User blog comment:MarvelGeek1995/The Rugrats Revival in 2017, is this true??? =O/@comment-27008799-20170301004644

I hate to break it to you buddy, but as one of the biggest and oldest fans of Rugrats, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I'm not exactly getting my hopes up where a revival is concerned for several reasons.

1. First and fore most, that site where you saw this announcement, is one of these sites where pretty much, anybody can post anything and it appears. I mean, somebody could go up there and claim I'm an alien from outer space, and it would get approved. Point is, anybody can say anything they want, whether it's true or not. And I've heard most people who go up there are just, casual fans like you and me. They don't work for Nickelodeon or anything like that. I even know that one of the authors on that site, has gone as far as to plagerize blog posts from other people, like Patricia of the Old School Lane Youtube Channel, as she's stated this has happened to her work in one of her videos, so I know because of the type of site it is, not to believe it. Not to mention, that post was put up there over a year ago now, with no subsiquent updates to follow, which is all the more proof that it's fake.

2. A hair over twenty years ago now, back in the fall of 1996, when my mom read me an article about the Rugrats revival that hit in 1997, with the upcoming Chanukah and Mother's Day specials, and the launch of season 4, I believe it was from TV Guide, a lagitamet source, and sure enough, when I started seeing ads on Nickelodeon come November of 1996 for the Chanukah special, I knew my mom wasn't reading me ttrash. Usually when Nickelodeon has something big to report, they have Variety post the news. So when the day rolls around when Variety posts an article stating a Rugrats revival, is the day to jump up and down with joy.

3. Though sadly, I don't see that happening anytime soon for a couple of reasons. First, we've lost a lot of the original voice cast of some of the major Rugrats characters over the past few years. Now you may be thinking, everybody who played the babies, Susie, and Angelica at the time of Rugrats cancelation are still alive and well, including Chuckie's voice replacement after Christine Cavanaugh left the cast in 2001, but when you look at it, the adults played just as big of a role on the series as the babies, and in the past couple of years alone, we've lost the voices of Stu Pickles (Jack Riley), Randy Carmichael (his voice actor's name I forget the name of right now, I know his last name was Glass though), Lulu Pickles (Debbie Reynolds), and Lou Pickles second voice actor after his first one past in 1997 at the start of recording lines for season 5 (Jo Alesky). And while most of the other voice cast is still alive, everybody is a lot older now, heck, the person who played Drew and Chas is already in his 80's, and most of them are in their 50's and 60's now. Not that I'm saying people are going to drop at the fly of a hat, but having to find voice replacements, this would also include a replacement needing to be found for Dr. Lipschitz, as that actor died back in 2006 I believe, my point is, Rugrats had a very distinct voice cast, and while I'm sure everybody could be replaced, for some characters, it might be harder than others, and I know for me, if I had to go through that process, or be worried about somebody dying again in the middle of production, that would frustrate me all the more, not exactly making me feel all that enthusiastic about bringing the series back.

4. It's pretty obvious that towards the end of production, the writers and producers were suffering from burn out. How do I know this? Just look at the quality of episodes from seasons 8 and 9, versus the quality of episodes from seasons 2 through 7, and I'm omitting season 1 because it's obvious that during season 1, everybody was just getting their feet wet with this concept, not quite use to things yet. I love all 172 half hour episodes with a passion, and own the entire series on DVD, but I pull out seasons 8 and 9 much less, because the episodes were, very weak compared to those from earlier seasons. It's like, everybody had lost their spark, and the poor effort made on Rugrats go Wild, doesn't help their case. Sure, the main producers claim that if Nickelodeon asked them to come back, they're all for doing a tenth season of the series, but deep down, it's hard to know if they're really being honest here. I've heard from multiple sources, that they've had tension with their episode writers over the years, even when they returned to do season 4 in the mid 90's, and upon cancelation for a second time in 2004, I heard somewhere that it partially had to do with some dispute with Nickelodeon over finances, because the series was becoming too expensive to make, and Nickelodeon wasn't interested in meeting their demands. Of course, that network has gotten so obsessed over Spongebob Squarepants over the last 18 years or so, it's not even funny. However, if I had been under those conditions, would I want to fuss with a network to pay me the right amount to produce the series again? Would I want to once again, fool with drama between my writing team and producers over episode plots, etc. I can't speak for Gabor or Arlene, but had I been the one producing the series, and going through all of this termoil, I certainly wouldn't want to go through it again, unless there was a high demand to bring the series back, and as of late, even the fandom on Fan Fiction has seen less activity, with me being one of the main front runners to release stories, yep, I'm celrock over on Fan Fiction if you didn't know, while The Loud House, one of Nickelodeon's newest shows, is receiving a lot more attention at the moment.

Bottom line, while I'd love to see Rugrats come back, I'm not exactly getting my hopes up at this time, so sadly, no jumping up and down here with excitement is happening anytime soon. However, if it were to come back, I would hope we'd see some more character development with Kimi and Dil, as well as some slight aging in physical appearance with the other toddlers at that rate, finally getting everybody other than Chuckie potty trained, seeing Chuckie speak more to the adults than just the word, "No," and Tommy finally struggling to get potty trained and speak his first word to the adults. As for how it's released, and I don't know why I think this, maybe because a lot of people were really excited to see the series as a whole more or less, hit Hulu back in late November of 2015, and I say most, as there are a few episodes missing from the Hulu release that are included on the season DVD's available from Amazon, Runaway Reptar and Vacation being amongst the episodes that are missing from those streamable on Hulu, but I do think if Rugrats did return, whether it be with a full fledged season 10, another movie, or some mmore Tales from the Crib specials, as I actually found the two of those that were released to be quite enjoyable, I think it would go over better as a direct to Hulu or Netflix release, where as with how Spongebob hungry Nickelodeon still seems to be at points, I almost fear Nickelodeon giving Rugrats the same treatment as Harvy Beats, and I can put up with it for Harvy Beats because that's not a show I watch, but being a beloved fan of Rugrats for a hair over 23 years, and proclaiming it today to be my favorite television show of all-times, if Rugrats were to return, and Nickelodeon starts treating it the way they've treated Harvy Beats, I'm not going to be happy, and I somehow, just, get this feeling that's such a thing is liable to happen at that rate. Thus, let's avoid it, at all cost. At least, until the day comes when Spongebob is finally canceled, once and for all, and The Loud House, which, you must admit, a lot of the characters and episode plots on The Loud House remind me more so of Rugrats characters and plots than Spongebob ever did, I think there'd be a higher demand to possibly bringing Rugrats back at that time, once Spongebob is no longer in the lime light, and more or less, yesterday's garbage.

I hope my long-winded comment here was informative and got down right to the nitty gritty point as to how I feel about this whole Rugrats revival thing, and sorry if I've left you disappointed, but sadly, it's the cold hard truth of the matter. We'll see what's going on come the Rugrats 30th. anniversary, which hits in August of 2021, but at the moment, I'm not holding my breath.