Line #4 Trivia/TheRugratsMovie


1	* BreakthroughHit: The film launched Creator/CharlieAdler's voice directing career.
2	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
3	** The park rangers are voiced by Creator/DavidSpade and Creator/WhoopiGoldberg.
4	** The singing babies are voiced by multiple famous singers, some of them including Music/IggyPop, Music/IceT, Music/LennyKravitz, Music/LisaLoeb and Gordon Gano.
5	** Music/BustaRhymes provides the voice of the Reptar Wagon.
6	* CreatorBacklash: Co-creator Paul Germain, who had already moved on from Nickelodeon to do ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' for Disney but returned to serve as a consultant, ultimately approved of the film but didn't like how it broke a lot of the show's internal rules. He objected to the scene of Stu giving Tommy the pocket watch, as the babies and adults were never supposed to interact, and didn't like that Tommy was no longer the youngest (he had originally suggested the Tommy getting a little brother could only work as a GrandFinale).
7	* CreditsPushback: When Nickelodeon first ran the movie in 2004, they did this. Instead of using the movie's credits, they copied it straight from IMDB - complete with some credits having "[Uncredited]" next to them! They also treated it like a regular episode of the show, which has the TV version of Splaat and "Rugrats" being in the copyright byline, instead of using the film's production logos.
8	* CutSong: Music/DavidBowie recorded a song titled "(Safe in This) Sky Life" for the film's soundtrack, but it was ultimately cut, due to the scene it was written for being axed from the film. The song would eventually be re-recorded as the B-side to Bowie's 2002 single "Everyone Says 'Hi'", under the shortened title of "Safe". The re-recording was also included on the SACD and Japanese deluxe edition releases of ''Music/{{Heathen}}''. Also the song "When The Baby Cries" (and its lead up scene) were cut from the Theatrical Release and only aired on television airings as the surreal visuals didn't test well.
9	* DeletedScene:
10	** The Creator/{{CBS}} broadcast included two scenes that were cut from the theatrical and video releases - the first one is about [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzt5bd_the-rugrats-movie-missing-scene-when-the-baby-cries_shortfilms Stu and Didi having a nightmare about Dr. Lipschitz]], and the second had [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzt5d0_the-rugrats-movie-missing-scene-army-chant_shortfilms the Rugrats dragging the Reptar Wagon up a hill while singing to an army chant]] (the latter scene was included in the print novelization). Unfortunately, very few people watched the CBS broadcast and these scenes weren't included on the home video release. They were retained in Nickelodeon's broadcasts of the film until November 2018, when Creator/NickRewind aired a newer HD master of the film lacking the scenes. Strangely, the post credits scene is also omitted in the newer print, despite playing after the final scene in TV airings.
11	** Another unspecified deleted scene is notable for featuring "(Safe in This) Sky Life", a song written for the film by Music/DavidBowie of all people; the scene's axing meant that the song had to be left off the film's soundtrack album, and the song was later re-recorded under the shortened title of "Safe" as a B-side to a single off of Bowie's 2002 album ''Music/{{Heathen}}''. The 1998 version notably marked the first project between Bowie and longtime collaborator Tony Visconti in 18 years; the two fell out just before production on Bowie's ''Music/LetsDance'' began, leading them to part ways for most of the 80's and 90's. Bowie and Visconti's partnership for "(Safe in This) Sky Life" was a one-off at the time, but they'd meet up again and establish a more permanent working relationship from ''Heathen'' onward, with Visconti producing all of Bowie's following material until the latter's death in 2016.
12	* DirectedByCastMember: Besides being the film's voice director, Creator/CharlieAdler has a minor role as a United Express driver.
13	* FakeAmerican: Creator/TimCurry puts on an American accent as the obnoxious reporter Rex Pester.
14	* FollowTheLeader: The film's overwhelming success inspired several other theatrical spin-offs of popular animated shows, including several more from Nickelodeon. It helped that most of these were inexpensive to produce and, for the most part, already had a build-in audience. The unfortunate side effect of this was that it coincided with the rising popularity of CGI and may have even devalued hand-drawn animation as a result.
15	* KidsMealToy: Burger King released a set of twelve different toys and a set of four different wristwatches.
16	* MissingTrailerScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw7HDQ5Dnjo The theatrical trailer]] contains a large amount of footage and lines that aren't present in the film (or else have major differences). A rundown of the differences is [[http://rugratonline.free.fr/rrmovie7.html here]].
17	* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Music/BustaRhymes voiced the Reptar Wagon for his then-5 year-old son T'ziah.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** In 1993, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox was going to release feature films based on the first three Creator/{{Nicktoons}}: ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. These plans fell through and only the ''Rugrats'' film got made under Nickelodeon's guidance[[note]]though ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'' got made when the rights were sold to Disney, and a Ren & Stimpy TV movie "Life Sucks" was attempted (yet scrapped) during [[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon the infamous Spike TV run]]. What the original plot consisted of is unknown[[/note]].
20	** Rex Pester's original name was [[PunnyName Scoop Hunter]]. The reason for the change is unknown. Dil's full name was also going to be Dilbert, before getting changed to Dylan.

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