I feel so bad for Grandpa Lou, being used for jokes about old people being incompetent, and being blamed for losing the kids when the parents are constantly leaving them with him

@ajstudios9210

Ай бұрын

Exactly.

@ZeranZeran

Ай бұрын

Uhh.. even a grandpa should know to CLOSE THE FRONT DOOR

@spicybeantofu

Ай бұрын

Old people are incompetent. The parents are too for leaving the kids with him.

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

@@ZeranZeran XD Wasn't Didi the one who left the front door open in this episode? I distinctly remember the whole thing being kicked off by her going out shopping.

@goomba1000

Ай бұрын

Not to mention, the babies get away from them too.

My favorite line from the first movie . Is when deedee finds out the kids are all missing “Stu you left them with your father for god sakes the man slept through Pearl Harbor “ Grandpa Lou goes “I woke everyone up as fast as I could”

@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z

Ай бұрын

As a child I thought Grandpa sounded the alarm about the babies being missing, I was 8 when the Rugrats movie was released and had only learned very little about World War II.

@comettamer

Ай бұрын

Didi always was kinda contentious toward Grandpa Lou.

@coolchrisable

Ай бұрын

@@comettamer but still leaves toddlers with him when she knows he sleeps alot

@coltonk.3086

Ай бұрын

...I don't get the punchline.

@Biz_God

Ай бұрын

​@@coltonk.3086he was young during Pearl harbor. If your confused about what Pearl harbor is, it is an attack done by the Japanese on our harbor where we had a bunch of ships and people stationed. So the joke is he slept through a war

Growing up I never pay attention to the fact that Stu and DiDi were the worst parents on Rugrats next to Charlotte and Drew.

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

All the adults were kinda bad. But you know they all loved their children but yea even with Chaz, Betty, Howard, etc the kids escaped

@comettamer

Ай бұрын

I mean, even Drew might've had the good sense to notice Angelica missing, mostly because it would be way too quiet around the house.

@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333

Ай бұрын

The show wouldn’t work if the parents were better.

@LittleMissLounge

Ай бұрын

@@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333 Dee Dee: Oh, just a second Betty. Tommy's about to put a fork in the socket again. What would Dr. Lipschitz say? Episode: [ends abruptly]

@Milk-ck1wv

24 күн бұрын

​@@oooh19 you can love your kids and be terrible parent's

One thing I noticed in this episode that I thought you might point out about the Banana: The kidnapper is reading a parenting book and it tells him kids like Bananas At the end Dee Dee, who is infamous for reading parenting books tries to give Tommy a Banana, implying that she read the very same parenting book. I found that hilarious.

@evancredeur7498

Ай бұрын

I think he started not liking bananas after he slipped on the peel at their hideout.

@amethyst_cat9532

Ай бұрын

I honestly thought that the page was actually about nutrition and the banana thing was supposed to be interpreted as "this guy doesn't know how to read," really playing into the dumb criminal persona

@SupHapCak

Ай бұрын

I noticed that too :)

@christywakeen229

Ай бұрын

I also don't think babies even eat bananas like that at that age, he's like... 1

@mirachan9217

Ай бұрын

My neighbor's baby was eating all kinds of fruit at the age of 1 ​@@christywakeen229

The real funny psychology knowledge is how Tommy will no longer enjoy Bananas ever again. I know the creators wouldn't use this or bring it up in All grown up, but just imagine how crazy it would be if Teen Tommy still had this un-nerving feel anytime someone tries to hand him a banana.

@spicybeantofu

Ай бұрын

That would be too much work

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

Would Tommy have really been traumatized by what he went through in this episode? XD I remember him having a ton of fun messing with the burglars.

@eatmynutsarchmage4883

Ай бұрын

@@emilycarrick3570 even if he didn't understand what was going on, he probably associates the memory with some sort of uncomfortable feeling... right? i'm no psychology nerd so I've got no clue really.

@andyghkfilm2287

Ай бұрын

@@emilycarrick3570 I stepped on a bee in the backyard while I was barefoot when I was a toddler and I get skeeved out from being barefoot outside to this day lol

@comettamer

Ай бұрын

Agreed. The banana peel was a far worse enemy to Tommy than the knockoff Harry & Marv.

This episode is actually based off a classic short story by O. Henry called The Ransom of Red Chief. In it, a millionaire's kid is kidnapped for ransom, but he ends up being such a pain in the butt to deal with that the two kidnappers pay the kid's father to take the kid back. O. Henry would be referenced for a second time in this show during The Santa Experience, where Phil and Lil's subplot basically resembles The Gift of the Magi.

@gmmartines7331

Ай бұрын

"Soon everybody started giving presents, even the Easter Bunny til Santa slapped him with a law suit" 😂😂 one of Angelica's best lines

@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z

Ай бұрын

@@gmmartines7331 At least the Easter bunny still brings Easter eggs.

@misspinkpunkykat

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of the meme with Ralph Wiggum from the Sipmsons being tossed through a window with the caption "My kidnappers returning me after me talking about X the whole time"

@JawbreakerXD

Ай бұрын

I remember reading that in school! I never put that together until now!

@comettamer

Ай бұрын

That story never gets enough credit for how many times it's been the basis for an episode of various TV shows.

Context is key. As a kid, you don't know the real scary stuff about "stranger danger" until you get older and are able to truly understand what could happen (or for those unfortunate souls, who got experience with being kidnapped).

@spicybeantofu

Ай бұрын

That's why I've told my kid straight up what will happen

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

@@spicybeantofuyea kids learn early on but they get older and see things more in depth like with most things in life

@PyroGothNerd

Ай бұрын

I got introduced to human trafficking by "Madeline lost in Paris" Literally the plot is a man pretending to be her uncle takes her to work at a lace factory

@fieryphoenix586

12 күн бұрын

I swear, a movie like Pinocchio got darker the older I got. We always learn about Stranger Danger at young ages, but never fully understand the real danger behind Strangers and Kidnapping.

"In true cartoon baby fashion..." Nah that's real baby's too bro. EVERYTHING goes in that dang toilet

@saphiriathebluedragonknight375

Ай бұрын

My younger siblings flushed an entire roll of toilet paper. Needless to say our parents were not amused.

@HandsomeLongshanks

Ай бұрын

I don't know a single person who ever had a tendency to flush things down the toilet. Must be a trait of kids raised by bad parents.

@prixe12

Ай бұрын

​@@HandsomeLongshanks it's almost as if all kids are different dude. No need to be such a judgemental dick

@saphiriathebluedragonknight375

Ай бұрын

@@HandsomeLongshanks I guess you don't have younger siblings.

@asiayournet8593

Ай бұрын

I used to throw away silverware.

I swear, even as a kid I was like "its a jewel! You can WASH it!" I really liked crystals and shiny things as a youngling. 💎 So it didnt make sense to me lol

@LadyLunarella

Ай бұрын

I wanted to hold the pretty crystals as a kid

@tjstarzz9231

Ай бұрын

Likewise! Got into scratching glass beakers (mom would bring up spare stuff from the lab sometimes) and growing crystals. What got me was the dude dripping from the neck down after half of his arm was in the toilet lmao

I totally agree how those early season 1 episodes have such a different vibe than later Rugrats. It almost feels like you are Tommy since you get a lot of POV shots and he doesn't talk as much.

@andykishore

Ай бұрын

Yeah, Tommy Pickles doesn't talk in "Ruthless Tommy," outside of crying noises. This was common in a couple other early season 1 episodes.

This episode is basically Rugrats (1991)'s equivalent of the first Home Alone movie, with Tommy, Mike, and Bob in the respective roles of Kevin, Harry, and Marv. It may also very well have served as the inspiration for another John Hughes film, Baby's Day Out.

@ZeranZeran

Ай бұрын

I love that movie as a kid As an adult.. I'm left wondering why the hell I loved that movie, lmao

@1heKing

Ай бұрын

ahh yes mr plinketts favorite John Hughs movie

@the1magageneral323

Ай бұрын

​@@ZeranZeranI still love Home Alone

@XSilver_WaterX

Ай бұрын

Presumably because the story adds onto itself rather that the overcooked explanation from the writers and directors. I been to that re-meeting, time is not a kind master.

@arthas640

Ай бұрын

Also much like Home Alone 2 it involves a Trump scene. The man who's kid the kidnappers are targeting is named "Ronald Thump"

The genius behind the Trump reference is that he's a New Yorker, the two criminals have thick NY/east coast accents and are a parody of the criminals from Home Alone, a series in which Trump made a cameo in it's sequel film

@myowncomputerstuff

Ай бұрын

It's kinda prophetic, since this episode aired in October 1991, and Home Alone 2 was released in 1992.

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

@@myowncomputerstuffbut the first Home Alone was released in 1990! Classic film!

@lillianahunter1199

Ай бұрын

The original reference to Trump nice, the guy was pretty respected for the amount of money he invested in New York.

@LogShaw1587

24 күн бұрын

@@lillianahunter1199he's still respected by being a great president

@lillianahunter1199

24 күн бұрын

@@LogShaw1587 Oh I know, I'm just referring to how he was respected back then

I had a fear of being kidnapped as a child this episode just added fuel to the fire 😂

@dancinwolf21

Ай бұрын

I had this fear too. My older cousin tried to reassure me by saying I was important enough to be kidnapped 😂

@jocelynecupcake

26 күн бұрын

Same, this show came on in the morning (in the early 2000s, when I watched it) and I had a dream that they kidnapped me too right after I watched the episode. I was only 4... this episode was too scary to me

There's another episode where 2 old women try to kidnap Tommy from a grocery store! It always gave me the creeps. I TOTALLY forgot about this one. Woah..

@gmmartines7331

Ай бұрын

No what happens is he's accidentally taken from the grocery store because Grandpa's an idiot. but they do try to keep him and don't alert the police to the missing child which of course is wrong but they give him right back when it's proven that he's actually Lou's grandchild

@anidnmeno

Ай бұрын

BOSTWICK!

@andykishore

Ай бұрын

That would be the season 2 episode "The Case of the Missing Rugrat."

@misspinkpunkykat

Ай бұрын

​@@gmmartines7331They believed he was their father, Bostwick reincarnation

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

@@misspinkpunkykat XD I remember it being their uncle, but they really did think that Tommy was "Bostwick" reborn! I always found it creepy that they used that to justify their intent to keep Tommy for themselves. And that their butler was just... going to go along with that for the most part.

it shows bad parenting and don't bother to check their surroundings. they always lose the babies. these kidnappers are so stupid that they didn't check to see if the house is the target before committing the crime. Tommy's family didn't even know that Tommy was kidnapped.

@aerodynamiccow3597

Ай бұрын

It was a pretty close reference to O Henry's "Ransom of the Red Chief" where two criminals kidnapped a millionare's kid, but the kid was so annoying they paid his dad to take him back

@AH-is5yg

Ай бұрын

@@aerodynamiccow3597 that is funny. Guess annoying save the kid's life

@PintheDog

20 күн бұрын

​@aerodynamiccow3597 And the kid didn't even _want_ to go back!

@AH-is5yg

20 күн бұрын

@@PintheDog lol

When you think about it, this episode really isn't that serious. The two kidnappers are complete nincompoops, and Tommy ends up downright forcing them to return him. It's all played for laughs. This would be an entirely different situation if it was in real life. Tommy just got lucky because its a kid's show.

@LittleMissLounge

Ай бұрын

I'd rather deal with these dudes than the Home Alone guys for sure.

Two things I wanna add: 1: that toilet is probably grody as hell considering the rest of their apartment but they can't show it and 2: if you lived in an apartment like that, that rugrats house looks like a mansion. Considering it's - what; 3 bedroom with basement?

@tomforge614

Ай бұрын

But that brings up the question that, even if they worked for a higher boss, with a suitcase of jewels and cash, why were they living in that place other than cover?

@MASTEROFEVIL

Ай бұрын

3 bed 2 bath, 2 car garage and a basement

While Lou has a point about Deedee taking him for granted, I think he was being sarcastic about the decathlon in this episode, which is why DeeDee didn't even vaguely take it seriously.

@Microfoot

22 күн бұрын

Yeah it was his way of saying he'll do it but he's not happy about it. He knows he doesn't have much going on but that doesn't mean they should just assume he'll always agree to help out on a moment's notice.

I am always amazed looking back at the Rugrats and realized just how horrible of parents Stu and DeeDee were, like my god. Negligent doesn't even begin to cover it. Also, canonically, DeeDee would have needed to get pregnant IMMEDIATELY after Tommy was born, when you consider that he was just over a year old when Dill was born. Of course Tommy was also canonically a pre-term baby so there's a theory that Stu and DeeDee decided to get pregnant right away just in case Tommy died, which is just...oof lol

@amethyst_cat9532

Ай бұрын

I think at that point doctors were still saying that breastfeeding is adequate birth control so it was more common than you'd expect. (It turns out that breastfeeding only works as birth control if your caloric needs are tied up in other things, like thermoregulation and physical and psychological labor. That really isn't the case in a world of plentiful high-calorie food and central heating)

@saphiriathebluedragonknight375

Ай бұрын

Yikes! Two of my siblings are almost exactly a year and half apart. Because of that my sister would push our baby brother out of the way to nurse. He had to switch to a bottle.

@blobbertmcblob4888

Ай бұрын

@@amethyst_cat9532 Oh trust me, I know. Some doctors STILL say that. My younger brother and sister were born 11 months apart lmao. (Well, 11 months and 2 days to be exact)

@BloodyBraces

Ай бұрын

Stu and DeeDee didn't necessarily decide to have another kid they just found themselves having another kid

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375why didn’t they each get breastfed both would be on different sides?

I just imagined an All Grown Up episode where Tommy sees a banana and absolutely freaks out without too much context on why. I have no idea if that would be funny or depressing

🙏You dropped this just in time for my 6 hour plane ride, finally have some more entertainment

@DuskTillShawn

Ай бұрын

Awesome!! Have a safe trip, my friend! :D Thanks so much for watching.

@Magosspud

Ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawn No problem! Keep making awesome videos

@abellabarbie

Ай бұрын

Have a safe flight!

@infjmale91

Ай бұрын

Shawn is the king.

@a_friendly_idiot

Ай бұрын

Safe travels ❤

I can't blame the kidnappers for thinking Tommy was trolling them the whole time. This whole episode felt like a Home Alone sequel.

Around that age, babies don't really have stranger danger irl actually. They recognize people and such, but don't realize people they don't know aren't friends. Basically, the same way puppies have favorite poeple but don't understand what a 'stranger is yet until they get bigger and start barking at random people on the streat, humans go through the same thing. They may not like some people, but they don't automatically fear people. Stranger danger kicks in for most kids later on.

Now it seems weird just how little this episode stood out to me as a kid. But this was the era of franchises like Three Ninjas, Home Alone, Baby's Day Out, and lots of other stories about little kids overcoming bumbling idiot adults.

Even before 1 year old infants a toddlers can distinguish between who they know and complete strangers.

@flariz4824

Ай бұрын

[citation needed]

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

Yea they recognize their parents at least

@dennisahlarson1584

Ай бұрын

They recognize anyone who takes care of them or scares them. Starts in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy with familiar voices and scents. Then by around 6 months old, they actively seek out people they know and trust to pick them up and hold them. Babies are social just like older people. They try to communicate as soon as they are born. Many people often underestimate the social intelligence/capacity of babies.

if the criminals weren't basically Harry and Marv, this episode would be much more scary, it was a good choice to make the criminals incompetent, or this episode would be too real

This entire episode could have been prevented if Grandpa closed the door.

@comettamer

23 күн бұрын

Kinda true, although you could potentially put that on Didi too, as she could've checked after exiting the house, but before leaving entirely.

@na-ky8ou

14 күн бұрын

"...when you'll fix that DAMN DOOR!"

@Zack-cr9ic

4 күн бұрын

​@@na-ky8ouSpiderman 3?

@na-ky8ou

3 күн бұрын

@@Zack-cr9ic Yeah.

Wasn't Tommy kidnapped twice, though? He was also taken by some very rich old ladies. 😂

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

XD Those old ladies didn't kidnap him. What happened was that Grandpa Lou took Tommy out on a run to the grocery store. Lou saw a cool car in the parking lot, and put Tommy in it for fun. Deciding that leaving Tommy in the cool car was simpler than taking him into the store with him, Lou asked a guy who he assumed was the cool car's owner to watch Tommy for him. Lou comes out of the store a few minutes later, sees that the car, and thus Tommy, is gone and proceeds to freak out. Cut to a bald-headed guy with a posh accent carrying Tommy into the rich old ladies mansion. Apparently he was the real owner of the cool car this whole time! Rich old ladies take one look at Tommy and proclaim that he's the reincarnation of their male relative "Boshwick". Butler wanders off, old ladies proceed to dress Tommy up in a fancy outfit, and then lay him down for a nap. Tommy decides that the ladies are weird and decides to go looking for his grandpa, cue rest of episode. So not an intentional kidnapping, just a very weird and oddly specific set of circumstances that led to Tommy being separated from Lou. Those old ladies absolutely intended to keep Tommy for themselves though, which is... pretty messed up. lol.

@TigerPenguin789

Ай бұрын

@@emilycarrick3570They were actually finished with the grocery run. Lou went in the car with Tommy to reminisce about his private eye days. Problem was his cart full of groceries rolled away and Lou ran to grab it before it hit another car. In the time it took him to retrieve the cart, the butler came back and drove off without noticing Tommy was there.

@jocelynecupcake

26 күн бұрын

@@emilycarrick3570 I don't think I remember that one, what was it called?

@RyneMcKinney

24 күн бұрын

​@@jocelynecupcake The case of the missing Rugrat

@comettamer

23 күн бұрын

@@TigerPenguin789 For a former private eye, he seems to lack attention to detail.

1:28 Honestly, I don't think anything could top that one episode where Tommy nearly gets mauled to death by a pitbull all because Angelica throws his ball into the next door neighbors yard.

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

Spike heroically saving him was awesome as hell though.

It should surprise no one. The least realistic part of that show is that the babies didn’t get abducted MORE with that narcoleptic old man watching them.

@comettamer

Ай бұрын

They weren't usually out in the front yard much, and the backyard had a rather large fence.

@busterstation

Ай бұрын

@@comettamer Yet they still managed to escape into other yards, break out of playpens, wander away from daycare centers and waiting rooms, nearly get crushed by machinery behind the counter at various facilities, follow some random kid clear to the other side of a park, or simply crawl away right under the adults’ noses because they were watching a movie or something. Half the time, it was on Lou’s watch, and he never seemed to see any consequences even when he was caught. Worse, the parents continued to trust him after the second or third time it happened.

I still say Ronald thump to this day 😂😂😂

@Kaboomboo

Ай бұрын

Same! 😂😂😂

@zibane6246

Ай бұрын

@@stellarobado4269 More like incredibly famous and a stand-in for basically any insanely rich person, hence the joke.

@HandsomeLongshanks

Ай бұрын

​@@stellarobado4269you really don't know history, do you? EVERYONE wanted to be like trump until he came out as against the Regime. You don't like him because you wee told not to like him. You're a sheep.

@arminiusofgermania

Ай бұрын

I’d love to shake hands with the fine gentleman named Ronald thump.

@zombehmallow

29 күн бұрын

Lol i forgot that part and almost choked when i heard it in me ear 😆 it shouldnt be as funny as it is

This is nuts. This must have unlocked a memory for me, potentially hidden by trauma. I always found the earlier Rugrats seasons were a bit more bizarre with their storylines. The sound of crying children (especially now as a parent) always made me so upset. I swear most old kids' shows were just punishment for empaths.

@gmmartines7331

Ай бұрын

Actually you're biologically designed as a parent to be negatively affected by a baby crying, even if it's not your own. It triggers the same stress response as fight and flight so it's not just you 😊

@infjmale91

Ай бұрын

@@gmmartines7331 I wish that was true but some of my friends can easily be angry at the sound. Empaths unite. In personality, you usually are a thinker or a feeler. Thinkers think alike while feelers feel the same.

@alakazamlover4908

Ай бұрын

anger is technically a negative emotion @@infjmale91

@lydiajulianprower8356

Ай бұрын

Not a parent but an aunt, I feel this.

@princesaruu6150

24 күн бұрын

Ugh relatable...i feel so bad hearing Tommy cry..even worse Dil...i even remeber crying at the first rugrats films because Tommy wanted to cover dil in banana pudding so the monkeys will eat him and then he hesitated and both start to cry...is destroy my heart

Yes as a parent this episode most definitely hits differently. I thought the same thing about the thugs when they dove out the window. Like they shouldn't have survived that. Reminds me of the Season 5 episode "Where's Grandpa" where Stu straight up gets run over by a train amusement park ride at full speed and in the next scene only has bumps and bruises.

7:50 "in true cartoon baby fashion" No, no, this is accurate to real life, too 😂 My cousin had to get a plumber because my niece thought it was a good idea to flush a box of crayons down the toilet. I'm honestly surprised that the kids weren't kidnapped or got lost more often. And the adults are VERY MUCH aware of the fact that they just keep losing the kids because of their own incompetence. In the movies, when the kids vanish, the adults are always blaming each other, blaming Lou for not paying attention, and screaming at each other for KNOWINGLY leaving the kids with grandpa anyway. The first seasons were definitely a lot darker (and stranger) than the later season. I had VHS tapes of the Rugrats, and one episode in particular that always stood out to me was the episode where they think that Stu is a robot. Like, these babies keep escaping the crib and Stu keeps finding them trying to open up his chest with a toy wrench, but he does nothing about it. Just goes, "Huh, that's weird" and goes back to sleep. Like bruh.

@coolchrisable

Ай бұрын

ikr they know that man sleeps alot is in constant pain and they jsut leave 1-3 year old toddlers with him the age where they need the absolute most attention from adults. im more surprised the babies didnt hurt themselves alot more often given how little attention they got

@charliepuppy.

24 күн бұрын

@@coolchrisablebro its insane they didnt die in the movies either omg!😂 literally in the first movie all of them almost could have died and im suprised they didnt get sick either due to the rain or monkeys, tommy almost let dil get taken by monkeys too. and it all could have probably stopped if either Susie, or lou was there /awake and the door wasnt open too. in the second movie, they could have lost spike and fefe(or fifi?) too! in the final movie, the babies suprisingly didnt die to the cheetah after it 😂

@coolchrisable

24 күн бұрын

@@charliepuppy. ikr babies lost in the forst any other wild animal could have killed them and dill who is A FUCKING NEW BORN is alright with being out in the rain, cold and havent eaten in hours his crying alone should have had wild animals converging on their location. the 2nd movie was still them in unbelievable danger like alot. the 3rd again who the fuck isnt watching the kids on a deserted island with any manner of animals could have killed them not just the leopard ( it was a leopard by the way). im surprised CPS hasnt been called on them with how much they dont pay attation to toddlers.

@lonewolfaspie475

14 күн бұрын

That last paragraph is dead on. There were some episodes that were essentially bad acid trips.

Considering how filthy Bob and Mike's apartment is, I'm actually impressed that their toilet is seemingly clean. I'd definitely grab the jewels out of the toilet for millions of dollars if it was clean! If it was as dirty as their apartment, I would need gloves and goggles before sticking my hand in it.

Season one Rugrats hits so much harder

@anidnmeno

Ай бұрын

red text title cards > black ones

Your take on this kinda makes me wish we got not necessarily a whole episode but maybe a throwaway line in all grown up where we could learn tommy hates bananas if we remembered this episode at the time we would know but if it was just a brief moment we wouldn’t miss out on anything if we didn’t

Anyone noticd the ransom note was addressed to "Ronald Thump" 😂

@ChestersonJack

25 күн бұрын

Yeah the Trump allusion gets a whole segment in this video we’re watching.

This episode is such a classic. I loved how morbid it is.

Whenever I tell anyone about how dark Rugrats could be back then, this is the episode I bring up, and almost no one remembers it.

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

XD Remember the episode where Tommy goes through the US postal system? There's a frigging skeleton in one scene!

@endane

Ай бұрын

@@emilycarrick3570 Core memory unlocked. Oh my god yes! These episodes were just something else!

Worse, a baby left alone and in an apartment filled with garbage.

poor Tommy is gonna have some weird issues later in life because of this incident.

@NoirRose21

Ай бұрын

Especially with bananas

I would chalk up some of the weirdness of this episode to the conflicts within the writing team. Some of the writers, particularly the showrunner Arlene Klasky, wanted to write the babies just that. Babies who don't really understand anything. While the other part of the writing team, particularly Paul Germain, wanted to write them as being more aware of their situation. Most of the time, Germain won out. I would suspect this was an episode where Klasky won out. This is a gross simplification of the situation, for the record.

@emilycarrick3570

Ай бұрын

Season One has A LOT of episodes where the babies are very... baby-like. Definitely the result of the writing team trying to find their feet. Rugrats, like many shows, only really started coming into it's own in it's Second Season IMHO.

@comettamer

23 күн бұрын

Perhaps, but it's a very accurate gross simplification. Personally, I side more with Paul Germain as I can imagine how incredibly boring watching a show centered around babies that don't really understand anything would be and how quickly it might hit an end. Making them a bit more aware and understanding of their surroundings and situation brought the show to life and gave it more of a fantastical but interesting angle.

@Medachod

23 күн бұрын

I was always in the very small pool that enjoyed the balance between the two. Things got real boring once the show ended its initial run before returning a year later. It definitely has good episodes in there, but something about the first three seasons felt stronger.

All of this is nothing compared to the comic made by people working on the show. That was DARK. Anytime I hear about disturbing rugrats episodes the trauma of learning about that comic returns.

@na-ky8ou

14 күн бұрын

Ah, yes...the storyboard that started as an inside joke, and got filled with increasingly disturbing stuff by a single dude who tried to encourage his co-workers to put more sexual content in it, that's now known to be a pedo, and against whom Nickelodeon has done absolutely nothing despite knowing damn well that he was a monster. I've heard that story.

Yeah, grandpa does need to stay awake more often. For example he blames Stu for ‘losing’ the kids in the movie while it was his fault for falling asleep

@Drums_of_Liberation

Ай бұрын

No Stu and Didi just need to get a proper sitter. As Didi said in the movie "The man slept through Pearl Harbor for heaven's sake."

@just_an_internet_explorer8038

Ай бұрын

@@Drums_of_Liberationholy shit

@Drums_of_Liberation

Ай бұрын

@@just_an_internet_explorer8038 the best part was that he said that he sounded the alarm as soon as he could.

“How did the guy know he was packing a banana?” Phrasing

Banana slapstick was really big in the 90's. They prob only included it because they wanted Tommy or one of the kidnappers to slip on it and the writers tying it back to Dee Dee at the end was kinda genius ngl.

Has anyone seen or heard of a movie called Baby's Day Out? I don't know why, but the dumb and bumbling kidnappers kinda remind me of the ones from that movie.

@GhostKyng

Ай бұрын

I love that movie!!!! I have a copy at home of it

(GASP) WAIT! "Ronald Thump?!?" Man, I was too young to realize it at the time whom that referenced, but now....

It might just be me, but that guy's bear mask gives me Freddy Faz bear vibes.

@Gadgetman1989

Ай бұрын

It's actually their version of the Care Bears, but I can see that

@JadeAnimationsAndGameplay

Ай бұрын

Oh, yeah... that makes sense. FNAF is just the first thing I generally think of when I see almost anything.

@26th_Primarch

Ай бұрын

​@JadeAnimationsAndGameplay it gave me the same vibes lol. It just looks like what a cheap late 80's-early 90's plastic Freddy Fazbear mask would look like in the Fnaf world.

@JadeAnimationsAndGameplay

Ай бұрын

Yeah, like, you could win one if you got enough tickets at the pizzeria or something.

@26th_Primarch

Ай бұрын

@JadeAnimationsAndGameplay and it's not one of the really expensive prizes either. And now I'm mentally stuck thinking about Fnaf themed novelty prizes, and for some reason, my is laser focused on the little plastic armymen that were like ten tickets for a handful and those specific armymen being designed to look like the Fnaf animatronics. AND NOW I NEED A COMPLETE SET OF THEM EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T EXIST...

Yessss im off today about to make a coffee and zone out on art. Thanks Shawn. This episode legit triggered me, i had totally forgot about this episode!

@DuskTillShawn

Ай бұрын

I hope you have an amazing day expressing yourself through your art. :D Thank you so much for being here, my friend!!!

*A* toilet? For a million smackers? Totally. *Their* toilet? Sorry, no. You couldn't pay me enough; that whole apartment was FOUL!

I don’t know what it is about your delivery but whenever you point out cartoon logic / characters who should be in severe pain, I can’t help but laugh. “Them getting full-blown EJECTED through the windshield and THEN through the back of that cop car…” has me rolling

Before he became president, DT was like a rich pop culture icon. He made guest appearances in tv shows and movies. His name has been mentioned in numerous songs. The Greatest and Silent Generations had John D. Rockefeller…. Our current generations (Boomer, Gen X, Elder Millennials) have Donald Trump.

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

Isn’t Rockefeller earlier than that? He’s from like the 1800s the gilded age.

@elizrebezilmadommdo1662

Ай бұрын

I guess gen z has Elon Musk.

@InzidenzPanik

Ай бұрын

As a millennial…Richard Branson > Trump any day

@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333

Ай бұрын

As if that’s a good thing. Donald Trump is a horrible person.

@LittleMissLounge

Ай бұрын

​@@oooh19 Yes, when it comes to John D. Rockefeller Sr. Then there''s John D. Rockefeller Jr., Nelson Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, etc. That's not even getting into the women or the shit-ton of people who married into the Rockefellers.

Remember the time Angelica got mistaken for a mob boss’s daughter?

@anidnmeno

Ай бұрын

not a bologna, a ice cream!

@na-ky8ou

14 күн бұрын

She could very well be Fat Tony's daughter.

The ball was a visual display of "Distraction Distress Tolerance". He didn't really 'want it' he needed it for comfort in a stressful situation.

I found it kinda funny that these kidnappers were just annoyed into surrendering. Sometimes I wonder if that ever really happens.

the weirdness of the earlier seasons is something i've always loved, i feel the same about early south park lol. the writers seemed like they were having a lot of fun, there's almost an experimental vibe to a lot of it that i really dig

Thanks! Your hard work is loved and appreciated ❤

@DuskTillShawn

9 күн бұрын

Awwww, thanks so much, friend. I really appreciate your support. Sorry it took me a while to respond. I've been going through a lot in my personal life. Your kind words mean the world to me

Also your episode came just in time for hair dye day. Keeps me busy while the dye sets in.

@gmmartines7331

Ай бұрын

Ooohh what color??

Just watching the ending in the recap brought a smile to my face, really tells how well put together the episode was. All I can say is, is it disturbing? Yes. Is it hilarious? Also yes. And finally get me a glove.

I was a young child during the Elizabeth Smart Case, 9/11 and other local crime issues. This scared me. I slept in my parents room for safety.

Loving these cartoon break down videos! You've definitely become one of my favorite youtubers! You always use clean language and share your opinion about what you're covering. Keep it up! 😁👍

Your sweet intro was a source of sunshine I needed. Thank you Shawn 💕

Great video man and this episode is a lot darker then I remember it being from when I watched it as a kid but it is still one of the best episodes of the show

I think the use of bananas was a bit more uncomfortable than you got into. I think it was probably a gag but there’s two sides to that gag. And I think one is -philic

Can I just say how much I love how you responded to that last super chat comment? I could tell you absolutely had fun with that one! And that voice you did was absolutely perfect!👍

I've been waiting for someone to bring this one up finally!

Hey there, watched this from bed, while I curled up and stayed warm, on a cold, but sunny day, as while the calendar says spring, here in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, it is very much, still winter. As for this particular Rugrats episode, I felt bad for Tommy in this episode, and seeing he’s my favorite character on the series, that can be hard to watch, but nice look at this episode, I love your videos and look forward to catching more of them in the future. I’ll often watch your videos while I’m eating meals, such as breakfast and dinner, and ironically, during my childhood, many of the shows you talk about in your videos, such as Hey Arnold and Rugrats, I use to watch on TV, while I ate breakfast and dinner. So way to bring it, full circle.

Finally finished watching your backlog and listening to your personal stories. I'mhappy you pulled through what sounds like a nightmare of a job to find success here on youtube

I really like the work you do for these videos. I remember being unfazed by this episode because i recall characters being kidnapped were common in fiction, plus of all the hijinks Tommy always seems to get into. As a kid, I recall the banana thing at the end as part of the joke. It really does paint a different picture seeing this as an adult. Keep up the great work sir!

@DuskTillShawn

9 күн бұрын

Thanks for your support, friend. I really appreciate it.

Watching/listening from Walmart here in Louisiana! Always love the videos. They really help the slow parts of work go by fast!

@FanaticMitchell1

Ай бұрын

You live in Louisiana too?

@jjj6854

Ай бұрын

Yep. Born and raised!

@FanaticMitchell1

Ай бұрын

@@jjj6854 Same

Why do they keep leaving him with Grandpa he has lost the kids so many times. I'm shocked they would let him watch the kids anymore after the first movie.

@FlyingDuckMan360

Ай бұрын

@redmaxxs "I can't believe you left them with your father! The man slept through Pearl Harbor, for Heaven's sake!" "I sounded the alarm as soon as I could!"

@redmaxxs

Ай бұрын

@@FlyingDuckMan360 Honey I have something to tell you. Her husband's about to tell her. Granddad interrupts Stu lost the kids. I lost the kids!? See. Granddad is terrible.

Good video mate. Very chill watch. Keep up the good work

Hey Shawn, great video as always, few minor things, The fear of the banana actually extends when you watch the Rugrats Movie, he nearly coats Dil with all the banana paste, almost sacrificing him to the monkeys, anyway naybe thsts just my observation/call back to this episode, and being a dad myself I see how crafty chikdren can be lol, the criminals also made ne think of Home Alone as well and think they were testing the water of what they could get past censors

I don't think Lou was serious about running a decathlon. It came off to me that he was making a sarcastic excuse as to why he couldn't watch Tommy, Dede didn't fall for it for a second.

I can't help to think this episode was a callout to parents to watch the kids

Also notice in this episode that Tommy, like, NEVER talks at all. He’s basically a “normal” baby this episode and it makes it a little more messed up that the writers went for realism 😭😭

i love this channel. shawn is such a genuine and awesome guy.

The part with the dummi bear mask still slays me!

Hi Shawn. Big fan for the past couple years. Tuning in from the Southern US.

@DuskTillShawn

Ай бұрын

Heck yeah!!! Thank you so much for watching this video my friend. I really appreciate your support. I hope you have an amazing week!!! 😁

@JasonBeam7

Ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawn thank you for your hard work and passion for making these videos! Keep up the good work!

I saw this when I was really young and it creeped me out especially since my family would always tell me to be careful around strangers and do not listen to anyone that says they know my parents or friends if I never seen them before.

Crazy town Roswell NM . I would like to thank you for the videos I've been on the break of depression your one of the many KZreadrs that helps me keep on this side of okay and it's hard to admit this to myself much less anyone else. Please keep up the good work.

I love watching and listening to your videos ❤ Also I remember watching this episode as a kid and not getting the point and as an adult it blows my mind how incompetent the parents are. Recently I read a fanfic by a user named Mr. Chaos called What If They Were Competent. It’s a great read pointing out how so many the adventures that could have gotten the babies hurt or killed be avoided.

I think about this all the time and my husband didn’t believe me!!!!

@ashly-3672

Ай бұрын

Oh actually I was thinking of the one where he gets taken from the store by two old ladies it’s so cursed I am pretty sure it’s real 😂

@ashly-3672

Ай бұрын

It’s called “the case of the missing rugrat” I just looked it up haha great video anyways 🫶

With Pop seeming tired and pained, yet somehow also being a bit of an athlete does kind of track with how older people are. My father-in-law is in his 70s, has arthritis, and a heart murmur, yet he works all day on his farm and works on his home all the time. But the moment his butt hits a chair, he's out like a light.

Although I did not make a superthanks donation I did really enjoy hearing how people enjoy your content. I know that must feel so cool to have people all over and in different context enjoying your videos with family and friends and being a happy place in their lives. That's awesome man 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

I suggest you to cover CatDog 3001 from CatDog, which is one of my favorite episodes of catdog because it's about catdog time traveling to the future to the year 3001 so they can defeat Winslow's evil descendant.

@DuskTillShawn

Ай бұрын

That's SUCH A GOOD ONE!!!!! Adding it to my list right now. Thanks, Pat!!! You always have fantastic recommendations. :D

@patcahill3724

Ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawn Thx

I can't beleieve Nick allowed a episode potline about their BABY PROTAGONIST BEING ABDUCTED BECAUSE HE GOT MISTAKEN FOR A RICH PERSON'S KID THAT THE ABDUCTERS WANTED TO USE FOR RANDOM MONEY!

@oooh19

Ай бұрын

Well it’s definitely possible plus I would think it creates awareness and also there WAS a lot of darkness and creepiness behind the scenes at Nick there was recently a documentary on it mainly Dan Schneider and All That The Amanda Show Zoey 101

@GamerMage2k-kl4iq

Ай бұрын

@@oooh19 Oh yeah…that all happened :(

Great video Shawn! Keep up the great work! Also great impression of Palpatine!😀😃

I knew this episode was real and not just a dream I had. Thank you for finding it and reviewing it. 😊

Oh man, this episode was so morbid in hindsight!!

@DuskTillShawn

Ай бұрын

It really was!!! Still blows my mind that it never really phased me as a kid lmao.

@tierefuerimmer9635

Ай бұрын

​​@@DuskTillShawn It probably went over our innocent minds at the time. At first as a kid, I just thought these guys were just taking Tommy for a ride for some reason. But I never saw the ransom note and when I got older I was like... Tommy was KIDNAPPED?! Considering how much of a dark topic that is, this was way chilling more as an adult. Not to mention the episodes featuring "Barnaby Jones", the made up kid Angelica has in her stories to try scaring the babies, has pretty horror-esque happen to him( getting shown sucked down the drain and flat out eaten). We're also shown Chuckie vs The Potty which is much darker now, considering the comparisons of death row as well as briefly shown animal testing with Cheddar the rat where Chuckie trouble with his nose. Rugrats wasn't afraid to get dark but I love how it pushed the envelope at times such as showing Betty breastfeeding, which is for some considered offensive to some, despite being completely natural

I CANT BEILIVE TOMMY HAS GOTTEN KIDDNAPPED A TOTAL OF 2 TIMES

@kingofravens215

Ай бұрын

What was the other episode that he got kidnapped?

@mariamakesmedia488

Ай бұрын

@@kingofravens215 the case of the missing rugrat

Im watcing from GA, USA. I really love watching your videos, but this one was wild. I dont ever remember seeing this episode and its crazy they even allowed it to air. Also, remember to not let making videos burn you out dude. Your mental matters too.

I'm watching from Arizona :) Absolutely love your vids! To this day, these cartoons of ole, like Rugrats, Hey, Arnold!, and As Told By Ginger hold a special place in my heart, and I still watch them to this day! It's wonderful to see others that, like me, still fondly remember these heartfelt, good feeling cartoons from, what felt like, a much simpler time :)

Even when we were kids, we all already knew Stu and Dede were terrible parents.... Remember when they went to a baseball game and Tommy crawled away and fell off the 2nd level deck and almost die..... if not for being caught by a player on the field.....

What's kinda weird is that I don't really remember this episode except the very ending when Didi tries to give Tommy a toy banana and he starts crying. The rest of it I don't really remember at all. Going back to that though, there's something kinda depressing about Tommy possibly suffering PTSD from seeing the toy banana and thinking just how aware he was of being in a scary situation where he was kidnapped and trapped in a creepy apartment with two creepy strange men. I don't know if him crying at the toy banana was meant to be funny or not but I just found it kinda heartbreaking.

I love it whenever you talk about Rugrats. My favourite animated show ever! I really hope you eventually cover my favourite episode acorn nuts and diapey butts soon. It’s so good I think!

Rugrats is the king of "Generally pretty wholesome and light but can occasionally veer into darker or heavier topics"

The plot of this episode is based on "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry and not "Home alone", cmon. And these guys are not sociopaths, they are criminals. Sociopathy is a mental condition.