History WesternAnimation / Rugrats

The successor series, ''AllGrownUp'', showed Tommy and his friends, ten years later as middle schoolers. Also had another short lived spinoff ''Angelica and Susie's Preschool Daze'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name pretty much says is all]]. Check out [[http://www.rugratonline.com/index.htm Rugrats Online]] for more information.

* FeudEpisode: Chuckie ends his friendship with Tommy after a disastrous adventure and subsequent nightmare. He quickly changes his mind soon after.

* FeudEpisode: Possibly the TropeNamer. Chuckie ends his friendship with Tommy after a disastrous adventure and subsequent nightmare. He quickly changes his mind soon after.

* InnocentSwearing: Angelica overhears a {{Depraved Kids Show Host}} state, rather sarcastically, that the "real" catchphrase of the show is that the children who watch it "are all little [[SoundEffectsBleep]]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. Hilarity Ensues.

* InnocentSwearing: Angelica overhears a {{Depraved Kids Show Host}} state, rather sarcastically, that the "real" catchphrase of the show is that the children who watch it "are all little [censor]" while auditioning for it. Angelica, being a toddler, thinks this is sincere. Hilarity Ensues.

The successor series, ''AllGrownUp!'', showed Tommy and his friends, ten years later as middle schoolers. Also had another short lived spinoff ''Angelica and Susie's Preschool Daze'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name pretty much says is all]]. Check out [[http://www.rugratonline.com/index.htm Rugrats Online]] for more information.

* [[TwinTropes Twins]] Phil and Lil who hate it when they get mistaken for each other but love eating worms and mud

One of the original nicktoons alongisde ''{{Doug}}'' and ''RenAndStimpy'', it was canceled after two seasons in 1994. Three years later with impressive rerun ratings, the show was {{Uncanceled}} and became one of the mainstays of Nickelodeon. Two standalone feature films were produced, ''TheRugratsMovie'' (1998) and ''RugratsInParis'' (2000). Both made a respectable box office gross. ''RugratsGoWild'', a third {{crossover}} film with ''TheWildThornberrys'' (also a Klasky-Csupo production), tanked hard and is largely responsible for the reduced work of Klasky-Csupo productions since then.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Until 2003.

* BabyTalk / {{Malaproper}}: So much so that TheOtherWiki used to have [[AwesomeButImpractical an article listing the kids' mispronunciations of certain words.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: There are two of them: An early one that only featured the principal cast, and a later one with Dil and Kimi. This isn't surprising. What ''is'' surprising is that there's also a Kwanzaa episode, a Chanukkah episode, and a Passover episode.
** Additionally, the second Christmas episode is ''not'' a {{Santamas}} episode. The babies actually encounter a Nativity scene and, despite not knowing who they're dealing with, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming give the half-naked baby in the manger some warm clothing]]. The baby doll and all the mannequins around them smile.

* KarmaHoudini: Angelica manages to pull one in "Barbecue Story," where she deliberately throws Tommy's ball over a fence without any comeuppance. This has mostly been [[AvertedTrope averted]] since.

* MeLoveYouLongTime: Chaz being HappilyMarried to Kira. No UnfortunateImplications, and it's rather cute.

* NamesTheSame: Susie's mom, Lucy Carmichael, has the same name as Lucille Ball's character from ''TheLucyShow''.

* TheOtherDarrin: After David Doyle's death, Joe Alaskey took over as Grandpa Lou's voice actor.
** Also, when Christine Cavanaugh -- the original voice of Chuckie Finster -- left the show due to maternity leave, she was replaced by Nancy Cartwright (from ''TheSimpsons''). Not that many fans liked Ms. Cartwright's take on Chuckie. It sounded too Ralph Wiggum.

* {{Retcon}}: In the first few seasons, it's pretty apparent that the writers intended Chuckie's mother to be alive and just be [[TheGhost a different kind of ghost]]. (In "Chuckie vs. the Potty," he specifically refers to his mother as failing to potty train him.) After being UnCancelled, however...
* RousingSpeech: In "Mega Diaper Babies", Angelica has the babies on the run with her army of flying animals. Chuckie, Phil and Lil vow to give up and play something else. Tommy's response delivered in a fervor worth of {{Braveheart}} or {{ThreeHundred}}:

** Tommy had a tendency to do this from time to time. Chuckie even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it in one episode. "I love it when he gives these big speeches." And in one episode, Chuckie managed to give one to Tommy.

*** Tommy also says "This is Major Tom to Ground Control" in the same episode, a reference to {{David Bowie}}'s song "Space Oddity".

** One episode, "Chuckie's Wonderful Life", is a shout-out to ''ItsAWonderfulLife'', albeit without the Christmas themes or suicide.

* TalkingToHimself: Phil, Lil, and their mother were all voiced by KathSoucie. Also, Michael Bell voiced both Drew and Chaz.

* UnCanceled: The show originally ended in 1994 with little fanfare, only for the network to notice that reruns consistently had the same ratings as the first run episodes. It was brought back in 1998, [[YourMileageMayVary for better or worse]].

* WonderfulLife: "Chuckie's Wonderful Life", which may or may not have been AllJustADream.

* {{Foil}}: Quite a few pairings in this show.
** MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Betty and Howard.
** RedOniBlueOni: Stu and Drew.
** SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Chuckie and Tommy.
** TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Susie and Angelica.

* FridgeHorror: The episode "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" shows that without Chuckie, Chas is a mess, living alone in his house surrounded by empty pizza boxes and talking to a sock puppet. It gets even worse when you realize that he had to live through watching his wife contract some form of terminal illness and die from it without Chuckie there to focus on. And since he didn't have a kid, he wouldn't be close to the other parents and therefore would have no friends to help him through his wife's illness and subsequent death.
** This troper remebers Angelica has a MAJOR obsession with cookies and has always wondered, what if Angelica continued her cookie habit? This would make Angelica the poster child for childhood obesity (as seen in "Chuckie's Wonderful Life") and Childhood diabetes. However by the time ''AllGrownUp'' occurred Angelica didn't seem to gain any weight, meaning she must've somehow kicked the cookie habit.
* FridgeLogic: Dil can't talk, yet somehow in the movie in which he's born, a whole bunch of other newborn babies at the exact same hospital '''perform a song and dance number'''.
** So maybe babies can only talk to others of their own age?

* IWantedToGoBowling: All Chuckie ever wants is to do something nice and quiet.
** Grandpa Lou, not thrilled at the idea of having to see the [[TastesLikeDiabetes Dummi Bears movie]] says this line almost verbatim.

** MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Howard and Betty.

[[caption-width-right:280:[-Clockwise from top: [[TheHero Tommy Pickles]], [[LovableCoward Chuckie Finster]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Angelica Pickles]], [[HalfIdenticalTwins Lil and Phil DeVille]], [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dil Pickles]], [[SixthRanger Kimi Watanabe Finster]], and [[TeamMom Susie Carmichael]].-] ]]

The successor series, ''AllGrownUp!'', showed Tommy and his friends, ten years later as middle schoolers. Also had another short lived spinoff ''Angelica and Susie's Preschool Daze'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name pretty much says is all]].

* FreezeFrameBonus: The Toy Palace episode where Tommy and Chuckie get trapped inside the toy store has toy [[Series/DoctorWho Daleks]] briefly visible in one scene.

** PinkBoyBlueGirl: Howard and Betty.

* FarewellMyFriend: Possibly the TropeNamer. Chuckie ends his friendship with Tommy after a disastrous adventure and subsequent nightmare. He quickly changes his mind soon after.

* StealthPun: One episode had Tommy and Chuckie part ways, with Tommy befriending a brave girl and Chuckie befriending a cowardly boy. The boy's name is Freddie [[spoiler: (because he's afraid of everything)]] and he has a cat on his overalls, [[spoiler: making him a "scaredy cat".]]

** In one episode Angelica ''actually states'' that she's afraid "[[hottip:Sudan Hussany: SaddamHussein]]" will invade her clubhouse.