this is probably my most requested episode to cover here on the channel not just of
the rugrats but of any other show or cartoon so far now we've covered a lot of the rugrats here
on the channel from all the spin-offs to the reboot and individual episodes i am a lifelong
fan of the series and it warms my heart that so many of you watching are as well now if you
watched my all grown up video you know how much i enjoy this iteration of the rugrats i enjoy
seeing the characters growing up and dealing with different situations while still keeping
the charm of the original now i have made a video on one of the darker episodes from said original
series but i have yet to make a video on one of the darker episodes from all grown up so today
i'm here to rectify that before we jump into all this here i just wanted to say thank you
all so much for the continued support on my videos so make sure to drop a like as it really
helps out the video and i am very much grateful for it but okay let's talk about the number one
requested episode of any show to cover here on the channel thus far the all grown up special episode
interview with a campfire of course right off the bat the title is a play on the 1994 film interview
with the vampire commonly falsely remembered as interview with a vampire the episode starts out as
a scream parody with lil receiving a creepy phone call while home alone but instead of a murderer
it's a service provider telemarketer and i don't know which is scarier it's also just
dill and here's where we see something that i personally love for tommy's character and
that is his passion of becoming a filmmaker and that this was him trying to create a
scary short film clearly inspired by stuff that he was watching and here we see him really wanting to
make a true scary horror film so we catch up with the crew and their families on the way to camp
everwood for a week and i'm talking everyone all the rugrats all the parents all head in there so
once they get there they end up meeting the camp counselor an eccentric wannabe play director and
actor ellie who believes the camp is haunted and bean and that tall drink of crick water is bane
all right well i am uncomfortable now anyway while the whole lot of them are involved with
the performance of the story of the settlers who had to bunker down and try and survive the harsh
1700s winter we follow the real trail of mystery as the rugrats get tangled in the real lore
of the spookiness at the camp at first it seems like a harmless summer camp experience tommy wants
to film his horror movie dill who is obsessed with finding cryptids like bigfoot and the loch
ness monster which are both extremely out of their original spotted locations and elements
and chucky who wants to find the thing that he is good at what makes him more special in his eyes
and honestly that's what's the most endearing part seeing chucky kind of come out of his
shell and take charge to be more adventurous and break free from his stereotypical character mold
bean who doesn't really speak ends up telling the real story of the settlers in the area during a
campfire hangout late one night casting some fear into most of the campers and parents now this is
a longer episode in fact it played as a two-parter episode or can be classified as a special movie or
event however you look at it this was packed with more stories less scary like following the actors
in the play and the drama of putting on the show all that wasn't creepy or spooky in any way but
this special episode gave us some genuinely funny lines and moments between characters that in most
cases don't usually interact obviously this was all filler to pat out the runtime in this case
it was interesting filler but filler nonetheless if you took out all this other stuff here and just
kept it to the main back half of the episode we're about to discuss here you'd clearly see that this
episode could have been a regular 22 to 24 minute run time and condensed it down to the creepier
elements of the story but like i said the filler isn't bad filler at least and it creates this kind
of cool perspective between the play version of the settlers and the lore of the original settlers
but let's discuss the back half of the episode where thanks to tommy experiencing something from
breen's story come true completely dwells into focusing on following the legend of the story
venturing out with a group of the rugrats and some of the parents in search of the
pioneer rock during the zombie moon later that night but before venturing out they are warned
by ellie with these words don't ever got no brain or nothing during this adventure they are all led
astray and slowly one by one get picked off until it's just the kids left and all the parents have
gone missing here is when we start to see chucky take charge and start finding his unique talents
that make him special after climbing up a tree he finds an old journal of one of the lost settlers
from the 1700s adding real credence to the story being told followed by a quick mental breakdown
from tommy who is conflicted over his want of making this movie and making sure his loved ones
are okay and later after climbing to the top of a downed tree structure on one side of a hill and
seemingly hanging on for dear life on the other over a darkness filled pit chucky falls into an
abandoned mine shaft that he leads the rest of the group through while marking the way back so
they don't get lost something we'd most likely see tommy do but thanks to his own shakeup with
everything going on chucky continues to get his moment to shine continuing through the mineshaft
beam whose eyes are now piercing red and draws the group further into the tunnels eventually they run
into a bunch of skeletons who yes are the original lost settlers who died here centuries ago aside
from them the parents were found huddled around trying to fight the cold and past the time as they
couldn't find a way out and thanks to a picture found in the journal they see that bean was
originally with the settlers all these years ago as we see him creepily disappear into the shadows
and never to be seen again everyone screams and realizes that yeah he was a ghost they make their
way out of the tunnels and back to the camp just in time for the end of the play and everyone lives
happily ever after right right well back home now watching the footage from the camera to see what
tommy captured we see some statically manipulated footage and a creepy looking bean warning the
rugrats the same words ellie told them before they ventured off don't ever got no brains or nothing
causing all the kids to scream in terror as the haunting of camp everwood still lives on
now the rugrats as a whole is no stranger to having darker or scarier stories told throughout
all of its show iterations we've covered some of that stuff here on the channel before like i said
and i love that all grown up kept a lot of what made the original show so great but it also wasn't
afraid to make you afraid seeing this episode when i was younger definitely left me unsettled with
the tone and atmosphere that it gave off as well as the one final got you stinger at the end just
when you think everything's okay it played out many of the tropes laden in films and tv shows
but kept the characters we loved interesting as to not let the focus drift into why the
characters are standing out so much more than they usually do we want to see these characters handle
these situations that's why we see similar stories and ideas within almost every show or movie but
we continue to enjoy them based on the company that the show keeps take away the rugrats from
the story then it's just another scary camp story with a haunting adventure but adding the rugrats
gives you these characters in this situation that's why it's as effective as it is all in
all yeah it was a fun episode that delivered on some fun laughs and the filler moments and gave
us the scares teased with the premise in the long run i quite liked that we got to see some of the
internal conflict inside of chucky wanting to find his spark and tommy deal with his film obsession
and not focusing on the real world around him even the parents have their own dealings with
each other seeing them gossip about charlotte's botox and nose job to betty's handling of lucy's
modesty when she tries to underplay her talents to not overshadow the others heck even the background
characters get a funny moment in some meta commentary that they don't really matter we didn't
get parts you didn't audition oh they are just there to fill in a background of other characters
that are not the main cast of people we care about the play even finished up with a whose line is it
anyway hoedown s song which i guess bonus points for that they said were paid with gold are paved
he reminds me of a very young joe pesci
well there you go that was one of the darker episodes of all grown up and i would love to hear
your thoughts down below in the comments regarding it did you find this episode unsettling when you
first watched it as well as what other episodes do you think are a little darker than normal
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