All Grown Up!

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All Grown Up! (also known as AGU) is an American animated television series based on characters from Rugrats, now ten years older. Angelica and Susie are in the 7th grade, and the rest of the gang are pre-teens. It premiered in April 2003 as a preview before starting its regular run in late November (although in October, it began its regular run in the UK, on Nickelodeon UK and CITV, and in Canada on YTV). The show is based on the Rugrats' 10th anniversary episode, the TV movie The Rugrats: All Growed Up (aired in 2001), which proved so popular that Nickelodeon decided to commission a whole series. Production began in September 2002.

When the series premiered its regular run, more than 3.2 million viewers, and over a third of all kids watching cable in the United States, tuned in, enough to put it into the 2nd place slot for the week, behind an NFL game on ESPN, and making it the highest-rated premiere in Nick's history (when the sneak peek episode aired in April, it didn't make the top 15 cable programs for that week, due to the ongoing war in Iraq). The original titles for this series were All Growed Up and Rugrats: All Grown Up!.

All Grown Up! is currently on hiatus with Nick. No information has been given whether Nick will continue All Grown Up! without the cooperation of Klasky-Csupo which shut down in 2006. However, there remain a significant number of unaired episodes.

Contents

1 Characters
2 Trivia
3 Criticism
4 Episodes
5 External links

Characters

The principal characters and their traits (as well as their voice performers) have been carried over from the original Rugrats series, with a handful of changes and additional character traits:

Phil (Kath Soucie) still revels in mess, but his sister Lil (also Kath Soucie) focuses on finding her place in the school social scene.
Dil (Tara Strong), behaves weirdly at school (e.g. by walking backwards and eating strange food), mainly because he has a unique personality or possibly because Phil & Lil dropped him on his head when he was a baby. Although Dil has been weird since he was born in The Rugrats Movie.
Tommy (E.G. Daily) is an aspiring filmmaker. The strange thing about Tommy is that he's less brave than when he was a baby, however, this is because of experiences such as when he fell into a river as 3-year old whilst out fishing with Grandpa Lou, & Lou had to pull him out.
Chuckie (Nancy Cartwright) has lost his old scared, worrying ways for a new image. He tries many attempts to get attention from certain girls, does many crazy things, and changes his appearance.
Angelica (Cheryl Chase), mistakenly thinks she is popular, but is no longer the boss.
Susie (Cree Summer), who also sings the series' theme song), meanwhile, upstages Angelica as a singer with real talent. Besides being a talented singer, Susie is also a great student.
Kimi (Dionne Quan) has developed a close-knit friendship with Susie. (e.g. "Runaround Susie" and "Susie Sings The Blues") and is Chuckie's step-sister.

A handful of new characters have been added, for example:

Harold Rumkin (Pat Musick), Angelica's flunky who knew her and Susie since pre-school, who has also appeared in the later episodes of Rugrats.
Savannah (Shayna Fox, also the voice of Reggie Rocket on Rocket Power), the leader of the popular crowd at the Rugrats' school, who also looks down on Angelica, as she has been a popular teen for much longer than Angelica. Klasky Csupo claims that she was first introduced in the "All Growed Up" pilot as Angelica's best friend Samantha Shane (at the time, she was voiced by Laraine Newman).
Nicole Boscarelli (Lizzie Murray), whom Chuckie (Nancy Cartwright) has a crush on.
Estes "Slambang" Pangborn (Clancy Brown), former wrestler and current school vice-principal.

If more characters were to be added they would be listed here.

Trivia

During summer 2003, teasers for the show aired. However, the scenes shown were not from actual episodes of the show. The teasers showed:
Tommy Pickles filming Chuckie for a video he's making
Lil telling Phil in the cafeteria that he's immature
Angelica and Susie running for class president
Kimi chatting with Chuckie at the Java Lava
Tommy and Dil having a fight
Dil hugging Angelica in front of everyone (All the school)

Criticism

Although the show has a fairly good fanbase, some criticize Klasky-Csupo as twisting the characters original personalities too far. Others believe that the show has too many advanced social themes for a children's show about a group of 10-year-olds.

Episodes

For a complete listing of episodes, see List of All Grown Up! episodes.

External links

Site devoted to Dil: [The Dil-Alliance Headquarters]
SuperYo's All Grown Up site : http://www.allgrownup.com02.com])
[Nickelodeon Wiki entry]

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