History Headscratchers / Rugrats

* What was the point of Angelica trying to pretend the babies were sick in "All's Well That Pretends Well"? [[Feigning Pretending she doesn't have a cold]] makes sense as she wants to go to the circus, but what was the point of pretending that the babies were sick? If anything, the babies being sick would mean Angelica was ''more'' likely to also be sick, not less.

[[folder:Singing Newborns, Mute Dil]]
* 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?
** It's for the same reason that the main babies can understand each other, but the adults can't understand ''them''. It's easier for them to communicate with people who are closer to their own age.
** Actually, Dil can talk, just not much. Remember, in the movie he says "mine" while fighting with Tommy, says "my Tommy" at one point, and then once randomly says "pooping" while, well, you know...
** Dil is a CloudCuckooLander, so it could just be that he doesn't have anything comprehensible to say.
** Maybe the song was all in the newborns' imagination?
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[[folder:No Promotion for Coco]]
* Coco Labouche may be a mean spirited, insulting, thoughtless ChildHater, but she is quite a shrewd and cunning business woman, who has made millions for her company, and managed to run a super successful and world famous Theme Park. However she gets passed over for a promotion for that very reason, a woman who chose her career over having a family. Why is this okay? Sure she's not the most sympathetic person but do people really overlook this discrimination because she is supposedly a villain for being good at her job?
** The head of the company isn't just in it for the money and doesn't see her as a worthy successor. Remember, he is also the head of the company and chooses his successor based on how he made it. Plus when he saw that she is willing to put kids in danger (basically KIDNAPPING THEM), I doubt he'd want her to get close to any kids again. Plus her theme park has apparently ninja guards and her assistant is all too happy with jabbing his arm down a 4-year-old's throat. She's not a villain because she's good at her job, she's an authoritarian who enjoys scaring her employees and basically working them within an inch of their lives given how dangerous some of the animatronics are.
** Mr. Yamaguchi specifically says, "The candidate [for the presidency] should not be concerned only with money. They must understand what it means to bring joy to children. They themselves must have the heart of a child." He doesn't even mention the fact that Coco is unmarried and not a parent. She's the one who lies and claims that she is marrying a man with a child.
** The fact remains, she has made hundreds of millions, possibly even billions to a company. Having a so called "heart of a child" is one thing. But being super successful and making giant income for her boss, who most assuredly doesn't mind living off of her contributions, pretty much paints Yamaguchi as a hypocrite. Reaping the profits of his employees, then shaming them for doing exactly what they were hired to do, that's pretty messed up.
** What happened was the following: a) Coco was told by the boss himself he didn't think she was a suitable successor because she lacked certain qualities he felt she'd need to carry the company's core values after he's gone, b) Coco lies to him and cooks up an extremely convoluted plan to marry a man with a child she has no interest in. Seems like Mr Yamaguchi knew straight away that Coco wouldn't be suited to running the company without someone more moral to offset her more ruthless ideas, but seemed willing to give her a chance when she gave the indication that she was turning over a new leaf. Not to mention that Angelica pretty much outed Coco for trying to fool him solely so she could get said promotion. Coco's options were to a) accept the boss's decision and be happy in the position she's in, b) actively work to improve her flaws and earn the promotion now she knows what's expected of the person who will get it, c) leave the company and go elsewhere if she doesn't see career advancement there, d) lie to the boss, trap Chaz in a loveless marriage and condemn Chuckie to a life with a neglectful stepmother - all hoping she's never found out. Coco is a straight up BadBoss (and Kira at one point in the series compares her to a fairy tale villain) who likely causes her employees all sorts of emotional damage.
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[[folder: Do You Realise Your Kids Are Destroying the City?]]
* So the babies drove a giant dinosaur robot through the streets of Paris, destroyed half the city, climbed up the Eiffel Tower, dueled a giant Robo Snail, and their parents never found out?
** They probably heard about it but didn't know it was their kids.
** Only Jean-Claude knew for certain that the babies were in the machine. No one else actually saw who was piloting the Reptar, save for ''maybe'' a few people in front of Notre Dame who would have been close enough and at the right angle to see the babies coming out when the head crashed. Even then, people would be more inclined to believe that they just didn't see the actual pilot coming out. Or that the pilot was in the body and not the head. Or that it was just a robot. So, who would believe Jean-Claude that the babies piloted it?
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[[folder: Chuckie Can Drive?]]
* This is for 'Rugrats in Paris.' Chuckie drives a giant robot Reptar. [[FlatWhat What.]] I mean, come ''on!'' This is a show, that for the most part, is pretty grounded in the rules of reality (Except for the talking baby thing.). This isn't [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob]] where the characters can do anything the writers damn well want because it's silly and goofy and the laws of physics don't apply. When you establish up a fictional universe, you set up the rules, and ''then you stick to them.'' Having Chuckie pilot a giant robot clearly breaks this universe's rules. Think I'm over thinking it? Ok. What if for example, {{WesternAnimation/Daria}} suddenly flew a space shuttle without any training? What if [[WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger Ginger]] could suddenly breath fire? It would baffle viewers, because, with few minor exceptions, these are worlds where these things do not happen. Having a baby drive a giant robot in a series where the characters act like real people, and not like cartoons, is just ludicrous.
** Glad to hear I'm not the only one who found this weird. I always liked the scene, being a {{kaiju}} fan, but I always found this to be a pretty 'out there' scene forthe series.
** Alot of animated shows that have a movie adaptation tend to have a BigDamnMovie. It could be in BroadStrokes canonwise. ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'' happened but not the exact way depicted in the film.
** If it's worth anything, Stu says earlier that the technology is so simple a child could do it (though he later redacts this to "young adult"). It's a bit out there, yes, but personally, I never bat an eye at that part of the movie, particularly because the babies act rather clumsily. Though it still leaves the question of how they got into the head, considering they are babies, and it's about a bazillion feet off the ground.
** This, and no thought as to how absolutely no one questions why there was suddenly a mech-Godzilla wannabe stomping around Paris after that scene was over? I would imagine it'd be all over their papers the next morning, and Stu banned from France (as he was the genius who built the thing in the first place.)
** FridgeBrilliance - the robot was ''Coco'''s property. She's the one that commissioned it to be built. And who had the babies banned from the wedding and taken to the place where it was being held? Coco. And let's not forget that Jean Claude was meant to be responsible for them - or that he drove a second giant robot through Paris after a group of ''babies''. Basically the babies and their parents are probably going to fine - but Coco is going to be in big trouble with the law. Hell, the parents could probably sue ''her'' for putting their children in such danger. Kira could probably testify against Coco and Jean Claude if the matter went to court. Plus the robot arriving at Coco's wedding just implicates her even further.
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[[folder: It's a...]]
* Here's a question that stumps me: in the first Rugrats movie, Didi is pregnant with Dil (who's a boy), but she and almost everyone else (Charlotte Pickles is the exception) think she's having a girl. What I want to know about this is what made them determine the sex of Dil like that. Did they get a botched ultrasound? Did they use an "old country" method (look [[http://mentalfloss.com/article/49089/9-historical-methods-determining-sex-unborn-baby here]] for some examples)? Or did they determine it based on some WildMassGuessing that Lipshitz wrote in one of his books?
** Probably the ultrasound. It happens more often than you'd think. People in my area all have a 'if-the-doctors-were-wrong' name, which was usually only decided upon after they were born.
** Didi outright says "Dr Lipschitz says it's a girl", so yes it was a mistake on the doctor's part.
** To which Betty responds "That idiot thought Phil and Lil were intestinal gas" - so he's not the brightest doctor.
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[[folder: Thornberrys, Aging and Spike-Oh, My]]
* The third movie. First of all, why does Spike's personality seem so different from his Rugrats one? Next, anyone else find the [[WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys Thornberrys]] actually hindering the movies abilities? Next, Chaz states that it's his and Kira's anniversary...[[FridgeLogic Huh?]] The kids haven't aged a day.
** I don't remember much about that movie, but did Chaz specify ''one-year'' anniversary? It's not uncommon for new couples to excessively celebrate anniversaries that are only a month or two apart each time. And how on Earth would they get off the island without the Thornberries?
** Well that would be a reasonable assumption but in one of the episodes following the 2nd movie Kira and Chaz celebrate a four month anniversary.
** Actually he said it was their honeymoon, see? Now it makes sense!
** Exactly. I re watched the movie and never was it stated it was for there anniversary. I just assumed the original WMG was correct thats why i responded like such. As i said...They celebrated there 3,000 hour anniversary in ''The Big Sneeze." Thanks for pointing that out and correcting it.
*** The version I rewatched, a few moments before I made the WMG, had "anniversary" in one line near the beginning.
*** I just rewatched and nowhere did it mention "anniversary."
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[[folder:Step Parent Problems]]
* Kira's having some trouble connecting with Chuckie in "Changes For Chuckie". She gets a Lipschitz book about step-parenting from Didi to help with this, but wouldn't it have been easier to just ask Chaz about what Chuckie likes and doesn't like?