in his head until he takes a peek and sees this boggling looking mushed up booger
and then angelica tells chucky another story of another random neighbor kid who this time
was eaten by the monster under his bed poor old barnaby jones he will be missed the next night
when tommy sleeps over tommy doesn't hear anything when the monster reaches out to chucky once again
and tommy convinces chucky to look under the bed and when they both look together they see the same
weird monster that actually turns out to be some serious drip from mr finster good on you so no
monster well not under chucky's bed but for sure under yours angelica's worst nightmare now this is
one i will go over briefly since you know i made a full video about this particular episode already
but here the visuals show off angelica's fear of having a baby brother who gives her a taste of her
own medicine and steals all her parents attention away it ends up in this chase where the new baby
ends up getting bigger and bigger until finally eating angelica while being the size of a giant
yeah that was fun check out the full video for a more in-depth look on that episode specifically
chucky vs the potty everybody poops speak for yourself here is another chucky centric episode
another theme if you haven't noticed where he has a youtube boxing style fight with the toilet
okay not really but chucky struggles with the potty training thing he envisions himself as
an inmate on death row as the toilet being the electric chair during a nightmare sequence it's
very striking to see this representation of prison and tommy being a preacher and the adults being
these tiny people ending in a full-on execution by none other than angelica as chucky has flushed
down the toilet see i told you we would come back to that thank you foreshadowing the alien this
one is quick since this is a two-parter and the second half is more disturbing but it felt right
to include this part as well the crew are all about to play in their brand new playhouse in
the backyard and angelica says chucky is an alien in that the playhouse is a spaceship she tells
the story of seeing chucky and his dad as secret lizard-like alien speaking to their leader through
their tv with the mission of capturing the babies in the playhouse spaceship while all is fine and
they spend the episode trying to see if chucky really is an alien or not the episode ends with
a final stinger when the playhouse actually takes off and heads into space successfully
capturing the babies really i only mentioned this episode because the lizards this is fine
mr clean the real reason we're here for this episode specifically this one features more
of the weird visuals more so than the first part here chucky finds himself getting dirty
constantly while his dad just wants him clean chucky's dad warned some of the germs on all
the dirty things and when dreaming falls into a nightmare sequence where thousands of tiny germs
chase him and try dragging him away it's always these sequences that the rugrats truly excelled
in striking their lasting moment that sticks with you deep in your repressed childhood memories but
yeah that's why this part disturbs me more and germs are just gross it's just that quick scene
and why i don't touch handrails in public what you wanted something more disturbing than what i built
that up to be fine okay i gotcha in the dream time you wanted visuals that freak you out well look
at this and this and this wait a minute that's just a photo of spawn wave without a shirt oh wow
how did that get here from my personal collection anyway this episode starts off as normal until
the gang start walking through the yard which quickly turns into a weird dreamland filled with
all the weird and wonderful things a dream can create hello there wait that's not bruce willis
this part is not acting what we're doing right now okay that's better then we get
the very famous and classic i'm not tommy this singular moment this exact frame is what caused
a generation of kids to not sleep properly for at least a solid day or two but the visuals continue
as the dreamlike state treks further on once everything seemed fine and this causes chucky
to become fully confused on what is real life and what is a dream he fully believes that he is still
in a dream and goes crazy trying to stand up to his fears and thinking that he can just break
all the rules because who cares it's a dream he messes up a spider viciously and goes on to face
the big scary dog next door literally saying if anything goes wrong he'll just wake up in his
own bed but you know just when you think it's all over everything is resolved you get hit with this
yeah i'm thinking this episode was a decent too strong seven weaning tommy hey be real with me
are you drinking enough water no i feel you this episode won't convince you to our boy tom pickles
here needs to get off his bottle and on to the sippy cup his teeth are starting to grow in and
needs to go to the dentist and okay you've already lost me here all my homies hate the dentist look
at this dude every dentist i've ever been to i see this dude you know what who needs teeth
they leave with this horrifying balloon that only chip skylark could love
and the weaning process begins say hello to mr tippy the sippy cup and later the night once
tommy passes out he enters a nightmare sequence featuring the dentist bottles being taken away
and a giant mr tippy running him to the edge of a cliff yelling drink me where only a giant bottle
will face him in combat at the end of the day tom down bad the mysterious mr friend three things
that people don't want in their life clowns robots and friends okay at least two of those things
robots are kind of cool but what happens when you put all three of them together you get one of the
creepiest and most unsettling stew inventions in rugrats history this monstrosity freaks out tommy
and chucky and me included and when tommy gets put down to bed stew leaves the clown next to him
which causes tommy to accidentally hit it freaking him out even more but as they try to get rid of it
the next day stu is busy in the basement mass producing this new invention after testing them
in the basement he accidentally left one on to run amok downstairs which ends up turning them
all on in almost a sentient like fashion oh and did i also mention that there's a terminator s
scanning system built into them as well the rest of them escape from the basement and make their
way outside towards the babies as they anchor man style fight all the robots and break them all
some strong babies while less visually terrorizing the concept the look of the robot and the horrible
rhyming sentences that they would say all adds up into an episode i don't feel comfortable watching
past 9 pm the mattress beds who uses the oh wait i already did that one mattresses they exist
this episode is about the babies hearing tommy's grandpa ache and pain from his mattress which they
think is eating him chucky has a full-on nightmare once again about the bed eating him almost every
nightmare in this show is about someone being eaten but this here gives me that ah a real
monster vibe from the design in fact both are klasky supo hmm well they did cross over that
one time anyway yeah the babies see the mattress being moved and to them it looks like it's moving
on its own ah to be young and stupid why why even be scared we all know mattresses don't exist but
you just said i said nothing and you can't prove it visitors from outer space space we live in it
so do aliens at least according to the government and twitter and due to grandpa lou's belief in
aliens coming to attack earth tommy overhears it and when he falls asleep the nightmare begins who
could have seen that coming a neighboring house turns into a close encounter of the third kind
spaceship abducts tommy and heads out of here and in the spaceship we see alien versions of dede
stew and a robot grandpa lou the character design in this episode is what really sets it apart from
the others the whole episode takes place inside of tommy's mind and how he envisions the aliens
he heard about and mixes them with the few adults he knows the most his parents and his grandpa it
seems like the voice actors here get to have a lot of fun with this episode and the artists
behind the look of everything got to really change things up for the majority of the runtime rather
than just a few moments there's also a talking fish who goes and destroys planets with angelica
then murders her okay well not really she gets sent to arrakis so we'll find out how she's doing
in october overall a fun exploration of the mind a kid could have based on the words said by adults
not being mindful of the information one can take in from that so takeaways from today chucky has a
lot of nightmares a lot of the visually terrifying and scary moments come from the nightmares
angelica causes a lot of the problems and somehow i still can't sleep properly but that last part
is probably from years of bad sleeping habits and insomnia not the fault of the rugrats but who's to
really say at least i'm looking better than this guy the rugrats love to take the viewer on visual
journeys making it a staple for the show more so during the show's early years but it was part
of what made the show special and effective in lasting with you if you were like me who grew up
with it i know i only went through a fraction of the weird and terrifying out there so if i didn't
cover a certain episode let me know which ones you personally remember from it visually leaving an
impact on you i'm sure i can make a whole nother video going over more but for me those were some
of the moments and experiences that the rugrats curated for your childhood and how they affected
me personally but since you have heard from me i would love to hear from you on how or how not
these moments have affected you and what maybe you have taken away from it were you at the very least
terrified by the visuals on screen growing up let me know i appreciate you all checking out this
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