All Grown Up!
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| All Grown Up! | |
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| Image:Allgrownup.jpg Characters from All Grown Up! </small> | |
| Genre | Animated Series |
| Running time | 22 minutes approx. |
| Starring | E. G. Daily Christine Cavanaugh Nancy Cartwright Kath Soucie Tara Strong Cheryl Chase Cree Summer Dionne Quan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| Original run | April 12, 2003–Present |
| No. of episodes | 52 (19 unaired in the US) |
All Grown Up! (also known as AGU) is an American animated television series based on characters from Rugrats, now ten years older. Angelica and Susie are in the 7th grade, and the rest of the gang are pre-teens. It premiered in April 2003 as a preview before starting its regular run in late November (although in October, it began its regular run in the UK, on Nickelodeon UK and CITV, and in Canada on YTV). The show is based on the Rugrats' 10th anniversary episode, the TV movie The Rugrats: All Growed Up (aired in 2001), which proved so popular that Nickelodeon decided to commission a whole series. Production began in September 2002. It aired on Nick on CBS on March 14, 2004 and ended on September 9, 2004.
When the series premiered its regular run, more than 3.2 million viewers, and over a third of all kids watching cable in the United States, tuned in, enough to put it into the 2nd place slot for the week (behind an NFL game on ESPN) and making it the highest-rated premiere in Nick's history. (The April sneak peek didn't make the top 15 cable programs for that week, due to the ongoing war in Iraq.) The original titles for this series were All Growed Up and Rugrats: All Grown Up!.
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[edit] Characters
The principal characters and their traits (as well as their voice performers) have been carried over from the original Rugrats series, with a handful of changes and additional character traits:
- Phil (Kath Soucie) still revels in mess, but his sister Lil (also Kath Soucie) focuses on finding her place in the school social scene.
- Dil (Tara Strong), behaves weirdly at school (e.g. by walking backwards and eating strange food), mainly because he has a unique personality or possibly because Phil & Lil dropped him on his head when he was a baby. Although Dil has been weird since he was born in The Rugrats Movie.
- Tommy (E.G. Daily) is an aspiring filmmaker. The strange thing about Tommy is that he's less brave than when he was a baby, however, this is because of experiences such as when he fell into a river as 3-year old whilst out fishing with Grandpa Lou, & Lou had to pull him out.
- Chuckie (Nancy Cartwright) has lost his old scared, worrying ways for a new image. He tries many attempts to get attention from certain girls, does many crazy things, and changes his appearance.
- Angelica (Cheryl Chase), mistakenly thinks she is popular, but is no longer the boss.
- Susie (Cree Summer, (who also sings the series' theme song)), meanwhile, upstages Angelica as a singer with real talent. Besides being a talented singer, Susie is also a great student.
- Kimi (Dionne Quan) has developed a close-knit friendship with Susie. (e.g. "Runaround Susie" and "Susie Sings The Blues") and is Chuckie's step-sister.
A handful of new characters have been added, for example:
- Harold Rumkin (Pat Musick), Angelica's flunky who knew her and Susie since pre-school, who has also appeared in the later episodes of Rugrats.
- Savannah (Shayna Fox, also the voice of Reggie Rocket on Rocket Power), the leader of the popular crowd at the Rugrats' school, who also looks down on Angelica, as she has been a popular teen for much longer than Angelica. Klasky Csupo claims that she was first introduced in the "All Growed Up" pilot as Angelica's best friend Samantha Shane. But in one episode, it proves that Samantha and Savannah are indeed two different people. Samantha was voiced by Laraine Newman).
- Nicole Boscarelli (Lizzie Murray), whom Chuckie (Nancy Cartwright) has a crush on.
- Estes "Slambang" Pangborn (Clancy Brown), former wrestler and current school vice-principal.
[edit] Airings
The show airs on in the US on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7:00AM Eastern Time. Rumors say that Nick purposely put it at that time slot due to low ratings. Nick sometimes shows some of the One Hour specials in the series during the evening hours.
In the US, Nickelodeon has aired a new episode, Rachel, Rachel, Saturday November 25 2006 during Nicksgiving Weekend.
The show is currently out of production though there are a large number of episodes that remain unaired and it is unknown if Nick will ever air them.
[edit] Trivia
- During summer 2003, teasers for the show aired. However, the scenes shown were not from actual episodes of the show. The teasers showed:
- Angelica and Susie running for class president
- Kimi chatting with Chuckie at the Java Lava
- Tommy and Dil having a fight
- Dil hugging Angelica in front of everyone (All the school)
[edit] Criticism
Although the show has a fairly good fanbase, some criticize Klasky-Csupo as twisting the characters original personalities too far. The personalities of Tommy and Lil (notably Chuckie also) have changed. Others believe that the show has too many advanced social themes for a children's show about a group of 10 and 11-year-olds. For example, Tommy has had two girlfriends whom he has kissed numerous times. Many also claimed All Grown Up! lost a lot of charm from the original show, as all of the characters are able to talk to their parents, and no longer offer clever insight into their societies as they did as babies.
[edit] Episodes
For a complete listing of episodes, see List of All Grown Up! episodes.
[edit] External links
- All Grown Up at TV.com
- Site devoted to Dil: The Dil-Alliance Headquarters
- Luke's All Grown Up Fansite
- SuperYo's All Grown Up site
- Nickelodeon Wiki entry
- Remarbarr's All Grown Up Fansite
| Rugrats, All Grown Up! and Tales from the Crib |
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| Episodes: Rugrats · All Grown Up! · Angelica and Susie's Pre-School Daze Movies: The Rugrats Movie · Rugrats in Paris: The Movie · Rugrats Go Wild! Characters: Tommy · Chuckie · Angelica · Phil and Lil · Dil · Kimi · Susie · Harold · Reptar |
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