OK....
Well, although it's obvious I'm wasting my time: No, it was not the same.
Forget the 2nd movie. The show was a completely different show after the first 3 seasons. It was put on hiatus, having completed the original 65 episode contract.
When the show returned, the entire writing staff had departed. Heading that department (as well as being the voice director and the show's 3rd "creator"/producer) was Paul Germain. Germain was the show runner for the original 65 (127 stories).
After the hiatus, what was once was an adult satire about parenting was turned into a preschool show.
Klasky-Csupo didn't write the show. Klasky whined to the original writers about how offended she was by their content to the point where they were sneaking the lines they took out of the script (to get her to shut up) past her into the recording sessions. And Csupo was laid back and didn't care.
So when the show was brought back, Klasky hired new writers to write her baby show about babies.
You, on the other hand, don't see anything but superficial characteristics. You see character names and visual designs only, plus the superficial basic outline to a plot, and that's the extent of your analysis. You're certainly not alone in that limited scope when it comes to watching television shows, but that's the reality.
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david_hokey_16
9 years ago
Couldn't have said it better myself! Seasons 1-3 were the original Rugrats; the TRUE Rugrats.
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Sean_Pierce
8 years ago
Would it kill you guys to say that I enjoyed them anyway? There was a time we got Nick Canada free for a month and every night at 8pm they showed 2 episodes (4 stories or sometimes 3 depending on specials) . Needless to say I and my younger siblings took advantage of the free month trial. I got to reminisce both the "true" rugrats episodes, which amazingly I remember by heart and newer ones that I've never seen. I'm just glad I enjoyed both. But I do understand where people are coming from about this topic. Even Powerpuff Girls had a similar shift in tone from Season 4.5 and onwards. The episodes before it bear lots of moral and quality
where as the latter slowly became fun action packed episodes or plain toilet humour with little significance,
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