The Episode of Rugrats That Was Almost TOO DARK...

[@GaleneIanthe]

At the end of the episode, I don't think Angelica was necessarily "regressing" so much as she just loses bladder control when she sleeps. It's different for every kid, but it's pretty common for kids to be fully potty trained and still wet the bed for even a few years on. Given that Angelica is only 3 in this episode, nighttime accidents wouldn't be out of the ordinary. Her parents really should've gotten her some special pull-up diapers for overnight use, but then of course we wouldn't have gotten the comeuppance scene to sweeten Chuckie's victory.

[@kidprime6863]

I chalk it up as karma for tormenting Chuckie about using the potty.

[@andrewgrove1691]

@@kidprime6863 agree on that

[@Raptormon132]

True. I also believe that Angelica's nighttime accident was cause by Chuckie peeing in the potty, as the sound was heard throughout the whole house, and has the same sound as running water.

[@BeautifulObscurity]

Yeah that kinda bugged me. Like occasional accidents are perfectly normal for a three year old child, no need to pathologize everything.

[@danielferstendig]

Angelica tore a bladder muscle.

[@AllHailTheAnimeLover]

Are we just gonna ignore the fact that chucky apparently hid poop in his toy box?

[@Xylospring]

Skinner Voice: Yes!

[@the-nina-beans88]

@@Xylospring Chalmers:….. can I see it?…

[@brittanyc.4540]

@@the-nina-beans88Skinner: No.

[@the-nina-beans88]

@@brittanyc.4540😂😂😂

[@neffyg35]

And also gave himself constipation lol

[@genericyoutubecommentchann7418]

As a child, my friends and I always found the nightmare sequence really funny, since the idea of people forcibly flushing someone down the toilet is really silly on paper, and Chuckie’s reactions were great. But once I thought back on the episode when I was older and aware of what prison, executions, and the electric chair were, I found it even funnier that they actually put something so dark in a kid show and it successfully went over my head.

[@gingergoddess8953]

I bust a gut rewatching this ep because I forgot Tommy did the Irish accent as the death row priest and I didn't see it coming lol

[@pembrokelove]

Watching Rugrats as an adult is a trip… the sheer number of adult jokes and themes that flew right over our unsuspecting heads.

[@matthewbates9629]

Really this episode traumatized because I had a terrible fear of toilets after watching it when I was 9 to say it scared me is an understatement I never looked at a toilet the same way again

[@juliocesarandrada2260]

hey man whats the scariest episode of the h were hey arnold's haunted train or catdog's teeth or two?

[@genericyoutubecommentchann7418]

@@juliocesarandrada2260 I think Haunted Train is probably spookier while Teeth for Two is probably more disturbing.

[@MisfortunateJustice]

If you really want to read into it, Chaz could have been spending his weekend in the hospital with his wife. 🤨

[@stephiis8882]

Chuckie's mom passed away when he was around a year old or younger (he's 2 in the show.) It shows a flashback of Chuckie's only memory of his mother in another episode and he barely even has hair yet.

[@MisfortunateJustice]

@@stephiis8882 Diseases take time to kill. Perhaps Chaz never let Chucky see his mom in the later stages. 🤔

[@joeyg5128]

Yea but it also dont make since he says his mom took im off the bottle so he know he has a mom at that age

[@Kirsten_is_cursed10]

@@MisfortunateJusticeyou need to re-watch the episode, that doesn’t make sense.

[@MisfortunateJustice]

@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 No thanks. That's what Shawn is here for. Fun strolls down simple childhood times. 😃

[@user-mt8ys7uk6t]

I like how Angelica is a beheading executioner, the toilet is an electric chair, and it's on a platform for hangings A nice little 3-in-1 execution

[@GBmovieluv]

The topper being Angelica's evil laugh was somehow the most intense and creepiest ever. Not even as though they changed her face in any way, but her smile was what did it, if you know what I mean

[@AncientPrecursor]

I think Chuckie probably saw a bit of movie when Grandpa fell asleep as he was watching it, or just happened to get up in the night and saw his dad or someone else watching a movie like The Chair scene. Growing up in the 90s i happened upon a lot of weird scenes from movies that my dad would watch.

[@eeveefennecfox]

it's sad that chuckie mentions his mom a few times and he doesn't remember her at all in the mother's day episode,but you know what? memories are also weird,so there is a slight chance that he does somewhat remember a fragment of her hidden somewhere in his memories,that makes it even more sad to me

[@Anman999]

Chuckie's nightmare is one of the Rugrats moments that still plays in my head even after all of these years.

[@czarrina]

Poor Chucky is probably so scared of the situation cuz Chaz bought him a dang CLOWN themed potty. The boy hates clowns. I bet if he had a normal potty it woulda gone better.

[@katelynrushe9025]

Knowing what Angelica’s mother Charlotte was like once the show introduced her, I doubt she ever paid enough attention to her daughter to even want to torture her. I think the running water bit was just something Charlotte did while Angelica was on the potty to make her go sooner, and the first time it worked, she just decided the potty training was done and got back on the phone with her assistant Jonathon. I also think it’s interesting that Stu took so long to be potty trained. We know he’s eccentric and creative, so I wonder if his own potty training delay had anything to do with his own difficulties conforming to societal norms as a toddler.

[@the-nina-beans88]

I remember my mom would use the bathroom sink as a method to have me go to the bathroom before leaving the house. Too bad I was stubborn and that method didn’t work

[@lexiatel]

His older brother was Drew (Angelica's dad), and he could be just as much as a snot as his daughter.

[@beverlyarcher3744]

It took my autistic nephew till he was 8 to be potty trained because of lazy parents me and mom almost had him trained at 3 but then his other grandparents and his lazy parents got their hands back on him and that was it he was literally going to the bathroom with little accidents on his own till they got him back we gave up cause we knew all four idiots wouldn't stay on the advise we gave them he got rewarded after every successful day of no accidents or small accidents was allowed if he was headed to the bathroom when it happened 3 year olds do have troubles especially when someone is in the bathroom and the next one is downstairs or diarrhea was also excused as even adults have trouble with controlling that

[@lukespillman1313]

@@beverlyarcher3744 Wait, you're nephew wasn't potty trained until he was 8 because his parents were lazy?!?!?! What kind of parents are they?!?!?!?! I think you're way more of a parent than they are.

[@pembrokelove]

It should have occurred to the adults that, you know. Maybe they should’ve gotten Chuckie a potty chair that was LESS TERRIFYING! Taking that horrifying clown and saying “sit on it’s face” and expecting it *not to* traumatize a high-anxiety child.

[@AxelWedstar411]

I notice Chuckie talks as if he has a living mother in this episode. Weird

[@kidprime6863]

TBF, this episode was made before they decided to have her be long deceased.

[@neffyg35]

​@@kidprime6863yeah I think because the show for a long time was more episodic it was easy for continuate errors to happen as the made changes to find a story of an episode

[@charliepuppy.]

@@neffyg35what if its like in the show

[@DSdemon767]

For the sake of continuity: Chuckie is 2 years old and the second oldest of the group (1st being Angelica and Susie who are 3). If Melinda did ween Chuckie it must’ve happened just before he turned one or during. Melinda may have started to be aware of her deteriorating health and didnt want to risk passing somethin to her son so she weened Chuckie at a very early age which is why it feels traumatic for him. Now when Chuckie says not even his mom is gonna stop him from keeping his diaper, that might just be his way of saying “i swear on my mothers grave”

[@andykishore]

Chuckie mentions that his potty training is "worse than the time my mom put me on the bottle", despite it being later revealed that she died shortly after he was born. This could be explained, however; since she was terminally ill, she presumably put him on the bottle because she knew she was nearing her end.

[@ShinySephiroth1]

Awesome vid as usual! Stu also said "again!?" insinuating that Angelica is constantly wetting herself - I took this as a kid as meaning that she talks a big game but is hypocritical, having never really been potty trained herself i.e., typical bully behavior. Also, the theme that Didi is an acolyte of Lipschitz and that he obviously doesn't know what he is talking about is an awesome theme that permeates the entire series and I love it.

[@DeerBonesBaby]

Right? I love how Lipshitz is always portrayed as a hack. (I ALWAYS thought his name was a play on dipshit, and boy does it fit when we see him in later episodes)

[@genericyoutubecommentchann7418]

I took him saying “not another one” to mean that they have to deal with another accident to clean up.

[@rickydavis4325]

Didi believing every word that comes from Lipschitz is an in joke, as Arlene Klasky did the exact same thing when rearing her kids (listen to books about raising kids by grown men who know nothing of raising them). The amount of times Didi does it takes a whole different turn now doesn't it?

[@oooh19]

Wetting the bed doesn’t mean she’s not potty trained she’s asleep and didn’t wake up in time

[@ShinySephiroth1]

@@oooh19 I meant to say *fully* trained - it's ironic that she is making fun of the babies for using diapers when she still wets the bed is what it seems the writers were putting in at the end as a punchline :)

[@gingergoddess8953]

They went out of their way to make Angelica worse than M3gan on steroids sometimes, didn't they? Her as the executioner and laughing maniacally was the one thing about this episode I remembered. Hope you're still planning on doing a whole video on her or a Top 10 Worst Things Angelica Has Done list. I bet it's gonna be a behemoth

[@oooh19]

Oh what about the episode where Angelica stole Chuckie’s glasses and puked all over Drew? And also The Santa Experience where she had a nightmare about Santa?

[@gingergoddess8953]

@@oooh19 The one where she enslaved Stu and Didi by faking a broken leg is the one that comes to mind for me. Also, the episode where she simply told Chuckie straight out that everyone would be better off without him

[@Blackpapalink]

@@gingergoddess8953 Making Chocolate Pudding...

[@daniapfel2825]

​@@BlackpapalinkBecause i lost all control of my life

[@larryjester]

Weird how Chuckie mentioned his mom here. Not only because it's revealed she died when he was very young and he doesn't remember her. Also because Chaz is going out of town and Chuckie has to stay with the Pickles...instead of his mom just watching him. But if his mom is going out of town with Chaz, she's not dropping him off. Plus why is Chaz just running in with a potty and yelling?

[@larryjester]

I doubt Charlotte had time to torture Angelica. I guess they were just assuming all the kids had a normal mom and dad at the time and hadn't developed them...

[@sissysovereign1294]

Yeah they probably didn't give them all established backstories then. But we could imagine that this is the time where his mom got sick and Chaz is going to visit his mom at the hospital. Cancer is a slow death, so she probably wasn't dead yet then.

[@larryjester]

@@sissysovereign1294 Good point. Maybe his mom was out of town in a hospital. I mean, judging by the misdiagnosed Angelica and Peaches the Football player, this city doesn't have great medical facilities.

[@andykishore]

@@larryjester Chuckie mentions that his potty training is "worse than the time my mom put me on the bottle", despite it being later revealed that she died shortly after he was born. This could be explained, however; since she was terminally ill, she presumably put him on the bottle because she knew she was nearing her end.

[@rickydavis4325]

17:08 fun fact, medieval executioners didn't always wear masks, as it was only done if the executioner wanted to remain anonymous (especially if the prisoner was popular/well loved) as it was often seen as a respectable profession. So Angelica taking off her mask in front of everyone (even though there was only priest Tommy, and guards Phil and Lil in attendance) shows that she doesn't care about the anonymity that it would give her; she'd do it regardless. And as for how Chuckie could have the concept of a prison/execution isn't too farfetched when you think about it. Grandpa Lou probably watched tons of old movies with prisons being a focal point before falling asleep (especially westerns, TONS of execution scenes in those). Even if he wouldn't have the true concept of what goes on in jail (at least, I would HOPE he doesn't at the age of two) he would likely glean from the portrayal that it's a place where you don't want to end up. I'd even argue it's probably better that he sees those kinds of movies that Grandpa is watching instead of Lonely Space Vixens.

[@the-nina-beans88]

Imagine if Chuckie potty dream was based off the Lonely space vixens .

[@rickydavis4325]

@@the-nina-beans88 That's for after they go to bed though.

[@the-nina-beans88]

@@rickydavis4325 not gonna stop Tommy or Chuckie from getting out of bed to esplore

[@Artretha]

I kind of wonder if Chuckie's nightmare came from Chaz or some other adult watching a movie with a prison scene or something in it.

[@GBmovieluv]

Would make sense seeing that the second movie opens with Angelica pretending to be The Godfather since she saw the movie before her parents turned it off. I always wonder at what point DID they turn it off, by the way, since she clearly saw the scene with that horse head in one of the character's bed; based on putting the head of their rocking horse in the twin's crib

[@keiferdowd7572]

I wet the bed until I was like 11 or 12 and had literally no childhood trauma. I was potty trained from a young age, but I just couldn't control my bladder at night when I was sleeping. Wetting the bed at night doesn't guarantee childhood trauma.

[@Epic_C]

I've come to learn, at least for myself in recent times, that a lot of stuff like this and other stuff I've experienced and felt growing up was due to an undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome. After reading up on and learning more on this in the last few years and understanding the symptoms, everything started to make sense. Although it was never diagnosed to me, unless my parents just never told me, I learned to cope with it more as an adult. I believe though ever since I started to get prescribed Vyvanse for ADHD, which I've used on a normal basis, that has really helped me with it. I've just never really understood what it was for all this time until recently, and it has all finally started to make sense.

[@neffyg35]

I also don't think her crying after bed wetting is abnormal or atleast anything to jump to conclusions about. Angelica is only 3 years old. Bedwetting is completely normal for a toddler. Also some kids are upset by bedwetting and some aren't. In the show we have seen many times where Angelica cries when upset by anything. To the point of Charlotte traumatizing Angelica I think that's a bit farfatch. Charlotte is abrasive at times but she loves Angelica to death and spoils her clearly. The trick of running water is something many people do to try and get people or themselves to go to the bathroom because it triggers something in us to go. Hell I still do it from time to time if I'm trying to go. So while I enjoyed his video, some of his points are a bit out there in my opinion

[@Kirsten_is_cursed10]

@@Epic_CAsperger’s syndrome doesn’t exist, and hasn’t for a while. If you have autism spectrum disorder, your doctor should have told you that. Either way, my advice is that you don’t need to make every comment about yourself. Like, you saw a comment about potty training and ranted about your (questionable) diagnosis….

[@jonbourgoin182]

@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 okay Doctor Kirsten, I am sure you are more than qualified to make such a claim

[@pastelskies99]

@@jonbourgoin182 It's an outdated term because the guy was a nazi

[@francisreuter6294]

The religious garb is a catholic priest robe in case you or anyone wants to know

[@klever...1]

Complete with an Irish accent 😂

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

Ironic cause he's Jewish

[@donovanbradford8231]

I forgot how much Tommy's DeeDee relied on Lipships as a way to raise Tommy. Which when you hear the things some of them are kind of oblivious others not so much but the way it's described in the books makes it seem like these kids are a TV or VCR that you can simply follow X and you be able to do it.

[@kidprime6863]

Something tells me she didn't go to parenting school just like Drew and Charlotte.

[@beverlyarcher3744]

The guy doesn't have kids

[@JTguitarlessons]

Heck yeah, Shawnald! Covering the deepest, darkest pieces of traumatic childhood nostalgia lol. Rugrats had some seriously dark and adult moments.

[@HawkTHSS2893]

no kidding

[@ResurrectedElvenMonk]

Absolutely, it was and still is legendary. The 90's...What a decade.

[@ScreamingAllTheTime]

So interesting to see that in the 90s being two is seen as almost old for potty training, since nowadays I’ve heard issues with preschools having to turn away kids since they’re not potty trained yet. Weird how parenting changes in only 30 or so years

[@austinschmidt8054]

Given what we see of Charlotte's personality, I can see her doing the faucet thing less in a outwardly malicious way and more of a "I don't have time for you to figure this out, how you feel when I run the water is how you know to go the bathroom" way. Or if Angelica was difficult about it as you suggested, it could have been a way to "encourage" her to go to the bathroom when she said she didn't need to go. Still not really the best way to handle things, but I can see her doing either, especially since Drew wasn't mentioned for the potty training, likely meaning he didn't want anything to do with it.

[@kidprime6863]

She probably WAS gonna to turn it off but then Johnathan called as usual, making her forget to turn it off.

[@the-nina-beans88]

I think what happened was when Angelica was in the process Charlotte may of turned on the water for her and kept repeating “ your a big girl now” And maybe that night she probably had a dream where her mother repeated those words to her over and over and then had the accident

[@blackheartpopculture]

I get how Chuckie is. And there should have been a page in that book about kids not being watched when going to the bathroom. I know you wouldn’t want to be watch sour apple cider.

[@beverlyarcher3744]

My cousin had a dog who would pee in front of ppl but when you saw him wander off it meant he was going to poop literally and not to follow he was shy 😂

[@dragoon1090]

After potty training 2 boys, i relate to stu and deedee. It's exhausting

[@beverlyarcher3744]

After forcibly potty training my 8 year old nephew stupid parents long story I can second that it took threatening between me and my brother to put him back in diapers to get through his autistic brain to go potty when he needed to go we were tired by that point of cleaning a second graders butt bet the teachers were happy about him being potty trained to you had to send like 10 underwear and about 4-5 extra clothes with him to school and as we didn't have a dryer it broke down right before we got him for 11 weeks long story short his father put himself in the hospital with the crap he put in his body and his lazy parents and my stupid sister stayed with him without coming to visit or take him off our hands so we could have a break and him being autistic and honestly the kid should never have been left alone with me at all but my parents pulled the stupid our house our rules bullcrap on ME AND THEY WEREN'T EVEN THE ONES WATCHING HIM ME AND MY BROTHER WAS they never forced the lazy pig to babysit us and I tried to say I couldn't handle him but the stupid rules that said nothing about being forced to take care of a pigs child was in those rules left up to me she would have been at home taking care of him when he wasn't in school instead of taking a vacation hell her and her stupid husband at his crucial learning age OF BEING POTTY TRAINED WAS RUNNING OFF ON VACATION FOR WEEKS AND LEAVING HIM WITH US BECAUSE THE HUSBANDS PARENTS DIDN'T WANT TO HELP OUT EXCEPT THE LAST 2 DAYS we actually had him almost potty trained at 3 almost he was literally going I KID YOU NOT to the bathroom without us saying anything but then his other grandparents took him for two days then lazy parents AND HE WAS BACK TO SQUARE ONE

[@balanc-joy9187]

Here's a quote of the Nightmare Fuel entry on Rugrats, specifically from this episode: *"In "Chuckie vs. The Potty", Chuckie has a nightmare where his potty-training is like death row, complete with screams of "Not the chair! NOT THE CHAIR!" Just to make it even creepier, the sequence features all of the babies-Phil and Lil appear as the prison guards that march Chuckie to the chair, and Tommy is an eerily calm priest who tries to console him. The bit ends with Angelica as the executioner, who pulls off her mask to reveal one of the creepiest Slasher Smile and Evil Laugh combinations EVER, and flushes Chuckie down a giant toilet.* *Angelica: Everybody's gotta go SOME DAY! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!* *There's also the group of snarling, thuggish adult men wearing only diapers leering from their cell at Chuckie.*

[@AceFuzzLord]

13:20 The way I personally see it is that despite being toilet trained, her nighttime accidents make her feel embarrassed and vulnerable since she knows that she's toilet trained and probably thinks that because she is that she shouldn't be having accidents at all. In my mind it definitely makes sense for someone as young as her to think something along those lines since I assume most kids probably think something similar to that when they're that young and don't understand what's going on or why it's happening to them.

[@BennSimonn]

Actually Charlotte was first mentioned (by name) in season 1's Slumber Party where she was already established as a workaholic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/parQZ2Vjjpp4ftk

[@XTWDeadShot]

In a later episode, it was shown that Lipschiz didnt know a damn thing about raising kids. Being around the babies was the first time he learned anything really. I think the creator said that was the point though since there alot of books from ppl who didnt know anything about kids floating around.

[@oooh19]

how did he come up w/ these ideas? also even if you dont have kids we all were kids once so wed understand a little about them

[@SupHapCak]

@@oooh19 or he got his degree from studying other peoples' child psychology books. You don't have to have something to know stuff. Every child is different, so it comes down to human nature. You also don't have to own an adult human to know how to care for yourself.

[@jessinthecomments]

My daughter is a little less than a month away from 3 and is not fully potty trained. In the beginning it was a point of anxiety for both of us so I just relaxed it all. We’re happy and she’s making process little by little.

[@dakotastein9499]

My mom used to say tip-toeing beats running in place. So even a little progress is progress.

[@SupHapCak]

I don't really get why people are so anxious to get the kids potty trained, or more like when it doesn't happen right away Eventually they'll understand how it's meant to be done, but the biggest part is doing it before they get into school.

[@chazdrain1048]

For the prison thing maybe Chaz or Grandpa was watching them and thought they were asleep and started watching a prison film or Angelica told them about it and death row.

[@chancehendrix7139]

He probably watched the green mile. I watched it at an extremely young age too. One time at the lodge my grandpa attended, someone mentioned the word “execute” and I thought grandpa was going to off someone. Everyone including my grandma laughed. Also have you seen the episode titled “a visit from lipshiz? After you see it you understand a lot of things about lipshiz. They way you described him was accurate.

[@justsomeokami8867]

I remember my mom got a call from my teacher cause I drew how I cried at the ending of that movie.

[@ShinySephiroth2]

This came out in 1992 and The Green Mile came out in 1999

[@fruckles]

I assume that the dream would be a copy of a scene from a movie that the grandpa would have left on. [Solo]

[@TwinRiver100]

saw this as a kid on a VHS of Chuckie centric episodes, I think this one freaked me out at the time as well. I mostly figured that the reason Chuckie got thrown in prison was mostly going by baby fantasy logic. Like this was a prison for people that refused to give up their diapers and were considered the worst of the worst and so they ended up on that version of death row. I think it was the fact that it went from color to black and white and the whole death row thing which made me feel weird and uneasy. And very hesitant go rewatching that particular episode when watching that tape. I don't quite think Charlotte would've intentionally tormented Angelica to potty train her. She's intense and a big rushy exec and all, but I don't think she'd do something like that. I kind of assumed that Angelica probably still had potty difficulties here and there but she was acting tough and tormenting the babies and making it seem like this kind of thing didn't affect her, when it probably still did to some degree.

[@crocoshark4097]

I was potty trained around 3-ish. I don't remember being anxious, I was just stubborn and didn't wanna change. I remember one time letting poop go down my pants leg and pulling it out and just thinking that was easier and more convenient than using the toilet. I don't know why. I was stubborn about a lot of bathroom rules growing up and thought all the rules were stupid. It's one of the mysteries of my character.

[@spontaneouswizard358]

You know in a lot of ways, it’s kind of weird how we never actually saw Chuckie wearing nappies at all before he finally got potty trained. There’s an episode later on in season 6 called accidents happen where he’s briefly wearing dummy bears training pants.

[@beverlyarcher3744]

Me yeah overalls are cute but why would you put them on potty training kids? Why???????? Their a pain in the butt to unbotten

[@spontaneouswizard358]

@@beverlyarcher3744 yeah definitely lol

[@KathyHarrington]

Regarding the moment at 10:39, I had noticed Chuckie's mother being referenced several times in the earlier episodes, such as My Friend Barney, where Chaz puts up an old fishing trophy, indicating that Chuckie's mother never liked it, and Barbecue Story, where Chaz is seen speaking to who appears to be his wife. From what I can glean, the writers seemed to have originally wanted Chuckie to have a mom, then retconned it later. Regarding Angelica's mother torturing her with water, I personally wouldn't be surprised if she did such a thing. Angelica and her family as a whole have very curious morals.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

When I was a baby I had a dream that a walking pair of pajamas that looked like Beetlejuice’s clothing dumped detergent on my head. It’s like one of those visual puns from the Beetlejuice cartoon; could be the visual pun for “brain washing” but I don’t know where I would have been exposed to the concept of brainwashing nor how I would have understood it had I been.

[@spontaneouswizard358]

Do you ever plan to talk about the tv special acorn nuts and diapey butts at all? It’s my favourite episode of the whole series and also serves as the prequel to the second movie in Paris. I highly recommend it.

[@spontaneouswizard358]

Also the reason acorn nuts and diapey butts is my favourite episode to is because of the Phil and Lil storyline with them wearing the new puffy nappies. It was honestly brilliant I thought. They’re my favourite characters in the show alongside Angelica. The main reason why I recommend it too.

[@Luke-uf3jw]

Never knew this was so dark! Glad you covered it.

[@ADTribalChild]

This is how I know I'm old. There was a time in the 90s where dream/nightmare sequences in animation was unhinged. This no exception. In real life or in fiction, dreams are the gateway to one's biggest dreams and fears. It's crazy that dream scared Chucky straight to going for that potty. I theorized Angelica showed the babies a prison movie while Grandpa Lou was napping, hence the theme in Chucky's nightmare. I'm surprised you don't point out the symbolism in Preacher Tommy consoling Chuck ending in "what will the little think." For a brief moment of seeing tiny Stu, Didi, and Chaz on their knees, Chucky accepted the inevitability before showing cowardice at the sight of "The Chair." Great episode breakdown!

[@self-advocacychampions1117]

Angelica's worst nightmare is one of the darkest episodes of Rugrats Could you do a video about that episode next?

[@joshuatewolde1837]

“EVERYBODY’S ‘Gotta GO’ SOMEDAAAYY!!!” - Darkest line referring to most people about to be executed

[@twistedyogert]

As someone who was put up for adoption and lived in foster care until I was a year old, I sort of understand how Chucky feels. I'm on medication because of anxiety. Don't get me wrong, both my foster parents and my mother had the patience of a Saint and were wonderful people but still, I might've been a little screwed up because I never really met my real mother. I was born and put up for adoption.

[@readyforclarity]

Good day, Shawn. My first exposure to the idea of death/execution in a way that led to nightmares was from reading my cult's religious tome. Kids all across the world are brought up with daily fairytales about beheadings and stonings, so I think death is more prevalent in kids' minds than you may think. Hell was something I thought of constantly as a child, I was terrified of that as well as criminals (my parents watched a lot of cop shows also)

[@MsGummy666]

I love Chuckie's comment "It's the worst thing that has happened since my Mom put me on the bottle". Which shows that chuckie has a memmory of being breast fed. Agreed Chuckie that would be awful. The taste of bottle milk isn't the same.

[@darthestar8791]

The way I see it, moments like that could be slips of Chuckies memory of his mother, even if he doesn’t completely remember her… It’s like how you can’t fully remember something except in small increments of shattered bits

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Luckily now many mamas still feed their toddlers breastmilk :)

[@nothanks7263]

Lipschitz always makes me laugh. It's literally Lip Shits, and they got away with it and making fun of bad parenting books.

[@spontaneouswizard358]

That is definitely an interesting theory you brought up about Chas still mourning over his wife or them having a weekend away together. I just thought it was a business trip he was going away on. It wasn’t really an important part of the episode anyway I don’t think.

[@draccoonxcii1288]

A later episode pretty much comfirms that Lipschitz is a quack who overcomplicates things. Not even the voice of Tony Jay could make him competent.

[@azaznogalesaz]

U have became one of my favorite KZbinrs! I look forward to ur videos any time I get a notification that u uploaded a new video!

[@azaznogalesaz]

Are you still going to contribute the hey Arnold series where u focus on one character? I absolutely love the series and binged watched it the other day

[@DuskTillShawn]

Thank you so much!!! I appreciate your support more than I could ever say. 😁 It still blows my mind to this day that people watch my videos haha. Yeah, my Hey Arnold series is DEFINITELY still going, I just haven’t had time to devote to 1 hour+ long videos recently. When I move into my new house in a few weeks I’m gonna be able to make more super long videos again because I’ll be leaving my main job to do this full time! There’s gonna be a bunch of long videos coming and I’m so hyped for it!

[@azaznogalesaz]

⁠@@DuskTillShawn awesome can’t wait.

[@spontaneouswizard358]

I love this episode! One of the babies actually got potty trained. It wasn’t easy for Chuckie but he did it. Angelica got was coming to her when she wet herself too.

[@the-nina-beans88]

She did play with the kitchen sink… Running water can do that

[@spontaneouswizard358]

@@the-nina-beans88 very true.

[@the-nina-beans88]

8:50 - 8:58 Did any one think why it was ok for Chuckie to go to bed in nothing but a night shirt with no training underwear or diaper? Plus what would have happened if Chuckie couldn’t get out of the crib on time?

[@haylestormable]

As a kid when Phil suggested chuckie pooping in his room and hiding it in his toy box I SERIOUSLY thought he meant chuckie should squat over the carpet and then jump in the toy box if he heard chaz coming lol also I would laugh at Angelica when she had her accident because I figured it was karma for what she did earlier

[@the-nina-beans88]

Or Phil could of meant Chuckie get in the toy box and then poop

[@haylestormable]

@@the-nina-beans88 like I said I thought this when I was a kid

[@the-nina-beans88]

15:16 I think the follow up episode in season 4 does address Chuckie discomfort about having the adults watching him going to the bathroom… And I think that episode the adults have him try the adult toilet

[@pembrokelove]

13:08 My thought was that her mom might put her on the toilet and running the water to “help her go”.

[@shaquanasmith]

Love your hearing voice. Keep up the great work

[@theminuteman3460]

Another creepy episode of Rugrats is the Inside Story

[@musicaddic95]

So I just thought about this: but they kind of put poor Chucky on the spot and well when you got an audience on you while you’re trying to use the can, I’d think that would give any anxious kid a bit of stage fright. Like give the poor guy some privacy! :( Also, I just realized this too but is it possible that Angelica was projecting on to Chucky since we find out at the end of the episode she still had accidents herself so she was just giving him a hard because it made her feel better about her situation? That’s kind of what it seemed like o: - Real quick before I start the video: I love that your baby girl was like “Daddy you need to make another rugrats video!” And y’all just essentially collaborated on ideas! I love it! ❤❤

[@jdayhoff1]

Solid work as usual Shawn. It's a shame they don't make them like this anymore. Pioneer days I suppose.

[@Skull_E_Duggery]

i always thought it was sweet how stu and deedee watch over the other babys. and how ready they are to give chaz advice and helping where he lacks. i think everyone needs people like that in there lives

[@TheOriginalScribbleStudios]

This episode is why I think potty charts and potty prizes come in handy for children starting. You reward them each time they properly use the potty and slowly you just stop rewarding them all together. You want your kids to know going to the potty with a real toilet is nothing to be afraid of, but to a child depending on how early you begin their training, the thought of sitting down on something twice their size can be scary. You don't want them to feel like they can't go either. So even if it takes a while and it's gross to clean up accidents, getting upset with them will only prolong the issue. Be patient with your children so they don't feel the need they have to deny using the bathroom and end up having accidents (I work in a daycare, I've seen it happen a lot) being patient and setting up the idea that using the bathroom is a good thing is healthy for them as children learn from their parents praising and scolding to perceive what is good and bad. Also try to give your child more and more privacy as they learn. The first few times it may be necessary to be in the room, but slowly stop helping them that way they don't feel pressured or become over dependent for help because neither of those are healthy.

[@DSdemon767]

Sorta related: In the later episode where Chuckie starts to use the “big boy potty” (the regular toilet with a kid seat attached) it bugged me that all the adults feel the had to watch it happen while standing in front of him. All the while Chuckie gets more self concious and ends up using the tree.

[@jocel1376]

I think Angelica "regressed" simply because she wanted attention. She likes being a big kid until the little kids get more attention for their milestones.

[@dougxvale]

Angelica - "Aunt Didi, I had an accident 😭😭😭

[@oooh19]

No she didn’t do that on purpose she couldn’t control that

[@akganimationstudioproducti3779]

It seems more like karma for messing with Chuckie earlier

[@oooh19]

omg anyone else recall the episode where Angelica pukes on her dad after stealing Chuckie's glasses?! now THAT'S karma@@akganimationstudioproducti3779

[@julesrules7297]

All the episodes with "Little Barnaby Jones" as told by Angelica always got me, too. Under Chuckie's Bed and Down the Drain were the episodes.

[@the-nina-beans88]

It’s still kinda surreal to imagine a kid being eaten alive while being dragged under the bed -under Chuckie’s bed-

[@g1rldraco7]

Yeah I hate that Didi is ALWAYS reading about Dr Lipshicts "work" of child care. I mean how much money has she spent on his books and stuff. Theres an episode where she has the man over for dinner and Grandpa Lou is like you that guy whos always telling people how to raise their kids? I cant believe you two even listen to that crackpot!! I cant stand how the babies believe what she tells them. I was creeped out when i first saw this episode I mean Chuckies imagination is super wild with how he sees things. I hope you cover the episode where Tommy get his first shot, it has a Angelica karma moment in it too

[@skittlebunny7654]

Now that the video is over I can give you input as a new mother. My son is 15 months old and we hover him.over the potty seat a couple times a day, he acts a little bit like Chuckie. Stu and Deedee were doing fine, they only had Tommy after all. Chaz just left a 2 year old there for a weekend during that time, they hadnt tried to potty train Tommy yet. They did fine for new parents being handed a potty training child! Lol.

[@otakuking10]

@DuskTillShawn, please do a review of the fairly odd parents episode no substitute for crazy, the Kim possible episode all the news and the Arthur episode love notes to Muffy since it’s Halloween since they’re all dark and scary and it’s Halloween..

[@jailcatjones3250]

Lol Tommy as a roman catholic priest when we all know he is jewish

[@jenneacubero1036]

To be fair, he's Jewish on Didi's side. I don't think we know what denomination Stu/The Pickles belong to.

[@JohnSmith-jh6ey]

@@jenneacubero1036 well they celebrated Christmas in addition to Hanukkah so….

[@Zinervawyrm]

90s cartoons were just so different. Chucky, saying he prefers milk from "tap" over the bottle, no matter how you pass the censors with that line would never get a TV-Y7 rating these days. LOL 🤣

[@twistedyogert]

*Rugrats: The Green Mile* I also want to know what he saw to imprint the idea of the toilet being an execution machine in his subconscious. "The Green Mile" isn't a movie that kids should see. Especially that scene where a sadistic guard doesn't wet the sponge before the electrodes are attached. It is the definition of brutal. Heck, the electric chair is a brutal method. Hanging is just as humane.

[@the-nina-beans88]

Plus if Chuckie is new to the potty. It’s kinda odd how in his dream the chair was the adult toilet. If he just learning about the potty how the heck does he know about the adult toilet already?

[@jat9926]

I wonder if Chuckie accidentally watched that movie sometime earlier for that nightmare maybe while Chaz was asleep on the couch.

[@Dtctr010]

I love that in the dream sequence Tommy is an Irish Catholic priest but hes Jewish

[@nekonomicon2983]

I keep forgetting Tommy is Jewish.

[@oooh19]

there are Irish Jews

[@mightymouse447]

He’s mixed faith. Dee Dee’s side is Jewish, Stu’s is Christian.

[@Dtctr010]

@@mightymouse447 i didnt know that part; was there a moment where stu alluded to that? its been a while since ive seen the whole show

[@Neku628]

Are you going to cover that episode where Angelica scares the Rugrats with taking baths because some boy got sucked down the bathtub drain?

[@eeveefennecfox]

I'm waiting for him to review that XD

[@UrsulaDaSeaWishh]

ABOUT THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE: I’m 99% sure the writers were riffing on the 1938 film Angels With Dirty Faces. The movie stars James Cagney and Pat O’Brien as a pair of childhood friends who steal a couple of fountain pens; James Cagney’s character gets caught and Pat O’Brien’s character doesn’t. Cagney goes it reform school and continues to do Bad Kid Stuff, and O’Brien becomes a priest. THIS is where the Rugrats episode comes in: In the movie Cagney becomes a career criminal and re-connects with the priest guy, and in the end he gets caught and sentenced to the electric chair. The priest tells Cagney that the neighborhood kids look up to him and think he’s a badass, and he asks Cagney to “go yellow” on his way to the chair, I.e. beg for his life in fear. Cagney says “hell no, I’m not going to destroy my rep like that” but the priest pleads with him again on his way to the chair, and it ends with this really intense silhouette sequence of Cagney screaming “no please I don’t want to die!” as the executioner drags him to the chair, and it ends with a ZAP! and cuts to the neighborhood kids saying they can’t believe his character “turned yellow”. I think Tommy was the priest and Chuckey was Cagney’s character, and I think that the implication is that Chaz loves old movies and Chuckie may have snuck out of bed and caught the scary ending of this one.

[@jonkeiser6092]

That’s a good explanation of the nightmare sequence.

[@Lugen]

Up early so why not !

[@RichterTheRat]

Lipshits being a quack is the joke. It's in his name, implying only crap comes out of his mouth. Allegedly it was the writers' way of making fun of the show runners.

[@radiowhitebase3623]

His name evokes an old South Park gag.

[@shannonkahermanes6080]

I think Anjelica misremembered her mom and the running water and I thought she thought she might have been helping Chucky. But I also think she was jealous of Chucky- who was getting lots of attention from the grown ups and that’s why she regressed and wet the bed. That’s my interpretation as a grown up lol 😂

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

See this is why the reboot failed, not enough nightmare fuel

[@nekonomicon2983]

Lol, the nightmares in Rugrats are probably one of the best things about the show.

[@eatatjoes6751]

This episode was the reason why I remembered to potty train, ironically. The waiting especially on long car trips.

[@Nebuladust1018]

"Not the present of the the ninted stakes." haha @ 3:53 the best i love chuckie

[@ry2thepoint]

Love that you share in the 90s with your kid. We shall never forget the 90s 🫡

[@Darkwolfpocco]

Fun... wait no, that's not the word,... embarrassing fact I wasn't potty trained till I was 4. I was doing well when I was 2 but a fly was in the toilet and hit me in the butt. That was the end of that, for 2 more years I refused to use the toilet. Till one day my dad was going to my cousins and I wanted to go, but my mom wouldn't let me cause she felt it was unfair for my aunt to have to change me. Well guess I overheard that from the next room cause I went to the toilet that instant and have been potty trained ever sense and only occasionally shit myself now. XD.

[@JohnSmith-jh6ey]

3:20 Also memory of chuckie having a mom confirmed

[@infjmale91]

I know this is REALLY off topic but y favourite character in Rugrats was always the hack child psychologist Dr. Lipshitz (which has to be a play on Lip-Sh*t as in he talks crap). The one episode where he has to babysit the babies (for some reason) & ends up eating all their food and takes a bath (in their home) is so funny. I remember the stupid tune he hums when he's doing it to. Brilliant!

[@NickTwithADHD]

Damn this will be awesome on the way to work :D

[@PotatoSaladjr]

No better way to start my day! 😁

[@Pyroniusburn]

17:05 I'm with you on that expression, there's something so hideous and unsettling about it. Whoever storyboarded that one did a great job...maybe *too* good of a job even haha.

[@16driver16]

An episode soo old Chucky mentions his mom several times!

[@PriaMason-o8y]

I love the episode Mr friend of the rugrats that’s a scary episode

[@jimmyboy95]

Good video, my dude. definitely earned yourself a like an a new subscriber. Especially since out of all the episodes of rug rats. I remember this was one that definitely stood out. 👍 If you ever decide to talk about Rugrats again, might I suggest talking about what I personally felt was one of the scariest episodes, "Let there be light". Where the babies are tormented by the dark and the lights going off

[@AbstractOddity]

I watched this a couple days ago and forgot to comment. I actually don’t remember seeing this episode as a kid but it did bring back memories of when chuckie would say “as bob as my witness” 😂 I don’t think it’s too much to look into Angelica having an accident - isn’t she only three? I’d expect even being fully potty trained kiddos sometimes have accidents early on especially in a different environment than they usually sleep. However it is sweet karma for her torturing chuckie. I was cracking up over didi and Stu just staring at chuckie. Dr lipschitz always gave whack advice cause he was a quack. I would’ve been interested to see how Betty would handle potty training. Thanks for the cute shout out at the end :) I hope you get settled in your new place soon and have a happy spooky season with the family!

[@amberlytheharpyqueen]

This is a really interesting episode for me since I am currently in the process of potty training my my daughter who is Chucky's age. She is the exact opposite of Chucky when it comes to it. she is so excited to be a big girl, it also doesn't hurt that she has a chart or "potty train" that she gets to put stickers on and the further she goes on the track she gets prizes/treats. Hey, a little bribery never hurts, but always praise, praise, PRAISE them for thier accomplishments. I mean this is the biggest accomplishment she has since she learned to walk and keeps learning to talk, it's a big deal.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

For me it wasn’t using the training potty that was hard. It was the big girl toilet that I didn’t want to use. I remember my mom driving my baby potty out to the dump and saying goodbye to it.

[@marioipod]

And the Mercy Seat is waiting and I think Chuckie's head is... drowning?!

[@MrJohnffrey87]

I remember feeling bad for Chuckie in his dream, and being startled when Angelica took her mask off.

[@emilyjonah3691]

Rewatching the episode, the part with Chuckie just sitting there on his potty for a while actually took 2 whole hours (2 o clock to 4 o clock). I'm no child psychologist, but the whole idea of a child just having to sit there until something happens not only takes time away from the child's day, but it also doesn't help them understand it or think that it's a good thing. If anything, it'll just make them more resilient to use it because they know they'd have to sit there for a long time (even longer in kid time).

[@laduwade9977]

This is the episode about Chuckie needed potty training.

[@justsomefox8910]

I mostly never watched Rugrats growing up because it stopped airing by the time I was watching tv, but I remember this episode vividly because it’s one of the only ones I had on dvd as a kid. When I watched it as a little kid, I never even began to comprehend the blatant symbolisms of the nightmare sequence So I appreciate you making this video to get me to revisit it as an adult so I can finally fully understand everything

[@jabril4real637]

Chucky was probably watching a random late night TV Show or Movie about Prison with his Grandpa which caused the theme of his Dream.