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‘Rugrats’: Imagination, Nostalgia, and Innovation
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‘Rugrats’: Imagination, Nostalgia, and Innovation

A children’s TV show done right

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Ben Ulansey
Aug 16, 2024
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Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil from Rugrats
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Perhaps no show has ever explored the inexhaustible imagination of early childhood as expertly as Rugrats. Though I didn’t quite grasp what made it so special in those early years I spent watching it, it’s not difficult to see what children would find so enthralling in these whimsical, diapered dreamscapes.

It doesn’t just depict kids dea…

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