If you're still feeling high from the news that Nickelodeon is bringing Hey Arnold! back soon as a TV movie that will finally answer pressing narrative concerns, then you might want to ease off the throttle for this one. Eric Molinsky, storyboard artist for the existentially daunting Rugrats, decided to craft and promptly deliver the definitive depiction of what exactly an "all growed up" Rugrats might look like:
"The Rugrats did not all grow up to be fashion models or self-confident hipsters," Molinsky wrote in a delightful piece for Studio 360. "Especially not Chuckie. They probably grew up to be average if not slightly lumpy looking people — just like their parents." Molinsky, who also worked on other Nickelodeon classics like The Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power, was quick to acknowledge that he (obviously) doesn't "speak for the studio or the creators," though who actually cares when dude is delivering awesome (and surprisingly realistic) work about the future of iconic TV characters. For what it's worth, Molinsky does acknowledge the All Growed Up era of the Rugrats empire, though he wasn't entirely thrilled with the outcome: "I tried to keep the awkwardness in tact. But the studio spun it off into a series, which I thought was too sitcom-y."
The suggestion of making this whole practice of artists revisiting their most cherished characters for an age-acknowledging update a semi-regular thing has now been proposed by Vulture, and it's safe to say that virtually all of the Nickelodeon-addicted portion of the world's population wholeheartedly endorse that.
