remember the episode of Rugrats where Tommy literally gets kidnapped and held for ransom, only to have the kidnapper bring him back after Tommy ruined his apartment and flushed all his valuables down the toilet?
Rugrats in Paris was a fever dream. Godfather parody sequences, karaoke sumo wrestlers, a climax where the babies pilot a giant robot for a city-destroying fight scene. Also, the "Chuckie's a badass" bit in the games were based on the "Chuckie Chan" dream sequence in the movie.
@@loonytunescrazy and it was one of the first instances i know of where i learned what spoilers is once the new season aired after its release and i never got to see it (the whole idea of Chuckie’s first word being “no”)
*Just a daily reminder:* Klasky Csupo used to work on _The Simpsons_ for the animation (responsible for both the _Tracy Ullman Show_ shorts and first three seasons) before _The Rugrats_ started in 1991, which explained why the art style in the early seasons looked weird, yet expressive.
It was undoubtedly for the best that Klasky Csupo stopped animating for the Simpsons. Their overall approach to animation simply wasn’t a good fit for that show’s cynical, satirical, not-so-cartoony humor. It was also very fortunate that Nickelodeon saw their potential and gave them the opportunity to work on projects that perfectly matched Klasky Csupo’s style.
I will also say, however, that Klasky Csupo probably shouldn’t have been chosen for As Told by Ginger. That show just creeped me out for how uncanny the characters looked. Like, seriously, what was up with their mouths?
@@ResistProject2025 It didn't help that they still kept using the same artistic style that Gabor Csupo had used for all of their shows, so when they tried pitching an adult animated comedy called "You Animal" (it's on UA-cam, look it up), it absolutely hits that uncanny valley where their only idea for making something "adult" was make characters smoke and give females giant breasts. It was literally the Family Guy dig on Bojack Horseman.
For anyone wondering, Pre-School Daze is a miniseries based on a special. It has 3 episodes that aired in the UK in 2003, came to DVD in 2006, and aired in the USA in 2008 when Nick USA was dumping all their unaired content to Nicktoons and Nickelodeon (including the final halfs of MLAATR & ChalkZone's final seasons)
You probably never going to read this but, i respect so much that you and a lot of other creators make original related stylized thumbnails, i hate when thumbnails feel cheap, thx for the effort
@@BBHood217 didn’t we all? No one said all grown up sucked because of as told by ginger until the internet started saying that recently. Please don’t just parrot what you hear on the internet Sure people saw grown up as flawed but no one was comparing it to ginger until recently they were just two entirely different shows. Nobody said my pet babies or baby Loony tunes was bad because rug eats was better they were just different shows with similar premises
All Grown Up didn't really have a premise the way its predecessor did. Toddlers interpreting the world in ridiculous ways became teenagers playing it straight. I do recommend revisiting the special, though. As soon as they're preteens, the translation is 1-to-1, from the plot to the jokes and comedic timing. Stretching that into a series would've required a labor of love.
For the first four years, Ren and Stimpy was the most popular of the three. Rugrats truly gained its popularity in 1995-1996 after its initial set of episodes finished. Also noticed you’re including the Disney episodes for Doug…
Ren & Stimpy was massive. I remember here in Australia in it's prime it went from weekend morning cartoon to primetime slot for new episodes. Just crazy.
I never thought a Rugrats game of all things would be one of the most visually impressive PS1 games I've personally seen. That Rugrats in Paris game looks borderline Dreamcast.
Funnily enough: There was gonna be a Dreamcast port of Rugrats in Paris (the game), but it was never made probably because the Dreamcast was going to be discountined.
Unfortunately the framerate suffers for it, running around makes the game chug. By trade-off there's the N64 version which runs smoother but the voice clips, while there, are so horribly muffled you'll hardly be able to make them out during the intro sequence, which, as a kid made it a little tough to know what it was I was even supposed to be doing.
I played so much "Search for Reptar" for the PS1 when I was a kid that at some point I would just regularly speedrun the game, with an optimal mission order I came up with, way before knowing what speedruns were. And no, I don't find the Reptar bar's sound annoying at all. Also fun fact: for some reason, in the Italian version, the final segment with Reptar in the city is in French.
I was in that brief period (born between 1991-1994) when both Rugrats and Spongebob could both be my favorite shows and there was tons of merch. The idea that most millennials grew with just one and Gen Z with the other is quite difficult to me.
Recently watched all grown up and based my experience, it is actually surprising how well it captures the personality of the Rugrats into teenagers. I mean for what else was coming out at the same time, kinda think it is a hidden gem in terms of being a decent show ( good but doesn’t reach the same highs as Rugrats).
Looking back on it, I was surprised how much effort was put into making Royal Ransom. Each of the explorable levels were large with tons of collectables to find and each had their own thematic settings like medieval fantasy or prehistoric dinosaur land. It is also not just a 3D platformer, there were also various gameplay genre mixed in like flying a circus plane that shoots pie at clowns or riding a spitting camel to fight off scarabs and maybe an evil genie. Royal Ransom felt like it captured the concept of the Rugrats going on adventures they created from their imaginations.
All Grown Up is very polarizing, but anything that could make a series killing mistake like Dil Pickles legitimately cool has genuine merit. It also made Angelica even better in some ways.
Honestly that was genuinely the one thing still amazes me about the show. It took two of the WORST characters from the original and made them in to...well...the most decent. Like, yeah, Angelica's still a spoiled entitled brat at times, what else is new? But at least by comparison to what she WAS, she's INFINITELY more tolerable. And, ya know, Dill is actually a character instead of an object. Meanwhile characters like Tommy and Chuckie...oof...that's all I gotta say...just...oof... I did NOT like them in this spinoff AT ALL! :/
@@bluestreaker9242 Chuckie was handled better than expected for his drama of the week, and he had the YGO parody episode going for him (that episode also had the best part of retooling Angelica from unrepentant troublemaker to jerk with a good heart). Tommy on the other hand...I dread Tommy episodes all the time.
I would have gotten into Kirby sooner with Nightmare in Dreamland if I had chose that instead of...Namco Museum for the GBA. Oh well, at least I learned of the likes of Dig Dug and Galaga out of it.
I rewatched All Grown Up pretty recently, and the second season and onward were actually fun to watch. There was a strange trend of 2000s animation where the second season of a show changed art styles and writers.
I loved Search for Reptar. I used to go to my friend's house and play it in her basement all the time. There's something so good about exploring normal houses as a little character where everything looks larger than life.
11:06 I genuinely played this game SO much. The variety of games you could play, where you don’t have to play ones you don’t like, was cool. The slightly explorative nature of it where you could explore and be within the world of scenes of the game, like exploring the pickles house and yard, was awesome too. The mirror one was probably my favorite mini game. And I always got lost as reptar lol
Honestly just a version where you were allowed to play every level in a single playthrough would be nice, you feasibly cannot do that because there more levels than there are Puzzle Pieces to find, not helped by collecting Reptar Bars giving you more of them once you find a certain amount.
@@lightninstriker10 yeah i remember i just wouldn’t finish the puzzle until i played all the levels that i liked. There were a few i would always skip (angelica’s circus) lol
You didn't spend enough time talking about Royal Ransom, it is really fun. As far as I can remember with each difficulty level the levels are slightly different. For those who liked the space level in search for reptar will definitely like the space level in Royal Ransom. Also the multiplayer was so much fun to play with my siblings.
I vaguely remember having bad dreams as a kid about a video game involving Rugrats and aliens, but I couldn't remember what it was called. Turns out that "Rugrats Adventure Game" is so generic a title that I thought it was just a description. So, uh, thanks for solving that mystery for me!
@@mariajimenafigueroa233unfortunately, yes. Some people think he looked like a Nāzi stereotype for Jews, which is weird because one of the creators is Jewish woman herself. He still appears in some episodes of All Grown Up, however they even redesigned both him and Minka (the grandmother) probably due to these outrageous claims.
Feels like AntDude hates All Grown Up purely because the only characters with consistently strong writing are Dil and Angelica alongside the hit-or-miss tween drama.
One knock against Adventures in Gameland I will make is that the game goes for 30 dollars here in Canada, which is honestly laughable for a short Rugrats game like that. Nick All Star Brawl 1 goes on sale for like 5 dollars. There is no excuse for why a Rugrats NES game should be 30 bucks.
Never thought I’d see AntDude cover Rugrat, but in complete agreement. Search for Reptar is the peak and constantly played during childhood. Suzie is actually in that game in the mini games section.
Rugrats: AIG' 8-Bit Mode legitimately feels like it could've actually came out on the NES Circa 92-93. I've seen many fake retro "Inspired" Video Games, so it's nice to see one that actually bothered to do it's homework.
I suspect the people who made Rugrats didn't like Dil either. I distinctly remember seeing one of the makers of the show doing an interview saying that he didn't like the idea of Dil since he was a newborn and how were they supposed to utilize him as a character. Then he said they made it work in the single most unenthusiastic manner possible.
I recall one of the producers (who later went on to create Recess and Lloyd in Space) said the only way Dil could work was when the show was ending and he was born in the series finale. And the show continued for at least 4 more seasons and two movies after he was born.
All grown up wasn't there as terrible as people make it out to be. The problem was more so it was just kind of mediocre. The show was a little too light-hearted to be a serious teen drama, and two grounded for the characters to have mini Wacky Adventures in the same way that the Rugrats did. Plus it came out at a time when everybody was doing some sort of preteen / teen animated show. They had to compete with stuff like As Told by ginger, rocket power, 6teen, the Proud Family, ect.
An issue I've heard brought up is that the characters don't really act like kids, but rather teenagers in high school, so their behavior doesn't make sense for as young as they're supposed to be.
I want a Rugrats stealth game where you have to reach objectives while not getting spotted by adults, the episodes are already often written like they're stealth games.
23:50 I had never questioned that until you mentioned it. He canonically didn't say his first actual word until -In Paris, how did he even get his eyes tested?
awww, I was hoping you would talk more about the Rugrats Adventure Game for PC. That game is one of my childhood favorites. I specifically remember being terrified of a moment where you need to get some milk of magnesia from under the bathroom cabinet and a message popped up that said something like "WARNING: Milk of magnesia is not for babies!" and for some reason that scared me as a kid lmao
33:00 I can get down with Fortune Street advertisement. I had a fun time just breaking that game with Gecko codes on Dolphin. Oh yeah, Rugrats. Don't have much to say about it that any other 90s American kid wouldn't say other than learning about the Russian Roulette meme.
Grandpa Lou in the original was the best character. The reboot ruined him. Also, it should be noted that Rugrats didn't immediately be a major success. It was popular, yes, but back in the day, Ren & Stimpy was the Nicktoons golden child. However, John K. being John K., the episodes took forever to come out until he was outright fired after telling the Nick head honcho "It'll take as long as it takes and cost as much as it costs until it's perfect." Rugrats didn't take over until after Ren & Stimpy ended and Doug was sold to Disney and Nick noticed that the reruns were still doing well years later.
I get what they were trying to do. It is a reboot set in an alternate universe. But the problem lies in the reboot being near identical to the original series. The writers didn't want to stray away from what made Rugrats what it is, but they didn't want to pander too much to the existing fanbase. That made the changes they did make come off as more jarring, even if that wasn't the intention. Grandpa Lou's original character isn't dated. In the era of conspiracy nuts, his old character would fit into the modern age. I don't mind the reboot myself and there's plenty of good things about it despite the divisive changes. But they would have been better off changing almost everything, if it wanted to stand out from it's original counterpart. Like DuckTales.
As a speedrunner of a few of these games (particularly Search for Reptar because I grew up with it), its always neat to hear other people talk about their views of these games and touching on the nostalgia of them playing these games in the past. I actually finished the console collection just recently (well, i forgot about Scavenger Hunt on N64 but I at least played it before...) and still put Search for Reptar at the top of my list of Rugrats games.Can't wait for my physical copies of Gameland to arrive as well since I got both the Orange NES cart and a PS4 copy. I've only played through 3 of the GB/GBA games thus far and man it's a totally different world. One thing I can say in regards to The Rugrats Movie and Time Travellers on GB, thank goodness they added quality of life changes like when you take damage. Taking damage in The Movie just made you lose every single item you had collected to that point while TT only took 1 item away from you. Bonus with the Studio Tour keys: in the any% speedrun for, we get 10 keys total (bare minimum) and then save after the first door opens, to which you can continually try to find the 1 lock out of 25 that works. The RNG is set after a certain point (can't remember where offhand) so that when you re-load the save, the correct key is always in that same spot. Bonus 2 ranking mini golfs in the original trilogy: 1) Search for Reptar 2) Paris 3) Studio Tour
The only Rugrats game I played was one for the N64 (it's also on PC, I think?) that played similarly to Mario Party. You went around a board, but instead of mini-games, you just found cookies and did... things. I don't remember much about it, but it was weird and you could turn into Reptar for one of the stages. Grandpa was walking around with them for some reason, and there was this weird stamina mechanic. It was odd, but fun enough.
@@Alex-95-Gaming It just is a piece of nostalgia for me I still have on a shelf. Not a 10/10, but definitely a fun bit of party game where each board played different enough that I would say it weny above and beyond for how limited it was.
@@tomforge614 We used to have it years ago, I think a friend gave it to us before we moved away. But we ended up selling it along with Superman because we just weren't playing it and didn't really care for the series lol Had some good times with it, but by the time we got into Mario Party, we just weren't playing it anymore.
I loved all grown up growing up but i couldn’t tell you what it was about i remember a few episodes like the one where chucky plays a card game I loved the theme song tho
All grown up was an amazing show but couldn’t tell you why I just loved it. I could tell you why rugrats was amazing but none of that was in all grown up. I guess I just like teens doing teen things in a show. Even if if I remember correctly they weren’t even teens. Dill 4th grade, tommmy, Phil, lil and chucky sister 5th grade, chucky 6th grade and Angelica and the other girl 7th grade
I was going through a tough time when you upload this, so thanks. As a '90s kid I have nalsalga for Rugrats and no, i don't know why the characters almost Di3 a lot! 😆
My experience with these games: I played Studio Tour for a bit at my cousin's house once. One thing I remember was a glitch where, every time Chuckie fell in a pit in a space level, Tommy would just... be there. Motionless. In the mattress. Until at one point, it cut to a close-up of Angelica's mouth as she mockingly said "Bye, Tommy!" When my sister and I rented Rugrats in Paris (N64 version), we wound up walking through a wall in this one area, and we were walking on nothing, thinking we were getting closer to the volcano. My sister and I have taken to calling Rugrats Scavenger Hunt "suffering," but we managed to figure out how one of the boards works. The hard way.
Actually, Susie was playable in the multiplayer version of Search for Reptar's mini-golf minigame, but Studio Tour was the first Rugrats console game where (a) she plays a role in the story, and (b) she has voiced dialogue.
Having Johnny's Raycon ad INSIDE Ant's Raycon ad is the second most surreal thing after using a Spongebob intro for a Rugrats video. Well, at this rate, I expect Caddy will show up before this episode ends... given, you know, Totally Fanny... OH HEY REFERENCE AT 11:34! XD You know this franchise is a fever dream when one of the best games has an average play time of 45 minutes. O_O
I feel like he only ever watched the first season of All Grown Up. A lot of people say that if you wanna watch the show, completely skip season 1 and just watch the rest, that's where the good stuff are at.
As an N64 boy with a love for exploration and minigolf, I loved Rugrats in Paris, just going around and seeing all the weird places, and the minigolf was really good, I played it a lot with my brothers trying to get a hole in one. Also that...board game I think...it was weird, I think you were supposed to collect some pieces in each board and that is how you win. I know it existed and I played it but don't really remember how we played it.
Dude, Rugrats Adventure Game was one of my formative gaming experiences as a child. My first adventure game, one of if not my first PC game, my first licensed game, so many hours pumped into that. Mystery Adventures was also real great for me, and the loading screen jingle for Rugrats in Paris PC still lives in my head rent free to this day.
the biggest shame of all grown up is that the same exact people made "As Told By Ginger" a series that has aged like a fine wine like they can do a good tweenage series... so why did they drop the ball with Rugrats so badly??
My favorite part of All-Grown Up is the two-parter episode "Interview with a Campfire" I have watched that episode way more times than I'd like to admit.
remember the episode of Rugrats where Tommy literally gets kidnapped and held for ransom, only to have the kidnapper bring him back after Tommy ruined his apartment and flushed all his valuables down the toilet?
Rugrats in Paris was a fever dream. Godfather parody sequences, karaoke sumo wrestlers, a climax where the babies pilot a giant robot for a city-destroying fight scene. Also, the "Chuckie's a badass" bit in the games were based on the "Chuckie Chan" dream sequence in the movie.
It a good movie Chuckle finally got a new mum and sister
@@loonytunescrazy and it was one of the first instances i know of where i learned what spoilers is once the new season aired after its release and i never got to see it (the whole idea of Chuckie’s first word being “no”)
Issac Hayes singing it too, it was badass
I WANT A MOM THAT WOULD LAST FOREVER, I WANT A MOM TO MAKE IT ALL BETTER 🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣
11:34 You can’t hide that Caddicarus reference there, Mister AntDude.
Take that, Angelica Pickles!
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking it
I knew it was only a matter of time. XD
Given Caddy's hate for his old videos, he's probably put Ant on his enemies list now
Exactly what I was gonna say, Ant knows who's Totally Fanny 😂😂😂
*Just a daily reminder:* Klasky Csupo used to work on _The Simpsons_ for the animation (responsible for both the _Tracy Ullman Show_ shorts and first three seasons) before _The Rugrats_ started in 1991, which explained why the art style in the early seasons looked weird, yet expressive.
daily?
It was undoubtedly for the best that Klasky Csupo stopped animating for the Simpsons. Their overall approach to animation simply wasn’t a good fit for that show’s cynical, satirical, not-so-cartoony humor. It was also very fortunate that Nickelodeon saw their potential and gave them the opportunity to work on projects that perfectly matched Klasky Csupo’s style.
I will also say, however, that Klasky Csupo probably shouldn’t have been chosen for As Told by Ginger. That show just creeped me out for how uncanny the characters looked. Like, seriously, what was up with their mouths?
I always assumed their involvement is why both the Pickles and Simpson households are a lovely shade of pink inside and out.
@@ResistProject2025 It didn't help that they still kept using the same artistic style that Gabor Csupo had used for all of their shows, so when they tried pitching an adult animated comedy called "You Animal" (it's on UA-cam, look it up), it absolutely hits that uncanny valley where their only idea for making something "adult" was make characters smoke and give females giant breasts.
It was literally the Family Guy dig on Bojack Horseman.
A baby's gotta do what a baby’s gotta do
Captain America:
"i understood that reference."
Goo goo gaga.....
I want milky
16:06 Weeeee!!!
A baby's gotta....doo
“Don’t you just love the holiday season? It’s cold…”
Dude nailed it.
Not if you live in the Southern Hemisphere. It's hot af right now.
I live in Australia, it's boiling hot during the holidays for us
It's hella nice in the sun, but warm here in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles, lol.
For anyone wondering, Pre-School Daze is a miniseries based on a special.
It has 3 episodes that aired in the UK in 2003, came to DVD in 2006, and aired in the USA in 2008 when Nick USA was dumping all their unaired content to Nicktoons and Nickelodeon (including the final halfs of MLAATR & ChalkZone's final seasons)
You probably never going to read this but, i respect so much that you and a lot of other creators make original related stylized thumbnails, i hate when thumbnails feel cheap, thx for the effort
What's Chuckie have to say about World War II?
"I don't know you guys, maybe all this fighting isn't SUCH A GOOD IDEA!"
All Grown Up's problem was that As Told By Ginger also existed and took all the serious teen drama which left the Rugrats with... more Rugrats.
I'd thought it was just ok, even back then.
Do you get all your opinions from the internet?
No, I also happen to have watched both.
@@BBHood217 didn’t we all? No one said all grown up sucked because of as told by ginger until the internet started saying that recently. Please don’t just parrot what you hear on the internet
Sure people saw grown up as flawed but no one was comparing it to ginger until recently they were just two entirely different shows. Nobody said my pet babies or baby Loony tunes was bad because rug eats was better they were just different shows with similar premises
All Grown Up didn't really have a premise the way its predecessor did. Toddlers interpreting the world in ridiculous ways became teenagers playing it straight. I do recommend revisiting the special, though. As soon as they're preteens, the translation is 1-to-1, from the plot to the jokes and comedic timing. Stretching that into a series would've required a labor of love.
For the first four years, Ren and Stimpy was the most popular of the three. Rugrats truly gained its popularity in 1995-1996 after its initial set of episodes finished. Also noticed you’re including the Disney episodes for Doug…
If I had to guess why Ren & Stimpy was the popular before Rugrats' revival, it was probably because of how edgy it was (for better or for worse)
Ren & Stimpy Rockos Modern Life Rugrats Ahhh Real Monsters and Angry Beavers 90s Nickelodeon Goodness
Ren & Stimpy was massive. I remember here in Australia in it's prime it went from weekend morning cartoon to primetime slot for new episodes. Just crazy.
I never thought a Rugrats game of all things would be one of the most visually impressive PS1 games I've personally seen. That Rugrats in Paris game looks borderline Dreamcast.
It was released on that console
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Funnily enough: There was gonna be a Dreamcast port of Rugrats in Paris (the game), but it was never made probably because the Dreamcast was going to be discountined.
Unfortunately the framerate suffers for it, running around makes the game chug. By trade-off there's the N64 version which runs smoother but the voice clips, while there, are so horribly muffled you'll hardly be able to make them out during the intro sequence, which, as a kid made it a little tough to know what it was I was even supposed to be doing.
The Rugrats PS1 game (the Loose Trilogy) also really gives off the liminal space feeling, especially the living room in the Tommy level.
I played so much "Search for Reptar" for the PS1 when I was a kid that at some point I would just regularly speedrun the game, with an optimal mission order I came up with, way before knowing what speedruns were.
And no, I don't find the Reptar bar's sound annoying at all.
Also fun fact: for some reason, in the Italian version, the final segment with Reptar in the city is in French.
I was in that brief period (born between 1991-1994) when both Rugrats and Spongebob could both be my favorite shows and there was tons of merch. The idea that most millennials grew with just one and Gen Z with the other is quite difficult to me.
Recently watched all grown up and based my experience, it is actually surprising how well it captures the personality of the Rugrats into teenagers. I mean for what else was coming out at the same time, kinda think it is a hidden gem in terms of being a decent show ( good but doesn’t reach the same highs as Rugrats).
Yeah Antdude is crazy that show is damn good.
@ yeah the show definitely was able to capture that spiritual energy well, better then some shows I can think of.
I especially like the dialogue in the later seasons
Looking back on it, I was surprised how much effort was put into making Royal Ransom. Each of the explorable levels were large with tons of collectables to find and each had their own thematic settings like medieval fantasy or prehistoric dinosaur land. It is also not just a 3D platformer, there were also various gameplay genre mixed in like flying a circus plane that shoots pie at clowns or riding a spitting camel to fight off scarabs and maybe an evil genie. Royal Ransom felt like it captured the concept of the Rugrats going on adventures they created from their imaginations.
All Grown Up is very polarizing, but anything that could make a series killing mistake like Dil Pickles legitimately cool has genuine merit. It also made Angelica even better in some ways.
She becomes nicer by then
Honestly that was genuinely the one thing still amazes me about the show. It took two of the WORST characters from the original and made them in to...well...the most decent. Like, yeah, Angelica's still a spoiled entitled brat at times, what else is new? But at least by comparison to what she WAS, she's INFINITELY more tolerable. And, ya know, Dill is actually a character instead of an object. Meanwhile characters like Tommy and Chuckie...oof...that's all I gotta say...just...oof... I did NOT like them in this spinoff AT ALL! :/
@@bluestreaker9242 Chuckie was handled better than expected for his drama of the week, and he had the YGO parody episode going for him (that episode also had the best part of retooling Angelica from unrepentant troublemaker to jerk with a good heart). Tommy on the other hand...I dread Tommy episodes all the time.
@@TheDiscoGenre That's fair, yeah. X3
I’m only mildly upset you did Rugrats before Ed Edd N Eddy the Mis-Edventures
Same
“Doug was like a western slice of life anime” ……….OH. MY. GOD. they were preprogramming us
As a kid, I had a decision. That Rugrats party game or Diddy Kong Racing. I made a bad decision that day and never played Diddy Kong Racing.
My bad purchase decision that I can remember (1999) was asking my dad to get me Frogger over Ape Escape. I did get it 2 years later at least.
Y'all think that's bad? I asked for Qbert for the Gameboy Color
I would have gotten into Kirby sooner with Nightmare in Dreamland if I had chose that instead of...Namco Museum for the GBA. Oh well, at least I learned of the likes of Dig Dug and Galaga out of it.
Hey I once picked Nickelodeon Party Blast over Metroid Prime.
I rewatched All Grown Up pretty recently, and the second season and onward were actually fun to watch. There was a strange trend of 2000s animation where the second season of a show changed art styles and writers.
"Chuckie is an infant and he's already wearing glasses. How bad is his eyesight?"
Maybe he had cataract surgery when he was a baby? Happened to me.
I loved Search for Reptar. I used to go to my friend's house and play it in her basement all the time. There's something so good about exploring normal houses as a little character where everything looks larger than life.
Yes, I hope you make a video on every single Sesame Street Videogame.
Journey with Numbers goes hard
@@punkloser1465 Nah, Search and Learn Adventures is where it’s at.
Or maybe that’s nostalgia talking. I haven’t played that game since I was, like, 5.
Do Muppets games also count with this or would it only be Sesame Street?
Thats 15-20 games with Muppets included
I have grown up with the Rugrats, and only in this video do I realise Dill’s name is Dill Pickles. Oh my god.
11:06 I genuinely played this game SO much. The variety of games you could play, where you don’t have to play ones you don’t like, was cool. The slightly explorative nature of it where you could explore and be within the world of scenes of the game, like exploring the pickles house and yard, was awesome too. The mirror one was probably my favorite mini game. And I always got lost as reptar lol
9:36 "Hang on, what? Who are these imposters? I don’t remember that episode of Rugrats." - Caddicarus
the only reason i remember The Search for Reptar is because of the Dayshift at Freddy's games using the opening theme for SfR as Dave's theme
Huh?
same LMAO
Why Hello There, Old Sport!
Search for reptar could easily be remastered with additional content for an amazing nostalgic game
Yessss. I would happily buy that lol
Honestly just a version where you were allowed to play every level in a single playthrough would be nice, you feasibly cannot do that because there more levels than there are Puzzle Pieces to find, not helped by collecting Reptar Bars giving you more of them once you find a certain amount.
@@lightninstriker10 yeah i remember i just wouldn’t finish the puzzle until i played all the levels that i liked. There were a few i would always skip (angelica’s circus) lol
You didn't spend enough time talking about Royal Ransom, it is really fun. As far as I can remember with each difficulty level the levels are slightly different. For those who liked the space level in search for reptar will definitely like the space level in Royal Ransom. Also the multiplayer was so much fun to play with my siblings.
19:14 and this is the clear sign that ant hasn't watched the Rugrats In paris, Chucky Chan was one of the highlights of the movie
Dude, playing as Reptar in Search for Reptar was the absolute best. Such a cool bonus for beating the game.
A gamer’s gotta do what a gamer’s gotta do
I vaguely remember having bad dreams as a kid about a video game involving Rugrats and aliens, but I couldn't remember what it was called. Turns out that "Rugrats Adventure Game" is so generic a title that I thought it was just a description. So, uh, thanks for solving that mystery for me!
23:09 "Aw finally dude! Something mediocre at best!" is everyone's reaction to the new Bubsy games
“Is Dil 1 or 100?”
Neither, he’s 0. Do you not know how birthdays work
WRONG He's 26 now. Do you not know how time works
@@wayninggibbous6616At the time of his birth, which was shown on screen, he was 0. Don't you know babies aren't born 1 year olds?
Rugrats (sort of) walked so that SpongeBob can run laps around them
Fun fact: rugrats is also a comic strip! It’s mostly relegated to jokes, but a very good conversion from TV show to comics!
Wasen't there a Rugrats comic strip that was controversal that Boris (Tommy and Dil's maternal grandfather) was banned from appering in the comics?
@@mariajimenafigueroa233unfortunately, yes. Some people think he looked like a Nāzi stereotype for Jews, which is weird because one of the creators is Jewish woman herself.
He still appears in some episodes of All Grown Up, however they even redesigned both him and Minka (the grandmother) probably due to these outrageous claims.
We ignore the reboot in terms of character changes
All grown up slander will not be accepted
Feels like AntDude hates All Grown Up purely because the only characters with consistently strong writing are Dil and Angelica alongside the hit-or-miss tween drama.
I long awaited for antdude's return
But i didn't expect this
Those GameboyColor games were terrible and ridiculously hard, but they had dang good visuals for their console's limitations.
Omg I just checked the channel earlier, I can't believe you actually dropped a video today!!!!
Rugrats Adventure Game is peak gaming and deserved more screen time but other than that, great video.
26:28 thanks for the fanfic idea!
One knock against Adventures in Gameland I will make is that the game goes for 30 dollars here in Canada, which is honestly laughable for a short Rugrats game like that. Nick All Star Brawl 1 goes on sale for like 5 dollars. There is no excuse for why a Rugrats NES game should be 30 bucks.
Never thought I’d see AntDude cover Rugrat, but in complete agreement. Search for Reptar is the peak and constantly played during childhood. Suzie is actually in that game in the mini games section.
Did i imagine the N64 Scavenger hunt game? It feels like a fever dream
I will not tolerate the slander against All Grown Up. That show is great.
damn right, I honestly like it better then the original.
@@jadedheartsz😂🤣
@@jadedheartsz Same
I agree, all grown up fans rise up
Good, i thought i was crazy for liking it lol
Y’know, AntDude reviewing cartoons sounds really cool. And only got that feeling from the first 1 minute and 47 seconds of the video.
Rugrats: AIG' 8-Bit Mode legitimately feels like it could've actually came out on the NES Circa 92-93. I've seen many fake retro "Inspired" Video Games, so it's nice to see one that actually bothered to do it's homework.
Hmm... Hey, AntDude!
Since you're on a Nickelodeon Video Game kick... How about a Fairly OddParents game retrospective next?
I suspect the people who made Rugrats didn't like Dil either. I distinctly remember seeing one of the makers of the show doing an interview saying that he didn't like the idea of Dil since he was a newborn and how were they supposed to utilize him as a character. Then he said they made it work in the single most unenthusiastic manner possible.
I recall one of the producers (who later went on to create Recess and Lloyd in Space) said the only way Dil could work was when the show was ending and he was born in the series finale.
And the show continued for at least 4 more seasons and two movies after he was born.
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The Long Awaited Sequel To Scott The Woz's "Is That A Threat?"
Funny, I had Search For Reptar growing up.
This is the freshest ant dude video that managed to watch
All grown up wasn't there as terrible as people make it out to be. The problem was more so it was just kind of mediocre. The show was a little too light-hearted to be a serious teen drama, and two grounded for the characters to have mini Wacky Adventures in the same way that the Rugrats did. Plus it came out at a time when everybody was doing some sort of preteen / teen animated show. They had to compete with stuff like As Told by ginger, rocket power, 6teen, the Proud Family, ect.
An issue I've heard brought up is that the characters don't really act like kids, but rather teenagers in high school, so their behavior doesn't make sense for as young as they're supposed to be.
27:32 all grown up is the Dragon Ball Z of Rugrats
WAS THAT A REBELTAXI REFERENCE?!
@mariajimenafigueroa233 yes yes it is
Make sense to me
I love how you tell us the russian roulette scene wasnt real and then proceed to reference it several more times
I want a Rugrats stealth game where you have to reach objectives while not getting spotted by adults, the episodes are already often written like they're stealth games.
I personally loved the Rugrats Savenger Hunt game in my youth. It really captured the imagination and innocence of the babies.
Am I the only one that has comfy memories with All Grown Up? Maybe if I rewatch it now I would understand the negative view.
Definitely worth rewatching, it’s pretty good
23:50 I had never questioned that until you mentioned it. He canonically didn't say his first actual word until -In Paris, how did he even get his eyes tested?
awww, I was hoping you would talk more about the Rugrats Adventure Game for PC. That game is one of my childhood favorites. I specifically remember being terrified of a moment where you need to get some milk of magnesia from under the bathroom cabinet and a message popped up that said something like "WARNING: Milk of magnesia is not for babies!" and for some reason that scared me as a kid lmao
That Rugrats PC adventure game is my personal favourite.
29:24 Angelica being shameless. Wow. This is so wrong.
all grown up is great dont diss all grown up
I feel like I associate at least 2 rugrats games with being extremely sick and feverish as a child
33:00 I can get down with Fortune Street advertisement. I had a fun time just breaking that game with Gecko codes on Dolphin.
Oh yeah, Rugrats. Don't have much to say about it that any other 90s American kid wouldn't say other than learning about the Russian Roulette meme.
8:55 skip ad
a true hero
I'm honestly shocked that the "Death in Rugrats" joke never once mentioned Chuckie's mom. 😅
I have & enjoy Rugrats:Treasure hunt especially with multiple people playing all at once
The fact that it took 30 years to have a good Rugrats game, while most other Nicktoons had less of a problem
First SpongeBob and now rugrats hope he gets some sleep after this 😂😂😂
I normally don’t feel nostalgia for much of anything, but that footage of the PC mini games really hit me like a ton of bricks lol
Youre laughing? The rugrats are stuck in paris, and youre laughing? 😐
I am so hip-hop brained that whenever I hear reptar I can’t stop thinking about Yonkers
Search for Reptar was the first video game I ever played, and I have a lot of nostalgia for it. I’m so happy someone finally talked about it!
Let's go finally, he releases a new video🥳
Grandpa Lou in the original was the best character. The reboot ruined him.
Also, it should be noted that Rugrats didn't immediately be a major success. It was popular, yes, but back in the day, Ren & Stimpy was the Nicktoons golden child. However, John K. being John K., the episodes took forever to come out until he was outright fired after telling the Nick head honcho "It'll take as long as it takes and cost as much as it costs until it's perfect." Rugrats didn't take over until after Ren & Stimpy ended and Doug was sold to Disney and Nick noticed that the reruns were still doing well years later.
I get what they were trying to do. It is a reboot set in an alternate universe. But the problem lies in the reboot being near identical to the original series. The writers didn't want to stray away from what made Rugrats what it is, but they didn't want to pander too much to the existing fanbase. That made the changes they did make come off as more jarring, even if that wasn't the intention.
Grandpa Lou's original character isn't dated. In the era of conspiracy nuts, his old character would fit into the modern age. I don't mind the reboot myself and there's plenty of good things about it despite the divisive changes. But they would have been better off changing almost everything, if it wanted to stand out from it's original counterpart. Like DuckTales.
@@consumeroftoons2119Didn't they make Stu a gamer or something? I know he and Didi weren't even THAT old in the show.
Fun fact: Rugrats: I Gotta Go Party had a soundtrack composed by Jake Kaufman, who went on to make the music for the Shantae series and Shovel Knight.
I still have my copy of Rugrats Studio Tour and the Game Boy Rugrats Movie game to this day. Played Studio Tour more.
'You know how to drive, I guess'
Someone's forgot about the first Rugrats movie. Which, is fair, because everyone does.
As a speedrunner of a few of these games (particularly Search for Reptar because I grew up with it), its always neat to hear other people talk about their views of these games and touching on the nostalgia of them playing these games in the past. I actually finished the console collection just recently (well, i forgot about Scavenger Hunt on N64 but I at least played it before...) and still put Search for Reptar at the top of my list of Rugrats games.Can't wait for my physical copies of Gameland to arrive as well since I got both the Orange NES cart and a PS4 copy. I've only played through 3 of the GB/GBA games thus far and man it's a totally different world. One thing I can say in regards to The Rugrats Movie and Time Travellers on GB, thank goodness they added quality of life changes like when you take damage. Taking damage in The Movie just made you lose every single item you had collected to that point while TT only took 1 item away from you.
Bonus with the Studio Tour keys: in the any% speedrun for, we get 10 keys total (bare minimum) and then save after the first door opens, to which you can continually try to find the 1 lock out of 25 that works. The RNG is set after a certain point (can't remember where offhand) so that when you re-load the save, the correct key is always in that same spot.
Bonus 2 ranking mini golfs in the original trilogy: 1) Search for Reptar 2) Paris 3) Studio Tour
The only Rugrats game I played was one for the N64 (it's also on PC, I think?) that played similarly to Mario Party. You went around a board, but instead of mini-games, you just found cookies and did... things. I don't remember much about it, but it was weird and you could turn into Reptar for one of the stages. Grandpa was walking around with them for some reason, and there was this weird stamina mechanic. It was odd, but fun enough.
Yes!! With a temple stage full of dust bunnies
"Rugrats Scavenger Hunt"
@@tomforge614 Yeah that was it!
@@Alex-95-Gaming It just is a piece of nostalgia for me I still have on a shelf.
Not a 10/10, but definitely a fun bit of party game where each board played different enough that I would say it weny above and beyond for how limited it was.
@@tomforge614 We used to have it years ago, I think a friend gave it to us before we moved away. But we ended up selling it along with Superman because we just weren't playing it and didn't really care for the series lol
Had some good times with it, but by the time we got into Mario Party, we just weren't playing it anymore.
I loved all grown up growing up but i couldn’t tell you what it was about i remember a few episodes like the one where chucky plays a card game I loved the theme song tho
All grown up was an amazing show but couldn’t tell you why I just loved it. I could tell you why rugrats was amazing but none of that was in all grown up. I guess I just like teens doing teen things in a show. Even if if I remember correctly they weren’t even teens. Dill 4th grade, tommmy, Phil, lil and chucky sister 5th grade, chucky 6th grade and Angelica and the other girl 7th grade
I was going through a tough time when you upload this, so thanks. As a '90s kid I have nalsalga for Rugrats and no, i don't know why the characters almost Di3 a lot! 😆
My experience with these games:
I played Studio Tour for a bit at my cousin's house once. One thing I remember was a glitch where, every time Chuckie fell in a pit in a space level, Tommy would just... be there. Motionless. In the mattress. Until at one point, it cut to a close-up of Angelica's mouth as she mockingly said "Bye, Tommy!"
When my sister and I rented Rugrats in Paris (N64 version), we wound up walking through a wall in this one area, and we were walking on nothing, thinking we were getting closer to the volcano.
My sister and I have taken to calling Rugrats Scavenger Hunt "suffering," but we managed to figure out how one of the boards works. The hard way.
Actually, Susie was playable in the multiplayer version of Search for Reptar's mini-golf minigame, but Studio Tour was the first Rugrats console game where (a) she plays a role in the story, and (b) she has voiced dialogue.
Having Johnny's Raycon ad INSIDE Ant's Raycon ad is the second most surreal thing after using a Spongebob intro for a Rugrats video.
Well, at this rate, I expect Caddy will show up before this episode ends... given, you know, Totally Fanny... OH HEY REFERENCE AT 11:34! XD
You know this franchise is a fever dream when one of the best games has an average play time of 45 minutes. O_O
8:23 wait
Is that a Raycon ad inside my Raycon ad?
I feel like he only ever watched the first season of All Grown Up. A lot of people say that if you wanna watch the show, completely skip season 1 and just watch the rest, that's where the good stuff are at.
I’m rewatching the first season, and I’m getting a lot of good laughs at the dialogue itself. I guess the vocal majority is who the show isn’t for
I played a lot of Rugrats In Paris 64 and Mystery Adventures on PC. Rugrats is still forever my favorite cartoon
As an N64 boy with a love for exploration and minigolf, I loved Rugrats in Paris, just going around and seeing all the weird places, and the minigolf was really good, I played it a lot with my brothers trying to get a hole in one.
Also that...board game I think...it was weird, I think you were supposed to collect some pieces in each board and that is how you win. I know it existed and I played it but don't really remember how we played it.
Dude, Rugrats Adventure Game was one of my formative gaming experiences as a child. My first adventure game, one of if not my first PC game, my first licensed game, so many hours pumped into that. Mystery Adventures was also real great for me, and the loading screen jingle for Rugrats in Paris PC still lives in my head rent free to this day.
the biggest shame of all grown up is that the same exact people made "As Told By Ginger" a series that has aged like a fine wine
like they can do a good tweenage series... so why did they drop the ball with Rugrats so badly??
I always loved Rugrats and All Grown Up. The All Grown Up opening will live in my head for all eternity.
That theme song is amazing
I just love the running gag in which Antdude remind us about Tommy almost killing Dil
My favorite part of All-Grown Up is the two-parter episode "Interview with a Campfire"
I have watched that episode way more times than I'd like to admit.
Ain’t never got no brain or nuthin
Rugrats literally crawled so Spongebob could run.