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Rugrats (season 1)
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain. The show focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, twins Phil and Lil, Susie, then later Dil and Kimi and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations. Adults in the series are almost always unaware of what the children are up to. The series premiered on August 11, 1991, as the second Nicktoon after ''Doug'' and preceding ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. Production initially halted in 1993 after 65 episodes, with the last episode airing on November 12, 1994. In 1995 and 1996, two Jewish-themed specials premiered; "A Rugrats Passover" and "A Rugrats Chanukah", respectively, both of which received critical acclaim. During this time, well after the end of the show's production run, ''Rugrats'' began to receive a boost in ratings and popularity with constant reruns on Nic ...
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Rugrats
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The show focuses on a group of toddlers; most prominently— Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and twins Phil and Lil, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving life experiences that become much greater adventures in the imaginations of the main characters. The series premiered on August 11, 1991, as the second Nicktoon—after ''Doug'' and before ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', with an initial instalment of 65 episodes spanning three seasons. Production was then halted in 1993 with the last episode airing on November 12, 1994. In 1995 and 1996, two Jewish-themed specials premiered; " A Rugrats Passover" and " A Rugrats Chanukah", respectively, both of which received critical acclaim. During this time, after the end of the show's production run, ''Rugrats'' began to receive a boost in ratings and popularity due to constant reruns on Nickelodeon. In 1996, ...
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Rugrats (film Series)
The ''Rugrats'' film series is a series of animated comedy adventure films based on the popular Nickelodeon animated series, ''Rugrats'', created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain. The three films were released in 1998, 2000, and 2003. The first and third films received mixed reviews, while the second received generally positive reviews. The series also experienced declining commercial success with each film. Films ''The Rugrats Movie'' (1998) The story escalates when Tommy Pickles, is put into difficult situation with the birth of his new brother, Dil, who will not stop crying and is taking all of their parents' attention. Lil and Phil, suggest that Dil should be returned to the hospital, though Tommy and Chuckie object. They eventually get into the Reptar Wagon take a high-speed ride straight into the deep woods where they get lost. Being pursued by a wolf, the babies must find their way home. Meanwhile, Angelica Pickles sets out to find the babies after they ...
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At The Movies (Rugrats)
"At the Movies" is the first segment of the third episode of the animated television series ''Rugrats.'' It originally aired on the television network Nickelodeon on August 25, 1991, during the series' first season. In the episode, Didi and Stu take The Rugrats to a movie theatre to see ''The Dummi Bears and the Land Without Smiles'', but Tommy is infatuated with seeing a monster movie, ''Reptar!''. He and the babies sneak out of the theater room to catch a showing of ''Reptar!'' while leaving a wake of accidental mayhem and destruction as they do. "At the Movies" was written by Craig Bartlett and series co-creator Paul Germain and directed by Dan Thompson. The episode introduced the characters of the Dummi Bears and Reptar. The Dummi Bears were inspired by non-violent children's characters such as the Care Bears and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, whereas Reptar was heavily inspired by the Japanese monster Godzilla and satirized the ever growing domination of Japanese cult ...
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Joe Ansolabehere
Joseph Michael Ansolabehere (born June 18, 1959) is an American writer and producer. He is the co-creator of '' Recess'' and ''Lloyd in Space'' with partner and friend Paul Germain; they form the team Paul & Joe Productions. He also served as a story editor on the first 65 episodes of ''Rugrats'', as well as a co-producer and story editor of the first season of ''Hey Arnold!'' Ansolabehere has a daughter, Jean, who is also a writer. His son Hugo was born in 2013. Ansolabehere is married to costume designer Dorotka Sapinska. Early life Born in Sacramento, California, of Basque descent, Ansolabehere is the oldest of five brothers. His brother Stephen is a political scientist and Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government at Harvard. His brother Paul is a vice president of Anagram in Minneapolis, and his youngest brother, Louis, is a computer technician. As children they moved around often, living in Detroit, Champaign, Reno-Sparks, and Minneapolis. Ansolabehere graduated from the Un ...
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Steve Viksten
Stephen Lee Viksten (July 19, 1960 – June 23, 2014) was an American television writer and voice actor who was best known for voicing the character Oskar Kokoshka on the Nickelodeon animated series ''Hey Arnold!''. Viksten also wrote multiple episodes of ''Hey Arnold'', ''Rugrats'', '' Recess'', ''Duckman'' and ''The Simpsons''. Viksten's sole contribution to the latter, season 22's "Homer Scissorhands", was his final writing credit before his death. Early life Viksten was born in Ventura, California on July 19, 1960. His father was the vice president of the local Sears. During his teenage years, Viksten's family moved to Arcadia, California, where Viksten became editor of Arcadia High School's newspaper. After graduating from Arcadia High School in 1978, Viksten attended several universities including the University of Missouri, UCLA, and Cal State Fullerton California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public university in Fullerton, California. W ...
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Craig Bartlett
Craig Michael Bartlett (born October 18, 1956) is an American animator, best known for writing, directing, creating and producing the Nickelodeon television series ''Hey Arnold!'' and the PBS Kids television series ''Dinosaur Train'' and ''Ready Jet Go!''. Career Bartlett's first job, after graduating from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon, where he learned the art of stop-motion animation, working on movies such as '' The Adventures of Mark Twain''. Bartlett moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to animate the "Penny" claymations for the second season of ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'' on CBS. He later made an animated ID for NBC with Klasky Csupo. He later worked at BRC Imagination Arts, directing projects such as ''Postcards'' and ''Mystery Lodge'' for Knott's Berry Farm. He also animated the music video for "Jurassic Park" by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the 1994 album ''Alapalooza''. Bartlett met the Nickelodeon execs while stor ...
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Peter Chung
Peter Chung (born April 19, 1961) is a Korean American animator. He is best known for his unique style of animation, as the creator and director of ''Æon Flux'' and '' Reign: The Conqueror (Alexander Senki)''. Early life and career Peter Chung was born on April 19, 1961. Since his father was in the foreign service of the Republic of Korea, he has lived in Seoul, London, Nairobi, Washington, D.C., New York and Tunis. His parents then immigrated to the United States; he lived in McLean, Virginia. Chung studied animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1979 to 1981, one year at the Character Animation program, and another year in the program in Experimental Animation. Chung started his animation career at a small animation studio in Maryland at age 18, working for animator and illustrator Salvador Bru. From there at age 19 he was designing characters for Hanna-Barbera. About this time he also started working on the layout and animation on Ralph Bakshi's '' Fire ...
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Rugrats (2021 TV Series)
''Rugrats'' is an American computer-animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain. It has been described as both a Revival (television), revival and Reboot (fiction), reboot of Rugrats, the original TV series of the same name that ran from 1991 to 2004. The series premiered on May 27, 2021, on Paramount+; it is the second Nickelodeon-based series created for the streaming service. As with previous incarnations of the franchise, the series is produced by Klasky Csupo. In September 2021, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise Just like the Rugrats, original series, ''Rugrats'' focuses on the experiences of a courageous, adventurous one-year-old baby named Tommy Pickles and his group of playmates and other infants and toddlers. Voice cast The surviving voice actors of the titular "Rugrats" reprise their roles from the original series, though the adult roles from the original series have been recast, including Betty DeVille wh ...
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SpongeBob SquarePants
''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (or simply ''SpongeBob'') is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The fifth-longest-running American animated series, its high popularity has made it a media franchise. It is the highest rated Nickelodeon series and the most profitable property for Paramount Consumer Products, generating over $13 billion in merchandising revenue as of 2019. Many of the series's ideas originated in ''The Intertidal Zone'', an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life. He began developing ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' into a television series in 1996, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. The network's executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenbur ...
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Hollywood Walk Of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of more than 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California. The stars are permanent public monuments to achievement in the entertainment industry, bearing the names of a mix of actors, directors, producers, musicians, theatrical/musical groups, fictional characters, and others. The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce who hold the trademark rights and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist attraction, with an estimated 10 million annual visitors in 2010. Description The Walk of Fame runs east to west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Gower Street to the ''Hollywood and La Brea Gateway'' at La Brea Avenue, plus a short segment on Marshfield Way that runs diagonally between Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea; and north to sout ...
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Kids' Choice Awards
The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (also known as the KCAs or Kids' Choice) is an annual American children's awards ceremony show that is produced by Nickelodeon. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show honors the year's biggest in television, film, music, and sports as voted by viewers worldwide of Nickelodeon networks. Winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the network's 1984–2009 era, which also functions as a kaleidoscope. The show features numerous celebrity guests and musical acts. Since 2002, slime stunts have been incorporated into the show. The KCAs also host live entertainment. It has also been known to cover people with the network's trademark green slime. The animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' has won the most KCA awards, with nineteen overall through the series' run. Individually, Selena Gomez and Will Smith have won the most trophies with eleven, followed by Adam Sandler (10) as well as ...
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Daytime Emmy Award
The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the Daytime Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. The first ceremony was held in 1974, expanding what was originally a prime time-themed Emmy Award. Ceremonies generally are held in May or June. History The first Emmy Award ceremony took place on January 25, 1949. The first daytime-themed Emmy Awards were given out at the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in 1972, when '' The Doctors'' and ''General Hospital'' were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Drama. That year, ''The Doctors'' won the first Best Show Daytime Emmy. In addition, the award for Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in a Daytime Drama was given to Mary Fickett from ''All My Children''. A p ...
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