There are some shows that you watch as a kid and love, and then you watch them as an adult and they aren't as amazing as you remember. Dinosaur was one show I always looked forward to watching on Disney Channel after school and stuff... And as an adult, it just wasn't funny or good at all! It was one of the biggest disappointments of life, even though Jessica Walters is in it!
Rugrats, however, is one show that I actually like even more as an adult than I did as a kid! There's some humor in it that's just more for grown ups and it's super funny and just absolutely great all around. I appreciate the parents and grown-up characters a lot better than I did as a kid, and I even find the babies cuter and funnier than I remember them being. Didi is super funny, her parents are really great, Stu's relationship with his brother and his dad is funny. I love seeing the "bromances" with all the dads and the female relationships on the show also.
I also love how close everyone on the show is too. All the babies are so close and the parents are all so close that they're like siblings or cousins even. The parents are always real and they get annoyed with each other sometimes, but they have a real, genuine friendship that I find really powerful. It's hard to have that as adults and it makes me think that the babies will all be besties when they grow up as well. I even like All Grown Up for that very reason!
In particular, I saw the pilot again recently, and it's just super clever for any tv show. Not just a kids show but in general, just really creative. It showed Tommy's first birthday party and Didi and Stu were planning the perfect party with the perfect present and everything, while Tommy just wanted to eat dog food and become a dog. The party planning is something the parents can all relate to, and I'm sure every kid at some point has wanted to eat dog food! I can imagine kids putting this on and their parents seeing it and liking it just as much as the kids! It's pretty brilliant.
Overall, I just really like this show. As a kid it was my favorite and I still find it sooo sooo funny! Definitely love that they have The 90s are All That now so that I can enjoy these all over again! I wish they did something like that for ABC Saturday morning shows or something like that! Lol.
Byeeeee!
-Shannon
Ps... I published this on the wrong blog at first and copied and pasted and put here. Tee hee!
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