Line #108 WMG/Rugrats


1	[[WMG: If the original series is ever brought back, Angelica will get a younger sibling.]]
2	[[WordOfGod Apparently, the idea of Angelica getting a younger sibling has been tossed around the Klasky-Csupo before]], but has never actually been played out. I'd imagine it been made into a three-part episode, like "Acorn Nuts & Diapey Butts", and this is how I would imagine it: Drew and Charlotte realize they're going to have another baby (for real this time), and when they tell Angelica, they assure that they'll always love her and that she won't be forgotten (like what Drew told Angelica at the end of "Angelica's Worst Nightmare"). And when Charlotte finally has the baby, I'd imagine Angelica getting a younger sister.
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4	While Angelica's adjusting to her status as an older sister, Drew and Charlotte come to the realization that they aren't exactly the best parents ever, and end becoming more involved in not only their new baby's life, but Angelica's life as well, and start spending more time with her, which, as a result, helps Angelica become better-adjusted to being an older sister.
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6	Also, I would imagine Angelica's sister not becoming an Angelica-clone (personality-wise), but rather more like an anti-Angelica (similar to what Susie is).
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8	[[WMG: Reptar is a double parody of Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/{{Gamera}}.]]
9	Like Gamera, Reptar started out as your standard issue {{Kaiju}}; going on a ramapage, destroying buildings, that kind of stuff. The end of "Reptar 2010" is even him being sent to outer space in a rocket ship with humanity bearing no ill will against him, similar to the ending of the first Gamera film.
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11	Reptar parodies how Gamera became a LighterAndSofter FriendToAllChildren. He gets his own ice show, a Disneyland-style theme park, and all kinds of kid friendly merchandise the parents buy for the kids with little trepidation. Grandpa even intends to show Tommy and Chuckie [[TropeyComeHome "Reptar Come Home."]]
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13	[[WMG: The show doesn't have a floating timeline, the babies just don't have a sense of time.]]
14	The show actually takes place over about two years. Why [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't we see the babies age a bit]]? Why does it feel like the show takes place over the same year? This is all because the show is told through the babies' eyes and obviously they don't have a clear sense of time passing around them.
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16	This also explains Didi's pregnancy. Didi has been pregnant since the show started. The babies just didn't realize it, because why would they? They're babies! Dil's birth indicates that nine months have passed between the first episode and the first Rugrats movie. The episodes following Dil's birth up until Rugrats In Paris represent three months, thus completing an entire year. Thus, Rugrats In Paris until the show's end represents one year as well.
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18	[[WMG: Angelica is a younger [[Series/{{Glee}} Sue Slyvester]].]]
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20	[[WMG: Disabled adults (Brain damaged adults, in Stu's case) can understand babies in the Rugrats-universe]]
21	Judging by the episode where Stu hit his head and thought he was a baby.
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23	[[WMG: Stu Pickles worked for or was an engineer of an R&D Department of a military branch.]]
24	How else could he have got the funding for let alone the technology to make toys that had thermal sensors?!
25	* Not really, you can buy thermistors ten a penny (well not literally, but they are cheap) from any electronics hobbyist shop. Infra-red cameras are surprisingly cheap as well.
26	** Can you get materials for hover technology from any electronics hobbyist shop? Sure we can manage drones with fans, but that hover-rama made a strange UFO sound when it lifted off.
27	*** Maybe he just recorded a sound from ''Space Trek Babies'' or something.
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29	[[WMG: Barney is real.]]
30	Chuckie's supposedly imaginary friend from the episode "My Friend Barney" [[NotSoImaginaryFriend really was an invisible boy]] who lived in a castle and went to "prisom" because he didn't eat his vegetables.
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32	[[WMG: Didi is half-adopted.]]
33	That is, one of her parents is her step-parent who adopted her after marrying her biological parent. Her younger brother Ben who appeared in two episodes is explicitly stated to be her ''half''-brother. Additionally, while Ben resembles both Boris and Minka, Didi's thin frame and small facial features are nothing like the rest of her family. Because she shares curly hair and a need for glasses with Minka, it's probably Boris who is the step-parent.
34	* On the other hand, Boris does look a lot like his younger grandson. So it's possible that Minka is the adoptive parent, but by complete coincidence shares near-sightedness and curly hair with Didi's biological mother.
35	* In the Chanukah special, Didi alternates between calling Boris by his first name, and "Dad." This troper found that odd until reading the above theory. Most likely, Boris is the step-parent.
36	* Maybe Didi's birth father was Boris's brother or cousin, which would explain why Dil looks like Boris.
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38	[[WMG: [[PrecisionFStrike THIS]] is the word Angelica kept using in the Miss Carol episode.]]
39	It fits into "[Miss Carol] thinks we're all little _____!!" and, well, the other curse words just don't seem strong enough for Angelica's parents to be so shocked as to not even tolerate her ignorance of what word it is, or even to want to think about it. Also RuleOfFunny.
40	* A sharp-eyed viewer can clearly see Angelica start to make the 'f' sound before the camera cuts away from her when she's onstage. It's short but it's there.
41	** The bleeps are definitely for two syllables too, so f-ers would fit.
42	*** When Angelica asks Drew and Charlotte what it means, they refuse to tell her. If it was "shits", they could have said, "It's a nasty grown up word for poop." But explaining the other one to a three-year-old? They couldn't [[TheTalk tell her where babies come from]] in the stork episode.
43	*** There's finally a good quality [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8linSGOPF0 video]] but others are in agreement Miss Carol thinks they're all little "fuckers".
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45	[[WMG: Rugrats are the characters from ''Film/KillBill'' as children.]]
46	* Think about it for a minute. Angelica is The Bride, Suzie Carmichael is Copperhead, Lil is Elle Driver, Kimmi is Oren Ishii, Tommy is Budd, and Dil is Bill. Angelica's crazy as it is, Kimmi's Asian and not from the US, Suzie's black, Lil at the beginning of the series was the only other female peer, and Tommy and Dil are brothers.
47	** The crazy 88 are the Mr. Friend dolls.
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49	[[WMG: Charlotte had an abortion in the episode "Angelica's Worst Nightmare."]]
50	Just from the way she says "Mommy went to the doctor this morning, and... she's ''not'' going to have a baby after all." She also got a lot of pressure and Angelica begging for her to not have the baby, and why would the doctor just think she was pregnant when she wasn't (unless it was the same one that thought Angelica "Peaches" broke her leg...)? Also [[RuleOfIndex Rule Of]] DudeNotFunny.
51	* She could have just had a miscarriage, you know.
52	* Maybe Angelica wasn't the only one dreaming about "Baby Damien"; that is one scary kid!
53	* Wasn't that Charlotte's first trip to the doctor since taking a home pregnancy test? I always just figured she'd gotten a false positive on the home test.
54	** False positives on home pregnancy tests are pretty uncommon. Though, given the target audience, they're probably much more likely to imply that's what happened.
55	** Actually, there are a few reasons you could get a false positive, such as letting it sit too well (like out of nerves), a faulty pregnancy test or even something like a chemical pregnancy.
56	*** Not only that, the pregnancy test looked a bit fantastical. (Unless that was some common home pregnancy test in the '90s.) But still, I can attest to that, especially the whole faulty pregnancy test as mentioned below it's possible that Charlotte misread the instructions so "blue" meant "not pregnant" or "Tainted sample - please try again". I can also attest to how faulty pregnancy tests can give a false positive - when my mom gave a drug test sample at work, they were ''quite'' amused at how she was not only pregnant in her 50s but had a hysterectomy in the past two years.
57	* It's possible it ''wasn't'' an abortion, but this is made even more plausible when Charlotte and Drew are discussing finances, and Drew expresses concern.
58	* Charlotte's line, "When the baby comes, it comes," is a strong pro-life sentiment. Miscarriage makes way more sense than abortion.
59	* It's highly unlikely that a three-year-old, even a [[SpoiledBrat spoiled rotten]] one like Angelica, could put enough pressure on her parents to abort a baby that they both clearly wanted, especially considering the behavior of some of the real-life three-year-olds you see on shows like ''Series/{{Supernanny}}''. Depending on how long Charlotte had been pregnant, it's more likely she miscarried (watch Drew squeeze her hand at the end). Or, she could have misread the test instructions (as in, blue means "not pregnant," but she misread it as "pregnant.")
60	** One [[DarthWiki/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees darker theory]] I heard coincides with this - The reason that Angelica's so spoiled is because she's a "miracle baby" - Drew and Charlotte had struggles with infertility, and the thought that Charlotte could be pregnant a second time is why they're so ecstatic, but she had a miscarriage early, and that's why she was so sad. (Charlotte probably has a lot of stress in her life and stress ''can'' cause a miscarriage in the first trimester. No idea about her caffeine consumption, but excessive caffeine consumption can also cause miscarriages.)
61	** Unsure about the exposure to caffeine as well, but the near-constant exposure to cell phones and computer screens cannot be good for the baby.
62	** Angelica also remains the lone only child throughout the series (a decade). That could be because (A) Charlotte and Drew can't have more kids (B) Charlotte had her tubes tied and/or Drew had a vasectomy, (C) Angelica was such a high-risk pregnancy that after the disappointment of "Worst Nightmare," they didn't want to risk pregnancy again, or a combined B and C.
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64	[[WMG: Dil was originally intended to have some form of mental retardation.]]
65	In the first movie, after he's born, all the newborn babies in the hospital are, like the Rugrats, able to talk to each other. Dil does not speak at first, and then barely ever communicates anything to the other babies for the rest of the series. He's a baby even to the babies. The ''All Grown Up'' series issued a {{Retcon}}, making Dil just "[[CloudCuckooLander weird]]" instead of mentally disabled.
66	* Also, this is sort of canon, considering the line in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' where Lil said something along the lines of "I wonder what Dil would be like if we hadn't [[ChildhoodBrainDamage dropped him on his head]]" while Tommy was spying on them with his digital camera ( ItMakesSenseInContext )
67	** Then again, [[AmbiguousSituation he might have been the same if they hadn't]], for Didi thinks that Dil's eccentricity is [[ItRunsInTheFamily genetic]] and he got it from Stu.
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69	[[WMG: [[Fanfic/TheRugratsTheory The babies in Rugrats don't exist and are products of Angelica's imagination because her mother ignores her and her relationship with her father is shallow and parasitic.]]]]
70	In reality, Chuckie died along with his mother, which is why Chaz is such a nervous wreck. Tommy [[TragicStillbirth was stillborn which causes Stu to sit in the basement making toys for his son that never had a chance to live]], and the [=DeVilles=] had an abortion. Angelica couldn't decide whether the unborn child would be male or female and thus simply invented the same character in her head twice with different genders.
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72	* This makes a lot of sense if you consider the insane adventures that the babies have, mostly when Angelica's not around -- they do things that would kill any normal baby, and their parents never notice they've gone missing. Imagine that the babies are toys Angelica plays with when she's at her aunt and uncle's, and when she's not there she's imagining them having crazy adventures. When she is there, she's mostly in charge of the situation.
73	* Also, Doctor Lipschitz and the [[TheShrink psychiatrist]] the family visits in "Mama Trauma" are actually specialists helping Didi deal with the loss of her child, rather than a child psychologist. After all, a woman who is so obsessed with her child's actions that she would drag him to a shrink doesn't seem likely to let that same child [[StrayingBaby wander out of her sight]] frequently.
74	* Although the Mother's Day episode implies that Chuckie's mother died of an [[SoapOperaDisease unexplained terminal illness]] which doesn't explain how Chuckie died with her. It could have been a hereditary illness which was passed on to Chuckie but that's fairly unlikely.
75	* Angelica's manifestation of white guilt: Susie, the first black Rugrat, is, more or less, the exact opposite of Angelica.
76	** Alternatively, it's possible to read Angelica as a tragic figure in the grip of the dark feminine power, while Susie can be explained as the 'light alter ego' that Angelica doesn't consciously know she's lost access to. To Angelica, Susie is the kind of girl she imagines she'd be if she actually had the love and support of her family - while Angelica controls the imaginary Rugrats and attempts to dominate them, Susie is what Angelica might have been if she'd had the chance to love and be loved instead of immersing herself in make-believe.
77	** [[TearJerker Damn it...]]
78	** Where do Dil and Kimi fit in?
79	*** I read somewhere that Dil and Kimi exist, but not as you'd think. Shortly after being brought home from the hospital, Dil suffered head trauma thanks to Angelica (won't go into detail here) and is slow as a result. Kira either lost custody of Kimi to her ex-husband during their divorce, or Kira was a prostitute, and Kimi was taken away by Child Services.
80	* sorry to be a jerk but I need to ask if that was true than why can the Rugrats be seen without Angelica?
81	** Because RuleOfEmpathy.
82	* No, Tommy's obviously the main character of the show. If anything,
83	* What if the infamous "Rugrats Theory" was all just a dream?
84	* If this is true then how come, in most episodes, the parents are seen interacting with their children?
85	** Because Angelica recognizes that all these imaginary kids would need parents, so she gives parents to them. In the case of Stu and Didi, it actually shows Angelica is capable of empathy and not a budding sociopath, because she imagines that the child they lost is still alive and therefore "gives him back." Also, notice that all the other Rugrats' parents are loving and supportive--the kind of parents Angelica wants to have. She made up different parents with different personalities for each baby so she could experiment with the type of Mom and Dad she'd want most. It helps her deal with the pain of real life. She also somewhat exaggerates some of the parents' characteristics to be funny and give herself something light to focus on.
86	** On a further note: eventually, all the other babies have siblings. If this theory is true, it just makes Angelica's longing for a sibling that much more of a TearJerker.
87	*** If she longed for a sibling and invented the babies, why wouldn't she invent a sibling?
88	* So, if counting [[WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp the spin-off]], did Angelica continue to imagine these [[FridgeHorror until middle school]]?
89	** One version of the theory says "In All Grown Up, Angelica's delusions are exacerbated by her being addicted to narcotics. Supposedly, Angelica's biological mom died from a heroin overdose and Angelica developed problems further on as her mom took drugs while being pregnant. Angelica got hooked to these mind-altering drugs in order to continue her relationship with her "Rugrat creations," as they were the only company she'd ever really kept.Her mom was called Cynthia, which is where the doll's name stems from. Angelica mirrored her mother's image in the Barbie doll, which is why she was so attached to it. The woman shown as Angelica's mom in the Rugrats is actually her step-mom."
90	** [[http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/08/01/rugrats-theory-confirmed-not-true-angelica-made-up-characters/ Jossed by Arlene Klasky]]
91	* Also the "Chas is a nervous wreck because Melinda died" is fully jossed, even without the Chuckie part, because a FlashBack in "The Fountain of Youth" shows him being just as scaredy as a toddler.
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93	[[WMG: Tommy's the only real Rugrat. The others are imaginary.]]
94	* In psychological terms, Angelica is Tommy's id, Chuckie is Tommy's ego, and Susie is Tommy's superego. Phil and Lil represent Tommy's gender confusion, since he doesn't really have any TertiarySexualCharacteristics and is too young for a sexuality. Dil is Tommy's inner child, his desire to be innocent and 'normal'. Kimi is his desire for real friend, shaped by Kira's appearance. The parents are just friends of Tommy's parents and any mention or talking to any other rugrats is imagined by Tommy, as are any adventures without Tommy. Tommy's just a lonely kid with loony parents.
95	** But, in "Piece of Cake", Tommy was not IN it. And why would Kimi feed Fifi at the beginning of "Attention Please" if she didn't exist? (at the beginning, Tommy is not there).
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97	[[WMG: Tommy is [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Jean-Luc Picard]].]]
98	During the events of the episode "Toy Palace" (Where Tommy and Chuckie are locked inside a toy store after hours), the series forks into two {{Alternate Universe}}s; one where both Tommy and Chuckie are reunited with their dads, and one where only Chuckie is, as Tommy stumbles into the fully functional toy time machine and is sent forward in time to several years after the events of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''; where he's taken into the care of a new family, takes on a new name given, and grows up to be the captain of the Enterprise-D.
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100	[[WMG: The Rugrats really were taken aboard an alien spacecraft.]]
101	At the end of the episode, the younger characters were shown to be in bed when Angelica was on a desert planet.
102	* Why would Angelica be thinking about those dumb babies with some of them not having herself in?
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104	[[WMG: The parents of the title characters initially had the same dynamic as their kids when they were babies.]]
105	I was just thinking about it and realized that you can distinctly see the relationship between the adults too. It could make a lot of sense if they all were just sort of the same dynamic when they were younger even if the roles don't plot out perfectly to their children so the Rugrats themselves are sort of like a repeat generation with these roles;
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107	* Tommy-Betty
108	* Chuckie-Chaz
109	* Phil and Lil-Stu and Drew
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111	The only problem I run into is that I can't find an Angelica in the parents' group.
112	* Charlotte?
113	** There was a flashback episode set in the 1950's with Stu as a baby and Drew as a toddler. Baby Stu was such an Expy of Tommy that they had the same VA. Drew, however, was more of an amalgamation of the rest of the cast.
114	*** Not in the parents' group, but if you're looking for an adult counterpart for her, look no further than Aunt Miriam, [[GenerationXerox who used to torture Grandpa in the same way Angelica tortures Tommy.]] [[IdenticalGrandson If you look closely, they even have the same face.]]
115	** This doesn't work quite as well because in "A Visit from Aunt Miriam," Aunt Miriam mentions she and Grandpa used to play with kids named Bill and Jill (Phil and Lil). It's possible that instead, [[LikeFatherLikeSon Stu was Tommy, Chas was Chuckie]], and Betty was a combination of both [[LikeMotherLikeSon Phil]] and [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter Lil]] (kind of the same way Kath Soucie did the voice acting for both twins). If that's the case, it's quite possible Charlotte was the Angelica for the parents' group, but they don't mention it much because she also married their "Tommy's" older brother. Would've been sort of awkward to bring up childhood dynamics in that case, especially in front of Angelica. Not that she needs any more encouragement to torment the babies, but hearing what her mom used to do might make her think, "Cool; how come I never thought of that?".
116	*** Don't forget that Betty does have a twin brother named Freddie.
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118	[[WMG: Tommy is a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord.]]]]
119	Really? Nobody's [[WMG/TimeLord suggested this before]]? He even has his own screwdriver!
120	* THE PLAY PEN IS HIS TARDIS!
121	* If he was one, he would have gone back in time instead of trying to [[FantasticVoyagePlot go into Chuckie]] in "Inside Story".
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123	[[WMG: ''All Growed Up'' is different from ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' because that's how the babies wanted to be when they grew up.]]
124	They explains the plot differences, voice differences, and personality differences. We don't always grow up the way we wanted to.
125	* Yup, this one seems pretty flawless. ''All Growed Up'' is clearly a fantasy sequence seeing as it ends with them all as babies again. ''All Grown Up'' has several differences and there's nothing to indicate that we're not really in the future this time round.
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127	[[WMG: Stu occasionally sells some of his inventions.]]
128	To [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes A.C.M.E.]] It would wrap up nicely why, with his crap job, they still live like rich middle class. One [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner customer]] though.
129	** Didi is also a home economics teacher, it's just not explored much, so she probably provides stable income while Stu's inventions give them a little extra.
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131	[[WMG: Charlotte is having an affair with Jonathan.]]
132	And Angelica's biological father is Jonathan, not Drew. Drew is completely aware of this because he has never consummated his marriage and Charlotte is a beard. [[WebVideo/BarneyBunch Drew is gay after all]].
133	* If he's gay, why did he marry a woman?
134	** He's in the closet. Charlotte is his beard.
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136	[[WMG: Grandpa Lou holds the Democratic Party responsible for his wife's death.]]
137	In the episode where Tommy is kidnapped, Lou is reading the newspaper and angrily blurts out, "Dad-burned Democrats!". In a later episode which deals with Stu and Drew as kids, Lou casually mentions their mother was away working on the Presidential campaign of Estes Kefauver, a Democrat who ran in the primaries against Adlai Stevenson. One can easily assume that his wife was a stressed out, politically active Democrat. Since we have no timeline for her death, it can reasonably be assumed that her death could have been caused by stress-induced heart trouble. Grandpa Lou then transferred his anger over her untimely death to the Democrats.
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139	[[WMG: The babies are actually aliens... the Nhar-Gh'ok from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' in fact.]]
140	This can explain how Tommy and the others can talk. Plus it was confirmed by the writers of ''Invader Zim'' that originally, Tommy Pickles was going to be one of the alien babies from the episode "Plague of Babies" but was removed for obvious reasons, but this could be the one possible explanation of how the babies are capable of talking and why they must keep it a secret from the adults.
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142	[[WMG: The episode "Brothers Grimm" was a dream/apprehensive fantasy sequence by the 'Rats.]]
143	That would explain the wide tonal shift in this episode, not to mention a compressed vice that was not even hinted at before, as well as the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''-esque throwaway gags such as Stu breaking his back molars from clenching his jaw from stress, which is treated with much less seriousness than the show would normally have done (that's assuming that his teeth aren't fake, as a fic I read somewhere posits that he knocked out most of his teeth in an inventing accident, although it was just a fanfic), and Didi finishing that house cozy, seriously, a house cozy, that covers the whole house. Additionally, the tree house that they build, which is kept at the end of the episode, is pointedly gone in subsequent episodes. This show always seemed to me to have at least a ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' level of realism, taking the old series largely in broad strokes, and this episode just seems out of place and is the only episode that suffers from FanonDiscontinuity for this troper.
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145	[[WMG: Tommy can speak a little.]]
146	In early episodes, like the baseball one, I noticed he talked around grown-ups but it didn't sound like usual. It sounded more childish and babbling. I figure Tommy can speak words but he can't speak sentences.
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148	[[WMG: The series takes place during the early [[TheNineties '90s.]]]]
149	I'd say around 1991 or 1992. Unlike other series it didn't have a floating timeline. It stayed where it was set, like ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn''. There are little to no things in the show that would be odd in the early 90s.. The sequel supports this by being set ten years in the future but seemingly being set in the early 2000s.
150	* {{Jossed}}. In ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'' Stu mentions that it's a new century and it features songs from the late 90s, early 2000s. He even sets Chuckie's dad up on an internet dating site. In a FreezeFrameBonus in the passport montage, it shows that they were issued in the year 2000. Charlotte's cell phones evolve into ones from the year the episode was produced as the series go on, i.e. a brick sized one in the early 1990s, a flip phone with an antenna in the late 90s, etc. ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' may be a TimeSkip or take place in the late 2000s.
151	** Well [[https://rugrats.fandom.com/wiki/Rugrats_Wiki the wiki seems to agree with this theory]]. (Just look up the characters and their birth dates.)
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153	[[WMG: Grandpa Pickles is narcoleptic.]]
154	It explains why he [[{{Sleepyhead}} falls asleep at the drop of a hat]]. He's a victim of narcolepsy, though it's a mild case since most of the time he's functional.
155	* Actually, that's just [[SeniorSleepCycle part of being old]]. Granted... he ''does'' fall asleep a little ''too'' quickly.
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157	[[WMG: Chuckie has Asperger's Syndrome.]]
158	This explains why he's more timid than the other babies and he does have a tendency to organize his things in the episode where Tommy stays for the weekend.
159	* Possibly less noticeable in his baby days, since a lot of the traits, such as his unusual fears and attachment to comfort object Wawa, could be explained as a two-year-old being a two-year-old. However, this theory becomes more plausible in ''All Grown Up'', when Chuckie is 12. His highly specialized interests in/obsessions with Armadillo Dave and Yu-Gotta-Go cards provide evidence, as does his increased social awkwardness, especially around girls. He also doesn't seem to have lost some of those unusual childhood fears.
160	* Since when are Aspies timid?
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162	[[WMG: Tommy's Uncle Ben is the product of an affair.]]
163	Minka might've been "the most beautiful girl in the whole village" but that didn't stop Boris from [[UnusualEuphemism sticking his spoon in someone's else borscht]] if you catch my drift. Boris has a fling and years later Ben shows up on the doorstep. "My mother confessed on her deathbed that you're my father." One blood test later and ''"OH BORIS!"'' Minka of course doesn't divorce him for any number of reasons (Divorce isn't acceptable to her generation, she doesn't want to throw away a lifetime together, etc.) and eventually forgives him. It would explain why Ben hardly ever shows up and another way how he could be Didi's ''younger'' half-brother.
164	* Or maybe he was the product of a polyamory.
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166	[[WMG: Chas and Chuckie are related to Muriel Finster of ''Recess''.]]
167	* Well, that explains a lot. If they're related to someone like that, no wonder Chas is a neurotic wreck and Chuckie is scared of everything from the dark to oatmeal. It's also possible that Muriel is Chas's father's sister or other relative. Notice that Chas's dad is sort of a tough guy who doesn't buy into child psychology (see "Finsterella" and "The Family Tree.") Why? Because he and Muriel grew up like that, of course.
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169	[[WMG: Chas is half-Jewish and Chuckie is a quarter Jewish.]]
170	* As Chas's character page points out, he has some AmbiguouslyJewish traits and even says "Oy gevalt!" in one episode. In the Passover special he says "We're not really Jewish," but even that wording might imply that to some extent they are Jewish, just not full-fledged. Maybe Chas is half-Jewish on his father's side, which means he technically isn't Jewish according to traditional law, and has never practiced the faith and culture as much as Tommy and his family have either, but still has the heritage.
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172	[[WMG: The Dummi Bears only appeals to the more adults characters and the babies hate them.]]
173	It's shown throughout the series that the adults are fans of the Dummi Bears cartoon show. They're incredibly enthusiastic about the cartoon, and seem convinced that their children are equally excited about it. The only adults who don't like it are Grandpa, who thinks it's brainlessly stupid, and Randy Carmichael because of the fact that he has to deal with it day in and day out. However, the babies don't like the Dummi Bears. The babies prefer Reptar. That's why they'll often escape on adventure if they're stuck watching a Dummi Bears movie or cartoon. One episode implied that the Dummi Bears served as a form of mind-control on children, compelling them to watch. The ones more easily sucked in to the mind-control are Angelica, who is older than the other babies, and Taffy. The babies figured out the mind-control and went off on another adventure.
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175	However, being babies they can't communicate to their parents just how much they hate the Dummi Bears. So the adults just assume the babies love the series as much as they do and force it upon them as much as possible. Making the babies want to see Reptar--what they ''prefer'' to watch--all the more.
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177	* Chuckie seems to like Dummi Bears, not so much Tommy, but Kimi?
178	** Kimi's seen enjoying Dummi Bears too.
179	* It's not mind control, they're just distracted.
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181	[[WMG: Kira Watanabe-Finster was deliberately based on Yoko Ono.]]
182	Both Yoko and Kira are Japanese artists living in Europe, who wear similar fashions and glasses. Furthermore, John Lennon had one son, Julian, from his previous marriage, and Yoko had one daughter, Kyoko, from hers. Appropriately and deliberately, Kira's introduction into the show led to its downfall, just like [[YokoOhNo Yoko broke up the Beatles]].
183	* You sure the "Downfall of the show" wasn't just "By the time Kimi appeared, the target demographic who was maybe 5-7 when the show started was now 14-16 and therefore much more interested in stuff like ''Series/AllThat'' or the stuff on Toonami"?
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185	[[WMG: Rocko, the cool guy from "Little Dude" is an illegitimate son of Drew's.]]
186	Rocko's about 16 or 17 so he could've be conceived before Drew and Charlotte got married. He looks almost identical to Drew and sounds like him with a lower voice.
187	* Or a brother (an illegitimate son of Grandpa Lou's?), or nephew.
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189	[[WMG: Stu will sometimes do commissioned inventions for [[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} Mr. Dink.]]]]
190	Very expensive.
191	* It would explain how Stu is able to afford such nice things and not have to get a "dead-end job" like Drew despite many of his inventions being hit-or-miss. That grill that Doug accidentally broke in "Doug Needs Money" may very well have been made by Stu himself.
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193	[[WMG: Mr. Friend was sentient all along.]]
194	We all know he's creepy as hell because he's glitchy and obnoxious and prone to scaring the poop out of innocent toddlers. But did you ever notice that when he's alone with the babies, or by himself, Mr. Friend's phrases tend to...reflect the situation he's in, rather than just seemly being selected at random. Like when buried in the garden? "STAY AWAY FROM SQUIGGLY WORMS! THEY'RE FULL OF DIRT AND YUCKY G-G-GERMS!" But when Didi and Stu are around? "DON'T KISS THE CAT WHEN IT HAS FLEAS!" [[ObfuscatingStupidity Just a random toy saying random things.]] Way to go Stu. You invented [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet Junior.]]
195
196	[[WMG: Angelica Pickles is Albertine.]]
197
198	Think about these. They both have blond hair, they are both kids, and their clothes are purple and orange. (In fact, they're similar). What if Angelica wished for her family to let her do what ever she want and her cat died? These made her very upset so much that her soulgem darkened quickly and she became the witch Albertine. Anja may represent the baby because she's naive. Think about it.
199
200	[[WMG: Chuckie saw a scene from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}''.]]
201
202	That's why he's afraid of clowns and strangers.
203
204
205	[[WMG: Chuckie learned to be afraid of clowns from Didi.]]
206	There's an early season 1 episode where it shows [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Didi is afraid of clowns]]. She goes nuts when a clown approaches her. Chuckie is there and doesn't seem phased. There's a theory that phobias are caused by seeing someone else react to something - therefore Didi could have given Chuckie his fear of clowns.
207
208	[[WMG: Chuckie's bear Wawa is older than we think.]]
209
210	In the season two episode "Toy Palace," Tommy and Chuckie play with a miniature cowboys and Indians set in which a fight is reenacted at the push of a button. The Indian figurines shoot a bunch of rubber-tipped arrows, which fly into one of the teddy bears on a shelf behind the babies, therefore knocking it off the shelf. Chuckie seems almost immediately attached to the bear and never lets go of it throughout the rest of the episode. Several years later, we find him carrying around a teddy bear named Wawa. The bear is battered and presumably has a missing eye. Along with the usual wear-and-tear, some of the injuries could be because in its early life, the bear was "fixed" (as in, taped profusely) with a make-believe doctor's kit. Chaz bought the bear for Chuckie because it could no longer be sold in its current condition. Ta-da, we now have Wawa. And in case you're wondering why he wasn't seen until the series was retooled, perhaps Chuckie felt he didn't need Wawa as a comfort object again until his entire life began changing. (Note that he reassures Wawa, thus himself, that he'll always have his bear in "Changes for Chuckie.")
211	* Wawa's origin was already revealed during his introduction in ''Rugrats in Paris''- he was handmade by Chuckie's mom. Also, Wawa and Toy Palace bear look nothing alike (the latter is much bigger, for one thing).
212
213
214	[[WMG: Chuckie experienced significant emotional trauma, maybe even PTSD, from his mother's death.]]
215
216	This is why he has so many childhood fears, and why he was content to be friends primarily with babies younger than himself. It's also why he didn't speak to or around the grownups until after ''Rugrats in Paris.'' He had the capability, but didn't feel ready until then. On some level, he may have felt that growing up in any way would be a betrayal to his mom, or cause him to "lose" other parts of his mother's memory. Some episodes of ''All Grown Up'' deal with versions of this theory. For example, Chuckie is completely unwilling to let go when his favorite comic book character Armadillo Dave is discontinued. His friends, including Tommy, think he's being ridiculous. Dil--the youngest of the group--gets it, explaining to Tommy that Chuckie's reaction comes from losing his mom.
217
218	[[WMG: The identities of the two mysterious adults in "Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing".]]
219
220	In the show's pilot episode, Didi is shown talking to a couple of adults at the dinner table, but these adults don't appear in the series proper. Since Phil and Lil were also at the Pickles house, there are a couple of possibilities:
221
222	1. The more in-universe possibility is that these two adults were a couple of family friends who stopped meeting the Pickles family in person later. Betty and Howard dropped off the twins with Stu and Didi because they needed a babysitter.
223	* They might have moved away at some point before the series began.
224
225	2. A more meta reason: these two were the beta versions of Betty and Howard before they were changed into the characters seen in the show proper.
226	* The Rugrats Wiki describes them as proto-Betty and Howard.
227
228	[[WMG: The babies will have the following jobs when they grow up...]]
229
230	This guess is dependent on everything in ''All Grown Up'' being Retconned, as it has been said it will be if ''Rugrats'' gets a 2015 revival. With that in mind:
231
232	* Tommy: Becomes a film director for cool, abstract indie films (kept this one from ''All Grown Up'' since it still makes sense)
233	* Chuckie: Becomes a child psychologist specializing in helping kids who have experienced trauma, as well as kids who are gifted, on the autism spectrum, or have other unique mental situations.
234	* Angelica: Mellows out as she grows up, becomes closer to Susie, and enters a serious relationship with Dean, the older kid she had a crush on in "Angelica's in Love." Becomes a high-powered CEO like her mom, but also spends time volunteering, teaching young women self-defense.
235	* Phil: Becomes an entomologist and discovers new medicines for various parasitic diseases. Known to make chocolate chip cookies with grasshoppers as an ingredient for coworkers at the lab.
236	* Lil: Spends some time as a professional athlete (perhaps even a figure skater, considering her more "girly" tendencies later in the series) and then sets up a scholarship foundation for well-rounded young women (such as girls who like "girly-girl things", but also love bugs). :)
237	* Kimi: Becomes a graphic designer for children's computer games. Occasionally designs costumes and sets for children's theater.
238	* Dil: Stars in a couple of Tommy's films, and writes a self-help book for those who believe they've been [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]].
239	* Susie: Briefly cracks under pressure to live up to her mother's legacy, but gets help. Post-trauma, she follows her own path and travels the world as a Peace Corp member. Known as something of a modern-day hippie.
240
241	[[WMG: Cynthia is Angelica's moral compass.]]
242
243	As noted on the main page, Angelica will sometimes blame Cynthia for the things she gets herself into. This, however, is not just another example of her bratty behavior. If anything, it's a clue that Angelica does have a sense of right and wrong, as well as a sense of self-consciousness. For example, she blames Cynthia when she is sent to day camp in "Cool Hand Angelica." What she actually says is, "You always have to open your big mouth, don't you?" But ''Angelica'' is the one who bragged to Susie and the babies that she could handle camp. This signals that she regrets her actions but can't face the truth. It may also signal that she truly wanted to go to camp, but was afraid to admit it. In another incident, Angelica blames Cynthia when her crayon slips, causing her to color outside the lines. She can't admit that something startled her (thus that she was scared). She also can't admit that she made a mistake, even a small one, because...
244
245	[[WMG: Angelica's self-esteem is lower than low.]]
246
247	This is fairly obvious from the way she treats the babies, but her parents also give us clues. Charlotte is unintentionally neglectful, with her cell phone practically fused to her ear. Drew tries to make up for this by buying Angelica toys and sweets, but it backfires on the occasions that he tries to stand firm and discipline her, because she gets mixed messages. Also, some of the parents' disciplinary measures are rather stern, or at least sterner than Angelica can handle, never having been disciplined before. She can't get her confidence from a healthy place because she can't sort out whether she's loved or not (her parents give her ''things,'' but rarely their time or affection). She therefore has to get confidence and self-reassurance from bullying younger kids.
248
249	[[WMG: Lucy Carmichael is a compulsive liar.]]
250
251	Aside from the possibility of her being a ParodySue, what if Lucy, in fact, isn't as perfect as she tries to convey? We see very little solid proof to back up her apparently extensive list of talents and accomplishments, and aside from the obvious fact that she is, in fact, a successful doctor and mother, we very rarely see her preforming any of her claimed "talents" or using any of her accumulated skills in-show. She claims to have created the replica of the Tiffany lamp, but, actually, she purchased it--something that's probably not hard to do when you're an accomplished heart surgeon and your husband is the writer of a probably world-renowned kids show. She simply didn't want to get upset in front of the new neighbors, so she quickly fabricated the ability to simply create a new one. She didn't actually guest lecture at the Cordon Bleu, and by no means did she actually create the Eiffel Tower jello mold with her bare hands; she either used a pre-made mold, or it was, in fact, given by a neighbor who actually did lecture at the Cordon Bleu; she simply loved the prestige of such a position and fibbed, hoping Didi wouldn't catch on or know who actually made the mold. Her time in the Peace Corps as well as earning her Commercial Pilot's License were just things she happened to think of and wound up sharing, despite having not done either. We did, of course, see her blues record in ''All Grown Up'', so whereas that probably wasn't a lie, she and her husband may have exaggerated a little; after all, it's hard to be an apparently famous singer, even in the past, without any of your children knowing--there would have been interviews, songs on radio stations, gossip rags wondering "where is she now?". Plus, it's hard to believe it just never came up while Suzy was pursuing her own singing career. She probably had a small cult following and did see some success in her days as a singer, but she probably ultimately decided to become a doctor and raise her family, instead, once she'd gathered enough money from her record sales to attend college and med school. Basically, Lucy is an accomplished doctor with a history in music, but the rest of her talents? Exaggerations and lies made up to make herself seem even more amazing.
252
253	[[WMG: ''Rugrats'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', and ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' all take place in the same universe.]]
254
255	Aside from all of them being owned by Klasky-Csupo (minus Arnold), we have had canon evidence that at least Rugrats lives in the same universe as ''The Wild Thornberrys'' and ''Aaah Real Monsters''. It's not hard to assume that the other shows are in the same world, based on the similar art styles they have. They also occur more or less in the same time period (90s-early 2000s) and their stories are pretty basic slice-of-life stuff (barring Thornberrys and Monsters, but since they're canon already, we can assume a little bit of magic also takes form in this world), minus some wacky adventures here and there. It's easy to assume at some point the characters all came to a point where they were at a similar age (at least, All Grown Up! would occur at the same time as Ginger).
256
257	* ''Aaahh Real Monsters'' is harder to accept because the trio were products of the babies' imagination in that one episode.
258
259	[[WMG: Charlotte and [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Miriam Pataki]] are sisters.]]
260
261
262	They sorta look alike, with the blonde banged hair and all, but also Angelica and Helga are pretty similar personality-wise. Charlotte was the older of the two sisters, and once she turned into the successful businesswoman she is she left her family behind to focus on her new life plus Drew and Angelica. Miriam had some talents here and there, but was always unappreciated by her parents, who much preferred the ambitious Charlotte. Thus, she's stuck to live a life of contempt alongside Big Bob and her "smoothies". It's a nice parallel to Olga and Helga, too.
263
264
265	[[WMG: Tommy Pickles wrote a Hollywood screenplay that originated in fuzzy memories of his childhood, but the film was reworked to become ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.]]
266
267	Gizmo was based on Spike, while the bad Gremlins were inspired by Mr. Friend and the tarantula Stu bought Tommy when Spike ran away. The overall concept for the film came from his grandfather Boris’s stories of the Dybbuk.
268
269	Tommy originally had the main characters as himself and his slightly younger brother, his parents, and his friends Chuckie and Kimi. His grandparents, cousin, and aunt also appeared in the film as supporting characters.
270
271	However, this resulted in a lot of rewrites by Hollywood suits, which Tommy was not happy with. The violent draft of the film with Billy’s mother’s head falling down the stairs was actually an early, much darker REWRITE of Tommy’s film. His original vision would have been much less misanthropic or dark than even the final cut of ''Gremlins''. The execs decided to save Tommy’s concept of a “spider-like” Gremlin for a sequel, and distorted a line that described the Gremlins as ‘evil clowns’ and made the monsters full of slapstick. The original script also had another good Gremlin inspired by Reptar, but this character was deleted. They decided the story needed a clear human antagonist, and combined Charlotte and Angelica’s worst traits to create Mrs. Deagle. Tommy felt it was not fair to make two of his relatives into a one-dimensional villain, but things got worse. Dil was aged down to become Pete, because the producers wanted a little-kid character. They decided to make Kimi white and into the protagonist’s girlfriend. Tommy balked at the execs deleting Chuckie’s character from the film, because he was supposed to undergo a lot of character development and demonstrate courage. He was also supposed to have a sensitive monologue about always being scared since his mother died… which the execs turned into a joke about the death of the love interest’s father. The last straw was when the writers whitewashed the characters he based on his grandparents, Boris and Minka, especially because he wanted a Christmas movie that showed not everyone celebrates Christmas, but it’s still a time for family. The script, written just after Boris and Minka passed away, was Tommy’s tribute to them. The Boris character was originally going to discuss the legends of the Dybbuk in the movie and compare them to stories of Gremlins from WWII. The studio felt this content made the movie “too ethnic”, would distract from the Christmas theme, and might also be too stereotypical, so the characters were reworked into the Futtermans. When Tommy was fired from the project, the Futtermans were killed off, but retconned into being saved when test audiences complained. By the time the film had been shot, the only characters who bore any resemblance to those in the original script were Billy, his parents, and Gizmo. The rest, as they say, is movie history.
272
273	[[WMG: Angelica based her [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary friends]] on the babies. This is why she is able to understand them.]]
274	Sometimes, children base their imaginary friends on actual people. When my older brother was a little kid, he based his imaginary friend on a kid at his preschool. I have also read a story where a girl's deceased grandparent was her imaginary friend.
275
276	[[WMG: Melville didn't really die.]]
277	After all, he's a slater, and sometimes slaters look dead when they're really alive.
278
279	[[WMG: Tommy wasn't really sick in "Slumber Party".]]
280	Maybe, he wasn't hallucinating. Maybe he was actually asleep and dreaming. Angelica did say he barfed, but maybe he barfed in his sleep while he was dreaming. And maybe, he wasn't sick, he was just dreaming that they were saying he was. As for looking out of sorts at dinner, maybe he was just sleepy. After all, if he was cold from the window, he might not have gotten enough sleep. This is backed up by the fact that the cold can't [[CatchYourDeathOfCold make you sick]] but it can keep you awake, dreaming is way more common than hallucinating, and sometimes people do dream that everyone thinks they're sick. As for Didi thinking he was sick when she put him to bed, well, she can be a bit paranoid at times.
281
282	[[WMG: Tommy really WAS sick in "Slumber Party," but it wasn't caused by the open window.]]
283	He had a mild 24-hour flu (the classic symptoms of which ''are'' fever and throwing up), which he caught before the start of the episode. It just wasn't symptomatic yet. The cold from the open window and Tommy's resulting lack of sleep brought it to the surface.
284
285	[[WMG: In the real ending of ''Reptar On Ice'' (which we don't see because the babies interrupt the show), Reptar's bride is killed off.]]
286	In no other part of the Reptar franchise does he have a human wife. Having him get married would probably make him [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied too happy]] and [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay make him feel too old.]] The last part of the show we see before the babies interrupt it has Reptar's wedding being crashed by soldiers trying to attack him for his mass destruction. It makes sense to assume that if the show hadn't been cut short, the bride would have been killed in that attack: either accidentally caught in the crossfire or TakingTheBullet for Reptar. Then Reptar would have unleashed a RoaringRampageOfRevenge on the soldiers, dealing them a spectacular defeat. The babies' interruption saved a lot of kids in the audience (and Grandpa) from being traumatized by the deeply BittersweetEnding of the show as written.
287	* You saw how Lou was crying ManlyTears as Reptar and the reporter were getting married. Imagine [[InelegantBlubbering how much harder he would have cried]] had the babies not interfered.
288
289	[[WMG: The revival will feature a "Next Generation" of Rugrats.]]
290	It's been almost 30 years since the show premiered; the Rugrats would be all grown up at this point in real life. So it would only be fitting to have the revival either actually be a spinoff series about the Rugrats' children, or at least an episode revolving around them. Ideas that could be explored:
291
292	* Phil and Lil have twins of their own; one set is fraternal/identical while the other is non-fraternal/non-identical.
293	* Angelica has a kid that is more-or-less a carbon copy of his/her mother
294	* Tommy's kid is not as brave as his/her dad was as a baby, while Chuckie's kid is quite fearless, unlike Chuckie himself
295	* Dil didn't talk much in the show, so his kid could speak fluently and without difficulty when it comes to words tricky for little kids to say
296	* One of the Rugrats has a kid who is biracial
297	* Another Rugrat's kid is actually adopted
298	* One of the Rugrats will be in a relationship with someone else of the same sex.
299	* Coming to think of it, it’d also be interesting to see the Rugrats’ parents as grandparents. On a sad note, though, Lou, Boris, and Minka would probably be dead by now.
300
301	[[WMG: Drew is 36.]]
302	Lou implied that Stu was 35 in the Satchmo episode, and in "Sour Pickles", Stu and Drew are both seen as toddlers, while Drew is stated to be older than Stu.
303	* Further supporting this theory is some dialogue from "Tommy's First Birthday"; when Stu volunteers himself and Drew to substitute for the no-show puppeteers, Lou asks them what happened the last time they put on a puppet show (which resulted in Stu having a broken arm and Drew having a black eye). Stu tells him that he and Drew were eight and nine years old at the time.
304
305	[[WMG: Chuckie is afraid of musical chairs because he saw a certain episode of ''Series/SesameStreet''.]]
306	In "Angelica's in Love", Angelica claims that she's playing "the most dangerous game of all", meaning love, but Chuckie says, "Musical chairs?". There's an episode of ''Sesame Street'' where some characters are playing a game of musical chairs and losing is referred to as "not surviving". That'd be a plausible reason for Chuckie to think it's a dangerous game.
307
308	[[WMG: The fathers are reincarnations of Puccini’s [[Theatre/LaBoheme Bohemians]].]]
309	Chas is Rodolfo (he even has the right type of mustache), Drew is Marcello, and Stu is Colline (with his disco suit being Colline's overcoat). [[TheLostLenore Melinda]] in turn would be a manifestation of Mimì, and Charlotte would be a manifestation of Musetta. As for Schaunard, [[DecompositeCharacter he seems to be split between]] [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Betty and Howard]]. This would essentially make Didi a CanonForeigner. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Jonathan is Alcindoro.]]
310	** Most likely Betty is Schaunard, since she has his brash, outgoing personality. He's the only one who decided to reincarnate as a woman. Maybe Howard is Benoit, compensating for his past-life womanizing and adultery by becoming a mild-mannered husband content to live in his wife 's shadow.
311
312	[[WMG: Randy keeps writing for the Dummy Bears for Lucy's sake.]]
313	When she was young, Lucy gave up her singing career to complete her studies. Randy saw this effect it had on her, so he promised Lucy that this would never happen to her again; he keeps working at a job he hates in order for Lucy to have the time and money to pursue her dreams, have a balanced work/home life, and still have enough time for her children.
314
315	[[WMG: Chuckie has a speech delay]]
316	Chuckie is two years old and still can not or will not talk the adults. Most children at this age are able to at the least say a few clear words. Chuckie will probably have to work with a speech therapist when he's a little older.
317
318	[[WMG: Dil has colic]]
319	Dil is shown to have trouble sleeping, very smelly poops (and in a large amount), tends to squeeze himself up, and cries terribly. All of these are symptoms of colic.
320	* To add to this it is shown that Dil and Tommy commonly share bottles. Newborns should never drink the same milk/formula as 1 year olds, as its too harsh on their stomachs. Didi and Stu, due to their own stupidity, are giving Dil colic by lazily giving him the same bottle as Tommy
321
322	[[WMG: "The World is Something New to Me" was [[MusicalWorldHypotheses all in the newborns' imaginations]].]]
323	Hence the babies allegedly being able to sing despite Dil not being able to talk.
324
325	[[WMG: HIT Entertainment's version of [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas the Tank Engine]] killed the Rugrats.]]
326	Rugrats ended on August 1, 2004, the same day ''Thomas and the Tuba'' and ''Percy's New Whistle'', the episodes that started the HIT era of Thomas premiered.
327
328	[[WMG: In "Chuckie Is Rich", Drew either embezzled Chas' $10 Million by keeping it to himself, or he intentionally put $10 Million into the Ear Whizz, thinking it would put the company in bankruptcy (which it did), to return his friend back to his old self.]]
329
330	[[WMG: Aunt Miriam has Alzhimer's. That's why she keeps calling Didi Fifi, Ginny, Kelly, Dolly, and Sally.]]
331
332	[[WMG: Charlotte had ''neither'' a miscarriage ''nor'' an abortion ''nor'' a false reading: she had an ectopic pregnancy.]]
333	False positives on pregnancy tests are rare, she didn't seem to want an abortion (saying that the baby will definitely arrive), and while she did seem disappointed that she wasn't going to have a baby, she didn't seem sad in a grief sort of way. As such, maybe it was an ectopic pregnancy, which is what happens when an egg gets fertilised in the fallopian tube and starts to develop.
334
335	Ectopic pregnancies result in a positive pregnancy test, but they always require surgery to remove the fetus, since they can never be viable. As such, an ectopic pregnancy generally isn't considered as sad as a miscarriage (because with a miscarriage, there had originally been a chance of a baby, whereas no such chance exists in an ectopic pregnancy).
336
337	This may also seem why Charlotte wanted to keep the baby and was disappointed that there was no baby, but Angelica still remained an only child -- having one ovary removed means it's harder (though not impossible) to conceive.

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