User blog comment:Celrock/When did Rugrats go Downhill and How Would I Have Fixed It?/@comment-28026904-20201010233606

I think it went downhill after the first movie, had it ended on November 20, 1998 (when the film came out), it would've been remembered as one of the greatest shows of all time. S1-S3 (1991-1994) is basically the golden age of the show, S4 and S5 (1997-1998) are still great yet certainly no golden age, and the first film is perfection, but S6 (1999-2001) is where things start to go wrong, got even worse after the second film with S7 and S8 (2001-2003), and definitely hit rock bottom in its final season (2003-2004). The only saving grace during this dark era are Rugrats in Paris and Rugrats Go Wild. So, if you wanna watch Rugrats, stick with seasons 1-5 and the films, where the show had better plots, better characterization, better dialogue, better animation and just a better show overall in comparision to the opposite in seasons 6-9.