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>What'd you think of the special that acted as the pilot?
Rugrats was already very shitty by that point.
>Seasons 1-3
Excellent. One of the best cartoons ever.
>Season 4
Came back after a long haitus and not all of the people involved returned. Producers brought it back after realizing it was a cash cow, and thus put more of their influence on it, watering it down. But they seemed to have some scripts, and at least some creators, left over from the previous seasons, so it's still pretty good.
>The Movie and episodes after it
I hear that the wiki separates episodes into "Pre-Dil" and "Post-Dil." They are right to do so, mostly. But Dil is a symptom, not a cause. Really it was the same trends that started with season four that simply continued here, and the inclusion of a new main character made it easier to identify. I do still think there are watchable episodes here, but each season is worse than the last starting with Season 4.
>Second movie and stuff after it
It's all just been getting worse, but the second movie adds like four new regularly recurring characters, making it very easy to recognize. And even moreso than Dil, they throw off the character dynamics. Not that any of the writers left seemed to care about the character dynamics by the time Rugrats was on the air for nine years.
The original All Growed Up special was for the 10th anniversary, and it's a clever idea for a special, imagining what it would be like if the characters actually aged. The framing device of it being imaginary also helps, because so much of the series was already imaginary. Also, note the difference in the title here and the title of the eventual spinoff.
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