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90s nicktoons were no stranger to being a little
different here on the channel we've been jumping into weird episodes of shows that
we all grew up with but i wanted to check into another genre of strange i love horror
movies i love the constant uneasy feeling and above all else i love that sometimes a moment
a character a setting or all of the above can stick with you well beyond the initial viewing the
things that keep you up at night the wonderment of did i just see something out of the corner
of my eye and of course when you do get to sleep the nightmares and i love when out of nowhere an
episode of a cartoon would switch things up and drop something scarily unexpected so for today
i wanted to explore an episode of the rugrats that has been stuck in my mind since i first
saw it in the 90s and probably something you may recall as well in the dark recesses of your mind
angelica's worst nightmare an episode that lives in infamy for all the reasons i mentioned
earlier but more specifically the character aspect before we get to that let's discuss
the episode it starts off with angelica alone in her room surrounded by toys and food while pulling
a string of a talking stuffed animal giving her positive affirmations of being the best her father
comes running in at her beckon call serving her needs and she gets him to say that she's his one
and only princess charlotte angelica's mom calls the dad drew into the other room and presents him
with what we can only imagine is a test tube full of pee dyed blue to indicate that yes
she is pregnant with what would be their second child making angelica no longer an only child
she does mention that she will have an appointment with the doctor for an official test but as of her
at home test she is now carrying of course this is exciting for the parents and they bring angelica
into the kitchen to announce and explain to her that she will have a younger brother or
sister soon angelica doesn't take the news well she doesn't believe her and denies that this is
the current reality and she quickly tries to maintain her spoiled position in the house
asking both parents individually to go to the toy store with both responses being about either being
too busy with planning stuff for the new baby or budgeting for the new baby by making sacrifices
and juxtaposed that to the start of the episode where no matter what she wanted
she either got it or was given the notion that maybe she would get it like a pony
later now at tommy's house we see all of them hanging in the playpen
as phil and lil are about to go outside and play angelica isn't being herself she isn't
being mean she's not willing to play any games so tommy stays behind to see what's going on
angelica shows something we rarely have ever seen from her at any point in the show and that is her
at her most emotionally vulnerable she doesn't really open up much and usually directs her own
current issues into bullying or bossing around the others here we don't see that we see her fully go
into a hypothetical problem of a friend of hers having a baby sibling coming and that they are
worried of being neglected in favor of all the attention going to said new baby tommy's great
response to this is at least it's happening to your friend and not to you and then on top of
that tommy's mom comes in to share that she heard the good news and goes on a spiel about how she
has to help her parents and now she's going to have a whole bunch of new responsibilities
all the while angelica keeps her composure and holds a fake smile on her face any time dede is
looking at her it's a subtle animation choice but it's something that really resonates with
how the character is feeling at that moment and i think it works way more effective than even
the animators thought it would we then return back to angelica's house where she tried to spend some
time with her mom while she's watching wall street review pretty much an average sequel it's a fair
attempt it's good it's not great it's okay but i'm not going to remember it in t-minus 13 hours
she quickly then tries to convince her mom that maybe they don't need another baby right now and
it would be a personal favor if the baby didn't happen who let angelica watch the godfather or any
films about the mafia obviously that plan didn't work and then we see that angelica has access to
a small portable tv and is watching one of those call-in shows about your personal problems and
i guess this is how she maybe would have seen the godfather but i thought she was getting all
his attention all the time how would her parents not know that she would have full car blanche to
any media on tv at the time i mean today you just hand the kid an ipad and they have access
to youtube you know what never mind that's that's much more scarier now when i have a kid i'm just
gonna sit them in front of a tv and turn on taxi driver that's how they learn the real life lessons
but while she's watching the show she calls in to vent her concerns about the new baby and the
tv doctor or psychologist or whatever he is gives her the answers that she would need to hear as to
grow from all about how she needs to overcome her selfishness and learn to share and be responsible
but of course she immediately tosses the tv in the trash as one does and ignores everything that the
guy said at dinner the parents are talking about the excitement of the new baby and how they will
have to change up areas of the house for the new baby angelica tries to get some attention and
praise for eating all of her peas and she swiftly gets brushed off as the parents continue to the
conversation they were having and this really gets to angelica as all of her fears are somewhat
looking like they are coming true even with nine more months until the baby arrives she begins
pacing around a room before bed starting to fester up more and more anger about this baby until
she ends up passing out on her bed this is where the episode takes an even darker turn
we enter angelica's dream a world now where the baby has arrived and the parents treat angelica
poorly and consider her the old baby and that the new baby is the best baby in the world who are you
it's me who i'm kendrick lamar angelica goes to see the new baby and he bullies her
saying that you're the old baby and she needs to get out of here i'm the new baby parents of course
don't believe her that the baby was being mean and they shove her into a laundry room
saying that's her new room after giving the baby her old room they also hand her a slice of cheese
for dinner because they didn't make her a plate of dinner the new baby now twice the size of angelica
bursts into the door saying i thought i told you to get out of here and steals her cheese dinner i
warned you to get out he then threatens her again and goes into attack but she quickly escapes his
clutches and a chase through the house begins she ducks into the closet for a brief second
of rest which doesn't last for long as he breaks into the closet as well and angelica books it out
one more time making a mad dash for the garage where she hops into a car fumbles with the keys
for a few seconds like in every horror movie has a couple troubles starting the car finally works and
breaks through the garage hitting the open road a taste of freedom until bang a giant-sized toddler
foot crashes down in front of her she looks up to see the now building size new baby as he reaches
down to pick up the car with angelica in it only to slowly bring her in to her demise and eat her
and the car whole and can i just say something about this whole dream sequence real quick the
color palettes they chose to show that they were in the dream i thought was really cool
it felt like uh opposite world a darker version of the reality already given and stylistically i
really enjoyed this choice and yo did angelica just whip a car real quick and i'm saying
anyway she wakes up from the dream in a panic as drew comes in to console her from her nightmare
angelica breaks down in his arms about her fears of the new baby her fears of being neglected
and how it will affect her life in relationship with her parents what's very raw about this is
it's not far off from how an actual young kid may go through and deal with this how they may feel
in this exact situation imagine when you were a young kid and you're used to life being a certain
way and now some major event at least within your small world as a kid that is now going to change
the way you live forever it's a lot to handle and take in and adapting to it may not be as easy
as it sounds so to see how angelica breaks down over the situation her valid concerns beyond her
selfish ones like if she can still go get a toy from the store it felt very personal a real moment
that anyone watching the cartoon could relate to being a kid or an adult she's a kid her world
is small her world is her life at home most the time with her parents for her to not understand
fully what having a sibling means is okay and this truly helps take you through that mindset of this
heck tommy goes through this too during the first movie and almost axes off his baby brother
yeah i'll say angelica handled her emotions a bit better there and more realistically
too unless tommy was watching the godfather as well i mean who taught this baby to kill
anyway the episode ends in a somber dark way where the parents are sitting down on
the couch and bring angelica in to talk the ambience is quiet the tone
has changed charlotte tells angelica that she went to the doctors and it turns out that
now they won't be having a baby alluding to either complications or a false home test angelica says
that's too bad and she was starting to look forward to the new baby being around showing
that she was growing from this experience and was willing to be there as a big sister the parents
are still grieving the news as angelica walks out of the room and back to hers she then shuts
her door and immediately exclaims in excitement and then the episode cutting to the next episode
the mega diaper babies which all of those last few seconds feel very off considering the tone
shift as well as the journey angelica has been taking the whole episode these last few seconds
completely invalidate the point of the episode and if there were complications about having a baby
causing the mom to no longer be carrying to then have angelica celebrate that right after is
well i guess it's still dark in a way again she's a kid she really wouldn't understand the
complications part but as the viewer it definitely hits different especially re-watching it now
here's a piece of cheese but yeah that was one of the episodes of the rugrats that was just a little
dark i do plan on covering more darker episodes of the rugrats and many other shows here on the
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