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Who Is The Best 90s Ginger?
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Tagged Budnick, Chuckie Finster, Chucky, Clarissa Explains It All, Ferguson, Pepper Ann, Pete & Pete, Roger Klotz, Rugrats, Salute Your Shorts
#105 Monster School Looked Like A Blast.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters ran for 4 seasons (52 total episodes) worth of pure awesomeness. Watching Ickis, Krumm and Oblina attend monster academy over the years was a pleasure and this concept was unique for a cartoon. Each monster had their own preferred method for scaring humans, some more intense than others. Ickis had big shoes to fill trying to build on the legacy of his father Slickis who was the school’s top student in the past which is why he was probably so nervous all the time. Anyway, with all the pressure on him, Ickis used his ability to grow larger to scare humans. Krumm, on the other hand was carrying his eyeballs in his hands which, is pretty frightening in itself to just about anyone. In addition, he used a disgusting armpit odor to scare folks off. Oblina’s favorite technique was to reach into her own body, removing her internal organs and shapeshifting into rather disturbing looking forms. She was also capable of giving a human a nightmare by sticking her finger in their ear and tickling their brain while they slept. Now as kids in real life, if we would’ve came across anything that even looked like one of these monster characters, we would’ve been running in the other direction before they even had an opportunity to perform one of their scare tactics. Luckily it was all just a Nicktoon – and a fairly underrated one at that.
FUN FACT: Christine Cavanaugh who voiced Oblina also provided the vocals for Chuckie on Rugrats.
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Tagged Aaahh! Real Monsters, Christine Cavanaugh, Chuckie Finster, Ickis, Krumm, Nicktoons, Oblina, Real Monsters, Rugrats, Slickis
#97 More Reptar Would Have Been Awesome.
On Rugrats, the babies were fans of a big, green dinosaur named Reptar who was an obvious play on Godzilla. It wasn’t really clear if he was friend or foe because sometimes he looked to be a hero while other times it seemed the opposite. Apparently he was the most marketable character in the Rugrats’ little world because he’s seen on cereal boxes, movies, ice skating shows, TV shows, action figures, amusement parks and other merchandise. On multiple occasions, The Rugrats met Reptar, or someone dressed like him at public events, such as “Reptar On Ice!” It kind of made us envy the babies because most of us wouldn’t have minded an entire market of Reptar stuff in our reality. It seems as if we knew Reptar was made up and we only got him in small doses, so we wanted to see more of him. It was a typical case of wanting what we can’t have. There were plenty of forms of entertainment available to us, yet we couldn’t resist the animated Godzilla rip off. Being shown all those tiny snippets of Reptar was like watching an awesome movie trailer for a film that isn’t ever going to be made. Besides The Beets, Reptar was the greatest form of fiction, toon entertainment. If “The Beets Killer Tofu Tour“ and “Reptar On Ice” were in town on the same night at the same time, which one would you go to?
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Tagged Angelica Pickles, Chuckie Finster, Godzilla, Lil, Phil, Reptar, Reptar on Ice, Rugrats, Tommy Pickles
#92 They Just Can’t Get Enough Of Us.
Well, it was only a matter of time. 90s kids and their TV shows are like the ex that you simply can’t get over. You think about calling and texting quite often until eventually, you can no longer resist and you try to rekindle the old flames. That’s essentially what is happening in the fall when Teen Nick airs a 2 hour block from midnight to 2am titled “The 90s Are All That”. The shows included are Rugrats, Kenan & Kel, The Amanda Show, Pete & Pete, All That and Clarissa Explains It All. Many of us already stay up until 2 in the morning as it is but now we’ll be doing so for a purpose! We’ll be reminded of the glorious days of ginger brothers, dancing tattoos, adventurous babies, orange soda and so much more in these two hour blocks. The fact that this is being done proves that the new stuff just ain’t cutting it and the networks are relying on the greatness that we grew up on. Word on the street is that the Facebook pages dedicated to the 90s with an abundance of followers are what triggered this change in programming. That means the millions and millions of 90s kids around the world should pat themselves on the back for knocking some sense into Nickelodeon’s brain! Hell, if we have enough pull to get a two hour block, maybe we should see if we can get an entire 90s network, huh?
What other shows would you like to see make a return?
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Tagged All That, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Show, Clarissa Explains It All, Kenan & Kel, Nick, Pete & Pete, Rugrats, TeenNick
#78 Snick Is Better Than Most Nightclubs.
I know what you’re all thinking, “What does Snick have to do with nightclubs?” Allow me to elaborate. Much like I said about TGIF in Realization #2 we used to spend Friday and Saturday nights at home, enjoying television. Of course, the fact that we were nowhere near the legal drinking, clubbing or gambling age played a small role in that BUT don’t discredit the Saturday night awesomeness that was SNICK. The lineups began in 1992 and at different times featured many of our favorite shows including but not limited to: Clarissa Explains It All, Ren & Stimpy, Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, The Mystery Files Of Shelby Woo, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Kenan & Kel, All That, Kablam!, Cousin Skeeter and Rugrats. Honestly, if these shows aired on a Saturday night in current times, I wouldn’t hesitate to pass on going out to bars & clubs. Not only would it be beneficial financially but I’d also be a lot more entertained to hear Clarissa explain it all than to listen to a drunken girl at the club explain why she’s so emotionally unstable.
#76 Christine Cavanaugh Was Half Of Our Favorite Characters.
OK, so maybe half is an exaggeration but she honestly did perform a number of different characters voices. Chuckie Finster (Rugrats), Gosalyn Mallard (Darkwing Duck), Bunnie Rabbot (Sonic The Hedgehog), Oblina (Aaahh! Real Monsters), Babe (Babe), AND Dexter (Dexter’s Laboratory). That’s pretty effin’ remarkable being that all of those characters are fairly well remembered. In fact Dexter and Chuckie are two of the most popular cartoon characters of that entire decade. Hell, we’ve probably heard this woman’s voice more than our own mother’s growing up.
#68 Chuckie Finster Is A P*ssy.
Plain and simple, Chuckie is the most easily frightened character in cartoon history. His list of fears includes but isn’t limited to clowns, the dark, adventures and the “guy on the oatmeal box with the scary hat.” He should feel quite fortunate to be allowed to roll with a group as cool as Tommy and company. Every time he’d say, “Maybe this isn’t such a good idea”, we wanted to tell him to stop acting like a beeotch. I recall a few occasions where he had legitimate reasons to be scared – but when you’re constantly frightened by things, even in broad daylight, you need to take your skirt off and man up. When one episode revealed that Chuckie’s mother died of an unnamed illness shortly after his birth, I felt REALLY bad for the guy. So bad that there was a brief period where I didn’t dislike him… Then, he yelled his obnoxious line, “We’re doomed, doomed I tell ya!” and I immediately went back to hating the little Finster kid.
#30 The Rugrats Scared Me On A Couple Occasions.
There were some creepy moments on the show but two specific ones take the cake. First, there was an episode where Chuckie keeps experiencing a series of nightmares. At the end of the show his father Chazz puts Chuckie to sleep, enters the living room and sees a figure that appears to be Stu. When the figure turns around it has a distorted face and exclaims the infamous line, “I’m not Stu!” This FREAKED ME OUT big time as a kid. The second time was an episode where Angelica’s parents told her they might be having a second child. Angelica then dreamed she was having a brother who was freakishly big and chased her around in what was another very eerie showing. For a cartoon that wasn’t trying to scare me, Rugrats succeeded in doing so occasionally.
(The “I’m Not Stu” clip. Kind of funny now but at 7, not so much.)
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Tagged Angelica Pickles, Chazz Finster, Chuckie Finster, Rugrats, Stu Pickles, Tommy Pickles
#4 Angelica Pickles Is One Mean Little Beeotch.
Angelica Pickles displayed characteristics of evil and wickedness during many episodes of Rugrats. I’ve seen similar traits in women like Judge Judy and Nancy Grace. Angelica had a pushover father and a workaholic mother which are the perfect ingredients for a self destructive young adult. My best guess is that at 14 she wound up on the Maury Show either for the drill sergeant, personality makeover business or paternity test(s); either way, her parents failed miserably.
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Tagged Angelica Pickles, Judge Judy, Maury Show, Nancy Grace, Rugrats
