Some of you guys might think it's kind of messed up to go from Trainspotting
in our last episode to this.
But Rugrats recently turned 25, which means all those kids are old enough to be
full-on alcoholics by now or even dope fiends.
And that's good enough reasoning for us.
Here are seven things you didn't know about Rugrats, probably.
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>> I love apple juice.
>> I like apple juice too.
>> Rugrats was one of the original three Nicktoons,
which all premiered in August 1991.
And it went on to be the most successful Nicktoon out of that first batch.
We're talking 172 episodes over 13 years.
That is a metric crap ton of drawings.
In fact, Rugrats was Nickelodeon's longest running Nicktoon ever until
Spongebob Squarepants took the throne in 2013.
He's been living in that pineapple under the sea since 1999.
And he's still going strong, with 17 years on the air and over 200 episodes.
By the way, that was, boom, a bonus thing you didn't know.
A bonus thing that is making me feel like a very old man.
So let's move on to the next thing.
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The baby blue t-shirt and
diaper get-up was Tommy's signature look throughout Rugrats, except when it wasn't.
In the unaired pilot as well as in the premiere episode, he wears a red shirt.
Scandalous, I know.
But there's more.
Tommy used to have pants, you guys.
I guess the creators had their reasons to change his outfit.
And babies as young as Tommy aren't really able to understand the concept of
dignity anyway.
So why bother drawing pants on him?
>> That sounds mean.
>> It's kind of the same reason why I never wear pants when I'm narrating
the show, just a diaper.
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>> Hey, what'd you do that for?
>> because I like you!
>> Even though Lil is the only girl of the core four Rugrats,
Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil were all voiced by women.
It's probably not a huge surprise, since women often do voice work for
younger male characters in movies and TV.
What you may not have known is Tommy is also a Power Puff girl and a talking pig.
Elizabeth EG Daily is the actress who voiced Tommy, along with Buttercup, Babe,
and a crap ton of other characters.
Here's the thing, though.
Tommy low-key stole Chuckie's job.
See, EG Daily only voiced Babe in the sequel, Babe, Pig in the City.
Chuckie was actually the original voice of Babe,
not to mention Marty Sherman on The Critic, Dexter of Dexter's Laboratory,
Goslyn on Darkwing Duck, Oblena on Ahh Real Monsters, and dozens of others.
Sadly, Christine Cavanaugh who did Chuckie and
all of those other voices, passed away in 2014.
That's not a bonus thing, that's just an extremely depressing thing.
I am seriously bummed out right now.
Let's move on.
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The Rugrats music is as memorable as the show itself.
We can thank Devo for those iconic songs, because it was their frontman,
Mark Mothersbaugh, who came up with the theme music.
But most people don't know that we can also thank Mark Mothersbaugh for
Chuckie's character design.
The show creators used Mothersbaugh's thick glasses and
wild hair as a jumping off point, a model of sorts, for Chuckie.
Kind of a shame they didn't include the Devo energy dome for Chuckie.
That would've been cool.
That would've also made me feel really old.
God, what is it with this episode?
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The Simpsons has made a running gag out of making the audience guess where
Springfield is.
But the Rugrats didn't bother with that.
Rugrats takes place in California.
And as you can see on this invoice that DiDi is signing,
the Pickles live at 1258 N., Highland.
That particular address actually makes pretty good sense.
Because that's the same address of the Klasky Csupo Production offices
in Los Angeles.
That's the company behind the Rugrats and other Nicktoons,
including The Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power.
And now that we know where they are, we're totally going over there to demand new
episodes of Real Monsters right after these last two things.
>> Excellent, simply excellent.
(Sound) I bet you didn't know that the Rugrats
were the first animated property to really be able to tell Disney to suck it.
>> Poopie!
(Sound) >> Because the Rugrats movie was the first
animated movie in history to gross over $100 million that wasn't made by Disney.
It was also the first time Nickoledeon had an animated feature film
in theaters, period.
So it was a really big deal.
That was back in 1998.
The sequel, Rugrats in Paris, didn't do as well two years later but
it still made over $75 million.
Unfortunately, the Rugrats,
Wild Thornberry's crossover that they did in 2003 did poorly.
And once the show aired its final episode the following year,
it was finally a wrap for the Rugrats.
If you don't count All Grown Up, and I do not.
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Even after Rugrats ended, it went on to have a big afterlife with its fans,
including a bizarre conspiracy theory about all the other Rugrats being
a figment of Angelica's imagination.
Seriously, look it up.
Actually, don't look it up, because it's stupid.
Anyway, we're betting a lot of you guys didn't know that Reptar Bars are real.
(Sound) >> Reptar.
>> A candy bar!
>> That’s right you little babies.
>> At least they were real for a moment back in 2013.
Ashley Khawsy of Smashbakes in Chino,
California made real Reptar Bars with the wrappers and everything.
And Jackie Lee, another blogger shared a Reptar Bars recipe
on her blog The Weeping Time, promising green tongues for all.
Unfortunately, it looks like if you wanted one of these things today,
you'd be stuck making it yourself.
I'm sure there'd be some kind of lawsuit over copyright if anyone tried to sell
Raptar Bars, unless you want to sell one only to me and
no one else because that would be totally cool and legal.
Just send the candy and
an invoice to Pervy Pants-less Narrator c/o CineFix Hollywoodtown, USA.
Thanks in advance.
Well, we hope you guys learned some new things today.
We're all feeling super nostalgic after this one, so
we may need you to talk us down from doing more Nicktoons on the show.
Re-watching Ren and
Stimpy in the name of research sounds like a great day at the office.
Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for more truish things about
movies and sometimes cartoons about talking babies from the 90s,
right here on Things You Didn't Know.
(Sound) >> But I don't know about that.