All Grown Up! is an American half hour animated television series that
aired on Nickelodeon. The series was created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor
Csupó, and Paul Germain and it is a continuation of their children's
show Rugrats. It explores the daily lives of protagonist Tommy Pickles
and his childhood friends, now adolescents. The concept for the series
was based on the episode "All Growed Up," which served as the series'
10th anniversary special and proved successful with audiences. The
series ran from April 12, 2003, to August 17, 2008, for a total of
five seasons, and featured voice actors from the original series.
Several episodes also feature Tommy and his friends back when they
were babies in flashbacks.Tommy, Dil, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi,
Angelica, and Susie are now tweens/teens. They have to deal with the
various issues and the situations that occur during this age. As the
show has aged, so have the characters as episodes often involve the
cast dealing with common issues of preteens and teenagers.The idea for
All Grown Up! originated in All Growed Up, a television special which
aired in 2001 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rugrats and
portrayed the original characters 10 years into the future. The
special was nominated for "Outstanding Children's Program" in the 2002
Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The special was the highest rated Rugrats
episode, the highest-rated Nickelodeon program, and the cable's #1
show for the week ending July 22, 2001, with a 7.2 rating equivalent
to 12 million viewers. Approximately 70% of all kids aged 2â€"11 tuned
in to watch the special. Nickelodeon president, Herb Scannell, noted
that a "Surprising numbers of kids held Rugrats parties on Saturday
night and watched the show in groups". The following day, Nickelodeon
said "'We've got to make this a show,' because of the size of the
audience that came to it." Noting the immediate popularity of the
show's concept, All Growed Up was deemed the network's equivalent of
the Super Bowl. Nickelodeon made a two-season order of 35
episodes.Nick's press releases for the Rugrats' 10th anniversary noted
that the All Growed Up special was a "one time only" special.
Nickelodeon was so impressed by the high ratings, they wanted to use
the show as a pilot for either a regular spinoff series or a series of
occasional one-hour specials. Finally, Nickelodeon decided to
commission an entire series around the teenage main characters. Arlene
Klasky explained "It got enormous ratings, so Nickelodeon blessed us
with another series". Margie Cohn felt that Rugrats had endured
prolonged success due to the "series' writing, and the appeal of the
show's well developed characters to its deeply devoted audience", and
argued the sequel resulted from fan support and speculation on how the
characters would age.
aired on Nickelodeon. The series was created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor
Csupó, and Paul Germain and it is a continuation of their children's
show Rugrats. It explores the daily lives of protagonist Tommy Pickles
and his childhood friends, now adolescents. The concept for the series
was based on the episode "All Growed Up," which served as the series'
10th anniversary special and proved successful with audiences. The
series ran from April 12, 2003, to August 17, 2008, for a total of
five seasons, and featured voice actors from the original series.
Several episodes also feature Tommy and his friends back when they
were babies in flashbacks.Tommy, Dil, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi,
Angelica, and Susie are now tweens/teens. They have to deal with the
various issues and the situations that occur during this age. As the
show has aged, so have the characters as episodes often involve the
cast dealing with common issues of preteens and teenagers.The idea for
All Grown Up! originated in All Growed Up, a television special which
aired in 2001 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rugrats and
portrayed the original characters 10 years into the future. The
special was nominated for "Outstanding Children's Program" in the 2002
Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The special was the highest rated Rugrats
episode, the highest-rated Nickelodeon program, and the cable's #1
show for the week ending July 22, 2001, with a 7.2 rating equivalent
to 12 million viewers. Approximately 70% of all kids aged 2â€"11 tuned
in to watch the special. Nickelodeon president, Herb Scannell, noted
that a "Surprising numbers of kids held Rugrats parties on Saturday
night and watched the show in groups". The following day, Nickelodeon
said "'We've got to make this a show,' because of the size of the
audience that came to it." Noting the immediate popularity of the
show's concept, All Growed Up was deemed the network's equivalent of
the Super Bowl. Nickelodeon made a two-season order of 35
episodes.Nick's press releases for the Rugrats' 10th anniversary noted
that the All Growed Up special was a "one time only" special.
Nickelodeon was so impressed by the high ratings, they wanted to use
the show as a pilot for either a regular spinoff series or a series of
occasional one-hour specials. Finally, Nickelodeon decided to
commission an entire series around the teenage main characters. Arlene
Klasky explained "It got enormous ratings, so Nickelodeon blessed us
with another series". Margie Cohn felt that Rugrats had endured
prolonged success due to the "series' writing, and the appeal of the
show's well developed characters to its deeply devoted audience", and
argued the sequel resulted from fan support and speculation on how the
characters would age.
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