I had first discovered "Rugrats" since the mid 1990s(during the show's production hiatus), in which I was only a mere Rugrat myself. I loved the characterization, I loved the humour and every aspect of every episode just left me hungry for more. Definitely a great experience of my childhood. However, the later episodes are often criticised, most notably the ones after the show had originally ended production/took a hiatus in 1994. But in my opinion, I find myself enjoying the later episodes as well, even if they are not up to standard with the much earlier episodes. I also loved the development of the characters and the story lines, as I had mentioned earlier. The show's first season mostly focused on Tommy(who in the first season, for the most part, actually acted like a proper baby), but eventually as the series progressed, it began to focus on Phil, Lil, Angelica and even Chuckie. Most notably later on, when we found out that his mother died. It also does well in tugging your heartstrings, as episodes like "I Remember Melville", "Moving Away", AND "Regarding Stuie" show, as well as the movie "Rugrats in Paris". In the early 2000s, it began to wane in popularity due to criticisms of Klasky/Csupo producing the majority of the Nicktoons(in spite of Nickelodeon asking Klasky/Csupo to produce Nicktoons for them, instead of Klasky/Csupo just randomly pitching Nicktoons for the network) and the show was eventually cancelled in 2004, due to "Rugrats Go Wild" flopping and "All Grown Up" (which was recently rumored to be retconned as of late) was becoming fairly popular. Not to mention that SpongeBob's popularity soared heavily during that time period and its movie did so well, that Nickelodeon decided that cancelling and ending that show was a mistake. To me, "SpongeBob" actually suffered a worse fate than "Rugrats". Because whilst "Rugrats" added new characters, at least it never made inconsistent changes to the previous-existing characters and didn't focus on sadistic and mean-spirited efforts to be funny. That is just my opinion on the matter. "Rugrats" is a cartoon, that to me, will never get old, has stood the test of time for me and paid high contributions to Nickelodeon's success(though we can't forget that it was Ren and Stimpy that put the Nicktoons on the map).
